Recent content by Arma virumque

If I were working at the same company for 20(ish) years, this is exactly how I would want to leave it: after the conclusion of a big, transformative project, when the company is shifting gears from design to implementation, while my work was still respected. In other words, on my own terms. I...

You're correct, P&L stands for "profit and loss." Profit is defined as revenue minus expenses, so the person who "runs P&L" is the person held responsible by those higher up for both increasing sales (revenue) and controlling costs (expenses). Or in other words, you're correct to say this...

Maybe it would help if we defined terms. I'll use a blog post at dictionary.com for a quick and dirty definition: sympathy is feeling compassion, sorrow, or pity for the hardships that another person encounters empathy is putting yourself in the shoes of another According to that definition...

One important distinction that may have gotten lost is that in Celebrim's original post (and my response to it), we were talking about the general mass of parents and other adults, not about Pat Pulling or other specific individuals who led the crusade. My comments shouldn't be read as applying...

Your argument that any discussion shouldn't skip steps or must start at a specific point would be valid if we were writing books and book reviews, because the assumption in that context is that an author is writing a complete and definitive exploration of the topic. But these are not books...

Your statement rests on the assumption that being empathetic makes a person more likely to repeat the mistakes of those with whom he/she empathizes, but I would question that assumption. I believe that empathy actually helps a person to avoid repeating the mistakes of others by giving a more...

Thank you for that well-articulated explanation of the perspective of some parents and religious leaders in the 1980s. I also experienced everything you write about as a teenager in the 80s; in college, in fact, I had to formally petition and argue for the right to include D&D as part of a...

For my two cents, the part about "bazaars of the great sea ports to the west" sounds like they're eyeing Pathfinder/Paizo. I'd be surprised if they have a character generator in mind, though -- the sheer volume of Pathfinder content would be very difficult for a startup that needs a quick...