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Aptitude testing shows[1] that while females tend to cluster more towards the average, male populations produce more outliers.

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Quick take

In the direction of something (indicated by context).

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of towards gathered in one view.

adverb

In the direction of something (indicated by context).

adjective

Near; at hand; in state of preparation; toward.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for towards.

adverb

In the direction of something (indicated by context).

adjective

Near; at hand; in state of preparation; toward.

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Aptitude testing shows[1] that while females tend to cluster more towards the average, male populations produce more outliers.

We have used a combination of Scala/MongoDB/RabbitMQ but have been looking towards using Go/Postgres/Java on the backend instead.

Imagine inheriting $5m and putting it towards stocks, which have a long term average ROI of 7%, already inflation adjusted.

But in reality, you probably lean either towards the front or the back end.

The topology, and the tendency towards centralized systems is not talked about here.

That's why the good actors are moving towards mixing advertisements and other content to be so similar as to be impossible to filter.

You could see this step from Apple as an aggressive one towards Google, or just as reaching feature parity with Android on ad-blocking.

Also if you are leaning more towards Digital Ocean, do consider Linode.

People are simply going to move towards the path of least resistance.

We're working towards a platform which can collect data from millions of nodes on a daily basis and perform advanced analytics on petabytes of data.

Personally, that makes me lean towards teaching with Ruby or Python (probably Ruby, as I think it has more to teach).

You're a data point for bright, young people who want to increase their tech skills towards why they should not want to go into IT.

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Additionally, the "failures" to reach the phone interview were heavily weighted towards places that mentioned a degree in their job ad.

Tech as a whole leans young, with the "oldest" tech company workforce (HP) still younger than the national median [1] Now, whether simply having a younger workforce points towards actual age discrimination is a matter of fair debate.

It might be good to "only" be coding today, but 10 years from now, older and with kids (so no possibility to work week ends anymore), this will probably not be enough and will move you more towards the unemployable zone.

I don't mind general irreverence towards any kind of law in general, but discounting state/city laws while taking your own rules extremely seriously seems to express a certain disrespect towards the population at large, as if saying " their laws don't matter but ours do because unlike theirs, our rules are logical because they're made by smart people; theirs are stupid or irrelevant relics".