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Comment #36453974
I'm not sure if you do, honestly. The point of the exercise is exactly the ambiguity that stood out to you. Also, the question was very explicitly not asking if an ambulance in the…
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Comment #33289620
You and antihero are talking about two different kinds of "good listening," though. "Being a good listener" has both a practical and a social component. You are referring to the so…
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Comment #32599045
OP was not suggesting that search engines cannot be used as a tool in the process of taking the test. Rather, that your test should not be something which a candidate can Google a …
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Comment #29707574
While I agree with both sentiments, I find the juxtaposition between the two interesting as it implies a relationship between them but they don't seem to be related at all.
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Comment #25852725
>...he should seriously consider putting more effort into the documentation and distribution side. In addition to what other people have said, Blow is explicitly working on documen…
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Comment #25852694
It is no longer in the language. Much of this document is extremely out of date.
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Comment #25239296
"This version of the sentiment which you did not express is totally reasonable, therefore it seems nuts to hate people for the sentiment that you DID express."
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Comment #24557010
I would imagine it's because WSL is a terribly confusing name itself for a lot of people. There are two ways to read "Windows Subsystem for Linux": 1. This is a subsystem that runs…
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Comment #24507815
It seems like a lot of the discussion surrounding DOD that gets popular interest is centered on a small set of patterns that you can apply. And the implication that DOD is the appl…
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Comment #22738484
If you look at the URL you'll see "commentisfree".
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Comment #22049268
>Not to be dismissive, but this post feels a bit like rambling without a clear thesis or main argument. The post opens with: >This is more of a brain dump or an internal monologue.…
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Comment #21935632
In case you're serious and unaware: it's a contraction of "would have," hence the apostrophe. It's not a single word spelled weirdly.
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Comment #21333774
IBM's response to Google called "On 'Quantum Supremacy'" has this to say: "Because the original meaning of the term “quantum supremacy,” as proposed by John Preskill in 2012, was t…
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Comment #21314704
Not OP, but...the advent of cars over horse-drawn carriages involved a _lot_ of deaths before both pedestrians and drivers learned. There was also a lot of propaganda put out by ca…
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Comment #21159221
I think that what you are saying here doesn't necessarily serve as a counterpoint to the GP's point. Rather, it's only an additional piece of evidence. Where GP referred to things …
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Comment #20714997
Software development does not have to be a stressful experience. I'm sorry that you believe it does as that implies that your experience has largely been stressful. In my mind, tha…
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Comment #20676674
Look upon the horrors and weep: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html
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Comment #20647604
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parkinsons-Law-Pursuit-Progress-Bus...
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Comment #18558134
>Actually, following French where male grammatical gender is used when the actual gender of the referent is unknown, fiancé is also the generic term. I did not know this, thanks. >…
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Comment #18557089
The word fiancé/fiancée is gendered. It is one of the few gendered words in English, as the gender was not dropped in taking it from French. Fiancé refers to the male. Fiancée refe…
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Comment #18002853
I acknowledge that my original statement was implicitly asserting that to some degree the public consciousness is right-leaning.
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Comment #18002829
I would like to point out that I was not making any statements as to the validity of either of those two statements. Rather, they are commonly-held beliefs irrespective of their tr…
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Comment #18002826
>I think this is the right's perspective, but it's not an accurate portrayal of the left's. I therefore disagree with the assertion that this is a fair representation of the "publi…