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Depends on the place, most pubs default to well done yes but dedicated burger places that seem to have been popping up all over London in the last few years seem to mostly default to medium rare.

Just clicked on comments to post exactly the same point although I'm not sure the body would be sufficient, I think a lot of other factors must be in place too.

I was thinking, that looks just like Select2 which I've used a few times and seems it's a more actively developed plugin, inspired by Chosen. Differences discussed here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13575531/what-are-the-di...

Any good pointers on reading material for architecturing something like this? Would be interested in more details.

Is there a benchmark comparison available anywhere?

I finally read it last year and I agree it's excellent. One of the best non-fiction books I've read.

Haha yes, most people know that Lewis is full of hyperbole and took it as that. It was pub chatting subject in finance for a week or two and then faded away

I've been using the bookmarklet from here for a while: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8583275

Basically when there is an article I get to from elsewhere and I want to check if there are HN comments I simply click it and it takes me straight there.

Yes we've tried it, it's not as stable as plain vanilla R and it's not as powerful in terms of dev tools support (mostly productivity wise, might just be because we are used to them) as RStudio, Eclipse+StatET, Notepad++ w/custom language items.

Last time we met with Revolution Analytics they did their demos on a MacBook Pro running MacOSX using RStudio.

Yes please, I work for a big bank and we use VS for C# and F# and Rstudio and Notepad++ and RGui for R. Having one-ide-to-rule-them-all + supported by Microsoft would be a godsend for us.

Already disucssed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8830640

That's not what I said, my point was that labelling it blogspam doesn't seem correct because it's opt-in and a preferred source for articles for many in the R community. And as I said the original link should have been linked to.

I wouldn't call it blogspam since r-bloggers.com is an opt-in aggregator. But yes a link to the original makes more sense.

When I wrote my disertation I used Scrivener: http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php which is a wonderful tool for writing. An expanded open source application similar to that with a good plugin system might be very useful.

Well the 28 day limit covers public holidays as well, maybe they mean in excess of public holidays and therefore cover pretty much every country everywhere?

Nope don't see many of them but some.

I second this, we almost never use brainteasers but they can be useful for seeing how people think about solving problems. Once people have 2+ years of experience it becomes less relevant because it's more useful to talk about actual work they've done rather than some puzzles.

Agree mostly, even when wanting to deliver a perfect solution that's simply not an option because of requirements for speed of delievering results and lack of man power.

My team is a mix of 2 and 3, we have comp sci, math, actuarial, engineering and physics people with about an even split. Oh and one quant dev who was a medical doctor but found programming more fun. So it's all sorts.

Why? Seems to simple. I normally go straight for drop=FALSE the most evil default issue of the language.

Business model is sell to enterprise and consulting: http://www.rstudio.com/pricing/

Why can't they just make all the same features that are on the main web site available in the main app? I use groups a whole lot but I see no need for a separate app... that just means more context switching and will most likely lead to app jumping like main vs messenger does now :/

I don't think I'm seeing the same from the data.

1. It's around 500 per 100.000. There are still plenty of people out there. And that only includes people setting a quit date with an NHS Stop-Smoking Service and quitting within 4 weeks. Not sure if I think that's an accurate measurement of quit rate, more so the efficiency (in-efficiency?) of NHS' SSS.

2. Looks completely flat to me.

3. Seems to be only from well into the crisis and still looks to be around the same level now as 2009 but with a small down trend.

4. No comment really but the about section states that a part of the relevant data is not captured.

6. This is great but just from my sample point of one I don't see that many cycle lanes being added and most people that use a bike regularly clearly have their own rather than using boris bikes. It mostly seems to be tourists and a luck few where boris start and stop stations are conveniently located on their route who use them.

No he's overly paranoid when it comes to backups (if you listen to the ATP podcast this is very aparant) but in this case it's probably justified since there are many things that can go wrong with backups.

This happens to be about once a year. I always find it equally funny each time though.

If it's done via iTunes the space requirement isn't an issue (or at least less of one). I was able to upgrade with less than 1GB free in iTunes. But yes the lack of many people being unable to use OTA upgrades does put a hamper on things.

Yes that's a point I was expecting to be raised after I wrote the above comment as is normal with any Apple post, "Hey there doing great why change anything", but I'd argue that yes things are working out great for them now but it's clearly costing the employees a portion of their personal life and I feel that given how well off the company is it shouldn't be needed.

In the podcast these ex Apple employees also mention being glad to be out of Apple because of issues like this, so provided that they move away from this culture they may see better employee retention for mid tier employees rather than having people burn out and leave the company.

Not included in the transcript is something they mentioned in the podcast is that they feel that the companies management is very much run like a startup with few people in charge sending direct e-mails not only to their direct reports but to anyone within the company.

Seems to me that what might solve some of this e-mail craziness would be to realize better that they are a big company and do more delegation, perhaps to different time zones if they need to have a 24 hour work cycle but more realistically just stop this nonsense and hopefully change the culture to be more logical.

At my company e-mail is something where you expect acknowledgement within 24-48 hours depending on urgency with answers provided on a best availability schedule. Managers also take on fielding a lot of stuff being directed to their reports because they have aggregate knowledge and let's face it distributing a developer for trivial stuff leads to pointless productivity loss.

Having worked in the front office at a JPMo competitor for several years, most people around me certainly hate IT.

This is because our IT is diligent and wants to do things correctly and follow standards and practice. But there is no effort to educate the money makers to this effect, they just want results yesterday. So they bitch and wine about IT being a blackhole where requests go to die. And I agree with them in many cases as someone who's sort of midway between these people.