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by wongma 8y ago
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 each find out if we were right or not. Well, technically, i
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by wongma 8y ago
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. The traditional 25 minutes always seemed a little too
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by wongma 8y ago
Care to summarize what you know now that you didn't know then?
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Google, Apple and others no longer require employees to have a college degree(cnbc.com)
33 points by wongma 8y ago|19 comments
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by wongma 8y ago
Any recommended resources for experienced developers on the OO side wanting to learn Clojure?
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by wongma 8y ago
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 comment.
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Matz on Ruby After 25 Years – Singapore Ruby Group(youtube.com)
3 points by wongma 8y ago|0 comments
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by wongma 8y ago
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-Delusion-Secular-Became-Id...
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by wongma 8y ago
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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by wongma 8y ago
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 dependencies. This keeps me happily in Rubyland
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by wongma 8y ago
no, because you're not passing the arg in now right?
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by wongma 8y ago
I usually do this when I need to pass arguements in: <button onClick={ (arg) => this.smth(arg) }></button> How can I do this without defining a function?
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by wongma 8y ago
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 with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The se
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by wongma 8y ago
> 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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by wongma 8y ago
Exactly. Bad and/or wrong is worse than nothing at all.
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by wongma 8y ago
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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by wongma 8y ago
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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by wongma 8y ago
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 secure applications (including infrastructure)? Edit: updat
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Live Stream – Mark Zuckerberg Hearing on Data Privacy and Protection(c-span.org)
1 points by wongma 8y ago|0 comments
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by wongma 8y ago
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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by wongma 8y ago
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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by wongma 8y ago
I don't see any vilification in that question.
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by wongma 8y ago
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 the nature of that eternity is and how best to prepare