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you can get the same effect with whatever is a plus lens for you, though. So if your normal rx is -1.5, do close work without glasses.

With plus lens therapy, you only wear the plus lens while doing close work. If you were wearing the plus lenses while looking more than a few feet away, you wouldn't be doing plus …

DHH said there are things about the "large tent" aspect of rails that are annoying. That's not the same thing as being unhappy with the overall direction of the project.

Are you implying that there wasn't controversy over the Big Dig? I remember plenty.

The second doesn't follow from the first. At most, you could say that people MAY calculate that running a tor relay is no longer worth it, but you could also say that without bring…

If only that were true! My first employer was a large organization that explicitly embraced the waterfall methodology that we all rightfully deride.

Tried Etymotic earbuds? They come with a bunch of adapters to fit different sized ears. My model is of course discontinued but the mc5 looks closest. http://www.etymotic.com/ephp/m…

Took me a couple months to reliably understand my first landlord in Boston, a 3rd or 4th generation American of Italian ancestry.

Unless there are multiple secured domains hosted on that IP address, in which case knowing the domain would be extra information.

Even if your UI is all in JS, Rails still saves a ton of work as an API server compared to Sinatra.

Training should only cause physical agony if: 1) you have a serious, unaddressed medical condition (please seek help!) 2) you're trying something far beyond your normal activity le…

2-3 hours a day x 5 days a week -- 10-15 hrs -- is a huge amount of time to spend on weights. A Starting Strength routine shouldn't take more than 3-4 hours a week, and you'd be mo…

This is the line of reasoning Taleb criticizes. I haven't digested his criticism fully enough to fairly summarize it, but I think it's worth a look.

If you liked Millionaire next door, let me recommend Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness" for counterpoint.

I've found, from painful experience, that most physical therapists aren't particularly oriented towards strength training. If you can find an FMS certified strength trainer, there'…

Thanks for the reminder! This is something I've had at the back of my mind for the 10+ years I've been using vim, so high time.

thanks! I've been poking around for how to do that for a week, but hadn't stumbled on it.

I'm at 3.5+ years on my current white macbook, and finally about ready to get a new one. Use it most of the day, most days for web and misc development. Thinking a macbook pro with…

I did not know that git had a grep command -- super handy.

Haven't read the new book, but Taubes' previous work 'Good Calories, Bad Calories' makes a strong case that there's shockingly little experimental evidence in favor of the conventi…

Not necessarily. It can also indicate that we don't really understand a phenomenon, which can be a very valuable observation. Certainly better than assuming we know something to be…

Every security professional I've heard speak emphasizes the importance of grasping what they tend to call "the security mindset". Which I understand to mean putting yourself in the…

The visibility problem is one of the first things they mention in any safety training. You definitely don't belong on a motorcycle if you don't understand that & don't have the ski…

While motorcycles are clearly not quite as safe as cars, every study I've seen found that the vast, vast majority of motorcycle accidents involved at least one of the following: - …

Going by the analysis in the post, and in the parent comment, the 20mm would probably be positively correlated with attractiveness because it's easier to get a shallower depth of f…