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Oh sorry. I was under the impression that Apple was in charge of the LLVM project

Not to be cynical, but what's in it for Apple?

Obviously someone at Apple decided this makes business sense. What's the thinking?

Are "Traits" basically C++ Concepts?

I went through college without a Facebook, but I made one shortly after graduating and I've been using it more and more (about 3 years).

I now realize that in retrospect it was a huge mistake as I missed out on a lot. I think on a certain level, if you don't have a FB, people won't make the extra effort to try and contact you. Its most important social function is turning acquaintances into friends

So just as a PSA, please please use Facebook. Even if you don't like it and you think they're a horrible company, you won't appreciate how much you're hurting yourself till it's too late

The RStudio guys have really made R a pleasure to use. Thank you guys!

The core language is still a confusing mess (I'm still never sure when to use a matrix, a dataframe, a list..), but if you use their tools you can ignore it for the most part.

In under 10 lines you can massage data and generate fantastic graphics.

A little off topic: but does anyone know what their business model is? Are they going to run out of money and burnout in a year or two?

I find Facebook lists to be a lot more convenient for "micro-sharing". The lists are completely on your end, and none of your friends know what list they are on. It just makes it so that everything from you is targeted to them .

" google is working with the LLVM team to integrate the toolchain into visual studio "

the 3 giants are working together...

While he was not a communist, his plans for social justice were very threatening to the establishment

If you read "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?" (which he wrote towards the end of his life), he basically says that the Civil Rights movement needs to shift from racial agenda to an agenda of helping the poor. However he never presents an actual plan other than some vague idea of a massive transfer of wealth from the rich to the poor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_People%27s_Campaign

I'd go farther to argue that he's not a communist b/c he wasn't really thinking in those terms and he actively tried to avoid the label (that's why he took for ever to stand up against the war in Vietnam)

Are they really making money with Azure? Isn't that one of the most competitive markets at the moment? I'd imagine the margins are slim to none as everyone is trying to price each other out.

Unfortunately our perceptions can't be boiled down to chemicals in the brain. You can be depressed and have normal chemical levels. Just because increasing some chemical will make you happier, doesn't necessarily mean that's the only way.

Until we're able to analytically evaluate perception (which we are no where close to understanding), what you're describing isn't possible

The reality is that the professionals have better tools. It's not just gambling, it's gambling against someone that can see the cards.

If there is some method to turn $1 into $2 then there is a whole sea of people who are better and smarter than me who will keep doing it till that method no longer works.

I wouldn't be surprised if in the US salaries drop in the coming decade. CS classes are incredibly impacted and universities are churning out students. Sure the quality of your average graduate is plummeting too, but that's never completely factored-in when you apply to a job

Thanks for linking the paper! I'll definitely read over that. I've heard it mentioned before ...

I'm definitely not an R guru or "in" on the latest news, but it seems that Hadley Wickham (who probably single handedly is the reason R is still relevant) now works for the RStudio guys and he's reworking his tools. plyr is now dplyr and gpplot2 is now ggvis. And there also another tool called tinyr. My understanding is that they're still in development, but they'll ultimately provide an "integrated" ecosystem for processing data.frames (with hooks into the RStudio IDE)

He talks about it at the beginning of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wki0BqlztCo

I really enjoy using ggplot2, but the basic "theme" is terrible.

- They tried too hard to do a Tuft* - but it's actually way too flashy.

- Basically the issue is that it's not generic enough. Whenever you see a ggplot2 plot it's always screaming at you "I WAS MADE IN ggplot2!!" Just KISS...

- The grey background is completely unusable if you want to print out your charts!

- The default pastel colors (ie. PowerPoint 2012) are always a disaster for readability. In meetings people constantly can't tell them apart and they are definitely not colorblind friendly.

It' a shame b/c each script I write ends up having to have an obnoxiously long theme declaration to make it look "normal"

* I think most people miss the Tuft's point. He presents a way about thinking about data presentation. Instead people just look at it and think "oooo! That looks pretty. Let me copy what he did". The guy has his own personal style - it's definitely nice, but the point isn't to copy it.

EDIT: For those thinking about learning ggplot2.. maybe wait off for a bit. It seems like it'll be deprecated soon and replaces with ggvis.