"'No’ is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you.”-Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals that Protect Us From Violence, quoted in Mark Frauenfelder, "Protect yourself from violence." Book Freak, No. 40. December 31, 2019. "If you … Continue reading Hear My No
Month: January 2020
A Community is Defined By Its Center and Not Its Periphery
"My sense is that you need to build up a nucleus of people who know each other and who can network and support each other [in developing a proficiency in a technology with the complexity of R.]"—Hadley Wickham in an interview with Dan Kopf, "What’s next for the popular programming language R?" Quartz. August 17, … Continue reading A Community is Defined By Its Center and Not Its Periphery
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