Why do you think Google has bad so much trouble delivering a product that is enjoyable to use in Google+? I understand the market saturation from Facebook, but something about Google+ is off. It should be a much better user experience.
I'm not an expert but here's my humble opinion. Being an astronaught has very stringent physical and mental requirements. It's probably easier(or cheaper) to pick the smartest candidates from a group of very fit ones. To make a very crude analogy, it's easier to turn the star QB into a valedictorian than to turn the valedictorian into a QB.
I personally would prefer to be friends with exes. I don't understand why people find it so hard to go from dating to freidship. Of course it's awkward at first, just like your first date was awkward, but you push past it if its someone you'll enjoy in your life.
> I don't understand why people find it so hard to go from dating to freidship.
You must not have a large sample set to work on then. A friend of mine came out of a two year relationship where his ex slept with a close friend. Sure it is "awkward", sure they have a lot in common. However, why does he need to go through all the pain in order to be friends with her (or maintain a friendship with the other friend for that matter)? There are millions of people out there to be your friends, your lovers. Delete, walk away works just as easily.
I don't have the largest sample set to be candid. I should have specified that I am speaking specifically about relationships that end on good terms and both people make a sort of unspoken pledge to live their lives as if the other never existed. If the relationship ended in an ugly manner, all bets are off.
I'm going to digress a bit and talk about your friends specific example. First and foremost, if someone is sleeping with your girlfriend when they know you are dating, that person isn't a friend, let alone a close one.
In your example I would argue your friend clearly still cares about his ex if it hurts him to be around her. So maybe learning to forgive and having her back in his life as a friend wouldn't be the worst thing.
Obviously there are a million fish in the sea but there isn't a limit on friends. I personally had a bad breakup where I wrote the ex out of my life but I have now forgiven her and wish we could be friendly. But I certainly don't blame anyone for breaking off contact with an ex who cheated on them.
I understand your position, and felt that way when I was first dating. My first girlfriend slept with a friend of mine and I tried to be amicable about it. She then resented me for being the bigger person.
As someone else said, there are 7 billion people on earth. I'd rather make new friends than try to hold on to something or someone that has fucked me over.
> I would argue your friend clearly still cares about his ex if it hurts him to be around her. So maybe learning to forgive and having her back in his life as a friend wouldn't be the worst thing.
That is stretching the English lexicon when it comes to the word "care". Having positive emotions for someone is not the same as having negative emotions for them.
> "forgive and having her back in his life"
I dunno. I feel like a major boundary was violated. A friendship or anything really works on the basis of boundaries not being violated. Sure, sometimes mistakes do happen. However, to forgive requires the other person to be aware that a boundary was violated and be ready to take steps to fix it. I feel like our society is too accepting of the word "sorry" and too easy with using it. Sometimes "sorry" just doesn't cut it.
Well that is an extreme example. Most relationships don't end that way. I'm friends with all but one of my ex's and consider them good friends, I couldn't imagine deleting them from my life, that seems so immature.
It's amusing (and sad) that while the NSA monitors all emails and every single phone calls of all Americans, but still fails to detect and prevent a computer intrusion of this magnitude into Americas largest company.
I've found with project managers more than other positions, you get what you pay for. The best project managers command exorbitant fees because of their reliability, to the point where bringing them in can be counter productive. But if you have the cash, you can definitely attract top level talent.
For something relatively new, and related to hn, I'd recommend Bruce Sterling's latest: "Zenith Angle". Although, that's not quite sci-fi, more just fiction.
All I've read of Stanislaw Lem I'd recommend (for some classic sci-fi), also Roadside Picnic (Strugatsky brothers) is very good.
Keeping with the theme of the other books listed above, I'd recommend Bruce Sterling's "Holy Fire", or maybe "Babel-17" by Samuel R. Delany (although I prefer his youth fantasy novel "Neveyona" which deals with some of the same themes). Also, you can't go wrong with his "The Einstein Intersection".
Finally, if you haven't read anything of Vernor Vinge, I have a look at "A Fire Upon the Deep".
Hm, I guess there are a few too many Nebula Award winners in there for the recommendations to be really useful... here's one more: "Speed of Dark" by Elizabeth Moon.
Perhaps a bit haphazard, but maybe you'll find something you like there :-)
Funny that you would mention Vernor Vinge... as well known and highly regarded as he is, I've never read any of his books to date. So I recently picked up A Fire Upon The Deep, A Deepness In The Sky, and Rainbow's End and plan to read those sometime soon. I've heard so much good stuff about his work that I'm really looking forward to getting into those.
Peter Watts, especially Blindsight, although Starfish is also good. He's the rare writer who combines hard and soft SF in one; keep plowing through the first thirds to halves of his novels, which are confusing but worth the payoff.
I also read Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312 not long ago and didn't dislike it, exactly, and yet felt bored even in the midst of exciting reversals and shocking events in the context of the world.
