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I run into this. Files are only partially synced. You end up with broken code. If you are lucky it has a syntax error. If you are not lucky you get mysterious bugs. The work around…

I have been using the ipython console --existing command to connect to the same kernel that the browser is attached to. I can do more complicated coding in that repl (inside of ema…

>In general though Groovy/Grails is actually surprisingly good. I'll second that. Groovy is amazing but under appreciated on places like hacker news. Interesting that you bring up …

I think you are right that there are a lot of developer worker bees in MN who are not excellent. However, there is a somewhat tight-knit subpopulation of developers that are forwar…

It's fine if the rules change once in a while but apple should clearly and fairly communicate that to everyone. Now you have to be a part of some good ol boy club with access to th…

I think you are right they are targeting large advertisers with significant spend. It's a unique approach in that they don't need a lot of granular attribution data, but instead us…

A plug for a former employer but I'd like to add optimine, http://optimine.com/insight to your list of attribution platforms. They've got an elegant and, as far as I know, unique m…

How about automatically giving you a repl context at the exception and letting you move up and down the call stack. http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/docs/debug/#using-the-debugger

Very True. I'm pretty sure that quote wasn't meant to be a critique of the Groovy language, just an expression of interest in Scala. Yet its brought out every time somebody wants t…

>Easy to learn for a Java person, but way more productive than Java. Agreed, which is why it such a shame it isn't more prevalent. Along with the features you mention, I'll add, go…

I find awareness of groovy very spotty depending on the crowd you travel in. Enterprisey J2EE people regard it as a new fangled something they don't have time for. More pragmatic, …

Gradle is fantastic and hopefully it helps bring awareness to the under appreciated groovy language.

You need it for l1 and l2 regularization which is popular these days don't you?

I'm not sure about haskell, but in clojure the, run code, reason, run more code cycle is very much supported with the repl. In fact I find the nature of functional code very much h…

R and matlab are better, but those tools also have issues integrating into production depending on what you are doing. It's not so much the exact tool you use, but just having a li…

In practice I find the bigger problem is from analysts/actuaries/statisticians who have a disdain for programming, which sometimes is viewed as a task for mere technicians. Typical…

In the case of Om, I believe the immutability of clojure helps out and makes the diffing of databound elements a simple (non-deep) compare. You can end up making an app with quite …

This randomly reminded me of an ancient kuro5hin article that I found interesting back in the day. Where the proposal was to use brute force to implement comment search on kuro5hin…

Prediction markets that don't involve money have also had some success recently. http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/04/02/297839429/-so-... For an easy to join one that I work…

I wouldn't frame the question as "what did you do wrong". As other people in this thread have pointed out you may have dodged a bullet. It could very well be that this company is i…

tptacek, we all want to hear Willem Pinckaers' take, it is really good stuff. I also want to hear ideas from Akamai, even if they aren't perfect. Perhaps they can lead to good thin…

I made this comment the other day in a thread about children accidentally clicking on google display ads, but I think it also applies here. The problem is measuring the effectivene…

This problem extends to more than just kids playing around on mobile games. Here is a good presentation from the quantcast guys about the "natural born clicker" problem. The people…

For a prediction market anyone can join checkout https://scicast.org/ Whats neat about SciCast is you can make predictions based on the assumption of how other questions will turn …

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