mentality

As a programmer, I've encountered quite a few people in my profession who are good at finding the problems in a program. These people may, or may not, be able to actually write a program from scratch. Those that can't write a program seem to have a different skill set, a different way of looking...

Just wanted to take a quick non-scientific survey to serve as a reference point. Any of you ever find horror movies or TV shows scary?? I generally don’t, but I remembered being scared by all kinds of stuff when I was a kid. This was before I knew anything about science though. . . I...

Just wanted to take a quick non-scientific survey to serve as a reference point. Any of you ever find horror movies or TV shows scary?? I generally don’t, but I remembered being scared by all kinds of stuff when I was a kid. This was before I knew anything about science though. . . I...

I had an interesting experience with my 3-year-old a few days ago. We went to Wendy's and he got a Kid's Meal, which contained as a prized a Magic 8 Ball-like toy - you moved a lever and a wheel spun around and stopped at phrases like "ask later" and "yes" and "no" and a few others. I told him...