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Hunger in America, Visible if You Look for It - NYTimes.com
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The growing army of hidden hungry is such that you may miss them, indistinguishable from other commuters on a well-lit el platform.
I thought about that after Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Forrest Claypool, head of the Chicago Transit Authority, on Tuesday unveiled a $25 million touch-up to improve the look, feel and safety of stations at a time when there is little money for the central problems of aging tracks, century-old maintenance facilities, subpar power stations and poor signaling equipment. -
At UBS, It’s the Culture That’s Rogue - NYTimes.com
When Kweku Adoboli was arrested for an illicit trading scheme that cost his employer, the global bank UBS, $2.3 billion in losses, he was instantly labeled a “rogue trader,” suggesting he was an unprincipled scoundrel acting alone.
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The UBS board is meeting in Singapore to deal with a trading scandal, and may decide the fate of Oswald Grübel, its chief.
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UBS moved swiftly to distance itself. Mr. Adoboli had engaged in “unauthorized” and “fictitious” trades that “violated UBS’s risk limits,” the bank claimed in a statement. -
Bloomberg’s Computer Project for Personnel Data Leads to Waste - NYTimes.com
oon after becoming mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg announced a plan to modernize the computer system that handles personnel information for New York City’s vast work force. The $66 million project was to be one of the signature technological innovations of his tenure.
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The Big Mud Puddle: Tricky Programming Concepts Aren’t
What Teachers do Wrong
Teachers use subversive language. They say things like “this is a bit tricky” before introducing a concept. It’s intended to remind you to pay attention, but mostly it turns students off—it says “this is hard; I don’t expect you to understand it”.
Frankly, that’s bullshit, and it has appeared—and caused problems—in nearly every class I’ve ever taken. It’s especially visible in mathematics and the sciences, but foreign language, social studies, literature, and even drafting are not immune. -
Open Core MySQL - Simon Says...
Oracle has finally done what the business management at MySQL had been asymptotically approaching for years. It’s taking MySQL open core. It’s interesting to read the views of the founder of MySQL (as well as the comments). Monty says:
What is most important to understand about an Open Core project is that it has nothing to do with an open source project. If you are depending on a single closed source component then you have to regard the whole project as a closed source project as you lose all the benefits of open source
The comments suggest Monty may be interpreting the facts a little more than is instantly obvious, but it’s still educational. My own view of the “open core” model is the same; once your business depends on something where the four software freedoms are not available, you no longer benefit from their derivatives. -
Patient dies after Lap-Band surgery - latimes.com
An Orange County woman has died after weight-loss surgery at a West Hills outpatient clinic, the fifth person to die shortly after Lap-Band procedures at clinics affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN advertising campaign since 2009, according to lawsuits, coroner's records and interviews.
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Motorola insider tells all about the fall of a technology icon -- Engadget
Last month we were contacted by the late Geoffrey Frost's personal adviser at Motorola; until Frost's death in 2005, Numair Faraz worked under the Motorola's former CMO -- the man widely regarded as the father of the RAZR. Like many (ourselves included), over the years Numair has become increasingly disenfranchised with the company's direction -- enough so that he compelled us to publish his letter to Motorola, its board of directors, and MOT investors everywhere regarding the company's egregious missteps and mismanagement.
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Numair Faraz: I was once a Facebook fool
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