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by grayclhn 11y ago
Most normal people don't use "trivial" to mean "probably not impossible."
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by grayclhn 11y ago
That was my first thought too, but I bet the pull request approach is really hard to spam. As I get more and more quasi work-related spam emails, that looks more and more appealing.
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by grayclhn 11y ago
Try git checkout -b wip-syncing git commit -m "wip means work in progress" git push <whatevs> wip-syncing on your laptop, then git fetch --all git checkout <whatevs>/wip-syncing -- .
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by grayclhn 11y ago
> You're absolutely the reason why our politics and logical thinking of our citizens suffer. People who think that asking a "wiseass" question suffices for actual ethics/moral compass. This is not a constructive respo
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by grayclhn 11y ago
git pull --rebase doesn't merge implicitly and git config --global pull.rebase true will set that as the default `pull` behavior.
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by grayclhn 11y ago
I'm really curious what numerator and denominator you have in mind, then... are you somehow using fractional internship units? :) (Ordinarily this would be off topic, but....)
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by grayclhn 11y ago
> Many of our best data science ideas have come from Instacart employees in the field – working directly with our shoppers in our stores, or interacting directly with our customers. I have no idea what this could mean. Either you'
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by grayclhn 11y ago
Via an implicit call to factor, right?
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by grayclhn 11y ago
You must not do a lot of regression with categorical data, then. I use commands like `lm(y ~ (x1 + x2) * factor_variable, data = d)` and `xyplot(y ~ x1 | factor_1, groups = factor_2, data = d)` all the time.
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by grayclhn 11y ago
You're using a feature of a program on your computer to circumvent account access decisions on someone else's server. This the definition of "hacky."
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by grayclhn 11y ago
Just to be clear, I meant "fix" from the perspective of a hypothetical startup with the "we're going to fix email" motto/mindset.
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by grayclhn 11y ago
Probably. Labeling the links could make things less ambiguous, though. Either, "This website is supported by affiliate links" under the links to amazon. Or "I did this for fun but won't be able to host it w/out supp
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by grayclhn 11y ago
Slack + facebook, then. Lack of receipts and newsletters may be a feature. :) (But, sure, as a blanket statement it misses a lot of important details.)
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by grayclhn 11y ago
It's a little tongue in cheek. My flippant point was that these sort of "white whale" tech ideas don't seem to get fixed, they get replaced. But, yeah, I'd bet that a lot of travel gets replaced by some sort of imm
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by grayclhn 11y ago
Yes, definitely. But that was a choice. There are tons of smart reasons to choose to generate the list from Amazon links, and one of them appears to have been, "because we know that they can be tagged with affiliate links."
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by grayclhn 11y ago
Slack may fix email. Oculus may fix travel. The problem with these white whale ideas is that people don't realize "fix" == "kill".
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by grayclhn 11y ago
Who links to amazon for SICP?
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by grayclhn 11y ago
Eh, I'm of two minds here. 1) sure, there was effort put into this and it likely wouldn't have been made w/out affiliate links, so clearly there's value provided. 2) it's pretty clear that a list like this is going
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by grayclhn 11y ago
Isn't the kernel's repository just mirrored on GitHub, though? That's a bit different than hosting Python primarily on github.
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by grayclhn 11y ago
One disadvantage of Word is that future versions may change the math formatting and kill your notes. I have old powerpoint slides that are effectively unusable, for example.
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by grayclhn 11y ago
Pandoc if you like markdown -- it allows LaTeX math and equations. Emacs org mode if you like emacs and not markdown. Lately I've just found it easiest to use a text editor that has good keyboard support for entering unicode and just t
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by grayclhn 11y ago
The poster in that thread was doing the equivalent of stepping line by line through a block of code manually, ignoring all of the errors and manually executing the next line anyway.
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by grayclhn 11y ago
Yep. HN is a discussion forum, not a diary.
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by grayclhn 11y ago
It seems like the author only has one child, at least from the very beginning of the essay. I'd be interested in reading a revised version after raising a second or third child. I thought I had a lot of control over my daughter's
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by grayclhn 11y ago
Bank shutdowns are not orderly because banks are important; they're orderly because banks are heavily regulated. If Amazon has an orderly shutdown, it would be because of the selflessness of its owners and managers, which is a pretty f
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by grayclhn 11y ago
Why do you assume they're underpaid? :)
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by grayclhn 11y ago
No --- I thought about adding that caveat but didn't. Most of the non-Julia code that I'm aware of is scientific libraries: linear algebra (LAPACK/BLAS), random number generators, etc. But lots of very basic foundations and d
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by grayclhn 11y ago
Regardless of whether or not your main point is true in general, most scientists don't know and will never have time to learn data structures and algorithms. So, for this domain at least (scientific computing), the compiler is getting
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by grayclhn 11y ago
An astonishing amount of Julia is written in Julia.
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Writing the next chapter for Prismatic(blog.getprismatic.com)
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