Month: June 2013
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Finally, An Eames Chair That Will Fit In My Office
Kevin Spencer recreated the classic chair at 1:20 scale with a 3D printer. h/t fubiz
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Music is Language
“[T]he most important thing about language is its capacity for generating imagined communities, building in effect particular solidarities.” Benedict Anderson
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Cloud and Assembly Lines – Choose the Right Model
I’m at Red Hat Summit this week talking about cloud with customers and partners, and it occurs to me one of the common metaphors isn’t quite right. The problem with the “Assembly Line” metaphor is everyone thinks of 1907 Ford (“any color you want, as long as it’s black”). And that’s actually a lousy example.…
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Generating Reports in R – Suggestions?
I would like to programmatically generate a report using R. The contents are mostly graphs and tables. I have a working system, but it’s too many pieces. When I hand this off to someone else, it become immediately fragile. Isn’t there a better way? Here are my elements: R script: collection of functions to manipulate the…