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I don't know about successor. I've had an HP Envy m7 laptop for about 6 years. It had pretty good specs when I bought it for only $700 and I upgraded the OS and the HDD twice since then...once cloning to a 480GB SSD (huge improvement), then a clean install on a 1TB SSD. (another huge improvement)
After all these years, it's still a great laptop that is still snappy and actually compiles faster than my 3y/0 desktop system with better specs. I'd recommend it or a successor but would also advise for a clean install on the biggest SSD I could afford before actually loading it with dev components.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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I'm surprised that Python doesn't have a format specifier for engineering notation. Oddly, the scientific notation is :e or :E depending on the lower/upper case desired for the exponent "E".
Does anyone actually use engineering notation anymore?
Odd duck. "You bloody fool." 
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Marc Clifton wrote: Does anyone actually use engineering notation anymore?
I thought all the IT people use it, but actually use it wrong (had to look it up   )
We use the decimal prefixes when we should use the -bi for the binary basis
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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It is the same except that the exponents are limited to numbers that are divisible by 3, which makes sense for both engineers and scientists. 
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Quote: Does anyone actually use engineering notation anymore?
Now you've done gone bring up memories from my evil past.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Yes, I think in Engineering notation. This comes from a lifetime of electronics engineering, where most calculations require one-and-a-bit significant digits precision and a huge exponential range. (In the good old days, a slide rule did the mantissa and you carried the exponent in your head.)
milli-ohms to megohms.
picofarads to farads.
... etc
A kilohm.nanofarad is a microsecond,for example.
So to me, 100,000 is really 0.1e6, not 1.0e5 (my mental mantissas range from 0.1 to 99).
In the dim distant past I wrote a couple of printf helpers to display numbers "my way".
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Guido needs a good talking to when it comes to representing i as j.
What I mean: a complex number a + bi is written in Python as a + bj
cheers
Chris Maunder
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This would be a lot more convincing if it was accompanied by a video of said duck.
This could be anything.
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Are dice games banned in Germany in case you become a Yahtzee sympathiser?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Now you're really göring someone's ox.
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Coming up with that one Griff... must've taken some concentration.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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You shouldn't try to be camp.
(and I think I'll leave it at that, before this thread turns really sick  )
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Well - I can see how rolling boxcars would be problematic.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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An frank answer is not recommended.
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A friend of mine just complained his coworker, a full-stack developer, writes crappy front-end and crappy back-end code.
He called him a non-stack developer.
Made me chuckle
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Sander Rossel wrote: He called him a non-stack developer.
I think "null-stack" would be more fitting, and it rhymes.
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It rhymes? In West Pond, full would rhyme with bull (IPA ʊ), but null would rhyme with dull (IPA ʌ).
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Which gives us an interesting progression:
Full stack ==> bull
Null stack ==> dull
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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About rhyming and pronunciation. Read <a href="https://stuff.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/netsam/englishIsToughStuff.html">^this</a> at MIT.
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My brain cannot comprehend any of those words not rhyming with each other, but I will take your word for it.
And I would also like to change my original statement to:
and it rhymes has all the same letters except for the first one!
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Probably because of how they're pronounced.
Null vs. something that comes close to "fool".
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As a Brit you should be well able comprehend the pronunciation of all of them.
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