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by jwilber 5y ago
I’ve done a lot of open source and don’t get where you’re going. What was repurposed exactly? Blocks? A deprecated service that nobody volunteered to take over, despite messages asking for that? Something else? Was it free before? Is it sti
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by jwilber 5y ago
Why? It’s free software and a free OSS library. Be thankful examples even exist at all.
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by jwilber 5y ago
This thread is literally people complaining about the free software used to host free documentation for a free library. The onus is absolutely not on anyone to improve things for you just because you find them difficult. Consider how lucky
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by jwilber 5y ago
Right. Well, in that case I disagree with your assertion that scientists who put out publications of average-in-that-field’s quality are “worse than useless”. Not how science works!
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by jwilber 5y ago
Depends on how you define standard.
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by jwilber 5y ago
I agree with you and wish that were an option, but I do think most build tools will tree shake for you nowadays.
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by jwilber 5y ago
I looked the man up, found an interesting tidbit, and posted it. I can see how it comes off as me not liking him, but I really have no idea who he is, so I’ll explain why I posted that quote I saw: If an individual is in question for taking
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by jwilber 5y ago
I honestly don’t understand the point you’re making. Obviously I don’t think fatherless households give rise to paraplegics. Lol. If you can explicitly state the ‘metrics under discussion’ I’ll give an honest response a go, but I really don
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by jwilber 5y ago
It is trivial. I just told you what to remove, and tracebacks will inform you of the ordering. I would advise the ‘newbie’ you speak of to learn how to read a basic error message and how to use the backspace key before tackling d3! (For ref
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by jwilber 5y ago
On the’censored’ man’s attempted foray into a different field, physics: “ The paper qualifies that the author "is not a physicist" but an "entertainer", and it has received strong criticism from the scientific community,
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by jwilber 5y ago
You can also just import it from d3-scale.
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by jwilber 5y ago
This. It’s literally just a matter of reordering variables, adding or removing a pair of parentheses, and removing the “return svg.node” call. People love to complain about free open-source documentation. Especially for d3 it seems. Shout o
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by jwilber 5y ago
Right, but the point I’m making is being raised without a father is not the (to take your example) paraplegic-level setback some in the red pill camp seem to think it is. It’s not even an outlier experience, either. Even among high achiev
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by jwilber 5y ago
My twin brother and I grew up without a biological father, were very independent at an early age, and both have high-paying jobs in faang. Both well-adjusted, multiple relationships, successful, etc. I see a lot of Jordan Peterson-esque BS
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by jwilber 5y ago
If the CEO didn’t throw a tantrum over the exact things his company claims to support (OSS, creativity, etc.), nobody would know about the intern’s weekend project. But he did, and now we’ll see something of a Streisand effect [0]. To be fa
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by jwilber 5y ago
You can’t live out of poverty in the average American city on $10/hour, even if you’re single. I see your name mentions Boise - believe me when I say Idaho, ranked 39th in state population size, is decidedly not representative of the U
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by jwilber 5y ago
The writing quality is so poor that I suspect artificial voting is at hand.
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by jwilber 5y ago
Always seems like the strongest opinions on AI come from those with the weakest backgrounds in the subject.
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by jwilber 5y ago
I hope this doesn’t come off belittling but my only reaction to reading this is that some people can find a reason to get upset over anything.
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by jwilber 5y ago
That makes it even more strange, as all modern (ie within last 5 years) resources push the tidyverse.
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by jwilber 5y ago
Lots of comments around code quality, primarily as it relates to testing. The real code quality sin here is that R, a vectorized-by-default language, is being used to employ for- and while- loops everywhere. It’s strange to see given the ab
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by jwilber 5y ago
Right, but if you heard an acid attack outside of your hotel three visits in a row, it’d be a different story. I’ve spent six years in the Bay (SF and Berkeley), and the unfortunate truth is that the feces, homelessness, and public drug use
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by jwilber 5y ago
“We end up with these discussions not based in reality.” I can assure you that these discussions, while anecdotal, are in aggregate largely based in reality. I’m very liberal and enjoy some aspects San Francisco provides (mostly related to
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by jwilber 5y ago
This rings true, although it’s hard to think of cities where the issue has resulted in as much harm as in SF.
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by jwilber 5y ago
Yeah, I think that hits the nail on the head. The nimby problem, on the other hand, shows how selfish intentions can also lead to very harmful effects. Spent 5 years there and am not envious of anyone living in the Bay at all.
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by jwilber 5y ago
The tractor example is great, and many cyclists make brazen moves as a result of this right away. Interestingly, I feel more brazen when riding a bicycle than my (very slow, non-freeway) motorcycle. Maybe the satisfaction that I’m legally i
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by jwilber 5y ago
For all ty skateboarding x tech nerds, check out 4plymag.com
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by jwilber 5y ago
Unrelated pull from the article: “The city has had twice as many fatal drug overdoses as coronavirus deaths.” Wow.
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by jwilber 5y ago
As a quick counter - I’ve had a lot of success using parcel straight out the box, both for personal projects and internal projects in big tech. To be fair there are definitely times I’ve run into issues, [there’s still an active issue I enc
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by jwilber 5y ago
roughViz, a library to make hand drawn looking charts in the browser: https://github.com/jwilber/roughViz

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