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This is infinitely easier to support than building rubygems. Fortunately, the ecosystem that has been built around Rubygems.org is a far better solution than what we provided.
Highly recommend this - it not only teaches you the math but does it in a fun fashion. The online forums are a great place too. Definitely gave me more math than my high school offered back in the days.
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For me, weighing myself has little to do with helping willpower - I still get days where I just feel like gorging on whatever's available in the fridge, willpower be damned. And I think the trick is to get yourself to a point where you don't need willpower at all - just a habit to eat healthy.

But - if it works for you, that's awesome. I definitely don't want to discourage you from what you're doing if it works. It looks like you have a lot of willpower, much more than I or most people I know do, so just keep doing it.
Martial arts, preferably medium or full contact. It will make all other physical activities seem boring and it will give you calm and focus that transfers to other aspects of your life.

If that seems like too much, maybe yoga or tai chi.
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jve/HR/

I'd recommend this one: The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming -- would fit best if you'd also have an interest in Haskell/FP, but it's also a good introduction to formal proofs -- might be a bit too basic if you're interested in higher maths, tho, but a good starting point for math education.
I don't know what to say. On one hand you seem to agree that there is no force to slow the black hole down inside the cave, but on the other hand you claim that the black hole will remain inside the cave.

> You are missing three points: one is that if there is no cave, and it's oscillating through the earth, it will be pulled to the center.

Agreed.

> Two is that it looses momentum each time through the earth.

I'm not so sure about that. Mass is added to the black hole, and perhaps this causes the total momentum to increase.

> And three is that once it's inside it's hollow cave it can no longer reach the wall.

If it is stopped inside the cave. But there is no force to stop it.
Math takes a lot more persistence than other stuff. It feels like slow going, but the key is to just stick with it. It's OK if it takes you a long time to solve a problem. Even though you'll feel like you're doing badly you'll quickly make progress (in retrospect).

Anyway, that's been my experience.
And plus I know I would not be willing to give my University the details of my salary, unless they retrieve them from a salary survey company.
The Gnome UI (gnome-panel, nautilus, etc) generally takes up a huge amount of screen space. I've found that I'm pretty happy with aewm and Thunar.
This keeps reminding me to get off my butt and make some sort of passthrough between nginx and mongodb. Yes, I know there's GridFS development but it doesn't suit my needs.
In the course of writing a programming book I've come to learn something surprising (for me anyway). People can be very touchy when you assume that they know the meanings of certain programming topics. Among those that I've found to be particularly hurtful are: monad, combinator, closure, functional, immutable, higher-order, Haskell, big-O, and macro.
1) Build -> Publish might work for the simplest of scenarios but not if you have any sort of real infrastructure.

2) To use it you have to use strongly-typed views, and HTML helpers I believe.. which again I don't care for since it is taking the markup out of your hands.
The 2nd-gen iPod has no GPS either. That's no technical reason.

The only conceivable reason I find is the lack of bluetooth in the 1st-gen iPod. I can't believe this is a requirement.
Yes, but we're talking about the situation where there is a cave?
I decided NOT to put a feed of my twitter activity. The way I see I did it was I first figured out my ideal scenario (the user signs up or does a demo or something) and highlight the most. Then I add some info and other stuff that all focuses the user on doing what I want them to do.

The second biggest link is the "learn more" or "see how it works" (or whatever you want them to do next) link.

I am including (small) twitter and fb links but NOT a feed of activity. The primary purpose of running my twitter and fb account is to draw activity TO my site, so why would I want to send someone away if they actually make it to my site in the first place? I do realize that some people may opt not to signup, but want to stay informed, so that's why I'm including the links at all.

Basically, focus on directing the user where YOU want them to go. If they don't want to do that, what do you want them to do instead? And if they don't want them to do that, what do you want them to do instead?

I think we're so heavily ingrained with the idea that we have to include lots of "stuff" on the homepage (like twitter feeds, etc) that we forget what we're even trying to do.
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But it's not like there is a real technical reason behind the restriction either.

It's pure, unadulterated greed.
I'm curious to know how much user testing goes into the design of the Gnome desktop environment (and KDE, for that matter). Designing a visually elegant interface is one thing, but that can mean nothing during actual user interaction.
> None of what I said conflicts with "focusing exclusively on products,"

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that. What I meant to say is that it seems to conflict, or wasn't clear. I wasn't questioning what you were saying, I was just curious and wanted you to expand. Sorry if it came off as confrontational.

> Enough information for you?

I assumed, correctly, that what you did was a bit more than just what your short post made it out to be. You hustled, and you work hard. It's interesting to see how some people do it.

And yes. All this information is actually useful. It's encouraging to hear success stories.

Honestly, information like this is incredibly useful and at the very least, encouraging. =)

Edit: I get the sense that I might have offended you in some way. Maybe I'm being overly sensitive, but I'd rather just say that wasn't my intent. Again, I wasn't questioning you. I was just asking honest questions. Being curious. No offense was intended.
I still have not physically met any person my own age that can program more than a little Java and I'm about to enter college. And I've never known an adult IRL that has been able to teach me any CS or programming.

Very much almost exclusively my knowledge of programming comes from reading books and 'pootling' around (and I started in 2000).

I think it's more a matter of where you live than what age you live in.
More generally, most people cook their food too quickly. Next time you cook chicken, cook it on very low heat with oil for a long time. It will still get a nice brown crust but it won't be all dry.
Le Monde diplomatique looks good. The only thing is that, as the name suggest, it's strongly focused on international politics (even more so than the Economist).

Thanks for the recommendation.
Thanks, glad you like it! We're still not full-time on it. To put it a little bluntly, the polish comes from my hard-won experience as an interaction designer, and a partner who is willing to make the "hard shit" work just right.
can't access the article, seems to have been removed/deleted ?
Im actually impressed; stuff like this usually tends to be pretty uninspired and, really, not something you could live on (portions too small mostly). But this is extremely well thought out.

I can actually see some recipes I've thrown together in here; I could definitely seeing people using this to live off and slowly evolving them into their own recipes with additions, expansions etc.

The only gripe I have is "fresh egg mayonaise" - which is an art form and recipe in itself if you make it :P and I am not sure I have ever seen it on sale anywhere cheap... (this is in the UK so it may be de rigueur over there)

(hackers tend to make either the best or worst cooks; one of my hacker friends is quite useless in the kitchen because he can't understand the concept of "roll with it" and reads the recipe like a program :))
+1. And I think that's related to the emotional baggage around blog posts titled "Why _____ is an excellent|terrible interview question|exercise." Jargon and slang have a useful ability to compress information, but they also carry tribal connotations.

"Raganwald is a NOOP," for example, is simultaneously an insult and an opportunity to reinforce a tribal bond between speaker and listener, who both share a certain understanding of the term "NOOP."
That would be true if they weren't PAYING for the phone over the span of $199 upfront and a high-priced data plan for the next two years. The actually cost of the phone would be $599 or $699 -- and for that amount of money, I would want AT LEAST two years of support, or a discount when I decide to upgrade models.
That has more to do with the vagaries of U.S. copyright law than anything to do with ethics, though, doesn't it? Unless you think that, when it comes to reuse of creative materials, whatever the copyright law of the country you live in says is what the ethical thing is? Font designers definitely still consider it theft when someone rips off one of their fonts--- just theft that they can't legally do anything about.

In this case, though, my guess is that the figlet font packs are copyrightable, especially since he didn't just copy the font shapes (as you say, not copyrightable in the U.S.), but literally included the entire original binary code of the fonts, and even their commentary/packaging/etc. That's of course fine, because they were produced / distributed in the context of a community in which BSD-style licensing terms are assumed as the default--- an understanding he seems to have violated. It's in his legal right to build something on figlet fonts and then (c) All Rights Reserve it, but it doesn't seem in keeping with the share-things spirit that he himself benefited from.
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The iOS app WeighBot would work great for this, as it allows you to easily record your weight and also graphs it.
This is one of two reasons I will use the Safari Reader (excessive pages and too small fonts).
Or Zedshaw's JS cousin.
I totally agree with #1. Deployment is a real weak point. It can be done, even using Capistrano if you're willing to put up with it, but it's nothing like what it could be.

With respect to #2, I strongly suggest you reevaluate. Strongly-typed views will save you a lot of boilerplate code in your controllers and HTML helpers only interfere with your markup to the extent you want them to. Most of them are super minimal and easily styled or manipulated. I expected that the helpers would just be different ways of getting into the same mess you encounter using things like server controls in webforms but I was quickly shown otherwise.
> Fallacy of Control

I like this. I'm going to steal it for my own personal use in later conversations, where I will forget to credit it to you, Mr/Mrs NLH.
As I suppose many of the people here do, I have a long list of pet projects that I plan to one day finish.

One of them is lineardiet.com.

The idea is simple. You just enter your current weight (C) and your desired weight (D). The service then plots you a graph with a line from weight C to weight D. The Y axis is the weight and the X axis is time.

Now you have to weigh yourself every day.

If you are above the line it's BROCCOLI DAY (as in: watch what you eat).

If you are below the line it's PIZZA DAY (as in: eat whatever you like).

That's it. It's guaranteed to work! :)

Could be a fun little service. Business model? I plan to collect all the fat people are losing and sell it as eco-fuel. ;) No, not really. It's just for fun.

Now if I only didn't have a ton of other projects like this plus a life to lead... one day...

Actually, I leave this as a question to the HN community: what would be fastest way for me to finish this service? I'm talking hours of development time, not days.

How would you build it?
Since they are not copyrightable, why do people pay lots of money to the foundries to use them? Seems like we'd be able to freely distribute things like Gotham, and anything from Veer.
I think this is part of the misconception that many Europeans have about "the way startups work." Even if they read everything that's published, the "Hey, this new thing just launched!" and "This Social Network for Dogs is a STARTUP!" fluff outnumbers the "Yeah, we busted ass and charged real money" meat 10:1.

Naturally, what's more common is what sticks in their minds.

As an American in Vienna, I find this kind of cargo-culting everywhere.
Have you considered Beekeeping?

Checkout Backwards Beekeepers: http://beehuman.blogspot.com/ . They are a group of natural (no chemicals) urban beekeepers. You'll be helping the environment and you might even get some honey out of it.
iPhone 3G owners (like myself) may want to check this http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4204
They are nice if you have the extra cash (or want a nice write-off) but I am not sure a $800-1000k Aeron's marginal utility over a $300-400 chair is really worth the extra cost.

Also, if you tend not to sit still and must wear dress pants at the office then expect your belt loops to get worn off. It Used to happen to me all the time. Thankfully I no longer work somewhere with that kind of dress code. The downside I guess is I don't have a Aeron chair anymore either.
People might want to integrate brewer's yeast with this kind of diet, which will provide you with much-needed B12. It's great on popcorn.
It's nicer than creating an artificial restriction that obsoletes equipment identical to newer iterations.

And keep in mind iPod users have always been forced to pay for the software "that costs money to develop".
Unicorn meat is not only white, it is also kosher / halal.
Sorry, but it's moleskine, with the 'e'. And every time I acknowledge the e, I wretch a little bit because I think about dragging my nails across that material, so repulsive. But maybe it's just me.
> Yes, we can choose to believe that other moral matters relating to people driven in herds to create profit for far wealthier people matters more than say moralizing about IP regimes which have a large net negative affect on those same people.

You've yet to establish the net negative effect, so I think this is putting the cart before the horse just a little. Also: "other moral matters relating to people driven in" -- what?

> Goddamn that whole conscience thing gets in the way

I disagree with you on how best to advance the lot of people in the world. That's not the same as not having a conscience.

> Actually, I think that only matters to the winners under that scheme.

That's typically how it goes, yes.
http://sanziro.com/2010/06/ios-4-missing-features-in-iphone-...
I have gone with the theory - if it is anything but my brain, use all the machines / treatments (too paranoid that they'll find a cure / fix 10 seconds after I die). If my brain is damaged, just let the body go, because what was I has already left.
And, mind you, iPod users have always been forced to pay for newer versions of the OS.
Things like TrueType font files are considered computer code and copyrightable, because they have some embedded scaling and kerning logic, which makes it a bit harder to just use them free. The designs themselves (in the U.S.) aren't copyrightable though, so anyone can legally rip off the font by e.g. tracing it. There are quite a few of those floating around, but they have a reputation for being poor quality, esp. with kerning and such, depending on how quick the tracing/repackaging job was. That, and there's a risk that if you used one of the "ripped off" fonts and it was different in a way that was noticeable, your publishing house / design firm / etc. would get a bad reputation in the trade.
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Hello, Mark from Drobo here.

First, I'm sorry for the troubles the original poster (Jan Rychter) has had. I don't have any first hand knowledge of his use, and can't find a support case on it -- has it been escalated by our European team back to the factory? Please send me your case # (via direct message at drobospace where you are a member) and I will escalate if necessary.

The Drobo/DroboShare combination has a binary user experience. Those with no prior network storage experience love it, those with prior experience want more functionality and performance. Providing more performance is the goal of the Drobo FS, a single box solution for sharing via AFP or SMB. Third party DroboApps provide web, ftp, rsync, NFS, and other protocols. This box is 4x faster than the Drobo/Droboshare owing to eliminating USB as an interconnect, and faster generation of ARM processors.

Mark Fuccio
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I'm getting "No Results Found. The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post."

It seems appropriate.

Though I suppose every millionaire became a millionaire in three years, if you only start counting from three years before they became a millionaire.
This will be invaluable for any scientist to prove that earth minutes and tube minutes are different.
My nerdy hobbies are origami and poi. I like them because I like thinking about systems, and they provide a structure for improvisation (you could call it hacking if you wanted to).

http://flickr.com/groups/origamitessellations/

http://flickr.com/groups/corrugation/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poi_(performance_art)#Modern_po...
This is actually where exercise can come in to play. The author is right that recent research says that exercise is not necessarily the most effective way to lose weight. However, there is evidence that exercise can help you maintain your weight.

So if you backslide a bit and stop watching what you eat, you can still help yourself out by exercising.
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Difference is, Zed actually knows what the hell he's talking about.
So let's say Derek looks at this particular place's calendar and sees that in the recent past and in the near future, it has typically been booked for 20 of the 30 days of any given month. Well, 2/3 of $4332 is a great jump-off point for negotiation

It's not just about the money though. There are disadvantages in signing up a "guest" for a month. What if they are really obnoxious? Three or four days you can wait them out, but a month?
Syncing music (including transcoding). Using your phone as a remote control. These are things that work okay if you live entirely within the Apple ecosystem, once you start straying outside and using FLAC or Vorbis or Android or Rhythmbox you'd be as well leaving completely rather than muddle along half-in and half-out and relying on 3rd party support like Doubletwist.

(Though it's worth noting that the Linux guys are getting really god with iDevice support, but longer term I'd bet on Android working best.)
> Why is it a bad idea to call my jQuery plugin "jQuery Combinators," and why are K and T such terrible names for its methods?

simple answer: marketing.

you have a nice plugin there. if you want more people to find it and use it, using terminology that discriminates instead of includes will make that more difficult. if you don't, then it doesn't matter and you can do whatever you want.
"And then there's this thing! ... but I don't want to talk about that today..."
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Withings makes a scale (about 150 on amazon) which automatically uploads your weight daily to their servers where you can view it on their website or your iPhone.

It has helped a lot with the recordkeeping part of dieting I always do so poorly at.
I've been trying to find the blog post (with figures) that showed that people who pay more for an app tend to rate it higher but I can't find it sadly, so take that with a pinch of salt.

I had thought it was on the taptaptap blog.

However, as an ex live comedy promoter I know from experience that if you let people in free they never laugh as much and are far likelier to be the ones that heckle. This seemed to be the case even if they were a fan.

Physical/monetary buy-in correlates very strongly with emotional buy-in.
>My breakfast would involve stuffing myself with as much food as I could fit in my morning stomach. I followed that with a light lunch around 2-3pm, and then almost no dinner (or a low-calorie snack if I was hungry – examples in the appendix

In college I lost a fair amount of weight by eschewing snacks altogether and eating three large meals every day, meals filled with whole grains that take a while to eat and a while to digest too.

I found that this made the willpower thing a lot easier to deal with. Once you're in the habit of eating well three times a day, and not at all at other times, it becomes easier to cut down on overall food intake. You just don't even consider snacking if you're used to not snacking.
Some pretty good notes to Good Calories, Bad Calories, approved (perhaps temporarily) by the publisher:

http://higher-thought.net/complete-notes-to-good-calories-ba...
Excellent post. I've been trying to classify my latest business venture (is it a startup, a small business, a product?) and I think I have an answer now.
Cherry-picked studies show alcohol is the devil. News at 11.

To take just one example: Alcohol consumption reduces fat-burning. Um, so does consumption of any substance the body can use as fuel, esp. carbohydrates. However, unlike alcohol, an excess of carbohydrates over fuel needs is stored by the body as fat.
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Can you give a little more detail about what you mean when you say "pay for downloads".

Isn't that what Apple already do?
Rock climbing. Requires constant awareness of your surroundings and problem solving(path selection etc.)
The point of the article was more about explaining my talk - which does cover these things.
Is this the series you're referring to?

http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/
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I should have mentioned that my apps are iPhone apps.

You're correct in saying that his advice makes more sense for desktop apps. However, he doesn't say that and the only store he explicitly mentions in the blog post is the iPhone/iPad app store.

That said, I think that the website will probably be more important for a $99 mobile app than it is for a $0.99 mobile app.
Chest-puffing is when I loudly exclaim that I'M RIGHT AND YOU SUCK. The core of the article is explaining what my talk is about.

It's not a debate. The point is to ask Microsoft to stop being afraid.
The Autopager Firefox add-on takes care of the pagination.
"Here is my simple formula for generalizing everyone into categories. If I think you're a jerk, and I think you're wrong, then clearly nobody should have to put up with what you have to say."

Hmmm.
You'll have to take that up with Apple, unfortunately.
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You do realize that the President already has the capability to shut off all communications anywhere during a time of war if it's necessary for national security?

Meanwhile, you propose that this technical measure, which would do virtually nothing to prevent communications between motivated interested parties in and out of the US, is intended to stifle free communications. If so, this is a clunky and redundant way to accomplish that objective.
OMG s/he adds butter and mayo to cheese-on-toast... my arteries just exploded :-)