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by mwexler 17y ago
You guys did look at the faq before voting this up, right? http://www.freerice.com/faq.html "Couldn't I just write a computer program to play all day and give a lot of rice that way? There are two problems with this. First, it overloads o
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by mwexler 17y ago
Not sure who came first... I've been using http://bset.royans.net/ for the past few weeks.
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by mwexler 17y ago
But you assume _everyone_ is deploying to a Linux and a server environment. What if you are writing a desktop app: a poker assistant, a contacts deduper, whatever. Some datasets strain the usual embedded dbs, and MySQL would be great... i
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by mwexler 17y ago
NOT EXISTS has been known to be faster than a join for years now. In what possible way is this news? NOT EXISTS allows for short circuiting, like an OR: if at least one record exists, processing can quit. The Join would need to process a
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by mwexler 18y ago
Matt Cutts responded in the comments that he will take a look at it. I guess this teaches us that the only way to get help from Google is to blog, get it picked up by the aggregators, get a "celebrity" blogger to notice, and hope he follow
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by mwexler 18y ago
Article was helpful, but read the comments as well. Fleshes out some real life experiences from folks who have used multiple packages.
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by mwexler 18y ago
I loved this book when I was starting out.
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by mwexler 18y ago
One interesting model of where spreadseets may go is Resolver, at http://code.google.com/p/resolver/ or http://www.resolversystems.com/ . Most of the issues complained about here can be solved through the Python back end.
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by mwexler 18y ago
Statistics and Lisp have a long, long history together. Before R took off, many academic statisticians were using Lisp-Stat, Luke Tierney's tool from UMN. Luke has now been spending time helping R, and it shows in how it is starting to ad
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by mwexler 18y ago
Depending on your bent, you may find R ( http://www.r-project.org/ ) with Python ( http://www.omegahat.org/RSPython/ ) a very powerful combination. More statistical than some of the others you mention, and sadly constrained by memory unles