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That. was. awesome.

Didn't the same thing happen with Scribd?

But aren't the mails which contain one-click unsubscribe links also spam because they use it to identify which email accounts are active and sell that information to other marketers?

lack of toolboxes

I think your response here and to the other poster above is quite sound. I also program regularly in Matlab, R, and Python, but when it comes to data analysis, I do find that R is just much more concise than the other two (the data manipulation and statistical analysis tools are more high-level). Learning R and going through its tutorials (the MASS book and actually the S-PLUS Statistics Guides) and learning about functions available to me made me learn a lot more about stats. I sometimes use Matlab for image processing and optimization, or some simple simulation but less and less these days (trying to replace it with SciPy since I use Python a lot in my workflow).

But I also agree that if you're already proficient with Matlab and happy, then maybe you don't need to learn R (though often you can be blissfully ignorant of your possibilities if you are unaware of the vast libraries that another language/environment offers).

YES. I had to relearn misconceptions about R four, five years down the line but the truth is not widely advertised (that everything in R is actually a vector).

times are a-changin'

seriously though, being geek has become cool

contrast steve urkel with blah blah it's all those shows i don't watch but probably the ones you mentioned.

But if it's on the web, doesn't it belong to Google now?

Does this include scp/rsync?

Also similar contents to this book I think:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice:_Why_More...

Your argument is that Linux is the winner because despite all odds, it doesn't suck shit as much as you'd expect it to?