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After a bunch of stuff failed, they eventually opened me up and whipped out 2 feet of intestine that turned out to be malformed - so probably no crohn's disease at all.

This does cause a number of interesting day-to-day issues even now!

It seems that there are a bunch of other problems that can occur with intestine problems. I currently have been diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondilitis that I am able to control with my diet (which may indicate that it's something else)

The connection between intestinal disorders and auto-immune issues seems to be growing stronger. Maybe something to watch out for.

Several months ago, I was on a very low carb diet to lose some weight (which worked!) and my obvious symptom went away after 10 days on this diet. Wow! Now it's time to experiment to see what's up.

Here's what I've found - if I eat something 'bad', in 2 days time, my symptom comes back. In 3 days it peaks, and it tails off over the next 4 days. This makes it really tricky to isolate the specific food that is causing my primary symptom.

So far, I've found the outer edges of my problem foods, but I need to find the inner edges - is it sugar, or potatoes, or rice, or wheat, or beans, or beer, or all of the above? This part is harder to test specifically, as there are other things going on in my life at the same time, and I like eating out, which can sabotage any in-progress test.

Overall though, this is a much better place to be than taking the $2000 per month biologic injections that I've been prescribed for the rest of my life - and it helps that the ultra-low carb solution provides better symptom relief too!

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These guys call BS on the Fed's numbers, and then ask why the Fed deliberately made this complex calculation in a way to deceive what is really happening

1. Mac UI looks good, browser fonts look good there too 2. A lot of open source stack developers use OSX as their dev machines, so the code has already been tested there 3. Since OSX is BSD, a lot of the same server code runs, and runs well on OSX, so demos can run well with everything hosted on the same machine without needing VMs or other tricks.

Windows can do all of this too, but some stuff doesn't work as easily on Window. Microsoft server stack runs great on Windows, but 'the cool kids' are all running open source stacks.

  I'm officially quitting that job on national TV

Note: Did HN just screw up this same posting?

Here's the money quote:

  I'm officially quitting that job on national TV

For Git projects, the per-repo pricing of Github is insane. They don't even have a public pricing plan for the number of repos I'd need for my personal (and private) coding.

I use Unfuddle for my private and business code.

As far as I can tell, I need the V8 code built on my production boxes! That seems insane, unless I want to switch to using node.js....

On my FreeBSD system, I still have no idea how to get V8 built correctly. I've bailed on it for now and am running my 'production' server with the 'development' environment.

Remember, I'm not running beta software, I'm running a 'release candidate'.

When this works, it'll probably be great, but stick with 3.0 if you actually want to make progress on your application.

This is the only site I've used where the username doesn't have to be unique!

I've upgraded Mongo Mapper to 0.9.1 to take advantage of it's Rails 3 integration, and it works with Devise 1.3.4 which removes the deprecation warnings.

To do this, I had to pull down the devise-mongo_mapper plugin to avoid version conflicts - it works with the newer code with no changes.

Mongo Mapper 0.9.x has a new configuration hookup that I had already written myself, so that code had to get a small change.

Joint, a Mongo Mapper plugin, doesn't work. I was going to replace Joint anyway for my own needs, now I need to do it today instead of next week.

Now I'm 2 hours in, and still not working on the Asset pipeline work I want to do, but my app is running except for the Joint bits

My next step is to fixup my morass of CSS and JS files to use the Asset pipeline correctly. That's probably another hour or so.

I use Devise and Mongo Mapper. The Mongo Mapper for Devise gem depends on Devise 1.1.x, and this causes a bunch of deprecation warnings, but it works. I don't know if the latest Devise has this fixed, as I can't run it due to the Mongo Mapper for Devise dependency.

Some hand editing of development.rb to remove the debug_rjs setting and some editing to change my use of stylesheet_tag and my app ran ok

I'm not using the cool new asset pipeline yet, but my app runs with 1 hour of work.

Ruby 1.9 gives you an easy doubling of performance from base Ruby 1.8. Ruby Enterprise Edition is a worthy upgrade to the 1.8 codebase, but 1.9 is where the action should be. I haven't used 1.8 for over year, 1.9 is that good.

For some reason they mention maybe trying Ruby 1.9 and JRuby at some future time.

If you care about performance, and you want to play with heap implementations, then the JVM has you covered. JRuby is the version I would have started with just to play with GC settings.

I'm all for playing with stuff to find things out, but this feels like they aren't spending their time wisely to get the result that they need.

This is the way classes are taught in the real world (although this is usually a group of people on the same schedule), but isn't the way the web works.

There are tax implications with this description. This equity could be called compensation and taxed at the income tax rate instead of the capital gains rate, in the US. This could be the difference between 15% and 35% tax rates.

I prefer to think of it as "earning the right to have restrictions lifted from the equity they own". At the same time, their work is causing that equity to have more value (if they're doing it right!)

I am not a tax expert, or a lawyer, but this exact thing has been an issue for me personally for this tax season.

Even smaller properties are owned by corporations to make the paperwork easy, and to avoid the same types of taxes.

The downside is that mortgages aren't available for buying corporations, so financing is trickier

My screen is wide, my editor is wide, my code is fairly wide, but the standard format for CSS is really narrow. Every time I see the vertical format in my editor, easily 80% of the window space is completely empty, and otherwise useless, and 80% of the CSS is not on the screen and I have to page up and down, or search, to find stuff.

This is a workflow optimization that works for me. It might work for others too.

  .foo    { x: y; a: b }
  .bar    { m: n }
  .baz    { background: blah blah url(xyz.png) top left;
            x: y; i: j; }

  .foo {
    x: y;
    a: b;
  }

  .bar {
    m: n
  }

  .baz { 
    background: blah blah url(xyz.png) top left;
    x: y; 
    i: j; 
  }

I have a friend who, when he does stuff, I can look at and say that there is no-way I would ever come up with that. Once I've seen it, I can say that I could repeat that, given some time, but that isn't the same as coming up with the original idea and implementing it really well

That is a great programmer.

These things cost $55 each and gave out a light that was a bit too dim, and very, very blue. My wife hated them and we took them out and put incandescents back to get the light we wanted.

We hated CFCs too - way too dim, and they take a long time to warm up (we tend to turn off the lights we're not using).

I'd love to see how good these newer LED bulbs can be in the real usage.

If I was building my own web site outside of Facebook, I would not give them the power to shut me down. By all means, allow a user to link their accounts to their Facebook accounts, but you must own your own user.

Also, get the security right here - spend the 2 days to work out how to store passwords (note: don't store passwords!) correctly so that when your user database is stolen, your users aren't completely screwed.

We never measured how much longer our tests took to run though, since our customers were only ever running in Production mode

Why is a handwritten note better than an email? I would argue that it is because the handwritten note is more authentic and genuine. If you then pay someone else to write them, then the value is destroyed. You lose the essence of the 'handwrittenness'

This service also has the ability to backfire on the note sender: If I was to get one of these, and later find out that it came from some external service with an API and a pricing plan, I'd be much more annoyed than not getting anything at all.