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by randomvectors 7y ago
We're not arguing about the safety and viability of banks. Instead, we're directly comparing the safety and viability of banks vs Facebook. If you think that Facebook comes out on top in that comparison, either you really haven&#x
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by randomvectors 7y ago
> At this point, I think I'd honestly rather put my money with Facebook than many of those actual banks out there. This is so ridiculous that I don't even know how to argue with it.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
I'm super grateful that my first exposure to programming (high school in Eastern Europe, 10+ years ago) was in C++. I don't think we even did a lot of C++ specific stuff so it was probably closer to C but using cout instead of pri
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by randomvectors 7y ago
You're arguing with a point that I'm not making at all.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
No, being opinionated by itself isn't a good enough reason to belong in new code.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Your post is an ad. You've also tweeted a link to this thread both from your company's twitter and your personal account. It's kind of desperate and embarrassing. Just don't.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Somewhat unrelated to the article, but I'm curious - how commonly and for what purposes are other implementations used for?
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Organise your own high stakes game. Happens more often that you would think.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
More commonly this happens in private games, not in casinos.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Isn't the whole point of code review that another human looks at your code?
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Because Facebook haven't demonstrated any integrity whatsoever in all of their history as a company.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Not claiming that it is. Though it will get more publicity and wider exposure than most ICOs usually do, I'm sure.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Even in the most optimistic case, what's about to happen with Facebook's cryptocurrency will border on a straight up scam. Which is fitting both for their business model, their image and for the broader cryptocurrency space.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Something that happens to me, which feels related, is that if I'm listening to a podcast for the second time, at memorable points of the podcast (when the topic changes for example) I always remember exactly where I was when I heard th
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Prepare for some frustration while you get used to the language. Resources: Advanced R - http://adv-r.had.co.nz/ R Packages - http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/intro.html I also write and contribute to R packages at
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Which other graphing tools are you comparing it to? I think ggplot2 is a decent library, but in my opinion it gets more praise than it deserves.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Tidyverse is so overrated that I don't even know where to start... sure dplyr is nice to use if you're working interactively and ggplot2 has good first principles as the basis of its design, but that's about as far as the tid
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Except for working with data, which is what the original post is about.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Having learned and used both, I disagree with most of his points: - Learning curve - Machine Learning - Parallel computation - C/C++ interface - Object orientation All of these are wins for Python, some of them like the learning curve
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by randomvectors 7y ago
While we are definitely going to have more AR, I'm not convinced that it's the future at all. But I guess that's the case with most people and most technologies until they become ubiquitous. AR still seems like a solution loo
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by randomvectors 7y ago
“Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody wit
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by randomvectors 7y ago
You're ignoring what I wrote above and you're arguing with a point that I'm not making.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Yes, it's very rare to have the term notebook mixed up in this case. Unless you've only heard of the term "Jupyter Notebook" and have zero context. By the same logic Python can get confused with snakes.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Shiny is okay as a way to share simple analytical apps but it's syntax and performance are atrocious.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
1. As a hiring manager you should be better at differentiating between people and treat a degree as just one data point that you take into account, and not as a filter that gives no false positives. 2. You're pointing out that self-edu
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Generally speaking, the purpose of something written is to be read. Putting text in the bitcoin blockchain is as good as writing it down on something durable and burying it deep underground. It might last a long time, but it's pretty p
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by randomvectors 7y ago
1. You can't make anything last forever. Just a little while longer if you set things up correctly. 2. Is your blog really that important, meaningful or valuable that it needs to be preserved after your death? 3. Apart from technical s
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by randomvectors 7y ago
First thing that popped in my head when I read the headline. Really liked the episode.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
I still find it better than the built-in night-shift on MacOS.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
I just checked out Riot. Looks nice.

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