MarkTee

There have been suggestions that slight differences should be allowed depending on one's race and age, too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index

Quality isn't the be-all, end-all, but there's definitely a correlation. Flappy Bird wouldn't even have gotten off of the ground if there were problems with something like collision detection. Even something as simple as increasing the delay between rounds (by as little as a few seconds) could have hindered its success.

The game is not without merit.

What was nonsensical about their request?

Here's a nice (physical) visualization that uses water:

http://imgur.com/gallery/1ZGJGD6

Greater availability, for one.

$100 is a lot of money to some people. You'd be preventing even more people from the developing world from using the Internet.

That's confusing; they both appear to cancel whatever action was just performed.

All you need to do is ensure that the undo option is highly visible (just like Gmail's; I've never caused irrevocable damage while using their web client).

Wow, in 2005 they produced a hidden-camera series that outed "long-haired" men, revealing their names and addresses on national TV.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4157121.stm

No true Scotsman

How do you decide who owns the "right" beliefs? By that logic, who can we consider to be a Christian?

Reread the comment you're replying to; that's exactly what he's saying.

LEGO used to have a large notice on their site, similar to that one:

“The word LEGO is a brand name, and is very special to all of us in the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely like your help in keeping it special. Please always refer to our products as “LEGO bricks or toys” and not “LEGOS.” By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very proud, and that stands for quality the world over. Thank you!”

Andrew Carnegie recommended this in "The Gospel of Wealth" (written in 1889):

http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx...

Sorry, for some reason I was thinking that they were hired in January of 2013.

I wasn't suggesting that HR bring forth radical change, either, merely recognize the problems and work towards finding a solution (even though that would have been extremely difficult in itself, considering how little the executives seemed to help).

Not PR, HR (i.e Human Resources). In other words, someone who should have been working to clean up this mess months ago.

Seeing as we don't know his sexual orientation, you don't know whether he would have made those advances if she were not a woman.

And no, a man sexually harassing a woman isn't always sexist (even though I'd imagine that in the large majority of cases sexism plays a role).

Sexual harassment ≠ Sexism

What's important to discern is the reason behind the harassment. If a man is harassing a woman because he views his gender as superior to hers, or that she's nothing more than a sexual object, then that's a pretty clear-cut case of sexism. But if a man acts inappropriately towards someone because he lacks self control/tact, has poor social skills, etc. and is only targeting that person because he's attracted to them, then it's sexual harassment.

That's what I thought too, but there are a couple places where they refer to him as a "he".

"Horvath later learned that the founder had a similar talk with her partner and demanded that he resign."

I'm not Ensorceled, but I'm Canadian and this has happened to me too (in NYC and San Diego).

Nothing too bad, but people have glared at me, asked what I was doing or if they knew me, etc.

I was astonished; it's just something that everybody does where I live so it was weird to have people react like I was doing something outrageous.

That's not sexism; he was acting maliciously because she turned down his advances, not because she was a woman.

Thanks, that makes a bit more sense.

I'm still not sure why he mentions race when the topic at hand is age, gender, and language, though.

The Passion Projects site says that attendance is usually 50% male/50% female.

http://passion-projects.github.com/

She didn't give any names, so I don't think it counts as "publicly shaming him".

I don't think that she should have been the one to suggest he seek professional help, either. The guy professed his love to her, refused to leave her house (it sounds like they were alone), and then went on to act passive-aggressively and sabotage her work. I wouldn't blame her one bit if she felt uncomfortable or even unsafe working around him.

Not sure why you're so insistent to mention race...in 2 of your posts you've specified "black man". What does skin colour have to do with it?

I don't know what the day-to-day is like at GitHub, but if people were hula-hooping to music at my place of work, I'd probably be pretty interested in watching them too (male or female).

Polymaths like Da Vinci and Bacon disagree with you (however rare they may be).

The same could be said about any news, couldn't it? I think that's just journalistic tone.

"Jane Doe's alleged rapist" or "Witness X claims to have seen"

I do agree with you that 24/7 coverage is excessive, though; wait until sufficient evidence has presented itself and then do your reporting (unfortunately the current media climate isn't very supportive of this).

Globalization

> unless you can point to a society - of any sort anywhere - that contains no anxious people

Ok, the Pirahã people of Brazil.

Ha, when I was a kid there was a criminal in my city named Nguyen Thanh (I think he might have been on the run or wanted for a warrant or something). One day I was playing an online game and saw somebody who had "nguyenthanh" as their username. I freaked out and ran to my dad, excited to tell him that I'd cracked the case. Much to my dismay he explained to me that those were 2 of the most common names in Vietnam.

I believe he's talking about PewDiePie, who's actually Swedish.