I think the trend is because designers see low contrast as "chic" and readable contrast as garish. But it's a bad decision.
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I agree that it might be sexism...and it might not. I'd have to know more. I know a talented scientist woman who, at least in one point in her career, put across a very "flaky" image to other scientists, and one of them told her so. She felt hurt about it, but it was true. I think since then she has tuned up her presentation style and probably doesn't get this concern now. But in our context, it surely wasn't because she was a woman, because there were at least 10 other women in her position that were not getting that sort of feedback whatsoever; on the contrary, they were held in high regard generally.
If it is sexism (or at least that's a component of it), what a shame.
There should be a formula that includes terms for age, likely earning potential on re-entry to job market, savings, debt, assets (like a paid-off house), % completion of the start-up project you're leaving for, monthly influx from startup project when you quit, etc., etc. The formula would pop out a single number, the Gutsy Factor.
Why did you go off the being really good, eating right, etc? (other than that you are human and it happens). Can you re-commit and give it a good try?
Have you read The Hackers Diet? Tried the LoseIt app? Gotten a fitness buddy? Do you limit exposure to binge eating triggers (such as TV commercials)? Do you make your diet decisions at the supermarket in the right way? There's much you can do before you try surgery. (I'm not saying it's easy at all, though).
Good luck with whatever you try.
That's not surprising. ;D
> (1) would improve therapies across the board for all major diseases at once
How? Unless if by "at once" you mean they would begin the era of using this approach on any disease. But surely each disease will have its own puzzle.
1) Programming is not the "the literacy of the 21st century." Come on. It isn't now and it never will be, unless languages evolve to be essentially AIs that you can just request features in English, and even then it won't be, since most people won't bother to make programs. I'll go to the mat on this one. Those who bandy this idea around are misrepresenting reality.
2) Dan Miller, a career guru/author, has a point in one of his books that you should not attempt to strengthen your weaknesses--because then you end up with "strong weaknesses". Instead, strengthen your strengths. If you are good at soft skills, selling, design, idea man stuff, DO THAT, and leave the Model View Controller stuff to those who live and breathe that. You'll (likely) never do it as well as they do, anyway.
3) If you insist on learning to programming despite these two admonitions not to, I agree with many here who wrote: pick a project, and do it. And not some dopey toy project that you don't care about. Something real. I had an idea for an application years ago and have been working on it in my spare time and now feel that I can program, at least to some level. If you are in a company, work with the tech people to contribute to one module or one class or one feature, and start there. Become master of that section, and then move on.
Then the user presses the 7 key. This puts the interviewer in "ill mode", where they start coughing and wheezing a lot into the mouthpiece. The voice becomes nasal and garbled, and the interviewer takes up a lot of the interview complaining.
The user then presses *9 and puts the interviewer into bizarre mode. He suddenly says, "Just who do you think you are? This is my bat, my ball, and my field, and I make the rules when I have the bat. My bat." The interviewer than starts singing "Danny Boy" and then moaning, almost imperceptibly.