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by stdbrouw 9y ago
> Functional is OK. Imperative is OK. Both in the same program are a mess. I guess you're referring to languages that are not-quite-without-side-effects, but I'd say the biggest influence the functional paradigm has had on othe
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
An economic system is an agreement to forgo violence and theft as acceptable means to get what you want, in order to establish mutually beneficial conditions for the exchange of goods and services. As soon as the system stops being mutually
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
Separation of concerns is about both the structure of a piece of code (which is what you refer to) and about how it is organized in files, folders and mentally (which is what others refer to).
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
Wes seems to be very focused on performance and big data applications these days, and of course it'd be great if Pandas could be used for bigger datasets, but when I hear people complain about Pandas they complain about: 1. the weird h
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
Because it has a 95% chance of producing a different (better) result. Statistics is all about the quantification of uncertainty.
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
Yep, and that makes widgets a more interesting target for follow-up studies than a treatment that has been shown to result in no clinically significant improvement. It really is that simple.
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
This is not true at all. Small studies are simply less accurate. Would you prefer to conduct further research on a cure for cancer that's been shown to lead to recovery in 0-50% of cases (the confidence interval includes 0%, so not sig
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
In some fields like psychology, power is more likely to already be 10% or 20% for the majority of studies, and in fact P-hacking and low standards for evidence would be far less harmful if power were higher, because low power leads to infla
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
> I still feel a deep discomfort from the idea that people could just be okay with people suffering. But future people don't exist. If a nuclear holocaust wipes us all out, they will never exist, and hence will never suffer. So real
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
Did you at least attempt to read the article? It's in the first paragraph.
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
> It's also a reflection on modern gaming in general. If only some games had busywork as part of their gameplay, they'd feel less tiring and more fun. Like grinding in an MMORPG? I'm not so sure.
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
Must is grape juice (sometimes still mixed in with the peels) before or at the start of fermentation, just as wort is malty sugary water but becomes beer when yeast is added and fermentation begins. At the end of fermentation very little su
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
> The report showed that a company dedicated to producing and selling flavored yeasts were marketing specific yeasts with flavors. And these flavors then turned up in the liqour store on the wine where the yeast was used. So the yeast wa
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
(1) would make zero economic sense because you're adding an extra step to the process when you could just instruct the winemaker from which you import to do things the way you like, and as bathMarm0t notes it would require the addition
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
This seems to be conflating a number of different things. 1. What you call industrial yeast are simply isolated yeast strains used because of their favorable characteristics like quick fermentation or the creation of secondary flavors and a
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
Actually, and sadly, very few newspapers still have ombudsmen.
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
To be honest, I wouldn't be interested in hiring someone whose entire line of reasoning in rejecting a programming language boils down to "function calls look funny, they hurt my eyes". So I guess that's a win-win.
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
Converting to CSV is mainly a server-side problem, not something you'd want to do in the browser, so this doesn't really feel like an issue to me.
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
You're not the only one. I don't want notebooks, I want my own damned editor. For Atom, there is https://github.com/nteract/hydrogen which embeds Jupyter/iPython output right inside of your editor, not s
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
Many of the things you list are indeed annoyances when doing data analysis in Python and they make things harder than they should be, but others are typical grievances I see from people new to it, and these do actually go away once you&#x27
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
As someone who has used SAS for many, many different projects: it is terrible, vastly inferior to Pandas or R, and the only reason to ever use it is when you're forced to. Even simple stuff like functions that operate on data have to b
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
> Javascript parsing technology will go down in history as ultimately the biggest waste of time that mankind ever indulged in If there is absolutely nothing else in this world that you can think of that might be a bigger waste of time th
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
Here's an example of a job runner (≈ cron) in Redis and MoonScript: https://github.com/debrouwere/jobs/tree/master/src . I don't maintain it anymore, but it should give you an idea of how MoonSc
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
I'm not sure I understand: why is it futile to attempt to value things as fractions of a war given that public opinion on that particular war is divided?
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
> The real question: is there anyone out there that really debates that exercising constantly = better, longer life? The real question is: how much better, how much longer? A priori any real-valued metric has a 50% chance of being net po
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
> But if you put too much emphasis on survivorship bias then you would think that everything is completely random and use "survivorship bias" argument as an excuse to do nothing. No, what you would do is you would try to figure
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
> Survivorship bias doesn't relate to people who worked hard, improved themselves and now earn 1-10MM/yr. There are loads of stories like that. The point is that, due to survivorship bias, it is hard for us to know whether work
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
You spent five minutes looking at some charts and can now confidently state that (1) the media has got it all wrong and that (2) you've figured out how to avoid deficits, how taxes should really work and the problem with social securit
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
But that's not what people mean when they say they could run a Fortune 500 company if given the chance. All of the things you list are things that are easily learned, the bigger question is whether in addition to that knowledge the CEO
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
Hmm, are you sure there is a difference between consumers and businesses when it comes to VATMOSS? Google, for example, charges VAT for digital services such as Google Suite even when you provide a valid European VAT number. (As a business

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