sites.google.com

you get hosting and editing all on the web. it's super easy and most likely will always be up.

It may be that I can write some of that fancy new server side code to generate those 100,000+ files, then cache them to get the same performance. ;)

I'm a 29 year old developer. I've heard this story from at least one co-worker at every company I've been at:

"Boy oh boy, technology X from 10+ years ago was really the best, why did we ever move away from that?"

As if Microsoft and all the other evil companies randomly force everyone to develop in their newest environments. If you like something, use it and stick with it. If you think it makes sense for Microsoft to become obsolete just because you fell in love with their technology, you're a little off your rocker.

As for me, HTML5 and JS is the best technology ever, I'm going to learn that and never have to learn anything ever again ;)

It's ironic that this question is posted on Slashdot. The answer to it is: Slashdot. The moderation system *moderates* viewpoints. It keeps crazies and lazies in check while promoting well thought out posts. Like this one ;)

Agree all the way down to the "the rich can afford to eat well. the poor can't" part. I raised this question to my very intelligent friend. He tried not to be too condescending in his answer:

rice, beans, potatoes

True! But, going along with the GP's post, the dietary caloric value isn't going to tell us whether or not we'll get fat. It's only going to explain how the digestible food will burn. So, it'd be nice if we had *personalized* calories. Our fat cells may be greedier and may take in sugars more readily. If we could measure such things we could have dynamically updating nutrition panels. *That* would be the *Shiznit*!

Seriously, read TFA.

I'm starting to wonder whether people read anything besides the title of articles or websites. Alan Aragon had some very good "let's all calm down" points in his rebuttal to Lustig's lecture. However, neither he nor James Krieger disagree with the idea that sugar is very bad for you. They merely point out that Lustig focuses on fructose in some ways that don't apply to real world HFCS or sucrose intake. They also point out that he uses some absolute phrases like "fructose is absent in the Japanese diet". This is true, Lustig definitely overstated a lot of things. He's definitely angry at fructose because he works with obese children on a daily basis. He behaved like any biased human does when evidence all seems to line up - he exaggerated.

However, from my perspective, Aragon and Krieger mostly agree with Lustig's points of view. The fine distinctions do not "debunk" but strengthen and generalize Lustig's more informal presentation.

Now, it's up to us rational listeners and readers to sift through and sort out what a more objective truth is. Having done that with Lustig, Aragon, and Krieger's articles as well as based on my own research, I'd like to reaffirm: sugar is toxic. Sugar is not good for you, and should be eaten in small quantities. Fructose is worse than glucose. People who eat less sugar and less fructose, and exercise more, those people are healthier.

Michael Phelps would disagree. And as has been pointed out a lot on this thread, it's not a matter of quantity. It's sometimes good to watch the presentation before criticizing the title.

Goodness gracious. As many people have stated, please watch the video before criticizing the title. He specifically makes the distinction between fructose and glucose. He argues the same point about glucose that you just did. He also does not call fructose a drug. He calls it a toxin. I have a feeling you'd agree that fructose isn't food after considering his presentation more carefully.

Cute, but I think his presentation is worth more than uninformed denial. He makes a persuasive case that fructose metabolizes in a dramatically different, and potentially dangerous, way from, say, glucose. He's pointing out new and not so new research that predicts obesity more accurately than the lipid hypothesis. Especially in children. Considering the average age for obese and diabetic people is lower than 80-90 years, I'm scrutinizing his presentation before drinking any more orange juice :)

I fix my computers. My friends' computers. My parents' computers. My friends' parents' computers. I'm so sick of it even though I love computers. I don't love updating and patching and cleaning and defragmenting. I love writing software. So give me an operating system with vim, svn and firefox. Give all my computer troubled friends and relatives an operating system with just firefox. And watch how we can *finally* start taking advantage of technology instead of the other way around.

I'm not associated in any way, but the Aptera gets a reported 300 mpg. I agree that most hybrids are lacking. That VW 2-seater you mention sounds interesting, got a link?

I love my mouse. I play starcraft and it's great for that, and I customize it and make it do a lot of stuff. But some of the things on your list, I just couldn't let slide:

- scroll bars in programming are totally useless. Page Up / Page Down, various shortcuts in vim and Emacs make them basically obsolete. Interactive search and proper knowledge of navigation techniques including setting bookmarks in your code is WAAAY more efficient than scrolling

- select for cut/copy and paste. Try learning VIM, seriously.

- menu options. This is my biggest objection. Shortcuts!! In well designed menus they're listed right next to the menu item

- setting and going to bookmarks - firefox has a great way of handling this. You add keywords to your bookmarks and then just type them in. I got $10 that says I can Ctrl+L + + Enter faster than you can click on your bookmarks

Here's my "elite" repertoire of mice:

IBM TrackPoint, great suggestion. It's not like other trackpoints, it feels great and once I got used to it, I became faster than with a mouse. For light scrolling/selecting, drag/dropping it's great. The other huge plus here is the renowned IBM keyboard which has been my favorite for years.

Logitech MX518 mouse. This thing was a workhorse for me on desktops before I fell in love with my T42p. BUT, and this is Huge, you have to set it up the way I do (just try it):
- left side button 1 for [Ctrl]
- left side button 2 for [Ctrl + Tab]
- front middle button for [Space]
- middle button (click wheel) for [Enter]
- button behind click wheel (hard to hit) for [Backspace]

This configuration allows you to do really cool things like switch tabs in IDEs (Eclipse can be configured), Ctrl+Scroll to resize web text or documents in Office, Ctrl+Click to open links in new tabs, space and backspace for those rare times when you're editing with the mouse (skipping around the text at a pace that you would break your brain if you tried to simulate in VI), and as a plus space and backspace work for going back in browsers and paging down :)

Trackball - A good trackball has no match in my opinion. The $100 Kensington you find at Microcenter or other places is the bottom of the line as far as this is concerned, and I was really unhappy with the software.

One final tip: Change your Caps Lock key into a Ctrl key. Not if you use Emacs (shudder) though, that'll probably cause your fingers to bleed purple or something.