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As someone who has mostly unsuccessfully looked for junior positions...

I see some, but not many, junior positions on job sites like 37signals' or Stack Overflow's, or Monster, or Dice... A lot of the 'junior' positions want things that don't seem terribly junior- several years experience in a certain conjunction of technologies.

My computer science education has largely come from books like K&R and Programming Pearls, C2Wiki, Wikipedia, and a whole bunch of personal projects in Python, C, and occasionally C++. It's not exactly conducive to the commonly posted requirements for a junior position.

My limited perspective suggests it's a lot easier to make a good junior engineer than it is to find one that meets your requirements.

Anyone in Prince Edward Island, ideally Charlottetown, with some sort of entry-level technically-oriented job?

You're mincing words to tell us about Japanese. Your examples seem to indicate that Japanese more naturally conveys social situations and basic descriptions at the same time, making it more effective, not less. Russian has no future first person singular conjugation for 'to win'- this doesn't make Russian 'less effective' at communication, nor does English's use of "I will be able to" in place of "I will can".

If you want to make an argument on the effectiveness of communication, please use a quantitative or otherwise qualified argument, rather than exotic anecdotes.

This is simply a problem with definitions, though. Whether mistake or habit, or language, dialect, or idiolect, what matters is the part that comes after. People still study the Akkadian language, despite its lack of speakers.

You're hasty applying the troll label, and slow to support any of your arguments.

As I mentioned above, "It's not given that this is better for newspapers than open search engine access, nor that this preserves the production of "beneficial" news."

Can you explain why media companies "greatly benefit" from being excluded from major search engines? Can you show why this means that "beneficial" investigative journalism continues, increasing the overall welfare of citizens moreso than open access for search engines? For that matter, can you show that newspapers do more "long form" and expose more government corruption than bloggers do in aggregate? What if newspapers accept this deal and transition to more "blog" articles and fewer "investigative" articles, leaving citizens with "no" investigative articles and no single search destination?

Being first mover doesn't give you the right to assert every piece of your argument.

Your argument seems poorly aimed, as I merely pointed out how poorly aimed the original comment was. I'll treat you as a top level post as a courtesy.

As you rightly acknowledge, "able" can hide a lot. I'm able to live several days without food, but it's hardly a thing to aim for. The article explicitly mentions "rich", and you should feel comfortable assuming that "rich" does not mean "middle-class". Failing that definition, consider "able" to be taken from "luxuries", rather than "necessities". You don't need to bring India into it. Sufficient?

You'll have to explain further how the poor are being used as a human shield here. Additionally, I'm not convinced that any protests based on increased tuitions will have an effect on government waste. It seems like effort better spent campaigning for reduced government waste (which is admittedly very likely a waste as well).

This sounds more like sour grapes and less like analysis. The article doesn't even mention the FAFSA, but it does say that at UCB, "as tuitions have risen this past year, those from the poorest families saw their financial aid packages rise almost dollar for dollar". Do you have any data on how the FAFSA actually accounts for household debt or sibling tuition costs?

You in no way respond to the point in the article, which is that price discrimination (as enabled by high tuitions and generous financial aid) allows you to extract more money from those able to pay more money (allowing generous financial aid).

The piece claims to be originally from 2000: "This is a reproduction of a manifesto drafted anonymously in the year 2000."

It's also somehow not surprising that a business founded on the principle of making games in a not business-like fashion failed as a business.

However, "scratchware" still wins, in the form of freeware games like N, Cave Story, or La Mulana that become sold on consoles, the now donation funded behemoth Dwarf Fortress, or as the directly commercial games like World of Goo or Braid. The piece touts "scratchware"; it was only the introduction that touted Manifesto Games.

I'm sure most of the people here feel the same way. It just seemed like an audience mismatch, and if you acknowledged it (either the joke nature or the audience mismatch), I wouldn't have felt the need to "Whoosh" you.

I don't think you've defended your position as well as you think you have, and you didn't need to stoop to the "liberal Godwin". He implies a pretty basic definition of evil- that which hurts everyone else. It's not given that this is better for newspapers than open search engine access, nor that this preserves the production of "beneficial" news.

jrockway bromidically responded to a throwaway joke that in itself already acknowledged the content of the response.

Whoosh.

Drug addiction is serious. Can you get paid sick leave for drug addiction?