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by jammygit 8y ago
I'm not sure it always makes sense to evaluate company policy in the present tense. Sometimes its like they want to put their arm behind the couch to relax. Then they let their hand rest on your shoulder. Then it creeps down a little f
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by jammygit 8y ago
On the other hand, the clean code can be fixed and updated later on, where the fancy mess sometimes just gets worse. I remember once I found a series of if statements that were so convoluted I needed boolean logic to make sense out of it. I
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by jammygit 8y ago
Americans seem so obsessed with the SAT. Why do test scores matter so much to people? My friends and I used to compete with one another by writing IQ tests and comparing the results. It was sort of fun, but its not like the results meant a
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by jammygit 8y ago
Funnily enough, I was at a programming competition that started just after your post. I'm not sure how relevant it is for work, but its fun. I think people generally grow to the level of competency their environment demands of them. If
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by jammygit 8y ago
I was wondering if somebody could explain for me: are electric cars really that much cleaner? I live in a place where almost all of our energy comes from coal for example. It isn't completely obvious to me how driving a Tesla helps air
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by jammygit 8y ago
I find its all WiFi. On an xps 13 with ubuntu, I get 10-12 hours on low brightness without wifi, but often 4-6 otherwise with wifi. Its really nice for roadtrips.
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by jammygit 8y ago
I have an xps 13 dual booted with ubuntu and windows without any driver issues. Everything works great besides the lousy keyboard and trackpad, and that's all Dell. Actually, there are a few problems: windows can't render fonts cl
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by jammygit 8y ago
You're saying that you trust that contract today, or are you saying that you have always trusted that contract? Its only recently that gmail's contract involved keeping out of your data. I think they also only say they abstain fro
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by jammygit 8y ago
I wonder what it would take for the community to fork a major project in response to a license update by the original company that 'owns' it
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by jammygit 8y ago
It says that Guile is an implementation of Scheme. Would that make it appropriate for a trip through the SICP?
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by jammygit 8y ago
At first glance, it looks like good material. I wish more courses like these charged money though On Udemy, there's a particular course-author I like a great deal (Anthony Alicea iirc) who made a huge difference when I was first learni
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by jammygit 8y ago
Years from now when Linus retires, what will the platinum members of the foundation decide to do with the project? Is it like Apple without Steve Jobs? Him taking time off leads one to wonder about such things https://www.linuxfo
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by jammygit 8y ago
How does Telegram differ from Signal from an end-user point of view?
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by jammygit 8y ago
I didn't realize Anki had decent addons until your post. I accidentally just learned how to use cloze mode too after checking these out, so thanks for sharing! (created an account just to write this)
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by jammygit 8y ago
I used to use supermemo a lot but when I found out I couldn't export my cards (at the time anyway) I got nervous and switched to Anki Does anybody know if the original creator is still in charge? Supermemo.com got reworked really heavi