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aivosha | 6 years ago | on: If a $5B Fine Is Chump Change, How Do You Punish Facebook?

>Like I said, I don’t use Facebook so I don’t care much about them. I don’t think they add a lot of value in the world, but their billion plus users must feel differently.

If billion+ users use/like FB, it means you are surrounded by them _everywhere_ you go! Its like saying Im fine living in a mental asylum b/c im not the crazy one there!

We all _are_ FB users whether we have an account or not!

aivosha | 9 years ago | on: Maya – Python Datetimes for Humans

i dont trust any piece of software that has all these made-up, unrelated, non-reflecting names. I mean come on, arrow, maya ? the main challenge about software engineering is correct naming. If you fail there you pretty much fail in the rest. Same goes for actually builtin name, "datetime". There is no such thing in real life as datetime. There is date and there is time. They are very separate notions and the root of the problem IMO is in trying to pile them together.

aivosha | 9 years ago | on: MacOS Sierra

this is what microsoft used to do with their releases. get it out of the door then start working on service packs. funny how history repeats itself.

aivosha | 9 years ago | on: May is Earth's hottest on record

the issue is not with oil industries. it is with media/news industries making every fucking thing a sensation, a breaking news solely to get their ratings up! what it does in turn - it makes people numb. we only react on things that are super violent, super graphic and immediate, now. its the media industry thats greedy and inhuman.

aivosha | 9 years ago | on: Deep Reinforcement Learning

i have read somewhere the dreams are for training purposes and present the dreamer situations either from the past or present or combination. that would explain why dreams are mostly dangerous or "wild". this is how our mind tries to figure out how to deal with those situations in the future. good examples of this are same recurring dreams over and over. and also i think there is no sense of time in the brain while dreaming so it does not differentiate childhood "situations" from any current ones. It just keeps fucking trying to solve that damn math exam problem....

aivosha | 10 years ago | on: Agile is Dead

Why would anybody assume they'd be taken seriously on HN when they have _that_ as part of their title? It doesnt even rhyme.

aivosha | 10 years ago | on: Do you really need 10,000 steps a day?

the book is by ultra-marathon runner, so yes you can be, but if you are just "casual" runner, you probably wanna be healthy first. the point is you need to teach your body to burn fat and intensify the training slowly by getting "fitter", meaning you will run faster in the same HR zone as before - the zone that is indicator of your body burning fat.

aivosha | 10 years ago | on: Do you really need 10,000 steps a day?

I dont buy the intense workouts as better alternative to more "slow burn" workouts. I'm a runner and I used to do fast 5k runs 3-4 times a week. I would feel very tired at the end of each run, just depleted. Didnt wanna do anything else but just relax. Had headaches too and most likely due to burning carbs at fast rate (intense workout, high heart rate) and basically depleting my carb reserves, which i think are about 2500 calories in a person. Then I stumbled upon a book, i think here on HN, called Slow Burn by Stu Mittleman [1]. It changed the way i look at the cardio exercise dramatically ! You wanna be healthy - burn fat (slow pace, long time, low HR). You wanna be fit - burn carbs (fast pace, short runs, high HR). These are very different goals as you can imagine ! So which one do you want really ?

[1] http://www.amazon.ca/Slow-Burn-Stu-Mittleman/dp/0062736744

Edit: Just wanted to add, now I run 10k easily, feel great after each run and dont have any headaches and I think, though i dont really care, i loose weight too. Just keeping the HR under control during the run, thats all you need.

aivosha | 10 years ago | on: Rescuing REST from the API Winter

I think its just a naming issue/confusion. JSON APIs are not RESTful ? ok, fine. Lets rename it to JSON API architecture and move on. Nobody is going to flip and start sending HTMLs now in responses just because its not "RESTful". Who care? It works. Lets fix it when it breaks. End of story!

aivosha | 10 years ago | on: The Rails Doctrine

Funny you should mention Django, because its the magic framework in python land that does all those things you label Rails doing and it does it way way worse than Rails.
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