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by protoplant 9y ago
When I think of charity in my city, I have soup kitchen, run by church, adult day care run by another church, drug clinic run by church, habitat humanity branch, another church, probably a lot I am missing since I'm not a churchy perso
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by protoplant 9y ago
Head First Design Patterns helped me. I'm not saying to go overboard with design patterns. But it helped me understand some ideas about Object Oriented design
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by protoplant 9y ago
I would say because software engineers often work in mission critical systems where risk is a factor, and his job as a guy finding flaws in risk models on wall street, gave him insight on that topic. Like maybe some kinds of bugs are like t
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by protoplant 9y ago
It was my understanding that Obama had actually dampened Bush's plans for missile defense in Europe, and instead was focused on shorter ranges that would come from Iran, and the redistribution of resources towards an "Asia Pivot&q
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by protoplant 9y ago
Maybe he is defining Nation separate from State, like Tamils or Kurds are a Nation without a state.
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by protoplant 9y ago
I enjoyed your reversi game.
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by protoplant 9y ago
The eli5 is just a Reddit forum thing to keep jargon and length down, does not mean you have a 5 year old mind. A question would be eli5 lambda calculus. Actually if there is an eli5 for that it would be fun to read.
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by protoplant 9y ago
Okay a good page that goes into depth is history of Venezuela oil Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Venezuelan_oi... The Chávez administration used high oil prices in the 2000s on his populist po
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by protoplant 9y ago
It was not simply that they "nationalized oil" in my example, as the resources we're already state owned. You seem to not be serious with your comments.
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by protoplant 9y ago
Economists believe that hyperinflations are caused by large persistent government deficits financed primarily by money creation (rather than by borrowing or by increasing taxation). --wikipedia. Eli5 Their economy was mostly oil, they seize
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by protoplant 9y ago
In the post, Magglioca says that the bill of rights was not what people of the time thought a bill of rights looked like. Well I find it is not accurate to say that since many ideas were lifted from the English Bill of Rights 1689. No stand
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by protoplant 9y ago
I wonder about spider bites or something. Imagine sleeping on the forest floor with no covering, ants would crawl on you and stuff. Well, at least at picnics they do. A lot of bugs are nocturnal I think.
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by protoplant 9y ago
It makes an interesting point about focusing on quality instead of a check mark by someone who is not directly under the hood. (project manager in this case) Also it cautions against seeing the trees (p1 bug) and missing the forest (good so
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by protoplant 9y ago
One thing I find healthy, is that many companies beyond Tesla are trying to build this technology. Even though the story thinks the data may be suspect at this point, the competition from a variety of sources gives us good chances for some
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by protoplant 9y ago
The book Moneyball talks about this. Well I thought it would be about baseball, but it was kind of about our ability to judge merit. It's hard even in a measurement driven sport like baseball. Sports are arguably the purist meritocracy
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by protoplant 9y ago
Is it merit based? I would say it's capital based.
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by protoplant 9y ago
I think that's standard. Writing is hard, I imagine political books are similar. Though I think the purpose of the Tribune was to allow athletes to control how they are heard.
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by protoplant 9y ago
I thought it was about passing variables into a class instead of an object, or some other Object Oriented technique I was unaware of...
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by protoplant 9y ago
I am glad I read this just now, I was jumping from hoop to hoop. and not only hoops but craft paradigms, reminds me of the Fred Brooks idea "There is no silver bullet". Brooks argues that "there is no single development, in
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by protoplant 9y ago
I do not think "they make your product look well thought out." is why. I think the need is to read a clean, clear symbol instantly. Apple, Golden Arch, Handicap-Sign. Because of this, a lot of design majors learn this branding sty