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Just curious, what qualifies it as Native?
Taking a look at the source (https://github.com/yhat/rodeo) it appears to be in all python.
I was under the (perhaps mistaken) impression that native referred to code which compiled to assembly.
The UI is obviously inspired by Rstudio for R. And I have zero objections to that; this is something that I've wanted for awhile, after having difficulty with PyCharm for my Python-related data projects. I'll play around with it a bit. As a heads up, the setup workflow assumes you are on OS X, which may be a problem if it asks you to open a Terminal on Windows: http://i.imgur.com/nya50e4.png
Plus, for distributing binaries in Linux, instead of a zip file (tar.gz would be more common, too) it's better to support the main distros with a repository (PPA for Ubuntu, pacman for Arch, etc...) since it's way more user friendly every single time you want them to stay up to date.
Just curious, what qualifies it as Native?
I have this visceral reaction when I can tell something is based on Electron or IWebBrowser, 2.0.
In the last year, my workflow for data science/AI has completely shifted to Jupyter notebooks. Is there any IDE that offers a similar experience?
There is Beaker notebooks which is similar to Jupyter. Haven't tried it but you can integrate multiple languages in one notebook. http://beakernotebook.com/
It's kind of weird to use but it works for the most part. You can clean up some data in python, then push the data over to a cell written in R to do some other evaluation, then push the results back over to python.
honest question: what if your science isn't maths/physics/data? I'm a chemist and from what i can see there's @#$@# all out there in FOSS land.
So here are some generalizations.
While in school, I noticed that the physics students were far more interested than the chemistry students, in math and computer stuff. Maybe we were computer science wannabees, or maybe we guessed (correctly in my case) that proficiency with computers would make us more employable. This was true in both undergrad and grad school.
And there's a long tradition of physicists stealing ideas from math and computation for solving physics problems. When I was in school, computation was considered to be a specialized branch of chemistry, but was at the forefront of physics.
Another difference is that the physics students were generally more interested in making our own tools. The current "maker" and "hacker" trends are old hat for small-lab experimental physicists.
Chemistry has always been a bigger field than physics, which I suspect has attracted more interest in making commercial equipment and software. I've noticed in an industrial setting, that managers are often looking for closed solutions that can't be modified by the user, either for regulatory reasons or adversarial labor-management attitudes. The industry wants your boss to think that letting you make your own tools is either dangerous, or a waste of your time.
In contrast, even in industry, physicists still have to make our own tools. And management already knows that we're freaks. ;-)
So the absence of FOSS tools for chemistry doesn't shock me.
honest question: what if your science isn't maths/physics/data? I'm a chemist and from what i can see there's @#$@# all out there in FOSS land.
Excellent question. Here's my chemistry cred: I'm married to a chemist, related to a couple more, and have worked in an area related to analytical chemistry, though I got my degree in physics, 2+ decades ago. So here are some generalizations. While in school, I noticed that the physics students were far more interested than the chemistry students, in math and computer stuff. Maybe we were computer science wannabees,…
It's interesting to consider in this context that workers owning the means of production is what links the GPL with Marxism.
Just curious, what qualifies it as Native?
I am curious about this as well. Taking a look at the source ( https://github.com/yhat/rodeo ) it appears to be in all python. I was under the (perhaps mistaken) impression that native referred to code which compiled to assembly.
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Excellent question. Here's my chemistry cred: I'm married to a chemist, related to a couple more, and have worked in an area related to analytical chemistry, though I got my degree in physics, 2+ decades ago. So here are some generalizations. While in school, I noticed that the physics students were far more interested than the chemistry students, in math and computer stuff. Maybe we were computer science wannabees,…
> I've noticed in an industrial setting, that managers are often looking for closed solutions that can't be modified by the user, either for regulatory reasons or adversarial labor-management attitudes. The industry wants your boss to think that letting you make your own tools is either dangerous, or a waste of your time. It's interesting to consider in this context that workers owning the means of production is what…