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by xixi77 10y ago
This is neat, once IB is in I might try it :) How are you planning to handle the user data though (who set what trigger when, etc.?) -- will you be selling it (even if anonymized) to third parties?
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by xixi77 10y ago
Ugh how so? I have a lot of issues with Obama, but just because he believes that a direct military intervention is not the best way to deal with the problem, doesn't mean that he "fist-bumped Putin". He does see Russian anti
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by xixi77 10y ago
I can definitely see such scenarios -- one is of course the case where the defending side is winning. And you may be right about the gamble, hopefully you are -- but this is only true as long as we ourselves stand ready to escalate as well,
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by xixi77 10y ago
I guess you mean in the context of the Navy specifically? Because otherwise I am not sure this is the case...
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by xixi77 10y ago
Sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't -- corporations fail all the time. The crucial difference is that when a corporation gets it wrong, it fails and is replaced by another that does not get it quite as wrong.
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by xixi77 10y ago
I often feel the same way too, but not because of difficulty of configuration -- in fact, in this case, you would have to figure out how to configure each of the five tools, so if anything things become trickier on that front.
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by xixi77 10y ago
If this is a business software, once the sale is done, users are going to pick it up because they pretty much have to. But the sale can easily fail in the first place if the product does not have a feature that particular customer wants, an
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by xixi77 10y ago
Also, regarding "So yes, in this case it was possible to get multiple-minute load times in the worst cases. Why would anyone want to see many of these columns for hundreds of thousands of rows at once? I have no idea, but they could, a
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by xixi77 10y ago
I am thinking of a pretty expensive product that we are currently using that is very similar to what you are describing. It has an old search/filter interface that allowed filters on arbitrary fields, and indeed filtered results would
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by xixi77 10y ago
I feel you, but one problem is that it is often hard to rank libraries best to worst. 20 may be a bit much, but still -- one library may be the most popular, another fastest, another correctly handles this one specific unusual case, another
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by xixi77 10y ago
He starts with postulating status and seduction as irrational, but at least status signals are clearly not irrational by any measure, since other people take them into account. Similarly, seduction (looks like he defines it as choosing prod
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by xixi77 10y ago
I admittedly don't have to read Java or C# code often; a few times I had to though, it had been a fair bit of pain -- so, I would much rather have to figure out someone's Perl code rather than deal with either one of these. The pr
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by xixi77 10y ago
I am not sure why you are conflating labor & environmental laws and human rights.
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by xixi77 10y ago
Are you suggesting that there is some sort of equivalence between people refusing to listen to your stuff, and getting sent to jail for your words/beliefs?
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by xixi77 10y ago
Exactly, and very good point about the duality with row/column stores! Sometimes people (usually coming from general-purpose software engineering background) have a preconception that SoA data structures are somehow cleaner and more ob
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by xixi77 10y ago
The original was nice, but this one is definitely a big step up from the one that came before, which (while still heavy and monstrous) was one of the worst keyboards I've ever used, with complete lack of feedback. This one is actually
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by xixi77 10y ago
Libraries? Sure. Ease of development, I cannot comment on. But measuring performance with timing a "hello world" program? Seriously? What scenario does the author have in mind that makes this particular benchmark even remotely rel
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by xixi77 10y ago
TBH, when reading others' code, I would generally prefer a shorter name to a similarly informative longer name, as it definitely speeds up recognition. There are a few situations when this is the case: on top of my head, (i) function a
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by xixi77 10y ago
How is this different from any other academic research? What he is asking about is neither openness nor reproducibility (which are, indeed, very important). He is asking that researchers produce code that he can put into production. Not onl
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by xixi77 11y ago
The article has nothing to do with trickle down or taxes: it just underscores that many people are not too excited about keeping their property in places where rule of law is rather peculiar. E.g. if you look at the title graphic, 2nd large
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by xixi77 11y ago
They probably do, but why would they want to do so, when doing it would make their results appear less conclusive?
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by xixi77 11y ago
In your line of reasoning, should we perhaps also introduce mandatory drug testing for people with low income, and prohibit them from buying alcohol and cigarettes? Surely, these purchases have more social consequences than lottery tickets.
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by xixi77 11y ago
Really, people should pause before calling behavior that does not conform to their model or their own preferences "irrational". The typical argument goes like "Expected monetary payoff is negative, therefore buying a lottery
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by xixi77 11y ago
If you are an hourly worker, then the government should be stepping in already; but I guess you are not?
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by xixi77 11y ago
R is indeed quite weird when you get to internals. What's the problem you have with S3 though? It has it's limitations, but since I've first seen it, I thought it was by far the single most convenient and intuitive OO system
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by xixi77 11y ago
The reason is that it's more common for a statistician to encounter a problem that needs switching to Python (either because there are Python tools for it, or because of a need to interact with non-statisticians who are using Python),
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by xixi77 11y ago
I see the level of service argument. But, if an argument applies to roads or mail delivery, or landline phones, why does it not apply to fast internet service or cellular coverage or many other things, which have been doing just fine withou
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by xixi77 11y ago
Ugh, do I see what I think I see, and there is a pie chart of piracy ratios in different countries (that is, a pie chart of numbers that do not add up to 1)?!
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by xixi77 11y ago
Yeah, but (e.g. looking at http://www.census.gov/idb/worldpopinfo.html in 2014) 6bn people means that literally everyone over age of 14 has a mobile phone (plus about 100 million of those under 14, too). Even accountin
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by xixi77 11y ago
But, aren't "obscene levels of inequality" only obscene related to a few decades post WW2, which many people seem to take as a normal, but which is really rather unusual? The statement talks about "highest inequality eve

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