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I pretty much agree with everything that guy says.

Thought I'd just chime in with some personal experience here. I'd let myself get to a pretty sorry state, top end 118 kg. I basically said enough was enough, and got my bike out of the shed and started riding to work - a breezy downhill 10 minute ride in to work, a more difficult 30 minute climb home.

So, last week of September 2009, my 33rd Birthday, 118 kg. Right now, 16th of March, 96.6 kg.

Basically I do about 30 minutes cycling 5 days a week (work commute). And maybe 1 - 2 hours of "liesure" riding on a Saturday or Sunday (~50km distance).

In terms of working out - I don't go to a gym, and never will. I do pushups (close hands, wide hands), squats (varying on weights in hands/arm positions), pullups, and I bought a 1.5m piece of latex rubber that I throw around a pole and pretend I'm on a rowing machine. I work out for 30 - 40 minutes, 2 - 3 times a week.

I gave up drinking beer _every_ day. And I might have a couple over a weekend. I still have pizza and chocolate bars, but I limit the intake of said items. I also started practising intermitten fasting (Basically you have dinner on the thursday night, and on the friday you skip breakfast and lunch, and eat dinner again on Friday night)

Here's a chart for the last few months of weight loss: http://www.arcturus.com.au/weight_trend_%28kgs%29.png

The only thing that I can suggest to you, is, that whatever you choose to do, you have to enjoy it, it must NOT be a chore, and you need to keep doing it indefinitely. Going to the gym was definitely OUT as far as meeting those goals, but getting up before my kids, and spending 30 minutes doing calisthenics, 2 or 3 times a week? I can do that for the rest of my life.

ps I hate to run.
I thought conventional wisdom on this subject was that Japanese culture prizes conformity, so their equivalents of Jobs, Woz, Gates, et al would have been strongly discouraged from doing their own thing. The other side of that coin was that they are better at commoditizing technologies first invented in the U.S., like industrial robots, and RAM production.

Does this article mean that my assumptions are out of date?
Technology will only really amaze you when you have to do without it for a week. Or even just an hour. Even the most basic stuff is so far beyond what you personally would be able to re-create starting from scratch, even with all your knowledge that it might as well all be science fiction.

We're standing on top of a nearly endless layercake of invention, unable to even conceive any more of what it would be like to stand on the plate the cake rests on.

We'd probably last for about 15 minutes. But since the heart of the question is 'recently', I'd have to pick abs, without it I wouldn't be writing this.
"If you work at Garmin, you'll meet a lot of smart people, so you'll have smart friends."

Indeed, I have no doubt that there are lots of technically smart people working at Garmin....but what is it about this company where they seemingly rest on their laurels like, forever, and google can come in, and with their first iteration of a product, make them look like little schoolchidlren...what were they doing in the meantime if they were so smart.

And by the way, I have a very expensive Garmin product sitting upstairs on my shelf if you suggest I should actually try it out before I criticize. Despite the behind the scenes software being very impresive, the UI looks like something done by a community college student who was drinking heavilt and has a deadline to meet.
> Teen birth rates where at their highest in 40's, 50's and 60's after all

They were married 19 year olds, dummy.
As another example, a friend of mine got an interview with Bear Stearns (back when there was a Bear Stearns). While he was in New York he called up the other investment banks in the area and told them "hey, I'm in town to interview with Bear, could I stop by to interview with you guys too?". Many of them said yes, including the bank he really wanted to work for. The interview with Bear gave him the social proof he needed to get his foot in the door. Had he sent in his resume to the other banks' websites, it would have disappeared into the HR black hole.
As they say, opinions are a dime a dozen. The author would say that, if the Turing Machine was relevant to parallel programming, we would not have a parallel programming crisis and you would not be reading this and getting all twisted out of shape because your idol is not what he's made out to be.
this is slick. thanks for the link; i have never seen this before!
Since when can you tell anything about a site by looking at the TLD?
regardless of the rules there are a few tlds that route mail and resolve to websites. http://to./ comes to mind, but there are a few others.
The last time I was applying for a job I had insufficient web development skills to pull this off and I rather doubt I will ever have need to apply for a job again, so no, I have never actually delivered a resume in this format. (Though if I were hypothetically doing an application to YC or otherwise trying to influence a decisionmaker to give me money, I'd have a website purpose-built for it.)

Let's see, previous job application hacks I have actually done: when I was 16 I applied for a summer job at a large American company which sells office supplies, as a seasonal order entry operator. They sort of value obsessive-compulsive attention to detail in that position (difference between 10 reams of paper and 10 cartons of paper: rather substantial!). I am not normally a very detail-oriented person but I have a fairly decent memory, so I called them up, asked them to mail me a catalog, and then memorized a few bits of trivia about prominent product lines and all their policies about shipping.

During the interview, the person speaking to me mentioned "drop shipment", and then proceeded to explain what drop shipment actually is. I cut her off and said that "Drop shipment is when you order from $COMPANY but the order actually ships directly from the vendor." She asked if I had previous experience in the industry. I said "No, but it is written in your catalog. You see, customers should know whether they are ordering drop shipped products or not, because while drop shipped products are covered by the same 'free shipping for orders above $THRESHHOLD' policy as products shipping from the warehouse, they are not actually carried by the same shipping lines, and appropriately the customer needs to make arrangements to move the item from the door. However, for an extra charge of $35, the truck driver will take it to anywhere accessible via an elevator."

She looked at me dumbfounded for a moment.

"I made it my business to know your business."

That line was pure luck, incidentally -- I had to come up with it on the spot because I did not have a half-dozen prepared, tested, memorable quotes ready to slot in at any opportune time in the interview. I have learned the value of those in the last decade, though.
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In your opinion, of course.
These are Garmin Connect guys. They are not responsible for the actual devices, but rather for some sort of a social web overlay on top of the devices.
Hm yeah, promo prices on these makes me think they might have had a large "available queue" of these things...

I'll kick the tires before I switch everything over. Know of any good memory tests? :-)
You have to pay ICANN hundreds of thousands of dollars to get one of these new gTLD's. Domain squatters will not be allowed.
On one hand, PG wants people who beat the system. On the other hand, someone told me PG is high on ethics.

I think this question serves two purposes: First, to see how creative people have been in hacking systems; and second, to see how people interpret the question.
3G is not GSM.
Since your posting history is intricately entwined with rebel science would it be fair to ask you if you are somehow affiliated ?

So, then I could answer you like this:

I don't have any idols, and Alan Turing wouldn't be one of them but I recognize the man for what he's done and I think that personal attacks have no place in a scientific argument.

By twisting this into an argument about people the 'author' (you ?) displays a shocking lack of tact and detracts from his argument, assuming he has any to make.

The 'parallel programming crisis', as you name it is a reality, there are plenty of people working hard on getting a handle on it, and somehow all of those that are actually productive manage to do that without resorting to personal attacks. Slinging mud at a famous person is one way to become notorious, but it is not a way to achieve anything.

Achievement comes from simply going to work.
I heard a joke once that anytime you run Javascript in a browser an XML parser is being included somewhere.
The point is that he was somewhat sexist in some fairly normal ways, but at the same time he was extremely unsexist in ways that no one else was.

Other people may have been more polite than Feynman in casual situations, but when it came to serious discussion he treated women (and students) as equals better than other people.
Wouldn't this be better asked on the Clojure google group?

http://groups.google.com/group/clojure
Hey dan,
I bought your app, a little bit expansive when we compare it against other music app. basically I love the Idea, but in my opinion you should improve the audio engine, I can hear some clicks and noises when much notes are played together.
about the music as itself are you use internally using midi?

Regards and Congratulations
That's penance in the cobol dungeons for you.

Not until you've written a functional equivalent of emacs using nothing but a card punch and a Univac 1108 will you be released.
Fascinating. Makes one wonder about how many changes in ttrends in technology were motivated by seamingly insignificant details about of our cultures. imagine if people had four fingers on each hand, would floating point arithmetic binary be more intuitive?
I recently managed a month-long ad-campaign for a client trying to attract Indians wanting to study abroad on both Google and Facebook.

Takeaways:

We spent 1/5th the money on FB to get the same number of people on our landing page.

The % of people filling up the landing page form was approximately the same from FB and Google on weekdays. Google traffic did better on weekends.

FB ads work best when they don't try to do a hard sell. Google ads work better when there is a hard sell.

I think this has to do with user intent. On Goog, people are already looking for something, so directly addressing that is a good idea. On FB, people will look at an ad and get curious only if you get their interest, and it doesn't look like you're saying 'GIVE ME YOUR MONEY' :)
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Did you buy Xobni One? If not, it runs 100% locally. If you did pay for Xobni One, then your data is backed up to our servers (and linked with your Xobni for Outlook, if you use that).

Some requests are made to FB and Linkedin to link profile photos and title to contacts...otherwise, no contact with the internet is needed.
it is not a domain squatter's dream come true, it is the DNS bureaucracy cabal's dream come true.

It has little value for users/consumers (i.e., won't remember if they want canon.com or canon.canon). It has little value for businesses, because it means more time and money monitoring for domain squatting and trademark infringement. It provides yet another playing field for scammers and other predators.

The only benefit is to the upper levels in the DNS hiearchy, gives them more revenue to perpetuate themselves and to come up with more user-hostile ideas.
thx for the reply.. i'll send off something to your email now..
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http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Mapou

Sockpuppet ?
I think that they should use to as an opportunity to launch a consulting company focused on webapps.

I've not used Garmin connect but some of the features look promising enough that other websites would benefit.
From what I hear, an apple would be a better choice than caffeine anyway if your looking for a pick-me-up.
agreed, this would be good.
I had a friend in high school who moved around a lot when he was growing up because of his dad's work (internationally, even), and he was totally fine with that. He told me that he was commonly asked "how do you deal with having to make different friends every 2 years?" and always answered "how do you deal with having the same friends for 10 years?"

As for myself, I couldn't do that. I moved twice when I was growing up, and I hated it. I'm a homebody. I need a psychological anchor. You may prefer the experience of new people and places, and I prefer having a constant home. It's just who I am. So while I understand where you're coming from, and your reasons for your preference are perfectly valid, in the end it's still just a preference. I wish you luck and happiness in your lifestyle. It's not for me, and apparently it's not for this team either.
I think he means 'own' in the sense that he openly acknowledges his past and isn't ashamed of it, not that he has control over the information itself.
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It doesn't seem to catch ClickToFlash on Webkit nightly...
> Evolving a product is neither revolutionary nor particularly original.

Interesting, because the example you point to, the iPod, didn't really capture it's outrageously huge market share until the iPod Mini, which was an evolution on the original design. In fact, the entire iPod line until the introduction of touch was a steady evolution from one to the next, and continued onward winning over customers. It beat out other mp3 players despite all of them having the same features, if not more, by doing it well. Or as you put it:

>I am pretty much sure everything on this list was invented by someone else ... it's the execution, not being first ... Also, it's not feature count, it's how well it works on the whole.

Thanks for making my point for me :)
Yeah, because I want to hire someone who will use my resources to get themselves hired elsewhere. It's like a girlfriend using my money to put up a profile on a dating site.
This is what you get when you have to take what you can get talent-wise in areas with "low cost of living." It never pays to be cheap.
This is a discussion about business ethics and philosophy, framed in the context of PG and YC's application.

Why don't you focus on building YOUR application instead of being a fat wiener?
I'd like to chime in on the benefits of a gym:

First, the crowd there acts as an informal support group. Seeing others working hard to improve their own health is motivating for oneself.

Second, a gym offers much more than simple pushups can offer. Sure, pushups are great for getting started, but you'll eventually grow strong chest and triceps muscles and the rest of your body will fall behind.

The gym you attend is also important. I drive ~15 minutes to the nearest Gold's Gym, because the local Palo Alto gym (4 blocks away) is basically a rich housewife's social club. Gold's is packed with serious lifters, and only $10 (!). It makes a huge difference for me; definitely the difference between going and not going for many, I think.
Ah, you are right. I guess I didn't see that because I don't see that is in opposition to what I said.
Good tips. I get up at 0500 each morning, do weights or cardio, eat regularly (every 2-3 hrs)and have a multi once a day and drink plenty of water..

i have much more energy now than i did before i started this routine about 3 years ago!
Hm, looks like it's a way to funnel PageRank into some spam links at the bottom of the page. I guess the theory is that people will link to that domain's copy of Surely You're Joking and pass some of the subsequent "google juice" onward to the spam.
Lets all pitch in and buy .localdomain ...
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Before you dream of 4 fingered hands, stop and consider with fewer fingers counting would have been more difficult in the old, old days, and things would probably have progressed a bit slower! :)
I think there's more to it than that. Somehow Google managed to build a top tier, highly standards compliant browser "from scratch" in a short matter of time. Much less time than IE development has not been stagnant, for example. And yet the work and the decisions of the IE team continue to disappoint. They have made some good choices and improved IE a great deal, but they are catching up slower than the other browsers (FF, Chrome, Safari, Opera) are pulling away.

More so, there doesn't appear to be any significant sense of urgency in the IE team related to just how far behind they are. Firefox has revolutionized its Javascript engine, massively increased standards compliance, and added support for next generation html5 and css3 features. We'll be lucky if IE9 manages to support css 2.1 correctly, let alone implements html5, css3, or comes out with a competitive javascript engine.

Microsoft seems to be pretty complacent in regards to IE because it still dominates marketshare. However, the decline of Myspace shows just how quickly marketshare in the online world can change.
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I don't know what they mean by "by hand," but IMO, you should always script database changes and run the scripts in staging environments so you know you didn't forget anything and then it'll correctly run in prod.
the value in trying this and having it work is that you instantly understand just how little any of the surface bullshit matters. confidence. end of story. there is nothing else.
Great story, one thing though. You were impressive in your interview/performance, but I'm kind of failing to see how you "hacked" the system.

You were smart by being prepared and researched the company's product offering. This is kind of standard practice, to know what the company you're applying to sells/builds. So in this particular example, can you show you hacked the system? Is being more prepared than the average applicant good enough to show this?
This is 'Hacker' News, not 'Cracker' News..though I must admit it was a provocative read.
I am. I hack in a lot of different languages/environments, but I'm still most productive by far in Squeak.
On one hand, PG wants people who beat the system. On the other hand, someone told me PG is high on ethics. These seem to contradict one another.

They don't when the system is evil.
I believe Hebrew would work pretty well too. There are 22 letters, it's also phonetically very similar to Latin characters. Most words are also shorter in Hebrew, but are phonetically equivalent to an English sounding word. For example, "Comment" could be "כמנת", thus 4 characters instead of 6, and are phonetically equivalent.
Better still, make sure those five users are all familiar with the product, use exactly the same IT set-up, and are so alike in socio-economic and personal history terms that they could probably swap girlfriends without the girls really noticing much.
I am interested to read more about how people put together the pieces, such as hadoop, hive, pig, and rabbitmq.
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No it sounds more like you didnt make it to a YC interview, and so now instead of pressing on you are trying to figure out how you can impress PG (your god).

Press on and stop indulging in PG's participatory narcissism. He is only impressed with himself.
Ask HN: What personal metrics do you track?
I read earlier in the Piano App thread comments, that the creator tracked the exact time he spent on each part of its development. I've also kept tabs on Feltron's work, and that of other self trackers.

And I want to start quantifying myself - at least for a while.

What do you track? And what do you recommend others track, too?
The problem with PCs is not the existence of cheapo systems like this, but the absence of machines that compete with the Mac for industrial design and user experience. It doesn't seem to be possible to buy a PC that isn't butt-ugly and comes loaded with crapware, regardless of how much you're willing to pay.

My theory is that when Apple builds a computer, they know they're going to sell millions of a particular model, so it's worth spending the time to build it properly. PC makers have higher volume, but it's spread across thirty models with a dozen variants each, updated yearly, so they can't waste time making any of them particularly good.
I like all that crap. It makes me feel smug as I scratch off the logos, remove the decals, and erase the stock OS.

If it was just a blank machine with nothing on it, I wouldn't get that feeling.

I do feel sorry for someone that thinks the default install on their laptop is suitable for actual use, however. Sometimes these techie jokes go a little too far...
Well, I can do better than that in 5 minutes but that's because I have paid a lot of attention to this question.

I think the most conclusive evidence that M/F math gaps are cultural in origin lies in international studies, where the gap ranges from negligible in progressive countries (eg. Scandinavia) to massive in less equal societies (eg Turkey).

http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/bul-136-1-103.pdf

Generally the anglo-saxon socities (UK, USA, Australia) are "middling" in this.

Of course this only covers "normal" math abilities (ie the ability to understand school/college math). "Genius" level ability is a lot harder to quantify, partly because it is such small number statistics and there are many confounding social variables to do with access to and selection pressures of post-graduate education.
I'm pretty sure I saw in-app sheet music purchases in the video.

If so, the $2.99 purchase price is irrelevant. In fact, if it has in-app purchases, it should probably be $0.99, and only because I believe the app store TOS say you can't charge if the app is free to begin with.
Respect the competition
Why would they? Windows 2000 is ten years old, that's longer than the security patch support period of RedHat/CentOS, Ubuntu LTS, Debian, Solaris (and Windows 2000).

Why would or should they go back to developing a free browser for an out of support system which will mess up the user's system as a deliberate side effect, for the benefit of some arbitrary web developers?
I'm curious as to what you mean by slow? Maybe you would see this on JVM cold run, but after that it should be pretty darn fast.
Not a Japanese speaker, but couldn't romanji be used in replacement?
It used to be that you couldn't have in-app purchases for free apps. At some point Apple changed their minds, and now you can.
Think that's something? Check of The Lord of the Rings on Blu-ray.

Hell hath no fury like a geek scorned.
Evil is relative. Thats a whole other discussion about culture, moral imperatives, etc.
I wish people would stop posting that. Yes, that covers most (though not all) of the RFC definitions of what constitutes an email address, but in practice you only want to accept a tiny subset of those.
Is there anything to test here? If your process uses unbounded memory, you have to kill it. If your proc uses blocking calls in the event loop, it's going to block the whole process until it's done.

No benchmark or special server is going to prevent your code from being bad. So make your code be not bad.
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That was a phenomenal demo video. Anyone know what agency put it together?