jasonpbecker

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by jasonpbecker 7y ago
In general, I think there should be a high burden for most folks on whether custom code should be permitted in these cases. I have absolutely seen the same, and this almost always comes after someone makes a reasonable decision to go with C
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by jasonpbecker 7y ago
I think a lot of this advice does not apply widely outside of the federal government. For example, I sell COTS software to school districts. There are 15,000 jurisdictions in the US that operate autonomously, but to achieve very similar goa
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by jasonpbecker 7y ago
Goodreads is desperately in need of a strong competitor.
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by jasonpbecker 8y ago
Tons of former Stata users are now R users, especially over the last decade. Stata pretty much lives in Econ departments now.
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by jasonpbecker 8y ago
The model is exactly as you say. The whole idea is to be sort of like Wordpress.com. Pay for hosting if you want it, but if you just want to participate in a social layer on top of your own RSS feed, all of the social features are free and
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EmberJS no longer targeting “routable components”(github.com)
1 points by jasonpbecker 9y ago|0 comments
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by jasonpbecker 10y ago
This happens constantly on older versions of Docker.
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by jasonpbecker 10y ago
As someone who buys this for every employee at his organization, I couldn't disagree more. It's a huge deal that I can control who shares and sees what vault, turn off an employee's access as soon as they are leaving the comp
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by jasonpbecker 10y ago
The default in Overcast is to delete after listening and to save only 3 episodes from each subscription, which is quite sensible IMO.
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by jasonpbecker 10y ago
Actually, zero calorie stuff is pretty much by definition stuff we haven't decided to "deal with". It doesn't get absorbed directly, and we never created a means to break it down into something that could be absorbed. Th
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by jasonpbecker 11y ago
The best evidence suggests that presenting information multiple times, multiple different ways benefits everyone because it creates a richer set of connections to those ideas and concepts. It's not the case that one person learns throu
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by jasonpbecker 11y ago
Volume (spatial). It takes up a ton of room inside the phone that could be battery. I'm not particularly excited about it, but it's obvious why they'd want to do this, even if the phone doesn't get thinner, based on this
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by jasonpbecker 11y ago
I use a Mac Mini, rMBP, retina iPad Mini, and iPhone 6S. I've never had any trouble with iCloud syncing personally, though I haven't used it for a ton of stuff. Photos is definitely the biggest use I've ever had for iCloud an
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by jasonpbecker 11y ago
I don't work much with data that would benefit from being very tight about datetimes as a dimension. I'd have to know a bit more about what was challenging before I could confidently recommend for your particularly case. My email
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by jasonpbecker 11y ago
Post R 3.1 there are far fewer deep copies (e.g. modifying a list or adding a column to a data.frame no longer copies the whole thing like it used to).
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by jasonpbecker 11y ago
I agree, but this stuff is getting better. I'm actually considering breaking away from the Rocker-derived stuff because the images get so big I'm pretty sure I could maintain a faster build myself. Problem is I haven't used R
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by jasonpbecker 11y ago
This task sounds almost uniquely poorly suited for R, but this has gotten better. For example, adding a column (did you append to the right or do an actual merge/join?) used to require copying the previous table but doesn't any mo
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by jasonpbecker 11y ago
I couldn't disagree more. R is great at munging pretty much everything but unstructured textual data. The tools are definitely behind Python if you're dealing with literal written documents. I don't know anyone who considers
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by jasonpbecker 11y ago
Yup. Not offering me a 15 day trial makes it super hard to know how it will work with my two email providers, not to mention the advertising video and site make it very hard for me to understand how using the app is like.
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by jasonpbecker 11y ago
Of course they do, and Apple has the highest margins in the business and never sells near cost. Apple Watch probably has margins in the mid to high 30% just like all other Apple products do around launch.
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by jasonpbecker 11y ago
Frustrating to me that there's no CalDav support.
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by jasonpbecker 11y ago
They have a share sheet extension. Click the thing you use to email a webpage, click the 1Password button, log in, click the log in that's detected to match the URL, autofills and you can hit submit. Password fields can't use cust
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by jasonpbecker 12y ago
Why would they? They are making hardware to work with their operating system. Do you blame PC makers who have bad battery life on Linux because there are bad open source drivers? Or PC makers that don't run well as a Hackintosh?
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by jasonpbecker 12y ago
Except that gold's value is not evenly remotely tied to its use value. If it were, gold would be worth a small fraction of its current price.
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by jasonpbecker 12y ago
I have generally enjoyed using BT Sync since about June and haven't run into some of the CPU problems other are mentioning. I use BTSync primarily for files that I was never really comfortable leaving my machine-- paper I scan, my work
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Apple begins rejecting apps that offer rewards for video views, social sharing(techcrunch.com)
225 points by jasonpbecker 12y ago|190 comments
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by jasonpbecker 12y ago
On 1, better than iOS was. Not sure if you mean better than Android, in which case, that remains to be seen. But the target should be "good enough". On 2, third-party apps have long supported opening in a different app. Of course,
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by jasonpbecker 12y ago
Many are bitter about that, myself included. But it was an intellectual property issue, out of Apple's control.[0] [0]: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-20236114
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by jasonpbecker 13y ago
You should know that dplyr, plyr's replacement is already fairly stable and worth using. For basic tasks, it's as fast or faster than data.table in my experience, with the caveat that it is more likely to copy for some methods tha
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by jasonpbecker 13y ago
> I mean, nobody really conflated these categories when it was just Blackberries and video game consoles. Do I get to add Xbox units to this too? Did Xbox or Blackberry serve as direct substitutes for traditional PCs? No. Have Android an

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