Just an FYI for those in DC: on that calculator, Washington is listed under the state of Virginia. Geographic boundaries are tricky business, but c'mon, CNN. You could at least pretend District of Columbia is a state.
With a name like "Political Screaming Match," do you think he's after rounded, reasoned debate? This sounds like it's mostly for some laughs. I think it's a fun idea.
It doesn't matter whether gauged by the month or year. It's a percentage. If they have 99.97% uptime every month for a year, they'll still have 99.97% uptime for the year.
Especially if a Dvorak user is forced to use Qwerty on another person's computer. At that point, they become completely unable to log in via this method.
I only skimmed PEP 405, but did anybody get a sense for how this would work with regard to managing different versions of Python per virtualenv? It seems like a tool to do that necessarily has to be higher in the stack than the Python interpreter.
No, you're not the only one. It brings to mind an awkward, overly public marriage proposal. Not something I'd want to be on the receiving end of. And if the other party turns them down, the rejection is just that much more awkward.
Not sure about the scholarly literature on it, but my eye doctors (several different ones over the years) have almost always mentioned how it's better to slightly undercorrect the vision, so that the eyes still have to work a bit at focusing. They implied that to do otherwise could speed the degradation of your vision.
The new front page design smacks of those spammy "10 AMAZING Photos of [fill in the blank]" sites which steal other people's content and don't properly attribute it. I can't bring myself to click on any of the stacks; I just want to avert my eyes.
On the other hand, if you live in a first-tier city, this makes the au pair program that much of a better deal (see my other comment on au pairs), as you get a first-tier salary, and their pay is federal minimum wage. It's too bad for the au pairs, but that is how the program works, and they are getting free room and board, plus some cash, in a first-tier city.
I used to think that a parent's care was unequivocally the best childcare, but I no longer believe that to be true. As the mother of a four month old who has had 95% of her care provided by either me or my husband working from home, and 5% by a grandmother coming to stay and watch her, I have learned that having a dedicated child care person is not only vastly superior for the working parents' productivity/quality of life, it is also superior for the child. My daughter made so many developmental strides while under the full attention of an adult, versus the divided, frazzled attention she received from a working parent. Having come to the realization that my bright and inquisitive daughter needs more than the partial attention of an adult, we have changed our minds about our ability to care for her while performing our jobs (work in my case, professional school in my husband's).
You might therefore consider what we are currently considering in our single-income household, which is to get an au pair. I am in the US, so program details/costs will differ, but here is my assessment based on the U.S. program. Since they are live-in, the cash outlay can be considerably less than getting a nanny. While there are substantial program fees, their salary is paid at minimum wage, which is generally half to a third (even a quarter) of a nanny's wage. If you live in an expensive area, the cost of an au pair can even be competitive with in-home daycares (which are typically the least expensive type of daycare). Other benefits include their childcare training from the program, the light housework they may perform, and the "cultural exchange" aspect of hosting a young adult from another country.
(If an au pair doesn't work out for us, our second choice would be to do a nanny share.)
They'd be better off rephrasing the question on the front page "what do these companies have in common" to "what do these products have in common." Android is not a company.
My thoughts exactly. It would be hard to find many people who almost exclusively read white on black, though. I think the groups people break down into are likely the average people from "book-land", where all is black on white, and techies who use dark background terminals, but are fluent in both. In which case, it would make the most sense to test people who have extensive exposure to both (techies) for comprehension, etc.
I've known vegans who would admit to eating nothing but Doritos/Skittles/Coca-Cola on roadtrips rather than feed themselves some halfway decent, but non-vegan, nutrition available on the road.
Every time I buy normal, mass-market chicken or eggs that are not in some way organic/cage-free/free-range/nataural, I am so disappointed in the result that I vow never to buy it again (until I'm sucked in by some sale months later). For me, the difference is too striking to be only a placebo effect of sorts.
Swype is extremely resource-intensive-- too much for older phones (such as my MyTouch 3G). If 8pen is less of a hog, and it seems like it probably would be, since it doesn't have to guess at what you wanted to type, it will be a great addition to the alternative input landscape.
While men can keep having children longer than women, there are genetically-based mental health risks (schizophrenia, autism, bi-polar disorder) for children of older men.
> Also, every filling I've ever had never came as a result of actual pain or discomfort, they only occurred because I went in for a regular six-month checkup.
FWIW, I've heard that by the time you have pain or discomfort in association with a cavity, it means it has reached the nerve, which indicates a root canal at that point, rather than a filling. So, getting cavities filled before they hurt is important.
As an American who has lived in several states, I have never heard of a state that has minimum leave requirements. A Googling doesn't turn up anything. Anyone else out there know, or does the dearth of info indicate that the states really don't set minimum leave?
That doesn't work for everyone. When I let myself sleep on the train, I tend to feel like a perma-zombie when I get off. I think it has something to do with the fact that I wake up at every stop, or stay halfway conscious so as not to miss my stop and therefore don't have a clear delineation between being awake and asleep (and getting off the train doesn't snap me out of it).
The short time I spent in .NET development felt incredibly disenfranchising, when the answer to bugs found was always a denial that the bug existed or "that will be fixed in the next release."
A simple example: if I wrote a function, add(x, y), I would want to test that it behaved as expected. So, I'd write a test (among others) to assert that add(4,5) returned 9. I would also test things like add(null, 5) to make sure that my code gracefully handled error conditions.
This is the first I've heard of actually being able to get a 2.x series OS on my MyTouch 3G. T-Mobile has promised it, but we've been waiting for months.
My grandparents and other elders were "food pushers," too, and I sometimes wonder whether it all stemmed from them spending their formative years in the Great Depression. It seems like those of us raised by them, unless we reject it, could still be experiencing a ripple effect from a time when there was never enough food, and the consequences of still acting like there's not enough when there's in fact way too much.