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by richev 10y ago
Not just on rentals - I own a Subaru Forester and it has such a handy little triangle on the dash.
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by richev 10y ago
Inspiring article, but suffers from confirmation bias.
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by richev 10y ago
Easter egg at http://www.winamp.com Click the llama's ass.
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by richev 10y ago
From the footer on that page: "Windows maintained by Microsoft". Cute...
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by richev 10y ago
The topic of fees vs grants (specifically in the UK) came up with a friend over the holiday period. I wish I'd read this article earlier, and had had this quote to hand: “There has been a shift from the belief that we as a nation benef
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by richev 10y ago
Mostly I'd agree, but Emirates ICE system is pretty decent https://www.emirates.com/au/english/flying/inflight_entertai...
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by richev 10y ago
My initial assumption that this was something to do with the design language formerly known as Metro...but seemingly not.
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by richev 10y ago
Financial Times - http://ft.com
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by richev 10y ago
Easy to do != easy to discover
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by richev 10y ago
Originally stylized as HoTMaiL, the capitals spelling out HTML! :)
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by richev 10y ago
Wasn't the Microsoft mission statement "A computer on every desk and in every home"?
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by richev 10y ago
And age
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by richev 10y ago
I get a daily email from http://www.codeproject.com , which sometimes have interesting tech news (not as much as in the past though). See http://www.codeproject.com/Feature/Insider/
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by richev 10y ago
I worked remotely for a couple of years in a team spread between the UK, Spain, Switzerland and Bulgaria. We used Skype for voice chat so tried to use its screen sharing feature but found that it was not reliable due to a combination of lag
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by richev 10y ago
I've have happily paid $5; anything to help Twitter monetize without having to rely solely on ad revenue...
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by richev 10y ago
The layout of that page is borked in IE11 - the text takes up a narrow portion on the left of the browser window. Not much better in Chrome where the body of the article is not-really-centre-aligned. In IE the search box is also of insuffic
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by richev 10y ago
But doesn't the indifference eventually become soul-destroying?
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by richev 10y ago
Shame on the manager: 1. For treating the employee like that 2. For building a team in a way that prevented such a request from being accommodated 3. For still thinking that the "problem" here is with the employee who quit
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Survivorship bias in cats(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by richev 10y ago|0 comments
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by richev 10y ago
It's not a button, it's a link in a low-contrast colour. Designed not to be easily noticed by the casual user.
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by richev 10y ago
And a hyphen! :)
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by richev 10y ago
Suggest sorting the "What is the value of your annual compensation" results by salary rather than percent.
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by richev 10y ago
Dare I say that I do web dev in C# and ASP.NET MVC and think it's great...? Whenever I think that I need to branch out from the MS stack, articles like this make me think "nah, happy using what I'm using".
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by richev 10y ago
Top -> down? Maybe. Bottom -> up? Never.
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by richev 10y ago
Check out Skyscanner - https://www.skyscanner.net/
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by richev 10y ago
This certainly applies to me. The workaround is to just let those close to you know that you'll be off the grid for a while but are still ok. Then you don't need to worry about them worrying.
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by richev 10y ago
> It's a good advice, but not everyone needs to run away from something. I prefer to think of it as "running towards"...towards something new, interesting and different.
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by richev 10y ago
Many years ago I worked as a cashier in a supermarket. There tomatoes had their own classification as "salad".
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by richev 10y ago
Being able to teach others - focussing on the why, as well as the how.
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by richev 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that at that time Google removed "#" characters from search queries, so a search for "C#" was just as fruitless...

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