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Adding /en/ to the URL creates an expectation that there are translations in other languages.

That would be "all companies."

> What's better, the docs for Backbone.Marionette, or Backbone?

Offline or online viewing? Should I need a web connection to read the documentation?

butterfly mode

The last paragraph was fun:

"“UWM’s vision is to create a large-scale sport and entertainment experience where martial artists can compete against each other with real weapons, with an objective measure of who would have won in a real combat situation” UWM CEO David Pysden said."

FRED doesn't have the data you need?

Almost any language can throw a query to google, so yes.

Well, crap, they've certainly got enough pictures of rockets. Sign me up!

4. The guy's also famously wealthy

Probably not one you know well...

Oh, I meant that I want to link a github repo containing latex for a paper to sharelatex; I.e. You'd be Travis-ci for latex repos.

Just tested this out with a 150 page document split across several folders; it compiled quickly and I really like the way you display the logs and warnings. Looks great! And I really appreciate your making it opensource.

Integrating this with github a la travis-ci would be great, obviously one would need to be able to make commits to the repository too; I'm not sure if it would be great enough that it would induce people to start paying for the service if they weren't already, though... although I'd sure like it.

I'm not sure what sort of use-cases you are seeing already, but this seems most useful to me personally for last-minute edits to coauthored papers & grant proposals right before submission. Nailing down the final version can be a real pain in the ass.

A few other minor observations:

* uploading a zip file didn't work, but I'm on an old version of RHEL and made the zip with Ark, so... who knows

* after accidentally drag and dropping a bunch of .bbl, .log, .toc (etc) files, I didn't see a way to delete more than one file at a time, or how to undo a file deletion.

* I also couldn't figure out how to move a file from a subdirectory to the top level directory

latexmk has an auto-compilation feature

Then tear up the pre-nup and sign a new contract.

Right, but my point is that "as simple as possible" in this case is still "very complicated." It's sort of like trying to use "Hello world" to explain the difference between static and dynamic typing.

That's almost a straw-man argument. When you're making statements about pure probabilities, everyone is a bayesian. Most toy examples make "frequentists" look like morons, because essentially all of the judgement and discretion is removed from the problem, so you'd have to be an idiot not to apply Bayes's rule.

The difference shows up when you actually have an interesting data set to analyze. Bayesian statistics can disagree with frequentist stats in small samples because they're (often) using different normalization strategies; and they can disagree in large samples where the CLT fails. There may be other settings where they diverge too that I'm not aware of. But neither of those scenarios is one where insisting "I'm a Bayesian, so the answer is blah" or "I'm a frequentist, so... blah blah" is likely to be a good strategy. Those are the settings where it's hard.

Statisticians do not spend time arguing this issue; some people like some tools and other people like others, but at this point people are pretty accommodating.

But they're not mathematically equivalent. That's like saying that neural nets and random forrests are mathematically equivalent.

I think the sync is based on firefly physiology. Logo simulation: http://education.mit.edu/starlogo/samples/firefly.htm

You can use Julia in IPython, but I'm not sure if that gets you everything you'd want. It definitely doesn't meet the "no configuration" criterion.

You must be unfamiliar with crack.

Ah, if only...

Polya's "how to solve it" is a classic.

Yes, but you have to be able to do it first.

It depends on the subreddit. Some encourage on-topic self posts. eg http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/wiki/greatpost

Honestly, I think your example is a better demonstration of this than the article's. You make a change in four places, make a single commit, and then someone reading the code later can use the VCS to find all of the relevant parts of the code that deal with any particular line they're looking at.

I like the implication that these "software engineers from the eighties" are absurdly rare creatures that no longer exist.

edit: but yes, it's amazing.

I love this. Write an integral with infix notation. :)

For any one else going through this, Al Anon and Nar Anon are similar to groups like AA, but for family members of alcoholics and adicts.

http://www.al-anon.alateen.org/ and http://www.nar-anon.org/

True, but that doesn't make "something" the correct answer.

A book. Preferably one that her parents will enjoy reading over and over again. I like "Anno's magic seeds"

(I have daughters and want them to understand programming, but 1 is really young)

Edit: not clear from the book's title, but "Anno's magic seeds" is a charming story about exponential growth.