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Sean Spicer has a message for America: “n9y25ah7.”(politico.com)
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EEOC Testimony: Big Data in Employment Opportunities and Concerns(eeoc.gov)
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A short collection of sayings by the stoic philosopher Epictetus called The Enchiridion. There's a free copy at http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html Sample: "Remember that you are an actor in a dra
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ACM Statement on Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability [pdf](acm.org)
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Error bars. Whenever I see a plot without them, I think someone is trying to pull a fast one. Some scientific fields (or quasi-scientific) fields use them much more than others. Quick-and-dirty physicists' method of generating an error
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There's no absolute rule, since everyone is different; this is just my opinion based on my experience. I gained knowledge of the command line about 3 decades ago. It's been useful for all that time, and I expect it to be useful fo
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Lab scientist sentenced to prison over faking research(eastbaytimes.com)
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Developers Are Writing the Script for the Future(joelonsoftware.com)
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Well, the NYT actually hires a lot of good journalists. Good journalists actually try hard not to print fake news. It's sad that these are surprising concepts. On page 2 of every (paper) issue of the Times, right under the table of con
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Obligatory PG reference: "Keep Your Identity Small" http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
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When Crowds Try to Flee for Their Lives(atlasobscura.com)
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Plotted attack on Alaska research facility(adn.com)
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The Price of Certainty(nytimes.com)
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Greenspun makes broad assertions without giving any evidence. Look at articles in the student newspaper: "More than 100 Harvard Faculty Signed Petition to Support Strike" http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016
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No, no, no. Bill Clinton got the grocery prices correct when asked in 1992. There was folklore that George HW Bush didn't know how much milk cost, but that was not confirmed. See http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php
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by 7402 10y ago
Add to the list of distractions: work situations that have a policy requiring a developer to keep a chat or messaging app open and monitored while working, either at the office or at home.
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The janitor felt invisible to Georgetown students(washingtonpost.com)
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Regarding buying food on an airplane, what about the effect of simple politeness? I'm not sure I would call it "peer pressure," when I feel uncomfortable about eating food next to someone who doesn't have any. Maybe it&#
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"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment."
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Although (in the US), many cities will bill you for ambulance service. If things work out ideally, your insurance will then pay the ambulance fee. There are also cities that charge fees for sending fire trucks to vehicle fires and accidents
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Samsung’s Recall: The Problem with Lithium-Ion Batteries(nytimes.com)
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Art, Artifacts, and the State of Creation(makinghandmadebooks.blogspot.com)
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I have, and it sucks. When I was young, I'd get hired to do things I'd never even done before, because, "you're smart, and you'll figure it out." And I was smart, and I did figure it out. Yay. When I became old
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by 7402 10y ago
There are always disagreements over priorities, but I think it's important to identify which _kind_ of disagreement you have going. At one extreme, you have the engineer wanting to add features just because they are fun to build, even
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by 7402 10y ago
First of all, I want to offer some hope. It is definitely possible to overcome the habit of toxic discussion. I think more than one comment so far has mentioned something like, "I used to be toxic, too..." What I found to be helpf
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The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (illustrations by Jules Feiffer)
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Geoffrey Stone on Snowden(budiansky.blogspot.com)
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Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War(kirkusreviews.com)
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Sherman's Lagoon: Partners(shermanslagoon.com)
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How Millennials Ended the Running Boom(wsj.com)
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