The person who has never heard of E-Prime will use the word "is" when asking what E-Prime means.

Just so we're clear, the podcast isn't about 99%ers. It's about design, and it just happens to have "99%" in its name.

Yes. On the newer Macbooks, it's a chiclet immediately north of "delete" and east of Volume Up.

But the article says:

> Here's how the average American with a full-time job spends a typical workday

It mentions "workday" specifically, so it probably doesn't include weekends.

In which case 50 minutes a week becomes 10 minutes a day which doesn't strike me as unreasonable - a bit of prayer, bible reading, maybe a weekly group of some sort and you could see how they got to that number.

Plus I suspect this is one of the things people will over estimate (in the same way that they'll probably underestimate watching TV).

A lot of busy, high-profile people (Noam Chomsky, for example) have done off-line AMAs. That is, commenters will post questions, and upvotes will determine the best/most popular ones. And then, answers for those will be posted all at once, maybe even as a different thread if enough time has passed since the questions were asked.

That would have been an excellent model to follow here, and probably would have meant more time spent answering each question (for the President) and higher quality questions getting upvoted (since there's plenty of time for the collaborative filtering process to shape the question-space).

> The median number of friends per American is 0.7

I think you might have gotten a bit confused here. I don't understand how a median can be a non-integer.

Strictly speaking it can be with an even number of elements in the sample but yeah, your parent probably meant mean number.

But even then, it can't be a non-half integer multiple.

Did you read the second half of the article? It's about how the author overcame his urge to blurt out the first compliment he could think of. He learned to dig deeper and find something about the person that's truly commendable.

Which proves the point. Trying hard to find compliments is at best not genuine (and eventually it can be "cute"), at worst manipulative.

In most cases it's also easy to point out. People smart enough to do that properly are rare. (and usually manipulative :)

It's pretty clear that this tutorial expects you to already have some experience with concepts in revision control. However, the problem is that if you're already experienced in revision control, you would probably find this tutorial a little simplistic and condescending.

Basically, git has a steep learning curve and people haven't found a good way to flatten it out a bit.

Why's that? Do you have any information to back this up? I'd be interested in that.

Because you're making a fallacious assumption with Computer Science in relation to programming/building webapps, just like many others here. You're assuming just because one is good at CS, he/she must be a good programmer.