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by r_c_a_d 2y ago
A medal of honor winner's page on the DoD website has been moved to a URL starting with "dei". Is this being done automatically to pages containing certain phrases like "gender and racial equality" or did a real per
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by r_c_a_d 2y ago
Yay! We have lots of Bionicles in the house still. My boys used to buy me a new one when I started a new job for my desk - when working in the office was a thing. Not having your own website is an opportunity missed for techies especially,
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by r_c_a_d 2y ago
"quite a while ago - 2020" I think in the context of this article, 2020 is very recent. But otherwise, yes I agree. Incidentally, my own site started out in 1999 as a personal site, became a poster for my writing, then back to a p
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by r_c_a_d 3y ago
The establishment never acted against Saville in his lifetime. All the public allegations and investigations happened almost a year after his death.
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by r_c_a_d 4y ago
Yes, I expected to see something about that. Being from Lincolnshire one of my pet facts is that Lincoln cathedral was the tallest building in the world for over 200 years, until the spire collapsed and wasn't rebuilt. https:/&#x
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by r_c_a_d 4y ago
I want to as well, but annoyingly there are many sites that insist on a "special" character because their strength measure says "low" for the 20 character alphanumeric string I generated %-}
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by r_c_a_d 4y ago
I adopted a retired greyhound about 6 months ago and now walk about 200km a month with her. I used to do a lot of cycling and did lots of thinking on long rides, but after 3 crashes this year I'm now riding a lot less and find myself e
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by r_c_a_d 4y ago
Yes, I think this is how Wordle did the migration to NY Times without losing game history. The original site did a redirect to nytimes.com/something/wordle?data=X where X was the game history. Quite clever, I thought.
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by r_c_a_d 4y ago
I always stick to 2 pages (25 years ~10 jobs) but include the URL of the HTML version of my CV/resume which has the full details of each role. You may need to be creative about how you include the URL... as some recruiters will edit it
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by r_c_a_d 4y ago
Totally agree. The infrastructure is already there. In fact, this is what email was when it was a "program" you ran, rather than a web thing, and all your contacts were real people you knew rather than businesses. Is there an emai
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by r_c_a_d 4y ago
Maybe try writing a private diary for, say, a year and see what you get. Depending on events you will probably either (a) drift out of the habit after a month or two (b) gain insights into yourself and carry on (c) start to publish selected
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by r_c_a_d 4y ago
I thought the same, but tried it for a month and it didn't work for me. Just as you get two Fridays a week (Tuesday and Friday) it also felt like I had two Mondays (Monday and Thursday). I just ended up hating Thursdays as much or more
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by r_c_a_d 4y ago
Not all "jail time", but yes, many convictions would preclude candidates from employment at my current company... and most of the previous ones.
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by r_c_a_d 4y ago
In 40 years I have only ever put the start and end year of each item on my resume. I guess this dates to when most jobs / education lasted multiple years. But I've stuck with it and no-one has ever questioned it. The couple of job
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by r_c_a_d 4y ago
As another outsider, I can remember seeing reports of mass shootings in the US every year or two for the last 30 years or so. Each time I thought "this time they have to do something" and yet the pattern continues. So to me it als
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by r_c_a_d 4y ago
And for atheists like me, you can still learn a lot from religions. I got a lot out of Alain de Botton's "Religion for Atheists" https://www.librarything.com/work/11370617/book/89008159
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by r_c_a_d 4y ago
I agree on the start-stop thing. You need to stop doing that :) I used to get DVDs through the post from LoveFilm and would nearly always watch the movies through to the end, even if they didn't seem great in the first 20 mins. Often I
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by r_c_a_d 4y ago
I never read it as "removing oversight", more like "removing excessive admin". And it explicitly says to value "individuals and interactions". Part of that means you need a facilitator in retrospectives who can
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by r_c_a_d 4y ago
We had that at Symbian in 2006. It was great. As a scrum master I did later use Jira to manage a backlog along with the product owner, but it was just for the two of us: all the stories were written on cards when they were ready to be worke
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by r_c_a_d 4y ago
Are you under 40? I think when I was in my 20s and early 30s I would agree on (1). But when I got married and had kids case (2) became optimal, because my social circle filled up with people who had kids of the same age / went to the s
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by r_c_a_d 4y ago
Before it got killed by Amazon, one of the best things about LoveFilm was that it showed the distribution of user scores for each movie. For many movies the distribution was normal (peak in the middle) and those movies were usually "OK
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by r_c_a_d 5y ago
I'm not sure I agree with this argument. Learning stuff by diving in and doing stuff immediately without studying the basics first may be fun and interesting, but it might lead to fundamental gaps and misunderstandings too. I learned t
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by r_c_a_d 5y ago
Yes, I got one too and thought it was spam.
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by r_c_a_d 5y ago
I totally agree. I am still a Linux user, but at home I use a Mac now. Why? Because I got sick of having to work out why my laptop couldn't print things anymore after an update. Not once has that happened to the Windows or Apple device
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by r_c_a_d 5y ago
Yes, and fewer crossing letters, so there are usually many more words that will "fit".
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by r_c_a_d 5y ago
Because they don't want their current staff who are earning $X to know that they are hiring new people for similar jobs at $X + 10%.
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by r_c_a_d 5y ago
The brits didn't put anyone forward at all, they kept it secret for as long as they could and long after Turing's death. There is now a memorial at Bletchley Park to the Polish mathematicians who worked on Enigma.
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by r_c_a_d 5y ago
I agree. Also, I used to write movie reviews and found myself thinking about what I was going to write during each movie. Stop writing reviews of all the movies you watch. Just watch. Then, if you feel you really want to write a review, wat
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by r_c_a_d 6y ago
One example springs to mind. The racism controversy on Celebrity Big Brother in 2007 led to the sponsor and several advertisers withdrawing. The show was "rested" the following year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by r_c_a_d 6y ago
I agree. When I worked in London for Nokia I tried to keep to Finland time where possible, as it made things a lot easier. Then they added teams in India and China and it became a nightmare.

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