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US Chamber: Equal Pay “a Fetish for Money,” Women Should “Choose the Right Partner at Home”

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Diego Zamboni
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Diego Zamboni
The US Chamber of Commerce has apparently spent too much time watching Mad Men: in a blog post this morning, Chamber blogger Brad Peck called women’s fight for pay equity to be nothing more than a “fetish for money,” and said women complaining about their pay should focus instead on “choosing the right partner at home.”

You couldn't make up stuff like this. Wow.

The log: The lifeblood of your data pipeline - O'Reilly Radar

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via http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/04/the-log-the-lifeblood-of-your-data-pipeline.html Interesting article. I hadn’t heard of Fluentd, looks useful. The old paradigm — machines to humans, and the new — machines to machines. Image courtesy of Kiyoto Tamura. Over the last decade, the primary consumer of log data shifted from humans to machines. Software engineers still read logs, especially when their software behaves in an unexpected manner. However, in terms of “bytes processed,” humans account for a tiny fraction of the total consumption.

Whisky - Matt Gemmell

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via http://mattgemmell.com/whisky/ Nice essay.But then, finally, with one last branch hacked from your way, you set eyes upon it, and stand there. Silent and still. Perhaps you raise a hand, feeling time-worn stone beneath your fingertips. A dream, finally made solid. You’ve come so far, and now, at last, you’re here.