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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 03 2012 @ 08:39 AM EDT |
... on Groklaw, digging out the truth in the defense of FOSS
and against monopolies and restriction as opposed to sitting
in an ivory chair looking down your nose with suspicion and
disapproval at R and LaTeX because they don't sound
familiar, along with the an unwillingness to recognize
a) the merits of transparent and consistent coding practices
just because it has a learning curve.
b) the advantages of not using crappily built M$ products
because that's all you know about and didn't care to look
further.
c) the reasons why one would want to use Linux for computing
because no one else you know of uses "Linux (what *is*
that?)"
You are also not suggesting that
d) SAS is somehow "better" (without any justifications or
knowing what R can do)
e) students who use R are somehow not "doing things the
right way" (as in the way you were taught in school in the
60s-80s.)
f) student MUST submit documents in M$ Word because only
then can you "track changes". Who cares if the final version
required by the University is PDF or the fact that LaTeX is
10000x times better at producing consistent typesetting? You
don't want to bend because you want to stick to the "track
changes" habit, come what may. You are not even willing to
comment on a PDF because that is unfamiliar too.
If you really do any of the above things, then I am afraid
you totally deserve the old shrunken title.
/end rant.
If not, you are not even close, because you show all signs
of being vitally young, in favour of learning and freedom
and thus, not shrunken at all. :-)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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