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Interesting remarks, thanks!
When discussing remote vs non-remote with a colleague some time ago over lunch, he mentioned that "remote is an extreme version of yourself", so those inclined to slack off will slack off way more to the point of being unproductive, and those inclined to work longer hours will eventually just spend all their time working... Maybe over-simplified but I think he was onto something.
arXiv replaces any URL in the text of the abstract with a link with text "this http url"; it seems the authors did not know this and just embedded a bare URL in their abstract.
One thing that Git and the other DVCS's massively improved over Subversion is that commits are local, and you only need to talk to a remote endpoint when you push/pull. In Subversion, every commit would require uploading changes to the repository server, which encouraged larger commits (to amortize the overhead).
`s6-sudo` [1] is an alternative that does exactly this: connects to a running privileged daemon and asks it to execute a command.
I'm curious: why the `printf '%s\n' "$(pwd -P)"` ? wouldn't just `pwd -P` achieve the same?
It really depends on what your current and wanted roles are... When it happened to me, I would have had to interview again because there were no other roles in my career ladder left in town.
IIRC, Linux' ext2/3/4 support an 'a' attribute that make a file append-only.
I guess they redirect you to a different IP than they publish in the public DNS?
I agree, but how is this different from polls, fidelity programs at department stores, statistics on various topics, etc - all of which have existed for decades?
So Ur- comes from Urdeutsch? :-)
Impressive! But one stated goal of the software is to be compatible with STOS and AMOS, so one has to use an 80s BASIC for programming AOZ.
Maybe we should establish a sort of expert-led central archive of rock-solid, battle-tested C libs/functions/snippets that one can trust ?
* "Gnulib is intended to be the canonical source for most of the important “portability” and/or common files for GNU projects. These are files intended to be shared at the source level" [3]
* "We develop and maintain a testsuite for Gnulib. The goal is to have a 100% firm interface so that maintainers can feel free to update to the code in git at any time and know that their application will not break." [3]
[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/index.h...
[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Gnulib-...
[3] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/High-Qu...
(There should be a 2nd part to your post, where you send a very good report to the colleagues, and note their reaction.)
Julia [1] has macros (not necessarily based on s-exprs though you can use s-exprs if you want) and a REPL [2] with some decent tooling (e.g., [3] [4])
[1] http://julialang.org/ [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRiD12Y75wM [3]: https://timholy.github.io/Revise.jl/stable/ [4]: https://kristofferc.github.io/OhMyREPL.jl/latest/
`empty` is a similar tool.
Source (clone of the original SF repo): https://github.com/ierton/empty
Man page: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/empty.1.html
Might be worth a "Show HN" of its own...
I find that the experience of writing (La)TeX depends a lot on what you are using to write it. For me, Emacs' AuC-TeX [1] is nearly perfect: it has shortcuts and autocompletion for almost all the environment names and commands, inline preview, BibTeX searches (via RefTeX), and a number of other minor features that make it easy to write LaTeX. Honestly, I wish that other text-writing modes (like markdown-mode) would implement the interface and functionality of AuC-TeX and not the other way round.
As for the syntax: I love Markdown for writing very simple text content, but as soon as you need to do something just a little more complicated it becomes awkward (e.g., table entries that span multiple paragraphs) and some task are simply impossible (e.g. referencing a list item by label value, the way you do it with TeX's `\label` and `\ref`). The programmability of TeX-based systems is actually a great thing that lets you write shorter documents and push many aesthetics decisions to a `.sty` file (e.g., you can at any time change your mind on how `\vector{u}` should be rendered).
There's a few libraries on PyPI implementing this idea:
- https://github.com/borntyping/python-infix (https://pypi.org/project/infix/)
- https://pypi.org/project/infixed/
- https://pypi.org/project/betwixt/ (Diclaimer: author here)
What you lose on arxiv is peer review.
Or, instead, you get a much larger audience reviewing your article, instead of the 2 to 4 reviewers involved in the paper publishing process :-)
You can get comments from critical and interested readers, you upload a new version of the paper to arXiv, and repeat the process until the article is ready for submission/publishing.
In other words: I think that an article on arXiv (on average and as a whole, individual articles may be exceptional) is subject to much wider and more extensive scrutiny and verification than the average article during the paper publication process.
From the article:
But moderators frequently intervene, delaying posting by days or weeks, reclassifying papers or even outright rejecting submissions.
Definitely not my experience. I haven't posted to arXiv in a while now, but I wasn't even aware a moderation queue exists -- none of my papers were delayed, reclassified, or other...
EDIT: I see the article provides a few examples, but then they also provide numbers: "At arXiv, roughly 6 percent of submissions receive a hold, and about 2 percent are rejected." -- 8% of heavy-handed moderation intervention wouldn't qualify as "frequently" IMHO.
The Python package lambdex [1] provides a way to write multi-line anonymous functions in Python, with a syntax that's close enough to the "normal" Python.
This article is from a Swiss University. In the Canton of Zurich, kids are supposed to be walking to school alone by age 6 (law mandates that there must be a school within $WALKING_DISTANCE of any residential building).
High schoolers that need to be taken to school by their parents are definitely the exception.
Why is Python 3.10 a game changer? (Honest question)
Window Maker is an X11 window manager with a NeXTStep look.
GNUStep is an attempt at creating a Free/Libre NeXTStep-like environment, including all the apps.
What literature/books would you recommend to know more about the subject to be able to apply it to practical programs?
Well, quite: if you add that code must run sequentially it's the Boehm-Jacopini theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_program_theorem
We should also not forget that a lot of maths is spoken (in classes and seminars) so there the distinction between, say, \theta and \vartheta would be lost was they are pronounced the same...
Perl has had a similar trick for quite a while:
eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -w -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
if 0; # not running under some shell
How do Nix and Guix compare?
I can play it on Debian with Firefox, no problems.