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IANAA, but... Remember that these vacation policies also offer a very significant accounting benefit compared to PTO polices that let employees accrue & bank PTO. The accounting downside for these PTO policies is that many employees end up with huge PTO balances (lame for other reasons) that they build up in advance of leaving the company. Because the company must pay out in cash the whole PTO balance when the employee leaves, the company actually has to keep (often very significant amounts of) cash on hand in proportion to the collective banked PTO amounts. This is lame and it's avoided in "you get 0 but take as much as you want" scenarios.

Try d'Yquem.

What you just clarified is a big improvement. "Would commercial support for Redis be useful to you?"

Agreed. In the same vein: http://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html

I thought $32k sounded low.

And you've just reverse-engineered (some of) http://m.ibisreader.com

Yes. The Web SQL database on iOS can hold a maximum of 50MB and on Android 2+ it can hold an expandable amount (in practice it's often limited for various reason to 50–100-ish).

It's probably worth running the HTML through tidy to get cleaner XHTML and then spending a little while trying to get http://code.google.com/p/epubcheck/ to be a bit happier. In general, EPUBs that "pass" epubcheck have a better chance of working interoperably in a lot of EPUB readers.

I look forward to someone re-captioning All Your Base with this text.

That's right ($35 for most folks, $10 for people with very young kids), they're doing walk-ins for the pertussis booster right now (http://sfcdcp.org/pertussisiz.html). Everyone under 1 or with a kid under 1 (including pregnant women) should get the shot ASAP.

http://sfcdcp.org/AITCcontact.html:

Mon, Wed, Thurs, Fri 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Tues 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Try visiting on an iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Droid, or Nexus One for the installable HTML5 version. It will then allow you to view both text and images without an internet connection _even in a darkened room_.

Why in the world is Safari not on the iPad simulator?! I'd like to believe they'll fix that during an update, but I hesitate to think that Apple would do anything I find sane...

O'Reilly has never used any DRM on their own (oreilly.com) downloadable stuff ever. The first 12 titles they put into the Amazon Kindle Store had (were forced to have) DRM for a while, then they got Amazon to drop the DRM.

Yeah, we need to ask Google to whitelist Bookworm so that it can do a remote add-from-URL (described in http://labs.oreilly.com/2009/07/new-features-and-bug-fixes-f...). Right now they're blocking it (just like if you tried wget)...

After leaving Ruby (non-Rails) for Python this year, I've mostly noticed the difference in the obsession about testing. The Ruby crew is very into TDD (and now BDD)–that isn't to say that Python folks don't test (or do TDD/BDD), but simply that the tools available in Python aren't quite as polished. Ruby's RSpec, RCov, Flog, Autotest, & Heckle are all quite wonderful. I do like Nose, but get annoyed by lack of friendly code coverage tools in Python.