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by staplung 6y ago
I worked at Google for 4 years. One thing that has always surprised me about documentation at Google is that they use Google Docs (just like everyone else) but have never seemed interested in making it less of a terrible tool for the task.
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by staplung 7y ago
https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
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by staplung 7y ago
Note that the rationale is that it washes out most of the lingering fluoride, which is presumably more of a concern in the UK where the water isn't fluorinated.
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by staplung 8y ago
Do you have a pointer to the questions? I've wondered how I would fare but none of the articles I've read seem to link to them.
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by staplung 9y ago
It's worth noting that Safari _can_ display favicons. If you pin a tab, it uses the favicon. It's even displayed in monochrome until you hover over the tab so they've definitely worked out a way to display them.
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by staplung 10y ago
Also related...Newton's method fractal: http://deathray.us/newton/ The JS source is longer.
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by staplung 10y ago
I'd very much like to use a debugger with my Go code but the two initiatives I've seen both require installing delve locally and it's a big pain in the ass. The official instructions for OSX begin with "Make a self signe
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by staplung 11y ago
Last I checked, the stock Clock app has a similar dysfunctionality: in the World Clock tab you can add multiple timezones but there is no option for either UTC or GMT. Weirdly, many of the listed cities are just plain wrong. IIRC, it had
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by staplung 11y ago
Hadley Wickham is the creator of ggplot2. His online book R for Data Science has a chapter on visualization which, besides being a good tutorial on using ggplot2, happens to be the most concise explanation of the theory that informs its d
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R: Data Visualization by Hadley Wickham(r4ds.had.co.nz)
5 points by staplung 11y ago|2 comments
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by staplung 11y ago
Ahh, heirloom. (That's the name of the system that renders Google for ancient user-agents). Takes me back. It actually got a small set of updates in 2010 when we wrote Heirloom+ and it appears that someone has collapsed the two system