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Is it a specific project that you want to move away from? Or is it an ongoing responsibility that you would like to stop doing?

Inspired by the recent discussion on notebooks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22164916 I would like a Python setup a la RStudio. This means that: - it works with unmodified…

> I don't get why anyone one who knows how to use an IDE would ever use a notebook, The Python IDEs for data science are mostly garbage - if you have any recommendations, I'm all e…

> With a notebook, you get the chance to load the data, view it, clean it where needed, view it again, analyze it, model it and do anything else you need to it. In a good data-orie…

> it made me physically ill thinking that people are upset or conflicted about which ship to jump to next to get the highest possible TC. I really think that this says more about y…

Can you share a bit more about how it's showing its age? (I'm not a web dev, but played around with Flask recently and in general find the giant ecosystem of different frameworks f…

I didn't see anyone complaining about a $450k salary - the closest thing was the guy who's L6 at Facebook and making the same as L5 at Snap while working 60h weeks. Not sure what t…

> R might not have great libraries for network protocols (REST, etc), as it’s not a general language No idea how it compares to D, but REST in R is pretty straightforward through t…

Here's what I'm not getting: Most the tasks that require heavy computation in R are done through C/C++/Fortran APIs - why can't D interface with them without the intermediate R lay…

Does anyone actually need to do this? Doesn't interoping in the other direction (calling D from R) at least make a bit more sense?

At the current stage of development, ethical AI is on the same level as ethics in the fuel industry, or the food industry, or the finance industry - there are ethical questions the…

Great. Getting rid of that app was one of the first things I would do on a fresh Ubuntu installation.

iOS has been such a better experience than any version of Android that I've tried but I'm really not a fan of the newer iPhone models. Hopefully by the time my SE dies there will a…