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I disagree. Neither of them is saying anything is "the answer". They are merely putting emphasis on different things. From that perspective, I would say that Uncle Bob is more wron…

Marking a math test is only objective when an answer is entirely correct. What mark do you give a student who makes a minor arithmetic error on a single step of a multi-step proble…

I recently experimented with the Idris JavaScript backend and it is not ready for prime-time. In particular, the FFI doesn't handle functions well. I was unable to call into Idris …

Thank you for this.

I have the same problem with these analyses from interview.io every time I see them: they are making many of their inferences by fitting linear models to data that is non-linear. I…

> However I feel the most valuable thing a company can do for their employees is to provide them with an environment that lets them feel like they have ownership of the company’s m…

When you study undergraduate philosophy you aren't instantly bombarded with the current state-of-the-art in philosophical thought. On the contrary you spend a lot of time studying …

> And if “usable” has any additional meaning besides “is not null”, this entire machinery is useless because one STILL has to figure out the state of the data! That's inaccurate. I…

> As a logical, clear-thinking engineer, I recognize that if my wife is emotional and needs to vent, that the best way to improve her mental state is to listen and give emotional s…

But the problem with R-squared in this case is that a linear model isn't appropriate for ordinal data. These rankings are ordered categories, not numbers.

I think the problem with the author's analysis is that she treated the rankings as numerical values when they are in fact only ordinal.

This seems like a meaningless metric to me. I'd care a lot more about the number of repositories of projects using Swift.