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Disclaimer: I'm an RStudio employee. But this post is my personal opinion and not representative of that of RStudio. Separately, I'm also a licensed (non-practicing) attorney; desp…

But if you know R, you can change the behavior of operators. > oldPlus `+` "hello" + "world" [1] "helloworld"

Disclaimer: I work for RStudio. I previously worked heavily with SciPy. The difference kind of goes to the fundamental difference between R and Python. R's nature as a statistical …

Dude. https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-fortran And no, neural networks aren't suitable for discrete problems.

I actually did put in the work, however, and I agree with parent. You also don't become an authority by pretending you're some mystic wise man without saying anything of substance.…

It's a constitutional issue in every sense. The US Congress ALONE has the power to make policy . The POTUS can relax policy enforcement, but cannot enforce policy that was never ma…

TBH microservices do a good job of making you much more dependent on your tools, and selecting the wrong tool for the job won't become clear until you've used that tool for years.

"One algorithm crashes on load but the other is a little slow. They're exactly the same, right?"

I wasn't surprised when I found out it was a law firm either. I've had the good fortune to work with some of the good ones, but legal marketing in general requires a very sensitive…

SPA frameworks are not all-encompassing tools for buildong all web pages. Notably, trying to SEO a SPA is frustrating at best and impossible at worst. However, in b2b use cases whe…

They still charge for court records and opinions. Remember how Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to take them for free?

They're trying to "Do One Thing And Do It Well". It's always interesting how core UNIX philosophy often gets lost in Startup Culture's rush to "Disrupt The World".

3 is one of my biggest pet peeves with SVG. Accessing the SVG document from its container is extremely annoying and not necessarily straightforward to debug, as I learned in one of…

> They need to ensure that none of their client use financial services to commit crimes There are also laws that give financial institutions due diligence obligations to ensure the…

This is one of those situations where having worked a retail job in your life can really impart some wisdom into you. Retailers often give their minimum-wage grunts this song and d…

I'll go even further: it's a big industry. Companies of all size and sophistication buy advertising in huge amounts. You have some players who have honed their advertising strategy…

No, it's commercial speech. The FDA already regulates what they can say in drug advertisements. There's not really a legal issue there.

Legally, it's not really an issue. Commercial speech can be broadly regulated by Congress. Free Speech doesn't really factor into a huge portion of what you see from the FDA, FTC, …