drb311

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Managing editor at Packt.

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Comment · 7 years ago
In the UK you can sign up for a Gmail account without any other contact info - just an unverified name and date of birth. Is this different elsewhere?
Comment · 7 years ago
Britain First is not for or against any religion. It's for traditional white British culture against anything new or brown. They're full of hate.

They should be allowed to speak but they ain't borrowing my megaphone. Good on Facebook for feeling the same (at last).

Comment · 8 years ago
Yes it originated hundreds of millions of years ago. And this new research indicates it was probably in China. (The land not the civilisation.)
Comment · 8 years ago
The article is saying that all yeast originated in the area we now call China, long before any civilisation appeared there.

It's not saying the Chinese invented it. The Chinese might have been the first to find a use for it. But that's not what this article is about.

Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
Nailed it.
Comment · 9 years ago
>>Hey Jane, I need your input on how to prioritize my current work. Can you provide guidance on where I should focus?

>>Bug XYZ was assigned to me and it's taking longer to complete because we have a dependency on Vendor ABC completing a change to their web service. This is impacting the commitment to my team on Feature 123 because we are near the end of our sprint.

>>Lemme know.

Yes

Comment · 9 years ago
The key is:

1. Reply now

2. Do the best you can in the time you can spare

It's email. If people need more they can ask for it.

At least now they know you'll reply.

Comment · 9 years ago
Just get rid of the dialpad and let us use the keyboard to dial numbers. Google Keyboard already has a dialpad-style layout and you can choose to centre it or move it to the left or right thumbzone.

We already use the keyboard to type numbers and it works much better than a full screen dial pad.

Comment · 9 years ago
How often are P&T's guessed solutions better than the real ones?
Comment · 10 years ago
> the old Paint

That's not the old Paint, that's the new Paint!

Comment · 10 years ago
"I see people put their forks, etc, on tables"

What? If you can't put your forks on the table where can you put them?

I always put my fork on the table, that's what the tables for.

How do you lay your table?!

Comment · 10 years ago
If you really wanted to test the five second rule, you'd have to be broader. Who is overall better off?

1. The person who NEVER eats food off the floor 2. The person will ALWAYS eats food off the floor 3. The person who follows the 5-second rule

I wouldn't be surprised if the 5 second rule gives its followers a net benefit. You're slightly more likely to get sick, but you waste less food and live a less paranoid life.

I'm sticking with it, but not for watermelon.

Comment · 10 years ago
Steven I'm managing editor at Packt. Thank you for publishing your book with us.

If you want to publish your next work yourself or with another publisher just mail us and ask. I'm sure we wouldn't enforce that clause against your will.

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