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dunemaster

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    Comment #32733227

    You mean CS is unimportant for 99% of all code monkeys. But it is absolutely necessary for bleeding edge development and creating libraries that people who deem CS unimportant. It’…

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    Comment #32733191

    Ah yes, you’ll forget almost everything learned at school, so just close down close right? Why stop smoking and getting drunk all the time when you die anyway?

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    Comment #32733156

    I don’t think that anecdotal evidence benefits the evidence behind psychedelic therapies. I lost a lot of weight by eating gummy bears around the same time I started to exercise an…

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    Comment #32733125

    About three fiddy

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    Comment #32733107

    But le software is le eating le heckin worlderino

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    Comment #29737976

    Absolutely this. All great writers were extremely prolific and disciplined about their craft with no exception. This whole myth about some genius lying on the table and thinking ab…

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    Comment #29737931

    I think that many games are just too expensive on their platform and the interface is all over the place. There are so many options and covers which completely overwhelm the averag…

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    Comment #29737861

    Unlikable mary sue character who constantly toots his own horn and boasts about how smart he is, boring cookie cutter world building straight from a how to book. This made the prot…

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    Comment #29737833

    Ok boomer. How you respond to the comment says a lot about you and how you think.

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    Comment #29737806

    Product owner, scrum master and everything agile is the essence of a bullshit job.

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    Comment #29713548

    This article could have been 1/8th of its length and the message would still be clear. Modern writing is vague, overly detailed and inelegant.

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    Comment #29713519

    >le technology le bad This is the most boomer thing I read on this platform and that says a lot.

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    Comment #29713505

    For me it was the other way around. The first book was so bad that I stopped reading fiction all together because I realized there are more important things I can do with my limite…

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    Comment #29711517

    >Patrick rothfuss before lord of the rings This has to be bait

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    Comment #29367196

    Why the dots?

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    Comment #26140277

    A very high probability of being wrong doesn’t make it right though.

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    Comment #26140213

    By merely bruteforcing chess positions? A 300 page novel is vastly more complex than a chess game

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    Comment #26140205

    Not until neuroscientists even remotely understand how consciousness forms

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    Comment #25767440

    As a freelance concept artist and illustrator I pull regular all nighters but when I’m into the zone drawing worlds and characters from pure imagination, I lose track of time and s…

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    Comment #24660381

    Are there any writers of technical books here that write in their second language? Do you translate it to english or just write it in english?