smcgivern

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How Travis Replaced Salary Negotiations with a Sinatra App(youtube.com)
2 points by smcgivern 10y ago|0 comments
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by smcgivern 10y ago
Sweden isn't in the Euro. The EU, yes, but they still use Swedish krona. Do you think the Swedes aren't as integrated?
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Great work on Starward Rogue, team - now you're all laid off ...?(arcengames.com)
3 points by smcgivern 11y ago|0 comments
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by smcgivern 11y ago
I'm not sure if you're confused about what Skyscanner does? Skyscanner, like flights.google.com, Kayak, etc. is free to the user - they make their money on referral fees, among other things. And, for that matter, flights.google.co
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by smcgivern 11y ago
A pastebinned version of WRITEUP.txt (for word-wrap): http://pastebin.com/FnwmPYUD
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AI for playing (and winning) in Dark Souls PvP(github.com)
3 points by smcgivern 11y ago|1 comments
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Technical Debt(successfulsoftware.net)
2 points by smcgivern 11y ago|0 comments
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Solitude and Leadership(theamericanscholar.org)
1 points by smcgivern 11y ago|0 comments
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by smcgivern 11y ago
If you read the article, you will find the author's answer to this question!
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by smcgivern 11y ago
That's not the point of the article. It's saying that because of the rate your body processes alcohol, seemingly small differences in ABV can leave much more unprocessed alcohol in your body than you'd expect. Are you saying
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by smcgivern 11y ago
Magit takes almost zero time to learn if you're used to the git CLI (some things are a bit weird, but mostly the commands are obvious from the help). It's basically a super-powered version of the git aliases lots of people use, bu
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Static single assignment for functional programmers (2011)(wingolog.org)
17 points by smcgivern 11y ago|2 comments
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The list monad in Perl and Python(blog.plover.com)
67 points by smcgivern 11y ago|17 comments
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by smcgivern 11y ago
The worktrees in this case are git branches, though. While this is convenient in some cases, it doesn't seem practical to me to have all of a group's code in one repo, but in different branches - it feels like it's fighting t
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by smcgivern 11y ago
In fact, the first result (which is duplicated several times) is calling Songbird an 'iTunes killer' - quotes included - and mentions Seeqpod as one of the plugins, saying: > it expands your library exponentially, assuming yo
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by smcgivern 11y ago
I don't know if this is what you're referring to, but the article does say: > (The reward or penalty is sometimes adjusted when lopsided battles occur, for example, rewarding an extra 2 points to an underdog team. For purposes
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by smcgivern 11y ago
So what you expect for 'stirring shit up' is that nothing bad happens to you? If you think that, then the top post of this thread was weirdly inflammatory.
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by smcgivern 11y ago
Perhaps you could clarify what you think: > exactly what you would expect when you're intentionally stirring shit up at any company is? From this reply, it appears that you think Google did nothing wrong - regardless of whether she
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Evaluating Splatoon's Ranking System(evanmiller.org)
60 points by smcgivern 11y ago|4 comments
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by smcgivern 11y ago
'Third of July, 2015' or more likely 'third of July'. The date format really isn't lying to us in UK English.
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by smcgivern 11y ago
We would normally refer to that as September 11 because it's much more talked about in the US, and that's the phrase used there. Any other dates will likely be in the same order as written. For instance, the rhyme for bonfire nigh
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Competition and Partisanship(ignorethecode.net)
4 points by smcgivern 11y ago|0 comments
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by smcgivern 11y ago
Do you pay into court in Scottish notes a lot? > Legal tender has a very narrow and technical meaning in the settlement of debts. It means that a debtor cannot successfully be sued for non-payment if he pays into court in legal tender. I
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Vexing exceptions (2008)(ericlippert.com)
2 points by smcgivern 11y ago|0 comments
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by smcgivern 11y ago
Absolutely. Are they more helpful than the other attributes you're disregarding in searching for the mind-reader, though? I'd suggest that people who can communicate clearly and don't put up with being asked to read minds are
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by smcgivern 11y ago
You could argue that any interview reflects the organisation doing the interviewing. For instance, if situations like this one happen often in the organisation, then that might be a negative symbol for the job as it indicates a lack of rigo
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Carnac the Magnificent(raganwald.com)
48 points by smcgivern 11y ago|16 comments
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Six works of Computer Science-Fiction(blog.fogus.me)
164 points by smcgivern 11y ago|84 comments
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Dependent builds in Travis(eng.rightscale.com)
4 points by smcgivern 11y ago|0 comments
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Git-timemachine(github.com)
2 points by smcgivern 11y ago|0 comments

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