jasonpbecker

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by jasonpbecker 13y ago
That's not true.
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by jasonpbecker 13y ago
Yeah, I am really annoyed with 1D versus 2D. However, if you're using a laptop, battery life from Mavericks alone makes it a killer upgrade.
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by jasonpbecker 13y ago
>The important thing is that I don't want all the other garbage I have backgrounded showing up in my field of view when I don't want to pay attention to it and I want this happen with a single mouse-click. This is a solved prob
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by jasonpbecker 13y ago
I would understand this on a laptop screen, but on a large screen virtually only an IDE makes sense to use up all that real estate. Even on a 13" laptop, my browser is rarely extended to full width. That being said, you can drag the wi
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by jasonpbecker 13y ago
You can turn this off if you don't want the dock and menu bar across all screens and don't use full screen. Then it operates the old way. I have to admit to being a bit befuddled-- I don't understand the desire for full scree
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by jasonpbecker 13y ago
Actually that was pretty important advice and a huge part of the picture/story. You can learn through non-traditional pathways just fine, but if you want to turn that learning into a career you're going to have to know a lot more
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by jasonpbecker 13y ago
There are great tools that interface R with BUGS that may be worth checking out. I would highly recommend getting this for the shelf: http://www.amazon.com/Analysis-Regression-Multilevel-Hierarc... It's one of the most
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by jasonpbecker 13y ago
This is true. Some of the reason that American students in particular have a hard time in organic chemistry is the insistence of teaching intro orgo by functional group rather than reaction mechanism. In the UK, it's far more common to
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by jasonpbecker 13y ago
No, they are not advertising the ratio. They are advertising reducing both. By your size/weight ratio, the original iPad would be the "ideal", but any one who has used any of these devices knows that's absurd. Density is
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by jasonpbecker 13y ago
While a lot of crappy, and especially non-professional, entry level jobs offer less time, it is not atypical for a professional job to offer 4 weeks paid vacation and 10-12 sick days a year.
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by jasonpbecker 13y ago
Nope: http://www.asymco.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Screen-Shot...
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by jasonpbecker 13y ago
Minimally, the first point is wrong. Official Apple Retail stores all do this the same way. Reservation cards were provided. It's possible that the person while in line was informed they didn't have the color they wanted and left,
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by jasonpbecker 13y ago
Excel is super powerful, but I loathe that power. It leads to people doing a ton of amazing, great work in Excel that's super impressive... that no on else can replicate. If you're really smart about it, Excel is one of the most r
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by jasonpbecker 13y ago
I belittle it. A lot. And rightfully so. It's fine if you want to keep a small budget or a quick bit of work with numbers, but it's awful for dealing even modest amounts of data and here's why: Nothing you do is captured and
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by jasonpbecker 13y ago
Mac OSX Reeder is in public beta this fall. He has not dropped support. Like with the iPad version, he was already in the process of rewriting from scratch when Google Reader happened.
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by jasonpbecker 13y ago
Of course, the developer did make an update to the iPhone version which had already been rewritten that worked with a few services with easy APIs to transition to. And of course, the developer had been deep into a complete rewrite from scra
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Nokia acquired by Microsoft(blogs.technet.com)
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by jasonpbecker 13y ago
A couple of reviews from folks who have been beta testing for months: http://www.macstories.net/stories/editorial-for-ipad-review/ http://www.macdrifter.com/2013/08/editorial-for-ipad-a-l
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by jasonpbecker 13y ago
Feedly, Feedbin.me, Feedwrangler [1] [1]: http://www.macstories.net/news/reeder-to-add-support-for-fee...
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by jasonpbecker 13y ago
Feedwrangler has been getting good buzz too.
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by jasonpbecker 13y ago
The MacStories Review [1] has a gif that shows how the app transitions from screen to screen. To me, that's the most interesting part of the app because it introduces a new UI/UX that feels faster and seems unique. Who knows if this will ca
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by jasonpbecker 14y ago
I sympathize a lot with what was written. I grew up on the Nintendo consoles (my father got an NES from my mom for their first anniversary, which was less than a year before I was born). I really enjoyed playing games straight through my N6
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by jasonpbecker 14y ago
R works really remarkably well and clearly for folks who work in this domain day to day. It's easier to learn than a lot of other languages for people who are coming from subject knowledge and need to program to implement that knowledge. It
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by jasonpbecker 14y ago
Bookmarks were the first "read-it-later"service. I think Marco has a good reason to be pissed that someone else keeps staking a claim to the concept of RIL as it exists today because they did a bookmark extension a few months before he intr
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by jasonpbecker 14y ago
Google-refine does some really cool stuff, but one of the great developments in the last couple of years within the R community is a big push toward reproducible research and building a powerful toolchain to assist to that end. The problem
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by jasonpbecker 14y ago
I have found this [site] ( http://www.cookbook-r.com/ ) to be more helpful (plus the online documentation for ggplot2 which is really good). Hadley's book is really good and a solid treatment (from the author of so many clear, powerful pack
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by jasonpbecker 14y ago
plyr, while having awesome syntax, is really slow for anything beyond even the most modest dataset. Try using it with 50k rows, not to mention true "big data". data.table is much faster. It's an extension to data.frames that adds some addit
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by jasonpbecker 14y ago
I've never met a software vendor in this space that has a freaking clue what they're getting into when they sign these contracts. They never think about interoperability despite signing on to the requirements, they assume too much when it c
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by jasonpbecker 14y ago
I actually agree with all of that (also US K12). That's why I think you're better off with something you can sever ties with when it falls behind on #2 and use clear RFP and contract requirements + in-house dev talent to drive #3. The harde
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by jasonpbecker 14y ago
I'm pretty familiar with this problem space having worked in both a state department of education and a school district. I would not expect this to be a long term success. Virtually every district of reasonable size starts with a homegrown

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