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Comment Re:I am a Republican voting Conservative. (Score 0) 347

I'd say the same thing about the left and global warming, but they have moved the goal posts so it is climate change and any out of the ordinary weather event is confirming evidence.

At least in your scenario the "Preachers of Hate" would be crushed by proof, There is absolutely nothing that will get a lefty to acknowledge they were wrong.

Comment Seriously ? What a non story (Score 1, Insightful) 416

Really why not just sample facebook find a post that says something crazy and then extrapolate to a large group of people.
You might as well complain about the new cult that thinks mankind was created by spaghetti.

The drive may or may not work, pretty hard to mismeasure a newton + of thrust, we will see. There is no doubt it's positively insane to go all guilt by association.

Comment Re:Just Like the "Liberal Media" (Score 0) 347

Don't go bringing facts into this.

Science is pure like the love of god, Scientists are people who leave ego behind and selflessly work for the betterment of humanity
Things like studying if cocaine makes quail engage in risky sexual behavior http://blogs.scientificamerica...

Are absolutely needed for your own good, and if you doubt that you are too stupid to understand science, it's settled shut the fuck up.

Submission + - Proof of aliens coming in 20 years, says NASA scientist (hiduth.com)

An anonymous reader writes: A NASA scientist says we’re just a couple decades away from having conclusive proof of extraterrestrial life. On Tuesday, April 7, NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan spoke on a panel about water in the universe. Water is an essential ingredient for life as we know it. So astrobiologists typically focus the search for extraterrestrial life on worlds where water is present.

Comment Re:Not just ineffective (EEO bullshit) (Score 1) 553

The supreme court was also pretty specific about the necessary conditions for a group to be a protected class. One of which is that "They are powerless[ to protect themselves via the political process"

I'm not going to look it up, but I would be surprised if the numbers of voters under 40 outnumbered those over.

Submission + - The Programming Talent Myth

HughPickens.com writes: Jake Edge writes at LWN.net that there is a myth that programming skill is somehow distributed on a U-shaped curve and that people either "suck at programming" or that they "rock at programming", without leaving any room for those in between. Everyone is either an amazing programmer or "a worthless use of a seat" which doesn't make much sense. If you could measure programming ability somehow, its curve would look like the normal distribution. According to Edge this belief that programming ability fits into a bi-modal distribution is both "dangerous and a myth". "This myth sets up a world where you can only program if you are a rock star or a ninja. It is actively harmful in that is keeping people from learning programming, driving people out of programming, and it is preventing most of the growth and the improvement we'd like to see." If the only options are to be amazing or terrible, it leads people to believe they must be passionate about their career, that they must think about programming every waking moment of their life. If they take their eye off the ball even for a minute, they will slide right from amazing to terrible again leading people to be working crazy hours at work, to be constantly studying programming topics on their own time, and so on.

The truth is that programming isn't a passion or a talent, says Edge, it is just a bunch of skills that can be learned. Programming isn't even one thing, though people talk about it as if it were; it requires all sorts of skills and coding is just a small part of that. Things like design, communication, writing, and debugging are needed. If we embrace this idea that "it's cool to be okay at these skills"—that being average is fine—it will make programming less intimidating for newcomers. If the bar for success is set "at okay, rather than exceptional", the bar seems a lot easier to clear for those new to the community. According to Edge the tech industry is rife with sexism, racism, homophobia, and discrimination and although it is a multi-faceted problem, the talent myth is part of the problem. "In our industry, we recast the talent myth as "the myth of the brilliant asshole", says Jacob Kaplan-Moss. "This is the "10x programmer" who is so good at his job that people have to work with him even though his behavior is toxic. In reality, given the normal distribution, it's likely that these people aren't actually exceptional, but even if you grant that they are, how many developers does a 10x programmer have to drive away before it is a wash?"

Comment Re:Not just ineffective (EEO bullshit) (Score 1) 553

How is it "immoral"?

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

Freedom of association is the right to join or leave groups of a person's own choosing, and for the group to take collective action to pursue the interests of members.[1] It is both an individual right and a collective right, guaranteed by all modern and democratic legal systems, including the United States Bill of Rights, article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and international law, including articles 20 and 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and Conventions 87 and 98 of the International Labour Organization.

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