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 Discussion on question by Niranjan: I…

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OJFord
Apr 24, 2022 19:45
"दामले, मो. के." - an aside, but (as a student of Hindi) it hadn't occurred to me that initials in Devanagari give more information than in English! Obvious in hindsight of course, and perhaps not even interesting, since that is just the character. Mandarin offers even more. But then really the transliteration should have been 'Daamle, Mo. Ke.' - 'M. K.' is veering into translation!
 

 Discussion on answer by Pete L. Clark…

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OJFord
Oct 30, 2021 17:38
I wasn't sure whether to +1 for the laughs at "Holy Grail or some other famous cup", or to -1 for the wrath I shall surely face after awakening the whole floor just now with hoots of laughter.. In the end I decided -1+1=0, but +1 for the patient advice.
 

 Discussion on question by john c. j.:…

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OJFord
Jun 14, 2020 19:07
What sort of technical writing? Generally as a reader, I'd prefer a table than bullet points like this, however you phrase it.
 

 Discussion on answer by Nigel J: Is t…

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OJFord
Mar 10, 2018 18:04
It's not archaic; nor solely humourous, I believe it's a standard term (including in signage, for example) in the British army.
 

 Discussion on question by GoatsWearHa…

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Oliver Ford
Mar 15, 2017 13:09
The second certainly is inelegant - but it's not due to a lack of German, it's due to the pains you took to exactly translate it in-place. Why mention 'of others' only to immediately follow it by exactly one other 'friend'? "I experienced immense pleasure at my friend's misfortune, as he slipped on a banana peel."
Oliver Ford
Mar 15, 2017 13:09
This could have been answered simply by consulting an English dictionary.
 

 Discussion on question by sysfiend: S…

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Ollie Ford
Feb 5, 2017 21:53
"I guessed the password by seeing my boss slowly typing on the keyboard" - is that really guessing?
 

 Discussion on question by je_b: What …

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Ollie Ford
Jan 12, 2017 01:08
"I am staring [sic] to think" - who let Freud in?
 

 Discussion on question by Kaito Kid: …

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Ollie Ford
Jan 11, 2017 14:50
@luk32 My reading is that the exams are each for different courses, for which they constitute 35% or more - the rest being coursework I assume, or perhaps a 'midterm' exam.
 

 Discussion on answer by Thorsten S.: …

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Ollie Ford
Oct 23, 2016 17:46
That's a daft argument. Either way, rounding in that direction compounds the error. But as I said - it's moot since this is about UK to USA, and both countries use mph.
Ollie Ford
Oct 23, 2016 17:46
Oh. I forgot the USA used mph too. In that case, there's no conversion necessary. We use mph in the UK too. My point was not that signs say 62mph, but that in Europe they may say 100kph; in which case if you only have an mph dial (older car) then you should stick to 60 in such a zone, 65 would be speeding. But regardless, no conversion necessary for OP.
Ollie Ford
Oct 23, 2016 17:46
Dodgy rounding! 100kph = 62mph - so on your suggestion of 65mph, I'm speeding.
 

 Discussion on answer by MealyPotatoes…

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Ollie Ford
Apr 21, 2016 20:16
@Mehrdad I didn't say "all" - of course there are elec/mech/civil engineering jobs not involving any code too. I only pointed out that this question is specifically about "programming job"s, and that most certainly does not exclude EEs, MEs, or CEs.
Ollie Ford
Apr 21, 2016 20:16
@Mehrdad Not only is much of the work in elec/mech/civil engineering coding, but OP explicitly asks - in the title even - "in a programming job".
 

 Discussion on answer by Adriano Repet…

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Ollie Ford
Nov 11, 2015 05:10
Talk of usage by the visually impaired reminds me of a different kind of 'touch' screen.. www3.imperial.ac.uk/pls/portallive/docs/1/31449705.PDF
 

 Discussion on question by Anonymous: …

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Ollie Ford
Nov 5, 2015 01:24
@gnometorule That's common in the UK too; perhaps, I think, not so across the atlantic. In mathematical formulae, I mean - not 'normal' written text.
 

 Discussion on question by SE13013: Fe…

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Ollie Ford
Jun 30, 2015 02:02
I think your main problem is your mindset: you have been working! Your work doesn't have to have been commissioned or even still be online (though it would be beneficial if it were, perhaps within a single 'portfolio' site) to relevantly fill the gap. If I were you, I would simply put "2003-05: ABC Ltd.; 2005-15: Remained up to date with <stacks/languages> hobbyist projects", and optionally explain that it was illness keeping you out of formal work in a cover letter.
 

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Ollie Ford
Feb 26, 2015 16:29
@terdon Yep, and nothing from grep PATH /etc/profile
Ollie Ford
Feb 26, 2015 15:09
agh.. 'fixed' it by creating a symlink in /usr/bin.. why didn't I think of that 2h ago.. clearly coffee time.
Ollie Ford
Feb 26, 2015 15:02
But my PATH is longer, and includes /usr/texbin - the PATH spit out by brew with -v does not
Ollie Ford
Feb 26, 2015 15:01
@Braiam Yup, like I said if I do latex myself in bash or sh or zsh it's fine
Ollie Ford
Feb 26, 2015 14:51
Not too sure where to ask this, but hoping someone here can help. A brew install is failing because "sh: latex: command not found", but if I manually do latex at an sh prompt, it's fine. Running brew install again with -v, I see that it has a different, shorter $PATH, without /usr/texbin on it. But how can I edit that PATH? I'm not sure where it's coming from.
Ollie Ford
Dec 8, 2014 18:08
thanks
Ollie Ford
Dec 8, 2014 18:08
Ah awesome
Ollie Ford
Dec 8, 2014 18:07
@Braiam Ah so it should just be file1 directly followed by file2?
Ollie Ford
Dec 8, 2014 18:07
It looks kinda like obj code, but malformed somehow.. did cat just take it as a second file?
Ollie Ford
Dec 8, 2014 18:06
i.e. I did cat file ./exec
Ollie Ford
Dec 8, 2014 18:06
I just accidentally cat'd a file, but missed the pipe to an executable - what's all the junk I'm seeing?
 

 Discussion on answer by tchrist: Why …

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Ollie Ford
Sep 19, 2014 07:25
"I don't do that!!" mouths some words from list "Oh."