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The point was "Once they've bought it, promises don't matter", and there were two interesting stories that illustrate this point.
/shrugs
We all know yahoo are going to fuck up tumblr, and the promises that they've made won't matter.
Murder is illegal everywhere, but that's not to say it never happens.
Good lord; you'd regret that. French bureaucracy is a hundred times worse than that in the UK. It's one of the biggest reasons I left France.
And in French swimming pools you are required to wear speedo-type trunks. You will not be allowed to swim in anything else.
What is it about that look that children find so attractive?
Yep, I'm probably going to regret not using a throwaway account...
Having a default username in the first place is incredibly poor practice. So many users stick to 'admin', making it just a case of guessing the password.
And don't get me started on that bloody "the loop" finite state machine. I mean, really?
I get my work almost solely through contacts I made when I lived in London, though I left the UK in 2007.
Sorry: probably not what you wanted to hear!
I work from home, and can work anywhere in Europe, as much or as little as I want (within reason). I don't have to put up with meetings and bullshit bosses. Above all, I still love programming for its puzzle-solving side, and for its non-stop accumulation of learning and experience.
I'm currently having an awesome time in Barcelona, but I've lived in a beautiful city in France, by a beach in the Canary Islands, and in an 18th Century Norman Château (well, in its converted stable anyway).
I'm sooooo glad I stuck to the coalface and didn't move into management, or I'd probably still be swearing at tourists on the tube every day.
He knows it's terminal (it's spread all over the place), and if he chooses to live the rest of his life on his own terms and not enduring the significant side effects of chemo, then it's his choice and good luck to him.
My grandmother refused chemo (cancer in bowel, liver, lymph nodes) and I think she made the right choice.
Depends on the brand, but the big UK brands (like PG) use some kind of plastic in the bags which doesn't compost.
But if you're busy, have a go at chillis: no blight, no splitting, they tolerate under- and over-watering and poor soil, and there are a huge variety available (including some great-looking ornamentals). They have a much longer fruiting period so you're not overwhelmed by huge numbers of chillis at the same time.
If you put them on a sunny windowsill in winter they will survive and keep flowering and fruiting over winter (probably dont need to bother if you live somewhere like Southern California). You'll need to start using fertilizer if you do this.
You can just dry a chilli you like from the supermarket and use the seeds from that: germination rates are near 100%. Then once you're hooked, buy esoteric varieties on the internet.
And judging by her github profile, she's a good programmer by any reasonable definition.
Even better has been their Google Reader to Kindle service, which I've set up to send a daily chapterized kindle version of all the news blogs I follow.
Oh well.
> The nickname, urging a comparison to the classical image of "Venus," is now controversial. According to Christopher Witcombe, "the ironic identification of these figurines as 'Venus' pleasantly satisfied certain assumptions at the time about the primitive, about women, and about taste." Catherine McCoid and LeRoy McDermott hypothesize that the figurines may have been created as self-portraits.
But let's face it, the evidence must be scant either way.
Images like this are effectively Rorschach tests. Sure, they may look like xenofossils to astrobiologists, but there are no doubt people to whom they look like their grandmother lying in a pool of blood...
No obese cavemen? How about a cavewoman?
But even people coming from the complete opposite end of the argument to the paleo crowd ("Eat more whole grains!") agree that the amount of heat produced by a substance when it's burnt in a calorimeter doesn't tell the full story about its potential for causing obesity.
https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/commit/6ccf588a8e08a9f9...
I think you're right. Unity works great on a netbook, purely for consuming. Fine for a mobile device.
There used to be a Ubuntu 'netbook remix' which came with Unity (before it was the default), and it fitted there perfectly.
Canonical are hardly alone in betting the farm on mobile-like interfaces. MS are doing it with Windows 8, and some of OS X >= Lion's interface is only usable with a multitouch trackpad.
Whether they're right or not is open to discussion, but it's clearly happening.
This may have been a good or bad thing, according to taste.
I love what he says about iteration:
"I don't know for sure why the Microsoft solution is so clunky. It could be they just didn't do a good job of copying the Mac. More likely, they never tested and iterated. When Eric and I finished our first prototype, it was at least as clunky as Microsoft's solution. We, however, put ours through another four or five rounds of testing and design before we elected to ship it."
Sometimes perfect is not the enemy of good.
Not to be confused with Unix, Unix-like, or Linux.
POSIX (pron.: /ˈpɒzɪks/ poz-iks), an acronym for "Portable Operating System Interface", is a family of standards specified by the IEEE for maintaining compatibility between operating systems...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posix
The old MS POSIX subsystem was replaced by the amusingly named SFU (Services for UNIX). Then that got replaced by the bought-in Interix.
Mac OS X is UNIX because it's certified under the Single UNIX Specification: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification
Windows is not in any way UNIX. There aren't even any certified Linux distros (AFAIK). Mac OS X is UNIX.
Then along came Microsoft Word, which inserted vertical space between paragraphs instead. Now most people think it's supposed to be that way.
I have no citation for this, but have noticed that novels in print use indentation rather than spacing.
And they don't respond to complaints, even from their own users.
I've been running the same pukka mailing list for 12 years, I'm in their abuse feedback loop, have proved exclusive ownership of the mail server, all mail is DKIM signed with valid SPF records, mail is accepted with a 250 OK, you name it.
Still they bin my emails, but only to some accounts. No rhyme or reason, no bounce, no spam folder. Just never arrives.
On a high-traffic site like this, I'm surprised they've not really addressed performance.
Currently:
Scripts at the top, not the bottom
CSS not concatenated and minimized
JS not minimized
GZIP not enabled on the server
Icons not in a sprite sheet
Also, invalid HTML.
I know, I need to chill out.