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by zach 15y ago
First off, I think this is good data and commend you for going back to the numbers to make your point. It's not perfect data - as the report says, by nature it's overstating actual consumption - but for short-term trends it is valuable. Bu
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by zach 15y ago
It's hard to know enough to say definitively what the culprit is. That's why Taubes is mostly content to argue merely the cause of increased obesity is located within the high-carbohydrate aspect of the modern diet. But even that has been
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by zach 15y ago
His premise is simply that for the vast majority of people who are obese, the culprit is located within the high-carbohydrate aspect of their diet. Good Calories, Bad Calories is about why the "garbage" people eat has caused them to get f
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by zach 15y ago
Hey, let's see Google's prediction API take on this challenge, if it's so general. Just find a decent corpus and pop it into a GAE app. In any case, I think most of us are now primed to try out some implementation or another now. It would
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by zach 15y ago
Fantastic. This is just what I've been waiting for to implement on my location-based sites. Houses for sale and homes you're going to a party at are rarely appropriate "Like" candidates.
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by zach 15y ago
Here's a Google redirect if anyone else can't read the article as linked: http://www.google.com/url?q=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB...
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by zach 15y ago
So basically, "I see you've written me with some advice. However, you may have overlooked the fact that I'm Richard Stallman."
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by zach 16y ago
Grapes have been domesticated for thousands of years, and at every step the goal has been to maximize fructose and minimize fiber, most notably in making the seedless varieties that comprise the vast majority of table grapes sold today. At
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by zach 16y ago
Sounds fun. Here in LA, a couple of restaurant entrepreneurs are building on the success of The Counter, an upscale custom burger quick-serve, with an iPad-based concept restaurant. The first one opens next month. http://www.usatoday.com
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by zach 16y ago
I love seeing creator's lists of the works that inspired them and they love. Great list, too. Nice to see a Tom Swan book, as I fondly remember devouring one of his books - my first "serious" programming book - the summer before college.
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by zach 16y ago
Actually, now that you mention it... According to recent California law, "a gift certificate with a cash value of less than ten dollars ($10) is redeemable in cash (not a new certificate or merchandise) for its cash value." Disney dollars a
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by zach 16y ago
Flying money bags! It must have flying money bags!
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by zach 16y ago
Right, and that's what the topmost poster meant by "buy small and women sizes" -- if you really care, you won't have to say "we don't have anything smaller than a large." People used to hearing that line really appreciate when you go the ex
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by zach 16y ago
T-shirts are achievement badges for tech employees, with the interesting restriction that you can only wear one at a time. This is why every programmer has about 5-10 times as many t-shirts as years of work experience. I would love to see a
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by zach 16y ago
I think championing the gameplay of an obscure (maybe even non-electronic) but fun game is a pretty significant risk itself. I've been an IGF judge and I love original gameplay, but I also know that almost everything really is a remix when
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by zach 16y ago
I was going to disagree with you but I think you nailed it. Make something that people (i.e. most people) have never seen before. But that's not saying make something that nobody has seen before, just something that the people you're m
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by zach 16y ago
This is a great role for a manager to play for as long they have the power to actually shield the developers from politics. When things go bad politically for the manager and they lose that power, the politics have a way of suddenly rushing
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by zach 16y ago
"You got Gumroaded!" Wait, no. That sounds wrong for some reason.
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by zach 16y ago
I like that idea. It seems like microgeneration is a feature Bitcoin is currently suffering from a lack of. As competition increases, generation seems to be more and more centralized. A low-traffic way to generate small amounts of Bitcoi
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by zach 16y ago
Minority Report is tremendously well-remembered as an interface concept and almost forgotten as a Spielberg movie. The Wikipedia article's longest section is "Technology." By now, it's practically a 145-minute tech concept video with a p
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by zach 16y ago
I keep waiting for someone with more spare time than myself to bring the memory palace idea to an augmented reality app. I have a feeling medical students will pay a decent amount of money to walk around their apartment with an iPhone held
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by zach 16y ago
There is also a very popular article in Time this week on this subject, "Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin": http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1914857-4,00....
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by zach 16y ago
Okay, it's fixed now. Thanks for the report!
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by zach 16y ago
I love this! CouponMom is a nightmare (especially on mobile) but has great data so I slog through it. Anything would be better, but this looks excellent . I always wonder where to go for my next fix of Diet Coke 12-packs, so I can't wait
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by zach 16y ago
We try to give search engines hints with the update frequency in our sitemaps. We re-build our sitemaps nightly and make sure that new or recently-updated content is listed with an update frequency of "daily" or "weekly" and all other conte
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by zach 16y ago
This is pretty clever. Reminds me of an article a few years ago about printer names -- YouTube named theirs after Wu-Tang members; Google, after Transformers: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/07/the-wu-ta... Regrettably, I
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by zach 16y ago
Oh, very interesting. It's getting confused due to the proximity of the Boulevard3 nightclub at the Hollywood Athletic Club. Let me see if I can tweak it for the update I'm pushing this afternoon. Thanks very much for the bug report!
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by zach 16y ago
It should work worldwide. I've tested 1 Sussex Drive and some other random Canadian addresses and it seems to work. Email me (zach at localgo.com) the address if you wouldn't mind and I'll check it out.
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by zach 16y ago
Thank you so much for the feedback, I really appreciate your time. I especially appreciate your perspective with small business clients -- part of our concept is offering low-impact Google Places-type functionality. Custom URL: Great sugges
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by zach 16y ago
That makes a lot of sense. We have complete-address URLs on our first site, LA Life: http://lalife.com/address/5314_Blackwelder_St_Los_Angeles_CA... But the whole address can get unwieldy. Thanks for using LocalGo!

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