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Comment author: Never_Seen_Belgrade 19 August 2012 04:03:18PM 10 points [-]

"Comparing information and knowledge is like asking whether the fatness of a pig is more or less green than the designated hitter rule." -- David Guaspari

Comment author: Never_Seen_Belgrade 05 August 2012 03:46:00PM 13 points [-]

I think it means you're underread within that period, for what it's worth.

The voice in that quote differs from Twain's and sounds neither like a journalist, nor like a river-side-raised gentleman of the time, nor like a Nineteenth Century rural/cosmopolitan fusion written to gently mock both.

Comment author: Never_Seen_Belgrade 08 July 2012 02:38:47PM 0 points [-]

It could be more than four. Someone might have upvoted you.

Comment author: Never_Seen_Belgrade 06 July 2012 04:52:24AM *  7 points [-]

Despite what they are taught likely to be about themselves, what they might think of themselves, and what western culture expects of them, programmers are more creative artists than analytic engineers.

The difference is most tangible from the management perspective since motivating programmers is less like motivating chemical, mechanical, or any other sort of engineer and more like motivating commercial artists with less pretense, who were never led to believe they were meant for something greater. Dissatisfaction from programmers grows in much the same way it grows in commercial artists as well, though they programmer is less likely to specifically identify his or her complaint and the artist is more likely to complain about having sold his or her soul.

Common responses to criticism of work among programmers align more with those among artists than those among engineers. Again, I learned this from a managerial perspective.

The most important advice that may be given to starting artists (excluding all the low-hanging fruit advice that is best for everyone in general, of course) isn't about discovering your own inner talent or anything similar, instead it is about discipline: "Ideas are not swords you can brandish about in triumph. What matters most is the Sit Down, Shut Up And Get It Done. Only there will you find the true steel for your craft. Only there, will you know if you are worth the words out of your mouth."

Comment author: Never_Seen_Belgrade 06 July 2012 04:29:47AM 1 point [-]

I would like textual feedback to match the downvotes allotted this entirely sincere and well-caveated endorsement.

Comment author: Never_Seen_Belgrade 06 July 2012 04:26:29AM 1 point [-]

On the contrary, whichever wildernesses most shaped our hearing were not silent places. The places people lived, that we know of, in the ice ages were quite wet. Rivers and even streams are constant sources of noise.

There are issues of levels and likely specific frequencies, but complete silence puts the stoppered ear further from the conditions in which it formed as well.

To disclose, I have worked in call centers for a cumulative decade and found that ear infections were more likely if I did not switch which ear was covered at least every week, when ear-covering headsets were the only option. I expect that stopping up ears overnight will have a similar consequence for at least a portion of the population. And so I advise caution.

I do not find fault in that action.

Comment author: Never_Seen_Belgrade 06 July 2012 04:18:36AM -3 points [-]

You're missing the point but you're still kind of right. So I fixed it.

The fault for the point missed likely lies on the absent clarity I sacrificed for brevity.

Comment author: Never_Seen_Belgrade 05 July 2012 03:41:03PM *  -6 points [-]

For American males who want a simple, straightforward soap without accidentally signally sub-standard masculinity, Irish Spring bar soap cleans, leaves skin feeling as though cleaning was done, has a distinct odor of cleanliness, and does not signal femininity.

It is a recognizable brand, so using it does not signal potentially unmasculine attention to cleaning products.

It does not soften skin particularly, and intentionally softening ones skin may be assumed to signal femininity.

It is not floral or 'fruity' in odor.

Irish Spring: the safe soap choice for men who haven't budgeted one more reason to put their manliness in question!

Comment author: Never_Seen_Belgrade 05 July 2012 03:31:53PM 2 points [-]

I have reactive hypoglycemia. I take cinnamon in capsules every morning. I have perceived improvement in my condition during the periods when I take cinnamon.

Comment author: Never_Seen_Belgrade 05 July 2012 02:57:34PM *  -3 points [-]

What about “f*able”? Does it mean ‘anybody with a functional penis and/or any orifice able to be penetrated by one’?

Psst. Your penetrate-centricity is showing.

I don't want to detour into "What is fuck?" but I do want to drop by to snipe. Just like that.

(Edited in response to reasonable criticism.)

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