Everyone is offended by something; every snowflake has a trigger. If we start censoring because someone might be offended, ultimately everyone will be silent.

The irony here is that GIT is British english for idiot. Github is therefore the network of idiocy.

Anyone: Is is a good career move to work for a presidential candidate? Anyone have experience with doing so helping of hurting their career?

Also what if the candidate turns out to not be very popular?

No personal experience, but I can't imagine thinking less of someone for taking work with a candidate, even if I didn't personally like the candidate – it'd at least make you stand out a little more. Plus, if there were a hiring manager who would hold it against you that you worked for Hillary Clinton or Mitt Romney or John McCain or whomever, that's probably a manager who's unbearable in other ways too.

One potential (and, again, totally made-up) caveat: Working for a well-known politician like Hillary Clinton is probably very different from working with a joke candidate or the "Rent is too damn high" guy.

A very liberal friend applied to the Romney campaign during the previous election cycle and ended up working on his campaign. Didn't hurt his career at all, and he got a lot of good stories out of it.

I question the credibility of this article. There are factors missing in this analysis, education for instance. I am also weary of an article based on `self-reported interest.`

Out of curiosity, how would one measure interest without self-reporting? Constant surveillance to make sure women aren't secretly reading Dr Dobbs (RIP) in an incognito browser window while filling their history with TMZ?

You can measure interest more objectively by seeing how many start down a career path, for example. Another measure could be to look at proxies to interest - such as hobby programming as a proxy for interest in computing, or reading books as a proxy for writing.

But, those are much harder to measure than just counting "likes" on a web form.

Wary, not weary?

Sounds like you merely need to inform the bank of the charges on your credit card and let them know that you made an effort to contact the company. Contact the credit card issuer to reverse the charges. Lucky for you you didn't use a debit card then you would have had a real problem.