Re: "it was a common skill"
> I was at university before I really got the hang of undoing them by feel.
Oh! When first I read this, I presumed you were undoing them by feet, and was going to comment you for your feetal skills!
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Hitherto, my only knowledge of JetBrains has been its rather excellent Mono font, available from them and Google Fonts, and undoubtedly elsewhere.
It includes nearly 140 code ligatures, 8 weights each with italics, and support for 145 languages - whether you need these features or not!
> The customer thought they were paying for principled consultants but the supplier actually supplied principal consultants instead. So no wonder the council was screwed.
Back in the days when Managers had secretaries to do their typing, our dubious IT Manager advertised for a "Principle Secretary".
We minions were much amused by this, arguing that it would be a Good Thing, since demonstrably he had no principles of his own.
> LibreOffice is the only open source office suite for personal productivity which can be compared feature-by-feature with the market leader.
The absence of an Outlook equivalent is the major reason why I don't convert to LibreOffice.
Anyone else agree?
Over very many years, many people in the UK have cheerfully donated desk space and electricity to host a Sam Knows "white box" router, interposed between their ordinary router and the rest of their home network. All they have received in return is the ability to look up online all those useful network stats mentioned in the article.
Are people likely to continue with this now that Cisco has taken over Sam Knows?
Will Cisco provide any form of adequate compensation, if they want to continue the same arrangement?
Obviously a case of history repeating itself!
But you could have made the link clickable...
> I'm pretty sure they could add a separate subscription level where you pay $x/mth not to bug you with adverts etc
What are these adverts of which you speak? Using a decent advert blocker restricts adverts to those deliberately inserted by the content-creator in a YouTube video, for example. (In fact the only example, since I can't think of anywhere else...)
I arrived at the start of a narrow one-way street in Beverley during what passes for its rush hour, looking for my B&B. [The one-way system in Beverley can easily mean a ten-minute drive back to where you began, should you make a mistake.]
Half-way down the street there were two signs proclaiming <Guest House>, but with no obvious entrance.
Having squeezed the car onto the pavement, I got out and phoned the owner of the B&B, only to find that it was located another 50 metres down the one-way street, and was identically labelled <Guest House>.
Clearly neither of the two house owners wished to give up the prestigious name, and presumably all the delivery-persons knew of this duplication.
And also those who had been once before...
> A company having two teams working on the same thing without being aware of each other's existence?
Indeed - this happened to me when I was part of the Network Team of $Fred'sLargeBankPLC, which team covered mainly the southern and middle part of England. Quite by chance, we suddenly became aware of a parallel team which covered the more northern part of the UK, and of whom we had never previously heard!
Perhaps we should have been more inquisitive, but we had a lot of work to do, and thinking outside the job was frowned upon...