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codersteve

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    Comment #28077812

    Did you see the line near the bottom of the article: >>However, McCann said her brother had asthma in an earlier tweet on 3 July.

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    Comment #28040439

    I think a lot of movies now take place in the past to remove the mobile-phone problem.

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    Comment #26276994

    That's really taking it out of context.

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    Comment #24752982

    This should be at the top. This is why at home I read about tech and at work I execute tech. There's reading and then there's doing. Reading should be considered a side project whe…

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    Comment #23819377

    This is the big problem I had with engineering in school, so much was based on faith that you needed it. And just now as I'm writing this, I realized that's completely counter to m…

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    Comment #23563576

    Bingo. I think this is the only reason it's working for my group right now and people declaring it "successful". Like someone said above, we have no idea of the long term consequen…

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    Comment #23563543

    >>We don’t “go remote” with our friends and family as a policy Not as a policy, but we probably do more of it to our detriment. It's a really excellent point.

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    Comment #23563492

    I think this is a pretty deep statement and I think it reflects the way I feel as well, and probably many others. It's because we lack confidence in knowing if our system of improv…

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    Comment #22628277

    That’s the plausible deniability part of it.

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    Comment #22106317

    Definitely on to something. Our minds create ideas but it takes long term effort to realize them. Along the way, our instincts get in the way.

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    Comment #16472907

    Don't use heavy weights, use light weight and add slowly.

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    Comment #12111239

    >> I really wished there were that did it with this level of simplicity. The desktop version of YNAB was pretty much like this.

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    Comment #12111170

    YNAB is awesome--the desktop version, that is. Unfortunately, they're going the web route for obvious reasons; but for me, I'm holding on to the desktop version as long as it can r…

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    Comment #11985505

    Many applications don't need Facebook/Twitter scale and will never have this problem.

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    Comment #11559318

    >You can certainly practice improving your mechanics, by which I mean your IDE/development environment whether it's keyboard shortcuts or workflow improvements. Maybe practicing th…

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    Comment #10177214

    Agreed. The incentive to make it better becomes less because users are on the auto-pay plan. Whereas they have to prove themselves worthy of the upgrade otherwise.

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    Comment #10015680

    When you're addicted to it you just need a fix to put you back to baseline. So the stimulating effect of it goes away until you start having withdrawals.

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    Comment #9600887

    >>I routinely KNOW I have hit an incorrect key, hit backspace, and correct it and progress with the word Because that's a bad habit when deliberately practicing. A good typing prog…

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    Comment #9551736

    I agree. What if you're applying for a Network Admin job? Are they supposed to have a github repo for admin scripts?

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    Comment #9551629

    >>Why is it inherently negative for an employee to use their job-skills for non-job purposes? It's not. I guess my point to the original comment is that they might not put in as mu…

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    Comment #9548289

    Cooking is different as it's something you do in order to eat--a basic necessity of life. So a cook would likely go home to cook a meal for his family but might not be happy about …

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    Comment #9021978

    >>State tax return fraud has been largely non-existent... so non-existent in fact that USA Today reported the state of Minnesota got suspicious when there were 2 reported cases of …

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    Comment #6295257

    For those of you that are interested, you might want to look up "Convict Conditioning". http://www.amazon.com/Convict-Conditioning-Weakness-Using-Su...