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by aczerepinski 11y ago
CMS surveys, deficiencies, and plans of correction are to some extent business as usual for large health care providers. The article doesn't mention what they got hit with so it could be a big deal, or just an isolated incident that a
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by aczerepinski 11y ago
I'm interested in learning React, but brand new to front-end tooling (npm/webpack/etc). When doing this tutorial I got derailed by npm start, and the host of errors it led me through. Does anyone have any advice for learning
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Of course there are outliers. Nobody disputes that Jordan was a 10x basketball player (probably closer to 100x when compared against the true mean and not just among professional players). Nobody disputes that Coltrane was a 10x jazz musici
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Any time I've gotten stuck in learning Phoenix, I've found the community to be generous in offering advice and solutions. The documentation is good, but if it fails (or you just don't know where to look), Slack/irc/
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Loading forbes.com and scrolling to the bottom of the page requires nearly 500 http requests. Anybody willing to share what it's like to work on a project like that? I assume that they employ skilled web developers who are aware of bes
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https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/elixir-lang-talk
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https://medium.com/this-is-not-a-monad-tutorial/interview-wi... That link mentions some of the tradeoffs that Elixir and Scala would have just due to the VMs they run on.
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That stat being buried in the article felt like poor journalism to me. Chipotle is a really popular restaurant, and the article states that 500 people got sick there since July out of (presumably) 24 million total food illnesses during that
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That $750k fact sounds fishy to me. People who self-select into advanced degrees generally possess qualities that are correlated with earnings (intelligence, ambition, rich parents, etc). Does the $750k figure compare that group against sim
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I love Ruby. That being said, if you require response times faster than what Rails & Sinatra can deliver, don't the newer/faster languages make more sense than implementing a hyper-optimized Ruby solution? I would worry that a
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I'm learning Phoenix so I've been on their website a bit lately. I believe Dockyard (the company with an ad on the bottom of Phoenix's site) is supporting the project.
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I don't want to be snarky, but you are basically explaining that things are free if you steal them.
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Peg + Cat is a fairly intelligent PBS kids show. Lots of exposure to math & music concepts.
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There's no way to watch every basketball game for less than $500. LP even blacks out games that it airs on the NBA's own TV network.
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This is for more relevant search results, right?
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If the government forces the big American tech companies to adopt weaker encryption technologies, what's to stop terrorists from rolling their own communication app? Or new tech companies from deploying apps from countries where strong
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Selling products and services all over the world doesn't add value unless you have a business model that allows you to profit from those transactions.
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Right click on it, inspect element, press delete.
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A smart/motivated/curious person can learn an awful lot about ANY subject in ~1000 hours. Are you skeptical about bootcamps, or about mankind's capacity to acquire new skills?
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Bartok and Messiaen are probably the next ones to check out after Stravinsky. In terms of harmoic/rhythmic sophistication, Messiaen still sounds as modern to me as the recent/current orchestral composers (Adams, Carter, etc).
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by aczerepinski 11y ago
There's a lot of great game music out there, but the orchestral stuff is generally derivative of Mahler and Strauss. It's a genre that was plausibly modern 75 years ago, but isn't today. I would love to see games expand beyon
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More than anything else, I'm surprised to see that anyone still cares about CDs and DVDs.
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Think through the business model. $10k * x cohorts per year * y students per cohort doesn't add up to a whole lot of revenue. How many salaries does that need to support? What do rent, insurance, advertising, employee benefits, etc cos
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What is Microsoft's business model then? Bing ads? Kinect + ??? = Profit? (I know I'm phrasing this like a joke, but I'm genuinely curious what revenue driver(s) justify a near $400B valuation)
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This feature is already on Spotify. Just click on "jazz."
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Sometimes it's easiest to illustrate the flaw in a theory by using extreme examples, so please forgive me for the hyperbole. Let's say you have a company with only $100M in discounted future earnings (and no significant balance sh
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In the 90s I bought hundreds of CDs that cost $20-$25 each, inflation adjusted. Now albums are delivered at better than CD quality, and cost only $10. Supporting the music you love is cheaper than it's ever been. Why opt out of it?
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Buffett's letters are always full of praise for his CEOs, and self depricating notes about his own errors. He's aiming for a folksy humility, reminding us that "the world's greatest investor" still makes genuine mis
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"It doesn't matter if the stock is undervalued." Warren Buffett has written the opposite of this numerous times. Paying $1 for something that is worth 80 cents (even if it's your own stock) destroys shareholder value. Th