anthonyb

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by anthonyb 15y ago
Honey has a lot more nutrients in it than sugar, so generally it's better for you, and doesn't spike your insulin so hard. Here's a round up which has some links to further research: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/is-honey-a-safer-sweetene
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Fibre doesn't have any nutrients - it's essentially indigestible. The reason it helps with sugars is that it slows their absorption down and helps to reduce blood sugar spikes.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
> there is no reason why any food we made ourselves is likely to be worse for our evolved body than any food that was around when the digestive system evolved Of course there is. Take an organism, throw it into a random environment. Cha
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by anthonyb 15y ago
On the contrary, I've seen several people who post worthwhile things - definitely not trolling - but happen to have a few people downvote them and then get auto-hellbanned for no reason. The latest one that I've seen is this guy: http://ne
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by anthonyb 15y ago
As is the thousand pixel footer
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by anthonyb 15y ago
It means that you've been "hellbanned". It's in theory reserved for trolls and other zero-value posters, but often it catches new posters when their karma drops below zero (I think that triggers an automatic hellban, but I'm not sure). I d
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by anthonyb 15y ago
The other option would be to allow an undo of your vote/downvote, perhaps only within 5 minutes or so, to prevent abuse.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I typically downvote where someone appears to be failing to think deeply enough about the topic, or if they haven't read the article or the parent comment properly. In a sense, it's because I'm disagreeing with them, but it's a bit differen
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by anthonyb 15y ago
The other thing to bear in mind is that when you downvote new members to the point that their karma goes negative, they will automatically be hellbanned -- their comments won't show up except to themselves. EDIT: So, be nicer to new users,
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I downvoted you, multiple times, because you're being an ass.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Because a large proportion of developers are introverts. Even if you're not an introvert, there's a good deal of evidence to suggest that you won't do well at concentration tasks when there are multiple distractions in the background.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
How about not permanently hellbanning new users? Or at least allowing us to upvote their [dead] posts to get them back over whatever threshold bans them? Latest one that I've seen is this guy: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dailyllama
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by anthonyb 15y ago
dailyllama, looks like you've been hellbanned. None of your comments are out of order or trolling, so I thought I'd let you know. You might be able to contact someone at ycombinator and get yourself re-instated. If ever someone wants to kno
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Good reply from coldarchon. Unfortunately they've been hellbanned, so most people won't get to see it.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
What's wrong with just wget -m -k -nH <your URL here> combined with some sort of rsync?
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by anthonyb 15y ago
> the myth that working stupid hours and abusing yourself (and others) From re-reading the article, it sounds like there's only one of those factors in play - working stupid hours. It sounds like the management at Google are appreciativ
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by anthonyb 15y ago
There does seem to be some confusion about what is and isn't burnout. This link might help. While it's aimed at doctors rather than tech workers, it does give you some idea of the mindset involved: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-education/me
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by anthonyb 15y ago
or just loop the string over 1 finger 11 times?
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by anthonyb 15y ago
> you probably just weeded out a huge percentage of Java programmers. Sounds like a good start ;)
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by anthonyb 15y ago
ps. CPlatypus - if you read this, you seem to have been hellbanned, for that literally/figuratively jab last week, or possibly belatedly for your anti-VC-patent rant. Completely undeserved IMO, so I thought I'd let you know (you don't have
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by anthonyb 15y ago
This may because most decent developers won't touch a recruiter with a 40 foot pole unless they absolutely have to. Hence, you're seeing a somewhat skewed version of the developer population.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Hardly worth the hellban he seems to have received in response...
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by anthonyb 15y ago
The point is that the code is hard to understand. In this case it's a bracket misplaced, so the compiler will pick it up immediately, but if it's a misplaced +1 or index then you won't notice until you get hacked with a buffer overflow. Now
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by anthonyb 15y ago
The thing that sticks out for me is that there's a bug in that code - a syntax error no less - and none of the C programmers commenting seem to have spotted it. (hint: read the memmove line a bit more closely) I don't think you need much mo
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by anthonyb 15y ago
The other player in the space is Filemaker Pro - a fair bit nicer to work with than Access, although still fairly horrible from an internals point of view (I think they've moved to using proper SQL and everything since I last used it though
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by anthonyb 15y ago
"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that" -- Benjamin Franklin
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Just a note to let mark_up and chevas know that they've been hellbanned. I don't think you're trolls, so I thought I'd let you know (I can't respond to your posts directly).
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I think that's an unnecessarily harsh review. From looking at the table of contents, it looks to me like Code Complete covers a lot more territory, eg. there doesn't appear to be anything on code reviews in The Practice of Programming. That
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by anthonyb 15y ago
That book looks excellent - perhaps if all large open source projects included something similar, they'd get more contributors? I suspect that jumping into code with no overview of it's structure is going to be slower than if you have a cle
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Code Complete is a great book, and I don't think there are any other books out which cover the nuts and bolts in such a thorough way. I also recommend "Rapid Development", by the same author. It sounds like a fuzzy, Agilish cliche, but a mo

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