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My usual daily routine consists the following: 1-2 cups of coffee in the morning and lots of water and orange juice the rest of the day. I quit drinking soda years ago for the most part (still drink it occasionally but rarely) in college when it was just a lot cheaper to drink water instead and have never really had the urge to pick it up again.

If you're looking to kick the soda, I'd suggest switching over to something else other only water initially since I can almost guarantee you'll get sick of it having no flavor (maybe orange juice, apple juice, or tea).
My daily fluid intake:

1-2 cups of coffee in the morning.

2-3 cups of Lipton green tea throughout the day.

1 litre of bottled carbonated mineral water at home in the evening.

1 glass of red wine with supper.

I also drink the odd cup/glass of tap water here and there.

Edit: I also never drink soda.
Looking back at it, I guess that's kind of what I did too, although not thinking of it that way. To this day I can remember the scene in my dream. I stopped at the top of the stairs that went down into our basement, turned around and let the monster walk up to me. I can't remember if I said anything, but I do remember holding my hand out and taking his hand.

I now fairly frequently get some imagery in my dreams that have the capability to spark nightmares, but they pretty much never get past the very beginning phase

That's pretty much how I feel as well, except I wouldn't say frequently for me. Occasionally I'll get imagery that is kind of nightmarish, but it usually doesn't seem to escalate beyond a certain point.

Facing one's fears, be they real or imagined usually has some value, in my experience.
Caijing is an independent magazine devoted to reporting on business in China.
You'd think so. There must be legal issues with this approach, since you'd have to have deck-mounted machine guns to have much chance. Or maybe, as with everything else described in this article, deck-mounted machine guns wouldn't have enough cost-benefit.
Thank you very much for posting this!

After years of reading articles that thoughtlessly parroted the lastet evo psych "research", I started to think that good science journalism was dead.

Apparently some journalists can still think critcally!
The whole internet rage thing could have been avoided if AT&T posted this _before_ blocking 4chan.
From an article in the New Yorker that's behind their recently-instituted paywall: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/07/20/090720fa_fact_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caijing
There's got to be hundreds of recipe websites online. My current favorite: http://www.nibbledish.com/recipes/all_time_best/page/1

You just have to improvise a little, blending recipes & substituting for expensive ingredients.
Apple should be careful here. This could be one of those game changer moments. The vast majority of the previous removals/denials were legitimate but Apple has already allowed VOIP applications and already allowed apps that duplicate functionality of the Dialer. There is no possible way Apple can walk this one back and make it look like anything other than anti-competitive behavior. Apple has enough leverage with carriers that they can dictate the rules now. What's AT&T going to do? Stop selling iPhones? Apple needs to flex their muscle on this.
Just water throughout the day. I'll have a beer or a cocktail in the evening. On rare occasions, if I'm feeling particularly tired and need to be alert I'll have a soda or coffee.
I hope so. Nice as the iPhone may be, Apple's need to control the user experience makes the platform rather unattractive to me as a developer (i.e. they might not allow me to sell my app for arbitrary reasons I cannot know in advance), and I think ultimately not good for the user.

Ultimately, I feel that if I buy a device, it's mine, and I should be the only one deciding what may or may not be installed on it.
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I mostly go with water throughout the day.

With meals I usually have a Isopure zero carb drink, which tastes great and lets me load up on protein without all the fat or carbs.

I had stopped caffeine completely, but now that I'm off the caffeine wagon again, once a week (usually Friday) I'll load up on 2 or 3 cups of strong tea -- either Earl Grey or Chai, with cream and Splenda.

And then Friday evening it's usually a couple glasses of wine with supper as an extra treat.

Then back to water again. Repeat and rinse.
I don't disagree overall, but I thought that China was relatively unaffected by the current crisis because of its massive currency reserves, which allowed it to ramp up spending and cheap loans.
It's great to have what effectively amounts to a rebuttal on the front page at the same time as the article it disputes.
I was disagreeing with the statement that `` Pirate Party's copyright reform cannon could sink copyleft.'' I only skimmed through the article and missed that part. (In part because I'm irritated by the fact that I've seen this idea iterated several times without ever considering this option.)

In short, my bad...
This is a great contribution to the hacker community. I've been using git for about 1 1/2 years, but I can't wait to read this book and learn more.

If you go to the github URL, this is also a great way to see how one can use a markup language like Markdown to write an entire book in the text editor of your choice, e.g. Vim.

Someone from reddit converted the book to PDF and made it available here:

redraftable.com/temp/progit.pdf
I agree with the "just so" problem, but evolutionary psychology is still proposing testable ideas. You can look for the DNA that would cause the trait and you can simulate the history. Granted, simulations are imperfect and the article's simulation ignores rape of the concurred vs intra tribe rape and age factors etc, but it's still testing the hypothesis.
Proof of the pudding, what you say is true, startup #1 rice and lentil cooker: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29871022@N03/3753093177/ The yellow lentils would just mush down and it would all be one substance that I could suck down on my single plate with my single fork. Lentil profitable.

Also boiled milk and made my own yogurt to add to the rice/lentils, which made it filling. Kept me well fed while prototyping.

At first I cooked spices in oil, then added that to make a makhani but... I got lazy and just ate the rice and dal.
Washing removes sodium. It's good for health but not taste. But canning soaks them longer, which is better for digestion. I doubt startups want to spend the time to soak manually. There's a tradeoff.

Can sludge is nasty. And other bad stuff probably seeps into canned food. The FDA says canning is fine but I doubt it's totally healthful. But who wants to spend the time?
Ten Ren Green Tea Powder.

Its good, healthy and easy. A small spoon of it in my water bottle, a good shake and its done. Its good hot too.

As an aside, my wife noticed how my fingernails started growing faster after my green tea habit - really! ;)
It prompted a google search several months back and indeed, it does help with nail growth among its many other healthy benefits.
3-4 cups of Yamamoto jasmine green tea during the early part of the day (waking until 6 or so hours before sleeping).

Water the rest of the time.

I occasionally drink orange juice, when eating chocolate or when having a hot breakfast like grits and eggs.

About once every two or three weeks, I'll have a Pepsi when eating pizza.
> Americans, arguably the group which has not suffered famines for the longest period of time, is the tallest in the world,

Untrue. The Dutch seem to be taller than Americans:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/09/15/...

In fact, "[a study] conducted by the University of Munich and Princeton University, found that the United States had the shortest population in the industrialized world". [http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3293191]

It seems Americans are even shrinking: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/apr/04/usa
I used to rarely drink soda (only when I went out), but now that they give it to me at the office, it's a bit tougher to avoid.

What I've found helps me avoid the temptation is really good green tea -- I keep a tin of it on my desk at all times. It's ultra-natural, both in how it feels/tastes and in reality; it's got a bit of caffeine, but nothing that'll end in a crash; and it tastes good whether it's hot or cold!
This may be a new concept for men, but I think women have long gone for "ramen profitable". They very often bootstrap their businesses. They usually can't get the same level of credit a man can get. They are often doing it because they are moms who want to be home with the kids, so their first responsibility is to their family, not their business. This means they can't put sufficient time and energy into the business to launch something on a more traditional male model of success (which means they often have no goal to expand from their home office to a more traditional setting). They tend to be more risk-averse than men, in part because they just don't have as much capacity to recover from a big financial mistake as men tend to have. (If women make on average 2/3 what men make, then men are making 1 1/2 times what women make.)

It seems to me business articles aimed at women might be a useful resource for anyone wanting to start a "ramen profitable" business.
That's precicely the logic that was applied in the old mac vs. PC arguments. The PS/2's were clunkers, clones were shoddy OEM boxes. Macs, in the early 90's, were sleek, integrated machines with an out-of-box experience inarguably superior to anything on the market.

And macs were crushed in the early 90's. Apple was lucky to have survived.

The truth is that not all users share your aesthetic sense. Lots of folks are swayed by features that an iPhone user might think are meaningless checklist items (like a physical keyboard!). There will always be a market for the iPhone, I'm sure. But its aesthetics alone will not preserve its dominance. It has to actually work better. This doesn't help.

Is Android as slick as the iPhone? No, not yet. Nor are the market apps as numerous or featureful as those in the app store. But it's close, and over time it's getting closer. Apple needs to compete on features, not lock-in.
Cursive may make sense if you're right-handed, but for us lefties, I say, good riddance.

I need to take my pen off the paper fairly often just to keep from losing track of what I've already written.
I found the 5 monitor setup is interesting. Some of our ops (!= programmer) people have multiple (>2 monitors) but I have found there's no much point going beyond 3, tops 4 because then you start losing sight of important things happening in them. In my experience it is much better to optimise the real estate on 2 widescreen or 3 regular monitors.

But hey, we're all different.
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I drink 90% water. At work I get up at least once every hour to refill the glass. Gives me a reason to take a break and stretch my legs. I will occasionally have a soda with lunch. I have never had a cup of coffee before and I stopped drinking energy drinks.
"Apple has enough leverage with carriers that they can dictate the rules now. What's AT&T going to do? Stop selling iPhones?"

Agreed - the article insinuates that AT&T had the app blocked, I wholeheartedly disagree. Apple has been dictating terms to AT&T since the beginning of their deal. In addition, I'm using AT&T w/ a BB in California and the GVoice app is working perfectly fine.
I may try to make it to this meetup since I'll be leaving the city in 2 weeks.
How common is it for the funder and copyright holder to be the same? I do corporate research and the copyright on my papers ends up owned by ACM, IEEE, Usenix, etc.
> If a particular person is deemed too much of a risk to lend to then they should not be lent money. How is it a better idea to lend them money at a higher interest rate?

That's the point of altering the interest rate: in many cases, it alters the outcome from "too risky [to be profitable]" to "profitable [based on modelling/predicted likelihood of payback]"

Imagine that a debtor borrowing $100 has a probability of paying back that $100 of p. If p is exactly 1 (for practical purposes), then the lender only needs to ask for nominal interest over whatever would be equivalent the "risk-free" T-bill rate.

If p is exactly 0.99, then they need to ask for some greater amount, perhaps roughly an additional 1% margin (somewhat higher in practice to offset the administrative work). Surely you would agree that banks should be allowed to extend people credit cards at a 5% interest rate, right?

Now make p = 0.95. Now a bank needs to ask at least 6% over the T-bill rate, but you're very likely still OK with them requiring 10% interest on credit cards.

Now make p = 0.90. Now a bank needs to ask at least 11% over the T-bill rate, but you're probably still OK with them requiring 16% interest on credit cards.

If you're on board so far, by this point (in fact, in the step from 1.00 to 0.99 does the same thing, but it's just much more obvious now), you've agreed that different people can be charged different amounts, and if someone is deemed "too much of a risk to lend to at 5%", it logically follows that it is not the only solution to not lend, but rather for some borrowers to increase the interest rate until it is again profitable. (It's only as p approaches 0 that debtors become unprofitable at any rate.)
It is possible to do strace-like stuff on Windows too as evidenced by Process Monitor. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.asp...

If scanning atimes is too slow or unreliable, perhaps fabricate could be updated to use procmon?
When I first read your comment it did seem like you were blaming ATT. In retrospect that may be because I was thinking about it in the context of all this nerd rage over this thing. Maybe I jumped the gun a little bit.
Personally I like mineral water, something about the carbonation which made it easier to drop soda.
You should see some of the places ham radio operators do "DX-peditions", like the nearby Scarborough Reef:

http://www.scarboroughreef.com
Also, weapons on merchant ships can be taken by the pirates and used in future attacks. So unless the weapons allow the crew to consistently prevent hijackings, they're just increasing the pirates' revenue.
I was definitely surprised to see so many comments on here about recipes, when the recipe was a pretty tiny portion of the article! Maybe it reveals a latent demand for recipes specifically aimed at being as cheap as possible.
Because China is a Communist dictatorship which routinely kills people whose continued life is an embarrassment to the regime.
3-4 cups green tea a day (good to mix creatine with). You're drinking water and sometimes good anti-oxidants (great for cleansing your body after exercising, or during hangovers).

I try to stay away from coffee; it doesn't take me long to acquire a tolerance for caffeine. I just don't see the benefits of coffee.

I'm a huge fan of grapefruit juice and V8 too.
When I'm at home (where I work most of the time) I drink water, sometimes mixed with (orange) cordial. I found a light version of it, making me feel less guilty about drinking it. :-)
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water or orange juice
I really dig offices with natural lighting in place. It creates a very homey atmosphere which is conducive to working on hard problems.
It depends on what sort of coding I'm doing. It's usually water or herbal tea. If I need extra energy, black tea, but I try not to do that more than a couple times a week since I broke my addiction to caffeine.

When I have to deal with new and interesting bugs that only occur with Internet Explorer, I drink whiskey.
On the average day:

• 2x extra strong coffees with sugar (still dislike it really, too sour, but it wakes me up.)

• ~1-2 litres of Coke and/or other fizzy drinks (my addiction)

• 1-2 Hot chocolate (at night)

• ~4x litres of water, sometimes with flavouring
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V8 Fusion. Absolutely delicious, and (according to the marketing on the label) contains a full serving of fruit and vegetables in every 8oz.

That, and water.
Lots of tea (camellia sinensis: green, Earl Grey, Oolong, Lipton, whatever). Water. No soda.
How is this unethical? A friend of mine who happens to also be a lawyer pointed out that it's impossible to "steal" a client. Clients act on their own accord and in their interests. Seeking to take market share by directly targeting competitors often just makes good business sense. I suspect it's extraordinarily rare for survival of a company that needs to seek the approval of its direct competitors anyway.
mixed with a little bit of 100% fruit juice
There wouldn't be free speech on the private site, but there's nothing stopping a would-be commenter from writing their own rebuttal article, were comments disabled.

I like this better because there's a much smaller chance of a flamewar happening, and the responses will generally be well thought out.
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1) I'm not seeing any discussion of group survival. At an individual level, a lot of human behavior can look counterproductive, but makes sense at the group sense. If a genetic line evolves to support other members of the same (or similar) line, then that line as a whole has a better chance of lasting.

2) If anyone's interested in longer discussions of these (and they are interesting):

- _The_Red_Queen_ (why we sleep around) http://www.amazon.com/Red-Queen-Evolution-Human-Nature/dp/00...

- _The_Dark_Side_Of_Man_ (why we rape, kill) http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Side-Man-Michael-Ghiglieri/dp/073...

Note that the 2nd tries to make political/policy conclusions which IMHO don't hold up. However, the scientific work in the text is pretty enjoyable.
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Never trust a social-news-site headline. :)
As someone who is left handed I always had a hard time keeping the flow of cursive writing going while trying not to smear what I was writing. As soon as cursive was no longer required in school I opted instead for all caps, all the time because I can better control what I am writing and I like the aesthetic. Unfortunately when I write quickly some of the letters such as A, D, O, P, R devolve into lesser forms and start to look alike. Maybe it's a subconscious optimization?
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After reading this article... Apparently they'd "recycle" them.
Surely a local university would have taken them in?
History is more than being a name listed on the web page... That was a turbulent time back in mid nineties with a lot of things going on. You'd have to have been around and involved back then to really know what happened.

XML is a simplified subset of SGML, which as I stated was an invention of IBM.

Moot these days I suppose. A horrendous 'technology' that has seen its day pass and be replaced by considerably improved markup languages.
I've got quite into Rooibos tea over the last few months. Very drinkable with a pleasant aroma and no caffeine. I still love coffee, but save it for the weekends.
"Depend on? The very phrase is anathema to the dogma of a universal human nature."

It's unfortunate to find such a simple misunderstanding in the middle of the article; as Robert Wright explains in "The Moral Animal", it is not necessarily behavior that is coded, but adaptability. To shuffle this entire domain off to behavioral ecology ignores the fact that adaptability doesn't have to be an overt product of higher functions.
An evolutionarily coded genotype that is dependent on environment for phenotype still falls under the purview of ev psych.
I'm not entirely convinced of this. I totally believe in open access, but putting papers in the public domain would mean that people could lift content and pass it off as theirs, which I think should not be allowed. (It would still be unethical, of course, but I'm not sure that is a big deterrent for some individuals.)

Maybe the standard should be to license papers under something like the Creative Commons Attribution license.
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Hmm,

Some local university might have taken them, for all we know...
A lot of the value of a newspaper is the physical manifestation of it. If you're in front of a computer there are many other sources that are free, whereas if you have a paper you can easily read it away from a machine, and people understand the costs involved in manufacturing/delivering it.

I think paywalls will exist for content that provides value or that one is assumed to read, but for general news it probably won't work.
Always double-fist with ice water. Most of the time we're drinking b/c we want water. Expect to pee a lot.

On most days, regular coffee is fine. Stage 2 is a tall americano (you know from where). Stage 3 is a chai with two shots of espresso. Stage 4 need not be named, but it gives me wings. I usually save those for mondays or all-nighters.
I probably should've written a disclaimer as to indicate my opinion. :)

To be more specific, perhaps I should've emphasized that "modern" Asian cultures have questionable tastes, which is in direct contrast to traditional Asian sensibilities. I feel that modern Asian cultures are too busy imitating what's trendy in the west. It doesn't help the fact that instability of the past century made people lose faith in their indigineous cultures, while the western culture has evolved quite a bit since to adapt to changes of the world, thus leaving a big gap to catch up.

I'd venture that the vast portion of the old Asian cultures are appreciated now-a-days merely for their exotic aspects, even by Asian people themselves. Whatever is preserved for practical reasons don't always fit in a coherent manner, there are plenty of rough edges to work out.

I guess a bad analogy would be that Asian culture is like Unix, Apple is Europe, Windows is USA, China is BSD, and Japan is Ubuntu. The kernel is the philosophy, command line is the traditional culture, GUI is the pop culture, and the internet is globalization. Windows eventually took over and became more accessible over time with its killer GUI apps. For the time being, Unix lacks the ecosystem to build killer GUI apps, so they created Wine to run Windows apps. There are also plenty of native Unix GUI apps that sprang up, but most are created in response to their existing commercial counterparts, and many of their GUIs are imitations. FreeBSD has been around for a while, went through several regime changes, and is still kinda authoritarian with its userland programs. Ubuntu is later to the game, has the most success in adapting to modern GUI needs, but there's still some distance to go to catch up to Apple and perhaps Windows. Even though Unix is weak in GUI stuff, it's strong as servers, especially since the internet became popular.

Sorry about the silly analogy, perhaps I need to take a nap. :)
And it kills foggy brain.

But the best effect is you know it's healthy, so you don't feel bad. Tea too. Green and white tea are high in antioxidants. Drink up.
You're taking that quote out of context. Andrew was referring to a subset of startups, including the "gold-rush" and copycat companies he discussed in the previous paragraph.
I'll agree with the consensus: water is the best, but if you want caffeine, freshly brewed tea is by far the healthiest source of caffeine. The theanine is also a nice bonus.