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Mi falta. No offense intended by the tongue in cheek comment. Perhaps not the place....

I'm rather new to HN, so I was wondering, can I buy some of that Karma on E-bay?

Never has it been more clear that blocking free expression is the primary tool of tyrants to prevent change and reform within their society.

It is perhaps difficult to judge the material from a quick glance at the website. He has written many excellent books such as "The Creator and The Cosomos" which I would refer you to for a more in depth discussion.

I have been following astrophysicist Hugh Ross for some time. For a very intelligent exploration of creationist ideas (that very decidedly do not accept that the earth is only 10,000 years old) check out Reasons To Believe:

http://www.reasons.org/

I have to say I have been using OpenOffice/LibreOffice for the past 4 months on my office Windows XP machine for the last 3 months and have not needed Microsoft Office at all. It's nice to know that their good work is continuing.

Although I am playing around with javascript every day (primarily with a game engine), I'm not sure that I would answer the questions correctly without messing around with the code in real-time.

In terms of stylistics, the initial page sure looks old-school, but I really do love that wormy dhtml5.com effect that follows the pointer.

Well stated. Another reason not to use Facebook or Goldman Sachs.

I have to agree. I bought it after the new year and am having a great time with it. I think the documentation is great and the author seems very committed to doing a fine job and perhaps more importantly continuing with his project.

One reason is to be able to consistently work with the same language both on the server and on the client. In this way one doesn't need to change gears all the time. I do like JS, but I'd rather use Ruby (or language of choice) most of the time.

This is a great list. I was just thinking about what might be out there the other day. I'm very interested in Ruby --> JS. However haven't tried them. I followed Charles Nutter's work on JRuby for a while and it seems to me that it's extremely involved to actually compile a fully functioning ruby into another language and/or bytecode.

Oh yes. 7th grade lines on the Apple IIe:

  10 FOR I = 1 to 100
  20 PRINT "I WILL NOT SPEAK OUT OF TURN IN CLASS. I WILL FOLLOW CLASS RULES"
  30 NEXT I

"That is fantastic that you can type all of that out on your typewrite Michael. Well done." (The concept of Dot Matrix wasn't even well known initially and perhaps bad lenses).

BASIC on the Apple II was my first programming language and I loved it at the time. Once my kids are a little older, I'm going to start with Ruby. One thing that was very helpful learning basic on the old Apple was that you could use the command line to examine variables and also program on the fly. This is similar to Ruby's IRB. Being able to tinker with a program without having to compile first is very instructive and most of all fun!

Having a background in biology with an interest in physics and extra-dimensionality, I found this article very intriguing. I immediately thought of the mathematicians who developed the theory of prions (the likely causative agent of Creutzfeldt_Jakob Disease otherwise know as Mad Cow Disease) being a protein only transmissible infection even before it was though to be biologically plausible.

I too was around 12 when I would carefully try to type in basic and assembly language programs from Byte magazine into our Apple IIe. What a lot of work! No downloading the code from the internet. No gem install, etc. And if you made a mistake somewhere, good like trying to find and fix it.

I loved every second of it though. Long live Byte!

I am a practicing Endocrinologist and have been out in private practice for the last 5 years.I have been counseling diabetics and the overweight to keep carbohydrates in a low but still healthy range (about 120-180 grams daily) and to not follow the food pyramid.

What I generally tell people: Carbohydrates generally follow this pathway: carbs-> glucose-> used for energy vs stored (mainly as fat).

Eat less carbs, store less fat in general. Unless one is very active either growing or running marathons it is very difficult to burn through all of the energy in 300 grams of carbs per day (which is the RDA recommendation).

Eat protein with each meal. This will not get stored as fat and whatever is not needed is generally eliminated. It also keeps one full for a longer period of time by slowing digestion. It also slows the digestion of carbohydrates.

Get lots of fiber. This is an indigestible carbohydrate which again helps to keep one full, yet does not get moved down the sugar to fat pathway.

Therefore balance the meal:

Carbs (moderate to low unless very active), protein with each meal (lean meat, fish, chicken, nuts, eggs, cheese, etc), and fiber with each meal (especially green vegetables but also fruit).

Above all: All Things in Moderation.

Also things in medicine change all the time so good judgment and common sense always trump the latest "brilliant" scientific study or fad.