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There is a different problem with the more powerful and useful type systems in more modern statically typed languages though: learning curve. Haskell is dysfunctionally hard to learn and other languages do a little bit better but there's still friction in the learning curve that gets in the way of widespread adoption in projects that want to be able to hire rapidly.

Comment · 9 years ago

I think you should be a lot more careful about throwing around terms like "extremely narcissistic", which both has a technical definition in psychology, and also an enormous amount of emotionally loaded subtext.

I also think you should be a lot more careful about advising people what to do. It comes across as both bossy and judgmental.

Comment · 9 years ago

No zero days is such good advice. Even a small, but concrete, goal to accomplish every day makes a huge difference. It requires self-compassion to set appropriate goals that match what we're capable of in the middle of a low period though.

Comment · 9 years ago

you may have a very idealistic idea of academia.

Comment · 9 years ago

its not non-sense but it might be underspecified. the only jobs that care that you have, specifically, an English degree are jobs in academia. Corporate jobs will gladly hire an English major just because it's a degree they don't care that it's an English degree though.

Comment · 9 years ago

this is the demogaphics page from the Harper's Bazaar media kit

http://www.harpersbazaarmediakit.com/hotdata/publishers/harp...

they push heavily that their target audience is affluent, college-educated women. they therefore want to run content that appeals to this demographic. the editors of this magazine believe that that demographic finds articles like this one appealing.

these are the primary advertisers purchasing spots in Harper's Bazaar

http://www.harpersbazaarmediakit.com/hotdata/publishers/harp...

the products that Harper's Bazaar advertisers want to sell to their audience of affluent, college educated women is primarily very expensive luxury/prestige brand names in the high fashion industry.

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these are a few other recent articles written by the author, Gemma Hartley

http://www.ravishly.com/depression-dirty-secret

http://www.ravishly.com/im-not-mother-when-i-travel-alone?pl...

http://www.ravishly.com/why-i-wont-make-my-daughter-play-nic...

http://amendo.com/8-essential-podcasts-will-help-master-life...

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finally, here are several other recent articles on this topic. they are similar in tone and content.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/08/women-gender-r...

http://jezebel.com/is-it-even-worthwhile-to-teach-men-to-val...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/psyched-in-san-francisco/why-w...