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"The legal theory behind warrant canaries is based on the concept of compelled speech. The First Amendment protects against this in most circumstances."
These things are pointless if they compel surrender of the key. Does anyone think even for a moment that "constitutional rights" will be considered?
After that statement, I'll assume you don't know what you're talking about or you're in some odd part of the planet where nursing is taught on the job.
Around here, nursing requires years of training. Psych, biology, pharmacology and I don't know what. We have different level of nursing qualifications, with the longest being a nurse practitioner, capable of legally prescribing medication.
It is a field regulated by the same governing body as doctors, and is not trivial in any way.
No excuse, beyond it usually being a minor change well documented in the code ( I always write comments ) and me being utterly buried under work... You know, start the day with 20 things to do, crack off 4 of them and have 23 things in queue at the end of your day.
The "." was sort of a placeholder for "Fuck This, I'm ready to quit." ( and I did eventually )
lots of websites pull shit from 20+ 3rd party domains. An obnoxious number of sites block/don't render completely ( or at all ) without allowing shit from all over the web to load.
Using light blue, blue, grey blue and slightly lighter blue was not good design. I do understand it would be hard to use clearly defined colours with so many languages. My suggestion:
This would have been better presented if the user could select a language's icon and see its' data highlighted.
( I know you can't do that simply with an infographic - you'd need to create transparent overlays, or something. )
Those times When I need something to be in Doc format, I use libre office - https://www.libreoffice.org/ It used to be called "openoffice". It's free. You can verify the documents look right in the free word viewer provided by Microsoft if you're planning to mail it to someone who will open it in Word.
http://wcm1.web.rice.edu/my-academic-book-in-plain-text.html
It's html.
I think it belongs - What he is suggesting carries over to technical endeavours as well.
1. Learning to cut mercilessly improved clarity of my emails and documentation.
2. Learning to put my head down and carry on till a project is first draft complete, warts and all improved my ability to actually _complete_ things.
3. Peer review as a bullshit detector is good.
I'll take Poe or Lovecraft over King any day for entertainment, but I might just crack 'on writing' after reading this article. The man sounds pretty dialed in.
Except perhaps the dev with the initial idea? Stealing someone else's idea might be widespread, but it doesn't make it right.
"..standard Gammas, unvarying Deltas, uniform Epsilons. Millions of identical twins. The principle of mass production at last applied to biology."
Some guy comes in with half a cornfield stuck to the undercarriage of their vehicle, who should pay for the suspension work? I deeply feel we should each be responsible for our own stupidity. If it is submitted as warranty, it becomes a cost to the manufacturer and I feel that is inherently dishonest. Additionally, increased costs _do_ get passed onto customers.
I get _why_ it happens, but it shouldn't.
wrong call in my books, but don't be surprised if it happens everyplace.
Seems sort of like crowd-sourcing data that would be used to infringe on the freedoms and happiness of people without restraint beyond "did the payment clear?"
Count me out, thanks.
Unless the primary goal was to transfer tax dollars from the unwashed to the privileged.
//kludge
I mean, the information was interesting enough to me to try to read it, but I frankly can not parse what looks like #FFFFFF text on #FEFFFE background.
For the love of god, If you want to present data like this, ensure at least a little contrast exists between the text and background
just my 2 cents, ignore if your market is something else.
I have seen this from both sides, and it is something you _need_ to know if you are interviewing people. The very best people for the job will have options. The very best hires don't _need_ your job. Not considering that your organization is being evaluated by the same folks you want to hire is not smart.
A better solution would be enforcing a sane minimum yellow light timing on camera intersections. Shortening the yellow to the point where the normal traffic sometimes brakes hard to avoid entering the now yellow, soon to be red camera intersection is the reason for this increase in rear-ends.
Per the article, this is something Chicago was guilty of, in addition to placing the cameras in areas that had no problematic history of accidents.
The real problem with these things is that they are used as another way to milk money out of the populace, rather than as a way to modify behaviour and improve safety.
These cameras ( and short lights ) are something that really really annoy me as a motorcyclist. I can stop fast any time but the SUV-clad soccer mom texting behind me probably wont. I sometimes find myself dropping a gear and hammering through a yellow I could easily stop for because of this.
/rant
No offense intended, but profitability of the entity selling the advert space does not mean return was generated for advertisers.
content on 3rd party site->ad->your landing page.
analyze what happens. You can compare normal behavior - time on page, number of pages viewed etc occurring from normal organic traffic against traffic generated by the ad campaign. Did one site or group of sites send 90% of your clicks, but almost zero real traffic?
second this. I was really impressed with QNX - I played with it a bit and stopped when the licensing changed.