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by zimablue 9y ago
Thanks but I knew that this existed, it's more the other IDE things for python that didn't seem great - featured debugger (locals, watches) and a find-symbol that gives you more than just a list of matches (eg. return results with
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by zimablue 9y ago
I just quit learning emacs, I was learning e-lisp and spacemacs and trying to customize the IDE to be close to a pycharm experience. It just didn't seem to be possible, I could get a graphical debugger for a while until I found realgud
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by zimablue 9y ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aptitude maybe you're getting angry because you're assuming the I'm using definition of aptitude as "quickness to learn" and not "suitability&quo
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by zimablue 9y ago
This is a pretty aggressive tone, and it's kind of unwarranted. I did read it, and well. Saying that women have higher innate neuroticism is saying that they have less natural aptitude for stressful jobs. Saying that men have a wider b
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by zimablue 9y ago
I'd say the solution is to stop looking for a solution and worry about a problem that matters. Not that there's 0 discrimination or that it doesn't matter that there is but we live in a heating planet where the US just electe
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by zimablue 9y ago
You can be friends with someone without thinking they're the best developer you've ever met You can also believe that trying to have a 50-50 at Google means the bar has been lowered without believing that about specific individual
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by zimablue 9y ago
He didn't directly, but if you believe his main point that differences in gender balance of developers is due to preference and natural aptitude, then it's an unavoidable conclusion that a company trying to both hire the best deve
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by zimablue 9y ago
For one thing, the wage gap as you're usually used to seeing it presented doesn't mean what it's passed off as meaning. The media prints a number of "X% pay gap, women should stop working every year in July because they&
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by zimablue 9y ago
Hidden dependencies is a very opinionated thing to have in a list of criteria, and the description seems to mix several concepts - mutability, global state but also sounds like "explicit is better than implicit" from python which
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by zimablue 9y ago
But?
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by zimablue 9y ago
Thanks for replying but I know what Jupyter is and I'm already using Jupyterhub. My question was on more details/source code for this Google service that they've built on top of Jupyter which looks equivalent to a hosted Jupy
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by zimablue 9y ago
Does anyone have a more in depth source or a link to the source code? I'm currently using a slightly hacked Jupyterhub to do what I assume is the same thing, I can't work out from that article (maybe I missed it) wheree the kernel
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by zimablue 9y ago
I don't think that changes the conclusion, you're just moving from discrete to in theory continuous but in practise modellable as discrete.
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by zimablue 9y ago
No, it's because our civil service did no planning for this (in fact were explicitly not allowed to), have no infrastructure or skilled employees to negotiate it, and are fighting a constant battle of trying to inject the economic real
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by zimablue 9y ago
Antisemitism: mainstream Labour isn't antisemitic, that was largely a point pushed in our right media to discredit them. The left wing of the party is definitely anti-Israel though, and pro-Israel forces always try to conflate the
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by zimablue 9y ago
I think the thing is that you write code in dynamic languages that you would never think to write in typed languages because it's just too against the culture/grain. Two common situations in my job of throwing data around: Datafr
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by zimablue 9y ago
I've heard of that feature, get out. I'm not a good programmer but everyone writing any significant amount of code in a language should read the language textbook at least once.
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by zimablue 9y ago
I actually disagree massively with this point. I love Rich Hickey's work, love Clojure but it's kind of an important principle that you have to be able to separate attacks on ideas or systems from attacks on people. If you identif
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by zimablue 9y ago
To say that a region trying to forge independence is illegal is true by definition because wherever you are the law will enshrine the status quo, but it's not a meaningful statement. And to say that there's no choice but to apply
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by zimablue 9y ago
It's more than just being a string though, it's the multiple incompatible versions and the stunted mini language of it's own. A good solution would be able to run arbitrary expressions in some "real" programming lan
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by zimablue 9y ago
It feels like everyone mixes relational databases with SQL in discussions. Relational databases are fine but SQL is disgusting. It's a query language that's very hard to parse or generate and has multiple incompatible variants. Ir
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by zimablue 9y ago
I live here, on a pretty much average London income, from zones 1 to 3 and have for ten years. I cycle so I don't have a travel card. The general point of the post above was that London doesn't want/need Uber, which just isn&
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by zimablue 9y ago
Unions aren't a good way to set prices. Wages in each industry shouldn't be set by how hard it is to unionize them and how well they capture regulators to ban competition. We need to find a better way. Noone in London sheds a tear
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by zimablue 9y ago
Yeah if you cherry pick a long journey that's possible to do in one go on the tube you can obviously find situations where public transport is cheaper. Most of the time it is. But there also exist journeys for which Uber is faster and
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Public transport isn't great - often cramped and with delays. It's expensive - if anything involves bus then tube then for two people Uber Pool is often cheaper. Uber is often faster, and it's widely used and supports a massi
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by zimablue 9y ago
I think that what you're suggesting (based on a vague understanding of the UK tax system) is abolishing corporate taxes and taxing dividends as income? I'd be curious to hear someone who knows more accounting's view on this.
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by zimablue 9y ago
Whilst it's not true that the world can only progress on one issue at a time, I think that there's a fair point to make about prioritization. You as an individual can only focus or fund so many issues and we do have to make choice
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by zimablue 9y ago
I moved from my last job (mostly C#/vba, front office finance)to a new role (python, data guy at hedge fund). Doing data stuff and simple web services is absurdly more straight forward in python, the main things I miss (weaknesses of p
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by zimablue 9y ago
Not well but here is a link, the object destructing section https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Referen...
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by zimablue 9y ago
The subtext is jealousy of JavaScript object creation/destructing, it's the thing I like most about JavaScript I think, really makes your code feel fluid. I couldn't tell you what they preserve order though. There's even

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