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aawalton

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    Comment #23110742

    Erlang has done live updates to code for 30 years. Definitely possible.

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    Comment #22848544

    Umm, he’s missing the obvious explanation that confirmed cases lag actual cases? Confirmed cases are still going up because testing is going up, regardless of whether infection is …

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    Comment #22575747

    I understood this to mean flattening the curve is important, but not enough. Containment is the most critical intervention, but also the one that requires effective government inte…

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    Comment #22553307

    Article implies that the average person had a 2% chance of drowning in a given year. If that was true, 64% of people would down by the agree of 50. Basic math doesn't add up. A 2% …

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    Comment #20447062

    Khan Academy ( https://www.khanacademy.org/math ) is excellent. I recommend working through the exercises as far as you can and then re-learning concepts grade by grade. I go throu…

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    Comment #19100850

    Measuring coding contribution is hard. The most robust attribution models calculate the difference between the success of the project with and without the contribution, but in prac…

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    Comment #18938885

    MUMPS (aka M) was actually my first professional programming language at Epic Systems, the tech giant of the Healthcare space. It’s contemporary with C (which is also still used), …