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by phillc73 10y ago
I guess I never found the <- syntax odd, because that's all I know. Not using = for assignment kind of makes sense to me, as equals has mathematical connotations. I always thought there were plenty of options for parallel and high(e
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What makes R a dated and quirky language? I know a reasonable amount of R, but I don't really know any other programming language. I did once go looking at Julia, and had thought to write a few simple things using it, but in the end ju
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Thank you to both founders for taking the time to write such lengthy responses. I really appreciate the more detailed insight.
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Could you spend a couple of minutes to describe the advantages of Airtable over Fieldbook or Ragic? I've been gripped by indecision regarding which tool to use, and hence use none of them.
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Tracht is fairly common in Austria. Many people wear it during the summer months when in the countryside. It is also very often worn as formal wear.
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For Linux users, it is probably installable through the distribution's package manager. For others, the R language website: https://www.r-project.org Also try the IDE from RStudio to make life more pleasant: https:/&#
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I don't really know a great deal about farming in Austria, but as the other poster pointed out, there isn't really industrial agriculture US style that I am aware of. However, a couple of examples: - Austria has a pretty decent wi
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by phillc73 10y ago
I would be interested in some examples of the labour discrepancy. When I think of the difference attributable to organic farming it is mainly around lower crop yields.
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Once my total transfers had exceeded £15k, I was required to undergo further identity verification checks. Pretty standard KYC procedures I thought.
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I only use xe.com as my go to website for looking up current exchange spot rates. I didn't even really know they had a transfer service. I am a very happy Transferwise user. I used to always check the exchange rate on xe.com, then swit
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by phillc73 10y ago
Transferwise is by far the best international money transfer service I have ever used. I regularly move money between Euros and Pounds Sterling, sometimes into Australian dollars too. These are typically not large monetary amounts, maybe up
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Don't know about foremost, but I always use xe.com
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There are many in this range in Australia, where they are known as Light Beers and have almost 10% market share. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Australia#Market_chara...
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by phillc73 10y ago
All R related: Hadley Wickham - https://github.com/hadley Joe Cheng - https://github.com/jcheng5 Yihui Xie - https://github.com/yihui JJ Allaire - https://github.com/jjallai
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by phillc73 10y ago
Sadly this doesn't work: https://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=play+noughts+and+cr...
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by phillc73 10y ago
I was asked to join a call yesterday using appear.in[1]. Having never used this service before, I feared the worst and accessed the invitation link a good 20 minutes before the call was due to start. Using Chromium on Debian, everything wor
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They've been around for a long time and have a very good reputation.
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htmlwidgets[0] and flexdashboard[1]. Essentially it's writing rmarkdown documents. Shiny integration is optional. [0] http://www.htmlwidgets.org/ [1] http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/flexdashboard/
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Alpine, gui of sorts K9, gui Android (think it blocks by default, or I turned off auto load when I installed ages ago).
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As an alternative, Baxter boots[0] are also worth considering. I bought a pair of Gringos[1], as they were cheaper than Blundstones, and have been pretty happy with them. If you really want the full dress boot option and are prepared to spe
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by phillc73 10y ago
I was a very early eBay employee in one of their non-US locations. The company culture definitely changed between 1999-2002. By 2003 I was gone, mostly due to friction with management, somewhat to do with my immaturity in dealing with it. I
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I don't follow NFL, but from what I do know the games are quite different which may result in different injury ratios. In rugby, only the ball carrier may be tackled and there are rules against deliberate head high hits. Yet, with the
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Head trauma is also becoming a big deal in rugby union now. It won't be long, in my opinion, before wearing of the padded scull cap headgear becomes mandatory. I played the game in a serious social manner (every weekend during the seas
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My understanding is that Radiant is a collection of useful statistical models and other tools displayed using Shiny. Radiant basically allows you to import a dataset and run a collection of models against that dataset, all in your browser.
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Research Centre for Pharmaceutical Engineering | Software Engineer - Optical Coherence Tomography | Graz, Austria | Onsite | Full Time Duties and Responsibilities: * Lead a small software development team working on development of an Optica
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I don't work in this specific field, but did previously, during the first decade of this century, in broadcast video distribution. At the time, UDP based tools such as Aspera[1], Signiant[2] and FileCatalyst[3] were all the rage for pu
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> Android isn't fully functional without the apps you want it to run. And all the apps you want to run require Play Services. My phone feels pretty functional without Play Services and runs all the apps I want to run. Everything ins
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I must admit I didn't watch the new advert video due to the "do not track" warning. "This embedded content is from a site that does not comply with the Do Not Track (DNT) setting now enabled on your browser. Please note,
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by phillc73 10y ago
I have conflicting feelings about this article. Firstly, I don't by choice use any Microsoft products, so this is not a defence of that company. Secondly, I also fully agree that work can wait and my employer should not be intruding on
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I noticed one of the Related Content articles was regarding a picture collection from the Museum of Victoria, Australia. I was was really impressed when I clicked through to find this museum provides a full API for accessing their content[1

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