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9/10 times for me it's because I'm filtering them out. It's not a good feeling to go back to work after a few days being out to a full inbox. The other 1/10 of the time is because …

> I'm always looking for something interesting, but there isn't anything new. Agreed. There's been a shift where the focus isn't on introducing new products. Instead, focus has bee…

I read it this way the first time, too.

I am a female developer about 6 years older than the author. I absolutely love the end of this article: > Slowly but steadily, I am learning to see my dresses and high­-pitched voi…

> Humorously, a Facebook-esque header on one spectator’s smartphone screen has disappeared. I didn't notice the header. However, I did appreciate that they changed the mountains on…

> people who actually have an understanding of economics and finance. I'm not sure such people exist. Economics and finance is full of very smart people who are very good at convin…

Stray cats/dogs are incredibly rare in NYC, especially Manhattan. The structure in place that allows people to report unsupervised animals works too well.

This is more than a bit snarky. I find traveling home for both Thanksgiving and Christmas is prohibitively expensive and difficult to acquire sufficient time off for both from work…

I've had similar experiences with recruiters, so I don't really understand all the hate. If you're not looking you can be direct and get rid of them quickly without being rude, and…

> We need to teach boys that they are not, in fact, entitled to women's bodies It was my understanding that most harassment and abuse is about dominance of the mind rather than phy…

> feelings of isolation and frustration I am a female born in 1987 and have similarily been interested in programming for a long time. After reading several comments, I'm getting s…

So basically menstruation.

> If it goes well nobody cares, if you slip up then everyone jumps all over you and calls you a sexist. Most things in life are like this. Do what's expected and it's just another …

> the marketing has to establish a hierarchy Most mature products (particularly of leisure) have an associated hierarchy of quality. Top shelf vs. bottom shelf liquor. Name brand f…

I don't know your card-usage habits, but if it was triggered by a jail phone operator within the US, it's much more likely your account information was taken at an unrelated time/e…

The Algorithm Design Manual My 'technical non-fiction' read to help keep my mind sharp. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B8139Z8/ref=oh_aui_d_det... The Disaster Artist My 'non-…

> Puberty range in most women and bitches At first I was offended and then I was 'Oohh...'

>> Oh no! He was attracted to and dated women! How terrible! No one is taking him down a notch for being attracted to/dating women. It's his chosen techniques in doing so. I'm goin…

> Included in the basses oeuvres was a management role over other social pariahs, from whom the executioner could levy a tax, suggesting that he was a sort of sovereign of the unde…

Do I drink 10 drink every day? Naw. But I drink 1-2 every week night and 6-15 on the weekends. So yea, I can see this averaging out awkwardly...

As an adult who reads a large variety of fiction and non-fiction alike within varying degrees of quality, I find myself enjoying the occasional YA book because they're often such s…

> but not anyone that thinks about the merits of various architectures, reads up on optimal coding practices, or that learns in their free time That's a bit demeaning IMO. As with …

>> For those who don't know, laws are different, sometimes in major ways, when you cross a state line > That seems like a recipe for a huge disaster that we should rectify. Naw, br…

> Simmons said all that the law requires is for a teacher to sit down with a kindergartener and ask about what he or she learned. This would have scared the crap out of me as a chi…

Wall Street is noticing that they're losing talent and are slowly but surely responding. The mentality of 'tech as a cost center' is still prevalent but slowly fading as the older …