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maybird··on Here's the simple rule you need to know when using a foreign ATM
Any suggestions for Canada? I don't go often enough to find a better solution than using an ATM there, but I do go often enough to feel ripped off every time I do.
maybird··on GitHub humans.txt
robots.txt...humans.txt nice! It reads like a movie's credit roll.

But do you really want to make it easier for a recruiter to poach your team?

maybird··on Treating JavaScript like a 30 year old language
Same thing in Google's C++ style guide. No FP, C++11, or boost. I find that disappointing.
maybird··on YouTube-MP3 Fights Google With Lawyers and 220K+ Signature Petition
I use this to download from Youtube:

http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/

maybird··on European Court: Used software licenses may be resold.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention#European_Uni...
maybird··on European Court: Used software licenses may be resold.
Does this ruling indirectly legitimizes DRM removal tools?

I mean, without them, how can you resell a license?

Then again, the EU has anti-circumvention rules similar to those in the DMCA.

maybird··on Asking An Employee To Leave The Company
Any recommendations for someone who's been fired?

How can I help someone who's been fired bounce back?

What should someone who's been fired tell potential employers why they're no longer with a previous employer?

I'm trying to help a friend, but I've never gone thru this, so I feel powerless.

maybird··on Test That Can Determine the Course of Life in China Gets a Closer Examination

  Also widespread on the Internet were photographs taken in
  a Hubei Province classroom of students hooked up to
  intravenous drips of amino acids while cramming.
Can anybody explain to me what that's for?
maybird··on Online threat — but SWAT team raids wrong house

  pranksters placed a 911 call through a computer that
  cloned her number
When did 911 start taking voip calls?
maybird··on AWS is down due to an electrical storm in the US
Acts of God can happen anywhere.
maybird··on Higher-order programming in C
This makes me wish I could use "PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC" with mmap() on iOS.
maybird··on Dr. Dobb's 2012 Salary Survey
What's creating this shortfall?

Too many openings?

Too many engineers working for themselves?

Too many engineers retiring?

Too many engineers going abroad?

Too many engineers interested in the same small number of niches that leaves everyone else with too few applicants?

...?

maybird··on Who's Propping Up the U.S. Treasury Market?
America is deep in debt, but its economy is doing comparatively well.
maybird··on How Bank of America quietly steals your money
It's not just banks, I've had the same thing happen with my cellphone bill.
maybird··on Inside Apple's Thunderbolt to Ethernet Adapter
Perhaps the average consumer's satisfied with wireless speeds, and it would make economic sense to reduce the production cost of the average system by removing the ethernet port.
maybird··on Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself
VLC happened?
maybird··on Why Are Startups Flocking To SF? There’s No More Room In Silicon Valley
East bay? Santa Cruz? Marin?
maybird··on The Benefits of Arbitrary Questions

  I tried to mitigate this by telling people not to
  bother writing a cover letter.
Aren't cover letters a dying art anyway?
maybird··on Here Are No Women On StackOverflow… Or Are There?
This might be a crazy idea, but if more men posed as women, women would feel less intimidated to participate, and douchebags would have less effect on the actual women in the community.
maybird··on Knowledge of fractions and long division predicts long-term math success
The possible answers were probably randomly ordered.
maybird··on Design-time Versus Meeting-time
Yup, anybody who needs to be creative for that matter. Artists, engineers, designers, etc.
maybird··on Boston Bar Buzz-Kill
I'd really like to know what your top 3 would be.
maybird··on Morning Coffee - Get Starbucks Straight to Your House
Kozmo for Coffee?

For many people, part of the point of going to a coffee shop is the social interaction and serendipitous encounters.

Good luck tho! :)

maybird··on Save Time On Hacker News: Mark All Read
This Firefox extension does it:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/link-visitor-...

maybird··on School Cellphone Ban Spawns Thriving Niche Storage Market
Has anyone tried to contest this rule as an illegal form of discrimination?
maybird··on Curt Schilling’s dream died quite quickly at 38 Studios

  That same day 38 Studios employees were told their health
  insurance would expire in two days.
It's in times like these that you realize the importance of universal health care. (I'm not talking about COBRA.)
maybird··on Are You in a Bubble?
I don't think it'll be over until Twitter IPOs and fails to pop like FB.

I think we need at least these two major brands going thru the same fate for the social networking bubble to be affected.

maybird··on My first C program: simple process supervisor like daemontools/runit in 359 LoC
(3) You bring up an interesting issue. Why is there so much variance out there? Google uses 2 spaces, the linux kernel uses 8, and most people I know use 4.

Are people using such a wide range of font sizes, and font aspect ratios, that 4 spaces doesn't make sense for everyone?

maybird··on Retailer uses 3D QR codes and the Sun to time limit discounts
"Sorry, offer not available in Seattle." ;)
maybird··on Africa developing its first supercomputer outside South Africa
tl;dr: It's in Nairobi, Kenya. Nairobi is the capital of, and the largest city of, this central-east African nation.

yay for them! :)

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