MaybiusStrip

Wordy prose, rampant grammatical mistakes, a poorly constructed argument... my classmates in junior-high wrote more convincingly.

I can almost hear the author patting himself on the back for writing that last sentence. If the future is making existing solutions to first world problems slightly more convenient, I'm not interested in being a part of it.

I love my current job. I enjoy going to work every day.

I hated my last job, but I didn't feel the need to have a public existential crisis about it.

I found this article angsty, obnoxious and full of belabored, melodramatic prose, just like the rest of Foer's writing.

The instinct not to interfere in complete stranger's emotional turmoil -- especially when she is a 15 year old girl and you are a man in his 30s -- has little to do with technology. There are other ways to distract oneself in uncomfortable situations.

I also can't relate to his "diminished subsitute" hypothesis. When I look at my text/call/email/skype logs I'm hard pressed to find any instances where I used a "diminished" medium -- sending a text when I should have called, calling when I should have visited, etc... Some people may do that, but that's not a symptom of technology, that's just a way of being rude that technology has enabled.

That's really the crux of the problem with modern communication technology. It gives people more outlets to be impolite by using it an innapropriate times or innapropriately. But in many ways, it allows us to connect and stay in touch with people that were never possible before.

I can't really make a guess about the author's coding abilities, but all the evidence in this piece suggests a severe lack of confidence which is probably immediately apparent to prospective employers.

Unless we get a large number of developers to build the same application twice using each framework, all evidence related to this is going to be speculative or anecdotal at best. Having written a lot of both backbone and angular, I can confidently say that I am _much_ more productive with angular, so much that I get incredibly frustrated and resentful when I have to work on a backbone project. I think if you do a little bit of research you'll find a sizeable amount of similar testimony from people who have switched from backbone to a more comprehensive framework.

Good book for beginners but Mark has no shortage of critics and enemies in the strength community.

Although as an add-on to that, many people abstain from alcohol for a variety of reasons (not because they're "no fun" or stuck up) so I'd leave that out to avoid making potential candidates feel uncomfortable.

When you actually know anything about the subject Ferris is writing about, his books come off as superficial, sloppy, and stunningly self absorbed.

Out of the myriad people who are going to take this advice to heart and selfishly wreak havoc in the lives of other people in the name of success, how many do you actually think will actually become as influential and successful as Steve Jobs? How many do you think will just have gone through life destroying personal and professional relationships with not much too show for except maybe a little extra cash in the bank?

You can't ethically defend advice like that. You can be driven and assertive and still maintain boundaries on the morality of your behavior.

Weightlifter here. The squat described in that graphic is high-bar (bar between traps and delts) as opposed to the low-bar form championed by Rippetoe (and powerlifters in general). The back is more upright, so you can't really "trap" the bar just by resting your hands on it and pushing your elbows back, you have to wrap your thumbs around. You should still keep your wrists as straight as possible.

Speaking of women lifting heavy things, my Coach's wife Jo-Ann Aita just set a world record in raw powerlifting last month, and she is far from bulky! See for yourself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n7c5KoyaLI

Congrats on your heavy lift! 250lbs is no joke.