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Yes. I believe I have stood out and have been hired in some job applications relating to PHP/Yii because of a popular extension I contributed to the framework.


Wanted to buy new a Microsoft Wireless Laser Desktop 5000 Keyboard, but no luck. Best keyboard I have ever used. The mouse was also very good.


Also, this video: Can you spot the drowning child?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/parenting/69540825/can-yo...


This video actually shows the Hollywood styled drowning. It can look a lot different from this, and I suspect that’s what the original article is about, though it’s currently unavailable so who knows.

People who are drowning can look like they are just floating, or sitting in the water, with their heads barely sticking out and no splashing, yelling or any sort of alarming thing going on. The reason for this is that they are dog paddling in an upright position, but rarely get their mouths and noses out of the water. They can be in this situation for quite a while before they actually drown, with no real visible signs.

We’re a costal nation(Denmark) and each year tourists drown. It’s especially tragic when children drown 10-15 meters from their parents that never noticed something was wrong.

If anyone especially children is dead quiet in the water you definitely have to check if they are ok.


TFA was about instinctive drowning response [1], which seems (to my amateur eye) to be what’s happening in that video.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinctive_drowning_response


Can relate. I 'stayed awake at night' when I had to write a program to calculate salaries.


Ha! I once wrote a program to calculate commission for the sales people at our company. I remember the director telling me he would love my numbers to be true, but thought it best I had another look. Fat fingered decimals could have resulted in some expensive commissions!


And you can download everything from Google with Takeout:

https://takeout.google.com


You can subset the font with Fontello.

http://fontello.com


Never forget João Alves, the Brazilian politician who had won part of 200 lotteries, because, as he said, "God helped me, and I made money".

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/30/world/new-government-corru...


In Spain politician Carlos Fabra won more than 2 million euros in several lotteries, now is in jail and being investigated for corruption. It's famous in Spain for that and for having built an airport that it's empty with almost no flights at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castell%C3%B3n%E2%80%93Costa_A...


Someone posted this on Twitter: "Alarm from JP Gov. 'A missile was fired from North Korea. Please evacuate to a sturdy building or basement.'"

https://twitter.com/Chihokomoriya/status/902276766705664000


[OT] And since you're there, try their "yoursky" tool:

https://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/


Saying this because I didn't know it for years: Fourmilab isn't a "they", it's just the personal website of John Walker, the founder of Autodesk and a fantastically interesting person. Not to be confused with "fermilab" of course, which is a United States national lab that does high-energy particle physics.

There are a ton of very interesting things on his site, including a DIY RNG that uses a radioactive source and an event counter: https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/hardware.html

I wonder if anyone else has built a similar device to this, it seems like it'd be very popular among hackers.


uncss[0] works well for me. It removes the unused styles and then I run the css through a minifier to finish the job. The css filesize is greatly reduced.

[0] https://github.com/giakki/uncss


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