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gorena
11y ago
What was the business model for this? Get a lot of users and get bought like Instagram? $40m for $4m seems like a great return for something that doesn't have revenue.
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gorena
11y ago
> "The parseInt() function parses a string argument and returns an integer" This seems... factually incorrect? Shouldn't it say "a double"? (or a "number", which just means "double" in JS) It
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gorena
11y ago
In the first case, any sane static language will use type inference, so you won't have to write out "int foo", just "let foo" or equivalent. (I'd also argue that any sane static language would disallow or at le
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gorena
11y ago
Depends on the relative value to the rest of the course, I suppose. If you've been acing every test and homework you can be relatively confident you'll do well - at least, this was my experience in college. I didn't have many
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gorena
11y ago
Well, rich students don't need good grades since they'll just live off their trust fund, I suppose? (or get a job at daddy's hedge fund)
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gorena
11y ago
This assumes you haven't already maxed out the GPA value for the course. If you already have a 92 (I went to a school that didn't have "A+", YMMV), there's no reason to increase your grades, and anyone else increasi
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gorena
11y ago
This is not necessarily true. If you're already a good student, this devalues your GPA, mostly due to the generally awful GPA system. Assuming your school considers everything above a 92 to be a "4.0", if you're alread
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11y ago
It's all sort of irrelevant anyways, since if you wanted to kill a bunch of people, you could just suicide bomb the giant line of people that now forms due to all of these "security" procedures.