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by vegabook 10y ago
It's less about an explicit positive for MS than a necessary rearguard against a trend negative in the form of the encroachment of Linux. If they don't do (things like) this, they'll be shut out of the server-side ecosystem a
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by vegabook 10y ago
https://flink.apache.org/
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by vegabook 10y ago
Very nice, but I have to disagree on two points: First using grey blocks for code, while widespread, in my opinion is a visual interruption to reading flow. Indentation is preferable (and using the courier/monospaced font). Second sans
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by vegabook 10y ago
honestly is this what passes for "data visualization" with these guys? A weekly stacked area chart?? You've been able to do this in Excel for 30 years. It worked fine on a 386. Where's the progress here.. Data visualizat
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by vegabook 10y ago
yeah, but they're not the future.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Interesting, thanks Hadley. I have to say I have moved most of my advanced graphics to ggplot2 and my users absolutely love it. Yes I bought your book several years ago. Here is an example of a complex plot of mine that successfully uses a
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by vegabook 10y ago
I have to take this comment from whom it comes ie: the creator of the library obviously finds it intuitive. But there's definitely a big "brain paradigm shift" with ggplot2 which IMO would be a challenge to impose on the new
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by vegabook 10y ago
yep... I was just dunking a hobnob while writing some good old imperative C. Did anybody notice that Vulkan, "the future" of graphics APIs, doesn't f*ck around with OO or Functional?
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by vegabook 10y ago
I could not disagree more. Base graphics are absolutely intuitive for users coming from an imperative style, and base graphics are extremely fast, which is seriously useful a lot of the time. This is not to say I dislike ggplot, I love it
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by vegabook 10y ago
I think the idea is that the programming model is not much different from what we've all been doing on multicore for a while now already. Sure there'll be evolution, but it's not nearly as different as GPU compute. Also, I pe
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by vegabook 10y ago
yeah but where can you actually buy the Xeon Phi KL? I only see dev-programme versions. I would love to pick one up.
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by vegabook 10y ago
I have exactly the same situation. But I have to admit to a slight preference for using Python 2 because it just feels more "fluid" somehow. Less demanding. Less "serious". And just as effective (I don't need async)
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by vegabook 10y ago
I know everything there is to know about the opportunistic business practise of using the public to beta test an incomplete product, for free, and then making loads of money. Transparent. You clearly know nothing about business ethics, nor
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by vegabook 10y ago
okay but "this is really hard" is not a good argument when ("beta" notwithstanding) this is being pitched pretty heavily by your firm with this public announcement. None of my professors or bosses have ever accepted &quo
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by vegabook 10y ago
nitpick: nice graph on the "information superhighway" but a label about exactly what is being measured (0.000055%, of what ) would be great. Is this a word count? Or its rate of change? There's a reason our (stuffy) professo
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by vegabook 10y ago
I love this ranking because while all rankings have flaws, this at least is very transparent on how it works, it's parsimonious, it is entirely numerical, easily reproducible, and it gives us at least a small amount of cross validation
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by vegabook 10y ago
:%s/Julia/[your favourite challenger language]/g This is sample selection bias. Cavorting with converts at their conference is always going to lead to a temporary afterglow of bullishness and says nothing about adopti
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by vegabook 10y ago
you clearly have absolutely no clue what you are talking about - a catastrophic dearth of experience in financial markets, nor any idea of the theory of speculation. I don't know where to start but this laughable statement is as good a
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by vegabook 10y ago
actually "gambling", aka "speculation", is the crucial ingredient in the building of credibility of any tradable financial contract. It increases liquidity, and contrary to popular belief, it usually dampens volatility
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by vegabook 10y ago
brave move given: a) widespread street protests barely a year ago. This is hardly a policy likely to endear the government to the population. b) Olympics coming up with zillions of foreigners entering the country, all armed with Whatsapp.
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by vegabook 10y ago
the theorists are saying something more subtle happened. Either of: a) A coup-credible general or two or three, would have been bribed to trigger it, so that Erdogan could identify his enemies red-handed. The rest of the plotters in the arm
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by vegabook 10y ago
Reminds me of the bitter colonialists' quip during the period of African independence: "one man one vote. Once" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_man,_one_vote#One_man.2C_o...
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by vegabook 10y ago
This is actually very good! My initial reaction was to roll my eyes at another Vim tutorial, but this suits my (low) attention span by giving me exactly what each letter does in a spoonfeed (read animated) way. Brilliant taxonomy (a-z) and
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by vegabook 10y ago
"Democracy is like a tram. You use it to get to you destination, and then you get off" - Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The West was seriously duped by this guy. I remember The Economist's self-deluded/deceitful decade-long, ap
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by vegabook 10y ago
There is a school of thought that says some crime is necessary for a healthy, functioning society. Personally, while I would hate to be the victim of violent crime (obviously), I actually do agree that cities with very low crime levels are
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by vegabook 10y ago
Could you elaborate on what seems to be your focus on logging only. Would Prometheus be relevant, for say, high frequency financial markets data? I note that Prometheus "has knowledge about what the world should look like" and &qu
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by vegabook 10y ago
Serious question: Is Swift actually getting any traction? I saw the flurry of excitement when it was announced, but it seems the interest around this language has fallen off a cliff. Am I supposed to be excited about its intrinsic features
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by vegabook 10y ago
Please could you explain to me, if Squirrel is "similar to Lua, but uses a C like syntax", why I wouldn't want to use C or Lua instead? Is this about Steam? If not, is this (even) faster than Lua? Is it easier or safer than C
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by vegabook 10y ago
you like that? I can see how you might like a command line as opposed to a dumbed-down, simplistic, and intelligence-insulting GUI. But I cannot see how you can love Markdown. A shit standard that uglifies everything it touches, instead o
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by vegabook 10y ago
Markdown is fine for github, but isn't there even a slight bit of Helvetica-fatigue out there? Aren't we in a position, 20 years after HTML's widespread adoption, where we can aspire to something slightly more artful/com

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