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by andrewem 14y ago
The OP's English is clearly not native-level, so I think it's safe to assume that what's meant is a sports psychologist, which according to [1] Real Madrid has employed for many years. [1] http://pendientedemigracion.ucm.es/info/Psyap/hisp
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Actually, while I am not a Constitutional scholar, I believe that the literal definition of "petition" is precisely what is meant by that section of the First Amendment. The Founders knew what petitions were and how they intended them to fu
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For instance, the book "The Blind Side" [1] is about a black kid who got adopted by an evangelical family. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Side:_Evolution_of_a_...
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What surprised me most about that page is that the Chief Science Officer doesn't have an MD or a PhD, though several other employees do. (Also, the Singularity Institute ties immediately rub me the wrong way, though that's a matter for anot
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MIT says hoax caller alleged gunman was retaliating for suicide of Aaron Swartz(boston.com)
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Your friend's business is not the only bean-to-bar stone ground chocolate maker: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=...
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I just noticed this page on Transport for London's API docs [1], the summary of which is "Use our data, but don't pretend to be us". +1 for straightforward guidelines like this. For instance, "Please don't... Use our brands - the roundel, u
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by andrewem 14y ago
What's the transit data availability situation in Germany? In the US, various public transit agencies do varyingly good jobs of this. Boston's MBTA has lots of data available, both geo, schedule and real-time, and hasn't made any complaints
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I remember feeling around 2000 that the whole thing was an exercise in deliberate esotericism, rather than about making something useful and then trying to get people to use it; with the strange terms - synopses, apocalypses, and later Raku
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A modern-day devotee of Epictetus was Admiral James Stockdale, best known for being Ross Perot's 1992 running mate. He wrote two great essays on how stoicism influenced his life, especially during his time as the senior naval prisoner of wa
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Nice! Have you considered open sourcing Viva? I bet it would be useful to other nonprofits.
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Speaking of Kiva, is Watsi going to need volunteer translators? Kiva has a great program where people volunteer to translate loan applications into English, and excellent infrastructure to support it. (My wife has been a Kiva translator for
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I know a guy who worked at Transmeta when Linus was there, and afterward he joked that anyone who got Linus hired should get their pay docked instead of a hiring bonus. So maybe.
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Doug McIlroy's solution is genius, and I hesitate to try to improve it, but it seems to me that if you reverse the order of the 'tr' commands, then you can slightly simplify the one that turns non-word characters into newlines, like so: tr
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FDA FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) Links: Commonly-requested documents: http://www.fda.gov/regulatoryinformation/foi/electronicreadi... File a request: http://www.fda.gov/RegulatoryInformation/FOI/HowtoMakeaFOIAR... Structured data a
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It's not quite Connecticut, but in New York City there's https://www.hackerschool.com , which lasts about 3 months. An acquaintance of mine did it and liked it a lot.
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I see you're in the Boston area, as I am. Here it's a feeding frenzy for programmers, to judge by the number of emails I get from recruiters, probably at least one a day on average, and the high ratio of people at Boston Ruby meetups ( http
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Essentials I just saw a list of the "ten essentials" posted at the entrance to a wilderness area in New Hampshire's White Mountains. I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that I was without many of them, thoug
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by andrewem 14y ago
Honest question: how popular is rbenv? Should I be using it rather than rvm? https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv lists apparently bad things that rvm does; are those significant reasons to prefer rbenv?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_code claims without citation that zones were introduced in 1943. http://web.archive.org/web/20041030125608/https://www.usps.c... confirms May 1943. It's not clear when the envelope was supposed to be fro
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So apparently in 2006 Germany passed an Equal Treatment Act [1], which prevents discrimination on various grounds, including racial or ethnic origin, sex or sexual orientation, disability and age. All of these are things that a photograph c
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There was probably triumphalism because in nearly all large arenas the lines for the women's room are routinely much longer than those for the men's room . So for the men at Strange Loop not having to wait was normal, but for the women at t
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Way back, maybe around 1999?, I was in London and there was an internet cafe called easyInternet [1]. They had this weird gimmick where the price per hour to use a computer with Internet access would fluctuate according to market condition
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This is a general lesson: whenever someone criticizes something you've built, be extremely polite and you'll deflate their ill-conceived anger at you. Several times I've received angry emails about a (free) web site I run, like "your site i
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I was on a Delta flight some years ago and the flight attendant announced "This flight has been designated a surprise and delight flight", which made it clear they'd been ordered to do that. Then they gave out some little trinket they'd pre
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Fascinating, because the Wall Street Journal said on February 3 "Total corporate federal taxes paid fell to 12.1% of profits earned from activities within the U.S. in fiscal 2011, which ended Sept. 30, according to the Congressional Budget
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Would you mind adding more specifics? I'm curious about what bad Rails practices you found in the OpenShift codebase. (I've never worked on it, used it, or looked at the code, so my question comes from simple curiosity.)
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I'm totally serious about this question: how do you feel about the company you work for doing this?
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I really liked the phrase "diagonal shortcuts" from the OP. It brought to mind a physical metaphor for what's meant by software having only orthogonal functions: on a college campus they usually pave orthogonal sidewalks, and inevitably you
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Some people believe that you should invest in companies at least in part based on whether their actions are broadly good for society: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socially_responsible_investing Perhaps that's the point of view that LockeW

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