stdbrouw

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901.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
By far the easiest way to learn programming logic is by learning a programming language. It's not that inappropriate.
902.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
He's saying it's rude (not despicable or forbidden) to link to this page when putting it in front of a big crowd (not e.g. when viewing it on your own). Your comment is therefore entirely beside the point.
903.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
Justice is about more than retribution.
904.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
Surely when you're trying to figure out whether one cup of coffee is better than another, you're not interested in an absolute number as much as a comparative ranking? Why would taking away the "setup, experience and anticipa
905.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
I believe nakedrobot2 is referring to http://folding.stanford.edu/
906.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
> If they get an approval from FDA, is it going to change their data processing logic or data set? It (or the marketing) would have to change if they don't get an approval. That's the whole point.
907.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
Intriguing article, but I feel that Fallon might be a bit too hard on himself: once you think X you start interpreting everything so that obviously it corroborates X. "I forgot my wife's birthday" suddenly implies "I don
908.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
It's an intriguing idea and there's probably something to it, but what kind of shitty journalism is this? > Needless to say, the Great Recession is responsible for some of the decline. Yep, but somehow that's a boring assu
909.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
This should do the trick. myframe['myfield'] = myframe['myfield'].dropna().map(float)
910.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
If you're doing data analysis, where most libraries are serious about backwards compatibility and you don't necessarily care whether your code still runs two years from now... virtualenvs are sometimes just not worth the bother. (
911.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
There's power in unbundling and there have certainly been some great success stories in niche / topical publications online... but at the same time there's a reason why we-do-a-little-bit-of-everything news sites still attrac
912.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
Ah, yes, the age-old "if you're fat it's because you're stupid and lazy".
913.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
You can disagree with it as much as you like, but for most journalists holding the powerful to account is one of their biggest motivators and professional goals. So whether it's a weird perversion or a duplicitous statement about the r
914.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
Reminds me of Middleman ( http://middlemanapp.com/ ) and of my own https://github.com/stdbrouw/draughtsman , which has sadly languished. I've found it indispensable for prototyping, not just because
915.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
There are many, many people with limited programming skills who routinely do business analysis with SQL, and a whole suite of tools from e.g. Oracle to cater to exactly that audience. So while it's not really "human readable"
916.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
> Because CoffeeScript is all well and good but I really don't see how it is useful, except from maybe speeding up your development a little You have a weird concept of "useful" if "speeding up your development"
917.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
I agree with everything Khadijah says, and I agree with all the people who thought TitStare was offensive and that Pax Dickinson is a bit of an asshole. But I just can't agree with the wording. > Pax: "’misogyny’ is ‘hatred of
918.
The marginal revenue productivity theory of wages(stdout.be)
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919.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
They are not refusing. They are opting out of an optional procedure. If you think this is a smart-alecky comment, realize that it's not mine, it's the TSA's.
920.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
> It has no bearing on My enjoyment. Exactly so. I just wanted to note that "expensive wine doesn't always – or even often – taste better" and "experts can reliably spot the difference between cheap and expensive wine
921.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
There's two separate issues here. One is whether wine experts are able to detect certain flavors or even figure out the grape variety and origin of a certain kind of wine. The other is whether in blind tastings cheap wine is consiste
922.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
> What is it that you find offensive? The part that he was a drunk? The part that he kicked another human being? The part that he kicked a woman? Would you have been OK if he was sober but kicked women? Would you have been OK if he was s
923.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
Since for some reason that's what everyone else is doing in this thread ("I once read the Node documentation two years ago and am therefore in a position to make grand and sweeping judgments about it") I'm afraid I lumpe
924.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
It's not clear to me how you can import something without adding it to one or more variables. I don't just mean in Node, I mean in any language.
925.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
Are your concerns more than just theoretical? I've been developing in Node for a long, long time now and have never had any issue with any of this. Take source control for instance: isn't the first thing you do to put `node_module
926.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
That's all good and well, but these packaging problems happen and they'll continue to happen, so wouldn't you rather have a system like npm that can tolerate mediocre packaging than one that doesn't? When you're try
927.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
So, just a little hint: instead of writing "I'm not trying to be snarky or rude BTW" you could have just made your second sentence less snarky instead :-)
928.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
As I was looking for a non-insane alternative to Hadoop/EMR, I figured I'd check out Manta, the product they're (sort of) trying to push in the blogpost. Can't say if it scales / is fast / is cheap... but it&#x
929.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
Why would developers who aren't interested in a problem any more be interested in documenting the code enough for someone else to take over? Color me skeptical :-)
930.
by stdbrouw 13y ago
Some ideas from the guy who created @nytimes_ebooks: http://harrisj.tumblr.com/post/23737140672/nytimes-ebooks

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