True, tbh I hadn't gotten the news that it ended. Still doesn't change the fact that the claim "never been done before" isn't really accurate. I do appreciate that the mechanics of this new meta-game might be a lot different and/or better than Spark, that Sony and Co might be better at marketing/monetizing it, and that the LBP team is pretty amazing in general.

Check out Microsoft Project Spark - it's been around for a while now.

I've often thought the same. Would be interested in hearing from anyone who might have some insight here. My guess, though, is that yes, it's pretty expensive. Still seems like the best option to me, though.

how can an "unprotected" kid hurt "protected" kids, if the protected ones are vaccinated?

I love lambda expressions and personally find them 1000x more readable than anonymous classes. I suppose coming from "classic" Java they seem WTF but coming from any other functional language they are a huge breath of fresh air. Take the example you gave. It's clear to me at a glance that I am going to list all files in the directory whose names end with ".java". It it's not clear at a glance, then I can just click through to the definition of the .list method to see what it's expecting. That hardly needs "10 minutes" to figure out. On the other hand, then "old-school" version requires a humungous block of boilerplate just to express the exact same thing. The actually important part, name.endsWith(".java"), is obfuscated in the middle of a bunch of useless gobbledygook. My 2c.

I use LinkedIn primarily as a place to store a connected online CV / portfolio including links to projects and companies I've worked on, papers I've contributed to and talks I've given. Additionally, the endorsements I have from colleagues and ex-colleagues "prove" to recruiters that I really do have the skills I claim to have. It's basically an "extended" CV - everything I can't fit on my actual, normal CV.

I have never gotten a job directly over LinkedIn, but indirectly - in the sense that I include a link to my LinkedIn profile in my PDF CV - I guess it may have been helpful. And I do like the "peace of mind" I get from the regular recruiter requests - even if I don't take them up on their offers, it's nice to know I could.

All that said, the LinkedIn UX is still a cluttered nightmare. It's gotten better, but there's still just too much going on on the screen and it still feels far from modern. Xing (LinkedIn's neck-and-neck competitor in the German-speaking world) while slowly suffering from feature creep as well, is still *much* cleaner and prettier in its presentation of user profiles - LinkedIn UX designers should take note.

LOL!!!

Proving the point. "Just because "milk" has always been used to describe mammal excretion doesn't make it accurate to claim that's the only use of the word.

So if you say the word can't be used a certain way, that's a fact? What about 30+ years of using the terms "coconut milk" and "soy milk"? Was everyone who ever uttered these terms just "wrong"?

If anything coconut milk is more like nectar, if you want to go the route of plant drinks that are already called something other than milk. As for nut milk, there's not really a precedent, and "strained puree with water" just doesn't have much of a ring to it. As mentioned, coconut milk and soy milk are already well-established terms.

For lack of a better option, then, and due considering the not-so-short historical usage, " milk" seems like it's the de facto winner.

There's no proof that this will make any lasting changes. It could be something like the effects of meditation - good for max. a couple of hours, but as soon as the thought patterns go back to their old ways the jig is up. Is the proposal that potential criminals would need to wear electrode headbands 24/7?

I recommend reading "The Psychopath Test" by Jon Ronson (author of "The Men Who Stare at Goats", among others). There was a lot of success in the 60s and 70s(? if I recall correctly) with using psychedelic drugs along with group therapy to treat such conditions, but it turns out as soon as the inmates faced the outside world (once more not only without the drugs but without any compassionate support network), the old behavior patterns came back with a vengeance.

My takeaway is that someone diagnosed as a sociopath is not necessarily biologically predestined to be that way - their "different" brain activity is potentially as much a result of their thought processes as the other way around. Just as in the case of drug addicts (see Johanm Hari's book "Chasing the Scream"), there is plenty of evidence to suggest that social factors and destructive thought processes are the root cause and that treating criminals with compassion rather than the opposite is key to changing their thought patterns and thus their behavior.

Unfortunately policy makers and institutional psychiatrists by and large don't want to consider such viewpoints - they want a quick band-aid to the problem and a reason to keep the prison-industrial-complex chugging along, not to mention most people have been brainwashed to see criminals as "bad", animals who are hardly worthy of basic human rights.

The argument "it nets you more sunlight after hours" sounds great on the surface but is ridiculous when you think about the fact that it's essentially a "hack" to work around jobs that require you to work until a specific time. Not only that but the long- term efficacy is questionable because many people will stick to the same (natural) rhythms and businesses will be required to be open even longer, in other words a lose-lose. If you really want sunlight after hours "protected" by the law, pass a law to curtail working hours. Or, my preferred solution, get rid of daylight savings and let the market adjust itself as to when people are required to be at work.

Um, NO.

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I'm vegan, and while my reasoning is split about 50/50 animal rights/environmental concerns, I admit that I'm unabashedly biased toward intelligence (including emotional intelligence). Mammals are all pretty closely related and there's plenty of research, not to mention plain old intuition, to support the idea that a mammal's idea of pain, pleasure and emotional connection is pretty close to your own. Birds, ditto. Fish, to a slightly lesser extent. A simple invertebrate? Meh.