Hansi

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by Hansi 12y ago
I've been using the bookmarklet from here for a while: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8583275 Basically when there is an article I get to from elsewhere and I want to check if there are HN comments I simply click
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The PlayStation Company: why Sony should ditch almost everything else(theverge.com)
3 points by Hansi 12y ago|0 comments
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The hitman scam: Dread Pirate Roberts’ bizarre murder-for-hire attempt(arstechnica.com)
3 points by Hansi 12y ago|0 comments
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Rehab for a digital zombie: my year without a smartphone(medium.com)
2 points by Hansi 12y ago|0 comments
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by Hansi 12y ago
Yes we've tried it, it's not as stable as plain vanilla R and it's not as powerful in terms of dev tools support (mostly productivity wise, might just be because we are used to them) as RStudio, Eclipse+StatET, Notepad++ w&#x
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by Hansi 12y ago
Last time we met with Revolution Analytics they did their demos on a MacBook Pro running MacOSX using RStudio.
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by Hansi 12y ago
Yes please, I work for a big bank and we use VS for C# and F# and Rstudio and Notepad++ and RGui for R. Having one-ide-to-rule-them-all + supported by Microsoft would be a godsend for us.
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Peak crowdfunding? Hipster is trying to crowdfund money for 13 dates(metro.co.uk)
2 points by Hansi 12y ago|0 comments
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by Hansi 12y ago
Already disucssed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8830640
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Silk Road lawyer: Don’t let prosecutors read chats, e-mails out loud(arstechnica.com)
5 points by Hansi 12y ago|0 comments
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by Hansi 12y ago
That's not what I said, my point was that labelling it blogspam doesn't seem correct because it's opt-in and a preferred source for articles for many in the R community. And as I said the original link should have been linked
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by Hansi 12y ago
I wouldn't call it blogspam since r-bloggers.com is an opt-in aggregator. But yes a link to the original makes more sense.
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OpenFin introduces Hypergrid; a ultra-high performance HTML5 data grid(blog.openfin.co)
2 points by Hansi 12y ago|0 comments
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How Juncker and Luxembourg Landed Silicon Valley’s Biggest Catch(ft.com)
1 points by Hansi 12y ago|0 comments
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by Hansi 12y ago
When I wrote my disertation I used Scrivener: http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php which is a wonderful tool for writing. An expanded open source application similar to that with a good plugin system might be ver
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by Hansi 12y ago
Well the 28 day limit covers public holidays as well, maybe they mean in excess of public holidays and therefore cover pretty much every country everywhere?
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Grumpy Cat: The First $100M Meme(theatlantic.com)
2 points by Hansi 12y ago|0 comments
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Ticket to Dine(medium.com)
53 points by Hansi 12y ago|21 comments
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by Hansi 12y ago
Nope don't see many of them but some.
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by Hansi 12y ago
I second this, we almost never use brainteasers but they can be useful for seeing how people think about solving problems. Once people have 2+ years of experience it becomes less relevant because it's more useful to talk about actual w
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by Hansi 12y ago
Agree mostly, even when wanting to deliver a perfect solution that's simply not an option because of requirements for speed of delievering results and lack of man power.
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by Hansi 12y ago
My team is a mix of 2 and 3, we have comp sci, math, actuarial, engineering and physics people with about an even split. Oh and one quant dev who was a medical doctor but found programming more fun. So it's all sorts.
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by Hansi 12y ago
Why? Seems to simple. I normally go straight for drop=FALSE the most evil default issue of the language.
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Goat MMO Simulator impressions(arstechnica.com)
1 points by Hansi 12y ago|0 comments
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by Hansi 12y ago
Business model is sell to enterprise and consulting: http://www.rstudio.com/pricing/
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by Hansi 12y ago
Why can't they just make all the same features that are on the main web site available in the main app? I use groups a whole lot but I see no need for a separate app... that just means more context switching and will most likely lead t
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RiutBag – The revolutionary rucksack(kickstarter.com)
4 points by Hansi 12y ago|0 comments
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Mercenaries in the sharing economy(medium.com)
1 points by Hansi 12y ago|0 comments
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by Hansi 12y ago
I don't think I'm seeing the same from the data. 1. It's around 500 per 100.000. There are still plenty of people out there. And that only includes people setting a quit date with an NHS Stop-Smoking Service and quitting with
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by Hansi 12y ago
No he's overly paranoid when it comes to backups (if you listen to the ATP podcast this is very aparant) but in this case it's probably justified since there are many things that can go wrong with backups.

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