scottmmjackson

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by scottmmjackson 7y ago
Disclaimer: I'm an RStudio employee. But this post is my personal opinion and not representative of that of RStudio. Separately, I'm also a licensed (non-practicing) attorney; despite that, this isn't legal advice. Some of th
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by scottmmjackson 9y ago
But if you know R, you can change the behavior of operators. > oldPlus <- `+` > `+` <- function(e1, e2) { + if (is.character(e1) && is.character(e2)) + paste(e1,e2,sep="") +
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by scottmmjackson 9y ago
Disclaimer: I work for RStudio. I previously worked heavily with SciPy. The difference kind of goes to the fundamental difference between R and Python. R's nature as a statistical programming language is something you have to install p
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by scottmmjackson 9y ago
Dude. https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-fortran And no, neural networks aren't suitable for discrete problems.
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by scottmmjackson 10y ago
I actually did put in the work, however, and I agree with parent. You also don't become an authority by pretending you're some mystic wise man without saying anything of substance. It's unconstitutional for many reasons, one
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by scottmmjackson 10y ago
It's a constitutional issue in every sense. The US Congress ALONE has the power to make policy . The POTUS can relax policy enforcement, but cannot enforce policy that was never made. What part of this is hard for you to understand??
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by scottmmjackson 10y ago
TBH microservices do a good job of making you much more dependent on your tools, and selecting the wrong tool for the job won't become clear until you've used that tool for years.
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by scottmmjackson 10y ago
"One algorithm crashes on load but the other is a little slow. They're exactly the same, right?"
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by scottmmjackson 10y ago
I wasn't surprised when I found out it was a law firm either. I've had the good fortune to work with some of the good ones, but legal marketing in general requires a very sensitive a-hole detector.
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by scottmmjackson 10y ago
SPA frameworks are not all-encompassing tools for buildong all web pages. Notably, trying to SEO a SPA is frustrating at best and impossible at worst. However, in b2b use cases where SEO isn't an issue, SPA frameworks are ideal for coo
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by scottmmjackson 10y ago
They still charge for court records and opinions. Remember how Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to take them for free?
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by scottmmjackson 10y ago
They're trying to "Do One Thing And Do It Well". It's always interesting how core UNIX philosophy often gets lost in Startup Culture's rush to "Disrupt The World".
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by scottmmjackson 10y ago
3 is one of my biggest pet peeves with SVG. Accessing the SVG document from its container is extremely annoying and not necessarily straightforward to debug, as I learned in one of my recent side projects: http://scottmmjackson.c
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by scottmmjackson 10y ago
> They need to ensure that none of their client use financial services to commit crimes There are also laws that give financial institutions due diligence obligations to ensure they're not facilitating "unsanctioned boycotts&qu
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by scottmmjackson 10y ago
This is one of those situations where having worked a retail job in your life can really impart some wisdom into you. Retailers often give their minimum-wage grunts this song and dance about "family" and "performance tiers&qu
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by scottmmjackson 10y ago
I'll go even further: it's a big industry. Companies of all size and sophistication buy advertising in huge amounts. You have some players who have honed their advertising strategy for years to try to get the biggest bang for thei
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by scottmmjackson 10y ago
No, it's commercial speech. The FDA already regulates what they can say in drug advertisements. There's not really a legal issue there.
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by scottmmjackson 10y ago
Legally, it's not really an issue. Commercial speech can be broadly regulated by Congress. Free Speech doesn't really factor into a huge portion of what you see from the FDA, FTC, SEC, CFPB, and hundreds of state-level organs focu