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The author of this substack essay doesn't understand how things work

Might not be fast, but sure isn't durable

No need for that, you get the settlement as long as your information was compromised

Spark is not too tricky to dive into, even though you can't really take advantage unless you have a big cluster to use :)

if you want to practice data-manipulation, and a lot of the map reduce type stuff you can do with spark, I find Pandas useful for small datasets (And a lot of overlap in functionality as far as Dataframes are concerned)

For pipeline stuff, definitely take a look at Luigi, but again without a cluster it'll be less fun. Still, if you can try automating tasks with a mini luigi scheduler on your localhost, it would be good practice

This is a really interesting initiative! Thanks for sharing! Was there anything surprising you all found? Have you had a lot of feedback from underrepresented groups?

Thinkpad x260 is pretty good, I get at least six (with heavy use), but you can also get an extension for double I think

Huh. Makes me miss php

Meanwhile the Gnome apps are amazing.

Shotwell, Music, Nautilus, and Gedit are brilliant and simple to use applications.

The title isn't grammatical. Math and Do must agree.

TLDR;

they are. back in the day they were charged with terrorism, principally. Among sabotage and other crimes. One of the rare examples of terrorism being used outside of either a wartime threat or leftist organization/labor union.

Well it's 400 dollars,* I figure "the suite of pre-configured Bitcoin-dependent software" is what hikes up the price.

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Is the 'native' cli free?

this is amazing! light of my day!

I think the name, anoncat, is very clever. Maybe I'm predisposed for cat-like-things. But anyway the application is very clever too.

How come you store the chat messages?

I think that the distribution of VARD is allowed (if non-commerical), but editing the source code isn't. I think this because I cannot find the source for VARD.

That's why I think it's strange it is licensed CC.

Would this also work for a GNU Social or pump.io service? Or diaspora?

Zotero is an excellent EndNote alternative

OpenShot is an imovie like video editor, I like it because it's easy to use

Rhythmbox is a featureful itunes-like music player.

Audacity isn't protools, but it's great for mixing audio

One of the problems searching in these books is that there is no standardized spelling in early modern literature.

There is a project called DREaM, at McGill to standardize for "distance reading" (macro analysis).[1] It uses a program called VARD (a text preprocessor trained to correct spelling).[2]

Strangely, this application is licensed with the creative commons. I think this means that it is closed source. Does anyone know of any open source alternatives?

It cannot handle such an immense amount of data,[3]

[1] http://earlymodernconversions.com/introducing-dream/

[2] http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/vard/about/

[3] http://www.matthewmilner.name/2014/11/18/VARD-and-EEBO-TCP/

I get the feeling its being let by the way side. It's harder and harder to switch back to HTML, after using features like calling.

It's much faster, no?

Thank you for this brief and calm comment on the delicacy of politesse.

The message is that our personalities are encapsulated by objects and media. These items of evident importance are of course legitimated by the benevolence of facebook's curation. Facebook is not a social experiment, it's a marketing tool.

Anyway, the accuracy of the study depends on a self-report.

>So we've been developing English for a very long time. If "little used verbs become regularized over time, but new verbs formed [are] never formed as irregular verbs", then why do we have still have irregular verbs at all? Why wouldn't they have been wiped out thousands of years ago?

we haven't been developing English for thousands of years. Who knows what will happen then! We'll be speaking in python no doubt.

Is anyone else frightened the increasing efficiency of capitalism? Since when does user-experience depend on best fulfilling my consumer desires? Shouldn't I try to soften this impulse?

Gaza and the West Bank are one entity, according to the Oslo Accords of 1993

Chompsky writes: "The policies are quite clear. Their roots go back to the 1967 war and they have been pursued with particular dedication since the Oslo Accords of September 1993.

The Accords determined that Gaza and the West Bank are an indivisible territorial entity. Israel and the U.S. moved at once to separate them, which means that any autonomy Palestinians might gain in the West Bank will have no direct access to the outside world."

http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20130816.htm

The Gospel of Weird Machines? What excellent style the alchemist owls have! Simple website, strong language, and a careful selection of titles: "the right reverend preacher pastor." But why is a raven like a writing desk?

Sure, "people in their fifties" (and of all other ages) are doing a variety of things to promote social justice. But I don't think it is helpful to put down Aurora's effort -- including yelling at the police at protests. Besides, "getting things done" is not always an innocent or simple approach. And having nuanced views does (slowly) shape the world.

I don't think she intends to give up and renounce it all (in fact it sounds like she's looking for new spaces to take action. She (quite candidly) relates her struggle mixing maturing political views with the clichey activist scene in Montreal -- which as she correctly points out (I too live in Montreal) is like any subculture, ripe with dogmatism.

Just because she doesn't fall into your category of left doesn't mean she isn't a part of it. That is the very problem.

I think both

I think this is a great observation. Middle men make big money off of migrant workers.

Ad are certainly obnoxious. It is interesting to think that with a "reduced set" of features advertising would improve a website.

Advertising does more than detract from user experience. It is formative of consumer desire. Targeted ads in Vogue are appealing because I opt in to them. The information used to target me on the internet are behind my back. They support an incomplete feedback loop used by statistics to identify what market I belong in. I think this is what has a negative effect on user experience.

I figure an added crime, oh web designers, would be the very use of "trivial code"!