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Hold down the option key. Hover your mouse pointer over the green zoom button in the top-left corner of the window. A "move window to the left/right side of the screen" option appe…

>Tiling left / right etc? Doesn't exist. It sort of does, but it's not as obvious as it should be. Mouse over the green zoom button in the top-left corner of a window, hold the opt…

Yes, that's a reasonable explanation. I'm near enough to the middle of my town for that to be the cause.

You got my GPS coordinates almost exactly correct. That's incredibly worrying. I mean, it's impressive from a technical standpoint; but still, worrying.

> If a lambda has only one parameter then its declaration can be omitted (along with the ->). The name of the single parameter will be "it". > val notPositive = not {it > 0} This i…

We didn't replace it with anything. We still do formal performance reviews every six months.

My employer tried and failed using a similar system with Salesforce Work.com. It all seemed a bit pointless and forced to me. In the early days of using it while it was still a nov…

It looks like that's exactly what they've done. There's a screenshot of the setting buried in here: https://9to5mac.com/2017/01/24/ios-10-3-beta-1/

It exists, and demand for talented people outstrips supply. I find recruiting new people for my team to be tough. Literally had a candidate fail at FizzBuzz yesterday. If you're on…

10 years as a Software Developer here. Based in Wellington, New Zealand. 1. Change jobs more often. The only way to be paid market rates is to change jobs when your market value in…

Logos aren't mindless fluff or artsy wallpaper that you slap on a project before sending it out the door. They're often the first impression someone gets of your work, and using a …

This might not be the hardest bug I've tackled, but it certainly took the longest to solve. It was the early days of SOAP, and I had been assigned the task of integrating my employ…

Not really a start up, but I thought Wikipedia was an extraordinarily dumb idea at first. An encyclopedia that anyone can edit - what could possibly go wrong? I completely missed t…

This doesn't seem to work right for negative numbers. The article says the rule is "each number must be larger than the one before it", but if you try -2 -4 -6 it says that pattern…

I'm so happy that Yo sponsored this. I can't think of anyone more fitting.

I like these more for their aesthetic properties than for any technical or sales-focussed reason. I really have no idea how well any of these would convert. http://www.getjustlande…

I spent five years working for McDonald's, and I'll say that I've never worked for a company before or since that was so easily distracted and unfocused. The general philosophy fro…

I'm really pleased to see Apple getting away from the "events" concept that iPhoto introduced. It was a good idea in theory - all your photos would be automatically grouped into al…

This is the most extreme example of Atwood's law that I've seen so far of. Any volunteers for making an operating system kernel? Or has that been done already?

I'm reading through the sample on my Kindle now. His similes are a little forced ("battles like this one raged across Beijing like a multitude of CPUs working in parallel, their co…

If you're going to read this (or really any DFW) don't skip the footnotes. Yes it's tedious flipping back and forth, but it's so very worth it.