I've had a lingering question about the "spike solution" phrase. What's the etymology of this?

For a long time, I thought of spike as in "nailing down some details."

Today, I found this: http://agiledictionary.com/209/spike/

I was wrong. I'm happy to see this explanation.

The phrase appears …

I know it sounds arrogant, but I don't want to share your screen to sort out a Python programming problem. I have two reasons and I think one of them is a good one.

It's both pedagogical and personal.

Personally, I'm often left breathless by demos. Watching the cursor fly …

https://dzone.com/articles/learn-python-overtakes-learn-java I've seen companies making sincere enterprise-wide commitments to doing all data analysis in Python. There's no reason for quants and analysts to struggle with Java. I field one or two questions a week from folks pushing the in-house envelope on data acquisition. I also field …

It appears that there are people who don't recognize SQL as a tradeoff.

Here's a complex two-part question that can only come from folks who firmly believe in the magic of SQL.

The sentence that got my attention was "Python has basically made SQL obsolete as a language for data …

I guess it's like a movie franchise or a series of novels. The first one was popular. So, write a second story with similar characters. You can check find part I here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N2RWMMW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1 and here: https://www.packtpub …

I blog. I write books. I write code. There are profound tool-chain issues in all three of these. Mostly, I'm tired of shabby "What You See Is All You Get" editing.

First. I use this blogger site as well as a Jive-based site at work. They're handy. But. There are …

Just found http://www.lynda.com.

Unlike random YouTube videos, these are professionally edited.

Not everything on YouTube is poorly edited. Some are really good.

Having done a few webcasts for O'Reilly (and I have another scheduled for January 2016,) I know that my "you knows" -- you know -- and my …

Here's an interesting idea: http://www.xmind.net/m/WvfC/ This is associated with the following question: "I've had a hard time finding the Big Picture re: Python, and it makes it difficult ... to proceed and prioritize my efforts without one."

An interesting question: what is the overview or strategy …