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Yes. And not having a CS degree won't get your foot in the door in 99% of tech companies in India.
She spends a long time attacking the research. Really her problem is with how science is reported.

It's frustrating that she takes quotes from the BBC R4 Programme 'Today' out of context. John Humphries is an idiot and has no clue about interviewing technical people. The researchers were careful not to overplay the research.

Even though this is epidemiology and not a double blind controlled study the results are pretty clear; the research was good quality.

Here's what the research said. (She quotes this.)

> “Unprocessed and processed red meat intakes were associated with an increased risk of total, CVD, and cancer mortality in men and women in the age-adjusted and fully adjusted models. When treating red meat intake as a continuous variable, the elevated risk of total mortality in the pooled analysis for a 1-serving-per-day increase was 12% for total red meat, 13% for unprocessed red meat, and 20% for processed red meat.”

This is a calm, cautious, undramatic statement.

The problem is that risk is presented as a percentage, and most people have no idea what that means to their life expectancy; or how to compare that risk to other things.

Check my math, but I think the above figures mean a decrease of one year in life expectancy over 80 years. Eg: compare Bob who doesn't eat too much red meat who lives to 80 with the same Bob who does eat too much red meat who lives to 79. (But risks unpleasant medical treatment that decreases quality of life.)
I've been a Linux user since kernel 2.0.30 was new.

I have used Windows at work for 6 days total. I used it at a Java shop where the build system was Windows only. After 6 days I needed to get my job done and I installed Linux to get better dev and network diagnostics tools, hacked the build system to not include .bat-scripts, got my job done and never looked back. That was my first 6 days as a professional software engineer and my last 6 days of using Windows for non-gaming purposes.
It's probably correct, actually. In the past there have been a few links from HN to my own site, and I was surprised to see that a LOT of people were using OSX.
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Ahem. I've got an OpenSolaris PC standing right there in the corner, thank you very much. ;)
Does there need to be an alternative? Using sugar for that purpose is fine.
Nothing can get me away from my Arch Linux with XMonad as a Windows Manager. I love it.
The basic equation is:
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If you lost weight it means you burned more calories than you ate.
> I use Windows 7 for music production

I am fascinated by this claim. The last time I looked at Windows for music production was a long time ago, but back then CoreAudio beat the pants off of ASIO for real-time work. Is that not still the case?

What software do you use? Two packages that I use heavily, Logic and DP7 are mac-only.
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May I plug my own game here? It's not multiplayer but still favor intense dog-fighting with AI.

http://gamesfrommars.fr/vibrant

A multiplayer mode is the most requested feature, but I don't know if it's worth it.
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> Side note: I'm really looking forward to future biofeedback tech. It'd be interesting to know my blood sugar level and heart rate at all times.

It's a neat idea, and I'd enjoy collecting all that data too.

Would this data be useful for researchers? Or is it just too much information?

And there are risks of knowing too much about your body. People can develop anxiety illnesses (such as hypochondria, which has unfortunate popular connotations but in severe forms can be distressing and expensive) when they become too aware of their heartbeat, for example. See also full body MRI scans which are pointless unless you have an idea of what you're looking for.
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Linux at work, Windows + virtualized Linux at home
It would have been an i486, this was in the mid-nineties. I was twelve at the time. I kept all of my code, it still runs in DOSBox.
I actually did this with Joust, something like ten years ago, using java sockets for the communications and dhtml for presentation.

The multiplayer version is long gone, but you can still get try out the original dhtml head-to-head version (provided you have IE3+ or Netscape Navigator handy):

http://www.jasonkester.com/joust/

Might have to spend a weekend cramming it full of Node.js and replacing the 1998 DOM referencing syntax with something a bit more modern...

Edit: Holy yikes, it actually works in the latest Chrome and Firefox. No idea how...
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I was forced to choose "other" since my operating system (GNU) was not listed.

What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it.

Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run.

The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
putty is great. But I was talking about terminal into your own system, as an interface to your local files
Related: are there any 2nd or 3rd generation programmers around? My both parents are professional software engineers.

(Waiting for someone to go: "I am a direct descendant of Ada Lovelace, now get off my lawn")
I'm just trying to learn using Codeacademy for javascript, MIT online courses for Python and Django Book... of course, for Django. :)
I think the internet is a great enabler for those with introverted personalities.

Some of the most introverted people I know are often quite active on social networks. For those people, sending out a tweet comes easier than speaking up at a party.
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I'm 21 and I started coding 2 1/2 year ago. Though my first tries were on my TI Voyage when I was 16. But those programs were basically a bunch of if/else statements that printed some text.
>But Coke has very little salt -- about 45 mg.

This tells me nothing. 45mg per 100ml? Or per serving (usually 250ml)?
Out of curiosity, since you sound not like a fanboy of any particular os and just want to use one: What keeps you using osx over windows for browsing the web, webdev and graphic design? Are there any special advantages or is it just software which is not available for win?
1988–1989: first Logo encounter;
1992 or so: first Pascal encounter;
1994: got my first PC; started spending long hours with BP 7.0 and BC 3.1;
1996: first real applications (several thousands LOCs, proper GUIs etc.);
2002: first job as a programmer (with the LAMP stack).

I guess 10+ is an honest vote.
Especially the part where I sit at my desk and eat M&Ms.
Cute fact: quantum mechanics under Heisenberg was originally called "Matrix mechanics." ;-)
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In the UK things are slightly easier. The word "dietician" is reserved. It is illegal to call yourself a dietician unless you have specific qualifications and are registered.

Anyone can call themselves a nutritionist. I could set up shop tomorrow, calling myself a nutritionist.

That's made a bit more complex because you have sensible nutritionists working within public health doing real science, and you have wingnuts.
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>> "While being free is a top concern for you and many others, for some (perhaps many) usability might be their top concern and they may be willing to sacrifice freedom for usability"

> False dichotomy.

I disagree, he's not stating that there's a correlation between free-ness and usability. Just that what he (and maybe most "normal" people?) consider usable is not currently available in free form. As a result they end up with a choice between "better usability" and "worse usability" and it just so happens that the entire former category happens to be non-free.

Now I know a lot of linux fans disagree and say that linux is just as usable as OSX/windows, but I personally disagree and the markets appear to be backing me up on this. Unless you are supposing there is some other important reason for people not to switch?

Theoretically linux and the important applications can be made just as usable, but it hasn't happened yet...
Sony's already been dabbling in Steam support. This move would not surprise me.
I switched to Linux around 2001 because I wanted to know more about what went wrong than a BSOD could tell me.
I think around 1981 when VC20s came to Germany and I was around 8 or 9 (after that Kosmos CP1, C64, CPC/CPM, Amiga 1000/500/4k60 Retina Z3 (who remembers that one?), PCs, short love affair with BeBoxes (nice blue CPU load LEDs :-), then Macs since the Cube).

My first larger program was "Towers of Hanoi" where I "solved" the algorithm on my own for. Still the programming I'm most proud of.
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VBA on OSX is fine, a little slower than on windows (yes, it can get slower!) - couple of funnies around file system access, but well written code will work with no changes
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Freedom also carries a cost. At the end of the day, the best OS for any given individual is the one that gives them the largest net increase in utility, for their personal utility function.

My experience suggests that a Free OS isn't worth it to me, but it's been about six years since I gave it a go full-time. The last time I gave Linux a good go round (as in using it as my primary OS for everything I did), I still had to invest time in getting my touchpad to work correctly with X or getting decent sub-pixel anti-aliasing. All of the freedom to tinker in the world is worthless to me if I can't get the basics sorted without a significant investment of my time.
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I assert that you can't be a programmer (Read anything unofficial MS) with Windows. If you try, that just tells me you don't care about your tools. Which tells me you need to level up.
I'd go with the above mathematically aligned subjects and possibly add music. It's good practice for keeping lots of little data structures in memory and running them in the correct order to create a greater structure. IBM had, at one point, a proclivity to hire musicians for this, among other reasons.
Nothing special, just a little twitter scheduling app where one schedules tweets by sending an email with a list of tweets to it. http://buffero.me
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Yep! Good ol CoCo. I didn't have edasm+ at first, so I was "hand assembling" to bytecodes. Had a little too much spare time as a kid.

My dad helped me double the ram by piggybacking chips on the existing ones. I used to take the cover off and stare at motherboard along with printed schematics to understand how the thing worked.

I think it's a lot harder for kids to get the kind of basis for things now.
~1985 - Basic on Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K
~1990 - GFA Basic on Atari ST
~1992 - Turbo Pascal on PC
1994-1998 - Scheme and C++ at university
1998-now - Professional programmer in C++, C and Python
I have been using Linux as my only operating system since Yggdrasil Fall 1994. Before that I was a happy Amiga user.

After Yggdrasil I took a short turn to Slackware (downloaded a lot of floppies), and then switched to Debian which I had heard nice things about - and I have been running Debian ever since.

I always get surprised at how complicated other systems (Windows, Mac OS X) seem to me, when I briefly encounter them. I guess it is the power of habit.

Here is a bar chart of the votes:

· http://koldfront.dk/misc/hn/os/data.png

(Updated hourly currently.)
I am more concerned about how long I have been NOT programming!

It must be like a month since I last programmed, and even then it was just a little ProjectEuler.Net

I need to get my hands dirty again, I'm losing touch.
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I found this pretty inane. He used MinGW instead of native gcc on GNU/Linux.
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I am a Linux user and I feel more secure when using it.

Desktop : Linux Mint ( Was using Ubuntu until 10.4 )

Laptop : Linux Mint and Windows 7 Dual boot. The reason I have windows is that laptop battery lasts for 4 hrs on windows and only 1.5 hrs on Linux when not on charging mode. also I use windows when I need to use dual screens.
Wow! OSX first, Linux Close second. There are not many places, that will draw this kind of result.

I use windows and Ubuntu, I use Ubuntu for almost everything nowadays, My only reason to boot into windows to get something done with photoshop.
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Macs cost between 30-40% more, not including US state tax, so you generally pay something like 20-35% more.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoQWiQYB3NR5dDh...
This is a clear departure from the old Sony. Sony used to be all about locking developers and content providers into proprietary platforms, raising platform value through exclusives and lowering cross-platform development. They started off with cash-cows based on standards such as Trinitron and the Walkman and went cocky after the big success of going it all alone with the 'PS1' and 'PS2'.
However where they were only looking at professional content, Apple one-upped them by lowering barriers for developers, opening the floodgates and lowering content prices.
Is this the next step of Sony to reinvent themselves under Hirai-san? Whereas other Japanese CE companies are exiting the consumer business rapidly, Sony certainly is putting up a fight.
QBasic on a 80386 and I was 13 when I started.
I'm getting older, and after about 15 years playing around with config files, I just want something that's stable and consistent[.] .. Windows is leaps and bounds better than when I heavily used it last.

This is why we use Windows. When we buy a new computer, it's a former corporate business class laptop sold on eBay, it comes with some version of Windows preinstalled, and we don't mess with it. As with the recent Gmail discussion, the reason we use it is that it simply works and we need it to do work.
Please could someone help me unpick the numbers?

> Americans are now consuming nearly 130 pounds of added sugars per person, per year.

This sentence is so vague as to be almost meaningless. Assuming 311,600,000 Americans. I have no way of telling how many Americans are eating a "safe" level of sugar versus how many Americans are eating a "dangerous" level of sugar.

130 lb is nearly 60 kg - that's a remarkable amount of sugar. And if that's a mean then there are people eating considerably more than that.

Scarily, the amount of added sugar has decreased (between 2000 and 2008) - (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db87.htm)

> Although the percent of daily calories derived from added sugars declined between 1999–2000 and 2007–2008 (2), consumption of added sugars remains high in the diets of Americans.
An air freshener with network connectivity? Better disguises immediately come to mind.

The power brick approach is an improvement but still makes the following assumptions:

* location of network ports is at floor level hidden under desks

* power and network cable colours match

* an employee won't disconnect a seemingly useless box when they need to charge their phone

* port security is not in use

A replacement "trojan horse" computer or printer that has been modified externally is a stealthier approach. Such devices have a reason for being connected to a power source and the network and do not raise suspicion (especially if the replacements are soiled and have worn asset stickers attached). Local IT staff will ensure the devices have network connectivity and will likely assume (in the case of a computer) that suspicious network traffic is the result of a virus.

Failing that full blown approach, even a "signal booster" could be a better disguise. An average person will think of their analogue TV and radio signal boosters. Further disguise can be added by soiling the devices, attaching asset stickers and stickers for a matching fake brand name and fake website where suspicious users can have their fears alleviated. The website has the added benefit of alerting the attacker that their device has been potentially compromised.
Thanks for the link, Christian!

I would very much appreciate a copy of the assignments. My email is in my profile (I'll happily use whichever transfer method is most convenient for you, of course - gist, etc.)
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I think the first time I tried programming was when I was simply looking at QBasic code, astonished how Nibbles and Gorillas work and thought, "these characters I see on the screen before running the game are what make the game function? If so, how?" This was on my father's 486/33 I believe, although I barely remember his 386 which could have been what it was on. Regardless, I was probably 5 or 6 and I tried messing with those characters on the screen to modify the game. Later my parents bought me one of those kid laptops with a little 6 inch x 3 inch screen that you could get from Toys 'R Us and I found out it had a programming option where you can type in QBasic code...I found some code in a math book we had at home, and typed away. After I got the one from the book working, I modified them to see what my changes would do.
To answer that question, none of the computing power is used towards anything but verifying transactions and - the real work here - solving hashes to generate more bitcoins.

There's plenty of discussion on what this cloud-supercomputer could be doing in addition to its current task. Problem is, the nature of mining introduces several limits on the types of computational problems miners try to crack.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=203.msg3669#msg3669

Here's a post describing the qualities a bitcoin-appropriate computational problem would have.
Started with BBC Basic and 6502 assembler at home, then Pascal at school on CP/M and DOS, then FORTRAN and MATLAB at college on VMS, then C++ and Perl on Solaris at work, then PL/SQL, then OCaml for personal projects, now mainly Python on Linux for work. I also have Acorns and Commodores at home for tinkering.

For work tho', only work counts. Real-world programming is not just about programming, it's doing so within a set of constraints that you don't have a say in (e.g. compatibility with existing systems, OS, deadlines/timescale, specs, users, etc etc). Adapting to these situations is what makes a successful industrial programmer, not what you did as a kid.
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They also compared it to crack on the show. I doubt the average crackhead would agree.
My mother's first job, when she was 18, in the late 1950s was punching paper tape for one of the early Manchester computers.
I'm sitting on Windows 7 machine and quite frankly I don't get the hate about it. It's beautiful, it runs programs and with those programs you can do work and view media. Heck, it even plays games (WOO, who knew right?). While there are parts that aren't really thought-through when it comes to UI design, it's still the best thing I can afford. Some day when I win a lottery, I'll try out a mac, but till then it's all Windows. And to those lovely linux freaks, the day you can run Adobe Fireworks / Illustrator / Photoshop without the hassle of Wine emulator, do let me know.
> Despite the advances in tech, kids today who want to learn to program have it much harder.

Why is that?
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OMG, I was just 3 when you began to use Linux. I would like to know if its some sort of addiction to use Linux ? the reason I am asking is, I am using Linux since 6 years and I think I am getting addicted to it .
I've also been a Windows user for more than 10 years but just recently switched to OSX (May 2011) because I was migrating from Flash Development to HTML5/JavaScript. It seems that most of the tools for web development in general are more conveniently available in OSX.