Hadley Wickham

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  • Domain-Specific Languages Liked

    Partly because of another book that nearly made it onto my list: Domain-Specific Languages by Martin Fowler. It talks about the idea of writing a small language inside another language, to express ideas in a specific domain

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  • Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace Recommends

    This book gave me the tools to analyze a text and identify the reasons why it doesn't work, for example stating the topic of a paragraph only in the middle of it. I found it very useful to consciously analyze my own writing.

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  • The Art of Readable Code Liked

    What I liked about this book is that it gives you a series of techniques to make that smell go away.

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  • The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master Recommends

    This is about the craft of software development, and thinking about how to produce good code. As the name suggests, it's a very pragmatic and hands-on book. It really helped me on my journey as a software engineer, to be able to write quality code day in and day out, and be confident that it's going to work correctly.

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  • The Algorithm Design Manual Recommends

    To me, this book is an illustration of the power of names. Today, in the era of Google, if you know the name of something, you can find out about it with a simple search. But if you don't know of what you're looking for, it suddenly becomes much harder to find it. Having in the back of your head the names of common algorithms that help you solve problems is really powerful.

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  • Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming Liked

    Another similar and also interesting book is Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming, which explains all the models of computer languages and how they fit together.

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  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Recommends

    But this book is very useful for somebody like me, with experience in high-level engineering languages, like VBA, PHP and R. They're incredibly useful languages, but ones that computer scientists generally disdain, because they're not theoretically pure or beautiful. This book shows you how languages can be constructed. The most valuable thing it gives you is confidence and knowledge to go and create your own programming language.

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  • Echofon Uses

    I tweet from Echofon, but pretty much only read #rstats related tweets.

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  • Dropbox Uses

    I keep big datasets and shared files in Dropbox - we have a teams account, so I have 1 TB (!) of storage there.

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  • Arq Uses

    I use Time Machine + an external HDD for local backups (I've given up trying to use it over wireless), and Arq for remote backups to S3.

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  • Wordament Loved

    My current favourite iPhone game is Wordament.

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  • Keynote Uses

    I present from Keynote and loathe Beamer.

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  • Beamer Disliked

    I present from Keynote and loathe Beamer.

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  • GMail Mixed on

    I use Gmail, but every UI change in the last year has made me like it less.

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  • Adium Mixed on

    I use Adium for chat, because you can make it v. minimal, but Google's crippling of XMPP has made less useful and I have to use Gchat as well.

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  • Stayfocusd Liked

    Stayfocusd keeps me (mostly) focussed during the work day, and keeps me from distractions like Hacker News and The Old Reader.

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  • RStudio Uses

    I live mostly in Chrome, the Terminal and RStudio/Sublime Text 2.

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  • Timbuktu messenger bag Loved

    Outside of computing, I love my Weber Gold grill, my KitchenAid mixer and my Timbuktu messenger bag.

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  • KitchenAid mixer Loved

    Outside of computing, I love my Weber Gold grill, my KitchenAid mixer and my Timbuktu messenger bag.

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  • Weber Gold grill Loved

    Outside of computing, I love my Weber Gold grill, my KitchenAid mixer and my Timbuktu messenger bag.

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  • IKEA POÅNG chair Uses

    I mostly program sitting in an IKEA POÅNG chair.

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  • Shure SE215-K Uses

    I have Shure SE215-K headphones, but my electronics recommendations aren't very interesting since I usually just read the wirecutter and order whatever they recommend ;)

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  • MacBook Pro Retina Loved

    15" MacBook Pro Retina, 2.6 GHz, 16 gig RAM, 500 gig SSD (only half full). I couldn't live without SSD or Retina.

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  • r-pkgs — Building R packages 5 Sept
  • available-work — Scrape Weston Lambert's available products 5 Sept
  • iah-wait-time — Scraping IAH security wait times 5 Sept
  • cran-deadlines — This repo processes the CRAN deadline information made available in tools::CRANpackagedb() and makes it avaialble as a website at . 5 Sept
  • houston-pollen — Scrape Houston pollen data 3 Sept
  • data-diff — data-diff compares two Parquet files and emits a semantic diff as a compact, operation-oriented summary. 3 Sept

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  • r-internals — Documentation for R's internal C API 31 Aug
  • adventure-works — A data dictionary for the AdventureWorks2014 relational dataset, served from the CTU Relational Dataset Repository's public MariaDB instance. 1-download.R — downloads all 71 tables… 10 Aug
  • dabstep — The DABstep (Data Agent Benchmark for Multi-Step Reasoning) dataset from Adyen. The dataset contains synthetic payment transaction data along with fee rules, merchant profiles, and 450 benc… 6 Aug
  • otters 6 Aug
  • foodbank — USDA Food bank data 6 Aug
  • contoso 4 Aug
  • loan-application 4 Aug
  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs 9 Aug 2018 Recommends
  • Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming 9 Aug 2018 Liked
  • The Algorithm Design Manual 9 Aug 2018 Recommends
  • The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master 9 Aug 2018 Recommends
  • The Art of Readable Code 9 Aug 2018 Liked
  • Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace 9 Aug 2018 Recommends
  • Domain-Specific Languages 9 Aug 2018 Liked
  • MacBook Pro Retina 22 Oct 2013 Loved
  • Shure SE215-K 22 Oct 2013 Uses
  • IKEA POÅNG chair 22 Oct 2013 Uses
  • Weber Gold grill 22 Oct 2013 Loved
  • KitchenAid mixer 22 Oct 2013 Loved
  • Timbuktu messenger bag 22 Oct 2013 Loved
  • RStudio 22 Oct 2013 Usestheir own
  • Stayfocusd 22 Oct 2013 Liked