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I'd like to reach out and snatch that last apostrophe from your comment for similar reasons.

Chickens and other fowl, if allowed to free range for a couple of hours a day, will completely solve the problem.

> No guarantees are given, for nothing This is a double negative. Depending on how you interpret the comma, it could mean "guarantees are given for everything." (Pointing this out …

There's also a misalignment on the sell side. Since the seller's agent gets paid a percentage of the sale price you'd think they're incentivized to sell at the highest price possib…

I'm in the US and for years wrote software for the medical industry. I was contracted by a European company to write an app, and of course filled it with disclaimers and extra clic…

Deleting a record causes requests for that record to be negatively cached. The negative cache TTL[1] is often set to 1 day. So, deleting and immediately recreating a record can tak…

IANAL, but I think she absolutely has a legal case. It costs a lot of money to make a case "go nowhere" even with the slightest validity. The small penis thing doesn't seem relevan…

This is exactly what happens when you optimize for engagement. Usually when I find myself on Reddit, I'm looking for something specific and want to get it as quickly as possible an…

I've used this technique with a label that said "Leave Blank", also hidden with CSS. Seemed to work great, but now I wonder.

I've found the opposite to be true. Several lawyers I've worked with have asked to see what I've started with, perhaps because they're used to people grabbing stuff off the interne…

I also was very confused by the pipe, which renders exactly like an uppercase I for me. [EDIT: oh wait.. it is an I? either way...] Replacing with a hyphen or colon would be a quic…

Appreciate the optimism. Just to clarify, I'm saying that he has the skill set, the background, the time and the means to pull this off. That combo is extremely rare, and even with…

I haven't read this book, but I have read a lot of posts and watched a presentation by the author, Pieter Levels. While he is a nice guy and certainly very interesting, it's my opi…

This works if you know you're lost, know that someone will be looking for you and aren't too hard to find. Most people who are lost don't meet these criteria. Because she was an ex…

One article[1] at least suggests that she wasn't able to start a fire. She had also tried to make fires using the matches and lighters she kept in her backpack. There was a stream …

A long time ago -- before cell phones -- I was a member of a wilderness search and rescue team. Based on the description of where this person was found, I can tell you it's one of …

The assumption here is that salary is set by forces beyond the employee's control, and it's either fair or unfair. I would argue that everyone's salary is fair, b/c it's set at wha…

Sounds to me like they are primarily measuring the financial performance of doctors.

True. Docker with a "ton of tooling on top of it" is going to be a VM with versioning, which as discussed, has its own set of issues.

Right -- for the right candidate. I don't buy things without vetting them first; why would I expect someone else to? The suggestion that there is some exact figure out there that y…

There's a problem with asking how much they're willing to pay up front: It's a negotiation and in order to get an actual number, you have to sell yourself first. If you seriously w…

The article is not an attack of Docker, but the way it's being used by many.

It's an old post, but I really like it because it highlights a problem with almost all online accounts: Confirming the existence of email addresses and usernames in the database.

I just had a conversation with a friend about this. He was leaving a country where haggling is the norm, and he wanted to buy some gifts in a hurry, on the way to the airport. So, …

Maybe it works great from day one, maybe it will need a few more iterations, and possibly with 3.2 we'll improve support for many stuff, but my guess is that Redis 3.0.0 today, in …