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Q: Best estimate or statistic on the number of users for each editor/IDEs?
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by probably 14y ago
Dude Taylor Swift is awesome. I can relate. But good eye on that. ;)
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Well, looks like he's got ads on his site now which I suppose takes place of the donation button.
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He's been a controversial figure in many forums but his emacs lisp tutorial is the best out there. I gave him a donation through Paypal (for approximately the price of an O'Reilly book) and he personally sent me an email thanking me.
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by probably 14y ago
This is regularly done in R using the MASS library.
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If it wasn't offered under the auspices of UW, I would have thought it a scam...
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I agree with you, but I'm assuming technical questions are asked too. But given several candidates who seem to do well on that portion (which is more of an academic exercise), you have to differentiate them on metrics which you have not (or
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by probably 14y ago
And sorted() and reversed() behave differently (return different object classes) while mylist.sort() and mylist.reverse() do. In that way it's also confusing. The modify-in-place method does seems more natural when you do want the destructi
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Ah, so this is the value-added proposition.
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Emacs mode already? They're doin it right. :) I was not aware RStudio was web-based. News to me...
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The authors seem very receptive to feedback -- which is encouraging. Maybe I missed if they addressed this, but I wish they'd consider the IDE to be an important part of the language ecosystem. A web REPL is good... but I suspect that (desp
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by probably 14y ago
Well explained by chimeracoder. Data-table centric operations are much more natural in R while sequential objects (lists, tuples, and strings) are quickly manipulated in Python (there are more string/regex methods there). I am a heavy Pytho
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by probably 14y ago
Whups, that did not even occur to me. But shouldn't you make an attempt to talk about your common interests? ;)
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Of course, but after that part...
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Ask HN: When you meet a fellow programmer "in the wild",
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But that's the thing - I would argue that NumPy code is not "idiomatic" Python which uses built-in operations/structures, like list comprehensions, tuples, and dictionaries. I had a similar experience during extensive NumPy coding where I t
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I don't hate math but don't quite getting what I can do with this knowledge to develop something new or different from what I would develop without it. Please help with enlightenment?
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But isn't there some tacit agreement, or expectation that long-time users and active members will not have to abandon years of investment in a platform -- on a whim of the provider? Of course, the designers are entitled to make their change
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How about evil-mode? I heard it's newer than vimpulse.
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Please excuse my ignorance here -- > instead are able to write code that modifies code and generates code as easily as if you were writing the original code in the first place Is this often done? I know it is conceptually possible with
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Cool stuff! But diary format is proprietary?
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Thanks -- didn't realize this thread was still alive. So the showstopper is that there is no equivalent to Bayes theorem for fuzzy logic, you're saying. Great clarification.
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Great summary of the situation -- did not expect. Thanks!
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Ask HN: What's happened to fuzzy logic?
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Yes. Since the question was regarding introduction to computers and not programming necessarily, I think this response is relevant. I can't locate the article but I recall reading that girls were much more interested in using computer tools
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Text Processing in Python: http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/
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I was introduced to and learned functional programming through Python, beginning with these series of docs: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-prog.html http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/functional.html I would say I program pri