laurenbee

I've been vegan for 8+ years and am a fan of the Impossible Burger. I'm vegan for ethical reasons but certainly remember how good burgers/cheese/etc. tasted, so the closer vegan alternatives can get, the better!

The kinds of jobs available to typical high school students such as food service work and babysitting tend to start earlier in the day (in my experience). Food service jobs often start around 4:00 to beat the evening rush, and babysitting can start whenever the kids get out of school.

Have you looked into Jama software? It is customizable and very user-friendly. I use it for requirement management but imagine it would be good for document management as well.

By asking/telling someone to smile, one is basically saying, "You should look more pleasant for my benefit." I can't see asking someone to smile being appropriate in a workplace setting unless the person is in a customer-facing role and it affects job performance. The sexist part is that it seems to happen far more often to women than to men.

I haven't tried Gardein's burgers, but their faux chicken products are excellent so I would expect their burgers to be good too.

Are you eating enough? Faux meats tend to have fewer calories than the meats they are replacing. Boca burgers only have 70 calories each (according to Google... I never eat those). That is hardly anything!

NASA specifically wanted people right out of college to do operations so that they would not have to unlearn bad habits and since everyone would have to learn new skills for the moon landing to be successful.

http://history.nasa.gov/monograph14.pdf (see p. 17)

I grew up in Silver Spring and was allowed to walk to nearby parks and friends' houses alone or with other friends starting around kindergarten. If I had kids and lived there now, I would definitely allow them to walk around the neighborhood.

$200-$300/month from ebook sales on Amazon. It was more ($600-$700/month) when I was releasing ebooks more frequently, but I haven't written any since July.

As a vegan, sometimes it's nice to eat at a restaurant and not have to go through the whole 20 questions with the server about whether food has animal products. So I may weigh other factors (like service or presentation or how "nice" a place is) as less important than when going to a restaurant with only one or two vegan options.

Though taste is the most important thing to me!

But what if knowing lets you make moves that improve your salary (if you are on the lower end) or encourage your coworkers to ask for a raise (if you are on the higher end)?

I started out making 10% more than what I was initially offered since I knew what coworkers with similar experience made and asked for that amount. And I know what coworkers with much more experience (10+ years to my 2 years) make, so I can gauge whether I am on the right track.

Read: "Galápagos" - Kurt Vonnegut

(re)Reading: "Drown" - Junot Díaz

I'm enjoying my free month of KU and reading Hugh Howey's works at the moment. Halfway Home is pretty good, as are his short stories.

From what I have seen, there aren't a ton of amazing books in KU, but being able to borrow lots of foreign-language books might compel me to stick with it. I'm brushing up on my Spanish, and it helps to read children's books and short stories I probably wouldn't buy otherwise.

No, entirely new books/stories. New books can get a nice bump in sales if they make it into the "New and Noteworthy" list or if Amazon mentions them in their "New books in [x category]" emails. Publishing a revision to an existing book does not change the publication date.

This is not entirely passive (at least, in my experience) because in order to get people to continue to buy your books long after they are published, you need to continue publishing (unless you hit the kindle lottery and are wildly successful immediately).

> Why is it better for an animal to die and feed maggots than to die and feed a human?

These aren't the only two options. We could also stop breeding animals into miserable existences in order to fatten them up and slaughter them for our consumption (which, in addition to causing suffering, causes great harm to the environment as well).

> It's doubtful that the industrialized society that enables a portion of the population to live without using animal products would ever have developed if we hadn't used animal products in the first place.

I don't disagree that this was the case. In the past, people had fewer choices (and sadly, many people today do not have the luxury of choosing which foods they eat -- if they can get enough food at all). I am lucky to have a ton of options available to me, and so I choose to not support suffering.

Fish need to eat other fish to survive.

We don't need to eat other animals to survive.

It is very possible (and very easy, in some places) to survive and thrive without animal products at all. Why should animals suffer for our pleasure and/or convenience?

Thanks for the reply! I'll try out the demo or freelancer version and email you this weekend when I'm more familiar with how it works. :)

I collaborate on PowerPoint presentations every time my organization has a major presentation due (frequently). The Track Changes feature in Microsoft Word is good enough for documents and all of my coworkers understand how it works, but wrangling everyone's changes into PowerPoint and then letting them know what changed is a nightmare.

When I edit a PowerPoint presentation, I usually add a comment to every slide that has changed and describe all changes to the slide. Other people might put a star on slides they updated, leave the original slide plus the new slide so I know which slides have changed, or not mark their changes at all. Also, we have to email the presentation back or forth or edit it from one shared folder (in which case, multiple people can't work on the slides at the same time). It is very inefficient.

This looks amazing and would be exactly what my organization needs for collaboration in PowerPoint (which is a HUGE hassle that we deal with regularly), if only we could store the tool on our own server to avoid uploading to Kivo. Is something like that possible/in the works?

> Local libraries already lend ebooks as well. I'm not sure why more people don't take advantage of that.

One would think that since ebooks are digital, any number of people could borrow the same book at once from a library. Alas, that is not the case. Just like libraries might only have one or two physical copies of a book, they might only have one or two copies of an ebook available to lend as well. If you want to borrow a new release, you might end up on a lengthy wait list. Additionally, if you borrow from a library, you miss out on a ton of books (especially self-published books).

As a reader, I'm excited about the prospect of Kindle Unlimited. As an author who self-publishes on Amazon, I am apprehensive (though the compensation for my books that have been borrowed with Prime has seemed fair so far).

I'd vote in favor of removing gendered language altogether. The descriptions listed are vague and kind of meaningless.

For example, in the "masculine" company description, the words "dominant" and "boasts" are just fluff. Plus, who cares if you "are determined to stand apart from the competition"? Isn't everyone? And the "feminine" description is so passive and unclear that it makes me think the company could be an engineering support group and not an actual engineering firm.

I would suggestion something like, "We are a leading engineering firm with clients including X, Y, and Z." It's short and to-the-point. This way, it is clear that the company is an engineering firm, and hopefully clients X, Y, and Z are illustrious enough that they speak to the firm's capability/status.

Bob Nystrom's Game Programming Patterns is an engaging, informative book about design patterns that are commonly used in games but are relevant to non-game software too.

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/

This looks fantastic! I'm a writer/editor and have been envious of programmers for having GitHub while I've been stuck with Microsoft Word (which is nice for personal use, but frustrating when you're working on a document with multiple people). I just signed up. Can't wait to test it out!

As a technical writer, I completely agree with you.

I also wonder if the author knows that you can modify the way track changes shows different types of changes (it sounds like she has everything in balloons, which could indeed be a nightmare with enough changes).

Something like GitHub for documents could potentially solve the collaboration issues, but I couldn't see myself replacing Word anytime soon. Word's formatting capabilities are unparalleled, track changes works well enough for my purposes (and better than anything else I've tried), and the cost and time spent implementing a new solution and training all of my coworkers would be too great.

Interesting ideas, but I don't think these suggestions would be so simple. They would put a burden on consumers to always have a phone at the ready. What happens if your phone can't connect to GPS inside a store? What if you don't have your phone with you (or if you don't have a phone at all)? Buying goods and services would be far less convenient.