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Here are the downsides to the MiFi: - it gets really hot - the battery only gets about 2.5 hours, max - in NYC area, it is slow. - it's not really cheap, it's $60/m for 5GB. Plus y…

I need to relearn Perl after not doing it for about 10 years. What is the best book these days?

In my experience, that combination works. :)

You have to be too close to the face in order to throw out the background with a 20mm 1.9. It's going to make the nose look weird and accentuate a double chin, if you have one. (I …

Is the self portrait in a bedroom mirror really more sad than these photos that look like they were semi-professionally staged? In my experience with OKCupid "good" photos are ofte…

A 20mm lens is not an excellent portrait lens. It will make your face look fatter.

4. Nobody wants to have sex with the Android wielding sysadmin

but my blood panels were dramatically better on a low-carb diet My blood panels were exactly the opposite - bad when I ate cheese, meat, fried, oily stuff... good when I switched t…

I'm sure it's cool but it's a topic I have no interest in.

Yeah I've read that. He's an interesting guy but still kind of the textbook definition of patent troll.

I don't think academia is really like that. One of my former roommates was a Physics PhD student at MIT, so I know him and his colleagues. They all drank beer and played chess and …

When I was broke I read lots of books but certainly didn't care about what a patent trolling dong from Microsoft thought about Sous Vide (still don't). Maybe that's what t.ptacek m…

There's a lot of glycemic index nonsense out there today. There is a low carb meme which will have you believe that just a few ounces of "carbs" will throw your metabolism out of w…

I love coffee, but when I go on a cutting diet, it makes me feel much more anxious than normal.

You just need to eat a lot more calories. You might be doing the wrong weightlifting routine. If you can do egg whites, those work pretty well. I went from 150 to 180 in college on…

Has anyone here ever tried hypnosis? I got sick from food poisoning a few years ago, and ever since then have had an on again off again issue with hypochondria. I've heard that hyp…

My intro to computer science class had 12 people in it, and was structured the same way as 6.001 at MIT, using SICP, and whatnot. Subsequent courses had about the same number of pe…

I work in NYC, notorious for crappy at&t coverage. 30 people in my office tried to replicate the problem and nobody could.

Bill Gates went to a private high school with tuition 2.5 times more than Harvard at the time, and computing facilities comparable to Stanford or MIT.

"Lifestyle company" now seems to mean any business built without the intention of making money for a board of investors...

It's easy to get tossed on any bike with an aggressive geometry if you are going fast and slam the front brake. Personally, I do not think the most popular bike styles in the USA h…

I've ridden a fixed gear bike exclusively for the past 15 years. (alright, that's not exactly true... I have a dutch bike for groceries and recently bought a Brompton for traveling…

Legally, they're obligated to protect shareholder value People regurgitate this all the time, but there is no such "law."