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Actually, it's different than that: you want to eat low glycemic index (GI) carbs, and avoid high GI carbs.

The reason why you get cravings is because you are eating high GI carbs. High GI carbs cause a lot of sugar to be released rapidly into your blood. Your body counterbalances this by releasing insulin, which causes a crash shortly afterward. Because now you have low blood sugar, you crave some high GI carbs to get a quick sugar rush again and the cycle just repeats, causing you to overeat and eat too many calories, gaining weight.

In order to break the cycle you must eat low GI carbs. This means avoiding potatoes, white rice, all soft breads (including whole grain wheat and white breads, if it's soft it's not good for you).

Good carbs are things like brown rice, sweet potatoes, whole grains such as steel cut oats, quinoa, amaranth, buckwheat (kasha), etc. These carbs are considered low GI because they have the whole grain intact and the husk of the grain takes a lot longer to digest, causing the sugar to be released slowly and steadily into your blood over a period of several hours.

If I eat a good bowl of steel-cut oats and some fruit in the morning (not instant oats, those have separated the husk from the grain), I get a steady release of energy all morning long. I don't get a quick rush and crash an hour later. It helps me focus as well.

Just follow these simple rules and you will eliminate cravings as well as eat healthier and lose weight naturally:

1. Only eat whole grains and low GI carbs.
2. Eat plenty of good fats like olive oil, avocadoes, nuts, etc.
3. Eat every few hours - don't wait from breakfast to lunch or lunch to dinner - your blood sugar gets too low. Eat a mid-morning snack - something like a small handful of nuts and a piece of fruit, and a mid-afternoon snack.
4. Don't eat late at night (after dinner and before bed).

Following those simple rules I lost 30 pounds, 10% body fat, and achieved my ideal weight without even doing much exercise (30 minutes of light cardio every other day, about 2.5 hrs a week).

Try it, the cravings will disappear soon, and you'll feel much better. You'll have constant energy all day long and you'll be able to focus on tasks like coding much better.
That only gives you public repos. For one, they said that 40% of that 1M is gists (which would make it ~400k, which is more than the number of public repos. Which I guess makes sense since there are probably people that create a new gist almost every single day.) Also, there are lots of private repos that won't show up on the repo-browsing page.
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Thanks for the book referral.
Teaching to the test - good or bad?
I tend to alternate between two schedules for a week or more at a time:

12-2AM: Life is busy and I've lost track of time but I am always in bed by 2AM.

10PM (ish): My body is in tune with the sun and so I'm waking up at 5-6AM by the light. I find I usually need naps to make it through the day but this schedule is usually my most productive. I get onto this schedule when I crash early from staying up late for an entire week or when I spend time outdoors (e.g. camping for a week in Yosemite under the stars).
"Her" who? The author of the OA is named Andrew. I get the feeling you're projecting some kind of women/liberal arts/inferiority thing onto this based upon the middle name of the author.

"He works as an associate editor at Sikkim NOW, a small newspaper in India. You can follow his blog at www.andrewdanahudson.com."
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There are many websites offering free essays. Some of them build essay libraries by collecting essays by contests or swaps. Nobody can guarantee the quality of these essays. So, be cautious when using free essays even as samples as they may contain many errors.
Hope that posting one of my own blogs posts isn't taken as tacky self promotion; I'm in the midst of navigating a tough situation caused by my failure to detect a fake "Buddy Hat." I'd like others to benefit from my mistake and avoid a similar trap.
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Perhaps you are habituated to the distractions (if so find a way to block them, like killing your router for an hour). Another possibility is you are procrastinating to put off dealing with the stress of success or failure of your project. If you are having general trouble thinking there should be tons of other symptoms (and run don't walk to a doctor). Over all it is up to you to consider some alternatives explanations and come up with a counter strategy.
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From what you're saying I take it that belief systems are essentially axioms.

It is fundamentally impossible to create a model without some set of axioms that cannot be proven, so clearly you have a belief system that involves some axioms involving reproducibility and logical proofs. Just because you assume it to be an absolute truth does not make it so.
I wish you had overlapping intervals, as I usually go to be around 2AM but it varies. My choices are "12:00am - 1:59am" and "2:00am - 3:59am". Since it's about half and half, I voted for both.
Ask HN: What to make of weird iPhone app rating distribution?
I recently released an iPhone app (check my profile for details) and it has gotten 8 ratings

4 five stars
1 three stars
3 one star

I should also note that the people who rated it five and three stars left a review. The three who rated it one star left no review, they just rated it.

What should I make of this rating?

1) Is it really that polarizing that people either love it or hate it?

2) Are some competitors rating it a 1 on purpose, to keep the average down? (Do people do this?)

3) Are there not enough ratings to give us a statistically meaningful distribution, and so any distribution we see early on should be taken with a grain of salt?

4) Other?
the growth of apple is insane. If an analyst had predicted in 2000 that apple would have a bigger market cap than microsoft some day, he would have been fired on the spot.
I think you have to be a wannabe entrepreneur for at least a little bit. It helps in a bunch of ways:

1. Gives you an idea of what your friends will think about you after you become a real entrepreneur.

2. Gives you hope that you can and will change your circumstance.

3. It consumes you till you make the jump.

4. Plus you get to practice a very important skill - how not to worry about what people think of you :).

5. Gives you chance to evaluate whether you really want to be a founder.

6. It makes you go to real entrepreneur events so you can meet and mingle with them and get to know what its really like.

This is a great article to break out of wannabe mode but I dont think being a wannabe is necessarily a bad thing.

Hey - fake it till you make it :).
It's really not that impressive of a form factor or specs for this price range today. What's interesting is that Pstammy had a similar budget but had similarly priced components two years ago - http://paulstamatiou.com/diy-200-dollar-pc (sans the dual core but great form factor and larger HDD).
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"An Ode to Inception" (written in c)
Ha!, funny -- the environments I used were:

Revolution
FileMaker Pro
Numbers
J -- my J is weak and rusty, so it's probably my fault
Excel

So the database wins.
Try writing your code by hand for the next two hours.
> In one study, Spanish and Japanese speakers couldn't remember the agents of accidental events as adeptly as English speakers could. Why? In Spanish and Japanese, the agent of causality is dropped: "The vase broke itself," rather than "John broke the vase."

If the author translated "se le rompío el vaso" then it is not quite "the vase broke itself". The "le" is very important: it indicates who did the breaking, albeit indirectly and indicating an accident. I would translate it as "the vase broke on John" (it broke while he was using it.)

If the author translated "se rompío el vaso", still, "the vase broke itself" is too literal, just as "se venda" is not translated as "it sells itself" (it means "for sale.") "The vase broke" sounds better.
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Comments on every story like this follow the same predictable pattern. On Digg and Reddit, it's basically: "Haha, dumb liberal arts major! Of course you can't find work in the USA! You deserve what you get because we live in a just and fair world and everyone is responsible for everything that happens to them in life and the consequences of all their decisions!" Some of the comments here are similar, but other comments point out the fallacies in that line of thought. As someone who was a high school valedictorian who wanted to get a CS or business degree, but ended up with a Bachelor of General Studies in English, I've given lots of thought to why students get liberal arts degrees. Most students are unprepared for college-level classes, especially in mathematics. Despite having a perfect GPA in high school, I failed calculus - not because of partying (I didn't drink) but because I was totally unprepared for college-level math after bad high-school math classes. Mental illness is also a major reason why lots of people can't handle the rigors of an engineering or even business degree. According to NIMH, 26% of Americans age 18 or older suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder [1]. Also, 40 percent of students have felt too depressed to function at sometime during their college career [2]. Throughout college, I had: never had a girlfriend or even kissed a girl, worried all the time about the end of the world and other potential threats, had never learned how to masturbate, and was concerned over whether God loved or hated me. Now THAT's mental illness! When they have a heavy cognitive load from mental illness, students are less able to deal with challenging classes. Finally, after going through the stress of being being unprepared for college classes and suffering from mental illness, many students end up with humanities degrees because they figure "at least it's a degree in something" and that any degree is better than no degree, because that's the message being broadcast from tons of outlets - guidance counselors, college advertising, college advisors, etc.

[1] http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/the-numbers-coun...

[2] http://www.jedfoundation.com/press-room/news-archive/Student...
That's because it should read, "they are so smart".
Download the documentation that you need for offline use. Yank the Ethernet cord. No Hacker News, Reddit, GMail, Facebook. If you need anything from the net, connect and yank the cord ASAP. Make it a ritual. I think we are getting addicted to the drugs similar to what we are trying to synthesize. Do tell me if it works for you.
He went back and changed it. It originally just said "my first programming language."
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You know, a smoothie can have just about anything in it. Its not hard to make a tasty, ridiculously healthy smoothie. And your claim that blending takes the work out of it for your body couldn't be further from the truth. Blending with a real blender separates nutrients enough for your body to better absorb them.

Even your typical smoothie (bananas, yogurt, and strawberries) contains numerous nutritional benefits; add some of your favorite brown rice, some kale, celery, and honey (you won't taste the difference). You have a healthful and delicious smoothie full of antioxidants, fiber, vitamins, vegetable AND dairy protein, and complex carbs.
(4) contradicts (1).

Being an entrepreneur is not something you 'fake' any more than you could fake playing the violin (well, you could but it would not get you any closer to playing one), you either do it or you don't. You could do it badly though, and most entrepreneurs do that for a while until they've racked up enough experience to make a go of something. That's called practice.

Wannabe entrepreneurs usually stay that way, entrepreneurs get up and do stuff, they don't 'want to be something'.
The Bill&Melissa Gates foundation wasted a lot of money on the "Love life" programme. It was essentially a program that was supposed to use advertisements to encourage youths to practice safe sex.

It turned out into more of a sex advertisement and soft money for advertisers and managers (i.e. completely misspent money).

The media did not complain though (since they received a shitload of advertisement money).
The problem with this advice is it doesn't take onto count the Glycemic index of the fruit. Case in point - Watermelon and Pineapple. While it seems reasonable to say eat as much fruit as you want, both these items very high glycemic values - above 85 out of a 100 point scale.

Why does this matter? High glycemic foods cause a spike in your blood sugar - this causes hunger, among other things.

The best 'hack' to controlling your hunger is to manage your blood sugar level. By avoiding high glycemic value foods you will curb your hungry. By eating low GI foods you will eliminate your hungry whenever you want. low glycemic value foods have the opposite effect - this is the way to completely control your hunger as I do.

For example, I eat a handful (about 8-12) Almonds when I'm hungry (esp. at night). Almonds have a very low glycemic index, and just eating a small amount will stop your hungry/craving. But it's not just almonds - any low GI value food will have this effect.

Some other suggestions on great low GI snacks:

Apples,
Cherries,
Strawberries,
Raspberries, Blueberries,
Grapes,
Peaches

Non-Fruit low GI:

Almonds (but not all nuts),
Yogurt,
Lean Chicken/Turkey,
Tuna,
Black Beans,
Brown Rice (much better than White Rice),

High Glycemic Foods:

Refined sugars (aka anything baked),
Watermelon,
Pineapple,
Jams,
Bananas

Keep in mind you shouldn't try to eliminate these foods, but if you are cutting weight then it's good to avoid eating too much of a high GI item to manage your hungry. Personally I try to avoid them still (after losing/getting back into shape), because I never have a desire to binge out anymore.

Incidentally, I recently lost over 24 pounds in 6.5 weeks using these food hacks. I also started playing hockey again (one of the hardest, most thorough workouts out there it turns out), and that caused me to want to be in better shape, so now I'm working out a lot more too. I'd suggest adding in activities you love, hiking, mountain biking - whatever it is just be more active.

Anyway, I discovered this GI 'hack' from my biz partner who is a gym owner and a nationally ranked crossfit athlete, hope that helps!

Good luck!
Well, I know that if I were interviewing this chap (and I am interviewing people quite a bit) I would be at least impressed by his having shown some initiative. I would also say that someone who is willing and able to go and live fairly happily in a quite different cultural and lingual context than they may be used to, has shown themselves to be adaptable, inquisitive, and keen to learn.

Even in a poor economy, demonstrating those qualities still stands out. Almost certainly the most common reason for failing when interviewing with me is the "I haven't had a chance to..." story. Often this is in the context of software. "I haven't had a chance to try this language or that language" What they mean is that previous jobs haven't used it. They could easily have learnt about it in their own time - it just wasn't a priority for them. Which is fair enough - but you will lose out against those who turn "would like to do" in to "done".
Groovy, helped me learn something about conditionals without the extra syntax for brevity.

I'm partial to iterators that look like "for each" for loops. You say recursion, I say tomato.
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You probably know this, but there is a mountain of bullshit to deal with at startup companies and in the IT field in general. I think you'll quickly find that bullshit is everywhere.
So if I understand properly here, it isn't libel because the statements weren't believable? If they were somewhat believable, then it would have been libel?
There are lots of places in India that are difficult for Westerners to live in. The lack of running water, toilet paper, and unreliable electricity was very challenging for my friend who spent 6 months in Hyderabad. He also picked up a very bad stomach flu that knocked him on his ass for a month.
Eat slow-burn carbs at the start of the day. Plain oatmeal works best. Plain oatmeal sucks when you first start eating it, suck it up and use willpower for a month and then your taste buds adapt and it tastes good. Alternatively, mix fruit into the oatmeal and then it just takes on the taste of the fruit.

Fast burn carbs (sugary drinks with no fiber are the fastest) cause a spike in energy level followed by a crash, then you want more. If you've eaten slower burning carbs, then even if you have the sugary fast burn stuff later, you get less of a boost (because you've already got energy slowly releasing) and less of a crash (because you've still got some energy releasing). Thus it smooths out the addiction a little bit.

Also, for chocolate - if you're going to eat it, switch to dark chocolate. Again, it'll take you about a month to adapt if you're not used to it, but it's actually much more rich and textured and flavorful and delicious than milk chocolate once you've adapted. It's really, really nice. Chocolate covered peanuts also give you some protein and a tiny bit of fiber so they're more filling if you have them. When I was training heavily, I'd eat one pack of dark chocolate peanut M&M's per day as a snack. No candy is healthy, but that's probably one of the healthier candies that's mainstream available.
I used to be. I got my technician class license at 14, just before morse code became optional (which I think they never should have done). In fact, I passed the 20wpm code test for general, but never took the written. My license expired while I was in the middle of graduating college, buying a house and having a kid. I had other priorities on my mind at the time, obviously, and didn't even think of it until the grace period had ended. I want to get back into it, but there are no longer any VE's in the area and it's just a lot of hassle to travel a long distance to take the test. The last time I checked, though, my call sign was still available (KE4BZY), and if I did test again, I'd probably pay the vanity license fee to get it back, if possible.
Why do I drink 2 or even 3 bottles of Dr. Pepper a day and still stay skinny[1]? As always, one little piece of information doesn't tell the story. The fact is, almost all rices have a high glycemic index, thus cause a blood sugar spike, thus produce an insulin response, thus cause fat storage and other problems when you eat too much of it. Rice is about exactly as "bad" for you, physiologically, as white bread.

Obviously, rice can be consumed in moderation, especially in combination with other foods that lower the rate of metabolism.

[1] Cos I work out tons, don't overeat, and have a naturally fast metabolism.
From one of the Rails Core members:

"We, too, are pretty annoyed that the release candidate has dragged on, but we want a candidate we'd feel comfortable deploying to production with our own apps. Thankfully, we've had tons of people testing the betas and bringing the polish up to release quality. That means a short RC cycle."

http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/213412#927556

All told, I have to say that this makes me feel better about Rails 3 than I would otherwise. I'm perfectly happy building apps in Rails 2.3.x, and would rather switch to Rails 3 when the likelihood of it containing showstopper bugs that will make me get up at 4AM to fix production issues has decreased.
That's a very polite way to put it, imo. These same people demanding an immediate release would also be the first to weep prose all over the internets upon the first contact with a bug.
I believe they do owe the community a few things.

They owe the community a transparent and open development process. They are doing this with Lighthouse and GitHub. Anybody can submit a bug, patch, watch other tickets, see commits being made every single day.

They also owe the community responsible release management by releasing stable code. They are doing this by delaying the RC.

So in my books, the complainers really have NO angle here.
I can't stand it when people do that. Sorry.
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Low-code Extra here. I've got a couple Altoids tin kits, but I've never put enough time into code to really work CW QRP. I've worked some far contacts with 2-5 watt PSK though.
Questions that might illuminate if there's a problem -

When's the last time you went for a walk?

When's the last time you were in nature for a while?

When's the last time you spent a day absolutely, completely relaxing?

How's your diet?

How's your sleep?

How's your sleep schedule?

When's the last time you had a vacation?

How much inspirational media have you been through in the last week - books, movies, audio, whatever.

When's the last time you hung out around or talked on the phone with someone really inspirational?

Beyond that - changing environment can bring you out of a funk, bringing a laptop to a cafe with no internet can be a great option if you can do some work offline.
Is it possible for both sides of an argument to be wrong? Yes, communication would have been nice. However, it's not like the workings of the Rails Core group is secret. You can look at the commit logs and get a feel for what's going on and how close they actually are.

Expecting open source developers to give accurate estimates is kind of silly. However, responding with "Fuck you" is unnecessarily rude.
I've been enjoying a paleo lifestyle for the past three years. I'm leaner, stronger, and healthier than ever. I find it easy to fast for 18 hours, and do so most days, then I eat my fill of meat, veggies, and a bit of fruit. While fasting I have good concentration and energy. I tend towards a high fat, low carb paleo diet, but in the summer I increase my fruit and veg intake. Given that I don't eat out at work, I make the majority of my meals myself. My mainstay protein is ground beef which is cheap and delicious. I don't follow any fitness routine, but often go for lunchtime walks and sometimes I swim on the weekends. The most understated benefit in my opinion is the freedom from modern dietary dogma. Many of my family and friends are also doing amazing with this way of eating. Feel free to me ask specific questions. Take care.
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This Greg Donald guy is totally out of line, but he's just an irrelevant troll.

Edit: to the downvoters, what is your argument that he either a) isn't totally out of line or b) is relevant to the development of Rails or the Rails ecosystem despite his nearly complete lack of open source contributions (http://github.com/gdonald)?

The title here is "You stay classy, Rails," yet there is a single unnecessarily rude response from a Rails core member in response to criticism, followed by a bunch of inflammatory posts by a guy who apparently is just an immature troll who doesn't speak for anyone but himself.
Granted, glycemic index is a useful measure. I don't recommend it, initially, only because I find most of my patients glaze over at that point. If you grok it, more power to you.

> husk of the grain takes a lot longer to digest

Well, most husks don't digest at all. That's "fiber", which is good for you for a whole different reason.

> your rules

Incompletely capture the conditions of your weight loss. How long have you kept it off? Married with kids? what are your work conditions? How do you commute? What climate do you live in?

> 30 minutes of light cardio every other day, about 2.5 hrs a week

2.5 / 0.5 = 5 days a week, but I get your point, it's that not hard, what's hard is doing it.