anthonyb

Essentially every recruiter message that I've received on LinkedIn follows one of two patterns:

a) Hello, you do Python, do you want a job? (with no position details, salary, reason to join, etc.)

b) a) followed by a clumsy attempt to fish details of my contacts (I don't connect with recruiters).

So, er, yeah - "Ha ha, profession!"

Well, you are assuming that the candidates have eggs to start with.

How would you describe emailing a hiring manager/developer with something like "lol, give job pls?" Not very egg-like at all...

I think if you have "brass eggs" you go start a start up.

   "Dear Anthony, Thankyou 4 ure notes in LinkedIn about
    contacting u - much easier to know that you're approached
    all the time. U r too experienced for my role, but if you
    know of any mid level Python / Linux developers happy 2
    discuss referral $$if I can place them:) Happy Friday!"

(Actual recruiter message on LinkedIn - I keep it around to remind me why I don't talk to recruiters)

"Don't put all your eggs in one basket" seems appropriate.

Of course, the counter to that is that taking a dump in a thousand baskets also leads to no eggs.

Also, instead of fixing the stand up, his solution is to generate a whole bunch of crappy paperwork for the team lead (email, pdf stored somewhere, blah blah).

There are all sorts of anti-troll, anti-spam and anti-voting ring measures in HN. Two that I know of, having run into them:

If you get too many friends/new accounts to upvote a story that you've submitted, it'll assume that there's collusion and your story will get killed off the front page.

You can't submit a story with the word 'troll' in it (this probably applies to other words too).

In your case, it's possibly the words 'enterprise' and 'portal' in the title/URL. Based on what I can see from the link that you've posted, it may be right, ie. enterprise portal solutions are not usually HN fodder unless there's an interesting twist to them.

There's nothing wrong with filtering. Go have a look in your spam folder - there'll be thousands of emails in there, but nobody's saying that email's jumped the shark.

Because it's designed for the living room? A generic ARM box won't look as good, have their branding or be as appealing to their target market.

Also, who's to say that they're building it? This is a relatively easy thing to contract out, and from the motherboard pics it looks relatively generic.

In the short term, perhaps. Long term, why would they burn their business down like that? All it takes is a few high profile failures...

The title of the kickstarter is:

   MiiPC - Power to the Parents!

and then the whole blurb is about how it lets you keep an eye on your kids online. Does that give you a clue that it's not about the hardware?

They were not kicked out of the convention.

Not just phytic acid, but lectins and all sorts of nasties. Red kidney beans are poisonous unless you soak them properly before cooking.

Good luck doing TDD with behavioral tests. Running (eg.) Selenium tests repeatedly is only going to slow you down.

Well, if the incrementing is part of a method somewhere, it probably should be tested, but as part of testing the method, not the ++ itself.

Usually it's more like people testing the basic mechanisms of frameworks or libraries. In some cases it makes sense, eg. if a library that you're depending on is a bit dodgy, but usually it's just a waste of time.

That's an overly cynical take - I've seen both TDD, Agile and Scrum work really well. In any case, refactoring is part of the religion too, so it shouldn't be too hard a sell for you.

And it'll fix build times and broken tests! :)

You're supposed to refactor your code. Layering tests on top of tests means that you end up spending more time maintaining tests than writing code.

Also, don't test stuff that isn't going to break, and avoid writing system and UI tests unless you absolutely have to.

He also completely overlooked the refactoring part of the equation, too: write test(s), write code that passes all the tests, then refactor the code until it's shiny enough and still passes the tests.

Interesting that that's from 2011, whereas this post is 2013. A rehash/rebooted blog, perhaps?

> The necessity of a caloric deficit is not opinion though, it's cold hard scientifically proven fact.

It is not that simple. If you have a calorie deficit but aren't getting enough nutrients you will get cravings but won't be able to sustain your diet. If you're addicted to sugar you will get cravings/constant hunger and won't be able to sustain your diet.

Focusing on calories ignores all of the other things (nutrients, insulin, blood sugar, motivation) that need to happen for a diet to be successful.

If you're looking for a good programmer, it often pays to be looking for one in a niche language. Paul Graham referred to this as the Python paradox: http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html

(The inverse of this is if you're looking for a PHP programmer, and posting ads on monster.com ;) )

Yes it does work that way.

Steady levels of insulin make it much easier to maintain a caloric deficit. If your blood sugar is yo-yoing all over the place, you're going to get cravings, increase your risk of bingeing, etc.

While it's easy to fall back on 'calories in, calories out', weight loss has much more to do with psychology, physiology and compliance than physics.

edit: Here's a nice review article from Nature, which tells you all you need to know: http://141.213.232.243/bitstream/2027.42/62568/1/414799a.pdf

It starts:

  Despite periods of feeding and fasting, plasma
  glucose remains in a narrow range between 4
  and 7 mM in normal individuals.

Insulin spikes are completely relevant, since insulin signals your fat cells to take up energy from your blood stream. Now you have no energy and feel hungry again.

Yes we do. There was an article last week about how ingesting sugar has been categorically linked to diabetes - in the same way that smoking is linked to lung cancer.

Where is the parent saying anything about meal timing? It's about the effect on your body of a particular meal. Carbs and sugars spike insulin much more than fats or protein.

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Spec? For an in-house framework? Luxury!

Right, so all of the conventional wisdom that you're putting out (portion control, willpower, "fucking lardass", etc.) has essentially been shown to be wrong. Homeostasis is a bitch.

Weight control is far more about maintaining healthy insulin and hormone levels - more sleep, less sugar, alcohol and carbs, some moderate exercise but not full-on jogging - than denying yourself food.

If you haven't already, I highly recommend reading "Good Calories, Bad Calories" - it goes into a lot of the scientific background, weight loss and overfeeding studies, etc.

> > those fat people over there

> It sounds like you are making an assumption about me that is rather false.

Given your original post about "people trying to justify their poor health" and "big bones", I'd say that assumption is pretty accurate.

Despite studies showing that people have a limited amount of willpower, after which they revert to habit?