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ShawnBird | 12 years ago | on: Bring Reading Rainbow Back

You can kickstart a product like the Veronica Mars movie or Bee and Puppycat show. This looks like a product to me, a web serial. It just has ancillary aids for classroom presentation.

ShawnBird | 12 years ago | on: Introducing our smart contact lens project (for diabetics)

I wasn't disagreeing with the statement about the ketogenic diet, I was disagreeing with this statement:

"Sometimes statements are statements. People needlessly attach emotion to the written word when there is no need."

In my disagreement I explained how the author has an imperative to make sure they are understood and, since we only have the words that they posted to go on, it is important that they are clear in their wording.

Secondly, I am not responding to their tone but the clarity of their statement. It is a completely different argument.

ShawnBird | 12 years ago | on: Best reply to a Pull Request ever?

Some people also make fun of everything that does affect them.

People are complicated. I have been to funerals where it is almost like a roast. Some people deal with heavy emotions through humor.

I do understand how if something doesn't affect you it can be very disrespectful to mock it. I am just pointing out that not everyone holds a reverence for even very serious situations.

ShawnBird | 12 years ago | on: Introducing our smart contact lens project (for diabetics)

It really comes down to phrasing. If they had said "Have you tried a ketogenic diet?" Or "Some people have found a ketogenic diet to be helpful with type 1 diabetes." it would be fine. Instead it came off as an order or command: "Switch to a ketogenic diet."

One of the things about written communication is we only have your phrasing and word choice to inform us of your tone and meaning. It is vitally important to use proper phrasing to avoid being misunderstood. It is entirely possible that their comment was innocuous but it came off as rude.

ShawnBird | 12 years ago | on: Introducing the Humble Store

Pretty ethical marketing too. Giving away a bunch of games to encourage donations to charity is better than pulling games from Steam and releasing games as Origin exclusive like they have done in the past.

ShawnBird | 12 years ago | on: "Careless" employees

The first thing I thought of is, even in a hypothetical world without a Clear() method or any means of adding one, why use a for loop instead of a while loop? And if you are set on a for loop, why not simply set the first count to a variable? It is bad on multiple levels.

ShawnBird | 12 years ago | on: The myth of NASA's expensive space pens

Except that it was a private company that invented the pen and then sold it to the Russians and the Americans and even to the public. I am sure they have made back their $1million investment a couple times over.

ShawnBird | 12 years ago | on: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development

What a zinger. Unfortunately a basic understanding of PHP is still required for enough tasks that I would recommend learning it early on. It is also a very forgiving beginner language that naturally segways nicely from html/javascript.

ShawnBird | 12 years ago | on: Stephen Fry reveals he attempted suicide in 2012

It is a little strange to think about. Most people experience some depression in their lives so things like chronic depression are easier to understand through your own experience.

It is strange to think that someone who is 'always so happy' gets depressed. Not that they are hiding that depression under their cheer but that the cheer and depression are genuine states that manifest very powerfully. It just isn't something that most people go through.

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