Of all the terrible things social media ‘experts’ have done….
corrupting the great Yiddish word ‘maven’ is the worst. Oy gevalt.
View ArticleThe day we make ‘wasting Parliament’s time’ an offence…
…is the day when we get rid of a whole lot of moronic private members’ bills from people who never got the memo about Europe.
View ArticleObjects are the mindkiller
A lot of people seem to have…some sort of philosophy to how they code.1 I don’t have that, yet – I’m a total newb – but I have noticed one principle that seems to underly how I’m writing R recently....
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Lydia’s Community at Scale talk is well worth flipping through. As is this set of slides on the MySQL EXPLAIN function. Ever gone “I really like ggplot2, but I can’t work out how to make it export...
View ArticlePlease shut up, Theresa May
Theresa May has published an article in the Fail on Sunday in which she attacks judges for their approach to Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights and the guidance the government has...
View ArticleOn side-plots and subterfuge
Conversation on IRC sparked my internal gaming theorist; we were discussing System Shock 2, Deus Ex, that sort of game. Brandon has written most of what I have to say on the subject, but there’s one...
View ArticleMy apologies
…for the silence. I have spent the last week or so alternating between (a) work and (b) gurning like a loon at happy. Details to follow at some point.
View ArticleNews and notes
One of these days I’m writing a long rant about why pie charts should never be used. This is pretty much perfect…although not quite as much as this. Everyone should read this paper. David has been...
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