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by reyan 6y ago
This is just too much. Nobody wants to have a linter for their code “documentation”! Oh we’re gonna have the linter in our CI pipeline too probably.
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China's netizens get creative to share censored article on whistleblower(straitstimes.com)
1 points by reyan 7y ago|0 comments
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by reyan 12y ago
Please don't use inline CSS in your page. In order to read the cached version [1] I had to manually remove the sidebar because it overlayed the main content with inline 'position: fixed'. [1] http://webcache.google
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by reyan 12y ago
Run this in your browser's JavaScript console: socket.destroy()
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by reyan 12y ago
How do you deal with interoperability? You Android clients use your Shiny frontend over HTTP? Have you used rserve?
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by reyan 13y ago
This is the correct xkcd for this analogy http://xkcd.com/882/ , not #1132.
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by reyan 13y ago
Great progress. I think it would be better if you replace those pie charts with bar plots. Better use of the space, much better for comparison.
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by reyan 13y ago
I think many of us want Go to be something it doesn't want to and will never be. There is potential for a fast, simple, statically typed language; borrowing good ideas from Lisp, ML and others (and NOT resulting in something like Scala
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by reyan 13y ago
Yes I have watched Bret Victor's talk. Narrow minded or not, Brooks's predictions held true for more than a decade after the time of writing. I'd like to read your counter-arguments. I'd say architecture and advances in
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by reyan 13y ago
I think the author should read Fred Brooks's "No Silver Bullet". Many of his arguments are still valid after 28 years. "There is no single development, in either technology or in management technique, that by itself prom
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by reyan 13y ago
I don't argue the merits, but the BMW case is obviously different (BMW core business, dependency on Google results, etc.), hence the disproportionate reaction.
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by reyan 13y ago
This (rather old) paper is still worth reading: Cleveland, W. S. (1984), "Graphical Perception and Graphical Methods for Analyzing Scientific Data" http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i247/f05/readings&#x
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by reyan 13y ago
Soot is the first known environmental carcinogen ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimney_sweeps'_carcinoma ).
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by reyan 13y ago
Another invaluable resource is 'Ruby Best Practices' by Gregory Brown. You can download the pdf for free ( http://majesticseacreature.com/rbp-book/pdfs/rbp_1-0.pdf ).
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by reyan 13y ago
You can easily squash those experimental commits and have "incremental, atomic" commits in history. What it gives you is the freedom with a clean slate after each commit. And no stashing doesn't work because the next experime
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by reyan 13y ago
Isn't Murphy's book more up to date and comprehensive as a reference? Edit: Andrew Ng's Coursera course is CS229A ( http://cs229a.stanford.edu/ ), not really watered down.
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by reyan 13y ago
This is great. I suggest adding fallthrough statement in one of the switch cases.
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by reyan 13y ago
Original blog post: https://www.webkit.org/blog/2910/improved-support-for-high-r... > Note that at the moment WebKit only supports the resolution modifiers (e.g. 1x, 2x, 3x). The official [draft] specificatio
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by reyan 13y ago
It's interesting that you talk about others' logical fallacies, yet you started the thread with a fallacy (appeal to majority).
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by reyan 13y ago
A short and nice read is Unix for Poets by Kenneth Ward Church: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs124/kwc-unix-for-poets.pdf
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by reyan 13y ago
You don't really need to completely uninstall homebrewed python. Just `brew unlink python` and after installation `brew link python`.
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The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science(medium.com)
14 points by reyan 13y ago|13 comments
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by reyan 13y ago
Or use git-smart ( https://github.com/geelen/git-smart ). It adds three commands to git. One of them 'smart-pull' which "will detect the best way to grab the changes from the server and update your local branch, using a git rebase -p if the
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by reyan 13y ago
Did you use Python bindings for libsvm?
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by reyan 13y ago
In iTerm2 I use command+f and expand the selection using tab/shift+tab.
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by reyan 13y ago
Hotlinking raw.github.com assets has a rate limit. The demo is not working properly (apparently because of jquery.hotkeys.js).
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by reyan 13y ago
More on zsh globbing http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/VideoPage.php?c...
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by reyan 13y ago
Another book which I really liked is JavaScript Patterns by Stoyan Stefanov.
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by reyan 14y ago
Even better with the new syntax: expect(article.slug).to match(/[^\w-]/)
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by reyan 14y ago
Not really. At least RSpec's creator doesn't think so ( http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2012/05/13/spec-smell-explici... ).

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