After all, both of you are so smart and accomplished
Nothing says you've “made it” like being able to afford a down payment. Besides, San Bruno is “up and coming,” and YouTube has an office there
Your 27-year-old CEO calls an ad-hoc all-hands meeting and regales about company culture and how your mission is to “kill e-mail because it’s broken.
(regale the honoured guests with a feast)
You order a vegan donut and very clearly ask the barista for three Splendas
You do the grunt work and analysis, and finish it just in time for him to breathe a sigh of relief and tell you what an “Excel ninja” you are
Your mind briefly drifts off, and you ask yourself
If you move to Austin, you could somehow get by
The whole room burst into an uproar of approval
cosmic rays, cosmic dust
had a jolly time
The IWC voted to uphold the ban on commercial whaling.
Under the unfailing aegis of law
antique book paper, antique furniture
A typically gritty performance by the British player
implant hope in the mind
A venerable statesman
The appropriation of parish funds
A parish church
He made himself indispensable to the parish priest
curtail one's holidays
proton accelerator
asymptotic slope
the bumpy road in front of my house caused by construction
We all showed deference to his skill
an outburst of profanity laughter
she had to bear the brunt of the criticisms
bore the brunt of the household chores
Don't ask such daft questions
teal dabble in the shallows
My grandfather loved to rove the countryside
Their profligate lifestyle resulted in bankruptcy
anatomy of a sale
anatomy and physiology
provisional account, provisional regulation
midway islands
Yamamoto planned to make the Americans weaken their defense by making the feint towards the American Aleutian islands
sue for peace
Once again the work of codebreaker was to be essential
codes revealed that the Aleutian attack was a sham
Midway was a perilously close run battle.
Never again would Japan be able to fight with a numerical advantage over the Americans
Second choice general Bernard Montgomery
Montgomery shatters the myths of Rommel
The ultimate war aim is spell out to Nazism, it's to be unconditional surrender
turning point
After the last-ditch defense of Moscow, Russian counter-attacks through the snows of winter have stemmed the tide of German conquest
The soft underbelly of the axis.
Improvisor, quick thinker
Montgomery was called the master of the set-piece
believed in painstaking planning and preparation
Rommel was summoned from sick leave to the battle
The effect of the British victory was electrifying
American and British force made amphibious landings in North Africa in Morocco
Vichy regime
Dwight Eisenhower
19,000 US marines and the naval force of three aircraft carriers made the first assault
The Americans landed unopposed
The bulk of the force were Canadian soldiers, nearly 1000 Canadians were killed and 1500 taken prisoner
There was poor reconnaissance and intelligence
The RAF
The experience of occupation whether harsh or benign
condemn those who acquiesced to their conquerors
(acquiesced in the ruling)
guerilla warfare
together with stragglers from the Red Army
(a straggle of cottages)
Slowly painfully drive tenacious Japanese from prepared positions
(a tenacious material, be tenacious of one's opinion)
Envoys to Beijing are scholars of realism, their fine minds applied to a delicate task: managing profitable relations with a deep-pocketed, unapologetic dictatorship
Officials say the purpose is to stamp out extremism
A hardliner transferred from Tibet, Mr Chen oversees a gulag into which perhaps a million Uighurs have been sent for “transformation-through-education”, many for indefinite periods without trial
China calls these measures vital after terrorist attacks carried out in recent years by Uighur fanatics
They also concede that some folk back home might have mixed feelings were they to learn that the Uighurs stand accused of terrorist leanings
“We have reached the end of the usefulness of that policy,” Mr Clinton mumbled
That fragility explains why once-meek governments are finding their voices
True: there are only 40 inmates in Guantánamo
the only signatory at the time of publication was Estonia
Turkey, which feels bonds of kinship with Uighurs, a Turkic people, was the only Muslim country to rebuke China at a recent meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva
International investors are growing jumpy about stakes in firms selling security kit used there
China agreed to designate fentanyl as a Controlled Substance
After all, a group like ISIS bases its brutality on the Quran
You're not permitted perform activities to undertake revenue generating business operations or activities to receive remuneration.
spurn sb.'s offers
spurn sb.'s affection
a military plot by disaffected elements in the army.
The World War Ⅱ provided the backdrop for the film
the Mediterranean has been overrun by tourists
he mustn't overrun his budget.
He was in an agony of remorse
Take precautions against fire!
The prime minister was supplanted by his rival.
Hot and arid conditions
America cannot afford to ignore China’s semiconductor ambitions. It cannot simply tame them
In survey after survey regarding GMOs, people are woefully unaware of the reality.
It's heterosexual, consensual, and not for procreation, so any disgust you might have about homosexuality or rape or birth defects is negated.
Cross breeding
That and the genetic diversity question, but if we can stop smallpox surely we can stop a new plant disease
where does all this magic fertilizer come from
Your definition of organic farming differs from the common vernacular
The Best Way to Sleep to Relieve the 7 Most Common Ailments
Follow the advice above and see if it helps you avoid some of the unintended perils of sleeping in the wrong position.
So long as Google keeps trying to cram its software for other platforms onto a tablet, it will continue to suffer the ignominy of failure.
Even today, the best fitness trackers have featherlight software built specifically for the efficient processing of biometric data
Emma tried to think of a ruse to get Paul out of the house
a stalemate between management and unions
Uh, sure. Who doesn't love a string quartet
I didn't know I'd be shackled with them for eternity.
shackled by old customs
censure a person for his selfishness
The opposition passed a vote of censure on the government.
This is a perilous hour for all of us.
The economy is in a perilous state
the rich tangy scent of pine needles
pined away and died
buoy light
the price is buoyed up by investors.
I let the water buoy up my weight.
Ricky Jay, who is perhaps the most gifted leight-of-hand artist alive, was performing magic with a deck of cards.
The trick is done simply by sleight of hand
turn out to be a clumsy sleight of hand
It all boils down to your D.N.A.
But it all kind of boils down to these basics of storage
In situations where you are aware that your intuition is lacking, adhere to abstract principles
Build up lists of tried-and-true principles throughout your career
PTY: pseudo-terminal
Avoid “conspicuous contribution” at all cost
Users are focused on their own specific use case, and you must counter this with a holistic and principled vision of the whole project
Junior engineers sometimes need a little more hand-holding, which usually means giving them more help with code examples and references
I’d rather read ten lines of verbose-but-understandable code than someone’s ninja-tastic one-liner that involves four nested ternaries
A pantry adjoins the kitchen.
sometimes the "Toggle Setting" title would get squished
They browbeat him into signing the document.
China is a populous nation in East Asia whose vast landscape encompasses grassland, desert, mountains, lakes, rivers and more than 14,000km of coastline
Some developers have a warped understanding of humility, what it means, why it’s valuable, and how to approach it
Said it wasn't worth antagonizing the Saudis
Are you trying to antagonize me?
pecking order
red-blooded Americans
The children are playing at seesaw
portugal
Life is often likened to a dream
scuba-diving
This doesn't mean that fraud has or will occur on your account and as always, you are not liable for fraudulent transactions when reported promptly
An assassination squad
An adherent substance
adherent to the Communist Party
Public clamor for more policemen on the beat
Learn wisdom by the folly of others
inconceivable folly
A cadre of professional managers
A tidy arrangement
She was a tidy little girl
enlist as a volunteer
enlist for military service
The tsar protected his personal prerogatives.
Don't be such a goody-goody!
tit for tat
(stunt coordinator, stunt girl, stunt wards)
an ill-fated expedition.
To espouse the idea of freedom
Edward had espoused the lady Grey
Wherever there is oppression, there is resistance.
Most often it severely impedes on the ability for low-mid level engineers to write good quality code as the complexity of refactoring the existing issues surpasses their skill level
spaghetti code
Risk-averse traditionalists/architects
Working with egotistic devs.
Saying that user growth and active users have been flat for the last six years and that the company’s enterprise product offering hasn't caught on
For those friends and colleagues impacted today, we’ll be providing severance and other benefits to support them in their transition
As for its funding situation, an Evernote representative insists that things are far from dire
The sensibility of a painter to color
A stalemate between management and unions
a covenant for mutual defense
They covenanted in loyalty to the king
They're cruel, they are bullies, they treat you like a pariah
A free-ranging dog is any dog that is not contained
Free-ranging dog
It sometimes overlaps with the polysemic term pariah dog.
unwilling to forgo dessert
you'll have to forgo alcohol
an outflow of foreign currency
Asbestos can be used to insulate a cooking stove
she is hangover
the affliction of a bereaved family
Don't inflict your ideas on me
a shin guard
Whether twinkling lights, life-size sleighs, or aprons illustrated with Mrs. Claus’s silhouette, holly-jolly tchotchkes made for export are a $5.6 billion industry in China
Even with a looming increase in those levies, to 25 percent on Jan. 1, retailers haven’t shifted their purchasing to other countries
Most Chinese don’t celebrate Christmas, which means there’s limited domestic demand for the town’s holiday baubles
She probably got tricked with dildo by someone
Small appliance
She kept a canary in a cage
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
She was very considerate you filming
The good news is, responsible journalists are the easiest to co-opt
Sure, when you first launch a business built using open source components, it’s important to grow the size of the platform and cater to your early adopters to drive initial success
So you might start off looking a little like Red Hat
When I started off, the sun was arising
deliver it as a service, or package it as an appliance
self-inflicted
Nafta: North American Free Trade Agreement
The charmless trading city of Yiwu in southern China doesn't have elves or snow, but it’s as close to Santa’s workshop as you can get outside the North Pole
Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PlanGrid
petty crime
lash out
(Then why'd you lash out at us)
Um, it can be frustrating at times.
Lousy cliches, a lousy trick
An island once owned by his forebears
Moderation in all things is my motto
as if she was scoping out who lives here.
He got a bit feisty by trying to hit me back.
A bogus insurance claim.
The plates have a gilt edge.
malnutrition
attempt to attain world domination
Water gushing from a hydrant
Those terrible ideas are (an) anathema to me
gall
(gall stone, They haven't the gall to steal)
(the duke knew he was losing, and it galled him)
the great leviathans of the deep
(chew the rag, rag paper )
The box hefting 6 pounds
casement window
The forecast view has been completely revamped as well.
the pendulum of public opinion
Soon after, bulls began to predict it would usher in a new era of open standards and decentralized networks
In his piece, Dixon argues that the Facebook era of the internet could be a historical anomaly, and that the internet could one day return to a more democratic network
When purchasing, select berries that are plump, tender, and bright in color
Avoid containers that are damp or stained, which might be signs of overripe fruit
Remove and discard any moldy or mushy berries so mold won't spread to other berries
The United States, which controlled two thirds of the world's gold, insisted that the Bretton Woods system rest on both gold and the US dollar.
Soviet representatives attended the conference but later declined to ratify the final agreements
On 15 August 1971, the United States unilaterally terminated convertibility of the US dollar to gold.
An indemnity is an obligation by a person (indemnitor) to provide compensation for a particular loss suffered by another person (indemnitee).
vigilant
(the burglar was spotted by vigilant neighbours.)
General speaking and simply put, Democrats got clobbered in the digital space.
Digital programs - both tactical and messaging, failed to actively listen to and engage the online grassroots universe.
Facebook, meanwhile has changed its newsfeed algorithm, ostensibly to combat “fake news,” causing a precipitous decline in traffic for many conservative sites.
There's no benefit to the company from continually chucking them out and replacing them with another fresh new hire since the cost is always going to be more to hire and train the new employees
It seems that the entire tech industry will eventually be oversaturated with ex-Amazonians, right
Amazon is a leading exploiter
I consider Amazon a poster child for the need for a movement to protect employee rights and advocate for better employee working conditions and benefits
Lynn, who lives in rural Arizona
right now the world economy stands at an alarming precipice
(on the precipice of defeat)
You're about to discover that huge financial gyrations inflation
(sound money, Hard currency)
Tell the parallels of Rome and U.S.
They always changed because the Romans were worries because they had monarchy before. Very unpopular, they overthrew it.
excessive taxation and debasing the money.
julius paulus once said the device being officially promulgated circulates and maintains its purchasing power
(The king promulgate a decree)
finally the link between gold and the US dollar severed completely.
fiat currency system
We've established a situation where what people do is scramble to borrow liabilities.
There is going to be a reckoning.
The government started confiscating private property by force to fill their empty state coffers.
(the guards confiscated his camera.)
hyperinflation
Docletian issued his infamous edict of prices.
jumbo-sized meddling with economy
The idea that government can substitue for people interacting among themselves is preposterous
(That's a preposterous excuse)
Shifting the focus to businesses who are labeled as greedy hoarders or priced gougers.
Nixon's team of economic boffins thought they could curb inflation by fixing wages and prices
(he had a reputation as a tax boffin, a learned lawyer)
Something comes squirting out way over here that you just don't expect
(Water squirted out)
Back during World War 1 they inflated the currency supply tremendously
When a home gets foreclosed on, it gets resold to somebody else.
History doesn't repeat, but it sure does rhyme
Now I'm expecting a deflation.
the masses were always stupid
The republic of Rome was largely aristocratic, the people (plebs as they were referred to) had little to no say except for having the right to veto reforms or laws passed by the optimates
After decades of butting heads, some environmentalists and logging supporters have largely come to agreement that forests need to be logged to be saved.
Latest wildfire outbreak is a striking sign of change that may help curtail future devastating infernos.
turned much of the state into a tinderbox.
Riding yesterday wrecked me
What is the biggest no-no when working in Silicon Valley
Falling back to patching base and 3-way merge...
Japan's new cyber-security minister has dumbfounded his country by saying he has never used a computer
His duties include overseeing cyber-defence preparations for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo
I'm totally jealous of that Japanese cyber security Minister who's never used a computer
A job at Facebook sounds pretty plum
Career coaches said they had tech employees reaching out to get tips on handling moral quandaries
They do a lot more due diligence
he said, that workers can get tethered to the paycheck and avoid taking risks
postsecondary education
where many forges attempt to replicate GitHub’s success with a thinly veiled clone of the GitHub UI and workflow
interoperability
moratorium
(a moratorium on the testing of atomic bombs)
Sleep Apnea Patients (transient cessation of respiration)
I do believe this filtering system is rather good
There must be a specific vacancy defined, such as «Java developer» or «Senior system analyst».
It's mostly menial work, sitting in meetings (online and in-person ones), sucking up to the boss, and waiting for the IT folks to replace your broken hard drive. And yeah, interviewing people who will never be on your own team
Google and Amazon can do this sort of crap because thousands of young hotshot programmers-to-be who graduated from the Ivy Leagues apply to them.
retribution is at hand
A wicked and unscrupulous politician
Wicked children are quite annoying
He is glum about world affairs.
Why do you look so glum?
gallup poll
But xenophobic English politicians may disagree
(reel lifting tackle, spinning reel)
two battalions were on their way, and a third was standing by
A real man stands by his woman
The choice of Trump had both his supporters and detractors talking on social media
I realized I still have yet to succumb to the draw of Atom, Visual Studio Code, and the big IDEs
I’m still happily teaching and evangelizing Vim
civil liberty
It’s a sheer overhanging cliff
The city has installed five portable bathrooms for the hundreds of unsheltered people in the Tenderloin, but that has not stopped people from urinating and defecating in the streets
But you'll get the hang of it.
Some of the problems which she is expected to solve are pretty simple problems, but I just can't seem to get the hang of any of them on my own
their graduates would often need a lot of grooming before they could really be independently and reliably productive in the commercial words of application development or software engineering
Inventing new algorithms with theoretical significance is not your job
You were too obtuse to take the hint
As a self-taught programmer who doesn't have a CS degree, my experience has been that this is not a significant hurdle to any workplace that I would seriously consider applying
(the seemingly inexorable march of new technology)
In the past decade, there has been an inexorable adoption of open source in most aspects of computing
proprietary software vendors
When you compare the market cap and revenue of Red Hat to Microsoft or Amazon or Oracle, even Red Hat starts to look like a lukewarm success
The overwhelming success of Linux is disproportionate to the performance of Red Hat. Great for open source, a little disappointing for Red Hat
To make matters worse, the more successful an open source project, the more large companies want to co-opt the code base
()
I’s a veritable shit-show
the chances of going public and creating a large standalone company are pretty darn slim
Seems there is a glitch in Jira ticket
We need to stall the user here unitl ready to stream
back out
(Okay? You want to back out of it)
I think lock settings is simultaneously connected to it, or immediately connects if you back out of factory reset
There is an ambivalent feeling towards rural workers.
Incite a crowd to riot
The burglar was caught, but his confederate got away.
The current crisis and its political fallout
The government had reneged on its election promises
(reneged on the contract at the last minute)
a damp, gloomy day
(a gloomy atmosphere, gloomy news)
This doctrine holds that people are inherently good
Whichever did you choose?
She was a devout Catholic
he felt a yearning for the mountains
He squanders all the money which his father gives him.
The spectre of economic crisis is constantly haunting some countries
porridge oats enriched with extra oat bran
The other defining feature of companies that have started in this era has been eschewing the practice of hiring non-software engineer roles
They want you to consider all the repercussions
(heard the repercussions of the shot)
At the same time, hyper-growth means traffic growth and the resultant technical scaling issues, as well as greater repercussions for both complete failure and minor user experience issues
Finally, we arrive at the idea of “fungibility,” which is the crux of the failure of the pure DevOps model when organizations scale beyond a certain number of engineers
Operations engineers and software engineers are partners, not interchangeable cogs
acting as a liaison between product teams and infrastructure teams
Modern hyper-growth Internet companies have (in my opinion) an egregiously large amount of burnout, primarily due to the grueling product demands coupled with a lack of investment in operational infrastructure
(an egregious lie, an egregious mistake )
I believe it is possible for engineering leadership to buck the trend by getting ahead of operations before it becomes a major impediment to organizational stability.
an impediment to reform, he has an impediment in speech.
People with heart or lung disease should remain indoors and avoid heavy exertion.
(She was hot and breathless from the exertion of cycling uphill)
Modal editors make the undergarments drop
He snuggled down and went to sleep.
Every night before bed, Henry likes to find something soft to snuggle with ❤️
Don't make yourself a nuisance to others
employers sometimes make erroneous assumptions
Since new technologies and tools continuously crop up on the Devops landscape
a precarious ladder.
a precarious assumption
The complicity between the army and drug smugglers
Parrots imitate human speech.
After the election, the coalition fragmented
Some sort of placebo effect, I guess
annuity bonds
Java comes with a plethora of ready-made types
I prefer to think of myself as quirky
the frail of Russian economy
She looks frail and vulnerable
This makes the world’s second-largest economy an internet-enabled paradise, albeit with an important caveat
the program of government censorship that keeps anything even vaguely subversive offline
(subversive literature)
granular control
Google’s prototype also required users to submit identifying information, including phone numbers, which could allow Chinese intelligence agencies to root out dissidents.
The revelations about Dragonfly reverberated widely, and the company’s efforts to quiet the furor only *prolonged it.
You don’t make the world’s information universally accessible and useful by kowtowing to dictators.
He and Brian argued that Dragonfly was being overplayed by the media. It was merely “exploratory,” Pichai said
on the premise that they were somehow exceptions to the corporate norm
They have immense and, in some ways, unprecedented power. And the checks on this power are currently scarce
Scarcity
after Edward Snowden revealed that the National Security Agency had intercepted Google data, Downey railed against the program as an example of government overreach
In his new memo, Downey contrasted the altruistic ambitions of Google’s founders with what he presented as a company now motivated by a desire for growth and profit
or even give alms to a panhandler—they often wear QR codes slung around their necks. It’s possible to spend long stretches in China without so much as touching a banknote
It's time to rouse the children.
catholicism
a vibrant cosmopolitan city
The hotel was run by a trio of brothers.
She was subjected to a torrent of abuse
A hand-grenade is a missile weapon.
An actor's foray into politics
the garrison made a foray against Richard's camp
anoint & baptism ?
But it pretty much obliterated the whole "I love you" thing.
(The town was obliterated by the bombs.)
We don’t care if they’re doing something that isn’t interesting to us. We don’t care if we’re lapping them
The moderator invoked a rule causing the debate to be ended.
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable
quantum computing
That's a good throw back
I'm not picking on this woman
because he is likable.
cavalierly
Fungible
(fungible freight, Fungibility)
It was me brain fart this morning.
We're being cut like leeks.
In celebration of the best US Holiday, we will be throwing an August Home Thanksgiving Potluck
Few policymakers in Washington or London believed that the Soviets would be able to resist the Nazi onslaught for more than six weeks
Although, not gonna lie, that's a real bummer.
It only holds about a week then it starts to get a little bit sketchy.
Everything here is dark and sketchy, and seems illegal