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by jgwil2 6y ago
Every variety of a language is a dialect; what OP means is that there is no governing body determining what constitutes "standard" English, like the Académie française. Rather, there is an informal standard used by the media and e
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by jgwil2 6y ago
The correct pronunciation is closer to 'coke', as noted in the article. EDIT: the article is somewhat ambiguous on the subject, and I guess it's a bit subjective, but to me 'coke' sounds much closer to the French th
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by jgwil2 6y ago
> Hint: in French it is better to avoid spelling out the letter 'Q'. For those who are wondering, 'Q' in French is pronounced the same as the word 'cul,' meaning 'ass.'
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Does it even make sense to describe it as a "threshold" in that case? A threshold implies the existence of some kind of vertex, but what you're describing just sounds more or less like a straight line.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Fair enough. I guess in your place I would just be very interested in knowing how I performed compared to other people working in the field, but I can't blame you for not wanting to mess with a good thing either.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
2 weeks' work in 2 hours seems borderline unbelievable. Do you just radically overestimate the amount of effort every ticket will take? How do your coworkers/manager not push back? I can see accomplishing that much work in 1/
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by jgwil2 6y ago
IMO being "10x" or whatever is not really about productivity or skill, or rather, those are necessary but not sufficient. What it really comes down to is doing the work that makes other developers more productive. In other words,
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by jgwil2 6y ago
> Suffice to say, I had both Thunderbird and Gmail open and used either one depending on the task I needed to complete. Genuinely curious as to what people cannot accomplish in the Gmail web client (or any major web client for that matte
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by jgwil2 6y ago
What is this article even supposed to be? Shoehorning a bunch of seemingly unrelated grievances against asylum seekers, Hollywood celebrities and political liberals into an article ostensibly about passover? I'm confused and deeply uni
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Chip-8 emulator in javascript using Blessed: https://www.taniarascia.com/writing-an-emulator-in-javascrip...
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by jgwil2 6y ago
I think that's the thing that people on this thread aren't getting: he's not making an argument!
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It's not clear that this was the only sense in which the word "right" was being used. Language is sometimes ambiguous like that, regardless of the intentions of the author.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
I think it's more education level in the states; "working class" => high-school graduate or less education.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
With respect, you are the one in violation of the guidelines: > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Why do numbers always get removed from titles here? I think four years in solitary gives a significantly different vibe than this editorialized version.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Wouldn't you just "negotiate" by offering to hire at the next level?
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Agree, and would just add that interface inheritance can be useful too and is not the quagmire that implementation inheritance is.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Interesting. I didn't mean it as a gotcha, just another example of the phenomenon under discussion. Maybe the "surprised the article didn't mention" formulation is not the way to go.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Sorry for the sarcasm. I just meant it as one additional data point on the subject of the article. Not to get too off topic, but I got snippy because I just don't understand what standards comments are sometimes held to. Mine may not h
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Yeah okay, so I guess it's of zero interest to anybody who clicked on an article about the Latin neuter. Thanks for the feedback.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Because the article is about Latin?
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Not gonna lie, that's kind of an insane thing for a tennis instructor of children to do.
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In modern German the particle man is a general or unspecified subject, like English one or French on .
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Surprised the article didn't mention the Spanish definite article lo , which can be paired with a masculine adjective to form a nominal phrase meaning the abstract notion of the adjective: lo mismo - the same [thing], lo bueno - t
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by jgwil2 6y ago
>>There are actual consequences to people. >No, there aren't. No child is being unknowingly radicalized by inappropriate jokes (except maybe as a response to the twits taking up arms against them). OP already provided an examp
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by jgwil2 6y ago
You're not arguing in good faith so I shouldn't bother responding to you, but here goes anyway. The ethics of eating animals has nothing to do with "imposing ones [sic] personal opinions regarding food on others," and ev
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I think high production value is probably decently correlated to content; after all, people usually won't invest in something they believe to be low-quality. So in that sense it may be good enough a filter for a world awash in crud.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
I think it's a safe assumption to make that the chick's suffering in the egg will be less than or equal to the chick's suffering at one day old.
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*sustainable and _ethical_ way to produce or obtain it. Yeah, that's what the article is about.

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