niccaluim

Right. So, professional journalists with experience, and who are anything but anonymous.

3) Experience is a series of non-fatal mistakes.

Not everything is a financial metaphor.

They're probably forbidden from speaking publicly about this by their PR people, no matter whether it's positive or negative.

Unfortunately the law is implemented by regular ol' people who are given quite a bit of discretion.

I like metric as much as the next guy but you can pry knots from my cold, dead hands.

Sincerely,

An aviator and sailor

Yes, by all means, ask for what you're worth. My point is that money is almost never the reason people decide to start looking for work elsewhere. A counter offer by itself is sort of an empty gesture that is bound to be ineffective in the long run as a retention tool.

Counter offers are a little silly. People in our industry are already making far above the median, which makes it extremely unlikely that money is the motivation behind resignation. More often it's a bad manager—there's a saying that people don't quit jobs; they quit bosses—uninteresting work, change in direction, or some other environmental factor. If you're going to make someone a counter-offer you should also be sure to address the real issue that caused them to want to leave in the first place, or they're just going to leave after a short time anyway.

When I was there I was taken into the VAB with a group. The SRBs for the next Shuttle launch were there. Nobody else was in there. "Security" consisted of a guy asking if I had any lighters or matches.

FWIW the Unicode spec describes combining marks as characters in their own right. So if the intent is to reverse characters, page 21 does the job. The resulting sequences will potentially be defective but not ill-formed.

That being said, an FAQ on combining characters points out that Unicode's definition of "character" may not match an end user's, and that it's best to use the word "grapheme" instead for clarity. (And that being said, if the typical end user knows what "grapheme" means, I'll eat my cat.)

So from a practical standpoint, it's best to make sure that any input to rev is in one of the composed normal forms.

(Incidentally, the proper sequence is <base character><combining character>…, not the other way around.)

I can't help but notice that this very website on which we are writing comments is beige. ;)

Good god, what on earth for?

The tweet graph database has a persistent edge count cache but it's not designed to handle posts or deletions any faster than a human can produce them.

And if the mere fact of the program's existence is classified? There's no way to respond without violating one of the oaths.

Well, sure, because American factories don't even exist in the first place. ;)

But if we're making happiness the measure, America doesn't even break into the top ten.