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by lawpoop 10y ago
I never argued for every for every keyword from every programming language. But like I said, that there's a stackoverflow question about this one , I think, is indicative.
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I remember a mostly deaf person I knew for a while. It was pretty amazing-- she could mostly understand what I said through reading my lips and what little hearing she had. She could also speak pretty well. She told me that she could feel t
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> Why should "foreach" be in the documentation? To make it easier to find "for", "for each", and "for-each"?
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That the first result is a stackoverflow question about the language rather than a documentation page, is indicative that getting started with the language is not so straight-forward, even factoring in documentation. If you're googling
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This is purely speculative, but I think also that introducing new words, or novel combinations would have kept audiences' ears "on their toes" and tuned in to the dialog. The plays ran 2-3 hours. You have to keep the audience
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> I type "foreach python" in Google and I see a StackOverflow post. That's kind of indicative right there.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Rather than the "same goods" argument, I would say that charitable tax deductions moves the agenda and decision-making process of what specific public goods we want away from the political process (i.e. the people voting in politi
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I hear music too, when I am close to sleep. I often have problems getting to sleep, so when I hear it, it's reassuring to me, because I know then that I will fall asleep soon. However, it never suddenly stops for me. I've fooled a
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For this reason, and others (version control, backups), I think we need to move to key authentication, ring of trust, etc.
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Aren't they both right? With the replier being off-topic?
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It's going to depend on the state. Try to find an organization similar to this in your state that you can talk with.
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> The system doesn't always reward the best performer Reading your comment, it brought back to mind: employee value isn't a linear scale, from "bad" to "good". What they contribute is complex.
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In the most abstract sense, I think you have a point, but the reality is that in America, there aren't condos a family of 4 can "comfortably" live in-- it's not considered acceptable that two kids might share a room, or
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> Condos can be dangerous. One second you're enjoying your nice condo, the next you're paying your $15k share of the repair cost of the buildings elevator. Isn't the same true of houses? Don't you have to pay for roof
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> Rent and invest in something more diversified? Crazy talk. This seems like pie-in-the-sky talk from high-income earners. It's not like people are just freely choosing to invest in a house over other investments. Instead, since the
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Thanks for this informative reply! My game idea is a kind of retro rogue-like, with a few modern conveniences. It's not going to bump up to any boundaries graphics-wise. However, I've been disheartened to hear about the platform s
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Ask HN: Were you fooled by the selective attention test?
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> they inspect buildings and businesses to make sure fire codes are followed. I don't understand how you can be for this but against public health care. If a business owner or landlord doesn't want their building to burn, would
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This is of course their old and time-honored playbook, which served them well in the past, when they owned the PC market (literally). But in the era of Linux, Google, and iOS, I don't think they have enough leverage to successfully imp
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How does one choose the right platform ahead of time? It seems that that would be something you could only judge in hindsight. For instance, did you know that, over the course of your endeavour, that the powers that be were going to deal yo
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How do I use fire services (if my property or the property I've used has never been threatened by fire) any less than I use public health by not contracting diseases from vaccinated people?
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Uh, probably? Why would the field have kept her out? I know several self-taught/non-CS majored programmers.
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Growing up in Ohio, we always said "Gesundheit" in my house when someone sneezed. When I was a kid, I asked my mom, "What does it mean? Is it another language or something?" She said, "It's just something you s
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This is one of the reasons why I'm in favor of basic income. People who get degrees in mathematics or physics can do their work uninhibited by the politics of getting funding.
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If you're going to blame voters for the Supreme Court nominees of their presidential picks, then it's fair to say that the political class is completely disconnected from the common people. In other words, it's not their faul
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So what do you mean?
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> risk aversion in music What do you mean by this? That you haven't heard anything original in music since you were a kid?
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To be more serious, it's not that the artist has more insight than the audience, but rather the arists initiates a dialogue with the audience intended to /raise questions/, possibly to arrive at new insights. To quote Picasso
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I think the modern art period can be traced back to the 1920s, but anywho, there is also the component of reception. It's not just what the artists says, but if the Art World receives it as such. Actually it turns out wikipedia traces
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Art. The Art World is really into Art. Just like programmers are into programming.

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