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by celer 14y ago
I don't personally see a problem with adopting certain clothing styles, mannerisms, or interests to fit in with a certain group. I think most people spend far to much time and energy on fitting in to a specific group, but the primary benefi
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by celer 14y ago
My motivation comes from a very different angle, though I don't know how shared it is. What I love about programming is the feeling of having to control everything. Computers don't forgive, they forget when you least want them to, and fuzzi
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by celer 14y ago
I think that there is very strong evidence that this has been happening for a significant period of time. When I look at the length of time children are expected to be in school, I see a trend of a long rise spiking recently. If a large par
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by celer 14y ago
I wouldn't say that it is just higher math. As a high school student, here is my path of e^ix. Physics 1 Advanced, Simple Harmonic Motion is being taught. When told to find a case where the second derivative of a function is a negative cons
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by celer 14y ago
I am a beginning stats student. I took the AP class in high school, and have been doing independent work since. Predicting voters, playing with data sets, using a bit of Python to try to make general solutions, and other non serious but non
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by celer 14y ago
I don't mean to imply that that I agree with the author. I agree that it is an amazing thing that only a fraction of the population needs to work in order for us all to live. I also agree with you that society will continue to grow richer f
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by celer 14y ago
Python has a design ethic that most other languages don't have. There are very few, if any, good synonyms for 'Pythonic.'
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by celer 14y ago
For the virtues of locking everything down, I would switch from free v not to mac v windows. These are the two dominant operating systems, dislike it as I think we do. Apple locks down everything. Apple hardware, on the iphone Apple Softwar
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by celer 14y ago
I use the term coder for myself, because I think it is more accurate than any other phrase. I will never be a software engineer. I don't think of myself as a Real Programmer, and I don't expect to ever publish any program that will be used
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by celer 15y ago
Any legal system has flaws. But not having a legal system makes it an anarchy, and I would argue that that causes far more violence. The hope behind law is that it will not be violated. The theoretical underpinning of law that I support mak
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by celer 15y ago
People who read HN tend to be better coders than those who don't. Fizzbuzz exists because it is needed.
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by celer 15y ago
As a relatively normal person, I have my quirks. I read HN, I love politics, and I enjoy trying to understand the law. The fact that an average contract is impossible to comprehend is actively offensive. Most legal phrases in contracts are
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by celer 15y ago
With all due respect to a fellow member, how does Java do Regex better than perl? When I attempt to use the Java Regex, I miss several features I am used to even in Python. Perl invented Regex, which helps explain why the syntax does what i
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by celer 15y ago
The difference between 2.7 and 3 is, to be honest, nothing big in terms of programming. I use both mostly without noticing the difference, because some libraries are still on old versions. For now, use import __future__ to help ease the tra
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by celer 15y ago
I would add that the material tends to be academic without requiring a great deal of prior knowledge, though you do have to deal with a bit of preaching about statistics if your focus is on cognition.
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by celer 15y ago
The single thing I would say Java is missing, from the perspective of a beginner, is the ability to change code while running it. Eval and Exec are useful functions, and there is no way to replicate them in Java. Lists in Java are an unholy
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by celer 15y ago
On your first paragraph, I agree completely. As a relatively new programmer this was what made me adore Python. On your second paragraph, I disagree. HTML doesn't have the immediate feedback of "I can write something that makes my life bett
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by celer 15y ago
I am working on code to do logistic regression and predict voters for a local campaign. Take in the past voting patterns from public records, and tell you who will vote this time so they can get pamphlets and volunteer visits.