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Forget about watches and chocolate. Switzerland is one the three most industrialized countries in the world. That is, the industrial output per person is one of the highest (if not highest at some moment). Not services, but real things produced. Maybe this is what makes them quite a strong economy. Surely, their culture adds a bit to that.

Is it scalable? I'm not sure if this is the properly framed question. It implies that other nations are not predestined to be like Switzerland. I think the more appropriate question is: what policies should we implement to be like Switzerland?

I'd he happy to suspend (and even offload to swap) some tabs from time to time. Too many times I get almost unresponsive tabs where I want to do something but it is just too laggy due to other tabs occupying the cpu.

I don't get this: "Read The Economist religiously. It will make you better faster". Anybody could explain?

Laverna does exactly the same, it even looks the same :)

What's the difference between Simplenote or notational velocity?

While Evolution clearly doesn't have any "goal" I wonder if we can say that it directs to the goal that is constantly changing (that is, a goal only known once some organism is there)?

Orange juice for breakfast is really without added sugar?

I wonder if there is any perfomance benchmark of this graph shell? Especially on some complex pipelines running huge datasets?

Unless somebody does it well, and it catches, we are going to repeat again and again reinventing UDDI, semantic web services and other past intents...

Yesterday, with the new update my mac was shut down unexpectedly, I haven't seen any warning from the battery indicator :( I hope this is not a default behaviour.

The backdoor aside, but using Skype seems to be a real pain recently. It used to be something that offered unmatched quality and service, but with time passing it is lagging behind. Skype on Mac OS X now starts like in 10 seconds and even the shutdown takes 10-15 seconds (on SSD). Video calls are fine, but the fans are quickly 100%. It's funny but the (long unmaintened) Linux skype seems to be better at video calls.

This news only proves that the Skype codebase must be an unmanageable mess. I can undetsrand that. But also it seems that MS is moving to the web version of skype, in the meantime not taking care too much about the native clients.

The latex demo has blown my mind! How did they do it? I can undesrstand running some shell in the browser, but the whole latex distro? Amazing...

By end-to-end i mean that you can: (1) read data from SQL or NoSQL DB, excel file, csv, JSON through some REST service, etc. (2) process it in R (3) display it to the user through some interactive web interface e.g. using Shiny

It is relatively easy if your app fit the whole loop. I would recommend with some Shiny tutorial to get you started: http://shiny.rstudio.com/tutorial/

But if you need e.g. some stream processing or more complex guis, then R might be not enough I guess.

This!

In my opinion this is where the difference lies: with python you can easily build bigger systems with more flexibility, where your data science code is an important piece. R shines in statistics and you can also produce an end-to-end system, but given that you fit well the R ecosystem and its constraints.

Oh, this driver was really troublesome!

I remember we had once revert to java 6, because we couldn't get connectivity in Java 7 with SQL Server through their JDBC Driver... It took days to figure it out...

I've recently noticed that Facebook is already doing that, check it out.

Wow! Parallel is simply unmatched!

I will work with any data, as soon as it is easily retrieved with some css selector. Otherwise you would have problems using any web scraping tool.

It really looks as easy as it can get. The good part of R is that many R packages are designed in a similar way (highly specialized methods, doing a good job). Combining that with %>% makes you really efficient.

Sure, the specs of this choice shouldn't be called Pro any more I guess.

Couldn't agree more on the article. Recently they put next to us a group of people who is 50% of their time on the phone. While some of them try to speak low, other just yell. It is probably the most frustrating work setup I experienced in my career. It is really distracting.

Very nice article, but the claims are so far from what is practiced in the industry nowadays (see all companies working with tons of data and popping up big data solutions).

So, while it might be perfectly true it somehow misses some big point.

HAha, that what I wanted to ask: how do you check that system in production :)

I think it's the mixture of both. Editing something, pressing f5 and watching new changes getting into your webpage is really great, and a form of instant gratification. This workflow will always be better than for example restarting jetty web server to reload some servlet... Also when you have everything packaged inside you don't worry about runtime libraries. That's another headache in native app deployments. And the third is great ecosystem of libraries, editors, tutorials, snippets, etc. Low entry barrier makes it easy to quickly adopt.

I also wouldn't call the most beautiful, although beautiful it is.

Thanks! I was quite puzzled, as they had this roadmap of having manned mission in like 2 years from now. Now as I learned that they do static fire shortly before lanching, and given that in this moment the astronauts should be already there in the rocket... I can't really imagine this.

Do I understand it correctly? "This was part of a standard pre-launch static fire to demonstrate the health of the vehicle prior to an eventual launch.". So they set some fire before the launch? Why?

I think it has something to do with the "theatre paradox": when someone stands up from her seat, then finally everybody needs to stand up in order to see the show. If we start having a surplus of people with degree, then everybody starts to look for "harder" degrees, better universities or just higher degrees (phd). And you need to have one in order to be successful. Side effects? Look at Google for instance: "They can hire the very best people — so everyone is overqualified." [1]

[1] https://www.quora.com/Working-at-Google-1/What-is-the-worst-...

Definitely but then is is still n * sqrt(n)? Do I have to add sqrt(n) to each n i'm processing? I doubt so.

I think the problem is that at each stage there is different component (sqrt(n)) that comes into play.