hellodevnull's comments

>However as I see it, research into human evolution sheds light on what the optimum diet would be.

The idea of knowing the optimum diet for humans is exciting. I used to spend a lot of time reading these studies, then I realized that like many other people I know, we read and pontificate these points to everyone else we know without actually putting them into practice to a level that makes spending so much time reading about them worthwhile. This is why I rarely look at diet and nutrition articles.

I'm sure some of you do follow them, but is being obsessive over everything you put into your mouth going to make your life significantly healthier and longer than just following the general principles we've established? I mean, I go shopping and buy fruit, vegetables, meat and some grains. I get my macronutrients and exercise frequently. Will I gain a decade of good health if I start doing paleo? I doubt it. Do I reduce my risk of preventable death if I follow religiously the latest diets (there's at least one every six months that everyone at works will tell me about)? Not likely.

Sorry if it sounds like I'm dismissing nutrition research, I know it's important, but if you're spending hours talking about whether a 30:30:40 ratio is better than a 20:20:60 ratio, then you eat dessert after every meal and get drunk every weekend, I think you'll find better things to spend your time on.

There's currently a group of anti-carbs lobbyists. The pro-carbs is not as vocal, but they have equally strong evidence that eliminating carbs isn't as important as you may think.

You've made an interesting observation regarding the trend taking place in large tech companies.

>but no one is comfortable going back to the 'good old days'.

Except the open source community. Both recent and on-going projects are being done in C. I'd like to know why but I'm thinking the Linux kernel being in C has a lot to do with it.

To me this isn't additional regulation to standard contract law. A transaction is a contract between two parties, if the contract is intentionally deceitful you have the right to dispute it. So this it's great that they're putting it in print, because nobody's going to sue over a couple of items being added to your basket.

This 'ugly gender problem' is so blown out of proportion.

Making millions on the stock market could be seen as a waste of time to somebody who's more interested in doing well on the Second Life game or whatever.

If you look at things in terms of making money and contributing to the 'real world' then almost every hobby is a waste of time.

I mean, does it really matter if it's real life or not? Money might be completely unimportant to somebody... if they already make enough from their day job they're free to do whatever's fun for them in their spare time.

Back when it was beginning to get difficult to buy Bitcoin in the UK (when MtGox and Intersango stopped accepting bank transfers) I used TransferWise, a p2p currency exchange, to send money to European bank accounts as an alternative. For example, BitStamp was based in Slovenia, so I'd send money directly to their European account. Without a service like TransferWise I would have to spend £25 with every Bitcoin purchase (that's how much my bank charges for an EU transfer), versus £1 with TW.

Unfortunately now you can't even deposit into European bank accounts that are related to Bitcoin... but anyway it's a really cheap way of sending money, not all currencies are available yet though (no CAD) but keep an eye out.

https://transferwise.com/

I used to this like this but honestly once an editor like vim or emacs becomes second nature, typing and editing and moving text around the screen feels a lot smoother and make programming more enjoyable.

But I still don't think "you might have to use a machine that only has vim installed and not your preferred editor!" is a good reason to spend time mastering how to use it (which is what I often hear). If you prefer emacs or sublime or whatever, use it, and just put up with vim if you're on this hypothetical scenario where they're not available.

Mistype. The point is don't take academic psychology seriously.

The half-life of knowledge in psychology is thought to be one year, so by now most of the famous experiments (and their findings) in the field are considered flawed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge

Yes I'm sure you do and I too know many people who improved their lives without going to AA. We're not going to persuade anyone talking about our personal experiences and how this guy Bob we know is doing really well.

Also I'm not speculating and I do have personal experience since you ask, I didn't say you need a psychiatrist and a prescription but from years of talking to addicts and going through recovery myself I've found that setting goals and staying positive and within limits and simple things like looking at changes in a certain way is very effective compared to what seems like a New Years Resolution that you'll likely fail and beat yourself for failing to keep up. Such therapy mentioned in the article can motivate people more than AA-style regimes can and that's more important in the long run.

As I read these techniques for fighting addiction - "solving emotional and behavioral problems, rather than having abusers forever swear off the substance", "hourlong meetings once a week at which they discuss their goals for moderate drinking, as well as tips, challenges and progress on avoiding triggers" and "motivational interviewing, a goal-oriented form of counseling" I thought it bizarre that they are considered new and an alternative. Perhaps I found them an obvious improvement to the AA model simply because we now have the hindsight to see how ineffective AA is.

Yes I thought everybody knew by now that intelligence is pretty much insignificant when you're up against somebody with years of experience at something.

There was even a very popular pop psych book about it that everyone has read (Outliers).

Your high IQ might get you good grades in elementary but gaining skill (which is what you're all talking about) is done through practice.

Okay and I have somehow said something terrible because I didn't pick up on this hilarious dubious sarcasm in a post about benchmarks.

So? Should we give criminals an easier time because the majority are from poor backgrounds? There will always be poor people and there are always things you can do to make their lives better, complaining about insurance companies isn't one of them.

This is coming from somebody who was raised in a very poor family so it's got nothing to do with not caring about poverty. It's just these sort of liberal ideas you could hear at an occupy protest show zero understanding of economics and are basically just bitching about companies.

>because they both allow me to write stupid programs with performance problems.

Which language doesn't?

The penalty is for being unhealthy, not poor. There are poor people that are healthy, just because a lot aren't, do you expect insurance companies to give them special treatment?

>The operator of an exit node is guilty of complicity, because he enabled others to transmit content of an illegal nature through the service.

This logic would make running an exit node illegal in all of Europe.

This is funny, a couple of months ago everybody was saying how publishing the identity of a man who holds millions in an anonymous virtual currency would most likely lead to somebody attempting to extort him and put his life great danger.

Now this comment is getting downvoted.