tomfakes

Walter Isaacson did a great job with Franklin and Einstein. Hopefully, it isn't too soon for Steve's biography (a bunch of Einstein's letters didn't get released until some time after his death, so a biography in 1955 would have missed some detail)

Almost everyone agrees that you shouldn't eat the processed crap - but after that, the results become harder to get out of trials.

I have experienced exactly this phenomenon.

There's a lot in there about why the Common Wisdom is built on bad science - the big one is the 7 Countries paper that cherry picked the countries to get the results they wanted, and ignored the 14 countries that didn't show the required results. This is where Saturated Fat = Bad came from.

The book Good Carbs, Bad Carbs opened my eyes to why Atkins works - lots of science references in there.

With personal experimentation this year, I'm beginning to work out what I can eat and not have problems in the short term. This experience is lining up with the paleo diet. It's much harder to tell if the long term problems will follow the same way, but if I feel physically better now, that can't be bad. I am thinner, healthier, more muscular and have better endurance than at any other point in my life, and I'm 44.

YMMV

The science for nutrition in humans is very difficult to pin down - there are just too many external variables, and the human body does a fantastic job in working with whatever it gets as a fuel in the short term that masks a lot of what is bad.

Personally, I'm convinced there's something that rings true in the Paleo movement, and I'm trying that out now to see how it works for me.

I have all my gems locked on specific versions to avoid surprises, and this site shows me when there are updates and I can decide to update my bundle to use the updates.

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/sof/2609125268.html

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

Facebook is so distributed that very few need be inconvenienced by a few failed servers

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

http://www.comcastbiteofseattle.com/

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.

This deployment scares me a lot -- partly because I haven't yet made it work in an RC build, and mainly because it adds more moving parts to my production servers.

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.