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> a computer scientist who helped shape the modern web by leading the team that developed the animation technology used to create GIFs Translation: was PM at Macromedia when they s…

Though if that 100K to 90K move had actually changed your tax bracket, you'd stand to maybe save a bit more.

> sales or marketing Also operations and customer support. They are your interface to real, not hypothetical, customers.

Why not just give it the desired function signature and comments in the function body, in Python?

Just around the same time I was working at a place that used Oracle's web app extension, with CGI endpoints written completely in PL/SQL. I did end up writing an XML parser/seriali…

You should also check if the web page actually exposes this information in a tag. If you're running Chrome, the "RSS Subscription Extension (by Google)" extension [1] will do this …

I enjoyed this talk at the DAFx17 conference by Avery Wang, co-founder of Shazam. It goes a little into the theory behind the algorithm, and looks at some of the more practical iss…

!p=>!q is exactly q=>p, and p=>q has nothing to do with that.

Have you been to Queens a lot? There are essentially only two subway trunks for what is the largest NYC borough by area. Plenty of neighborhoods in Brooklyn are supplied only with …

I grew up in the 1980's USSR and it was anything but colorful.

In fact, you don't. Your WSGI app is not a web server. It does not run or network by itself and doesn't speak HTTP. You need a compatible web server (e.g. Gunicorn) to do that for …

In college, we had a two-week stretch at the beginning of a new semester when you could audition classes and add/drop them at will. This was called the "shopping period", so in my …

Did you hear the one about a programmer losing all of her hair? She bought a bottle of shampoo and the instructions said "Lather. Rinse. Repeat."

The neat thing about Rails is that going from zero to a running database-backed app is done in a ridiculously few number of keystrokes that invoke quite a bit of under-the-hood mag…

In a fast food restaurant the latency of food orders being fulfilled (i.e. how fast your food really is) would be a reasonable metric to track.

The implication is that having commit rights on a highly visible and popular open-source project somehow absolves the maintainer of the need for patience and civility. I would expe…

While it's true you cannot get away without using an external interface for recording audio, there are many other mobile "pro audio" tasks which can be done using just the headphon…

Even if the charges aren't all trumped up, Tymoshenko was singled out for prosecution for her politics, without a doubt. With corruption as rampant as it is, there's a criminal cas…

Very poorly. There's virtually nothing on the majors' home pages (e.g., only WSJ has it above the fold now), and blogs latch on to fiery pictures only. Much better coverage @ Reute…

In Williamsburg, we're a few years past that point. The new "in" thing is to complain about being priced out of Bushwick. At this rate, neighborhoods all the way down to Kennedy Ai…

It's the distance, average speed and the number of stops that the trains make. Trains depart frequently during the rush hour (4-7 minute wait, depending on the line), but at night …

Even more pedantically, he almost certainly meant "kW". (On the assumption that the speaker's native tongue is, say, Russian, his usage of "Wt" is actually not surprising.)

Plenty of such jobs are mind-numbing, soul-crushing and lead nowhere.

An essay extolling the uselessness of schooling is peppered with grammar, spelling and style mistakes. Coincidence?