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I assure you that drawish games are only boring on the part of the spectators, not on the part of the players. People often struggle epically to catch that half-point, it doesn't f…

No. More likely, Arabs are more diverse in appearance than you think.

People have been wailing about chess being dry and full of draws and memorized openings for a century now. Capablanca wanted to swap bisbops and knights to reset opening theory, an…

I still don't understand why the Python steering committee decided to switch to this format for package configuration instead of the perfectly serviceable and existing setup.cfg. P…

I am making two points: -Arguing that adding a feature is ok because "R does it" is comically wrong when one is acquainted with all of R's warts and superfluous stuff -Not even the…

You would be wrong. There's strong evidence that it does make sense, among which that it respects Zipf's law.

>I don't understand why anyone thinks it's a sensible choice. Hint: it's because they usually work for the people they are defending. Remember which site you are on

Inventing hypothetical scenarios where you are right isn't as strong an argument as you think it is. In the real world, a few people have too damn money and spend it in absolutely …

It seems the opinionated, directive "there's only one way to do it" approach is winning over the hacking around, "wrapping around your mind" approach. Lisp and Perl have had their …

>R language also has a similar way of doing this 42 -> age. Ah yes, the R language, a model of clarity, beauty and lightness in the world of programming languages. Truly an example…

R has always been relevant and isn't going away any time soon. The language is ugly and flawed and has a bunch of quirks and gotchas but there are just too many libs. Also for a lo…

I was honestly blown out of the water discovering ggplot2 after years of matplotlib, and a bit infuriated that I didn't make the effort to get into R sooner.

But I want ggplot to do magic. Rendering things is extremely tedious and boring. I don't want to spend hours on stackoverflow searching for the special obscure incantations that wi…

I was super into TDD and never thought that there was such a thing as "TDD going too far" until I read that post by an ex-Oracle employee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1844…

Why is this flagged? I found the article interesting and relatively well-balanced.