masomenos's comments

masomenos | 11 years ago | on: The myopia boom

you can get the same effect with whatever is a plus lens for you, though. So if your normal rx is -1.5, do close work without glasses.

masomenos | 11 years ago | on: The myopia boom

With plus lens therapy, you only wear the plus lens while doing close work. If you were wearing the plus lenses while looking more than a few feet away, you wouldn't be doing plus lens therapy.

masomenos | 11 years ago | on: Node.js, a popular tool for building modern internet services, has split in two

DHH said there are things about the "large tent" aspect of rails that are annoying. That's not the same thing as being unhappy with the overall direction of the project.

masomenos | 11 years ago | on: Troubled welds on the Bay Bridge

Are you implying that there wasn't controversy over the Big Dig? I remember plenty.

masomenos | 11 years ago | on: TorCoin

The second doesn't follow from the first. At most, you could say that people MAY calculate that running a tor relay is no longer worth it, but you could also say that without bringing up the (almost completely unrelated) daycare example.

masomenos | 12 years ago | on: Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility)

If only that were true! My first employer was a large organization that explicitly embraced the waterfall methodology that we all rightfully deride.

masomenos | 12 years ago | on: Open plan offices attract highest levels of worker dissatisfaction

Tried Etymotic earbuds? They come with a bunch of adapters to fit different sized ears. My model is of course discontinued but the mc5 looks closest. http://www.etymotic.com/ephp/mc5.html

edit: unlike any other earbuds I have tried, they are engineered to survive the inevitable wax-plugging. Just replace the filter & you're back in business.

masomenos | 12 years ago | on: Founders' Accents

Took me a couple months to reliably understand my first landlord in Boston, a 3rd or 4th generation American of Italian ancestry.

masomenos | 12 years ago | on: The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection (2009)

Unless there are multiple secured domains hosted on that IP address, in which case knowing the domain would be extra information.

masomenos | 12 years ago | on: Rails 4.0: Final version released

Even if your UI is all in JS, Rails still saves a ton of work as an API server compared to Sinatra.

masomenos | 13 years ago | on: The Scientific 7-Minute Workout

Training should only cause physical agony if:

1) you have a serious, unaddressed medical condition (please seek help!)

2) you're trying something far beyond your normal activity level. There's no rush, work up gradually and your body will adapt. If a walk around the block is a challenge, start there. Repeatable training sessions over time is what makes change, not beating yourself up in the name of 'health'.

masomenos | 13 years ago | on: The Scientific 7-Minute Workout

2-3 hours a day x 5 days a week -- 10-15 hrs -- is a huge amount of time to spend on weights.

A Starting Strength routine shouldn't take more than 3-4 hours a week, and you'd be moving way more than your bodyweight.

Or, if you can find room in your dwelling for a barbell and plates, Pavel's Power to the People program would take a total of 2-3 hours a week. Again, you'd be developing strength, rather than endurance.

Having said that, if you've found something you're happy with, cool. The routine you actually do beats a theoretically superior routine you don't get around to.

masomenos | 13 years ago | on: What Really Happened When Facebook Bought Instagram

This is the line of reasoning Taleb criticizes. I haven't digested his criticism fully enough to fairly summarize it, but I think it's worth a look.

masomenos | 13 years ago | on: What Really Happened When Facebook Bought Instagram

If you liked Millionaire next door, let me recommend Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness" for counterpoint.

masomenos | 13 years ago | on: Association between muscular strength and mortality in men (2008) [pdf]

I've found, from painful experience, that most physical therapists aren't particularly oriented towards strength training.

If you can find an FMS certified strength trainer, there's a good chance they could help diagnose your situation. http://www.functionalmovement.com

masomenos | 14 years ago | on: Happy Birthday Vim, The Venerable Text Editor Turns 20

Thanks for the reminder! This is something I've had at the back of my mind for the 10+ years I've been using vim, so high time.

masomenos | 14 years ago | on: ~/.osx — a collection of sensible defaults for OS X Lion

thanks! I've been poking around for how to do that for a week, but hadn't stumbled on it.

masomenos | 15 years ago | on: MacBook Air is enough for a work machine

I'm at 3.5+ years on my current white macbook, and finally about ready to get a new one. Use it most of the day, most days for web and misc development.

Thinking a macbook pro with SSD & 8GB has a chance of lasting even longer.

masomenos | 15 years ago | on: What We Learned Upgrading To Rails 3 at Harvest

I did not know that git had a grep command -- super handy.

masomenos | 15 years ago | on: Calories, fat or carbohydrates? Why diets work (when they do)

Haven't read the new book, but Taubes' previous work 'Good Calories, Bad Calories' makes a strong case that there's shockingly little experimental evidence in favor of the conventional wisdom that "eating better" means a low fat, low calorie diet.