alsam

# Fortran-like array with arbitrary starting indices
#
# usage:
#
# julia> include("FArray.jl")
# size (generic function with 51 methods)
# 
# julia> y = FArray(Float64, -1:1, -7:7, -128:512, -5:5, -1:1, -3:3, -2:2, -1:1);
# 
# julia> y[-1,-7,-128,-5,-1,-3,-2,-1] = 14

JeffBezanson

(quail-define-package
 "symbol-input" "unicode" "unicode-sym" t
 "Easier input for unicode technical symbols"
 nil t nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t)

(quail-define-rules
    ("\\alpha"   ?α)
    ("\\beta"    ?β)
    ("\\gamma"   ?γ)
    ("\\delta"   ?δ)

chrishwiggins

( advice from @johnmyleswhite; ministorm starts with https://twitter.com/johnmyleswhite/status/766657182582513666 )


I keep planning on writing a post about contributing to OSS effectively, but I'm starting to doubt I ever will. So here's some tweets.
(1) Credibility is everything. People are busy, so they heavily use personal trust to inform their decisions. You must become credible.
(2) Credibility starts with technical competence, rather than shared aesthetics. Do *not* start contributing by engaging in design debates.
(3) Instead, work on simple projects where success or failure will be clear. Write unit tests. Write docs. Improve a function's performance.
(4) That kind of work will allow you to demonstrate skill, which will make you credible. After, people will want to hear your design goals.
(5) Don't engage in debates that are long-standing without being familiar with the entire past history of the debate.
(6) Especially don't focus on the shallow part of a debate where you can participate without kno

staticfloat

Julia Debugging Procedures

So you managed to break Julia. Congratulations! Collected here are some general procedures you can undergo for common symptoms encountered when something goes awry. Including the information from these debugging steps can greatly help the maintainers when tracking down a segfault or trying to figure out why your script is running slower than expected.

If you've been directed to this page, find the symptom that best matches what you're experiencing and follow the instructions to generate the debugging information requested. Table of symptoms:

• Segfaults during bootstrap (sysimg.jl)

• Segfaults when running a script

tshort

Matthew Dowle is working on a fast CSV reader for data.table. Here is test data case generated in R along with some timings:

require(data.table)

n=1e6
DT = data.table( a=sample(1:1000,n,replace=TRUE),
                 b=sample(1:1000,n,replace=TRUE),
                 c=rnorm(n),
                 d=sample(c("foo","bar","baz","qux","quux"),n,replace=TRUE),

svaksha

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Returns a BibTeX (www.bibtex.org) entry for one or more given DOIs
# (https://www.doi.org/).
#
# Call it like this:
#
# $ doi2bibtex.sh 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu533
#
# Can also be used for several DOIs at once:

konrad

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Returns a BibTeX (www.bibtex.org) entry for one or more given DOIs
# (https://www.doi.org/).
#
# Call it like this:
#
# $ doi2bibtex.sh 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu533
#
# Can also be used for several DOIs at once:

lahwran

This list was originally authored by a friend who has been learning programming for some time (tuningmind)

Programming learning resources

Note: Many books may be available from a nearby public library. Check there as well!

These two are about the best I've seen for starting from scratch:

• Head First Programming (book, for pay: amazon, python 3)

musalbas

Dear British Airways,

I am concerned that you have not handled my personal information properly.

Recently, I tried to check-in online on your website, but the interstitial page did not redirect me, and thus I was unable to check-in. I discovered that this was because my adblocker was enabled. After disabling my adblocker, I discovered that your check-in page was leaking my booking reference and surname to countless third parties for advertising purposes, including Twitter, LinkedIn and Google Doubleclick. I've attached for some network logs from Chrome's web developer console for some example evidence.

I do not recall explicitly consenting for my information to be shared in this way, nor do I see any way to opt-out or withdraw my consent. This all appears to be a violation of article 7 of GDPR for conditions of consent, which states "where processing is based on consent, the controller shall be able to demonstrate that the data subject has consented to processing of his or her personal data" and "the data

jiahao

#Working version
using JSON
auth_token= #fill in to access Github API

function getcontribs(owner, repo, auth_token)
    #Download information about contributors
    page, authors=0, {}
    while true #Download every page
        page += 1
        url="https://api.github.com/repos/$owner/$repo/contributors?page=$(page)&access_token=$(auth_token)"