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by cwyers 7y ago
There are several libraries inspired by the grammar of graphics and ggplot, and there has even been something like a port (although its now abandoned): https://github.com/yhat/ggpy What I think the author means is that
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by cwyers 7y ago
Sure, but you can view things as "where do I assign blame" or "what are my fixed inputs." If you look for something to blame, maybe it's that people lack reading comprehension. If it's enough people getting con
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by cwyers 7y ago
The implication I took from this was that it's not good enough now, but they anticipate it being good enough by the point this is released.
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by cwyers 7y ago
It's very possible that MS did all of the right things here, and still did a terrible job of messaging it.
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by cwyers 7y ago
> WSL fails in a lot of use cases due to the NT kernel's poor performance when creating processes, slowness in the translation layer when accessing files, and the like. But it's still the NT kernel either way, right? How does h
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by cwyers 7y ago
Why do you need Homebrew? With WSL, you can just use a Linux package manager.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Yeah, they have managed to solve the confusion over the various flavors of .NET in the best way possible, it would seem like.
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by cwyers 7y ago
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2019/05/06/developing...
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by cwyers 7y ago
So, I clicked on the link to understand how this was different than their existing drag-and-drop machine learning tool, and... > This tool, the Azure Machine Learning visual interface, looks suspiciously like the existing Azure ML Studio
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by cwyers 7y ago
Putting Louis Farrakhan first, when his relevance has faded a while ago, seems to be a way of trying to paint this as a "both sides" thing.
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by cwyers 7y ago
I think this is going away. I can play (some, and it's growing over time) Xbox and Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One, and if I bought them digitally or still have the original disc, I don't have to pay anything more.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Yes. Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." As soon as management starts looking at story points, it's a scramble to get the most points possible in a sprint (or at least, to n
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by cwyers 7y ago
In a daily standup, it should be about commitments _to your teammates_, not to management. In other words, Bob needs to do X before Alice can do Y, so Bob commits to Alice about his work on X. If there's problems, they can talk about i
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by cwyers 7y ago
Let me clarify that -- there are people who are using Scrum to do agile. Scrum is not _against_ agile. But if you are doing two-week sprints because management is chasing the latest fad, without empowering the team, you're not agile, y
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by cwyers 7y ago
Bad management is Nosferatu: it's a blood-sucker by design. If you take Dracula out of the Carpathian Mountains and move him to Carfax Abbey, Dracula is not going to stop being a blood-sucker, he's just going to start drinking Luc
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by cwyers 7y ago
Scrum != agile. You don't need sprints to be agile. If sprints aren't working for you and your team, then stop doing sprints. If your team can't decide to stop doing sprints, then you're not leading your own agile proces
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by cwyers 7y ago
I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding of agile. Agile isn't Scrum, agile isn't Kanban, Agile isn't even really the manifesto. Agile is, like lean manufacturing (one of its inspirations), based around one really
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by cwyers 8y ago
There is no sense in which MS-DOS died in 2000.
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by cwyers 8y ago
Nobody would write R code the way this book is teaching. For that matter, nobody looking to do linear regression for data science in Python is doing their own matrix math, either.
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by cwyers 8y ago
I feel like some people have vastly different sensitivities to doing pointless things. There are some people who would see items like that on the checklist, and go, okay, it's a minute to check that, no big deal, I'll do it and ge
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by cwyers 8y ago
I don't think parent is complaining about the MIT license, they are complaining about how hard it is to find out what license is being used.
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by cwyers 8y ago
That seems to cover the core of the tidyverse, but not the long tail.
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by cwyers 8y ago
WhatsApp is default end-to-end secure, and Telegram is not. Recommending Telegram as a more secure alternative to WhatsApp is malpractice.
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by cwyers 8y ago
The thing is, looking at that list... most of it actually seems reasonable to me. Quality software costs money, and that money comes from somewhere. The problem is network effects. The blog post is right that if you are running a large depl
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by cwyers 8y ago
There are real tradeoffs between functionality and usability that any "more secure" chat service would have to deal with.
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by cwyers 8y ago
> if your load is not highly variable Most real-world loads are in fact pretty variable.
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by cwyers 8y ago
The key here is "selling." You won't get DRM-free rentals or a la carte video; we didn't with audio. Yes, if you buy an album, it's DRM free. Spotify still has DRM in it.
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by cwyers 8y ago
The reason they spun off Roku was precisely because of this reason, though: they realized that being tied to a platform could hinder Roku's adoption, so they spun it off so it could be independent. And in my opinion, being independent
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by cwyers 8y ago
Most of the video rental business for new releases wasn't carried out under the first sale doctrine, because video stores worked out a deal where they could purchase videos before they were available for sale, at inflated prices.
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by cwyers 8y ago
Only if you ignore the categories of software where Microsoft leads -- Active Directory and Office 365 are SaaS offerings that Microsoft has that are seeing massive adoption, and Microsoft is using that to leverage businesses onto their oth

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