leftcoaster

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by leftcoaster 12y ago
Why are opiates classified as hallucinogenic and not rolled in with heroin?
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by leftcoaster 12y ago
Contractor probably measured by throughput, not capture rate. Hence incentives are to push people through.
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by leftcoaster 12y ago
Middlebrow is precisely what it aspires to be. It's not a scholarly (highbrow) publication. It's not USA Today (lowbrow). It executes specific conventions capably and asks only that inexpert readers concentrate and enjoy.
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by leftcoaster 12y ago
Which will not stop recruiters from seeking candidates with 5 years experience in Swift.
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by leftcoaster 12y ago
Take this question to the bogleheads forum.
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by leftcoaster 15y ago
"So Arrington, in typical Arrington fashion said ..." I don't think the ad hominem helps your case, at all.
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by leftcoaster 15y ago
"I did not ask for her permission, but I think that her information is in very trusted hands with Paul and I am 100% sure that he would never ever abuse it." Wow, how exactly is that your decision to make?
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by leftcoaster 15y ago
And let's not forget that RMS' views create the space that moderates inhabit. In other words, if there were no RMS, the moderates would be the extremists and we'd all be poorer for it.
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by leftcoaster 16y ago
Crowd never should have happened. For 3 (or was it 4 or 5?) years, jira users have voted for an enhancement to drive jira groups out of LDAP. The reward for this loyalty? Crowd: a whole new product, with a separate, spendy license. Bizar
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by leftcoaster 16y ago
this is awesome but for the annoying number of sites that demand short passwords.
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by leftcoaster 16y ago
Spend some time here: http://www.bogleheads.org/ read the wiki; post questions in the advice forum; read some of the suggested books. I think William Bernstein is probably the best of them.
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by leftcoaster 16y ago
Yes to Graham. Emphatic no to Rich Dad Poor Dad. Here's why: http://www.johntreed.com/Kiyosaki.html
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by leftcoaster 17y ago
Grammar is about sentence structure; your point is about word choice, otherwise known as "diction." And "flush" is perfectly correct. Used transitively, it means "to expose or chase from a place of concealment." Example: "the hunters use
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by leftcoaster 17y ago
I don't find his argument particularly convincing. He's assuming that the market can see that something that was open is now closed. And while that might be true for an end user application, it's not at all true for libraries and framewor