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Hetalia: Axis Powers

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“Hetalia: Axis Powers (Japanese: ヘタリア Axis Powers, Hepburn: Hetaria Akushisu Pawāzu) is a Japanese webcomic, later adapted as a manga and an anime series, by Hidekaz Himaruya. The series’ main presentation is as an often over-the-top allegory of political and historic events as well as more general cultural comparisons. Characters are personifications of countries, regions such as Hong Kong and micronations with little reference to other national personifications. Both positive and negative cultural stereotypes form part of each character’s personality.”

-Wikipedia contributors, “Hetalia: Axis Powers,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hetalia:_Axis_Powers&oldid=933897402 (accessed January 10, 2020).

New to me.

Subdivisions by Rush

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R.I.P. Neil Peart. I thought this user’s commentary on Signals was on point:

“[Signals is t]heir best LP. Artists like David Bowie/Lou Reed etc.. are held high for speaking to those growing up thwarted in dull suburban circumstances but Bowie fans have rich parents and they escape soon enough. Signals is for those that stay. Signals is the ultimate teen alienation art work.”

Nick Austin, User Review of Signals, Allmusic.com. September 4, 2016.
Well some will sell their dreams for small desires

 Or lose the race to rats

 Get caught in ticking traps

 And start to dream of somewhere

 To relax their restless flight

A Community is Defined By Its Center and Not Its Periphery

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“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, 2019.

Made me think of a Larry Wall Slashdot interview, question 7, from back in the day.

The tidyverse style guide

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All style guides are fundamentally opinionated. Some decisions genuinely do make code easier to use (especially matching indenting to programming structure), but many decisions are arbitrary. The most important thing about a style guide is that it provides consistency, making code easier to write because you need to make fewer decisions.”

-Hadley Wickham, “The tidyverse style guide.” style.tidyverse.org

Probably the definitive guide for writing R code. See also Hadley Wickham’s Advanced R.