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by jimmytucson 15y ago
I enjoyed this article, thanks! Playing MUDs was one of my favorite pastimes in high school and I often wonder whether text-based games will enjoy a resurgence with the many new technologies being developed. Side question... he mentions how
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by jimmytucson 15y ago
I use Python the most but Higher Order Perl changed my life. Voted for Perl.
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by jimmytucson 15y ago
Yeah, I like this part: "The communist answer to this question was just to distribute everything evenly. But that sapped motivation and never quite worked as advertised." Wow. Understatement? Volumes of economic thought have been written
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by jimmytucson 15y ago
Oh, alright. So, he's talking about "being employed by some organization", rather than just "having a job" in general. The article definitely makes more sense now. I guess, maybe naively, I don't care as much about the arrangement between
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by jimmytucson 15y ago
"Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most people just worked for themselves." I feel kinda stupid for saying this but I always thought
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by jimmytucson 15y ago
Did you have a non-compete agreement with the firm you worked for? I would have thought working in financial services your employer would technically have first dibs on anything of value you create.
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by jimmytucson 15y ago
Thanks for this. I learned Perl about 1.5 years ago and recently took up learning Python. The one thing I find less intuitive about Python than Perl is its syntax around regular expressions.
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by jimmytucson 15y ago
I think the use of technology in football (and sports in general) to aid play calling would only enhance the sport. For one thing, it's not as much of an advantage as the author thinks. For example, in the NFL, there's already a wealth of
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by jimmytucson 15y ago
Yeah but in all fairness you already bought my widget.