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curiouslearn··on Escher – Build beautiful interactive Web UIs in Julia
This looks really amazing. Thank you Shashi.

Does this need Julia 0.4?

A very minor comment - In the markdown example, you need to add "Interpolate \KaTeX" in the input (it is there in the output but not in the input).

curiouslearn··on Eating Too Much Rice Almost Sank the Japanese Navy in 1882
Greatly appreciate the summary. Thank you.
curiouslearn··on What makes Nim practical?
Something like Julia's PyCall package that allows calling arbitrary Python packages from Julia would also be great.
curiouslearn··on I Love Julia
The author of the article says that relative (to Python and R) paucity of the libraries should not stop one from using Julia. I completely second this for another reason, which is the awesome PyCall package, using which you can make use of any Python library.
curiouslearn··on Julia Package Ecosystem Pulse
Whenever I have tried to use Numba, I find it is slower than standard python. OTOH, Julia just works. Gives me the same performance as C.
curiouslearn··on Juliabox
I clicked on "Sign in via Google" button. It asked me for permission to access some information. Then went back to the original homepage; the one that still asks me to sign in. Now, if I click on "Sign in via Google" nothing happens. Also, nothing else on the page is clickable. How do I try it out?
curiouslearn··on Game Theory Is Counterintuitive
No, it does not say how people should behave? It analyzes strategic situations using various equilibrium concepts, such as the Nash equilibrium. If you are not sure that your opponent will play the Nash equilibrium strategy, Game theory doesn't tell you what you should do.
curiouslearn··on Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move (2007)
Thanks for sharing. This is an awesome read!
curiouslearn··on A basic guide to when and how to deploy HTTPS
I concur. I wish it were easier to setup.
curiouslearn··on An example of fast numerical computation using Haskell
I agree. I think the Cython version is eminently readable.
curiouslearn··on PiCloud has joined Dropbox
So sad to see PiCloud go. They made parallel computation so easy to implement. Their service was really well-built.
curiouslearn··on Show HN: Nunjucks – Node templates with inheritance, asynchronous control
This is an awesome templating engine. I have heard about so many javascript templating engines, but not this one before, despite the fact that this appears to be better than all of them.
curiouslearn··on Stay away from Digital Ocean
Are you saying it is impossible for a secure server to be compromised?
curiouslearn··on How I left a 4 year career in finance and became a software engineer in 5 months
Really nice story.
curiouslearn··on Getting Meteor to 1.0
Meteor is awesome. It considerably simplifies web-development. I just want to let the core team know that many many people really appreciate your efforts and I sincerely hope that negative comments such as those by Mr. Luc don't discourage your team and do not distract you from the really awesome work you are doing.
curiouslearn··on Rainyday.js
Wow! This is awesome. Thanks for sharing.
curiouslearn··on Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup
Definitely interested. The less you assume about your readers the more helpful it will be to me.
curiouslearn··on Discover Meteor
Thanks Sacha. I purchased the book and am really enjoying it. Thanks to you and Tom for writing the book. I am at the beginning of the Collections chapter. Unfortunately, for some reason, the Server-Client communication is not working (collection inserts using mongo console, do not show up in the browser console and vice-versa). I have not yet removed autopublish. Anyhow, will try to explore it further.
curiouslearn··on Discover Meteor
What are pre-requisites for understanding the book? For example, does one need to know Handlebars functionality, or does the book introduce them in such a way that one can pick up the required knowledge as one is reading the book. Also, does one need to be a Javascript guru, or is a basic understanding of Javascript sufficient to get started?
curiouslearn··on Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript
This is truly awesome.
curiouslearn··on Forecast.io
Looks awesome!
curiouslearn··on Fernando Pérez of IPython fame wins the Free Software Foundation Award
This is great news. Fernando, thanks for creating IPython. I use it a lot in my work.
curiouslearn··on Ask HN: What web based language should we learn nowadays?
I think Python would be a very good choice. With it you will be able to do a lot more than programming web applications. For example, it has excellent libraries for scientific work. At the same time, it is very good for creating web applications (although probably not so much for real time web-applications, but I doubt Php is very good for that either). It has many very good web frameworks. I have used web2py, which makes it easy to create websites, and equally important, to deploy websites on various PAAS platforms.