Hansi

As a middle manager I can confirm, I have a certain set of standard interview processes I apply but if the candidate is warranted to ask for an alternative approach to assess their skills in condensed time I can accommodate those situations too. Simply asking directly is most likely the best approach, suggesting a route is likely fastest to get an answer e.g. instead of 4x1hr can we do 1x1.5-2hr and reference your code for them to measure your skills overall.

We just use these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07GHZC8FN/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fa...

https://github.com/CredibilityLab/groundhog

Hadley works for RStudio, RStudio now have their own MRAN type mirror: https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/client/#/

In your country/social group. Messanger has a bigger footprint than WhatsApp in some of my social groups in Europe.

Check the other comments on the link? Solution c) is already there?

We've been using these on our Macbooks at home: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07GHZC8FN

I thought about stopping but decided to keep reading. I'm not sure these guys know what ETL Tooling means, some of the entries were just bespoke R script only packages that just extract data into R.

+1 RedHat 7 and 8.

Might be location specific but out of 300+ candidates for 15 positions mid to senior level over 8 years in London recruited using this technique I've only ever had one person turn it down. We ask for fairly simpler requirements and for people to limit themselves to 4-6 hours over the course of a week with a focus on comments and recording their thoughts in a readme to suggest how they'd scale things if it was a real project. We don't really bother with many technical questions outside of the project anymore. It really is the single most important thing to get a glimpse into a persons ability to deliver, let them code at their own time in a setting they are comfortable with and then do a peer review with them on location and discuss the implementation and potential enhancements. The rest after that is generally just team fit and culture alignment checks.

I'm a bit of a outsider looking in being a manager that doesn't code much anymore but why the dislike of Typescript? I really don't see the downside. Transpiling doesn't make it 1:1 anymore but all devs seem to praise it.

I find breaking in two as a bunch convenient since it makes it slightly easier to manage lengths. I do smaller for my daughter (2yo) since she struggles with scooping up the long ones on her own but is fine with smaller bits.

Would team discussions be an option? https://help.github.com/articles/about-team-discussions/

Might mean having to bring people into the project as outside collaborators though if I read that correctly.

Doesn't support anchor links it seems:

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Decoder kF9DKUm9hMdDPUOCFu-QohzySQDx6pLN https://calendar.google.com/calendar/renddabD

The lack of an ISO is a bit anti-enterprise I feel. Working in a bank with firewalls that flag a lot of stuff as false positive blocked items using the builder is problematic. The 2015 ISOs solved a lot of issues for us in terms of building a deployment via SCCM. I'm getting a headache just thinking about trying to get pulling hundreds of packaged executables through the firewall signed off by IT Security.

I feel an ISO including only standard packages from Microsoft itself would solve a lot of issues.

Layout is really crappy around blocked files or corporate firewalls. It feels untested in anything other than a completely open environment because some of the package downloads can fail silently with a fuzzy enterprise proxy. Creating layouts for patches seems dependant on what direction the wind is blowing, I think 2015 Update 3 took about 4 tries to download everything correctly and only way to verify was reading through the logs. Also that one needed a random Windows KB update on Windows 7 which was extra fun.

Better handling for layout around error handling and validation of downloads would be a boon. It would be great if there was a way of verifying an already created layout. Is there any way?

"No prototypes. Just make the game. Polish as you go. Don’t depend on polish happening later. Always maintain constantly shippable code."

I disagree with this so much, prototypes and proof of concepts teach you so much but usually they are crap you will always write it better a second time. Throw away the prototype and re-write it as a much better implementation.

Surprised that Icelandic is being offered. As a native Icelandic speaker; to me it sounds about as good as can be expected with such a service. Isochrony (had to search the dictionary for that one) is a bit off but expected based on the context of phrases / words used to create the samples.

I am no closed to understanding what this is. Everything listed here is already part of Microsoft R Open and the client is just standard RGui: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-r/install-r-clien...

I've been using https://www.google.com/bookmarks/ for years.

Bloomberg developer accounts do not give you a BBG keyboard you just get the fingerprint thingy on it's own and use your own keyboard.

As an Icelandic person living abroad I can only say fuck this fucking shit: "Prime Minister has not resigned - sends press release to international media" http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/politics_and_society/2016/...

But it makes it viable to audio only listeners (be it watching in background or blind).

I use this plugin, I don't think I'd visit as often if I didn't have it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...

I'm assuming you mean the discount window rate, it's not locked to 6%: https://www.frbdiscountwindow.org/en/Pages/Discount-Rates/Cu...

Yes, we looked at Renjin and it's just not what we want, they re-implemented R based off 2.14 and don't do feature parity with that version or newer versions and since the actual analytics code is developed in vanilla R it didn't seem attractive. Also this was a few years back and Renjin as is has sparse documentation and seemingly not too many users and back then the situation on those fronts was worse. To the instance question, I simply mean spinning up a N-amount (usually 4-6) of R processes (there are multiple apps and hundreds of users so we couldn't make it a single linear queue for processing). We mainly use it for optimization calls so we prime the optimization engine in R with the required packages etc and then the R processes just lingers around ready to do an optimization when required.

We have a C# WebAPI in front of R for our use. Each application can either do ad-hoc requests or register itself with the api, reserve N instances of R and a set of packages to be loaded on each and they get enacted as a queue for the app to handle incoming requests. I built the first version using rApache (http://rapache.net/) and then did some testing with OpenCPU (https://www.opencpu.org/) but we had to make it run on Windows and IIS so we built our own in the end. http://deployr.revolutionanalytics.com/ could be a ready made option and seems to be pretty solid but we deemed it to complicated for our needs when we looked at it.

Sorry you are wrong especially about your first example. For the other two yes there aren't built in toolboxes to handle those but it can be done. R has a lot of packages + it's a language so anyone can effectively write anything: https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/

Yes correct, I actully lived in EC1V, there are not a lot of businesses there. But there a whole lot of businesses all over the UK registered with a 'registered office address' with https://www.yourvirtualofficelondon.co.uk/ . Including me when I was running my own company (contracting business, rental agreement where I lived forbade using address as registered office address).

Maybe a few years ago but I work buy side and my phone is recorded 24/7.

OpenFin doesn't quite solve the same use case but it can if your only UI is via browser components and the back end is C#. We use OpenFin in that way and it's a decent product.