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Related, don't miss the Reason feature on Larkin and Lacey. They purchased the Village Voice in 2005 and had a solution for the classifieds problem, Backpage.com. Unfortunately, th…

We're trying to change the dynamic in my employer. There is still company-wide centralized planning, and our parent company still sets overall goals and expectations for profitabil…

I had to disable Privacy Badger to get the other charts to show up. Disabling uBlock Origin didn't help (or hurt).

It's not just what you make of it: a lot of your experience there is going to depend on your manager. I had three: the first was awesome, so he left for another company; the second…

Most of the US cities I've lived in have poorly laid out bus systems; Seattle is a notable exception with plenty of cross-town and downtown routes, and riders are never more than a…

Yes, I'd rather just be alone. Some weeks I manage to get as many as four days in a row working from home, but most I end up just taking Friday as a WFH day so I can focus on getti…

I'd tell you to get in touch with an Senior Architect but that's no guarantee that you'll get a good result. From my experience . . . IBM sold a big outsourcing package to a major …

The US and it's relations with the UN were a focus of one of my senior seminars in History (1995). I'm a programmer, not a political scientist or attorney, so read this critically.…

The underlying types are exposed to you, like C. Go isn't adding sugar to handling numeric types: it's not autoboxing to help you with conversions, and it's not hiding the implemen…

Over the years, we've seen reddit increasingly turn into an echo chamber. I've been personally voted down for telling people in a general subreddit that the anger they feel about $…

Third Avenue downtown, yes.

Former Seattle (now Las Vegas) resident here. To make the buses run on time, the planners build in "time stops." These are locations where the bus should go through at specific tim…

I think I first saw one of those nearly a decade ago: it was definitely high-end, catering to men, and all designer labels. I honestly don't know if it survived or failed because t…

Working at an on-line shoes, apparel, and accessories retailer, my understanding is that there are four categories of people regularly returning items: * Stylists - they buy for a …

The Dark Ages were named such, in retrospect, because of the loss of knowledge and recording of history of that period. Western Europe suffered from a split or break in government …

This is purely anecdote, but I found Seattle to be significantly less diverse than Cincinnati or Columbus. The larger cities in the Midwest tend to have governments with goals that…

It sounds like an X12-style EDI format. They'll frequently have fields (or parts of fields) that can enable alternative blocks that may be of a different size. I had to write and m…

I could argue that Mr. Lynn is crying "sour grapes" over this, but he also came very close to a point Bryan Lunduke made recently about Google[1]. Google has the power to stop peop…

You don't have to go too far to find dark skies. My wife and I rented a cottage at Sheep Dung just outside Boonville, CA, a few years ago. Ukiah was on the far side of the hills to…

Only if you create a channel with no buffer: then it becomes blocking send or receive. Go channels block when they have nothing to do, either no room to send anything (in the case …

This does make me wonder if it makes it impossible for those companies to be considered "common carriers" or able to enjoy "safe harbor" laws. By acting to censor legal (however di…

I had bench time when I was a "consultant." I used it for skills improvement (like learning a new framework or billable service), creating and presenting training materials for for…

Note that this page is separate from a landing page (like the front page or a category) and a product page. Those have very strict requirements for how long a page component can ta…

This front-end is new, but they've been crunching sales hourly for each category for over a decade. They've made the bestseller list both more prominent and less specific (you can …

It looks like a new front-end on Zeitgeist (which looks like it's completely disappeared from the category pages).