Myrmornis

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by Myrmornis 14y ago
One drawback with R is that in computations like this, several intermediate data structures with one dimension equal in length to nrow(dfrm) are allocated. Traversing an iterable of tuples is a simple way to think about it, is efficient, an
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by Myrmornis 14y ago
R's documentation is fantastic (the stuff summoned up by ?foo). If you want bad documentation, look to scipy. (I'm not particularly an R fan. It's great for stats, numerical calculations and plotting, but it's not a good programming languag
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by Myrmornis 14y ago
What has pandas borrowed from R, other than a 2D data structure with heterogeneously-typed columns? I guess the data frame merge invocations are similar. (I know patsy/statsmodels are introducing R's formula syntax to python, but that's not
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by Myrmornis 14y ago
> their #1 priority should always, always, be respecting the Constitution Presumably their #1 priority can be specified in a more rational way without random worshipping of some old document? Other countries, not blessed with the Consti
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by Myrmornis 14y ago
I also always thought Eulogy was supposed to be about Bill Hicks but it always confused me that it sounded so critical. Thanks for the correction.
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by Myrmornis 14y ago
Yes because people who use drugs are "drug addicts". And don't forget the "pushers" who hang around outside schools. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap2ss-Wz6Fo
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by Myrmornis 14y ago
I'd like a second click in the date field to dismiss the date picker. That doesn't happen in the demo at least.
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by Myrmornis 14y ago
It's fantastic that nearly all the software I enjoy using is free, and fascinating that that model works. But, here we're talking silverware, not software. Things to put in your backpack to go traveling are not free. And if they're the "bes
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by Myrmornis 14y ago
I think you're wrong to criticize HN users for their negative reaction to this post and to associate their criticism with a decline in HN culture. The post will naturally be unattractive to many reasonable and pleasant people who would be g
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by Myrmornis 14y ago
What about the people in the countries you visited, I guess their lives weren't constantly bathed in that rosy glow of knowing they had the best backpack.
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by Myrmornis 14y ago
Neurotic materialism. Or a joke.
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by Myrmornis 14y ago
Committing untested code is an excellent idea. You should do it several times a day. Pushing untested code to a shared branch on a public remote is a bad idea.
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by Myrmornis 14y ago
Really? I'd definitely commit before running tests. You can always use reset to redo the commit later. Branches are cheap, commits are cheap.
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by Myrmornis 14y ago
+1 emacs users should definitely try magit for this. I use the git CLI a ton but never for interactive staging at the hunk / sub-hunk level.
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by Myrmornis 14y ago
This is what caught my eye too as being really ugly and hard to read. const map<const string, const tuple<int, int, StrToStr>> TagDataMap { {"title" , make_tuple( 3, 30, stripnulls)}, Why can't the compiler figu
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by Myrmornis 14y ago
Good posts those two. The second is http://blog.stata.com/2011/03/09/understanding-matrices-intu... .
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by Myrmornis 14y ago
I really highly recommend "Foundations of Python Network Programming" by Brandon Rhodes and John Goerzen. It's just one of the best technical books I've read, from the opening example onwards. http://www.apress.com/9781430230038
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by Myrmornis 14y ago
How do you indent your code? Not having my editor handle the indentation is the first thing I'd miss.
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by Myrmornis 14y ago
This is great. Much better speed than http://tour.golang.org for people who already know other languages. Thanks!
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by Myrmornis 14y ago
I like d3 (and coffeescript). But... df <- read.delim("benchmark.tsv") boxplot(df$timing ~ df$implementation) Versus...hmm. How many hours / LOC would that take you in d3 and coffeescript? It will be great when it happens (nvd3
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by Myrmornis 14y ago
Opening issue #2 was not a wise or helpful act. This initiative should be encouraged; presumably the government will be more enthusiastic about continuing the experiment if they do not receive the impression that the community of open sourc
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by Myrmornis 14y ago
> Sometimes, something needs fixing ASAP, and you have 260 build-breaking lines an hour away from being commit-worthy If you have 260 lines of code you should have committed it already. I disagree with the article. stash is the wrong so
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by Myrmornis 14y ago
> why do I want an editor that's a file manager, IRC client, organizer, and Tetris? Although I don't want my editor to do all those things, for me the reason emacs wins is because it invites you to learn the (not unpleasant, genuine pro