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My god, I'm starting to think Post Insurance Trauma meetings are in order. Everyone else I've met who worked/started in Insurance feels the same way. I can still recall those janky 'Internet Safety' etc. web seminars that restart if you accidentally click the wrong button and inexplicably take 45 minutes.

I went to Ohio State, and the above poster is presenting a point of view that only someone who has never lived there and probably never visited can hold. Nowadays you can walk from the OSU campus in Old North Columbus all the way down Short North into downtown Columbus on any night of the week and see nothing but restaurants, bars, clubs & so on.

Ohio as a whole is a definite participation in the Opioid crisis, but to say Columbus is suffering from 'social and economic blight' is nonsense. The city is vibrant and growing, and is handily avoiding the mid-western living standard decay that's affecting the surrounding countryside.

I find that most people either rank it first in the series, or somewhere near the bottom with no real in-between. I think it's the finest book in the series, my girlfriend thinks it's the worst.

From personal experience, it seems that more people find it to be the best than the worst, but there's a lot of disagreement.

I'm surprised more commenters aren't noting the racism/sexism/anti-semitism component. By far that's one of the worst parts of twitter - if you follow any prominent women/minorities, you'll notice the kind of daily maintenance they need to do just to be able to use the service properly.

I don't understand your recent comment strings - your comments in the John Deere thread yesterday were equally confrontational without anything to really back it up.

Confidence in Tesla is high because people like the brand. Panasonic similarly works hand in hand with Tesla because they're confident the value of the Tesla brand. People will read that motortrend comparison and still buy a Tesla - because the bolt is ugly and looks like your lyft drivers car, and because they want a Tesla.

The idea that Tesla has unjustified hype is not a novel position to take and I don't know why it would serve as a good position to snipe at Tesla when it hasn't worked at all in the past. (see recent short sellers woes)

A nice article, although I feel like a bulleted list of curated advice from Mr. Rogers life is understating and downplaying the insightful life lessons he taught so regularly.

For a significantly better read, refer to the following profile written for esquire by Tom Junod:

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/interviews/a27134/ca...

You will laugh, and cry, and ultimately remember why Fred Rogers was as important to you as a child, and why his lessons are still directly applicable today.

Agreed! It's totally strange when you consider that some of the most revered figures in cs are also great teachers/communicators.

Nice! I always appreciate folks who take the time to blog about introductory topics. There's too much of the 'those who can't do, teach' mentality in software and it's good to see people take the time to do uplift while they learn.

I enjoyed that article. Seems to me like power and instability can be just as corrupting for women in feminist oriented business as it can be for men, which shouldn't be too surprising.

A while ago I read a profile of a porn company (pornhub, maybe?) and was struck by how boring their jobs seemed. Same HR structure as everyone else with the sole exception that these folks tend to see a lot of nakedness as part of their day to day. Seems like Thinx confused non judgemental policies and a focus on positivity with invasion of peoples privacy.

Yes, but it was hard to entirely obfuscate the fact that I designed/coded testing frameworks. Part of my job was running and analyzing big batches of regression scripts, so it would have been disingenuous to pretend like it didn't happen.

I had a similar experience. My first job out of college was for a Developer Role (building testing frameworks, maintaining and building browser extensions) but the job was titled 'QA Developer' so I had a hell of a time the first time I tried to find a new job. Never mind that I wrote thousands and thousands of lines of application code, lots of recruiters would deny me on the basis that my background didn't fit.

Generally I think most devs who use MacBooks disable that option (making it so that you have to press fn to get the standard mac functionality) so that they have better access to the Fn keys. I will echo the sentiment, that there's something nicely tactile about key presses that's missing from the touch bar. That being said - I do half my work on monitors using an external keyboard/touchpad anyway, so it's really not the worst thing in the world.

The first was part one of a graphics sequence. That class goes on for at least one more, although I stopped after the first one because it wasn't really my cup of tea. The second was one of the project courses required to finish the degree - it was also part of a two part series.

No way - I used unity for two classes in college, one elective and one non elective. I know of at least 2 more available as well.

I would say it's closer to Firefly than BSG, although tonally it is not that similar to Firefly. There is a definite crew-against-the-world type of vibe, but humor and pacing and focus are more militaristic and thriller based than Firefly.