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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Hustle I remember this, this was good, lots of social engineering before I knew what it was called.

Rust project 'dust' (du-in-rust) has hit version 1.0.0

Didn't Russia make a habbit of killing journalists who criticized either the old or new regimes from 1990 to present day? Pretty sure that was prevalent. Maybe they weren't trackin…

I believe he joined as a late founder, he wasn't on the original team.

I also noticed this. We came up with a variant to fix this. You have to say what the next person in the circle said they'd do yesterday before your talk. This forced everyone to pa…

That's why I wrote this: https://github.com/bootandy/dust Because it was frustrating to track down what had used disk space.

I've taken 2 sabbaticals from work. In the UK at least most companies are totally fine with you doing this.

I don't see why water used for cooling can't later be used as irrigation water

I'm quite relieved that the higher ups were able to successfully de-escalate the situation. It is so easy to read about situations where some pompous military officer trys to escal…

Personally, I agree with your summary of the Fountainhead. If you choose to read Atlas Shrugged, however, her opinions start to get more extreme and unsettling.

That gets tricky though, Can tradespeople can use their vans to do their food shopping? Can private citizens become a painter/decorator so they are then allowed a vehicle? Can a pr…

Usually depends on the type of option. If they are 'double cliff' then the employee stock option will vest automatically, if they aren't then the emplyee will lose them.

I made this: https://www.windowfunctions.com

Simplistic yes, but also true. He became throughly disillusioned with socialism because he felt that someone like Stalin would always take control of it. My interpretation was that…

I highly recommend Homage to Catalonia if you liked Animal Farm. It really explains how Orwell became disillusioned with communism (while fighting for it).

...cockpit, displays, controls, ejector seat. Designing it so the G-Force won't squash the pilot, strengthening the weak and vulnerable cockpit. Supporting both seems wrong to me.

Foxconn, SAP ? These are good examples aren't they. Edit: Not nvidia. Realised OP was asking for None-US companies

I have used this pattern too. I like it. One small problem is that depending on how your threading and cache works it might be possible for the cache to be cleared after the contai…

Catch 22. - I can re-read that over and over laughing at the silliness of their situation. Also If you enjoyed Catch I recommend Vernon God Little

Errr, They (probably) did that a few weeks ago: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43443271

several conventional luxury cars already have this feature - they detect crashes and call emergency services.