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greg_data

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About greg_data

I AM GREG, I AM ABOUT DATA. GIMME DAT DATA, GIMME GIMME GIMME.

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    Comment #13105876

    Free ebooks are every day. Normally it's something older. No Email notifications for the freebies normally. Worth checking up on occasionally though.

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    Comment #13013048

    Really? How so? The fact that he got his diagnosis whilst writing the thing makes it even more poignant for me. There are parts where you can tell that what your reading is his per…

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    Comment #13005247

    I'm gonna go ahead and assume it's "The Quarry". If so, it's well worth a read. Intensely poignant and personal, but brilliant Banks as ever.

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    Comment #12137582

    Yo, I'm actually the Data Analyst who worked on this. Turns out a poorly constructed regex put all of C# and C++ into C. We've addressed this and will be putting out a revised edit…

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    Comment #11260431

    that's an absolutely fascinating way to think about it.

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    Comment #11019171

    Nothing currently, really. However, when I first joined the company I work at (as a Graduate Data Analyst) I wrote a recommendations engine in VBA. It took about 5 minutes to chug …

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    Comment #10849326

    Second Lubuntu. Installed to breathe life into an old af Toshiba laptop. Stable, fast, no bloat.

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    Comment #10084354

    Graphs are fun, CHARTS are boring.

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    Comment #10002880

    Should've been called Diatomic!

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    Comment #9698297

    Interesting counterpoint to this is jQuery. Their jQuery book came out very early in the game and was authored by people very much involved in the project. Some of the jQuery API d…