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What programming languages are used most on weekends?

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Re: What programming languages are used most on weekends?

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Post by wruza »

robalfonso wrote: post #54
Cyph0n wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They use linux or OSX. But they don't know awk/sed/bash Am I in the minority of developers then? I don't know awk and sed and I'm honestly not very interested in learning them. But bash I definitely agree with. I still use a cheatsheet to get the syntax right because it's weird as hell imo.

awk and sed are fantastic for command line processing of text. You really should take a look at them. All that said, if you don't find yourself trying to do something in bash and thinking "there must be an easier way" then you're problem sets may just not need them.

edit: comment was about perl, I didn't notice discussion below

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Post by codesushi42 »

viraptor wrote: post #106
wcbeard10 wrote: post #90

The funnel shape of the scatter plot immediately reminded me of an article on the insensitivity to sample size pitfall [0], which points out that you'll expect entities with smaller sample sizes to show up more often in the extremes because of the higher variance. Looks like the tags with the biggest differences exemplify this pretty well. [0]- http://dataremixed.com/2015/01/avoiding-data-pitfalls-part-2...

Can you normalise data like that based on a confidence interval? Just rescaling the graph to unify them seems wrong, (it would answer something like "what do we think the distribution would look like if we distrusted the low end?") but maybe there's a better way?

A confidence interval is not what you want since this isn't a normal distribution of values.

Instead you'd want to use a CDF that bins that values.

Re: What programming languages are used most on weekends?

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Post by 0xcoffee »

harry8 wrote: post #147

Microsoft should really take note of that. That's a huge tick on their woefully uncool meter. Developers, developers, developers, developers don't want to use Microsoft gear unless they're being paid, it would seem.

Take note of what exactly? That less people are asking questions about VS2012, now that VS2015 and VS2017 are out?

Also, amount of questions is not necessarily a good way of measuring a languages popularity. If a language is easy to use, it could have a large following, but not many questions. Hard to draw meaningful conclusions from the data posted imo.

If you are talking about Sharepoint specifically, then you should mention that in your post. Microsoft has a lot of products, just because one is losing popularity doesn't mean they have lost their focus.

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Post by [deleted] »

wcarron wrote: post #112
freehunter wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then again, sed works differently on different platforms, and awk is not the same as gawk or nawk, both of which have many more features than standard awk. If you're used to the GNU implementation, you might be surprised to find your script doesn't work on a system without the gawk implementation. On Linux, I can use this sed command: sed -i ‘s/^”//’ example.txt That deletes any quotation marks that are at the beginn…

This is why I have gripes about the OS X command line. I can't confidently use the scripts I do on Ubuntu/Mint/Debian. Like, get with the program, Apple. It infuriates me and I'm moving entirely off their platform as soon as my Mac kicks the bucket.

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Post by anotheryou »

thebigkick wrote: post #5
anotheryou wrote: post #2

"actionscript 3" what? o_O I thought this is over

there is a lot of Flash out there in the Ad and Video world

it's the a safe alternative yet? self contained, animated and not touching the rest of the site.

Re: What programming languages are used most on weekends?

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Post by CalRobert »

codesushi42 wrote: post #214

You don't use recursion or pointers professionally? On what world are you considered a real world programmer?

There's no need to be rude.

Also, I think the idea is that those concepts are common enough that you'd either be searching for some specific nuance of implementation, or not searching at all.

I mean, I don't search for "for loop in Javascript" but I like to think I program in the real world. I might search for "Angular foreach options" or something like that, though.

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