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I should have put "off topic" in my comment, but I thought it was obvious since I didn't mention a pesticide or depression. I just thought my comment might be of interest to anyone that would be reading the post.

Just read about Roundup being commonly used by wheat farmers to "desiccate" the crop before harvest (allowing for earlier harvest). Maybe this whole gluten intolerance thing is actually a Roundup intolerance.

There aren't very many schools that make your resume stand out. If you aren't going to one of them (Harvard, MIT, etc.), then any cheap, accredited school will do. The degree on the resume gets you past the filtering process, and nobody cares that it is from a no-name school.

This is going to be a huge boost to ClojureCLR, IronPython, and F#. I think F# especially is going to take off in popularity now that its best VM target is going to run on Linux and Mac.

Haskell is strongly and statically typed which means its compiler can generate more optimized code. The compiler also creates programs that run without a virtual machine. Clojure is dynamically typed and runs on the JVM. It is still really fast compared to many other dynamic languages.

TCO isn't really transparent to the programmer. Some recursive calls cannot be optimized, so the programmer has to know how to write recursive functions that can be.

The U.S. is full of people that can barely make it to the next paycheck, but they'll have an iPhone, a car, cable tv, cigarettes, etc. Unless you are taking public transportation to your 2 jobs without all the consumer goods I've mentioned, then you aren't poor.

The U.S. is overly protective of children and young adults. We can't drink alcohol until 21 and many cities have curfew laws for kids up to the age of 16 or so. My city has a curfew for those 16 and under. They can't be out after 11 pm during the week and after 12:30 am on weekends.

There's not enough science to support either side in this debate. My guess is that a small percentage of people actually have a gluten intolerance. I also think that modern wheat can cause inflammation and gut problems. Mostly I think that reducing carbohydrates benefits anyone that isn't very active (which includes most Americans). The unfortunate truth is that the food industry is now producing more gluten-free alternatives (breads, beers, etc.), and these alternatives create a bigger insulin response than the originals.

If it is possible, move one person to another role in the company so that one isn't reviewing the work of the other.

When I read about the falling asleep at work and waking up to a headache, I thought sleep apnea was a probable root of the problems. Lack of sleep does terrible things to a person.

Technically it has taken cues from ActionScript (which is also an EcmaScript language).

Don't worry about it. He is schizophrenic and believes God talks directly to him. If you had this problem, you probably wouldn't want to take medication for it. He thinks he has been chosen. It really isn't under his control.

I donated about 20 programming books to the local library after seeing that the selection was decades old and almost non-existent. It was very frustrating to find out that they sold all of them in order to buy a few popular titles.