food for thought when giving feedback to contributors.
the author reflects on giving feedback in OSS vs corporate.
OSS, you invest in the ppl and give lots of feedback. not in corporate.
and I like this takeaway:
> And so, I’ve learned that a person can absorb only about one piece of feedback per interaction, and then only if it’s labeled very specifically as feedback with the best intentions, and wrapped delicately in a feedback sandwich.
In case you didn't know, the codenames for each release is in reference to the Peanuts comics or films
With initial research efforts from Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Martin Monkman, I helped put the full list of R version names on Wikipedia, so that an ongoing list can be updated and referenced.
@erictleung@hugovk the Zen was always meant to be taken as a bit humorous anyway (cf. the missing 20th principle), so this ROT-13 adds to the joke, but at some point it mutated into something more like "dogma"
"My guess is that AlphaGo’s success forced the humans to reevaluate certain moves and abandon weak heuristics. This let them see possibilities that had been missed before."
a hopeful take on what AI can do to push us to innovate
I'm more of an R programming who uses Python when it fits better.
and being seven years late, I didn't realize the built-in Python virtual environment, venv, got deprecated in 3.6.
apparently now pyenv is recommended. I've luckily used it in the past, but set up time is variable and sometimes not as straight forward, especially on a non-WSL Windows setup.
@isagalaev ah good catch! should've reread it a couple more times. trying to catch up on all these updates after being away for a couple of years is hard.