drb311

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by drb311 7y ago
In the UK you can sign up for a Gmail account without any other contact info - just an unverified name and date of birth. Is this different elsewhere?
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by drb311 8y ago
Britain First is not for or against any religion. It's for traditional white British culture against anything new or brown. They're full of hate. They should be allowed to speak but they ain't borrowing my megaphone. Good on
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by drb311 8y ago
Yes it originated hundreds of millions of years ago. And this new research indicates it was probably in China. (The land not the civilisation.)
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by drb311 8y ago
The article is saying that all yeast originated in the area we now call China, long before any civilisation appeared there. It's not saying the Chinese invented it. The Chinese might have been the first to find a use for it. But that&#
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by drb311 9y ago
Even Worf doesn't go that far https://twitter.com/WorfEmail
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by drb311 9y ago
Nailed it.
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by drb311 9y ago
>>Hey Jane, I need your input on how to prioritize my current work. Can you provide guidance on where I should focus? >>Bug XYZ was assigned to me and it's taking longer to complete because we have a dependency on Vendor AB
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by drb311 9y ago
The key is: 1. Reply now 2. Do the best you can in the time you can spare It's email. If people need more they can ask for it. At least now they know you'll reply.
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by drb311 9y ago
Just get rid of the dialpad and let us use the keyboard to dial numbers. Google Keyboard already has a dialpad-style layout and you can choose to centre it or move it to the left or right thumbzone. We already use the keyboard to type numbe
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by drb311 9y ago
How often are P&T's guessed solutions better than the real ones?
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Rebranding branding – a case study(medium.com)
1 points by drb311 10y ago|0 comments
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by drb311 10y ago
> the old Paint That's not the old Paint, that's the new Paint!
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by drb311 10y ago
"I see people put their forks, etc, on tables" What? If you can't put your forks on the table where can you put them? I always put my fork on the table, that's what the tables for. How do you lay your table?!
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by drb311 10y ago
If you really wanted to test the five second rule, you'd have to be broader. Who is overall better off? 1. The person who NEVER eats food off the floor 2. The person will ALWAYS eats food off the floor 3. The person who follows the 5-s
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by drb311 10y ago
Steven I'm managing editor at Packt. Thank you for publishing your book with us. If you want to publish your next work yourself or with another publisher just mail us and ask. I'm sure we wouldn't enforce that clause against
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Packt 2016 Skill Up report – comprehensive developer skills survey(drive.google.com)
2 points by drb311 10y ago|3 comments
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by drb311 10y ago
Discovering commands by trial and error isn't much fun because the fall back action -- a Google search for the words you said -- is so boring. The conversational UI in text adventure games was fun to explore because the fall backs were
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by drb311 10y ago
I remember reading Dahl as a child and now I'm reading them to my kids. They didn't feel half as dark then as they do now. And compared to the nightmares children invent for themselves, Dahl stories are probably pretty tame.
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by drb311 10y ago
Funny how many tweeters are explaining Musk's joke back to him.
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by drb311 10y ago
It's a long time, but isn't this the software they build in the novel Microserfs? If so the idea's been around a long while, so I guess it just doesn't work in real life. It's a great geek novel anyway.
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by drb311 10y ago
That's a relief.
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by drb311 10y ago
That's a great idea! "Now you know what's going on, here are some words that make it easier to talk about."
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by drb311 10y ago
That's really hard!
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by drb311 10y ago
Rare words can make writing more efficient and enjoyable. But it doesn't always. To my ears: "I use language for two reasons:" Is better than "To me, language is wielded with dual intention" But I always enjoy the w
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by drb311 10y ago
The text editor is here: http://xkcd.com/simplewriter/ Try it! 1,000 words is an unrealistic constraint. But I'm amazed how often I use a complex word when the simple alternative is better. Or... Sticking to 1,000
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by drb311 10y ago
I can, in no more than 5 whys, get from ANY problem back to my own personal hobby horse issue.
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by drb311 10y ago
A very good approach. Frequently talked about, rarely applied.
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by drb311 10y ago
2 ways to deal with procrastination: 1. Don't worry about it. We all procrastinate and most of the time it works out OK. Our instincts know what they're doing. 2. Break tough tasks down into very, very laughably small tasks. Don&#
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by drb311 10y ago
Any Ally Mcbeal fans here who can advise us on American law?
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by drb311 10y ago
Here's how the BBC describes the product: "Littergram invites people to share pictures of rubbish." It's pretty clear that -gram here is used to signal that this is a picture sharing app. If Instagram didn't exist i

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