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<< So, it may make perfect sense for the OP to refuse doing them normally (after all he does not seem to go after strength training) and for someone going after strength celebrating them. >>

One reason the OP isn't going after strength: she's a former athlete currently working to cross over into fitness modeling.

http://erinsimmonsfitness.me/

http://erinsimmonsfitness.me/2011/11/30/picture-post-novembe...
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Everyone wants to be told that it isn't their fault that bad things have happened. Its a pernicious, harmful urge most often on display in courtrooms and discussions on weight and diet. Unfortunately reality is what it is: if you eat without consideration and control in this modern world of low-cost calories, then you will get fat. 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.
An issue I have with TDD is that the time spent supporting it is often better spent on thinking about the design
I don't think anyone was talking about ethics.
If you reply to a comment you downvoted, the downvote doesn't count, which discourages people from explaining why they downvoted.
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There seems to be a pervasive unwillingness to understand the nature of positive feedback cycles, and instead we're just continually hearing "fat because of intake" and "intake because of fat" arguments that try to fall on an extreme interpretation of simplified causality.

This article belongs to the very few that actually do a job of describing a feedback cycle, but then it falls short and does the popular simplification thing.

Fat cells emit hormones that cause hunger, and they actually do require energy for upkeep. The body prioritizes not losing any of its substance, so most "healthy" adults will always at least eat the amount they need to not lose weight. On top of that come fatal breakages in the messaging system the body uses to control the flow of energy. Fat people are prone to insulin resistance, physical extension of their digestive system that leads to the urge for more throughput, and other mechanisms - all of which cause an almost insurmountable desire to eat a lot.

It's an addiction that subverts two of our most powerful mental priorities: the reward/pleasure system and the survival instinct. In most people there is not a lot that can be done to overcome what these two systems tell you. That's why diets fail: my body is lying to me. It's like getting two popup alert boxes every minute, one saying "you are DYING! eat something" and the other goes "you're unhappy, eat something, you deserve some happiness".
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Versioning your code? Why not?
"There is deep, mythical knowledge in programming, and it is acquired with sweat on your brow and a pickaxe in your hand chipping away at a coal face made out of Why Doesn't This Freaking Work."
That is a beautiful sentence.
Why do you think MS killed and stopped supporting such a successful project? (I am not being rhetorical or sarcastic!)
Not quite twice as much, but yes, much more expensive. Though we have excellent quality of life here (in my opinion).

Where I get really peeved is that digital stuff and anything to do with tech often costs three, four times as much as overseas, for little to no reason. That pisses me off, to the point where I now use my VPS in Texas as a proxy to order things from overseas.
But it doesn't answer the question. How would you modify crossfit to make it safer and more effective and keep it fun.
Any idea how they keep up with the breaking changes in Servo? Do they have some kind of rule so that whoever introduces them in Rust needs to patch Servo?
Call me (and Dr Arroway of course) when it starts generating prime numbers.
Great link. Can someone with a bit more expertise elaborate on this part -

> Normally, radio waves travel at the speed of light. This means that all the different wavelengths and frequencies of radio waves emitted by the same object – say, a pulsar – should arrive on Earth in one big batch.

As someone not particularly well-schooled in physics; I envisage quite simply that if I turn on a radio then off again then on again - the two transmissions arrive separately at another source.

Is that not the same for extra/intergalactic transmissions? If an external transmitter broadcast continual signals would earth not receive them with time delays between each one?

HN must have a science grad that can explain why I am mistaken.
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SSH tunnelling and using it as a SOCKS proxy is easily one of my most used features of SSH, beyond just logging in. Nice tutorial!
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I think the comparison is much more valid that you're making it out to be.

There's just as much "blind following" in many college programs as there may be in CrossFit, or even religion. Questioning what you're taught, or how you're taught it, or even the methods you've been told to use while learning the material, is tantamount to academic "death". So we see a lot of people just go along with it to avoid low marks or other forms of retribution they may face if they question the system. This can even cause physical and mental hardship for some people.

But I don't see how it isn't the participant's fault if the participant can't or won't say, "This could unreasonably harm me; I'm not doing it.", and then keeps participating to the point of harm taking place.

We're talking about something that they're voluntarily doing, after all. If these people lack the judgment to know what their boundaries are, and when they might be exceeding them, then I don't see how anyone but the participants are responsible for any harm that may happen. Nobody but the participant, regardless of whether they're participating in college or physical training, is responsible if the participant lacks the self control to stop engaging in a completely voluntary, yet harmful, behavior.
That's true for the GDrive integration. All of the python-in-PNaCl code is available already as part of naclports.
Don't assume cost of life in US and Switzerland are identical (unless you live in the bay area they are not).
In the article you mention that Romanian isn't the hardest thing you’ve learned. Has any of the other European languages you know (Dutch, German, Polish) been more difficult?
At SciPy this year, Kester and I will be giving a talk on this: https://conference.scipy.org/scipy2014/schedule/presentation...
> If your labor is not worth more than $25/h to your employer you'll just lose your job (or never get hired in the first place.)

Well, you can always increase the number of jobs in a country by lowering the country's wages.

By that logic, the taxpayer ends up footing the bill (via social insurance programs => taxes) that the employer should have paid.
Is developing commercial desktop software dead?
I've been wondering that is it really worth to develop and sell desktop software anymore? It seems that the market there used to be is slowly dying. Any thoughts?

The thing is that I actually developing desktop software way more than for example writing software for mobile platforms.

The point of this post is really just to hear thoughts from other commercial desktop software developers. :)
Thanks for noticing this! It should be fixed now.
Ultimately, the only tests that matter are system tests (feature tests). These are the tests that ensure you're delivering the correct result to the customer. In practice I find unit level testing a pointless exercise.
That is why you shouldn't go to a yoga class to "meet women", but with an explicit goal of "making friends" and expanding your social circle. Then maybe you meet someone who knows someone who you fall in love with.
You're missing the part where they said "because somebody wants your ... service". No one would want your service, so why should you get a living wage for doing it? I still disagree with GP, however. If someone wants your service more than they want to keep a minimum wage worth of money, you could negotiate for that. The fact that so many people do not or cannot is proof that raising the minimum wage is at best an extremely short term solution, and we'll just have to keep raising it forever and ever to keep up with inflation. It doesn't magically start getting people what armchair politicians think people deserve.
It's probably rational to expect people to behave in irrational ways, isn't it? Calling people 100% accountable for their actions is not a reflection of reality, it's morality.
Meta-nostalgia is when you find one of your own postings in someone else's nostalgia.

I feel old. :-)
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The food and quality of food that is available to many people is a factor, which is could be said is generally out of their control. I don't think it's helpful to blame the individual as we are all part of systems.
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A quick search led to this¹, is it the right one?

Edit: Also, in regards to India there's this video² of a cow catching and eating a chicken.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQOQdBLHrLk

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9vxHN8_jSE
The text you quote says is that if you turn your radio transmitter on, and broadcast on a lot of different frequencies, and turn your radio off - all the different frequencies arrive simultaneously too(since you transmitted them simultaneously). It will of course arrive some time after you transmit it, since the signal travels at the speed of light.

tldr; It's just saying that a low frequency signal travels just as fast as a high frequency signal.
Shows you that the amount of what we know about the universe is likely less than what we don't. I've always thought that mind boggling discoveries that change our understanding of the universe is the only constant in it.
Too much by whose definition? What's wrong with the notion of "work hard and get a middle class life". The notion of "work the bare minimum and get an upper middle class life" won't have the same result.
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Sure - but if you bounce a radio signal off a wall to the side, then turn it off and on to send a signal straight at an observer, the time difference to the observer is not the same as the one to the transmitter.
> And often, it's actually, in my opinion, more fun than the 'glamorous stuff'.

Can't agree more with you. When I look for a job, I look to work at places solving difficult or complex problems that can create real value, and more often than not that's not at the next photo-sharing-social-site, although once those places get to scale cool tech does get created. I just love working in this industry full stop, and wouldn't trade it for the world!
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The contract may be valuable. The guy cleaning the toilet did not negotiate the contract. He cleans the toiled for minimum wage (or thereabouts).
"TDD doesn't create design. You do."

Sorry, but this is akin the fallacious "guns don't kill people" argument. Well, of course not, but they certainly make it easier.

So does TDD make good design easier, or harder?
I'm afraid that, for me, the article didn't provide an answer, or even anything bu the most superficial insight into the issues.

For example, coding is often about exploring a problem, and in these cases I think TDD is a hindrance.
But whatever the overall argument, TDD certainly changes how things are designed, and what kinds of things are easy or difficult to achieve. Indeed, writing tests can sometimes be more challenging than the code itself.

Now that would be something worth further discussion.
Which I find ironic. I've injured myself much more doing sports than lifting weights.

Also, some fitness models squat and deadlift, they shouldn't be afraid of systemic exercises, rather than isolated ones.

With the rest of the issues I kind of agree, still, I think it's a bit of exaggeration of risks.
How about this: the program supports images and backgrounds. Therefore using JPG makes sense.
Is that a problem with TDD, or is that just a problem with teams choosing to use bad tooling and processes?

I've seen teams waste a lot of time trying to get various CI systems integrating with various TDD frameworks, generating lots of reports that nobody really ever looks at. Or they waste a lot of time writing elaborate frameworks that build upon some existing TDD framework.

But all of that has basically nothing to do with TDD. It has nothing to do with the act of writing tests first, and developing the actual code based on the success or failure of those tests.
I agree. People who tie this to income tax are viewing fines as revenue generators, which is wrong and harmful in so many ways. You're viewing fines as artificial incentives to obey the law. That view is more correct, IMHO, and your idea seems like a good way to apply the incentive evenly regardless of economic status.
I personally call Haskell's type system "paranoid". Yet I have no difficulty asserting that it's way more flexible than C++'s or even Ocaml's (which makes you route around the value restriction, and the lack of type classes).

I love paranoid type systems: they debug my thinking up front.
I was moderately shocked and confused at the pasta/cake illustration midway in the article.
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Could you point to a paper that shows how to compute a correctly rounded 53-bit floating-point product without computing all 106 bits?
I am at work and cannot access YouTube. But not many videos like the one I watched exist, so this must be the one. :)
The calculation also assumes working 50 (actually, 49.6) weeks per year. Swiss employees, however, have more holiday time than the US. $25/hour * 40 hours/week * 47 weeks = $47,000 .
To be more realistic figures for Switzerland, we might use these figures for full-time employment:

$25/h pay

42 hours/week typical working hours

45 weeks/year typical working days

That gives us a figure of $47,250/person, or just under $95k for a household with two full-time earners.

In the US, that would be a little under the midpoint of household incomes, i.e., more households do earn more than that. [This is wrong. See edit below.]

Remembering that Switzerland has relatively low income inequality, relatively high cost of living, and relatively high salaries (typically 2-3x what the same job would earn in most of Europe), the proposed figure doesn't look crazy from here.

Edit: The first source I found turned out to be completely wrong about US income levels. Thanks to 'bluedevil2k for pointing this out. Checking multiple other sources, the median individual income is reported as around $27k, though it's not immediately clear whether the various alternative stats I found were calculated only for full-time employees or also included the unemployed, part-time staff, pensioners, and the like, all of which would presumably tend to bring the figure down.

On reflection, for this discussion the mean individual income, including all income types, is probably more interesting. That is a little over $40k in the US, or about $81k for a household with two full-time earners, if it could be translated directly into wages. Given the differences in cost of living and typical salary levels for Switzerland, and the wide variations in salary depending on which part of the US you're looking at, I'm not sure this would change my overall conclusion that the proposed minimum wage in Switzerland isn't completely crazy on direct affordability grounds, though clearly it looks more optimistic in light of the adjusted figures.
The proposal was decriminalizing drug offenses, not murder or assault. It'd arguably be better for those cities if the local police were able to persue crimes which take time to investigate rather than chasing drug possession charges to satisfy quotas and they'd be able to develop a better relationship (i.e. tips) with communities which currently associate the police with unconstitutional intrusions on their daily lives.
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42 paid hours?
Number five should be number one: have actually something to say.
> I guess I don't quite see how it's more transparent. What information would it provide, and to whom, that the current system obscures? And is the issue whether we call it a "tax" vs. "build-out requirement", or is the issue what is being taxed (land use vs. revenue from local customers vs. ...)?

The transparency issue is that a build-out requirement isn't denominated in dollars. (There are other economic efficiency arguments, such as if the poor people would rather have the money than the cable connection, but I'm addressing your question on transparency.)

A cable company has much more expertise than a local government for what the long-run costs and potential profits are for a build-out requirement, and moreover they have a much higher incentives to apply their expertise to the local situation than a politician. If you institute a build-out rule, it does so without knowing the size of the costs; they are simply imposed silently. Any future public debate about revising the rule is enfeebled.

> I can't picture what such a tax would look like, how it would really differ from the status quo, and why it would result in better service -- walk me through it.

The company is charged $X per year to use public rights of way. The government hands this money to the poor people who can choose to buy cable connections or not. (If they don't, this is a sign that they have something better to use the money on.) If the government doesn't trust the poor people to use the money responsibly, then the government directly subsidizes their cable connection fees instead.

> Well, I take it that there are some relevant differences here, as qq66 pointed out. Internet access is infrastructure, and increasingly, it is essential; access to Coca-Cola is not. I think the government has some obligation to avoid creating a disparity between haves and have-nots for infrastructure like this. It's not the only consideration, but that is one reason build-out requirements are appropriate for broadband companies, while not for soda vendors.

You missed the point. I wasn't saying that we should have build-out requirements for soda, I was saying that if we use a tax instead, then we can take the subsidizing resources from anyone rather than just a company in the field whose customers we wish to help. This would allows us much greater flexibility in getting those resources in a non-distortive way.

> whether that comes in the form of build-out requirements, a fund for cleanup fees, or whatever.

A fund for cleanup fees is completely different idea, and indeed is generally economically sensible. (Clean up fees are about correctly pricing externalities. Build out requirements are about getting one group of people to subsidize another.)

> A story I've seen again and again is public land rights being granted to a private company, which subsequently damages the land and then tries to stick the public with the bill.

This has nothing to do with the topic. I've seen people litter all the time in public spaces. Should I institute the loud-car ban because some people have littered in the past?
"You could replace "CrossFit" with "college" (or a lot of other things in life), and I think you'd find that again, the truth is really in a gray area, somewhere in between the opposing factions."

That is the entire sentence I wrote. Please, don't cherry pick (on the topic of not truly reading things). I'm making a statement about the nature of controversial things, where there are conflicting viewpoints. Often times both sides have valid points, despite being wildly opposed to each other.

Replace "college" in my statement with "politics". Or "medical studies". Or "emacs vs. vi". Same thing - the truth it somewhere in the middle.
Thanks, I try.
A constitution is a set of documents that defines how a country runs at its most basic level. Not only should it not be designed to "hold for centuries", it should be easily adaptable to meet the needs of current inhabitants of the country. The decisions of people who lived hundreds of years ago have no power to bind people who live today.

If your country is not making changes to its constitution on a regular, ongoing basis (every few years at most), it is certain that the constitution is not meeting the needs of most of the public.
System-level tests are important, but they're not much help with refactoring code. For some applications, particularly in my domain of analytics, it's very important that we can do that effectively.
Oh, yes, sysadmin'd several DEC-20's, some at the Columbia University computing center, some at the MIT-EECS department (working for Joel Moses) (though the homegrown LISPMs were a lot more fun) and some at the Fairchild AI Labs (a startup for Schlumberger under the Fairchild umbrella in Palo Alto, populated by the principal ex-SRI AI folks, where the Symbolics LISPMs eventually took over).

And, yes, lots of happy memories, especially for the poor students when all the CRTs would send out their chorus of feeps and simultaneous %DECSYSTEM-20 NOT RUNNING messages (as sent by the PDP-11 front end).

That effect was most pronounced at one of the huge Stanford terminal rooms (where, luckily my buddies (Ralph Gorin, Marc Crispin (of later IMAP fame), JQ Johnson, anyone?) were the sysadmins, and not I ;-).
In regards to those remote British islands, might it be this?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/08/0825_030825_...
This is neat, but why not just use Go!
This is the single biggest thing I miss coming from modern Perl. Pythonistas seem very anti-type validation/checking, but with Moose classes the type stuff simplifies a lot, is declarative, self documenting, and vastly reduces certain classes of bugs.

The closest I've seen is the traits thing from Enthought, but there doesn't seem to be much buy-in from python users.
Would aliens have any interest in prime numbers, like Earth mathematicians do?
But multiple locally optimal strategies could be deduced from these assumptions. On the one hand, if a woman finds a man that stays, and has a child with him, the kid is likely to survive, and reproduce on his/her own, thus continuing the genetic line.

On the other hand, if she gets impregnated by a man who leaves, the chance of the baby reproducing are lower. However, if the father was very evolutionarily successful (great genes, exceptionally high mate value), even the low chance (5% for a male child that reproduces) can result in her genes being spread far and wide (assuming that the male child inherits his father's genes that make him very evolutionarily successful). Furthermore, the expected payoff of this strategy is further increased by the fact that (1) a woman can try this tactics multiple times in her life, and (2) she can cuckold a man that will stay with the child of the man that left.

The second strategy explains many this in our society, for example "why nice girls like bad boys", why "preselection" or "social proof" works for women, and why no sex before marriage was/is so strictly enforced in many societies.
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I suppose it could happen your way, even though there has never been a "massive" increase in cost of living (or even a noticeable one) for any minimum wage increases ever studied in any country worldwide.

I mean, you could drop a ball and have it fall upwards, too.
Caloric restriction does work, but from my experience, it's hard, and requires conscious effort all day every day.

That's why, until a year ago, it never worked for me. I would imagine that's why it doesn't work for most people as well.

Well, conscious effort, and a thoroughly ingrained habit to eat everything on my plate because "starving children in Africa".
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I have made 2-3 very small android apps, but now I am looking create something on a bigger scale. Which opensource android apps do you recommend to get a better understanding of how complex apps are designed.