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This is part of the reason I'm sticking with email-less, internet-less twenty-buck prepaid phones for as long as they keep making 'em.
My wife has dealt with this problem. I did some research and here's what I found.

Carbohydrates (and pretty much anything else addictive) are "crave-inducing" because of a physiological reaction they cause. It triggers chemicals in your body and brain, not at all unlike cigarettes or other drugs. For refined carbs, it's insulin in the blood, which is followed by serotonin in the brain. The serotonin creates a relaxing effect.

It would be easy to engineer any food to have this effect by adding some sort of drug to it. Sprinkle some heroin on broccoli and you'll probably start craving that pretty quickly. Obviously though, you don't want that. What you want is to have no craving at all.

There's a good chance that your brain is not producing enough serotonin without the carbohydrates. This could be due to a number of things, lack of sleep, exercise, or even sunlight, too much stress, chronic depression. Sadly eating carbs produces bursts of serotonin followed by a deficit, so it becomes a self-perpetuating cycle. Once some other factor gets you into the cycle, the carbs themselves will keep you there.

Assuming there aren't deeper factors at play, the following may help:

1. Don't eat any refined carbs for a month. Keep unrefined ones to a minimum as well.

2. Get exercise, sleep, and spend time outside where possible.

As for #1, it's much easier to accomplish this at the grocery store than at home. A Snickers bar is a lot less difficult to ignore on a shelf at the store than on a shelf in your pantry. Never go to the store when hungry.

All of this assumes that you don't have some deeper mental health issue at play. Overeating is often a method of self-sabotage employed by people who are depressed, in which case you may need professional help. But I'd at least try cutting out carbs first because it's free and can't really hurt.
Hmm. I seem to have answered the wrong question. I answered "why does it look like a square wave on a spectrum analyzer over a very long time instead of just appearing and disappearing?". Even that I did badly.

Sorry. Hip-shot from the old iphone....
That's completely untrue. I'm the same as the gp. When I don't have a rigid schedule I absolutely have to follow (whenever I'm unemployed or when I was in school) I drift around the clock. It's much more natural for me and I feel much more rested than when I'm on a fixed schedule.
Rudeness requires both a rude person and an opportunity for them to be rude. Heck, even relatively polite people will be rude if put in the right situation.
> The end result is that people always tell me I am too skinny even though I eat a lot.

Umm... Doesn't being too skinny mean you're not eating well? (I'm asking because I'm in the same situation).
SmartDraw seems nice.
When I went back to read the article, I realised that I wasn't portraying my point very well.

My main focus was the importance of separation between accounts and day-to-day client relationships, and I've made changes in the original article to reflect that.

As always, thanks very much to everyone who took the time to post their thoughts, it helped me focus the article on the main issue I was attempting to discuss.
Counting lines of code for maintenance work is a little like evaluating your mechanic based on the weight difference of your car before and after he fixes it.

I love this comment.
No, it isn't: You can't call something a modern equivalent of something else if the something else still exists in modern times (i.e. kids on lawns). More substantively, the guy's got a point: digital distractions are pervasive and lead to an artificial sense of connectedness when really they disconnect you from your present environment. Probably not a big deal if your present environment is stultifying (sitting in traffic, for example), but more of a big deal when it's a potentially rich environment -- eating dinner with friends, say -- and you're missing out on it because you can't pull your head out of your -- ahem, BlackBerry.

Not to mention, numerous studies demonstrate that even people who multitask constantly and believe they are quite good at it, aren't. They miss subtle cues and fail to appreciate the nuances of not just one thing, but everything amongst which they are dividing their attention. And not to pile on, but lots of studies also show that text messaging in particular is prone to communication errors (off the top of my head, I believe the study I'm thinking of said that only about 40% of what the sender intended to communicate is understood properly by the receiver). So I don't think he's just a cranky technophobe; I think it's actually a pretty important point he's making.
It looks like it doesn't work on the iPad: I can't get a cursor to appear.

That could be because contenteditable doesn't work on iOS (but you can style a textarea any way you want).
Fortunately, the economy wasn't broken in the 1960s, so he was able to get a white-collar job, buy a house, and have kids,[...] That doesn't work so well anymore. [...] We are well on our way to building a society in which you can't have a middle-class lifestyle as, say, an insurance underwriter or medical records clerk...

This statement just reflects a lack of understanding of what "middle class" meant in 1960. The standard of living of the American poor today is quite high, in many regards higher than the standard of living of the middle class in 1960.

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2004/01/understandi...

Fun fact: in 1960, a coffee maker cost $29.95 and the average household income was just under $5000. In 2010, the coffee maker costs $12.95 and the average salary is about $50,000.

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and do you have experience in your field?
there are drop in admin options for rails similar to what django provides as well as a i massive number of templating engines including ones like liquid which address the concerns in the article.

as a general rule, i think you should probably do more than 1 simple project before evaluating any framework or language.
Depends on DST.
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As a Java-for-pay programmer, I'm not extremely experienced in the Java ecosystem; why use Swing to make a GUI instead of using HTML?
This does get significantly affected by where I am. Right now, being at a startup internship for the summer, I need to wake up at 8 to get to work, so I'm in the 12:00 - 1:59 bracket.

When I'm at school, however, it's usually 2:00-3:59 or after 4:00.

When I'm at home with my family, it's before 10:00.
I try to sleep between 10 pm and 11:30 to wake up around 7 am.

My most productive times at work seem to be mid-late mornings. My most productive time for hacking seems to be 10 pm - 12 am, which is unfortunate because I end up neglecting one of sleeping and hacking.
I am not sure if it's 100% true or not. I was told to do this by a nutritionist because I was drinking a pint at a time. I would drink this all in one go, but I imagine sipping would be fine. But drinking later ensures that I don't feel uncomfortably full.

But surely a large, sudden, water intake will dilute the stomach (not intestine where most of the nutrients are absorbed) juices and pH?
I agree with other posters that carbs and sweets are physically addictive. So when you try to cut back a little bit, you crave them. The good news is that the less you have them, the less you crave them.

1) Make it convenient to eat healthy

I keep the fridge stocked with pre-cut fruit front and center. It costs slightly more this way but makes it way more likely that I will actually eat it (and reduces waste). You can also do this with prepared baby carrots or celery if that floats your boat.

2) Don't keep junk food in the house

I don't keep soda in the house. I tried variations like keeping soda in the pantry so it would be harder to drink, but it didn't really work. What works is just not keeping it.

3) Workout right before going grocery shopping

Whenever I workout I feel fit and more like eating healthy food. If I go grocery shopping when I feel like a bum, I am more likely to grab unhealthy snacks. When I just worked out, my body starts craving fruit and healthy things so that's what I'm more likely to buy. Actually in general the more I work out, the more weight I lose and not just from the workout - I eat healthier because I don't want to waste all my hard work.

4) Find healthier options that you enjoy

Instead of eating straight bran cereal that I don't like, I found a semi-healthy cereal with dates and raisins. Not as good as the bran but not as bad as lucky charms. I got this mint chocolate chip ice cream from whole foods made out of coconut milk - it is amazing and way healthier than regular ice cream. For soda, you can try going natural or switch to something like unsweetened tea (still flavorful).

5) Meet your nutritional needs at meals

If you aren't meeting your nutritional needs at meals you will feel hungry for snacks. Try eating way more veggies and adding lots of protein (lentils, beans, spinach, tofu - I'm a vegetarian). Then at least when you start craving you'll know that it's not necessary.

6) Distract yourself

Sometimes I eat out of boredom or habit. I haven't really mastered this one, but turns out even if you're eating pretty healthy foot a lot you still gain weight, or don't lose it. I try to engross myself in my work or something with varying degrees of success.

Good luck!
If you look at programming as a knowledge acquisition activity instead of a code production activity, then you couldn't possibly have implemented it that way in the first place.
Past week I have been on a 30 hour wake and 14-16 hours sleep intervals. I should stop that but I don't like going to sleep and I don't like alarms, so the behavior is well supported..
Business, econ, accounting, nursing. Also develop some useful skills while you are in school, which you won't necessarily get through the degree program.
Just because you were promised a part of "stolen" property doesn't mean that you are entitled to it afterwards when it gets returned. All their anger should go against Zuckerberg promising parts he wasn't entitled to, if this turns out to be true!

I'd still rather have a million dollars than some righteous indignation.
I too find "life story" comments useful.
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Thanks.Hope to get admission to a good MS program,not just to get a degree but really learn as well as I can.
Well, I code as fast as possible. There are various limits to this speed.

Am I showing a framework to someone? Am I explaining this architecture to someone? Then I program slower, because I need to explain many things which are in between the lines. Why do I call it like this, look there is this naming scheme, there is that caveat.

Am I working on something alone, know exactly what I want to do and how to do it? Then I code quite fast. I would go as far as saying: I dont program in this state. I just write the code down, because I know where to go.

Am I exploring possible API designs with some tests, and some prototypes? Then I go slower, because I am tinkering and thinking about this API. Would this synonym be better here? Should I use some regular setWidth here, or rather withWidth to emphasize the immutability? Can I build a fluent interface?

Am I in a good flow during refactoring? Are things turning out really nice, and the refactorings just present themself like proud little animals? Then I usually work faster again, because it is flowing so nicely and stuff just grows a lot prettier than before with each step.

However, I am kind of strict about certain limits of speed. Skipping tests could make me faster in the near future. Sometimes copy-pasteing could make me faster in the near future. Sometimes not doing a certain mid-sized refactoring could make me faster in the near future. I am aware of this, however, I force myself to be not too sloppy. Quite often, turning the copy-paste into an extract method only takes a minute or two, so I just extract the method. Thus, I am limiting my speed in the near future, because I know that my average speed in the long run will be superior.
Terrible. Liar. Deceiving. Untrustworthy.

These are indeed incendiary words, and they were used to make a point, but certainly not to make a personal attack, so I apologize if it came off that way.

My point in using language like this was to illustrate how others may perceive you and your business if word of the "Virtual Tony" gambit got out. It's not fun to see things like this written about you, and it can kill your business.

In my experience there are two kinds of clients that don't pay on time: clients that genuinely want to pay but can't for a legit reason, and clients that have no intention of paying you and will do anything to weasel out of it.

It's the latter that could really use the "Virtual Tony" against you if it ever came to light. These are bad people anyway, and by doing something dishonest in return you are just giving them more ammunition to get away with it.

Did you happen to catch the case of Carl Herold on Reddit a month or so ago? He had a deal go south with a client and the guy smeared him all over the internet and almost ruined his business. [1]

In that case, Carl was in the right and still had all kinds of harm done to him because of a disgruntled client. Imagine if Carl had pulled the "Virtual Tony" on this guy. I'm guessing Reddit wouldn't have jumped to his aid to help him out because they would've seen him as dishonest.

To your point, you are certainly justified in following up with a client if you're not getting paid. And I certainly think there's validity to the idea that a third party, good cop/bad cop relationship could help things turn out better for everyone in the end.

What I totally disagree with is making that person up and impersonating him or her to your client. It's a bad road to go down and not worth the potentially devastating hit your reputation would take if it got out.

1- http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ckcjc/reddit_can_...
I am not too skinny; that is just others peoples opinion. I am of normal weight for my height and age, and I feel great. It seems worse than it is because I went from 12 stone to 10 after I stopped weight training. Also, I am Indian, so everyone thinks that being over weight is healthy and a sign of wealth. They just don't learn from all the heart attacks and diabetes.

I think I eat very well. I believe in getting the best, freshest food I can, having a well balanced diet (which includes fats) and in the traceability of food. I do have a gluten and cow's milk intolerance, so I guess I don't eat that much, if any, refined carbs; however, I do eat other flours and other sources of dairy. If you're eating well, feeling good and are 'skinny', I think you should be okay. If you're worried then you should probably go and see a doctor or nutritionist.
Learn how to cook and learn enough about nutrition that you can cook relatively healthily. Goes a long way toward improving your diet.
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Do romantic movies spill over into our relationships?
This is a great post. A quibble about the changed title: the NRC rankings are largely for university graduate-level departments such as math, not really for colleges.
I find exercizing regularly helps with cravings. After a good workout, I usually crave healthier foods. If you have trouble keeping an exersize routine, find an accoutability partner to keep you on track. Joining programs and using social commitments works well. Keeping physically active is much easier when you are doing it with friends, family, and coworkers.
You can also try eatting meals or snacks more often. Your energy level will be more consistent and you will less inclined to eating foods that give you that quick sugar boost. Keep those healthy snacks visible and within arms reach to make this easier
It should be noted that he is on the 30m Amateur Radio band. I would not suggest doing this unless you are a licensed ham of general or better.

That begs a good question. How many hackers here are also hams? I'm W1OFZ.
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According to the BLS, the $29.95 that coffee maker cost in 1960 would be $221 in 2010 dollars.

I know your $5,000 vs. $50,000 figures are very rough, but $5,000 in 1960 would be $36,855 in 2010 dollars (and after taxes is not trivial, e.g. the personal exemptions that sheltered average families from the full and very high tax rates in the '50s were largely nullified by inflation over the next couple of decades before Reagan started a variety of corrections).
I don't have a boat, but I find plane travel accomplishes the same thing for me. My parents live interstate, an hour plane trip away and I find when I go and visit them, that the hour plane trip is absolutely heavenly for the simple reason is that I can zone out, no distractions, no-one else can distract me and I get to think. (Note I live in Australia where plane travel isn't as horrendous as it is in the US).
Poll: When do you usually wake up?
I'd like to confirm that most hackers are late risers.
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ah. To pick on a non-native English speaker's English language prowess - very brave indeed.
I usually go to bed around 1 and wake at 8:30 to get in to work before 10.
I used to play hockey. Now I Dribbble.
The way I look at it, you shouldn't try to remove individual food items from your diet, but figure out what type of foods it should be based on and focus on those. Let me explain.

I mostly follow a paleo diet ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet ) which simplifying a lot is based on having plenty of fruit / vegetables accompanied by lean meats/fish.

If you go that route, whenever you're hungry, just have some more fruit/veggies and soon there won't be any room for the type of foods you mentioned nor cravings. Not only that, but there's no need to count calories anymore.

btw, there's nothing wrong in having junk food, as long as that is the exception and not the rule.
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If it's a widely useful startup and a genuinely good idea, it won't be as hard to get noticed. For something more technical/niche oriented, it's going to be harder.

I'd recommend Seth Godin's "Unleashing the Ideavirus" for a good outline on how to make your product viral.
I'm experimenting with a biphasic sleep schedule. It's working... mostly, for me so far. The "win" for me is not so much that I have to sleep less but that I get a couple more hours of productive wake time than I did before. As such, I've voted twice.
You nailed it -- your mid-choice (12:00am - 1:59am) got the most votes (mine too :-)).
I'm on vacation and I am experiencing 'the creep' I have to get up at 6am tomorrow but currently I am going to bed at 3am. I'm not a morning person either, I'm going to die :(
As I hope the tone of my post made clear, I'm not sure either, but I am very skeptical of the claim.

There seem to be two issues here: how full you feel (which I don't have an opinion on one way or another) and whether drinking water impedes digestion by diluting stomach acid and digestive enzymes.

Yes, it would seem plausible that a large intake of water would dilute the stomach juices. However, it also seems equally plausible that the stomach regulates pH equally quickly by passing along the excess water to the small intestine (where, I believe, water is typically absorbed), just delaying digestion temporarily.

I imagine different foods (whole grains vs. pasta vs. steak) must need different amounts of time to break down in the stomach. Is the stomach sensitive to when foods are ready to be passed along to the small intestine?
Swing for desktop apps, HTML for webapps, I guess.
Home - 10:oopm - 11:59pm.
College - 2:00am - 3:59am.
Drinking nights - after 4:am.
As a pretty novice programmer who is trying out Rails for the first time after learning to code with Python and Django, I really enjoyed this. Sure, there may be ways around all of the issues he mentioned, but I think that his initial observations are pretty much right on.
I've often wondered why attorneys don't use LaTeX. Especially when you consider all of the different requirements for formatting that are required by different courts. Seems to me that you could hire someone to write the templates, and then the lawyers can stick to what they're good at.... lawyerin'
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Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. - Bill Gates
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I believe the site we now know as facebook was, as recently as a couple years ago, referred to by its then primary user base, college students, as 'The Face Book'.
You can compute a more accurate LOC metric based on the language's grammar, so that the above situations are identically measured. But the issue with using LOC remains, of course.
As for me, I like Apple!
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The possibility to remove securely Mac files by Shredder. They will disappear without a trace.
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Just to fill in a bit: "unrefined carbs" includes potatoes, rice, whole grain bread, corn, yams, turnips, beets, beans, etc. "Refined carbs" includes pasta, crackers, white breads (including sourdough and bagels), juice, non-diet soda, etc.

Another tip for surviving the store: shop the perimeter, stay out of the aisles. Make a weekly menu before you go to the store, keeping in mind what's in the perimeter and in the aisles. Your menu is your plan of attack.
A very reasonable ruling, glad to a ruling that recognizes the ubiquity of computers.
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"eat 'good' sugar, i.e. fruit;" -- even that may be contentious. This video on the dangers of fructose was posted not that long ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
http://freedomdefined.org/OSHW

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware (which has not been updated to reflect the above)
i get up when the sun enters my room. as i know have east-ish facing bedroom windows, i get up early, doesnt matter when i went to bed.
this post is really good. thx
dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1532412
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Thanks Alex. Will give it a try.
Once again, plenty of valid and well thought out points, and I agree with all of them.

It was your response that made me re-think the way I phrased the original article. While I know some people who have been successful using this kind of strategy for years, it's certainly not something I'd generally advocate for all of the reasons you've pointed out.

Carl certainly would have looked more dishonest in that scenario. However as I understand it, his scenario was a partnership with another company. So it may not be directly applicable to my article, which is in regards to service companies acting as vendors to other companies.

One last footnote: in my experience, there is a third kind of client that doesn't pay on time. The apathetic client. This client is often large and deals primarily with much larger companies, or has a billing department in a different country, or is unfamiliar with your company's contract.

In this situation, as others have suggested, a gentle reminder email from accounts@your-compay.com may be a good way to get attention drawn to your pending invoice without personally stepping into the middle of the transaction.

This was the main point I was trying to communicate anyway - the importance of separation between accounts and the day-to-days.
Any personal experience you can share?