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dpitkin··on Is it true that "R is the easiest language to speak badly"?
The combination of R as a statistics dsl, a derivative of the S language plus the majority of users who are not writing complicated software applications makes for a lot of diversity in syntax for better or worse.

There are also simple ways to do things i.e. qplot and then the regular way ggplot.

dpitkin··on Data visualization of yahoo homepage traffic
Interesting that it looks outsourced by the Y! marketing department to @periscopic. Still it is a fancy html5 page showing what Yahoo does each day for their advertisers.
dpitkin··on How Apple is sabotaging an open standard for digital books
freshhawk "you get used to it" is what a good friend told me about the troubles with using only apple products, did you see how much money they made
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