robinbobbin

Same here. And maybe mention the versions of the languages at the moment the article is written. Some of them add/remove features with each release.

> My comment is highlighting structural imbalances as they exist in society right now.

Also brought to light by the show Silicon Valley: Several of the startups featured through the seasons were started by the same group of male room mates living in a Palo Alto home. Sickening!

> There is a lot of favoritism that goes on in industry as well.

There sure is, but I don't think your example is evidence for that. People just like to hire based on recommendations and through friends. Several times now I've been interested in some startup, and when I looked at their team page, they were all from the same group: either all Indian, or all russian speakers, or something else. I bet most startups are like this, just that some cases are more apparent than others.

It's even worse than that. One could conceivably imagine how an expert in criminal psychology, through committing a few murders, might gain some additional insight into his domain. (sorry for that sentence)

But I see no relation whatsoever between expertise in evolutionary biology and the decision to have children.

By 'project-based learning' I understand learning by building projects (guided or unguided).

What do normal people mean by 'project-based learning'?

why do you have to take a gap year?

> I find my struggle with chess is that I want to act intuitively, something that has served me well all my life in other avenues. But the board doesn't lie and if you don't think thoroughly you will get punished.

I believe strong players do act intuitively when playing chess (especially fast chess), it's just that they've developed their intuition through lots of practice and thorough thinking in the past. For some reason our intuition about life seems to be more developed, or perhaps the game of life is incredibly complex and most people are roughly at the same skill level.