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Labour markets: Long-term unemployment is a sticky situation | The Economist

Finance & economics | Labour markets Labour markets work in strange ways |5 min read By R.A. | WASHINGTON CATHERINE RAMPELL tells the troubling story of the long-term unemployed in America, who often find that even their job applications are unwelcome: Already have an account?Log in Continue with a…

Jul 28, 2011

Kei Igawa - The Lost Yankee - NYTimes.com

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Kei Igawa keeps a strict exercise regimen in addition to his workouts with the team. He is often already doing sprints in the outfield or running stadium steps when his teammates arrive.Credit...Benjamin Norman for The New York Times TRENTON — In the middle of a bright Manhattan summer afternoon,…

Jul 27, 2011

Winning the SABR Debate, Part I | NotGraphs Baseball

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Part I of an infinity part series dedicated to dissecting the bad ideas of SABR-bashers. We’ve all reached that point in the discussion. The point when, say, you are debating the merits of a given player and you have just cited xFIP, or wOBA, or WAR. “What!??” your opponent replies incredulously.…

Jul 27, 2011

From Technologist to Philosopher - Manage Your Career - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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How does someone become a technologist? In my case, it happened in college. I was an undergraduate at Columbia University, reading and discussing what were once unrepentantly called “the classics.” I really wanted to understand what the great thinkers thought about the great questions of life, the…

Jul 26, 2011

Online commenting: the age of rage | Technology | The Observer

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For a while after his first TV series was broadcast in 2009, comedian Stewart Lee was in the habit of collecting and filing some of the comments that people made about him on web pages and social media sites. He did a 10-minute Google trawl most days for about six months and the resultant collected…

Jul 25, 2011

Baseball Umpires' Staff Development Genius: Balancing Winning Today With Winning Tomorrow

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Monday, July 25, 2011 Baseball Umpires' Staff Development Genius: Balancing Winning Today With Winning Tomorrow Baseball is sharper about managing in competitive environments than corporate or military or government arenas are. It's zero-sum (for every win there has to be a loss) & transparent, both…

Jul 25, 2011

Griffin: Canadian baseball hits a home run on Induction Day - thestar.com

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Roberto Alomar holds his plaque after his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., on Sunday. ( Mike Groll / AP ) By Baseball Columnist Mon., July 25, 2011 It seemed like Canada Day at the Clark Sports Center, with an estimated 17,500 in attendance and Canuck angles abounding.…

Jul 25, 2011

Visualizing Requirements vs. Scope | OpenRoad

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During the course of a strategy engagement a few years ago, Gord and I drew a diagram on the whiteboard that illustrates how business and user requirements intersect to form the scope (and possibly the roadmap) for a project. The diagram proved useful in explaining where requirements went after…

Jul 25, 2011

The Chart That Should Accompany All Discussions of the Debt Ceiling - James Fallows - Politics - The Atlantic

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It's this one, from yesterday's New York Times. Click for a more detailed view, though it's pretty clear as is. It's based on data from the Congressional Budget Office and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Its significance is not partisan (who's "to blame" for the deficit) but…

Jul 25, 2011

Fear and Gaming: Crazy Train « The Bygone Bureau

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The royal blue Class 55 British Railways “Deltic” locomotive pulls out of York with a satisfying metallic chunk-a-chunk. The twin diesel engines whine majestically as they begin a special service, hauling a group of hooligans to a soccer game in Darlington. This is post-war England, an era of…

Jul 25, 2011

Not Among Friends: The Fine Art of Ignoring Hostile Crowds. Or: Nyjer Morgan, Come on Down! | The Baseball Codes

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Forget lefty-on-lefty matchups; there’s one battle a baseball player simply can not win: going nose to nose with any segment of the crowd, particularly on the road. One of the first things a player learns, even in the minors, is to avoid negative engagement at nearly any cost. Bleacher bums like…

Jul 25, 2011

Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast? : Caffeinated Bitstream

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One of life's minor annoyances is having to wait on my devices to connect to the network after I wake them from sleep. All too often, I'll open the lid on my EeePC netbook, enter a web address, and get the dreaded "This webpage is not available" message because the machine is still working on…

Jul 24, 2011

Can Bill Simmons Win the Big One? - NYTimes.com

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For Bill Simmons, the walk on Laker game days from his office at ESPN to the Staples Center — or “the Silicon Center,” as he once referred to it in a column — is an excruciating 250 yards, a nauseating gantlet of purple and yellow jerseys, T-shirts and banners that choke L.A. Live, the cheesy…

Jul 24, 2011

You are not running out of time - Rahul Bijlani | Rahul Bijlani

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or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Began Enjoying Infinity Rahul Bijlani, October 2010 Hacker News Discussion Tale of two conquerors Early in his political career, Julius Caesar is said to have wept upon reading a biography of Alexander the Great. When asked why, he apparently said, “Do you…

Jul 24, 2011

Phone hacking: let's break up this information cartel | Heather Brooke | Comment is free | The Guardian

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Nick Clegg was right to acknowledge on Wednesday that phone hacking is the symptom of a wider problem: the cosy, corrupt relationship between the power elites. He didn't, however, identify the root cause of this corruption – the secretive system of information patronage. I was amazed, having been a…

Jul 24, 2011

Everything you need to know about the debt ceiling in one post - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post

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GALLERY: Click the image above to see what might happen if Congress does not raise the debt limit. What it is: The debt ceiling is a legal cap on the amount of money the Treasury can borrow to fund existing government functions. It essentially authorizes the Treasury to borrow the money necessary to…

Jul 24, 2011

Sending group auto-replies using Virtual Attendants with Cerberus Helpdesk

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Introduction Auto-responders are a useful tool in many situations; for example: Groups can send a confirmation for new tickets, which gives customers a reference number and an ETA. Mail sent to a certain address, or with a specific subject like "Tell me more" , can be sent an automated response with…

Jul 24, 2011

Review: Watching MLB.TV Within the Bosom of France | NotGraphs Baseball

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The author wouldn’t mind faire-ing a couple of bises with the French First Lady. If there’s anything more annoying than a young, childless person spending two-plus weeks in the South of France at the height of summer, it’s to hear that same young, childless person complain about spending two-plus…

Jul 24, 2011

Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings? -- Daily Intel

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I do not enjoy Facebook — I find it cloying and impossible — but I am there every day. Last year I watched a friend struggle through breast cancer treatment in front of hundreds of friends. She broadcast her news with caution, training her crowd in how to react: no drama, please; good vibes; videos…

Jul 24, 2011

The Digital Storage of Analog Memories | Caseorganic Blog

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Frictional Objects Do you have a bunch of physical items stuck in storage? Objects you’ve kept over time that you can’t get rid of because you have a set of memories attached to them? Objects are keystones of memory, but pictures of those objects are still adequate keystones. Your brain is more than…

Jul 23, 2011

The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress - NYTimes.com

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Self-portrait by Tarn Adams, left, using characters from his game. Right, Zach Adams. Tarn Adams was in the carpeted spare bedroom that serves as his work space, trying to avert an apocalyptic outbreak of vampire dwarves. “If they just run wild biting people, half the dwarves in the colony will be…

Jul 23, 2011

Bill Simmons on Ryan Reynolds, Will Smith, and the perception of success in Hollywood - Grantland

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Star Perceived success is the name of the game in Hollywood Every NBA team starts a home game the same way: by announcing the visiting team’s starting lineup, then turning out the lights and cranking a song that’s either hip-hop happy or gratuitously goose-bumpish (like Phil Collins’ “In the Air…

Jul 23, 2011

Observations: New ATM Designed For Semi-Literate and Illiterate Populations

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Jul 23, 2011

A Baseball Story | American McCarver. Your Sports Blog.

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I know. I’m supposed to be writing about hockey. But the hockey off-season is full of lulls in the action and no one wants to listen to me reminisce once again about how great hockey was in the 80s. Besides, it’s the baseball All-Star break. The fun part of the season where we get to kick back, talk…

Jul 23, 2011