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by jason-phillips 5y ago
> the strategic nukes come out and we all die To borrow from the Bronze Age conflicts between the Egyptians, Hittites, et al, you don't want to annihilate your adversary because you still have to trade with them. Wars are just a str
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by jason-phillips 5y ago
> I don’t get many so it doesn’t bother me… Lucky you. I get 300+ emails per day and 15-30 phone calls. As a result, I created very aggressive email filters (hundreds of domains go straight to trash) and phone configuration (non-contacts
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by jason-phillips 5y ago
Brave browser > block scripts toggle button
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by jason-phillips 5y ago
It's always better if you don't explain it. Now Raoul Duke will never again be accompanied by a sense of mystery for me.
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by jason-phillips 5y ago
I believe he's referring to the widely recognized truism where money printer go brrrrr and stonks only go up.
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by jason-phillips 5y ago
> Are there modern-day examples of impressive bootstrapping? JavaScript and Brendan Eich may be considered modernish-day.
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by jason-phillips 5y ago
From "A City is not a Tree" by Christopher Alexander: > It is more and more widely recognized today that there is some essential ingredient missing from artificial cities. When compared with ancient cities that have acquired th
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by jason-phillips 5y ago
> If so, they must have been damn lucky not needing to look for work after they hit 45 or so... Or, are they doing stuff "nobody in their right mind" would be interested in doing, like Cobol or Fortran? I think the key(s), whet
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by jason-phillips 5y ago
> I dont understand why there arent more of them. From my perspective, because they suck. The execution is poor. Your experience may have been better, but mine was one of missed opportunity. The course material was virtually the same, i.
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by jason-phillips 5y ago
This is fair. I cannot discern any justifiable reason to arbitrarily exempt a subset of prisoners from general population.
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by jason-phillips 5y ago
The how and the why are what separates the garden variety codemonkey from the staff/principal levels.