https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/flamewar/ Recent content in Flamewar on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Tue, 07 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/06/07/assign-down/ Tue, 07 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/06/07/assign-down/ tl;dr All <- vs = flamewars are nullified forever with the introduction of my new ‘down assign’ operator for the R language: | v Get down I no longer set my calendar by the movement of the Earth around the hottest point in the solar system. I now set it by the recurrent emergence of the hottest take in the solar system: that R’s assignment operator <- is garbage and R users should be ashamed of themselves. https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/11/07/deepfry/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/11/07/deepfry/ tl;dr Now you can use a function to deep fry memes in R. Extra crispy You can make memes in R with packages like Guangchang Yu’s {meme}. You could even post them to Twitter with #RStatsMemes for @rstatsmemes to find. However, it’s no longer enough to present memes as-is. They must be deep-fried to become modern and ironic. It will help people think that your meme is so edgy that it’s been re-saved thousands of times. https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/03/13/assign/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/03/13/assign/ tl;dr I present you a function that warns if an R script contains The Assignment Operator That Shall Not Be Named. Assign of the times So, it’s been confirmed with extremely robust and objective evidence: the left-assignment arrow (x <- 1) is better than equals (x = 1) for assignment in R.1 So, unless you hate democracy, you should protect yourself from aberrant code that uses the cursed symbol.