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Conveniently, you ignored everything I wrote after the comma: “just because of the comparatively open press in Hong Kong + ubiquity of cell phones” Of course I remember Tienanmen. …

A few weeks ago, I never would have expected China to profess/commit violence openly, just because of the comparatively open press in Hong Kong + ubiquity of cell phones. After the…

Nope! Just told me to reach out to a cardiologist if things didn’t get better, and suggested it’s probably anxiety. I suppose I can’t blame them given my age, but it makes me wonde…

I was on Medicaid just a few years ago. It was definitely a lifesend, but the network is very tiny and, as a result, scheduling visits with specialists (in my experience, so anecdo…

Two weeks, I had open heart surgery in my mid-20s in the US. My main takeaway is this: those of us who work in tech or companies with decent health insurance are extremely fortunat…

Google says the acceptance rate is 17%. Would love to see your source on 25% of non-Stanford alumni SV people being from USC. Anecdotally, I’ve met one.

This. I’ve contributed code to popular libraries in both languages, and while I (overall) have a preference for python (mostly due to it being general purpose), I find R code unpar…

Thanks for the kind comment, I’m glad it was helpful. I recommend you check out explorabl.es - they have a ton of informative interactives, covering a wide range of disciplines. An…

At work: we finally updated our prod environment to accommodate a more recent version of Spark, so have been playing with rewriting some jobs in spark (now that I’m not limited to …

I find it very hard to believe any recruiter/interviewer would be turned off that my top 6 repos featured a mix of popular and unpopular, personal and forked repos. Limiting exposu…

I’d love to hear the story behind that, haha. Were you paid to drive that? Were you just a huge Yahoo fan? An early employee?

Is there any reason you decided to take loans instead of using the GI Bill? Genuinely curious.

As someone from San Diego I find it insane that you think the city is “tending toward car-free living.” Even in 5-10 years when the trolley maybe hits the beach, how would you get …

This genuinely made me chuckle. That said, if mistyping ‘git push’ is a common occurrence, why not just define an alias?

In which the author restates his title thesis in every paragraph, without ever mentioning supporting evidence.

I think this is a great point that, for some reason, I can’t recall ever seeing thoroughly addressed. (To be fair, I don’t work in the life sciences, so cmiiw). I definitely believ…

Bookdown is super easy. Some oreilly books (eg R for Data Science) used it.

Not trying to say misogyny in tech isn’t an issue, but I saw no “blatant” examples there? I honestly don’t understand the whole fuss over SO being (apparently) unwelcome, though I’…

Big fan of your layout & color-scheme. Can I ask what you used to make that pixelated avatar of yourself?

Great blog post; interesting, relevant, and to the point. Does anyone know of any other hubs for content creation that don’t keep such a steep % of $?

Any fellow skaters may be interested in an interactive visual essay I recently made about music in skateboarding: https://pudding.cool/2018/06/skate-music/

26. Tech: Scrollama (JavaScript library for scrollytelling).