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Sanokka "vittu" - R-kioski Pietarissa! Ihan totta! - silpol
Yep, something like that - Alex
А это где? - Andrey Ivanov
@aivanov: Мега Парнас - Alex
@alex: Вау! В пяти шагах однако. - Andrey Ivanov
Вот и я про то. Враги-то уже, получается, Сестру перешли - Alex
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Greasemonkey's working for me on FF3. Are you sure you have the latest version? - Daniel Andrlik
yes - but I meant more the style of using ff without all the neat gm scripts for it. ;) - Nicole Simon
what exactly scriptts? - silpol
@silpol: first and foremost the one that reveals the usernames behind the nicknames =) - Alex
show domains, show likes, friends, sticky search. :) - Nicole Simon
Beware the script that removes the visited links (at least until it plays nicely with FF3)! It bounced me into denial of access the other day. For a while there I thought I was on the twitter.... - Linda Mills
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Keith-In-Training: Running in the Vibram Five Fingers Sprint
Keith-In-Training: Running in the Vibram Five Fingers Sprint
yesterday at 1:37 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"It is virtually impossible to heel-strike with these shoes on. I thought I'd been incorporating Chi Running in my runs? Oh, so sorry. No. You don't have any appreciation for a soft landing, or picking your feet up, or having a quick cadence until you run with either the Five Fingers or barefoot. If you accidentally heel-strike, you instantly know it, and so do your molars. If anything, wearing these for short runs is a great calf workout." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
Nike makes (or used to) Air Rifts, separates your large toe, and the rest: http://www.j600.com/ - Prakash Swaminathan
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This page contains submissions for the maemo.org logo contest. The contest is now open! The closing date for entries is the 27th of July, 2008. For rules and submission guidelines, please see the contest page. - silpol via Bookmarklet
an awful sample - Alex
@bleys yes, but also awfully orange... i.e. eyeball attracting ;) - silpol
btw, how about submitting you OWN art, huh? :) - silpol
I'm no artist =) Besides, I'm not sure a pink-and-black "Ma Emo" is a potential winner - Alex
trying is no crime either :) you've said pink'n'black? "Ma Emo" also makes interesting connotations too - you've got to be participating, even with fun project, you'know ;) - silpol
Emo MUST be pink-and-black, that's for sure. I'm thinking about what I can put together, and maybe about co-opting somebody who can draw. - Alex
mmm, pink-and-black... like that DVD shoebox with SATC series? lol - silpol
Like this page font and background: http://rain-of-sprinq.azbuz.co... - Alex
ahuh, they are very similar http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/dp/B... - silpol
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И шо вы ему поставили? =) - Alex
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"Under the new plan, parents with two kids in Google day care would most likely see their annual day care bill grow to more than $57,000 from around $33,000. At the first of the three focus groups, parents wept openly. As word leaked out about the company’s plan, the Google parents began to fight back. They came up with ideas to save money, used the company’s T.G.I.F. sessions — a weekly meeting for anyone who wanted to ask questions of Google’s top executives — to plead their case, and conducted surveys showing that most parents with children in Google day care would have to leave Google’s facilities and find less expensive child care." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
Strangely written -- hard to believe this is in the NYT: "Faced with this dilemma, Google decided that the way to solve the dual problems of a too-long wait list and a too-large subsidy was — are you sitting down for this? — to get rid of C.C.L.C. and make the Kinderplex more like the Woods!" - Paul Buchheit
wow. - edythe
Sergey Brin comes off as a real gem. Looks like 'don't be evil' is morphing to 'let them eat cake'. Amazing what a 40%+ drop in share price can do. - Peter Simard
I found it odd that NYT quoted Sergey multiple times but each quote was disputed by Google PR after the fact. Seems like their PR folks are trying to do some "damage control"? - Alex Barbara
$57,000 just for someone to watch your kid? Remind me to not have kids for a while.. - Alex Barbara
Slowly but surely the shine will finally come off of Google and reality will set in. - AJ Kohn
The sense of "entitlement" is pretty stunning to an outsider who is an occasional visitor. It's pretty obvious (to me) that the "gimme" attitude is going to be an albatross around Google's neck when the time comes that their stock price returns from the stratosphere and settles around something reasonable and in line with the true value of the company. - Jason Wehmhoener
Geez. I don't know one solution that didn't generate new problems as a result of its having solved an old problem. Can't win no matter what in the eyes of the media. Also, this is news-worthy enough to be in the Times? - Ginger Makela
I have no thoughts on the day care issue in and of itself but people changing "don't be evil" into "do no evil" makes me grind my teeth. http://www.google.com/search?q... - Erica Baker
@Paul, agreed -- it's a strangely written story. The writer's bias is clear. Using heresay from employees then vaguely referring to the official statements. - Sprague D
$57,000 was for two kids... and after the price reductions, it won't be that expensive. - Michael Leggett
The author feels that employee-provided day care should be a requirement just like health insurance (not sure I agree), but fails to applaud Google's effort to make it available to those that want it. A 700-child waiting list (over 2 years) is unreasonable as is Google paying a $37,000 subsidy per child. I love working at Google... and I want them to stay around. Paying that large a subsidy is irresponsible to its employees and its shareholders. - Michael Leggett
You could argue that they should just lower costs then... but the main cost is the teachers (as it should be). Google believes teachers should be paid more and I'm proud that they are putting their money where their heart is by doing just that. If you don't want to pay so much, you can always find day care else where, right? Am I missing something? - Michael Leggett
When I visited HP I noted that they don't have the coffee carts anymore that they used to have. The employees noted that other benefits had gone away too. When the high profitability phase of a company ends, the benefits usually go away. At Microsoft they tried taking away things too, like towels in locker rooms, and the employees rebelled. - Robert Scoble
wonder what is average daycare costs there, in area? - silpol
It's absolutely incredible that day care would cost more than the mean national income ($48,201 according to Wikipedia). I understand that this is Silicon Valley, and therefore not applicable to the rules of the rest of the country, but still...it's astounding. - Spinn
We were paying $21,000 a year for two kids and that was top of the line in Charlotte. In theory I like the idea of company sponsored childcare but in reality I don't want my employer to have any influence over my kids. - Lori Reed
I posted this to reddit and got on the front page :P - Bjorn Tipling
probably I have to stop bitching about local tax - I pay monthly for not-full-day at kindergarten in about 100 meter from my house about 130 EUR, for full day it might reach 200 EUR/month max, i.e. annually 2400 EUR (~3600 USD)... hmmmmmmm - silpol
"Google can’t just have low teacher-child ratios — it has to have the lowest of anybody." - Shouldn't it be high teacher-child ratios? Unless they want more children to less teachers. - nadim
I had a hard time believing this was a NY Times article when I first saw it. Talks about child care at the beginning, then references a blog post talking about how Google is not a good place to work and then goes on to detail the child care issue. - Turker Keskinpala
@Michael -- $57G's .. not expensive? ... I don't even make that much in 2 years anymore .. - Steven Hodson
"If Google had really wanted to do something path-breaking about its day care crisis, it would have spent less time creating elitist day care centers and more time figuring out how to “scale” day care for everybody no matter what their salaries." - Gabe Schaffer
Even $33k for 2 kids seems like a lot -- at $16/hr it seems like you could just hire a babysitter for 8 hours a day to watch your two children. For $57k you could just hire a child psychologist full time. - Gabe Schaffer
@Steven I didn't mean it wasn't expensive. It is expensive. I meant it won't be as much as $57k. Maybe I'm not being fair... but I thought the article was bias (not invalid). It does raise some interesting issues... are companies responsible for providing child care? Something seems backwards with how we live when we work so much that we expect our employer to take care of our children. I don't know the answer... but good things to think about. - Michael Leggett
This same guy also wrote the weird 'open letter to Jerry Yang' the other week: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06... - j1m
So basically by having my wife stay home and do a superb job of taking care of the kids and the house during the day she is worth about $90,000 a year. Thank you babe! You are awesome! - Christian Burns
But what about people who don't have kids, should Google pay them because they are saving the company money? And what about those people who want to have kids, but can't meet the right person, should Google pay for dating services? Google is an awesome place to work, and sometimes they go overboard. Witness the swimming in place pools with lifeguards that almost nobody used. Let's agree to compare them with other companies. It's only fair. - Chris White
hmmm... let's see, four years ago, i was making $45 000 a year before i quit to take care of my daughter full time while my wife continued her job; because it made more sense than spending my entire salary on a nanny just so i could go to work. plus i get to hang out with my kid(soon to be kids) all day and do cool stuff like help them learn the alphabet, count, play their first casual computer games, go to the park, swim, museums, etc. there's always that option. - Nathan Eckenrode
It seems like everyone has ideas on how to do this at a lower cost than Google. Maybe someone should open a competing "google" daycare near the Google campus -- from the sounds of it there would be hundreds of eager customers. - Paul Buchheit
I'm interested to see if these kids actually turn out to be uber-smart. How many of the Googlers went to intense, research-driven, daycares like these?We'll see in ten to twenty years, but at times, one has to wonder how people ever became intelligent without having the latest and greatest learning craze forced down their throat. A better indicator of their intelligence will most likely be how much learning is re-inforced (deep breath here) at home by their parents, instead of video games and TV. - David Adewumi
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Хорнби охрененный - orie
"and he hadn't realized" здесь на самом деле значит "но он неожиданно понял". наглядное доказательство того, что непривычные русскому уху времена существуют на самом деле - orie
представляю каково в таких ситуациях переводчику - переводить в несуществующие в языке конструкции... - silpol
@silpol: у них это сплошь и рядом =) - Alex
@bleys не скажи - одно дело когда есть готовые суррогатные переводы, и другое дело... ну например когда нужно перевести текст, суть которого построена на гендерных конструкциях в языке или вращается вокруг будущего времени глаголов, на финский :) - silpol
@silpol: ну так не одно так другое расхождение в грамматике обязательно найдётся =) - Alex
@bleys в финском речь идет НЕ о грамматике - у них нет совсем гендерных конструкций и будущего времени - СОВСЕМ, как концепта, понимаешь да? - silpol
понимаю, да. И такие ситуации - они частые, а не редкие. =) - Alex
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Ну и политики немного, куда ж без неё - Alex via Bookmarklet
огого... "Судя по его участию в совместных акцих с литературным объединением «Бу-Ба-Бу» (бурлеск, буффонада, балаган) и по творческому наследию (которое давно уже стало классикой и разошлось в народе на цитаты), скучать украинскому народу со своим президентом теперь не придется. Можно только представить, чему Юрко Позаяк может научить высокоморального, ранимого и интеллигентного Виктора Андреевича, к тому же претендующего на звание человека со вкусом (свидетельство чего – неизменно удачное сочетание галстуков и носовых платочков). Хотя с другой стороны радует то, что Лысенко-Позаяк хорошо знает, чем живут «маленькие украинцы» в самых глухих местах страны, и умеет доступно излагать. Теперь президенту с таким знанием специфики регионов не страшно хоть в Конотоп, хоть в Ичню… " - silpol
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Как открыли, так и закрыли =) - Alex
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DM's Esoteric Programming Languages - Piet Samples
DM's Esoteric Programming Languages - Piet Samples
DM's Esoteric Programming Languages - Piet Samples
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"The effect of the program is to take in a number, and output either "PRIME" or "NOT PRIME" depending on which it is. The first part finds the whole number lower than the input's square root (a surprising amount of work in Piet) to save on runtime. Then, the program goes input-modulus-(2, 3, etc) to see if it has any factors. If it does, it goes through that big light magenta square to write out NOT, then into the dark cyan square. If none of the numbers below the square root are factors, it enters the dark cyan square. From there the program writes PRIME. It's strange that the text section takes up a lot more room than the calculation section." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
"Naturally, a more accurate value can be obtained by using a bigger program." Perfect - Alex
Я как-то видел программу на Cи, которая вычисляла свою площадь %) - via fftogo
@md zsenty, ничего себе! Но, наверное, сильно зависит от шрифта в ide (или плотности записи на диск, если там всё уж совсем низкоуровневое) - Guerilla monday
@bakava, я перепутал немного, она, как и одна из программ на Piet, вычисляет Pi путём измерения площади круга, нарисованого, в случае C, псевдографикой. Вот тут исходник: - via fftogo
Cool... - Mitchell Tsai
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You Made Me Say It...: Call To Arms - Orphaned Works Act
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"This is a call to arms for everyone to write their senator or congressman to vote against the Orphaned Works Act in both it's forms, H.R. 5889 - The Orphan Works Act of 2008 and S 2913 - The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008. There's a tremendous amount of information out there on this topic." - silpol via Bookmarklet
Судя по коментариям бедных авторов больше всего беспокоит то, что у них могут отобрать право на взыскание произвольных сумм с ответчика. - Andrey Ivanov
Комментарии несколько истеричные. Получается, что не прочитав и не вкурив исходник, понять, что на самом деле происходит, возможным не представляется (посту веры особой нет в части понимания). =) - Alex
Вот наверное более короткое summary. The Copyright office has recommended new legislation which sets out limitations on the remedies that would be available if the user proves that they have conducted a reasonably diligent search and describes a threshold of requirements of a reasonably diligent search. Ну и аффтары понятное дело бросились бить в колокола и орать что у них отбирают их и так "ограниченные" права. - Andrey Ivanov
Там ещё немало воплей по поводу необходимости где-то регистрировать свои права. И вот связь этого с diligent search не вполне ясна - Alex
Как раз ясна. Если ты зарегистрировал свои права, то можешь пытаться получить с нарушителя абсурдно большую, то есть я хотел сказать, честную компенсацию. А если не зарегистировал, то получишь маленькую, которая будет определяться тем сколько денег получил со своего нарушения ответчик. - Andrey Ivanov
А diligent search это как раз search по известным базам зарегистированных произведений. - Andrey Ivanov
Я прочел определение Orphaned Work и теперь совсем не понимаю зачем такой галдеж и лай поднимать. Где-то сказано, что, например, фотография, размещенная в Интернет на flickr или личном фотохостинге является Orphaned Work и попадает под действие этого закона? - Andrey Ivanov
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Я понимаю, Utro.ru или РБК какое-нибудь, не говоря уж о гепатитной прессе, но вот чтобы уважаемые агентства типа ВВС такое себе позволяли - Alex via Bookmarklet
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More marriages end over money issues than any other single problem. Good checklist and explanation, together with action point - it might save YOUR family. - silpol
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Трогательная история, прям для премии Дарвина - KeNest via Bookmarklet
@kenest для получения премии дарвина надо либо умереть, либо не иметь возможности обзавестись потомством. но у мужика, кажется, повреждена только нога. - Savinov
@Savinov девушка-то погибла - KeNest
Савинова девушки не интересуют, похоже :) - Tamarisk
про девушку я-то знаю. но если давать, то уж обоим. читайте между строк! - Savinov
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An excellent advice on the subject - Alex
second this :) - silpol
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Nice to have them all in one place - Alex via Bookmarklet
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the mushroom has been shot in yard at Ukrainian Consulate in Helsinki, Finland ;) - silpol
гриб рулит :) - 9000
а то... крассавЕц :) - silpol
How many mushrooms do you need to eat before you start shooting them? - Alex
this time it was just one enough to go back @ front yard and make a shot :) - silpol
and how many before you start yelling at them? =) - Vladimir Obama Lipsky
yelling? ahem... :) - silpol
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Скорее выделывается - Alex
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привет от Владьки, ага :) - Vlad Rafeyev
уменьшительно-ласкательное - это Вовчик или Вовка, Вовик - Vlad Rafeyev
Есть ещё, небось, различие между ВОвас и ВовАс. =) - Alex
@bleys неа, к короткому не добавляется -as, не знаю почему правда, но не добавляется, вова из vova. - xekc
@genie the key is in "для меня". оно какбы нам хочет сказать о некоторых особенностях некоторых из тараканов автора гхым. - xekc
Вовас-напас. :-) - collida' fo' life
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LAist: California to Legalize Weed for Everyone
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"There is an initiative in the works that could end up on the November ballot that allows for marijuana to be sold to anyone, and anywhere that already sells alcohol. Its being called The Inalienable Rights Enforcement Initiative. From the full text of the measure: This initiative will amend the Constitution of California to defend and safeguard the inalienable rights of the People against infringement by governments and corporations, providing for the lawful growth, sale, and possession of marijuana. Marijuana will be taxed through a system of stamps and licenses--a $5 stamp will be required for the sale of an eighth ounce of marijuana and a $50 annual license will be required for the growth of one marijuana plant. To protect participants and encourage participation in the system, such licenses and stamps will be available anonymously in stores where marijuana is sold." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
Like I don't have enough weeds already - does this mean that TrueGreen won't come and kill the weeds anymore? Sigh - Phillip J. Zannini via twhirl
I guess it's time to buy up Frito-Lay stock - Gabe Schaffer
there is hope... my dutch heart is jumping. - minus3
This story keeps showing up and I keep liking it. - Larry Kless
Need to figure out how to get a hold of Christopher Springer, the proponent of this proposition to talk about helping in a grass roots effort to get the signatures necessary to get this on the ballet. Anyone know how to contact the guy? - Thomas Hawk
"Grass" roots effort? Ha, I get it! - Gabe Schaffer
Alex "Can I take off my headphones around here for ONE SECOND without hearing the phrase 'smoking a bowl'?" Payne over at Twitter is now shopping for more comfortable headphones. - Karim
Like "grass roots effort" - j1m
Karim: LMAO. - Parth Awasthi
WAIT ... WHAT? Smoking ban hits Amsterdam's marijuana coffee shopshttp://simpl.es/TYLA13 - Alex Andrek
besides knowing a number of people who have already probably started to pack their bags.... all I know is that if it passes, I'd love to see the statistics... the increase in revenue based on taxes and tourism should be nice - nick carrasco
I'd love to see what the Feds do about this. As I understand it, Federal law would still make it illegal. - Gabe Schaffer
California would make a pretty good country by itself. Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Central Valley, Lake Tahoe, and San Francisco. Arnold Schwarzenegger could even be president here. :) - Chris White
Chris: I don't know about Tahoe. California and Nevada might have to go to war over it, like Pakistan and India fighting over Kashmir. - Gabe Schaffer
that secession thinking was here and there while reading this thread... guys, pass that what you smoke there, huh? :) - silpol
"going to california in my mind" :-) - Slippy Lane
In other news, Starbucks announced a new line of Space Cakes™ and Hemppuccinos™ to be available in 2009, only in California. - Karim
Meanwhile, the FDA is killing you LEGALLY. - Thomas T. Panto
I'm with Gabe...it's a Federally controlled substance so it will be interesting to see how it pans out if it passes.....hmmm maybe I should lobby for my home state to outlaw Fedral Income tax! :) LOL - Rob Neville via twhirl
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Был тут в Москвосити, у них на первом этаже как раз общедоступный sodex - Alex
боюсь нас гречкой вряд ли вообще когда накормят - немцы (особенно "гостевые") могут не понять и сильно обидеться :) - silpol
sodex вообще более чем общедоступный, если верить википедии, один из их крупных catering projects кормит в тюрьмах крупнейшей пенитенциарной страны в мире :) - silpol
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Thanxalotl, увы, уже не G-verified - Alex
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