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Open source would not be nearly as impressive as reproducible.

It isn't arrogant to assume other people are at least as well read as you are. It would be arrogant to assume that they aren't.

It probably isn't if you're coming at the material for the first time, or after a long break. I took a 15-week course in Linear Algebra a few months ago, and we only covered about …

> Periodically over on Stack Overflow (and in many other programming forums) the question comes up about what books are good for programmers to read. The question has been asked an…

If you have to make this kind of leap to support your argument, you don't have an argument.

That's not discrimination against young people because it's not saying that young people aren't allowed to ride the bus, just that they have to pay the regular price. (Also, most c…

Yeah, I'd hate to be exposed to eight more great films if they were made by women. /s

Please do advertise that since there's a reason for stereotypes, your company uses them in making hiring decisions. Let me know how that goes over.

Use some common sense. For how many values of $x that would be the subject of an interview question are 5 year olds going to be better than grandmothers?

"...to a 5 year old" should be pretty safe. "...to your grandmother" could be construed as both sexist and ageist, so I'd avoid it.

And yet, people still don't make a new pot when they take the last of the old.

If a bot can detect that you "don't buy feminist agenda," then it is evaluating based on content, not on sex or race.

That's all fine and good in an environment where people can actually come to physical harm, but this article is about academia. I think we need to stop excusing asshole behavior in…

J.K. Rowling pays her tax. http://www.businessinsider.com/jk-rowling-on-high-taxes-2012...

I guess I can understand how people might become confused if their concept of socialism comes from a single satirical book about egalitarianism.

> Instead of helping everyone... Yes, that's exactly what socialism is based on.

There's another potential asymmetry between the number of times you write something vs. how many people read it/how many times it is read.

Also note that an increase from 0.5% to 0.6% would be the same amount of "increased risk." Always look for the base rate.

Yes, the impact of a 1 percentage point increase is significant, but it's nowhere near the bloodbath that an increase of 18 percentage points would be, which is how I think most pe…

It's important to understand what "increased risk" means. From the linked article: > The IARC’s experts concluded that each 50-gram (1.8-ounce) portion of processed meat eaten dail…

Only one character is going to be marked in this case, not a whole line or section of code. Deleting it and retyping it costs one second. I guess I've seen more than my fair share …

> Replace a semicolon (;) with a greek question mark (;) in your friend's C# code and watch them pull their hair out over the syntax error I'm not sure how frustrating this would b…

They can start with everyone who is involved in translating sports stories into emoji.

It's not officially Fall until Lucy pulls away the football.

Yes, I read the article, and I understood it. But thanks for explaining it to me anyway.