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by learc83 8y ago
Can average TV speakers emit sounds outside the frequency of human hearing? I didn't think they could.
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by learc83 8y ago
> Families like the Clintons have made massive amounts of money cashing out after office No need to look into the past for examples. The current administration isn't even waiting until they are out of office to cash out.
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by learc83 8y ago
>Yes, they do. All the time. Most of them don't need to do something as explicitly criminal as taking money from a lobbyist and using it for personal expenses. There are far better ways for members of congress to make money--passing
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by learc83 8y ago
>I haven't seen any company founded by university faculty that have survived and made impact Bose, Broadcom, Qualcomm, Financial Engines, Genentech, MathWorks, Boston Dynamics, Pixar (I think it counts), Arista Networks, MIPS, Rambu
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by learc83 8y ago
>Something that isn't always brought up too is things like dental, which wasn't covered up there so you needed private insurance anyway, and very few of my employers offered compared to my US employers. Most employer provided d
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by learc83 8y ago
>Christian's believe in miracles/supernatural by definition. This includes faith healing. The first assertion is true. The 2nd doesn't follow from the first--many Christians don't believe that miraculous events still
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by learc83 8y ago
There's always a call for prayer warriors about literally every major news event--elections, judicial confirmations, catastrophes, droughts etc... Yes there were people praying for her to be fully healed, but there's a difference
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by learc83 8y ago
As another poster said this is Catholic doctrine. I'll go further than they did and say that this is uncommon amongst Protestant churches.
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by learc83 8y ago
The national debate was mostly pro-life groups trying to spin the situation for political gain. And even among those groups, I don't remember it being a common argument that she should live because God would miraculously heal her. The
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by learc83 8y ago
>Prayers were almost always for healing. Repentence almost never came into it as the subject of the prayers was usually "saved". Nor were the prayers for being reunited in heaven because that was assumed to be a given. I didn&#
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by learc83 8y ago
I think it's cyclical, and it's a matter of degree. I don't think very many people today believe that they will be able to upload their brains.
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by learc83 8y ago
I was also raised Southern Baptist (though I’m a liberal mainline protestant now) and my dad was an assistant pastor/choir director for most of my childhood. I couldn’t disagree with many aspects of Southern Baptist theology and doctri
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by learc83 8y ago
>Think back to the Terri Schiavo case. While she was apparently Catholic, the sentiment was the same. Her family believed that she was going to be healed by God (or Jesus, either one) and would make a full recovery. That's a mischar
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by learc83 8y ago
>This is true. I think that it's also a religious thing as well, and almost Christians. Other religions are more accepting of death. In my own experience growing up in church as a pastor's kid and attending a lot of funerals, p
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by learc83 8y ago
>Look at the clusterfuck that is the US "democracy" vs the success of Singapore or even China Tell that to the millions of people in concentrations camps because they practice the wrong religion or were born into the wrong ethn
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by learc83 8y ago
You can always find catchy headlines if you get specific enough. "The worst performing Friday the 13th in a non leap year ever."
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by learc83 8y ago
In which case developing on Windows makes perfect sense.
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by learc83 8y ago
Are they running Linux VMs? Everywhere I've worked, I'm one of the few who's not on a Mac, so I'm not familiar with companies like this.
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by learc83 8y ago
>However every time I've looked at crystal I've stopped because there's no windows version. I have to have a gaming PC and I only use editors and languages that work on windows mac and linux so I don't hamstring mysel
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by learc83 8y ago
If they're not deploying on windows though, there isn't much reason to develop on it.
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by learc83 8y ago
As a game designer (on the side) I definitely wouldn't want to give up control of balancing my game to some third party item creator. Items balance is too game specific for this to work unless you're just taking the name and some
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by learc83 8y ago
Is anyone deploying anything other than .NET on windows for webdev though?
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by learc83 8y ago
I don't see rust as a natural move from Ruby at all. I think it's just people moving to next cool language. A few years ago when Go was at the peak of the hype cycle, you saw a lot of people moving there from Rails. Rails to Phoen
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by learc83 8y ago
> leetCode, hackerRank I think that broad knowledge of CS theory is useful, but I agree that being able to replicate specific algorithms from memory is not particularly helpful. In fact I think that FAANG style whiteboard interviews are
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by learc83 8y ago
>But, for the last 10 years, I can honestly say that nothing I have done takes any level of advanced computer science understanding that you would learn in school. I don't work at a FAANG company. We mostly work on boring line of bu
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by learc83 8y ago
>The most we can expect from a junior developer who just graduated from college with a CS degree is for them “not to eat the chalk.” At least the boot camp grad can hit the ground running and add features. This is the exact opposite of m
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by learc83 8y ago
The top 10 elite colleges don't graduate enough students, and employees from those schools don't make enough extra to have that great an impact on base compensation.
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by learc83 8y ago
I'd argue that most companies do care about theory based on the kinds of questions that come up in job interviews. A lot of this is cargo culting sure, and maybe some of them care about it for the wrong reasons, but they do. >You do
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by learc83 8y ago
What matters is people's perception of how much a program can boost their income. Perception and reality often diverge--particularly when there is significant information asymmetry. Accreditation doesn't fix this problem, but it
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by learc83 8y ago
>You seem to be saying that unless a significant fraction of their students end up at FAANG companies then recruiters will not care whether "Lambda School" is on a resume. To be a top tier bootcamp, a significant amount of yo

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