> So...what's an ounce a twelfth of? It's a twelfth of a troy pound, or Roman libra (lb). These two episodes from The History of English podcast trace these seemingly arbitrary units through history and give them some…
Schemes for international geocoding really shouldn't shrug off this altitude problem. When you say third floor, are you using 0-indexing, or 1-indexed floors as in the US?
Impressive response to the HealthCare.gov fiasco: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18F Some other interesting projects here: https://github.com/18f
Cumulative time wasted using 'Command+[': none. Cumulative time wasted due to overloading of the backspace key: hours. Relying on current context to determine the behavior of backspace was a terrible idea from the…
> So...what's an ounce a twelfth of? It's a twelfth of a troy pound, or Roman libra (lb). These two episodes from The History of English podcast trace these seemingly arbitrary units through history and give them some…
Schemes for international geocoding really shouldn't shrug off this altitude problem. When you say third floor, are you using 0-indexing, or 1-indexed floors as in the US?
Impressive response to the HealthCare.gov fiasco: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18F Some other interesting projects here: https://github.com/18f
Cumulative time wasted using 'Command+[': none. Cumulative time wasted due to overloading of the backspace key: hours. Relying on current context to determine the behavior of backspace was a terrible idea from the…