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I can appreciate bonsai trees. But I always find that they always put my mind in a similar state to thinking about writing my own novel: something that I want to do when I think about it, but realize that I don't actually want to put
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3 big things: - It really is a brand new skillset. You will probably hate it for the first year. Stick with it. - Remember how you had this big engineering problem so you just worked more hours to fix it? You can't do that anymore.
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Sidenote: If there's one thing I hate, it's when the headline tells me if "It's OK". It just screams soft propaganda to me.
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You obviously have more knowledge than me on this subject, so take what I say with that in mind. But I look at the march of progress and can't help but draw parallels. Websites used to be made by hand. Then came frameworks and then ca
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I've heard that software engineers are the automobile workers of the 50s-70s: Extremely well-compensated professionals who were ultimately thrown to the wayside when technology came. I wonder if data scientists and AI will do a simila
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It isn't a conspiracy theory. It happens (see the part where they buy infrastructure with bitcoin): https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spyi...
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I wonder if this is all part of the game China and the US are playing. US gives AUKUS nuclear sub tech, China bops one of our most advanced nuclear sub classes...
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I kid you not, the way I learned computer programming as a kid was picking up a "C++ For Dummies" book and just reading it. The take away from this is to just get them to do programming. Python, Ruby, C++, whatever. If they r
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How do all these people hack into phones all the time? Is there just a cache of 0Days that they have access to or do they just get really clever with phishing attacks?
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As much as I hate to admit it, "ego" has driven so much innovation in space that it was probably inevitable that something like this would happen.
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So essentially, Delta+ will require a completely separate vaccine?
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There's no going back. WFH will be a perk that draws top talent like catered lunches or "nap rooms" before.
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Why do you say that? Genuinely curious...not trying to troll.
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I really wanted to thank you for making such a great piece of software. I always use it in my code documentation!
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Not a teacher, but its always good to start kids young on vim: https://vim-adventures.com/
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6y ago
Really great comment...Appreciate when people do this.
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I'm just beginning to learn about investing...Is there any book and/or website to learn about how the dollar can affect commodities that you would recommend?
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https://github.com/ragnot/roost-hsm I wanted a C++ hierarchical state machine library didn't require massive compile times like boost msm.