I think this is an eggcorn/mondegreen for “all of a sudden”. Seems weird for the WSJ.
We write away the status part of our syncs. Just write it down, we don’t need to hear it. One thing we used at the last two companies I worked at was what we call SWATH—something I invented for reasons of corporate…
Vaccines!
I’ve been through this a few times over the last many years. In one case, joining a team with 3–4 people who have been with a product for 10+ years. And the product was much, much older than that. I would treat it the…
Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. It’s probably smart to browse his other titles, Tufte is the Knuth of his field.
Use YouTube and set them to be private.
Can I see it?
Not the GP, but I read "Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion" by Jay Heinrichs this year, and consider it an excellent intro to classical rhetoric.
I moved from OSX to Linux-only laptop in 2012. I'd intended to dual-boot, but re-installing Windows[1], even by itself, was much, much more pain than I expected; I eventually gave up on it. Go figure. Linux having poor…
There was a good popularization of this (or similar) technology on NOVA Science Now: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0302/02.html Definitely cool stuff. That different artists have "signature" styles seems…
Basically what's going on is this, but with lists: 3 + 5 = X? X = 8 3 + X = 8? X = 5 5 + X = 8? X = 3 In most programming languages, you can't infer a parameter by specifying a result. (Though that's not strictly what's…
In this case, the password field doesn't hold just a password, or a rot13 of a password, or even a digest of a password. user_password is a concatenated md5 hash of user_id, a hyphen (-), and md5 hash of current…
Especially after the people next to it figure out that nobody's actually watching the feed. At this point, it's probably trivial to make it go past everybody every few days just to scare people, right? That's the…
They don't withhold the product from people who want it. They withhold it from people who want it for "free" (ignoring FOX, and NBC's (or whoever's) billion dollar deals to show the NFL on their networks). They have a…
You're mistaking the first term of university with the University™ that everyone else is talking about retrospectively. What they mean by University™ is usually "the last 2 years of university". Year one, if your…
Perhaps I should have been more clear: The downvoting of the joke was expected. The massive upvoting of the snarky "oh, snap" comments that followed, is what was surprising. You are supposed to upvote intelligent…
Neither Stallman nor Torvalds are scrambling to pay rent. So it depends if you want to be "well off" (Stallman), "obscenely rich" (Torvalds), "shockingly rich" (Jobs), or "embarassingly rich" (Gates). And I think that…
Where'd you get 25K? I did similar work out there in 2006 (I was at Abu Ghraib) in a similar role, and I didn't make 25K a month. I made four, with no OT, and I got a pretty nice contract-ending bonus. For the record, I…
I think this is an eggcorn/mondegreen for “all of a sudden”. Seems weird for the WSJ.
We write away the status part of our syncs. Just write it down, we don’t need to hear it. One thing we used at the last two companies I worked at was what we call SWATH—something I invented for reasons of corporate…
Vaccines!
I’ve been through this a few times over the last many years. In one case, joining a team with 3–4 people who have been with a product for 10+ years. And the product was much, much older than that. I would treat it the…
Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. It’s probably smart to browse his other titles, Tufte is the Knuth of his field.
Use YouTube and set them to be private.
Can I see it?
Not the GP, but I read "Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion" by Jay Heinrichs this year, and consider it an excellent intro to classical rhetoric.
I moved from OSX to Linux-only laptop in 2012. I'd intended to dual-boot, but re-installing Windows[1], even by itself, was much, much more pain than I expected; I eventually gave up on it. Go figure. Linux having poor…
There was a good popularization of this (or similar) technology on NOVA Science Now: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0302/02.html Definitely cool stuff. That different artists have "signature" styles seems…
Basically what's going on is this, but with lists: 3 + 5 = X? X = 8 3 + X = 8? X = 5 5 + X = 8? X = 3 In most programming languages, you can't infer a parameter by specifying a result. (Though that's not strictly what's…
In this case, the password field doesn't hold just a password, or a rot13 of a password, or even a digest of a password. user_password is a concatenated md5 hash of user_id, a hyphen (-), and md5 hash of current…
Especially after the people next to it figure out that nobody's actually watching the feed. At this point, it's probably trivial to make it go past everybody every few days just to scare people, right? That's the…
They don't withhold the product from people who want it. They withhold it from people who want it for "free" (ignoring FOX, and NBC's (or whoever's) billion dollar deals to show the NFL on their networks). They have a…
You're mistaking the first term of university with the University™ that everyone else is talking about retrospectively. What they mean by University™ is usually "the last 2 years of university". Year one, if your…
Perhaps I should have been more clear: The downvoting of the joke was expected. The massive upvoting of the snarky "oh, snap" comments that followed, is what was surprising. You are supposed to upvote intelligent…
Neither Stallman nor Torvalds are scrambling to pay rent. So it depends if you want to be "well off" (Stallman), "obscenely rich" (Torvalds), "shockingly rich" (Jobs), or "embarassingly rich" (Gates). And I think that…
Where'd you get 25K? I did similar work out there in 2006 (I was at Abu Ghraib) in a similar role, and I didn't make 25K a month. I made four, with no OT, and I got a pretty nice contract-ending bonus. For the record, I…