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Reader Liberation Front. • #редизайн - × × ×

"This is a haphazard process. The payment mechanism is to a very large extent bonus-based. So the contracts usually have a minimum pay segment in it, which is more or less established by tradition. And then the interesting part in this contract is how much is left to the peer review process, which is very complicated. It involves various layers of mutual assessment. "In companies like Microsoft or elsewhere, usually the bonus is something between 8, 15, 20 percent of the basic salary. In Valve, I'm told, there's no upper limit to bonuses. Bonuses can end up being 5, 6, 10 times the level of the basic wage." "Gabe [Newell] had this view from the beginning. He wanted a community of partners, he didn't want to be the boss of anyone or to be bossed around by anyone." - × × ×

«За счет повышения налогов власти планировали сократить дефицит Пенсионного фонда на 40 миллиардов рублей. Предприниматели, в свою очередь, с самого начала предупреждали, что будут закрывать бизнес или «уходить в тень» и не будет ни честного бизнеса, ни налогов. Это в итоге и произошло. По данным Федеральной налоговой службы, только за декабрь и январь в России было ликвидировано 208 тысяч ИП. Сокращение числа предпринимателей зафиксировано практически во всех регионах страны. Как пишет «Российская газета» со ссылкой на данные «Опоры России» (занимается защитой прав малого бизнеса), такое снижение числа ИП уже сейчас лишило местные бюджеты налоговых поступлений на 3,5 миллиарда рублей. По оценке Минэкономразвития, если такие тенденции в секторе индивидуального предпринимательства сохранятся, к концу 2013 года он потеряет около миллиона рабочих мест. Для сравнения, именно столько сейчас в России составляет вся зарегистрированная безработица». • #рукономика - × × ×

"For five years I have been a recluse. I don't leave the house for months at a time. I venture out into the world only when it is necessary to maintain my isolation. I'm not agoraphobic, I'm not depressed, and I'm not insane. I simply don't socialize." - × × ×

“You don't just get up one day and say "Fuck it, people suck. I'm not going out anymore". It's not that you cant do that, believe me, there are people that can and do, it's just that the world wont let you. If you just quit the world immediately, without any warning, then the world freaks out; a million text messages will be sent, cops will be called to check on you, interventions will be held, walruses will be dispatched on rescue scooters. Well not that last one, but I have to keep you, the reader, on your toes.” - × × ×

“Two of the most challenging problems tackled with quadrocopters so far are balancing an inverted pendulum and juggling balls. My colleagues at ETH Zurich’s Flying Machine Arena have now combined the two. As part of his Master thesis Dario Brescianini, student at ETH Zurich’s Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, has developed algorithms that allow quadrocopters to juggle an inverted pendulum. If you are not sure what that means (or how that is even possible), have a look at his video “Quadrocopter Pole Acrobatics”. • #now_this_is_awesome ∙ #гудрон - × × ×

Ждём квадрокоптеры, укрощающие тигров. И лезгинка. - × × ×

робонинзя. немного же нам осталось, брате - ʕノ•ᴥ•ʔノ ︵ StandardError

#flickrussian - × × ×

"I hope that this article compiles all the basic ingredients of knowledge that are helpful in accomplishing refreshing sleep. As for the sacrifice, it is important to begin with the understanding that one cannot eat one's cake and have it too. Healthy sleep may be incompatible with some modern habits, some cravings, or some lifestyle choices. At worst, refreshing sleep may be incompatible with one's job or even long-term goals. Due to the latter fact, this article cannot provide a solution for everyone. Moreover, having a happy and fresh mind on a daily basis is a difficult thing to accomplish even with an arsenal of knowledge and full focus on good sleep. However, let me state it emphatically, good sleep on most nights is feasible for most people!" • #схватил_за_мозг - × × ×

"That being said, this little project definitely gave me a sense for what could be accomplished with SimCity if put in the right hands. I noticed plenty of other little interesting takeaways from my hour of play, including the fact that once I'd built East Didsbury, the strip of shops in Northenden stopped making as much money as they once were, and some were even beginning to close down as my time ran out. Walk along Northenden high street, and you'll know that feeling." • #проигры • #города_и_люди - × × ×

Yes! Whoever played SimCity, knows that building more roads stops to help pretty soon. - 9000

"Then, in 2009, a Duke University professor demonstrated that our eyes can scan an image fastest when its shape is a golden rectangle. For instance, it’s the ideal layout of a paragraph of text, the one most conducive to reading and retention. This simple shape speeds up our ability to perceive the world, and without realizing it, we employ it wherever we can. Certain patterns also have universal appeal. Natural fractals — irregular, self-similar geometry — occur virtually everywhere in nature: in coastlines and riverways, in snowflakes and leaf veins, even in our own lungs. In recent years, physicists have found that people invariably prefer a certain mathematical density of fractals — not too thick, not too sparse. The theory is that this particular pattern echoes the shapes of trees, specifically the acacia, on the African savanna, the place stored in our genetic memory from the cradle of the human race. To paraphrase one biologist, beauty is in the genes of the beholder — home is where the genome is" • #схватил_за_мозг - × × ×

Ой, спасибо. - mindszenty

“We've shown you how to load up your ereaders with free ebooks, and Project Gutenberg is a great place to do it. Recently, they made accessing their catalog of 42,000 free ebooks that much easier by adding Dropbox integration. All you have to do is find your favorite ebook and click the Dropbox icon next to it, and that book will be synced to your Dropbox—as well as all of your devices on which you've installed the Dropbox app (like your phone, tablet, or even rooted Nook). That means you essentially have one click syncing for all the books you care to read from Project Gutenberg. Kindle users will have to go a step further and email the file to their Kindle email address, but it's nothing you couldn't automate with Wappwolf.” - × × ×

Bookshelves today are simply not as appealing as they used to be, and there's no shortage of people looking to digitize their own book collections. Fortunately, we now have easy and relatively inexpensive ways to digitize those books. You don't have to slave away at your copier or scanner, either—we’re talking about building a book scanner of your very own. We're not talking about the numerous book scanning services that have popped up in the last few years, offering book digitization at the cost of only a few cents per page. Nor are we talking about chopping off the binding of your book and feeding the pages into a copier or scanner, or purchasing a commercial book scanner for upwards of $10,000 (that just isn’t going to happen for most). No, we're talking toolbelts, paint cans, bike brakes, and digital cameras—doing it yourself. • #прокниги - × × ×

"I think nostalgia is very quickly replaced with convenience." • #прокниги - × × ×

“In a tragic epilogue to the inspiring story of a man who never gave up, Olympian Oscar Pistorius — who ran alongside able-bodied athletes on futuristic blades of carbon fiber as millions of people watched — has been charged with murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend. News of the 26-year-old runner’s arrest in his hometown of Pretoria, South Africa, following the shooting death of model Reeva Steenkamp, stunned fans who had cheered him on, and the country that considered him a national hero.” - × × ×

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“Somewhere, deep down under the streets of Photoshop, down where the mole people live, is a little framework called "MacApp." It's a remnant from the very first versions, a fragment of foundation. MacApp originally let Photoshop communicate with the underlying operating system, which was then Mac OS 6.0.3. Apple eventually abandoned the MacApp framework, but Adobe didn't. MacApp stuck around in a few spots as part of the platform-agnostic "glue layer," a common reference point for code which could then be executed on either Mac or Windows. Nowadays, few engineers spend any time talking directly to the operating system; they work with "Photoshop code," building their functionality safe from those specifics.” • #редизайн - × × ×

#макмиграция - × × ×

macintosh for macintosh - nazer

а мой нетбук зовут Пшимаф. он адыг. - курящий гей-атеист

«Для всех у кого непонятки с датами у нас в Челябинске метеориты каждый день падают» - × × ×

Квору явно сильно изнутри давят по количеству регистраций и всяким engagement-метрикам. • #ящик_кейсов - × × ×

#the_daily_wtf - × × ×

это старая нлп-ишная штучка про пристройку - всегда можно сказать "это, конечно, повод" - ⓒⓔⓐ

"A new study released on Tuesday by the Pew Research Center‘s Internet and American Life Project found that 61 percent of current Facebook users admitted that they had voluntarily taken breaks from the site, for as many as several weeks at a time. The main reason for their social media sabbaticals? Not having enough time to dedicate to pruning their profiles, an overall decrease in their interest in the site as well as the general sentiment that Facebook was a major waste of time. About 4 percent cited privacy and security concerns as contributing to their departure. Although those users eventually resumed their regular activity, another 20 percent of Facebook users admitted to deleting their accounts." - × × ×

«Сотрудники физического факультета СПбГУ направили в ГУП «Водоканал Санкт-Петербурга» запрос о целесообразности проведения на городской станции очистки воды православного обряда крещения. Также физики просят объяснить потребителям, «почему эта технология не используется ежедневно “Водоканалом” в целях улучшения качества воды». #the_daily_wtf - × × ×

«Один из авторов запроса Михаил Архипов констатировал, что научное сообщество с опаской отнеслось к его инициативе. «Коллеги побоялись — якобы, по новым правилам, это оскорбление чувств верующих и за это сажают в тюрьму», — сказал ученый, добавив, что ему и Сергею Белову удалось уговорить только одного коллегу подписать запрос.» - × × ×

ГУП огребёт изрядных пиздов, гыгы. Думать же нужно, когда пресс релизы пишешь. - луну придётся засолить