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This article sucks really. Aaron E. Carroll says that he's read many books and articles on the topic but he hasn't read 2 books by David Perlmutter and Davis Williams it looks like otherwise he wouldn't recommend 'whole grains over refined grains' in #1.

He hasn't watched Mark Hyman's videos on Youtube either, otherwise he wouldn't recommend 'butter' in #3.

The #2 conflicts with #4. They may be combined into one simple line: All the restaurants are either unhealty or wallet blowing.

#5 is missing some detail, such as the one that no alcohol but red wine should be taken. #6 should be modified to read: Treat all beverages with total negligence.

Well Pizzahut makes the most delicious pizzas and is the best managed fast food company around. So they pay tribute to their past website, that's nice.

By idiomatic Scala, perhaps he meant the expressive use of language in contrast to writing an application in Scala using the last century's programming habits.

JVM can't be the reason people won't touch Scala or any other JVM language. Actually, being JVM-compatible is an attraction point.

Smalltalk best practice patterns by Kent Beck

If you compare it to Java or Groovy, Scala is the winner. Even the designer of Groovy admitted by saying something like "If I knew the Scala back in 2003 I'd probably have never created Groovy" But compare to Haskell, it looks like a bit bloated. On the other hand, Play Framework has been a great catalyst for Scala.

What about making a human without human? To those who try to outsmart nature: Would they like to be produced without human?

Yes they are not recoverable but try google cache. Actually I've used google cache to bring back the headline article.

Well, they basically concern themselves with the ranking and when an unpopular lang hits an historical high or low, they make it into headlines. Just for the record, this month's headline (for the sake of Scala's position)

April Headline: Java back at the top!

Java is back at the top of the TIOBE index after one and half year. Androids ongoing success is probably the major reason for Java's revival. The Java language has been in slow decline for many years now, mainly due to its waning foot print in the enterprise server back end market. Since October last year the increasing demand on Java Android programming has exceeded this decline, thus pushing Java more than 3% during this period. Another interesting move this month concerns Scala. The functional programming language jumps to position 25 after having been between position 30 and 50 for many years. Scala seems to be ready to enter the top 20 for the first time in history.

Interesting note from TIOBE about F# just yesterday:

March Headline: All time high for F# at position 11

Microsoft's programming language F# is about to sneak into the top 10. It is not clear why F# is gaining popularity. Possible reasons might be the F# web-programming framework WebSharper and the promotional work of the F# Software Foundation as Tomas Petricek (author of "F# Deep Dives") stated in an interview about 2 weeks ago.

Didn't know they were for 20 years, I've just taken a look at Lynda'a wikipedia entry and oh yes they've been for 20 years, that's interesting. But revenue at $100M/year and acquisiton at $1,5B is more interesting. Still wonder how they'll compete with hundreds of good quality and free online courses, free badges, Mozilla certifications, etc. Good luck to them.

Wonder how they will be able to compete with free online courses, there are plenty of them and they're just as quality. I also wonder how Linked-in itself can compete with other social networks.

The problem is not the poor land use, it's the inefficient capital use!

Hey that article is exactly on topic. Here's an excerpt and my translation below:

"Was geschieht, wenn sich ein Pilot zur Toilette begibt, sein Kollege im Cockpit - aus welchen Gründen auch immer - das Bewusstsein verliert oder verstirbt (solche tragischen Fälle kommen durchaus vor) und der nun außerhalb des Flightdecks befindliche Pilot plötzlich keinen Zutritt mehr zur Steuerzentrale des Flugzeuges hat? "

What happens if one pilot visits the WC and his colleague in cockpit - for whatever reason - loses his consciousness (such tragic cases do happen) and yet the pilot outside of the flight deck has no more access to control center of the aircraft?

It almost foresaw what was to happen on flight 4U9525.

Sometimes the comments, sometimes the link I spent more time to.

First off, the sentence of "the people who were justifying censorship, population control and unfair business practices because they could benefit from them someday" echoed back the news I remember from 2012 or so which was like "In America, half of the lowest earners are opposed to raising taxes on the rich, because they reckon they will someday get rich and raising rich taxes would mean their children would be deprived of having the possibility of getting rich someday" (If someone could find the link of that news I'd be grateful)

As for the hackers, let's see the distinction between the "hacker" and the "problem solver" Richard Stallman did not only hacked software, he solved the problem of software being unaccessable to everyone. Rich Hickey did not only hacked software, he solved the problem of Lisp being unaccessable to newer generations and platforms. The founders of YCombinator didn't only hacked software they solved the problem of eCommerce.

I actually love the people who stick two APIs together and use bootstrap end-ups to show something interesting because they at least 'do' something. But the problem solvers are always the superior ones and I eventually spend more time following them because I myself have to solve problems in my life :)

Just as a little correction, Google makes 6% of its revenue throgh Youtube, so saying 98% is from ads is wrong. Link: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2015/02/27/10-year...

No other browser can beat Firefox, because all the others including Vivaldi are RAM hungry, GPU and CPU abuser show-offs. I don't even talk about their dictative approaches such as minimal feature UI, unauthorized update daemons runnin on background, etc. Firefix does have an Android version and it works great on my 2010 HTC phone, it doesn't dictate a minimum version of Android or something.

If the majority of users aren't familiar with such concepts than I don't need to worry on Mozilla's side because they don't do something fundamentally wrong.

Well it's not me, the other households handle those parts carelessly and the aluminum is easly dented, scratched. But the point is, such parts should be made of anything else, such as copper, suitable type of iron, anything but aluminum. Also, considered in terms of value a $20 toast machine does have aluminum pressing plates, too.

In time they get scratched by forks, while putting in the washing mashine, by anything and when they are scratched the inner aluminum comes into the open and that's no good. Contacting with food while cooking might transfer the scratched aluminum into the food. Aluminum is outright dangerous for any living body.

The parts which contact the food are made of aluminum. Even if they are covered with Teflon or made non-stick, it's still not good.

IMHO, flirting apps and websites all fail all over the world. All of them. And you cannot correct these failures by making the apps&sites paid, you get caught yet in other issues, such as unnatural shrinking of the prospects, diverting the expectations in the wrong way (money involved) and the huge # of unpaying people still interfering with the paying members.

Also not every member is a human! Many a number of profiles are fake, most of them unnatural, unresponding and the expectations clash all the time.

Any serious flirting application should find solutions to these issues first and that cannot be done by simply making it a paid app.

Abbreviations gone crazy. AWS? No mention of Amazon Web Services you have to guess it if you're no user of Amazon cloud services, guess work done right

Not tried yet. Wonder if it's got the option to display the size of directories. On the screenshots, the directories are shown with '-' just like the case with the ls.

Yes I meant APL, not PAL. By functional closures, I tried to mean functions as first-class objects, i.e. ability to pass them as arguments or store them in data structures, etc.

I had read this in an article about Ruby, AFAIK. It was talking about Ruby (or alternatively "Matz") borrowing many principles from LISP and there the author had mentioned Lisp's functions being first-class objects were adopted from APL. I should find that article to clear the things up.

John McCarthy's videos are rare and it's great to see him talking. It's been said that LISP (alternatively J. McCarthy) borrowed the concept of functional closures from APL in mid 60's, that is McCarthy was not the original thinker of closures.

Have a look at Lenovo's X series.

It looks like the folks at Apple insist on misinterpreting the "less is more" principle. Apple is becoming more each day a dictatorship company who thinks that whatever product it launches, they will be loved as they were in 2000's.

You seem to oversimplify the processes. Laser eye surgery has its own complications. I have about 3 degrees myopia and avoid having any laser surgery.

Aging's got more to do with "telomeres" the ends of the chromosome molecules being shortened on each choromosome replication. I've read somewhere that some food such as the green tea helps with the health of the telomeres and that sounds like a more realistic way to extend life.

I'm surprised Thiel talks nothing about natural supplements and he relies only on what's called the Human Growth Hormone. As for cancer cure, it's already been found : Take a look at phkillscancer.com

There's one great American doctor, David Perlmutter whose advices are remarkable and in his book Brain Grain it's stated that Dr. Perlmutter serves on the Medical Advisory Board for The Dr. Oz Show and that he appeared on those shows several times. That's an important reference because Perlmutter is one of my most favourite doctors.

I personally don't watch Oz's TV programs often, but in Washington Post's article, it's underlined that "OZ's advices are not backed up by medical science" But wait, is the medical science itself 100% reliable? Oz at least presents the medicine in an entertaining manner and many of his viewers take his advices with that in mind, for instance me I take his shows lightly just as I take the unshowy doctors advices lightly. Just one video by an undoctor called "Lemon Juice & Apple Cider Vinegar - YouTube" is more beneficial than "medical science" to me and the quick scientific proof included.