oalders

26 ms·

301.
by oalders 12y ago
Thanks -- that's a good idea. I'll have to point that out to her.
302.
by oalders 12y ago
My sister has an iPhone, but no data plan. So, if she's out and I want to text her from my iPhone, she needs to make sure she doesn't have iMessages running on her computer at home. If it's on, I text her a bunch of times an
303.
by oalders 12y ago
Yes, I suppose that's usually frowned upon during the performance. :)
304.
by oalders 12y ago
This is absolutely correct, but for choral music Janet Cardiff's 40 Part Motet might actually come close. http://www.cardiffmiller.com/artworks/inst/motet.html
305.
by oalders 12y ago
I'm not a woman, but to me the fact that it's clean and bright makes it much less soul-crushing to shop retail.
306.
by oalders 12y ago
True. You can get a lot of the stuff that Target sells elsewhere. One thing that I like about Target in my neighbourhood is that it's generally so empty that it feels like you have the whole place to yourself. (Not that that's
307.
by oalders 12y ago
I don't see much competition on price, but I wasn't a huge fan of Zellers. Most of my (few) trips to Walmart have felt like "Dante's Inferno meets Lord of the Flies", so I'm quite happy to have Target in Canad
308.
by oalders 13y ago
Yeah, it's probably a stretch to think that knowing Greek will get you a coding job, but in my case I ended up picking up Perl along the way and I found the two skills to be complementary. Having said that, the team lead at my $work ha
309.
by oalders 13y ago
For me it was basically learning to take a text in a foreign language and parse it. When you're faced with a different word order and, by extension, a different way of thinking about things, you're forced to take each element of
310.
by oalders 13y ago
I studied Classical Philology. I had no idea that learning Ancient Greek and Latin would be amazing preparation for learning to write code. Hey, if you can read some Ancient Greek, you can decipher a lot of [insert computer language here]
311.
by oalders 13y ago
I don't think society wants everyone to have children. That would be a terrible idea. If it's not something you want to do then you absolutely shouldn't do it. You should reserve the right to change your mind, though. ;) A
312.
by oalders 13y ago
On a vaguely related note, I recently discovered that "am i pregnant" seems to be a popular search term on Google: https://twitter.com/wundercounter/status/430175442432053248
313.
by oalders 13y ago
To me, it just seemed like they were having fun with it. I didn't sense any bitterness. Not being from the US, I didn't connect the dots about who the multi-billion dollar company is. Now that I understand, I still don't t
314.
by oalders 13y ago
It certainly wasn't brilliant content marketing for hot pants.
315.
by oalders 13y ago
FWIW, I'd also really like to see links to the articles. :)
316.
by oalders 13y ago
You may, however, appreciate your millions more if they come to you at 50, even if you aren't wealthy for as many years. I think there's a quantity vs quality argument that could be made there. I'm not saying that's nec
317.
by oalders 13y ago
I started in a new Perl position with my current employer in 2012. We just filled another new (mostly) Perl position a few months ago. I can't speak to the total numbers of positions available, but there is work out there for sure an
318.
by oalders 13y ago
Sure, but Mr. Clinton also knows how to get people to stand up and take notice. You can probably get by on just doing what you love, but the chances of you landing the job that you really love are greatly increased if you make it easy for p
319.
by oalders 13y ago
Or "git grep".
320.
by oalders 13y ago
Having offline docs can be quite handy. A few years ago a friend and I put together an iOS app called iCPAN, so that we could have offline Perl docs at our disposal. This kind of thing is particularly helpful because perldoc doesn't
321.
by oalders 13y ago
In that case a Github wiki might be a good start. You get the version control, but there's enough abstracted away that it should be easy to get up and running with. Now, you just need everyone in your department to get a Github accou
322.
Which job sites are good for QA postings?
2 points by oalders 13y ago|0 comments
323.
by oalders 14y ago
> “If you think it is easy to build, feel free to replicate it yourself.” >We were super inspired by Jeff’s “teach a man to fish” attitude... This left me with tears in my eyes. :)
324.
by oalders 14y ago
If only there were something even resembling competition in the Canadian mobile space. I'm not sure if Rogers is better or worse than Bell or Telus, because to me they're all pretty bad. Recently, Bell customer service called my other out o