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gclaugus

35 karma · joined June 30, 2017

CS student at Georgia State University. I want to learn more about infosec.
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gclaugus··on Why Generics?
I am ok with this progression.
gclaugus··on Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-hated typeface
Yeah, Fira Code is an excellent font, and it is something I have used in the past. PragmataPro looked prettier to my eyes so I bought it, that's all. In fact, it's linked as an alternative on that Github page.

The condensed look and lack of interlinear spacing of PPro are a nice bonus, not that there aren't other condensed fonts. I suppose for intl use PPro might be nice too since it has 9000+ glyphs, and the dev is still adding more.

gclaugus··on Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-hated typeface
I'd say yeah, I bought PragmataPro because it's a work of art and has great ligature support. Operator Mono is another popular choice.
gclaugus··on What's Coming in Python 3.8
Walrus operator looks like a great addition, not too much syntax sugar for a common pattern. Why were folks arguing about it?
gclaugus··on Why I’m turning my son into a cyborg
I don't understand the justification. Because people do dumb things, we should do more dumb things?

>This doesn't mean that we shouldn't do it.

Why should she put her son at risk for a science experiment?

gclaugus··on I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017)
I've been doing Excel and VBA work for my internship this summer, and I have to say, I have an immense amount of respect for the engineers behind Excel. Excel is incredibly extensible, it has very nice built-in error handling for mangled data (but horrible exception handling in VBA), and overall it is simply a joy working with it.

Sure, it has some pain points, but for my use case (financial analysis), it complements Bloomberg very well. Bloomberg's Excel add-in is very well-engineered, and there is even a way to hook into Bloomberg through VBA. Cheers to the MSFT devs who crafted this stuff.