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by zebraflask 5y ago
+1 You just have to look at WordPress / Squarespace / Wix / Weebly / I forget the rest ... for examples of consumer-oriented platforms, however you define the term "consumer," that promise no coding needed for
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by zebraflask 5y ago
Ah, I see the distinction now, thanks. It's an interesting subject, I think, since poetry has so many forms it can take and you need the output to capture the idiosyncratic aesthetics and "inner world" of a piece of verse. I&
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by zebraflask 5y ago
That is a fantastic result - nagging question - these work best on predictable things. How much of Bengali poetry is predictable?
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by zebraflask 5y ago
That rings true. I was looking for a static site template just earlier today (along the lines of Hugo, Jekyll, etc.) and was quickly reminded that a lot of templates available online, and there are thousands both free and paid ... do not lo
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by zebraflask 5y ago
I wonder if more bioavailable B vitamins from a meat-heavy diet has anything to do with it. Vegetarian diets, as I understand the common saying, need to actively contain or be supplemented with B vitamin sources. If you're veg but live
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by zebraflask 5y ago
Creative Writing is a mixed bag. At least at the postgraduate level, a lot of programs do, at first blush, seem to be revenue hubs first and useful training second. Those, of course, you don't want. But there are good ones out there, a
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by zebraflask 5y ago
Completely agree. After healthy doses of React / Angular / Vue development, you kind of reach a point where wrestling with the quirks and overhead of the framework, when it's not strictly necessary, seems like more work than
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by zebraflask 5y ago
Probably not the time or place for extended discussions of Taylorism, but in its original form, it was meant to be applied to product manufacturing, right? Bit of a disconnect to apply any of that to personal improvement considerations, at
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by zebraflask 5y ago
You know, I recognize that this is a somewhat serious discussion? But I can think of a few scenarios from experience where saying "the codebase is infested with demon spiders, can't do it" would be a satisfying thing to say i
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by zebraflask 5y ago
Me, neither, although I have run across people who think this way. What this is, in my view, if it is taken too seriously, is the perfect recipe for instigating employee burnout in short order.
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by zebraflask 5y ago
+1 Maybe I don't write very complicated material, but I can't think of a single time I've needed to use the more OOP features of JS because one of them was the best or only solution.
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by zebraflask 5y ago
Echoing the idea, or restating it, I would say that a lot of responsive design is a failure to design in the first place. If a layout has to change radically between devices, browsers, etc., it most likely needs to be rethought from the gro
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by zebraflask 5y ago
I can both see the value in that approach and, having run across things like this situation before, I can also see an unaddressed question in this post (already brought up by the replies, but worth repeating): how is that scenario not a fun
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by zebraflask 6y ago
Thinking about it, maybe "Shadow Train" would be more accessible - those ones are all capped at 16 lines each, which gives you a healthy dose of the typical Ashberian verbal delirium without throwing you straight into the deep end
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by zebraflask 6y ago
Just as an aside, I had to laugh a little at your comment re: Ashbery. His poetry is notoriously "difficult" even for "serious" readers of contemporary poetry, that is, until you read enough of it that you start to under
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by zebraflask 6y ago
It's a classic in the realm of gym literature. Read that in high school. I wasn't aware that Fussell took the Ted Nugent option and disappeared into the wilds of Montana, but it seems fitting.
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by zebraflask 6y ago
These are all good points. I would also add that understanding the stylistic history of writing in terms of language, technique, structure, etc., improves your own writing, if you have an interest in learning to write well.
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by zebraflask 6y ago
For a fantasy classic, you could try John Crowley's Little, Big, which was reputedly the late lit critic Harold Bloom's favorite novel. Bloom notoriously hated most fantasy novels - the Harry Potter series in particular - so that&
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by zebraflask 6y ago
I'd make a case for El-B, too: Express: https://youtu.be/SLbXmPvtZXA A lot of proto-wobble in this one.
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by zebraflask 6y ago
I would chime in with that's the entire point, another 8 years of Obama-esque policy.
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by zebraflask 6y ago
If you're familiar with certain areas of the Midwest, nothing about this is surprising.
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by zebraflask 6y ago
I have several charts on my development list that I have been planning to use D3 for - this new release is perfect timing.
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by zebraflask 6y ago
Still hilarious.
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by zebraflask 6y ago
Do you have any tips for explaining to stakeholders that things in a Redis cache expire on async schedules?
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by zebraflask 6y ago
Consider the income instability these days with many types of jobs. A park is on the affordable side compared to overseas travel, or plane travel in general, for many households.
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by zebraflask 6y ago
I can't help but wonder if it's more of a "a little from Column A, a little from Column B" scenario. There's no doubt they have skilled security staff, but - as a company overall - they also grew very quickly. How m
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by zebraflask 6y ago
I think you might have that backward. Test scores are somewhat influenced by the income level of the student's parents: wealthier families can afford to give their kids resources like study time, books, tutors, a home environment that
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by zebraflask 6y ago
This, unfortunately and hilariously, rings quite true. Not to open the test-driven development can of worms, either, which seems to be part of the OP's dispiritment ... but I've yet to see any scenario where TDD was not a massive
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by zebraflask 6y ago
This seems inspired by r/askreddit, but without the low impact anonymity that makes that sub work.
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by zebraflask 6y ago
You have to be in the right frame of mind. I think it can help to look at it like a series of short stories, each one building up a psychological or philosophical premise under the surface that is then layered onto by the next.

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