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by vnpc1 7y ago
Is it a specific project that you want to move away from? Or is it an ongoing responsibility that you would like to stop doing?
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Ask HN: Does This Python REPL Exist?
4 points by vnpc1 7y ago|1 comments
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by vnpc1 7y ago
> I don't get why anyone one who knows how to use an IDE would ever use a notebook, The Python IDEs for data science are mostly garbage - if you have any recommendations, I'm all ears because I really don't like notebooks
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by vnpc1 7y ago
> With a notebook, you get the chance to load the data, view it, clean it where needed, view it again, analyze it, model it and do anything else you need to it. In a good data-oriented IDE like RStudio you get to do all of those things
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by vnpc1 7y ago
> it made me physically ill thinking that people are upset or conflicted about which ship to jump to next to get the highest possible TC. I really think that this says more about you than about the people who post there. And again, you&#
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by vnpc1 7y ago
Can you share a bit more about how it's showing its age? (I'm not a web dev, but played around with Flask recently and in general find the giant ecosystem of different frameworks fascinating.)
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by vnpc1 7y ago
I didn't see anyone complaining about a $450k salary - the closest thing was the guy who's L6 at Facebook and making the same as L5 at Snap while working 60h weeks. Not sure what the problem is - people with high compensation can
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by vnpc1 7y ago
> R might not have great libraries for network protocols (REST, etc), as it’s not a general language No idea how it compares to D, but REST in R is pretty straightforward through the httr library. And in general the "general purpose
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by vnpc1 7y ago
Here's what I'm not getting: Most the tasks that require heavy computation in R are done through C/C++/Fortran APIs - why can't D interface with them without the intermediate R layer? The ones that are R-native - vi
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by vnpc1 7y ago
Does anyone actually need to do this? Doesn't interoping in the other direction (calling D from R) at least make a bit more sense?
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by vnpc1 7y ago
At the current stage of development, ethical AI is on the same level as ethics in the fuel industry, or the food industry, or the finance industry - there are ethical questions there but they concern human ethics in the way the technology
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by vnpc1 7y ago
Great. Getting rid of that app was one of the first things I would do on a fresh Ubuntu installation.
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by vnpc1 7y ago
iOS has been such a better experience than any version of Android that I've tried but I'm really not a fan of the newer iPhone models. Hopefully by the time my SE dies there will another iPhone which has 1) a small body; 2) touch