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Thanks. I think a lot of them agree that low-carb approaches work for weight loss and some other outcomes, since that's what the science shows. But his "insulin hypothesis" is pure…

It took me a little reading to figure out the agenda, but some key phrases like "obesity is a growth disorder" tipped me off. This is a Gary Taubes project. He is a writer of books…

This is a fun demo of functional programming, but Lisp isn't so special anymore. In Python: >>> def deriv(f): ... dx = 0.0001 ... def fp(x): ... return (f(x + dx) - f(x)) / dx ... …

Anti-semitism isn't always about religion. Sometimes it's just racism.

Does this bother you? I think they are just trying to eliminate management overhead by using peer evaluation to set the company's direction by consensus. This could maybe be chaoti…

CRUD wrappers with a pretty GUI are actually really hard to do well. Think of all unusable and unstable CRUD apps you've used. I wouldn't drill someone on dynamic programming for t…

While on a 1:1 audio call, users will see content that could spark additional topics of conversation that are relevant to Skype users and highlight unique and local brand experienc…

I'm a Ruby developer who never uses Rails, and I think this is a major problem. It makes it hard for me to embrace "Ruby developer" as a career path because that means I'll be type…

My TV has rabbit ears. I can watch NFL games in high definition with them for free.

I call bullshit. If this guy was bored because all of his software projects were exactly the same, he should have automated their creation and reused his code so that they took an …

What kind of thought process and/or experimentation led you to that algorithm?

Yep. I learned music theory in the course of learning to play single-note woodwind instruments. There's a lot of focus on scales and intervals.

If you want to learn to play guitar, the wrong approach is to pick up a book about music theory and a chart showing where all the notes are on the fretboard. I found music theory k…

Of course brains produce false models and find wrong patterns. Modeling and pattern-matching is what brains do . So they're going to get it wrong a lot. The interesting thing isn't…

We have no better idea what the typical mind is like than we did a hundred years ago I can't take this statement seriously. Have you ever even taken an intro cognition or perceptio…

Shouldn't this page be more clear about the fact that this completely insecure and not currently suitable for any public website, due to the unlimited database rights?

My favorite part was this analogy by Guido van Rossum: In Python, I would just say something like, ‘Get up and go through the door.’ In other languages, I might have to say somethi…

The advantage that Zuckerberg got from writing Facebook himself wasn't that he could "spend less on coders," it's that Facebook got created at all. Meanwhile, he had been contracte…

Really? All of them? How do you know?

Why are people so angry? It seems like these guys are mostly just acting silly. I don't think it's particularly interesting or funny or whatever, but that's no reason to be mad at …