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I think it's pretty cool that they had cameras capable of recording at 500 frames per second back then. Then again they had enough technology and smart people to actually put men on the moon, so a 500 fps camera would have been a walk in the park.

In before any 'the moon-landings were faked' statements, although I would be surprised by any HN reader saying that unless tongue-in-cheek.

The idea of the big bang being caused by some sort of 'white hole', is kind of cool. Here you have an object absorbing all matter, becoming infinitely dense, and at some point, it becomes so dense with matter that it actually tears a hole right through the fabric of the universe, where it then diffuses into a new reality where matter is low/non-existant. You'd have to agree that if this is possible, the 'explosion' that would occurr as the black hole diffused through the tear would be terrific. Would it be equivelent to a 'big bang'? I don't know.

Perhaps the life (or death) of a black hole varies, dependent on the available matter for the black hole to consume. A black hole that never reaches that critical amount of mass required to tear through into a new dimension (or whatever the terminology for describing the event is) is doomed to dissipate via Hawkins Radiation, however a black hole that consumes enough matter to tear such a hole, ends up disappearing anyway, as it diffuses into the newly created universe?

I have no idea, nor am I qualified in any way to have an opinion. I did read 'A Brief History of Time' once though!

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yeah thanks for picking that up - I meant to write "that ate less" but I was stuck on the whole meals per day thing!

I can't argue with the author in regards to HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training). It works. Not only does your body use more energy during the work out, another affect of those sessions is something known as EPOC, or Excess post-exercise oxygen consumption. EPOC is your friend. EPOC is what you _want_ to achieve with every workout.

However what I can argue with is the assertion that eating set numbers of meals a day, or lack-there of, is detrimental to ones ability to build lean muscle mass. There has been no scientifically proven benefit to eating 5 meals a day, nor has there been for those who eat 1 meal a day. Sure, starvation won't help you bulk up, but you certainly don't need to follow the doctrine of 5 small meals a day, or whatever else seems to be the fad of the moment.

What _has_ been scientifically proven, atl-least in rats, is that eating less keeps you younger. Lab animals that ate less meals per day, lived longer.

I really took an issue with his comment that setting goals set you up for failure. "Goals set you up for failure. If you don't achieve them, you will quit." - I disagree. I think setting goals are an excellent way of assigning discrete measurements on a path to (health, fitness, well-being), whatever. You have to have goals, just be sure that the goal you are setting is correct. If you want to lose 20kg, that's a goal, just put in place the correct methods to be able to accurately measure your progress towards it.

Ahhh I have too many issues with this article. I could keep going, but I won't.

Difficult because everyone speaks a different language ;)

Third generation programmer here too.

My grandfather worked on the guidance systems for the Australian missile program run out of Woomera.

Both my uncles are programmers, and my mother is a programmer too.

It's kind of the 'family trade'

I could quite happily purge the majority of my rss feeds and not miss them, but I wouldn't remove 'The Old New Thing' (Raymond Chen's blog) - it's got great anecdotes, insight into MS, and some very good technical content.

Someone will probably do it 'just for fun'

I might be showing my ignorance here, I'm not a network guy, but a vast majority of internal networks use 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.1.1/24 and so on. What happens when the source and destination networks both use the same class C addresses?

I ride with a constant fear that someone driving a car while sms'ing (or twittering?) their friends while driving will be the end of me.

I pretty much agree with everything that guy says.

Thought I'd just chime in with some personal experience here. I'd let myself get to a pretty sorry state, top end 118 kg. I basically said enough was enough, and got my bike out of the shed and started riding to work - a breezy downhill 10 minute ride in to work, a more difficult 30 minute climb home.

So, last week of September 2009, my 33rd Birthday, 118 kg. Right now, 16th of March, 96.6 kg.

Basically I do about 30 minutes cycling 5 days a week (work commute). And maybe 1 - 2 hours of "liesure" riding on a Saturday or Sunday (~50km distance).

In terms of working out - I don't go to a gym, and never will. I do pushups (close hands, wide hands), squats (varying on weights in hands/arm positions), pullups, and I bought a 1.5m piece of latex rubber that I throw around a pole and pretend I'm on a rowing machine. I work out for 30 - 40 minutes, 2 - 3 times a week.

I gave up drinking beer _every_ day. And I might have a couple over a weekend. I still have pizza and chocolate bars, but I limit the intake of said items. I also started practising intermitten fasting (Basically you have dinner on the thursday night, and on the friday you skip breakfast and lunch, and eat dinner again on Friday night)

Here's a chart for the last few months of weight loss: http://www.arcturus.com.au/weight_trend_%28kgs%29.png

The only thing that I can suggest to you, is, that whatever you choose to do, you have to enjoy it, it must NOT be a chore, and you need to keep doing it indefinitely. Going to the gym was definitely OUT as far as meeting those goals, but getting up before my kids, and spending 30 minutes doing calisthenics, 2 or 3 times a week? I can do that for the rest of my life.

ps I hate to run.

squats. standard, hindu, with extra weight, without extra weight, squats with raised arms, squats with arms in a Y shape.

squats squats squats.

I try and do at 3x50 sets for 150 squats 2 - 3 times a week. Basically first set of 50 is without weights, second set of 50 is with 10 kilos of weight plates in my hands. 3rd set of 50 is with 20kg of weight plates in my hands. The 3rd set hurt.