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VSCode is an electron app and it's pretty amazing.
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> Only large tech employers are Principal, Wells Fargo, DuPont, John Deere. Those are pretty impressive honestly. Wells Fargo is 2008 Bank of America. They will do everything they can to improve their image -- good time to join actually,
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You conflate the two. You can have capitalism and not be a consumerist, materialist society.
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Sounds like an interface problem. Solved simply the way Amazon handles it: Push a button and they call you instead.
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> or lack of empathy. Feel empathy from a machine? The moment anyone realizes or finds out that the "relationship" they just built or experienced over the phone was programmed, any feelings of connection or empathy get tossed o
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Misunderstood the question
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On a very high level, in the vast majority of cases, you bring along lot of baggage, both in code and mental, that you don't need, and compared to some alternatives, such as composition, it is simply far less flexible. Inheritance fits
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Or, as the saying goes, the more you learn, the more you learn how much exactly you don't know. "The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for
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Contrary to popular opinion, there are many more people of color being murdered at a traffic stop in blue states than red states, so not sure what you are trying to poke at here. Maybe the KLS shooting? That was the only incident in my enti
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Maybe it's not such a bad time to turn into a centrist considering the liberal meccas seem to be the places where people are struggling the most: http://thehill.com/opinion/finance/384536-the-great-exodus-o...
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> Availability and pay of tech jobs is a sore spot for Charlotte and Chattanooga ? I live in Charlotte, and there is no shortage of 90-135k$ salaried jobs with full benefits, especially if you code in C# or Java. That salary range is _mo
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Or Charlotte. Or RTP. Or Austin. Or Phoenix. Or Chattanooga. Or all the other various wonderful places to have satisfying lives and careers and not pay astronomical rent. Seriously getting sick of hearing about the renting woes. Give them t
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> But this is the overall direction of the internet and social media the past few years. Less freedom, less openness and a move towards more of a corporate tv/news format. So when are we nerds getting together to make a new internet
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That's the one issue that would most likely rally his base.
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> there's too much to cover in so little time Then again, you look back at what students and school boys from earlier eras were able to learn and accomplish by the time they were considered men (which by the way was like 16-17 in a
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I definitely agree, but I don't think communication is complete on the internet. True communication only happens live (in my opinion of course). When you communicate using only text, a lot is left out, therefore what many people have d
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But you knew you were paying for an unfinished book ahead of time, so why did you base your decision to "do javascript" on unfinished work?
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Rudeness is inferred or "felt" by the other party, and really worrying about peoples feelings or emotions is like worrying about which direction the wind is going to blow today because emotions have the ability to be extremely irr
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And in the end, it ended up being an excellent book. I don't think this complaint fits here.
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You got to remember why these rules were put in place: because assholes and scam artists abused the rules and ran rampant in neighborhoods in the 90s. I remember having to fend them off often times felt like multiple times per day in the s
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Reading this article, I don't really get everything under "What About Western Kids?" subheading. Everything listed there you would have found during the frontier days of America (and still do in some parts), so does that make
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I was cynical about talking to people for the longest time. I figured I would forgo seeking the "cookie cutter" advice and went to see my priest -- expecting him to tell me "well you are weak in faith, pray more, say these pr
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And this is NOT what I am saying, I said it was founded on Judeo-Christian principles.
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Might be tangibly related -- and honestly I have no dog in this fight -- but it seems that a certain sect of our political parties really are trying to eliminate or counter the narrative that America was founded on Judeo-Christian values mu
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And fund opposing research and opposing hypothesis -- we need more than ever diversity of thought . There's no sense in doing all of this science with nothing to challenge it. The best policies or whatever it may be should be able to
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> notoriously high-tax state Some societies think that it is wise to spend on some things such as education (see https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/06/02/the-... ). Others thin
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> To an outsider > Russ > throwaway Something tells me you aren't really an outsider. Anyways, > community is against it, then it gets accepted by the Committee Is this your primary gripe? Because this has happened pretty c
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I disagree, I think they are doing a full about-face with these latest generation of garbage MBPs and I am hopeful for the refreshes. A lesson many will learn the hard way, eventually, is you don't scorn your power users because they a
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Am I alone in wishing that the overwhelming majority of these weren't in python? Are there some resources that are language agnostic?
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And the biggest reason ECS lost imo because of the poor load balancing and service discovery options. They just now released Route 53 service discovery via DNS but it might be too little too late.

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