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by tobych 15y ago
I worked for Avalara.com for a while: they help companies calculate sales tax based on location. I learned there that the five-digit ZIP code is certainly not enough. Some five-digit ZIP codes cross state boundaries, for one thing.
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by tobych 15y ago
I'd add: - where is your friend? just wander around. you'll find him. Anyway so me too. Once I know I'm gonna be thought weird for asking someone, because most people just use their gadgets to find out, I don't ask, unless I'm not worried a
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by tobych 15y ago
The way I understand it, ignorant of the psychology of swearing but having had to think about it since arriving here from the UK, is that if you're swearing, you're breaking a taboo that people assume you understand, so if you break it, the
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by tobych 15y ago
Fabric isn't mentioned once in the README. Says "We didn't like the alternatives out there." with no details. Having said that, it looks like the HTTP server is the USP here. Being able to have non-techies run Fabric tasks is definitely a g
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by tobych 15y ago
I do the same from my Android phone (using ConnectBot): I can run some long-running process and keep an eye on it while I'm out in the kitchen making a cup of tea. When I'm back in the office, I detach the Android session.
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by tobych 15y ago
For a discussion of the advantages (and perhaps disadvantages) of tmux over screen: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/549/tmux-vs-gnu-scre...
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by tobych 15y ago
Typo? Replace "self moderating" with self-moderating". Thanks for /.
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by tobych 15y ago
This reads like a dark parody of life on earth as we know it. Finally put me off American Football for life, too.
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by tobych 15y ago
I use oDesk to find Python/Django work. Although most of the work hasn't paid as well as gigs away from oDesk, it's worked well for me while I build up to properly paid gigs: I've just got my first one for years, after focusing mostly on mo
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Linux Mint 12 Preview(blog.linuxmint.com)
4 points by tobych 15y ago|0 comments
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by tobych 15y ago
I think 8-5 is actually 8 hours in the US: federal laws guarantee you an hour lunch break, just as in the UK. Of course, I imagine in a lot of start-ups that's ignored or perhaps doesn't even hold.
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by tobych 15y ago
So when recruiters contact me (Python, Seattle or telecommuting), what might I ask them to find out whether it's worth my time? I guess first I'd want to know all the things recruiters are influenced by or tend to do that I don't like, and
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by tobych 15y ago
Yes, free lunches are fine, and communal eating thing much of the week would work well for me and no doubt for the team's performance. If I was told we each together a few times a week, that would be hugely important. As it was, I tend to i
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by tobych 15y ago
Indeed. I'm a 41-year-old developer and have spent most of my career working in university research departments. Just a grown-up amongst grown-ups. I had an interview the other day with a start-up whose HR department and developer-interview
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by tobych 15y ago
Work with people you love, doing stuff that feels like a hobby, with your kids helping. And sleep with those you love, as appropriate.
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PhotoFit Me - The Open University(open.ac.uk)
1 points by tobych 16y ago|0 comments
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More dot-coms are embracing the idea of drinking at work(seattletimes.nwsource.com)
8 points by tobych 16y ago|6 comments
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by tobych 16y ago
Donated. Warm thoughts, Mr Tattam.
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by tobych 16y ago
Note that it's not "insurance", either. The NHS is just another tax-funded service.
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by tobych 16y ago
Employees in the US work some of the world's longest hours. And yet there these folks are in their office, playing games. Is that typical? I don't get it. Why stay in the office playing games when you could go home? I guess this is the sort
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by tobych 16y ago
Or as the BBC news website currently has it: Egypt's Mubarak 'may stand down'
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by tobych 16y ago
Doesn't "text based" need a hyphen? And the sentence a period?
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by tobych 16y ago
Nice one. This will help me avoid the sort of people who use Foursquare, or who like playing with their mobile devices while in art galleries. And, I'll assume, will help ensure I have plenty of opportunity to meet others like me.
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by tobych 16y ago
I thought that, too, after the recent interview I described in my comment on the OP. When did I ever need to think this hard? Um, when I was writing proofs in my Semantics of Programming Languages course at university, I guess. Most of my w
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by tobych 16y ago
The "Linked Lists" chapter from "Programming Interviews Exposed" begins: "The deceptively simple linked list is the basis for a surprising number of problems regarding the handling of dynamic data. Problems about efficient list traversal, l
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by tobych 16y ago
Couldn't translations be crowdsourced? I've asked an Egyptian friend living in the UK if he could offer translations (transcripts) of some of these.
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by tobych 16y ago
Remind me to make more friends in underrepresented genders, social backgrounds and levels of disability, and people I just don't get on with although I know they're great employees. That way if I'm asked to recommend friends, it'll end up b
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by tobych 16y ago
Me too. After about 5 seconds all I could think about was whether it was gonna be a shark jumping out of the water at me, a big fat seagull coming for me, or just some random screaming crazy jumping in from the side of the screen.
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by tobych 16y ago
That's funny. Only this morning it suddenly dawned on me that such a resource didn't seem to exist. I imagine the taxonomy could be made a little less wide, though. Great start.
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by tobych 16y ago
Plenty more of interest at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable , which covers the first transatlantic telegraph cable. Anything to do with electrical communications that smells of rubber and seawater makes me happy.

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