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by catscratch 10y ago
You meant to reply to a different comment?
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by catscratch 10y ago
My point was that medical school culture hasn't changed. It's been brutal for years. The main difference between those going to med school and the 90s and now in my opinion is a mix of the expectations by students that the increas
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by catscratch 10y ago
The majority of today's US med school students admitted in 2016 were born in 1992. They grew up watching the silly kids and stupid parents sit-com world of Disney Channel and Nickelodeon while getting soccer trophies for showing up. Th
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by catscratch 10y ago
> When is that going to happen? It already happens/has happened with AMPRnet, HSMM, CUWiN, Freifunk, FunkFeuer, OpenWireless, Firetide, Guifi.net, Netsukuku, Ninux, Senceive, and others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by catscratch 10y ago
Where the change will come is when we are no longer dependent on paying for network access. That will be the financial incentive. A fully decentralized web would be delivered peer-to-peer via a mesh network or something similar. Anything el
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by catscratch 10y ago
Didn't work for me either time I tried.
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by catscratch 10y ago
> stay away from: in sales for 8-10 years. There are definitely startups that do the "stay away from: in development for 8-10 years", however it's worded as "must be enthusiastic code ninja."
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by catscratch 10y ago
> soulless cookie cutter process that makes people feel like a commodity I agree most should steer clear from them, but the interview process is often an accurate representation of the level of the team: * If the interview involves a cop
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by catscratch 10y ago
That's succinct, but less clear than the Ruby version, imo, as you don't have any scope indicators required for the function body. JS: let f = (a,b,c) => a * b ^ c; f(2,3,4); vs. Ruby: f = ->(a,b,c) { a * b ^ c
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by catscratch 10y ago
This doesn't make me want to use JS. The power of JS is in two things, it's in every major browser and it doesn't completely suck. JS syntax kind of sucks. The power in JS is that it's dynamic and lets you send functions
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by catscratch 10y ago
I liked Vyvanse more than Evekeo. I had much less depression, was much more motivated and able to focus during the day as well as evening, and I still could get to bed easily and sleep well-enough. But, I acted too hyper on it. Perhaps I co
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by catscratch 10y ago
F# was based on OCaml. OCaml was attempted to be promoted several years ago and failed miserably. Yes, there are people interested in it, but not in a really serious way and only in small numbers. I just searched through every article I cou
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by catscratch 10y ago
For those that want to focus without as much jumpiness, Evekeo is a good choice. It's not as much of an upper since has less dextro, but still works fine.
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by catscratch 10y ago
http://regionals.burningman.org/ The map in that would probably overlay nicely with a global wealth map: https://cdn.credit-suisse.com/articles/news-and-expertise/20...
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by catscratch 10y ago
Thanks! You caught some ones I missed, so here are some edits and responses to your list: 1. I didn't mean to put "container" in front of quantum computing. 2. I didn't mention history of certs or encryption, as I think
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by catscratch 10y ago
A history of new things geared toward web app developers, starting with relevant popular technologies: Late 1970s: microcomputers, explosion of BASIC and ASM development Early 1980s: proliferation of modems, BBS's become big, Compuserv
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by catscratch 10y ago
> 1) Drought. Severe drought. Trees need water. There's less of it. Due to alfalfa, almond/pistachios, pastures, rice, corn, other field crops, vineyards, other truck crops, cotton, grain, and tomato, primarily, according to:
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by catscratch 10y ago
> Perhaps one of our stat-geek readers will be able to tease out a conclusion regarding power cycles. I think it's obvious. If the drive has errors, this may cause or cause need for a reboot.
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by catscratch 10y ago
> Just FYI, this is not sarcasm, it's ironic humor. Not the same thing. Sarcasm is "the use of irony to mock or convey contempt" which is obviously not what you meant. Just FYI, you were humorless in your interpretation of
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by catscratch 10y ago
No, I was just stating part of the story from the book. Man, there are a lot of people here that haven't read BNW!
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by catscratch 10y ago
> Nice! I was preparing myself for a rant against yet another proprietary "decentralized" platform, when I read that this is GNU Social compatible :-). Same here, but I stopped because it looks like a better version of Twitter.
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by catscratch 10y ago
But see, you had the intelligence to read what I wrote and write that. What if someone were to have reduced the oxygen to your embryo so that you were an idiot and were happy but had no idea what I was talking about? That's ok to you?
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by catscratch 10y ago
At the time that I read it, by the end of the book, it was clear to me personally that the large disconnect between the Utopian world and the world of the "natives" was the same disconnect that I felt at the time with the describe
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by catscratch 10y ago
Hoping everyone here has read Brave New World. Utopia and dystopia only differ by a few letters. The only Utopia I expect is the one of my religion. I don't expect to create one.
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by catscratch 10y ago
I understand curiosity of sensitive data. I think everyone wants to know more. I also understand that some people think that no one should have this power and want to stop it. I wish that, if you feel this way, you renounce your citizenship
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by catscratch 10y ago
> We would need to master the natural process of aging that serves to kill us once we have outlived our evolutionary purpose Related to aging is the length of our telomeres. Doing a search through recent news brings up some interesting r
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by catscratch 10y ago
I'm really curious what's going to happen to the guy that got > 1k votes for saying they should shoot him a message, since he's just a webdev contractor that's been working at NASA for about a year. IMO, NASA should h
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by catscratch 10y ago
It might suck, but it's what kids are learning, since Scratch uses it.