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I'm with the author until he says to encode extra information into the URL. If the docs and the site are built well, you should find everything you need while completely ignoring the URL structure.

Can anyone acquainted with the hard sciences comment on whether this paper passes even a basic sniff test? The title of the paper and so many references to other psychiatry journals seem like potential red flags.

Humans evolved for a long time before we understood anything about how our bodies work, so why would a brain have to understand itself to evolve?

The announcement was good enough for pastebin but not their own homepage?

That's quite fluffy, ethereal "bad hire" criteria. Nothing about ability to get the job done, communication with the team, quality of deliverables, reliability, or really anything a reasonable person would use as objective criteria to identify a bad hire. I wish I could read between the lines and understand what the author is really saying here, because we occasionally see articles written like this. What is your magic criteria to be in cool club? Please just speak plainly!

I have two daughters and I would tell them to say forcefully "Get your hand off my waist/leg" so everyone can hear it, and then physically remove his hand from her body. Then it's her option whether or not to make it a police matter or stay at the event and blow it off, depending on how she felt about it.

I don't think it's equivalent. Handing out T-shirts that are clearly labeled "unisex" suggests you are trying to accomodate both men and women. Maybe you could accuse someone of ignorance about how unisex T-shirts fit women (I never knew unisex didn't fit women), but I wouldn't accuse them of sexism, quite the opposite because they clearly intended to accomodate.

You can have a female founders conference, whose purpose is to uplift women, and allow men to be there as well. True story: I once attended a "women in tech" style conference as a hiring manager looking for potential recruits, and I won a random drawing for a prize. It was a purse with a company logo on it. Yes, it felt pretty sexist that no one expected a man would be there.

It happens outside government too. It happens anytime your higher-level boss tells you: "Yes, I'm on board! You're right, a system like that would help us tremendously in several ways! Please estimate the costs for it so I can get us the money in our budget meeting next month." Happens all the time in enterprise businesses and the newer methodologies are extremely difficult to use in this sort of situation. In this case, I need some specs up front, create dev estimates, all to ultimately deliver a rough dollar amount or sometimes a "not to exceed" number for my boss...

This sounds more like "We don't negotiate with customers." because even if the customer had been professional and polite about it, their policy is no refunds. Even considering the behavior of the customer, IgnitionDeck is getting some really bad PR for the sake of saving $300.

It is nice to read about this in plain language. But, can someone explain what the X and Y axis are meant to represent in the graph?

A useful survival strategy is to focus primarily on what you can control. I occasionally struggle to implement my own advice, however.

If you win in small claims court, what's the process to turn that win into an actual check from the company?

You'd better be sure the objections are inconsequential before you slap the ad-hominem "That Guy" label on someone out of frustration. Sometimes you're so committed to a particular course of action that someone who raises legitimiate objections is a theat to your baby, and you're just being blind to the ego dynamics at play.

Icon consistency is far more important than flat/skewmorphic artistic concerns. For example, my kid has never seen a 3.5" disk, but knows the icon means "Save", probably because it is consistent among the UIs he uses. Even if you find the best icon metaphor for Settings, changing the gear icon to something else will cause pain for lots of people mainly because it is new, more than any other artistic consideration.