jimmy1

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by jimmy1 8y ago
"Who cares that these problems are solved in Erlang/BEAM if hardly anyone is writing end user software in Erlang/BEAM/Elixir", basically. My number one reason for not using Erlang is lack of static typing. Dynamic t
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by jimmy1 8y ago
Please send them to me. My "farmers markets" here are just selling the same boxes of produce the grocery store gets.
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by jimmy1 8y ago
and also by extension, Greek (directly in many cases -- almost every english word that starts with 'ph' was a greek word -- but also a large portion of medical and mathematical terminology)
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by jimmy1 8y ago
> A lot of food is like that. I swear people in America have never tasted a real, juicy, succulent tomato. I know why we distribute our tomatoes the way we do, but we should stop, because they are shit. It's always these tasteless,
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by jimmy1 8y ago
I wouldn't condone vandalism -- despite however justified you may feel it is, plus it would have the opposite effect: I don't want whoever create those demon machines to know we know where the mute button is.
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by jimmy1 8y ago
The monitors have 8 buttons, 4 on each side, the top button on the right side is mute. source: learned by mashing all of those buttons in blind rage trying to get it to stop.
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by jimmy1 8y ago
No it’s not required. This is a discussion board not a thesis paper review board. Do your own googling. If he or she is wrong then call bullshit.
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by jimmy1 8y ago
I liked the Better Explained books, particularly for Calculus, as it really explained the "why" For Linear Algebra, "Linear Algebra Done Right" -- way better than my college lin alg course. For "general mathematics&
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by jimmy1 8y ago
If you can think of it, someone can make a computer automate it.
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by jimmy1 8y ago
Exactly. I work at a very similar place on the East Coast -- very startup like culture unified by leadership principles. I had one so-so experience, followed by an absolutely horrible experience, followed by two terrific experiences. For th
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by jimmy1 8y ago
> I'd have to see a cumulative flow diagram showing breakdown by age range over time to have a shot at having an intelligent conversation about this You have a very high standard for having intelligent conversations, then. Sometime
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by jimmy1 8y ago
What eSport gets 300k viewers 365 days a year?
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by jimmy1 8y ago
Yeah I am not sure about the NFL being the biggest in the world, but I got a bit of a laugh out of eSports being more relevant. People forget eSports is decades old now at this point, and the pinnacle of the eSports world is Korea where it
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by jimmy1 8y ago
Just set up a signal with your dentist before hand. "Hey doc, just to let you know I am sensitive to my own saliva, when I point to my mouth can you do the straw thingy?" Works like a charm
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by jimmy1 8y ago
That's great, but you live in a country that have these things called laws and you have to follow them whether or not you personally think that breaking them "isn't so terrible" or not. If enough people think the laws ar
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by jimmy1 8y ago
It's only ridiculous if you view NYC through some rose tinted glasses, most the rest of the country are staying away Responding to your points. 1.) Most online rags and news reports describe it as "crumbling" so these aren&#x
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by jimmy1 8y ago
> NYC is currently a boom town, - The subway is crumbling with no tangible realistic plan to fix it. - Housing crisis is getting worse. New York is consistently at the top, or near the top of the "losing residents to other cities&q
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by jimmy1 8y ago
> but that just isn't practical in modern web development People always use this modern term as if it implies something significantly different or more "advanced". The web hasn't changed much. It's still data ove
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by jimmy1 8y ago
Don't let someone's opinion or conceptualization of "better" be the enemy of what's good.
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by jimmy1 8y ago
An obvious and famous counter-example to this argument is Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules For Life which actually was born out of one of the most popular and up-voted Quora answers. The problem is people have substituted their own critical
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by jimmy1 8y ago
Reading the "Holy Fathers" and their understanding of the Scriptures, particularly St John Chrysostom. St Ignatius of Antioch and St Justin Martyr as well -- the wisdom of the men who was merely a generation or two removed from th
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by jimmy1 8y ago
Sorry it wasn't clear -- Would you continue to show up to work/serving your broader life goal if your paycheck stopped coming?
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by jimmy1 8y ago
So if your work did not pay you money for the exchange of your time, would you feel the same way?
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by jimmy1 8y ago
This question seems to me like it is naturally self selective to those who have healthy work-life balances. I'd like to hear a couple from the 10-15 hour day workers.
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by jimmy1 8y ago
Out of all the web storage methods, cookies are still the most reliable and secure to implement sessions. I for one am glad they are not going anywhere.
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by jimmy1 8y ago
"I don't want x y or z" -> "I can choose to not have x y or z and not force my desire to not have x y and z on everyone else" -- It applies to every scenario you can dream of It's this concept called liberty
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Because ultimately the user still can decide the behaviour they want -- you can choose to not visit that web page. You decide where your browser goes and what sites you visit.
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If you want only text, open a text-only e-reader. The web is consisted of not only hypertext, but also hypermedia.
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by jimmy1 8y ago
What was the point of you pointing out Eric's claim to a particular political ideology after a statement of his intelligence? Are you somehow implying one is more virtuous / intelligent than another? If we changed that to conserva
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by jimmy1 8y ago
strikethrough rich people and whales, and replace with people who are willing to spend their disposable income on apps and micro-transactions, of which in that segment contain rich people and whales, but also sometimes people in debt up to

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