doug1001

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by doug1001 6y ago
No idea about the most important, but one US law that had massive (and apparently unintended) economic consequences is the IGRA (Indian Gaming Regulatory Act)? not a lawyer, but I believe this Act was the legal catalyst for the proliferati
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by doug1001 6y ago
fwiw ,except for election day, viber has been up continuously--used it every day to communicate with family
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by doug1001 6y ago
is the former pilot you are referring to, Ron Bliss? He passed away in 2006; he and i were neighbors; i knew him very well
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by doug1001 6y ago
exactly! or break a chair over someone's head so that they fall backwards through the doors and out of the saloon. Every epiosode of Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Wild Wild West, et al that i've ever seen.
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by doug1001 7y ago
also an ESS user; do you still use/prefer ESS vs RStudio for package development?
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by doug1001 8y ago
graphviz: rock solid, and bindings for just about every language
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by doug1001 8y ago
wow, so much for disrupting the underwears space
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by doug1001 8y ago
really fine, fine writing. Eg: >I’m not from the South and don’t talk as if I were. Most telling, and the other guys can sense this somehow, I do not for a moment think I’m a symbol of some bygone ideal of Wild West American freedom or a
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by doug1001 8y ago
maybe ageism will be stimgatized as form of bigotry
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by doug1001 8y ago
i'm a regular reader of this blog; there's always something non-obvious (at least to me) plus just really fine, fine writing--eg, "Some Dart users really dig a functional style and appear to be playing a game where whoever cr
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by doug1001 8y ago
i love redis and have been using in production for over five years. But i'm interested to read the story of this fork because the practicioner-focused redis book this guy wrote is one of the best software-related texts i've read i
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by doug1001 9y ago
in Roblox; i am building a simple game with my 7-year old daughter on the Roblox platform. A nice combination of gui-based building and scripting and a cool objective (a completed game added to the registry of games on the platform so other
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by doug1001 9y ago
seems to be about some new dating site for Spanish geologists
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by doug1001 9y ago
nice one fire up the redis server--you'll see some ascii art there
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by doug1001 9y ago
read through the OP and scanned a few examples on the J Project Wiki i suspect that, to capture the full value of J, one needs to already know the array-oriented paradigm (or at least have a strong motivation to learn the two in parallel) k
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by doug1001 9y ago
similar background (started my career in APL, only language i've ever used that had its own keyboard) also NumPy, and Nd4j via scala bindings of course NumPy and Nd4j are libaries i strongly recommend Julia as an array-oriented program
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by doug1001 9y ago
the category theory term is co-product (which honors the convention of expressing a dual using "co-" and indeed co-product is the dual of product)
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by doug1001 9y ago
agree completely aside from that, python has a separate ordered dict class
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by doug1001 9y ago
the number of SWAT unit deploys probably exceeds this number by some absurd ratio
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by doug1001 9y ago
beat me to it! An awesome film
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by doug1001 9y ago
i lived for two years in Oslo, Norway, but also spent time in Bergen in Stavanger (west coast). it's a beautiful country, but for a start-up? I have my doubts. i have also lived in the Bay Area; live here now in fact. Norway is the mos
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by doug1001 9y ago
this is not what i thought it was the term "triage" means to order items (patients, originally) according to urgency this paper has nothing whatever to do with sorting a bug list according to urgency the paper describes a model to
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by doug1001 9y ago
Minister to developer: "people are stealing toilet paper from stalls We have to stop this!" developer to Minister: "ideal use case for Machine Learning--i'm on it"
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by doug1001 9y ago
i would think Martin Fowler would know better than this. to argue that the meaningful rubric of effort ought to be a "product", he creates a straw-man called a "project" the much more meaningful comparison is to compare
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by doug1001 9y ago
indeed, and perhaps practical insight into how a culture different from one's own, thinks "a word [or phrase] is the skin of a living thought"--not sure who said this, i think it was Oliver Wendall Holmes
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by doug1001 9y ago
seems Khan Academy agrees with you, and has for some time (~ five years, perhaps more)
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by doug1001 9y ago
thank you; some consolation to know it's not just me does this seems like another instance of the annoying practice in our field of someone giving a name to a thing because they think it's new, though it's not (ie, source-to-
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by doug1001 9y ago
i'm not a data scientist, but i have several on my team. In my experience,(as your question suggests) the interest is quite low, particularly given how much knowledge is required to do so that would otherwise be out of scope building t
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by doug1001 9y ago
i doubt visiting would change your view, because your view--ie, what is the "appeal" and the "values" sounds about right. I've been here eight years and if there's some magic, i haven't seen it yet--just s
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by doug1001 9y ago
a mod can close find support in the SO guidelines to close any question they wish. a tightly defined, clearly written question with a single correct anwswer? Rejected: RTFM a question with more than one correct answer (but which almost cert

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