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by dbecker 14y ago
There appears to be only a loose correlation between McCabe complexity and "excessive complexity." It's not clear how the author converts from one to the other. One would hope that the difference in ordering comes from accounting for the a
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by dbecker 14y ago
I wish companies that oppose software patents would cede all their patents to some central 3rd party... and in exchange, that 3rd party with a large patent portfolio would promise to crush anyone else who initiates a patent suit.
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An example where fractals improved efficiency does not constitute proof (or even compelling evidence) that there aren't any efficiency issues that fractals don't solve. Which is what you are claiming.
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I have no idea why they created some of these partitions, but when the author calls it a "mystery" partition, he apparently doesn't either. So I'd treat this as a mystery to be explored, rather than concluding that Lenovo is intentionally s
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by dbecker 14y ago
I'm building something, and I haven't found the right co-founder yet. I constantly hear "you need a co-founder" from around the startup community. I don't know the exact source, but I suspect some of this is just repeating what people have
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by dbecker 14y ago
Python is my go-to language, so I use matplotlib frequently. But I think R's ggplot2 is easily the best visualization library out there. Bokeh is supposed to be a ggplot2 clone for python, but it's still in the very early stages.
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by dbecker 14y ago
I personally don't have experience with Ruby on Rails, but it is almost universally regarded as an excellent option for web development. If you want something more versatile (for non-web programming), I would suggest python. If you go with
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by dbecker 14y ago
This article starts by claiming developers have only a superficial knowledge of the languages they use, and on that basis, it argues we should teach languages in a more superficial way. But it's unclear what benefit we'd supposedly reap by
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by dbecker 14y ago
I don't follow the social media space very carefully, so I had no idea who he was. I read the article, and thought it was insightful. Perhaps it was old news from a same source if you follow the space carefully, but I suspect most readers
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by dbecker 14y ago
Did anyone else get bored of the author picking out details to show that these guys met the nerd stereotype?
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by dbecker 14y ago
Passwords should die a horrible death. They are a mere fallacy. An illusion of security. I'd bet that only a small fraction of a percent of accounts are hacked in a given year (by password or otherwise). Though there's room for improvemen
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by dbecker 14y ago
O Reilly may be pimping the term to developers, but that's nothing compared to how Cloudera has pimped "Big Data" to enterprise.
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The wild confusion around "big data" stems in part from the fact that many people use it to mean something unrelated to data size. I was recently in a back-and-forth on twitter about this. Some people argued that "big data" refers to the c
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by dbecker 14y ago
I forked the documentation this morning. I'll edit it and submit a pull request tonight.
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by dbecker 14y ago
How does using dict() solve the requirement for quotes that you've identified?
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It would be helpful to add "How is this different from other NoSQL databases" to the FAQ.
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95% of companies want to hire exclusively from the most talented 5% of the labor pool. It's understandable, but we shouldn't be surprised that not everyone can succeed at that.
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I share your sensibilities. But I work with consumers of statistical analysis on a daily basis, and it is an unfortunately common to put stars next to parameters that are statistically significant at the 5% level. And many people treat tha
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by dbecker 14y ago
Almost everything written here is incorrect. First of all, Bayes predates Gauss. It is inaccurate to suggest frequentist statistics predate Bayesian statistics. Second, neither is a special case of the other. Third, neither Bayesian method
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by dbecker 14y ago
If you read something and find it compelling, submit it as a new story rather than tacking it on to an unrelated comment thread.
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by dbecker 14y ago
I'm not remotely worried about priceline ruining kayak. Kayak was the best interface before hipmunk, and it may (or may not be) the best interface now. But there will be more improvements in travel buying interfaces... whether those improve
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by dbecker 14y ago
I'm surprised to see Oracle on the anti-pattern list. Though their tactics sound aggravating, they've made an incredible amount of money from it. It seems hard to argue with those sort of results.
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by dbecker 14y ago
The author provides neither evidence nor any logical argument for any of his claims. He says "You must do both or you'll be irrelevant." But there are plenty of examples of people doing cool stuff that is specialized.
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by dbecker 14y ago
Though the author used words other than "blah," all I heard while reading this article was "blah blah blah"
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by dbecker 14y ago
Regarding popularity by country: I don't know, but I would speculate that decreased access in Burundi, Guinea, etc. means they don't use the internet for mundane stuff... shopping or looking at cats. Thus Obama may constitute a larger prop
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by dbecker 14y ago
I think this is a great suggestion. Linode is much easier to get started with than AWS if scalability isn't a priority. A linode VPS is just a standard linux server, while EC2 has lots of quirks. For instance, AWS/EC2 has a variety of types
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by dbecker 14y ago
It's unclear whether you are failing to read the example, or whether you are using your own definition of fraud that you haven't shared. Fraud requires intentional deception. My example is unequivocally NOT fraud, since the seller believes
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by dbecker 14y ago
That's a good point about the importance of parameters. I wonder whether Silver would be responsive if you emailed him asking about parameters.
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Sports fans are constantly arguing about who they think is going to win such-and-such game. It's not important... but people enjoy it. This isn't much different. For both the games and the election, we will wait and see what actually happe
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by dbecker 14y ago
Your original claim was that it infringes on my free speech to be forced to say something I don't agree with. So, if a cigarette manufacturer doesn't believe his products cause cancer, your original argument would suggests that requiring a

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