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by frankc 13y ago
1000 days over 27 intervals
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by frankc 13y ago
It is actually legal to discriminate against young people. It's only illegal to discriminate against people over 40. http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/age.cfm Also, requiring experience is reasonable anyway sin
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by frankc 13y ago
Unvalidated/untested hypothesis are not "pseudoscience".
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by frankc 13y ago
The engine is not on while serving. However, most trucks do have gasoline powered generators. The city does have a legitimate interest in regulating the usage of shared space but the way it is done now is like it was designed by the Soviet
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by frankc 13y ago
One of my best friends owns a food truck in nyc and by association I've come to know a lot about the subject. 1) The requirement of a food handling license for every employee is not a trivial problem. It completely distorts the market for h
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by frankc 13y ago
Rate of a return is way too crude a measure. Real Estate is more stable, tax advantaged and most crucially to your wealth creation, the only investment class where John Q. Public can get 4:1 leverage (or better!).
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by frankc 13y ago
Did you mean pancreatic cancer or something else and not prostate cancer? I believe prostate cancer has close to a 100% cure rate.
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by frankc 14y ago
Would this work with an LD_PRELOAD of libfaketime?
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by frankc 14y ago
I know nothing about Heroku's architecture than what I just read in this post, but couldn't you alleviate this problem greatly by having the dyno's implement work stealing? Obviously the they would have to know about each other then, but pe
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by frankc 14y ago
If you liked this article you should read Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence people as it is very much along these lines. It's a famous book for a reason: the advice is tried and true.
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by frankc 14y ago
Base graphics is poweful but definitely full of crazy. However, ggplot2 is well designed as one integrated system and makes total sense. The model is a bit more complicated to understand than literally specifying what goes where as you do
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by frankc 14y ago
Not doing it wrong, but only using a subset of R. For instance, R has powerful data manipulation ability that can get your data to use the subset of R that does what Excel does. R also has a huge library of packages that go way beyond wha
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by frankc 14y ago
cash flow positive just means you had more money coming in that going out. Profit is calculated on an accrual basis, not a cash flow basis. For instance, if I sell you a car, I can recognize the revenue from that before you give me the cas
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by frankc 14y ago
I use unix in the same way and for the same purpose as the described in the blog, but I have come to the opinion that once you get into the describe and visualize phase, it's much easier to just drop into R. Reading in the kind of file bei
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by frankc 14y ago
Standardized tests don't have to be multiple-choice tests from a question bank, though. You can have practical sections, like in the CCIE. You can have long-form scenarios you have to analyze like on part 3 of the CFA. You can have the ex
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by frankc 14y ago
It's not that simple. When you are in bankruptcy it's really up to the judge to approve who gets paid what.
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by frankc 14y ago
That is not the case here. In fact, they are already in bankruptcy. The judge had imposed a new contract on the union that didn't accept, so they went on strike. The company claims they cannot whether the strike and instead are completely
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by frankc 14y ago
As a design project it's cool. I think you did a good job and I don't mean to rain on your parade. But of course now I will. I think as a data visualization exercise, it's mostly what Tufte would call "chart junk". The graphics don't aid in
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by frankc 14y ago
You can parallelize this operation with xargs simply by adding a -P. You could add a & to your convert here but that would run all the jobs at the same time. xargs allows you to only run n at a time. That would be a lot harder to rep
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by frankc 14y ago
So many people are missing the key point...it is never ok to to remove data without warning.
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by frankc 14y ago
First of all, I think my statement "the world needs C not Lisp" was meant to be taken metaphorically, not literally. Of course there is a place for Lisp, but at the end of the day, who has gotten more done in the real world? That certainl
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by frankc 14y ago
The irony of the whole thing is that it is usually the pragmatists and not the idealists who wind up "moving industry forward", because by definition, the pragmatists get things done. The world needs C not lisp.
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by frankc 14y ago
Is this worth looking into for someone who already knows perl, R and the unix zoo? Or is it more targetted at people who don't deal with data on a regular basis?
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by frankc 14y ago
Well, because you claimed pretty strongly this: "Tools are tools. Whether its a hammer or a Scientific Linux Cluster the significant factor is the user, the carpenter or the physicist" I agree with you that tools are a means to an end and t
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by frankc 14y ago
Not so sure I agree with that in general. What about the LHC? That is just a tool, too. Is that too not worth mentioning?
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by frankc 14y ago
This is not that insane, or at least relatively insane, because this matches the behavior of localtime(). I have heard the reason for using a 0-indexed month is for the convenience of mapping to an enum of month names.
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by frankc 14y ago
I don't mean to beat this to death, but any kind of statement about moderation presupposes that we already understand how different amount of some substance will effect us. The topic under discussion boils down to "what is too little, what
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by frankc 14y ago
It should be noted that the author of the linked article is Gary Taubes, who is best known for Good Calories, Bad Calories, a book that seeks to turn the conventional wisdom of nutrition on its head.
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by frankc 14y ago
No offense but this is really an intellectually weak statement because moderation is dependent on what is considered "too much", and here we are looking to redefine just what "too much" really is.
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by frankc 14y ago
I agree with you as it pertains to stackoverflow. I vote to close non-technical stuff all the time there I appreciate that is kept technical q/a. I do not agree about programmers. This particular question was long-winded but it boils down

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