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At thoughtbot we’ve been experimenting with using JSON Schema, a widely-used specification for describing the structure of JSON objects, to improve workflows for documenting and validating JSON API s. Describing our JSON API s using the JSON Schema standard allows us to automatically generate and update our HTTP client... |
Really, you shouldn’t need a reason to be nice to your waiters. It’s a low-paying job that’s both physically and mentally demanding, and the least you can do is treat them kindly. But if you ever need a little extra motivation, a paper recently published in the journal Human Performance warns of what food-service worke... |
An Australian company has taken Christmas celebrations to a new extreme, setting up a Slip 'n Slide through the middle of the office. Flight Centre's HQ in Brisbane is the scene of the party, where office workers can be seen during Friday's Christmas celebration looking on from cubicles as a colleague slides face-first... |
In case you’re not up to date on the latest women’s lacrosse news, University of Southern California annihilated New Hampshire on Monday, 15-4, and the No. 4 Trojans are now riding a three-game win streak. Freshman midfielder Kerrigan Miller was one of three USC players to walk away with a hat trick, and her first goal... |
For a story that broke over Fourth of July weekend, the controversy over an allegedly anti-Semitic image tweeted by Donald Trump attracted quite a lot of attention. In case you weren’t plugged in over the holiday weekend, here’s what you missed. The original Trump tweet, its deletion, and the revised tweet At 9:37 am o... |
In going back through our articles about Dominique Pamplemousse in order to inform this article about the sequel (THERE IS A SEQUEL TO DOMINIQUE PAMPLEMOUSSE [Itch.io page] – flagging it up in case I end up burying the lede), I found Alec had coined the term “Claymation Noir” for the game and thought that was pretty mu... |
Darsh Patel, the 22-year-old Rutgers student who was mauled to death by a black bear in New Jersey in September, was taking photos of the bear with his cell phone just before the attack, according to NJ Advance Media. A public records request submitted by the local news organization returned five photographs taken with... |
Sirin Labs is developing an open-source smartphone that will on a fee-less blockchain. Sirin is actively crowdfunding, should the company make $70+ million it will produce an all-in-one blockchain PC with a 2K display and biometric sensors to complement its smartphone. According to sources, Sirin`s smartphone will be t... |
13/10/2016 - KTOS sunhwapark Oct 13th, 2016 ( edited ) 6,717 Never 6,717Never Not a member of Pastebin yet? Sign Up , it unlocks many cool features! rawdownloadcloneembedreportprint text 11.53 KB 13/10/2016 - KTOS Live Maintenance The following errors have been fixed. [Skill Related Fixes] Doppelsoeldner - Cyclone: Mov... |
Image caption The trial of Estibaliz Carranza attracted a huge media interest in Austria A court in Vienna has sentenced to life in prison a woman for murdering her ex-husband and her lover and hiding the bodies in her ice cream shop. Estibaliz Carranza, who has joint Spanish-Mexican citizenship, will now be put in a s... |
Veterans Ombudsman Guy Parent is calling for improvements to the compensation provided to Veterans and their survivors who fall under the New Veterans Charter. He released on Tuesday a report entitled: “Fair Compensation to Veterans and their Survivors for Pain and Suffering.” “While no amount of money can provide full... |
Despite being the best pound-for-pound boxer on the planet, Floyd Mayweather seems to have a hard time keeping his name out of the mixed martial arts landscape. Whether it’s a war of words with women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey or getting called out by any number of fighters who promise they could trounce the ... |
by Gavin Tomson It’s 11AM on the 4th day of Spring Break. He’s reading Steppenwolf at a minimal loft cafe that sells tote bags and leather notebooks and beard lube. He’s drinking a $4 Americano and debating whether he should step outside to roll a cigarette. Earlier today, when he arrived at the café, which by the way ... |
Have you ever wondered where our agricultural crops come from? And what were they like thousands of years ago, or hundreds of years ago? Our food crops today are in fact very different from the original wild plants from which they were derived. About 10,000 years BC, people harvested their food from the natural biologi... |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some Republican foreign policy veterans who came out against Donald Trump during the presidential campaign said on Wednesday they were sticking to their guns following his election victory, but a few others signaled that objections to serving in his new administration were softening. U.S. Preside... |
What would our solar system's rocky bodies look like if seen at a distance of dozens of light years? "It takes one to know one," as the old truism goes. When it comes to unraveling the mysteries of far-off exoplanets, the same holds true — one more reason why astronomers want to thoroughly understand the local planets ... |
"The United States does not torture." --President George W. Bush We are dealing with Star Wars. It involves the combination of chemtrails for creating an atmosphere that will support electromagnetic waves, ground-based, electromagnetic field oscillators called gyrotrons, and ionospheric heaters. Particulates make direc... |
A Tory MEP has been accused of illustrating a walk he was enjoying the Hampshire countryside by tweeting out stock photos of Wales from 1998. Unbelievably, this isn’t the oddest part of this thread. First up, that slightly unusual country walk. How have I never seen this? Dan Hannan goes on imagined walk in Hampshire. ... |
Police say a 30-year-old woman has confessed to being involved in the Oct. 4, 2011, murder and robbery of Zachary Higdon at his trailer at 900 Airport Road. Jessica Tene Sterchi is charged with first-degree murder, especially aggravated robbery and tampering with or fabricating evidence. The body of the victim was foun... |
"Hapworth 16, 1924" was the last original work J. D. Salinger published in his lifetime. It appeared in the June 19, 1965, edition of The New Yorker, infamously taking up almost the entire magazine. It is the "youngest" of Salinger's Glass family stories, in the sense that the narrated events happen chronologically bef... |
Charles Barkley: Conservatives are 'fake Christians' David Edwards and Chris Tackett Published: Friday February 15, 2008 | Print This Email This Former NBA star Charles Barkley, who is not known for his timidity when it comes to discussing his political beliefs, will surely be ruffling right-wing feathers with his late... |
On the world's longest hunger strike, Irom Sharmila has completed ten years of fasting over human rights abuses in Manipur and promises to continue.Silently but forcefully, she is highlighting the rarely reported decade-long insurgency in Manipur and the government's response to it with Armed Forces Special Powers Act ... |
Doc Rivers on Dirk Nowitzki: "He's his own bird, is what I love about him. There's not been a Dirk. Ever. There's been a lot of great players in our league, but the great, great players are the ones where you say well there's never been one of those. To me that's Dirk. I don't know, who would you say was a Dirk before ... |
Before seeing Clash of the Titans in 3-D, filmgoers at AMC theaters must sit through previews for the Nightmare on Elm Street remake, Salt, and Step Up 3-D, among others. These films have little in common and seem intended for vastly different audiences. How do movie theaters decide which trailers to show? The “quadran... |
Noted author and journalist Jimmy Breslin’s most recent book is The Good Rat: A True Story, published by Ecco. There are these sudden loud noises in the hotel kitchen, one, two, three, probably a tray falling, and then there is so much screaming and a hand holding a gun high in the air and Robert Kennedy, who had walke... |
Moments after Donald Trump took the stage on a college campus in Colorado Springs, he tore into what is really making America not so great. “We have thousands of people in a room next door,” he said. “We have thousands of people trying to get in and we have a fire marshal that says ‘No, we can’t allow more people in.'”... |
If you weren’t one of the lucky ones able to get your hands on a Nintendo Switch on Amazon or Best Buy before they completely sold out, there’s a new bundle that GameStop is offering…before you get out your pocketbook, let’s take a look. The $600 Bundle Includes The funniest part about this Gamestop bundle is that it’s... |
The surgeon’s knife followed the path of the cancer, and by the time the end drew near, Stephanie Whiting-Stradinger’s face was pretty much gone. She had been diagnosed with malignant skin cancer in her early 20s, and as the disease propelled the young mother of three toward an early death, her mother, Joni Whiting, gr... |
CNN admits parts of Mueller’s probe “unconnected to the 2016 elections” Desperate to politically damage President Trump to lay the grounds for impeachment, Robert Mueller’s investigation into “Russian collusion” now includes material “unconnected to the 2016 elections” and even includes tenants who stayed in Trump Towe... |
For years the Broncos and Denver have been interested in hosting a Super Bowl or NFL draft to put the city on a national stage. And they’re hopeful they’ll get to do so soon. Broncos president and CEO Joe Ellis told The Denver Post on Saturday that the team has submitted an application to the league to try to host the ... |
No one knows how many sandhogs are, at any given moment, working beneath the streets of New York City, but one morning this winter half a dozen men could be spotted gathering around a hole on the northwest corner of Tenth Avenue and Thirtieth Street. The hole, surrounded by a tall aluminum fence, was thirty feet wide a... |
Another honorarium (Burning Man funded) project this year was the Kinetic Cab Company, where dozens of machines gathered and were available for rides around town. Here Captain Carl (right) pushes a giant wheeled machine across the playa. The latest stakeholder in the revitalization of San Francisco's mid-Market Distric... |
Why Few People Bike To and From Transit, and How We Can Change That Alta Planning + Design Blocked Unblock Follow Following Sep 11, 2017 Maybe you’d like to take the bus to work, but the walk to the bus stop is too long. Wouldn’t it be great if there were a way to get to the bus stop faster than walking, but without ha... |
The International Cat Association (TICA) is considered the world's largest genetic cat registry. Originally a North American organization, it now has a worldwide presence. The organization has a genetic registry for pedigreed and household pet cats and is one of the world's largest sanctioning bodies for cat shows. Act... |
Image copyright AFP Image caption Nutella is commonly found in French households A French court has stopped parents from naming their baby girl Nutella after the hazelnut spread, ruling that it would make her the target of derision. The judge ordered that the child be called Ella instead. He said in his ruling that the... |
A key component of being a movie fan in the year 2016 is learning to shrug off remakes of your favorite movies and learn to live with the fact that bonafide classics are always going to get dusted off by studios hoping to capitalize on a familiar title. Remakes are going to happen. History has shown most of ’em to stin... |
This paper considers three versions of the claim that society doesn’t existence in order to investigate the problem of the idea of the social in social media. It identifies a convergence between the claims that society doesn’t exist and the social media we have. Yet it notes a disjunction between the media we have and ... |
A boat captain working to rescue sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico said he saw BP ships burning sea turtles and other wildlife alive, myFOXtampabay.com reported late Tuesday. Captain Mike Ellis said in an interview posted on You Tube that the boats were conducting controlled burns to get rid of the oil. "They drag a bo... |
You use it every single day. In English it's called the "at sign." The Italians call it "snail." The Spaniards, "arroba." The Slavs, "monkey." But what did @ really mean 473 years ago? On May 4, 1536, Francesco Lapi—a Florentine merchant who at the time was in Seville, Spain—used the symbol @ in a letter, the first eve... |
The Wunderlist app is a great way to help you capture your ideas, things to do, and places to see. Today, though, and thanks to a tip from Leandro (thanks Leandro!) we can report to you that an update is in the works for the app. @leandromaxi6 I'm really sorry that we're keeping you waiting on that! The update we're wo... |
Thousands of university students have marched through central Mexico City to protest against media coverage they say favours the candidate of the former ruling party in upcoming presidential elections. "We want schools, not soap operas," the protesters chanted late on Wednesday, referring to PRI presidential candidate ... |
Liberty: Tales from the Tower :: Entry 2-05: Side Effects Posted by Archon Reeve on July 11, 2017 From the world of Liberty comes Tales From the Tower – Standalone stories of myths, legends, and horror to haunt the Citizens of Atrius. A new drug is devastating Citizens within Atrius. One brave doctor is willing to do a... |
Second homes should face huge taxes to force 'townies' out of the countryside says former Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion Sir Andrew Motion has called for increased taxes to stop second-home owners 'gutting' rural communities President of the CPRE said too many rural homes being snapped up by 'townies' who only visit a... |
At least 30 people were killed and over 250 injured in widespread violence that erupted soon after godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim was convicted of rape by CBI court in Panchkula. Curfew has been imposed in various parts of Haryana and Punjab. It has also been extended to Delhi, Noida and Ghaziabad. Within few hours of the pr... |
Did Drake and Future really make What a Time to Be Alive in six days? That's the same amount of time it took God to create the Earth. And Drake and Future have earned their seventh day of rest for "Diamonds Dancing". Future goes high soprano, the saxophone comes in cool, and the hook is simply "diamonds, diamonds, diam... |
A witness to the drowning of two Winnipeg children — an 11-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy — on Monday at Grand Beach calls the event a "terrible tragedy." Wendy Nichol was sitting near the beach safety station on the western side of Grand Beach along Lake Winnipeg when she first noticed there was a search underway... |
Jared Wickerham/Getty Images The kid from Iona had a good arm—good enough to light up a radar gun at 95 mph, good enough to attract major league scouts and eventually good enough to convince the Washington Nationals to draft him in the fourth round of the 2015 MLB draft (134th overall) and give him $410,700. The kid ha... |
poster="https://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201609/3341/1155968404_5138409475001_5138395027001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404" true Bobby Knight lauds 'Saint Donald' for temperament If not for the presidency, Bobby Knight is pushing Donald Trump for sainthood. “I actually enjoyed the day with Saint Donald and I've enjoye... |
Federal forces will take over security in a large swath of a western Mexico state where firefights between vigilante groups and drug traffickers erupted over the weekend, a top Mexican official announced. Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong on Monday said federal forces with support from Michoacan state police... |
cityscape Scene: Ai Weiwei’s Bikes Arrive at Nathan Phillips Square Ai Weiwei's contribution to Nuit Blanche 2013 has arrived, but some assembly is required. SHOW CAPTION ✉ Share on: 277962 20130919aiweiweibikes1 https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/20130919aiweiweibikes1-100x100.jpg https://torontoist... |
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