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by rnprince 9y ago
> the vast majority are happy with the result See the congressional job approval numbers http://www.gallup.com/poll/1600/congress-public.aspx > If HRC had won, we would not be seeing these calls for reform g
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by rnprince 9y ago
You can be into understanding the media around you without actually wanting to produce it yourself. However, if you are interested in adopting some of the takeaways, the strategies can be used tastefully and ethically. If you don't lik
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by rnprince 9y ago
If you're into this kind of thing, I enjoyed reading "Trust Me I'm Lying" by Ryan Holiday.
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by rnprince 9y ago
This is just another form of marketing, and marketing does create value. It's true that some marketing is dishonest and harmful, but I don't have a reason to think this is one of those cases. This person is providing a service in
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by rnprince 9y ago
Does FMLA leave apply for cases like yours?
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by rnprince 9y ago
How many large tech companies decide to fire programmers because they communicate directly? For male programmers, that's actually a stereotype. The reason they gave for firing her is just bizarre, making me wonder if there was a differ
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by rnprince 9y ago
What about Java makes you like it more, or about Node.js that made you particularly frustrated? I wish JavaScript were statically typed, but I'm not convinced about switching to TypeScript yet. I can see other ways Node.js could be fru
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by rnprince 9y ago
This could be the beginning of a thriller movie. A nefarious hacker group demonstrates a powerful zero-day for a dangerous client by creating national panic over stock prices.
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by rnprince 9y ago
Sorry to hear about what you went through. Any tips about how you recovered, or what you would have done differently?
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by rnprince 9y ago
After working with MUMPS for some time, getting to use Node.js has been a religious experience for me. I feel as if an incredible weight has been lifted off my shoulders.
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by rnprince 9y ago
What is statistically special about 200?
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by rnprince 9y ago
I don't know if you were looking for feedback about the game, but the ease of losing progress quickly made me stop playing; because I was more likely to stop playing right after losing, you might want to make it take a longer time to a
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by rnprince 9y ago
"You are not buddies, you are interviewer about to decide whether they get hired. Many people shutting down might mean that they are not comfortable juggling "buddy" social role and expectations and "serious job intervie
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by rnprince 9y ago
What important problem in this domain does the author think plain text uniquely solves? I'd say that the arguments aren't specific to education, and that they're also pretty weak. Remember that one of the major breakthroughs
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by rnprince 9y ago
This amber contains Aerodactyl?
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by rnprince 10y ago
It seems to me like this allows some incredible augmented reality once a computer vision system can perform do the user-provided analysis of the scene's geometry and light sources.
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by rnprince 10y ago
Hi - Thank you for doing an AMA. One factor when evaluating startups is how long it will take to get everything ready. Some can launch in a month, but some depend on breakthroughs or environment shifts that will take a decade to happen. Is
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by rnprince 10y ago
The scoping issue I mentioned was function scoping, not variable scoping. The language would be better for organizing code if it supported functions as methods of particular classes of objects, or functions with private scope. As a codebase
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by rnprince 10y ago
Thank you for this reply!
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by rnprince 10y ago
Yeah, MUMPS was pretty prescient in this way. As someone who's experienced the changes first-hand, what do you feel are the most important NoSQL developments since MUMPS? Do you have a preference on NoSQL vs relational databases?
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by rnprince 10y ago
There is a section called "'MUMPS' vs. 'M' naming debate" in the wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS "Some of the contention arose in response to strong M advocacy
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by rnprince 10y ago
Sorry, I can't hop on board. My opinion is that implementing anything complex and new in ANSI MUMPS would be irresponsible given the better options available. > It has limited commands and is whitespace-aware Limited commands to a c
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by rnprince 10y ago
I used to work at Epic, where this language is used to implement much of the leading healthcare system in the United States. Many people there encouraged me to refer to it by different names like "M," "InterSystems Caché,&quo
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by rnprince 11y ago
It's awesome to hear that you're doing well doing freelance work. Do you have any tips for how to find clients, especially the first ones when you can't get them through existing ones?
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by rnprince 11y ago
I agree about the AA shirts. They're a key part of my wardrobe, I love them. Unfortunately, the company's really struggling right now. I hope they make it.
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by rnprince 11y ago
Personally, I'd say yes to his question - and indeed, this is a question, not an argument; and it's a question that presumes a knee-jerk reaction against Medieval History majors... Gross world product has been growing along an exp
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by rnprince 11y ago
If you consider this argument fully, It's hard to defend retirement - or anything else people do without profit motives. I'm listening to music without any expectation of profit, giving up time I could spend making money. I consi
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by rnprince 11y ago
Because this (arguably) medical experimentation was done without informed consent.
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by rnprince 11y ago
Schoenberg, on writing four-voice chorales: "Even in the limitations of the individual voices, in their relative incompleteness, there are advantages.* The necessity for utilizing them within the narrow range of their effectiveness de
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Design: the golden rectangle between Apple's chargers(s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com)
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