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Staross

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    Comment #48759503

    I thought it was very interesting, but maybe also incredibly naive politically ? it's like he's re-discovering alienation under capitalism. A wood-worker could do the same argument…

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    Comment #48209217

    It's already on my bank app since a couple of week, but I haven't tried it yet.

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    Comment #48158479

    You should really do a Bayesian fit for such predictions and give confidence intervals, it would probably show that the uncertainty is very high in these cases.

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    Comment #47553975

    That works well to get around patents btw :)

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    Comment #47164362

    If it taste as good and is cheaper, sure.

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    Comment #47086594

    I think there's quite a bit of "quiet work" going on that isn't very visible. Personally I've been happily using Julia for work everyday for years. When the language was younger th…

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    Comment #46528899

    I gave it a try, I asked to do a reddit like forum and it did pretty good but damn I quickly hit the daily limit of the $20 pro account, and it took 10% of the monthly just to do t…

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    Comment #46218596

    Also tried it on a small project, it did ok finding issues but completely failed doing rather basic edits, like it lost closing brackets or used wrong syntax and couldn't recover. …

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    Comment #44358408

    Yeah that was a missed opportunity fore sure, joining forces 8 years ago would probably had yield better results that the current situation.

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    Comment #44356843

    Funny how the already weak case for not working on Julia instead of creating a new language is becoming even more flimsy : FAQ: > Why not make Julia better? > We think Julia is a g…

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    Comment #41859423

    >And it's basically not possible to escape that environment until the plane lands Ever heard of closing your eyes ?

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    Comment #20516893

    I would add: - Good integrated test system (and test culture in the community) - Super good package/environment manager - Great integrated documentation system - Good version contr…