Programming Leftovers
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Grants For R Language Infrastructure Projects Available Now!
Round two is here! The R Consortium Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) orchestrates two rounds of proposal calls and grant awards per year to fortify the R ecosystem’s technical infrastructure. We have one key goal: to make meaningful infrastructure improvements that serve the R community.
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Short C program that repeats a string forever
I recently wanted a command that would endlessly repeat a string at the command line. Like the yes command, but without newlines.
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“Out of the Software Crisis”: Dependencies
As Baldur notes, “Low variability opens up its own possibilities.” Dependencies are a definite point of variability, so lowering your dependence on other software opens up its own possibilities, e.g. less risk and more stability. It’s kind of interesting to think about how adding dependencies can give you more velocity, but taking them away can too. It’s trade-offs all the way down.