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by phnk 7y ago
Interesting to see the top comments in this thread. * "This attack on Richard Stallman feels much like a witch hunt to me." The "attack" in question is an appendix to a blog post. The original one said, in substance, &qu
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by phnk 8y ago
> I already talked about how bloated Medium articles are. That one-sentence essay is easily over a megabyte. https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
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Cyberwarfare documentaries like Zero Days?
3 points by phnk 8y ago|0 comments
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by phnk 8y ago
I cannot find a fix either, and am getting bored of having to fix Chrome UI.
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by phnk 8y ago
Indeed; sorry for that. I have no idea whether I can correct my submission.
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Why Everyone Should #DeletePytho(nanx.me)
13 points by phnk 8y ago|25 comments
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General-Purpose Programming with R(nanx.me)
4 points by phnk 8y ago|0 comments
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by phnk 8y ago
The speed issue is even more pervasive -- compose, but also labels (if you use L to label emails a lot, you have noticed it). Two questions, if you do not mind -- (1) Does FastMail offer threaded email conversations? I cannot stand the left
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by phnk 8y ago
That menu item will vanish soon. Several users have reported it elsewhere in this thread (it has vanished for me too).
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by phnk 8y ago
> it really lacks empathy (or realism) to assume that the same exact UI will be useful/pleasant to literally 1 billion users You nailed it, but large private sector companies like Google (or Apple) have no genuine feedback loops: th
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by phnk 8y ago
Skipping the "UX Pro" creds, I trust that the rest of your post is correct: Google has well-paid UX engineers from the best places. That's precisely what I find scary about those UX changes: they to run counter-current of eve
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by phnk 8y ago
Now redirects to a page titled "Do you really want to use HTML Gmail?" -- which speaks volumes about the new UI is being much more coercitive on the user than previous ones.
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by phnk 8y ago
That won't be of any comfort, but I'm exactly the same as you. My Twitter history is just a long litany of complaints to companies that updated by their products by downgrading them, usually by: - breaking the product entirely (Ap
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by phnk 8y ago
> the heart rate data they have isn't very good Not too many people seem to care on the reading end, so I guess that's fine. As another user (kaustyap) posted further below: > It kind of sounds like marketing pitch by fitbit
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by phnk 8y ago
> I honestly feel like I've broken the mental spell that Apple had over my mind. Same here. For me, it was the lack of updates on the MacBook Air, and the horrendous mess that is the OS since 10.10 (10.13 is the worst Mac OS I have
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by phnk 8y ago
> I'm not a religious person but for me paper books are sacred. Most of my French friends are genuinely revolted by how I treat the books that I use for work. I highlight, write in the margins (often with a pen, not even with a penc
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by phnk 8y ago
> Why and what are unmanned mussel trucks to you? The autocorrect feature (on your mobile phone, I presume) made my day: I love the idea of an unmanned mussel truck.
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by phnk 8y ago
That's a correct description of 'data science' as it is understood around me, among social scientists. Gelman, Tufte and Wickham are in the pantheon, sometimes followed by dataviz fellows like Cairo. Never heard of Warden. Si
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by phnk 8y ago
> Many cafés do not serve coffee à emporter and do not have paper cups. Apologies for contradicting you on the sole basis of personal experience, but you are, again, in my own experience, very wrong: you really have to find yourself in t
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by phnk 8y ago
I failed to see much fascism in the links above, unless one equates fascism with a plagiarism dispute.
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by phnk 8y ago
I stand corrected, indeed: the OED avoids defining 'to be convinced' as 'to hold a conviction' -- which is what I read in your post: absolute but fundamentally baseless certainty.
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by phnk 8y ago
> since the drug has been outlawed, all you have left are anecdotes That's what I meant: apologies if my wording led you to read me differently.
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by phnk 8y ago
> I am convinced that there are more people who would begin to benefit from unprescribed private self-medication with MDMA than who would begin to suffer suffer harm. conviction |kənˈvɪkʃ(ə)n| 2 a firmly held belief or opinion belief |
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by phnk 8y ago
> depression, anxiety, introversion, etc. That's a whole array of pathologies and symptoms, for which there is no single pharmacological solution. Many comments in this thread are over-standardising mental illness as well as the (su
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by phnk 8y ago
> Parisian culture leans toward leisurely café sipping, which means there aren't a lot of Starbucks-type places where one can stop quickly to pee and grab a drink or snack. Wait, what? There are restrooms in every single café in my
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by phnk 8y ago
> What's the startup scene in Paris like? There is a lively scene, at least for someone with my interests (data science, aka. applied statistics and machine learning), with lots of 'incubators' and related places where sta
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by phnk 8y ago
> Fivefilters.org is very good at cherry-picking Correct, and if I recall correctly, former threads discussing pages on that website had highlighted that. It does not seem to be the be the case in this thread.
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by phnk 8y ago
Apologies for bluntness, but you clearly have no idea of what you are talking about. The false dichotomy between "self-induced" and "non-self- inflicted [sic]" is something that your "shrink" would have dismis
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The Problem with Software. Why Smart Engineers Write Bad Code(mitpress.mit.edu)
3 points by phnk 8y ago|0 comments
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by phnk 8y ago
> If the statistical significance of your results is algorithm-dependent, shouldn't they be regarded as suspect? It's a fair question. Here's a possible recipe to get such variations in estimates: (1) an estimator that doe

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