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Re:Quake III Arena GPL Source Release (2012)
on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @08:30AM (#16857665)
Are you talking about Half-Life? ;)
Re:You Can’t Do Data Science in a GUI
on Monday April 16, 2018 @08:05AM (#16848343)
Maybe you could do a "I can do data science in a GUI" talk and amaze us all (addressing all points the OP made). Hadley has been working for years on making data science programming with R accessible: development of expressive domain-specific APIs, books freely available online, etc.
Re:Why Does “=” Mean Assignment?
on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @05:42AM (#16809464)
You can use environments for hash tables.
Re:Why Does “=” Mean Assignment?
on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @05:41AM (#16809461)
It is bad practice because you are hiding the side effect.
Re:Why Does “=” Mean Assignment?
on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @02:14AM (#16808493)
What about `a = a + 1`?
Re:A Lisp that runs Python (2016)
on Saturday October 14, 2017 @07:42AM (#15471742)
There's nothing weird about closure-based scoping. You find this in Python, R, Javascript, ... It has roots in the lambda calculus.
Re:Magit Kickstarter fully funded
on Friday September 22, 2017 @04:34PM (#15315552)
The point of this kind of UI is that they become an extension of yourself. Saying these UI are old and clunky is exactly like saying a keyboard is old and clunky.
Re:Create Page Layout Visualizations in R
on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @06:12AM (#15123269)
That problem (solved in recent versions) has nothing to do with pipes though.
Re:Create Page Layout Visualizations in R
on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @06:10AM (#15123256)
Unlispy? What about threading macros? The voodoo you're referring to is simply computing on the language, which is quite lispy as well.
Re:The 10x developer is not a myth (2013)
on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @04:37AM (#14244871)
That's called a model.