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I don't have a flight number, but here's an archived news article of the incident. https://www.deseret.com/2004/12/13/19866420/model-of-plane-t... Oh I guess it was 2004, not 2005.…

This really reminded me of a colleague who had a part-time night job flying cancelled checks from Centennial Airport (KAPA, south of Denver) to SLC. A bunch of us went out to lunch…

I've noticed that too during this teachers' strike in Portland! It was really one of the most unexpectedly heartening things I've seen in a while.

True, there aren't very many. But I was shocked to learn that the wife of a friend of mine had grown up in Oregon City (15 miles south of Portland) and she had only ever traveled t…

What makes you think OP is a he?

That is indeed a super-skill! If you remove as much of the perceived power imbalance between interviewer and interviewee (often difficult, to be sure), and you can engage in a two-…

This is really excellent. I used to use Altap Salamander when I was more of a Windows user, and it became one of my most indispensable tools. I've tried most of the Mac commander-s…

Here's a nice plugin to add the vim command bar: https://atom.io/packages/atom-vim-colon-command-on-command-p...

+1 to your quitting acknowledging sneezes. That has always seemed to me like a pointless injection of politeness that continues only because of cultural inertia. Not sure how much …

Will do! Sorry coach!

If we all told the author that he was an utterly fascinating contrarian, would that help him not feel so angry?

Wow, I had almost totally forgotten about TextPad. I absolutely loved that editor back in about 2002-3. Unfortunately, the site looks exactly the same as it did back then (although…

I followed the entire genesis of StackOverflow pretty closely via Jeff & Joel's blog posts and the first go 'round of the StackOverflow podcast. During that time, and to this day, …

Automatic apostrophe correction algorithms? ;)

I dinked around with Play a while ago and was impressed all around. However, am I the only one who thinks it would benefit immensely from a better name? "Play" just makes it sound …

I dinked around with Play last week and was impressed all around. However, am I the only one who thinks it would benefit immensely from a better name? "Play" just makes it sound so…

One really simple thing that was driving me crazy was when an app pops up a dialog with buttons. Coming from Linux and Windows, where you can tab between the buttons and just hit e…

It's not really that your living in suburbia is evil, it's the fact that suburban development is a hugely wasteful, inefficient, costly, and completely unsustainable mode of develo…

Amen to this. I've never understood the appeal of glossy displays. To me they're almost unusuable except under the most ideal lighting conditions.