Have to agree, piqufoh's comment is asinine. Pandas is the first time I've even considered moving work done in R to a new all-python workflow. Exhaustive coverage by some imaginary, disinterested third party would still be forced to settle on pandas as the focus, because it literally is the only game in town.
As to the merits, per se, of having some third party write the book: I'm doubtful. I followed wesm's development through blog posts, twitter updates, etc. Writing pandas forced him to consider a lot aspects of dealing with data in python, both deep and practical. In the process, I'm confident he became one of the foremost experts in not only his own software but in the current state of Data Analysis in Python. Who better to write this book?
the discussion here is weird. isn't this obviously about the across-the-board practice of bundling browsers with OSes, which is the rule in mobile OS and is culminating in Chrome OS?
"Most Yahoo Mail ads generate revenue based on impressions, not clicks. So Yahoo isn't directly making more money by grabbing these "random" clicks"
perhaps not, but surely if I was to buy such an ad and pay per impression, I'd probably like to know what the impression/click ratio was. no doubt Yahoo advertises a low one to potential buyers...
"So if there was all this corporate rage over SOPA and PIPA why aren’t we seeing the same type of reaction when it comes to CISPA?
The short answer to this is because it doesn’t really change the way that they do business with the government and law enforcement agencies already, and contrary to what you would think companies like Facebook and Microsoft support CISPA.
It is important to realize that unless any requests for a person’s private information comes are part of a CISPA cybersecurity request companies aren’t ‘forced’ to share that information; but under CISPA when they do share that information they can no longer face any legal actions from anyone."
This video is really, really worth watching. TLDR: Jay Smooth makes an analogy between race sensitivity and oral hygeine. "Not being racist" is more like brushing your teeth than like getting your tonsils out. Our (all of our) prejudices are strong and reinforced 99% of the time just by absorbing the majority culture that we live in. Cultivating sensitivity toward minority groups, then, is akin to brushing your teeth every day.
...and it's basic civility, not rudeness, when you point out to someone that they have something racist/sexist in their teeth.
this sounds like limbaugh's apology the other day. "sorry that our WORDS made our sponsors mad. we should have used different WORDS." missed the point.
i love love love what they're doing with Gephi, especially the ability to generate a collaborative, web based graph UI.
HOWEVER, a word to the wise: I've had a LOT of trouble saving and opening saved files. there's a few tickets open, but I haven't seen any progress. that's sortof a dealbreaker when it comes to doing professional work :/
it's arguably never been less disruptive to switch from DST to EST. the only clock in my life that doesn't auto-sync to some global standard is the timex on my wrist.
this looks like internet cointelpro, honestly. who owns that domain? my money's on koch industries. doesn't seem in keeping with the #occupy movement to require a login to comment on such a post.
https://withportal.dev/
I'm getting a DNS lookup error