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Writing RStudio addins is easy, is fun, and takes just a few minutes! Well, that’s what Hao Zhu from the Marcus Institute for Aging Research told the RStudio Conference recently. It hadn’t even ...

The most copied StackOverflow Java code snippet of all time contains a bug. The admission comes from the author of the snippet itself, Andreas Lundblad, a Java developer at Palantir, and one of the ...