Yostivanich

Social net­work­ing lets me resent more people.

“Cats don’t do anything”

“Under­score is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that pro­vides a lot of the func­tional pro­gram­ming sup­port that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but with­out extend­ing any of the built-in JavaScript objects. It’s the tie to go along with jQuery’s tux.”

“Greet­ing again from the heart­land. Here is a quick plu­gin that dupli­cates one or more ele­ments n times. This func­tion is sim­i­lar to the clone() method but will clone the ele­ments mul­ti­ple times plac­ing them in the same col­lec­tion.” Nice.

“The Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol and Prevention’s Advi­sory Com­mit­tee on Immu­niza­tion Prac­tices on Wednes­day rec­om­mended GlaxoSmithKline’s human papil­lo­mavirus vac­cine, Cer­varix, for rou­tine use in vac­ci­nat­ing girls and young women to pre­vent cer­vi­cal can­cer, the AP/New York Times reports (Sto­bbe, AP/New York Times, 10/21). GSK said the panel rec­om­mended rou­tine admin­is­tra­tion of Cer­varix to pro­tect against cer­vi­cal can­cer in girls ages 11 and 12, as well as girls and women ages 13 through 25 who have not been vac­ci­nated (Rich­wine, Reuters, 10/21). CDC will need to adopt the new rec­om­men­da­tion to make it part of offi­cial advice to U.S. physi­cians (AP/New York Times, 10/21). FDA approved Cer­varix last week for use in girls and women ages 10 through 25 to pre­vent cer­vi­cal cancer”

“I need to remind myself of this some­times. We are just get­ting started. There are must-haves and there are nice-to-haves. And the things that are burn­ing in your heart to get into the prod­uct may not always fall into must-have.” Some­thing I need to remem­ber at work.

“While I adore CakePHP and the things it lets you do sim­ply by fol­low­ing con­ven­tion — it’s very easy to get sucked into the “Best Prac­tice” mind­set, and waste a lot of time work­ing on some­thing that hon­estly doesn’t need to be tin­kered with.”

“Faced with a large-scale loss of pro­fes­sional news sto­ries from its search engine, Google would likely have lit­tle choice but to begin pay­ing sites to index their con­tent. That would be a night­mare sce­nario for Google — and a dream come true for news­pa­pers and other big con­tent pro­duc­ers. Of course, for now this is all just spec­u­la­tion. The odds are that none of it will come to pass. The idea that news­pa­pers might come together to pur­sue a rad­i­cal and risky strat­egy seems far-fetched. Then again, maybe the time has finally come for news­pa­pers to take a deep col­lec­tive breath and apply the lever­age they still hold. They don’t have a whole lot left to lose.”

“In the end, both rea­son and sci­ence have their place. When mak­ing a deci­sion in a sit­u­a­tion where tak­ing mea­sure­ments is dif­fi­cult or impos­si­ble, the only thing you can do is fol­low your intu­ition. The early days of most star­tups are such an envi­ron­ment. If you’re doing some­thing truly rev­o­lu­tion­ary, there’s very lit­tle you can mea­sure in the begin­ning to val­i­date your the­o­ries. In fact, intro­duc­ing mea­sure­ment at this stage can be extremely harm­ful, because you make what you mea­sure. The mea­sure­ments you choose (which will nec­es­sar­ily be some­what arbi­trary) will shape what you make, and you will most likely end up mak­ing the wrong thing. This is why the intuition-driven entre­pre­neur thrives in the early stages of a startup.” Dif­fer­ent but both usefull.

“A group of con­ser­v­a­tive Repub­li­can lead­ers is propos­ing a solu­tion to the internecine war­fare over what the party should stand for: a 10-point check­list gaug­ing proper adher­ence to core prin­ci­ples like oppos­ing gov­ern­ment financ­ing for abor­tion and, more gen­er­ally, Pres­i­dent Obama’s “social­ist agenda.” In what was being dubbed a purity test when it leaked out to reporters on Mon­day, the pro­posal would require the party to with­hold cam­paign money and endorse­ments from can­di­dates who do not adhere to at least seven prin­ci­ples on the check­list.” Beyond stupid.

“The World Wide Web Con­sor­tium has pub­lished a draft of an inter­face that browsers can use to manip­u­late files bet­ter, one of a series of steps aimed at grad­u­ally improv­ing the sophis­ti­ca­tion and pol­ish of Web site inter­faces. The draft File API (appli­ca­tion pro­gram­ming inter­face) defines a num­ber of ways that browsers and Web sites can han­dle files bet­ter. One big part of it: being able to select mul­ti­ple files for upload, such as on photo-sharing sites or Web-based e-mail, a task that often relies on Adobe Sys­tems’ Flash today.”

“The US will announce a tar­get for reduc­ing green­house gas emis­sions before next month’s UN cli­mate sum­mit, accord­ing to a White House offi­cial. The tar­get is expected to be in line with fig­ures con­tained in leg­is­la­tion before the Sen­ate — a reduc­tion of about 17–20% from 2005 lev­els by 2020. The absence of a US tar­get has widely been seen as the sin­gle biggest obsta­cle to agree­ment at the sum­mit. Pres­i­dent Barack Obama has not yet decided whether to attend the talks. At the week­end, the hosts of the Copen­hagen con­fer­ence announced that more than 60 heads of state and gov­ern­ment had pledged to take part in the two-week nego­ti­at­ing session.”

“This year will be one of the top five warmest years glob­ally since records began 150 years ago, accord­ing to fig­ures com­piled by the Met Office. The UK’s weather ser­vice projects that, unless there is an excep­tion­ally cold spell before the end of the year, tem­per­a­tures will be up on last year. Cli­mate scep­tics had pointed out that the tem­per­a­ture rise appeared to have stalled in the last decade or so.”

“A US cen­sus worker who was found hang­ing naked from a tree and bound with duct tape killed him­self but made it look like a mur­der, author­i­ties say.” I guess that is sorta good news.

“The com­pany said on Tues­day that it was cre­at­ing a dual-class stock struc­ture for itself, and con­vert­ing all of its cur­rent shares into so-called Class B shares, which will have 10 votes each on mat­ters of cor­po­rate gov­er­nance. Class A shares, which would be sold in an ini­tial pub­lic offer­ing, would carry one vote. Face­book said it had “no plans to go pub­lic at this time.””

“The most impor­tant new antidis­crim­i­na­tion law in two decades — the Genetic Infor­ma­tion Nondis­crim­i­na­tion Act — will take effect in the nation’s work­places next week­end, pro­hibit­ing employ­ers from request­ing genetic test­ing or con­sid­er­ing someone’s genetic back­ground in hir­ing, fir­ing or pro­mo­tions. The act also pro­hibits health insur­ers and group plans from requir­ing such test­ing or using genetic infor­ma­tion — like a fam­ily his­tory of heart dis­ease — to deny cov­er­age or set pre­mi­ums or deductibles.”

“Here in Amer­ica, the phi­los­o­phy behind jobs pol­icy can be sum­ma­rized as “if you grow it, they will come.” That is, we don’t really have a jobs pol­icy: we have a G.D.P. pol­icy. The the­ory is that by stim­u­lat­ing over­all spend­ing we can make G.D.P. grow faster, and this will induce com­pa­nies to stop fir­ing and resume hiring.”

“Most econ­o­mists I talk to believe that the big risk to recov­ery comes from the inad­e­quacy of gov­ern­ment efforts: the stim­u­lus was too small, and it will fade out next year, while high unem­ploy­ment is under­min­ing both con­sumer and busi­ness confidence.”

“We crit­ics of FC ques­tion why peo­ple can appar­ently give speeches in pub­lic — via a key­board and a “facil­i­ta­tor” — and go to col­lege — sim­i­larly “assisted” — yet they can­not answer a series of sim­ple ques­tions under con­trolled con­di­tions! Psy­chol­o­gist Daniel Weg­ner, pro­fes­sor of psy­chol­ogy at Har­vard Uni­ver­sity and a fel­low of the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion for the Advance­ment of Sci­ence has stated that facil­i­tated com­mu­ni­ca­tion is a strik­ing exam­ple of the ideo­mo­tor effect, and tests of FC show that it is a com­plete fraud, farce, and delusion!”

“A U.S. Navy ser­vice­man was found not guilty Mon­day of sex­u­ally assault­ing a pros­ti­tute at a brothel while on shore leave in Australia’s biggest city. A New South Wales Dis­trict Court jury cleared Petty Offi­cer Tim­o­thy Davis, 25, of a charge of sex­ual inter­course with­out con­sent, with the aggra­vat­ing fac­tor of caus­ing the woman actual bod­ily harm. The charge car­ries a sen­tence of up to 20 years in prison.” Right because he only held her down to have sex.

“In a con­tro­ver­sial move, Lin­coln Uni­ver­sity in Penn­syl­va­nia is requir­ing over­weight stu­dents to take a fit­ness course in order to receive their degrees. The man­date, which took effect for fresh­men who entered in the fall of 2006, requires that stu­dents have their body mass index (BMI) measured.”

Repeat­ing makes it true.

“Video on the Web is an inter­me­di­ate case between broad­cast video (TV) and page-based Web nav­i­ga­tion. Pre­lim­i­nary data indi­cates that most Web videos should be short — typ­i­cally 2–10 min­utes — indi­cat­ing a usage veloc­ity between Web and TV, but closer to the Web’s veloc­ity of one user deci­sion every 10–120 sec­onds. When you develop con­tent, ser­vices, and designs for the Web, remem­ber that this medium has a much faster veloc­ity than older media, whether print or TV.”

“Busi­nesses are under no oblig­a­tion to sign up to a paid account, but doing so will pro­vide them with a “spe­cial layer of access”, includ­ing feed­back and sta­tis­tics, said Stone. Many big name brands and com­pa­nies have embraced Twit­ter as a way of com­mu­ni­cat­ing directly with con­sumers and engag­ing with cus­tomers. Per­sonal accounts remain free.”