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by bshimmin 9y ago
Bear in mind, to address the point about making money "quickly", that if you go direct to a digital agency, they will expect you to do a month's work, and then for you to send them an invoice with 28 day terms, and then they
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by bshimmin 9y ago
The data are here so you can have a look for yourself: https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2017/11/08/parents-job... From a quick glance, it seems like only cashiers and "Inspectors, testers, sort
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I can relate to your list a lot more than the one in the original article (though his last point about just plain being tired does ring very true). Addressing this one specifically: For instance, one of mine is "this project is so bi
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In case it makes you feel better, I'm a native English speaker and I had to read the first seven paragraphs - which are very poorly written, I would say - twice before I really understood what was going on. Probably if you knew the
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Has anyone been able to do this for PHP's T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM yet? (I know it's not an acronym, but I wish it were.)
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Months in Luxon are 1-indexed instead of 0-indexed like in Moment and the native Date type. This seems like a bold decision and terrifying source of errors for those of us with decades of experience thinking January is 0.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Bill might think about the same as he is visibly deteriorating and his liver seems to be not functioning well (spots on his skin everywhere) I think he's always had freckles, no?
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Thomas Hardy's ashes were buried in Westminster Abbey, in Poets' Corner, and his heart was buried in Stinsford in Dorset, alongside the grave of his first wife (and Cecil Day-Lewis, curiously). Unfortunately there persists a rumo
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Having had to fire someone who had been at a company for more than two years, I can say it was anything but a simple procedure: it involved a performance improvement plan which lasted interminably (and actually sapped a really surprisingly
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"for a song" means "very cheaply", and I assume "size of a baby's fingernail" refers to each of the acid tabs rather than the sheet.
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Don't most religions basically teach this? "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth"?
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Buying the most expensive bin bags my supermarket sells. They come with a nice drawstring and are tougher than normal ones. It's remarkable how much more pleasant the task of taking the bins out is for the sake of spending about an e
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I think work is the big issue with this sort of lifestyle (leaving aside children, as others have mentioned). Many remote gigs still want a daily standup, a weekly sprint retrospective and planning session, etc, and none of that really wor
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by bshimmin 9y ago
One of my guys ran into https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/issues/8788 - it was hellish trying to figure out what was happening.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Some parts of the history sound disonant to me. There was a camera in the room? Why? "Chahal's penthouse apartment had a state-of-the-art video surveillance system that on Aug. 5, 2013, filmed Chahal hitting and kicking his gir
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by bshimmin 9y ago
The Royal Mail postcode finder ( http://www.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode ) offers 1 and 1A for that postcode, but not 0. I had a look on Street View too and I think the houses to the left of number 1 (which you can clearly
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by bshimmin 9y ago
If it helps, I grew up just off the A673 shown in the "BUT WAIT..." section (it's a pretty long road!).
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by bshimmin 9y ago
That really isn't from The X-Files, it's from a TV series called "Aquarius" (I looked this up because Duchovny's bouffant baffled me!).
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I think the word "networking" (not usually a negative) would fit better than "nepotism" (almost always seen as a negative) here. Hiring your friends - ahead of other candidates who might be better qualified - might well
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by bshimmin 9y ago
"Invest only what you can afford to lose" really are wise words. They aren't words that will get you insanely rich in the blink of an eye, of course, but they are words that mean you won't lose your house.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
"rhythm" (or "rhythms" to get a bonus extra letter). "y" is a vowel sound but is not considered to be a vowel in English.
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It always amuses me how stunningly bad Amazon really is at making standalone pages on their web site. This one is totally unresponsive, has images for headings, and a slightly blurry image for the table. Here's Amazon Locker, which i
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I don't see a lot of "why" in this supposed solution. If what the author says is true, it sounds like an incredibly painstaking process to encode all of this, especially when it was something so tedious (it would make more s
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by bshimmin 9y ago
"Never eat cress, eat salmon sandwiches and remain young" has stuck with me for life for "necessary", if that helps (almost certainly not!).
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There are definitely ways in which JIRA sucks: it's hard to configure and requires someone with special skills, knowledge, and enthusiasm (!) in order to get it right; it definitely could and should be a lot faster; navigating around i
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by bshimmin 9y ago
"It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years." — Tom Lehrer
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I think the word "tough" is an adjective here, modifying "thread/channel mechanism" - meaning something like "resilient" or "robust".
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I was going to make some awful joke about Peter Thiel wanting to drink her blood, but she kind of gets there first (sans Thiel references) in her final answer: While scientifically interesting, I think they get a little over-discussed in t
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by bshimmin 9y ago
It's funny how these things linger on, quietly being used because they mostly just work and don't cause the people using them any real problems. I think Daring Fireball and Kottke.org both still use Movable Type, which, having
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by bshimmin 9y ago
All kinds of problems that others have mentioned above, plus in terms of the Rails integration, it felt like we hit almost every one of the open issues on the GitHub repos for both Wicked PDF and PDFKit. I vaguely recall fonts in productio

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