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Hello world, I'm pretty new to computer code: for example, I consider it a small victory that I (all by myself!) managed to ssh into the server at my lab from home and copy a file onto my desktop. Be gentle. I have primarily used R for running some pretty mid-level statistics (creating distance matrices, manipulating graphs for pretty figures, etc). I'm working through Bolker's

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> wrote: >> >> OK, but should one developer make an extra effort or the bazillion >> people affected by it? > > That developer is either being paid by a company with their own motivations or is scratching his own itch. You have no claim on his time. Agreed - but I'm not going to say I like his

...deploy them, and that?s what they do from that point forward. > > And those things > span much longer that 10 years. If you are very young you might not > understand that. My first look at the Internet was on a VT102. I refer not to a terminal emulator, but to something that crushes metatarsals if you drop it on your foot. I think I?ve got enough gray in my beard to hold my own in this conversation. >> And yet, 90% of new software continues to *not* be developed in Java. > > Lots of people do lots of stupid things that I can't explain. Just because you can?t explain i...

...ones who want change design the next release. >> And those things >> span much longer that 10 years. If you are very young you might not >> understand that. > > My first look at the Internet was on a VT102. I refer not to a terminal emulator, but to something that crushes metatarsals if you drop it on your foot. > > I think I?ve got enough gray in my beard to hold my own in this conversation. So, after you've spent at least 10 years rolling out machines to do things as fast as you can, and teaching the others in your organization to spell 'chkconfig' and use...