Hardly, just because alcohol is socially accepted doesn't mean it's not a drug. Alcohol and heroine are considered the most harmful drugs out there. It's an apt comparison.
I'd be more inclined to agree if it were a complicated subject with a lot of data to be cherry-picked and "interpreted." In this case, "lost 27 pounds" and "only ate twinkies" would be pretty hard to play games with.
But hey, maybe 20 different scientists ran the same experiment and only the one time when it was successful got published. No way to know for sure.
If you lose weight but end up with diabetes, or a serious vitamin deficiency, would you still think this research is legit?
Eating only one type of food for weeks will almost always result in losing weight, because it would disrupt the gut flora, as well as deprive one of necessary vitamins/minerals.
In order to be accepted as anything other than an anecdote, you would require a much more rigorous study with a LOT more people and a much higher level of scrutiny. We would want to control for external issues, possibly genetic complications, gut flora, blood glucose levels, liver and pancreas health, illness, infection, cancers, etc...
Anecdotal evidence if fine for discussion, but no one should act upon it without medical supervision.
I'm just curious, have we had an instance where a quadcopter has caused the crash of a commercial aircraft? I've seen birds filleted by tiny copters, and I can't help but feel this is more fear than anything. But I honestly don't know.
I wouldn't recommend this. I have over 15 years as lead dev experience, and this isn't good advice. This tells your team that your time is more valuable than their contribution. No matter how good you are, you can't do as much as your team if they are properly guided, supported, and motivated.
OP's most important point is that when you're talking to team members, you ask them if it's a good time. Ideally, they'll take that as leading by example and hopefully they'll catch on.
Perhaps you would like to lodge a formal complaint against the Irony Assessment Office? It would, of course, have your full name and employee identification number on the form, so that we can be extra certain that we all know exactly who the rabble-rouser is that needs to be fired. Er, not fired, persecuted. Sorry. What I meant to say was "protected". Ignore those scare quotes.
It was a joke. Don't worry, I'll keep my day job (by knowing when to keep my mouth shut).
I don't know enough about American law to understand this comment. Is there something in the constitution about fizzy beverages not being taxable? That seems unlikely, though very forward thinking for the founding fathers.
Yea, I totally agree. My Commodore 64 didn't even know what to do with the game. Pretty sad indeed. I don't understand why developers choose to go after markets of majority, rather than developing in accordance to what my machine is. I mean, it has 64,000 bytes in RAM, and although I don't have a firm grasp on even simple computing requirements, 64,000 of anything is a lot and should be able to play the most modern games.
Yea, it forces you to use the vim bindings. This is advantageous, since your hands don't leave the home row. It seems minor, but when you actually "get" vim, you'll actually see speed improvements. It sounds silly, the half second saved here and there, but once you've done it long enough, you get into a flow that you just can't get moving your hands to the arrows or mouse.
^ this. I could likely reuse them for something now but when your muscle memory has you going there all the time at the start it's better if they just do nothing. I think it is at least.
