Sileni

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by Sileni 9y ago
It helps to drill in basic syntax and increase your speed of thinking in the language. Also gives you an opportunity to practice debugging and optimization on a low complexity system, so you have all the concepts in your head when moving to
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by Sileni 9y ago
Or, that he is, and is following through just to spite you. I really can't tell anymore, but I'm certainly entertained.
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by Sileni 9y ago
That's our jam here in the US. Can't afford $1k/month rent? Sleep in the streets, or get assaulted in an overcrowded shelter. If you're lucky once you freeze off a couple of toes you'll be taken to a hospital, where
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by Sileni 9y ago
And recognize that any work people do while stressed and tired is probably adding enough back end technical debt that you'll be double paying for those hours without a long term gain in progress.
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by Sileni 9y ago
It's not that they don't, it's that they're quite literally less capable of doing so[0]. Bootstraps indeed. [0] : https://www.princeton.edu/news/2013/08/29/poor-concentration...
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by Sileni 9y ago
"At Full Speed with Python" sounds more like an intermediate to advanced book. "Up to Speed with Python" sounds more like what you're trying to achieve.
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by Sileni 9y ago
At a certain point the cycle repeats. Remember, most people believed some form of religion had all the answers at some point. Most of their answers were "accurate enough", in the same sense that anything you read within 30 seconds
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by Sileni 9y ago
RE:2) Anecdotal confirmations: Worked in a large lab that had a pretty good cafeteria, where they would rotate caterers in over time. Lunch meetings were regular, and when there wasn't an actual meeting, I'd grab a co-worker or on
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by Sileni 9y ago
Pretty sure this idea has been sitting in the back of the mind of anyone really thinking about what technology is now capable of. What happens when all of the "drudgery" is taken out of life, and we can't consume any more med
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by Sileni 9y ago
If you watch the movie about his life, "The Theory of Everything", they make it really clear how much she held him together.
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by Sileni 9y ago
Owned a burner in 2006 when I realized my parents were going through my call logs. Thankfully, back then they weren't clever enough to realize they could download my text logs. Considering a smart phone can be bought for the equivalent