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Two years later my "weekend" project is complete. A client for HN optimized for reading comments on mobile with a spotty connection. Source: https://github.com/byronwall/hn-client …

Millions of pounds of plastic are made every year for milk jugs. A 30% improvement would not be lost in the noise.

> ""What's exciting about this," he said, "is we can go to as low as 1 percent of our additive, and you get a plastic alloy that really has super-great properties."" The properties…

I completely agree. There are some things you can do in Excel that are nearly impossible to track down. There are auditing tools that help, but you can truly ruin a spreadsheet in …

The user actions that lead to mistakes in Excel are the same with any other environment: typing formulas. If I'm doing an engineering or financial calculation and misplace a decima…

The things you've listed as R being better at are things that no typical Excel user contemplates doing (i.e. blogging, processing 5GB data sets). You're also ignoring that out of t…

The Notice of Violation (NOV) [0] is worth checking out if you're interested in the nitty gritty details of regulatory enforcement. It's quite readable and paints a clear picture t…