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Update: Unity office death threat was made by a Unity employee (www.polygon.com)

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San Francisco police told Polygon that officers responded to Unity’s San Francisco office “regarding a threats incident.” A “reporting party” told police that “an employee made a threat towards his employer using social media.” The employee that made the threat works in an office outside of California, according to the police statement.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (23 children)

For me the rule that has always worked is "bet everything on open-source". It has always paid off.

When people at uni used Matlab, I learned R (before R-studio even existed) and python. I moved to linux as soon as I could. I never wanted to learn anything MS or Apple specific, or proprietary technologies such as visual studio, excel, vba, c#, SAS. I went on docker ASAP...

Now the world in my field runs on open source tecnologies, and I am the leaders of the "new stuff" wherever company I go.

On the long term learning open source solutions is always a win. Best case scenario it becomes the industry standard, worst case scenario it gives you the know how to master proprietary tools

[–] Afrazzle 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm curious why you chose R as an alternative to Matlab instead of Scilab. Scilab is specifically designed to be a free and open source alternative to Matlab.

For my thesis I was writing some test software and when deciding which language to use Matlab was immediately ruled out due to the cost (and also the extra cost for the toolkits I'd need). I instead went with Scilab which now means that anybody wanting to reproduce my results can do so freely.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Because at the time I needed more the statistical and plotting part. Ggplot was not yet a thing, but R was already pretty nice for plotting and stat.

I was using other, lower-level languages for more intensive tasks, as I was working in high performance computing.

[–] Afrazzle 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes sense, thanks for the response! It is kind of fun to have a mix of the higher level (like R/Scilab) and lower level (which I used Fortran for mine).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We all started with fortran the old times in hpc and scientific computing. Kids nowadays don't know the thrill of retro engineering fortran code! /s

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