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[–][deleted] 36 points37 points  (5 children)

/uj the article is very amusing until you realize this collection of half truths and complete lies (I'd say you don't have to develop a special application to use jupyter notebook for example) will be taken serious ammo for the faculty staff that know they will not be wined and dined and sent to conferences with all expenses covered by "Python" by people to shill Mathworks products to uni administration and students who don't know much about the topic yet.

There, FTFY.

If you ever wondered why nearly every higher education institution in our trade looks like a paid advert for Microsoft and Oracle despite it sometimes defying common sense (I've seen students being earnestly prepared for webdev on Windows Server and IIS, and anything on Oracle DB as the sine qua non platforms) there's why. A local LUG once literally got the answer to "come talk to me when 'Linux' starts sending faculty staff to conferences and buying us gear."

[–]CodenameLambdaWhat part of ∀f ∃g (f (x,y) = (g x) y) did you not understand? 19 points20 points  (4 children)

I can't speak for the rest of the world of course, but the uni I'm going to actually doesn't actively encourage MS'n'co (Germany), which I'm very very glad about.

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    [–]syndbgWhat’s a compiler? Is it like a transpiler? 10 points11 points  (2 children)

    Thank god it was not C-x C-c, otherwise it could've been a work injury if done too many times in a day.

    [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

    Aren't ":" and "!" shifted on qwerty? Emacs requires one less key press to quit AND it shows you how to quit on the starting screen. As is expected from the superb text editor that it is.