Programming is so much more about interest, ambition and time spent programming than it is about degrees and impressive CVs. If you've got a job you like from self-taught and self-made experience you should be proud. The IT scene is bigger than just the snarky assholes who try to put you down for not doing and being…

Maybe, but that holds true for almost any profession. If you want to be at the top you've got to work hard for decades, and preferably start as young as possible. Someone who started programming at 25 could definitely be actively sought out by the time they're 30, and with today's lack of supply and abundance of…

Visual Basic is not exactly in high demand these days, but learning it in elementary is by no means a bad thing. Or any other language for that matter. It may not be as fundamentally satisfying as learning about memory handling and allocation by pointers and references in C/C++, but programming is programming, all…

Two-way laser communication in space has long been a goal for NASA because it would enable data transmission rates that are 10 to 1,000 times higher than traditional radio waves. While lasers and radio transmissions both travel at light-speed, lasers can pack more data. It's similar to moving from a dial-up Internet…

I'm just gonna deposit an idea, stop me if it gets crazy, but maybe simply calling something "discrimination" is not inherently the same thing as making a point? Maybe it's like one of those things where the word itself has become so loaded with 1980s after school specials connotations that saying it three times in a…

what in the world

I'm also getting awfully curious as to how the polite "yes, of course, straight people should respect this and should stay away" responders here might square this with their attitudes on a Palestinian right of return to Israel

Equality 1920-2013 rest in peace we hardly knew ye ;____;

If it's a means to an end you can't get any other way because of your status as a minority, I'd say so, yeah.

The question I wanted to get an answer to was whether you thought there was a point to gay bars that was counteracted by the patrons not being predominantly gay. I was going to keep going from that to saying that if you can see that there is such a point you should be able to see why, sometimes, discrimination might…

I don't think you're trolling because your questions are just that mind blowing. I got your point in your first post. It's discrimination. If someone did it to me I wouldn't like it. Reverse -ism. Et cetera. I have acknowledged the point you are making.

...I'm being trolled here, aren't I?

You wouldn't want that at a 'regular bar' so why should you do that at a 'gay bar'.

Alright, so let's call this discrimination. Do you think the point of a gay bar is not worth discriminating against straight people?

Surely you understand the point of a gay bar, and why that point is being counteracted by straight patrons? Do you just disagree that that point is not worth having if it means "discriminating" against the large majority?

Just so I'm clear what we're talking about here, are you saying that not wanting straight people in a gay bar is condemning and discriminating against them?

Aren't we trying to live in a world were sexual orentation doesn't matter

Yeah, but the last time any human being was above low orbit was over 40 years ago, and they were only out for a few days at most. The article is talking about exposure going on for years :/

Maybe, but that's the internet for you

I keep wondering what it is you're seeing that I'm not. Captain America in this comic seems to just be about existentialism and diary comics with almost no anachronistic-related culture shocks at all. Not to mention that the whole thing is based on a specific, fictional character to begin with.