That's interesting, because the 1-indexed arrays are primary the primary reason I don't ever seriously consider using Julia (or Lua); I can only shudder and imagine the obnoxious number of off-by-one mistakes I'd make.
If I can switch between programming languages that use 0-based and 1-based indexing without getting confused, surely you could too. If you don't think that learning to use 1-based indexing is worth it, that's fair enough, but it's pretty low on my list of things that give me trouble when I translate code between languages.
I think this is a mental block people have. I grew up on zero based arrays in C, but I can't say this has caused me any issues thus far using Julia.
I don't know how it is for others but for me I just into this mode where I think about Julia as doing math and I know in math you start at 1 for vectors and matrices.
Besides the way functions and APIs work, you seldom have to write code that really depends on the start index.
What you are saying is conjecture if you haven't tried Julia or Lua. The reality is that 1 based indexing is trivial compared to the difficulties of a complex program.
Yeah, it just feels wrong. Of course that's just habit and in fact starting counts at 1 is actually the more user-centric way of doing it.
I wish I could get used to Julia but for some reason I just think the source looks..ugly. Maybe it's my dark past with php that makes me shudder at the sight of avg(x) (instead of x.avg).
I know that's stupid (and the syntax is actually required for multiple dispatch). Maybe Julia and I should try couples' therapy.
Basically every mathematical/data science language uses 1-based arrays -- R, MATLAB, and Mathematica in addition to Julia. Probably because traditionally (and to a degree even now) the standard numerical language was FORTRAN.
> Not 100% sure, but I think the access to contacts is so that you can split ride fares with other people.
There's a standard intent to select a contact for purposes like that, and then the app only gets access to the information of that contact. Apps requesting access to contacts get all contacts.
It's actually probably so you can autocomplete a contact as a destination address for your Uber. The same is true in Maps for navigation. Unfortunately UX wins over privacy so launching an intent to pick a contact probably wasn't as elegant as using a unified autocomplete field.
You're asking for VS Code to be a completely different product. VS Code is a GUI text editor like Sublime and Atom. There's no reason for it to run in a terminal. Vim and Emacs are classical CLI based text editors. Are you asking for an alternative to those?
Yes, they're both text editors, but they're completely different classes of text editors. MS Word is also a text editor, but it would be ridiculous to fault it for not having a CLI. It's nice that Emacs and Vim have GUI modes, but I doubt they're the primary way users use those editors. Emacs/Vim and VS Code/Sublime/Atom fulfill different needs and preferences.
I'm curious about your answer to this: would you argue that MS should combine Word and VS Code into one text editor?
You're still missing the point. Users who know little to nothing about the law NC passed will be made aware of the issue. Some of those people will take action against the lawmakers and/or people that support the law. Overall awareness of the issue will rise and hopefully cause a real discussion.
Technically it's not holography, but using the term is the simplest way to convey the idea to the average person. What would you suggest calling it instead?
There's never been a breakthrough like this -- what you edit dominantly gets transferred to offspring. Previous gene therapies didn't necessarily get propagated, which means any mistakes are permanent.... the potential for disaster is huge.
Until we completely understand the risks, perhaps we should make a rule not to breed after genetic manipulation. If you want kids and gene therapy, kids first.
That's exactly the problem the parent comment suggests we focus on fixing. Once a library is published, npm shouldn't allow anyone to use that name even if the library is pulled.
I think you're seriously overstating the issues with Xcode. There are bugs and annoyances, but things have gotten better over the years. It's not as great as Visual Studio, but it's far from horrible. Remember, we live in a world with Eclipse.
Is Eclipse still growing exponentially? I remember Ganymede -> Helios increasing 2MM LOC, Helios -> Indigo 4MM LOC, and Indigo -> Juno 8MM LOC. I couldn't even get Luna to run, and haven't checked back in on it since then. The foundation started to bundle up too much stuff in the distributed versions.
I'm studying for these boards right now, and these equations do show up. However, it's not the curriculum (at least not at my school) pushing the rote memorization of drugs, side effects, contraindications, microbes, etc. It's the board exams. A huge component of the exams is raw memorization of random facts that have no relation to anything (did you know rifampin makes your tears turn orange?). Unfortunately, there seems to be no incentive for the board examiners to change their exam.
