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I have to second this recommendation. Everybody concerned about nutrition should read

* Good Calorie, Bad Calorie;

* The Omnivore's Dilemma

* The End of Overeating.

In order: the science of fat and weight, as best as can be explained today; what's in your food, and what you should be eating; and how companies influence your eating decisions and how to take control of them.

In particular, the last book summarizes research showing that, for certain people, there is a reward conditioning feedback mechanism in the brain triggered by the intake of fat, sugar, and salt. see http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/07/end-of-overeating-th.ht... for a longer review. In particular, if you have lots of willpower elsewhere in your life but struggle controlling your food intake, I can't recommend this book strongly enough.

In any case, I think everybody should read the above 3 books; you'll be a long way closer to being a well informed consumer of food and of it's effects on your body.
Interesting question. When I was the developer, I tried to convince the manager to leave. Bad enough to ruin my own day; I'm not going to ruin his/hers out of vindictiveness if there's nothing they can do.
well no, but 50,000 websites...
If a manager does not trust his/her employee to deliver on a feature by a given deadline (even if that is 8am tomorrow morning) then he/she is to blame. The request to the programmer should not even make it to them if you don't believe that they can deliver. At that point it's a management/political decision. If by the virtue of a political decision it makes it's way to the programmer's desk then the manager should ask if they think they can honestly meet the deadline and how they should interact to aid in this deadline.

Secondly, if you don't understand at least the high level concepts involved in the technologies your employees are using then you are to blame. Asking an employee to stay late to fix a problem when you yourself have not stayed late previously to further understand the technologies at hand is hypocrisy. Whether or not you are aware of it, your development team is self organizing itself around perceived ability and trust within the department. You should make sure you are a part of the team and have some approximation of the ability to determine whether or not a problem could even feasibly be accomplished by a requested deadline.

Otherwise management should be playing nothing more than the role of damage control if a requested bug fix, or feature won't be ready by the requested time line. Your developers will trust you more as a manager if they perceive that you are not regularly exposing them to the risks of over promised deadlines and unreasonable expectations.

Clearly I speak to the ideal and I understand that sometimes shit hits the fan with an inherited team where trust has not yet been established. Damage control is the name of the game at that point. It may be tempting to expose your developers to the risk of not delivering. But, if that does occur and consequences arise because you over promised a deadline then resentment will take hold in your subordinates. In the long term, resentment and dissent are often more poisonous than making sure a (usually arbitrary) deadline is met.

Building trust with your subordinates is what you should strive for. The decision as to whether or not you stay late should hinge on whether or not the trust you have as a supervisor will be compromised.

The deadline may not be met this time around, but you sure as hell want to make sure that you are armed with your developer's best estimates as to how much time future development is going to require. Contempt and resentment will often undermine this process and ensure that situations like the one at hand will remain mostly cyclical.
I hope I showed that those sorts of things are quite possible using the same basic techniques that I showed for the redirection and rendering generic actions. Thanks for the feedback :)
The answer to the problem of introducing computational thinking to kids surely doesn't lie in a straightforward return to the past. For some notable efforts, see http://scratch.mit.edu/, http://www.agentsheets.com/, or the older http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language) which has some modern variants such as StarLogo.
Murdoch shouldn't be the one to point fingers, News Corporation (which owns Times) is one of of the world leaders in tax evasive subsidiaries.

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Yes but if you are looking to hire people who already know Ruby, they should know at least those basic questions.
The fact that the syntax is simple doesn't mean it's easy. I could learn lisp syntax in two days but that doesn't make me ready to work in a lisp shop.
Do comments follow the same list algorithm as news posts, using time & points? This seems to make sense for news which is contextualized with time, but comments... why not remove the point display on them, but have them still listed by highest (invisible) point totals.

People would really need to evaluate each comment accordingly, knowing that each vote could potentially change a parents position on the page. This could entice people to use votes to steer the conversation towards the intellectually gratifying that they want further discussed, as opposed to just things they casually 'agree' with.
Good Calorie, Bad Calorie was great, except that 90% of it was a history lesson where he explains, in a very detailed manner, how other nutrition theories of the last 100+ years were wrong.

Anybody know of another source that describes the book's views on fat metabolism, blood sugar, etc. but is shorter and more to the point?

Not only for my own benefit to review, but I have a hard time recommending Good Calorie, Bad Calorie to friends who are only marginally interested in nutrition, but would still benefit from reading the book's core ideas in a distilled form.
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Well, it may just be that I don't know enough about Rails, but how do you do that sort of thing? For example, what's the equivalent data structure to a QuerySet that you'd pass around as an argument?
The thing is, Smalltalk (and Forth, and to a certain extent Lisp) do what they do by pretending that everything outside the language runtime doesn't really exist. I wonder how much it's possible for young children to really care about manipulating symbols in such a closed world. Now consider LOGO which is all about moving the turtle around the the floor (and is quite Lisp-like). Even now, decades later, when I'm typing the commands that will make the tape robots in a distant datacentre spin into motion, I'm remembering LOGO at primary school...
I watched the whole video. I thought he was going to explain why they put salt in coke, but it seems he never did. Was he just implying that they are trying to get people to drink more?
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I think the general trend of AP classes is to focus on getting people passing grades on the exam, and this hurts the ability of the class to explore into other topics, or doing things that would not contribute greatly to that specific goal. English essays would be formulaic, and my history class was constant timed practice exams and formulaic essay writing. If I remember correctly, some of my teachers complained about not being able to explore off-topic.
The natural health community has been screaming this for decades. Few take heed.

My family has spent many years studying human health. The well-researched conclusions are so far from mainstream American beliefs that the ignorant dismiss them as absurd.

I'll get down voted, but in the interest of countering groupthink, here are some examples anyway:

- Food basics: Avoid hydrogenated oils, sodium nitrite, MSG/yeast extract, artificial colors, high fructose corn syrup, all artificial sweeteners, all grains that aren't whole. Replace sugar with agave nectar or stevia. Know the smoke points for the cooking oils you use an don't exceed them.

- Any multivitamin which packages B12 solely as "cyanocobalamin" is cheaply manufactured. Quality vitamins package hydroxocobalamin. You'll probably have to look online or at health food stores to find good quality vitamins. Many of the options sold at pharmacies are little better than candy.

- As much as 60% of Americans are deficient in vitamin D. The body makes it in response to skin exposure to direct sunlight (not through glass.) Sufficient vitamin D reduces risk of nearly all cancers by around 70%. Why isn't the American Cancer Society screaming this message?

- A cup of blueberries a day is more effective at reducing cholesterol than current pharmaceuticals. Tastes better, too.

- Eating refined carbohydrates depletes the supply of B vitamins. For women, this contributes to the discomfort of menstruation.

- A number of plants have strong cancer prevention or anticancer properties. Examples: turmeric with black pepper, maca root, garlic.

...a few thousand more little details.
I suggest you do not skip the chemistry. It's fascinating and provides solid evidence to back the stuff he talks about later.
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The best way to teach a young'n how to code in this day and age is a two pronged attack.

From one direction, come at them with microcontroller assembly language. Get them making Arduino-powered blinky LEDs and robots. That will learn 'em the fundamentals and should be a blast from the beginning.

From the other direction, use HTML+JS to teach high-level dynamic languages and GUIs. Plenty of fun to be had here as well. They can code up their own social sites. You might want to grab some equity.

These two courses together would be intense but they are so different that they can use one as a refreshing break from the other. They are both so dense with gratification that if you've got a real future hacker on your hands, you'll be the one who has a hard time keeping up.
salt is hygroscopic - it sucks water from your body making you thirsty / sets off a mechanism which makes you feel thirsty. This is why beer and coke etc have salt in them (also explains free peanuts and pretzels in bars)
I have wondered the same thing, but most people's first response is they can't believe that the government and scientists have it so wrong, and the only way to truly explain that is to talk about the history. Perhaps there is a middle ground, though, or there could be a smaller version that referenced the larger version. Taubes is working on a much shorter version of GCBC.
Salt also tastes good, which is why people want to eat/drink it (and there's probably an evolutionary reason for this - the body needs it). Try peanuts without salt, it's not quite the same.
Very equation heavy, which I think contributes to its brevity. Contrast that with some papers in other areas of math/TCS where you tend to be less equation heavy and more wordy. For example, lots of algorithms papers don't make as heavy use of equations (though there are still some of course).
The paleo diet is awesome. I've lost a considerable amount of weight on it, and feel and look much better.

Also, a diet with staples like grass-fed beef, pastured butter (or any other healthy animal fat), avocado, and fish is my kind of diet. No more forcing down bitter grain or soy products in fruitless attempts to go "healthy". Plus, my meals are so substantial and high in fat that I only need to eat once or twice a day.

For anyone interested, there's a lot of good paleo sites out there, but I'd start with http://paleonu.com and http://freetheanimal.com

And if you can, pick up Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon.
As much as 60% of Americans are deficient in vitamin D

Unlike many other vitamins, it's also very hard to overdose on D. Taking too much of some of the others is worse than not taking any at all, but with D that's not a problem.
My anecdotal evidence says that the teacher makes much more of a difference than even the students. In my high school, every single kid that took AP Calculus got a 4 or 5 because the teacher was great, and barely anyone passed the chemistry exam. In a competing high school not far away it was exactly reversed: there was an effective chemistry teacher and every kid got a 4 or 5, but somehow they struggled in calculus.
Couldn't the government require that money collected from UK residents go to a UK company?
I don't think these books are in harmony with each other at all, what was your take on combining the knowledge?

The Omnivore's Dilemma, or at least the statements of its author, Michael Pollan to to eat low in the food chain are predicated on the idea that eating animal is bad for you, which thoroughly debunked (at least with respect to fat or saturated fat) by Taubes.

Taubes is also a fierce advocate that weight issues normally have little to do with willpower over overeating and everything to do with eating too many refined carbohydrates.
Actually none of those suggestions seem crazy, as far as I can tell.
A very interesting angle indeed. MIT recently switched their SICP based course to a robot-centric course for teaching computer "science". It is certainly more fun to infuse some hardware work into the curriculum. It is much more fun these days with all kinds of controllers being much more easily available - think Lego Mindstorms.
Smalltalks usually come with some sort of graphical environment that facilitates the building of GUIs. Those environments usually also provide simpler graphical primitives you can draw with. In fact, if all you want is LOGO, you can use the Pen class (a standard ST-80 class) in Squeak or Pharo as a LOGO turtle:

p := Pen new.

360 timesRepeat: [p go: 1; turn: 1].

that will draw a circle.

4 timesRepeat: [p go: 100; turn: 90].

and that, a square.

More complicated stuff can be done with Morphic and eToys.
Interesting, everyone here (including myself in my earlier post) seems to be ignoring one of the OPs primary points: BASIC, with its ugly GOTOs, is a lot more like assembly language than anything else mentioned here (as far as I know. I don't know smalltalk or LOGO). Does anyone think that point is meaningful or BS? I, for one, see two sides:

1) I agree that this can give kids a good understanding of how a computer works... but at least with QBasic there are functions so some teachers will be tempted to not teach GOTOs.

2) Kids don't care. As @trordan mentioned, anything command line will seem boring to kids nowadays.

However, I don't see any reason why you can't have a programming language which is, in some sense, a "high level low level language" and still can produce neat graphics. I don't know if it exists though...
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Or, depending on your viewpoint, the US is far, far, far ahead of every other developed western nation. What makes it right for skilled people to get into a country more easily than unskilled?
Thanks for this point! We'll definitely work on getting a more enlightening front page in the future.
I can think of some more pros.

1. My development machine, being a notebook, is always too slow. Being in the "cloud" this could be fast enough for building and deploying.

2. My internet connection at home is too slow for fast turnaround (1 mbit/s). With this I would not have have to upload the built packages to the deployment machine. Assuming the IDE runs on the deployment machine.

As a Java developer (most of the time) I would need this to be a Java IDE though. :-) But there is no reason that this would be impossible.
There are two ways I can think of to achieve a similar effect. Let's use this example from the Django docs:

info_dict = {
'queryset': Poll.objects.all(),
}
(r'^(?P<object_id>\d+)/$', 'django.views.generic.list_detail.object_detail', info_dict),

One (pretty simple) solution would be to use a block to pull out the object in question:

match "/:id" => object_detail {|params| Poll.find(params[:id]) }

Rails 3, with its ActiveRelation integration, could also support a syntax similar to the QuerySet syntax:

match "/:id" => object_detail(Poll.all)

where Rails would internally take the Relation from Poll.all and do @relation.where(:id => params[:id]). To be honest, while the newly available syntax is nice, lightweight block syntax is pretty nice as well.
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I think the main advantage is that there is no need to set up a dev environment (at my place of employment this can take several hours). What follows is that testing and bug fixes can be made much easier, especially for newcomers to an open source project.
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Wozniak and similar programs have definitely been a big inspiration. One of the important things we wanted to do was bring these into a relatively easy web interface that abstracts away some of the stuff that's going on underneath.
Sorry for the sizing trouble, we'll definitely have to get better with it.

For pinyin input, there's a page that explains the input system linked to at the bottom, though we need to make it a bit more prominent. Basically you type a number 1-5 after each syllable to apply an accent to it.
Should be fixed soon!
Regardless if it's "right" or not, it's likely more valuable to the country. On the other hand, being able to bring the family might further increase the value of a skilled immigrant.
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In the December 2009 budget announcement the low corporate tax rate was specifically mentioned as a competitive advantage and would not be touched any time soon. Much to the chagrin of some law makers.

IIRC Ireland has the lowest (or darn close) corporate tax rate in Europe so why wouldn't companies have their HQ here? It's simply taking the best actions for their shareholders.
I found Lingt very similar (in concept) to Anki, which has an iPhone client. I do not have an iPhone, so I can't tell how good it is, but Anki (desktop) is fantastic. I am currently learning Mandarin, and Anki is my primary resource for vocabulary memorization.
If you thought people were complaining about the December budget... wait till the corporations start pulling up stakes wholesale!

The funny thing is Ireland has very good social welfare benefits - enough that fraud is a serious issue. A coworker told me a recent (non-gov't) investigation suggested it could be as much as 2 billion EUR per year. That's my euros the fraudsters are taking but the government can't be bothered to battle fraud more effectively! sigh
This seems really obvious, but I'll bite. Maybe this is some sort of socratic exercise.

>"What makes it right for skilled people to get into a country more easily than unskilled?"

Prudence. Theoretically, skilled immigrants can create a positive economic externality. Through enterprise and innovation, they can add more value to the national economy than what they consume. Current US residents benefit from skilled immigration along with the immigrant. Since the immigrants may not have had an opportunity to produce this value in their home country, the whole world may experience a net benefit as well.

On the other hand, the act of importing unskilled immigrants is unlikely to generate such positive externalities. To the extent they depend on public welfare or bring with them social problems associated with poverty, unskilled immigrants may even function as a negative externality on our society. It is unlikely that an unskilled worker will generate much more value than what is necessary for subsistence.

The average wealth of a society correlates highly with how pleasant it is to live there. As an experiment, I suggest the author spend two weeks living in the impoverished southeast side of Washington DC along the green metro line. If he survives, I then suggest he spend two weeks living on the well-to-do west side along the orange line. At the conclusion of the experiment, the author should report to us which lifestyle he prefers. It is likely that this experiment will have shaken the author's expressed egalitarianism.

To some extent, we are choosing between these two societies when we frame our immigration policies.
Besides those who lived by the sea, where could our ape-man ancestors find salt?
Google is executing their business plan of trying to 100% own the web.

Recent aquisitions are positioned to own the underlying top 10 search results in every category they can get their hands on.

I'm glad that yelp, top of the list for many local searches, is holding out.

And yes, I know they've got a pile of cash and they should use it to improve margins in underlying biz, but still this just seems like a continued march to monopoly.
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Exactly how does fiber work as an antidote to fructose? I didn't catch that. Did he even explain that?
Ditto - looks great but would love Python support.
uh....clever?
Good for them! Getting acquired is not victory for a startup, building a sustainable business for the long term is.
I like the one that leads to better conversions. Which one is that? I don't know. You shouldn't be asking us.
I wrote a lengthy rant about Facebook from a non-user perspective, here ( http://everything2.com/title/Facebook+destroys+real+relation... ). Essentially, I feel not being on Facebook compromises the quantity of my relationships, but being on Facebook would compromise their quality.
Yep, but the important part of a LOGO teaching system is the real actual turtle moving around a giant piece of paper. It makes it "real".
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I love Larry and Sergei for being able to deliver on Netscape's dream of making the web the platform, and the OS irrelevant.

I also like 280North for creating an open platform that allows control-centric, rather than document centric, layouts for web apps.
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While I agree with the other comments, I'm going to call this a dick move of the week. I understand that google wasn't buying yelp just for the sake of owning yelp, but Jesus Christ, yelp is a terrible terrible website for reviews of anything(I can only vouch for the NYC yelp). It's a pretty widely regarded fact here that yelp reviews do not count for shit, thus making the website a joke. They should have taken the money and ran.

Edit: If you don't agree, feel free to browse the reviews of NYC restaurants for some great advice by hundreds of thousands of self-proclaimed culinary experts and trendy hipsters who's idea of a good bar is one with big game hunter in the back and a 95% mustache rate.
It's also where the go-to-prison is when one of the girls is under age. Ask the Girls Gone Wild guy.