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by jgwil2 6y ago
React's documentation calls it a library but we don't have to. I think the reason people go back and forth on this is that there are a couple definitions of framework out there. A lot of people consider it to be a sort of continuu
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Japan helps 87 companies to ‘exit China’ after pandemic exposed overreliance(washingtonpost.com)
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by jgwil2 6y ago
It seems to me there are at least some assumptions we can safely make about communication if there's any possibility of communication at all: the bit as the basic unit of information, sequential ordering, counting, etc. If aliens don&#
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23899408
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North Atlantic right whales now officially 'one step from extinction'(theguardian.com)
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by jgwil2 6y ago
This inversion is a bit misleading: being able to work is how people achieve financial independence, and if society discourages women from seeking financial independence the result is obviously an imbalance of power between men and women.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
> Americans still hunger for news that is accurate, opinions that are vital, and debate that is sincere. The market would suggest otherwise.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Maybe if he hadn't already squandered all of the US's international credibility before making this move it would have been a bit more effective.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
I think it depends on the project and the culture of the team. If they're there they can be handy, but it really only works if everyone is disciplined about it so it becomes a reliable source of information. If, on the other hand, half
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Sweden Has Become the World’s Cautionary Tale(nytimes.com.)
3 points by jgwil2 6y ago|1 comments
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That's just, like, your opinion man.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
How to Prove It by Velleman [0]. Should help with the increasing emphasis on proofs. [0] http://users.metu.edu.tr/serge/courses/111-2011/textbook-mat...
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Genocide means destroying an ethnic group by killing all of its members - it is in no way generalizable to "kill them all." Surely you can see why that's a poor use of language (even discounting the potential to offend). Save
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Hate speech doesn't mean messages of hatred in general, it means it's targeting a persecuted group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Interesting point, and a good reminder of how anglocentric the computing world is in some ways. Do localized IDEs typically take this into consideration?
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by jgwil2 6y ago
I think you should evaluate candidates based on the skill/knowledge they show in the interview and trust that if that is up to par, then they will be competent to choose the tools that work best for them.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
FYI, the guidelines state: > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
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by jgwil2 6y ago
In what way is it hate speech?
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by jgwil2 6y ago
I have long assumed that this language tradition has its origin in the fact that we are a diurnal species and naturally prefer day to night. However, I'd be very interested to know if this kind of metaphor is as common in non-European
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Could you please elaborate?
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Infinity Category Theory for Undergraduates [video](math.jhu.edu)
1 points by jgwil2 6y ago|0 comments
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Carbon Dioxide Levels Just Hit 417ppm, Highest in Human History(forbes.com)
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by jgwil2 6y ago
It's pretty common to refer to destroying an aggressive dog, for example, as euthanasia. This is an analogous situation, particularly given that, as pointed out elsewhere, honeybees are domesticated animals. I think this could fall und
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Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge(aaron-demeter.itch.io)
1 points by jgwil2 6y ago|0 comments
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What is the best way to lace your shoes [video](youtu.be)
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by jgwil2 6y ago
You could certainly try to start learning to code with SICP and go from there, but for the most part these resources will be much more valuable to those who have some prior background in programming.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Main updates as of May 2020: Computer Architecture: added Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective as first recommendation over nand2tetris. Compilers: Crafting Interpreters added as first recommendation over dragon book. Distr
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by jgwil2 6y ago
The letters "n" and "t" have the same place of articulation in this context so it's not surprising that <menshun> might shift to <mentchun> in some dialects.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
In addition to some great responses already on here, I would suggest picking up a functional programming language as a way to bridge the gap between math and the C-style syntax that most of us learned to program in. Haskell and PureScript a
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30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Human Contact(theatlantic.com)
4 points by jgwil2 6y ago|1 comments

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