seancron
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Comment · 12 years ago
Absolutely. Would definitely be interested in hearing more about it.
Comment · 13 years ago
This is the documentation for the development version of IPython. I don't think they care that they're "missing out on installs" by releasing documentation about what's changed in version 1.0
However, if you'd like to try out IPython 1.0, it's an open source project. You can checkout the latest code at https://github.com/ipython/ipython
Comment · 13 years ago
I think the closest I've seen to something like that is https://workflowy.com/ or Emacs' Org mode
Comment · 13 years ago
That sounds really interesting. Could you describe how you do that a bit more?
Comment · 13 years ago
So who else got a ticket, but then timed out at the payment screen?
I managed to find 3 academic tickets, and all of those timed out when I tried to pay for them.
Comment · 13 years ago
What would you recommend?
Comment · 14 years ago
Just a heads up: this isn't the latest template according to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4953872
If you're looking to do a LxTHW, you should contact Zed to get the latest base structure.
Edit: Also, if you want to write a Learn X The Hard Way you should read this post about how to do it (http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1288945508.html)
Comment · 14 years ago
As others have stated, this probably isn't the best way to do a survey. At the very least, you're going to have some bias from posting this on HN late at night (in the US).
If you want a more representative answer to the question "How do companies hire?", I'd recommend using Google Consumer Surveys (http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/home)
You'll be able to survey a much larger audience, get more responses, and have statistically significant results. In addition, Google has a nice dashboard which lets you compare answers according to various demographic information such as gender, age, location, income, etc.
Comment · 14 years ago
Then you should check out http://try.github.com/
Comment · 14 years ago
My experience with LabVIEW, for the brief amount of time I worked with it for our high school robotics team, was slightly frustrating. I liked the dataflow paradigm, and to some degree the dashboard system, but connecting and managing the "wires" was a pain. Especially since I'm more comfortable/faster with a keyboard than I am with a mouse.
It also seemed to be harder to read and understand the flow of the code, which made debugging a pain sometimes. I remember struggling to figure out why my code wasn't working, only to find out I had used 1 instead 1.0 as a constant. The only indicator of the data type was a thin colored border around the box.
LabVIEW seems to do a great job as a kind of Visual Basic for scientists and engineers, but I'd probably find it frustrating to spend any substantial amount of time programming with it.
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