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by baconner 11y ago
First tfs, now perforce. The prevalence of git is clearly putting a lot of pressure on "enterprise" source control systems. It makes a lot of sense to just co-opt it and pull it into the rest of their ecosystem. At my org we'
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by baconner 11y ago
I think you can make a compelling argument now that can be summarized as "since unfortunately the review period for such a complex treaty is extremely short I am writing ahead of its release to highlight areas of deep concern that were
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by baconner 11y ago
I realize debating Scientology is not really the focus of this thread but the answer to these two questions is yes and yes. > Are scientologists hurting other people? > Do my taxes pay for their beliefs? If you are interested in learn
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by baconner 11y ago
There is actually a creep-out effect with taking this too far I think that drives people away from ads that are too stalkery. Consider the case of target who toned down the exactness of some of their targeted mailer ads to women likely to b
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by baconner 11y ago
Yeah that's not too awful. Google's too smart I think to do something as overt as my example.
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by baconner 11y ago
Get ready for ads to start addressing you directly by name and doing other like things to get your attention. Google isn't usually _too_ overt about these sort of things but the less savory ad networks could get really unpleasant. &quo
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by baconner 11y ago
You aren't wrong. Frankly I'm not sure anything I said is reasonably possible or how to make it happen.
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by baconner 11y ago
Indeed. Complete destruction of the data is probably impossible. This is exactly why this kind of vacuum everything collection is so dangerous. There's no data access protection in the world bullet proof enough to justify the risk of s
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by baconner 11y ago
The question is - is reform even possible in organizations like these that have repeatedly broken the law with impunity? Is oversight possible at all when those who are supposed to have the power of oversight are unable to do so because the
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by baconner 11y ago
Hey these are great. Anyone know of one that will produce a playable animation through the sequence?
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by baconner 11y ago
There are some other alternatives that I suspect you'll be happier with if your main issue is the R language. Python + pandas or Julia for instance. Smaller communities around those but less aggravating languages for sure.
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by baconner 11y ago
Yes, I believe the term is "churnalism." Stories which are primarily PR barely disguised. PR reps pitch stories to journalists and get them curated access to write a story. Lazy journalists go along needing to churn out stories re
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by baconner 11y ago
More probably because most of these things exist in the same wild west of loosely tested fda unapproved ingestibles. As such they're subject to a similar environment that attracts shady characters and enables weakly substantiated claim
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by baconner 12y ago
I see. So the benefit is mainly in having more relational structure than in actually crunching numbers. Makes sense.
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by baconner 12y ago
Can anybody speak to their experience using sqlite for data analysis purposes? Am I wrong in thinking it's just plain old row oriented storage and not something more aggregate oriented?
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by baconner 12y ago
Is there a law you're referring to here or is this part of CC processor contracts?
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by baconner 12y ago
Seems to me the pressing interest of the us and European governments is keeping Putin's power and influence in the region in check. He's very clearly shown his willingness to use whatever means he likes including military force an
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by baconner 12y ago
The problem isn't that you have to pay for services rendered. The problem is the pricing and service system is extremely opaque. You can receive services without ever having an opportunity to know what those services are or how much th
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by baconner 12y ago
Today that's true, but hopefully this eff project will turn out next year: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-...
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by baconner 12y ago
Its something yes, but considering no one will be charged at all for well documented and extremely grave crimes well... Its hard to take solace in being a little better than a full on totalitarian regime.
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by baconner 12y ago
I'd classify Lyra as a custom visualization design surface while tableau is more of a data exploration tool. Quite different I think in both use an intent. Tableau is great for quickly pulling in data and building towards pretty standa
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by baconner 12y ago
There's also a new strict di enforcement option that'll make angular error if you don't have the min friendly di syntax in use. That's the best way imo and probably what angular should've always done.
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by baconner 12y ago
Devs can be aware that it's easier than ever to distribute software while simultaneously knowing that app store channels could be much better. There's nothing contradictory there. Working with an app store like a physical store is
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by baconner 12y ago
Its not hoop jumping to ask a candidate to directly demonstrate how they would go about doing the actual job they're applying for. If you were interviewing a cook would you hire them having never tasted their work? I doubt it. The way
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by baconner 12y ago
This plus something like crossfilter and you'll really be able to build.some exciting in browser data exploration apps. Cool stuff.
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by baconner 12y ago
I read this as FCC plans to allow slow lanes.
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by baconner 13y ago
I never advocated firing anyone actually including eich, but right or wrong employers certainly have the right to fire someone for their outside of work activities if its interfering with their ability to do their job. There are only very n
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by baconner 13y ago
Yes its unfortunate that Mozilla is going to miss out on Eich's contributions. But ultimately the result here shows that the benefits however great they may have been didn't outweigh the costs of his beleifs alienating the communi
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by baconner 13y ago
Absolutely - this is why coders need to run for office more.
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by baconner 13y ago
The vast majority of rights that are bound to marriage in the us have nothing whatsoever to do with "the bedroom" but rather practical matters like visiting your chosen spouse in the hospital or not having your non-citizen spouse

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