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by jtheory 15y ago
The distinction here is pretty dramatic with the example of bottled water. Assuming that this business scenario is playing out in some country that has high-quality, well-monitored tap water, both of those entrepreneurs are in the busines
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by jtheory 15y ago
Take a break, do little projects & kick around for a bit, and contact interesting-looking companies about jobs occasionally... but don't jump for anything serious until you feel genuinely excited about it. Give that part of your brain/s
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by jtheory 15y ago
Kiva isn't a good counter-example -- the reason they're "changing the world" isn't because they're doing banking as usual with good foresight into where the current customers want to go next; they've turned normal banking practice on its he
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by jtheory 15y ago
It's great that you & your wife have a happy relationship, and it's also not a problem if she's more likely to be the heart/compass/sunshine and you the mighty intellect that forgets to breathe, on balance. Though be careful, I suppose
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by jtheory 15y ago
An awful lot of performance involves skills that are NOT addressed by music theory -- basically everything that distinguishes a mechanical MIDI performance of some piece from an real performance by a professional is not part of foundational
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by jtheory 15y ago
One day I may finish up my website that will guide you in an engaging way through to a good grasp of the useful stuff, but at the moment it's just some practice drills and no guidance at all. :( Dunno if you'll even see this comment.. but m
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by jtheory 15y ago
Definitely agreed that theory follows practice, not the other way around. BUT it's still good to work on a better grasp of the theory -- if you try chord progressions at random until you hit something that sounds good... yes, there's a bett
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by jtheory 15y ago
Music THEORY isn't "all about the ears" at all, though. It is the conceptual framework & vocabulary you use to talk about music, not perform it. If kids love performing and listening to music, they'll want to talk about it. And initi
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by jtheory 15y ago
This wasn't a threat -- "you'd better stop supporting SOPA or we'll move our domains". That's fairly useless, because the damage is already done (and anything they put now in a press release is obviously -- even to senators -- just GoDaddy'
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by jtheory 15y ago
Not to argue about this particular decision so much, but in general the argument that you can't do X good thing because it's not possible for you to do the same in all similar contexts in your life simply doesn't hold water. It's your prer
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by jtheory 15y ago
Er, a comment here praising Ruby would have been equally useless to the OPs problem, and downvoted accordingly. Maybe you might learn some kind of lesson about how to view your own comment as someone else will read it? I.e., you seemed to f
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by jtheory 15y ago
I saw the 404 the second time I tried to sign in. The first time worked -- seemingly -- but returning to the petition page gave me this riddle: http://imgur.com/Flzuk Notice the bar on the bottom showing I'm signed in. And the prompt to
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by jtheory 15y ago
That's not obvious at all. The problem is that no one seems to have an idea of heaven that -- if it were actually REALIZED (vs staying as an abstract idea) -- would be tolerable for any length of time by human beings. We have to assume tha
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by jtheory 15y ago
I had a vague idea you were Indian, but no strong sense, FWIW. I also can't imagine how it would affect what I wrote. These are not new topics I'm only considering now. I didn't know what to make of this point: "You pick the example of bl
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by jtheory 15y ago
If any of this is "crystal clear", then you need to revisit your username choice. It's fine to form an opinion based on limited and partial data; you have to. But the strength of your opinion should be based on how much data you have to su
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by jtheory 15y ago
Very much agreed with gp on downshifting career when having kids -- that's what I've done. I'm less convinced about bringing the child to work, mostly because I've never been in a workplace where I've seen that, so it's tough to imagine. Ca
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by jtheory 15y ago
Right... I have a small child and I actually do my fair share of raising her. And I generally don't sleep more than 5-6 hours a night (sometimes much less), or watch any TV, or even waste much time online anymore -- and I track it with Resc
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by jtheory 15y ago
It's possible she could have chosen a better example. But hey, this is what actually happened in the particular event that caused her to decide enough was enough, and leaving the company was the most important part of the post (i.e., this
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by jtheory 15y ago
She was not illustrating aggressive sexism where it's blatantly obvious; that's my point. She was covering a more subtle variety, wherein (in this example) the "too emotional" card was played, with her, all the time simply because (it was
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by jtheory 15y ago
I think that's the point, though -- this was emphatically not sexism of the "requests for sex acts" variety. This is why I found this interesting -- these are mistakes that can happen in perfectly competent teams, and men on the team may be
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by jtheory 15y ago
Well. They should adjust per employee, based on their history of interaction with the employee. In-group variation (when everyone is split up into only two groups...) is pretty enormous. I've never liked the "Men are from Mars" approach, t
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by jtheory 15y ago
Sure. But it's going to make women on the team much more uncomfortable, because of the stereotype. If I were a blond man, and my manager would reel off a string of blond jokes whenever I made some mistake, it'd be pretty irritating. If I
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by jtheory 15y ago
Yes, this. It's a blog post; she's relating an anecdote, not compiling evidence for a court case. It's perfectly plausible, if you take for granted the context that she mentions -- in total & over time, it was frustrating enough that s
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by jtheory 15y ago
> They are mostly emotional attacks presented without any evidence. Oh, but they use such extremely formal and legal-sounding language. Doesn't that mean they're being purely logical? Sarcasm aside, some years back I noticed that I sta
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by jtheory 15y ago
It's a blog post. She's not "presenting evidence" or even making an accusation; she's telling a story. Who "adequately supports" an anecdote in a blog post? You just tell your story as you saw it, and if the topic is interesting, it can b
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by jtheory 15y ago
Burden of proof, what? This is not a court proceeding; it's a discussion thread about a blog post. The whole point was to illustrate how sexism at work can come in far more subtle forms than "my boss keeps pinching my ass" or "I can't stay
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by jtheory 15y ago
Many folks can't make that switch (from driving to public transit) because there isn't reliable and/or suitable public transit for that route -- but this doesn't change the point. Look for housing that is either very close to where you work
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by jtheory 15y ago
Ha! That was my first thought as well. Google tells me that Salesforce bought it from Microsoft. One can only hope MS was a bit hard up that month, and thus susceptible to some hard bargaining? There are so many domain names of new compa
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by jtheory 15y ago
Agreed on this -- my work is all-remote and quite flexible, but I have to make it to conference calls 3-4 times a week, and I just missed most of one because the prepaid mobile broadband sim card wasn't all the way set up (and to finish it
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by jtheory 15y ago
Totally agreed -- my wife & I have both spent time financially dependent on the other, but we're best when we both have incomes. There's a kind of fresh air that gives to a relationship -- the unspoken undercurrent is "I could leave but

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