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by blitzd 10y ago
...funny, that's basically the same thing Spez said about what he did.
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by blitzd 10y ago
I would argue that a moderator shutting down a community of 25,000 individuals because of their own personal opinions is just as much if not the greater abuse of power.
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by blitzd 10y ago
I'm in a similar boat, and that repo looks very useful! Thanks. If you're at all into Python or R I'd suggest Jose Portilla's courses on Udemy as well, they're very good at covering the applied aspects.
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by blitzd 10y ago
I'd venture a guess that implementing any string encoding support in a language I'm not that familiar with would likely be quite an undertaking. If not, then it also begs the question - if it's just that simple, why's it
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by blitzd 10y ago
Well - that's my point. I do use a converter, as it's built into python at every intersection that I need it, reading CSV, XLSX, database calls, etc. Having to stick python scripts in front of all my Julia scripts everywhere that
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by blitzd 10y ago
My beef with Julia when I last tried it out was the lack of flexibility within the 'data munging' sphere. The assumption appeared to be that all of your data would come in to as UTF-8, whereas in my org we need strong support for
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by blitzd 10y ago
There's nothing that's really comparable at the moment, so far as I know. It's not one of the pieces we've been able to replace.
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by blitzd 10y ago
> The Microsoft brand has been completely reborn in the eyes of developers over the past few years. The lows of 2007-2010 seem a distant memory. Maybe in the eyes of some developers - for many of us who are still dependent on MS products
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by blitzd 10y ago
You're probably better off with alienware for processing power and hardcore specs, unless you're doing CAD and need the certified drivers/hardware. Workstation model laptops have a huge markup, and gaming models often meet or
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by blitzd 10y ago
Any way I could trade my Surface Pro 3 for an old MacBook? I'm tired of MS breaking it every 2nd week with 'updates'.
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by blitzd 10y ago
I'm not sure that makes a difference here, since a lot of the issues reported are with Surface devices. At my org we found that Surface+WSUS+ Anniversary Update=dead Surface... And this is just 2 weeks after they fixed the issue where
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by blitzd 10y ago
I know python fairly well, and had previously done most web development with flask or django. I had to learn JS so that I could do front end web dev, things like D3 and such for visualizations of data. I tried out a few of the frameworks th
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by blitzd 10y ago
...except for the whole sync/async (libuv) thing. And the bits they added on top of V8, like Buffers. Maybe Javascript == Node.JS then?
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by blitzd 10y ago
Intellisense can be difficult with JavaScript inside an IDE. I've had some luck with WebStorm and their typescript stubs though.
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by blitzd 10y ago
It's done with Node.js and nginx all the time. Other than the initial configuration nginx is essentially stateless, and there's simple setups out there to automate the nginx config as well, with docker for example: https:/&#
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by blitzd 10y ago
Clearly Palm OS is making a comeback! I think the idea of this is great, but I suspect it'll become far more useful given larger aggregate ranges. Last week, last month, last six months - etc. As it stands, many books (like the Palm OS
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by blitzd 10y ago
In my books it's an instant reason to not visit any website that does it. I also feel that the people who do give out their email address within the first 15 seconds of visiting a website are probably not likely to use their real e-mai
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by blitzd 10y ago
As I mentioned elsewhere I'd suggest comparing any 'business' (or 'workstation') laptop with an Alienware equivalent. I found that very often you're paying premium prices for CAD certified graphics cards and ot
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by blitzd 10y ago
You may want to look into Alienware - they tend to have a way better build quality than the Dell machines, and you can get better bang for your buck than typical 'workstation' builds for laptops. I'm not sure how well their s
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by blitzd 10y ago
Daniel Gardner actually had a pretty good book on this topic as well [1] where he found that often times expert predictions were actually worse than those of an average person (or the flip of a coin, for that matter). On the Pundits and Pol
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by blitzd 10y ago
There's s lot more options in Python for data viz other than matplotlib. Pandas has several built ins as well, so in many cases simple plots on existing data frames can be a one liner.
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by blitzd 10y ago
Sadly this is not a two year issue, it's been going on for at least the last 10 years. I mainly deal with SQL Server, so maybe it's just particularly bad there - I haven't seen anything to indicate the rest of their products
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by blitzd 10y ago
They do this for bugs that are easily reproducible on all versions of these products as well. I received a similar response to a bug report a few years back, it had been open for a couple of years without even being acknowledged, then one d
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by blitzd 10y ago
I already gave up on filing bug reports for MS products years ago for this exact reason. This is not a case of it's fixed in x, or you should upgrade to y, it is neglect plain and simple. I asked about this exact issue when they did an
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by blitzd 10y ago
It's definitely doable, I ran across some examples [1] while looking for an automated process for renewing within docker. [1]: https://github.com/AnalogJ/lexicon
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by blitzd 10y ago
Containerization on it's own can have benefits even in smaller deployments - separating your different server concerns to the bare minimum can be very useful. There's also other aspects, like being able to spin up the newest Postg
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by blitzd 10y ago
You're not weird, just likely introverted. This book may help: https://www.amazon.com/Introvert-Advantage-People-Thrive-Ext...
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by blitzd 10y ago
The 5% was for eligibility, because other treatment options had been exhausted for that group - but presumably it could be made available for a wider range as well. Due to the intensity of the treatment the other 95% may opt for a different
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by blitzd 10y ago
It's not a stretch of the imagination by any means, this and similar accusations/lawsuits have been around spanning the last decade.
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by blitzd 10y ago
Locking users into their service would seem like a pretty good reason. I don't necessarily believe that's what they're doing, or that this is intentional or malicious.

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