I get that, but I think it’s sad. As a past hiring manager, I ran into people that could run rings around MIT grads and performed flawlessly (until they got bored.) It’s the hiring process that counts, not the paper. Paper says something, but it doesn’t say everything.

I wish I could take this discussion off-public-line to those who others’ trusted. It’s such a loaded question and I’d love to have a non-interrupted discussion about underlying culture, opportunity, natural passion (nature) and encouragement (nurture).

Don’t you think empathy and compassion would help, too? Maybe a little cultural engineering?

Merit. Maybe that’s relevant. In my experience, it’s only for specialists and insects.

Yes. What you said is perfectly true.

Shoots. I was gonna tell a story from the 80’s early 90’s where 45% of my engineering team was female, but maybe that’s not relevant anymore.

I’m not criticizing, really. Though it may come out this way. I try to make a habit of not telling other parents, well, anything. It’s only turned out badly for me.

I was a trade show support person for Sun Microsystems back in the day, and we had the tech aspects of making sure that machines that had been shipped 3000 miles would run the next day, 3rd party vendors had the support they needed to port to new machines, and just generally be available for whatever.

Sneakernet!

Hmm. Fake, comic, big breasts or real, whatever they are, ones. I’ll take the latter for $50, Al.

I suppose. It’s just where my parents live. Maybe I’m jaded.

Resort town of Bend, OR? I bet a lot of Bend-ites would wonder at that designation.

When I’m in a hurry, I screw the thing down, back it out (which allows the top piece to settle on the screwed-to piece), then run it back in. It’s tight then, but that’s just me using the initial screw hole as a pilot hole.

Wow. I’m not gonna join a commentfest here, just spread some appreciation.

I absolutely love (what I perceive, which could be hogwash, ymmv) that Burt seems to pull his designs from a creative place that doesn’t seem to include the normal “engineering process”. It’s almost as if he understands aerodynamics, fluid mechanics, mechanical and electrical sciences at a principal level, never…

I’m not a mainstream gamer, so I don’t “know” Iwata-san like the rest of you. What I’m getting from the comment stream is that 1) he truly believed in gaming and his customers and 2) some (actually most) think there were mistakes made in trying to bring #1 to life.

They do, unless you’ve worked into the experience. One nice thing is that a runway has consistent ground effect unlike a natural landscape.

So does Scandinavian deep winter. (Witness: Norwegian late winter ice bound videos.) I think extremes of climate make people a little unhinged.

I’m not piling on, for sure. But I do remember my dad in a head on with a driver who drifted into his lane and his Volvo was totaled (along with the other car.) The engine was underneath the passenger compartment, the hood was bent 180 degrees, the steering wheel was free spinning, and... not a single window was…

We used the 6” not 4” ones, which is a boon to cleaning in my mind, plus we used a higher end unit with interior SS mechanisms and plastic easily replaceable louver holders that once they break (and they do break) can just be swapped out without much fuss.