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Rally To Restore Sanity and/or Fear Includes Lesson in Media Criticism 301
(thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com)
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I've actually been reading more books since I started using the Web. There is no doubt in my mind that reading web content engages different kinds of reading skills and requires different kinds of reading discipline. Because so much infor
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It may also be that it's not just the coffee for some of us. I have a whole ritual early in the morning around making my coffee. I grind the beans, put on the water to boil. And I brew the coffee in my French press. After I've had a coup
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Like any other word or phrase, 'open' or 'open API' is going to have a meaning based on the context in which it is used. Open has a certain marketing cachet that generally says anyone can use it and they can use it just about everywhere (
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Recording and writing music. I just recently upgraded from Garageband to Logic Pro and recently bought Reason. You can listen to my modest efforts at http://www.myspace.com/zendevice .
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Or it could be that he just does not see how these new devices, which are today geared only to entertainment, could some day be used to further empower us. Perhaps, in the future we might see the iPad or other devices like it, be used in s
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A blackberry isn't a toy. I have at least three of the items mentioned on the list (which are toys), and I use none of them for actual productive work. Though I do have a telnet terminal app on the iPod. Still all of the devices he mentio
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I think this study is skewed simply by the fact that these people knew they were being observed and that what happened in their lives mattered to enough to be studied. How much does that weigh into one's happiness?
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And how hard would it be for those code translators to remove these footprints or even offer the user the option of leaving them out? Doesn't this edict invite code translators to work harder at leaving no trace that the code was generated
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In the company I work for they use "direct report" to identify someone who reports directly to a manager or supervisor. But like it or not, "subordinate" is not so much a slam as it is a way to describe one's position in a hierarchical com
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Any achievement has scope and context. What one achieves in any activity may or may not transcend that activity. The meaningfulness of the activity itself may not carry beyond the individual or beyond a select group. So I think, ultimate
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I started to be serious about learning to program at 26. Then, I was in an entry-level position where I learned how to write spreadsheet macros on my own, with just the spreadsheet documentation as my guide. I also had a problem I needed
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Or a new way to set a house on fire.
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I think Guido resigned from the BDFL position a little while ago.
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Yes. I saw that.
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This says nothing about how this would work in the U.S. Cultural differences can not be discounted. Are there any studies about U.S. efforts to implement pay for performance in schools?
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Yeah. erlang certainly smells like prolog. ;)
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The English language is in a period of never-ending flux, so neologisms and compression are acts of making the language more efficient and accessible for any group. It's all about who the target audience is, what you want to communicate, a
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Vocals, guitar, and keyboards. I semi-frequently record tracks in GarageBand. I ping-pong between rock and trip hop.