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Thank you - I appreciate the explanation and guidance. :)

I realize HN allows for relatively anonymous access anyway. Nevertheless, I was surprised that there was no option available to delete one's account. It looks like you can just upd…

- Both Angular and VB make it easy to get a "pretty" GUI up and running quickly. - Both Angular and VB require quite a bit more knowledge to make a more sophisticated application b…

Kind of thought that Angular is a bit like VB . Both allow relative novices to produce sophisticated GUIs rather quickly. Both require a fairly high level of understanding discipli…

The problem with spreadsheets is not a simple issue of good vs. bad. Spreadsheets have an extremely flexible and well accepted if not intuitive interface. The problem is that they …

Bach is great on many counts - I did a visualization ( https://github.com/hadley/ggplot2/wiki/Bach-2-Part-Invention... ) in R awhile back of a Two-part invention that reflects how …

Reminds me of another quote from C.S. Lewis (who was cited in the article) on the subject. "Even on those rear occasions when a modern undergraduate is not attending some such soci…

Part of Chrome's appeal is its as an IDE for web development. Technical support is also more difficult where an end user cannot easily locate a URL. Hiding URLs by default is going…

The "HN is not like the good old days" refrain has been around for years of course. But seeing a comparison of HN from a few years ago compared with a recent front page is pretty s…

I really appreciate HN from a technical perspective, but have little interest in the political posts and discussion that have become popular in the last few years. It would be grea…

The fact that you are a programmer is exactly the reason R feels funny. Its predecessor (S) was originally just supposed to be an interactive interface for some Fortran libraries. …

Ah OK: Ah OK - I see where you can submit games there: http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/about/?appid=765&section=... Also noticed Gog: http://www.gog.com/indie And Desura: http:/…

My 14 year old just released his first game: http://ninjacharlie.itch.io/redshift He did a great job on it and is wondering about the best way of distributing it. For publishing - …

This book-in-progress has the best explanations of the syntax of R that I have seen. For example: - R has no scalar, or 0-dimensional, types. All scalars (single numbers or strings…

Except for kids and parents who saw "Tangled."

Fun - kind of reminds me of cowsay ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay )... command lines aren't just for work :)