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Finally filling our raised garden bed today. Expecting load of compost any minute.

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@joshix I missed this one at the time; yes, I was thinking social and economic success too. Now I'm thinking fried breakfast.

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Time for the pub. Hope it's still sunny outside.

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@jarich Manga stats are awesome, thanks! Unfortunately, my problem in this case is that the stats wonks can't agree how to analyse things.

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@joshix But Shuttleworth is the leader of a _community_. I don't think it's a stretch to see his language as divisive.

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I should have tagged that last notice #neverwantedtohavetotrytounderstandstatistics

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Each time I think I understand the state of disagreement re stats in machine learning, I discover a new angle.

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/me lets @joshix return to tech discussion.

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@joshix "Your code sucks," isn't really constructive but I'd accept it any day over "You're a woman so I'm not going to listen to you."

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@joshix It's about being respectful, which is reasonable I think, rather than fake nice.

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It's about being respectful, which is reasonable I think, rather than fake nice.

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@joshix And I know, don't call you Shirley. Sorry.

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@joshix Surely you've seen others affected by someone else's opinion though? You know it happens, surely.

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@joshix I also don't disagree that much software aims for complete. It's not just code that comes from large communities though.

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@joshix I'm certainly not saying simple, correct, and complete should be ignored, just that I think there is more to "success" than that.

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@joshix Simple, correct, and complete code that isn't used may as well not have been written (barring for education).

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/me does wavy fingers around "succeed" and "more than".

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@joshix Would you agree that for a project to succeed, it has to be more than code?

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@joshix I like having a community. I think it's useful to argue about what's best (though it should always end in code, not hot air).

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@joshix It seems we have different ideas of what an open source project should be.

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@joshix You seem to be saying that because _you_ only care about the code, there isn't a problem.

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@heptat I think you're right.

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If I find a citation error in a 10-year-old PhD thesis, and I've spoken to the author once, should I let him know ?

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affinity to ? affinity with ? affinity ?

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I'm having a strange affinity to sitar at the moment.

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@pfctdayelise That's an impressive record. Well done!

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Just stumbled across an explanation of the whole imma let you finish thing. Working hard today.

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Web application security: Testing for vulnerabilities - http://www.ibm.com/develop...