jackmaney

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by jackmaney 11y ago
That's a terrible question. You may as well just ask "Hey, can you please slip up and say something incredibly stupid and/or offensive, so that I can have an excuse to end this interview? It'd be great if you could just
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by jackmaney 11y ago
Welp, I don't think I'll ever read anything from Wired again.
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by jackmaney 11y ago
Why should I support so-called "art" that wants to restrict what I can do? Why should I spend any money on this garbage, when a digital camera from any Big Box store is clearly superior?
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by jackmaney 11y ago
Yeah, I have absolutely no idea why anyone would buy this. "Oh, it's a camera that won't allow me to take whatever picture I want. And it makes staticky, clicky noises, sounding like an ill dolphin. Just what I've always
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by jackmaney 11y ago
I use uBlock, yes, but that shouldn't automatically add margins, a header bar, etc, around a PDF. That makes absolutely no sense.
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by jackmaney 11y ago
There are sites that allow for annotations and manage to do so without bouncing, distracting "click on me!" buttons. Medium does a great job of this. I have no idea what the site's creator was thinking when they decided not t
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by jackmaney 11y ago
I don't know what to tell you, except that when I viewed the page, there was a reasonably well-formatted PDF in the center of the screen surrounded by unnecessary, fiddly, bouncing bullshit "click on me!" buttons.
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by jackmaney 11y ago
I started reading it, and then there was a nagging interstitial, begging for my email address so that I could be sent spam. Closing that garbage, various buttons and unnecessary margin bits ("Click here to see more!" [ bounce ] [
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by jackmaney 11y ago
I would hope that there are some kind of locking mechanisms in place, at least at the table level, if not the row level.
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by jackmaney 11y ago
Oh yes, stringsAsFactors...just seeing that almost conjures up flashbacks. Data frames in Pandas have no such implicit stupidity. The rough equivalent, IIRC, is setting up one or more columns as an index (or multi-index, respectively), and
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by jackmaney 11y ago
Depending on what you mean by "Big Data", you may as well say "good luck treating any kind of Big Data without some kind of distributed system".
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by jackmaney 11y ago
Yep. The idea that I should have to code defensively to make sure that the matrices I'm multiplying are of the correct size [1] is complete bullshit. cat(paste("That", "and", "string", "manip
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by jackmaney 11y ago
No, by definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queue_(abstract_data_type)
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by jackmaney 11y ago
> I assume this is intended to be sarcasm? Your assumption is incorrect.
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by jackmaney 11y ago
"Should the first in a queue be served last?" No. Queues are, by definition, FIFO. This article is one of the most idiotic pieces of drivel that I've read in a long time. I want my two minutes back.
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by jackmaney 11y ago
http://bfy.tw/1c9R
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by jackmaney 11y ago
> 1) Usually the app is infinitely better than the mobile web experience. Don't give a fuck. If I wanted your shitty app, I would have gone to the Play store and installed it. If I want to go to your website, then I want to fucking
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by jackmaney 11y ago
> They also realized that no one is going to pay for software so they need to make revenue via advertising and premium features. They might want to have a word with JetBrains or Adobe, then...
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by jackmaney 11y ago
1. Tweets wouldn't be stored. Screenshots of tweets would be stored. 2. Admittedly, that would be the most inconvenient part of the process. This would require regular scraping to validate what's been deleted and what hasn't.
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by jackmaney 11y ago
Well, then, it shouldn't be a problem to write a service that automates the capture of screenshots of tweets posted by a particular account or on a particular hashtag. That doesn't even require access to the Twitter API, or, for t
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by jackmaney 11y ago
Then that's still very, very easy and doable with the Windows Task Scheduler, crontab, and many, many other applications built around task automation and orchestration. Even in that context, the article is a pile of fear-mongering hors
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by jackmaney 11y ago
> scripting is less and less possible on Mac/Windows [citation needed]
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by jackmaney 11y ago
Utter garbage click-bait and FUD. "Scripting" in the form of writing code in high-level programming languages is not going away anytime in the foreseeable future.
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by jackmaney 11y ago
I guess that could be a function of one's discipline. I was a mathematician, so there were very few attempts at time-wasting and being tangential (and when there were, a quick "That's a great question, but it's a bit far
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by jackmaney 11y ago
That's the problem: college does not--nor should it--solely exist for preparation to enter the workforce. That's why we need a resurgence of trade programs.
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by jackmaney 11y ago
Yep, I didn't really know what it meant to push myself, either, until I got to college. I was foolish enough to get talked into taking 19 credits for my first college semester. I ended that semester with a GPA of 1.6, but it shot up an
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by jackmaney 11y ago
You aren't accounting for an enormous cost, should we stay on this path for much longer: brain drain.
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by jackmaney 11y ago
When I was in academia, some of the students I rooted for the most were non-traditional students, especially those who were former/current military. None of that "b...but, when will I ever use this in REAL LIFE! Waaahhh!" or
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by jackmaney 11y ago
A neat idea, but I think that Humble Bundle mostly has bundles of games (or software directly related to games)... Hmmm, making a more open Humble Bundle type shop could be a neat idea, and I see that openbundles.com is currently available.
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by jackmaney 11y ago
Not in the slightest. I still have no idea what this has to do with experiments.

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