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Comment: Re:"Picky" and "Unrealistic"? (Score 1) 630

by Livius (#38973121) Attached to: Study: Online Dating Makes People "Picky" and "Unrealistic"

"what women say they want and watching what they actual go after"

I've learned there's a communication gap here because unlike men, women tend to communicate in context-dependent terms. When they list what the 'want', they are specifically talking about secondary priorities. Their actual priorities aren't mentioned because they're considered given. For example, 'sensitive' doesn't mean a guy who is sensitive by nature, it means the guy who is slightly more sensitive than they guy they're already with or were with most recently (who of course is borderline anti-social). I heard "looks don't matter" which turned out to mean "any kind of look as long as it's in the top 1%".

Comment: Re:Breakup of the US - HIGHLY Unlikely (Score 1) 552

by Livius (#38719784) Attached to: Predicting Life 100 Years From Now

Originally it was quite possible for states to legally and peacefully secede, and theoretically new states created out of real estate that was US government property had the same rights as the one which were originally sovereign entities (the thirteen founding states plus Vermont and Texas). Once those 15 became the minority (1850), the point of view changed.

Comment: Translation... (Score 1) 545

by Livius (#38692722) Attached to: How To Get Developers To Document Code

Translation:

Business decisions regarding a manufacturing/creative process involve trade-offs.

Well, duh....

Some degree of commenting is a necessary part of the job. Some degree of documentation might be better done by a different person from the one who did the code. Sometimes comments are good, sometimes bad. Sometimes the absence of comments is good, sometimes bad. This sort of thing is nowhere near as unique and exotic as software developers think it is.

At work, the authority of a person is inversely proportional to the number of pens that person is carrying.

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