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kldavenport | 3 years ago | on: Clarus returns home in macOS Ventura

Am I the only one with memories of clicking it over and over again: "eep!,eep!,eep!,eep!,eep!"?

kldavenport | 3 years ago | on: Shimano Forces Hammerhead to Remove All Di2 Related Functionality From Karoo

Is Shimano doing this because SRAM (a competitor) bought Hammerhead? Makes me skeptical we will ever see Shimano STEPS battery % and mode on the Hammerhead. Hammerhead sells an Android powered bike computer with a great set of features and UX compared to the legacy brands that have dominated the market forever (Garmin, Bryton, Wahoo).

kldavenport | 9 years ago | on: Amazon Restaurants

So far it looks to have a better web and mobile interface than postmates and grubhub.

kldavenport | 9 years ago | on: Amazon Elastic File System – Production-Ready in Three Regions

Pricing looks competitive https://aws.amazon.com/efs/pricing/ I wonder if this helps those who perceive S3 as vendor lock-in since it replicates a traditional file system.

kldavenport | 10 years ago | on: Why Do Employers Rarely Offer Explanations to Rejected Candidates?

This was my experience as well. It was refreshing.

kldavenport | 10 years ago | on: Why I use ggplot2

A fantastic set of APIs with Matplotlib under the hood: Seaborn

Http://stanford.edu/~mwaskom/software/seaborn/

kldavenport | 10 years ago | on: Ggplot2 version 2.0.0 released by Hadley Wickham

seaborn, bokeh, pandas' built in methods, and plotly fill in the ggplot gap for me.

kldavenport | 10 years ago | on: Introducing the new Google+

Amazon's UX designers feel the same way. G+'s card layout does not make it easy to infer what's the latest vs the most commented on item and what the logic is behind it's positioning laterally. I think basic gestalt principles in cognitive science would support the problem with laterally adjacent but vertically edge overlapping tile placement.

kldavenport | 11 years ago | on: Hamburg is burying the Autobahn and putting parks on top

The homeless have moved back into the I-5 Colonnade and the proximity of Duthie Hill leads most people away from the city for their rides.

kldavenport | 11 years ago | on: Dataframes – Julia, R, Python

Glad they added .query() to Pandas in .13. In general I find the methods in Pandas/NumPy much more consistent with general programming constructs than most of what I see in R. No doubt Hadley has bolted on a lot of great functionality to R, but the Rcpp dependency/GPL license is a turn off.

kldavenport | 12 years ago | on: Chat Wars

Another great piece from n+1.

kldavenport | 12 years ago | on: Giving Away Our Recommendation Engine

Is this better or similar to Hue?

kldavenport | 12 years ago | on: What Seems to be the Problem Here?

n+1 produces quality articles, check out http://nplusonemag.com/bad-education

kldavenport | 12 years ago | on: “Facebook turned me down” (2009)

Looks like he won't have to worry about working for a living anymore...

kldavenport | 12 years ago | on: Why I'm Betting On Julia

Check out the Python JIT compiler NUMBA. It compiles annotated Python and NumPy code to LLVM (through decorators). It's been wicked fast for my use cases: http://numba.pydata.org/

kldavenport | 12 years ago | on: “MongoDB is dead. Long live Postgresql”

Their use case didn't seem especially Mongo-centric, I wonder why they chose to go down the road. We used MongoDB TokuMX to improve performance: http://www.tokutek.com/resources/benchmark-results/tokumx-be...

kldavenport | 12 years ago | on: Shiny: Easy web applications in R

Joe Cheng and the rest of the team at RStudio have done an excellent job with this. It allows a statistician to spend their time on scripting the analysis instead of web development. Combine this with knitr/pandoc and you have a great toolkit.

kldavenport | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: What other major could pair well with CS?

CogSci depending on the school.

kldavenport | 12 years ago | on: Programming languages to watch: LiveScript, Julia, Elixir

What about R?

kldavenport | 12 years ago | on: BI for the under 40 crowd

It's hard to find a BI solution that has kept up with all the pure analytics platforms. I'm really interested in what RStudio is doing with Shiny.