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by jhbadger 11y ago
I doubt anyone doing data analysis is unfamiliar with R, as it is the current standard. The push to use Python, or Julia, or a version of Lisp (hey, we had that in the 1990s -- us olds remember xlispstat) for data analysis is coming from th
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by jhbadger 11y ago
There's a sort of general nostalgia for attractive parts of the past that exists in addition to nostalgia for one's past though. as the article brings up, "Mad Men" has started a fad for 1960s design even among people wh
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by jhbadger 11y ago
Well, 1950s SF did have a bit of trouble imagining the social changes that did actually occur. Even when they tried to be progressive by having a woman scientist or something they always made it seem strange like "I'm looking fo
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by jhbadger 11y ago
How do apps like "Clozure Common Lisp" get around the sandboxing? The Mac App Store version isn't crippled in any way I can see -- it can read and write outside its directory -- for example it can use the quicklisp package ma
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by jhbadger 11y ago
But what happens when your IDE is discontinued with no easy way to migrate projects? That has bit me several times over the last twenty years -- so I only rely on established proprietary tools like Emacs these days.
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by jhbadger 11y ago
At least in English, the word tripe itself means "worthless", because traditionally in English-speaking countries, where meat was cheap and plentiful, people threw tripe out or fed it to their dogs. Countries like Italy and variou
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by jhbadger 11y ago
Exactly. People wanted to create the world he presented, even though it was clear it wasn't a very nice place even if the technology was cool.
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by jhbadger 11y ago
Also, the smartphone is pretty much a combination of a PDA (which existed since the mid 1990s, eg. the Palm Pilot, or even Apple's own Newton) plus a phone.
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by jhbadger 11y ago
I think this misses the point of what the Librarian of Congress does. I agree that historians like the past few choices were are not a great fit, but the Librarian of Congress doesn't just run the actual Library of Congress; they make
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by jhbadger 11y ago
I only looked at her background because was I so underwhelmed by the lack of substance. Is boredom harmful or good? It's an interesting question yes, but one which can be addressed by actual scientific studies.
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by jhbadger 11y ago
From the byline. "Gayatri Devi is associate professor of English at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania". Okaaay.
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by jhbadger 12y ago
There seems to be a tradition in corporate programming languages to reuse the name of a somewhat obscure existing language. Google called their language "Go" despite there being already a language called that as well.