niccaluim

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by niccaluim 10y ago
Right. So, professional journalists with experience , and who are anything but anonymous.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
3) Experience is a series of non-fatal mistakes. Not everything is a financial metaphor.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
They're probably forbidden from speaking publicly about this by their PR people, no matter whether it's positive or negative.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Unfortunately the law is implemented by regular ol' people who are given quite a bit of discretion.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Uh huh. Stephen Fry has you pegged, I'm afraid. http://youtu.be/J7E-aoXLZGY
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by niccaluim 10y ago
I like metric as much as the next guy but you can pry knots from my cold, dead hands. Sincerely, An aviator and sailor
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Yes, by all means, ask for what you're worth. My point is that money is almost never the reason people decide to start looking for work elsewhere. A counter offer by itself is sort of an empty gesture that is bound to be ineffective in
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Counter offers are a little silly. People in our industry are already making far above the median, which makes it extremely unlikely that money is the motivation behind resignation. More often it's a bad manager—there's a saying t
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by niccaluim 10y ago
When I was there I was taken into the VAB with a group. The SRBs for the next Shuttle launch were there. Nobody else was in there. "Security" consisted of a guy asking if I had any lighters or matches.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
FWIW the Unicode spec describes combining marks as characters in their own right. So if the intent is to reverse characters , page 21 does the job. The resulting sequences will potentially be defective but not ill-formed. That being said,
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by niccaluim 10y ago
I can't help but notice that this very website on which we are writing comments is beige. ;)
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Good god, what on earth for?
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by niccaluim 10y ago
The tweet graph database has a persistent edge count cache but it's not designed to handle posts or deletions any faster than a human can produce them.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
And if the mere fact of the program's existence is classified? There's no way to respond without violating one of the oaths.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Well, sure, because American factories don't even exist in the first place. ;) But if we're making happiness the measure, America doesn't even break into the top ten.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Contextual menus weren't added until Mac OS 8 or thereabouts. In all prior versions you either dragged to the Trash or used an item in the menubar.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
I'd go back even further to find decent Mac UI, to the pre-X OS. Yes, it was a reliability garbage fire, but the Apple of that time really invested in usability. They published a 400-page book[1] for developers that explained the princ
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Early on, when someone accused Twitter of not being useful, Ev famously responded, "Neither is ice cream."
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Lots of comments here about the information he leaked from the CIA and zilch about race. This article isn't about the CIA; it's about racism in America.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
It's popular in mapping because it can be georeferenced. https://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/
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by niccaluim 10y ago
This isn't about a language. It's about the whole stack. I've been programming since before the web was invented. The web, as a development platform, is the worst layer-cake of kludges I've ever seen.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
I agree—I loathe frontend development, but React made it tolerable to do for limited periods—but it's still a hack on a teetering Jenga tower of hacks.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
On the subject of whether speech protections apply to the government only: it's all well and good to apply a legal analysis to free speech issues, but if you're looking to the law to tell you what's right and wrong, you&#
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by niccaluim 10y ago
I was about to mention that the DDHHMMZ format is used to stamp aviation weather reports and forecasts too, but I see the article beat me to it. :) Anyway here's the current (as of this comment) report from SFO if you're curious a
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by niccaluim 10y ago
When I was little we used to play hide-and-seek outside at night. I can't even imagine how many busybodies that would set off nowadays.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Having done a lot of coffees I'd say "yes" is overlooked as a possible worst thing that could happen.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
I admit I feel a tiny sense of superiority when I don't press the crosswalk buttons in SF. There are some that actually need to be pressed but they're different: instead of a button they have a little touch sensor and make a very
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by niccaluim 10y ago
The context is recognition and promotions. Sounds to me like they meant within the company.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
I think it would help if people knew why 90 seconds is the goal: because the real danger in a plane crash isn't the crash, it's the post-crash fire. I'm speaking generally of course. For something like Sioux City for exampl
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by niccaluim 10y ago
"Transients and residents live in the same areas, but avoid each other." Not so different from humans, then.

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