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by pwfisher 5y ago
Copypasta source material. You know. I can guarantee that for most, it is getting more difficult to ignore this to the point that questions like this pop up every now and then. So their 'worst nightmare' is becoming mor
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by pwfisher 6y ago
This is super cool! Love it. Love that the layout is responsive and has mobile, tablet and desktop versions in good web UI style. (FYI, if you close the sidebar and resize to desktop, it's missing.)
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by pwfisher 6y ago
Non-paywalled: http://archive.is/zF4ei Great read. The real labor market is more complex than a simple model of supply and demand. It's like the old physics joke, "I have a solution, but it only works for a spheri
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by pwfisher 10y ago
Because other months went to 30 or 31 already, so there was room for it in calendars and people never assumed months are always the same length. 60 seconds in a minute, OTOH, is a very strong assumption in many systems and people's min
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by pwfisher 10y ago
...well actually... representing an n-dimensional shape as a 2-dimensional line is precisely what the mathematical term "projection" means. My apologies. Accurate phrasing had less punch.
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by pwfisher 10y ago
This is a revealing peek at the complexity of merged history. You can't project a "git space" onto a line, so a (linear) listing of commits just misleads you into thinking that your history is linear. That complexity is why I
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by pwfisher 10y ago
The company defaults to polite silence to avoid legal liability. They can't risk saying anything which might be construed as discrimination against a protected class.
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by pwfisher 11y ago
Our company had two Angular codebases, the public site and our internal site. Experience in one taught you nothing about the other because there was no "Angular way" to structure your code. Having "enough rope to hang yoursel