michael_michael

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One interesting trick I've learned regarding "Don’t rush to StackOverflow. Think!" is that it sometimes helps me to go to StackOverflow and write out the question using clear, precise language and code examples. Nine times out of ten, the simple act of writing out the question helps me to solve the problem on my own. If it doesn't, then I can click 'submit'.

Sure, but nowadays the notion of "middle age" is more commonly taken to start in one's 40s. At any rate, I don't think many 35-year olds would consider their lives "more than half spent" -- meaning they assume they'll die in their 60s.

Pure Gas maintains a list of ethanol-free gas stations: http://pure-gas.org/

The content is user-generated and maintained, so if you find one, add it.

Neat. Creating a Ruby implementation of the solitaire cipher was also problem #1 in the Ruby Quiz: http://www.rubyquiz.com/quiz1.html

How about alternatives between free and $50/user a year?

This is not just about cancers that affect the blood. From the article:

    By sequencing the abnormal DNA that a tumor releases into a person’s
    bloodstream, researchers are now one step closer to a universal cancer
    test. Although the technique is now only sensitive enough to detect
    advanced cancers, that may be a matter of money: As sequencing costs
    decrease, the developers of the method say, the test could eventually
    pick up early tumors as well.

This is about making older people require fewer resources for support. The holy grail of longevity research is increased lifespan with no appreciable decline in quality of life.

The main factors that contribute to a decreased quality of life are the same ones that eventually kill us. Namely, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and the general cognitive/motor decline that comes with aging. If we could effectively halt senescence, we'd be able to expend fewer resources on care for the elderly.

Thanks for sharing the link (*edit: and writing it, I just realized). Another interesting comment from it:

When it comes to what is shouted from the loudspeakers on a given day, it's all a matter of accident and marketing rather than facts and understanding. For example, you might recall that telomerase and p53 were used to extend normal mouse life span by 50% a few years ago[1] - far more important and interesting than this present study, yet it received next to no attention.

[1] http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2008/01/50-maximum-life-e...

The Snopes article also links to a page on a moonshine distillery website that claims to show you how to get diplomatic immunity: http://www.coppermoonshinestills.com/id53.html

Well worth reading for kicks, and reads more like a primer on how to make yourself a nuisance to local courts.

tl;dr You have to fill out some documents, notarize them, have state and federal judges sign them, and refuse any case you're involved in to be heard by magistrates in lower courts. In this way you'll be put on the "list" for diplomatic immunity although you are (presumably) not a diplomat. They even sell diplomatic corps car tags.

The legitimacy of the article is undermined by the fact that the author often spells "you" as "ya".

Not true of _everyone_, but definitely true of some (including me). Additionally, white coat hypertension is not entirely benign. From the wikipedia article you link:

"In general, individuals with white coat hypertension have lower morbidity than patients with sustained hypertension, but higher morbidity than the clinically normotensive."

According to Patrick Stewart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXOK-ZVJMaU), a reporter once told Gene Roddenberry that having a bald captain wasn't believable. By the 24th century they will have cured baldness. Roddenberry's responded that, by the 24th century, no one will care.

From the article: "The ultra-efficient efficiencies will go for $1,300 to $1,500 a month, he said. Per city regulations, 15 percent of the units will be allocated as below market rate for low-income residents; he thinks those would rent for around $900 a month."

A note for the author regarding Dropbox's "uncool" headers: Adding `?dl=1` to the Dropbox link will automatically prompt users to download the file upon clicking, and save you from having to write the disclaimer asking users to right-click and "Save As..."

That's a weak analogy. There's a huge difference between buying a taco and buying, say, a piece of heavy equipment or an enterprise software package. Tacos cost little. They have no long-term commitment involved. I won't need follow-up support for a taco, and a taco's advantages or disadvantages compared to other potential pieces of food are relatively apparent.

Also, I would like to know what sources you have backing up your guarantee.

Apparently the age of consent is 16 in Belize: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_North_Americ...

See here for more information on the distinction between free (gratis) vs free (libre) as it relates to software: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre

I use Fuzzy Finder in concert with Command-T: Command-T for quickly navigating the current working directory and Fuzzy Finder for navigating from the root like you. I imagine you could use Ctrl-P similarly, though a customized Fuzzy Finder would likely obviate the need for Ctrl-P/Command-T.

One Fuzzy Finder tip. Make sure and map :FufHelp, if you haven't:

    nmap <c-h> :FufHelp<CR>

It allows you to fuzzy find through the help docs. Being able to see closely related help docs through fuzzy matches is a huge boon when it comes to navigating Vim's help.

As a quick and dirty test I tried running both Command-T and Ctrl-P against a directory tree containing some 26,000 XML files. Command-T takes roughly 10-15 seconds to become responsive. Ctrl-P chokes and requires a Vim restart after invoking it against this directory.

From further down the page:

"I don't need to worry about what software is in a kiosk, pay phone, or ATM that I am using. I hope their owners migrate them to free software, for their sake, but there's no need for me to refuse to touch them until then. (I do consider what those machines and their owners might do with my personal data, but that's a different issue. My response to that issue is to minimize those activities which give them any data about me."

Additionally, to quote _why: "When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. So create."

His letters weren't particularly coherent and infamously contained numerous misspellings. Example: http://www.zodiackillerfacts.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pi...

> During the day, almost everyone has a smart phone out. I've never had a problem, never expect to.

This pretty much summed up my feeling about crime on the subway until I got mugged in a full train during normal commuting hours. One mugging does not a crime wave make, of course, but apparently grand larcenies on the subway are up 18% in New York year over year:

http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/04/21/iphones-fuel-spik...

Is there any information about what constitutes deliberate practice in math? Clearly the article takes serious umbrage with problem sets.

I never said removing something from your diet is equivalent to adding something else. Nor did I propose "if a little is good, a lot is better".

I did say this: If the consumption of a particular food can be shown to have a net positive impact on one's health and longevity, and the properties that generate that positive impact can be distilled and consumed, it behooves us to do so.

Do you believe in eschewing certain foods and favoring other foods because of their health benefits? I don't see it as a huge leap in logic to believe that certain supplements - properly prepared, packaged, and delivered into the body - can confer similar health benefits.

This is what I do to get around blocks on some IM services. I work for a large, well-known and presumably IT-savvy organization. Nobody has confronted me about it yet, which in itself is actually kind of worrying. I half expected an IT SWAT team to rappel through the window after starting the tunnel.