Hacker News: mslip

New comment by mslip in "Advancing Excel as a programming language [audio]"

mslip — Wed, 05 May 2021 14:43:03 +0000

Something that isn’t PTSD inducing would be better lol

New comment by mslip in "Spyder – a free and open source scientific environment written in Python"

mslip — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 20:28:52 +0000

What wisdom! Thank you senior dev person

New comment by mslip in "Spyder – a free and open source scientific environment written in Python"

mslip — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 19:59:51 +0000

Always enjoyed spyder for its variable explorer.

New comment by mslip in "Groundhog: Addressing the Threat That R Poses to Reproducible Research"

mslip — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:54:25 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by mslip in "Groundhog: Addressing the Threat That R Poses to Reproducible Research"

mslip — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:49:21 +0000

You can specify version numbers in renv, you take snapshots of your dependencies into a lock file and can always restore from there or make a new snapshot.

New comment by mslip in "Groundhog: Addressing the Threat That R Poses to Reproducible Research"

mslip — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:48:12 +0000

Not really relevant but just to note packrat had been soft-deprecated and is superseded by renv, which comes standard with rstudio.

New comment by mslip in "Zynga shuts down FarmVille after 11 years"

mslip — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 12:03:36 +0000

lol that’s actually a great point though, valid criticism should be celebrated.

New comment by mslip in "Trump downplays Russian-linked cyberattack on U.S."

mslip — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 21:24:53 +0000

Hey I replied to your comment in the other thread to address your point.

New comment by mslip in "Trump downplays Russian-linked cyberattack on U.S."

mslip — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 21:14:36 +0000

Right I saw that but his statement was rather short and vague, my point is I haven’t seen them directly cite how it was Russia. Microsoft beautifully described the attack itself in a blog post recently, I’m pretty ignorant with cyber security but I wonder why they can’t show the connection to Russia with more rigor.

New comment by mslip in "Trump downplays Russian-linked cyberattack on U.S."

mslip — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 20:27:50 +0000

Not a Trump supporter, but I’ve been trying to find direct evidence as to this attack being from Russia and I haven’t found anything beyond speculative statements. Even if this attack isn’t from Russia, they’re the best country the US can blame because there are no political repercussions if they’re wrong. We don’t conduct any trade with them (unlike China) and have already laid down heavy sanctions.

New comment by mslip in "Trump downplays Russian-linked cyberattack on U.S."

mslip — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 20:16:18 +0000

So far I haven’t seen any evidence that this attack points to Russia beyond speculative statements. I understand the US looks weak if it doesn’t call someone out though, as the fireye report indicates a nation state was behind this attack. If the US blames China -> political suicide, Iran -> war, Russia -> no consequence.... We are both each others bogeymen.

New comment by mslip in "Ask HN: Where does one search development advice these days?"

mslip — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 15:18:43 +0000

I mean posting a solution regardless if it is accepted still provides utility for others stumbling across the post.

I have like 3 karma on my stackoverflow profile but most of my questions get answered provided it’s tagged well and is formatted well.

New comment by mslip in "Ask HN: Where does one search development advice these days?"

mslip — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 15:15:50 +0000

This! This is saved me so many times when I’ve exhausted stackoverflow.

New comment by mslip in "Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?"

mslip — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 20:19:44 +0000

Heh nice, I don’t know if you like sports but climbing is really fun. Each climbing problem is pretty similar to figuring out a programming problem: breaking something down into sub problems, figuring out how to do each one, and then knitting it all together! This is something I like to do for fun :)

New comment by mslip in "Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?"

mslip — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 15:56:32 +0000

What kind of stuff would you do for fun?

New comment by mslip in "Show HN: RapidFuzz – A fast string matching library for Python"

mslip — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:09:41 +0000

Awesome work! I’m a big fan of fuzzywuzzy so I’ll be checking this out:) Currently I’m split between using fuzzy logic in my backend python code as opposed to it being built into a sql statement (via SOUNDEX() which does matching based on phonetic similarity).

New comment by mslip in "Rsuite – R development and data science platform"

mslip — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 23:23:23 +0000

If you want to look at data frames as you run sections of your code you will have to use r markdown chunks.

New comment by mslip in "Bone marrow was kept in a Stone Age meat locker"

mslip — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:36:29 +0000

Absolutely love bone marrow. Pretty rare I get to eat it though.

New comment by mslip in "Age Discrimination at Work"

mslip — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 14:28:08 +0000

This sounds familiar

New comment by mslip in "Teen Hacker Finds Bugs in School Software That Exposed Millions of Records"

mslip — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:21:29 +0000

That’s amazing. Reminds of a personal finance class I took where we played a stock trading simulation based on prices from the actual market. One of my friends edited the HTML on the games page to make it look like he made millions. Teacher almost bought that one.