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I wonder what this means for the future of OpenStack?

This sounds really cool; I'd love to see a blog post about it :)

It's basically an attempt to bring the user interface of Mathematica or MATLAB (the "notebook") to the Python world. You can get an idea of what this is like in Mathematic by watch…

We used to use gluster in production but had similar problems to raggiskula and are currently in the process of moving away from it.

This comment overstates the current power of Julia's parallel programming model — as of now Julia has no real tools for shared-memory parallelism and probably will not for another …

It's not a genetic algorithm, but FFTW's planning system actually does perform experiments to optimize for a particular machine's hardware.

ydash = [1 => y[1]] creates a Dict that maps for from Int64 to Float64, `=>` is used for declaring Dict literals in Julia. c.f.: http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/stdlib/base/?hi…

I wish someone would try this again for Emacs :(

it's interesting how some software problems have garnered many really good solutions while others are still mired in stuff like this. e.g. no matter what your preferred source cont…

I think he might mean "shaking things up" (which Node certainly has done) rather than "taking over the world" (which, as you point out, it has not).

This already exists as a prototype as part of IJulia, see Leah Hanson's awesome blog post about it here: http://blog.leahhanson.us/julia-calling-python-calling-julia... The collabo…

It's less a matter of ability and more a matter of having the time/motivation. If you took a bunch of practicing natural scientists and/or engineers and forced them somehow to enro…

I agree with collyw; Lisp is too much for most scientists, who just care about getting their research done and can't be bother to learn all this weird FP/paren stuff [1]. Supplying…

Julia is designed to be a good general purpose language. There are already a bunch of database drivers; a simple web framework, etc., etc. http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.2/…

Us Emacs users unfortunately have to remap it to control to retain sanity on standard keyboards :P

What tom said; also typing a url in a browser is a lot easier than installing something. This might sound silly but for the typical computer user (and even many nerds!) it makes a …

For those interested in this sort of thing, Julia's Gadfly can also use D3 as a backend: https://github.com/dcjones/Gadfly.jl (although to be fair gadfly has more in common with gg…

ido doesn't become really amazing until you add ido-ubiquitous (which makes most minibuffer completions use the ido interface, as opposed to just file opens) and flx-ido (which all…

This makes a ton of sense, but it might be unorthodox enough to scare off some users thinking it was a scam of some sort.

Hacker School was an amazing experience for me; I had been programming on and off for ~2.5 years when I attended last summer. Feel free to drop me a line if you want to chat more a…

FWIW, running Wes' code with a fresh pull of Julia today shows some improvement in the pure-Julia benchmarks at least: Array operations took 79.55683398 ms inner took 23.88444026 m…

Julia is a really cool language; I came to it from a python background and in a lot if ways it feels like "python done right"

This is correct. The point of attending HackReactor, Dev Bootcamp, etc., is to gain a specific set of skills (often starting from zero) that will get you a job. The point of attend…

Congrats on the release to everyone involved; very excited about the future!

Cool project, I've been thinking about writing one for MIPS (I'm taking a computer architecture class this quarter :))