Yes, by all means, ask for what you're worth. My point is that money is almost never the reason people decide to start looking for work elsewhere. A counter offer by itself is sort of an empty gesture that is bound to be ineffective in the long run as a retention tool.
Counter offers are a little silly. People in our industry are already making far above the median, which makes it extremely unlikely that money is the motivation behind resignation. More often it's a bad manager—there's a saying that people don't quit jobs; they quit bosses—uninteresting work, change in direction, or some other environmental factor. If you're going to make someone a counter-offer you should also be sure to address the real issue that caused them to want to leave in the first place, or they're just going to leave after a short time anyway.
When I was there I was taken into the VAB with a group. The SRBs for the next Shuttle launch were there. Nobody else was in there. "Security" consisted of a guy asking if I had any lighters or matches.
FWIW the Unicode spec describes combining marks as characters in their own right. So if the intent is to reverse characters, page 21 does the job. The resulting sequences will potentially be defective but not ill-formed.
That being said, an FAQ on combining characters points out that Unicode's definition of "character" may not match an end user's, and that it's best to use the word "grapheme" instead for clarity. (And that being said, if the typical end user knows what "grapheme" means, I'll eat my cat.)
So from a practical standpoint, it's best to make sure that any input to rev is in one of the composed normal forms.
(Incidentally, the proper sequence is <base character><combining character>…, not the other way around.)
The tweet graph database has a persistent edge count cache but it's not designed to handle posts or deletions any faster than a human can produce them.
I'd go back even further to find decent Mac UI, to the pre-X OS. Yes, it was a reliability garbage fire, but the Apple of that time really invested in usability. They published a 400-page book[1] for developers that explained the principles behind usability, showed how interface design fits into the development process, and gave specific guidelines for each type of interface element. The guidelines they publish today[2] are a lifeless husk by comparison.
Lots of comments here about the information he leaked from the CIA and zilch about race. This article isn't about the CIA; it's about racism in America.