I know that not eating fats and proteins will kill you, but not eating sugars (or at least extremely low quantities) will not kill you (I might be wrong, I'm not a doctor). For example Ketogenic diets have been studied for almost a 100 years by modern medicine, and is used very effectively to control epilepsy. A general public version is known as the Atkins Diet.

There are even some studies that suggest that such diets can protect against Alzheimers:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...

I don't have any specific citations but some believe that Alzheimers is like a form of brains diabetes, where the brain cells are no longer able to absorb sugars, which might be caused by modern high sugar diets. Switching to a Ketogenic diet, bypass the brain inability to feed on sugars and is fed ketone bodies instead, potentially reversing the symptoms.

The problem is, last time I wanted to get something through Alibaba, I had to order at least 10 times the amount I needed, or get a sample for 10 times the shipping costs through FedEx (or similar). I checked the shipping costs from china myself and they were correct. This made the transaction not worth it so I just waited 2-3 months for someone to buy in bulk to dilute the shipping cost and to resell in small quantities on eBay ... the middle man saved me money.
That was 2-3 years ago, but nowadays I see small items with low shipping costs on eBay. I also get daily spam in chinese now about similar items that I inquired 3 years ago, definitely through me trying to do business through Alibaba. For as much as I dislike having to use eBay, it is a much much better experience than Alibaba for the average person.

Not illegal, the government did send a memo to some of the larger corporations asking to discourage sending email after office hours but that has no legal implications. AFAIK there is no actual law making it illegal to answer email at any given time.

I used to be on H1-B and transferred twice before I got my green card. I never heard that my previous employer had to release the H1-B. Are you talking about the H1-B that are over their initial 6 years and stuck in the decade long green card process? I know this is a different status and sucks big time to be stuck. My recommendation to H1-B holders with long waiting lists: do not wait for you initial 6 years to run out and find a good stable company that respect their employees more than the average, and where you think you can wait for the green card to go through.

Some were not free and yet pretty much killed as well when acquired by Google: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

You seem to forget that Google officially raised their employees salary by 10% after Facebook refused to be part of the illegal agreement. In practice because how the bonus was restructured for some people it was probably an effective increase of up to 25% on the final w2. Considering that most 'tech' at google makes more than $100k per year (staff level engineers make more than $250k per year). multiply that by the number of years this has been going on, and the claimed damage does not seem inflated anymore.

It used to happened to me, maybe 10 years ago during the PowerBook era. I don't remember the MacBook Pros ever giving me this problem. Now, I have yet to use a non Apple laptop that comes with a trackpad that is nearly as nice to use.

But not the cheapest. 1and1.com is just as cheap if not cheaper and their website is a lot more professional. Godaddy feels like you are on a malware site.

You can use gmail with your own domain name. It used to be free (and still free if you got grandfathered in). There are good reasons to use your own domain name with out without gmail. Most notably it looks more professional and you can actually have a very nice looking email instead of @gmail.com I have @.com, and my last name is 4 letters. It can also be more secure if you provide smtp access over ssl for your organization and so email within your own domain is usually fully encrypted while going over the public internet.

Gmail has been shown on a napkin to be pretty much fully readable while being transferred from one Google DC to an other one.

When I was riding the train between SF and the South Bay all I know is that RedWood City was when we started to run out of beer. Did not care much about time or distance at that point.

I second that. I started using linux on PPC (Suse on a PowerMac G4) back in 2000. Then used RedHat at work, started using Fedora at home. Dependency hell was a nightmare, especially the upgrades from Fedora 1 to 2 then 3 !!!! Everything including X and drivers had to be reconfigured all over again. Switched to Debian just after Fedora 3, then to Ubuntu around 2007. Still use Ubuntu server every day.

I had to use RedHat at work in recent years and every time it is dependency hell all over again. Even with paid support we still had major pains with it.
With Ubuntu I get 99%+ of the packages I need without having to recompile the world. I don't care for Unity since I use Ubuntu as a solid server system that has a large set of supported packages that all work together and are not many years obsolete (yes I look at you RedHat). For the little Linux UI needs I have I'm very happy with Lubuntu (runs very nicely on a 256MB RAM VM).

That's called Netflix. They have lots of older films and even have Classics and Cult categories. There movies in the Classics start in 1914 all the way to 1993. I'm sure they have a lot more that are not in theses categories but they are making it harder to 'browse' in list mode these days.

I've personally switched jobs twice while under H1-B, getting something like 10%+ raise each time. The visa is transferable under 2 weeks for an extra fee, and transfers are not subjected to quotas. There is a theoretical limit of 6 years (3 years times 2) with H1-B but it definitely does not mean you have to be tied to any specific company. At least that's how it was for me 6 years ago. While a H1-B is tied to employment, you have 'reasonable time' to leave the country, or get an other job. I've seen someone out of a job on H1-B, stay in the area for a few months (reasonable time) and get an other job with the visa being transferred. All legal. Also note that after my first H1-B job, which was actually my first job out of college, I did get paid much above the legal base salary which was about $60k/y in 2001.

The real problem is when the employees that are on extended H1-B past the 6 years while waiting on a green card application. Because the extension is tied to the green card application and hence that company which is applying for you, this mean that you are literally stuck or have to leave the country.

Well you could with implicit line joining:
def square(x):
        print(
'DEBUG: x=%x' % x)
        return x*x

Note that the print starts indented but since a parenthesis is opened the rest of the statement can continue anywhere on the next line. Until the closing parenthesis whitespace rules are ignored.

http://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#implicit-line-joining

But really you should use the logging module and set log levels. Debuggers are good tools as well, but I usually rely on unit tests to track bugs (or rather, not have to track them down).

Same here. I use my Amex as much as possible and got return protection, damage protection and free extended warrantee to kick in more than once. In the past 3 years I got credited over $1000 back with very little hassle.