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by pseut 14y ago
I don't follow you. Any time I'm inspecting the diff to see if I made the change I want, staging the changes i want progressively and then discarding the rest has worked well.
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by pseut 14y ago
I think 'git add -p .' would have worked better for the specific example he gave, though. (Step through and stage change by change)
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by pseut 14y ago
I use both tumblr and Jekyll, but I think it's pretty low risk that tumblr will vanish without any warning. We've known posterous would disappear for a while now. And if you point an rss reader at any blog you get a pretty decent backup tri
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by pseut 14y ago
Is it less wise than publicly taunting your supplier?
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by pseut 14y ago
Really? I had the opposite reaction. Does Tesla offer phone support to the rest of their customers like that?
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by pseut 14y ago
I send myself an email for the same purpose and set up an alias for /dev/null. It makes keeping notes a lot easier since I have the copy in sent mail and can reply to it as needed in the future. (this approach seemed less crazy before I t
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by pseut 14y ago
If you set up a tumblr with your own domain name, what's the problem?
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by pseut 14y ago
One minor clarification: by "posts like these..." I did not mean to include their first post on these issues with Heroku. That one had a big effect because of the attention it got. But the follow-up posts come across differently (to a non-c
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by pseut 14y ago
No, but people do win settlements.
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by pseut 14y ago
The first post, definitely. But this one? Maybe I'd feel differently if I were a Heroku customer, so I'll defer to people directly affected.
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by pseut 14y ago
Guys, you've made a lot more money than me, so you don't need my advice. But if you want money back, you should probably be communicating in private through your lawyers. Posts like this look like you're trying to get (more) attention.
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by pseut 14y ago
Smartphones too. I top-post from my iPhone, bottom-post everywhere else.
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by pseut 14y ago
It looks like yellow highlights are external links.
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by pseut 14y ago
Deja News was a web interface for Usenet, not a newsgroup interface for mailing lists. I don't remember when google groups switched to a web/mailing list setup, but I think it was later than 2002 (when Gmane started).
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by pseut 14y ago
You might if your only task that day were to assess and report on the current state of charging that car.
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by pseut 14y ago
Is this what you do? Because if someone sends me a csv file, under your workflow I'd have to open it in a text editor (or a different spreadsheet program) to figure out the data type of each column and run it through a perl script (or awk?
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by pseut 14y ago
Gmane doesn't mirror google groups -- it mirrors public mailing lists and originally was made to reformat them for news readers[1]; some mailing lists use it intentionally as their public archives (emacs org-mode for one) so you might be
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by pseut 14y ago
Cool, I didn't realize that lists could have dimension too. Thanks for the correction.
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by pseut 14y ago
This might be another reason to bill by the week instead of by the hour when freelancing.
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by pseut 14y ago
Yes, exactly. I think people arguing for "freedom" here need to start listing what papers they want to read and why. Most research isn't exactly accessible even if you hand someone a copy of the paper.
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by pseut 14y ago
> This is something that could be fixed in R by a package, but no one has done so yet I'm curious about about what you mean by this. How would a single package fix that? And does "fix" mean to make matrices easier or to make datafra
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by pseut 14y ago
Ah, but it's 3 telling you.
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by pseut 14y ago
Ironically, your "iris" object can't be a matrix the way it's written. I've had lots of students get confused about the distinction between matrices and data frames. And sapply will sometimes give (IIRC) matrices of lists with a single el
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by pseut 14y ago
I have to ask, why would a programmer want to learn R as a language? Why not just learn statistics?
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by pseut 14y ago
Sounds great! What's the MCMC package for javascript?
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by pseut 14y ago
> R could use something like the Python ecosystem intro, explaining where to find stuff, not sure if any of the tutorials are as canonical as for instance Dive Into Python or Learn Python The Hard Way. It only became popular recently;
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by pseut 14y ago
I read some of the other comments and don't understand your point 3. Do you expect huge demand to drive the price down? I'd tend to expect the opposite.
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by pseut 14y ago
R is exactly like a statistics DSL built on Lisp. The first sentences of a talk by Ihaka [1] are: > R began as an experiment in trying to use the methods of Lisp implementors to build a small testbed which could be used to trial som
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The Unsettling Beauty of Lethal Viruses(blogs.smithsonianmag.com)
19 points by pseut 14y ago|7 comments
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by pseut 14y ago
> There's a finite amount of programmers needing (sometimes great) answers to dumb question and hence nearly all the other StackExchange sites tanked... I don't see this as the reason the other sites tanked at all; there are a limited

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