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on one hand this feels like sarcasm, on the other hand he used an account with the name throwaway.

As an aside I'd love a small to mid size electric pick up. I don't do much driving and we share a volt at home. But a lot of things I don't want to put into a car with a hatchback. Mulch, compost, gas cans, leaky bags of ice melt, plants from a nursery, etc.

These are great! especially the collapse comment threads!

Welcome sctb.

I had a high school teacher who quoted Toffler a lot in class. I enjoyed his class so much I remember picking up future shock with its electric pink cover and its companion the third wave for pennies off of amazon. These books have been sitting on my bookcase for nearly fifteen years and nearly as many moves. Hadn't realized Alvin passed away last week. Maybe now I should give them a read.

I found references in markdown incredibly simple. Using BibTex or CSL styled JSON objects. Then just chose the CSL style your institution prefers and run it through pandoc. Gives me html, latex, pdf, ePub, and even docbook or TEI for those with an XML fetish.

....but image support. Ugh don't get me started. Thankfully we use it right now for simple articles so the figure doesn't need to do much.

Yes I believe there was an unfinished demo with atlas. The presentation[1] was on HTMLBook[1].

[1] http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol10/print/Kleinfeld01/...

[2] https://github.com/oreillymedia/HTMLBook

I was in attendance for a conference presentation a few years back that O'Rielly was moving to writing books in an asciidoc editor which would be converted to (x)html5 for easy conversion to PDF and ePUB.

I wonder if that thing ever took off. Previously, it was said, that they were working in docbook (XML)

Thanks! I will try my best to look into this and hope he is willing. He doesn't talk about it much.

> MSC's have been shown to improve COPD

My grandfather died of COPD, and likely so will my Dad. He has COPD. And was diagnosed in his 50s. I am fearful of it myself, but thankfully unlike both of them I've never smoked.

It is a shot in the dark, but do you know anything off hand of having him participate in something like this in the US?

A fair amount of US grocery stores do as well. Our local grocery store has a pick up option as well as a delivery. Another a few miles down the road near a restaurant we enjoy also has a (free) place for us to charge our car why we shop.

I am hesitant to adopt them. I guess we are finicky about how we shop. Fearful of the bad head of lettuce or banana or what have you. Or how will we know they didn't chose the yogurt that expires in two days over the one that has two weeks?

What my girlfriend and I do is use AnyList (there are multiple other apps, but we are liking this one). And start at opposite ends of the store. Checking off the list real time as we shop.

woah this almost seems like Facebooks version of Hot Single Girls Near you. Except they might actually be near you.

This was the title I wanted, but alas I was limited to 80 characters.

If you had said your sixth grade year I would have sworn we went to the same district. I grew up not far from Quakertown, pa and we had a rather rambling unit on whales where we would watch the Voyage of the Mimi. I say rambling, because our regular teacher was in and out that year with an illness. The long term sub would have us watch Voyage of the Mimi at what felt like irregular intervals.

Yes, this was the explanation I saw when my Girlfriend purchased a used volt last summer. We explain it to most people that the gas engine is there to act as a generator and charge the battery and act as a generator. Not to directly power the car. She loves her car.

and here I am with an anthropology degree.

In fairness, I am a developer for an anthropological research agency at a large university. That is a plus.

I'll take a look at that book. Thanks.

Any advice for those who have a degree in an unrelated field, and has been coding since they were 11 and are approaching thirty. I'm considering other options sometimes, but feel this might be an issue.

It wasn't every middle schooler who reads a book on perl for leisure.

I always wanted to see "I am a victim of the Telephone" updated.

not to be confused with DITA: The Darwin Information Typing Architecture[1].

[1]. http://dita.xml.org/

I work at a small academic database as a developer. We charge a pittance compared to what a lot of the larger players in this market do. And I'm conflicted.

We are a registered non profit, and are actively losing money. Developer costs, of which there are only two. Building costs--I also shovel snow!, marketing costs, hosting costs, and much more. We have the workload where we would benefit from a staff 3 times the size. Currently we are at 12. Years ago we had a fully functional publishing operation too.

But here is the thing. These open access places often are pay to publish. This is built into many grants today. Publishing costs. But not so much in the field I'm in. The social sciences. So sure, the result of that work should be open access. I just cannot help thinking this takes away from what you could be paying one more lab or research assistant.

a lot of these pay walled sites are struggling to survive as library budgets dwindle. Maybe there isn't much room left for the little players. Many are bought up or have folded over the last 20 years.

That feels like many a new England town. But with Churches.

>You may have heard the old saw about marriage: “You can be right, or you can be happy.” --

Happy to see that saying in there. In its sometimes hard to remember that not everyone is as logic oriented as myself.

It is very tough to resist making an ad hominem attack on Ken Kratz.

maybe he counts philanthropy as neither?

I played a lot of aoe I and some 2 as a kid. Nearly 30 now and have not so much time for gaming. But the online streaming community is impressive and the skill level is high. Also there was a 120k tournament last year for a 15 year old game. It's very impressive.

The headline reads like a scene from the last episode of Fargo s2.

As do I, but it is an ad that you get anytime you vist forbes. In the top it says continue with a timer.

It will take you to http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/12/05/google-en...

I am using those.

this is my problem with Reactjs right now. I like it but debugging it is often difficult as hell. Thankfully my problems right now are small. With Hot module reloading I am constantly watching for signs of trouble. And can spot many quickly as they are introduced. But the stack trace is damn near foreign to me right now.

My girlfriend works with autistic children. Generally providing birth-3 ABA services. She claims that, with few exceptions, almost every case at least one parent is somewhere on the spectrum. She has one whose father likes to say how he tested one point away.

It is a fascinating anecdotal connection, but it seems to be quite common.

I'm geuninely curious, is this how these books are typeset?

I was at a conference a few years back and one of my favorite presentations was a guy from O'Riely. Up to that point most of their works were converted from docbook with XSLT to pdf,epub, or html. He had been working on HTMLBook[1] to write books in asciidoc, convert to (x)HTML5 and the conversions were written in CSS and used an antenna house processor.

It was an XML conference, so all things latex was a bit taboo. But in general, we handle a lot of XML in publishing.

[1] : https://github.com/oreillymedia/HTMLBook