ziotom78

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   by ziotom78 6y ago

   Thanks for the link! Do you know if "inim" supports it (like IPython with matplotlib)? I believe this is the important point when comparing the REPL experience in Nim vs Python/Julia.
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   by ziotom78 6y ago

   It's much rougher IMO. It has no autocompletion yet [0], and you cannot copy-and-paste code in it like IPython and Julia's REPL, as it does not respect the original indentation. (Tried to copy-and-paste the first example in Nim&#x
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   by ziotom78 6y ago

   Thank you for this perspective: I never realized that "git bisect" is good only as long as commit messages are meaningful. I'm going to teach how to use "git" in my class next semester, and this is surely a point I
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   by ziotom78 6y ago

   If I recall correctly, I read that the intention is to eventually make ORC the default, not ARC. (ORC is like ARC, but it avoids problems with cycles.)
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   by ziotom78 6y ago

   I couldn't agree more. I grew up using Pascal and am currently teaching C++ for undergrads; I often realize that some errors done by the students could have been prevented, had they used Pascal. It's not only a matter of clarity i
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   by ziotom78 6y ago

   On the contrary, I believe the example already tells something. Consider all the boilerplate you have to put around the "print" statement when you write the same program in C++ or Java: #include <iostream> //
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   by ziotom78 6y ago

   I remember that some of these points were targeted by the Étoilé environment [1]. It was a desktop environment targeted for GNUstep and programmed in Objective-C that tried to rethink a few fundamental concepts of the Desktop Environments a
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   by ziotom78 6y ago

   Not the OP, but I understand the sentiment. Despite the many advantages of the platform, there are so many things that have evolved in the meantime: - Compatibility with international character sets (UTF-8) for data exchange - Support for m
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   by ziotom78 6y ago

   I have never read The consolation of philosophy, but this article has revived my interest in the topic. I discovered the life of Boethius when I read Louis De Wohl's novel "Citadel of God" (1959), which is a narration of St.
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    by ziotom78 6y ago

    Thanks for having created that package, I am a regular user and I think it's excellent!
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    by ziotom78 6y ago

    > Being a parent myself, I find it very hard to imagine a couple going: "Oh, we would so love to have a third child if it wasn't for that dang car seat problem..." Not that it's completely inconceivable but, I mean, c
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    by ziotom78 6y ago

    I was skeptical too of this sentence, but then I realized that I have never used YAML for files that were more than ~200 lines long. What happens for huge configuration files with lots of sub-trees? (Comparison with indent-based program pro
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    by ziotom78 6y ago

    OR he finally got some actual help and PRs, instead of just receiving complaints.
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    by ziotom78 6y ago

    I agree. I am an enthusiastic fan of the Kitty terminal emulator [1], another of his creatures, and I am following its development (though I never managed to contribute with some code). Kovid's answers on the GitHub forum are often sho
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    by ziotom78 6y ago

    After having tried Gnome and KDE, I switched back to XFCE last year, and I don't regret the decision.
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    by ziotom78 6y ago

    Exactly. It requires a change in mindset wrt Jupyter, but it is totally worth it!
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    by ziotom78 6y ago

    > I think Julia has shown us that strong typing is not really needed for scientific computing. I think you meant static typing, in opposition to dynamic. Julia is strongly typed like OCaml.
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    by ziotom78 6y ago

    > Yes I know the theory makes some predictions that have turned out to be correct However, I must say that once P. Steinhardt gave a seminar in my department, and he debunked two famous "predictions" of the inflationary theory
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    by ziotom78 6y ago

    I remember that in my freshman's year, my linear algebra teacher explained that every matrix (i.e., not only rotation matrices) has this property: each column is the result of the operation on each basis element in the old coordinate
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    by ziotom78 6y ago

    I too rushed to check if the figure survived to the referees' comments. Alas, what a pity!
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    by ziotom78 6y ago

    Point 4. is one of the most annoying "features" in GTK+3, it is so different from the way "ls" works in the terminal.
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    by ziotom78 6y ago

    Congratulations for the release! The last major release happened on November 25th, 2015 (3.0.0), so this was much expected.
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    by ziotom78 6y ago

    OTOH, I remember that the first thing I did when, as a 10-year-old boy, I got a VIC-20 (my very first computer) was to type 10 + 10 and "20" appeared after I pressed the Enter key. Today this would not work with Bash, yet
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    by ziotom78 6y ago

    Ah, I believe you are referring to the Basilica of St. Clemente [1]. I agree, it's one of the most stunning places you can find in Rome! [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Clemente_al_Laterano
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    by ziotom78 7y ago

    No, his case proves nothing of this sort. His father had the same thoughts, and when he quarreled with his son and separated from him, he requested his daughter to "lend" him her son, so that he could give him the same education a
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    by ziotom78 7y ago

    I have read several times that they do not consider the language stable. Yet they repeatedly advertise it as «production-ready» [1,2], which is contradictory at best. [1] https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/two-experiences
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    by ziotom78 7y ago

    One of the things that people in my field (physics) love when I showcase Julia is the ability to use greek letters as variables: this makes mathematical formulae so clean to read!
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    by ziotom78 7y ago

    I too contribute monthly to Petrucci. Apart from downloading the scores of piano pieces I want to play (they offer a wide set of arrangements for all but the most obscure pieces), I have discovered several hidden gem in their library, which
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    by ziotom78 7y ago

    Probably because some URLs are really too long and would risk to fill the screen with too many characters. This particular instance implemented by GCC10 seems the perfect example: if your terminal has no support, you get a short string like
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    by ziotom78 7y ago

    Yes, I am sure, and the article you quote confirms this: > "It may become necessary to establish an age limit for access to intensive care." [Emphasis mine]