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by bmj 13y ago
I won't even bother to get into the other countries. I support a single use device application (running on Palm E2s!) that requires constant fiddling to keep up with DST changes around the globe. In the past, some countries have cha
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by bmj 13y ago
Jalopnik has a detailed article, too: http://jalopnik.com/meet-the-guy-who-drove-across-the-u-s-in...
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by bmj 13y ago
Please remember that for a serious recreational cyclist, the correct answer to "how many bikes should I own" is: $num_bikes_owned++ From my experience in the local road racing scene, a majority of the 200 or so cyclists that parti
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by bmj 13y ago
"At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class." -- Eric Beck
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by bmj 13y ago
A good example of this is the heyday of Group B cars in rallying. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_B
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by bmj 13y ago
I ride with several people who do lots of mileage on 'bents. Lots of mileage (one has completed a 1200k brevet). These guys can cruise on the flats, and even on slight climbs, but as soon as the gradients hit 10%, they are forced to
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by bmj 13y ago
I need one. Interestingly, about a year ago, we were told that we would no longer be doing any updates to the system, and yet, here we are, a year later, still doing minor releases. I suspect it will never go away.
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by bmj 13y ago
* Who uses ColdFusion in 2013?* Me? Because I have to maintain a rather old site for my employer, and there is absolutely no chance that anyone would sign-off on migrating it to a different platform.
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by bmj 13y ago
There is a difference, I think, between "I find green on black to be hard on my eyes" and "I can't read the content because it is obscured by ads and popovers."
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by bmj 13y ago
Except many of those are new construction that are designed to be long and narrow. Most existing office buildings were not designed that way.
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by bmj 13y ago
Indeed. Particularly: The killer app for the average desktop user isn't Photoshop, it's some manner of email/doc/spreadsheet. These do not require gobs of ram. For everyday use, they require: monitor, keyboard, mouse.
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by bmj 13y ago
How is it related to living in a city? At least in the Bay Area you can walk/cycle pretty much everywhere if your work is close enough to your job. And cycling in suburbs is usually safer/healthier than e.g. in San Francisco. Th
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by bmj 13y ago
I'm too lazy to find links at the moment, but the same sort of guides exist for, well, just about anything. For example, see the "Pizza Lab" on Serious Eats: http://slice.seriouseats.com/the_pizza_lab/?r
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by bmj 13y ago
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table Found via http://www.chris-granger.com/lighttable/ .
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I simply hit the home button, then restart the Web Clip.
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by bmj 13y ago
And, if I'm reading you correctly, it may end up being a benefit to the interviewee, too. At the end of the process, whether I got the job or not, I have additional "implemented X in Y" experience.
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by bmj 13y ago
Doing contract work via take home seems like a nice balance here as even people with kids have 2-3 hours free after kids go to bed. Done over a few nights in a week makes much more sense. Initially, I was going to react negatively to this
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by bmj 13y ago
Crunch schedules are often the result of poor management (at many points along the chain). My group seems to handle the balance reasonably well--we certainly go through crunch times (either because of deadlines, or customer requests), but
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by bmj 13y ago
Much of it depends on the background of a company. If you are writing software for a large financial institution, chances are the HR department will ask you to wear business casual (or worse). In my experience in the east, middle-sized co
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by bmj 13y ago
His concerns are about law and policies constraining freedom, not about building things from scratch. You need not write your own compiler to be consistent with the principles he advocates - Stallman would say you're fine using gcc, b
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by bmj 13y ago
I suspect if you really, truly believe what Stallman says about freedom, you would be hard-pressed to find a job in any field. Many of Stallman's ideas echo what Ivan Illich had to say in Tools for Conviviality (though Illich unders
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by bmj 13y ago
It sounds like a couple of tech-savvy journalists should start the equivalent of http://getreligion.org .
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by bmj 13y ago
This reminds me of stories and discussions about athletic coaches who belittle and insult their players. There is the same sort of division between reactions to them...some folks will say someone like Bobby Knight is a great coach and lead
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by bmj 13y ago
I have a question about the Apache license....I'm trying to understand if an end user must accept the Apache license if I use a library under it in my software. I do understand that I cannot remove the license from the module source,
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by bmj 13y ago
The Sleepy City site is also a great time sink: http://sleepycity.net/
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by bmj 13y ago
(This isn't meant to ding Tesla) They have to offer this level of customer service because other luxury makers do. I don't have a luxury vehicle (I own a 2001 VW Eurovan), but my mechanic, who services European cars, offers rid
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by bmj 13y ago
Take an extreme, like slaveowners. Does anyone think they were all stereotypical jerks (aside from their institutional role), or grew black mustaches to twirl? This is a good point. A friend of mine often talks about the "good slaver pro
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by bmj 13y ago
Pittsburgh has never seen a cupcake chain, but several locally-owned shops have opened in the last five to ten years. There has been some contraction in that market, though--I believe several of the businesses have been shuttered in the la
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by bmj 13y ago
Right, Gmail is not part of Takeout, but there are third party apps to facilitate this: http://gmvault.org/ http://www.gmail-backup.com/
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by bmj 14y ago
That's the wrong attitude to take. Perhaps you were the only person in your district that called? This is roughly like saying "I voted for X, but Y still happened."

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