xtho

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by xtho 16y ago
An evaluation of the usual suspects would have been more interesting. I'd also suggest: start with a small language that doesn't surprise people -- like lua maybe. Anyway, I personally learned much from my early exposure to Pascal (after ha
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by xtho 16y ago
I don't think it's a good idea to make this dependent on github. The README or VERSION file could contain a note about the project status/quality: "version 1.2 -- abandoned". Simply creating an empty file named ABANDONED would work too for
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by xtho 16y ago
Maybe it would be less creepy if there were more young women interested in statistics, machine learning etc. and who commented in a similar fan-girlish manner on male lecturers. But then again ...
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by xtho 16y ago
Video doesn't load. I wish those people where using some other well tested video platform.
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by xtho 16y ago
c-[ is Escape (displayed as ^[ in vim). Also, it isn't obvious for beginners where c-[ is located on non-English keyboards. And it's two keys to press. I'd still prefer Esc. The fact that the key is usally located outside of the main typing
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by xtho 16y ago
He converted to OpenOffice.
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by xtho 16y ago
With the right intonation & context it could also mean "stupid woman/girl" but not whore.
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by xtho 16y ago
Doesn't python have sorted sets? Oh, what a pity. Does python only have one single implementation of sets? Too bad. Is the runtime behaviour of that implementation documented? Let's take a look ... I'll be back. This could take a while.
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by xtho 16y ago
Since charging for support is a common "business model" with OSS, you're implying that the incentives are wrong with OSS in general. Counterpoint: You know and can use the code before you pay anything. If you decide to prefer a certain libr
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by xtho 16y ago
IIRC Java has removed features in the past by marking them as deprecated for several releases and then removing them.
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by xtho 16y ago
AFAIK JVM byte code isn't guaranteed to be backwards compatible. They also introduced new byte codes that didn't exist in earlier versions. In that sense, there also are different versions of the JVM.
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by xtho 16y ago
Ironically, IIRC I found that list through an earlier post on hn. Such a thread should already exist.
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by xtho 16y ago
Isn't it the very idea of the yield "command" that you don't have to generate a list in advance but create it's values as needed? Hence, a statement like "you don't need ... but you have to ..." sounds funny to me.
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by xtho 16y ago
It's somehow the same list of books over and over again. This reddit is probably better suited for a collaborative approach: http://www.reddit.com/r/csbooks/
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by xtho 16y ago
na.rm is a argument name, na.omit a function, na.action an attribute. They are not the same thing. Anyway, you're right with respect to the lack of standard way. One thing I personally find most annoying is function naming. Some functions u
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by xtho 16y ago
How many function objects are created to generate that result? From a certain point of view, that is interesting too of course.
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by xtho 16y ago
The example in the article is a good example how such thought experiments are sometimes turned into jokes for bored misanthrope/misogynist/latent homosexual men. At first, the situation could be interpreted as an exchange of a years of happ
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by xtho 16y ago
I assumed that only the Gulf of Mexico was loaded in the current buffer, not the world. The operation also had the side-effects of preventing any turmoils.
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by xtho 16y ago
%s/oil//g Done.
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by xtho 16y ago
7200 rpm: It seems they forgot about the noise.
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by xtho 16y ago
AFAIK the "theory" in clojure also stems from the scala world in that clojure data structures are based on work done for scala or by scala affiliates.
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by xtho 16y ago
BTW, vim is the perfect editor for tablets and similar devices with a shrunken keyboard.
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by xtho 16y ago
Probably the most disturbing thing about the article is the original title: "Programming like it's 1995". I'd feel better if he had said "OOP is like so 1980's".
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by xtho 16y ago
It's not that simple. Some people say that in the reverse acronym the W was originally expanded to World. Question: W to F? Answer: F the W(orld)! Chorus: W the F! ... (repeat) Hero: For the win!
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by xtho 16y ago
I personally like to use tinymode[1] for such things in order to reduce map pollution (if such a term exists). [1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2223
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by xtho 16y ago
A "thinking job" usually doesn't mean commenting on this or that without knowing what they're talking about (well, there are people who do that but those are in the top 0.1% of the population). Most "thinking jobs" require you to conduct te
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by xtho 16y ago
> Everybody wants to be the one deciding what should be done; very few people want to be the ones actually doing it. I'm going to tell that a colleague of mine who wants to quit his current job because everything he does is talking and
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by xtho 16y ago
This has little to nothing to do with the current situation in ruby. > That said, "convert everything to your native Unicode format at the edges and reconvert it back out at the edges" is at least a tolerable answer. It obviously isn't
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by xtho 16y ago
The sooner? ruby 1.9 is around for more than a year??? now. 1.8 is still the standard in ubuntu and about everywhere else. With respect to performance boost: Startup time didn't improve. And IIRC the same is true for certain string operatio
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by xtho 16y ago
Like lisp or c (although back then 20 years ago, I actually prefered modula 2 & oberon)?

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