Tue 23 February 2010 | tags: cslewis, cyberbullying, dailylinks, dereksivers, ianbicking, leadership, losangeles, management, python, ranking, toppcloud, -- (permalink)
What I've been reading lately:
- Video: Wonderfully conceptualized, beautifully executed - (37signals) -
- Olympics 1, AIG 0: Why Forced Ranking Is a Bad
Idea
- Quick tip for management: If your company is so big that you have to give up individualized assessments of performance in favor of a system that makes you …
Thu 04 February 2010 | tags: dailylinks, django, expertise, genius, happiness, hbr, language, marginalrevolution, marketsineverything, marriage, penelopetrunk, pinax, python, -- (permalink)
What I've been reading lately:
- Marginal Revolution: Markets in
everything
- Ziploc bags that deter people from stealing your sandwich by making it look like it's moldy. Genius.
- The Making of an Expert - Harvard Business Review - Extensive research shows that expert performance is not inborn, it's something you build. The ingredients …
Sat 06 June 2009 | tags: python, -- (permalink)
- Install the ReportLab pdf creation toolkit from http://www.reportlab.org/downloads.html.
-
Do this a few times:
~~~~ {lang="python"}
from reportlab.lib import randomtext randomtext.chomsky(times=5) ~~~~
"Presumably, the speaker-hearer's linguistic intuition can be defined in such a way as to impose problems of phonemic and morphological analysis …