cwyers

70 ms·

721.
by cwyers 8y ago
It depends on what you're doing, yeah? In RMarkdown notebooks... yeah, I wouldn't write models in one. But if the focus is on embedding some visualizations and tables into a document, and then refreshing the document to every so o
722.
by cwyers 8y ago
I mean, Apple always charges Apple prices. I'm more surprised that the base price is so high. They couldn't do a 4gb/64gb version with a lower-end CPU?
723.
by cwyers 8y ago
Most 8 year old PCs can run Windows 10.
724.
by cwyers 8y ago
Putting aside the R vs Python question (as as noted in this thread, you can use R in a Jupyter notebook and Python in an RMarkdown notebook), I much prefer RMarkdown notebooks. RMarkdown notebooks are plain text, so you can read them easily
725.
by cwyers 8y ago
Yeah, wow, not what I expected at all. I don't know if I buy what he's saying? It seems to rely on things happening that I have my doubts about, like Ginni Rometty departing.
726.
by cwyers 8y ago
Microsoft is clearly investing in Docker, they bought Deis already. http://venturebeat.com/2017/04/10/microosoft-acquires-kubern...
727.
by cwyers 8y ago
I would pay hard money to read Cringely's take on this.
728.
by cwyers 8y ago
If Microsoft was going to put in a backdoor into Windows PCs, _why would they put it in an optional component?_
729.
by cwyers 8y ago
Given the salary difference between the two on average, if the BA was five nines as likely to be as good as the PhD you'd hire two of the BAs and you'd make out like gangbusters.
730.
by cwyers 8y ago
> Who asked you to make GitHub better though? Microsoft, his employer and the owner of GitHub.
731.
by cwyers 8y ago
If you read the article, Reclaim The Records filed a FOIL (NY state version of FOIA) request for the records, which were stored on microfilm. The state quoted $150k for the request -- you still need to pay to have copies made. The group tho
732.
by cwyers 8y ago
Not only that, but Angie's List covers services that only reach a small market. So a fake review for any individual product has a much small potential reach.
733.
by cwyers 8y ago
And Bloomberg is standing by the story. All of the people who think that Apple is being misled coerced by the government into denying factual reports, I want to know how that belief is squared with the _lack_ of a retraction. If the governm
734.
by cwyers 8y ago
Understood. Comment edited.
735.
by cwyers 8y ago
Because it bothers me when someone sells a "secure" product where the security measures are unrelated to the threat model. The Helm server is connected to the open Internet, which means that physical possession of the Helm server
736.
by cwyers 8y ago
But that's completely orthogonal to owning a piece of hardware. You could run a managed cloud e-mail service where only the users hold the encryption keys, too. How is this a hardware problem?
737.
by cwyers 8y ago
If I can trust someone to do off-site cloud backups of my e-mail, why can't I trust the same person to run a Fastmail-like service so I don't have to have a $500 server in my house to get e-mail?
738.
by cwyers 8y ago
Yeah, there is no convenient backup policy that doesn't obviate most of the purported benefits of this device. You have to store your backups somewhere off-site to have any kind of data safety, and unless you're dumping out to tap
739.
by cwyers 8y ago
The US is the same. 12 packs of cans come in boxes.
740.
by cwyers 8y ago
I finally read the story after reading this comment and some of the other ones, and this undersells how nuts it is. > Anyhow, my wholesale redesign of all of Jim’s work was obviously making him feel bad. > One day, he came up to me to
741.
by cwyers 8y ago
The run-down of companies that didn't hire him and name-checking the people involved put me off the whole damn thing before I even got to the stuff at Google. Who does that?
742.
by cwyers 8y ago
I forgot one reason from the list -- to improve color.
743.
by cwyers 8y ago
There's quite a few comments in here about how food scientists shouldn't have put so many things in foods to begin with. Well, look. There's a handful of reasons anything ends up intentionally added to large-scale industrial
744.
by cwyers 8y ago
It can in fact be MORE nitrate salts, because there's a minimum level needed to cure meats, and since celery salt or whatever celery-based product you're using is less consistent in the amount of nitrate included, you have to use
745.
by cwyers 8y ago
Monosodium glutamate is there as a flavoring, just like any number of seasonings. Nobody says that thyme or oregano shouldn't be in food unless they help preserve it longer. There's no evidence whatsoever that it's harmful to
746.
by cwyers 8y ago
Yes. The title is against site guidelines ("Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.") and it's incorrect; there's nothing silent about it.
747.
by cwyers 8y ago
The thing about a gag order is it _gags_ you. You can't talk when you're under a gag order. You're not compelled to lie by a gag order.
748.
MoviePass Is Now Re-Enrolling Former Customers Unless They 'Opt Out'(gizmodo.com)
3 points by cwyers 8y ago|0 comments
749.
by cwyers 8y ago
I'm not gonna defend Jira. I don't like it. But this is the same thing people like to say about Office. It turns out that the 80/20 rule (80% of users only use 20% of features) never guarantees that even 50% use the _same_ 20
750.
by cwyers 8y ago
You've posted the same two-year-old closed issue twice on this thread. You're coming off as someone with an axe to grind.

More ›