deadmansshoes | 3 years ago | on: On leaving Mapbox after 12 years
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deadmansshoes | 13 years ago | on: Why American Eggs Would Be Illegal In A British Supermarket, And Vice Versa
deadmansshoes | 13 years ago | on: Fizzbuzz, Interviews, And Overthinking
pip install fizzbuzz
And then: import fizzbuzz
print fizzbuzz.fizzbuzz()
Or for the second solution: print fizzbuzz.fizzbuzzbazz()deadmansshoes | 13 years ago | on: Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass
"I don't have the resources to take on a branch of a large multi-national corporation operating in a distant country" - doesn't really cut it when the contact page and number can be found on the Internet in 2 seconds of searching.
deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: What really happened aboard Air France 447
02:08:03 (Robert) Tu peux éventuellement le tirer un peu à gauche. You can eventually pull it a little to the left.
Eventuellement is not the French equivalent of the English. It should be "You could pull a little to the left." Many sentences read like a straight copy and paste from Google Translate.
deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: You Are the Average of Your Five Closest Friends
I believe the talented Mr Ripley used this strategy to good effect. There's a saying about never trust anyone who doesn't have at least one friend left from childhood.
deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: Immigrant entrepreneur arrested to meet quotas
deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: The Missed Red Flags on Groupon
deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: Occupy George
I can see how reducing the cost of items or services can make more people "wealthy" - such as being able to buy a second car. But reducing costs normally means reducing wages meaning the owners get richer, and the manual jobs disappear.
deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: Occupy George
If you restore a car and then sell it to someone that needs a car then surely there is someone else who has sold one less car. The same principle applies to crop prices when all the farmers have a bountiful year.
Surely the reason that wealth has grown, is that the human population has grown - creating more needs and desires, and more workers to meet them.
deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: Hire For The Ability To Get Shit Done
deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: Latitude doesn’t exactly mean what I thought
deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: Digg/Delicious Traffic Down 40%. Social Bookmarking Fragmentation
deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: Estimate your English vocabulary size
Also some definitions you can guess at - do these count as part of your vocabulary or not? E.g. Clerisy, can be easily deduced to be the class of clerics, but not sure if I'd be able to say if it was a real word or not.
deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: Wi-Fi–Hacking Neighbor From Hell Sentenced to 18 Years
In a PDF linked from the article, it is stated that the mother had her back to Ardolf, and heard a "wet kiss."
Ardolf then admitted to the father of the child he kissed him on the lips.
My point is that accusing your new neighbour of being a paedophile on that basis could, if innocent of the charges, be a strong motivator for revenge.
deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: Wi-Fi–Hacking Neighbor From Hell Sentenced to 18 Years
He sounds like a psychopath, but if he was labelled a paedophile in the neighbourhood based on the statement of a 4 year old (or did the parents witness the incident?), then it's understandable there was retaliation.
deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: User testing in the wild: he has never used a computer
deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: What hackers can learn from Djokovic
deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: Calling Bullshit on Unpaid Interships
deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: Calling Bullshit on Unpaid Interships
Vector tiles, Mapbox GL, and Mapbox styling, and numerous other libraries however did grow out of Mapbox - the amount of geospatial developer talent they hoovered up must have made it pretty amazing to work at for a time.