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by nrjames 9y ago
In my experience, it is easier to advocate outwardly for yourself than it is to look inward and evaluate what you actually need from yourself in order to be happy. In that sense, I meant introspection. I feel like the more able I am to unde
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by nrjames 9y ago
It's ok to be accommodating as long as you have learned to be introspective. We all have demands of our own time and money. Introspective accommodating people are able to help others in a generous way while protecting the time and reso
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by nrjames 9y ago
It's a great book but his Learning Processing: A Beginners Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction (2nd Ed) is a better introductory book.
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by nrjames 9y ago
I do a lot of Python work and like most of the other "heavy" IDEs, this doesn't appeal to me at all. The more layers of stuff you wrap around what you're trying to do, the harder it is, in my experience, to make it easy
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by nrjames 9y ago
I'm also doing something similar and using c3.js for charts.
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by nrjames 9y ago
I generally use the Firefox SQLite Manager extension when I need to explore SQLite databases. It serves its purpose pretty well, though it has some annoyances and UI quirks. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox&#x2F
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by nrjames 10y ago
It's not perfect, but no MBP has ever been perfect. One thing about the Touch Bar annoys me from time to time. Otherwise, I love the computer and I'm both happy and feel thankful for having one. It is clear that other people don&#
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by nrjames 10y ago
The Touch ID button is a hardware power button. It clicks down like any other old MBP power button.
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by nrjames 10y ago
I have a mostly maxed-out 15" new MBP. I love it. Now that I'm used to the new keyboard, I can type much faster than with the older ones and it feels far less mushy. I never have problems with stuck keys, audio, etc. From time to
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by nrjames 10y ago
Discourse uses Ember. It's pretty successful. http://www.discourse.org/
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by nrjames 10y ago
Children under age 1 are easy. From ~1 to ~4, they consume A LOT of your free time. For me, that was the hardest period to find time to continue to learn and to work on personal projects. From a mental health standpoint, it helped me to &qu
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by nrjames 10y ago
Letting go of the notion that you aren't a developer. You are a developer, you're just self-taught. There's not a "right" language or project. Pick something that inspires you, pick a language you want to learn, and
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by nrjames 10y ago
To me, an MBA is more about business strategy. Knowing the relevance of data to the operations of a business is vital to being an effective data scientist. Knowing when to make the call to lay off 500 people is the job of somebody with an M
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by nrjames 10y ago
Replying to myself here just to throw out an idea for an easy project that is representative of the type of work a data scientist might be expected to do. Register as a Twitter dev (free) and get the tokens, etc. needed to access the public
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by nrjames 10y ago
I'm a data scientist with a stats background. I'm also a self-taught programmer (going on 15 yrs of programming in various languages). There are very few data science jobs that I am aware of where somebody will hand you a tidy dat
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by nrjames 10y ago
This is missing an important component of the process. If you don't want to have to reinvent the wheel every time you are asked to do a certain type of analysis, you also have to set up some infrastructure to support your analytic pipe
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by nrjames 10y ago
I really like the concept but I don't really want to learn a niche programming language to interact with the site.
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by nrjames 10y ago
I can't even fathom that amount of money.
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by nrjames 10y ago
Just because somebody or an organization failed to do something charitable in the past is no reason to criticize them for doing it in the future. I see this argument everywhere these days. Business change and their priorities change, just l
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by nrjames 10y ago
It depends a little bit on the age of the children. One important thing to consider is that the sooner they can see visuals that are produced by their code, the more they will be able to understand the cause/effect of programming. I&#x
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by nrjames 10y ago
Awesome - thanks for the advice!
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by nrjames 10y ago
What is the best way to get a web-based dashboard -- Castor, for example -- displaying on a wall-mounted television? Is it possible to do it through an AppleTV?
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by nrjames 10y ago
Doesn't work in any browser for me right now and also doesn't appear to be linked from the main Uber github page. Not ready for release?
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by nrjames 10y ago
I think this is a good point. I've felt that way about single player games for a while. When I recently played Firewatch, which has a story with some complex emotional layers, I realized that I now need more than "mechanics"
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by nrjames 10y ago
For a basic web app, I would just Flask and just use Jinja templates to render views.
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by nrjames 10y ago
I agree with the example apps. Some annotated source would be great, too. Something similar to the way dc.js annotates this example: https://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/docs/stock.html
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by nrjames 10y ago
Looks like it is in this theme park? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Mini_Indonesia_Indah
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by nrjames 10y ago
I've used R and Python. I stick with Python whenever possible because IMO it supports the non-modeling parts of data science more effectively. ETL scripts, API creation, Flask for hosting simple websites, etc. yHat makes python-ggplot
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by nrjames 10y ago
I've had a lot of fun with this game and agree that it would be nice to hear more in this post about how it was made.
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by nrjames 10y ago
We moved to Sparkpost and hit a few bumps at first. However, after working through those and paying for a dedicated IP address, the service has been reliable and suits our use case. I do have the sense, however, that they need to hire more

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