nisse72

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by nisse72 10y ago
> so that the fortnightly pay run ends on an even hourly number How isn't that already the case with 10 x 8 hour days? or 8.5 etc? Your linked article mentions another interesting idea: that an additional 9 minutes a day is more tha
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by nisse72 10y ago
> There's a reason newer buildings use lever handles over doorknobs For the cats.
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by nisse72 10y ago
With the thumb of the same hand that's holding the phone? Welcome to RSI hell!
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by nisse72 10y ago
I want a 2-knob "mouse" like the one I had on my etch-a-sketch 30 years ago! One for X, one for Y... [ 3 minutes of googling later... ] Of course it's been done: https://mitxela.com/projects/etch_mouse
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by nisse72 10y ago
Oh I missed the part where it said what country he (she?) was leaving, or where he might want to go. Do you feel the same way about people leaving any country, wherever they might be?
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by nisse72 10y ago
In fact, no snakes at all.
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by nisse72 10y ago
Ah! Which brings to mind the quote from former NZ prime minister Rob Muldoon, commenting how the large numbers of Kiwis emigrating to Australia resulted in raising the average IQ of both countries.
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by nisse72 10y ago
It will help keep your head from bobbing outside the vehicle as it rolls, preventing your death from a crushed skull. Edited to add: "partial ejection" are the magic google words. Here's an example: "It was found that, i
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by nisse72 10y ago
Swedish pleasantries 101: Sure! Let's do lunch! Week 42? No my in-laws will be visiting that week. Week 43? Sorry, I have a dentist appointment that week. Week 44, no I can't then, but maybe week 45? Oh, we have a christmas thing
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by nisse72 10y ago
Haha, the senior colleague in the story is the CEO, and my manager is the CTO. The CTO is on our side but the CEO cares only about 1 person and it's not us. Hence: clueless and does not give a toss.
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by nisse72 10y ago
I would love to do that, but even though my opinion is shared by possibly 80% of the staff here I would also be the prime suspect since I've been quite outspoken about it. In fact there's a note on the back of the amplifier tellin
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by nisse72 10y ago
I am currently working in a very crowded open office. We have small desks where we sit almost elbow to elbow, the place is all hard surfaces (it's an old industrial building made into office space), and there is a fair amount of noise.
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by nisse72 10y ago
Vancouver, since 1986
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by nisse72 10y ago
Why do you think you have nothing to learn from any society that is smaller than yours?
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by nisse72 10y ago
I don't know the details for Finland, but Sweden has a similar system that works out like this: If a company has agreed to pay you $100k, that's after any payroll tax has been paid, so they pay ~ $120k, you get (gross) $100k. Of t
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by nisse72 10y ago
Today I learned that people will spend the better part of a day looking at and presumably buying candles. "People come here and they make a day out of it. They'll spend four, five hours in this store because it's fun!" I
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by nisse72 10y ago
Before you do that, see this film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0302674/
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by nisse72 10y ago
It happens automatically. There is no "cancel" button.
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by nisse72 10y ago
Watching a video on my mac, and listening over bluetooth, the audio lags the video by at least 0.5 second, it's unwatchable if there's any sort of dialogue.
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by nisse72 11y ago
> Maybe that lot on the slope of the volcano wasn't such a great idea after all? Yeah, tell that to about half the population of New Zealand. Volcano or fault line, take your pick.
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by nisse72 11y ago
You mean like this one? http://www.getroost.com/ A friend has one, and tells me that when his infant daughter screams, it sometimes notifies him that the house is on fire. I wonder if she's learned to game that system.
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by nisse72 11y ago
Well there was that cook who survived for 3 days in an air pocket inside a sunken fishing boat. At the time there was a lot of discussion what made that possible. I believe it was posted to HN as well but can't find it: http:/&#x
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by nisse72 11y ago
I hear what you are saying, and really I don't mind that the formatting is required by the language, I'm not arguing against that. But... we could have had both! Absolutely require the formatting, but also keep the magic symbols t
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by nisse72 11y ago
If you move a block of code to a place just after e.g. a loop, it isn't clear whether it should be inside or outside the loop, your editor cannot guess this. You still need to tell it at what level the new code should be inserted. And
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by nisse72 11y ago
Rearranging code, refactoring, moving blocks, inserting conditionals etc would be easier and could be auto-indented if there were braces. Instead you need to carefully ensure that everything aligns correctly with the intended meaning at the
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by nisse72 11y ago
Since when does a television become "obsolete" after a year? Or even after 5 years? Just because it doesn't have built-in support for Netflix or whatever the latest thing is? This is the sort of idea that lures people into ov
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by nisse72 11y ago
Copyright trap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry#Copyright_tra...
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by nisse72 11y ago
One word geek test: pronounce "coax" :)
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by nisse72 11y ago
I agree with the authors main point, however I did see a good counterexample a few years ago when Martin Fowler did a talk about his then recently published book on refactoring. He did the talking while an assistant did the live coding to k
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by nisse72 11y ago
> “It’s a treaty that structures everything forever – and we can’t get out of it.” > he noted treaties like this one set rules that must be followed forever But a few lines further down: > A country can withdraw any time, on six mo

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