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by wdewind 10y ago
I frequently hear this basic point: "Software interviews test algorithms and data structures that are so clearly not relevant to the work being done and soooo theoretical I don't understand why interviewing isn't better???&
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by wdewind 10y ago
As someone who basically looked at this as confirming what I believed about the iPhone 6/+ (ie: that it is too big and no one likes it and Apple's sales are going to fall), thanks for this post. Changed my view.
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by wdewind 10y ago
> That's true as far as it goes, but the internal fight inside the medical research community was whether it was fat or sugar that was the culprit in a host of physical problems. Fat won in a slam dunk, even though it turns out to b
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by wdewind 10y ago
Sorry but I made zero ad-hominem attacks in my post. > data showing a correlation between doctors advocating low fat/high carb and obesity in America No there isn't because no doctor advocates that without the other nuances I p
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by wdewind 10y ago
So I mean that is basically useless because I'm definitely not here to argue that if something works in me it will work in everyone. Diet is a really hard thing to create broad models that works for everyone, and that's sort of m
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by wdewind 10y ago
Yeah, I think this post is good at explaining the nuance that there are thresholds at which "things become different," but I'm not sure the thresholds he provides are well supported, which is what I thought you were looking f
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by wdewind 10y ago
I think those are great questions and anyone who gives you a confident answer on them is kind of full of shit. The bottom line is nutrition is just not that well understood scientifically, and since there is so much evidence emerging showi
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by wdewind 10y ago
I don't really disagree with a lot of what you are saying. Note that you've backed down from low calorie diets cause metabolic damage to low calorie diets are mentally difficult to sustain which I agree with. You've offered
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by wdewind 10y ago
I totally agree, which I why I encourage you to read the numerous studies linked in the post. Note that you've basically said: don't trust your bullshit experts, trust this random youtube search. I'm asking you to read the
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by wdewind 10y ago
Interesting, thanks for the correction that does change my mental model slightly and I appreciate it!
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by wdewind 10y ago
No offense but you literally just ignored everything I wrote and restated the original argument, which I see all the time, which is "medical professionals don't understand diet and don't recommend the right thing," which
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by wdewind 10y ago
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/saturated-fat-healthy/ This is a nice digest of a lot of the science around fats, that while somewhat biased, is a pretty good summary and includes links to studies should you want to dig
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by wdewind 10y ago
> but [a vegan diet] is the best way to prevent/cure T2 diabetes without causing other issues. There is basically no science that allows you to state this confidently. > The fact is: fat tastes good. Nobody want's to give up
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by wdewind 10y ago
> You seem to be asserting that their issues with calorie restriction were lack of body fat. No I'm asserting that what happens to people's bodies at 4% body fat when in severe caloric restriction is very different than what
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by wdewind 11y ago
But the word "dominates" should really be emphasized there because there is growing evidence that gut microbiota can help with breaking down lactose even when you lack the ability to produce lactase. http://www.ncbi.nlm
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by wdewind 11y ago
The current science does not support this position. The current science basically says there is an interplay between fats and carbs, and that fat tends to clog your arteries when consumed in the presence of a caloric surplus, usually broug
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by wdewind 11y ago
This is of course true, but it's also worth pointing out that your dad is by far the exception. Very few underweight people get T2.
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by wdewind 11y ago
> On the starvation study it's merely one example that highlights how calorie restriction affects people. Yes, it's an extreme version, but it is different only in degree from any other calorie restriction, and when people try
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by wdewind 11y ago
> When people follow the standard guidelines (which are beginning, slowly, to change) to avoid fat and reduce calories they end up feeling hungry all the time, and have to white knuckle their way through. This is not a state that people
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by wdewind 11y ago
> (1) Automated style checker. By adding a pre-commit hook to validate code style in an automated way, the amount of noise in PRs went down dramatically. Would you mind sharing your precommit hook? We have a simple one that prevents con
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by wdewind 11y ago
YMMV then, because their catalog is the only reason I want this. Soundclouds service in general kind of sucks, but they are the only place to get a ton of new smaller niche music very quickly. If you're really into electronic music s
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by wdewind 11y ago
Yep this does not surprise me. Reading the guide it's clear to me that when you say: > Our goal is not to simulate day-to-day software development You don't mean at all, you mean in its entirety (so you are leaving out the asp
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by wdewind 11y ago
> I mean, it's bad enough to ask questions you know don't really relate to the sorts of problems you have to solve What makes you think they are asking questions they know don't really relate to the sorts of problems you h
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by wdewind 11y ago
I totally agree with this but would add a bit of nuance. I'd love to see all companies do a "X and the cost of Y" value system, but there is another part of stating you have values like "Integrity" which is the sam
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by wdewind 11y ago
I disagree, not only does this give me a huge amount of insight into the company (more than I've ever seen from an offer letter), if it is automated that's actually a plus to me: it shows that they know this stuff is an importan
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by wdewind 11y ago
Is 2 hours of homework the only way to learn? Does learning have to be unenjoyable? Can making learning enjoyable be a competitive advantage in and of itself?
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by wdewind 11y ago
The word "trigger" is not really useful in this situation because catabolism is not triggered, it just means muscle breakdown is happening at a higher rate than muscle synthesis (both of which are constant). This happens under a
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by wdewind 11y ago
I mean...that's kind of a hugely controversial point to just say as a fact. It also completely ignores the fact that HFTs employ a lot of different strategies, some of which are uncontroversially beneficial to the market (market makin
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by wdewind 11y ago
TLDR: Compounding effects that add up over time, and extremely dubious use of the words "tremendous cost (to society)."
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by wdewind 11y ago
I'm not sure I agree. If P-value is really low then it implies either the existing data set is bad or your new data set is bad. Either way you haven't used data to get to a confident decision. Put another way: tons of stuff in p

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