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by satyap 8y ago
Stop blaming engineers for stupid policies. Engineers usually have no say, this is almost always thought up by some manager or PM somewhere.
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by satyap 8y ago
It's a merit badge now https://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Cooking And apparently has always been > The Cooking merit badge was one of the original 57 merit badges issued by the Boy Scouts of America in
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by satyap 12y ago
Hey, my dad was aboard that one.
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by satyap 12y ago
That's... not what labor laws cover. These ships also have an electronics engineer aboard to take care of such stuff. That's aside from the usual team of marine engineers handling the heavy equipment. In this context, the electron
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by satyap 13y ago
My side project is a specialty, niche application for speech pathology and audiology courses at major universities. So, traffic is driven by word-of-mouth (all the people in charge of these programs form a community, go to conferences, etc)
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by satyap 13y ago
It's true, the industry does "blow" and the biggest carriers offer... nothing good.
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by satyap 13y ago
I made a course and documentation management, and grading system for speech pathology students. Netted me >12k last year (before tax).
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by satyap 13y ago
At work, I had a spreadsheet. Technical people, coders even, had a hard time finding the solution: convert to CSV, cut -f, awk print, in order to tack a hostname onto a column with relative HTTP paths. (No error checking required.)
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by satyap 13y ago
Yep. My old phone used to plug in on USB, show up as a disk, I can use standard tools to copy the pics and vids. New phone, no of course not. Progress. Feh. Clue: Everyone is not itunes compliant! Grr!
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by satyap 13y ago
That's the Golden Gate Bridge, which is shorter and has ped/bike lanes (separate from traffic, IIRC). The Bay Bridge's western span has no such thing.
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by satyap 13y ago
WordPress is the PHP of web frameworks.... I'll be in the corner.
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by satyap 13y ago
Mumbai/Bombay Calcutta/Kolkota Madras/Chennai
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by satyap 13y ago
"Phototransistor IR Chip Silicon NPN Transistor 2-Pin T-1" is a great name for a part that a human somewhere needs to read and understand what it's for. If that were a piece of Computer code it might be better off being named
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by satyap 13y ago
I like TT-RSS. It has that mark-read-on-scroll thing as well as next/previous article by arrow keys (or k/j) thing. Awesome sauce.
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by satyap 13y ago
Most of this is about advanced git features, Simple features are simple (checkin/out, push/pull, simpler branching). Which is 80% of what you need, and probably 99% of what you need most of the time.
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by satyap 13y ago
I can use them to do math Mostly just multiplication and division by 2,4,8,16,32....
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by satyap 13y ago
Yay! We use padrino. Yay!
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by satyap 14y ago
In India, car dealerships are called showrooms. Read that as "ex-dealer", or "from the dealer". It's just a straight Latin-to-English thing.
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Logic gates in OpenTTD(wiki.openttdcoop.org)
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by satyap 14y ago
It's the freaking Bay Area/Silicon Valley. $65-75k is entry-level.
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by satyap 14y ago
I did not know sort had a -h. I've been doing du -sc|sort -n. Thanks!
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CLUI: Command Line User Interface(thesatya.com)
3 points by satyap 14y ago|0 comments
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Windows Mac and Linux on one desk(thesatya.com)
1 points by satyap 14y ago|0 comments
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D I have a startup?(thesatya.com)
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by satyap 14y ago
I wanted to forward this to someone non-technical (a product manager, actually the CEO of this tiny startup I help with) and found myself explaining the yoda conditional, and then I wrote stuff about spectacular versus subtle failure, and t