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I think he means sucrose (table sugar), not starch (glucose) or lactose. Sucrose, more specifically fructose (half of sucrose), has been targeted as the bad guy. See Robert Lustig's talk, among others. Obviously cutting out ALL sugars would be a bad call.

Sorry for the OT question, but what tools did you use to make that video?

I live in SLO and would love to do this. Email in profile.

Matte. I got eye pain from reading on a glossy screen, so I replaced it with a matte, and it has helped a lot.

You also get angry parents thinking you have it out for their kid. Reffing was one of the most exhaustive jobs I've ever done (kids basketball). Will not do it again.

And I guess it depends on the situation, because I only got $10/hr.

I've noticed this as well, although I don't think that programming and socializing use the same parts of the brain.

It feels like programming directs all brain power toward the analytical/introspective aspect of my brain, during which the social aspect gets cold. Then when I have to socialize, it takes awhile to warm up. They are completely different states of mind.

Dunno if this should factor into whether I should become a programmer as a career.

It's not difficult at all. Cheese, butter, and eggs are all cheap. Hell, if you're not a stickler for local and pastured meat, that's quite cheap as well (though you can usually manage to find decently-priced sources of those -- especially if you find a group to cowpool with.)

My standard meal is eggs, sausage, and onions sauteed in butter and topped with salsa. Very cheap and fast (and good).

Sinatra has a few 3rd party libraries that do it for you. I'm using sinatra-authentication, which works great.

My roommate and I, who are both paleo, were just looking at this. We were wondering how profitable it was, do you have any idea?

The paleo diet is awesome. I've lost a considerable amount of weight on it, and feel and look much better.

Also, a diet with staples like grass-fed beef, pastured butter (or any other healthy animal fat), avocado, and fish is my kind of diet. No more forcing down bitter grain or soy products in fruitless attempts to go "healthy". Plus, my meals are so substantial and high in fat that I only need to eat once or twice a day.

For anyone interested, there's a lot of good paleo sites out there, but I'd start with http://paleonu.com and http://freetheanimal.com

And if you can, pick up Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon.

I agree. As a budget traveler, I'd love a service like AirBnB, but all of the listings are too pricey. If they targeted the frugal adventurers, I could see a community of such people developing around the site, and all travelers would use AirBnB, not just the richer ones.

While this could be painful in the short-term, it would help them achieve the ubiquity that they seem to want.

This is great. They're trying to penalize a company that actually produces value, and propping up the ones that don't.

I'll be there. Email me if you wanna meet up.

What I want to know is, how do you guys get this stuff? I wanted to try it awhile back, but couldn't find a legit source on a net that wasn't selling a cheap knockoff from India.

Try to do some coding.

Good idea, though when I tried to sign up I got an error page titled:

KeyError at /signup ...

I can code Ruby/Rails/Merb (not an expert by far, but I may be able to get the job done), am in college looking for something cool to do, and would be willing to co-found (or develop at a fee) if I liked the idea.

Hit me up at the email in my profile if interested.

Maybe I'm missing something, but window management has always irked me on the Mac.

I often have a bunch of files and projects open in textmate and I end up cycling through them with 'cmd + ~' or using expose to hunt for it. I want something like alt-tab, but for the currently open program, where I can see all the open windows for it (ordered by how recently they've been viewed) and access them easily.

Congrats. How soon are you gonna teach your kid programming?

I don't see how there would be slavery. The only people living on a seastead would be those who wanted to. I don't know how they would get slaves to come with them.

And yeah, if you don't like laissez-faire, you don't have to join a seastead that practices it. That's the whole point -- choosing your system of government.