stdbrouw

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by stdbrouw 14y ago
But how much long-term thinking can you really do when you have no money?
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
If a bad database structure hurts and there's no easy way to finetune it, you can still just denormalize and carry on for quite a while until you figure out a better solution. Bad code leads to code debt, but code debt can be paid off incre
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
That makes sense. Apologies if I was being flippant.
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
If it's not designed for real statistics, what is it designed for then, fake statistics? I see what you're saying, but I think the real distinction you're drawing is between heavy-duty work and run-off-the-mill descriptive stats. Even the l
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
It's scary, but even if you release something as open source, for free and free for people to modify as they please, you're still in a weird relationship with the people that use your software. You haven't exactly promised to do anything fo
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
It depends on the instrument. For melody / monophone instruments (woodwinds, brass and to a lesser extent strings) musical notation is easy. For piano, it's easy once you master the bass clef. For guitar, it just never gets easy because the
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
Decorators take a function and return a new function. 9 times out of 10 they're used as an easy way to create wrappers: do something and then execute the original function, or execute the original function and then process it before handing
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
I used to feel the same way, but (1) calling it statistics downplays the importance of data munging and grabbing/normalizing/managing data and (2) the advent of computational methods and off-the-shelf machine learning and natural language a
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
> Blaming money is a diversion. Talking about how "money corrupts the political system" ignores the problem. And the problem is this: the people agree with the corporations. Don't you think that's a false dichotomy? People can often agr
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
Too bad it's not relevant to the situation.
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
What is socially acceptable is decided by society, not by any particular individual. Mind you, that doesn't prevent us from being more careful around people we know to sensitive to certain forms of address, but in a public forum that's not
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
The etymology of the word is irrelevant to how it's used conversationally.
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
It's context, isn't it? I wouldn't appreciate you calling me "dude" in a business setting, but I wouldn't mind in general. Likewise, I can imagine scenarios in which "gal" would be offensive, but this just isn't one.
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
Gal is the analog of guy, nothing demeaning in that.
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
> except of course having it all in a general purpose language But that's the point though. A lot of data analysis is just munging numbers / getting things in shape so you can actually do the analysis, and so being able to do that in
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
That's a bummer, I just bought Scipy and Numpy and was looking forward to reading it. Another piece of advice for people: about 80% of Python for Data Analysis is the same as the online documentation for Pandas, the other 20% some examples
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
But then you can't do conversion analysis anymore.
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
Newspapers routinely find the money to pay $570/mo and up for ChartBeat, and then never use it, or I-don't-know-how-much for Adobe Omniture when they could have Google Analytics for free. So I don't think you're representative of the news i
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
Exactly, they're great for binary groups: <facet> yes/no
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
"If they claim ownership, despite the work having been done in your free time, demand the overtime pay." OP is not saying "make them pay for having to take chart.js down", OP is saying "make them pay if they want to claim ownership of chart
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
If they want it, they pay. If they don't want it, don't pay, but don't get it either. Isn't that how you work as a contractor too? And doesn't that apply regardless of whether the work was agreed on in advance?
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
I think nobody would call nerfing high-end chips for people with higher price sensitivity an optimal solution, but something gotta give. Either there's a lot of consumer surplus (cheaper prices for better products), or there's a lot of prod
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
I really hate saying this because I know it must have taken a lot of work to get to this stage... but it looks very 2005. Fewer gradients and shadows and try to slim down the menus and columns. I know the current site isn't exactly a beauty
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
I don't really understand this "bad predictability" thing. If you leave out parens, CoffeeScript always wraps to the end of the line, simple as that. Hard to visually parse at first sight in certain scenarios? Use parens, that's what they'r
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
'cept I'm a philosopher by training. But yes, I guess perhaps we're just talking across each other.
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
Why do you insist on picking the most unlikely interpretations of whatever someone is saying? :-) What I meant was that people will still write even if not getting paid, not that they actively prefer not getting paid for their writing and
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
But in your game, not everyone wins when the equilibrium is held intact. It keeps journalism expensive which is bad for publishers and readers. All things considered the pros might outweigh the cons, but you're suggesting it's a lose-lose g
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
Does it matter? A good chunk of the blog posts that make it to Hacker News involve extensive research, interviews or data processing. Of course, when you're not being paid, you have less of an incentive to dig deep so I get your point, but
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
You make some interesting points, but I feel you misunderstand the OP's remark that Personally, I think we'll come to accept the idea that, for the most part, writing is a leisure activity and not a profession. It's not unreasonable to ima
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by stdbrouw 14y ago
In sports, there's an advantage to being just that little bit better than everyone else: it's the difference between winning or losing. For musicians, because the fixed costs of recording an album or planning a concert are so high, paying a

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