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Unfortunately CH gave in to the US -- look e.g. at the banks, or at the EU, especially DE blackmailing tiny CH to give up privacy.

Iceland is a country worth investigating when it comes to hosting.

R and SQL are two completely different beasts;

you can use one in conjunction with the other;

R is a general programming language with a huge library of mostly statistical analysis routines.

SQL is a way to get data in/out of a database

You might want to use SQL for trivial analyses, and anything more, maybe use R. But you can use SQL from R to get the data.

get users addicted; when it's too painful you buy a bigger more expensive phone.

How does it compare with e.g. slack, which appears popular these days?

Data science is a stupid buzzword. The ideal candidate knows enough about IT to massage data, the more the knows about the domain to investigate the better, and for sure some statistics. Most of all always do sanity checks .. does it make sense? Can it be? Is the data correct?

It is an art. Like writing awesome code, etc. practice, practice, and working with experienced people is key.

The smarter players measure and target accordingly. The rise of RTB and 3rd party companies or your own JS solutions let you cherry pick what you want, or you simply bid much lower (if at all) on traffic you consider not valuable.

This is mostly a problem for unsophisticated players and exaggerated hype originating from players that support tracking view ability, etc.

Looks cute.

why use MSFT in the first place? Really, it is 2015.

if it's really him, than we should support him