There's an entire book, the R Inferno, dedicated to R's many "quirks" and problems. Is there ever a plan to dedicate some time to focusing on cleaning up the language and making it less painful to use?
To add on: R is gaining massive traction in graduate programs but so many professors teach it like it's SPSS, almost as a cargo cult coding language, and so much of the documentation is written for people who are already experienced coders. Is there any decent introduction to R for someone that doesn't already know it (or another programming language) fluently?
There's a whole article that I can use to teach undergrads about how fraudulent methodology can fabricate any result you want. Their methodology is, as usual for a socjus "study", total garbage and their results are neither statistically significant nor are their conclusions based on sound logic.
The thing about a zombie apocalypse is that it's exhaustive. If you're prepared for zombies you're prepared for basically anything shy of an extinction level event.
You're absolutely right. The fact 50% of domestic violence victims have 0% of federal funding and shelters, and 50% of rape victims aren't even legally recognized, is a real and serious problem.
Manufactured "discrimination" about pull requests is neither real nor serious.
Sovereign Citizen types are even more fun because they think the law works like casting in D&D, you just shout the right verbal component and things happen.
I've been considering for a while that Samsung's having some kind of shitty QA problem where some Galaxy phones work great and some constantly suffer from memory leaks, lag, and the like.
Except ever since they went "free" swiftkey's performance has been absolute shit. It lags even my S5 so badly that it would take almost a minute just for the screen to respond to the power button and turn off. I finally got sick of waiting 30s-several minutes just to type something or close a messenger bubble that I switched to the stock keyboard.
The problem with smart guns is that you get the same failure from each path: Somebody gets shot that wasn't supposed to. Either someone gets shot by your gun when they weren't supposed to, or you get shot by somebody else's because you couldn't shoot them first.
This is going to be a battle decided entirely by the media. Either they stir up massive outrage over the first cop/owner to die when his smart gun fails during a time of need, or they continue stirring up outrage over negligent discharges while enforcing a media embargo over smart-tech failures.
...is the spoon a failure? Or are you just a fucking imbecile?
Technology is not magic. The problem here is caused almost wholly by people who do not understand, and actively refuse to understand, the technology they are working with. So they wind up being completely unreasonable in the long run and then blaming coders when things go south. It's like someone buying a cheap sedan and expecting it to go a million miles non-stop without any service or maintenance while driving it like it's a rally car. The car's just fine, the driver has unrealistic expectations.
Being barely 1/3rd of college graduates is an advantage? Having virtually no special programs, aid, funding, or mentorship available to you is an advantage? Being utterly excluded from virtually the entire social safety net in case you go broke trying is an advantage?
The problem is everyone thinks terrorism works like in the movies and television shows. Shadowy organizations, dead drops, burner phones, encrypted communications, cell after cell talking with each other and whoever their glorious leader of the week happens to be (until he gets blown up by a drone too)... that's not the strategy here.
The real threat isn't an organized conspiracy, it's a stand alone complex. A meme. People get taken in by the rhetoric and propaganda and individually or in small groups decide to do something to further the global jihad.
Seriously tepples? Enough with the denialism. You're either being mendacious or are so out of touch with the current state of wikipedia you should stop trying to advocate for it. It's ruled by powerful cliques like wikiproject feminism and other unblockables.
I've been editing wikipedia pretty much as long as it's been wikipedia. If you are on the wrong side of the groupthink or disagree with one of the wikipedia untouchables you WILL be screwed. Every single source you try to bring will be accused of being an unreliable source supporting a marginal opinion, you will be told that wikipedia is about verifiability and not truth, and you'll be viciously flamed the entire time and threatened with all kinds of disciplinary procedures. The moment you attempt to complain about your treatment you'll get boomeranged.
At which point you get your revisions undone and buried in warnings for edit warring, verifiability and not truth, placing undue importance on a marginal opinion, and the moment you try to get help from the admins to deal with all the flaming and stalking it's boomeranged back on you.
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There's an entire book, the R Inferno, dedicated to R's many "quirks" and problems. Is there ever a plan to dedicate some time to focusing on cleaning up the language and making it less painful to use?
Hoisting the AC for asking a good question.
To add on: R is gaining massive traction in graduate programs but so many professors teach it like it's SPSS, almost as a cargo cult coding language, and so much of the documentation is written for people who are already experienced coders. Is there any decent introduction to R for someone that doesn't already know it (or another programming language) fluently?
That's a new one, claiming something is unsourced when we're literally commenting on the source.
There's a whole article that I can use to teach undergrads about how fraudulent methodology can fabricate any result you want. Their methodology is, as usual for a socjus "study", total garbage and their results are neither statistically significant nor are their conclusions based on sound logic.
The thing about a zombie apocalypse is that it's exhaustive. If you're prepared for zombies you're prepared for basically anything shy of an extinction level event.
Manufactured "discrimination" about pull requests is neither real nor serious.
You're absolutely right. The fact 50% of domestic violence victims have 0% of federal funding and shelters, and 50% of rape victims aren't even legally recognized, is a real and serious problem.
Manufactured "discrimination" about pull requests is neither real nor serious.
Sovereign Citizen types are even more fun because they think the law works like casting in D&D, you just shout the right verbal component and things happen.
I've been considering for a while that Samsung's having some kind of shitty QA problem where some Galaxy phones work great and some constantly suffer from memory leaks, lag, and the like.
Although they do have a front row seat for watching this train wreck...
Except ever since they went "free" swiftkey's performance has been absolute shit. It lags even my S5 so badly that it would take almost a minute just for the screen to respond to the power button and turn off. I finally got sick of waiting 30s-several minutes just to type something or close a messenger bubble that I switched to the stock keyboard.
IIRC that was one of the major complaints the founding fathers had against the british legislature and why we have geographic representation.
You're ignoring selection effects. The population of smart gun users will likely begin with law enforcement.
The problem with smart guns is that you get the same failure from each path: Somebody gets shot that wasn't supposed to. Either someone gets shot by your gun when they weren't supposed to, or you get shot by somebody else's because you couldn't shoot them first.
This is going to be a battle decided entirely by the media. Either they stir up massive outrage over the first cop/owner to die when his smart gun fails during a time of need, or they continue stirring up outrage over negligent discharges while enforcing a media embargo over smart-tech failures.
If michaels' idea of a vault was a cardboard box out back then yes.
If someone broke into a bank vault but you couldn't prove they took anything would they get away with it?
People need to remember Henry Ford. You're not going to start moving tons of units until there's a volkspanel that most people can afford.
...is the spoon a failure? Or are you just a fucking imbecile?
Technology is not magic. The problem here is caused almost wholly by people who do not understand, and actively refuse to understand, the technology they are working with. So they wind up being completely unreasonable in the long run and then blaming coders when things go south. It's like someone buying a cheap sedan and expecting it to go a million miles non-stop without any service or maintenance while driving it like it's a rally car. The car's just fine, the driver has unrealistic expectations.
Mark it on the calender we agree about something. Unfortunately a lot of people are forced into overtime due to the lack of living wages.
Being barely 1/3rd of college graduates is an advantage? Having virtually no special programs, aid, funding, or mentorship available to you is an advantage? Being utterly excluded from virtually the entire social safety net in case you go broke trying is an advantage?
The problem is everyone thinks terrorism works like in the movies and television shows. Shadowy organizations, dead drops, burner phones, encrypted communications, cell after cell talking with each other and whoever their glorious leader of the week happens to be (until he gets blown up by a drone too)... that's not the strategy here.
The real threat isn't an organized conspiracy, it's a stand alone complex. A meme. People get taken in by the rhetoric and propaganda and individually or in small groups decide to do something to further the global jihad.
Seriously tepples? Enough with the denialism. You're either being mendacious or are so out of touch with the current state of wikipedia you should stop trying to advocate for it. It's ruled by powerful cliques like wikiproject feminism and other unblockables.
For some reason I expected you to have something like a 4 digit UID...
I've been editing wikipedia pretty much as long as it's been wikipedia. If you are on the wrong side of the groupthink or disagree with one of the wikipedia untouchables you WILL be screwed. Every single source you try to bring will be accused of being an unreliable source supporting a marginal opinion, you will be told that wikipedia is about verifiability and not truth, and you'll be viciously flamed the entire time and threatened with all kinds of disciplinary procedures. The moment you attempt to complain about your treatment you'll get boomeranged.
At which point you get your revisions undone and buried in warnings for edit warring, verifiability and not truth, placing undue importance on a marginal opinion, and the moment you try to get help from the admins to deal with all the flaming and stalking it's boomeranged back on you.