yeah I definitely walked into it with my eyes closed. My wife was telling me it was a bad idea, and I still didn't listen, but hey, who listens to their wife right? haha
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If you work in an object oriented language, I think one of the most useful books you could read would be Kent Beck's Smalltalk Best Practise Patterns. The reason being that the lessons and tricks Kent discusses in his book can be applied to Ruby, Python, Java, C#, C++, Delphi, and any other language that I insultingly forgot, where you are working with objects and polymorphism.
But it certainly wouldn't be useful for _every_ programmer to read. Those would be much more abstract like the already listed ones (mythical man month, sicp, code complete, gof, pragmatic programmer)
The bookmakers would already have access to this footage, because it is a competitive edge over the public. If the public suddenly had access to the all 22, there might be a correction in those betting markets.
And if the bookmakers don't have access to the footage? Could be an opportunity to capitalise on their in-efficiency ;)
Also you lost 10-15 pounds of muscle. sad but true.
Personally I would have just started cycling to/from work (Although maybe he does already)
looks like I'm not alone
Person begins to diet, they actually do lose weight (rather than just the usual water weight), but up to 25% of the weight they lose is actually lean mass, that is muscle. Your body devours itself when it is lacking caloric input, via fat reserves, and muscle tissue. In order to minimise the muscle loss and maximise fat loss, you need to be doing an appropriate amount of strength training, as well as eating enough protein.
The worst possible outcome is that you do a number of cycles of a diet, with zero strength training, and every time you gain weight after a diet, you've gained more fat, and are now the proud owner of a body with even less lean mass.
Muscle burns energy even when idle, fat does not. So you are spot on, the easiest way to lose fat is to gain muscle mass. Most of us are physically piss weak and shouldn't be.
that's a gem.
We have something akin to a swear jar going on at work, where instead of a coin donation, you must slap yourself in the face for swearing, it's a bad day if it's not even gone 9am and you're slapping yourself
And after Embarcadero finally released a 64-bit Delphi compiler complete with memory leaks and 8000% slower compile times, there was a lot face slapping going on =\
Then there was that article a few years ago (which I can't even remember the actual argument, but I think it was about censorship) that the linux kernel source code would be black listed because it had 7000+ counts of the word fuck in it.
Swearing almost goes with the territory of being a programmer.. Oh wait, we're not supposed to call our selves programmers any more. Colour me confused! Ok, so I add value to my organisation, I remove obstacles, and if I happen to swear while doing it, oh well!
I have no data to base my sweeping generalisation on, other than personal experience
Lately we are starting to hit a limit - a power limit. We are actually limited in the data center we use not by space, but by our power consumption, so we now have a pseudo KPI of "reduce our power usage". It's a good goal, but certainly not one I had ever contemplated.
A (future) stumbling block is our reliance on x86. Would love to be able to move to ARM =\
http://www.gemstone.com/products/gemstone
My specific experience is with GLASS
Caveat is that while the Ruby implementation on top may not be 100% compatible with standard ruby (again I can't comment) the underlying technology is bulletproof, these guys have been doing object persistance w/ very high tps for 25+ years
This is an exciting technology, and if I worked with ruby at all, I would definitely be checking it out.
As long as you understand that issue, you can work around it, and there are future changes coming that will address it so that will be fantastic
It could almost be a business venture, given the fact that an off the shelf media product is upwards of $100 here in aus, if you could create a decent linux media center experience for the device, and a nice case, you could flog it for waves hand about $80 per unit and be ahead (provided the mark-up took into consideration all your costs).
Would fly in the face of the educational/not-for-profit Raspberry Inc though.
I'll find somewhere to write about it though.
- Cheap - Fast - Good
Choose any two
With TP, you got all three!
I wonder how many people would be brave/stupid enough to press the enter key, trusting in the methods they have used to hide their own identity, because if you haven't done it properly, the cartels have a long reach
That's what I respect most about him. His message has never changed. He's truly a man of his convictions. Like him or not.