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   by xapata 10y ago

   > Frustratingly, the instructors were very unhelpful at the stuff I needed help with the most -- forming a mental model of how and why Rails works. I suspect that's because they didn't know how or why. Rails has a lot of magic
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   by xapata 11y ago

   SPY isn't the only S&P 500 index fund.
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   by xapata 11y ago

   Not necessarily. The index fund is supposed to track the index. It doesn't need to actually buy the exact stocks as the index, though in the case of the S&P 500, that might be the easiest strategy.
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   by xapata 11y ago

   How were you dressed? Were you smiling?
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   by xapata 11y ago

   Perhaps some, but in my experience not as much as you're suggesting.
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   by xapata 11y ago

   I found out recently that some tasks do better if there are slightly more processes than cores.
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   by xapata 11y ago

   The best defense we have against bad actors in government (whether intentional or accidental) is ubiquitous public surveillance -- not the government spying on the people, but the people monitoring the government. A cameraphone in nearly ev
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   by xapata 11y ago

   Perhaps the knowledge of how to elicit tasks from customers is part of knowing how to program.
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   by xapata 11y ago

   There's a company in Boston called Vecna [0]. I always thought it was odd to name a company after a famous evil lich [1]. Though now that I'm reading the company's About page, I see both names were probably inspired by the Cz