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Many thanks for the detailed post, I will try to pass this on to her, although she tends to not be terribly open minded about discussing diet, so it's a bit difficult but will do my best.

The whole thing about diet and exercise is it's a tough subject, because it's not completely understood, and the same thing doesn't work for everyone. Also, fitting in a 1 hour workout 6 days a week (plus typically a commute to & from gym, showering) on top of work, commuting, and family, is not easy.

Most of what you said seems logical, but this part seems a bit iffy to me: "Much better is to lower the intensity so that you can do 30-60 minutes of activity. This will spare the sugar in your body, while burning calories (from fat)." I mean, it's not a crazy idea, but it doesn't seem particularly logical to me either. Maybe it's scientifically well documented though, I have no idea. That's why personally I prefer going the low carb route - it's a very simple theory that makes complete sense to me, and the results for most (if not all) people that follow it (and don't cheat like my wife did, then claiming that it "doesn't work" for her) are pretty spectacular. However, the ability to eat that strict diet varies largely per person - it was great for me because I tend to like that kind of food, but for others it is psychologically difficult to maintain and depression and self-pity become very big problems.

I think your advice that 1200 calories is too low is very interesting, because she has been very strict at that level + exercise, so it seems apparent that her body has gone into some sort of an ultra-efficiency mode. (She's tried cheat days but with no effect....maybe there's a particular food she's eating that's a problem.) I hit the same wall on keto where I just couldn't lose anymore despite caloric restriction, but luckily I had already hit my goal weight by then.

Lots to think about, thanks for the advice!
I concur. Courses like Operating Systems, Computer Organization, Automata and the like may not seem immediately applicable, but I've had a ton of moments where I've been so happy to have had a formal CS education. Even if you're never going to work on an Operating System, knowing how Operating Systems work can help you design your software to work better--especially with respect to using API calls responsibly.
This seems a lot more complicated than what I implemented in rt0 [0].

[0] https://github.com/lpsantil/rt0
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All I am saying is this might explain many things in my behavior my friends/partners never understood (sometimes even I did not).

I lose interest too quickly in various things like readings books, playing games, following conversations. Even when writing, after a sense or two, I get bored in what I want to say. The only thing (so far) that interests me is my job.

I share your concerns that nowadays doctors tend just to prescribe drugs, that only treat the symptoms. All seek for a medical advice - i.e. get diagnosed. From there on I think the best I can do is be aware of the problem and try to except more control/will over the things that make sense.
I think there's a balance to be struck. People shouldn't limit their search to people with the correct credentials, and people shouldn't discount education. Hiring is hard, and likely will continue to be hard.

A computer science degree tends to be about 2 full semesters worth of college credits, or one year of education. Calling a 4-year degree a "computer science degree" is the first misnomer. It is still a liberal arts degree with a major in computer science. Of course one shouldn't expect a fresh grad to have all of the needed skills for commercial software development if they stuck only to their coursework. Internships help, but the intern is at the mercy of the company when it comes to what they get out of it.

Even self-taught people can't learn everything in a single year, and have to specialize if they want to find employment, limiting their job opportunities and appeal to employers. Specialization can also increase their expiration date if they picked the wrong stack, but can increase their appeal if they know the right technology at the right time.

People also don't differentiate between self-taught programmers who already have a liberal arts degree, and those who do not. What percentage of coding bootcamp graduates have no college education, and what results do they see?

If companies want people who have all the skills and experience your company demands, then pay more for senior developers instead of expecting people fresh out of college to fit that role.
I think they're just trying to make the best language they can. Surely they shouldn't compromise that for C compatibility?
I don't have a blog, can I just do a new post here?

Mostly what I learned was about people, it wasn't about OS.
That seems to support the idea that ADD isn't a physiological
fact, but a curable behavioral issue.

That's a false dichotomy; those aren't mutually exclusive things. Why suggest that something isn't a "physiological fact" because it can be successfully treated with mindfulness, CBT, or anything else?

Physiological issues affect behavior and vice-versa. That's why treatments like mindfulness and CBT are so effective.

Many of them turned out to have untreated anxiety and
depression.

Sure. Absolutely. There is zero doubt in anybody's mind that ADD is comorbid with anxiety and depression, nor that those things can contribute to ADD.

This is consistent with my own experience

My own experience is this: I can assure you that ADD has been a constant thing in my life for 39 years and that depression and anxiety have not been.
For "can't", I think it's too emotionally draining for her, which is often followed by physical manifestations of pain. It seems to be a tough diet if you don't have the right mindset. I'll look into the "slow carb" thing though.

She hasn't consulted a GP, I highly doubt it's any sort of a metabolic anomaly, beyond just that which comes from aging.
The way I like to think about it is this: a student that goes to baking or cooking school isn't going to be a better candidate if he/she doesn't bake on his/her own time. I would probably hire a self-taught baker that bakes on his/her own time over a formally-trained student of baking who doesn't bake on his/her own time. However, a baker that is formally trained and bakes on his/her own time is going to be quite formidable to the self-taught baker.

That's the same way I view developer candidates with respect to those with and without a CS background. The weakest candidates don't hack on their own time.
This just makes the beauty of Rust so much more clear. Compatible C structs without going through this headache. It also points out another reason why Go is not a "systems" language.
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The interesting thing about that study is that the low-fat diet had 8% fat, which is crazy low and a ~75% reduction, whereas the low-carb diet had 29% carbs, which is only a 40% reduction and not extreme at all. The studies that support low-carb being a more efficient diet have far lower carbohydrates than this study.

I mean, sure, if you just put people into ketosis with ~0% carbs it would be a different story! But 29% is on the other end of the spectrum. It is high enough that IMO, it makes the study's argument sound, but not valid, if you get my drift.
> Many people drink a lot of calories per day (could be soda, fruit juice or alcohol) without realizing it, and many people sneak small items and lie about it too.

She's been guilty of cheating in the past, but I'm quite sure she's not this time. Her trainer says target 1400 calories but she's been doing 1200, which seems reasonable to me, but maybe that's too low and kicking the body into self-preservation mode.
Ask HN: If you had the time, what software would you build?
Just curious to know what most HNers have on their minds.
Buried at the very end is an interesting bit on Google's timeline:

"Within four years, Google hopes to have the autonomous vehicles commercially available and citizens throughout the U.S. regularly riding in them"
I don't agree that the criteria you mention are effective ways to work out if an individual is a good computer programmer. They are just more pre-judgements.

For example I can't see any way in which working at a particular company defines whether or not someone is a good programmer. Can you quantify in detail why working at company X means someone cannot be a good programmer? A detailed explanation?

Can you explain to me precisely how you can measure someone's capability as a computer programmer via their GPA? And I mean in a really quantified way, not just hand waving.

Even what someone majored in.... can you say exactly in detailed terms how this defines whether or not someone is a good computer programmer?

Pre-judgements like this are just voodoo recruiting.

It's how to recruit when you really have no idea how to work out if someone is a good computer programmer or not.
Sounds like some thing weird is happening. Just use the Safari Reader mode or whatever it's called.
To put a finer point on the OpenConnect comments - Netflix doesn't stream any video from AWS. All video bits are served by the OpenConnect CDN.
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I had this result as well. At first, I thought I was getting spammed but every result for the first few pages were real estate and car dealerships. As noted above, you may have to manually make the location available so that would self select gor these services.
Off-topic:

I really thought this was about DR-DOS, Novell's version of DOS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS
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Their plan all along.

Of course, their apologists in the West were doing what they could to help. And still do.
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"I had stopped at a florist on my way to his apartment and bought myself an extravagant red rose for my butthole."

...caught me by surprise.

On a more serious note, I can draw comparisons with the subject of this piece. Nowhere near the same scale of degradation, but bits and pieces. Perhaps it's normal to have a certain margin for error where you can exhibit similar symptoms.
it is a open source project
It's generally not hard to lose significant weight while obese, keeping it off is long term is far harder.
If you're looking for something Scratch-like that doesn't require plugins, have a look at Snap! It's just HTML and JavaScript.

http://snap.berkeley.edu/

I'd describe it as more Scheme-like than Smalltalk-like in flavor, which isn't too surprising since well-known Scheme education guru Brian Harvey is involved.
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I've been thinking about this for a while http://thenewstack.io/why-art-could-become-currency-in-a-cry...
I'll point out most engineers also have a fondness for the theoretical optimality of auctions. As I've pointed out to most of them, that optimality is conditional on several things but most importantly is that it achieves the highest clearing price for a specific supply. The economist alludes to this by saying that auctions aren't great for commodities, but what that really implies is that if you can make more/lots of something, predictable pricing is better than per-unit optimality!
Quite hard to read for me. Maybe because everything has the same color although I am not 100% sure.
Wouldn't that give you a flat surface in total?
If it's a .net app can you just host it under mono?

Do you really need to use Visual Studio? If it's C#/ASP.Net VSCode might be a possible replacement?
I first got glasses at 26, so I think I understand what you mean. It was maddening to realize that my issues with math in high school may have been due to my inability to read the textbook quickly enough to succeed.
24 week study sounds brutal, would never happen today in politically correct society.

participant: I want to chop of my fingers and eat them, or kill myself, please let me go.
"doctor": You signed a waiver, now shut up and eat your turnip!

Anecdote: There was a Polish Survivor edition in 2004, ran out of ideas halfway thru the series and started starving contestants out. They did things like an hour long swimming/running race culminated in holding item over your head in full sun until you collapse, all for the prize of small bag of sugar, while losers got small portions of white rice instead. Ordinary men got turned into stick figures. Last program was recorded one month after the contest, all previously super skinny guys sported huge beer bellies, when asked said they couldnt stop eating.
An inability to scale tied to the problem of concentrating resources.

The minute you start having non-trivial manifestations of your power in meat-space you become subject to a whole range of logistical concerns. Say you've got 1,000 people in your initial group but they're spread out all over the world, what can you actually do?

You want to provide services and representation, but - even if those people each paid 20% of their income to you - you exist largely in the web and your ability to manifest goods and services that are going to be useful to your members is almost non-existent.

Governments gain an advantage when they can provide goods or services in common. Thus making it cheaper than each person providing that resource for themselves.
Very true! My psychiatrist even said that hyperfocus has nothing to do with how people are diagnosed. He did mention that hyperfocus is a common trait among people who do have ADHD, but not exclusive to them. Meaning there are plenty of non-ADHD human's out there that have the same ability(or issue) to hyperfocus.
> if you don't lose weight cutting calories you are violating the laws of thermodynamics

Even if you naively assume a human to be a closed system, this is a very inaccurate claim.
So we're just comfortable with the idea that the purpose of a college is to train you for a job? Have we without question chucked out the main objectives of a liberal education - creating educated thinkers who have the capacity to learn?

Of course! The purpose of college is to produce tradesmen who come pre-trained to... uh... work at startups that help people "find attachments easily". That's what education is about.

What farce.
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I like how you say that ADD is over diagnosed but fail to see that you arrive at that conclusion in the same way that other wrongly self diagnose themselves.

I'm not agreeing with your or disagreeing with you, but you don't have any evidence to back up your claims.
IIRC, Tesla predates the standard, provides adapters, and will migrate over to the standard.
Psychologists won't just try to get you on drugs. There are plenty of coping strategies and just understanding what's going on. Self diagnosis is rife with errors. I had plenty of ADD symptoms and it looked like a fine match. Others agreed. But after seeing a decent doctor, they quickly realized I had bipolar disorder. While that does bring some attention issues, treating it with stimulants is often a terrible mistake.

You don't have to commit to anything. Within a couple of appointments, a pdoc should be willing to give you a preliminary diagnosis. (Some insurance might even force them to do so sooner.) If you tell them you refuse to take drugs (why? Stimulants are incredibly helpful, ADD or not), they should give you an honest evaluation of what they believe they can do for you.
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A Computer Science degree taught you to write a counter-argument blog post that says nothing original or compelling, because you read one you disagreed with.

Way to illustrate the point.
This sort of attitude really bums me out. "Tried it!"

With the current rate of technological advance, a ton of stuff that's failed (and even a lot that's succeeded) should be tried again. Frequently some incremental but necessary technological improvement that didn't exist 10 years ago exists now and it might just change the game. Maybe that's happening here?

Perhaps incremental improvement doesn't deserve the word "invention" but it still deserves a look.
> Her trainer says target 1400 calories

That sounds very low. Can you please tell me what this says based on her stats?

http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-he...

(I'm not saying that calculator is a good one or anything, I'm just curious if it says anything near 1400)
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Interesting....again, this all sounds plausible, but is also contradictory with other perfectly plausible theories, some even in this same thread (whether low intensity cardio is good or bad).

Considering the plateau my wife's hit, I think maybe this is an avenue worth exploring though. She'll certainly be open to the idea of consuming more calories!

You know one thing that sucks, I would be not at all surprised if the average personal trainer at a gym hardly has a clue what they're talking about, not to mention the theoretical approach they subscribe to might not even be correct.
It's important to note that we all miss appointments, we
all prefer to do activities that interest us, we all
occasionally stop listening to people mid-way through a
conversation, and we all struggle to pay attention to
boring jobs. These aren't signs of a disorder, these are
just facts of life.

Absolutely. Those are important words, and are very very true. Let me add something very important:

While it is normal to "zone out" and struggle with boring tasks at times, if a person struggles with attention-related tasks on a long-term basis to the point where it negatively impacts their life, that points to some kind of behavioral issue.
I disagree, I think the cost of context switching each day is small given you're already "resetting" by going to bed each night. Looking back at my logs I make small progress every day on one of my 3 or so different projects.
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Body adapts quite well to most changes. Probably the exercises have become easier to do for her. You can try mixing it up or try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_interval_traini...

HIIT goes against the advise above (low intensity, longer duration to burn fat) but it does work for some
What was the first serious program you ever wrote?
I just read an article talking about how companies are looking for people that like to code and I got to thinking this would be a great interview question.
Or SF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses_in_San_Francisco
I wish I could share the stuff behind the paywall, but memory is a very interesting question in Neuroscience. I am a neuroradiologist and I still learn about truly incredible phenomena that challenge my preconceived notions about how the brain functions. For example, we had a case recently of "transient global amnesia" and although initially we thought the MRI was normal... more careful review showed a tiny infarct in the hippocampus, a structure critical in memory. Here's a paper behind the paywall discussing a similar case report:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15746236

Or consider the fact that the cerebellum is a lot more crucial in global brain function than was previously taught. It's really exciting, cutting-edge work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebellar_cognitive_affective...
Scratch's community is very different from other kinds of social media: it's strictly regulated by the MIT folks, so content is always friendly, welcoming, and age-appropriate. As a result of this, people tend to be encouraged to work together: you would be surprised what 10-year-old kids have produced together. A large part of Scratch culture is "collaborations" and "companies" which can produce large pieces of software with really incredible co-operation--better than a lot of adults I deal with :-)

I guess Scratch as a social network tries very hard to de-emphasize numbers: there isn't a "karma" and "likes" don't bring you much (interestingly, the number of "remixes", or derivative works of your project, is emphasized much more).

I can point you to some of the LLK's published papers on this if you're interested.

(Source: Scratch community member for >5 years.)
You're referring to BCP-38, aka RFC 2827. It's actually decently hard for a transit network to do this at scale. You can do it when you're a small ISP, but the administrative stuff becomes harder as you get larger and are constantly getting more allocations, buy out other ISP's, etc.

Every content network should do it. Not a huge win there, but it's something.

I'm not saying we shouldn't try, but there are countless, very long threads on NANOG about why some transit networks just can't do it.
MIT recently released a 3D printer that can use 10 different materials at a time for $7000:

http://www.visualnews.com/2015/08/30/mit-invents-breakthroug...

If we can't already laser sinter an entire jet engine, we're getting closer very fast.
Oftentimes I'll have something on the clipboard, so pbpaste | grep is good. But sometimes the thing I want to search for is long, such that I don't want to type it for the grep.

Fortunately, pbpaste takes a -pboard flag for selecting a different buffer. So cmd-e some text to put it on the find pasteboard, then 'pbpaste | fgrep --color -i "`pbpaste -pboard find`"'

I usually have this aliased to 'pbg'
A system that would tie software comments to 'blocks' of code. This way you would be able to automatically detect the problem where comments/in-software documentation becomes out of sync with the code it describes and correct it.
I think popularity, from most to least?
It is possible to operate on information without rounding beliefs to either 100% certain or 100% certainly not, and without collapsing imprecisely specified heuristics to simple If X then 100%-certain-of-Y conditionals.

You didn't respond to the blog post. You responded to a version of it that has been rounded off in this manner. Likewise, you haven't made a response to my comment: I never claimed these criteria were effective ways to work out if an individual is a good computer programmer. You've rounded the idea that some people are more likely worth interviewing to a different meaning, and responded to that.

Likewise, using the word "prejudice" under one definition to pick up the negative connotations of one of its other definitions seems like the same kind of thing -- a similar obliteration of nuance.
> The study, which took place at the Netherland's Maastricht University, started by giving 24 students either 300mg of the drug or a placebo

Umm... that's an entire line (assuming 3 to a gram).

> They were also found with increased heart rate

Ya think?
I will check. Just ran it for myself and it told me 2000 calories, waaaaay more than I would have expected.
A psychologist for meds, and a counselor for behavioral changes has worked the best for me. The meds make a tremendous difference, but they don't obliterate all of the issues, so there has to be more.

Plus, a counselor is cheaper by quite a bit than the psychologist, and can't prescribe meds, so they default to behavioral therapy.
High intensity is suggested here also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHHzie6XRGk

So confusing, what's right!!??
> an awesome throwback to the hyperlink era.

What does this mean? I use hyperlinks hundreds of times every day.
Pot meet kettle.
Neat, but the lowres font is kind of ugly.
You would think so, but the "weight loss = calories in - calories out" is far too simplistic to describe the real world.