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Right. So, professional journalists with experience , and who are anything but anonymous.

3) Experience is a series of non-fatal mistakes. Not everything is a financial metaphor.

They're probably forbidden from speaking publicly about this by their PR people, no matter whether it's positive or negative.

Unfortunately the law is implemented by regular ol' people who are given quite a bit of discretion.

Uh huh. Stephen Fry has you pegged, I'm afraid. http://youtu.be/J7E-aoXLZGY

I like metric as much as the next guy but you can pry knots from my cold, dead hands. Sincerely, An aviator and sailor

Yes, by all means, ask for what you're worth. My point is that money is almost never the reason people decide to start looking for work elsewhere. A counter offer by itself is sort…

Counter offers are a little silly. People in our industry are already making far above the median, which makes it extremely unlikely that money is the motivation behind resignation…

When I was there I was taken into the VAB with a group. The SRBs for the next Shuttle launch were there. Nobody else was in there. "Security" consisted of a guy asking if I had any…

FWIW the Unicode spec describes combining marks as characters in their own right. So if the intent is to reverse characters , page 21 does the job. The resulting sequences will pot…

I can't help but notice that this very website on which we are writing comments is beige. ;)

Good god, what on earth for?

The tweet graph database has a persistent edge count cache but it's not designed to handle posts or deletions any faster than a human can produce them.

And if the mere fact of the program's existence is classified? There's no way to respond without violating one of the oaths.

Well, sure, because American factories don't even exist in the first place. ;) But if we're making happiness the measure, America doesn't even break into the top ten.

Contextual menus weren't added until Mac OS 8 or thereabouts. In all prior versions you either dragged to the Trash or used an item in the menubar.

I'd go back even further to find decent Mac UI, to the pre-X OS. Yes, it was a reliability garbage fire, but the Apple of that time really invested in usability. They published a 4…

Early on, when someone accused Twitter of not being useful, Ev famously responded, "Neither is ice cream."

Lots of comments here about the information he leaked from the CIA and zilch about race. This article isn't about the CIA; it's about racism in America.

It's popular in mapping because it can be georeferenced. https://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/

This isn't about a language. It's about the whole stack. I've been programming since before the web was invented. The web, as a development platform, is the worst layer-cake of klu…

I agree—I loathe frontend development, but React made it tolerable to do for limited periods—but it's still a hack on a teetering Jenga tower of hacks.

On the subject of whether speech protections apply to the government only: it's all well and good to apply a legal analysis to free speech issues, but if you're looking to the law …

I was about to mention that the DDHHMMZ format is used to stamp aviation weather reports and forecasts too, but I see the article beat me to it. :) Anyway here's the current (as of…

When I was little we used to play hide-and-seek outside at night. I can't even imagine how many busybodies that would set off nowadays.