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I want to agree with you. Could you be specific about what exactly is dishonest here and why?

We’re only focusing on the BMI issue because that was revealed by the original comment. Goodside could have spikes placed on the ceiling that dug into his head only when standing. If this was the case we’d be barking up completely the wrong tree. I’m pretty sure he’s not that stupid but my point is, without being present to make an assessment we have absolutely no idea what could be going on. It’s like trying to fix your parent’s computer over the telephone with them operating it.

I don’t think this is true. Pretty much the only proven thing you can do if you want to live longer is calorie restriction. Supposedly this is because the fewer calories you consume the less exposure your body has to free radicals that are important in aging. The corollary of this is that building muscle, which requires eating a lot, is inferior to being a skinny rake for longevity alone. Then, if you eat barely anything, you would be better with only a small amount of exercise.

And, just to rule out any suspicion of bias, know that I have a job where I’m constantly lifting weight, I have my own strength exercise regime outside work, I drink protein shakes, and I eat quite a lot for my frame.

Isn’t the main reason we are bad at these things because we don’t really care for them. I’m not suggesting we are asexual but that we don’t hold flirting etc. in very high regard.

Pure class. I love this guy.

I sort of hope you’re right because the idea of a technology that could inject things into people without them even knowing freaks me out a little bit.

And a black sheet to block sunlight

The 2D (virtual) shop you are referring to: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mobile-phones/8601147/...

Yeah I’ve seen him devise recipes to fit within budgetary constraints. He found it very challenging because the budget is like 40p per meal or something ridiculous like that. So he’s well aware of the problem. I think one of the things he campaigns for is more funding.

Well done everybody who didn’t reply to this.

36/75. I honestly had no idea I knew of so many languages.

Please don’t. Googleable names only please.

The only things I ever care about tend to be complex issues that are very difficult to distill into concise terms without significant consideration. But then again it has been suggested somewhere on here before that actually talking lots (i.e. not being concise) is not such a bad thing when speaking because it keeps the listener engaged. Keeping the listener engaged here means, more precisely: preventing them from being distracted from the point you are making by hijacking their thoughts for a little while longer. Inversely, if you are concise in speech you run the risk of being overlooked like a joke that doesn’t have time to land. That happens to me a lot.

Looks like everyone ignored that bit where I said there was no point arguing over it :)

Sounds like your thinking of /purely/ functional programming. Although none of these terms have precise definitions so there’s not really any point arguing over them.

...you could even argue that technology has introduced a whole range of problems.

My view is that technology is power and power itself is neither good nor bad, it’s neutral. Power just increases the stakes, how the cards get dealt is the important point. As a society we spend a lot of time thinking about who has what power because we know what happens when you get it wrong. But, strangely, we don’t afford technology the same consideration. What happens instead is that whichever technology is just the right mix of popular and profitable proliferates while all others die. The implication of this belief is twofold:

* there are a whole load of great technologies with no means of generating profit that we will never benefit from

* there are a whole load of awful technologies that are profitable that have a negative effect on society that stick around.

Why wouldn’t you use it Agda/Coq for general development? (Looking for reasons other than a presumed lack of libraries.)

> more importantly, there's no clear definition of what even is a Lisp.

How about: If you program in it using s-expressions, it’s a Lisp.

Anyone here use Qi, Mercury, or Agda? I’m interested in what people think of those languages.

Better title: Acing The Interview Doesn’t Mean You’ll Be Hired. No explanation why though. Envy?

You forgot the part where each team is trying to stop the other. That fact changes it from being a mere procedure to being a dynamic system.

I think you mean FP. And I agree with you.

How about these?

http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Culture-Commitment-High-te...

http://www.amazon.com/neanderthals-work-people-politics-driv...

http://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Leadership-Personal-Journey...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Only-Sane-Working-Here/dp/00716087...

Yes of course. There are startups just started almost by accident with no money. Game development projects are nothing like that though.

If you put anything at the top of your to-do list that you don’t _have to_ read and pay attention to you’ll ignore it sooner or later.

Ever invited someone new to your home and been surprised at the things that caught their attention? The things we make permanent fixtures in our environment—unless we have to interact with them or they change—ultimately get accepted and forgotten. Many people really hate to accept this because it means that any positive changes that we create in our life will ultimately be eroded. A solution to this problem is one of my main preoccupations.

In the mean time, the question that should be being asked is how _exactly_ will you live your life differently in order to adhere to these standards? And apply that question to tomorrow, next week, next season, next year, and the next five years. You could try writing a plan but then plans fail because they speculate. Sorry I don’t have any real answers.

People don’t think about privacy issues because our psychology doesn’t trigger much emotion for autonomous opt-in broadcast to people not currently visible. There’s no sense of violation. It’s very easy to forget about it and it starts to feel normal. In a way it’s also empowering to be so open; it makes you feel like you’re not afraid of anything.

If you actually step through what is happening when you use these apps (all the individual people you are informing of where you are and have been, your habits, preferences—a complete digital record) you might start to see some risks. Then ask yourself, even if it was easy, would you go round handing out that data on paper to large groups of contacts indiscriminately on a regular basis indefinitely? That’s what’s actually happening here. Now remember there are people (trolls) who get a kick out of being able to do things to do from a safe distance for no reason at all. There are also people closer to you who have fragile egos or maybe you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Using something like Foursquare is giving these people ammunition. The fantasy we like to believe is that everyone we know is trustworthy. The reality is not so rosy.

Essential question: what makes it fun?

Is this not less about appearing to be a desperate white knight and more about appearing to put a woman before the guys and, in doing so, betraying your male friends.

Amy shouldn’t be blaming herself for being the victim of sexist behavior. You could have tried to convince her of that. Even though you didn’t, you weren’t an idiot here. Aside from her internal negative reaction, the situation was actually improved.

Toys associated with the super-stimulant fantasies depicted on TV are always going to fall short. You won’t be able to make toys good enough. Instead the answer is to address the deception that these fantasies can ever truly be realized.

If that sounds depressing don’t forget that life is full of fantastic amazing things that do really exist and can really be experienced. As such, some of the best toys are not toys at all, they are the means of expressing our own imaginations. Why not get your children to grow a garden, find and classify animals and observe their behavior, paint, compose music, build robots, cook, write, program, etc.

For me intelligence is very much a function of the amount of time spent mentally incubating on an issue with the ability to frequently test your ideas against reality. Think of the hours of mental incubation (spanning over years) that a child loses to dead-end make-believe. This exposure must serve to keep the child in a state of confusion about how the world actually works.