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I don't have any pets, but I have three little monkeys, and I want all of the sensors!

Could it be that a devious developer allocated the keyword "STOP" to mean "confirm my subscription" in hope of confusing the annoyed and disinterested ?

Or worse, maybe any reply can be designated to indicate a confirmation; I'm not interested enough to research it right now...

I'm trying to read this article now, but I just had to note that the background pattern is very hostile to my weary eyes.

Don't you know that everybody on the internet has pretty much got ADHD, and you have barely a few seconds to deliver some kind of value proposition before the ⌘-W ?

I spent a few clicks and a few seconds and found no indication of wtf this thing is, despite several pretty pictures and nice typography, and yes... I know it's ironic to take the time to post about it.

Good luck.

I just did; thanks!

Such things are built in the woods of Southern Oregon, and in my hipper days I had the pleasure of living in some of them, and helped to build or refit a few others.

It's all good until the roof fails catastrophically.

The Aikido videos are indeed sad. The saddest part is knowing how surprisingly representative they are of the Aikido mythos, originating with the founder himself. Accounts of Morihei Ueshiba and his supernatural adventures in ki are perplexing at best.

That being said, I don't think Aikido is as ineffective as the videos may lead one to believe. I recall a similar experience to the one described in the article, when I strolled into the Aikido dojo with a new black belt in TaeKwonDo. The sensei saw my colossal attitude and broke my confidence repeatedly in front of his students. It was entirely open ended; I attacked and he countered. Each attack landed me in a painful pin. And while my strength and stamina were utterly exhausted, he managed me effortlessly. I was made an example; humbled.

The core techniques of value are not exclusive to Aikido, however, being borrowed from prior arts, and I believe more practical sources of them are Bujinkan and Krav Maga.

I think live video on a large screen would be more impressive, than this robot-stick-figure-on-a-segway thing.

There are several comments here regarding the egg debate. Should you avoid eating too many eggs? What is the impact of eggs and other sources of dietary cholesterol on your blood cholesterol levels?

I've been wondering about this myself for some time, all the while eating cartons of egg whites for breakfast every day.

ericd posted a link[1], which appears to be a good source of information (far more than I have time to digest right now).

I only want to point out one small tidbit that I just found[2]; the American Heart Association (according to the webmd article) recommends keeping your dietary cholesterol intake below 300 milligrams per day. The same article reports that a chicken egg contains about 200 milligrams of it.

Now, I'm totally agnostic about things that I don't have time to properly research. In this case I would rather err on the side of caution, and will continue to limit my cholesterol intake.

That said, this app is nice if you enjoy eating this way (a bit of this and a bit of that; sans-recipe). This is pretty much how I normally eat, except that I never measure my portions.

A nice (premium?) feature might be a journal where you can easily record what you actually ate (in so much as it differs from the generated plan), your weight, etc.

I don't know, but maybe with enough journal data you could infer something about the user's metabolism (and average plan adherence), and make predictions about weight change.

1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21776466 2. http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/cholesterol-food

I'm running the latest (16.0.912.77) on Mac OS X, and not seeing any issue. It does jump to about 25% CPU when I click 'Generate', but only for about a second.

I prefer the Vulcan way. I eat everything with utensils. I will spare no finger food the stainless steel.

I believe you commented on the wrong article.

Good software is worth paying for.

I hope the developer is able to live comfortably while working full time on his own endeavors, rather than relegate them to a hobby, and himself into wage slavery.

Yeah but that looks like caca now, doesn't it?

I'm just going to leave that running for the rest of my life. Thank-you.

This website is loaded with impressive content, and it's creator appears to be a bona fide wizard.

I cannot pass until every page is studied carefully. Thanks a lot.

Using paper to clean the anus is not only wasteful, it's unpleasant and ineffective. The universal solvent is clearly the superior option for this daily task.

As nice a thing as it is, it doesn't take a $400 bidet to wash your ass with water. Use your imagination. You can even do it in the woods, like a bear with a water bottle.

And if you insist on using paper, I humbly recommend the delicate tissues of the Christian Bible, which should be a fine alternative to such old darlings of western bathroom culture as the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog, and are available for free all over the damned place.

A quick skim reveals many words that are plainly innocuous in all but the most devious of contexts.

I think it's a good tool. It allows you to produce better code faster. Writing CoffeeScript while reading the resulting JavaScript can probably help you to learn "the good parts" faster. (I'm not saying you shouldn't learn JavaScript 'properly', if you need to deliver a significant quantity of it.)

I've been spending a lot of time writing Boo and reading C#. My intention was to put off learning C# for awhile, at least until after I ship my current project. I'm working on finishing my first game with Unity3D (and quickly developed an aversion to UnityScript).

Boo is an absolute joy to use, btw.

The funny thing is that I'm kind of learning C# by accident, by reading it (and the BCL docs) and writing Boo.

Will I at some point switch to C#? I strongly doubt it. Boo allows me to move much faster, produces cleaner, nicer-looking code, and compiles to equivalent CIL. It's all win, as I see it.

Awesomest text editor ever. (It makes me happy.)

The only clothes I own are black t-shirts and sweaters, blue jeans, a black jacket, and a pair of black neoprene Vibram Five Fingers (sparing you my underwear selection).

The jeans and shirts I rotate in my closet to manage fade level. I push freshly laundered garments into the center, shirts to the left, and jeans to the right. I pop them from the ends. When they start looking too faded, I replace them.

I live in a small town, and get a lot of weird looks. My personal brand is weirdo, apparently.

Also, I cut the bottom seams off all my jeans - not for fashion, but because stepping on them barefoot hurts my heels. They are cracked from practicing Tae Kwon Do on concrete.

Well, I'd probably see better and be a lot healthier.

But I imagine I'd be a blood spatter analyst and vigilante serial killer, of course.

"""We should program as if we were perched atop of 20 floors of bamboo scaffolding - because that's the state of the Unix userland."""

Genius.

I just recently switched to Sublime Text 2, and a after a solid week of coding in it, I must say I'm hooked. It's the best editor I've ever used.

I'm writing Boo, both client-side (Unity3D) and server-side (between Mongrel2 and Redis), and all it took was for me to drop in the Boo TextMate bundle and away we went.

The Boo bundle is outdated and needs some love, and Unity integration is missing, but Sublime is so nice that it really seems worth the effort of getting these things set up (when I can get around to it). For now, however, I'm quite happy with it.

Before the switch I jumped around (angrily) between Unitron (Unity's Smultron fork), Smultron, MonoDevelop (still sucks on Mac), GEdit (great editor, but GTK looks like shit on Mac), and tried several others without satisfaction.

Sublime is like a breath of fresh air.

The sky is falling.

I think the chances are quite good that they were indeed both stupid and evil.

I have a bad feeling about this.

I work in my bedroom with a notebook computer. It took no convincing for me to throw out the desk and chair, because I was so weary of sitting all day.

My solution is simple. I slapped a desk top onto my chest of drawers, with a nonslip mat underneath to keep it from sliding. Pardon me for not running to grab the measuring tape, but it's at about my elbow height (I'm 6'2").

I stand at it most of the day, and when I get tired I just unplug everything and move to my bed for awhile. I can't take my external display to bed, but so far that's never really bothered me.

I think later on I may get crazy with some square steel tubing, and build myself a standing monstrosity.

On portability...

I've been thinking that a laptop tripod would be nice. Googling around, I see that there are some out there, but they are too short and look too flimsy.

I think a solution could be rigged up with a good, sturdy surveying tripod.

Personally, I'd like to see the trackpad centered between the two halves of a split keyboard.