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by extr 8y ago
That's too bad, I wish R could be better and easier for these people, but I don't think it warrants your hyperbole. I can point to many of my own anecdotes where R has saved millions of dollars by empowering analysts to conduct
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by extr 8y ago
I have a lot of experience teaching non-programmers R. Most of them come from an Excel/SQL background. I have found the amount of weirdness that presents a real problem is very low. And when it does get weird, I usually advise we just
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by extr 8y ago
Completely agree. dplyr is nice enough but the verbose style gets old fast when you're trying to use it in an interactive fashion. imo data.table is the fastest way to explore data across any language, period.
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by extr 8y ago
HN is predisposed to hate R because everyone here is coming from a "real" programming context. Their concerns are generally valid, but they should keep in mind a lot of people using do not have a software development background an
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by extr 8y ago
I'm the same way. People always nag me to eat breakfast but that actually just makes me hungrier and throws off my schedule. Generally if I don't eat anything I won't get hungry for a few hours after waking up, until 11-11:30
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by extr 8y ago
I actually disagree. I found what finally led to me using VIM was enabling VIM keybindings in RStudio. It's an emulated VIM setup, so not every command is supported, but it does have the advantage that at any point Insert mode works pr
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by extr 8y ago
Yes, if it gets to the point where they've already shopped around you're going to be paying a much higher price to retain that customer, than if you simply gave them a reasonably competitive premium or deserved discount. Insurance
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by extr 9y ago
"Everyone should develop an online income" is like the galaxy brain version of teaching truck drivers how to code. The n-gate blurb writes itself.
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by extr 9y ago
I was referring to the removal of the "Beginner's Guide" in the wiki, now replaced by the "Installation Guide" that has way less context. Which is fine if you already have a nontrivial amount of linux/arch expe
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by extr 9y ago
this is actually way more clear than the arch install "guide", which seem to have become hostile toward the idea of actually helping people in recent years.
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by extr 9y ago
You sound like a jaded professional, but keep in mind most people are not working mathematicans and never will be, so anything they hear from the pros they're going to take at face value. When it comes to the general layperson, I think
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by extr 9y ago
> It’s a powerful feeling. I remember these moments of beauty and excitement. And there’s a very powerful type of happiness that comes from it. I always try to explain to people this is the reason I love math so much. There is no feeling
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by extr 9y ago
I've said it before, but Spotify is the single most valuable subscription service I pay for. Video streaming is convenient, but some of the music I've come across on Spotify has literally changed my life and that would never have
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by extr 9y ago
R notebooks are the bees knees and frankly I'm surprised Jupyter hasn't borrowed more from them. It's so much easier being in plain-text until render time, and the output is easier to manage because you can trivially decide w
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by extr 9y ago
You want the data.table [1] implementation of dcast and melt. They support multiple pivot values, inline aggregation, are super fast, and are easy to use compared to trying to wrap your brain around gather/spread. Frankly I think Hadle
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by extr 9y ago
thanks for the genuine reply and explanation, it was right at my level of familiarity as i'm just tangentially aware of accerlerationism/nick land. when i googled LD50 i realized I had heard of that too, and funnily enough twitter
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by extr 9y ago
i don't really follow those circles well so maybe i'm giving her too much credit. what does UACC stand for?
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by extr 9y ago
I used to do something similar in WoW, but less on the "know every item in the market", mostly just a few crafting subsegments. There was a Auction House plugin that let you monitor/record prices, so it was easy to learn the
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by extr 9y ago
i follow alice maz on twitter (@alicemazzy), was surprised to see her on the front page here. not sure I agree with about half of what she says but she's always insightful and interesting nonetheless. if you do twitter she's worth
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by extr 9y ago
To use a math analogy, I think of idioms as solutions to generalized coding problems. If you recognize your situation as a special case of the general form you can save yourself some time thinking through the implementation and make it easi
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by extr 9y ago
I think I replied to the wrong person.
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by extr 9y ago
It was a junior dev and this was the worst of it, but as I said elsewhere, looking back the whole thing was shitty. Whiteboard coding questions of the worst type from all levels, zero interest in my previous experience in a related area, an
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by extr 9y ago
It was one of the team members, not a manager or lead, so I would have been inclined to overlook it had it not been alongside 3 other "case interviews" that were tricky whiteboard coding/math problems in disguise. I think I s
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by extr 9y ago
I was asked a version of this as an interview question a few months ago. Despite recognizing the form of it immediately and giving some intuition for why it converges to 1/e, the interviewer had nothing else prepared and had expected i
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by extr 9y ago
It is a similar argument, but I think there is an important qualitative difference between TVs and smartphones. One is inherently passive, I interact with it on my own terms. The worst case is they show too many ads and I get pissed and can
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by extr 9y ago
iPhone 7 dongle audio quality is apparently fantastic, no reason to think iPhone 8 isn't the same. http://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/lightning-adapter-audio-qua...
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by extr 9y ago
I really want/need a new phone but the whole headphone situation has left a really bad taste in my mouth. Not usually one to get worked up over the minor details of smartphones but it actually makes me angry thinking of buying one of t
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by extr 9y ago
I also have both an x220 and an XPS 13, both running Arch. x220 has always worked/felt great with synaptics driver, XPS 13 still has issues which I somewhat suspect are due to using libinput. Also might be a hardware issue :/
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by extr 9y ago
This reminds me of an data science interview I had early in my career that was exactly along these lines. Several "case studies" that turned out to be semi-guided math/cs interview problems. One guy started off on a variation
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by extr 9y ago
Tiling WMs are just too good to pass up. In some ways I prefer my workflow on my 13" laptop with arch/bspwm to my massive dual monitor windows setup at work. As soon as you get used to it you wonder how you ever used a laptop with

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