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I had to write code for Androids, and so I 'used' them quite a bit while testing. To this day, every time I have to use an Android phone, I want to claw my eyes out, mainly over th…

Thank you so much for writing this.

I would say the opposite. From experience, a 'social services' office will not help, but will make his life more difficult. On the other hand, genuine kindness at least has a chanc…

One reason you might donate would be if you have compassion. Compassion doesn't need to be deserved in a Puritanical sense.

Some find this type of labeling helpful. Some find it unhelpful. At any rate, we should probably tread carefully. People with mental illness need jobs as much as, if not more than,…

1 ) Perhaps this could be the start of Xah Lee learning some social skills. If so, good on him. He'll go a lot further with them. 2 ) Surely someone in this community can offer him…

On the issue of Google (and especially G+) and privacy, if one is only being even medium-dramatic, that's hardly a criticism.

Eminem has spoken about how much he enjoys playing with words. One of the techniques he's mentioned is taking two words that don't rhyme and bending the sound of each about half wa…

There isn't a doubt in my mind that if someone came along and said what the actual grand structure and meaning of reality is, most people on the Internet would dismiss it as colleg…

He could work for a corp that is small enough that it still seems like it is made of decent human beings. My interview experience with G was more than enough to ensure I never seek…

This jackassery is like if DEC had gone after Microsoft for hiring Dave Cutler et al. If every company always pursued every technicality allowed by our stupid laws, none of us woul…

My last "visionary episode" occurred a couple of weeks before the Higgs was confirmed, and the Higgs field featured very prominently in the visions. Compare this to how the Higgs m…

A company founder doing damage control isn't even close to equivalent to a badly treated employee speaking up about being treated badly. The respective motivations are completely d…

Hey, it's all relative. I have no personal life or relationships to speak of, and no projects. Sounds to me like he's doing ok.

I find this depends entirely on what I'm doing. When I was working on a game full time on my own time, 12 hours a day consistently was easy, and things like eating, and my girlfrie…

I'm from Boston. I saw spontaneous group conversations break out among strangers fairly often. Certainly, I would not think twice if it happened there. In eight years in Seattle, I…

Every time I meet one of their couriers in broad daylight, and they hand me a receipt, I feel like I'm just grazing a tiny part of history. It's not Rosa Parks level. It's a smalle…

I'm sorry, but as a long-time sufferer, I feel compelled to disagree with this viewpoint wherever I see it, to represent people like me. I've been suicidal and depressed on and off…

When it happens to a high-profile figure, people grapple with the issues in the public sphere. It raises awareness.

1. I'm surprised how often the simple matter of difficulty is skirted. I've been wholeheartedly and single-mindedly motivated to off myself in the past, and it is hard to do . I do…

I'm not saying what he said was valid, but I am saying that neither being offensive nor being a generalization needs to have a bearing on truth value. Another: All else being equal…

According to Google ngram, the word millionaire peaked around 1910, when a million dollars was about 25 million 2014 dollars.

People are so conditioned by doublespeak PR, they get the icky feeling from plain talk.

"I confided this to a colleague, and he suggested a lunch with him and the local C guru" This stood out to me as the #1 difference between me and successful people. I always notice…