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locoman88

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    Comment #20821667

    I guess you mean actual real engineering, like civil and mechanical, not JavaScript engineering and the likes

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    Comment #20809957

    Hope you don't call yourself engineer then

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    Comment #20809637

    Many of you guys are acknowledging that this is a first for you ...just shocking. And you dare to call yourselfers engineers...

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    Comment #20786553

    Very well put, that's why I cringe every time a fellow soft dev considers himself an engineer

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    Comment #20745745

    "Julia has very well thought syntax..." This holds only of you think MatLab has a very well thought syntax

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    Comment #20694339

    I don't know why the Julia people need to bash Python/R whenever they can.

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    Comment #20630389

    Jesus! Somoza, Pinochet, Videla, etc, etc. Those were murdereos military regimes, responsible of countless horrors, and supported, if not directly managed, by the US. Whenever I re…

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    Comment #20559228

    "...the kingdom of heaven is near." The very first Christians were told the same 2000 years ago. I wonder what they would think if they were told that they should wait at least 200…

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    Comment #20464865

    Fully agree. If we continue with this madness in five years Python will become indistinguishable from the Python I learnt 10 years ago. Seems the Golang people have much cooler hea…

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    Comment #20446006

    Perhaps to increase the dramatic effect?

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    Comment #20425883

    ... there’s so much great progress and improvements happening that the breakages are well worth it. This. According to the fanboys, Julia, and its ecosystem, is production ready, b…

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    Comment #20411601

    Sad missuse of the once highly regarded engineer term

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    Comment #20350278

    You are soo wrong. R for earth scientists is a god send thing. Not even Python has as many packages/libraries for earth science as R

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    Comment #20307911

    A few months ago, I was forced to work with Julia. What a dreadful experience. Matlabish syntax (did the creator of the language ask satan for advice?). Working with the namespaces…

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    Comment #20307526

    How this is relevant here

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    Comment #20274186

    Bullet-trains are very fast too, but they need rail tracks. C++/C/Nim/Rust/D are all terrain fast

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    Comment #20255152

    For unaware, the arima family of models have been used for time series forecasting at least since the 60's. It is not something that was created in the last 5 years by the "machine…

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    Comment #20239940

    That's an opinion my friend, not a fact. If you want to be taken seriously, be sure to be careful in your assertions and always have hard data to back them up

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    Comment #20166746

    Sorry pal but you are falling into the fallacy that technology will save Africa