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Lets flag last time's discussion of v0.1 ahead of time, so we can move on and advance rather than rehash.

1) A little too much oil/fat to be politically correct, a bit too little to be nutritionally correct. Canola oil? I wouldn't put that in my car. Eat half as much olive oil if you have to, but don't eat that rot.

2) Carbs about right to be politically correct, WAY too much grains/carbs to be nutritionally correct. Gonna get fat fat fat on this diet and feel miserable.

3) The guy from a culture where the average TV viewership per capita is 4 hours and 38 minutes per day (per Neilson 2012) could never have spare the five minutes to throw some beans in a slow cooker. Also all home cooked meals take 8 hours to prepare because he says so. Finally multitasking has not been invented (serious, HN?) so time spent stirring a pot must be spent 100% focused on the stirring never a single brain cell firing on any other task. I honestly believe there is some kind of cooking phobia loose on HN.

4) The point of the article was to set a ridiculously low standard while figuring out how to make it survivable, therefore at least 10% of HN posts will be along the lines of "her diet sounds boring". Well, congrats at missing the whole point. I will admit that around version 1.0 it would be interesting to see how you can improve her diet plan with the delta of $5/person-day to $6/person-day. I spend about $12/person-day but my family eats like kings, we really do enjoy our fancy stuff. I don't think it would be possible to cook at home more expensively without doing ridiculous stuff like upgrading us from organic grass fed beef to imported Kobe, or dumping genuine saffron all over everything. Maybe if we ate morel mushrooms with everything instead of an occasional delicacy, for example.
That doesn't change the fact that a lot of validators disallow common, everyday things like + tags or even . characters. The only good way to be sure is to make sure the address contains an @ SOMEWHERE other than the last character (.+@.+, maybe), and then send a validation e-mail.
Sounds like you cheated DreamHost out of $60, why are you proud of that?
I can still enjoy a magic show while knowing that none of it is supernatural...
From the context it is clear that he just misspelled PyPI.
I wonder what the "5-a-day" vegetable recommendation is based on - surely it can't be as simple as 5x80 grams of any plant?
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I have few close friends who are pretty happy with oDesk too, so I'd recommend it to people who want to freelance.
(limited to 1 per customer) ...so don't sweat it too much.
If you make the calculations from "biological eggs produced from chicken in liberty", I'm sure it's profitable! These eggs cost a fortune now.
My favorite line from the article:

"Even so, his specialty has been hardware, designing a product out of materials such as aluminum and glass - not software, which is based in code."

I've been writing software wrong all these years!
There is a very simple reason for this happening - Google needs to keep making more money, so over time they need to raise advertising prices or increase click volume. There isn't going to be a dramatic increase in click volume anytime soon, so for Google to grow at 20%+ a year, they need to raise prices over time, which they do via quality score and social engineering.

I've watched Google do this relentlessly since 2006. They are quite good and the fact that people in here are blaming the advertiser for not managing their account well is proof of how good Google is at social engineering their way to profits with AdWords.
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It's not just straight up costs, there are a number of other risks associated: http://www.followsteph.com/2012/04/19/what-are-the-risks-of-...

Some include: what if the business of the SaaS collapses? Will they be acquired, change business models, and so on. Does the price stay the same? Is the quality going to be consistent? And so on...
I agree. oDesk is smooth, slick and help you connect to people who can provide man hours.
Is naive diet rationalisation a new hacker's disease?
To die for math that is not working in long period, anyway?

Come on, travel to South Africa and settle in savannah, hunting and gathering for free. Anything else will kill you in unnatural and premature way.
Leasing a car is not a good analogy because the difficulty and cost to switch cars at the end of the lease is zero (or at least well defined). Leasing a car is a fixed duration, fixed amount payment with both the costs and the duration fixed by contract. Leasing is attractive to people and organizations that want the benefit of lower monthly/yearly payments in exchange for a higher total cost of "ownership."

SaaS is not a fixed amount nor a fixed duration. This is custom software with no alternatives, so escaping the "lease" is going to be more costly than purchasing up front.

If I were the manager in the story, I would see the choice as

1) Pay $5,000 per year for 10 years (with substantial cost risk due to the lock-in with the sourcing company) and then have to pay $100,000-200,000 to replace the software or

2) Pay $50,000-100,000 up front without the lock-in of the sourcing company.

Since the OP says "power systems engineering" in a "government type organization", it is not surprising that the organization is not terribly price sensitive ($50,000-$100,000 is peanuts to the power industry) and the SaaS is only offering a lower yearly payment in exchange for a substantial amount of risk and a substantially higher total cost.

He's pitching the wrong angle for this company / industry.
you've got to change one of those things.
there are plenty of reasonable obstacles to not starting something - it's your job to decide whether or not it is worth finding ways to overcome them.
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314 carbs is around what a bodybuilder eats when he's bulking up. But bodybuilders eat 4 times this amount of protein (55 g). This diet is designed for a normal/small person obviously!
How much would it cost to throw a multivitamin in there? Get some zinc, magnesium, fish oils in there since there's no meat at all. Zinc is obviously important if you're a man since you need it to produce testosterone.
Sources... this is just the usual marketing "leaks". Boring...
I like yahoos strategy. Its better to burn than fade away.
Ask HN: Best place to publish programming articles
Recently, i've been looking for a place on the web to publish my articles, but i'm curious about HN opinion.

Should i look for something like developerWorks, SitePoint, InfoQ, or publish myself? Which websites do you think are the best for independent authors to write for?
I'd rather flag the entire submission. Cooking cheap is one thing, but the "healthy" throughline continues to go nowhere.

The meal plan should be christened "This Week In Starch". Just look at it!
My terms of service account for that. You need to separate the business specific from the underlying technology in different deliverables and keep the IP for the underlying technologies yours.

I tend to reuse a lot of code from previous projects in new ones, so this is essential.
It's disturbing to see a comment prefixed with a concern about downvotes, which suggests a gropthink environment. This is a hackers community. Please speak up without fear of lost karma or reprimand from the local celebrities.
When it's not incidental, yes.
One of the best ways I have found to avoid the dividers is to give them a homework assignment at the end of their first on-site interview. A development project (like implementing a todo list with some special twist) and then coming back in and having some of the current developers peer review their code. The red flags to watch for:

1) reaction when given the homework assignment. Is there enthusiastic energy in their response or do they react with fear, uncertainty, doubt, or do they turn up their nose like the challenge is beneath them? If any but the first reaction, then dive in deeper with some targeted questions based on your observations. Sometimes they're still a good candidate but have been beaten down by prior work places, so you have to judge if their potential outweighs risk of a negative hire.

2) general disposition during code review: During 2nd onsite interview, they are there to meet and greet the larger development team and to defend their project challenge to a select few on the team. I let the developers welcome them and discuss the review process and help them settle in before going into the code review as this gives them a chance to relax and hopefully also realize "this is how its done here" -- In this session, one of two things generally happen. The candidate either shines and enjoys the whole review process and takes in the advice and critiques and willingly and quickly adapts to the feedback coming through, or he/she gets very defensive and closed-minded and shows little reception to what the team is saying.
Iranian history is even more complex than Afghanistan (since Iran is actually worth fighting over; Afghanistan, not so much). Even though the Shah was a pretty good ally of the US, I'm not sure whether the Qajar dynasty vs. others who came after him were better/worse. The semi-communist guy who Anglo-Iranian oil hated (and the US stupidly followed the UK on) might have been one of their better leaders of the past 200 years.

I agree the people who turn into resistance are often extremists, and if they win, can become more powerful. But there are plenty of cases where resistance fighters came from other organized groups who weren't particularly psycho to begin with; Balkans, Arabs during WW2, etc. Organization and logistics probably trumps insanity in predicting whether a group will be effective, as long as the occupier is brutal enough that everyone hates the occupier. Sure, plenty of the leaders and groups were utterly insane (Arkan's Tigers...), but I don't think it was universal on any side.

(btw, this is kind of an interesting tv show that I'd never heard of before! I'm doing some mindless paperwork right now so it's entertaining listening to a somewhat-psycho marxist making more sense than the other people at the table, oh the irony)
I also wish the experience of using freelancer was much less spammy with a much higher focus on quality projects.
>In evaluating where the boundaries should lie, we shouldn't consider how new technologies might allow criminals to coordinate in new ways

No one said that. The converse of that is actually what you're doing, and I simply called you on it. That is, you are not accounting for new technology when you make such silly comparisons between addresses scrawled on postal mail envelopes 100+ years ago and today's sophisticated electronic communications intercept and analysis capabilities. Your argument rests on "oh, nothing new about that. Nothing to see here. Let's keep it moving."

>Privacy advocates do not have a principled approach to the problem of how to reconcile the legitimate needs of the police with privacy rights in the context of modern communications

What is this term "privacy advocate"? I don't consider myself one, because I reject it on its face. There should be no such term in this "debate", because per the Constitution, privacy should be the default. That people like you so casually bandy about the term, as if your fellow citizens are asking for something foreign or not already a guaranteed right, is testament to how far we've gone astray. If anything, we should instead call you a "privacy-destruction advocate" or perhaps "anti-Constitution". Yours is the outlying position.

In any event, there is a simple test for the balance you suggest and that is whether, in keeping up with modern communications, we are affording law enforcement with more capabilities or eroding privacy. I think it's pretty clear that especially since 9/11, that balance you reference has tipped much more heavily in law enforcement's favor. So, as much as you may sympathize with the government, they are doing just fine. The question is, where would you have them stop?

>Their approach boils down to "do whatever makes it the hardest for the police to do their work."

It's ridiculous to suggest that's the intent. That you feel the need to re-characterize our position in such a silly manner reveals your insecurity in defending your argument against the very real and significantly weightier actual arguments made by people like myself.
Exactly. Funny though, now the obvious answer to "you wouldn't download a car" is "of course I would, just give me a big enough 3D printer!".
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Which is precisely why I put that word in quotes :)
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"How much would it cost to throw a multivitamin in there?"

Supplements would be an interesting v0.3 or perhaps appendix to her next plan. I am well aware of body builders consuming 500 grams of protein/day in the form of weird expensive powders. But I wonder as a supplement to the existing diet how it works mathematically to eat perhaps 5 grams instead of 500 grams of supplement "complete" protein powder per day and then maybe cheap out on the bulk plant protein by selecting some plant that's not a complete protein. Carried out to a logical extreme I wonder if it "works" financially and nutritionally at $1/day or whatever to just eat rice and pop a multivitamin and a very small protein shake every day.
1) is an expense and is usually easier to deal with, even put in an expense report

2) is a write off ad usually need multi-level approval. There is still lock-in as switching provider usually end up in a time consuming operation.

But I agree that the saas pitch for this type of industry might not have been the right choice.
My software is about 10% aluminum. I find adding aluminum shavings helps my blue code crack just right.
Actually, there's been at least one instance of legally purchased media installing spyware, the Sony rootkit scandal that's already come up in this discussion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootki...
Apart from being cheap, this is also very denture-friendly. Chewing is absolutely required only 1/6 of the time (carrots, seeds).
Taking a step back, I find it really cool that these days a drastic visual and interaction overhaul is possible without changing the physical device. Just updating the software is almost tantamount to waking up with a brand new phone in ones pocket.
After watching on my own eyes that unbelievable soylent mess, I'd rather leave that kind of topics for natural selection.
As soon as someone decides to develop it. Remember: Django is open source software, maintained by a community of competent, dedicated and exceedingly generous developers who give us the privilege of using their software for free.
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It boils down to TCO (Total cost of ownership). Paying a one-time cost of X doesn't equate to X being TCO for that product/service.

In a functional business environment, any business related software you buy, will need at least three things: hardware, other software (e.g. operating systems, databases, etc) and support engineer(s). All these have recurring costs; ranging from monthly (engineers) to a few years (hardware). To know how must a software truly costs, you'll have to work out all these costs first.

Put another way, SaaS demystifies the whole TCO to a single recurring figure which you can compare to value/benefit you derive from the software.

Two other considerations for SaaS which the OP didn't discuss:
i) Wise investment. Is it wise for a startup/SME to invest $XXXXXX upfront in purchasing a software while they could pay $X (a fraction of the XXXXX) for a few months/years while studying the business and pivoting if necessary.

ii) Core business. If the software is not actual core to the startup/SME line of business i.e. it is just support system, shouldn't the startup/SME let someone else make sure that it works and just use it when needed (pay for when it's needed)?
What about the new SaaS that 37signals' Basecamp Breeze is trying to put forward? Pay one fee of X$ and have access to it forever. I guess this applies more to single purpose laser focused services that are not expected to change in the foreseeable future.
"Code, not think". This is my current problem with the freelancers I find. They need an awful lot of guidance, even the good ones.

Any recommendations on how to find freelancers who do much more of the thinking? (I plan on trying with some HN freelancers soon.)
I want to watch Game of Thrones and pay for it. I also want it available within a day of it's original airing and without having to buy cable or a TV. Charge me for HBO. Just don't make me wait a year before I can buy the video. You can even make me buy the HD version when I only want to pay for standard definition.
It really just comes down to good old fashioned discipline. When you start to drift off, instantly snap out of it and pull yourself back in to what you're supposed to be doing. Setting yourself small goals to start with can work wonders. Just go hard for 2 steps then take a mini 5-10 min break. Then set a stretch goal to get through the next 3 steps etc. Sometimes when we get distracted it can mean we're not emotionally in the moment and you've just got to push through it regardless, especially if you're serious about getting things done. Once you build a bit of momentum, it will get easier.
I'm not sure the comparison is just. Using animal products isn't illegal.
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"basically investing money up front"

She came down pretty hard on that in the article, even to the point of not buying spices because the smallest container is an expensive three months supply. Which is too bad.

On the other hand allowing 80 pound sacks of rice vs the little 1 pound bags that cost 2x as much per pound is going to really distort and mess up her math, so maybe she needs to stick to her very strict budget.
TL;DR: Grumpy, bitter man is grumpy and bitter.

I suppose Nelson deserves some credit for being a visionary, but there are two definitions for visionary in the dictionary: (1) A person with unusual powers of foresight; (2) A person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible.

Nelson is obviously much more the second than the first.

He's no more visionary than at least a thousand other people who ACTUALLY DID STUFF.

Some really smart individuals, like Nelson, get lost in their own private jungles. Here's an example of what I mean. Nelson inserted a note in this document in 2012 wherein he points to the rise of XPointer and XPath as validating something he said back in 1999. XPointer and XPath?! XPointer and XPath have had barely any impact on anything that's happened in computing since 1999.

Nelson is apparently in such a deep fog of irrelevance that he somehow perceives XPointer and XPath as being important in some way? It's bizarre. I think it illustrates why he never managed to accomplish anything or make any actual contributions beyond his "visionary" grenade-throwing.
dude wtf! what did he post? and why does it even matter. what we SHOULD do is march down to that jail and take him out by force... then march on DC and terminate this corrupt sham of a government.
The dead reply to this by davidjgraph appears to be hellbanned, but I don't see any reason why. His previous comments aren't, and his submissions are all clean as well. What's going on?
I wonder if Ive's reads this stuff and just smiles.
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Buy spices in bulk - save lots of money. The price per kg is the same as per 100g at your supermarket. And then you can get away with eating the same staple foods all the time.

More meat and at least some beef. Obviously you can't eat steak for dinner every day for £1 a day but come on, a little thinly sliced beef stir fried with some teriyaki sauce - I can skip lunch for that.

Why no pasta? It's awesome to use up any leftovers you may have.

Then again you got your budget down to ~30 quid and I'm at more than twice that (though I never get over 80 except when it spikes around every 6 months when I buy spices) so clearly you must be making better choices. My excuse is that I eat meat and bake cakes.
Then it must be the law which is crooked.
Why gamification if I am only posting jobs? It might make sense to people who are bidding for projects, but it is just too many unwanted features for posting a project.
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One primate study verified the effect and one did not; see http://www.davidstipp.com/on-calorie-restriction-monkeys-mag... for an interesting, if biased, analysis of the NIH study.
Without having experienced the issue myself, it seems like an easy solution would be to send out a daily digest containing all new projects. Or allow users to select how often they would like to receive new project emails with options like:
1. As they are posted
2. Every x hours
3. Once per day.
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Article really tells you nothing new. Hopefully in two weeks we'll know the real story.
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This is a mildly interesting experiment. I kind of wish a more realistic budget had been allocated.

The author is doing one portion for one person. The upfront costs of herbs would be easier if you do the plan for two people.