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pycharm is a workflow now?

How about OP does anyway? Bash as a scripting language is fucking great! Since when is simplicity an argument against writing programs? Whether scripts or frameworks? "Hard to read…

TIL Rapoport's rule, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapoport%27s_rule Oh I do love the interwebs.

I implemented it in Python (while reading from that LISP version, a Java version, and Melanie Mitchell's "Analogy-Making as Perception"): https://github.com/jalanb/co.py.cat

> most students choose to major in CS because they want to become professional programmers (aka Software Engineers) Then why not major in Software Engineering? Is that not an optio…

Because "The custom and practice of the web has always been that publicly accessible pages are served without payment" The publishers are not offering content subject to a fee (whi…

Muphry strikes again :-)

Typo in he pdf link, should be: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.01450v1.pdf

If working with recursively expressed data, recursively expressed algorithms are usually easier to understand.

Yes, but the kind of people who do use "password123" are going to run a mile from this method as soon as they hear "algorithm"

By comparison with the "normal HN reader" I live in "the arse end of nowhere". Well, in a very rural part of Kerry, in a very modern Ireland. Coming in over the Atlantic is a lot o…

Maybe what you are really interested in is counting days?

> I wonder how he got into it. I'm a programmer by profession, but at one stage there were no such jobs available, so I went back to teaching. Teaching office computer skills (typi…

> There's nothing inherently monochrome about ... vi/vim But it is nonetheless "a great monochrome editor"

What I find strange about this test is that it also weeds out 99.5% of candidates who can't seem to google for "programming interview" before turning up at one! Amazing how many (3…

Won't work: the free thing is a howto for suicide, so "Everyone else" is now dead!

It will be trusted completely by their target market, which thinks Snowden is like, a real hero, but that PGP is not something they'd want to catch.

All languages actually represent source code as trees. It's just that the shavings are less obvious in other languages.

Actually, speaking as a former addict, I would call it simple. Damned hard, fucking painful, betimes hopeless, ..., but the most consistent memory from my early recovery was the si…

Für mich auch!

That was a nice interruption to work which was nearly starting over at https://pym.readthedocs.org/ But I really have to write some code. Saved for later: https://github.com/jalanb…

Some nice looking apps there: well done!

A couple of points on the website, https://srclib.org/ 1. Can't find an actual Download link, even in the section called "Try it now". Oh - turns out the download links are under "…

Ну, как цивилизованный человек, я бы всегда использовать доступные инструменты, прежде чем просить занятой человек