> Comics were never supposed to be educational or have any non-entertainment value and primary tarted at hormones soaked male teens. This hasn't been true of comic books for several decades now. The medium has many…
> Comics are how they are because the market imploded and they have to appeal to the niche of of niche that is their customer base. It's been a long time since that implosion, that isn't an excuse any longer for why…
Using women as a prop for self confidence is pretty douchey.
The point I'm making is that we expect people to continue living their lives while going to school, that doesn't change. Getting financial aid isn't a contract to live a strict monastic life nor should it be. Also, the…
> Should we encourage "pair accounting" and have accountants share a laptop screen to get their work done? Have you ever seen finance people work? That happens all of the time.
> Daily hard exercise - the panting, heart-pounding, drenched in sweat kind of exercise - increases your metabolism. This is not true for all people and can be highly variable between different people, let alone not…
> I believe that most "normal" people are capable of doing enough exercise (combined with good eating choices) that they can lose weight. The point is there is there no set point of "enough" exercise to induce weight…
I love this post for how wrong it is: * Acting like regular college students don't have classes that are super simple to game and pass * Saying life moments like dating/flirting aren't important (what exactly are…
> And I don't see them snooping for their own purposes. That is contrary to the history of how companies take advantage of data provided to them, even when that data is supposed to be confidential.
You must be living under a rock to not have read one of the bazillion of stories about policing and racism that have come up since last fall, but for a great overview of the subject I highly recommend The New Jim Crow:…
As a scoop user it should be noted that scoop is much more oriented towards developers. Scoop runs in the Powershell environment and tends to mostly offer posix tools or SDKs as available packages, although git…
Its not a hard cap, its a cap of number of residencies that will be supported by federal funding through Medicare: http://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2012/08/30/why-reside... A large majority of residencies are…
This is disingenuous. Medical schools would increase resident caps even without the bonus money from Medicare if there was a reason to do so. Reasons go beyond just the Medicare funds that go for those slots.
> Which is completely irrelevant, as are accent/sex/other discriminatory factors that make zero difference to how someone is likely to work within a team. This is just plain ignorant. Every single place I have worked…
> I'm pretty sure that if you run statistics, you would find out that people from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be criminals, violent, less educated, less intelligent. I'm pretty sure if you run statistics you…
> and although software development is meritocratic, it's not as meritocratic as those orchestras Software development IS NOT meritocratic and neither are orchestras. There is just as much politics, networking, and…
Orchestras are not a collection of independent workers. Everyone works together as a team and chemistry is very important. > your team, understands your industry, and cares about your mission When teams are largely made…
"Code review? What code review?"
> This is part of the author's larger point: your title does not limit your contributions. You don't need permission (a title) to act a certain way. Titles, then, are an acknowledgement, not a license. While it's true…
I had the exact opposite experience. Learning about native peoples and their history was extremely fascinating for me and I wouldn't like to have missed out on that knowledge. Learning more about other people is never a…
> It's interesting to me how we finally got rid of Original Sin, but now have replaced this with other, atheistic forms of this, like trying to make our children feel guilty about Native Americans and Slavery. I…
> In his case, he was stuck at work at a public housing project for 3 days with the residents, because the city didn't ticket parking violations and the plows couldn't clear the clogged streets. This has still be case…
> Restaurants are a reflection of what the population wants, not the driver. In order for there to be more vegetarian choices in a restaurant there has to be more demand for those items. Restaurants that don't do that…
This is a horrible idea. What will happen and has happened in reality is that those with less scruples or money will simply pay for the cheaper unlicensed work and not pay for extra insurance. Those people or their…
> But this is simply crony capitalism. There may be risk, but there is no crime here. At all. That is where you are quite wrong. The regulations of taxis goes way back to carriage regulations in the 19th century. The…
> Comics were never supposed to be educational or have any non-entertainment value and primary tarted at hormones soaked male teens. This hasn't been true of comic books for several decades now. The medium has many…
> Comics are how they are because the market imploded and they have to appeal to the niche of of niche that is their customer base. It's been a long time since that implosion, that isn't an excuse any longer for why…
Using women as a prop for self confidence is pretty douchey.
The point I'm making is that we expect people to continue living their lives while going to school, that doesn't change. Getting financial aid isn't a contract to live a strict monastic life nor should it be. Also, the…
> Should we encourage "pair accounting" and have accountants share a laptop screen to get their work done? Have you ever seen finance people work? That happens all of the time.
> Daily hard exercise - the panting, heart-pounding, drenched in sweat kind of exercise - increases your metabolism. This is not true for all people and can be highly variable between different people, let alone not…
> I believe that most "normal" people are capable of doing enough exercise (combined with good eating choices) that they can lose weight. The point is there is there no set point of "enough" exercise to induce weight…
I love this post for how wrong it is: * Acting like regular college students don't have classes that are super simple to game and pass * Saying life moments like dating/flirting aren't important (what exactly are…
> And I don't see them snooping for their own purposes. That is contrary to the history of how companies take advantage of data provided to them, even when that data is supposed to be confidential.
You must be living under a rock to not have read one of the bazillion of stories about policing and racism that have come up since last fall, but for a great overview of the subject I highly recommend The New Jim Crow:…
As a scoop user it should be noted that scoop is much more oriented towards developers. Scoop runs in the Powershell environment and tends to mostly offer posix tools or SDKs as available packages, although git…
Its not a hard cap, its a cap of number of residencies that will be supported by federal funding through Medicare: http://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2012/08/30/why-reside... A large majority of residencies are…
This is disingenuous. Medical schools would increase resident caps even without the bonus money from Medicare if there was a reason to do so. Reasons go beyond just the Medicare funds that go for those slots.
> Which is completely irrelevant, as are accent/sex/other discriminatory factors that make zero difference to how someone is likely to work within a team. This is just plain ignorant. Every single place I have worked…
> I'm pretty sure that if you run statistics, you would find out that people from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be criminals, violent, less educated, less intelligent. I'm pretty sure if you run statistics you…
> and although software development is meritocratic, it's not as meritocratic as those orchestras Software development IS NOT meritocratic and neither are orchestras. There is just as much politics, networking, and…
Orchestras are not a collection of independent workers. Everyone works together as a team and chemistry is very important. > your team, understands your industry, and cares about your mission When teams are largely made…
"Code review? What code review?"
> This is part of the author's larger point: your title does not limit your contributions. You don't need permission (a title) to act a certain way. Titles, then, are an acknowledgement, not a license. While it's true…
I had the exact opposite experience. Learning about native peoples and their history was extremely fascinating for me and I wouldn't like to have missed out on that knowledge. Learning more about other people is never a…
> It's interesting to me how we finally got rid of Original Sin, but now have replaced this with other, atheistic forms of this, like trying to make our children feel guilty about Native Americans and Slavery. I…
> In his case, he was stuck at work at a public housing project for 3 days with the residents, because the city didn't ticket parking violations and the plows couldn't clear the clogged streets. This has still be case…
> Restaurants are a reflection of what the population wants, not the driver. In order for there to be more vegetarian choices in a restaurant there has to be more demand for those items. Restaurants that don't do that…
This is a horrible idea. What will happen and has happened in reality is that those with less scruples or money will simply pay for the cheaper unlicensed work and not pay for extra insurance. Those people or their…
> But this is simply crony capitalism. There may be risk, but there is no crime here. At all. That is where you are quite wrong. The regulations of taxis goes way back to carriage regulations in the 19th century. The…