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Re:Giving up on Julia (2016) on Monday August 19, 2019 @01:59PM (#20740075)
try the following

`date 1>&2 | sleep 1 | date 1>&2 | sleep 1 | date 1>&2`

you'll actually see the three date commands output immediately so the three julia processes would actually launch in parallel if they were in a pipe

Re:Amateur Mathematician Finds Smallest Universal Cover on Saturday November 17, 2018 @10:46PM (#18478779)
“Out of practice mathematician finds smaller universal cover”
Why can't the government just compete with a competitive wage?
Re:Coders Automating Their Own Job on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @08:22AM (#18129456)
How is a programmers value add usually measured?

I am a researcher/trader and I spend a large portion of my time programming, but I am ultimately paid off the change in profitability of the strategies I've worked on and not on the code I've written. It's a means to an end.

When someone is working on a purely technical project, how can they successfully argue for the value of their work? How do you measure the value of a purely technical project? Are there other metrics that matter?

Re:Don't Steal Money from Day Traders Before They Lose It on Friday September 07, 2018 @12:35AM (#17931901)
You must not be considering the total return of all your wealth just a limited subset. If you started with 10k and earned 300% (138.6% continuously compounded) then after 5 years you will have over $10mm. Wait another 3.3 years and you're a billionaire...
Re:We Discovered Helium 150 Years Ago. Are We Running Out? on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @10:26PM (#17873708)
If we ever get fusion it should produce he as a byproduct. So dive away and pray for fusion to come someday.
Re:Trial by Combat? Trial by Cake on Friday August 17, 2018 @08:55PM (#17786335)
But why wasn’t the “th” in that sentence a letter thorn? þ

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)

Re:Ask HN: What is your favourite programming language? Why? on Thursday March 15, 2018 @11:54PM (#16598501)
Julia lover here. I love having math at my fingertips and the ease of writing x’x\x’y. I like writing numerical code, knowing I can change types later and it will likely work. Still, I miss tab-tab from ipython for method completion from time to time and I work all day in mostly C++.
I get upset when they call it unlimited data and then cap the rate you can download. if you can only download 1 unit an hour, you are effectively capped at 744 Units per month.
Re:Terminal and shell performance on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @09:52AM (#14804259)
It would also be great to see how these scale with terminal size. I personally use iterm2 but after switching to a new Macbook pro this year with two 5k displays it's noticeably slower. I'm assuming some O(n^2) scaling behind the scenes but I haven't measured anything myself. Still, @gnachman I love your term especially with terminalplots.jl and drawing Julia repl images inline.
Get an individual patent and get arrange to get paid via royalty licensing. As I understand it, this is all long term cap gains. However. I am not a lawyer or a tax advisor.
Re:Show HN: Plot directly in your terminal with matplotlib on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @10:26PM (#13702742)
Julia has something similar too. TerminalExtensions.jl

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/julia-users/zj4nQl...

That's impressive. Do they use open channels to communicate everything? compensation? Financials?
Re:Algebraic Patterns – Monoid Morphism on Thursday September 29, 2016 @11:38PM (#12610408)
Well. I suppose you're only solving n! So you're fine
Re:Algebraic Patterns – Monoid Morphism on Thursday September 29, 2016 @11:37PM (#12610400)
Except in your program you forget to count the number of 2's as well and take the minimum of these two numbers.
Re:LLVM based Just-in-Time-Compiler for C++ on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @08:22AM (#11478866)
This is exciting. I'm excited to see keno here too. He has been really helpful in helping get Cxx.jl working. It's awesome. Being able to interactively work on c++ and to load external dynamic libraries is really useful. Thanks for working on this I can't wait to see where this goes.
Now if only there was a Julia package for this too
I've heard that the new laws being written in NY to prevent hydrolic fracking are being carefully wordsmithed so they will still allow fracking with natural gas instead. I wish I could find a source but im not sure how well known this issue is. Can anyone comment further?
Yes. Weather spark. The guys who wrote it are super chill and I love their product. I love looking at the averages they have before I plan a vacation and the great way they integrate historical information with forecasts into a time series has tons of information that I love.
Re:Xkcd 838 on Friday December 25, 2015 @09:46AM (#10791336)
Is there a good resource for understanding all the different logs available on different systems?
Re:How Airplanes Fly: A Physical Description of Lift (1999) on Thursday December 10, 2015 @09:10AM (#10710637)
I think John Denkar also provides a nice explanation here:

https://www.av8n.com/how/

Specifically in ch 3 he talks about airfoils, airflow, and circulation:

https://www.av8n.com/how/htm/airfoils.html

Re:CMU Binary Bomb meets Symbolic Execution and Radare on Saturday November 28, 2015 @09:54PM (#10643535)
This was one of my favorite assignments from CMU. Thanks for rekindling a great memory.
Re:How to Be a Lawyer Without Going to Law School on Saturday November 21, 2015 @12:04PM (#10607266)
For those interested in Washington states rules: http://www.wsba.org/~/media/Files/Licensing_Lawyer%20Conduct...

I like the fact the board of governors can terminate a law clerk from the program for any other grounds deemed pertinent.