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Without packing anything, anywhere there are convenience stores I can usually get beef jerky, nuts and fresh fruit drinks, but one often finds corn syrup, soy and wheat dumped arbitrarily into all three of them, and there's no vegetables on offer, so it's not really the preferred solution.

A more balanced meal would involve a box with pre-cooked meat(I like boiling up fresh sausages in olive oil, it's very easy), some veggies, and a fruit item. Right now I'm able to work from home so I don't really have to plan ahead like that, but it's the obvious next step.
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Climbing is a great sport for hackers. Each route up a wall presents a problem in need of solving -- and often, brute force won't help you.

You've really got to think through a route and learn the sequence of moves that'll get you to the top. And then, once you've got a route completely figured out, the gym changes it on you and throws a new problem in the way.

Highly recommended for people who like to work their brains while they exercise.
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Depends. If iTunes can send a request like "please return the 16 bytes in your ROM starting at xxxx" , then you can't have full compatibility without a full copy of the ROM.
Do you go running and/or biking outside? I've been mostly cycling around the river and the minuteman.
Yea seriously, if you don't use windows it's not that tough. I'm a student using mac and haven't touched word this year yet, and that's about the only Microsoft app I can even use. Mac comes with text edit, calculator, even vim and bash. Great 'cause the environment is so similar to my Linux server.
Shoulda tried Oakland. We've got better weather, cheaper rent, actual diversity, awesome dining, more than one real park, and I've walked around my hood at all hours of the day & night and never once felt threatened. (Granted, there are some parts of Oak where this would not be a great idea.)

The city annoys the shit outta me, but it's a fun place to visit sometimes.
- No liquid calories, ever. Your daily caloric limit is too low for you to waste it on Coke and Pepsi.

- Watch what I eat. Go for high-fiber low-fat foods. Nothing fancy here - stick to low fat and high fiber and your diet generally doesn't require thought.

- Photography. I hate exercise for the sake of exercise, and have never been able to commit to a gym schedule despite many tries. My photography, though, keeps me walking and biking a lot, all over the city. The quest for the next great picture keeps me moving, and that's pretty awesome.
There's not much going on in Cupertino. Palo Alto is a much nicer place to live. It's also much more expensive.
Here's my Chicago review.

Bottom line: Fantastic city with a terrible terrible climate.

The good:

* Great cultural institutions (the ballet, symphony and opera are world-class).

* Fantastic restaurants. You could go to a different restaurant every night of the week for a year and not expend the supply of good eats in this town.

* It's clean and safe and cheap for such a big city.

* If you like music, every band that matters comes to town. Lots of good local music as well.

The bad:

* Horrible horrible winters. You get ridiculous bouts of cold where it'll stay below -10F for weeks on end.

* The winter lasts over four months, and summer is like 2.5. If you need sun and like the outdoors, Chicago is probably not the place for you

* It's flat. Which basically leaves you with... ice fishing for winter activities.

* The local and state government are corrupt as hell and everyone just accepts it as a characteristic of Chicago and laugh it off. Don't follow the local politics, it's too infuriating.

* Related to the previous point, we have one of the highest sales tax rates in the US.

* Lousy public transportation as well. The average age of the buses is 16 years. Which is worse than every major city in america.

* You'll pay a lot of taxes for lousy and outdated infrastructure.

* The tech scene is so-so. There are a few startups but the vast majority of jobs are in Finance.
I've lived in and traveled to quite a few cities as well. The OP has good points unique to SF, but I feel that a lot of his points are applicable to almost any city.

* Difficulty to make real friends; meeting a lot of d-bags.

* Traffic/waiting for everything.

* Public transit in any major US city (except perhaps NYC) -- everyone always complains, even if it's decent. (IMO, SF's is at least decent.)

* Cities have rich areas and poor areas, safe areas and dangerous areas. West coast cities have homeless people.

* Seemingly few non-touristy things to do during the day (in the city at least), outside of the regular coffee/eating (and if you're not into watching sports).

I also second that if you're unhappy with where you live, you may just be unhappy with whatever you're doing. But, it is genuinely hard to meet friends and potential dates when you're new to an area, don't know anyone, and aren't in school. Give it a year and put yourself out there!
It really depends on your individual tolerances. Before I started on my trend towards paleo I was heavy into dairy and I've determined that it contributed to a stomach cramping problem.

Coffee is a bean, as is cocoa. I can manage pretty well with beans most of the time, but they're doing something that I can't pinpoint yet. It's an iterative thing, and when I cheat it's an opportunity to learn more about how those things affect me.
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Business idea: A high quality education that doesn't rely on gatekeepers to arbitrarily deny it to you.
In the case of Reddit, remember that the site is built to fracture into mini-communities. Once you get involved in one or two, you meet all the people there, and remember them as they show up elsewhere.

P-Dub was easy to notice because for a few months, every time he posted five people would reply to him telling him to do his homework. And karmanaut was similar, because his replies got such insane upvotes compared to other people. His legend was self-propagating.

S2S2S2S2S2, on the other hand, was one of the founders of SuicideWatch. Last year I made a handful of calls to local police stations when people who threatened to kill themselves were in my area. I'm still impressed that three people were able to have such a positive and widespread influence.
'sane' sources as in not some random blog or 'answers' site, they're hard to come by, so I'm guessing that it is not all that clear cut.

I did find this:

http://www.springerlink.com/index/1185172kt700868t.pdf

Which has as a lead "Energy drink consumption has been anecdotally linked to the development of adverse cardiovascular effects in consumers, although clinical trials to support this link are lacking.", but there are some interesting observations in it.

And this one:

http://www.modern-psychiatry.com/taurine.htm

and this one:

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/diet...

Of the not-so-sane sources this one seemed a bit more balanced than most:

http://brianx.com/nightlife/energy-drinks.html

What the hell is 'taurine' ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurine

Enjoy the read.
All I've taken in SF is BART which was a better experience than the El. Also, the spoke model makes it a lot harder (but less confusing I suppose) than the NYC or Parisian model to get from point a to point b without having to detour through downtown.
Tell me about it - there's a summer activity here in Tokyo which involves kids going to various stations here and getting a Pokemon stamp - have to collect them all. The only thing they might learn is where all the stations are.
yeah because a tuna sandwich w/ tomatoes and sprouts, with an apple and a thermos of water would be totally out of the question...
Some names of people confirmed to be idiots from their comments pop out. I wish I could just hide them.
I don't see pg on the list.
Big swaths of San Francisco aren't reachable from BART. It's not comparable to the CTA, or the MTA, or DC Metro Rail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft

So to use the English legal definition of the law: "A person is guilty of theft, if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it"

I don't see that the student in question was "permanently depriving" the library of the book. (So in this case - using the legal definition - it wasn't stealing)
+1!

> 5. Shop for food on the outer walls of grocery store

Haha, I never thought of it that way, but that is good advice and a great way of putting it (all the processed food is in the middle), you still have to be careful though of things like milk, which although it's one the outer wall, generally isn't a good thing to take. I always go for the almond milk and avoid regular milk like the plague.

I also shop at local grocery markets to get local food, and things like local, organic eggs from chickens that eat grass and crickets and don't spend their lives pumped full of hormones, living in their excrement.
If you set your Drupal installation up to faciliate it (using symlinks) minor updates take ~5 minutes.

It's the major version updates where APIs change that are tough and it's no different for any other project with an ecosystem as large as Drupal's.
Pretty sure they offer mobile phone handsets, though I'm not sure how they're branded.

How I know this: I heard an in-store advertisement last week at Woolworths for a mobile phone (a Nokia, I believe). It boasted "polyphonic ringtones." I laughed.
It depends. If it is for research purposes then I'd think you're just another bot, so that's fine (up to you to make sure you don't get kicked off so be nice about how heavily you load up someone elses server, and keep in mind that you're possibly not the only bot active on a site).

If it is to repackage content then I think that's (a) not nice and (b) breach of copyright.

Unless, of course the original data is in the public domain or effectively in the public domain. Keep in mind that simply placing content on the web is not the same as placing it in the public domain.

Some data simply can not be copyrighted, for instance names of people or places, but a collection of such data can be copyrighted.

If you aggregate in order to do some intricate datamining which results in a product that has no direct link to the original you have created a derivative work, and possibly even an original work, depending on how strong/tenuous the link is (you might be able to claim copyright on the aggregate).

For more information see your friendly local copyright lawyer, they're expensive as hell though.
...be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. Sorry, couldn't help it. ;)
When I lived in the city I did (recently moved 25 miles away). Cycled around the Charles many-a-time. Ran mostly on a treadmill except when I train for races. Are you part of a running club in the city? There's a good 10k coming up in Dorchester in two weeks if you're up for it. :)
Thank you, I forgot to mention that. Assuming the polywell design works as hoped, it is likely to be much smaller and cheaper for the same output than other fusion reactor designs.

I've been interested for a while in the potential of IEC-type reactors, so I'm really looking forward to the results of this new work.
> Caffeine: I am in love with tea my default being loose leaf jasmine green. Coffee is a rarity. Red bull is never an option.

We are alike sir, I just wish I could cycle as much as you do. The great thing about tea is that unlike coffee, the caffeine high is subtler and is spread over a longer period of time. As I can't be bothered to steep the loose-leaf tea I just go with Tazo's Earl Grey in the morning; highly recommend that brand if you're into bagged tea.
I'm a writer so I believe my priorities are very similar, but somewhat different than your average hacker:

1. Try to eat breakfast; the reason here is two-fold, first is that it's good for your metabolism and the second is that it helps if 5. fails.

2. Eat Smart; the brain likes omega-3's but the omega-6's will kill you. 'Healthy' is very different for 'smart', you want foods that help increase your efficiency and concentration, not make you run to the toilet every 5 minutes because you're downing pro-biotic yogurts and bran muffins.

3. Weightless exercises; I'm guessing everyone here has a few extra pounds on them, squats and crunches can be done anywhere and at any time, you don't need to lug around a few 20lb weights to get your sweat on. If you do it frequently it can help boost your metabolism.

4. Get a good sleep routine, being exhausted can kill an entire day of productivity.

5. Avoid alcohol (at least before 5pm), alcoholism seems to be a non-genetic inheritable disease in writers, so try not to have a drink in the morning. Make sure you observe #1, because forgetting #1 and #5 means you're hitting the bed by 11am.

6. relax a little, play games, read some HN, but don't slack off. It's good to keep your stress levels down, not only does it help your creativity and productivity, but you also don't have the urge to break #5.

7. this follows on from #6, but is much more important in the long run, having a day off helps prevent a burn out, AKA writers (coders?) block.

9. Drink tea not coffee. Research shows that coffee can increase stress, decrease work performance and can decrease your confidence in your work. Tea however decreases stress, not only through drinking it but due to the ritual and the time taken to make it (you don't get a tea maker, you get a kettle and have to wait, waiting generally means relaxing).

Overall I just try to be productive and hope that in the long run I don't end up an alcoholic like 1/2 of writers.
I took an in-depth look at what Drupal provides out of the box recently. (A lot of my clients use Drupal.) Here's my writeup:
http://returncontrol.com/what-does-drupal-provide-out-of-the...
I'm up for a HN meetup in Cambridge. Let me know if anything is planned.
I'm coming in on Sunday, so anything Sunday night would be great to meet some folks before the actual event. If anyone wants to get together, I'm down. Just shoot me an email at the contact address in my HN profile.
It is unfortunate that the only good movie that he has done is the hangover but I think that his rising stardom is good for his career as he will now be able to get more leading roles where his brand of humor will be encouraged rather than squashed. When he had his late night comedy talk show vh1 pretty much killed any chance he had of being funny with all the things he was forbidden to make fun of. Hopefully that changes.
May I ask about one point, that "eerie lack of diversity"? Thinking back to my last few years in SF, I've worked with people from 20-plus different countries. Is it really a big problem in your opinion? Are you talking the startup crowd or the established tech company crowd?
I don't think coffee is technically a bean. It's the pit of a fruit. Anyway, it has no calories. Cavemen almost certainly drank various teas.

It's very important with the paleo stuff not get caught up in what I've seen aptly described as "food reenactment." Honey and many starchy roots are technically "paleo", but you should still mostly avoid them. Brains and colon meat are definitely paleo, but you can't feasibly purchase them. "Paleo" is a good starting principle but in the modern world it's insufficient and you have to go with the research and what works for you.
My experience is that the homeless in Chicago are astoundingly robust. I've seen homeless people on Michigan Avenue when it's in the low teens, cup in hand.
The author's alternative is to custom code a solution using Rails. (or some other framework)

This reminds me of an old Steve Martin routine:

"How can [you] be a millionaire... and never pay taxes?

First.. get a million dollars."

If you've got your hands on a developer who is capable of custom-coding your solution in Rails within your timeframe, and you can afford to pay them to do it, and to pay them to maintain and augment it, and to cajole them into writing extensive documentation (they have, after all, built a custom solution, so if you want to read the manual they have to write the manual), and to recruit and pay a series of equally-talented successors to replace them when they get bored, and to pay a security auditor to look for the custom-built security holes in their custom-built code -- then, yeah, you don't have a problem. It must be nice to be you.

But when, as a Drupal consultant, I would suggest to my more... imaginative prospective clients that their proposed projects were outside Drupal's sweet spot and that they should instead look for a Rails developer, it tended to stun them into silence. It was like suggesting that they recruit and hire a brain surgeon.

People are desperate to find halfway-competent Drupal developers -- and, though it does have a learning curve like the face of El Capitan, Drupal is much easier to pick up than Rails, unless you are already a Java developer. [1] Competent Rails developers are far harder to find. They're all too busy applying to YC, plotting to take over Java shops, or counting their profits. ;) [2]

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[1] To get started in Drupal, you don't necessarily need to know what "OO" means. You don't need to know what MVC means. You don't need to know what REST is. You don't need to know what "routing" means. You don't need to know what SQL is or write a single migration. You don't necessarily need to use the command line, or a text editor, or -- god help us -- a version control system. Drupal is written in PHP, but you don't necessarily need to know any PHP.

Of course, to the extent that you don't know any of these things, you are going to hit the wall someday, perhaps painfully. But at least you won't find yourself staring at a blinking cursor on day one, wondering how to start your application.

[2] And if you hire an incompetent Rails developer, you will find yourself wishing that you'd simply set a pile of dollar bills on fire.
I second that. I have been going to free festivals every weekend in Oakland.

Combined with San Francisco, Berkeley, there are far more things to do than I can make it to.

Ultimately, of course, being content is not about finding more fun things. It's about finding more things fun.
Hi Mike, it seems the article is only readable if you have a wordpress account. Which I don't.

But just from the title here I'm really interested. Something like that should be mandatory for everybody on the board or in the driving seat of any company. Not just start-ups.
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"In contrast there is a layer of garbage and grime everywhere in New York City."

Only for certain unusual values of "everywhere." Even in Manhattan, certain neighborhoods are very clean; venture out into Brooklyn, where far more New Yorkers actually live, and the trash dynamics totally change.

Of course, this is true of all generalizations of New York. The city is so enormous that it's possible to go for decades without realizing that the part you live in is actually just a small part of a large ecosystem. So when anyone (especially a New Yorker) says "New York is..." the first move to understanding what they're saying is to ask what neighborhood they live in. Conclusions about "what New York is" are going to be pretty different coming from someone living in Park Slope vs. Chinatown.
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AmoebaOS, a new "webos" with mail clients, ftp, proxying, etc
I got to thinking about this the other day when I blogged, then posted the article on HN. One of the posters made a great comment and our back-and-forth I thought helped explain the article (which was hastily written) So I copied his comment and my reply over to my blog. (This was noted in the comment thread and I offered to remove it if it bothered the poster)

What was interesting was the commenter's reply when he found out his comment had been copied. "I thought that was just a feature of his blog"

Got me to thinking: why couldn't it just be a feature of my blog?

I understand some folks might have a problem with that -- I haven't sorted through how I feel about it ethically. But from a value proposition to the user it is an interesting idea: the web (to me) is about conversations with people of different views. Wouldn't it be great to be able to harvest feedback on your articles, wherever the feedback happens, and share it with readers right alongside the article itself?

It's just an idea I'm kicking around. The legal part of it looks tricky, though. And then there's the fact that it turns some people off, which isn't good either.
(No one's going to read this comment, but we might as well get it right.)

It is a derivative work when you transcribe subtitles because you put in your own creative (and copyrightable!) elements into it. You choose how to represent sound effects, how to disentangle crosstalk, how to transcribe dialect, and so on.

So, if the movie creator decided to rip your subtitles off and sell them, you could actually sue the movie creator!

As a practical matter, it makes little difference. Most judges won't parse this finely, and you are equally liable whether under the copying or derivation right.
An update, just in case anyone happens to look at this thread:

After a bit of thought, I figure I'm not so much opposed to complaining: if you think something ought to be better-paying, well, then, you're entitled to your opinion.

On the other hand, that is different from the idea that those who make little money are somehow being treated unethically (which is what "ripped off" would seem to imply).
I might point out that while Dave says "fuck", he is responding to a blog post whose title implied forced anal sex: "next gen bends over". That is quite offensive, independent of the backward thinking.
I lift weights 3 days a week, first following the program laid out in the book Starting Strength and more recently following "The Texas Method" as described in Practical Programming for Strength Training by the same authors.

More recently I've started following the Zone Diet and doing a medicine ball workout 3 days a week (lifting MWF, med ball TuThS). Google "med ball 400".

After a year of that I'm starting to look like a heroic Greek statue (my wife likes that), I feel awesome, and my productivity is through the roof. All in 30 minutes max per day (with one day a week off).

I bike around town, walk a lot, and run occasionally. I find that the strength training makes running and fast cycling easy when I do it.

http://www.amazon.com/Starting-Strength-2nd-Mark-Rippetoe/dp...
Actually, you can exclude blocks, like the search box, by URL pretty easily in the Drupal admin panel. Wildcards are excepted too. No need to use PHP unless you have some very complicated rules on when to show certain blocks to certain users.

And even then, if you make a syntax error in any code in any CMS -- whether it's stored in the DB or not -- your site's gonna break in some way.
I think your first paragraph contains a non sequitur. The existence of the strict and warnings pragmas, Perl::Critic, Perl::Tidy, Test::More, the size of the bundled perldoc, CPAN testers, CPANTS, et al all contribute to the maintainability of Perl 5 applications.

If you choose not to take advantage of those tools when writing a Perl 5 application, you bear the risk yourself. How does that reflect on the language or the ecosystem?
Remember when people in software were, in general, pretty thoughtful and self effacing?
Style is an indicator of content. If someone uses five different colors and five different ways to emphasize text (I'm not exaggerating: count them) in the first few paragraphs of a blog post, then I expect the content to be equally lacking in thought.

Have your expectations ever been proven wrong? I try to keep an open mind and pay more attention to the message than the messenger. I must say it's given me a few pleasant surprises (because I am not a buddha and naturally still have prejudices).