Why Women Have Breasts

Re:Why Women Have Breasts by jey on Friday May 29, 2009 @03:01PM (#632589)

Sure, this "evolution-x.com" stuff is just someone's personal writings, but the academic and peer-reviewed study of how human features were produced by evolution is definitely a valid field. Yeah, it's hard to arrive at any definite conclusions since we can't make direct observations of our own evolution, but it's still the right paradigm to use in thinking about these questions.

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Re:Why Women Have Breasts by albertcardona on Saturday May 30, 2009 @06:32AM (#633495)

And remarkably, in this link, all cited works read better--more consistent and less thinly-grounded--than the ideas presented by the author.

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Re:Why Women Have Breasts by electromagnetic on Saturday May 30, 2009 @08:53AM (#633585)

It's the mark of a very bad writer, to take several sources of respectable ideas and use them to get to a conclusion worse than the original.

It would be like an engineer taking the finer points of concrete and steel and making something weaker than wood. I believe it takes talent to be that talentless.

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Re:Why Women Have Breasts by jerf on Saturday May 30, 2009 @10:01AM (#633638)

"It would be like an engineer taking the finer points of concrete and steel and making something weaker than wood."

That's a bit antisocial to bring that metaphor up around programmers... that's uncomfortably close to what we do all the time.

Just this week I was examining a project built on Java and Struts and a couple of other rock solid Java technologies, and the end result... well, you name the problem and it had it, inconsistency, no conceptual integrity, bad performance, terrible code... 'twas horrible what they did to Java. I don't like Java, but it doesn't actually have to be this bad...

(I found myself making this metaphor: It was like the team was situated in front of a bulging dam, armed with a firehose that sprays Java code. Every time a crack appears, they shoot the hose at it and spray out a few more hundred gallons of code. Eventually you're left with nothing but a mess.)

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Re:Why Women Have Breasts by Ardit20 on Saturday May 30, 2009 @09:24AM (#633604)

I believe it takes talent to be that talentless.

lmao, for whatever it's worth, the guy or gal has taken his/her time to go through the studies and present the information. To compare abstract thought with concrete objects is perhaps talentless :P

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