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I agree with the spirit of the article, and would like to add that the thing that bugs me about these Wikipedia re-designs is that none of these designers seem to know that it's quite easy to add your own CSS and restyle Wikipedia.

I've been rocking my own Wikipedia theme for over a year now:

https://github.com/geetotes/wikipedia-theme

Some techniques I've used:

* Speaking in an accent. It doesn't have to be a good accent or super overt, just anything to change your voice. I've found focusing on pulling off the accent forces you to concentrate on you speech more and you end up stuttering less. Possibly a good jumping off point would be audiobooks of accent lessons (such as Received or Standard Pronunciation) for actors.

* Swaping out words you get stuck on. Like how Porky Pig's trademark is "That's all folks!" (since he can't get through saying "The End"), you can substitute words and phrases when you find yourself stuck on something.

* Memorizing, word for word, your presentation. Whenever I have to give a presentation, I'll write down everything that I'm going to say and memorize it like a script (as compared to presenting from an outline). Don't know why this works for me, but it does.

My own anecdotal evidence shows no effect. Also, nice username.

Then I probably shouldn't introduce you to The Daily WTF[0]

[0]http://thedailywtf.com/

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Upvoting because there is definitely demand for this service, but not sure it's a good idea. It would encourage a "race-to-the-bottom" type behavior on the part of employers and encourage a situation similar to indentured servitude for those who pressed the panic button.

If you can, wrap all your SQL statements in a transaction and check them first :)

You could always have your CasperJS scraping script make an AJAX request to a RESTful API for your MySQL DB. You won't be doing it all from one piece of code, but you'll be doing about 90% of it.

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I'm going to speculate that this is a very strategic move from Facebook. Remember BlackBerry Messenger? one of the early selling points of the phone was that BBM let you communicate for free, instantly, with people all over the world. It was pretty revolutionary at it's time.

Facebook is already becoming the world's phonebook. Connect with someone and you have a way to contact them.

Facebook is also heavily pushing it's messaging app on the main Facebook app. I think that WhatsApp will be integrated with (or replace) Facebook messenger.

This combination builds a powerful base for an eventual Facebook phone with a free data/voice plan (the phone would have a base price, but service would be free thanks to the sale of ads ala Kindle Special Offers). Think about it -- if you could call, text, and message all of your contacts, for free, from within the Facebook app, why wouldn't you do it?

If Facebook follows that strategy, they will get their 19 billion out of this deal for sure.

I'm imagining a user who's very busy and puts off taking the selfie until the last minute... when they're in line.

Then the show the photo they just took to the bouncer to get in?

I think the reaction from people at these events will be 'this app is dumb' after seeing someone take a photo then show it to the bouncer when the look exactly the same in real life!

I mean, wouldn't you feel silly if you had bought and paid for a ticket to an event then had to take a photo of yourself standing in line in order to get in?

[Edit: my constructive criticism here is what are you going to do about the users who will take the photo at the last second?]

I assume because you can break the CD in half and use it as a weapon

One of the initial draws of Bitcoin is that there is a fixed amount of BTC available and once it's all mined, it's impossible to anyone to "print more money". But now, with clone currencies like dogecoin and litecoin (and now coinye), it's possible to print more money by simply forking the codebase.

The irony tickles me so.

Yes, I agree. I would just hang out in rooms all day; tt.fm was like a rush of nostalgia from my IRC days.

I hate to be negative, but the formatting of these scripts make them unreadable: http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts...

Are these even scripts? Or just subtitles?

As a fellow New Yorker, I would be upset of taxes on visitor housing were eliminated.

The governments gotta get it's money somehow, and I'd rather them tax visitor housing and the housing would pass those costs down to the tourists than for taxes for everyday New Yorkers be raised.

Here's the repo of healthcare.gov is anyone is interested in addressing some of the optimization issues mentioned in the article:

https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov

> The question is: how could one find evidence that justifies or refutes the idea that the scale of firms does in fact fit zipf and that measure is being obscured at the tail?

Well, I think to find that evidence, you would have to take a measurement of the amount of shadow banking from one of these firms. Objectively, you can't do that, since there is no agreed upon definition of what the term shadow banking means.

A friend of a friend payed for college by doing kidnappings like this.

Basically, people would come to him wanting to be kidnapped, to feel a rush of adrenaline that comes with a life threatening experience.

Paying his rates for kidnapping -- 10K and up -- was not something a rational person would do. His clients were similar to those of the high-end dominatrix; rich, successful, people (usually men), with deep-seated complexes. Maybe the meaning had left their lives. Maybe a past trauma had gotten them addicted to adrenaline and violence. Maybe they saw themselves a big kidnapping targets, and the faux kidnappings were just training for the real thing.

Whatever the reason, people paid him to do it.

This is a confusing article to read because the author never makes clear why he is the guy getting screwed; what his particular circumstances are, how they are different from other groups of people who might be benefiting from ACA, and what other groups of people similar to him might be getting screwed as well. Without this context, I don't know what to take away from this article.

I'm pretty sure this is fake because most arranged (consentual) kidnappings I've heard of have cost much more than $4.99/month.

I actually think their tobacco section is a little buggy. On Chrome on Fedora 17, I wasn't able to get the tool top to pop up to see how "tobacco usage" is defined (some states define it as use within the last 12 months, some states define it as use right now).

If you're going development related queries, I strongly suggest taking advantage of the !bangs and searching the official documentation first.

Being limited to only the jquery docs vs. googling until I found a random stack overflow question that I could copypasta helped me improve as a developer.

Yeah, same with chrome. looks like every skill you clicked on created an entry in the browser's history. Not sure why they did the UX like that; it's very annoying.

Wow! What happened to Sinatra?

I'm the opposite. Judging from my whiteboard handwriting, I wish I spent more time learning cursive.

The thing that this OP-ed misses is that the fear around this surveillance is that once we're done with terrorism, the "haystack" of data will be searched for tax fraud, drug deals, etc. If the writer of the op-ed could address those fears, this would actually be an enlightening read, not just a boilerplate response from someone in the intelligence community.

I have 3 GB of ram in my Thinkpad T60 and that seems to handle about everything I need to do. Why would I need more?

I share the same fear about legalization: Phillip Morris will swoop in and start mass-producing packs of joints or find crafty ways to put small grow-ops out of business.

I think the "medical" route is the best way to go. Yes, it is a bit of hassle to go and get a green card, but I hope it will help slow the corporate industrialization of marijuana.

Furthermore, I think that marijuana's proper position in society should be that of a medicine, not as a general intoxicant.