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What To Draw and How To Draw It, by Edwin Lutz and available on archive.org, is another good example: https://archive.org/details/whattodrawhowtod00lutz/mode/2up

Is it possible you're thinking of the Halifax Explosion? That killed hundreds and destroyed a huge portion of the city, but that ship was carrying ammunition. https://en.wikipedia.…

They were setting up a non-profit arts space. I don't feel like the customer/business relationship is a good fit there.

If a company holds some information internally, and an unauthorised third party surreptitiously obtains that information, wouldn't you call that stealing?

Neither, in this case. Under the GDPR, you'd be expected to reply something like "As described in our privacy policy we use Stripe for processing payments. The data you enter on ou…

Tom Stuart did a seriously great talk about this, which really helped my understanding of monads. You can read it as a blog post, but I recommend watching the video. It's worth fin…

There's a number of techniques you can use, but most come back to fundamental principles: keep things small and self-contained as possible, try to decouple elements of your program…

I use Siri fairly frequently, but in certain narrowly-defined situations: when I've got my hands full, or am doing something else. The two that come to mind are when cooking ("Hey …

Go to university & get a degree. A degree opens a lot of doors in the future, even if you think it shouldn't matter. That's both simple things like "Getting your CV past a clueless…

> It seems like we're engineering people to be terrible at handling the complexities of interpersonal relationships. To me, this seems more like "engineering Facebook to be better …

Don't forget the thousands of years humanity spent naked. Thankfully, startups are now here to solve that problem.

I don't think there's any suggestion that VW used these techniques, but there are other indicators that could be used. Things like "If the car door or bonnet is open while the engi…

FetLife, the kinky social network, is entirely remote.

Your first step is to figure out what elements exclude people. Personally, I think your current activities have strong elements of competition & machismo. There's also a large skil…

With the rake tasks, you're better off learning "rake -T" (list all rake tasks that have a description). You can find the one you need in there, and the most common ones will soon …

SEEKING WORK: London, UK or remote I'm a full-stack developer with nearly a decade of professional experience. I like Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and Python. Right now I'm looking for…

The London Hackspace is one of the biggest in the UK; I'm not sure why you had trouble finding it. It's a dedicated two-floor space in East London that's open 24 hours a day for it…