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by zeptomu 9y ago
> Krita is an alternative to MS Paint in the same way that operating a railway network is an alternative to driving a bicycle I think that is too harsh. Although Krita can do more than Paint the user-experience is pretty well done and it
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by zeptomu 9y ago
You may also try Krita - I think it's pretty well done.
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by zeptomu 9y ago
Some time ago I built a (terminal) text editor and one of the challenges is to implement the renderer which is normally done by messing with termios and changing some terminal parameters - as this is "device"-dependent there exist
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by zeptomu 9y ago
Underrated comment. :) Haha, thanks. If there's a Go2 there will be a lot of these headlines for blog posts/rants. It doesn't matter if it is true or not, but that phrase is wonderful.
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by zeptomu 9y ago
If your data is immutable or not is significant for program analysis and correctness, so I would say the distinction makes absolutely sense. > Sometimes I just want to create a map and mutate its structure, and the language saying "
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by zeptomu 9y ago
I concur - that was the reason at least for me. Actually I am not a native English speaker, I translated it literally from German where we also say "Kurze Frage [...]".
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by zeptomu 9y ago
Ok, thanks, that makes sense. I knew that top-level variables are global, but didn't know that variables in __main__ share this property (which is e.g. different in the C language).
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by zeptomu 9y ago
Quick question: Why does 35: chosen = random.choice(movies) at https://github.com/infobyte/spoilerwall/blob/master/server-s... have a reference to 'movies'. I thought one had to explicit
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by zeptomu 9y ago
I would say the difference between 2 seconds and 2 minutes is significantly more noticeable than the step from 20 minutes to 2 minutes. Apart from the fact that the factor is bigger (60 vs 10) it matters that if you go under 10s your workfl
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by zeptomu 9y ago
I think it's just a prettier architecture - obviously both ways work, but if the WM has good splitting, applications don't have to bother with windows and layout implementations. Furthermore I like to switch between "windows&
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by zeptomu 9y ago
> Vertical split panes was the biggest reason, [...] Besides the fact, that screen can also do that, I think this should be implemented at the Window Management Layer anyway - tiling WMs do that. This is actually the main reason, why I d
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by zeptomu 9y ago
> Is compile time a real issue these days? I worked on a code base with thousands of source files and millions (in the 100s) of lines of code 10 years ago and the build process took ~20 minutes. That's a long time, but it was 10 yea
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by zeptomu 9y ago
The image shows some of the problems quite well. E.g. the following things are not clear to me: [0] I suppose Rhombi symbolize choice. But where are the branches? What if "Already Done" is true? Or does the else-branch enforce imp
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by zeptomu 9y ago
> I don't think you remember how the yahoo pipes worked. True, I learned about it when it was already dead, but thought the goal was similar to the stuff Zapier offers and I would really like to try it. Not to automate stuff, but to
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by zeptomu 9y ago
Literature is very scattered as the domain "Visual Programming" is pretty broad. There are general-purpose languages on one hand that really try hard to provide all the tools to build complex systems and domain-specific languages
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by zeptomu 9y ago
> I wonder if there is a way to get the best of both worlds? [...] I believe so. Furthermore high-level languages with syntax-highlighting (think Haskell, Python, Elm, etc.) in state-of-the-art text editors are in a better position than
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by zeptomu 9y ago
I've some experience in visual programming languages (both professional and in my studies) and I advise against the graph-form where you connect nodes and edges. This does not mean that text is the only way to implement programs (and
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by zeptomu 9y ago
Because it is the standard command to kill (i.e. send SIGINT) running programs in a terminal? E.g. ping, top, etc. all quit using Ctrl-C.
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by zeptomu 9y ago
> There are no dice. With enough information you can choose what to roll everytime. With enough information you can have all the potential conceivable paintings. Perception is a combinatorial game. Physics is a combinatorial game. Small
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by zeptomu 9y ago
What do you mean? I know egress is one of the more expensive cloud services (e.g. compared to compute and storgage) at AWS, GCP, etc., but if I upload data to my learning system that's ingress AFAIK which is mostly free or less expensi
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by zeptomu 9y ago
It is not that bad. Either you've your training data local (unlikely) or it is already available in the "cloud" (i.e. a public-facing service). Let's say a typical training set (raw data) is 100G. Assuming 2.5MB/s U
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by zeptomu 9y ago
There is an interesting offer by Hetzner that's available for some month now. They provide a dedicated server with a GTX 1080 for ~99e/month (111$/month) with adequate CPU (i7-6700), 64G Memory, 500G disk space and 50TB Traff
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by zeptomu 9y ago
Welcome to HN! :) > Does anyone know if this has been accomplished in any form or fashion by anyone/startup? There are compilers that are able to auto-parallelize specific kinds of software fragments, but most of them are not able t
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by zeptomu 9y ago
> Unlike leftists, I never asking any help from the government. I never dare to think that rich owe me money! I never dare to blame the government if I lose my money in risky investment! I do not agree that denying help from others is a
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by zeptomu 9y ago
No, it was not the connection (75MBit/s), I think - it just took some seconds(!) to load.
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by zeptomu 9y ago
What I find interesting is that subtle differences in load time have a great impact on the first impression. Furthermore loading animations seem to have an influence how one perceives performance - for me the non-loading animation pages see
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by zeptomu 9y ago
> It will 'Just work', which is what developers need. Not fancy UI's The whole existence of the GUI client itself is an argument against that as the Git command line interface already works just fine.
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by zeptomu 9y ago
Although the kernel is obviously more complex, I think there was never a time were people started programming in C with the Linux kernel. Most people start with "normal" user-space C before going into the kernel. One has to gain
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by zeptomu 9y ago
In essence, yes. Furthermore I guess that it could be a feature to not have the ability to write to the terminal and/or accompany recorded sessions with additional documentation.
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by zeptomu 9y ago
At my work we use it to do large-scale analysis of remote sensing data, in particular segmentation of satellite imagery to provide land monitoring services.

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