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by douche 9y ago
What reason would the Obama daughters have for being interested in STEM? They are royalty now, with the gates of power and prestige and celebrity opened to them for the rest of their lives. Why put themselves through the work of a STEM educ
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by douche 9y ago
The biggest problem with the NBA these days is that so few players come into the league with solid fundamentals and skills. The rookie age limit that has spawned the whole era of one-and-done college players who bail after March for the dra
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by douche 9y ago
I sometimes wonder if we sometimes self-label ourselves, in general, as being "on the spectrum" just so we can justify getting pissy when uninteresting people interrupt and harass us while we are trying to concentrate on interesti
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by douche 9y ago
Because money. God help my company if I get hit by a bus tomorrow. Until that happens, or they piss me off enough that I go down the road, they are happy to make money off my expertise.
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by douche 9y ago
The platinum rule, of course, is don't do unto others as you wouldn't have them do unto you . Maybe that is too cynical, but it works well as a rule of thumb.
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by douche 9y ago
Like, stupid expensive. Kids, don't ever put yourself in that situation. Call an uber/lyft/whatever.
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by douche 9y ago
Ironically, we are much laxer on those with more responsibility. When was the last time a middle manager or senior executive had to pass a piss test to be employed? It's routine in blue collar work.
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by douche 9y ago
Day to day, it's as often as not Win32 or it's thin .Net wrapper, WinForms.
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by douche 9y ago
VB6 just worked, too. In many ways, it worked better than the current conglomeration of web-dev technologies that replaced it.
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by douche 9y ago
You can park a DirectX context in a WPF window or control. From there it is off to the races, implementing anything you can imagine from scratch.
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by douche 9y ago
Looks cool. How do you set it up?
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Getting burnt with HttpClient(medium.com)
1 points by douche 9y ago|0 comments
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Array Pool in .NET Core(csharp.christiannagel.com)
1 points by douche 9y ago|0 comments
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by douche 9y ago
Holmes was also quite into opiates himself - I seem to remember a Persian slipper that housed his heroin stash, and some incidents of opium smoking.
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C# 7.2 and 8.0 Roadmap(infoq.com)
3 points by douche 9y ago|0 comments
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by douche 9y ago
Most of the time, I feel like it would be easier to write HTML markup to style documents than it is to poke and prod at the Word formatting options. In college, when I was routinely having to write papers that needed footnotes and specific
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by douche 9y ago
The way that the Bible reads today, in English, after countless revisions and reformulations, translations and copyings, is so far removed from the original Greek or Aramaic that it's almost inconceivable that the words on the page are
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The Gassed Pump(thedailywtf.com)
1 points by douche 9y ago|0 comments
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by douche 9y ago
If you removed all barriers on agricultural products being sold to developing countries, their local agriculture would be pancaked by cheap wheat, corn, and rice grown in more agriculturally productive regions.
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by douche 9y ago
This would likely be largely dependent on your birthdate. At various eras, the structure of NBA contracts and the collective bargaining agreement would have a large impact on your expected earnings. There's a window of time in which
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by douche 9y ago
The players and coaches almost certainly have more to gain by becoming the first team to fulfill Moses Malone's promise of "Fo, Fo, Fo" and becoming the first ever team to sweep the entire playoffs, in endorsement deals, futu
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NBA Finals 2017: Warriors could lose more than $22M by sweeping Cavaliers(cbssports.com)
2 points by douche 9y ago|2 comments
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by douche 9y ago
The Geneva Convention is only useful so long as the people with the big guns choose to uphold it. In many respects, it is a relic of early-modern limited war doctrines and archaic aristocratic sensibilities.
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by douche 9y ago
A modern 17" Macbook Pro might be the one thing that would convince me to go over to the dark side. My girlfriend has a 5-6 year old one, and the build quality can't be beat - unfortunately it's reaching the point where it i
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Characteristics of Good APIs(daedtech.com)
1 points by douche 9y ago|0 comments
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An Early Look at C# 7.1: Part 1(infoq.com)
2 points by douche 9y ago|0 comments
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by douche 9y ago
My favorite pet peeve is JS links, that aren't actually <a> links, but spans or divs with click handlers, so there's no way to right-click->open in new tab or ctrl-click->open in new tab. It's like intentionally
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The Insurance Plan(thedailywtf.com)
1 points by douche 9y ago|0 comments
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by douche 9y ago
I can wish for something better. It's frustrating when I look at what desktop applications looked like and ran like ten or fifteen years ago, and how little has appreciably changed now, beside ballooning resource requirements.
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by douche 9y ago
They haven't done anything interesting in 18 or 24 months. They spurned their die-hard audience with the last MacBook pro. Without their massive pile of cash, I'd be worried that my mutual funds are so deep into Apple.

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