strictnein

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by strictnein 12y ago
Salon... where I would definitely go for a straight forward and honest view of something on the right. The place to go to reaffirm your hatred of people who you disagree with. It was neat how he worked in the evil Kochmonsters at the end th
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by strictnein 12y ago
"In most places in the US, the amount paid to schools has gone up far faster than inflation over the past several decades, while the schools have produced no significant improvement in educational proficiency with the extra funding&quo
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by strictnein 12y ago
To the end user, sure. To the school district they are very expensive.
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by strictnein 12y ago
And when your professor assigns you homework based on the $235 book, and the tests align with the chapters in that book, what are you supposed to do, exactly?
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by strictnein 12y ago
Without giving away too much info: I work in the upper midwest as a software dev. 3-4 years ago, I was working at a good company, but was underpaid with good benefits: $70-$75k a year (with about 6 years of experience), depending on bonus.
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by strictnein 12y ago
FTA: "such as when the United States' surveillance of German Chancellor Angela Merkel became public" That was shown to be a fake NSA document, most likely planted (somehow) by Russian intelligence. http://www.vox.c
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by strictnein 12y ago
Similar path: I'm 30-ish as well and we had a C-64. Starting playing with it when I was 4 or 5, copying code out of code books before I could even really read. Also making lots of simple programs that would flash colors and fill the sc
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by strictnein 12y ago
I agree with both your points. For #2, the only decent option may to make the book more focused on R, instead of just chapter 10.
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by strictnein 12y ago
I have mixed feelings about that book. I enjoyed his writing style and humor, but the amount of beating on Excel he has to do to manipulate all that data hurts my head. I kept thinking of how much easier it would be to do with code. Maybe i
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by strictnein 12y ago
I'm not a huge sports fan. I go to a couple baseball games a year, but I no longer watch any of the games on tv. I only watch the Super Bowl for the ads. The morning radio show I listen to is technically a "sports" show. It&#
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by strictnein 12y ago
Anyone else find that article almost impossible to read, solely due to the really odd way it was written/laid out?
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by strictnein 12y ago
I'd be very wary about using ThemeForest for anything past a landing page. They keep changing their ToS for SaaS built using their templates. Wrapbootstrap.com is a good alternative with much better terms.