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David Cameron's Eu Veto Largely Political - Vince Cable
Nobody should wish for the eurozone to collapse
He said: "I read and hear a lot of people breezily predicting, almost with a sense of glee, that the eurozone is going to fall apart and this country is going to drop out of the euro. "My crystal ball is no clearer than anybody else's - what I do know is that no-one should…
Esl Podcast 744 – Dealing With A Mistake
Wires got crossed
Boss: What is going on here?! Jenny: There was a miscommunication. Boss: A miscommunication?! There are 16 copiers in this office. Who ordered 16 copiers? Jenny: No one did. Clearly wires got crossed somewhere. I'll try to get to the bottom of this, but the copiers will be…
Scrum (software Development) - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Backlog refinement or grooming (scrum)
This is the process of creating stories, decomposing stories into smaller ones when they are too large, refining the acceptance criteria for individual stories, prioritizing stories on the product backlog and sizing the existing stories in the product backlog using…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Being in a double bind
No one who has been hoaxed into the belief that he is nothing but his ego, or nothing but his individual organism, can be chivalrous, let alone a civilized, sensitive, and intelligent member of the cosmos. But to be lived this way, the life-game has to be purged of…
You are the universe looking at itself
Once you have seen this you can return to the world of practical affairs with a new spirit. You have seen that the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate “you” to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be robbed…
The Digital Humanities Situation | The Transducer
Digital humanities as a curriculum
So, if the digital humanities is, neither in fact nor in principle, a discipline, then what is it? Surely, with its growing army of followers and plethora of concrete institutional manifestations, it must have some basis in a reality other than its own…