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Nutrition isn't some old-guard field with a hundred years of solid decided science weighing it down. In my opinion it's like genetics, a fast moving, exciting field full of interesting ideas and disruptive possibility.

Quite frankly, our understanding of the human GI and human nutrition is still rather pathetic, and a lot of the "common wisdom" is based on misinformation and bad evidence.

This, to me, is also why for many athletes, their performance doesn't begin on the field but rather it begins with their food intake.

I don't trust the data he provided because it isn't rigorous, reviewed or even analyzed at all.

But I'm curious, regardless.

My point is that there are likely very many things you can put in to achieve a similar optimal result.

No offense but we've heard the exact same thing about every successful idea.

And what's more:

People look at the human GI totally wrong anyway. They think, what can I put in to get the best results? When in reality, the human GI evolved to support an extremely broad range of inputs as it's most significant factor.

With humans all over the earth eating an extremely disparate diet pre-civilization (and even post), the most significant factor of the human GI was it's ability to handle the wide variety of chemically diverse inputs and provide a consistent, reliable output.

So why do you approach this, which is nothing more than a new input, and claim that the output is going to be different? Dangerous? Impossible?

Seems to me like you're indignant with a touch of ego: "How dare he pretend to do my job. It's an insult to me that he is doing this!" That's the feeling I get from you reading this post.

No one is saying that eating is a waste of time.

The OP says it like: Eating is a leisure activity for him like going to the movies. But he doesn't want to go to the movies 3 times a day for the rest of his life.

Remember: Google is full of SEO optimized bullshit and the highest links are generally the ones that want to be highest and not necessarily the best.

Or, another way: The best resources online are not always posted by SEO-friendly people on major websites. I can curate those gems into an awesome list.

Google misses gems and Google is curated only by an algorithm that is heavily targeted for manipulation.

But isn't fiction the same as nonfiction? I don't only read a small set of nonfiction books that come from a pointed search on a single subject. I read what is interested and related to my fields of interest (which is identical to what I do with fiction).

Either the fiction results will suck ("People who like Fantasy also like Harry Potter -- have you tried it?" i.e. not targeted to the subgenre and thus useless) or nonfiction results are possible.

The take home is this: Have a more granular ability to present social lists for both fiction and non-fiction.

If you can detect what type of fiction I like based on others, you can do the same for non-fiction. You can tell that I like certain subjects and people who share those likes might have some overlap that I would also enjoy.

The power of linked in isn't building a giant list of everyone who is related to you, it's building a tiny list of really awesome people who have a tiny list of really awesome people who have a tiny list of really awesome people...

TL;DR: If you curate content, don't be surprised if the quality rises.

EDIT: This is the perspective of a more introverted type who tries to build fewer strong connections instead of many weak connections. If you can build and maintain many weak connections effectively, go ahead! I just know that I absolutely cannot maintain those well, and prefer to network with those who can and rely on them to maintain those connections.

I clearly stated exactly that in my first original post in this thread. I said, always know your audience and prioritize your development for your audience. I don't know why you've missed me saying that 4+ times at this point. I guess it's because you want to "win" a debate, even though I made your point before you even read my original post.

>I don't really see how this has anything to do with American state laws.

Because accessing data requires you follow the laws governing that data regardless of where the request comes from.

>Have you ever left the US?

Have you ever programmed before? Do you know what software requirements are, or legal requirements, or any of it?

Honestly, you sound like a layman. 100% end user with zero experience in building a portal or medical software or anything else. "Who cares about laws, I'm talking about css fallback". Well, the people who pass and enforce those laws care, even if you don't. And they will make sure you care sooner or later, if you plan on staying in business.

That's the point. You have to care about laws because they're fucking laws! You don't get to just distribute protected medical data over insecure connections because it's convenient for end users! That's illegal.

And protected medical data IS DIFFERENT from non-protected personal travel data!

I know that understanding that difference is difficult for an end-user, but please respect that the concepts are completely different and pretending that "it's the same" only hurts your ability to understand the additional complexity that security laws like HIPAA introduce.

Please do not talk to me any more. I have no interest in replies and have provided this one because you keep stalking me in other posts, so I wish to provide closure.

If you want the last word, please take it here and no where else.

Please stop following me and posting on unrelated threads, it's extremely immature.

Please stop this immature behavior.

You can blame software designers at Microsoft for that decision (or lack of decision), but I'm fairly sure that dev's at Microsoft are on the "fulfill the design" side of developing...

That is the most superficial comparison between two disparate industries that I've seen in some time.

Yes, both are websites that you access.

By this context: I visit mobile gaming websites from foreign countries. According to your analysis, mobile gaming == travel industry == healthcare.

You do, of course, realize that the regulation requirements behind the systems that deliver those websites are dramatically different?

Between HIPAA, ARRA, a bevy of other national regulations and 50 separate state implementations of Medicare/aid with additional privacy and other regulations on the state level, I hope you can appreciate that medical software requirements are fundamentally different.

Implementing a medical portal is an order of magnitude more difficult than a travel portal from the regulation and control side alone.

Put it this way: if you leak user data on a travel site, all you might have to do is write mea culpa and force a password change.

If you leak user data on a medical site: the fucking hammer comes down, public disclosure is mandated and _heavy fines will follow_.

These kind of systemic differences absolutely affect the end user UX and the kinds of priorities that developers have going into it.

Making sure spotty data connections work is less of a priority than making sure a secure connection is present when dealing with HIPAA protected data.

Should you devote a lot of your limited programming time to catching an exception that users naturally experience during USB operation and can be corrected by a simple "unplug and replug?"

I argue that you shouldn't devote undue attention to something that users naturally already handle.

But if your project is healthy and features are rolling out and you have the time and talent to waste on edge cases like this, then why not!

Haha. We went from talking about my 1-man development website, to travel sites, to medical sites.

All because each example is a better fit for your argument. You don't warn me when you change the context of our conversation, you just do it and then insult me afterwards for not meeting your newer demands.

Medical =/= travel =/= my site.

Each are fundamentally different industries with dramatically different requirements. Obviously you have to meet the requirements of your industry and your users. I have CONSTANTLY SAID that you must prioritize your users. Medical users ARE NOT travel users ARE NOT blog users.

You're also failing to take into account a team versus one man. One man or small teams trying to launch have to prioritize their MVP and their main audience. Massive operations with dozens of developers SHOULD meet everyone demands, because they have the time and talent to do so.

When you're capable of not context-shifting a conversation to continually cast your argument as superior, I think this chat can continue.

Otherwise, you're just shifting and insulting me for your own jollies, and you'll excuse me for not going along with it.

Good day!

EDIT to your EDIT:

I currently work in healthcare IT after transitioning from a major travel IT company. The requirements are NOTHING alike, really nothing alike at all. The types of users and the requirements placed on the organizations by regulators are dramatically different. Medical is a WHOLE different ball game with tons of people to answer to.

Also, people can be expected to not book a plane flight with a bad connection on an old phone. "Wait until a better connection" is the standard response that has worked thus far (or call your secretary/company to handle it).

When it comes to medical data, waiting is less of an option and getting a good UX is less of a requirement.

I worked with the developer(s) on previous releases with custom builds and I can confirm that battery life is very respectable and that this app does not consume crazy resources. On my Galaxy Note II w/ Android 4.1.*, when my screen gobbles about 30% of my battery, pressureNET sits around 2%.

Question for the developer: Will my alpha .apk distributed to me via email automatically update to 3.1+, or do I need to remove it and jump back into the official release channel?

Because they wish to offer any form of rich experience that goes beyond form elements and form submission? Because they want date pickers, column sorting, marketing tracking, transition effects and a hundred other UX tweaks that are only possible through javascript?

Why should airline/online travel forgo modern user experiences? To satisfy a statistically negligible amount of their traffic that cannot see it?

At some point, horses aren't allowed on roads, and users need to buy a car.

If information is what you care about and not design, style, or functionality, than my pages are perfectly readable on a screenreader. It will look and function like shit but the people who see it that way A) expect to or B) are not my target audience.

But you're right, it's a bubble. If my audience included people with poor data connections in Asia, then I would certainly approach the problem differently.

However, when it's just one guy making something, prioritization and cutting out the nonsense (like bad connections from Asia) are vital ;)

Specifically building your app to attempt to handle the "bad data connection" use case that users already are familiar with in the context of the internet seems like bad programming.

Why provide a usable but substandard experience when those users would get a superior experience after a simple refresh?

As for the "turned it off crowd": in terms of web apps, who cares? If you've disabled Javascript, you're not looking to use web apps -- period. Javascript is required to use web apps for anything other than fancy form posting...

Of course, every site's audience is different, and you should prioritize your development for your audience.

I guess I'm paying for the features I wanted with a currency made of "waiting for updates".

Basically, it's hard to get it downloaded and installed.

If you do that, it's very difficult to login to play.

If you manage that, it's very difficult to do the tutorial or claim a city or load your city.

If you manage that, it's very difficult to play the game without experiencing disconnects or server-related dysfunction that directly affects gameplay.

Basically, it's nothing like the experience they wanted to deliver.

I hate knowing that I own one of the highest end and best selling devices and I literally have zero date or knowledge of whether or not I'm getting 4.2. Even the hacker community hasn't released decent 4.2 roms for me (that support my hardware like s-pen, etc).

Apple does updates right.

This isn't a case where a client-only software package is locked by a remote server.

This is a case where core game logic is stored on servers and will have to be reverse engineered or emulated on some level to play truly offline.

He didn't use the bathroom for 13 hours, and as some pointed out: a long filibuster is less a contest between a speaker and a Congress and more about a man versus his bladder.

If China and Russia launch against the US, we know it in seconds and launch against both them. Which means that within an hour, China Russia and the US are basically no longer major international players.

They know it's suicide. They know we can respond and do as much or more damage. They won't do it, neither will we.

This is like lamenting that kids don't know enough about Chaucer or don't understand that evolution only applies to populations, not to individuals.

These kinds of small details will be forgotten intentionally by most people within months of learning them.

Quite frankly: I don't care if kids come out of high school with a functional knowledge of the effects of an inflating currency: I'd rather they understand personal finance instead of macroeconomics.