joshlegs

heh, no worries. thanks for the link.

hm. i've never even heard of R .... it's a graphing library ??

Also, seems like that's a lot of dependencies for ggplot2. I'm wondering if this is really worth switching off of matplotlib. Sounds like all it's really doing is changing the method that you call ?

i'm pretty sure that title should be "mathemagician", cuz that shit is freakin mysterious

So, what you're saying is "Eagle Eye" might come true soon then?

heh. > It's unlikely that you're a brilliant student because you chose to study journalism. I made the same mistake.

i don't see the line of logic there, but oh well.

i just signed up with the course era python course, and i'll probably do a few more of those courses. So you think several of those in conjunction with full time programming will get me ready for a master's (or any other degree?) in a year or so?

i would love to apply to grad school to get a CS degree (or even get a second bachelor's). The problems are that my bachelor's is in journalism, and my cumulative GPA was only 2.9. And I've only had a year of professional programming experience :(

>I consider him the greatest creator and editor of products this industry has ever known,

are you effing serious? Greatest creator my ass. He took already built products and refined the hell out of them. Shit, he practically built the company on top of Wozniak's back.

the hell? What were they thinking when they decided this would be a good idea ??

peer-review scientific analysis has been an issue for some time if you ask me. As the guy points out, all you have to do is find a few people already receptive to your idea. I'm not really sure why "peer-review" is so lofty a concept anyway.

Whhen i first started coding, i thought i had to go revisit all my math classes that i had forgotten. Still i have that same problem. When picking up a new api or something, instead of learning just how to use it quickly, i end up trying to learn a lot of its nuances first :S

I liked Gates' quote about both of them getting stealing from their rich neighbor Xerox. To be fair, that's all Apple really ever did -- take existing ideas and refine the hell out of them.

heh. i just watched Pirates of Silicon Valley the other day. Such a good movie. Gave me a lot of perspective on both Microsoft and Apple.

would suck to see Bill go. But I guess it will have to happen sooner or later. Idk how much he influences direction any more anyway.

> What if you filed for bankruptcy, and your emails to your lawyer became public, humiliating your family?

bankruptcies are public anyway.

protip: every job is like this. I went into journalism because i LOVED reading and writing. Making it a career sapped the fun out of it. Now i'm coding professionally. It's much more fun than the pressures of journalism, but I do find myself sometimes thinking "this was more fun when I did it just for the heck of it"

anything but javascript!

.... i absolutely read this as "US states" .... now i feel really dumb

TIL that 'operating system' has more than one definition

also, it's slow as shit when you drill down to a subselection of 'faces'

ah. was not aware. now i feel like douche. will delete original because of ignorance.

> While musicians don't get much from the average record sale, scientists get exactly nothing.

actually, that is exactly true. Scientists make $0 off of record sales. :D

agreed. Manning is a totally different story, I think. The stuff he released didn't do much to protect innocent people, etc. Snowden I could stand behind.

That said, it would be just awesome if Manning got the Nobel Peace Prize, just, what, 5 years after Obama did?

does github really count as a startup still? they're not inducted into programmatic canon yet?

Oy. I've seen this now on two other social media. and twice on here. :( i am disappoint

isnt all the code open source now? seems i read that it was not long ago

woo! fellow kidney stone sufferer here. I had a 9mm stone i had to have busted up ~18 months ago (and a few 5mm ones i didnt). Ended up owing a few grand on it even with insurance. still paying it down (owe only like $400 on it now, thank God).

yes. health reform (and lots of others) is/are needed.

i think this guy has: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6052626

:D

Yeah it's back up for me now too. CNN had an article on it, funnily enough. They are headquartered in Atlanta though so they probably all got hit with the outage. Seems the southeast and comcast users were hit hardest

I saw a G+ blog on it briefly as i got a search result to work. Here's the link. good luck reading it. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...

ISP: Comcast Location: Staunton, VA

I think there's a lot to be said for tongue-in-cheek humor. Maybe it's not for everybody though.