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Vi folks used to make fun of Emacs as ‘Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping’!

Amen. Turn up when you say you will, deliver what you promised, on time, and generally give a minimal damn, and you’re already ahead of 95% of your co-workers. I don’t think it wil…

Any age, as long as your skills are current. The demand here is savage enough to overcome most prejudice. There are many times more older engineers in the bay area than anywhere el…

Not to disagree with anything else you wrote, but anyone who says butchery is an unskilled job has definitely never tried it. What other C21st job has a legitimate need for chain m…

This IS 'Azure Mobile Center' - mobile.azure.com redirects to this. ZERO communication about this change. MS might have changed but their legendarily-confusing branding is still th…

One of my favorite things about Shadowrun was rolling a 1/2 pound of D6s at once!

Not only can you, everyone who uses it does :)

At this point I think one has to assume there are more advanced machine-learning-based crawlers out there too. ML is very good at picking up 'anomalies'.

I actually am, but not about AI becoming smarter than us, or the 'singularity', for good reasons others have already stated. I'm concerned what happens when human-sized combat robo…

One of my favorite things about the Apple Watch is that it keeps uncannily good time. Put two next to each other and you'll see what I mean. I always found it disappointing that ev…

Acking PagerDuty alerts from your wrist during a show feels like a superpower.

I like it. The initial UI is confusing, but also intriguing. The author reco it gave (David Liss) was good. If you have 3 people working on this, presumably you have an actual prod…

You don't actually need that good a credit score, since it's a charge card, not credit. You mainly just need the >$500/yr membership fee.

It's fairly straightforward but you need to write some Obj-C, I don't think you can do it entirely in Swift yet. It's pretty painless in iOS, YMMV on Android. See here for details:…

Learning Bash is both incredibly useful and will also make you richly appreciate more modern languages :)

I find http://moosti.com to be the best of the web tomato timers

Written by Carl Szabo from 'Net Choice', a Trade Association whose members include Google, AOL, Facebook, Ebay. This is a straight-up corporate press release.

I grew up near Menwith Hill in the 80s. They did tours of the facility - not inside the golf balls or the other secret bits, but they had a bowling alley, all kinds of fun things f…

Typing with my splinted-for-carpal-tunnel hands: for the love of God, if you're using vim all day, then map Esc to CapsLock or something else near your home row, or one day you wil…

They're certainly expensive ($350), but no-one who finds it helps with their Carpal Tunnel (like me) would say it's overpriced. Think of its price in the context of medical devices…

This is excellent. Thanks for posting.

Also through vocabulary. 'Le weekend' (vs 'la fin de semaine') is the classic example, both of what l'academie does and how utterly (though heroically) doomed its efforts are.

Looks great! I think this is the first open implementation of the new http2 api (?) Looking forward to trying it out.

My understanding of 'fire fast' is different; it's rather that if you make a mistake and hired someone who isn't a good fit, then you should cut your losses and fire them ASAP. Rea…

It is a great book. It also explains why the ending to The Stand sucks so hard, which always bothered me :)