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by mistersquid 11y ago
"No smoking" is a gerundive phrase which serves as the sentence's subject, with the copulative verb "is" implied: "No smoking [is] allowed". Considered differently, the sentence is not in the imperative mo
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by mistersquid 11y ago
Didn't Smokey say "Only you…"? [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Smokey3.jpg
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by mistersquid 11y ago
Your proposal to store track info in with verbose naming isn't very robust and doesn't solve even the most basic problems that a simple metadata scheme does. For one, even in your specific limited case of Bryan Ferry's album
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by mistersquid 11y ago
(Context: I used to teach American Literature at a Carnegie Mellon R2 university, and I can recognize what other humanities scholars would identify as good writing.) From the point of view of a belles lettres/liberal arts reader (as op
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by mistersquid 11y ago
So there is something called The Ben Franklin effect, [0] which basically says that people are more likely to befriend/like you if you ask them to do you a big favor rather than the other way around. The psychological explanation is th
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by mistersquid 11y ago
You mention you worked"at one job(unpaid overtime,[...]", and this is a variation of the very first point, but as I'm coming to see it's really not a question of unpaid or paid overtime. I am currently with a company tha
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by mistersquid 11y ago
I received my doctorate in English Language and Literature in 2002 and landed a tenure-track job. The university was an R2 (according to the Carnegie-Mellon Research classification) [0]; I graduated from an R1. Most my colleagues graduated
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by mistersquid 11y ago
I moved from Ohio to SF and got a raise. After 2 years, I've doubled what I was earning in Ohio. I also switched careers, from tenure-track university professor to web development. My point is that code is the lingua franca of well-com
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by mistersquid 11y ago
I was a late teenager who'd just discovered the DK in college and, being a sci-fi horror nerd, I was very aware of H. R. Giger, especially for his work in Ridley Scott's _Alien_. I ordered Giger's "Penis Landscape"
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by mistersquid 11y ago
Your analysis is too rigid and could use the nuance numbers might provide. If the developer executing the idea was paid a low sum in exchange for low equity (say, 75K + 0.1%) and market analysis revealed a much smaller market than anticipat
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by mistersquid 11y ago
These numbers are provided in a different context (to measure Twitter's loss against profits of other well-known highly-valued technology companies: https://twitter.com/dcurtis/status/694586397588467712 I don
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by mistersquid 11y ago
> This argument is reasonable on the surface, but when you think about it a bit more, it seems quite unlikely that missing 2 years of work 20 years ago would result in lack of relevant experience... I don't think the article states
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by mistersquid 11y ago
One way people text from Apple Watch is by dictation (Siri). At present Apple Watch hands the audio stream to an iPhone, but some future version of the watch will likely have its own speech-to-text processing.
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by mistersquid 11y ago
You seem purposely to miss some of the points of Steven Hill's very even-handed analysis which is that some AirBnB operators are turning residential zones into commercial hotel zones by having multiple listings and this causes conflict
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by mistersquid 11y ago
> So the issue isn't that blue collar workers are "beneath" white collar workers, but that (at least to an industry outsider) it's not clear what special skills these workers have that would command high market wages.
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by mistersquid 11y ago
Another reason to use LastPass is if you need to share sensitive data with a team. Group credentials and secure keys for production environments, among other things, can be shared using LastPass.
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by mistersquid 11y ago
Thanks for your reply. I misread "Having just been to trial" as "Having just been in a trial".
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by mistersquid 11y ago
> We ended up with the prosecutor reading out hundreds of lines of IRC logs consisting almost entirely of in-jokes that nobody in the room but me could understand. Out of curiosity, and if you're at liberty and in the mood to answer
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by mistersquid 11y ago
I think the point of the word "dangerous" is a direct reference to the Microsoft of yore. For those of us old enough to remember (and others who have read about the history), Microsoft was legendary for "Embrace. Extend. Exti
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by mistersquid 11y ago
I love running and agree swimming is better for the joints, but the cardio workout I get from swimming is not comparable to what I get from running. While I'm a very good swimmer, it's harder for me to reach the same level of exer
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by mistersquid 11y ago
As a longtime Mac user (as early as System 7) and aficionado of UNIX, I love OS X's CLI and its affordances. The linked article provides several well-packaged tidbits that might encourage users of other CLI-replete OS's to check o
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by mistersquid 11y ago
Partly quoting myself from another wall-of-text discussion forum where code academies were discussed.[1] Some developers need an introduction and/or mentoring. However, once past the absolute fundamentals (e.g. basic control structures
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by mistersquid 11y ago
_The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business_ (2014) by Charles Duhigg
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by mistersquid 11y ago
Just to be clear, the simplest gloss on Eagleton's landmark essay (it's really too short to be a book) is that it's a takedown of belles lettres-style criticism. Loosely speaking, Eagleton is best known for Marxist literary t
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by mistersquid 11y ago
I prefer bright text on dark backgrounds, so I set my OS accessibility settings to invert my screen. Presuming your OS has such features, you might find it helpful to invert the screen when looking at pages with light text/dark backgro