Archive for April, 2009
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insights into human decision-making
Thanks to a tweet by Guy Kawasaki (@guykawasaki), today I found a great NYT magazine article: “The Green Issue: Why Isn’t the Brain Green?” It quickly segued from the specifics of poll results on the importance of climate change into an interesting discussion of how humans make decisions under uncertainty and risk - highly relevant […]
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20 Things Programmers Say When Something Is Not Working
I found this today via @ahkai on Twitter, and it made me LOL: 20 Things Programmers Say When Something Is Not Working. I do agree with GirlGeek’s comment that “That’s not a bug, that’s a feature” definitely should have been on the list!
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overcoming language barriers
On Feb 28 I discovered and installed the Global Translator plugin for Wordpress. The plugin supports 4 different translation engines, with Google providing by far the most choices. I built a short list of friends who are native (or at least fluent) speakers of many of the available languages, configured the plugin for source language […]
