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Comment · 9 years ago
Another possible output for this type of task is an opinion or interpretation and a justification of it. A machine might feasibly be considered "good" if it output an unpopular interpretation with a good justification.
Comment · 9 years ago
But how many companies will want a migration path from XP? More than you may think.
Comment · 9 years ago
Writing and using a program not "using a script".
Comment · 9 years ago
Yeah, or another way of splitting up huge models files is to convert models from a module to a package by making a directory models and adding models/__init__.py, models/foo_models.py, models/bar_models.py then doing
from .foo_models import *
from .bar_models import *
in your __init__.py
Comment · 9 years ago
I agree that being under the GNU isn't necessarily good for projects. Look at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=octave for example. Many of these patches have in fact been merged, but nobody really knows how to use this bug tracker. Actually editing the wiki requires asking on IRC. See here: https://octave.sourceforge.io/
Octave should have a steady stream of students who have been made to use Matlab trying to use it instead. If the barriers were lower these people might get hooked on contributing. As it is, I imagine they take one look and think "old and busted". I don't think it's necessary to use Github, but the development tools should be something people can use frictionlessly, which isn't the case now.
Comment · 9 years ago
I guess at least some of these types of companies are consultancy companies disguised as product companies? If that's the case they might not be affected too badly.
Comment · 9 years ago
All numbers in Javascript are IEEE 754 64-bit double precision floating point numbers. The significand precision is 53 bits (see here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision_floating-poin...).
Comment · 9 years ago
https://shaneenishry.com/blog/2014/12/27/misconceptions-of-c... is from 2014. I tend to think it might actually make a difference in this case given it's a vtable indirection for every entity every frame (or for every subsystem * every subsystem tick).
Comment · 9 years ago
Speaking of Gopher, from http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Protocols/RelevantProtocol... : "Chances are that future versions of the Gopher and HTTP protocols will converge."
Comment · 9 years ago
Looks like this might be a good entry point: https://github.com/IteratorAdvance/taichi/tree/master/python...
Comment · 9 years ago
My understanding is historically simplified writing systems are met with a lot of resistance when there is a small educated class interested in holding on to their status since they are intended to help bring literacy to the masses. A sort of parallel can be drawn with the Luther Bible. This was a threat to an intellectual class (the clergy) who's status was in part due to their knowledge of Latin. A similar thing also happened with Hangul in Korea. Taiwan still uses traditional characters. Beyond these facts, I'm not sure of the particular connotations the grandparent is referring to.
Comment · 9 years ago
How about Reddit? That's a site that's undergone a number of UI changes and I'm pretty sure even now still has <30 engineers. It had around 6 in 2012 I believe.
Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
Honestly I've always just thought of Monads as-in Haskell as a tricky way of sequencing in the presence of lazy evaluation. Looked at this way, the "trick" is to make a data dependency between each step in the form of an argument. Since Haskell names must be bound before they're read this means we can guarantee the order in which the steps are evaluated relative to one another. Then the whole thing is wrapped up in a data structure (this latter part seems to be what people normally focus on).