September 1993. Before then, the internet was primarily a university thing, and in university settings, fall semester starts in September, so you had a whole freshman class getting their first networked computer access and often doing rude things with it, especially in the eyes of the Sys Admins who had to deal with it. The problem was, in 1993, you started having the WorldWideWeb, and thus there would always be an influx of new users who continue to behave in ways Sys Admins consider rude. And that influx never stopped. — TheSeptemberThatNeverEnded

Break on NaN in gdb, or how to detect “not a number” edge cases in C. #clang

  Gomez, Bring It On.

Modern Data Analysis for Economics.

Lot of interesting Stata programs for epidemiology and econometrics. #stata

I happened to finish to transfer 200 Go of data over home wifi to an 8 year old Time Machine. It tooks a night, and part of a day, btw.

Time for Fira Code v3!

Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code. #emacs

Happy to take another fresh look at Kristoffer Magnusson’s nice visualization projects. #rstats #dataviz

The two libraries [Scalaz and Cats] have different styles, and both remain heavily used by portions of the community today. The evangelism has died down, to some extent, but usage remains strong and everyone recognizes functional programming as one possible style in which to write your Scala applications. — The Death of Hype: What’s Next for Scala