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by greg_data 10y ago
Free ebooks are every day. Normally it's something older. No Email notifications for the freebies normally. Worth checking up on occasionally though.
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by greg_data 10y ago
Really? How so? The fact that he got his diagnosis whilst writing the thing makes it even more poignant for me. There are parts where you can tell that what your reading is his personal reflections on his own situation. I always found his
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by greg_data 10y ago
I'm gonna go ahead and assume it's "The Quarry". If so, it's well worth a read. Intensely poignant and personal, but brilliant Banks as ever.
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by greg_data 10y ago
Yo, I'm actually the Data Analyst who worked on this. Turns out a poorly constructed regex put all of C# and C++ into C. We've addressed this and will be putting out a revised edition of the report by the end of the week.
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by greg_data 11y ago
that's an absolutely fascinating way to think about it.
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by greg_data 11y ago
Nothing currently, really. However, when I first joined the company I work at (as a Graduate Data Analyst) I wrote a recommendations engine in VBA. It took about 5 minutes to chug through 3 months of sales data and produce a list of content
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by greg_data 11y ago
Second Lubuntu. Installed to breathe life into an old af Toshiba laptop. Stable, fast, no bloat.
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by greg_data 11y ago
Graphs are fun, CHARTS are boring.
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by greg_data 11y ago
Should've been called Diatomic!
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by greg_data 11y ago
Interesting counterpoint to this is jQuery. Their jQuery book came out very early in the game and was authored by people very much involved in the project. Some of the jQuery API docs are actually based on the book.