stewbrew

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by stewbrew 10y ago
It's a common (Austrian) myth that Austrians are risk averse and conservative. It's all about "Gemütlichkeit". I remember some studies though that e.g. the Austrian labour market has greater fluctuations than in some nei
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by stewbrew 10y ago
Do have children? You get family support for each child. You get money for child care (Kinderbetreueungsgeld) for at least 1 year. You get affordable child care (kindergarten) starting from 1.5 yrs (at least in Vienna).
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by stewbrew 10y ago
Very true, indeed. I gave up on latex and simplified markups and I even abandoned my own converter for this very reason. Today, I use Word because that's what people higher up expect to get.
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by stewbrew 10y ago
Why would I want to choose Taskwarrior over todo.txt?
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by stewbrew 11y ago
I wonder why they release monthly updates with security fixes then.
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by stewbrew 11y ago
The seemingly dropped support for the Nexus 5 from N. Their "end of life" policy is the main reason I won't get an (Nexus|Pixel) tablet or anything else than a mid-range phone (in case they release one again). Maybe from a Si
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by stewbrew 11y ago
Can somebody tell whether the API for those features also in neovim is compatible to vim8? Anyway, it's great to see that neovim provoced new developments in vim.
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by stewbrew 11y ago
I think they should focus on making paper notebooks instead of adapting technologies that have failed many times before.
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by stewbrew 11y ago
What does that tell us? That there is a lot of legacy perl & php code around that has to be maintained? I personally used to like lisp (scheme actually) and ruby but I would never use them (or another dynamically typed language) again.
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by stewbrew 11y ago
Now that scripting languages are almost dead?
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by stewbrew 11y ago
An image of the sea (e.g., https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Lines_of... ) returns whale or dolphin. I'm still waiting for one to show up. This isn't actual visual "recogn
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by stewbrew 11y ago
> Turns out "frontman" in the article is now guitarist East Bay Ray working with a pretty much reformed band According to the wikipedia page you linked to, only the singer (Biafra) was replaced. All other band members were acti
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by stewbrew 11y ago
"In particular, they are nowadays not any more efficient than using character" How could a comparison of two strings of unknown size be as efficient as comparing two integers? I'm curious to learn something new.
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by stewbrew 11y ago
A factor already is a vector of numeric values, which happen to have names.
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by stewbrew 11y ago
How would you represent categorical data then? R's primary use case isn't text processing. And HW isn't always right.
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by stewbrew 11y ago
1. You shouldn't use `=` for assignments in R but `<-`. `=` does late binding. 2. You shouldn't use `class()` here but `mode()` to check the actual underlying data structure. > mode(d) [1] "list" >
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by stewbrew 11y ago
"data frame is the core data structure" Actually, AFAIK a data.frame in R is actually a list of vectors (i.e. columns) with some constraints.
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by stewbrew 11y ago
Support for all the package managers for the most frequently languages out there. I still stumble over libraries hosted on sf.net a lot.
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by stewbrew 11y ago
The phrase "medical data should be free" is a trojan horse. Your medical data is yours and should always be your own -- unless you yourself say otherwise for specified used of specific parts of your data. Otherwise, due to market
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by stewbrew 11y ago
OMG What's next? Connecting the Amiga with a TV set?
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by stewbrew 11y ago
Obvious question: How is that worse than I(tried(once(in(college(but(c(is(not(my(style()))))))))))
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by stewbrew 11y ago
I recently used JCommander and found it really easy to use. BTW being used to how most linux commands work, the use single dashes for long option names puts me off.
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by stewbrew 11y ago
Your life expectancy is about 80 so, unless you waste your health, you can expect to be around for a few more years. Even if you come to the conclusion that you wasted 5-10 years, that's only a tiny fraction. Learn from your failures,
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by stewbrew 11y ago
The last time I measured the runtime, it was slow even for medium sized data sets -- in comparison to lattice or to R's "native" plot functions. It's probably not a problem for interactive use but it becomes annoying whe
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by stewbrew 11y ago
The problem with every app like this is the lack of good quality material. For language learning, I prefer learning whole sentences as examples of an appropriate context. But creating good lists of sentences & translations is cumbersome
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by stewbrew 11y ago
> Choice #3 is case-insensitivity for identifiers: You can write `a.to_lower()`, `a.toLower()` or `a.tolower()` interchangeably. This looks like an enjoyable source for weird bugs: Write to functions with similar names (e.g., to_me() and
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by stewbrew 11y ago
z is cool because it is just a bash script with no dependencies and because it is simple -- just one command. Most of the time it guesses the right directory. When it doesn't, it can be slightly cumbersome though to make it jump to the
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by stewbrew 11y ago
ts has the node ecosystem, and haxe provides easy access to node/pyton/c++/java libs. gopherjs is able to compile a significant amount of the go standard lib -- I don't know if this is true for arbitrary go libs too. Tha
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by stewbrew 11y ago
Why would you want to use an IDE (RStudio or whatever) to run pandoc over an markdown file?
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by stewbrew 11y ago
I guess you could pkill directly. Anyway, this "trick" is mentioned on the man page, which isn't that long. No additional tool required.

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