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by skittles 14y ago
Seems like even scientists don't have a good understanding of diet. I just watched a show that mentioned Henry VIII's diet. They mentioned how it made him fat because of all the meat he ate. I thought "that doesn't sound right" and looke
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by skittles 14y ago
Embarcado still has a set of "antique" software downloads. Turbo Pascal 5.5 is one of them. They also have old C and C++ versions. All of them are for personal use only and are free of charge. Here's their museum: http://edn.embarcader
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by skittles 14y ago
Just scan the books, OCR the scans, and remove the copyrighted information that the publisher added to the codes. You then have a perfectly legal, digital copy. Nobody does this because the codes change over time and there's no way to pro
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by skittles 14y ago
I'm a developer. I don't mind taking mental breaks during the day and still counting it as work since I solve work problems while driving, showering, or even sleeping all the time . I'm lucky enough to work for a supervisor that doesn't
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by skittles 14y ago
Spreadsheets will be heavily used forever. Excel alone will keep Microsoft relevant in the business world. JavaScript gives us 1 numeric datatype, and there's no good way to load a gigabyte of numeric data into a web application.
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by skittles 14y ago
I see someone on a motorcycle, and I think "idiot". I've known 7 people in my life who have had motorcycle accidents. One has had 2. He broke his neck in one of them. A couple spilled their bike on uneven pavement. A guy I met in colle
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by skittles 14y ago
I spent a year in a bioinformatics PhD program and got the feeling I was studying to be science's version of the business analyst. Not knowing enough about the biology or computation, but expected to speak the language of both. And what w
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by skittles 14y ago
I'd like to see universities take up the challenge of verifying research as part of undergraduate and graduate training. Government and private subsidy of this work would be well worth it.
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by skittles 14y ago
I'm a C# developer who also programmed in Java in the past. C# and Java both pass pointers by value (which is what Python does too). This is a very important thing to learn when programming C# or Java. A method (or function) in any of th
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by skittles 14y ago
Stories like this are a little dangerous when taken at face value. Americans sometimes get diagnosed with cancer and then have spontaneous remission too. We don't know anything concrete about this guy's case. It's also not a good idea to
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by skittles 14y ago
You're correct. Python objects have methods that explicitly take "self" as the first argument. In Java and C#, self or "this" is implied. They all are single-dispatch languages unless an add-on library is used.
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by skittles 14y ago
I think a lot of people lower their standard of living when they move to expensive places. For instance, I live in the mid-west in a 5-bedroom, 3-bath house with a 2-car garage. My wife and I own 2 reliable cars, and we eat at mid-level r
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by skittles 14y ago
In my case I found college courses to be easier than AP courses. My high school just started offering AP classes and I took 2 (chemistry and calculus; I don't recall if different versions existed for these tests back then). My teachers we
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by skittles 14y ago
The cheating pygmy in this article isn't being "rationally selfish" (a phrase used by Rand). One who is rationally selfish doesn't harm others by their selfish actions. Instead, they just make sure that personal and family needs are met f
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by skittles 14y ago
Maybe you can now tell from the responses: diet is complicated and there are open issues to resolve. Diet experimentation tends to attract money with an agenda. Some organization needs to try reproducing results from influential studies a
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by skittles 14y ago
These are "Best Practices for Linq Enumerables and Queryables when You're Not Really Sure How Linq Works but Still Want to Use It".
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by skittles 14y ago
Don't forget about IBM Lotus Symphony. I really wish IBM would merge their efforts with the LibreOffice team, but I know it won't happen.
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by skittles 14y ago
Ideally, a company should have no policy stating how things get done. A real manager manages. A coward looks to the company to manage his or her people.
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by skittles 14y ago
If you switch to Oracle Linux and if you have some major problem you can't fix, then the next logical step is to pay for support. It would be a simple step to take since you're already running the official version.
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by skittles 14y ago
Food experiments suck. Coffee is a complex beverage. I see a few variables that must be isolated; caffeine and sugar intake being the biggest two. What do non-coffee drinkers drink more of on average? I'm guessing sugary sodas.
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by skittles 14y ago
I'll go a step beyond. Most people look to others for cues. Some others bend over backwards to not conform (like the "I wake every day at 4:54 am" weirdo--just say 4:55 man!). Much more rare is the person who just does exactly what they
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by skittles 14y ago
Just look at his picture, and you will have your answer.
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by skittles 15y ago
Sounds like you think humans aren't animals that have evolved to endure nature's full power. The article made some dumb statements, but the overall idea is sound. Humans can run prey animals into the ground in the same way that the wild d
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by skittles 15y ago
I think if there was a good, free version of an Ada compiler that had a permissive open-source license, then people would be using it.
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by skittles 15y ago
Is there a mistake in the 40 cents per watt cost reported in the article? I work for an energy company and our wind-farm energy is around 4.5 cents per kilowatt .
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by skittles 15y ago
You are assuming that the Java code is query logic instead of pure business logic. Many people try to do too much in SQL.
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by skittles 15y ago
I was talking about getting into shape, not competing in the Olympics. If you could get into good shape doing one hard set per lift, wouldn't that make more sense than spending 2 to 3 times the effort in the gym? It's all about goals. I
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by skittles 15y ago
A better way to look at it is that 1 hard set gets one most of the benefit that is possible from the exercise. An athlete would definitely want to do 2 or 3 sets (or more depending on level of competition, etc.), but an average person just
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by skittles 15y ago
I call it the "Star Trek" economy, but I think something more like "The Matrix" is coming. Most people will have cookie-cutter lives where basic needs are supplied for them. Others will rebel against that life and do something they think
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by skittles 15y ago
I've heard of a study that showed that the first set of a strength-building exercise (like bench-pressing) gives one something like 85% of the benefit possible for the session. The 2nd set gets the lifter up into the mid 90s. A 3rd set ha

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