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by pwang 11y ago
> That "build it and they will convert" attitude and the growth of alternatives to Python is what killed Python 3. Well said.
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by pwang 11y ago
Have you also checked out Numba? JIT and type inference, but native to CPython and designed for numerics: http://numba.pydata.org
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by pwang 11y ago
When my startup was <10 people, I used Vim and Git a whole heck of a lot. Now that we're almost 140 people, I mostly use Gmail, Google Calendar, Sublime Text and Evernote, and Google Hangouts for engineering meetings. But, a lot of
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by pwang 11y ago
Thanks, Ville! :)
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by pwang 11y ago
Thank you!
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by pwang 11y ago
Thanks, Sahat! Hope all is well with you!
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by pwang 11y ago
Thank you!
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by pwang 11y ago
Yes - all of the above. :) We're able to more strategically invest in open source projects since we're not operating in hand-to-mouth mode. We're able to pursue partnerships and push even better Python integration with indust
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by pwang 11y ago
Really sorry about that - we've been trying to clean up and streamline our hiring process, and your application must have gotten lost in the shuffle. I hope your new gig works out well!
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Continuum Analytics Raises $24M Series A for Anaconda Python and PyData(continuum.io)
190 points by pwang 11y ago|42 comments
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by pwang 11y ago
It's absolutely pathetic that that kid had to learn Perl to do genomics.
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by pwang 12y ago
Any decent language that wants devs to be able to reason about operators and types would throw a TypeError here. Shitty languages will cause devs to have to purchase books entitled "ShittyLanguage: The Non-Shitty Parts", wherein c
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by pwang 12y ago
I need a shirt that says "No integers? Totes OK!"
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by pwang 12y ago
Which is why the nvie.com "git flow" (that everyone points to as the ideal branching model for git) is not actually on the git site? And as for git man pages... I have been hacking on Linux and complex codebases for 20+ years at t
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by pwang 12y ago
> Is this guy genuinely suggesting that people fell in "love" with distributed version control solely because of GitHub? The author suggests that the "tipping point" for Git adoption vs e.g. Mercurial was when Github
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by pwang 12y ago
You can stick 6TB in a single 4U Proliant from HP: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/servers/proliant-servers.h... If you need a few PBs of spindle storage, hook that server up to a DDN or Panasas rack.
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by pwang 12y ago
> If your hadoop cluster is slow... You're right, there is a lot of misinformation and hope about Hadoop out there, and I think there is a lot of value in Hadoop as a cheap data integration archive. But I think the parent poster&#x
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by pwang 12y ago
This is absolutely hilarious. One of the things I talk about in my presentations is that the hardest part of "data analytics" and especially "advanced visualization" is that it's hard to know when you're suck
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by pwang 12y ago
What issue did you have? Please email info@continuum.io with the information - we would love to know more about your problem and help you resolve it.
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by pwang 12y ago
Just wanted to chime in and say that I'm loving reading your comments on this topic.
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by pwang 12y ago
Yep, agree. I think more people faced with this question should see it posed as "90% chance of no return". (Cognitive irrationalities about asymmetric loss aversion and all that.)
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by pwang 12y ago
It's important to remember that as brokers/agents of LPs' money, VCs price risk . The valuation of companies is distinct from that, and is normally the principal component of the pricing of the risk. However, if the market
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by pwang 12y ago
What I don't understand about this is... why don't ATMs just put a damn motorized door in front of the card reader slot, or alternatively stick out a tray that you put the card in. The door approach makes it so that the thief has
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by pwang 12y ago
Heatmaps are fairly easy to do with Bokeh, for instance: http://bokeh.pydata.org/docs/gallery/unemployment.html
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by pwang 12y ago
The "karate moves in space" was really kind of unwatchable.
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by pwang 12y ago
> Of course nobody is going to write actual functioning data structures in Python Or even http://toolz.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ Daft, indeed! :-)
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by pwang 12y ago
We're making progress on that front with Numba: http://numba.pydata.org
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by pwang 12y ago
A few of the people mentioned in the article are being funded by DARPA to create open source, next-gen "big data" tools as part of its XDATA program: http://www.darpa.mil/OpenCatalog/XDATA.html
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by pwang 12y ago
I was here in the US during Tiananmen. The western media at the time reported the full story about the "tank man", and that he was pulled away. No western outlet (that I can recall) ever asserted that he was crushed by the tank.
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by pwang 12y ago
> If you want to push something you want to be at the edge right? Wrong. You need to be at the core. In many areas that I've looked at, most of the activity happening at the edge is just churn from an ignorance of history and a na

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