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by mgas 2y ago
If anyone is interested in seeing bald eagles, there is a nesting pair in Big Bear, CA with three eggs being monitored via live webcam: https://www.friendsofbigbearvalley.org/eagles/
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by mgas 4y ago
Anyone who wants to go into p5 for games or visualizations would be well advised to either read Dan Shiffman's book (as another poster mentioned) or check out his YouTube channel, and code along to his 10 minute challenges: https:&#x2
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by mgas 4y ago
Also, there is Disney World, and EuroDisney, and hundreds of other non-Disney theme parks throughout the US and worldwide. Disney is setting a price that keeps them at the upper echelon of theme parks, whether the experience itself is dese
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by mgas 4y ago
My personal take on this is that the idea of adjusting for inflation over time based on macroeconomic rates of inflation is useless (apart from showing that even though we make more money now, we can afford less). National inflation does n
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by mgas 4y ago
Facebook already has a subscription system. They sell hundreds of millions of ad slots per day to willing buyers so they can put messages in front of your eyes. Advertisers subscribe to the FB publishing space based on all your data point
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by mgas 4y ago
You only need to see who the author of this post is to know that the methodology is crap, the numbers are likely made up (19.42% is WAY too specific), and the post is just a grab for media attention on the coattails of some other internet m
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by mgas 4y ago
Totally agree on jr vs sr. Another point that is conveniently overlooked in the article so the author can have his holier-than-thou moment. It seems he's hiring seniors, and only wants stars.
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by mgas 4y ago
Too many people here are crowing about the GitHub thing, and not enough about: > Above all, I try to hire people who I'd want to pair with tomorrow. People who are better than me, and people who I can learn from. It seems the only w
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by mgas 4y ago
A Whiteboard coding challenge is the exact thing you describe. But instead of interviewers looking over your shoulder, they look at the whiteboard as you stand in front of them and write code on the whiteboard.
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by mgas 4y ago
Agree on all accounts, except for paper working when wet. :P
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by mgas 4y ago
100000% agree. I would have loved to get more practical stuff in high school, and less fluff. Woodworking is a lifetime skill, and contributed to my understanding of spatial organization, practical math, fractions, and precision. Plus no
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by mgas 4y ago
I just bought a house, and signing all the mortgage docs, they told me I had to sign my name exactly as it appears on the document: First Middle Last. My signature, the one that is most personal, recognizable, and ubiquitous to me, is a qu
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by mgas 4y ago
I was arguing that, in Europe, and France specifically, it's a way to see whether or not a potential candidate is "French" enough. It's expounded as a psychological tool (orthographists and graphologists are paid to psy
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by mgas 4y ago
That's cool. This type of thing just sparks something in my brain. I learned cursive because it was beat into me. As soon as I could abandon it I did, and for good reason too. My cursive was terrible and dyslexic, and block text wa
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by mgas 4y ago
Here's my take: The author was born in the 90s, and was in elementary and middle school in the 2000s, when keyboarding was already seen as a primary skill. His take that "nobody writes cursive anymore" is true, given that fo
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by mgas 4y ago
If this question is serious, then it's a terrible way to think. What is "making" a million dollars? Revenue? Profit? Are you just leveraging $10k into loans? Is it investment money? Are you starting a company? Any of thos
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by mgas 5y ago
I guess nothing is gripe-free these days. Sheesh.
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by mgas 5y ago
Not OP, but I have experience with the layers they describe. These are not separate Google Analytics products, but levels of implementation of the Google Analytics code. The first level they mention is out-of-the-box, no setup Google Analy
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by mgas 5y ago
You can still play the actual Wordle (and access all past, and apparently future, games) here, ad-free, monetization-free, gripe-free: https://timewarple.com/
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by mgas 5y ago
This, and only this. He literally states "Fast forward two years and several pivots, and my slightly-less-early-stage business is doing $900 per month in revenue... from ads." I used to hate ads, until I started making money from
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by mgas 5y ago
So, we have to hope that those in power will effectively regulate themselves? Like Apple and Microsoft and Google and FaceBook, etc can effectively regulate themselves? The point is there is simply no accountability for those in power bec
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by mgas 5y ago
If someone invites you out to a sushi dinner, you are free to decline simply because you do not eat sushi; but you should also consider your audience when communicating your rejection of their offer.
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by mgas 5y ago
I feel like this article does a much better job of reviewing Don't Look Up than the article that passed through here last week. As an allegorical reading, it calls out the major plot points of the film and hits on the ulterior motivat
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by mgas 5y ago
Game Play: maybe you want it this way, but the animations are an impediment to gameplay. I like to type the words, and in a timed situation, typing quickly should be an asset to the player. The animations make good players worse, even on
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by mgas 5y ago
> Maybe you used to be a pre-school teacher, and you'll be the go-to person for communicating the engineering team's needs to the marketing team in a way that makes sense to them. I usually don't go in for piling onto defe
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by mgas 5y ago
I agree with concerns about recyclability. I would also raise concerns about the renewability and/or toxicity of the base materials. If they are petroleum-based, this feels like a losing proposition.
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by mgas 5y ago
> Drupal was, and still is, a clunking monster, unfriendly to developers and editors alike I feel like this is an unnecessary and inflammatory swipe, typical of coder-bro culture. Both Drupal and Wordpress are open source tools that hav
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by mgas 5y ago
I did this in 2010, and it changed my life forever. But likely not in the way you might think, and definitely not like most other people on here. I don't have a tech background. In 2009, I was a BA holder (Philosophy) working 3 jobs
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by mgas 5y ago
El Corte Inglès, Europe's Biggest Department Store Group, in case you were wondering and don't open the link.
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by mgas 5y ago
You can rest assured that if you go into a store and get pitched on a product, if the salesperson works on commission, the product they push the hardest on is the one with the highest profit margin (and consequently the one they make the hi

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