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Another project I work on is called Around the World Cuisine. For the past four or five years, I’ve challenged myself to cook a dish from every single country.
My criteria for success? I want to be able to prepare it well enough that if someone from that country tries it they aren’t offended on behalf of their cuisine.
A few years ago I made a traditional Iranian beef stew. A co-worker of mine was from Iran so I brought it to him at work one day. He tasted it, looked at me and said “This is great!” So I checked it off the list.
How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine
How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine
Seliria
Theoretically, honesty should be easier than dishonesty. After all, “if you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything” (Mark Twain). It’s true that in business you’re so accustomed to fluffing your feathers and putting on a show, it can be hard to remember to act like a normal human being.
How to get customers who love you even when you screw up
Jason Cohen
And that’s what JavaScript does. But there’s a complication: JavaScript’s representation uses 16 bits per string element, which can describe up to 216 different characters. But Unicode defines more characters than that—about twice as many, at this point. So some characters, such as many emoji, take up two “character positions” in JavaScript strings.
Chapter 1Values, Types, and Operators
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