I'm somewhat surprised that there hasn't been a new version of Mma released this week although mails on fixed bugs were sent late last week. I think quite often a release has occurred on the following week, before Friday. Or maybe my memory is just playing tricks with me.

@halirutan I think this situation is subtle and interesting enough to warrant a Q&A.

Does mathematica offer any distributions/functions that behave like an asymmetric Lorentzian function (Cauchy distribution)? I have data that looks like this i.imgur.com/yEYDu4U.png when fit with simple Lorentzian's, which is alright but not precise enough it seems.

@kirma I think that 11.1 will take at least one more month to come out (but don't ask me why I think that...). Which means that these e-mails are probably not a good indicator...

@P.Fonseca I find it intriguing that they sent those "bug fixed" mails already last week then...

I think it's a good sign. Maybe they went through the bugs and checked which got fixed. At the same time maybe they made a list of important problems that still need to be fixed and still require a more than a month to deal with.

Bug triage should be done well ahead of the final release.

@Szabolcs The way they inform the customer / bug reporter is a bit odd, though. I am a developer for a product that has tens of millions of lines of code, and information we deliver to customers on bug fixes is quite a bit more detailed (especially on the matter of what version, and when, fixes a problem) than what's my experience with WRI.

@kirma I as well find the way to "close issues in their bug database" a bit odd. But keeping all known issues secret in today software world is even odder.

Yep.

Usually when you report a bug, they add your email address to the issue. Then you get notified when it gets closed ... not when it gets fixed or when the fix is released.

@Szabolcs I suspect I don't quite follow what you mean.

@Szabolcs Sending me an email with "You reported improper behavior in ListPlot at the end of 2007 and we believe we have fixed it now" is completely useless.

@kirma What he's saying is that you don't get notified when the bug is fixed. You get the email when they have time to go through the database and write emails.

Stoneage

@halirutan I remember that there were strong signs of use of RCS before they apparently modernized stuff and started using Git...

@kirma Yes. There was a famous bug that the CEO himself helped to track down because someone forgot to remove version 0.0.0 code from production code :)

community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/977013

Visualizing the Bunimovich mitosis

There are some colleagues at my business unit that have an impressive track record as essentially founding fathers of the Internet, and they still write code. Often approaches to development are stuck on the level of what was sensible in the eighties, not really how large-scale projects are managed, developed and tested in 2010s.

@halirutan Is it possible to use IDEA to find where a certain symbol is used?

@Szabolcs Currently, you can highlight them.

OK, so no listing for the complete file then? Or jumping to the next occurrence? I know I can still use plain old find.

I'm pretty confident I'll also get eventually stuck and stop learning or accepting new methodologies, but not quite yet. ;)

@Szabolcs Yes, both is done. Give me a sec.

@Szabolcs For instance in IGraph.m I go over the symbol igToGraph and instantly you see on the right side where all the symbols are located.

You can press

ah, on the scroll bar

you're right

Now you an press Ctrl+Shift+F7

and all instances are highlighted in the code

and with F3 you move between them.

@Szabolcs is this ok?

@halirutan what's the name of the command for F3? On OS X the shortcut is different

To remove the highlighting press Shift+Ctrl+F7 on the symbol again or use Esc

See here

jetbrains.com/help/idea/2016.3/highlighting-usages.html

@Szabolcs On the help page, switch the OS in the upper right corner and you get the shortkeys for OSX

It is Cmd+Shift+F7 there

Thanks! That's nice.

@Szabolcs Jetbrains made a lot of effort to create a thoroughly detailed documentation. Just reading through it and I discover new things everytime.

@kirma @C.E. @Szabolcs Maybe someone knows how to help me. For the Plugin, I have a main XML file that contains not only definitions of feature implementation, but a description of fixed bugs inside a <description> tag as CDATA. Please take a quick look here.

Is there any way I can have a preview of this? I usually make HTML errors there or forget to close tags. That would be extremely helpful. Any ideas?

In the end, this is what is displayed on the Jetbrains page [here], so I would like to keep it up to date.

Hi all, does someone know if it is possible to submit a code for the "one-liner competition" without going to the Wolfram Technology Conference?

(For those who are wondering what the "one-liner competition" is, it is a pretty interesting contest: blog.wolfram.com/2015/11/05/…)

A quick question, how to change {{0, 3}, {0, 1},{0,2}} to {0,{3,1,2}}?

@xslittlegrass Very odd exercise but there are several ways..

{#1[[1]], #2} & @@ Transpose[{{0, 3}, {0, 1}, {0, 2}}]

@xslittlegrass First[List @@@ Normal[GroupBy[{{0, 3}, {0, 1}, {0, 2}}, First -> Last]]]

Thanks!