alixander

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by alixander 6y ago
And wider hips
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by alixander 6y ago
The scenarios you’ve posed doesn’t make candidate 2 any less replaceable. Maybe candidate 1 is needed for whatever advanced AI the dating app uses, but there’s many non-foreign options for the function candidate 2 is performing at Important
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by alixander 9y ago
That point hasn’t been hit yet. Discouraging people from learning programming because you anticipate that point to come soon is unfortunate coming from a manager of programmers. Regardless of job opportunities, which I disagree with but is
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by alixander 9y ago
If your only reason to hate a language is that it's making improvements (that you can't/won't keep up with), it would seem that language is doing something right
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Ask HN: If you had a free month to learn something new, what would it be?
2 points by alixander 9y ago|1 comments
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by alixander 11y ago
Normally I wouldn't be picky about a web design flaw, but seeing as this is a project aimed at helping web design: http://imgur.com/qqwqiA8
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by alixander 12y ago
Passion implies things other than working longer than everyone else. For example, people passionate about programming often are better at debugging in those 8 hours than someone who wants to just get out. Also, I don't understand the u
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by alixander 12y ago
Yeah this alone is enough for me to refuse to use something.
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by alixander 12y ago
"To me a phone is a poor man's computer that you have to use when you are on the road, but if you are in front of your desk, there is no reason you should be forced to use an inferior input interface to interact with your accounts
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Ask HN: Has anyone tried to get all the functions of a phone onto their laptop?
1 points by alixander 12y ago|3 comments
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by alixander 12y ago
These are some amazing visualizations.
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Vim is a Game(alexanderw.xyz)
18 points by alixander 12y ago|1 comments
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Succinctness vs. Readability(alexanderw.xyz)
2 points by alixander 12y ago|0 comments
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by alixander 12y ago
You think you misunderstood; I didn't try it and not like it, I just never tried it. I'm most productive on Vim/Terminal right now. From a quick google search, it doesn't seem like I can use all the Vim commands in an ID
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by alixander 12y ago
Ah, I'll have to fix that.
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by alixander 12y ago
Negative or not, I really appreciate the constructive criticism. In response to your comments on watch: Indeed, right now it only identifies AST nodes of type "asgn". I imagine other mutations like append and others have different
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by alixander 12y ago
Ah, you're right. Totally forgot about that. Thanks for pointing it out!
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by alixander 12y ago
I wish I could give you pros and cons, but I've never touched pdb or used a python IDE before myself. In my 3 years of programming, I've only used print statements to debug (for Python programs). I'll be adding more documenta
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by alixander 12y ago
I'm not exactly sure if it doesn't work on Python3, I had only tested it on 2.7 so it mightt (there aren't any external dependencies). I'll probably test it on Python3 and safely include that in the supported versions so
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by alixander 12y ago
Excellent suggestions, will be adding format configurations next!
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Show HN: PyScribe – A Python library to make print debugging more efficient(github.com)
53 points by alixander 12y ago|18 comments
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by alixander 12y ago
I'm working on my first open source project: a Python library to make debugging with print statements easier and more efficient. http://www.github.com/alixander/pyscribe
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by alixander 12y ago
https://github.com/libuv/libuv Maybe not my all-time favorite but a recent one that I liked!
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Ask HN: What's your favorite GitHub project mascot?
4 points by alixander 12y ago|3 comments
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Timsort(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by alixander 12y ago|0 comments
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CodeChip – A freelance style market for code modification and help(codechip.co)
5 points by alixander 12y ago|0 comments
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by alixander 12y ago
Ah okay. Sorry about that, wasn't aware of the posting rules
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CodeChip – A freelance-style market for code modification and help(codechip.co)
6 points by alixander 12y ago|3 comments
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by alixander 12y ago
That's very useful advice, thank you. I wonder how I might further facilitate the discussion part of it. List of "unanswered questions" (taking advantage of the fact people like to help others in an intellectual setting, gene
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by alixander 12y ago
Oh yeah I probably should put a "no results found" when that's the case. Sorry, there isn't many papers right now to search for. I think a "show only field papers" is a good idea, but there isn't enough

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