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amorphid

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    Comment #17641579

    Why not just milk it until the money train dries up or you are rolling in cash? Just because one or more companies offer the same product doesn't mean you're going to squashed. Wha…

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    Comment #17633850

    I usually buy brand name over generic stuff because it is quantifiably better to me in some way. Cereal that tastes better, garbage bag doesn't rip, etc.

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    Comment #17625628

    Using Chrome in Android, the arrow to auto scroll up to top doesn't work for me at all. I can only manually scroll back up.

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    Comment #17622524

    Slack isn't perfect; I agree with that. I haven't experienced the CPU issue, but it does seem to like RAM quite a bit. I just opened it w/ one account active, and it was eating may…

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    Comment #17621840

    I don't see any compelling reason to adopt IRC. It does nothing that I care about that Slack doesn't do. If Slack completely implodes, I would search for Slack alternative. If IRC …

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    Comment #17617195

    For me it's mostly about gow people use metaprogramming. In Ruby, if I'm trying to find the source of a dynamically generated method in a dynamically generated class, that usually …

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    Comment #17614931

    This is a rather simplistic argument... With Ruby I find it hard to avoid using a debugger. With Elixir I never need a debugger.

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    Comment #17614256

    I'll check it out tonight!

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    Comment #17613088

    I quite like mix and hex. Now all we need is sane, Elixir-y dialyzer errors!

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    Comment #17597695

    It'll go up in Idaho, too, when supply dries up. Won't it? "Move to Boise. There aren't too many people yet!"

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    Comment #17594655

    I friend of mine got a PhD in Electrical Engineering, which took him 7 or 8 years years. Right around his 30th birthday, I remember him saying that he'd been in school since he was…

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    Comment #17592784

    > I don't think high functioning autism is a disability, it's a character type that is a bit out there If you don't understand how to interact with people, you don't understand. Yo…

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    Comment #17590782

    Have you considered that you stink are completing those puzzles because they are so damn boring? I hate learning that way. I never make it past the first chapter of CTCI when I try…

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    Comment #17590114

    Having a mild form can be even more difficult. You appear different enough that people can tell, but your similar enough to other people that people don't understand the difference…

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    Comment #17588358

    I was fishing for "1 drop per day in the morning of $SOME_TINCTURE". My questions could have been phrased better. But you're not wrong. If you wanna figure out what works for you, …

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    Comment #17585476

    What dosage are you taking? On what schedule do you take it?

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    Comment #17585389

    And supposedly the virus can survive for an extremely long time in a dormant state. Could someone do a little bit of homework who died from smallpox, dig up their corpses, and find…

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    Comment #17584348

    I've never been a heavy Python user myself, but I 'm working in Elxiir w/ a couple other people who are/were heavy Python users. They seem to much prefer Elixir/Erlang's concurrenc…

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    Comment #17583532

    As a former recruiter, I found the LinkedIn user experience to be completely abysmal for any non-trivial search.

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    Comment #17583430

    Also, above a certain level of affluence, a person's time, is valued over money. Taking a private jet might be a good deal for anyone making the big bucks.

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    Comment #17581922

    > However, AB 33 could potentially mean that PG&E customers are on the hook to repay the secured bonds. Aren't customers on the hook regardless? PG&E gets it's money from customers…

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    Comment #17578561

    I really liked Joe Rogan's video on this topic, titled "Joe Rogan on Why he changed his stance on the Moon landing conspiracy". [1] The short, short version is that some training i…

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    Comment #17571902

    The thing that blows me away is the idea that nobody knows how to make a pencil. Essentially no one on Earth knows how to make a regular ol' number 2 pencil in it's entirety, from …

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