Programming – Wisdom And Wonder

Homoglyphs and Security

Unicode homoglyphs at best make it easy to play jokes on other programmers and at worst make it easy mislead users.

Mechwarrior, Programmer, Investor

One programmer’s journey from MechWarrior, to Programmer, to Investor.

SAS University Edition Setup

Today I set up SAS UE on VMWare Fusion. Everything went fine.

It allowed 4 GB of RAM allocation.

SAS UniversityEdition:Installation Guide for OS X

Requirements

OS: OS X 10.8+, 64bit
Allows: 2 CPU
Recommends: Allocate max \frac{1}{2} of available RAM to VM
Browser: Chrome

Using VMware Fusion

Verified integrity of the download
Extracted archive to
```
mkdir ~/VMWare
```

Created the UE working directory

mkdir -p ~/git/github/sas/SASUniversityEdition/myfolders/

Booted up, logged in, wrote hello-world.sas.

Additional Configuration

Settings
- Processors & Memory
  - Processors: 2 processor cores
  - Memory: 4096 MB RAM
- Other
  - Isolation
    - ☐ Enable Drag and Drop
    - ☐ Enable Copy and Paste
Linefeeds
- FYI

SAS University Edition Link Roundup

Note: I just set it to 4 GB of RAM and it worked fine

(use-package smartparens-config :ensure smartparens)

<2017-07-21 Fri>

Here is the correct way to load it:

(use-package smartparens
  :ensure t
  :config
  (setq sp-show-pair-from-inside nil)
  (require 'smartparens-config)
  :diminish smartparens-mode)

BlueSky Statistics for R

[BlueSky Statistics is a] Fully featured Statistics application and development framework built on the open source R project

Basically it makes the first 80% of the stuff that you want to do with R very easy.
The very cool part is that you get the R output so it is another great way to learn R itself.

SAS and WPS

SAS (Statistical Analysis System; is a software suite developed by SAS Institute for advanced analytics, business intelligence, data management, and predictive analytics.

The World Programming System, also known as WPS, is a software product developed by a company called World Programming. WPS allows users to create, edit and run programs written in the language of SAS.

MATLAB and Octave

MATLAB (matrix laboratory) is a multi-paradigm numerical computing environment and fourth-generation programming language.

GNU Octave is a high-level programming language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a command-line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with MATLAB.

R and S-PLUS

R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics.

R is an implementation of the S programming language combined with lexical scoping semantics inspired by Scheme.

S is a statistical programming language developed primarily by John Chambers and (in earlier versions) Rick Becker and Allan Wilks of Bell Laboratories.

S-PLUS is a commercial implementation of the S programming language sold by TIBCO Software Inc.

Milwaukee SAS Meetup

Milwaukee has a great SAS meetup. Zeke and the community are very nice.