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by cwyers 8y ago
The problem is that even when a programmer knows what they're doing, it does not then follow that I want them doing it.
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by cwyers 8y ago
He's saying to use = instead of <- because it won't let you assign to a variable there. But that's because it assumes you mistyped the equality operator. The only reason you need safety there is because it's easy to f
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by cwyers 8y ago
> There are subtle differences and some authorities prefer <- for assignment but I’m increasingly convinced that they are wrong; = is always safer. R doesn’t allow expressions of the form if (a = testSomething()) but does allow if (a
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by cwyers 8y ago
> This kind of literature was funded and promoted by the West because it supports the western society discourse. I mean, I'd agree that the material is a thin slice of the society, but come on. These are real personal narratives of
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by cwyers 8y ago
That's not entirely accurate. They did figure out that Stalin's level of repression was unnecessary, or at least they lacked the conviction to carry it out. But in "The Gulag Archipelago" by Solzhenitsyn, he documents ho
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by cwyers 8y ago
I've read the original three volume version, which I got from a library. I own the abridged. You do miss a lot, but you can still get a lot out of the single-volume version.
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by cwyers 8y ago
How did Google adversely affect Jabber?
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by cwyers 8y ago
I'm sure there's a fair amount of signal there, but when they say 'we're not worried about why' I wonder how many false positives they end up going with.
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by cwyers 8y ago
For context: this product used to be distributed under the name Revo R Open by a company called Revolution Analytics. They renamed it Microsoft R Open, but it's basically the same product: the GNU R distribution with Intel MKL in place
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by cwyers 8y ago
I'm pretty sure that the economics were aligned with getting bought out by someone. Upselling people who used the free product was not making them profitable and they weren't on the path to profitable.
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by cwyers 8y ago
> Consider the three operating system families we are forced to choose from: Windows, Apple, Other (which I shall refer to as “Linux” despite it technically being more specific). > All of these are built around the same foundational c
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by cwyers 8y ago
Somewhere between 40 and 60 percent of data science is dealing with stuff like "some of the people collecting the data used 1 for yes and 0 for no, and some of them used 'Y' for yes and 'N' for no, and some misread
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by cwyers 8y ago
I have an RCA tablet that's Windows-only, with a detachable keyboard (although one of dubious value) that I got at Wal-mart for $80. Wrote this post on it, in fact. It is a shitty computer, but it's an incredible amount of compute
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by cwyers 8y ago
HOT TAKE: The things that drove Skype to change from the Golden Age Of Skype were largely market-driven things like the rise of the smartphone that killed pretty much every other popular communications platform at the time (AIM is dead now,
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by cwyers 8y ago
Play Store sales != Google Revenue. Google gets a 30% cut, the rest goes to the app developer.
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by cwyers 8y ago
I get a 404 every time I click on one of the recipes.
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by cwyers 8y ago
I'm not sure what exactly that Playstation 2-looking tank in the video is supposed to do to convince me that voxels are the next big thing, but it's not doing it.
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by cwyers 8y ago
But this isn't a website hosting a binary. These are binary repos hosted by Apache, who self-hosts their VCS repos as well. The idea that Apache can be trusted to host one safely but not the other is absurd, and the idea that you are m
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by cwyers 8y ago
There are over 2.9 million lines of code in Apache Hadoop alone, not counting dependencies. If you can't trust Apache, you can't trust Hadoop, regardless of whether or not you can compile it yourself.
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by cwyers 8y ago
> And since nobody is still able to compile things from scratch, everybody just downloads precompiled binaries from random websites. Often without any authentication or signature. Apache has official mirrors that host repo files for vari
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by cwyers 8y ago
So, they've made Google One and Google Drive, in an effort to have Google OneDrive in series instead of in parallel.
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by cwyers 8y ago
Am I the only one who sees this and wishes Microsoft was still doing something in the phone space?
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by cwyers 8y ago
The whole article seems to vastly overstate how important the cover art was to the financial success of the album. People rarely buy t-shirts of an album cover because they really like the artwork in isolation; it's very often because
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by cwyers 8y ago
The whole point of a code of conduct is to promote good conduct and dissuade bad conduct. What's crazy about having moderators or having their moderation standards be the code of conduct?
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by cwyers 8y ago
If you mean Valve... there's a guaranteed low-effort revenue stream, the Steam client has been awfully stagnant (and the parts that are client-only, like your games library, are the most stagnant of all -- Steam has slowly added tools
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by cwyers 9y ago
I feel like holding out single sign-on for a separate Enterprise tier priced at "Contact a sale rep for details!" is a mistake. Heck, I feel like any "contact a sales rep for details!" pricing tier is a mistake.
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by cwyers 9y ago
You said he's "not some scammer looking to fleece a few people and make a quick buck." Look at this e-mail: https://blogs.microsoft.com/uploads/prod/sites/5/2018/04/Ema... I have
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by cwyers 9y ago
Your articles are incorrect and your journalistic standards are awful. Like, the one you link here, written on 4/25: > Lundgren, by the way, is not some scammer looking to fleece a few people and make a quick buck. He has been a ma
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by cwyers 9y ago
Right, but how much money do you think it costs to add a MoviePass-like feature to their ticketing system and their phone apps, compared to paying MoviePass a cut? If it really is a revenue-driving system, they can just implement it themsel
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by cwyers 9y ago
Why would they cut MoviePass in, though? They're a middleman without a clear value add to anyone involved except for "they can lose VC money."

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