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Last comments! What I really regret not doing, was taking a daily photo.. I do have a couple of photos (by luck, not by planning), Also, get a tape measure!

starting point, began cycling to work about 2 weeks after this photo was taken (~118 kg, ouch)

http://www.arcturus.com.au/sean/2009-09-15.jpg

6 months later with riding every day and body weight exercises (~97kg)

http://www.arcturus.com.au/sean/2010-03-22.jpg

I would highly recommend taking some photos, because you don't notice changes yourself, everyone else does. :)

I use google docs to track everything, I have 3 years of daily weight measurements, keep a track of my lifts, keep notes on everything..

http://www.arcturus.com.au/sean/weekly_weight_2010.png

http://www.arcturus.com.au/sean/weekly_weight_2011.png

http://www.arcturus.com.au/sean/chart_latest.png

Large gain of 5+ kilos this year - trying to get squat past 140kg, hah. Playing rugby next year.

The biggest key is keeping a record. Doesn't really matter what you do, as long as you log it.

Good luck!

Actually I think you'll find that they're not widely known.

(Sweeping generalisation) Most women avoid free weights because they don't want to put on muscle and look like a body builder. Doesn't happen. Hell, some men have that same attitude because "hey I don't want to get bulky". My comment is "well if you discover that secret, you should market it because millions of people will buy it"

This is one of the best fitness articles I've read. Of course, that's me suffering from confirmation bias, because in 3 years of being on a health kick, I came to the same conclusions after talking to various people with a similar interest.

My progression went:-

Cycling -> Running -> Machines -> Body Weight Exercises -> Discovering Rippetoe/SS -> Barbell (Power Rack)

The barbell is the king, and the great thing is in my gym it's always (95%) free. Everyone is on the cable machines.

Now I try and get all my friends and family doing some sort of 3x5/SS program because it. just. works. I even have my daughters doing it!

Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns is one of my favorite books, my copy is incredibly beaten up. I just really like the way Kent writes.

I picked up my copy because I love Smalltalk, but I use a lot of those same patterns in Delphi, C#, and Python.

Found his site, and this link is interesting

http://www.iapf.org/en/2012-08-10-10-37-18/rhinouav

I watched a doco a while back about a bloke named Damien Mander, who was ex-SAS and served in Afghanistan/Iraq, and was now living in South Africa training wardens to protect the elephants and rhinos. He said that the one tool he wished he had access to was predator UAVs like the ones they had in Afghanistan, because the amount of ground it could cover in one flight was huge compared to troops on-foot (or even in ground based vehicles). He had hooked up with a Melbourne based aviation engineer to design a UAV themselves, with thermo imaging equipment etc. The problem for me was that it was essentially a radio controlled plane, complete with the buzzing sound of the little nitro engine. Seemed like an easy target for a poacher to just shoot it out of the sky.

I really hope Google are putting a predator style UAV in this guys hands.

oh damn, I actually followed those links to Drew Houston and Alexis Ohanian expecting even more exciting scammer reads, but received a history lesson on the founders of dropbox and reddit instead!

Well, 17 lamborghinis was an exaggeration, he did seem to have a number of them, an excessive number, coming from someone who drives a commodore, I was jealous!

yeah, I discovered all those links, + some more regarding their forex company, and a couple of other partners in crime who'se names I won't mention.

I particular enjoyed the ripoffreport one, where a random internet dude got on and defended Mr Himler with huge walls of text including bold and italic formatting. They seemed to take a lot of care for someone who had no connection at all! Colour me skeptical!

It made for a great Friday afternoon of reading, all that was missing was a beer in hand, but I have since taken care of that missing beer problem.

Completely off topic, but rather than watch the video on autoblog.com I followed the link direct to youtube, but I got distracted by the "mom's reaction to 1250whp twin turbo" on the right hand side "Related Videos" section, Just a quick peek right, can't hurt!

But then I got curious about this video poster, RobertHimler, and looked at some of his other his videos, and them stumbled across his Australian girlfriend Amy Sangster, and her success in foreign exchange trading, and his 17 lamborghinis, and they're both 22 years old and retired from the rat race and HOLY SHIT BALLS THESE PEOPLE HAVE AMAZING LIFESTYLEZ YO

And he is an amazing web developer who has created 8 different sites and a photo app that rivals flickr and instagram, and he's been programming since he was 8 years old, and a self-made multi-bazillionaire

And now he's selling an e-book on the internet how you too can have the amazing lifestyle and own crazy expensive sports cars and attractive partners, and it just stinks of some sort of super scam, but wow, what a story, and it kept me entertained to do back ground hunting on the two of them for 15 minutes, and it was an unexpected trip, so thanks.

It's an engaging white collar 411 scam (without the murder). How do people actually fall for this stuff?

Well I had a disputed charge I was planning on seeking to have overturned, so I've just tested the chargeback.cc system with this dispute as a trial

Nothing interesting to add except it was an enjoyable way to start the day, thanks. Always good to have something remind you how insignificant you are! The music was great too

edit: loaded it in chrome instead, even better (should have been obvious given it's located on chromeexperiments.com)

I still consider Elite as one of the greatest games of all time. The fact the original developers are behind this gives it a load of credibility.

It may never live up to the expectations that will be placed on it

What, in your opinion, constitutes a commercial success?

Quake was/is one of the best games of it's genre, ever. It sold 1.7 million copies, as a shareware release.

Doom 3 sold 3.5 million copies. It wasn't a commercial success?

Not to mention the games that were built on top of id technology, games like Half Life, Call of Duty, et al

the haunting music did it for me

Another book recommendation:-

Girth Control: The Science of Fat Loss & Muscle Gain - Alan Aragon

This is the bible, it has absolutely no fluff/filler content.

"the VB6 IDE is nicer than any VB.NET one"

I can think of a couple of items right off the bat..

- no mouse wheel support - code navigation shortcut keys non-existant - ide crashed all the time - I can't think of anything else really because it's been so long I was forced to want to kill myself (translation: It's been a while since I had to use the VB6 toolset)

I would argue you never spent any serious time in the VB6 ide, because it was (is) complete garbage. The fact that people still use it proves to me that those people simply don't know any better.

And if you throw the argument that VB6 is great for just banging out windows apps that work, Delphi is a far better choice.

Just wanted to say thanks for this link - I'm not interested in her numbers, but to stumble across this on HN, and head off and listen to her music, awesome. I really love the sound of the cello, and discovered another cellist, Philip Sheppard, in a similar way.

And her album is only 8 bucks! in FLAC format!

Nah sorry - it was 19 years ago!

Years ago I recycled an old 8-ball table into a desk. Utilising a claw hammer to take off one side of the table rails, so as to be flush with the table surface. I threw away my mouse pad. Best table ever, it was amazing for FPS gaming.

no it isn't, and you raise a good point, I'll change it

canvas.canvas() would definitely look weird

Just use what you enjoy.

I recently had a similar experience - on a whim I decided I would learn python by taking a asp.net mvc app I built and have maintained for the last 3 years and port it. So I just needed to choose a python web framework right? omg. So many, micro, mini, full stack, no stack, template engines, wsgi, uwsgi, whoa! My head was spinning

You can be completely overwhelmed just trying to make a decision, I haven't even looked at storage yet but I'll probably just use sqlite (the old .net one used db4o, which ended up being a huge mistake, great tool, pitfa to do maint on)

on a side note, loving python, and I settled on bottle, but I wrote my own template framework called canvas, inspired by the seaside component/tag/canvas classes.. essentially it's all just python code, no html.. example usage is https://gist.github.com/3087622 (i'll push it to github once I'm happy with it, hah!)

This is probably very obvious, but just a note for anyone interested in using gdb.. if you downloaded 64-bit go, you need to use the 64bit gdb to debug it

If you attempt to use the 32 bit gdb, you'll get errors about the executable you're attempting to debug is in an invalid format

I'd also recommend reading "Carrying the Fire" by Michael Collins, it's probably my favourite book written by a Gemini/Apollo astronaut

a, b, and c, and there is no other / better service, so it's a difficult one to solve.

also things can't wait until 9am or the selected waking hours, we have too many people/systems relying on working infrastructure, so an issue popping up at an ungodly hour is fixed there and then, even if it means calling other people.

Those are the worst support calls, 3am on some weeknight, and you can't actually fix the problem because you're not 100% certain, and you need to call a colleague and wake them up too. You feel like an asshole.

I'll wear that, but also I just happen to be on support this week so it's a raw subject right now ;)

I like how quite a number of peoples answers to the on-call programmer blog was "you need better tests"

here's a what if scenario:-

- you have a third party service your systems rely on

- at 4am on Sunday morning said 3rd party service upgrades their system, introducing a breaking change, having never bothered to notify users

- you get a call as the on-call person saying "application X is not longer working, please resolve"

How do tests stop that scenario from happening? Tests don't magically help you invent features/work around introduced issues in 3rd party systems.

Those are typically the on-call issues we deal with (we're on a weekly rotation)

How does the insurance even work on something like that. New for old just doesn't even begin to come close.

Some have theorized that the reason we are even talking about this is because we are _not_ in a cluster. We are pretty isolated, life ending events are pretty rare, every 60 million years?