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jamesnvc1

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About jamesnvc1

Currently working at a small startup in Toronto. I graduated from University of Toronto's Engineering Science with a major in Electrical & Computer engineering in 2012.

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    Comment #6384198

    Kiefer's stuff is very well cited, but many of the citations are kind of specious - he has a history of citing studies that, upon perusal, are unrelated or contradictory to what he…

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    Comment #1157099

    Yeah, I went to a Taekwondo place that also taught Hapkido and found it a very good combination: Taekwondo will get you in very good shape (Olympic-style sparring builds up cardio …

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    Comment #1099260

    Ruby's yield is essentially just calling an anonymous function given to it in the form of a block. e.g., the following code snippets are equivalent Ruby: def foo(bar) if block_give…

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    Comment #445146

    There was actually some recent discussion about this on the Factor mailing list. Factor's macros aren't really the same as Lisp's, as they are a compile-time optimization of dynami…

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    Comment #428744

    Well, given that the parent comment is "Why don't you find a place where you don't have to pay taxes? Would it be as nice to live in as the US?" , it seems a tad disingenuous to us…

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    Comment #428654

    But they still reap the benefits of living in a country where most people pay taxes, do they not?