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by fnordprefect 8y ago
> the ovoid engine inlets The original design of the 737 did not have ovoid inlets. You can see regular circular nacelle inlets on the 737-100: https://secure.boeingimages.com/archive/Boeing-737-100-2JRSX... and on
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by fnordprefect 8y ago
It's not even Western, from my experience it's just the US. In Australia, I don't think I'd ever seen a yellow pencil, other than one that came in a set of coloured pencils for art. I hadn't realised it was the norm
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by fnordprefect 8y ago
There was a lot of good work done by Apple in the days of classic Mac OS - see eg pages 103, 196-7, 201 and 206-7 from the Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines, available eg at http://interface.free.fr/Archives/Apple_HI
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by fnordprefect 8y ago
I'm a lawyer (day job) and programmer (now hobby, former side job). I find interruptions just as bad for both kinds of work when you are in or trying to get into the zone. By that, for coding, one good example is trying to work out how
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by fnordprefect 8y ago
Isn't there also a potential problem with hydrogen embrittlement (depending on what materials are exposed) that you avoid with helium?
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by fnordprefect 9y ago
A few points: 1. At least in Australia, where I work, most judges are appointed in their 50s and 60s, meaning those currently on the bench likely went to law school in the 70s at the latest. Computer classes were relatively rare, and most l
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by fnordprefect 9y ago
+1 to this. "Impactful" is not just clunky, it's corporate wankspeak. "Impacted" is bad enough -- only teeth, fractures and faeces can be impacted -- but that appears already to be a lost battle, unfortunately.
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by fnordprefect 9y ago
We've been doing it in Australia since 2011 [ http://www.hcourt.gov.au/cases/current-cases-submissions and http://www.hcourt.gov.au/cases/cases-heard ], and none of the downsides you've pr
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by fnordprefect 10y ago
Actually, a lot of the force of your criticism disappears when you realise that they are both derivatives of governmental logos used in the UK -- not surprising since both bodies are British. The Ministry of Sound logo is a derivative of th
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by fnordprefect 10y ago
Nice work. ps - millennium has two Ns in it
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by fnordprefect 11y ago
Actually, the interesting thing is that the US is somewhat of an outlier. (I am a practising non-US lawyer, with an emphasis on tech, and I program extensively as a hobby.) In the Australia, UK, and other common law jurisdictions, you gener
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by fnordprefect 11y ago
It's rather ironic that the article misspells 'privileged'