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wongma

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    Comment #19357347

    My take is that that there is no way to prove conclusively the existence nor the nonexistence of an afterlife. So each person makes a decision (bet). At the end of this life, we ea…

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    Comment #18304399

    worknflow looks great. I think it will be useful for me. Thanks for building it! In case you're open to suggestions, being able to adjust the Pomodoro duration would be awesome. Th…

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    Comment #17985700

    Care to summarize what you know now that you didn't know then?

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    Comment #17730713

    Any recommended resources for experienced developers on the OO side wanting to learn Clojure?

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    Comment #17677540

    Did you know you can add comments to a favorites list? Click on the comment's time stamp, e.g. '3 hours ago' and on the next page there will be a 'favorite' link right above the co…

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    Comment #17669689

    This is one of the more important books I've read on this matter recently: The Discipline of Delusion: How Secular Ideas Became the New Idolatry https://www.amazon.com/Discipline-D…

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    Comment #17659718

    Those aren't really counterexamples. They corroborate this finding by the OP: >There were people with degrees in unrelated fields who then did a bootcamp who were good

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    Comment #17650352

    Don't be too jealous. My main concern with Node and its ecosystem is maturity and security. It loses hands down on both those points compared Ruby / Rails especially in the area of…

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    Comment #17572797

    no, because you're not passing the arg in now right?

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    Comment #17572381

    I usually do this when I need to pass arguements in: this.smth(arg) }> How can I do this without defining a function?

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    Comment #17472718

    He took his Christian faith very seriously and that heavily influenced his worldview and treatment of others. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and…

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    Comment #17367657

    > If lots of people agree your post should move up in the search result No. If he's an expert at gaming the SEO game, then maybe. Or if he gets super lucky.

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    Comment #17367599

    Exactly. Bad and/or wrong is worse than nothing at all.

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    Comment #17068730

    I searched for a Perl6 repl to try it on and it works! Perl is so whimsically fun. :) https://tio.run/#perl6

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    Comment #17019363

    Thanks for the tips! Yeah, I should have been more explicit. When I say build secure applications, I imply the full stack including infrastructure. I updated my comment accordingly…

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    Comment #17019253

    Is there a course (or set of courses), books or other learning material you recommend for web developers to get to a competent level in terms of building, deploying and maintaining…

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    Comment #16748298

    Would this course be appropriate for those with a lot of general programming (OOP) knowledge, but little to no FP experience?

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    Comment #16742619

    Drag and drop an item from Finder to the terminal and it expands to its full path. Not sure if Linux does something similar as I'm not a regular user.

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    Comment #16682191

    I don't see any vilification in that question.

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    Comment #16668540

    I would also add to this that if there does exist an eternal existence after one's death [1], then it is infinitely rational to spend this comparatively short life finding out what…