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I never liked cooking, so when I moved out I ate a lot on restaurants or ordered to deliver, then I re-discovered fruits.

I don't like the idea of processed foo because I think we need the bacterias and all the life on the food. Those kids who could not play on dirt or weren't feed on mother's milk are more likely to have allergies. Bacterias bring us health, when we cook food we kill most of it's life and lower it's nutritional value to our body.

Today I'm living on 90% fruits, fruits are the perfect food to me, seems like most people don't see what fruits can bring to their health. You don't have to cook, just grab and eat and I can grow my own which means that is not that difficult to be auto-sufficient, they're like the best fast food ever.

On first month I noticed I could smell things better, I could breath through my nose much more easily, my taste is better, it's much easier to poop too and the smell is also different, less 'harmful' to the nose. When I eat dairy or something cooked my poop goes bad on the next day, it's like our body is the best doctor around.
I thought that was weird too. He won't be making the college's (American) football team if he was fat at 185lb.
I've thought about this before, and its left me with a pretty anxiety-inducing idea: that in poorer countries people suffer for their lack of food, water, and medicine, and in the developed world - better off in terms of nutrition and safety - societies as a whole suffer from depression.
I love to cook. I tend to shop for meats / primary ingredients in bulk at costco, and freeze/thaw as needed. However, the individual dishes I almost never plan out, other than maybe a few days ahead of time. Almost nightly I go for a walk to the local food store(s) and build our meals there. Sometimes I have a mission and some times I tool around. It's about an hour's time total, and what I do to kind of separate work time to home time (aside from a short bike ride home). It's as much a part of my cooking process as anything else, and for that reason something about these subscription things doesn't feel right for me.
Curious, what would be stopping you from leaving the current system?

(said without a hint of derision, genuinely curious!)
Well, for one we already have millions of users.

Why did Wordpress succeed for decentralized blogs? Why did Bitcoin succeed for decentralized currency? Many organizations run it.
This paper comes to mind as an interesting link between logic and probabilistic ideas: http://okmij.org/ftp/kakuritu/rethinking.pdf
I don't like the idea of processed foo because I think we need the bacterias and all the life on the food. Those kids who could not play on dirt or weren't feed on mother's milk are more likely to have allergies. Bacterias bring us health, when we cook food we kill most of it's life and lower it's nutritional value to our body.

You know cooking actually increases the nutritional value accessible in our food we eat, right?

If it's pointless to cook food, we would just eat food raw.
Don't worry, what's important is that you crushed it with your passion to move fast and break things.
Quite honestly, I find Soylent to be quite overrated. Existing protein powders/meal replacement/mass gainers are tastier and more affordable. I get the point of 'eventually scientifically managing your diet', but that's far from reality.
I'd be curious to know what variety of fruits specifially and any significant sources of protein. Do you feel hungry throughout the day?
I too fall asleep easier while reading on my Paperwhite. Rather annoying actually.
Anyone else think that OP is doing a disservice to his children, which he describes as eating mac and cheese?
But the 120k/year he quoted includes bonuses, stock, and salary. Especially in NY, that isn't all that ridiculous. My annual combined salary in Austin, TX is very close to that at a similar age.
You're right: you can't control how people treat you, but you can choose your environment. You can choose which people you are surrounded by.

If you don't want to be in a hypercompetitive environment, Palo Alto is probably not the place to be. Unfortunately those kids didn't have a choice.

After being here for more than a decade, my experience is that the Bay Area is kind of a mixed bag.

There is certainly the harsh truth that you need a certain amount of economic output to survive here. Lots of artists have been pushed out of SF over last decade or two, despite producing a lot of value for society.

So this minimum requirement means is a lot of rat-race-ness, long commutes, and boring jobs. But there are also a lot of curious and interesting people who aren't necessarily motivated by money. And they are doing very interesting things.
Rosalind Franklin?
" she's going to be living in a world where 95% of us are in abject poverty"

Whining excessively is a rich world problem.

" abject poverty is "a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. It depends not only on income but also on access to services"

The income level for abject poverty is defined by the World Bank as $1.25 at 2005 purchasing-power parity .

Are you really saying that 95% of the world is going to be earning less than $1.25 at 2005 purchasing-power parity
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We'll see! The founders of GetSatisfaction weren't spring chickens, unaware of the costs-of-capital raised. But sometimes later management and investors do engage in shenanigans. Some will remember Naval Ravikant et al's suit against a cofounder and VCs back in 2005:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/26/technology/26iht-dotcom.ht...

http://venturebeat.com/2005/12/09/epinions-settlement-a-blac...

Though I'm not sure it's the case here, I'm of the epinion that occasionally, you need to sue to getsatisfaction.
I'm a big fan of personal experimentation but it's important to always be skeptical of your own n=1 conclusions.

In this particular case, coinciding the interventions of your diet change and exercise regiment make it very difficult to know the respective contribution of each to your results.

Interesting anecdotes nonetheless.
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That's what I'd like to get at with some examples...
Yes, this. So much. And because I'm a biologist by training and can't resist:

> Bacterias bring us health

Unless it is e. coli, salmonella, listeria, botulism, etc etc. Some bacteria is helpful, most is neutral and some will make you very sick or kill you.

> I think we need the bacterias and all the life on the food

There is just as much bacteria on your skin, on the doorknob and on the basket holding you bananas to service your "daily dose of bacteria". Seriously, bacteria is everywhere. There is good evidence that ultra-clean lifestyles can increase allergies as you mentioned, but that is where you try to sterilize everything. It isn't where you simply cook food.

> Today I'm living on 90% fruits

Please make sure you are getting enough iron, or you could be on the road to anemia and serious health complications. :)

> When I eat dairy or something cooked my poop goes bad on the next day, it's like our body is the best doctor around.

Or, different foods have different molecular structure, which is digested and metabolized by different pathways in your stomach and intestines, leading to different aromatic by-products. Just because you don't like the smell doesn't mean there is something "wrong". I don't like the smell of manure all that much, but it is a very "good" by-product, if you want to label things good or bad.
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Brooks writing about this topic is really rich given what a morally bankrupt SOB he is. From cheerleading the Iraq war, to whitewashing Abu Ghraib and attacking people for mentioning it, and all manner of other promotions of terrible ideas that have created actual human suffering, the sheer hubris of him offering advice on topics of ethics or morality is dumbfounding.
X-Gene 1 is in ancient 40nm technology.
Haswell is 2 generations ahead in 22nm Finfet technology.

The gap should close as the process technologies get closer.
To replicate the experience of the Kindle Voyage ‘button’ find an immovable surface in your house: a marble kitchen countertop will do. Place your thumb upon the surface, then press down – deforming your thumb.

Not pleasant, is it?

I don't follow. It feels like I'm pressing down on something.

Of all the things I can think of that would cause an RSI, pinching a pressure-sensitive button seems low on the list.

I also don't understand why, if the author loved his first kindle so much, he doesn't just keep using it. They release new ones frequently enough (and old ones keep working long enough) that you can skip several generations and pick out the revisions that you like most.
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What makes you think the parent post's recipe is "less healthy". Is there any 3rd-party scientific study proving Soylent is healthier or its long term effects?

Also, raw oats bought in bulk are cheaper and more eco-friendly than buying pricey Soylent drinks and having them shipped across the country regularly.
Bad news for Mexico, your corn prices are going way way up!
I understood that college level athlete is his objective by the end of next year. For now, he may be trying to loose weight first.
That line stuck out to me as well. But leading by example is one of the best ways to parent. (not suggesting that kids switch to soylent--just that you can't really go wrong with fruits and veggies)
As someone posted, it seems like it is catering to those interested in the "quantified day to day life". I can see the appeal, but I'd rather get out and bike, enjoy food, and do what has worked for me.

But as you point out, it would be interesting to see what the take would be as the occasional meal alternative. I wonder if it would be seen as things from GNC, etc. where there would be a small but interested market, but nothing larger.

They are still relatively young and will likely evolve into markets beyond the one they are targeting now.
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Like Erlang?
Perhaps it does. My encounter with a small group of Zynga programmers happened on Caltrain a week or three after the little kerfluffle about RSU grants being cancelled (they had originally inquired about a game I'd been playing on the train). We had a bit of a conversation about the incident; their conclusion was pretty much "sucks to be them".
How much is it? I clicked around a bit an couldn't find a price. Hard for me to forward this to our IT department without knowing a ballpark cost. Since that will be their first question.

Secondly, I think your font choices are workng against you. I would suggest trying out some others and see if you don't get a better response rate.
In fact, there aren't a lot of foods cheaper than milk, raw oats, eggs, and soy sauce. Potatoes maybe?
Totally agree with this article, but I'm surprised he doesn't mention the train wreck of the touch screen on the Paperwhite.

For a start it's incredibly flaky. Sometimes the slightest accidental touch will cause it to jump randomly to somewhere in the book. Other times I can press it hard or rub furiously and still nothing happens. Then sometimes it will pause for a few seconds, then do something incomprehensible.

If it had simply retained touch for "go forward" and "go back" it would be acceptable, but it seems that the Sales Department insisted that the engineers overload it with extra features.

When I'm reading I'm constantly interrupted by the idiotic "change font" or "look up dictionary" or "take notes" function when I don't want them. It's infuriating.

And then when reading a Magazine, the actions change and suddenly there's a jump forward (or back) one chapter which causes you to completely loose your page.

I love my Kindle, but I hate the touch function.
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Grew up here, family and friends are all here. Easier said than done...
tuple collision (in this particular case, quadruple collision if you have 4 slots).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple
If you think this essay is smart or good, please familiarize yourself with Brooks's history.

I'll leave the judgement to you
In OCaml 4.01, the compiler is smart enough to distinguish between constructors with the same name but a different type -- so those variants wouldn't even need to be polymorphic anymore. This also partially mitigates the need for 'namespacing' your variants.
I disagree. After high school I didn't know what I wanted to do and during the time I took off I discovered computers.

If you have any doubt about what you want to do in life take some time to think about it.
I'm not expert at all, but I can't understand how cooking could increase since we destroy/kill/change most things on the process, maybe something are better digestible when cooked but maybe we shouldn't be eating it in the first place, we have the habit of making things eatable, or digestible, my idea is that nature already has everything we need, just like any other life form here on earth have, why we should be exception?

I couldn't find any good source of information on it, I found this article [1] that couldn't get a clear conclusion because seems like there's a lot to be understood yet.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/raw-veggies-are-he...
I wonder how much of this eeriness is due to the overwhelmingly Protestant and secular nature of English society that yearns for the mysterious in any which way it can.

And did the Countenance Divine,
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?
Lost me at 'sources say'.
To me, this indicates the government of Spain envisions more things to protest coming soon. Not a good sign.
I remember reading about people that implanted small magnets into their fingertips (only on one finger), and were this able to feel the electromagnetic field.

There's also the people that got hearing implants when they were adults, and have adapted to the new sensation of hearing without much difficulty.

To me the human brain is quite adaptable, it is able to work around so many deficiencies or other "defects", so I would be very surprised if adapting to this new visual input was a big problem.
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Distraction is a kind of obesity of the mind
Ad funny hack with ASCII tileset: I googled for some `NetHack ASCII tileset` and found [1], made userstyle [2] that uses this picture and it works seemingly well [3]. So I suppose there will some "true console-looking" tileset soon.

[1] http://geoduck42.deviantart.com/art/Geoduck-NetHack-Tiles-40...

[2] https://userstyles.org/styles/112589/browserhack-geoduck42-t...

[3] http://static.userstyles.org/style_screenshots/112589_after.... This certain sprite seems nice in original, but I had to transform it from 20×40 to 32×32, because re-positioning would be overkill (Haven't found any 32×32 alternative) I just wanted to try such proof-of concept…
You are probably within a 1.5-2x of your total annual comp based upon current trends. I am in my late 30's and most friends that stayed in dev roles are making mostly in the < $200k range regardless of location. The way to increase it is to work on exiting a development role and moving into other roles or work on becoming a founder. Sadly, engineering is still not as respected in a financial sense, I think partially because US based companies feel they can off shore work for fractions of a dollar, thus keeping engineer salaries artificially capped.

In your early-mid 20's you are doing well and should be proud. In my 20's I did very similar but found that I hit a ceiling that just couldn't be breached until I left pure development roles. Not saying you can't do better, just that it has been a trend in software for a long time.
I don't think it ever was a chocolate factory of awesome. It's just been around long enough (and had enough people work there) that we hear about it more
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That's how I use it tbh. I don't eat breakfast and I rarely eat lunch, often from the work cafe so not necessarily the healthiest. something like this ensures more consistency in my diet, and I can do the planning/prepping bit for dinner.
Yeah for sure. 1900 hrs? I wouldn't do 100 in a calendar year so this would be a way better option for me than having to constantly upgrade to keep ahead of new boxes. (well constantly == every other year).
Haha your parentheses is what I hear every week since I came living at Seattle. Too bad for Amazon I suppose.
Someone (anontime) posted something here and then deleted it before I could reply. Hopefully they see this..

It sounds like you might find https://www.google.com/webhp?q=suicidal%20exhaustion#q=suici... interesting.

Good luck! There are plenty of people out there who feel like you do. Just survive a day at a time at first.
Apple Watch Received Estimated 1M Pre-Orders in U.S. On April 10
Google Is Not What It Seems [by Julian Assange]
Alarm clocks often turn on the speaker, making audible noise in doing so, slightly before sounding the alarm.
Totally. Sit and eat with your kids. Make food with them, clean up with them. Make them seriously good times. Teach them good food habits, good life skills (chill out from the rat race and sit down for a decent meal), and improve both their and your own social skills. I doubt that particular meal substitute stuff is truly complete, and I do believe that variety is a good thing. Eating good food is good for the soul, as it can be one of the different types of beauty we can have on our lives.
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Agree with all the typesetting points, but I do not share the author's experience with the buttons—I think they're great. You don't have to press them hard, and the vibration feedback works perfectly for me.
It was a slight exaggeration to make a point. I have what, 8.5 months left to work on it.

Regarding 3000 calories a day etc, I am purposefully eating the 1200 range to lose fat first, that's my first goal. I do HIIT 3 times a week, and cardio 3 times. 6 days total.

I am not trying to build muscle mass at this point. I will be soon, but for now I just need to drop the fat from years of sedentary computer jobs, and condition my heart and lungs. So far, I am very happy with the improvements. I don't know how this activity level would feel at 3000 calories, but at 1200 for the short term, I feel really good.
No, 1200 is a pretty reasonable diet for weight loss if you're not getting a lot of exercise. For example, I (an early 20s dude) naturally burn about 1800 calories a day, and another 200 from walking to and from work. 2000 - 1200 = 800 calorie deficit, or a week to reach a deficit of 3500 and lose a pound.
I own a voyage, but can't come up with the answer to one simple question. In what way are those stupid little touch strips actually BETTER than real buttons? Since there's no actual physical feedback you can't tell how hard you have to press. They've tried to fix this by letting you set sensitivity levels, but that doesn't work great. Then I thought it would be a good idea to add a pager motor to fake physical feedback by vibrating when you would've made a press.

None of this works as well as the buttons on Kindle keyboard , but I bet it cost a hell of lot more money.

> that you can skip several generations and pick out the revisions that you like most.

The problem is that you really can't. Despite owning the absolute top-of-the-line device the software feels half-baked. Shortly after launch it would often crash itself and require physical restarts. The on screen keyboard is absolutely atrocious, Which they appear to tried to fix with text suggestions. The suggestions are slow and wildly inconsistent which makes it impossible to quickly use them. Even if it suggests the right word you never know where on the suggestion bar to actually going to pop-up.

As the author mentions the text layout system hasn't been updated in years despite obvious problems. I waited years for a new version with physical buttons but ended up settling for the somewhat acceptable touch strips. He complains about the lighting system, which is apparently still a problem for a lot of for a lot of voyage users (luckily I'm not one).

Also Amazon doesn't seem to do anything to control or improve the quality of e-books. They're often laughably bad.

His main thesis is dead on. The project doesn't feel like anyone who actually likes books is working on it. It doesn't feel like a passion, it feels like a terrible afterthought that people rotate in and out of making random changes to try and look like they did some management.
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Of course. But it doesn't preclude eating, yknow, food.
I read 2/3 or so of this article, and skimmed the rest. I'm not really sure what the article is meant to mean. I'm English, half of my life was spent in Cornwall and Devon on-and-off with my family, so I was expecting the article to reveal something I hadn't noticed about the English country landscape that suddenly allows it to be framed as eerie.

Instead, the article begins with a novel that overwrites the landscape with binoculars to superimpose an eerie subscript, then appears to meander for the entire length of the article on works and commentaries on some structures in England that could be said to be Eerie and some people who found the countryside eerie, usually for their own reasons.

The primary thrust, halfway through the article appears to be that there are a body of works that paint the English landscape as eerie, but it fails to really explain at all /why/ the English landscape should be more eerie than other landscapes.

As I see it, great horror takes something that is known well and withers it into something that crescendos to the macabre, but this article fails to justify why the English countryside should be any more a target for this than any other landscape; English people will write horror stories in the world they inhabit. The Scarecrows[1] is a great example I read when I was younger of an eerie psychological ghost story set in the English countryside.

I'd like to know what others saw in this article.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarecrows
I had a second generation Kindle (still had buttons, still had free 3G everywhere in the world, which was an awesome feature), and loved it. I dropped it many, many times, over the years, and finally the screen broke. So, I replaced it with a Paper White.

It's a better product in most regards, but I find I use it for reading far less. I tend to almost exclusively read on my Nexus 7. Twilight makes it possible to dim and turn the screen orange, which isn't something Kindle can do, so I like it for night time reading. I haven't tried to figure out which is better for getting to sleep after reading, but I suspect both are problematic.

Also, the Nexus is faster than the Kindle, in every dimension, so it's just more fun to browse/buy books. And, as others have noted, the touch screen on the Paper White is bad. Not a little bad, either. It's annoying as hell. And, I've also had problems with unintended page turns, and intended turns not working. The Nexus 7 has a great touch screen.

I also have an Amazon Fire Phone, and that's enough to convince me that Amazon just can't do hardware well. It's an awful phone; it would have been barely passable three years ago. Today it's laughable. And, their priorities for where to expend resources are way out of whack. The 3D stuff and four front-facing cameras to make it work, is just ridiculous. I'd much rather have one good camera than five shitty ones.

I recently got some ebooks from O'Reilly, and found that they looked much better in Google Books than on the Kindle or in the Kindle app. Amazon might be in trouble. I currently have a Kindle Unlimited subscription, so I still do most of my reading in Kindle (whether the app or the hardware Kindle), but the experience of reading in Google Books is better.