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> Also, Git's CLI aggressively obscures those core concepts, so any learner is in an uphill battle even if their mind does happen to work the right way Thank you, that resonates

Ah, that's great, sounds like we are allies, for example when arguing for "let it crash" and other take aways from the Erlang error reporting philosophy in the Julia community.

And thus we who transitioned to Julia from R and know a bit about martingales and less about programming have long been trying to degrade the core of the language and its principle…

> more than the typical "the code auto-differentiates" or "it's faster" or whatever it is that people have said in the past Why are you asking to be convinced if you don't want to …

La mayoría de humans ist gewohnt avoir mehr letters que clés de toute façon.

I would never put in 45s by pressing buttons, it seems we are alike there. But I would put 45 sec in with a (rotary) time control knob though, maybe you want to reevaluate.

That’s an amazingly modern take.

Would it not be better at this point to move on?

The notions first index, current index, previous index, next index and last index and each index are all invariant under shifts of the index set... yet this is the hill people choo…

Some abstractions are costly if the compiler doesn't optimize them away, so one use is to check if that happens. So one iterates changing the Julia code, not the machine code mostl…

A bit earlier even than that.

Right, my point is just: As new methods are added by the owners of new types it requires a common understanding and community consensus how a function should act on new types (i.e.…

Interesting that is is this way in Haskell in this example: In Julia, there are community/consensus-based processes to what the "idea" of a symbol is (or rather, the idea of a func…

Tamas, coming from CL, has donated a very nice list on how "make it easier to help you" on https://discourse.julialang.org/t/please-read-make-it-easier... , so the Julia community …

This is a very reasonable article, not cut for front-page drama.

> Imagine spending a lot of time and money picking out the best possible gear for a hobby before actually starting the hobby. Haha, this is exactly what “hobby” means to a lot of p…

Yes, Julia does support arbitrary indexing because base functions are written in terms of `firstindex`, `eachindex` and `lastindex` etc. One can see it in the implementation of `fi…

The author is mistaken, there is nothing imprecise or floating about https://github.com/JuliaMath/FixedPointNumbers.jl . Representing values on a scale from 0.0 to 1.0 instead of 0…

The Julia-code has some performance flaws in the hot loop (like making a superfluous copy of a matrix before just reading it.)

Yes, but that’s a different discussion.

I think this is about subvocal but conscious thoughts.

“He can easily while away an hour without having a single thought.” No! It is “not a single _verbalized_ thought”! To write such an article one should have some understanding that …

I remember that this is not the whole story, the Spanish invasion and then European invasion was on the larger scale moving slower than the diseases.

There is this S-curve of the amount of newly starting S-curves where we are going to see a slowdown...