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If you could not work but still get all of the benefits that work gives you (salary, stability, etc), would you continue to work? Would you decide, maybe I'll work just once a week?

No one is saying that eating is a waste of time.

The OP says it like: Eating is a leisure activity for him like going to the movies. But he doesn't want to go to the movies 3 times a day for the rest of his life.
Nobody is claiming steady McD's is healthy. There are actually people on the OP link and this thread who are posting that they want to try his system. That's what is scary.

This paragraph from his blog:

"I feel like the six million dollar man. My physique has noticeably improved, my skin is clearer, my teeth whiter, my hair thicker and my dandruff gone. My resting heart rate is lower, I haven't felt the least bit sickly, rare for me this time of year. I've had a common skin condition called Keratosis Pilaris since birth. That was gone by day 9. I used to run less than a mile at the gym, now I can run 7. I have more energy than I know what to do with. On day 4 I caught myself balancing on the curb and jumping on and off the sidewalk when crossing the street like I used to do when I was a kid. People gave me strange looks but I just smiled back. Even my scars look better."

Do you really trust this? Sensationalist at best. He's claiming that the diet helped him read a geometry book in one weekend and a string theory book in one sitting and a bunch of other mental heroics. How on Earth do people not see this as too good to be true?
Actually Babak Parviz (the original inventor) is leading the project, which I suppose reports directly to Sergey (https://plus.google.com/100149980664588993669/about)
I'm not sure that there's really any way to give a firm recommendation either way here. You can, after all, simply add

:require => false

to any gems which you don't want to require with Bundler.require.

> Manually requiring dependencies at the top of every file very explicitly tells you and anyone else exactly what dependencies that file has.

While I don't disagree with this statement, I don't really know of any way to enforce it (certainly using Bundler.setup won't do so). You're always going to have everything that has been required elsewhere "pre-required" for you. I'll often start out explicitly requiring everything that a file needs when I start a project, and then end stopping when I look back at some file and notice that it lacks require statements for half the stuff it needs.
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If it's an inside joke, then it's probably a good idea to explain it as such instead of downvoting the parent (not everybody on this site is an insider).
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These 2 features seem like a huge time saver. If they are the star features you should make them the focus of your landing page. Just one guy's opinion.
Whilst I understand your point, that's a matter of choice (or needs). You can perfectly buy, cook and eat 3 times/day without wasting too much time. Of course, if you want to have a gourmet experience in every meal it would be complicated.

I have had different phases in my life (currently I eat mostly paleo), and even though now it is the moment of my life when I spent more time cooking, I used to cook only once per week, having to re-heat the food on each meal.

You can also prepare food using slow cooking if you know the time you will be having the meal.

In my case, I "parallelize" and I work/study/work out/whatever while things are being cooked.

I am still unsure of the viability of these systems where they mix every single thing "needed" by the human body. How much time is needed to ensure this method of feeding is viable for humans?

PS: the drink kind of reminds me of Wall-E...
I'm sorry, but the dude doesn't exactly look like the portrait of health, either. I don't think the Scrawny Pale Guy Diet would sell well. Not that it would be remotely scientific to judge the diet based on a sample of 1. Which is essentially what the article is doing.

And let me also point out something: Why didn't the journalist think to ask what the diet costs him per week/day/month? I'm interested.
That doesn't really matter in this case - the fact that the HTML references assets that are on the OP's site is pretty conclusive proof that this is a direct copy, rather than an "inspired design" or convergent evolution.
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Interesting. Why would the requires go stale? And how would you use a dependency you don't require? It wouldn't be possible to use it unless you required it. This of course assumes you're testing your classes in isolation.
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I'm sure something Bayesian like POPFile could filter that correctly to Trash.
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Some example code snippets on the front page couldn't hurt, and please, please have a downloadable ebook or pdf of your documentation, so I can sit back with my tablet / e-reader in non-connected situations. Doing a little bit of targeting to iOS developers given Objective-C's ancestry couldn't hurt.

[edit: Objective-C is a decedent of Smalltalk - I was emphasizing the connection to be able to draw Objective-C programmers to its roots]
It's worth noting that "processed" is a very loosely-defined term when it comes to food. At it's broadest, even peeling a banana could count as processing.
First off, thanks for dampening the enthusiasm I was feeling after reading the OP. I would love to hear your thoughts on what, specifically, his formula is/may be missing. I can think of nothing more amazing than to consume a magic glass of nutrition a day and be done, and your post has given me pause.
May I suggest the book: "The War of Art". http://www.amazon.com/The-War-of-Art-ebook/dp/B007A4SDCG/

It's the best book to help you with procrastination. It's very short and only $10 on kindle.
He's a child. He's allowed to be dumb.
Oh, I get it now, I thought PG just censored those parts to protect his founders.
What is a "porn search engine"? Wouldn't google be the biggest?
Honestly they probably just keep a word document with a list of them in there.

I know I do (textfile of course) for useful shell commands and the like
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His "What's In Soylet" [0] article provides a little insight.

Carbohydrates (200g) 200 * 4 kcal = 800 kcal

Protein (50g) 50 * 4 kcal = 200 kcal

Fat (65g) 65 * 9 kcal = 585 kcal

That's a total of 1585 calories.

[0]: http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424
Startup idea. :)
Though I dont share quite the same level of negativity towards the idea (Personally, I think it'd be amazing to be able to give up food for something that is nutritious and safe), I definitely share your concerns.

It is possible that the nutrient powder (and similar) industry hasn't given much thought to this idea because its radical and potentially risky, especially as a business venture where legal liability might be very, very high (all it takes is one person to die or be seriously injured as a result of this drink, and they are in big trouble). I'd say that IF any of these supplement producers did consider this type of drink, they probably dismissed it as too risky (both legally and financially, as I don't see the demand exploding for this).

Also, he's not claiming that he has solved any problem. He's only claiming that after some research, he whipped up this drink, and that it seems to be working fine for his body chemistry. In fact, he's pretty clear about this being experimental and potentially dangerous (Though apparently there have been no negative effects as of now). I think its a really interesting idea, but nonetheless, I'd feel much better if he was a scientist focusing on a similar field. This seems like the exact kind of thing where small, seemingly unimportant details may propagate into significant risk.

I seriously wish him well though. Personally, I wouldn't do much more than use this as a supplement (perhaps to replace lunch), but Im not the risky type when it comes to things like this.
Yes, but, if you test your classes in isolation, then you'll be forced to manually require each dependency at the top of the file.
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I agree with most of this. What got me really going on programing was an idea I had that kind of existed, but not really, so i set out to learn how to create something PERFECT(still not there). Anyway, my point is, having a goal that you personally really want to achieve is a fantastic motivator.

With that said, i totally disagree with the idea that you should be able to build a functional prototype in a weekend. That's crazy talk if you're truly trying to create something worthwhile. Sure building a practice site in a weekend to get you hands a little dirty, and kind of get a feel for the way things work is a great idea, but if you start with the goal of building a prototype of your masterpiece in a weekend, you're surely setting yourself up for a fantastic failure, and probably get demotivated and quit. I think it's a better idea to dabble a bit with some fun practice and then get an idea of what you're building entails, then set a realistic goal(aka 4x what you think it'll take you) and set out to make something great.

Just my 2 cents.
Exactly. If they called it Internet Explorer OS, why not? But not while abusively using the Windows brand name that most people would blindly get because they don't know better.
Haha :) I was thinking "fast in comparison with a Smalltalk virtual machine implemented in JS" - but you're right in that JS got ridiculously fast compared to how it was a few years back.
TL;DR: No.

On a related note, dilbert has a piece about how most management is basically BS: http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/managementsuccessleadership_mo...
Heroku offers the Standard New Relic tier for free, so there's no reason not to use it. The pro tier has definite advantages, but isn't required to do what is being described in the article.

As for unicorn, unless your application is a real memory hog it should be possible to run 2 workers, which is a big improvement over using thin. But this is now the standard advice being given by Heroku, so there's not much new here.
Have you considered you're doing it wrong? If you asked out 100 girls and they all blew you off, it would be time for some introspection. VCs are just ugly girls with more money.
I think that the most important concept that needs to be grasped when initially learning to program, is that big problems need to be attacked by breaking them up into smaller, more manageable sub-problems. If you solve each sub-problem and put them all together, you have solved your super-problem.

It's like the old saying, "How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time."

Once someone understands this, you can show them Python or Javascript or whatever and basically go, "Here's the syntax to declare/call a variable, function/method, array, boolean test, iterative loop, etc. Now here's a real-world programming problem. Break it into smaller sub-problems and solve each of them using these tools, then put the steps together into a logical sequence to create a runnable program. Google the documentation for the language and its libraries if you get stuck."

Planning, designing, testing, etc. can be learned later. First you just need to take a problem, break it up into bite-sized pieces, and start taking bites.

This is why object-oriented programming is bad for beginners, by the way. OOP puts design ahead of problem-solving. You really don't always need to create an abstract model of a problem before you can work on solving it, but OOP forces you to do this.
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You sound like an industry-insider explaining why a new startup will fail. "They're too young!" "They don't have the experience" "We've devoted our LIVES to figuring this out, one kid in his basement didn't do it in a few weeks!" Etc etc

No offense but we've heard the exact same thing about every successful idea.

And what's more:

People look at the human GI totally wrong anyway. They think, what can I put in to get the best results? When in reality, the human GI evolved to support an extremely broad range of inputs as it's most significant factor.

With humans all over the earth eating an extremely disparate diet pre-civilization (and even post), the most significant factor of the human GI was it's ability to handle the wide variety of chemically diverse inputs and provide a consistent, reliable output.

So why do you approach this, which is nothing more than a new input, and claim that the output is going to be different? Dangerous? Impossible?

Seems to me like you're indignant with a touch of ego: "How dare he pretend to do my job. It's an insult to me that he is doing this!" That's the feeling I get from you reading this post.
From recent coverage of Open Compute on /.:

RAM Sled: Facebook wants to replace the leaves and run it on a RAM sled with between 128 GB and 512 GB of memory, and for $500 to $700 per sled. Only a basic CPU would be needed. Total queries would be 450,000 to 1 million key queries per second. http://slashdot.org/topic/datacenter/how-facebook-will-power...

Not really any way to know what Facebook is up to here: 512 GB is normally done via 4 sockets, 4 channels, 2 dimms per channel, 16GB dimms; whether FB intends on disrupting any of the factors in this equation for getting mass memory on a single system will be interesting to see.

It has been rather shocking to me that FB-DIMMS & other approaches which allow a lot of RAM to be chained to one another- really deep channels- hasn't seen any widescale success. RAM is cheap enough: would that we could plug in a lot of it.
Ah, that's comforting. So many times these types of services launch in X city and really, they mean just the 10 square blocks of downtown in X city.
>standardize cartage sizes...have them delivered regularly

When I first arrived in the USA in 1995 as a CS student, I was surprised to see these identical Walmarts. They were all the same - same aisles, same items in those aisles, same prices, same senior citizens manning the checkout counters..
So I asked the gent at the checkout counter - Sir, instead of me coming to your Walmart every weekend to buy groceries, why doesn't Walmart standardize on groceries & deliver them weekly to all American citizens ? Huge savings on driving costs, shopping time,...

He looked at me and said - Son, that's called communism.
Given the recipe on his blog, from just carbohydrates, protein, and fat (at 4 cal/gram, 4 cal/gram, 9 cal/gram respectively), he's consuming -at least- 1585 calories a day.

(It says 200 grams of carbs, 65 grams of fat, 50 grams of protein)
Ask: How do you design the sales funnel for products
Say you are building a SAAS application. How do you design your front end sales (beta accounts, free month, ebook, etc.) which leads to backend sales (consulting, yearly contract, etc.)

In terms of gamification - building viral loops like finishing profile (80% complete, e.g. linkedin) how do you keep track of those viral loops and integrate/design for them in product.

Hopefully it make sense, just looking for some tools/sites/ideas other than a pen and paper
> given Objective-C's ancestry

Wait, what? You mean that Smalltalk is a descendant of Obj-C? That's... interesting... [EDIT: ok, I misread the parent statement, my bad.]

> Some example code snippets on the front page couldn't hurt

You have a whole system source right there before your eyes. Click on "try in browser" button, then select a package in the left-most pane, then a class name in second pane and then method name in rightmost pane. Voila, what you're reading now is a Smalltalk source for this method.
Nothing in GPs post is dependent on the thing being serious. This kind of language is unfortunately real (cringe), regardless of this particular piece of business poetry.
Probably because I don't live in SV, but, I don't get it. Is this satirizing VC boilerplate, or actual boilerplate? Who knows.
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Agreed. You said it all.

One fair point (in defense of the Scrawny Pale Guy Diet he is advocating) is that the food industry in general devotes a large majority of its funding to making foods that TASTE really really good. If that gets in the way of nutrition, taste wins every time.

But you are correct in the fact that this is crazy. Hell, I drank and smoked a lot when I was 24, and still looked healthier than this guy. Does that mean that I stumbled across an amazing new diet of beer, burgers, and weed when I was 24?
Here's what I gleamed from the message:
1. Taggar doesn't want to invest in the company.
2. He wants Graham to keep referring other companies to him.
3. He may want to invest in the company in the future.
4. He introduced the founder to some of his acquaintances (see 2).

The writing is pretty much WYSIWYG...
When are we going to wake up and realise that speaking in plain, simple, understandable English does not make us look stupid and simple.

In my experience, this kind of speak is not about sounding sophisticated, it's usually about saying nothing while coming across as sophisticated. I see this from business folks all the time; you rarely see it from technical people, but when you do, it's very annoying.
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Hey all,

I've studied programming before. CS was my minor at University, and I've dabbled in several languages since graduation. I've almost exclusively dealt in interpreted languages.

But I don't feel I have a firm grasp on computer science fundamentals. Not just algorithms, but lowqer level issues, like stack vs. heap, process and thread management, garbage collection/memory management, etc.

What are your recommendations for accessible introductions to systems programming?
I believe, and hope, he meant the opposite :)
The biggest problem isn't what he's clearly missing; its what he's missing that we don't know about, and won't suffer any consequences for years. Saidajigumi's comment about whole foods is appropriate: whole foods have better results than any manufactured powder or drink made, but its not clear why. And how long will it take before he experiences the results?
This kind of thing can't make it to market as an actual product fast enough. As a lazy bachelor I constantly feel thwarted by the amount of effort required to eat a health balanced diet without it taking up several hours a day.
I had to go through the same experience. I started my first ticket search at 7 AM pacific time sharp. I kept staring and clicking on button only to see sold out message finally.

Really, a lottery would have saved tons of engineer hours.
>an impatient _software engineer_ comes along and claims to have [succeeded with a] task that specialists have so far failed at

The guy who invented the spreadsheet didn't have to absorb all available accounting literature first, and Elon Musk didn't spend 30 years in the Apollo program before being allowed to send his own rocket to space. Nutrition is a field full of pseudoscience and highly susceptible to disruption. People should be encouraged to try new things here. If this guy is wrong it's at his own cost, and if right the potential benefits are enormous.
I've been playing around with the theory lately that the buzzwords and nonsense are an elaborate ritual not only to hide personal ignorance, but the fact that there is no known reliable way to solve most of the major issues surrounding the management of firms at all - yet, most peoples' careers revolve around pretending that the opposite is true.
I think he's looking at it from the wrong perspective - the winner of mobile video will be the short-form "moment capture" apps, not the long-form edited video.

It needs to be fast and easy.
> It is possible that the nutrient powder (and similar) industry hasn't given much thought to this idea because its radical and potentially risky

It may also be the case that "drink one of these a day and lose weight" is more marketable than "drink one of these a day and never eat real food again" ;)
No, no, no - Objective-C is a descendent of Smalltalk. If you use Objective-C, Smalltalk won't look quite so weird.

[edit]
Why would I bother to download it and explore with so much else going on? Give me a feel and tell me why. You can get lost in a Smalltalk IDE fairly quickly.
They still hire people from engineering and math backgrounds. People who you know have the competence to understand any technical problem you throw at them, at least at a shallow operational level.

The prerequisite is deep mathematical, rational and process-oriented thinking. You can get that lots of ways, but an MBA alone won't give it to you.
Now step back and consider how much of a time-consuming PITA sleeping is.
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I was totally confused reading through this the first time - it made me roll my eyes at least 5 times. Then I realized it was satirical and my faith in PG was once again restored.
I'm using Kubuntu, do I need to install the "freetype-freeworld" package?
He's not wrong. There's always a tradeoff between security and usability.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/08/security_vs_us...

The key is finding the right balance.
Yes but, what is the value added by the people they want to get involved? Why is too early to invest? Just because there are not already a zillion of users and they are not able to evaluate? Why later it could be interesting?

Basically there is just boilerplate to say "no thanks" but no real information. Just a general feeling that they are not able to really evaluate.
> People look at the human GI totally wrong anyway. They think, what can I put in to get the best results? When in reality, the human GI evolved to support an extremely broad range of inputs as it's most significant factor.

That doesn't mean that there isn't something you can put in to get the best results for yourself.
Read the claims he's making on his blog and tell me they're not sensationalist. We're expected to believe he's become some sort of a super human because of a 900 calorie liquid synthetic diet that he invented with no formal training what-so-ever.

http://robrhinehart.com/?p=298

Under Results -> Qualitative.

And yes, reading is effective learning. I'll put it in perspective though: A biologist who dabbles in comp sci during his free time tells you he's invented a new sorting algorithm. This algorithm performs in O(1) in best, worst, and average case, shattering any proofs to the contrary. Here's the catch though: he's the only one using the sort. Every biologist who knows anything about computer scientist posts: I want to try this! But they can't because he is only using it for himself for now. Now... the biologists on their forums are looking at this and going, 'Wow! He's revolutionized Computer Science!'

Sounds legit, though.
They say NYC, but they don't cover my zip code in Queens.

Manhattan south of 96th street + trendy Brooklyn != New York City
A "chain block"? Well close enough, at least it's something mainstream and very positive about Bitcoin. It sounds pretty authentic to me, but I wonder if it also does to a mainstream (unprejudiced) audience.
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the following:

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I'm not sure if you're trolling, but I'm sure Op meant obj-c is inspired by Smalltalk, not the other way around...

http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.25/25.07/2507Roa...
I get the impression that SimCity uses unweighted shortest path to encourage you to upgrade roads.