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by bshimmin 10y ago
It always makes me a little sad that no discussion of Ruskin can occur without at least some mention of his first wife's pubic hair (allegedly, no doubt apocryphally, the discovery of which on Ruskin's part led to their marriage n
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I really want to assume this is a joke - and yet I'm left totally uncertain!
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Oh no, I think you're right! DiabloD3, can you confirm this and horrify us with how many rashers of bacon you were getting through in a day?
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I was fascinated to see how much bacon 4000 calories really is. A quick Google suggests about ten rashers, which, I guess, spread over a day wouldn't seem all that bad (in comparison with, say, Michael Phelps' reputed diet - he r
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It's like "hash" and "hashtag" all over again. sobs
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a little knowledge is dangerous The quote from Alexander Pope is actually "A little learning is a dangerous thing". People often get this wrong, which is probably a tiny bit ironic.
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Let me share a conversation I had with a family friend a bit ago: she peers over my shoulder at my monitor, which has (let's say) a screenful of some Ruby on Rails app in Sublime Text Her: "Is that... code?" Me: "Yep,
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Apparently this essay, published in 2005, "led to extensive and vitriolic debate" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayelet_Waldman#Motherlove ). You can kind of see why, though I think probably mostly from the p
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I've always been quite proud of my ability to acquire at least a moderate mastery of most software (I can use both vi and emacs!), but I never managed this with AfterEffects. I don't know what it was, but I always seemed to end
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Well, @fantasai, who should probably know, says "I think we never really decided on that": https://twitter.com/DasSurma/status/815910270023430144
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Cigarettes are a lot cheaper in Italy than they are in the UK, at least (a quick Google suggests cigarette prices vary wildly in the US depending on different taxes in each state).
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Oh I do, I do... and I agree that many of the things CSS does for you today are vastly better than the ad-hoc solutions we had in the past (if you ever have to create an HTML email - and thankfully I am able to outsource all of that sort of
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I'm glad someone else said it. I particularly like that they've introduced a new unit, `fr`, and can't even decide what it stands for. I've been writing CSS since about 1996; for some reason, I feel like it all started
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A lot of the people I knew doing "full-stack" (which just wasn't a phrase back then) 5-10 years ago basically were still much stronger on one side than the other. I knew a whole bunch of guys who could build you a beautiful
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I'm honestly not sure the public really cared about this - was anyone really surprised that this was happening? Most people I spoke to at the time seemed to be of the opinion that all the other manufacturers would be found out next.
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Yes, it certainly depends on the nature of the work. If you work pretty much entirely independently (and remote work often can be like this, especially freelance), then working hours become less important - if your arrangement is that the
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It absolutely is okay for him, you're right. And it's absolutely great that there is such demand for tech right now that people can afford to be so particular about their working hours and their various ways of working. What I fi
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I am a night owl. You can tell me I have to have my butt in a chair within your line of sight at 8 or 9am, but that is very wasteful. You are wasting my time and yours. I am not a morning person. I will start being very effective around 11
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by bshimmin 10y ago
There used to be a thing on usenet, when usenet was still a thing, of people saying "RTFM" or "RTFF" (the last "F" being FAQ). You still see it a bit on the web, but not nearly as much. Of course it was rude
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Just think - the time you spent writing that snarky response could just as easily have been spent writing, for example, "He worked at Google from 2008-13 and had various prominent positions relating to Android, then he took a role as V
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Just watched the Sound of Music with Ivanka and the kids. Good movie, very successful! Shows family values and when America was great! This is so perfectly Trump. I've only seen it once under considerable protest and after quite a fe
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I have a BA (Hons) and an MSc and I don't think anyone has ever asked for proof of them - certainly not in the last decade, but I also don't think even my very first "graduate" job (specifically advertised thus) requir
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I don't know... I've met some absolutely maniacal contractors too. I met one guy once who didn't seem to understand that projects sometimes started before he'd arrived, and often continued after he'd left; the conce
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I've decided to quit my job ... and I only have a few $k I don't know the specifics of your situation, but this seems like a really bad plan. Usually when I advise people who are about to start contracting, I tell them they sho
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fucking used as an adverb is an intensifier which quite plainly does often express anger. If I say to my colleague, "Have you finished that task yet?", or I say, "Have you fucking finished that task yet?", which is
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I swear in certain contexts, especially when I'm using a computer, and I find this statement utterly ridiculous. There are many reasons why people might prefer not to swear - how you were brought up; because you think it exhibits a ce
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Litotes (Mercutio's "a scratch, a scratch, marry, 'tis enough") and hyperbole have been figurative techniques used for thousands of years.
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I think at least part of the problem with saying that you expect to get downvoted is the inevitable meta-discussion that follows, with people citing the guidelines (wherein you will find the word "bait" to describe this, which to
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It's quite interesting to see from those numbers how relatively infrequently the pay toilets are actually used: London Victoria has brought in £2,300,511 over 3 years; a quick Google suggests it has a footfall of ~137 million people a
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Ah, Infosys! My only experience of dealing with them stands out as one of the more amusing of my career. I was contracted to lead a team for a digital agency to rebuild the front-end of one of the UK's largest supermarkets; Infosys a

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