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by cwyers 9y ago
Programming languages have killer apps that define how people engage with them. Perl was "instead of using shell scripts with sed/awk you can use a 'real' programming language." Java was "here's C without
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by cwyers 9y ago
The original Dart announcement was a presentation entitled "Dart: A Structured Web Programming Language." Dart has evolved beyond that mostly by necessity; people weren't adopting it for web programming, and so if it was goin
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by cwyers 9y ago
Dart was basically Google's CoffeeScript, a compile-to-JS language that was supposed to sand off JavaScript's rough edges while still running in any web browser with JavaScript support. It didn't catch on, and one of the reas
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by cwyers 9y ago
So it's like Xamarin -- there's UI for iOS, UI for Windows, UI for Android, but you can also use "Xamarin Forms" and have a similar appearance everywhere. But there's nothing stopping there from being a "React
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by cwyers 9y ago
What "theory" keeps React Native from being ported to desktops?
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by cwyers 9y ago
This feels like the Tennessee Valley Authority but for Dart. Just send people out there digging ditches in Dart to keep Dart's makers employed.
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by cwyers 9y ago
I think leave one out is actually a special case of k-fold cross validation where k is equal to the number of datapoints. But yeah, you can use bootstrapping, cross validation, the jackknife. There's a large toolset there, and I trust
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by cwyers 9y ago
It depends on how often you go to the well. This is why things like Kaggle have limitations on how often you can submit entries for evaluation. This is why some studies go with a three-way split of train-calibration-test. And you can look a
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by cwyers 9y ago
In which case, you can't really afford train and test splits but you can look at approaches like leave-one-out to estimate what your sampling error looks like.
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by cwyers 9y ago
Watching that is really unsettling. The graphics look very much like what I remember, but movement is so very off . It's so smooth and the turning allows for much more subtle changes in orientation than the game did. Kinda breaks by b
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by cwyers 9y ago
Success: Enough market share to build a sustainable business so that it doesn't go away at some point. And I know about Android's problems there (and mentioned it). But Windows Phone and FirefoxOS both chased those markets and the
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by cwyers 9y ago
Competing with the Android/iOS duopoly was a war of attrition the Microsoft, Firefox, Canonical and Samsung (Tizen) all lost. If you don't have the resources that those companies do I have a hard time seeing how you survive, and I
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by cwyers 9y ago
Microsoft still ships SmallBasic, for free. http://smallbasic.com/
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by cwyers 9y ago
Yeah. "You can do whatever you want with our GPL'd code, so long as you follow the license, and we don't have any patents, just don't use our name/branding on stuff we don't control" is a reasonable way to
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by cwyers 9y ago
WhatsApp uses the Signal Protocol, so its encryption is the same as this. The Foundation will continue to advance the Signal Protocol, and presumably WhatsApp can benefit from any improvements.
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by cwyers 9y ago
It sounds like they'll defend the Signal trademark, but not the implementation concepts. I don't see how that's bad.
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by cwyers 9y ago
You can get a lot of mileage out of just using R, dplyr, ggplot2 and lm/glm. OLS still performs well in a lot of problem spaces. Understanding your data is the key there, and a lot of exploratory visualization there will help a lot.
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by cwyers 9y ago
In its heyday? Java is still scads more popular than Go.
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by cwyers 9y ago
There are many more people being productive in Not Go than there are in Go. Taking this argument to the logical conclusion, we should all be using... what, C++ or Java?
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by cwyers 9y ago
MySQL has several features Postgres doesn't have, and there's tradeoffs between them. As a bonus, choosing MySQL doesn't make you smugly dismiss everyone else's database choice, unlike some other databases.
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by cwyers 9y ago
> See, email belongs to a special class. Nobody really likes it, but it’s the way nobody really likes sidewalks, or electrical outlets, or forks. It not that there’s something wrong with them. It’s that they’re mature, useful items that
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by cwyers 9y ago
For perspective. Apple shipped 77.3 million smartphones in Q4 2017. Samsung shipped 74.1 million. Huawei shipped 41.0 million. Xiaomi shipped 28.1 million. OPPO shipped 27.4 million. And everyone outside the top 5 shipped 151.3 million. So
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by cwyers 9y ago
I mean, nothing in the quote suggests that programmers can't submit items to Radar, that they can't lobby for them to be assigned a high priority, etc. Pretty much every software project beyond a certain scale uses an issue tracke
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by cwyers 9y ago
> Nothing could be worked on if it wasn’t in Radar with a priority number attached and signed off by the teams’ EPM. Is this supposed to sound bad? Because it just sounds... professional.
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by cwyers 9y ago
Taxi medallions are hellishly expensive. Most of the time, you have a loan to purchase your medallion, that you then spend a long, long time paying off. It's essentially a form of indentured servitude. You can switch to Uber/Lyft.
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by cwyers 9y ago
ReasonML has two compilers -- a compiler that goes to JavaScript, and a compiler that goes to native code (the OCaml compiler, since Reason and OCaml share an AST/etc.) So if you want to use ReasonML with a web server, you have two opt
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by cwyers 9y ago
This reads like an ad for Textio.
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by cwyers 9y ago
Sure. Now let's say that you're using one library using String Library A, one library using String Library B... go forth and convert strings at every point in your application where you use one library or the other. There's b
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by cwyers 9y ago
Let's look at the OECD stats for teenage suicide worldwide: > Teenage suicides rates have, on average, declined slightly over the past two decades or so (Chart CO4.4.A). While in 1990 there were, on average across the OECD, 8.5 suic
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by cwyers 9y ago
Maybe I am mistaken, but I find it hard to believe that if people in that demo are on Facebook enough to see movie trailers there that they wouldn't then post about the movie they just saw.

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