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This post demonstrates why I hate UI programming. The number of unpredictable, niggling little things that can go wrong exceeds my patience for dealing with them. I kind of enjoy t…

Your argument is that if a paper makes a valuable contribution then it should be accepted even if it's not well written. But the definition of "well written" is that it makes it ea…

International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia Climate School | Intermediate Software Developer | Palisades, New York (near NYC) | ONSITE | VISA The IRI Data Li…

International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia Climate School | Intermediate Software Developer | Palisades, New York (near NYC) | ONSITE | VISA The IRI Data Li…

There is CardDAV sync built in to iOS Contacts, but I don't think the person who programmed it actually tried using it. When you create a contact on the iPhone, there's no reasonab…

International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia Climate School | Intermediate Software Developer | Palisades, New York (near NYC) | ONSITE | VISA The IRI Data Li…

International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia Climate School| Intermediate Software Developer | Palisades, New York (near NYC) | ONSITE | VISA The IRI Data Lib…

International Research Institute for Climate and Society (Columbia University) | Palisades, New York | must be US-based currently, ONSITE post-COVID | software developer/scientific…

Could you say more about why ansible is better than shell scripts for one-time configuration? In my mind, ansible's big advantage over shell scripts is that it has good support for…

IRI, Columbia University | Palisades, New York (near NYC) | Staff Associate (software developer and trainer) | ONSITE, full-time The International Research Institute for Climate an…

Wow. Is no one spared?

For the record, it's been around more than two decades.

Where did you go? It's hard to find any US bank that supports it any more, let alone one with decent interest rates.

> What are some non-profits who work on enabling people in poorer countries to withstand disturbances? Are they looking for coders? The International Research Institute on Climate …

It's also important that assembly lines can be offshored, whereas a lot of repairs really need to be done locally by someone who can interact with the consumer to understand the pr…

I spent ten years in a corporate research lab, and my experience was quite different from yours. Specifically, 1. Our process went like this: first the researcher wrote up a descri…

Article content starts out in a straightforward, easy-to-process form, as created by the reporter/author, in a content management system. Then the CMS chops it up into pages and ad…

The generated HTML looks like this: E n t e r t e x t ... I don't see why that would be a problem.

I agree about the convenience of having multiple branches in a single repo, as opposed to the darcs way which is one working directory per branch. For one thing, I never found a co…

Right on. I particularly hate sites like myspace and some blogging platforms that translate the window dressing (button labels, sidebar, etc.) to your local language based on IP ad…

The work week is just starting on the east coast of the US and this has already dropped to 123rd place. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to post it over the weekend, particularly a…

I prefer to go each day to a list of curated aggregators like HN or what the people I follow on Twitter or saying But aggregators can publish RSS streams too. How is following some…

You forgot to say where you are. You even forgot to mention it on your web site, as far as I can see.

You're attacking a straw man. Here are some arguments that people do sometimes make, and that somewhat resemble your straw man, but are less ridiculous: - Making a copy of a file i…

My laptop is for reading email and surfing the web in hotel rooms. Occasionally I program on it when I don't have a choice, but I'm far less productive than on my regular workstati…