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Stop blaming engineers for stupid policies. Engineers usually have no say, this is almost always thought up by some manager or PM somewhere.

It's a merit badge now https://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Cooking

And apparently has always been

The Cooking merit badge was one of the original 57 merit badges issued by the Boy Scouts of America in 1911.

Hey, my dad was aboard that one.

That's... not what labor laws cover.

These ships also have an electronics engineer aboard to take care of such stuff. That's aside from the usual team of marine engineers handling the heavy equipment. In this context, the electronics engineer handles everything from the office equipment to the deck cranes. The engineering team handles the actual engines. They kinda step on each other handling the smaller equipment around the engines (steam plants, pumps, etc -- yes they have steam plants).

And they have excellent machine shops. I expect a consumer joystick to be a) simple to fix and b) cheap and small, so plenty of spares on board.

Source: sailed aboard oil tankers.

My side project is a specialty, niche application for speech pathology and audiology courses at major universities. So, traffic is driven by word-of-mouth (all the people in charge of these programs form a community, go to conferences, etc). And then the people involved in the courses are required to use this app. It tracks their progress towards course completion.

Edit: And yeah, it made me, personally, > 1000/month last year. That's after my X% cut of gross. There are < 10 people involved.

It's true, the industry does "blow" and the biggest carriers offer... nothing good.

I made a course and documentation management, and grading system for speech pathology students. Netted me >12k last year (before tax).

At work, I had a spreadsheet. Technical people, coders even, had a hard time finding the solution: convert to CSV, cut -f, awk print, in order to tack a hostname onto a column with relative HTTP paths. (No error checking required.)

Yep. My old phone used to plug in on USB, show up as a disk, I can use standard tools to copy the pics and vids. New phone, no of course not. Progress. Feh.

Clue: Everyone is not itunes compliant! Grr!

That's the Golden Gate Bridge, which is shorter and has ped/bike lanes (separate from traffic, IIRC).

The Bay Bridge's western span has no such thing.

WordPress is the PHP of web frameworks....

I'll be in the corner.

Mumbai/Bombay Calcutta/Kolkota Madras/Chennai

"Phototransistor IR Chip Silicon NPN Transistor 2-Pin T-1" is a great name for a part that a human somewhere needs to read and understand what it's for. If that were a piece of Computer code it might be better off being named:

Silicon::Chip::Transistor::NPN::Photo::IR

and then 2-pin and T-1 might be properties on it.

The key word here might be "namespacing". Or it might be something else.

I like TT-RSS. It has that mark-read-on-scroll thing as well as next/previous article by arrow keys (or k/j) thing. Awesome sauce.

Most of this is about advanced git features, Simple features are simple (checkin/out, push/pull, simpler branching). Which is 80% of what you need, and probably 99% of what you need most of the time.

I can use them to do math

Mostly just multiplication and division by 2,4,8,16,32....

Yay! We use padrino. Yay!

In India, car dealerships are called showrooms. Read that as "ex-dealer", or "from the dealer". It's just a straight Latin-to-English thing.

It's the freaking Bay Area/Silicon Valley. $65-75k is entry-level.

I did not know sort had a -h. I've been doing du -sc|sort -n. Thanks!

I wanted to forward this to someone non-technical (a product manager, actually the CEO of this tiny startup I help with) and found myself explaining the yoda conditional, and then I wrote stuff about spectacular versus subtle failure, and the whole thing turned into a small blog post: http://www.thesatya.com/blog/2012/08/yoda_conditions.html