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811.
by 300bps 7y ago
I don't believe programming should be taught in school until late Why do you believe this? Speaking for myself, I learned to program in three programming languages by 11 and I think it was very helpful.
812.
by 300bps 7y ago
My initial reaction was the same as yours. The fact he wrote this up gives me hope he did this more to raise awareness to how much of a problem this is. He was asking for something he was probably not entitled to, was open and honest about
813.
by 300bps 7y ago
Not really. They were profitable, they just invested heavily in infrastructure (warehouses) and developing new services (AWS). Amazon lost about $2 billion in their first six years of operations. And Walmart's online presence would b
814.
by 300bps 7y ago
OP created a really neat app but I agree with all your dates. I got my first modem in 1985 and started running my own BBS in 1986. By 1992 I lost interest in the BBS world and moved onto the Internet. By 1995 I had a permanently on ISDN 1
815.
by 300bps 7y ago
What a waste of a company. Worse than a waste - their wording gives a false sense of security where none should exist.
816.
by 300bps 7y ago
Red Cross has an amazingly informative site on blood type: https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/blood-types.html
817.
by 300bps 7y ago
Nobody at the office seemed to understand here what my objection was. Of course not. Because the rest of us were writing, "HERP DERP" in the signature line and moving on with our lives.
818.
by 300bps 7y ago
I also see CERN as an institution that is willing to hire the devs needed to maintain / support a project. I didn't see where CERN said how much the licensing costs were per year but they did say that their MAlt project is a cos
819.
by 300bps 7y ago
in what sense is this "512 bytes"?...The source code appears to be about 4k The source .asm file is about 4k, most of which consists of comments. The rest is assembly language code with things like: mov ah,al That
820.
by 300bps 7y ago
There are probably over 100 IRC clients that don’t require arcane commands and you certainly don’t need to keep your computer on all the time. mIRC is an IRC client that has been around for 24 years and makes IRC very easy. I stopped using
821.
by 300bps 7y ago
reddit is uniquely designed to maximize time wasting. HN gets pretty boring for me after 15 minutes. reddit just keeps it interesting all day long. From my early days on BBSes to Usenet to IRC to Slashdot to digg, etc I’ve never witnessed
822.
by 300bps 7y ago
Signed up for Azlo just recently after keeping money in my personal, no big deal just makes taxes a little harder. That actually is a big deal. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/personal-liability-p... Comming
823.
by 300bps 7y ago
You can usually plot people's beliefs on what deserves punishing imagery with this convenient formula Similarly, you can usually plot people's feelings on cigarettes with: Addicted: rationalizes their use Not Addicted: doesn&#
824.
by 300bps 7y ago
You could say the same about cheese, coffee, cars, alcohol, etc. No. Cigarettes have no positive purpose. They are 100% negative and a society is well served by discouraging their use. Everything you listed has a positive purpose with t
825.
by 300bps 7y ago
Similarly, the doctor who discovered Prostate Specific Antigen regrets that is used to screen for prostate cancer because of its inaccuracy, questionable benefits and substantial harm created by biopsies and treatment of prostate cancer: h
826.
by 300bps 7y ago
my hands were showing early signs of repetitive stress I learned to type 37 years ago and type 160 WPM with 100% accuracy and have the www.typeracer.com profile to prove it. About 15 years ago I started having RSI symptoms and ended up sl
827.
by 300bps 7y ago
It's really sad thinking how kids these days totally miss the wonder of the early internet. And before that, the wonder of bulletin board systems. I got my first modem in 1985!
828.
by 300bps 7y ago
the hardest thing is hiring reliable people...They are busting the CWA, period. My father in law was a linesman for AT&T, then the various Bell companies then Verizon for 30 years. He started when he was 21 and retired when he was 51
829.
by 300bps 7y ago
But now this fucking "right to drive" thing is actually becoming a fucking reality. 1.25 million people die per year from auto accidents in the world with as many as 20-50 million additional people injured or disabled. Source:
830.
by 300bps 7y ago
The first two sentences of the article sum up the announcement and eliminates most of the confusion: Today, we’re announcing that the next release after .NET Core 3.0 will be .NET 5. This will be the next big release in the .NET family.
831.
by 300bps 7y ago
We make laws. We have police, and tax authorities. Google finance said google made $40.42bn. The rate is 25%. Gives us $10.1bn. Your post is very insightful. The only thing I’d add is that when you have a $10 billion tax bill that you ca
832.
by 300bps 7y ago
“Adverse possession” laws would likely be triggered even if the treaties were invalidated. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession
833.
by 300bps 7y ago
You might be a bozo. He might be a bozo. You both might be bozos. Or maybe you are both pretty good and both just bad communicators. This should be a checklist of possibilities to consider anytime there is office conflict.
834.
by 300bps 7y ago
There are so many books dedicated to this topic. I’ve liked The War of Art and Solving the Procrastination Puzzle. I think you have the right answer - discipline as opposed to motivation. Now you need to develop it.
835.
by 300bps 8y ago
I learned programming from books like The Waite Group's Turbo-C Bible around 1989. In trying to teach my oldest son programming through using modern books, it seemed much more difficult. IDEs and languages change so rapidly that book
836.
by 300bps 8y ago
Article didn’t seem to spell out the math on the methodology being reported on. Essentially they’re saying someone would need to earn $17.90 per hour to afford a one bedroom apartment. This is apparently calculated by taking the number $93
837.
by 300bps 8y ago
This is just addiction peddling. I think humans spent the 20th Century learning how to live with the availability of unlimited sugar and fat. I could easily consume 10,000 empty calories per day. But instead I’m eating a bag of fresh org
838.
by 300bps 8y ago
IP addresses are fundamentally 32 bit numbers. The a.b.c.d format is just for ease of use on humans and as the tip in the sidebar shows has its own shortcuts. But there are several formats that most operating systems support such as decim
839.
by 300bps 8y ago
Original link is a 404 because of the trailing slash. Good link here... https://m.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/A-cure-for-cancer-Israeli...
840.
by 300bps 8y ago
Technically savvy people can think of lots of ways to overcome technology. It’s easy to get hung up on the problems with something new while ignoring the problems of current systems. In addition to what you said, people often leave mechani

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