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Thank you. I'm a habitual soda drinker, and I realized that after giving up caffeine (several times) it's really the taste of soda that brings me back; aka, getting my sugar fix throughout the day. I'm working on addressing this now even as I continue drinking caffeine, simply so I don't deplete myself of any self control.

Do you have any relevant articles on addressing sugar addiction? I'm not sure any grand strategies besides cold turkey.
Sure! davidjairala@gmail.com

Thanks for taking the time!
Thanks julian, definitely hitting up many of the same areas as my idea, but hopefully there's room for another option in the market. As they say, always nice when someone else validates the idea.
True that it's not ideal, but he'll be able to see totals since they are his comments.
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Sorry, I don't see any examples in the article where trees communicate, just that they tap into each other's resources. Was there more to it than that?

If not, that's a pretty misleading headline. When I water a plant, it's not communicating with the garden hose.
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Yeah, I think so. I see ~30% CPU usage from it.
I cut caffeine out of my life completely when I went to see a psychiatrist about my anxiety problems and she told me one cup of coffee was enough to trigger a panic attack. A year later and I still don't consume it. I sleep better, go to bed and wake up on time, and have much more manageable energy levels throughout the day.

Just because it's socially accepted doesn't mean it isn't one hell of a drug.

(If you want a citation for caffeine's anxiogenic effects:
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/145/5/6...)
My last two jobs have shown me that Excel is really what you need to kill if you want to break the Office stronghold.

May I ask what specifically you think an Excel-killer would need to do to succeed? And why you think the web-based spreadsheets haven't been able to do it so far?
Awesome. Thank you. Any chance of a Ruby version?
I learn something new every day. Thanks.
It'd be nice if [insert popular TV crime drama] would pick this up and run with it. We might start to see juries doubting confessions in the same way they've already been trained by the media to doubt non-forensic evidence.
I'm sorry. I'll try to be more clear. You said There is not a single group I despise more than your average black bloc "anarchist protester". I feel that murderers are more deserving of contempt than children who destroy property.
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Successful? Yes. Safe? Not for everyone.

Repeated studies show caffeine to increase panic and anxiety symptoms in people with depression, panic disorder, and related mood disorders.

I stopped taking caffeine when my psychiatrist told me it was contributing to my anxiety problems. Went from several sleepless nights per week to falling asleep at the same (reasonable) hour every night.
No - Mac Excel cannot do the old Windows shortcuts. It was the reason I held out for years, but once the useless ribbon turned up on Windows the shortcuts became a sloppy reverse compatibility addition. When Visual Basic arrived back on the Mac there was no reason to keep windows excel.
+1 for Scrivener.

I just finished a novella using it. I didn't use all it had to offer, but the combination of index cards for simple and quick outlining and the full screen mode make it essential for me.
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Yes. For example it may say that other browser vendors care about things other than x86/x86-64 and ARM (which are all Chrome cares about; it doesn't run on any other architectures).

Of course if you _want_ use of the Web to be tied to particular hardware architectures, then Chrome's push with NaCl is ok. But some people and organizations consider such ties to be a really bad idea.
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How is depending on the x86 and ARM hardware architectures significantly better than depending on the WinAPI? It still locks out some people who can currently use the Web just fine from using content just because of the computer hardware (or OS in the case of WinAPI) they've chosen to use. This is a still a bad thing, just like 10 years ago.
The design of this website is uncomfortably close to Khoi Vinh's subtraction.com.
I was wondering the same thing as I've been configuring eAccelerator on a new server.

I hope they have backups...
This article comes off as just being pompous about being an engineer.

As a coder, I'm sure you understand separation of concerns. Well, it works the same way in a sufficiently large company. Coders can't and shouldn't be doing everything. Let's say a build vs buy decision needs to happen. Someone needs to be mindful of the budget and time to market. Sometimes you want a feature that might step on the toes of a partner. Someone needs to keep up with those relationships. If you left it up to coders, they might spend all their time coding things that interested them.

The problem arises when the people making decisions don't listen to the recommendations of the technical people. But that does not mean that technical people necessarily need to run everything.
Havent they sold backyard solar lights at Walmart, Target, etc for several years now?

http://www.target.com/Solar-Lights-Coach-Style-Pack/dp/B002Z...
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I always found it strange that when a guy is saying he was doing something else noone believes him but when he starts telling he was doing what people suspect him of suddenly his word is rock solid.

If someone is consistently upset with what you are saying and makes your life miserable you try behaving differently especially in such stressful situation.

It's useful to listen to people suspected of crimes but you should treat their "confessions" as a clues where to finds evidence of what actually happened.
I cut out regular and diet soda entirely, switching to green tea and san pelligrino carbonated mineral water, in January 2011.

There's really no way to do it other than cold turkey, but similarly to kicking morphine for heroin after the civil war, it's easiest to do cold turkey by replacing with something better. :)
I worked in medical and banking...these industries seem to run on Excel. Performance is an issue, and the amount of "legacy" code running in macros/vba is staggering. You are talking about thousands of excel spreadsheet which is each like it's own little application.
I am still building my product, but I will be using a lot of basic physics (and science in general) for it. Please get in touch if you would like to hear more.
If you're breaking a caffeine habit doesn't that imply that you are no longer drinking coffee? That's sort of like saying you are giving up on nicotine but will only have a smoke every now and then. My thinking is you either embrace you vice or avoid it — no?
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Actually, yes. Tons of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fibre
Firefox has x86, x86-64, and ARM as tier-1 architectures.

It has a whole bunch of tier-2 architectures that are supported but to a lesser extent (e.g. a patch that breaks one of them doesn't automatically get backed out immediately). People are shipping and using Firefox on various of those architectures, including JS jits on at least Sparc and PPC.
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In a very similar boat as you. Just went through a very stressful period, resulting in my first ever panic attack, and I think coffee had something to do with it (besides lack of exercise or any sort of stress management). I'm actually scared to drink anything with caffeine now.

I suppose it's all for the better.
Google has in fact announced that they will more or less stop V8 optimization work... Which is too bad, because V8 is nowhere close to as fast as JS engined will get.
The "connection between things that are not really connected" part match my own experience of having schizophrenia very well.

It's not uncommon for me to have thoughts that very much makes sense and is meaningful to me while others simply can't make any sense of it what-so-ever.

This means I'll have to be cautious of my own thoughts and I often doubt them.

Thoughts as well as meanings change over time too. Sometimes I write down ideas I think is brilliant to save for later. Revisiting those writings can be troubling because I might not be able to make a similar sense of what I wrote earlier.
Yeah, but that's still useless for the rest of us. Plus, why bother when there's built-in poll functionality that's so much easier to use?
Registered! Not sure if it's what I was looking for, but it looks interesting for many things!
You know... I'm curious as too how easy it is to paint over this stuff? I got to imagine that the surface would be fairly slick, would even primer stick to it that well?
It's true that many such quotes are bogus, but this one can be pinned down. It comes from an interview with Einstein published in LIFE magazine, May 2, 1955: "Never lose a holy curiosity. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives."

http://books.google.com/books?id=dlYEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1...

Also, I recommend the "Carpet Is So Easy To Care For" ad on the preceding page. "Home means more with carpet on the floor."
Wow, That's really good., Will upload the updated version soon.
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Why doesn't another big company step up and lay down its own copper/fiber into homes? Sure, it will be a BIG investment but the return should be awesome. I am sure it will be worthwhile in at least some areas like NYC, Bay Area, Boston etc.
I recall talking to someone at MS about .NET 4.0 and I asked what were the big scenarios -- and I was surprised to hear that Office programmability was one of the top scenarios. He didn't know exact numbers, but he said that there may be more lines of .NET Office code (VSTO and VBA) than ASP.NET.

Go and ask your random analyst friend if they know VBA, and you'd be surprised how many know it (and with it know things like dynamic typing, implicit arguments, event handlers, etc..).
Not really as I don't write enough Ruby to feel comfortable teaching it. If any Rubyist out there wants to steal this format and approach I would happily link to (and use!) it.

Source files are all available at *.rst and there is a Makefile at stephensugden.com/crash_into_python/Makefile as well.
When an investigator tells someone that they have two choices: confess and face potentially five years in jail, or plead not guilty and face potentially twenty years in jail, what sounds like the best deal?
Can you fathom how much it will cost to dig up the streets, lay fiber and fill them back in? Will cities even allow that, due to the impediment to the traffic?
There is tons of dark fiber, due to the economics of laying cables.

Digging a ditch is expensive. The fiber you put in the ditch is cheap. So if you are already digging a ditch, you load it up with 100x as much fiber as you imagine yourself ever needing in the future.

This is vastly cheaper than digging a second ditch 5-10 years down the line.
It looks like Joe Nocera got his wish from a week ago.

"I keep waiting for one wealthy, well-known figure to stand up and say publicly that he or she is willing to pay more in taxes as part of the shared sacrifice necessary to gain control of the country’s deficit."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/opinion/nocera-while-the-m...
All the physics engines in JS are documented on the very valuable JSWiki: https://github.com/bebraw/jswiki/wiki/Physics-libraries
tl;dr Author didn't like his Android phone, therefore nobody will like their Android phone.
I think the problem with IQ is the labelling. They give somebody Genius status without ever having to produce genius status work. In a place like america, there are suppose to be like 3 million genius(cut off 1%). I really haven't felt the impact of the many, just only a few.
> but you can't beat native code in tight loops

But you can. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618692#c1 has a simple example where Java beats gcc -O3 by a factor of 1.5 or so on exactly such a loop. This is not an isolated case, and I fully expect JS JITs to get there for many situations. Unless browsers stop improving them, of course.
How does Markdown compare to LaTex? I wrote in LaTex most of my career and only the past 10 years with Word. I generally liked LaTex, except I didn't like the fact that the doc I edited was not the doc distributed (dvi, pdf, ps). But its hard to beat the typesetting in LaTex.

Oddly, I find PowerPoint to be a great app. In fact, if I need to quickly draw something, I'm more likely to do it in PowerPoint than Illustrator or Design or anything. Why do standard drawing programs suck so much at doing quick sketches (at least for people like me who can't draw)?
:D

Given the news last week that Apple's market cap was larger than the federal government's cash on hand, i thought this was going to be a request for an aircraft carrier.
Why the downvotes? Too pricey?
MS Word's greatest sin is mixing up content and layout into a strange binary format. Whether it was a devious scheme to lock in users or bad design is anyone's guess but it sure crashed a lot when uou mixed tables and diagrams. Formatting was a nightmare too and sometimes the changes were irreversible. I wish I saw the light and went with plaintext/markdown earlier.
>"jack of all trades" type and generally the type who encourages others to do their best work, builds bridges, helps facilitate collaboration etc.

Sounds like you may be a glue guy. Good writeups on glue guys in sports:

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-cup/story/_/id/5308513/ce...

http://www.google.com/search?q=glue+guy+grant+hill (can't find the actual article, but there was a good one on Grant Hill and how he changes game stats)

Biggest problem may be that that role seems more needed in a sports team or the military than a tech business.
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That reeks of straw man to me - murderers aren't a group, they do not represent themselves as such, or anything even remotely close to it. They don't issue statements, they don't have meetings, and they certainly do not descend upon anything as a group.

Until there's a "SF Murder Collective" that descends in terror across the city, I will stand by my opinion that, as a group, black bloc "anarchists" are by far my most despised.

They purport to stand against oppressors, but in reality they get nothing of the sort done, and instead they play directly into the agenda of heavy-handed policing by justifying police reactions in the court of public opinion.
Buffet has been making noise about this for a long time now. Maybe now people will listen? I'm kind of skeptical.
tl;dr

"What science is, I think, may be something like this: There was on this planet an evolution of life to a stage that there were evolved animals, which are intelligent. I don't mean just human beings, but animals which play and which can learn something from experience--like cats. But at this stage each animal would have to learn from its own experience. They gradually develop, until some animal [primates?] could learn from experience more rapidly and could even learn from another’s experience by watching, or one could show the other, or he saw what the other one did. So there came a possibility that all might learn it, but the transmission was inefficient and they would die, and maybe the one who learned it died, too, before he could pass it on to others.

The question is: is it possible to learn more rapidly what somebody learned from some accident than the rate at which the thing is being forgotten, either because of bad memory or because of the death of the learner or inventors?

So there came a time, perhaps, when for some species [humans?] the rate at which learning was increased, reached such a pitch that suddenly a completely new thing happened: things could be learned by one individual animal, passed on to another, and another fast enough that it was not lost to the race. Thus became possible an accumulation of knowledge of the race.

This has been called time-binding. I don't know who first called it this. At any rate, we have here [in this hall] some samples of those animals, sitting here trying to bind one experience to another, each one trying to learn from the other.

This phenomenon of having a memory for the race, of having an accumulated knowledge passable from one generation to another, was new in the world--but it had a disease in it: it was possible to pass on ideas which were not profitable for the race. The race has ideas, but they are not necessarily profitable.

So there came a time in which the ideas, although accumulated very slowly, were all accumulations not only of practical and useful things, but great accumulations of all types of prejudices, and strange and odd beliefs.

Then a way of avoiding the disease was discovered. This is to doubt that what is being passed from the past is in fact true, and to try to find out ab initio again from experience what the situation is, rather than trusting the experience of the past in the form in which it is passed down. And that is what science is: the result of the discovery that it is worthwhile rechecking by new direct experience, and not necessarily trusting the [human] race['s] experience from the past. I see it that way. That is my best definition."

. . .

"I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
I suspect that the kind of people working behind the scenes to keep things as they are aren't anywhere near the super rich but the well off for who a high tax rate would impact their standard of living. Once you get up to the super rich they really aren't putting all earnings into the standard of living they keep.

(Don't have anything to back this up, just the impression I get from reading bits and pieces on the issue)
NaCl isn't exactly cross-platform. At the moment it only works on 3 hardware architectures at most, and that only if you put in some special effort....
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The good tasting coffee that I enjoyed encompassing a meal is what kept me on it as well. A good decaf can kick the habit. I even like my decaf more than a normal one.

I've been off coffee a few weeks ago like you are now and it had the same effects on me. For a long time I got back into normal sleeping habits without even doing anything for it. I just got sleepy in the evening.

Then I started drinking some normal coffee again to push the boundaries at night (learning, programming) and here I am. It's 6 in the morning and it'll be a few hours before I go to bed.

I've planned on decreasing my caffeine intake again - actually avoided coffee but kept drinking sugar-free caffeinated soda, but cold-turkey is definitely the better way and it's my end-goal to go caffeine-free anyway. So this article and the discussion here had at least some impact. ;-)

To clarify the last paragraph: From experience I actually have doubts that just lowering intake works for me. I'll need to find a good replacement for a cold coke zero, though. There is a decaf version of coke too, maybe I'll try that again, or I'll try to avoid soda completely.
Buffett has been saying this for years. I don't expect anyone to start listening now.
I used to not drink coffee until a friend of mine introduced me to good coffee (i.e. not Maxwell House or Folgers). I normally only drink about 3 cups a week, usually in the afternoons, on busy days when I'm feeling sluggish. If I drink much more than that, I do notice that it loses its effect of waking me up, while simultaneously making it harder for me to sleep. It's kind of a shame, because I really enjoy the taste of good coffee now that I've found it. Making the perfect cup of coffee is a kind of art.
Interesting. Thanks. Maybe I'll start there, too.
The more I hear about this guy, the more I like him. He is so frank, it seems like he'd be a very interesting person to meet.
Small business accounting remains a wide open category for new entrants. However, I'm not sure web-based solutions are the right approach. For whatever reason, it feels like accounting should be a piece of client software. Perhaps because there is some UX richness that is still lacking in the browser. Perhaps because because it feels like the data should be local.

Also, I think it would be difficult to do a lousier job in putting forth standardize financial data formats than what Intuit has done. In most cases, a simple CSV file would have sufficed. But Intuit with all of it's complicated, multi-dimensional data formats, one for each product with many becoming outdated. Yuck.
We'll let them voluntarily pay more taxes then, or donate to charity, or start a charity or whatever.

By their very nature taxes are not voluntary, they're taken by force of law. Don't pay them then go to jail.

This is a stupid (but very easy) argument to make, one (of the richest)rich person says he'd be happy to pay more tax, therefor all rich people should pay more.

If he really wants to make a difference he'd be way better off spending his money on charirty, then it's not going to be entirely eaten up paying for beurocracy. THe government is not efficient AT ANYTHING.

When you pay taxes you're funding all that crap you don't agree with. Wars, funding for lobbies, paying politicians fat saleries, all those police raids on pot smokers etc. Why the hell would you want to give more to that?
I wish Buffett would run for president. He could probably get a few things done.
I got off alcohol, can live without Red Bull but coffee always seems to find a way back into my life. The quality of sleep after being caffeine free for a week is amazing. But unless you set your own hours, that coffee becomes tempting when you're running low on sleep. I think I'll give it another go though.
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What's missing is an estimate of the revenue impact of doing what Buffet suggests.

I've always heard that this kind of policy would add little to revenue, because there is simply far more tax money available by taxing earned income.
He really is amazing. I live in Omaha. You can drive by Buffett's house, and you'd have no idea who lives there if you didn't already know. I know people who have interacted with him on a regular basis, and he is just as personable and down-to-earth as his public image suggests.
Maybe take a look at Buffett's charitable record sometime.
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Note that this article is from 2009. A pretty important thing to say, with a headline like this - my first thought was "wait, I know that I've heard about evidence for this before."
Other carriers aren't going to push devices made by their competition.
Yes, it's because they pro-rate add-ons by the second. If you sign up with Heroku, you immediately get 500 concurrencies as part of the free plan. Signing up directly with blitz.io, OTOH, gives you blogging and referral credits - see http://blitz.io/invite
I'd have liked to see that, too, but one can run the numbers if one wants.

Also, isn't getting more money better than not getting more money? (NOTE: We certainly need to slow our spending, as well, but I fail to see how an increase in revenue is a bad thing.)
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