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by ntdef 2mo ago
Yes! In that vein, The Five Books of Moses by Robert Alter[1] is great for folks who want to get a better sense of what the original Hebrew might feel like rendered in English. [1]: https://www.amazon.com/Five-Books-Moses-Tr
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by ntdef 2mo ago
I think it's a bit of both/and. The Samson story within the context of Judges is about people doing what "that which was right in [their] own eyes," and the people of Israel devolving into madness and dumbness because of
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by ntdef 2mo ago
The New International Version (NIV) translation of the Bible is by far the worst translation on almost any metric you can think of, except maybe understanding how evangelical Christians read the Bible in the 90s and 2000s. The NIV has so ma
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by ntdef 6y ago
What happened was Barry McCarthy, who was CFO at Netflix till 2010, left Netflix. Barry was an exceedingly creative and forward thinking CFO. He was the CFO responsible for taking Spotify public via direct listing in 2018, which was an incr
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Designing Data Science Tools at Spotify(spotify.design)
4 points by ntdef 6y ago|0 comments
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Discover Quickly: an app for music discovery sessions on Spotify(discoverquickly.com)
2 points by ntdef 8y ago|0 comments
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by ntdef 10y ago
Ah yes this is exactly what I needed. I was recently trying to start a CL project but I had trouble wading through all the outdated material, especially with regards to including external packages. Thanks for putting this together!
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by ntdef 10y ago
The more common and widely used 737 is assembled at the Washington plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Renton_Factorye
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by ntdef 10y ago
To your point, pretty much everyone who's ever been on SNL made their way there through The Second City.
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by ntdef 10y ago
Boeing planes are assembled in Seattle; their HQ is in Chicago. Do people aspire to work in health, energy or finance, or even software aside from the money? If so, what difference does it make?
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by ntdef 10y ago
I think you're a bit misinformed. Chicago has two large keystone industries that serve the global economy: (1) Industrial large scale manufacturing (Boeing, John Deere, Caterpillar), (2) Insurance (all of them); not to mention a ton of