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by hackaflocka 10y ago
I've never understood why Oracle was so highly valued by Wall St. Databases have always had FLOSS alternatives. So how did an expensive proprietary solution (with lots of closed and open competitors) become so all-powerful and valuable
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
What are some examples of Trumpian Newspeak?
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Could you elaborate please? What makes it phenomenal? Also, is it still the traditional model of a company town (i.e. everything owned by the same co.)?
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Little known fact: Most top intelligence officials from Western countries retire to form "security analysis and consulting" firms. Rudy Giuliani has such a firm. http://www.giulianisecurity.com/index.php/us&#x
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
I haven't read all the other comments so not sure if this has been mentioned already. The modern concepts of posture may be wrong. I have a curved butt to shoulder area. It makes me look somewhat duck like. However, I never have any ba
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Nassim Taleb, is this you? ;-)
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Whenever you're not sure whether something is a cause or an effect, look up Taleb on "Narrative Fallacy."
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Interesting, I'll have to watch out for it then. I found it more helpful than Reshape2 when trying to convert a dataset with 55 variables from wide to long format. 8 of those variables needed to be collapsed into 1 variable. With Resha
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
For me, the red flags that this is a BS study are: 1) They're comparing countries like India and, say, Denmark (Source: Indian here). In India, about 60% of the population shits on the streets, and injured (lame) cows and dogs hobble a
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
How to convert Wide format data to Long format data (process called 'reshaping')is very very important to understand. Certain statistical tests cannot be performed if not in Long format. The article mentions Reshape2. I also love
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
I have a love of crunchy foods. I mainly love the crunchy sound as I eat them. Is there an evolutionary theory of why I might have evolved to love these? The only theory I could think of is that they're a marker of freshness in some ve
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Expectations. We are prisoners of expectations imposed on us. On Omid Kordestani's twitter, I read the following: In the first 5 minutes of your life they give you a name and a religion, and you spend the rest of your life trying to de
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
This post hits the nail on the head. The original manual often sucks (e.g., examples in the PHP manual are often incomprehensible to me). SO often does a better job. Competition is good. If SO becomes the favored destination, so be it.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
DJ Drama, the mixtape guy, was raided under the same law. It's an interesting story, google "dj drama raid"
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Very common everywhere. I'm North Indian. When I was posted in Chennai, I was told the Brahmins were not going to rent to me. Today (18 years later), I shudder a little in the presence of a Tamil Brahmin.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
With Trump, there are 2 tells: 1) He never brings up Hillary's ghost writing of her book. (Hint: can you guess why?) 2) He never brings up Bill Clinton flying on the "lolita express" plane. (Hint: can you guess why?)
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Interesting that there's no easily found mug shot of him considering he's in Fed Prison. In India, about 25 years ago, the govt instituted export credits. Basically, in order to import anything, you needed to have export credits.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Does this mean that potentially most Windows apps can run in a Chromebook one day?
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
The text messaging sucks in multiple ways.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
> what's wrong with WhatsApp It's owned by FaceBook.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Anyone remember NetMeeting? It had amazing features in 1997, including screen sharing. Then Microsoft killed it. Cross platform FaceTime / iMessage will be THE killer app. Skype could've been it but Microsoft destroyed it. Surpris
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Twitter is very very broken. "Retweet with Comment" are not showing up as Retweets: https://medium.com/@Maver1ck/is-twitter-unreasonably-broken-...
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
In a recent Periscope he was asked if he smoked Marijuana. He said "I've always said that Marijuana isn't going to smoke itself." Could be the problem.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
He has mentioned Mexicans, Syrians, Chinese, Iraqis. Pretty sure he wasn't speaking positively of them. He also sub-tweeted about rates of violence of blacks and whites.
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Is Twitter unreasonably broken?(medium.com)
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
That phrase is not bad. But even this project can be better described via a table that compares it with alternatives.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
A serious two word request from someone who's a huge fan of open source projects and uses a lot of them: "Improve Descriptions" A lot of tools have a similar generic description: e.g.: "This tool helps programmers do mor
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Update: here's her dad: https://www.usaid.gov/who-we-are/organization/christian-holm... > Holmes worked in the field with USAID missions in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Egypt, Yemen, Ghana, Haiti, Libe
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Her dad worked for a U.S. govt. foreign agency, and if you look at his bio and all the countries where he was posted, you might infer that he was in the CIA.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
> It is hard to fathom how Rubin Erdely went along with all this Incentives. If it didn't crumble, the same story could have won her a Pulitzer.

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