randyzwitch

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Guitar builder. Contributor to R, Python and Julia open-source packages, sometimes
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Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks for the write-up!

(Note: I work at Posit, but not on the Positron team)

Comment · 2 years ago
Are computer vision models supported?
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Comment · 2 years ago
For sure! It's always great when a new feature falls out of an upstream dependency (in this case, matplotlib 3.6)
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Comment · 3 years ago
Agreed…feels like this is as much a cultural problem as a tech one. Meaning, from my experience at large companies, I feel like those lawyers get off on the fight of who gets to write the terms
Comment · 4 years ago
Not specific to specific examples in the article, I think some of the things people perceive as "bugs" other people see as features or an opportunity to correct past mistakes.

I can remember an example where I suggested automatic treatment of missing values in a stats library, and the library maintainer disagreed. Meaning, my lobbying for Julia to do what R/Python did was seen as "Yes, but that's wrong and we shouldn't promote that sort of treatment". As a business user, I didn't care that it was theoretically wrong, the maintainer as an academic did.

That ends up becoming open-source prerogative. I could do it wrong "on my own time" in my own code...doesn't make either a bug, but a different choice based on perspective.

Comment · 4 years ago
(Note: I'm Head of Developer Relations at Streamlit!)

Thanks, glad you found Streamlit useful! The plan (per the link) is that Streamlit will continue on as an open-source project.

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