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by nbouscal 13y ago
If your comment gets downvoted, it's much more likely to be because it is simply inaccurate. Git is remarkably safe out of the box. Git makes it damn near impossible to lose anything other than intentionally. No matter if you rebase, r
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I know very little about boxing, so I'm really not sure. My thought would be that though both were successful, perhaps Ali was an underdog who became successful where Tyson started successful but hit a plateau? I have no idea whether o
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Spot on. Some research to back you up: http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?articl...
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A junior level position for a skilled worker usually requires at least an undergraduate degree, which is four years of training. If you aren't getting a CS degree, you're still perfectly eligible to get a position, but that does
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Some companies are unable to judge talent. Others are able to judge talent quite well, and those companies still have difficulty hiring (mainly at the mid to senior level). That is my argument for there being a talent shortage. Re job pos
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This is true for some companies, sure. It doesn't tell the whole story, though. As a counter-anecdote, I've had no trouble being hired in engineering roles with no CS degree, and nor have several acquaintances of mine.
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I think that both phenomena exist and that both contribute to the problem. Which is more significant is hard to tell. In my experience, the talent gap is a bigger problem, but I'm sure there are plenty of people with the opposite exper
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Well, at risk of going on a bit of a tangent here, realistically my experience in every field is that a distinct minority of jobs ever get filled through formal job advertisements. The vast majority of hiring happens through referrals and n
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Is this your guess, or are you speaking from experience?
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Nope, people with Django experience are definitely not off the list. PHP isn't off the list either, though the signal-to-noise in that community does seem (anecdotally) to be a lot lower. In my experience people cast a wide net for s
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There is a reason the term is "talent shortage", not "labor shortage". Yes, there are tons of unemployed people. A vanishingly small proportion of those people can actually fill the jobs that people are hiring for. Hence
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Then you need a space after the g.
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Interesting how the editor wars seem to have ceased due to the prevalence of other editors. It used to be emacs vs. vim, now it seems to be emacs and vim vs. everyone else. (I completely agree, from the vim side).
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How's that? If you're filling the floor 1' high that's 1x10x10 or 100 cubic ft at $90, for double Amazon's price. Parity is 2' high. When I had a storage unit I think I was using about 30% of its capacity, whic
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Unless you're actually using every cubic foot of your storage unit (which would be a remarkable feat), that $0.09 figure is a bit off. Amazon only charges you for space you actually use, whereas a storage unit charges you for the empty
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Definitely. Nested sets have a lot of weaknesses, and any decent modern database will have CTEs so you can just use an adjacency list with a recursive query, or materialize out the closure table.
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There is a linter, called hlint, which is extremely useful. It doesn't flag that, though, nor do I see any reason it should.
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hdevtools, hoogle, hlint
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Better how? I used rbenv before using chruby and while rbenv is a huge improvement over RVM, I've found chruby to be a further improvement over rbenv.
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RVM doesn't suffer from those specific usability problems, but it most certainly does suffer from usability problems. I've wasted many, many hours debugging issues caused by RVM. For the most part, those issues are because RVM i
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Alternatively, use <100 lines of shell script: https://github.com/postmodern/chruby
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I think the parent meant growth in scope, not in scale.
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I definitely agree with that as well, maybe I'm being a little pedantic, but she or he did make the claim that all discussions are political. It just struck me the wrong way as someone who really enjoys non-political discussions (when
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I'm genuinely curious, what is political about, say, a discussion between two fellow students clarifying a point of theory that they just learned? Or on the other end of the spectrum, a discussion between friends about the weather? I c
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> he cited studies that have been proven wrong in the service of a story. That's a substantial overstatement. Gladwell didn't cite studies that have been proven wrong, he cited studies that have not been consistently reproduc
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You're not eliminating your cost of rent, you're ( maybe ) lowering it. Whatever percentage of your housing costs go towards interest, property taxes, HOA fees, homeowner's insurance, mortgage insurance, etc. are not going to
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> Most car accidents happens when people are traveling large distances or coming back from unusual places such as parties and bars (not home-work commute) Source please? I've always heard that the majority of accidents happen within
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A bit less so, but still yes. Yale you're probably okay, but at Harvard, Stanford, and Columbia you're still going to have to be in at least the top half (maybe top third) of your class to have a good chance of getting a job that
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One solution is to spend radically less than the average and save radically more. There are a few good blogs that strongly advocate this approach [1][2]. I won't claim that it's the right solution for you, but it is a solution. [1
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