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I am speechless. Just in case anyone reads this and thinks having a C-section is painless: it's not. It's really not for the faint of heart, and it almost always happens after hour…

Did you run into social adjustment issues?

>I've yet to hear of a horror story of the kind that people tend to raise in the abstract First result on Google: >When Sufiah Yusof was 13 in 1997, she was accepted by Oxford Univ…

>Stanley convinced a dean at Johns Hopkins to let Bates, then 13, enrol[sic] as an undergraduate. >“I was shy and the social pressures of high school wouldn't have made it a good f…

I am similarly put off by yoga, which as practiced currently is not an "ancient tradition" but a bizarre relic of 19th century Indian nationalism[0] Some people find the woo motiva…

Agreed on the bullshit. I think this might have something to do with me growing up in a certain hippy town on the California coast, but I couldn't get through this article without …

Except for the fact that Japan actually has a very low rate of workplace participation for women, I agree with your comment. Feminists actually talk about this a lot, using the ter…

Too much! To me, it doesn't matter how short the meetings are, even a short meeting is disruptive. My new manager is really excellent, though. She has moved all our meetings to Mon…

It's not about the money: many of the people complaining are extremely wealthy. It's because they moved to California with an aesthetic in mind. They wanted rambling bungalow house…

I think this is basically a competitor to AWS API Gateway: https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/

This sounds terrible, really! Which makes sense because I do not like Twitch etc. :) The GP is getting downvoted, so I guess a lot of people do enjoy watching games be played inste…

>Anti-psychotics (and benzodiazepines) are bad drugs that make people's mental problems worse. This is not true. Many people are able to live high functioning lives thanks to anti-…

I don't see how I misread at all. 4x as much time off for the mother vs the father still tips the calculus to the point where it makes sense for employers to discriminate. IMO it's…

What exactly is wrong with a man wanting to stay at home with the kids? Even if the mom does it during infancy (when, due to breastfeeding and so on, she's arguably a better fit), …

Swedish mothers still take four times as much time off as Swedish fathers: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/world/europe/10iht-sweden.... Despite this, the NYT reports in the arti…

I think a lot of it is that men are freeloading on childcare. Who takes leave when the baby is born? Women. Who is more likely to drop out of the workforce when they have kids? Wom…

I know this article is mostly about web development, but if you're interested in writing less Java code I encourage you to consider Lombok: https://projectlombok.org/

I did the Alexa Skill tutorial[1] and hosted the skill on AWS Lambda. It was really easy, fun, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to mess around with Lambda. [1] https://develo…

My parents believed in "radical unschooling", i.e. they didn't formally teach us anything at all. I had to ask to learn to read. I entered the public school system for high school …

It's a trade-off. There are a lot of reasons to duplicate (faster reads, etc.), with the big drawback being consistency. The duplications are basically caches, with similar pros an…

>Personally, I would like to make it a requirement of my next job search that if the company does a standup, I'm not taking their offer. I think that's a bit extreme. My current te…

I was on a team with tedious, competitive standups. It was horrible and I dreaded it every day. If I kept my contribution to about 1 minute (as it is supposed to be), I would be in…