Getting started with quantmod
I got quantmod installed on R at work and home couple of months ago. Here are the instructions for installing them from the R command line. install.packages(...
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I’m not a disciplined person. Having bipolar affective disorder doesn’t help but I suspect that even if I didn’t have it, I’d still find any kind of predictable routine or structure uncomfortable or confining.
In order to be as successful as I have been, I’ve had to resign myself to a relentless internal conflict. I impose on myself an unforgiving regimen that ensures a reasonable amount of work gets done (and not just in the studio) every week. At the same time, I struggle to resist the fast shifts of mood, stray impulses and occasional surrender to lethargy that conspire to erode it.
Most days, I achieve a precarious but productive balance. Some days I don’t. Then, nothing at all gets done. When I fuck up, there are always plenty of good excuses. But I’ve learnt that cutting myself even a little slack makes it harder, not easier.
I’m not a disciplined person. Having bipolar affective disorder doesn’t help but I suspect that even if I didn’t have it, I’d still f...
Live the life you’ve dreamed.
Live the life you’ve dreamed. —Henry David Thoreau (via theimpossiblecool)
Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been bullied enough or frightened enough to hold it back. It’s time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must.
Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been bullied enough or frightened enough to hold it back. It’s time to stop complying with th...
Selling ebooks on Amazon Kindle
Today, I got really intrigued by the Kindle Digital Text platform for publishing ebooks. Amazon recently announce that it would increase the royalty paid for...
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstan...
Apple Tablet
I wish Apple could make a computing device that would make Wacom Cintiq redundant. Cintiq behaves like a hardware peripheral made by elves and not like a com...
I have no talent. What I do have is a lot of practice. And I am not talking about occasionally dabbling in Ruby on the weekends. I am talking about the kind of practice where I beat code that isn’t working into submission (though often times the code wins). The kind of practice where all of a sudden I realize that it is 2am and I’m exhausted physically so I should go to bed, but mentally I feel on fire so I let the code have me for another hour or two (I imagine this state to be like a marathon runner or ironman near the end of their race).
I have no talent. What I do have is a lot of practice. And I am not talking about occasionally dabbling in Ruby on the weekends. I am talking about the kind ...
spending of the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet.
spending of the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it reminds me of the E...
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day … you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don’t think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day … you will never be stuck. Always st...