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I agree with both of you, in some regards. But just thinking about it...maybe it's okay to have an uphill battle to get into a field that's prized. "Natural selection" of sorts...or survival of the fittest, etc. The field being dominated by males at this moment, might simply be a temporal problem that will automatically change in time without much specific effort.

> Example use case is carrying my sleeping infant holding with a single arm while the other hand unlocks the door

I think you are underestimating the strength (as well as form) women are born with, specifically for this reason. Most women I've seen carrying children on their hips with one arm behind their backs look much more comfortable than when a man does the same thing.

Couldn't a rate in between these 2 extremes work? Like a 70% APR?

> It took 32 months between having the grant awarded and dosing the first patient, says Nutt. By comparison, it took six months “to get through the machinations” for his team’s previous studies using the equally illegal drugs LSD and MDMA, he says.

I thought we were making progress...

Controlled legalization of other currently illegal drugs may or may not have benefits that can't be proven yet due to research of these drugs being illegal. There is empirical evidence that certain psychedelic drugs may reduce or eradicate opiate addiction. Even if these drugs were also addictive, it may be that the harm they cause is orders of magnitude less than opiates or similar. Replacing one problem with a lesser one is indeed a better outcome than what we have now.

None of this will be known, though, until certain deregulation and controlled legalization occurs.

> That would imply those inside the company are intentionally trying to lower its value

I wouldn't immediately throw that possibility out the window.

And the guy is blind!

Very pretty app! Good work.

- how do you like a place? I couldn't figure it out.

- what UI element is the sort drop down?

Looks great! I know the exporting features are in Beta now, figured I let you know they the docx export feature doesn't save a file with an extension, and even if you manually add the extension, an error occurs (on Mac Word 2011) - "The XML file resume.docx cannot be opened because there is no available data view (XSLT)."

Though I agree it was slapstick humor, in my eyes it was the fastest way to convey the simple idea that science research findings often alternate from saying something is good for you, to something is bad for you. You really are never sure of anything.

Coming soon:

"Popular debunking study of popular fish oil study deeply flawed, new research says."

I work at a large enterprise company and for a while I was part of the DevOps team as a software engineer.

Some of our goals included:

   - Building the continuous integration/delivery pipeline
   
   - Moving codebases from one source control system to another
 
   - Creating programs/systems to automate tagging of builds
   
   - Automating the deployment processes of multiple applications onto non-production servers
 
   - Implementing and maintaining the functional testing frameworks and server grids

The more I look at these goals, the more I realize that the developers who work on feature delivery should not worry about these anyway. So I disagree that DevOps is killing the developer. In fact, DevOps is helping the developers focus on what's important.

I think we need control, but not this much control. Moderation is key in everything. No pun intended.

If this becomes reality, I see a future where we have no bad comments, a lot of decent/good comments from the same people and therefore turning into an elitist society (more-so than it already sort-of is). I feel this will push new users away, and therefore slow our knowledge diversification.

For those who may not have seen it, here's a good primer/tutorial for Java 8:

http://winterbe.com/posts/2014/03/16/java-8-tutorial/

I'm not talking about the scientific community. I'm talking about people in the world. Christianity for example has accepted the Big Bang Theory as plausible and has not accepted others. This fact alone will help 70% of the world make a theory more prevalent.

> the prevalent [in the general public, and therefore in the scientific community] theory

The reason it's prevalent is because it is the most easily understood and acceptable by most people/religions/cultures - not because it is the most accurate or plausible explanation.

I wonder if this sort of "encapsulation" you describe Apple did could have been one of the reasons why they succeeded in building an amazing product? It seems counter-intuitive at first, but isn't it a possibility that encapsulation works well outside of software as well?

The reason this is a "big deal" is because the finger print ID is one of the 3 (or so) main reasons anyone would/should upgrade to the new iPhone, and if one of the 3 reasons to upgrade isn't a reason anymore due to it's issues, then it's important to make a major mental note of that.

Also, keep in mind that there are a lot of features on the iPhone (such as the key-pad ASCII password option) which even tech-savvy folk don't know about, let alone the layman. This option of using a PIN could be just as hidden unless a big deal is made out of this (educated speculation, I know).

I agree. The general public does not know much as much as they should about this topic, and the tech scene needs to be saturated before the information can spill out vastly enough into the general public. And there is a fundamental issue that's important to continue discussing, and that is all the logical answers to potential questions that the general public may have that even we don't have precise, logical, and unarguable answers to...such as "I don't have anything to hide, so why do I care if they're spying on me?"

Although I agree completely, that's a very high expectation of teachers (pre-college) for the amount they get paid.

> the chess example where 3,000 hours get some people to masters status but 25,000 is not enough for others

There are so many factors at play. One important one is environment...e.g. if your parents are chess masters and you've grown up watching them play, that's not being included as part of the 3,000 hours...and it should be, because the one with 10,000 hours might not have such an advantage.

Who cares...it's not illegal to donate.

Quick search reveals:

Accusation: http://www.tweaktown.com/news/31729/edward-snowden-reveals-t...

Denial: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/16/microsoft_denies_it_...

Yeah, the financial aid system is pretty bad. A single woman I know who lives alone got denied financial aid because her gross annual income was 31k instead of the limit of 29k that financial aid requires. If you do the math and include all average expenses for any single person, you'll see that there's no way to pay for tuition and/or housing without a student loan in a situation as this. Is financial aid only supposed to be for people who either have no job at all, are completely poor, or are doing fraud?

The last time a geomagnetic reversal occurred on Earth was 780,000 years ago (with a possibility of a brief one occurring 41,000 years ago) [1]. I wonder what it will feel like when it happens again...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal

> Programming will continue to be made more accessible, as is the apparent trend

Of course it will become easier over time...just like everything. Consider John Carmack and what he did when writing Doom, Wolfenstein, etc...I can almost guarantee you when he was programming, programming was A LOT harder than what it is today. But the difference there is nothing more than time. Even if it's getting easier over time, my main point still stands.

Take this with a grain of salt, but IMO the reason some people who try to learn programming end up with this type of mindset is because they have a wrong mindset to begin with: they believe learning to program should be relatively easy and have an obvious and relatively simple path to mastery. From my experience, this is not the case at all. If you read any math textbook, generally the last problems in a section are the most difficult to understand and answer, unless you've mastered all the concepts in that section. Pure Computer Science is harder than pure math in many ways; 1) because unless you master all the concepts in a section, you won't get too far, and 2) computer science in general, but specifically this textbook is geared toward people who have already somewhat mastered mathematics, so all or most of the problems will be like the last problems of a section in a math textbook.

"If it comes easy, then you're not doing it right."

It would be really interesting if this revenue was Google's 2nd best performing business after Ads.

This response made me actually laugh out loud, mostly because of the delivery combined with it's accuracy in alluding to something very important:

We often seem to look at an issue from the other's point of view and deem it wrong or okay based on that. Why? Why not look at these situations that affect us directly from our point of view? Sometimes all that matters is you. This is one of those times.

Although they were forced to provide the data, were they also forced to not disclose that fact to their users/customers? If so, then that's another matter to discuss entirely.