excuse-me

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by excuse-me 14y ago
I would say mixing up its and it's is a sign of a good programmer! Apostrophe-s means a possessive most of the time, so logically belonging to it should be it's. programmers like logic, if the English language happens to have case this wron
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Yes we know, that's what made the comment funny - now you've spoiled the joke.
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Being prepared to do GMA style tests correlates with business guys. Telling the interviewer to go XXXX himself and starting your own company correlates with good tech guys
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by excuse-me 14y ago
If you are Joyce you can get away with changing the rules - but nobody is going to read you anyway. Similarly if you are Knuth you can talk about literate programming replacing C but nobody is going to hire you to do embedded development
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by excuse-me 14y ago
It's aimed at shipping shrink wrapped software to a large market but it's still worth thinking about for different markets today. It's just that all absolute statements about what you must do are wrong - except this one!
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Somewhat off-topic but why do companies feel the need to write: "Stack Exchange, Inc. does not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran sta
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by excuse-me 14y ago
And if you are in the operating system business and you score less than 12 you are in trouble If you are competing with microsoft in web services you can probably afford to score rather less!
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by excuse-me 14y ago
The idea is to persuade car drivers onto bikes - then if they have to wear a helmet they might switch to busses, but it's more likely they would stay in their cars. I'm not going to take my helmet off either - but if a change in the law con
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by excuse-me 14y ago
You wouldn't think there were many people that didn't know smoking is bad for you - but it doesn't stop the govt spending millions telling you! It's still worth advertising that there is a fast/safe/easy cycle route between A-B. The city he
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by excuse-me 14y ago
There was a study that showed having pedestrians wearing cycle helmets would save 100x as many lives and drivers 10x as many - as making cyclists wear them. Partly this is because there are a lot more pedestrians/drivers than cyclists but a
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by excuse-me 14y ago
A freeway costs $1M/mi in the middle of nowhere it costs $30-50M/mi in an urban area and $5-6Bn/mi in Boston!
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Make helmets mandatory and people choose to take their cars instead of cycle. More cars on the road = more cyclist (and driver and pedestrian) deaths. Suppose for example that train passengers were required to wear motorbike helmets - woul
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Could still be worth it if lots of people who didn't cycle suddenly see this and give it a try. It's still better value than most government adverts telling you to do something!
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by excuse-me 14y ago
If you are distracted by the phone in a car at 70mph you have covered 32metres if you do the same on a bike like that women's - you have covered about 2 bike lengths! ps Don't answer your phone in the pelaton at the start of a Tour de Fran
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by excuse-me 14y ago
It was more to highlight the different attitudes in most countries. Pay anything toward public/alternative transport and it's taxpayers money being lavished on subsidies. But spend a $Bn on a highway that just creates bigger traffic jams an
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by excuse-me 14y ago
You mean other browsers don't allow you to create search shortcuts? eg "a blah" for amazon, "w blah" for wikipedia "s blah" for stackoverflow? - says a long time Opera users
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Thats the way early carbon microphones worked
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by excuse-me 14y ago
See the famous http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.meg/wcc/facility-of-the-mo... for the UK's worst cycle paths
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Have you considered adopting the British system? You bid out the construction to the cheapest contractor with strict penalties for late completion. But the same company then gets the contract for repair and maintenance for the next 20years!
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Come to Vancouver - we have the same rain but with hills and N American drivers.
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by excuse-me 14y ago
An invasion of Danish vikings?
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by excuse-me 14y ago
$1.6M of taxpayers money for a 40km bike route? You could build almost 35metres of freeway for that!
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Getting CE/FCC approval for wifi is expensive and time consuming. It also normally requires you to either get emmisions tests for the complete system or you can use a separate WIFI module - which is why most laptops have wifi on mini-pci ca
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by excuse-me 14y ago
The majority of government outsourcing deals are ideology or to hide the numbers. Take PFI, if I offered to take over the rest of your mortgage on your house. But you had to pay me equivalent of the mortgage payment for 100years and you had
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by excuse-me 14y ago
None-outsourced government IT projects aren't any better. We decide to install system X so we need to hire some experts in system X. But system X experts are expensive and if we hire them as staff they are paid according to fixed internal p
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by excuse-me 14y ago
The stuff has been aluminium for a century, but that doesn't make any difference to its RF blocking abilities - Al is actually rather better. The trick is to wrap it so that there are no gaps, phone signals will get out of tiny gaps. ... o
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by excuse-me 14y ago
On the other hand it is quite heartening that New York has improved to the point that this is now the top of the priority list for the police. I remember New York when any murder of less than a dozen people wasn't worth bothering with.
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Well what do they expect if they kick out a perfectly good elite hereditary monarchy and try and run their little colony with a bunch of meritocratic presidents!
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Or 5000-20,000 on a no-fly list out of how many million passengers.
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Look at the PCs in your bank or an airline, most of them are jut screen scraping a mainframe app that thinks it's talking to a bunch of IBM3270 terminals

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