i lol'd

apparently, architect

I must protest the idea that Steven Strait is not sexy in this show. In all his other pictures he looks too young, but here, all stubbly in his jumpsuit, yes please.

yeah that is the thing. i do listen to a lot of horrible music just because my 3 year old likes it. but no fucking way on this one.

It's not required. I have a kid and I'm not going to see this or anything like it

you're not going to get the chance. you're talking about the hard AI problem. that's not happening anytime soon.

yeah i mean there are jobs that are just coding up someone else's idea, and then there are more research / product development jobs approaching masterful auteurness. It's like anything. If you get a PhD or do it for long enough, you get to do the interesting stuff.

Yeah of course next to nobody is going to change the world via their job, any job, it's an exaggeration. But again, the message is aimed at high schoolers. The point is, girls (and boys) can get a decent job and not think they're sacrificing their decent natures to do it.

"Saving the world" is not the universal take on coding for girls, but to the degree it exists, it's marketing. Young people want to think big and they're not inspired by a 41-year-old's argument about flex time.

I don't give a fuck about the culture or improving it. I like money and not being on my feet all day. Sure, more women should also be encouraged to be plumbers or other vocational jobs, but this will do.

I am a female programmer. Coding is a skill used in all kinds of industries, not just the ones you've heard about like Twitter. It pays well, it's usually flexible, it's sometimes interesting, and it's not tiring. Which are all things you can't say about a lot of female-dominated jobs, so that's why women should be…

i haven't commented here in a while, and i had to reset my password, but i did it all just so i could come here and say that Bill Maher is a giant asshole. Speaking as an atheist progressive, I wish he would drop dead.

"the story of Ye Wenjie, a woman who is so disgusted by humanity after witnessing the injustices of the Cultural Revolution that she hijacks a government program meant to make contact with aliens and attempts to encourage extraterrestrials to invade Earth. "

twitter is not the point.  complaining to the boss is the point.  and I think a reasonable person, who didn't have a bizarrely intense emotional connection with a tv review site, would say this qualifies as a tv review.

you guys need to settle the heck down about the horrors of this review. first of all, it wasn't so awful, there's hardly anything ever to say about the first episode of a top chef season. second complaining to someone's boss (or whatever) on twitter is not cool.   you think she's getting rich off what this pays?…

having just read it basically all at once on a long flight, i think the idea of reading the series backwards would be pretty impossible.  it picks up right where Year of the Flood stopped.  there's a summary of the other books in a prologue but very short, and I don't think it would make a hell of a lot of sense if…

peace, quiet, safety deposit boxes.

it just tickles me pink to think of all these Belizean people getting so excited about their country being mentioned on Breaking Bad, even as a euphemism for having inconvenient people killed.

boy.  that guy can read some shit.

He's lost the trust of his sheep.