Readit Newsthemoops36 commented on Ask HN: Has anyone paid someone else to develop your side projects? · Posted by u/drekipus
Keep in mind that if you hire contracted devs, you'll have to write out very clear documentation about what you want, and when you need it by. Otherwise you'll get 1. Garbage or 2. Expensive Garbage
themoops36 commented on Dexplot: Python library for data visualization dexplo.org/dexplot/... · Posted by u/illuminated
How do people feel about Plotly?
I've been using it for years and by far it's been the easiest plotting library (while still being really flexible).
The company is very active in developing, for example recently adding plotly_express, which lets me get charts with one liners like: px.line(df, x='x_column', y='y_column')
I'm not affiliated with Plotly but just curious what people think since I find it to be an awesome library but I rarely hear about it or meet people who use it.
I work with data scientists and ML people more than hardcore developers, but I've noticed that a lot of people who use sublime text tend to resort to print() debugging.
IMO python's lack of explicit typing makes it difficult to reason about by inspection alone ("does foo() return a dataframe or a numpy array?!"). For me at least, I need to get into the guts of a system and watch it execute to really understand it. The print() debug crowd tend to be much better than me at reasoning about code by inspection alone, but when you work on something complex that you didn't write yourself, that only gets you so far.
Can you recommend anything to learn debugging the proper way (or maybe the article here is a good resource)?
I might be one of these print() people- usually when I hit bugs I read through the stack trace and can figure it out, but if it's more of an "unexpected result" I resort to print() so I know exactly what I'm doing. Would love to learn a more efficient way
themoops36 commented on Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before? · Posted by u/behnamoh
I will take the bullet and suggest Ayn Rand's Fountainhead.
If you are a teenager it will definitely make you think and likely leave an impact on you. It's not a typical novel, more like philosophical ideas presented in the form of a novel. Ideal characters placed in real life. You will also understand why the world is divided into Ayn Rand lovers and haters.
It questions how the world works, how it should work, how people live their lives, and how they should live their lives, etc, etc.
Warning you, it's not filled with plots twists.
Great suggestion. This is one of my favorite books, and I enjoyed it more than Atlas Shrugged because I found it a bit more subtle.
Rand has a very distinct philosophy and is quite black-and-white, but even if you don't agree with everything hopefully you can appreciate the writing and storytelling in The Fountainhead (and others). It seems that a lot of the discussion about Rand is focused on her philosophy and if it's right or wrong. This is probably justified but also obscures the fact that she was a master at writing.
I read this book in my early 20s and loved it. Even though I've become much more liberal on many issues (proponent of universal healthcare, tax-payer paid higher ed, etc.) I can still appreciate the themes in her work.
Also just finished Anthem last night- I recommend checking it out. Super short but really gripping read.
themoops36 commented on Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before? · Posted by u/behnamoh
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle https://www.amazon.com/New-Earth-Awakening-Purpose-Selection...
Agreed. Life-changing if you're in the right place for it.