# Offtopic

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## [Repl cursor/caret blink visibilty](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/repl-cursor-caret-blink-visibilty/15324)

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**Author:** [@y4lu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/y4lu)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/repl-cursor-caret-blink-visibilty/15324 "2018-09-22T03:21:13Z")

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When editing a line of code in the Repl, it takes about half a second after the last left or right key press for the cursor to reappear, which presents itself as a bit of an unexpected usability problem. Julia version 1.…

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## [Award for JuliaDynamics?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/award-for-juliadynamics/15024)

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**Author:** [@KZiemian](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/KZiemian)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [September 16, 2018, 8:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/award-for-juliadynamics/15024 "2018-09-16T20:11:34Z")

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I hear that JuliaDynamics.jl won some award, but can’t find any details. Anyone hear more about that?

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## [is it possible to learn julia without knowing any other computer language?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-it-possible-to-learn-julia-without-knowing-any-other-computer-language/14430)

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**Author:** [@firedwheelman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/firedwheelman)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [September 3, 2018, 7:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-it-possible-to-learn-julia-without-knowing-any-other-computer-language/14430 "2018-09-03T07:51:02Z")

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I’m talking even without knowledge of c or matlab? and if its not possible which language should I learn first?

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## [Is Julia mostly written in Python?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-mostly-written-in-python/13961)

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**Author:** [@rsmaior](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rsmaior)\
**Replies:** 15\
**Last updated:** [August 24, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-mostly-written-in-python/13961 "2018-08-24T13:44:38Z")

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In OpenHub there’s many statistics about a big number of open source projects. It says that 47% lines of code from Julia is in Python, 24% in C, 19% in C++ and 10% in other languages. Here is the link: The JuliaLang Open…

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## [I miss Julia's motto](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/i-miss-julias-motto/13142)

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**Author:** [@amrods](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/amrods)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [August 15, 2018, 5:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/i-miss-julias-motto/13142 "2018-08-15T17:26:24Z")

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I miss “A fresh approach to technical computing” at the start of a REPL session, absent in 1.0 and present in \< 1. in 0.7: \_ \_ \_ \_(\_)\_ | A fresh approach to technical computing (\_) | …

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## [Keyboard layouts - Scandinavian](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/keyboard-layouts-scandinavian/11990)

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**Author:** [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [June 27, 2018, 7:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/keyboard-layouts-scandinavian/11990 "2018-06-27T19:01:35Z")

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I would like to hear opinions on keyboard layouts for programming. I was brought up in the UK so was used to the UK keyboard layout, but worked at CERN in Switzerland where there was a very odd Swiss layout as I remembe…

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## [Visit to Bletchley Park at JuliaCon](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/visit-to-bletchley-park-at-juliacon/11789)

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**Author:** [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 20, 2018, 5:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/visit-to-bletchley-park-at-juliacon/11789 "2018-06-20T05:00:41Z")

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I really dont want to muscle in on the Julia 2018 section. Bletchley Park - home of codebreaking and the site of Bombe (cracking Enigma) and Colossus (cracking the Lorenz cypher) is an hour’s train journey from UCL.

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## [(repeating) log-in to discourse?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/repeating-log-in-to-discourse/11593)

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**Author:** [@lobingera](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lobingera)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 11, 2018, 5:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/repeating-log-in-to-discourse/11593 "2018-06-11T17:54:26Z")

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I’m reading discourse on a diverse list of internet-connected devices. With ‘this’ browser (my main development box) i need to log-in and re-login since a few weeks. Is there some access cookie needed that i unintentiona…

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## [Help with Coveralls](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-with-coveralls/11147)

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**Author:** [@Ronis\_BR](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ronis_BR)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [May 25, 2018, 5:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-with-coveralls/11147 "2018-05-25T17:21:09Z")

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Hi guys! I am noticing that Coveralls is not updating the information about my package, even if the Travis built has been completed successfully. The badge is still showing unknown. I have no idea what I am doing wrong.…

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## [Compile (and call) a C function from Julia](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/compile-and-call-a-c-function-from-julia/10770)

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**Author:** [@LaurentPlagne](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/LaurentPlagne)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [May 21, 2018, 5:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/compile-and-call-a-c-function-from-julia/10770 "2018-05-21T17:35:03Z")

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I wonder if it would make sense that Julia enables one to call a C function described by its source code… ccall(" #include \<stdio.h\> int main() { // printf() displays the string inside quotation printf(“Hello, Worl…

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## [Article: C is Not a Low-level Language](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/article-c-is-not-a-low-level-language/10704)

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**Author:** [@kevin.squire](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kevin.squire)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [May 14, 2018, 11:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/article-c-is-not-a-low-level-language/10704 "2018-05-14T11:00:23Z")

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https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=3212479 Nothing directly to do with Julia, but I found it interesting in light of choices in Julia around C-interop, struct-layout, etc., as well as the conflict between CPU a…

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## [Getting swaywm running on Ubuntu](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/getting-swaywm-running-on-ubuntu/10701)

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**Author:** [@ExpandingMan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ExpandingMan)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [May 4, 2018, 10:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/getting-swaywm-running-on-ubuntu/10701 "2018-05-04T22:39:18Z")

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@chakravala: I felt I was completely derailing the other thread so I opened this one: The machine I’m trying it on right now is on Ubuntu 16.04, the one I tried last night was 17.10. I tried going to TTY0 or TTY1, logg…

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## [Swift string handling](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/swift-string-handling/10622)

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**Author:** [@ScottPJones](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ScottPJones)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [April 30, 2018, 7:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/swift-string-handling/10622 "2018-04-30T19:15:42Z")

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Currently, Swift has much better support for string handling than Julia (something I’m working to change in my spare time, I strongly feel that in the future, Julia could have the best (in terms of features, ease of use a…

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## [Offtopic: kaggle / numerai making news](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/offtopic-kaggle-numerai-making-news/9954)

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**Author:** [@y4lu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/y4lu)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 25, 2018, 6:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/offtopic-kaggle-numerai-making-news/9954 "2018-03-25T06:27:44Z")

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“We want every single Kaggle user to join Numerai. Giving them $1 million in Numeraire is the beginning of that,” says Richard Craib, founder of Numerai. Kaggle users who connect their accounts to Numerai at numer.ai/…

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## [GSoC Help for JuliaLang](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gsoc-help-for-julialang/9733)

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**Author:** [@aalpanigrahi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/aalpanigrahi)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 15, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gsoc-help-for-julialang/9733 "2018-03-15T14:21:04Z")

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Hello , I wanted to apply for working on a summer project under “Google Summer of code” for Julia language under Numfocus. It has been mentioned to contact mentors for seeking recommendations on how to improve the proje…

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## [HPCG Benchmarks](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hpcg-benchmarks/9386)

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**Author:** [@John\_Hearns](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/John_Hearns)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 28, 2018, 8:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hpcg-benchmarks/9386 "2018-02-28T08:59:34Z")

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https://share-ng.sandia.gov/news/resources/news\_releases/ranking\_supercomputers/#.WpZs7qqQJD8 Not directly about Julia. but some interesting comments on what real world applications are like today.

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## [RFC/Suggestions: -ShadowFerret.js- v0 html/Gui specification language?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/rfc-suggestions-shadowferret-js-v0-html-gui-specification-language/9222)

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**Author:** [@y4lu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/y4lu)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 24, 2018, 2:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/rfc-suggestions-shadowferret-js-v0-html-gui-specification-language/9222 "2018-02-24T14:35:50Z")

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Basic idea is to use a little javascript and a specification object to generate a web gui/page on the fly At the moment it’s very verbose, but the operations are all pretty much the same so it should be fairly easy to t…

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## [View HDF5 files on linux](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/view-hdf5-files-on-linux/9277)

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**Author:** [@yakir12](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yakir12)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 23, 2018, 1:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/view-hdf5-files-on-linux/9277 "2018-02-23T13:50:13Z")

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What do you use to view hdf5 files on Linux? If I create the h5 file from the first example in the HDF5.jl’s README, opening it in say hdfview, doesn’t show matrix A no matter how much I double click the test2.h5: A…

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## [Complexity of Julia, comparison based on # keywords (from Quora)](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/complexity-of-julia-comparison-based-on-keywords-from-quora/8908)

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**Author:** [@ScottPJones](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ScottPJones)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [February 8, 2018, 4:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/complexity-of-julia-comparison-based-on-keywords-from-quora/8908 "2018-02-08T16:24:10Z")

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I ran across this, and found it a rather interesting comparison of major languages (and it even included Julia!): How Complex Is Swift What do other people feel about the general complexity of Julia compared to other l…

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## [Open source programming and socialism](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/open-source-programming-and-socialism/8754)

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**Author:** [@bramtayl](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bramtayl)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [February 2, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/open-source-programming-and-socialism/8754 "2018-02-02T16:09:07Z")

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I came across this image recently and it got me thinking. To what extent does open source programming represent fundamentally new relations of production? Especially relevant in consideration of our new code of conduc…

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## [Help calling a function defined from expressions](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-calling-a-function-defined-from-expressions/1340)

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**Author:** [@j\_verzani](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/j_verzani)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [January 27, 2018, 6:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-calling-a-function-defined-from-expressions/1340 "2018-01-27T18:42:28Z")

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I was using this basic pattern to define a function but it now fails when called a certain way on v0.6-dev function test(vars) body = :x eval(Expr(:function, Expr(:call, gensym(), map(Symbol,vars).…

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## [Move Suppressor.jl to JuliaIO?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/move-suppressor-jl-to-juliaio/8625)

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**Author:** [@NaOH](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/NaOH)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 27, 2018, 8:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/move-suppressor-jl-to-juliaio/8625 "2018-01-27T08:49:59Z")

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Do you guys think the JuliaIO organization would be suitable for a package like Suppressor? If JuliaIO members are in this forum, please let me know if you are interested, so I can transfer the ownership, thank you!

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## [Issues with using Mercurial instead of Git](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issues-with-using-mercurial-instead-of-git/7925)

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**Author:** [@Liso](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Liso)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [December 22, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issues-with-using-mercurial-instead-of-git/7925 "2017-12-22T18:21:42Z")

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Indeed, that’s planned. I’d like to use the full VERSION rather than just the Git SHA for all downloads, so for example recent 0.7 would be julia-v0.7.0-DEV.3089, this would be julia-v0.6.2, etc. I was first trying t…

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## [Can Gadfly plot 3D surface charts......?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-gadfly-plot-3d-surface-charts/7272)

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**Author:** [@mikefot](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mikefot)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 23, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-gadfly-plot-3d-surface-charts/7272 "2017-11-23T19:57:40Z")

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Dear Juliaists, I installed Julia and Gadfly correctly on Windows 10 (I run a kaveri box amd64 machine). My question is not about Julia hence I chose the offtopic section. I looked at the Gadfly documentation which is…

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## [Relax for two minutes (video)](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/relax-for-two-minutes-video/557)

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**Author:** [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [October 30, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/relax-for-two-minutes-video/557 "2017-10-30T13:51:13Z")

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If you’ve had a stressful week (or month), here’s a short 2 minute video for you. Painting in three time from cormullion on Vimeo. (PS: Thanks to @skariel and other contributors to VoronoiDelaunay which I enjoyed taki…

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## [Github News Feed](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/github-news-feed/6413)

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**Author:** [@JaredCrean2](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/JaredCrean2)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 13, 2017, 5:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/github-news-feed/6413 "2017-10-13T17:17:49Z")

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Has anyone noticed a change in the Github news feed in the last day or two? It used to show all comments on issues as well as pushes to branches, but now I only see the latter.

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## [NIH releases 100K chest X-ray images for deep learning](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nih-releases-100k-chest-x-ray-images-for-deep-learning/6370)

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**Author:** [@John\_Hearns](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/John_Hearns)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [October 10, 2017, 7:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nih-releases-100k-chest-x-ray-images-for-deep-learning/6370 "2017-10-10T07:59:43Z")

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Seen on my Twitter feed: The NIH Clinical Center recently released over 100,000 anonymized chest x-ray images and their corresponding data to the scientific community. The release will allow researchers across the coun…

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## [Yes, Python is Slow and I Don't Care](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/yes-python-is-slow-and-i-dont-care/6344)

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**Author:** [@John\_Hearns](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/John_Hearns)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 9, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/yes-python-is-slow-and-i-dont-care/6344 "2017-10-09T14:16:17Z")

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https://hackernoon.com/yes-python-is-slow-and-i-dont-care-13763980b5a1 I found this very perceptive article in my Twitter feed. The autohor discusses ‘Time to Market’. In the engineering and scientific sphere, Panasas h…

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## [UK Met Office Data freely available on S3](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/uk-met-office-data-freely-available-on-s3/5931)

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**Author:** [@John\_Hearns](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/John_Hearns)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 17, 2017, 10:53am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/uk-met-office-data-freely-available-on-s3/5931 "2017-09-17T10:53:10Z")

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I saw this on Twitter. Not my field, but it may be very useful to some people. UK Met Office data sets available in NetCDF format.

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## [VS Code Extension woes](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-woes/5872)

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**Author:** [@Sean\_McBane](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Sean_McBane)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [September 13, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-woes/5872 "2017-09-13T21:38:22Z")

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Hi all, I’ve been editing my Julia code in vim happily but I wanted to try out VS Code with the plugin to see how I liked it. However, while syntax highlighting and autoindentation works fine, the extension seems to be s…

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