Light Table

Light Table is is a modern editor/IDE that is almost as flexible as Emacs. It has a lot of potentials.

R beats Python! R beats Julia! Anyone else wanna challenge R?

Some good arguments and, more importantly, evidence here.

R vs Python: Why R is still the king of statistical computing

Here are some good arguments. I particularly like the author's argument regarding the vital role of Rcpp in the future development of the R ecosystem.

LaplacesDemonCpp

This is a young project, but it looks really promising!

The Atom text editor

This new text editor looks promising. Here are instructions of installing on Ubuntu.

Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences

A heavily Emacs-centered workflow, very well-written.

The Big Data Brain Drain: Why Science is in Trouble

Insightful observation and interesting comments here.

How I Hacked Your Router

Good to know this stuff.

C++ is Sugar for LaplacesDemon

This is a much anticipated change to LaplacesDemon.

Fanless laptop

Looks like the next big thing in the laptop industry is fanless computer. HP got the head start on this, looks like Apple is soon to follow. The chance that my next laptop (preferably from Lenovo or Sony) is a fanless one is pretty good.

Upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04

After trying on VMs and old machines, I finally replaced Mint 14 with Ubuntu 14.04 on my workstation. It works well so far: Unity seems to become less annoying, no need to trim my SSD manually, and, the best of all, my USB wireless adapter is working much more smoothly than before, thanks to the new kernel. I agree with some of the recent reviews that Ubuntu 14.04 is a very mature, stable, and a bit boring workstation OS. But being boring is exactly what a workstation OS needs.