Yes indeed, very good point.

Good to know (I didn't know it). Thank you! I guess we humans trend to extrapolate (temporary) local data as a whole. We have to think in a wider (temporal) range.

Tell about it to New York people. I've heard it is getting windier there by.

Don't ask for further medical insurance support if you don't have a former medical prescription.

...as soon he realizes Amy Farrah Fowler is Higgs Blossom

Most of the problems raise when big numbers are translated to small teams. Probably, a 10% of a big corporation staff deserves to be fired, but that's not appliable to 10% of every team. Maybe several teams deserve to be fired alltogether (boss included) and some teams deserve an extra-bonus (ok, boss included), but the big numbers should achieve those global percentages.

Bad bosses apply the corporate percentages top down without changes because it is easier to manage and they can say "I'm not mean, it's the rule" but he is part of the problem. The spreading of the percentages should be distributed through the organization weightened according to the contribution of the teams and sub-teams, so there could be an uneven punishing policy, which is counterintuitively far much more fair.

Mac-Light: It won't get you fat, it is Higgs Boson free.

No interconnection means great useless silos. SMTP is the nowadays latin interlingo among companies. I'm hopeless because FB, G+, TT and the like should become a federation (at least in the inter-posting-protocol), which is quite difficult to achieve. In an ideal goal, post shouldn't actually travel, but notifications, and your favourite post-browser would be just a viewer (non storer) of the posted-outside messages. To make it nore complicated, there should be sort of a "ad earnings clearing house" to make it profitable for everyone. I don't think it'll happen ever. Long live to SMTP.

Invest your money safely on Facebook so we can waste one more billion, or two ;-)

Edison = Jobs, Tesla = Ritchie

After RTFA I found it at the end of page 4. He's talking about d3.js:

"Cunningham: Let me close with an example that is close to me today. I was looking to make things move on the screen and I fell upon this d3.js library. It's a nice library with a lot of examples of it doing impressive things. And then the code for those examples is 20, 30, 40 lines. And then I read the introductory material, and it says, here's our philosophy, and I agree with their philosophy. I like the picture and I like the look of the code. It's only 40 lines, but every line carried some careful thought."

Agreed

How about 50's - 60's DC Comics' classics like Captain Marvel [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Marvel_(DC_Comics)] or even... Superman [no need to link]. Maybe something newer, yet classic, like Jeff Smith's Bone [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_(comics)]

Third world is not a proof because, unfortunately, non surviving children unbalances the sample. There are no adult asthma cases when they died at three. There where no Alzheimer cases when life expectancy was shorter than today.

A long time ago it was published at http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html and I find it quite useful to select the most appropriate to do a quick choice