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The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle featured a fictionalised version of a Pinkerton agent.

I was just about to write a comment saying that it would be more consistent with the other markup to have: @{ground black pepper}.

Many years ago I built some software to allow people with cerebral palsy to use a computer. I did not get paid and it was not used by thousands of people (as far as I know) - but w…

I love the map. I love the responsiveness. I have done things with Leaflet and geoJSON and have always wanted to do hexagons. How did you convert the temperature data to hexagons? …

As a corollary: “A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.” - Alan Perlis

> Best way to deliver software is to have a handful of capable people and pay them well and get out of their way. That is the gist of one of the essays in The Mythical Man Month me…

It looks impressive. I am just wondering if it supports NetCDF (or if it is in the roadplan). In particular, things like pcolormesh and displaying grids on a map.

I wrote this app last weekend mostly so that I could look at COVID-19 stats, but also as a learning exercise. I download data from John Hopkins, ingest it into a SQLite database an…

Yes. That book has probably shaped my thinking and coding more than any of the others above (although they are also very good).

This seems to work for me: 1. This is your time to talk about whatever is on your mind. If you want to talk about the footy over the weekend, that's fine. If you want to talk about…

What does the prisoner do if she gets to, for example, box 40 and there is a 40 in the box? [edit] I reread the explanation and get it now. Only 1 prisoner (40) will actually get t…

Photo albums and photographs. If they are all digital, you're lucky, take any backup drives with photos on them (i.e. photos of family and friends)

I have been using this to teach my two daughters (10 and 14) geometry. Would love to find more sites like this that make teaching maths fun. I do, however, give them hints on how t…

Interesting article. I had not associated him with LSFRs, but did know about his eponymous ruler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golomb_ruler

Some advantages of web apps is that they are multi-platform out of the box, don't require any setup or admin privileges and don't require installing dependencies (e.g. the link you…

So, maybe this is more useful? Unlike more primitive version control systems, git repositories are not linear, they already support branching, and are thus best visualised as trees…

I think this is what I refer to as SODD - or 'Stack Overflow Driven Development'. Somebody is not sure how to do something, so they look for an example on SO and they copy the code…

An even older engineer once told me: Even after you've doubled the estimate, it will still take twice as long as you estimate.

Or an alternate headline could be "Graphs show how Reddit became more diversified as it became more popular".

For what it's worth, if you do decide on a company, call it something modest - and don't try to pretend that you're something that you're not or pretend that you're bigger than you…

> In particular, I'd like to see some real consequences for malpractice on the part of practitioners I agree as long as we also see some of the benefits - required registration wit…

I ran it through an html checker ( http://validator.w3.org/check ) and got 3 Errors and 4 Warnings.

$ Make me a sandwich What? Make it yourself $ sudo !! Okay

After reading many of the responses, I am wondering if there is a difference between the 'business programmers' and the 'scientific/mathematical programmers'. Most of the examples …

How about if you were in a lot of pain and were told that you can take a pain killer but it would likely shorten your life (not necessarily a hypothetical choice)?