Nov. 18th, 2013

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How do you enter landline telephone numbers[1], when you know at least two of the people living there about equally well?

Do you enter it for both people? Or have a separate entry for the shared surname (if appropriate), house name, or "Name1 and Name2"? Or something else?

[1] Or other shared telephone numbers, although that rarely happens. Most of the time I want to speak to someone specific, and only having one phone for multiple people was a technical limitation. OTOH, sometimes, you DO want to speak to either person ("Are you and Otherhalf free on Saturday?"), maybe there should be a built-in option to route the call to either of their mobile phones?
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If you hear someone described as a "clothes horse", does that mean "well dressed"? Or "expensively dressed"? Or "expensively but badly dressed"? Or "badly dressed"?

It's the sort of usage I normally pick up from reading books, but I've often found the usage ambiguous, and I can see the metaphor both ways round, so it's not obvious to me, even though I feel it should be self-evident!
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Which source control do you use at work? Which source control would you use for preference, if different? Which source control do you want to die in a fire?

Poll: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GC6XJ3W

I'm experimenting with alternatives to dreamwidth polls. This is from SurveyMonkey. You don't need to sign in or anything. It shows results afterwards (or if you want to see them again, just click "done" on an empty form).

But it obviously doesn't tie results to DW/LJ account, and it's awkward to see the results. Does anyone recommend anything that does good simple polls? Basically like doodle.com, but for anything, not just dates. Ideally (a) really simple (b) allows multiple questions (c) no log in (d) everyone can see the results?

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