Paddy3118

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by Paddy3118 2y ago
I originally used Guttenburgh to get Hamlet and coded the Quanta method in Python and it did not work. I then moved to Algorithm 1 in the paper and got Copilot to (mis) convert it to Python and then spent time getting Copilot to admit its m
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Searching OEIS for anti-diagonalised tables
1 points by Paddy3118 2y ago|0 comments
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by Paddy3118 3y ago
Yep. Fun, weather protection, and small - just too pricey at the moment.
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by Paddy3118 3y ago
I don't want an electric Suv - I need an electric Carver for £5,000 and a car share of something larger and more luxurious for less frequent long trips.
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by Paddy3118 3y ago
Python is a scripting language. It allows me to develop a right answer in record devopment time and with a high degree of confidence that the result does what it needs to do. If, then, there are speed problems then I can optimise my exist
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by Paddy3118 4y ago
"People don't use...". They did and they will and you will have to read and understand and maintain that cruft for years to come.
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by Paddy3118 4y ago
Lingua franca "language used as a means of communication between populations speaking vernaculars that are not mutually intelligible." Javascript is too Web focused. Python and C are better candidates as they are more than Web.
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by Paddy3118 4y ago
Stick to a detailed comparison with... Shell !? So that's the context for universality he's touting.
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by Paddy3118 6y ago
The articles structure makes it difficult to comprehend.
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by Paddy3118 7y ago
Code is helped by being readable. Saying your code is going to "look like sh£t anyway" seems rather defeatist, and an _excuse_ to write unreadable code.
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by Paddy3118 8y ago
"Is SQL declarative?" https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2003...
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by Paddy3118 11y ago
Oh my blog isn't giving an analytical solution, if that is what you want to do, it is simulating the problem to find a solution. (The video does do an analytical solution though).
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by Paddy3118 11y ago
The solution of "working out loud" needs to be expounded.
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Solving the Monkey and coconuts problem(paddy3118.blogspot.com)
2 points by Paddy3118 11y ago|3 comments
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by Paddy3118 11y ago
Even so, Go seems less succinct in comparison on several tasks. Such differences will most likely be magnified in larger programs.
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by Paddy3118 11y ago
Go does seem more verbose than Python. Rosetta code tries for idiomatic solutions to common tasks, here's one such completed in both Python and Go: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Bitcoin/address_validation You w
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by Paddy3118 11y ago
You can say that, but it doesn't make it so. Go here: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Go for many examples of more succinct Python with better commenting than the Go code, for example: http://roset
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by Paddy3118 12y ago
Not a recipe for learning to write idiomatic code in any new language. (I mostly hear of C++ programmers that really only write C).
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by Paddy3118 12y ago
There seems to me to be an overlap between Matz's typng ideas and some of the "static" typing generated by Julia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhlVHoeB05A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC
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by Paddy3118 12y ago
I've asked for more info on that so I can see what needs fixing and if these non-zero-exit values appear for me.
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by Paddy3118 13y ago
My apologies. I didn't know it was a technical term.
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by Paddy3118 13y ago
Ouch. Onboarding? You can't communicate if you make up words as you go along.
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Partition n sets into bins like the areas of a Venn diagram(paddy3118.blogspot.co.uk)
1 points by Paddy3118 13y ago|0 comments
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by Paddy3118 13y ago
Without due scientific process to back up TDD we are left with such arguments having equal validity as TDD. Without a scientific proof of TDD being superior then we are left with mere opinions on both sides. NAARP! http://paddy3118.blogspo
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by Paddy3118 15y ago
The "One True Language Paradigm".... ... Is functional programming! (while it lasts that is). Keeps the money circulating.
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by Paddy3118 16y ago
By abstraction, the author mentions interfaces earlier on. I take the point of the other commenter who states that Java practitioners use too much abstraction, and would also point out that the later versions of Python add abstract base cla
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by Paddy3118 16y ago
Um, not really. Dynamic languages have duck typing (look it up on wikipedia); they get used to writing for the now and letting the what-ifs wait, as in some cases, changes can be accomodated with little tear-down of existing code.
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by Paddy3118 16y ago
Integrity in conducting scientific experiments? Now there's an idea!
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How many people upset over Apple's rules might have develped on the iPhone?
1 points by Paddy3118 16y ago|0 comments
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by Paddy3118 16y ago
Just a reminder after some of the comments directly after the Beijing Olympics: Bolt is tested to death and is clean. As where those 100m female runners who swept away all the medals: Shelly-Ann Fraser, Sherone Simpson, and Kerron Stewart

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