coolnewtoy

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by coolnewtoy 16y ago
http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2006/mar/29/scripps/ apparently several newspapers run off a Django install, including the newspaper that employed the web developers who wrote it: http://notesofgenius.com/django-web-framework
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Thinking outside the box helpd by having a somewhat less intact box(eurekalert.org)
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What Surprising Number Will Change Your Business?(blogs.hbr.org)
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What's Not your job?(freelanceswitch.com)
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Why Betterness Is Good Business(blogs.hbr.org)
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The "most important question" in consensus-building(blogs.hbr.org)
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The Strategic Imperative Not to Hire Anybody(blogs.hbr.org)
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Tech Companies Hiring Like Gangbusters(thebigmoney.com)
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by coolnewtoy 16y ago
Thanks for posting this. I will definitely add this to my ever-expanding lit review for my thesis on SQL Injection Attacks/Web App Development Frameworks
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by coolnewtoy 17y ago
"The Ninjas are deadly and silent They're also unspeakably violent They speak Japanese, they do whatever they please And sometimes they vacation in Ireland" -Bare Naked Ladies http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-ninjas-lyrics-barenaked-ladie...
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Totally Nerdgay for Marco Arment(brettkelly.org)
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British seek escape from national education standards (slate.com)
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by coolnewtoy 17y ago
On "eugenics" - what if the most significant factor in differences in intelligence is social rather than genetic? What if intensive parenting practices like near-constant eye contact and talking to infants and toddlers, long hours of readi
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by coolnewtoy 17y ago
scenarios like this make me want to be a fifth-grade math teacher. maybe I could do a better job than this person's did.
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Do Toxins Cause Autism?(nytimes.com)
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by coolnewtoy 17y ago
I suspect those plans don't exist because the premiums would have to be so high to make it profitable that it would make more sense financially for most self-employed couples to have one spouse get a job with a group plan that has to cover
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by coolnewtoy 17y ago
actually I think a profit-based insurance model is the problem. you cannot take care of shareholders and patients at the same time. but since you have a profit-based model, excluding planned (or unplanned for that matter) pregnancies from
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by coolnewtoy 17y ago
it's impossible to buy non-group health insurance for a planned pregnancy. and there's enough scary stuff that COULD happen that you wouldn't want to be pregnant without. Old people have medicare. It's young people who have any medical ne
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by coolnewtoy 17y ago
Safari books online or Books 24 x 7. I may never buy a paper copy of a technical book again.
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by coolnewtoy 17y ago
deify is the word. but we get what you mean.
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by coolnewtoy 17y ago
There's an arugment in favor of elite brand-name degrees, presumeably over state universities, or vocational degrees: "The research of Till Von Wachter, the economist at Columbia University, suggests that not all people graduating into a re
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Berkshire Partners other equity firms buy Skillsoft for $1.1 billion(nytimes.com)
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Number of test-takers who fail A.P. exams is growing(nytimes.com)
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by coolnewtoy 17y ago
If I were 16 now I'd spend the extra time on Open Courseware and go to college only when I had done enough exploring on my own to really take advantage of the profs' expertise.
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by coolnewtoy 17y ago
a garbageman, especially if he works for the city, will have a better chance at all that than an artist of most varieties with an ivy league PhD
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YouTube as Video Store(slate.com)
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by coolnewtoy 17y ago
I think it will be more closely tied to progress made in identifying preventable root causes of autism and the diagnosis rates start coming down. I actually doubt the illnesses of other people's children will register as loudly as the autis
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by coolnewtoy 17y ago
It would be safer to be an Afghan woman under the communists than the Taliban or current US occupation.
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Scribd founder and his entrepreneur Dad(ecorner.stanford.edu)
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by coolnewtoy 17y ago
Teaching under unions is a middle-class, family friendly occupation. Teaching under Teach for America is a 2-year volunteer gig with unsustainably long hours. If the unions were to disappear tomorrow I just don't think you'd be able to gene

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