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I don't want to derail this into a crazy huge off-topic & mostly opinionated thread... but there can be a bunch of things going on here. Do Italians have to deal with the same food issues that people in USA deal with?

- Is corn syrup in nearly all their breads/pasta?

- Do they create their pastas(and sauce) at home rather than USA's commonly TV-dinner style or high-processed fast foods?

- I suspect that what a low income person in Italy typical eats is very different from what a low income person in America typically eats.

- This... http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-top-ten/world-top-ten-carbo...

- Do they... [One million other things that make the common American's diet a horrible disaster]?
Raising the minimum wage doesn't push up inflation like that.
If they were directing the design they would be pretty likely to have abstractions. If you are making designs utilizing abstractions you are probably trying to maximize their effectiveness, which sort of naturally leads to at least some math.
>Being rich is an inner value? I have the impression that how much being rich has to do with your own will is still not decided.

Maybe, but that's still more "inner value" that how big your breasts are etc.
As someone who speaks Romanian, Russian and Bulgarian, and has plenty of Albanian friends, I'm surprised that Albanian is be placed between Romanian and Russian.

I don't know exactly why it would even be linked to Romanian or Russian. The only cause I can think of is Turkish/Indian words that made their way into Romanian and Russian, but that makes the links extremely weak.
International travel, computers, and cars cost about the same, however. Same as the Bay Area, living costs increase, but increasing purchasing power for those costs that don't increase.
Meaning no slight to your character in general, in this conversation you are one of the extremists.

There are plenty of countries (large parts of Western Europe post-WWII) which have had predominantly left-leaning governments for 60+ years and not devolved into centrally-planned communist states. There's a genuine debate to be had about the role of governments, markets, taxation and distribution, but trying to frame it as the world threatened by the sword of communism hanging over all our heads just stakes out your position way out on one side and signals a refusal to enter any kind of debate.
I'm wondering whether CrossFit's approach is especially hard on the heart. A friend of mine, in his mid 40s, had been working out for a year, then went to his first CrossFit class. At home afterwards he laid down for a nap, had a heart attack, and died.

It's entirely possible that it was going to happen anyway, but for us older folks maybe a little extra caution is warranted for this type of exercise.
An omnivore eating less meat is good for all the reasons being vegetarian is good - it's not all-or-nothing.

That more-vegetarian-than-previously omnivore calling themselves vegetarian is helpful to other vegetarians in that it raises the profile of those issues and normalises pro-social dietary choices.

It's obvious that people making huge lifestyle changes struggle - I'd say support is more personally and societally useful than sneering disparagement about them not "actually" being vegetarian. Technically correct: the worst kind of correct.
As the article mentions - the big advantage of decorators is Python 2.x compatibility. (not that I want to start another discussion of THAT topic)

EDIT - looks like obiwan will allow decorators as well as annotations. I do prefer the syntax of typedecorator though. It seems less cluttered.
Pretty similar to this is Robert Michels' Iron Law of Oligarchy [1], which I understand to be a reaction to the trend of Marx-inspired leftist groups supposedly devoted to egalitarianism developing rigid hierarchies and power dynamics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTuJ6r1F2hA

I've been helping my family and friends with this recipe, and it's changing lives. Literally. My father, who I taught how to eat vegetarian, has stopped needing insulin! (After heading steadily down the standard American road...sad...)

If you add this smoothie to your daily life, and change nothing else, you will feel better. A lot better. You can still eat bacon and eggs for breakfast (I don't recommend that, but you can), and you can still eat a pulled pork sandwich for dinner (also, don't recommend), but if you have this smoothie around the middle of the day, you will feel better and experience benefits. More or less immediately from day one.

You are quite literally what you eat. How could it possibly be otherwise?

EDIT: easily worth any down votes I may receive here. Computer enthusiasts and professionals, for the most part, in my observation, have a huge blind spot for their health. Huge. So down vote away, my friends. As long as you are also involved in your health!
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TDD doesn't lead to better or worse design, your testing strategy does. TDD changes your approach to testing, but if you choose a poor test strategy then TDD or not, you're going to have a bad time. I hate to say it, but this is yet another misleading article that is doing the programming public a disservice.

Here's my testing strategy (YMMV):

1. Feature tests for the "happy path" - make sure the system requirements work as described from the user's perspective with full integration. I usually just write a couple.

2. Integration tests for high-level system components - these are more functional in nature but capture all boundary cases for the components that sit closest to the user. These are my saving grace when refactoring.

3. Unit tests for methods and other low-level components - these primarily serve my "integration tests" by factoring out the functionality of low-level components and allowing me to focus on their integration. Here I'll use mocking if it's convenient, and when refactoring these usually get re-written.

Notice that this strategy says nothing about TDD, but I would argue that following the principles of TDD makes this strategy strictly work better.
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Also if you are already logged in and have a tty, by pressing
~C (default) you can open ssh command line to request or cancel remote/local port forwarding.
I cannot understand why these kind of projects lack funding. Is there no super rich person on this planet who is obsessed with the thought of extraterrestrial life?
To believe something without perceptual eveidence is to believe it blindly, just because somebody says so.

We should not believe our intellectuals blindly, just because they say so.

But that isn't an anti-intellectual stance.

An anti-intellectual attitude would willfully dismiss what intellectuals say even when they do present perceptual evidence.

As an aside, note that it is perceptual evidence that intellectuals rely on themselves to get their conclusions. This is particularly obvious in science (e.g. experimental method), but all actual knowledge is knowledge about reality and that means all actual knowledge is rooted in perceptual evidence.
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related, it also appears all over Sagan's Cosmos.
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Someone has to stop the Idarians
I am guilty of this more often than I care to admit. Ooops.
Haskell is ok, but you should check out the dynamic nature of Python
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I think the future of smartphones are foldable either in the middle like a foldable sheet of paper or expandable flexible oled displays formed like Chinese hand fans or origami.

Further more the cell phone of the future will be able
to borrow any big screen in its vicinity. Something like NFC from the large display/computer monitor and built in AppleTV, Google Chrome MiraCast functionality. You will also be able to borrow local keyboards for better input, but without the bluetooth hassles of setting it up. So the cafe, workplaces of the future will have wireless chargers and screens that you can borrow for your mobile device.

So you will carry your device around but borrow larger displays and keyboards. The device will be powerful enough todo your everyday computing. No need to drag a big laptop around if you do not want to.

These devices will also be user serviceable like Google/Motorola Project Ara. It is simply not good for the environment to throw away a whole phone just because the display, battery is bad or because you want to upgrade the radio components. So in the future devices will be made to be recyclable, this trend will be driven by the scarcity of rare earth metals. It will simply not be good enough to buy and throw devices and not think about the recycling of rare metals and the environment.

The future is bright.
On a logical basis my statement is fine. I could have written 'snowboarders who seem confused that crossfit is not trying to be canoeing or flower arranging.' :-)

But yes, apologies for my poor terminology.
One of the problems is that, when you are hungry, you are least likely to succeed at deciding to not overeat. Will power is a function of energy. It's why it's so easy for me to decide on things before bed, when I feel the most awake, and find it nearly impossible to pull through on them when I first wake, when I feel the most tired.
I do not know if this has anything to do with anything, but I do know that warmer weather affects how much I eat.

Whether summering in Italy or in hot weather in the US, I don't experience hunger the same way as when I am in cold weather. My guess is my body does not need as much energy to generate heat, and I tend to drink much more water (sweating) than have a desire for food.

Of course, this is my personal experience and genetics and does not explain obesity rates in hotter parts of the US (unless rather than water people are drinking Coke).
Not having 24-hour check-in is probably the most efficient way to run things, depending on your location. What you're saying here is that employers may decide that feeding, clothing, housing, entertaining, and educating an entire human being is not worth it if you're then going to sit that person behind a check in desk overnight at a hotel in order to check a couple of late guests.

That's probably a wise decision for most hotels. The only reason that they're not having to face it now is because the taxpayer is supplementing that wage with welfare payments. This discriminates against less labor intensive businesses, which don't get subsidy, and devalues investment in automation.

People who can't find work that supports them should be on a basic income, and/or their labor should be used by the state. A basic income could also be a lever for direct stimulus to the economy during a demand crisis.
As a powerlifter, my beef with crossfit is that people think they can learn how to be expert lifters in a weekend in a class of 20 people. Learning to deadlift properly takes months even under personalized instruction; learning to squat with perfect form takes much longer; and learning to properly perform olympic lifts like the clean and jerk takes the longest. This also assumes that the new lifter is even capable of performing the movement (many have weak lower backs and mobility issues which need to be addressed on an individual level before they can start performing powerlifts or olympic lifts).

The notion that you will be able to immediately perform these lifts competently is absurd as the author points out, and putting new lifters in scenarios where there is minimal personal instruction with a goal of speed and high repetition instead of proper execution of the lift is a recipe for injury. As someone who has gotten injured even when performing powerlifts with proper technique, seeing other people put themselves in situations where they are going to get hurt + advocating that others do so actively annoys me.

Also, I take issue with the fact that you assume that my dislike for crossfit is rooted in some sort of powerlifting elitism. This couldn't be farther from the truth. I fully support almost any lifting modality which gets people in the gym and lifting safely (bodybuilding, powerlifting, olympic lifting, weight lifting, strong man, general strength training etc), but I can't abide by the popularization of a program whose implementation frequently leads to injury and incorrect form.
Hard to tell, but I hope you're not saying this has been a good thing. Locking up kids for being poor and stifling dissent are hardly noble goals.
I ran into a company at a conference recently that was doing something similar to this, but higher up in the software stack. It was basically a limited environment for containing all of your business related apps, which could be administered by the IT department.

This sounds pretty cool to me because the company I work for recently changed their Google Apps account to us Google Apps Device Policy, which gives the company privileges that allow them to examine and remotely wipe the entire phone. I've chosen to go without Google Apps access on my phone rather than approve those permissions.

I'd much prefer accessing business-sensitive data within some kind of container or sandbox my employer controls.
>Accepting and acknowledging that you are 100% accountable as to what and how much you eat is a necessary first step to avoiding that end state.

You are technically correct, except in the case of children who were raised with terrible eating habits and found themselves with the same habits and damage in adulthood. In my (terribly uninformed) opinion, I think this is more common than we give it credit, and the behavioral effects of several years or more of terrible eating is more powerful and controlling than we give it credit.

The statement "You are 100% accountable" is very good for empowering individuals to change, but it is commonly confused as something intended to shame.
I'm an ex-crossfitter and thought this and the Rippetoe article mentioned were excellent. They have the ring of truth. I loved Crossfit, miss it, and yet probably won't go back.

It wasn't the suffering - that was a positive. It wasn't the injuries - I had chronic shoulder pain that ultimately led to a torn bicep tendon during a set of high-rep cleans for time (of course). The problem was one that Rippetoe mentioned - I just wasn't improving. I suffered extravagantly. Most days I was prostrate on the floor. Many days took me hours till I wasn't nauseous. But I just wasn't getting better. I actually switched to Rippetoe's Starting Strength program and now Wenders 531 and have made steady progress (on strength, at least).

So Crossfit was super fun, but didn't work for me. But the weird thing is that there were many INCREDIBLE athletes in my gym. They were SUPER fit. And they got that way doing Crossfit. So somehow this random variation of high-effort work does work for some people.

Another challenge is what to do if you want to improve but not do Crossfit? There are 3-5 CF gyms within 15 minutes of my house. There are a couple of lame normal gyms. My old CF gym had world-class knowledgeable instructors. I have not been able to find a replacement. And while learning from a book like Starting Strength is ok at the beginning, eventually you need expert help. CF is easy to find. World class strength coaches for the recreational athlete are not.
Paul Allen (Microsoft co-founder) is interested in SETI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Telescope_Array

Overall Paul Allen has contributed more than $30 million to the project.

He may not know yet that Arecibo Observatory needs help though :/

Triva: he is also looking for a wife http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IM0SvIiMI4
The big insurance companies are legal monopolies that function by favorable lawmaking. They do the bidding of the government, and in return, the government does their bidding. It's effectively a patron-client relationship.

So, the point is: they are essentially organs of the state.

The large US telecoms are a similar example.

So, yes, because the insurers are state organs that guarantee everyone pays an equally high price to to subsidize everyone else, it is socialized medicine.

Of course, this system cannot afford to give Americans the healthcare they demand (just as people in, say, Germany cannot get unlimited plastic surgery on the public dime). Resources are always limited.

Moreover, it's only socialized medicine for the employed and their families.

So that's why they came up with Obamacare.

Obamacare will not fix the corporate cronyism, it will instead limit resources further by squeezing doctors and patients. We already have a doctor shortage in the US, and doctors are leaving the profession. There _will_ be a major medical crisis in this country in the next few decades.

I expect to be one of the fortunate ones who will be able to pay for private healthcare or, if that's basically outlawed, flee abroad.

Obama's legacy will be to create two separate health systems, one for the rich that is OK (but possibly not even located in the US), and one for the poor that is worse than what existed before.

Of course in the end this will be blamed not on Obmaa, but on capitalism---it will be claimed that the rich are exploiting the poor, and that the rich just need to stop being so selfish. Further socialism will ensue.
The main course website is here: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/iaml/

There are more notes and so on there. It isn't an online course though, so don't expect too much.
Her premises is flawed. Workout of the day is a prescribed set of movements with a particular goal in mind. You scale and change the weight movement and reps with your coach each day based on skill, and ability. The author seems to think there is no wiggle room. Also most gyms week have several workout of the days to pick from based on experience level.

The mark of a good crossfit gym is individualization. This author seems to think those kinds of gyms don't exist.
Of course this isn't new information for people who make an effort to learn and care about their health. There has been a big push in America towards low-carb diets thanks to Dr. Atkins, although it's unclear that a ketogenic diet has higher utility than some other kinds of calorie restriction.

But, there are many people in America that don't care enough to know, and more to the point, we benefit in motivation from every reminder that our eating habits are fucked up.
People who say "just eat less" aren't thinking like engineers. Engineers don't get to ignore the wrenches thrown into the works by reality. If seemingly simple advice fails for almost everyone, then the advice is flawed and someone thinking like an engineer has to figure out how to work around those flaws.

I don't know if low-carb diets are the full solution, but I think they're at least part of the solution. Avoiding carbs is a simple rule that let's you avoid eating too many calories with relatively less effort than trying to stick to a low-calorie balanced diet. Its easy to blow through 200-300 calories of bagle without even a thought, not so much for an equivalent amount of bacon (6-7 slices).
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Depends on the niche. Commercial desktop software for, say, music production is very much alive, and unlikely to die off any time soon.
Here's a link to the course website: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/iaml/ I took this course and Professor Lavrenko is one of the best lecturers at the uni.
> Crossfit gyms are about Workouts of the Day. Every gym does them. And they are dangerous as hell. Therefore every Crossfit gym is dangerous.

Huh? That's like saying "if you step in a car, you will get in accident. Period." That's not logic, that's just called chasing black swans.
Without actually saying the words, this post makes a good introduction to the [expression problem][0], trading the ease of adding types for the ease of adding behaviors.

[TINSTAAFL][1], but what a functional programming paradigm takes away it replaces with brevity, concision, additional type safety, and greater opportunities for the compiler to restate your algorithms in a form more conducive to parallelization and concurrency.

[0]: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExpressionProblem

[1]: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_ain't_no_such_thing_as_...
I was a college athlete in a large program where we used Olympic lifting extensively. It's true that form was emphasized over weight and repetition, and I gained quite a bit of muscle mass from that. Forward about 8 years later and I continued doing those lifts: deadlifts, cleans, etc. I always focused strictly on my form, but I also challenged myself and kept adding weight as long as I could lift it properly. Well, about two years ago I was in the gym deadlifting a significant amount of weight. I was going for one rep. As I was slightly above my ankles, I felt my form slip very slightly and my lower back just collapsed. I spent the better part of the next year rehabbing and doing physical therapy to help repair a buldging disc. It still hurts me to this day and to counteract it I have to keep my core (abs) very strong. That being said, I do cardio every day and am in the gym doing bodyweight/light HIIT six days per week.

My takeaway from all this is that certain exercises, even if you know what you're doing, may not be worth it. I was training simply to be fit - that was my goal. Deadlifts will absolutely make you stronger, but they are also incredibly dangerous if your form deviates even slightly from where it should be. Today I'm happy and seeing great results with bodyweight exercises, light weights, and a proper diet. Honestly, I feel better than I ever have besides aches in my lower back.
I think that the dynamic nature of python is why some folks prefer haskell over it.
I believe your mistake comes in the assumption that Italians' diet contains a disproportionate amount of pasta. American-Italian cuisine has that leaning for sure but I doubt their obesity rates are lower than the rest of the US population.

I lived in Pisa for 2 months and was surprised to find that the cuisine (at least in the region I stayed) focused heavily on seafood. I believe the cuisine in Sicily is a little closer to the pasta/tomato sauce centric cuisine which I grew up with in the Philadelphia area. But still, I am certain their is far more seafood in Sicily than one might think. In retrospect, I shouldn't have been surprised at the amount of seafood in the cuisine in Italy, it's a skinny peninsula and Sicily is an island. :) There is also the difference in portion sizes in Italy vs the US. I certainly have no data to support that but my anecdotal experience is in line with the hypothesis.
This actually looks pretty good.
Experience with the root cause of stomach ulcers and mental illness would seem to indicate the philosophical moral arguments about "weakness" and "accountability" eventually end up sounding obsolete, regretted, and medieval.

"if you eat without consideration and control" the battle is you vs an entire army of PR people and biochemists focused on defeating you for profit. My betting money is on the army. The moral and ethical failure is creating a civilization designed to kill in exchange for a few making high profits, its not a moral or ethical failure for some wanna-be Rambo's getting wiped out by the combined arms attack of an entire army. Or, a "hate the game not the players" argument.