andrewem

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by andrewem 15y ago
My grandfather left what's now Belarus with his mother and several siblings (their father and oldest brother had left earlier) in 1914 and came to the United States. Every time I hear anything about Belarus I'm thankful that they did this.
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by andrewem 15y ago
A friend of mine runs a larger-scale version of the used book business your wife used to run. She started out buying books from estates and old people looking to downsize. She'd take anything, paying a flat rate of something like 10 cents a
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by andrewem 15y ago
I'm no expert, but both roquetman's and mattdeboard's stories sound like they might be Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (symptoms include "Having an exaggerated response to things that startle you", and "Feeling more aware (hypervigilance)")
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by andrewem 15y ago
It would appear that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drifting_(motorsport) and http://www.driftingstreet.com/oversteer-understeer-slip-angl... have relevant information for the analogy that this piece is based on, though I'm not a race car
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by andrewem 15y ago
When 'false' is a valid value for a you'll also be bitten in the same way.
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by andrewem 15y ago
Using terms in US job ads which you could argue are gender neutral is a great way to be given the opportunity to make that argument to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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by andrewem 15y ago
My conclusion from bit.ly stats for my app's Twitter feed with 130 followers and my own behavior is that people use Twitter to read tweets, not to click on links. Especially on my iPhone but also on a laptop, I can read 10+ tweets in the ti
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by andrewem 15y ago
Boston's MBTA seems to be leading the way with this kind of information, and with making it open to developers. http://mbta.com/rider_tools/apps/ lists dozens of web sites and mobile apps which use data about the MBTA's buses and trains.
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by andrewem 15y ago
A friend who's a native Hebrew speaker told me that modern Hebrew initially lacked foul words, and so they were borrowed from Arabic.
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by andrewem 15y ago
Quite. See this supposed American barbarism from Daniel Defoe's 1722 novel "Journal of the Plague Year": "besides, it being in the time of the vacation too, they were generally gone into the country". ( http://www.gutenberg.org/files/376/37
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by andrewem 16y ago
Does not giving someone a full-time offer after the short-term contract hurt the team like firing someone? I could imagine it going either way. Perhaps it's better because those not in their contract period don't start thinking "it could ha
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by andrewem 16y ago
If you hire a software shop to deliver it for your internal use, then you're also on the hook to pay for any and all future versions, or they won't get built. If the software isn't going to be your advantage over your competitors, then keep
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by andrewem 16y ago
High-end CAD tools used to be run almost entirely on Unix systems (Solaris, SGI, HP/UX, etc.). Back in the 1990s Windows systems couldn't handle these tools the way Unix workstations could, but once that changed there was no reason to spe
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by andrewem 16y ago
In business relationships as in personal relationships, the courtship period is where people take the greatest pains to be on their best behavior. Thus far, the potential investor has shown himself to be uninterested in direct interactions