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"[Caitlyn] Flanagan is a self-described anti-feminist"

[1]: http://www.msmagazine.com/winter2004/backtothekitchen.asp

Consider using more inclusive language (re: "Rails guy", "right guy")

Yes. The post was also heteronormative.

> Singer himself donates about one-third of his income to charity, he says, and I admire his commitment. Still, I wonder... where do we draw the line?

Peter Singer himself wrote, in the New York Times Magazine, nearly a decade ago, an article titled "What Should a Billionaire Give – and What Should You?"

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/magazine/17charity.t.html?...

  Companies with a female founder: 25 (21.93%)

  Companies with a Black founder: 9 (7.89%)

  Companies with a Hispanic founder: 6 (5.26%)

They should release the stats of the number of people overall, not the number of companies with at least one member who fits into one of those groups.

For example, say X% of the people are female, etc.

That's not true. I've gotten better, more detailed feedback from other companies. Things like: your approach for this coding challenge was X when you should have been doing Y.

I mentioned it because the company itself was plugged in the post.

Also there's a bit of irony involved, where they're extolling the virtues of data, but failing to provide proper interview feedback.

I had a lackluster interview experience at the company the author works for and mentions. After completing a coding challenge, I got a generic:

  "After deliberating, we have decided not to proceed with your application."

I asked for more specific feedback, from two different people, and got no response.

Don't forget about ethical veganism, whose reasoning doesn't involve health.

Almost every vegan I know is so for ethical, not health reasons.

Ah, I see. Cool.

Another idea: you could add a little box to the bottom of each section that says "Add your own", which would gradually lead into a sign-up, as well.

Since this is a UX site, here's my impression:

I found the landing page a little confusing.

"Edit my Free Checklist"

I don't have a checklist to edit, I think this should say Create a Free Checklist?

Also once I clicked that, and it took me to /accounts/new, I just clicked Checklist in the top bar to view the checklist, which is what I originally wanted to see.

It'd be cool if when you clicked something on /welcome/checklist, it did a 'gradual' sign-up and say something like: "Do you want to save this?".

The author of this piece, Stephen Marche, has a great essay that appeared on the Los Angeles Review of Books site last summer, called "The Literature of the Second Gilded Age"

[1]: https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/literature-second-gilded-a...

Link to the project homepage: http://amberlink.org/

GitHub repos: https://github.com/berkmancenter?query=amber

"If you're poor, stop being poor."

from http://bit.ly/1AnVNuh about 5:30

I'm just finishing up All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks. In it, she talks about love as an action.

She frequently quotes Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving, which seems good as well.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_About_Love:_New_Visions

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Loving

I'd like to read this, but I don't see why I should have to share my email address with y'all to do it.

For an example of what can go wrong: the 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' HD Remaster has a few ruined shots.

[1]: http://www.vox.com/2014/12/12/7385261/buffy-ruined

> every year we take the company overseas for a month (on your own dime, sorry) and work incredibly hard while having a ton of fun.

"On your own dime" sounds terrible. Is it optional?

For those interested in learning more about why Haiti is so impoverished, Junot Díaz wrote a great and powerful piece a few years ago in the Boston Review.

"Haiti’s nightmarish vulnerability has to be understood as part of a larger trend of global inequality."

[1]: http://bostonreview.net/junot-diaz-apocalypse-haiti-earthqua...

Re: "Fight the FOMO"

This app is seems to be feeding the fear of missing out, rather than fighting it.

> To my knowledge no one seriously teaches abstinence only sex education.

If only this were true!

This option on facebook (and the news of it right now) will also be great for gender awareness.

Most people don't know there's a difference between sex and gender.

This is awesome!

Diaspora did this a few years ago too (more or less) http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2010/11/26/disalienation/

I'm referring to white supremacy (racism) as a societal institution, not merely the actions and beliefs of individuals.

I wouldn't call policies which lessen the power of the white supremacy 'racist'.

Racism is an insidious cultural disease. It is so insidious that it doesn’t care if you are a white person who likes black people; it’s still going to find a way to infect how you deal with people who don’t look like you. Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is another. And so on. So while I agree with people who say no one is born racist, it remains a powerful system that we’re immediately born into. It’s like being born into air: you take it in as soon as you breathe. It’s not a cold that you can get over. There is no anti-racist certification class. It’s a set of socioeconomic traps and cultural values that are fired up every time we interact with the world. It is a thing you have to keep scooping out of the boat of your life to keep from drowning in it. I know it’s hard work, but it’s the price you pay for owning everything.

- Scott Woods (http://scottwoodsmakeslists.wordpress.com/2014/01/03/5-thing...)

White supremacy is an oppressive institution that reaches throughout all of society. Unless it is actively fought against, it will prevail.

Jeez, firebug shows this site as being 64.7MB for me. And 'onload' occurred after 36 seconds.

> It is a free country, right? People are still free to live anywhere they can pay the rent, right?

That's true, if you're white.

http://www.propublica.org/series/living-apart

http://www.urban.org/publications/410821.html

I liked Potluck a lot before the pivot into bite-sized news discussions.

For those who don't know, it used to be a place to share links and discuss them with friends.

Their site says 105 First Street, so East Cambridge (MIT end)

An interesting consulting niche would be to help companies open source software they want to release.

Basically:

- clean up code,

- make sure the infrastructure is sufficient,

- help with marketing and adoption,

- write documentation