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I used both Python and Ruby extensively for a while, love both, but Ruby was just nicer to code in. The problem for me was the much smaller ecosystem, especially for anything numer…

Very cool. Reminds me of reading the now-defunct Game Developer magazine years ago.

This is a great presentation, goes into a lot of details. Thanks for sharing.

The headline itself demonstrates ignorance as to what matters to an investor putting money on the table. 1. Sell-side analyst forecasts do not drive the investment decisions of the…

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Get a lawyer and don’t leave a trail of thought online that could be used against you.

This is an old story and much has changed since. You can find just about any technical title in seconds, and in clean pdf format - not scanned.

Apparently not quite the first to get there https://www.h55.ch/

Dask’ s compatibility with Pandas makes it ideal. Very easy to use.

Thank you, Paul Graham, on behalf of obsessive collectors everywhere! This also supports the ‘no free-lunch’ adage. There is merit in exploring uncharted territory, purely for the …

Dask anyone? Allowed me to handle a 60 Gb dataset on a machine with 16 Gb RAM. High level of compatibility with Pandas dataframes.

Great list. I would add: ‘Coding and software development are the same thing’

That’s quite sad..

You are correct - I was making light of this overly serious subject

I’m actually from Belgium, which is in a very similar situation as Quebec: (a) heavy accent which the French love to make fun of and (b) where language wars have been raging foreve…

It sure is a recurring pattern! Has been for decades.

Quebec language rules and the minions that enforce them can be quite pathetic. Just a couple of months ago, the debate be was about the right of shop-keepers being able to greet th…

I don’t dispute the significance of physics to industry and economics, but basic physics innovation would not be commercialized without the participation of a host of non-physicist…

Haven’t tried it yet, but judging from the templates, this is really cool!

I think the python ‘developers’ this survey targets is only the tip of the iceberg. I’ve been using python for 15+ years, writing production tools, yet I’m not a developer and this…

All these responses demonstrate the typical issue with today’s dev mindset... i.e. wanting to develop a solution where there is no problem to solve, and very often resulting in an …

I’m quite sure that a16z folks are smart, and perhaps the hyping-up does achieve an intended purpose. What bugs me is the non-stop need to feed narratives which dum-down and embell…

A VC hyping-up its own book & strategy. Biology is certainly not an engineering discipline. This claim that it is reflects how little the authors know about biological systems and …

Flash, ActionScript and the associated IDE were amazing web development tools at the time (in the era of Macromedia) - way ahead of any competitors. No one/nothing has really fille…