Jem

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by Jem 15y ago
Actual study: http://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749%2811%2901159-6/...
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by Jem 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3351472
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by Jem 15y ago
It's thinking like yours that makes it harder to get into fields where women are "under" represented. I battled sexual harassment and derogatory comments about my ability to work in tech (specifically about being female) to stay in the indu
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by Jem 15y ago
You just described me. I am underpaid by about £5k but I don't move because I like the people I work with. Are the people I work with worth £5,000 a year? I'm pregnant at the moment though. It don't think it would be wise to willingly enter
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by Jem 15y ago
"I write like J. D. Salinger" I don't think I've ever read The Catcher in the Rye, or in fact any of his other books, so I don't know if this is 'good' or 'bad'. It'd be interesting if there was some sort of measure of public opinion on an
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by Jem 15y ago
Indeed. ICT teachers have a curriculum to stick to, whether they like it or not. If that curriculum, dictated by everyone from the head of department to the local authority, says "create a crappy powerpoint app" and the student doesn't do t
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by Jem 15y ago
While I fully support standards compliancy, if I told a client to inform the customers "use a better browser" I'd be out of a job. (That said, we've not supported IE6 for ages and I don't get why this guy is still bothering either?)
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by Jem 15y ago
"Honestly, the 4 adoptions seemed much easier to me than the biological process which I've also seen many times." I can't even begin to understand how that would be possible. My friend who has adopted from overseas spent several years and t
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by Jem 15y ago
Having watched a friend do it a few times, I think only someone who has never adopted would ask the question "why wouldn't you _just_ adopt?"
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by Jem 15y ago
I didn't down-vote you because I think I get what you're saying (even if I don't agree), but your first comment initially reads like: a) you're suggesting you'd throw your kids under a bus, and b) you only love your first.
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by Jem 15y ago
I don't know how old your kid is, but my little girl is 2 in a few weeks and she sure as hell tests my limits. I am a VERY laid-back person. I don't believe that kids exist purely to manipulate us, and I do believe that a lot of what some p
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by Jem 15y ago
If you think looking after kids ends at 8pm, I'd question whether or not YOU have any either ;)
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by Jem 15y ago
And by the time my toddler was 18 months she could count to 16, but we don't watch TV. Your kid may have done that anyway if provided the same stimulation by other means. It's not a reason in itself to watch TV.
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by Jem 15y ago
On a similar vein, I recommend Terry Pratchett's 'Making Money'.
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by Jem 15y ago
Don't usually question down votes, but I am genuinely confused about this one. To me, the whole point of responsive web design is exactly that - responding/adapting to the limitations of the user's screen / browser / set up. As far as I'm c
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by Jem 15y ago
> Layout adjusts to different screen sizes and orientations. But only if you have JavaScript enabled.
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by Jem 15y ago
> I keep a daily chart of weight that helps me intuitively feel when to stop eating You're relying on a chart to dictate your eating... surely this is the opposite of intuitive?
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by Jem 15y ago
100% of the HN front page now.
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by Jem 15y ago
Good web developers should have their logo / sitename linked to the home page - usability 101. :p
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by Jem 15y ago
Users, links, the brand, the history, domain strength etc.
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by Jem 15y ago
I'm not anti-Google; they virtually own my entire life (slightly scary). I still think they fucked up over the real name issue.
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by Jem 15y ago
What's worse is that since "fixing" the apps accounts I now have different services signed up with both my apps and (empty, useless) gmail account. I have to play a guessing game and hope I'm logged in to the right one to find what I need.
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by Jem 15y ago
Upvoted for truth. In 5 years of professional web development I don't think I've ever had a client meet a copy deadline.
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by Jem 15y ago
My experience of working in 3 different UK schools: IT teams in schools are normally small, over-worked, and underpaid (as is the default in education generally). Machines tend to run from a single source image rolled out once or twice a ye
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by Jem 15y ago
Because my brother's real name on facebook is currently "Penelope Wilbert Turnip". Facebook don't give two hoots, but G+ would. It stretches into the debate about what a "real name" is, which far too many people have argued more eloquently
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by Jem 15y ago
Interesting. I've signed the petition. I'll probably be teaching my daughter about code long before she gets to school, mind you.
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by Jem 15y ago
Tweeted about it for ya - have a small amount of designy followers who might be interested. Design is well done - polished and shiny, kinda how I sum up a mac (I say this as a non-mac user). Kudos.
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by Jem 15y ago
And porn stars aren't capable of using MongoDB? Not sure why you deleted my comment btw - slightly over-aggressive moderation there? Your prerogative I guess. ETA: appreciate you sending me an e-mail.
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by Jem 15y ago
> Some parents out there are not at all OK with Disney content Too bloody right. Here's a helpless girl that needs rescuing by a man to live happily ever after? No thanks.
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by Jem 15y ago
This was true of more modern times (thinking Tudor times - Henry VIII etc), but not Neolithic times.

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