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close shareTools Signs have gone up in about 600 Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants, informing customers that carnitas is not being served. The fast-growing restaurant chain announced on Tuesday that it had suspended a major pork supplier after a routine audit found that it had failed to meet the company’s standards for animal welfare. “Without this…
Who Pays? 5th Edition Read the Report in PDF Contents: Executive Summary Introduction The 10 Most Regressive State & Local Tax Systems The Least Regressive State & Local Tax Systems The Kind of Tax Matters Income Taxes Sales & Excise Taxes Property Taxes Low Taxes or Just Regressive Taxes? The Economic Case for Tax Fairness…
Out of the wild Deer are invading New York City, and we don’t know how to stop them By Brendan O’Connor Just before Christmas of last year, John Caminiti, who lives in Staten Island, New York City’s least populated borough, watched traffic come to a standstill outside the Staten Island Mall. “It got quiet all…
Callbacks, Promises, and Coroutines (oh my!): Asynchronous Programming Patterns in JavaScript .title .title-container .author-info .author-container .infoContainer #slideview_likes Uploaded on Oct 31, 2011 This talk takes a deep dive into asynchronous programming patterns and practices, with an emphasis on the promise pattern. … This talk takes a deep dive into asynchronous programming patterns and practices, with…
This post originally appeared as a gist. Since then, the development of Promises/A+ has made its emphasis on the Promises/A spec seem somewhat outdated. Contrary to some mistaken statements on the internet, the problems with jQuery’s promises explained here are not fixed in recent versions; as of 2.1 beta 1 they have all the same…
paging_filterNeetzan Zimmerman, who served as editor in chief of the secret-sharing app Whisper, has left the company, he confirmed to Capital.Zimmerman, “and other staff members,” have been suspended since late October, pending the results of an internal investigation. Whisper was the subject of a multi-part Guardian exposé in mid-October, which alleged that the company’s claim to…
It’s a little confusing. The cover of the next Charlie Hebdo features a cartoon of Mohammed holding a “Je suis Charlie” sign under the headline “Tout est Pardonné” (“All Is Forgiven”), which is a little confusing. Who, exactly, is forgiving whom? According to Charlie Hebdo columnist Zineb El Rhazoui, the drawing is a call to forgive gunmen Chérif and Saïd…
WIRED Ones: I need a few minutes of your attention to talk about how we treat the workspace we’ll fully occupy on Jan. 5. #newwiredoffice A photo posted by Scott Dadich (@sdadich) on Jan 5, 2015 at 9:56am PST We made a big investment in the construction and design of the new floor — more…
DeRay McKesson, a Minneapolis school administrator, has been interviewed by the Washington Post, Reuters, and The Atlantic, and gained more than 61,000 Twitter followers over the past five months. It’s all thanks to his frequent bursts of 140-character insight about the #blacklivesmatter movement, which sprung up after police officer Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown, a black 18 year old,…
If you existed in the year 2014, you have probably either cringed or sang along or cringed while singing along to Taylor Swift’s oppressively catchy song Shake It Off. Just why the hell is it so catchy ? Well, for one it’s pop. But also as Chilly Gonzales explains, it’s the same principles that has…