No, god no. I did not say that. Right now, we default to "normal" characters because it's "normal". In this scenario, normal isn't a good thing, and abnormal isn't bad. They do things because that's the way things are done and keep doing it because that's what they did last time. For a lot of storytellers, they just…

I've got a family sized George Foreman Grill... My father in law gave it to us for Christmas the year we got married and became expecting. (get it, family size). We've never taken it out of the box. I have a cast iron grill pan. I don't need a george foreman grill...

My dad taught me everything he knew about computers but didn't teach me very much about life...

It is lazy storytelling and doesn't actually help in the goal of being more inclusive. It is just pandering for the sake of meeting a quota. These sorts of characters are more decoration than anything else, their race/gender/species/etc is not relevant to the story. Good storytelling makes characters relevant.

I am bothered when a game includes a "diverse" character for the sake of adding diversity. There is a difference between crafting a story that is inclusive and involves a varied cast of characters and shoehorning in a character to meet some silly diversity quota.

That is for the compute module. You'll still need a breakout board of some sort and that would push the cost above the rPi. Also, it doesn't have ethernet, so I'd need to add that.

The goal is that a hobbyist will develop a product beyond a generic breakout board and design an application specific board which has all of their related circuitry. Then, it is just a matter of plugging in the Edison to your custom board and you're running. It reduces the complexity of manufacturing and (as I eluded…

I like the Intel Edison, but I'm kinda turned off on the cost.

I'm currently paying back the first two years worth of taxes as an independent consultant. I was woefully unprepared from an accounting standpoint and didn't plan accordingly. The process is pretty painless and they let you dictate the repayment amount. As long as the amount is high enough that you will pay it off in…

I agree that much of the food industry is more worried about "tastes good" than "is good for you". I think that the best approach is to look at all the "good for you" food and find the ones that you think "taste good". It's hard to maintain a healthy diet if you hate your dinner.

I think this is the single point we must agree to disagree. I assert that "paying your dues" is inherently unproductive, you assert that "paying your dues" can be productive. Experience and learning isn't "paying your dues", in my opinion it is the farthest removed from "paying your dues" you can get. If your…

"Paying your dues" has no requirement on the quality of work, just the quantity. You shouldn't have to pay your dues. There shouldn't be a "quantity of work" necessary to advance in a career. The source article rejected the notion of "paying your dues" entirely and your article seems like it's just a PR spin on the…

We're not talking semantics. You are trying to re-define "Paying your dues". If you are learning and gaining experience, you're not "paying your dues", you're getting valuable work experience.

"Paying your dues" is pointless suffering. If you have to "pay your dues" to advance in your career, you have a crappy manager.

The lottery method only works if you really really believe that you're gonna win. You aren't trying hard enough, so you are failing. Over lunch, I won 5$ from a scratch card. My luck is starting to turn around. I already re-invested that 5$ into more scratch cards, but didn't win anything. Tomorrow I'm gonna try again…

DLC is great if it's done right. Skin packs and "Cheater" DLC are a great way to improve revenue flow and they don't generally hurt anyone (except for cheaters who are cheating themselves out of a challenge). Whiners gonna whine about overpriced cosmetic DLC, but as long as it doesn't affect gameplay who gives a damn…

It's not technically a strike. If it was a strike then it would face a lot more BS. It was a slowdown or a "Paid Strike". Management didn't want to pay for people to slack off on purpose, so they eliminated overtime, meaning that an 8 hour day and a 5 hour work week is all that they get (previously, there were guys…

It's easy. I have a post-it note with my master password taped to my monitor. Ever since I got a password manager, I've had a lot more space on my monitor bezel to store important information like passwords.

My favorite programmer test is to write the worst fizzbuzz you can and explain why it is dumb.

Metacritic is just an aggregation of review sites. The score is a TL;DR for the review. Metacritic takes these TL;DRs out of context and averages them. The scores are mostly arbitrary and every site uses a different scale. They try to normalize them by converting them to a 100 point scale, but if one site's 2/5 is…