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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 of an empty gesture that is bound to be ineffective in the long run as a retention tool.

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. More often it's a bad manager—there's a saying that people don't quit jobs; they quit bosses—uninteresting work, change in direction, or some other environmental factor. If you're going to make someone a counter-offer you should also be sure to address the real issue that caused them to want to leave in the first place, or they're just going to leave after a short time anyway.

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 lighters or matches.

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 potentially be defective but not ill-formed.

That being said, an FAQ on combining characters points out that Unicode's definition of "character" may not match an end user's, and that it's best to use the word "grapheme" instead for clarity. (And that being said, if the typical end user knows what "grapheme" means, I'll eat my cat.)

So from a practical standpoint, it's best to make sure that any input to rev is in one of the composed normal forms.

(Incidentally, the proper sequence is <base character><combining character>…, not the other way around.)

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 400-page book[1] for developers that explained the principles behind usability, showed how interface design fits into the development process, and gave specific guidelines for each type of interface element. The guidelines they publish today[2] are a lifeless husk by comparison.

[1] http://interface.free.fr/Archives/Apple_HIGuidelines.pdf [2] https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Us...

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 kludges I've ever seen.

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 to tell you what's right and wrong, you're trying to buy milk at a hardware store.

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 this comment) report from SFO if you're curious about what they look like:

  KSFO 301656Z 29011KT 10SM FEW008 SCT160 19/13 A3002 RMK AO2 SLP165 T01890128

You can see the timestamp in the second element. Once you learn the format it's second nature, really.

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.

Having done a lot of coffees I'd say "yes" is overlooked as a possible worst thing that could happen.

I admit I feel a tiny sense of superiority when I don't press the crosswalk buttons in SF. There are some that actually need to be pressed but they're different: instead of a button they have a little touch sensor and make a very pleasing chirp.

The context is recognition and promotions. Sounds to me like they meant within the company.

I think it would help if people knew why 90 seconds is the goal: because the real danger in a plane crash isn't the crash, it's the post-crash fire. I'm speaking generally of course. For something like Sioux City for example (total loss of hydraulics/controls), the crash is obviously catastrophic. But even in that case, the post-crash fire added to the death toll significantly.

I don't think passengers realize this. No sane airline would ever mention it in a passenger briefing. Can you imagine? "P.S. If we crash, get off right away or you'll be burned alive." Never gonna happen. But it's the truth, and it's why getting the f* off the plane as fast as humanly possible after a crash will save your life—and the lives of all the people who can't get off until you do because they're stuck behind you.

That's the other thing I don't think people realize. Grabbing your bag may take you two seconds, big whoop. But what if two seconds is the difference between life and death for the person thirty people behind you in line out the door? You just killed that person.

"Transients and residents live in the same areas, but avoid each other." Not so different from humans, then.