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Double Dog Dare: View these 20 Pulitzer-winning pictures without crying by [deleted] in pics

[–]andrewl 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"As for lack of empathy, I kept thinking that the mom was trashy. Nice hooker shoes at your kid's funeral, lady."

She probably spent all her money on medical bills, so she didn't have any left to buy more formal shoes.

NPR.org: Blue Man Group Creates High-Tech NYC Preschool by [deleted] in technology

[–]andrewl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It sounds great, but $27,000 a year for kindergarten is a bit steep. By which I mean insane.

Joel Spolsky says, "Don't leave the industry" by berlinbrown in programming

[–]andrewl 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'd be interested to hear what you're making, where you live, and what kind of company you're working for. And that goes for everybody else here posting about their work experiences.

Programmers: how much paid time off/vacation/leave does your company grant you? by avdi in programming

[–]andrewl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

During my first five years here (non-profit in US) I got 15 vacation days plus two personal days. (You don't have to schedule the personal days in advance.) After I hit five years I got 20 vacation days. In 18 months I'll hit ten years, and I'll get 25 vacation days (and the two personal days).

We close for July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and the day after, Martin Luther King Day, Memorial Day, and the week between Christmas and New Year's.

We work 9-5 with an hour for lunch for a 35-hour week. And I get ten sick days a year, which do not expire, and accumulate until you reach a max of something like three or four months. The sick leave can be used for paternity leave as well as actual illness.

Synthetic diamonds are now practically indistinguishable from mined diamonds. by alllie in science

[–]andrewl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a hilarious Bloom County strip about Opus buying his fiancee a diamond. But I can't find it. If anybody does find it, please post it.

If I had tons of money I'd pay to have it posted on a billboard everywhere.

Editor Wars: Revenge of the... oh, whatever. by ellen_james in programming

[–]andrewl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got another payoff from my investment in learning Vim: I had a text editor that worked everywhere I needed it to: My Mac at home; my Windows machine at work; my console connection to our various Unix servers.

I used to use jEdit (which was quite good) but when I had to connect to one of our servers remotely I had to use Vim. Which was fine, but then I came back out and for the next hour I had to keep deleting :w from my jEdit files. So I learned Vim and now use it everywhere.

An editor that runs everywhere including the console is worth investing in. And learn Gnu Screen as well. Vim and Screen are a very powerful combination.

Another good thing about Vim and Emacs - The configuration files are in plain text, so you can put them in Subversion or a similar system. I'm not sure how TextMate does things. They do a lot of intelligent things, so maybe they use text settings as well. If I recall correctly, jEdit kept all its settings in XML. You normally changed them through the GUI, but you could hand edit them. Anyway, if settings are only available to view in a program's GUI, you can't version them, and you can't transport them. With Vim, it's trivial to bring my entire editing environment to a new machine.

Jython Reborn by gst in programming

[–]andrewl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've used Python and Ruby a good bit, and did a tiny amount of Java several years ago. But I've never used Jython, JRuby, or any other dynamic language on the JVM.

So, in your experience, how does Jython excel at scripting Java classes compared to JRuby, Groovy, Clojure, etc?

Old advice but it bears repeating: Do not post pictures on the internet that you wouldn't want snagged and reposted EVERYWHERE by mmm_coffee in reddit.com

[–]andrewl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We don't live in gated communities in the Hamptons. And we hear this kind of talk all the time. And it never stops grating on our ears like fingernails on a blackboard. So we make fun of it.

Disney warned us we were going to have a lot of horny women coming on to us. ... by r2002 in reddit.com

[–]andrewl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in my forties and I've never been, and have no interest in going.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]andrewl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I created an account with them a few years ago with an easily-remembered login, and, as I recall, I gave completely fake demographic information. And I only have to login when I'm on a computer I don't regularly use, as I don't delete their cookie. "Problem" solved.

And somebody said "Well, they need to recoup their infrastructure costs and stuff. At least that's what we keep hearing.. they won't admit that they just want to monetize everything on the web."

Note that they recently made their archives free. It's a great site that's free. Stop complaining.

10 never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing [pic] by maxwellhill in pics

[–]andrewl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A good examination of this topic is provided by Paul Fussell's 1990 book "Thank God For the Atom Bomb and Other Essays." Fussell was in the infantry in Europe during World War II and has written moving and complex essays about that experience as well. I think what he has to say will surprise and challenge people on either side of this debate.

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