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When I think of charity in my city, I have soup kitchen, run by church, adult day care run by another church, drug clinic run by church, habitat humanity branch, another church, pr…

Head First Design Patterns helped me. I'm not saying to go overboard with design patterns. But it helped me understand some ideas about Object Oriented design

I would say because software engineers often work in mission critical systems where risk is a factor, and his job as a guy finding flaws in risk models on wall street, gave him ins…

It was my understanding that Obama had actually dampened Bush's plans for missile defense in Europe, and instead was focused on shorter ranges that would come from Iran, and the re…

Maybe he is defining Nation separate from State, like Tamils or Kurds are a Nation without a state.

I enjoyed your reversi game.

The eli5 is just a Reddit forum thing to keep jargon and length down, does not mean you have a 5 year old mind. A question would be eli5 lambda calculus. Actually if there is an el…

Okay a good page that goes into depth is history of Venezuela oil Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Venezuelan_oi... The Chávez administration used high oil …

It was not simply that they "nationalized oil" in my example, as the resources we're already state owned. You seem to not be serious with your comments.

Economists believe that hyperinflations are caused by large persistent government deficits financed primarily by money creation (rather than by borrowing or by increasing taxation)…

In the post, Magglioca says that the bill of rights was not what people of the time thought a bill of rights looked like. Well I find it is not accurate to say that since many idea…

I wonder about spider bites or something. Imagine sleeping on the forest floor with no covering, ants would crawl on you and stuff. Well, at least at picnics they do. A lot of bugs…

It makes an interesting point about focusing on quality instead of a check mark by someone who is not directly under the hood. (project manager in this case) Also it cautions again…

One thing I find healthy, is that many companies beyond Tesla are trying to build this technology. Even though the story thinks the data may be suspect at this point, the competiti…

The book Moneyball talks about this. Well I thought it would be about baseball, but it was kind of about our ability to judge merit. It's hard even in a measurement driven sport li…

Is it merit based? I would say it's capital based.

I think that's standard. Writing is hard, I imagine political books are similar. Though I think the purpose of the Tribune was to allow athletes to control how they are heard.

I thought it was about passing variables into a class instead of an object, or some other Object Oriented technique I was unaware of...

I am glad I read this just now, I was jumping from hoop to hoop. and not only hoops but craft paradigms, reminds me of the Fred Brooks idea "There is no silver bullet". Brooks argu…

I do not think "they make your product look well thought out." is why. I think the need is to read a clean, clear symbol instantly. Apple, Golden Arch, Handicap-Sign. Because of th…