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1. Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca

   You should read this, if only to see a reasonable use of the phrase "some other unresearched hippie voodoo nonsense that are either wrong or too dumb to rise to the level of wrong." http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2013/10/22/citation-needed/ (why do programmers start counting at zero?) !hacks

   Thursday, 31-Oct-13 06:22:27 UTC von sn.jonkman.ca
   • drak gefällt das.
   • drak wiederholte dies.
   • drak

     0-based indexing means not having to change numbers in slices: a[:1] + a[1:] == a and len(a[n:n+length]) == length. Pure fuzzy UI preference.

     Thursday, 31-Oct-13 08:35:57 UTC
   • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca Free, Libre, and Open Source Software , Free Culture

     @mhoye also writes "I was in favor of Open Access publication before, but writing this up has cemented it…“$20 for a forty-year-old research paper” is functionally indistinguishable from “gone”" http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2013/10/22/citation-needed/ !free !fs !freeculture

     Thursday, 31-Oct-13 09:24:54 UTC
     drak gefällt das.
   • drak Libre

     with that he’s definitely right. All scientific articles should be open access and !libre !freeculture.

     Thursday, 31-Oct-13 10:19:30 UTC
   • drak Libre , Free Culture

     with that he’s definitely right. All scientific articles should be open access and !libre !freeculture.

     Thursday, 31-Oct-13 10:22:56 UTC
     tuttle gefällt das.
   • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca drak

     I don’t really care if @mhoye is 100% correct (or even 100% wrong) about this – telling people that “yacht-racing influenced zero-based indexing code optimization” makes a great story, and is a terrific teaching aid when introducing people to the idea of counting from zero. I wish I’d known this a couple of weeks ago. At the time I just hand-waved away zero-indexing by saying “just because programmers do things like that”. Yacht-racing would have made for a better lecture. Thanx for adding another anecdote to our mythology!

     Thursday, 31-Oct-13 17:41:47 UTC