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The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle featured a fictionalised version of a Pinkerton agent.

I was just about to write a comment saying that it would be more consistent with the other markup to have: @{ground black pepper}.

Many years ago I built some software to allow people with cerebral palsy to use a computer. I did not get paid and it was not used by thousands of people (as far as I know) - but what made it impactful for me was that I got to see the delight of the people who hadn't been able to access a computer and who were then able to access one.

I love the map. I love the responsiveness. I have done things with Leaflet and geoJSON and have always wanted to do hexagons. How did you convert the temperature data to hexagons? Or, more specifically, create the tesselation of hexagons? (I would like to do something similar for Australia where I live)

As a corollary:

“A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.” - Alan Perlis

> Best way to deliver software is to have a handful of capable people and pay them well and get out of their way.

That is the gist of one of the essays in The Mythical Man Month mentioned in the parent.

It looks impressive. I am just wondering if it supports NetCDF (or if it is in the roadplan). In particular, things like pcolormesh and displaying grids on a map.

Yes. That book has probably shaped my thinking and coding more than any of the others above (although they are also very good).

This seems to work for me:

1. This is your time to talk about whatever is on your mind. If you want to talk about the footy over the weekend, that's fine. If you want to talk about work or issues at home or career progression, that's fine.

2. Sometimes there is not much to talk about - and that's fine too. If they do not have much to say on a particular day and I don't have much to say, it's a short meeting.

3. As said previously, try never to reschedule and never, never forget.

4. It's a really good time as a manager to practice listening. For that reason, I never have an agenda (i.e. things I want to say) at these meetings. Also, I try to contain the impulse to give advice unless they specifically ask for it.

5. I make it quite clear that as far as legally possible, I will maintain confidentiality. The only time that something may be relayed upward is if there is requirement for me to do so (e.g. an employee reporting harassment).

What does the prisoner do if she gets to, for example, box 40 and there is a 40 in the box?

[edit] I reread the explanation and get it now. Only 1 prisoner (40) will actually get to open box 40. I was trying to think of this from the point of view of implementing it in code. I guess the cycle stops when a prisoner finds their own number or reaches 50 attempts.

Photo albums and photographs. If they are all digital, you're lucky, take any backup drives with photos on them (i.e. photos of family and friends)

I have been using this to teach my two daughters (10 and 14) geometry. Would love to find more sites like this that make teaching maths fun. I do, however, give them hints on how to solve the puzzles and explain the theory of how it works.

Some advantages of web apps is that they are multi-platform out of the box, don't require any setup or admin privileges and don't require installing dependencies (e.g. the link you point to, while looking like a really great product, depends on gtk).