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2018-07-05 at 2:51 AM UTC in The decline of human intelligence visualized in one graphThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-07-04 at 8:04 PM UTC in Donald Trump apprecation thread
Originally posted by joerell Courage is the test of man…not bullies throwing rocks with nothing to offer. Modern day socialists ( globalists ) do not want to debate…they only want to dominate and have uneducated slaves follow them. Example when Clinton was forced to debate in the presidential election she lost despite how she tried to rig the primaries…after 8 years of corruption she destroyed herself. For the record…Trump is a conservative patriot not an established Rep or Dem in the swamp. What we needed…someone to expose the garbage. Considering how leftist fake news want to falsely impeach Trump he's a great president and why he has so many victories being a fighter. During WW2 patriots liberated Europe with all ethnic groups and races from all over the world…not Nazis, Fascists or extreme socialists. Only mistake…Stalin. Like Patton suggested…Stalin should have been eliminated. You people can debate all you want…I'll give my support in the real world along with my friends.
He made a very profound statement. Probably truly his best one. "I will drain the swamp". did you not hear what he said after he was elected. "I don't know why I even said that.. I hate that statement. I can't believe I said that" regarding draining the swamp.
His very close friend is Larry Silverstein who is connected with the Carlyl group which is suspected of making shitloads off of the attack of 9/11 and all of them had former inside information.
Trump isn't planning on reinvestigating 9/11 nor Hilarry Clinton who he helped fund in the millions in the past. it's all apart of the fucking sideshow. Trump has his own lillypad in that same swamp.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-07-04 at 8:02 PM UTC in Do not let the slow march of Lanny's incremental fascism fool you.U queers need a fuckin lifeThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-07-04 at 6:52 PM UTC in Donald Trump apprecation threadTrump is not the messiah. He’s just another bloated blowhard puppet who has a lot less power than people realize or want to admit. There are others who pull the strings.
Also, there’s a lot to be learned from debating (not arguing) politics but people have to be open to viewpoints that are uncomfortable. Otherwise you’re just stuck repeating the same ideology you’ve been force fed.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-07-04 at 5:38 AM UTC in Hey Sophie and other techs
Originally posted by Madman You made a post saying you had alot of resources for different things and I saw some things about python and I was hoping I could get everything you've got about python. I've worked as a tech before but never learned any programming. I've heard that if you know your stuff you can get a job without a degree, is this true? I don't really know what language to start with but I've heard that python programmers are in demand so that seems like a good of a spot to start as any.
You can get a job without a degree. Historically self-learners have been well respected among programmers and generally considered to be completely capable of competing with degree holders. Often because the norm for a number of years was that degree holders had programming experience before entering college and considered themselves self-learners at heart. There's various stereotypes of scrappy kids teaching themselves to code, being "unpolished" but smart, good and bad but I think it worked in your favor in general if you knew what you were doing.
The advent of "bootcamps", non-accredited and highly condensed programs somewhat reminiscent of trades schools, have muddied the waters somewhat. I think one criticism of the bootcamp phenomenon is that it's made the situation for actual self-taught programmers more difficult since non-degree holders are now split between some official training (with no promises as to quality) in the boot camp case and no official training. Instead of being viewed as a kind of parallel path to professional programming, self-teaching is now the bad end of a spectrum of certification (unfairly, if you ask me).
That said I still think you can make it as a self-taught programmer, you just need a bit more hustle than you used to.If I spent 10-20 hours a week learning do you have any idea how long it would take before I would be able to handle anything an employer could throw at me?
You're never going to be able to put a good timetable on learning. Even in colleges where there's a formal scheduled curriculum there are people who could work as professional programmers their freshman year and people who graduate without being able to really put together a program. 20 hours a week is a lot, 10 hours a week is probably still a lot. I don't think most people can stomach that much of practicing something they're garbage at (and everyone's garbage when they start, naturally). You sometimes hear two years of regular practice tossed around, but no one seems to have any particular evidence for that number. It does seem uncommon to find someone who can go from no experience to being a reasonably competent professional in under a year. It was probably two years for me between starting to program seriously and realistically being able to hold down a job, although I was lucky to have a job I didn't really know how to do where I was allowed to learn as I went.
There's lots of resources for learning to program, which you choose really doesn't matter too much. I do like to plug How to Think Like A Computer Scientist. It's a bit of a difficult pitch to people looking to learn since what you think you want to learn is python. But actually you want to learn programming, and this book will do both for you although its title suggests neither.
The reason I suggest it over the many other excellent introductory resources on Python is because it goes through language constructs a sequence that's "natural" in that they reflect complexity and dependence of ideas within the language. That probably doesn't sound very meaningful, but contrast it with the typical approach where an author sits down and says "I want the reader to be able to do X by the end of the book", they think "they need Y and Z to do X, so we have to include chapters on Y and Z before the chapter on X" and repeat the process for Y and Z until they run out of topics. On the other hand TLACS asks "what's the smallest next thing you can learn exhaustively from what you know right now". The downside is that the very first chapter is a somewhat painful discussion of the expression/statement distinction which is something you typically handwave around until it becomes relevant to do the big X the book is building up to. The upside that you as a reader can go off-script and not get bitten in the ass by previously hand-waved material. There's also the fact that the exercises don't treat the reader like a retard who's terrified of math, which is always a plus.
I think the closest analogue is probably The Little Schemer which is an absolute hidden gem of computer science education which has tragically fallen out of fashion half because no one likes scheme anymore for some reason and half because the socratic method sews the seeds of social upheaval.
Originally posted by esbity The best way to learn Python is to Learn Python the hard way.
Putting the fact that Shaw is an asshole, I think there are some real flaws with LPTHW. The biggest being that it's woefully unambitious, it's not a small resource and the capstone project is a textmode adventure game. Shaw handwaves a bunch of stuff and, at least the last time I looked at it a few years ago, it was downright deceptive in how some of the more subtle language constructs operate. You can tell he's far more comfortable as a C programmer than in Python, which is curious seeing as he decided to write his python book before the C one (I have no idea how LCTHW turned out) -
2018-07-04 at 3:56 AM UTC in What qualities will you require of your children?You actually don't worry about it hon. We'll go kid shopping on Sunday and discuss it then. When you see some of the kids I have lined up, you're going to fall in love, I just know it.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-07-03 at 3:07 AM UTC in Kinks is fat and ugly...Pics of facepalming torvalds style or gake and Tina Faye.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-07-03 at 1:59 AM UTC in Medium Rare ChickenSalmonella doesn’t even exist. It’s a myth propagated by the jedis to keep us from truly enjoying chicken.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-07-03 at 1:28 AM UTC in Kinks is fat and ugly...Y’all are trying to cyber bully this poor girl about her looks, like middle school kids. Kinks personality is questionable at times, but she ain’t ugly. You guys are a bunch of pansies for ganging up on someone, from behind a computer monitor and afraid to post a picture of yourselves.
Pffffffffft get a life already. Sheesh! -
2018-07-01 at 6:26 PM UTC in Wow people can be huge assholes sometimesYou deserve to be euthanized.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-07-01 at 6:18 PM UTC in Wow people can be huge assholes sometimesMaybe you're a rude asshole for going into public places with a potentially contagious infection? Coughing and spitting up phlegm in front of people in a public place, clearly ill, at least, ill enough to not be at work, but not ill enough to be shitposting on a forum at the library spreading around your shit. You're the asshole.
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2018-06-30 at 8:11 PM UTC in Healthy foods you enjoy eating?
Originally posted by HTS So your idea of a healthy snack is a rice cake with 200 calories worth of chocolate hazelnut spread on it?
Better than toast. I only put a thin layer on anyway. Less than 1 tbsp total. 2tbsp is a serving, and 200 calories. So my snack is total like 160ish calories. Add a banana or raw broccoli and you have breakfast for under 300.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-06-29 at 4:44 PM UTC in The reason spectral doesn't want you to make jokes about raping babiesOne what? Baby?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-06-28 at 9:52 PM UTC in The difference between nigs and dhersThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-06-28 at 12:34 PM UTC in KINKS VS DONTELLEM VS SQUIRREL
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2018-06-28 at 7:51 AM UTC in Bought the GTA trilogy today for $20Saints row is betterThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-06-28 at 5:16 AM UTC in Bought the GTA trilogy today for $20Yeah, GTA3 was a decent game for the time but it was immediately obsolesced by Vice City which was better in every dimension. By contrast, both VC and SA have something to set them apart from their sequels.
Controversial opinion time: 5 was better than SA. I loved SA and I spent so many hours on the turf war segment and had a blast. The map was huge, vehicle selection was dank, it was one of the best games of it's era. It was probably even more fun to play than 5. But 5 actually managed to elbow its way into being a game I would call art in a way SA didn't. The graphics and city design and general atmosphere of 5 was incredibly well crafted. It wan't just fun zany shit packed together because that's what's fun, there was a coherent overarching vision that went into the game, exploration of (some) character motives, and enough tech polish for 3 separate EA games.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-06-28 at 4:31 AM UTC in What you watchin whore
*10 minute long audi commercial*
*5 minute clip of lesbians enjoying their kohls merchandise*
*SAMSUNG BIXBY REFRIGERATORFONE COMMERCIAL FUCK YEAH*
*BLACK GUY DRIVING HIS V10 AUDI RACE CAR AGAIN*
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2018-06-28 at 3:54 AM UTC in Bought the GTA trilogy today for $20Vice City has all the hits and the best atmosphere.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-06-28 at 12:12 AM UTC in GIVE ME PICStis is real Kinks
