djwbrown

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   by djwbrown 8y ago

   > So...what's an ounce a twelfth of? It's a twelfth of a troy pound, or Roman libra (lb). These two episodes from The History of English podcast trace these seemingly arbitrary units through history and give them some context.
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   by djwbrown 8y ago

   Schemes for international geocoding really shouldn't shrug off this altitude problem. When you say third floor, are you using 0-indexing, or 1-indexed floors as in the US?
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   by djwbrown 9y ago

   Impressive response to the HealthCare.gov fiasco: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18F Some other interesting projects here: https://github.com/18f
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   by djwbrown 10y ago

   Cumulative time wasted using 'Command+[': none. Cumulative time wasted due to overloading of the backspace key: hours. Relying on current context to determine the behavior of backspace was a terrible idea from the start. To hell w