It's like it's a warm story that we propagate to make us feel great. As if we stand as demi-gods in comparison to the relative cavemen of 200 years ago. The most major accomplishment in respect to longevity appears to be... not letting our young perish. Which is obviously all well and good until this kind of argument is used to validify medicine perhaps beyond its merit.
I think if you thought about it for a moment you would realize that he is appealing to the concept of hacking. In this case, hacking diet, something everyone on this site can relate to. This is why it gets attention.
I'm on the fence as to whether I'll to wait and see how this turns out, with his volenteer base or to even hit up the Kickstarter to try it myself, as I personally am at a pivot point where I could change my diet significantly and benefit. If Soylent proves the easy route, so be it.
I think if you thought about it for a moment you would realize that he is appealing to the concept of hacking
Absolutely. Timothy Ferriss has made good bank doing something similar, hacking various aspects of his life.
What earns criticism, though (this is a discussion board, and we aren't here to blanket applaud everything), is the pseudo-science: The "I ate a normal meal and my cognitive process degraded, etc". There is zero scientific validity to those claims, and they give it the rank stench of snake oil (again, exactly like energy bracelets, good aura, or the tactics of the anti-immunization crowd). It may be entirely well-meaning, but such are a million quack remedies and claims.
On the flip side, if this is sufficiently adopted, it could present motivation to driver developers, thus improved drivers. Perhaps this and the linux gaming movement could mean some symbiosis for driver development.
Ignoring Windows as I guess I don't really take Windows servers too seriously.
The victim wouldn't even know the key was cut by this service. So the friend/plumber/handyman or whoever could just take the picture, get the key cut and then raid the place without anyone knowing.
Indeed. In Germany for example, employees of this company could be tried as accomplices to the crime if it was found that they had duplicated a house key without asking for proof of residence.
This sounds extremely complicated compared to the somewhat more realistic "throw the jewelry in the toolbox and walk out" or the "unlock a window" approach. The most realistic approach is to lie to the customer... "well, we need to special order a left handed crescent wrench and some frequency grease and also do some mold abatement". This is before we get started with outright insurance fraud and the like.
It could happen, but it sounds a lot more like a hollywood movie plot security threat than a real security threat.
According to an article I saw on HN a week ago, apparently, evidence shows we evolved to naturally wake up once each night about half way through, for around an hour. Of course, we went to sleep when it became dark and woke with the sun. Something that isn't conducive with todays lifestyle.
I've seen the "first sleep" references too. That's not what I'm talking about. Waking up naturally for a half hour in a pleasant relaxed state is one thing. Having the dog bark "let me out or I'm peeing on the carpet" and having to run downstairs, having the other dog jump on me at random intervals, having two kids separately get me up for a half hour each fussing about whatever, and having m'lady decide she must check her email at oh-dark-thirty, well, that's quite something else.
I just wish it featured some JS syntax highlighting, true to spec JS linting (drop a semicolon and the parser errors) and perhaps CoffeeScript support. Not sure what the implications would be with learning CS before JS or during, but I support its presence none the less.
Syntax highlighting would be great indeed, I didn't implement it because it didn't seem like the most important thing to do. The project is open source though, so if you would like to implement syntax highlighting or CS support, then that would be superb! :D
How do you feel the extra step of compiling to CoffeeScript would impact performance and response time? I have been considering contributing in that direction.
Probably a limited performance impact. But keep in mind that my current parser doesn't even allow creation of objects, closures, etc., so the value of adding CoffeeScript is also rather limited, at this point. :-(
It doesn't appear to be obvious in what way these pictures are enhanced, either, as one would need the originals to compare. I'd be more inclined to judge Gimp with pure digital art.
I think it's a somewhat sleazy ploy to get people to find the tutorial DVD that you can buy[0]. There does seem to be some content there, but I really don't like this submission as it only says "here is what you could achieve" without giving away at least a little tutorial. I could achieve the Mona Lisa with MS Paint, probably, but how is that noteworthy?
I support this idea; but I think said cast should be made when light table is more consumer-ready persay. Perhaps when the dev is satisfied with it being a sublime-text legitimate rival.
Pick... some?