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I'm currently considering going to law school. I could spend my time with drunk drivers, bitter divorcees and suspected murderers. It would be far more rewarding than working with shitty software and social-maladjusted programmers. I do worry that my personal code of ethics might be too flexible and self-serving even for legal work ( Read more... )

Christ, Adobe Acrobat is a pain in the arse.

I'm trying to work with it using Javascript. It has a built-in Javascript engine, with a bunch of objects for interacting with documents and menus. The API is horrible, and the console for interacting with it is also rancid.

Consider this snippet from the Acrobat API reference:

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I've had a piece of paper on my desk for the last week or two that I've been scribbling on without any real purpose.


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I want to know what my monthly pay actually is, after tax, so that I can plan stuff. Unfortunately, for the last couple of months, I haven't actually had my normal monthly pay, thus making it hard to be sure what it should be. I know roughly, but meh ( Read more... )

M*: Oh yes, I was saying goodbye as the tooth fairy.

Hmm.

... are now off, with suspected possible Pig Death (as they have named it).

Hmmm.

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Work-related question.

Things like Digg and del.icio.us, for letting people rate/recommend blog posts. Are they any good? Are they worth using? Are there any such sites that are better than the others?

Obviously, they can rate and recommend other things too. It's blog posts I'm thinking of specifically, though.

I need to use Konqueror for some website testing, and so I decided to download Knoppix to do so. On their website, they proudly announce:

The following "Highlights" are available on the download version of this Debian-based (www.debian.org) CD or DVD ( Read more... )