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by qntty 8y ago
Is python really meant to be a beginner-friendly language? I tend to think of it as lisp-without-parens, and lisp is not very beginner friendly.
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by qntty 8y ago
Most people who use bro are being at least a little ironic. It's a weird register to use for a Austrian man born in 1905. Wouldn't be a big deal except that it's literally the Holocaust. Not personally offended, just explaini
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by qntty 8y ago
It's not a matter of the experience itself, it's a matter of how you make sense of it. I don't doubt that the author felt as though he had to act a certain way around Jobs, but the way that he writes about it sounds like he w
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by qntty 8y ago
Anyone else annoyed by how deferential the author seems to be towards Jobs? Like surely after knowing him for a bit you'd get over that.
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by qntty 8y ago
Debunked by who?
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by qntty 8y ago
> Dupree and Fiske suspect that the behavior stems from a liberal person’s desire to connect with other races. One possible reason for the “competence downshift,” as the authors describe it, is that, regardless of race, people tend to do
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by qntty 8y ago
According to who?
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by qntty 8y ago
Why should an investment provide someone ELSE with value? The point is to provide YOURSELF with value. If you want to provide someone else with value, buy some stock and donate the dividends to charity.
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by qntty 8y ago
Many long hours spent on War3 in elementary school. It was the game that I built my first computer to play.
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by qntty 8y ago
How would that accomplish the same thing? That's like saying that you don't like that a "right to an education" is a positive right so it should instead be the "right to be ignorant". Either you think that peop
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by qntty 8y ago
Based on the article, that may very well be what they're doing, and the equation hits 0 at an income below $130,000 If their family's income is between $130,000 and $200,000, they can still get grants covering at least half of th
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by qntty 8y ago
No you weren't. People get annoyed when it's used as a noun, not a verb.
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by qntty 8y ago
$ 7.6 million for people who don't want to read it
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by qntty 8y ago
You seem very intelligent
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by qntty 8y ago
Joining the military doesn't make you a hero
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by qntty 8y ago
What is it exactly that you're refusing to excuse people from?
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by qntty 8y ago
Any tips for understanding the lowest level code like the bootloader? It seems to be pretty opaque to me.
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by qntty 8y ago
What tool is used to generate html books like this?
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by qntty 8y ago
Wow I'm sorry, but congrats on the job offer.
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by qntty 8y ago
Can you expand on the third point?
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by qntty 8y ago
> Creatives doing photography, 3D, video, etc. have long left for other platforms. Since when? Every person I know in these industries still use Macs.
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by qntty 8y ago
Recently got caught in a loop of trying to create an Office 365 account and being told that my email is already in use, then trying to say that I forgot my password and was told that my email is not associated with an account.
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by qntty 8y ago
Do you have personal experience doing this?
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by qntty 8y ago
I grew up in a rural area and had the same experience with math and tech as you. I don't think whether or not I was in a rural area was a significant factor in encouraging or discouraging an interest in tech.
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by qntty 8y ago
Why does it matter?
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by qntty 8y ago
Yeah strawmen suck
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by qntty 8y ago
Ancient Greek philosophy was divided into logic, physics and ethics. Metaphysics was categorized as logic.
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by qntty 8y ago
Which would mean that a baker cannot discriminate against "who ever they feel like" as GP said.
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by qntty 8y ago
Yes, not relevant in this case, but the GP wasn't talking about this case, he was talking about all cases.
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by qntty 8y ago
This is patently false per the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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