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I have just quit sugar cold turkey. Carbohydrates in general, actually. (< 20 grams per day.) One thing that I will highly recommend to everyone who is trying to do this: small amounts of powdered Psyllium supplement. The best known brand in the US is Metamucil. This might set off some mental alarms, as it is marketed as a "laxative." However, it's just a concentrated source of soluble fiber that acts to bulk up material passing through the gut, helping to keep it passing through. This prevents many of the disadvantages of eating mostly foods that are rich in proteins and fats. The instructions on this stuff allow for 1 to 3 doses per day. I'm only taking 1/2 a dose at any one time, so it's acting more as a fiber supplement.

That said, I also cook and eat lots of vegetables. (Green beans are quick and great! Just rinse them, steam them, and don't eat any inedible looking ends. It's best if you don't overcook them.) I never feel run down after meals any more like I used to, though I can still feel a bit tired after a particularly high fat meal. On the whole, I have a lot more energy, though I have been told that I'm a lot more irritable now. Maybe it's time to do some programming "in anger?"
And what happens after you eat this stuff for 50 years or so?
But fruit has fibre, which counteracts the sugar in them, so eating fruit is ok.

But fruit juice is a different matter as the pulp has been removed.
That looks absolutely amazing. You(?) even prepared packages.

> In general, try to set your programs (editors, terminals, web apps, ...) to include information on what you are doing in the window title. This will make it easier to search for later.

So if I'm in the terminal, Selfspy can only tell what I'm doing by the window title?
Idea: a meme site of Steve Jobs being rude to other people. I have some terrific examples from personal experience.
Yes, it is harder to overeat or get addicted on natural fresh fruits, and there's less of a negative effect. But if you do, you're still back to square one: significant insulin spikes, a tendency to turn those calories to fat just like pure sugar, and some of the detrimental health effects mentioned in the article.

You mentioned honey, and I don't know which group you assigned it to, but many people make this mistake: honey is "natural", but it is every bit as pure and unhealthy a sugar as high fructose corn syrup, or similar.
Yeah... several liters a day?? That's absolutely insane. That is not healthy at all.
He made it up along with the rest of his low content blather.
Are they being irrational?

Most apps are opened once, twice at most. A small percentage of apps downloaded are used at all after the first day on the user's device. A very few make it into daily use; and most of those are on the device the day it's purchased.

This is because most apps are not compelling experiences.

If you factor in the risk that this app, like most of the ones they have seen so far; will not be in their life for more than 10 minutes... I would say they are being rational in their pricing bias.

There are two ways around this. You can communicate your value ahead of time to your potential customers, which Fog Of World does fairly well. Or you can build a business model that has usage based pricing through in-app purchases, so that people who are regular users are paying their way.
That joke never gets old, let's keep saying it every time a Chrome or Firefox version comes out! (Or like here, just because a Chrome or Firefox version number was mentioned in a random article.)
This. Far too many people believe fat is bad and don't understand that simple carbs and fat are the most easily converted to energy for the brain.
I'm not trying to apologize for Apple's mess -- and it is a mess -- but your theory doesn't hold for me.

Some places are genuinely fine: I'm in San Francisco and the maps really are pretty damn good (in SF, I'll actually use the word good). Of course, this is right in Apple's back yard, but the reports seem to indicate that most major U.S. cities are in good shape (mind you, I'm talking about maps & places, not flyover's 3D views, which are a whole different story). And, I legitimately find the link to Yelp's reviews more useful than Google's place markings, but Google's are more consistently available.

Not to say that this isn't a huge mess, but simply that there are places where "Maps is good" ("Maps is great" is a bit much no matter where you are!).
These days it often can mean quality bug reports. Many popular open source projects are more responsive to pull requests than simple tickets, so it's entirely possible to have a Github account which is used only for support with opensource projects which your employer relies on.
tl;dr: apple maps apologia
It's interesting you mention diet coke, the whole artificial sugars are probably doing as much damage and your right to mention them as any artifical sugar substitute is designed to feed into that sugar addiction/stimulate taste buds and will effect how you taste and eat food.

I'm still on my transition phase, having moved from desert spoons to teas spoon in my coffee and diet softdrinks, though I do like a full fat cola with food. But have been interested in this berry they have which makes bitter/sour things taste sweeter. That is something that does seem to be a more palatable approach to quelling sugar addiction and could make for a rather nice cup of coffee, evern the cheaper stuff. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum is the bean which I'm on about and you may of heard of it already in the name `miracle fruit`.

All that said, I don't think anybody can name a person that has regretted giving up sugar, though I'm happy to sit in the moderatly decling usage and wont deny it.

But we all blame the sweets as children, even though as children we have a bias towards sweet tasting foods. This is genetic and a health preserving one as well as sour/bitter foods are in general covers most posioness edibles and it is not until we get older do we loose that bias and aquire a more palatable acceptance to bitter/sour tasting foods and drinks. Our eyesight also is biased to the red spectrum when were younger and biases towards blue as we get older, again red being dangerous in nature.

So geneticly there are reasons we are all born sugar addicts, and given the reasons and the way civilisation is modernising forward then it is a trait that may eventualy drop from our genetic code, though that will still be a long way away due to the benifit it serves babies and small children who are still learning what and what they can and can not eat.
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Yeah, I'm kind of amazed by people who won't drink a Coke because it's unhealthy, but have no problem downing a 20 oz orange juice.

The sugar in it may be natural, but it's still a mind-blowing amount of it.
"Antennagate" wasn't a big deal? When my wife used her iPhone 4 it would drop calls constantly (pretty decent AT&T coverage, Columbus, Ohio). She even had it replaced due to the issue (which wasn't fixed until she put a case on it).
I'm gonna guess you have zero experience with Microsoft certifications in any form or scope beyond the online banter-mill.

"Isn't likely to cut a lot of ice." I've heard that before...is it from "Mad Men?"
At Open Science Summit 2010, there were a few individuals proposing some prize funds and reforming the patent system. The transcripts are a little rough (I was typing), but here goes..

Knowledge Ecology International: http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/open-science-summit-2010/j... .. where he talks about an "open source dividend".

Health Impact Fund: http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/open-science-summit-2010/a...
Try keeping a glass of water by you and drink that whenever you feel like having a cup of tea. If you can swap even half of your tea intake for water you'll start to feel much better within a few days since the caffeine and sugar is actually dehydrating you.

I can't help but wonder if you had acquired a taste for beer as a teenager whether you would have less of a sweet tooth now...
While people have described this in regards to RTS games, I feel that it might be more appropriate to link it to RPG games where unexplored parts of the map are obscured by a fog until you visit them.

It's worth also noting that some gamers who are real completists love visiting every location to remove the fog, and there's often achievements linked to this.
I've been in similar positions but one note: do you really work 100% on proprietary software? If you've used any open source projects you can demonstrate skill solely through high quality bug reports for the tools you use, even if your main code is closed. I've certainly seen people participating in e.g. Linux, Python, Apache, etc. threads which made it clear they were solid developers.
This looks awesome, but I wish there were some built in graphs and charts for my usage, most visited tabs, etc.

Otherwise, awesome stuff!
Hey, first off - I absolutely <3 LOVE <3 ZURB's Foundation, especially the latest 3.x releases. ALL of you all who have contributed to it, be it in it's infancy (@markdotto) or more recently/throughout it's development (@chiefinstigator), you've all been a part of creating an fscking awesome framework that I've been using since 2.0 was first released. I don't know the history between the two of you but I have a feeling neither Foundation OR Bootstrap would be the great frameworks they are today without the hard work both of you all and your colleagues have done. I understand where chiefinstigator is coming from, wanting to be recognized and having credit given where it is due, and it seems to me that Mark/markdotto has done that here and now on HN in this very thread by acknowledging that Bootstrap evolved from some of the work done by himself and others at ZURB.

(I love hearing about these connections/relationships between developers and companies!)

I think that the emergence of two of the best html5/css frameworks out there is a great thing and can only help developers and the internet as a whole. Let's not forget the spirit of Open Source - the ability to share, build upon, and innovate on the hardwork of others and in turn build better code, better products, and a better experience for both developers and end-users. Rinse. Repeat. That's a good thing.

I applaud you all for your contributions to the development community. Both of you and your respective teams are an inspiration to not just myself but I'm sure tens of thousands of other developers as well. Keep up the great work, keep releasing code, and have fun doing it.

NOW. @chiefinstigator - I'm working on a project based on Foundation 3.1.1 and am attempting to use the sub-nav navigation menu, and from what I can tell, none of the examples in the documentation work. Unless I'm supposed to be changing the 'active' class to the currently selected menu item manually... what gives? Here is the Gist - https://gist.github.com/2980502#file_f3_subnav.html i've included the navigation plugin and made the call to $(document).foundationNavigation(); as described in the documentation. What am I missing? One note, on each of the dd elements I have a method that is handling the onclick() event. Could this be the problem? (Just thought about that...)

EDIT/ADDED: Can we get a little friendly competition going on here.... ZURB and Bootstrap users/evangelists alike..... what's going on here?
Frequently overlooked -- American companies are huge net-exporters of IP, IP licenses, and IP-protected stuff.

Take the recent Apple/Samsung fiasco, for instance. That's a net cash transfer of over $1B from the South Korean economy to the American economy. Maybe $2B to $3B total when accounting for all the factors.

Is that good? No, it's disgraceful, actually. But good luck convincing American legislators of some abstract far-future benefits to a less regulated world when the short-term result would be a worsening of the trade-deficit, a lowering of American exports, and a lowering of American income and tax yields.

It's a huge factor that's usually overlooked in these discussions -- the United States isn't a closed system.
Yes, e.g. breakfast: 3 fried eggs, 2 links of sausage (or bacon) plus a load of vegetables. Snacks are things like a small handful of nuts, berries, avocado, 4% one-serving packs of cottage cheese, etc. Lots of steaks, chicken, turkey and lots of vegetables. To me, it's a great diet because you eat a lot of great tasting food!
No, actual data for once, not just anecdotes.

I want to see more of that and less of the anecdotes. I’m under no illusion that this is any sort of conclusive test, but it’s a start. (This, for example, doesn’t test for POIs or more complicated and fuzzy search queries, which for me – anecdote alarm! – are the huge issue and both often unusable – while all the rest works like a charm for me, except for some small gripes I have with how maps are displayed.)
> salt really seems to be way worse

Citation? From what I understand, salt can be harmful for people who already have high blood pressure, but there isn't any real proof that salt is harmful for people with normal blood pressure.

Evidence seems to be strongly accumulating that sugar/carbs are very unhealthy. For salt (in people with normal blood pressure), there isn't actually convincing evidence, from what I'm aware. And there are real risks associated with eating too little salt.
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http://code.google.com/p/rhythmote/

This is a remote control plugin I wrote for Rhythmbox... it is comparable to some of the remote apps for iTunes. I created a virtual box vm with everything setup for windows or mac users.

It comes with a free web interface, the Android version is available for $5.... btw let me know if you think the price is not right:)
How many people can look at a github project and tell how good a coder you are, how well you work with others, what sort of team you mesh well with, what industries you've worked in and so on?

And how many of those people are the ones making hiring choices?
I'm talking about the assumptions about market efficiency and the supposed superiority of the mythical "free market" here.

Market efficiency and "superiority" (I have several incompatible ideas of what you mean here, but if you could clarify...) of an idealized free market are not assumptions. They are conclusions derived from much simpler assumptions.

Different conclusions can also be derived under different assumptions. For example, markets are "inferior" when distributing signalling goods (e.g. suits or educational certification), since this leads to wasteful arms races and overconsumption.

As I said, you should learn some economics before attempting to critique it.

A science doesn't need a dictator (or an elected official) to enforce that "earth is round" or "water will boil at 100 degrees under the right conditions".

I'm confused - apart from the fact that you (and Hayek, incidentally) don't like dictators, what are you trying to say here?

As for the "popular topics to study today", those, while interesting from a math/game theory standpoint, are turned to shit as soon as they enter the political / economic policy field.

This is the nature of politics.
There is a major misconception that all carbs are bad. Specifically bad sources: refined sugar, high-fructose corn syrup (much worse than sugar), grains (wheat - gluten, is the worst, worse than sugar; rice, etc...), and legumes (particularly soy beans).

Sweet potatoes as carbs are very good for you; fruit (particularly pears, apples, coconut - very good for you, pineapple, bananas).

The topic is quite complicated and difficult to navigate, but there's a lot of good information out there. Particularly in the primal/paleo lifestyle (which I think is a little bit extreme but the knowledge and rationale is sound).
You'd be dead wrong about that. I spent the first 10 years of my career watching MCSE after MCSE consistently mismanage all manner of network and server infrastructure, frequently having to go behind them and clean up their mess.

Item the 2nd: haven't seen Mad Men, couldn't say.
Try replacing the sugar in your tea with fat, i.e. cream. Will help you feel more satiated.
"Nebel des Welt" should be "Nebel der Welt" in the German translation.
"There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea that just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with guaranteeing such a profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is supported by neither statute or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."

Robert A. Heinlein, "Life-Line", 1939
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AFAIK, there's only been one recorded death from lethal tea poisoning. I think it was something like 14 liters a day.

200 cups a day can be lethal, but the water poisoning will probably get you first.

The real dangers are alcohol + caffeine (the caffeine stops you getting tired, so you can drink more), or caffeine powder (one spoon can kill you).

Several liters probably isn't healthy though.
Joke aside, this whole rapid release thing is irritating when it requires me to restart my browser all the time.
I actually support "vicious" speedbumps. People regularly drive 40 mph on my road which has official speed limit of 25 mph.

Translation: I actually support giant SUVs doing 40 mph on my road. It's those goddamn Miatas that I want to slow down to 25.
So you assert a couple pieces of paper that contain a view of someone's career from 30,000 ft (assuming it's even accurate) is some how preferable to being able to download, run, debug and in general interact with a potential hire's code? If you say so.

2nd assertion, that at some point in the next 10 to 20 years I'm going to run into some unspecified difficulties with the hiring process, resulting in me shifting career tracks to management? Would you mind unpacking the thought process behind all of this?
Pet projects? Absolutely not, although never a minus. ;) More: are you engaged with the community enough to be aware of the current ecosystem, (handwaving) "best practices", libraries/gems, etc. If someone claims to have been building Rails apps for 5 years, but has never heard of Devise and Carrierwave, it's definitely a red flag for me. If you're trying to get a job on the Google search team and can't whiteboard a quicksort it's going to be an equivalent red flag for them. I'm trying to attract a specific type of developers for a specific kind of programming work where caring about this kind of stuff is useful as a signaling factor to me.

It's not about requiring everyone who works for us to be a 23 year old with no family or life who spends every night hacking on shit, just about a baseline standard for community engagement. Lack of Github account with some level of activity (even if that's just starred repos, forks, etc) is a pretty strong indication someone wouldn't meet that level of engagement, and so wouldn't be a good match.
"Google has discovered that an incorrect result is better than no result at all when it comes to keeping people on their Websites and continue to generate ad revenue."

Big eyeroll here. Returning a probabilistic match is a nefarious plot for revenue. OK...
Might work nicely for diseases that take a long time to kill you, but insurance companies have no incentive to find a cure to something that kills you quickly and cheaply.
A shame. I really liked him as Sinclair, and even though I grew to like Sheridan, I thought O'Hare had more gravitas.
We had a free place to stay and connections in São Paulo, which was a huge reason. Also, after visiting Rio we all collectively agreed that if we had been there the whole time we wouldn't have been able to get any actual work done. Although we did have a great time while there.
Anatomical modernity of humans is about 200,000 years, flour processing is around 30,000 years. Sorry, I fail to see that as being recent.
When I go to a restaurant, usually the only non-alcoholic things I can bear to drink are unsweetened tea and water. I really don't know how people can bear to drink the rest of the stuff. Putting sugar in drinks is nasty. Drinks with artificial sweeteners taste even worse.

On the other hand, I hear the Chinese put salt in tea sometimes. That would be even worse. So how can I complain.
3 percent of a worker’s salary

Thats 1/3 of sales tax rate. Its literally not material, economically. Logistically, this will need to be outsourced, which ironically mighthit fees at a cost ~3% of payroll (ie, like a ~= to a credit card fee). So this law is a boon for special interest = those companies.
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you will have to trust the user's email provider

Or another way to look at it is that you put the burden of choosing a responsible identity provider on the user. If the user chooses poorly they get owned, not you.
That doesn't mean anything, you could have worked for a contracting company that only dealt with acute problems where MCSEs just happened to be involved, i.e. selection bias.
And yet there are multiple cogent (though possibly/probably specious) comments already about the evils of sugar with not so much as a nod to the caffeine. It's an apt illustration of the pseudo-scientific and faddish stuff that proliferates about diet, fitness, and mental health even on otherwise intelligent forums online.

A computing parallel would be "All this bloatware is killing my machine. It's so bad I have to regularly run [well-known heinous, performance-killing malware] to fix it."

I honestly wouldn't be that surprised to see a follow-up post later where the author reveals that he was checking to see whether this would exactly happen.

It's pretty frustrating to watch.
4th of the B5 greats to go, and all too young.

I still hope for another sci-fi series with B5's scope and realisation.
You would otherwise restart your browser less frequently than every six weeks?
The reason that peer pressure to do drugs is so intense is that for those doing the pressuring, you look like a crazy person.

They look at the vast majority of people in their environment who do drugs on a regular basis, often throughout their entire lives, and appear to be fine and happier for it. Then they look at you and, since you are in the minority, immediately conclude that you are overreacting.

I grew up with a few friends who abstained from drugs completely. As they grew older and gained perspective, they slowly let down their guard and most of them fell into familiar patterns of reasonably healthy, occasional drug use. A few others had drug problems.

The fact is that a minority of people have the right mix of personality, circumstances and chemistry to become addicts. To make the decision to abstain from any kind of drug use, you are eliminating the small chance that you could become an addict, which is commendable. But what you don't know is that eliminating that chance comes at a great cost. What your peers were trying to tell you was "dude, trust us, it's worth the risk!" A good friend might have said, "friend, if you never take risks, you'll never experience the full richness of life!"

If I were your friend, I would say, quite honestly, that I cannot, almost as a rule, trust anybody who has not tried a variety of mind altering substances. The insight that they provide is, in my opinion, essential to developing an open mind and a deeper perspective on life. Moreover I would be wary of anybody so, to me, risk averse.

But your argument would still be that I don't properly understand the risks. Perhaps that is true, but here is my point:

I respect your decision to eliminate the risk of your becoming an addict, but I don't think that it is appropriate for you to be indignant. Rather, you should be sorrowful.
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