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I don't think that's the message. The message was, "You said you couldn't imagine a scenario where this goes well. Here's one simple example of it going well, and that was easy to …

Author here. Definitely didn't mean to condescend. I used "like a European" as short-hand for, "this is an employee who regularly chooses to take off far more time than the typical…

Fantastic article. And nice demo of Drake. ;-)

nice post! i'd like to make a shameless plug for Drake, a 'make for data' workflow tool. https://github.com/Factual/drake

I felt like he was sharing a lot more than that, especially his personal story. So I found it a very worthwhile read. Also: "Make me re-think the “wisdom” of the food pyramid, “low…

Agreed. I found the author's account inspiring, and I immediately recognized his overall outline as a basic paleo diet. I started down a paleo path fairly recently, hoping to lose …

another way to look at this is: we didn't say to ourselves, "we have to be on the JVM, so which JVM language should we use"? instead we asked, "what would be a great language for t…

There is love for R in Drake! As of about an hour ago: https://github.com/Factual/drake/commit/f63dd2630ca3e5e4a6a6...

Make was a major inspiration for us, and so Drake definitely has similarities to Make. The differences you list were non-trivial to us in usefulness, but of course YMMV. Also, ther…

Thanks jonmarkgo, good point. Not intending to ostracize anyone here, in fact quite the opposite. Working hard to be as inclusive as we possibly can. 8-]

well, i'd agree it's "entertaining"! had fun reading that, thanks.