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bgilroy26
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Comment #49243947
Thomas Bayes would say that the population of people who hate Facebook is really big and the population of people who are scrupulous about whether or not their comments are specifi…
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Comment #49186212
This approach accumulates codebase-understanding debt and the call to pay the piper could come at any time
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Comment #49186161
At least in 2020 when I was in this pool, the rate for recent grads from an average program was $75k-$85k
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Comment #49168772
The bendy arm people https://www.wired.com/story/corporate-memphis-design-tech/
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Comment #49123607
>Sales and marketing, of course, were always and will always be a different story. If we could fix these, we could have bike lanes in places where they make sense
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Comment #49100616
It's more a post GamerGate understanding of a nerds vs the world narrative framing
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Comment #49098782
>The phrase appeared in print in the 1885 biography of the noted swindler Joseph "Hungry Joe" Lewis, "King of the Bunco Men". The author writes: >>It was always a saying with Joe t…
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Comment #48981344
I would walk
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Comment #48413608
Does the atmosphere stay attached to the earth due to the bending of time?
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Comment #48374640
It seems like there is a genuine communication breakdown between management and engineering. Engineers know that there are vulnerabilities all over the place and that there have be…
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Comment #47876620
For those who remember, the flagellum was a major site of the Intelligent Design debate that gave us Christopher Rufo (via the Discovery Institute) The general idea was that there …
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Comment #46838526
>Therefore, there was a certain tendency to RETVRN to the golden age of geometry Echoed in the LaRouchians of the 2000s. I don't know what they're up to now
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Comment #46797079
There really ought to be a class of professionals like forensic accountants who can show up in a corrupted organization and do a post mortem on their management of technical debt
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Comment #46776620
This ignores the career of Rush Limbaugh
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Comment #46583092
I have loved Scratch for many years. This looks cool! Thank you for sharing!
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Comment #45917809
Society is kinetic and disparate because of social media We're all on top of one another, and different cross tabs feel different ways about the same thing. So there is room for em…
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Comment #45916994
I have a lot of fun creating stories with Gemini and Claude. It feels like what Tom Hanks character imagined comic books could be in Big (1988) I play once or twice a week and it's…
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Comment #45790531
To save the url length, why not hash all possible states and have the value of the variable in the query string refer to that?
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Comment #45223331
I keep the principles of days at the gym rather than time at the gym close to time in the market vs timing the market in my mind
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Comment #45042816
The situation you're describing is circular. Perspective taking and prioritization are executive functioning skills and executive functioning skills are precisely what are lacking …
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Comment #45035563
>I bet if you knew your house would burn down if you didn't do "normal" things you would have done them no problem Getting yourself to do things in a boring situation that you migh…