comment_guy

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   by comment_guy 7y ago

   Maybe you use a notebook I'm completely unfamiliar with, but my experience is that they allow you to write code, run it, and save the results in cells. My IDE does all of that except the saving of partial results part, but this can be
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   by comment_guy 7y ago

   I use IntelliJ for all my work, data or normal dev stuff, and it works great (all is python). Maybe there is just a workflow issue here where people are used to saving their data as they go in cells. I just write my algorithms all the way t
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   by comment_guy 7y ago

   I don't get why anyone one who knows how to use an IDE would ever use a notebook, the coding experience is garbage in comparison. I understand they started as a way to get STEM kids coding quick, but now they are like a standard in dat
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   by comment_guy 7y ago

   That's pretty cool these guys get to put 1950's math to work in real life. In my experience, I was never able to sell this idea to anyone based on the (potentially justified) excuse that it was completely unmaintainable without a
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   by comment_guy 7y ago

   Given the motivations of a private company or the FBI, who would you really choose? I'd go private with anything sensitive, they can't arrest me and they have a profit motive in protecting my data.
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   by comment_guy 7y ago

   I'm curious if this is actually conflating homeless people who spend time in the library as one of their only safe places, rather than actual library patrons.