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throw681158
6y ago
I don't think this is accurate. The hyenas are fundamentally sadistic and difficult to satiate. That's why they're poor - it's what got them banished. They make them hyenas to reinforce it's not brought on by the si
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6y ago
Good point.
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6y ago
Ehh, that reads like shoehorning in a political agenda to me. The hyenas aren't dangerous because they're foreign, they're foreign because they're dangerous. Their actions make them a threat - they're sneaky, mean a
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6y ago
Re: already in a string, one of the primary uses of regex is to search from point in a text editor. So, cursor is in a string and you want to find the next string. Regex won't work on its own, you generally need more semantic informati
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6y ago
This reads like sales speak. My experience is the opposite. Some people take to concepts like a duck to water, some people are dopey and forget things you told them an hour ago, some people (most people) want you to hold their hand every st
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6y ago
I would amend this to: the better an engineer gets while still staying a salaried engineer. Calcified engineers are more likely to enjoy the high-level corporate environment. Flexible ones leave to start companies, contract, whatever.
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6y ago
In my experience pushy parenting works. Kids tend to come out of it kinda awkward but broadly academically successful and morally upstanding. No way in hell I'd do that to my kid, but it's not a strategy doomed to failure.
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6y ago
I think mythology is an important metaphorical tool, but I'm inclined to agree with you. Disney movies are engineered to sell, usually by indulging kids' fantasies. One of the big numbers in The Little Mermaid is literally, "
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6y ago
Won't work if you're already in a string, or if there are escaped quotes in the string. Also won't work if you have two or more double quoted strings that both contain an apostrophe.