koshatnik

There's a proposal to create 'virtual' articles from Wikidata: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Article_genera...

The benefit of this is that articles would be dynamically synthesised from the latest data when the user requests them, and not actually created and added to the wiki. This would prevent the creation of a potentially infinite number of articles on subjects not significant enough to merit a write-up by a human author, so could be a way to combat the 'bot inflation' of article numbers.

I don't think anyone's started work on it yet, but if someone fancies it...

Depneds on the company - best to do some research. Are there any clues from photos on the company website/at events? If you know someone (who knows someone etc) who works there, ask what the informal dress code is, but probably go a little smarter.

Also, although this is more the case overseas rather than in Westeros itself, slaves. Ancient Greece and Rome certainly had the knowledge and ingenuity to have industrial revolutions, but with the availability of mass forced labour, there would have been a much smaller cost saving in mechanising tasks. Serfdom kind of does the same thing to a lesser extent.

Not sure about the identifier used in England and Wales, but in Scotland most boards use the 10-digit CHI number. From this you can determine the patient's date of birth and sex.

For this reason it is not used as a patient identifier for information visible beyond staff cleared to view this personal information. Either data is aggregated to a point where it's not individually identifiable or an anonymised ID is used, and the most distinctive fields removed. I hope that's what's happening here!

"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." - Douglas Adams

This is very like what happens in the book World War Z, which was probably inspired by government responses to SARS and other epidemics. A mysterious disease arises in China, and the government strongly censors reporting of outbreaks. This and other factors (people smuggling, illegal organ trade) contribute to its spread worldwide, and it is only when it cannot be contained that the world is aware and can start to understand and fight it.

Just as well he's not gay then - Bradley Manning would have found things a bit harder in this situation

Interesting that having a daughter makes CEOs more mindful of equal pay, when they already had a woman close to them that they should be looking out for - their wife/partner (I'm assuming gay CEOs with kids don't form a significant percentage of the sample).

Is there any data on how CEOs and their partners share childcare responsibilities? I'd guess that most of the load is shouldered by their other half, given the kind of hours CEOs tend to work (especially in early stage companies).

At least it's not a load of non-technical founders of 'pink' startups (fashion, kids etc) and tech tv presenters, as these things tend towards. Found some cool people to follow on Twitter, anyhow.

I had similar feelings when I started to use 'programmer' and 'developer' on my CV, and when I started my first IT contracting job. I had done programming in my previous job, but it was in no way acknowledged in my job description or grade. Similarly when I started to earn more than I had previously, I questioned whether I deserved it.

The chicken-and-egg situation with job experience and employability makes it inevitable that you will be in positions where you 'don't know what you're doing'. But if you have the determination to seek out answers and fill the gaps in your knowledge, you'll become that expert you think you aren't.

'electronic dance music' does not seem to be all that new to me. I'm amused by the idea that something popular in Europe for decades which originated in US alternative cultures is only now catching on in US mainstream culture.