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by bshimmin 10y ago
I have a Herman Miller Sayl ( http://www.hermanmiller.co.uk/products/seating/performance-w... ), which is a bit cheaper than an Aeron and also, I think, more comfortable for those who don't like the mesh. They
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Since no one else has mentioned it, in the UK (and other Commonwealth countries) these are called "peppercorn" rents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppercorn_(legal) On my previous house, we had a leasehold
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There's a hilariously ridiculous piece from Dustin Curtis that mixes this minimalist approach with "only having the best of everything": https://dcurt.is/the-best I quite like to imagine him having a few peop
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I've never really understood this argument: "I'll own very few clothes because..." This saves me from worrying about 'outfits' Are there really people who are so wracked with indecision about their sartorial
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Thanks for posting this - I love a bit of etymology on a Sunday afternoon! If "border control" means literally controlling the border, does that make "passport control" some sort of obtuse synecdoche, where they check
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by bshimmin 10y ago
It's a funny one. In English we say "passport control" and "border control", but we would mostly otherwise use the word "check". I've encountered Italian speakers saying "Have they controlled y
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by bshimmin 10y ago
There are a hell of a lot of names for them, and I think native speakers of English use a variety: http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/rdcheck.py?p... I think most native speakers who aren't techn
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by bshimmin 10y ago
There is some useful stuff to learn from here, undeniably, but many of these are a bit useless when you compare them with what you would actually typically need on a real site. Yes, the "image slider" is vaguely functional, but r
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Sounds like something from Withnail & I ! "All right, Miss Blennerhassett, I'm warning you, if you do, you're fired. We are multimillionaires. We shall buy this place and fire you immediately."
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Oh, I don't know; I think with sufficient alcohol a rousing rendition of Who ate all the pies or something would go down quite well.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Isn't that how most industries work, from flipping burgers to the legal profession? Why should tech be any different?
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I think there's a certain mystique to de Sade because so few people actually ever bother to read him - I suspect he's one of the better known writers for whom most people cannot name anything he's written, and certainly haven
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by bshimmin 10y ago
What you quoted confirms what I said - the fact that the producers "responded to the criticism" indicates it was certainly a point that was raised by some or many people. I didn't post a "summary"; if I were to have
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I've read that letter at least ten times. The last five or so times, I've patted myself on the back for not crying, until I get to the postscript and then... off I go again.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I'm not sure any introduction to Feynman can be complete without this letter he wrote to his wife: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/02/i-love-my-wife-my-wife-... (Warning: you may end up with something, ahem
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Have you seen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Hours_of_Walking_in_NYC_as_... ? That statement, slur or no, was certainly one of the main points of contention of that video.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
The photographs really made this piece for me. The church is fantastic.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I agree that the comment is not good, but is "minority" really a slur?
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Do you become a lead developer when you've mastered K?
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Is the answer something like "The lockers are pretty trashed, especially the hinges"?
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by bshimmin 10y ago
One thing I've found that's significantly changed since I began my career, before my beard went grey, is that projects are now in general run much better. People never make a total mess of estimating timings, and the Agile method
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I've used Fancy Hands ( https://www.fancyhands.com/ ) before and had good results with it, though it's probably not really price-competitive with MT; I paid about $15 for a quite large amount of scraping work that w
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Dogfooding is difficult to achieve if you work in a niche industry which has no immediate relevance to your development team. Smart developers who care about what happens beyond the back of their monitor will, of course, quickly learn a lo
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I've only ever been robbed in Italy, but I've been back a lot in the hope of meeting my robber again (he was Italian, he had dark hair, medium height, and was somewhat unshaven - anyone know him?).
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by bshimmin 10y ago
One interesting thing about iTunes is that it is one of the few applications I can think of which manages to irritate both power/sophisticated users (ie. everyone here) and also regular users. I'm not sure anyone actually likes
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by bshimmin 10y ago
This is the only HN comment I have bookmarked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7932261
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I think Trump is in favour of Snowden being executed, isn't he?
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In this specific case? Well, it's a stock photo: https://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-images-female-...
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I think her mother is more famous actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Maxwell_(actress)
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I think there's a difference between a solo freelancer saying "we" and said freelancer presenting a picture of some random people in a random office as "his team".

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