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I purchased these for my wife years ago, they’re excellent.

A pretty critical application

Ease of testing is the most obvious benefit. A "pure" function is one whose result is simply based on its inputs, no dependency on external state/IO etc. Same inputs, same outputs …

I completely agree with this sentiment. Writing good Haskell always seemed harder to me than something like Python. The amount I'd have to think before beginning to type was a lot,…

Maybe they're looking to get a lot of granularity. Thinking of, https://haveibeenpwned.com/ , you could give an email address and get value from the site, but there's no need for a…

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This seems like such a significant problem for the language and has been around since the beginning of time. Considering the amount of value that Python adds to companies and indiv…

Cruise ships handle plenty of non-window "accommodation": https://www.royalcaribbean.com/blog/an-inside-room-with-a-vi...

"Progress is not a function of time", this is a really deep quote.

this seems like the real magic here. The author states at the start, automating all of the steps of something can be daunting. But this script can incrementally become a do everyth…

Maybe not immediately, but isn't this what Pandas' new array interface[0] should facilitate? [0] https://tomaugspurger.github.io/pandas-extension-arrays.html

A minor plug: I've found I generate graphs and tables in Jupyter notebooks, so I wrote ipynb-tex, to allow you to reference cells from a notebook directly in your LaTeX documents. …

Garret Walker, from Bank of America, spoke at PyGotham last year and touched on this topic at the end of his talk: https://2018.pygotham.org/talks/seventeen-million-lines-of-p... D…

Thanks for your advice, I'm currently starting down the path of writing (what I hope will become) a book. I'm at your piece of advice I). I'm working on a framework which links LaT…

I've read this multiple times, and I'm sure it's an intuive argument. Is it actually true though?

Not meaning to be rude, it sounds like you're going strong and providing a great service. But if you retire in future do you plan on handing down your code and setup to someone?

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LEO billboards?

I am constantly approached with adhoc requests, often unrelated to the application I work on, probably more of these than actual ticket items. I've started to number these myself i…

I find learning mathematical concepts from Wikipedia very difficult

Code is imported as a minted import, it's properly formatted text

Yes! Or in a large document/book to guarantee no break between code and executable examples

Next time I'll avoid humour in a submission

ipynb-tex is a simple style sheet which allows extracts tagged cells out of a Jupyter notebook and includes them in a TeX document. Every time you recompile the LaTeX document you'…