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I think a recent update (March 3rd, version 2.5.3) to SBCL added this sorta breakpoint debugging functionality. Hopefully we'll see it integrated with SLIME soon. > enhancement: br…

Oh wait, Hackernews seems to have removed one of the astericks symbols. It should be Python's exponentiation operator (2 astericks symbols), ya. (edit: fixed now). That's cool too!…

That's a question of interface design. You can also create ugly, ambiguous interfaces with functions (10 arguments, it mutates some of them, etc), or any other language feature. If…

(Author here). Here's a not-so-mathy application that I had recently. I was implementing a units system in Python. Operator overloading allowed me to define joules like so: `J = KG…

My favourite illustration of this is in The Wire. The city wants to crack down on crime and increases the target number of arrests. The police chief sends out the word and police o…

This looks awesome! I wonder why I haven't heard about it before.

The previous user said that you can do "literally anything" in VSCode that you can do in Emacs, I think these examples were chosen to prove that statement wrong. It doesn't mean th…

I didn't realise that popes getting poisoned was a common occurrence at any time in history.

I actually started working on a CLI calculator a few days ago that sounds exactly like what you're looking for: https://github.com/Kevinpgalligan/ka So far it just has variables an…

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess. I wouldn't put matplotlib graphs in a paper without tweaking the style, and it gets frustrating when you have to do this for every si…

Getting the job done is the main point, of course, but I think a visualisation library should also handle common cases gracefully and have defaults that don't make me want to gouge…

I've always hated matplotlib, even though it gets the job done. The graphs are ugly by default, and the API would be unusable if it weren't for StackOverflow. Maybe I just need to …

Calculus Made Easy has a heap of exercises at the end of each chapter, it's not bad in that respect.

Funnily enough, I'm working through this book right now. The writing amuses me to no end, from the anachronism of calling it "the calculus" to the chain rule being referred to as a…

That's fun, thanks!

Cool! I love projects involving colour, because they always have nice visualisations. Would you mind explaining your project in more detail? I'm intrigued by your site! Not sure if…