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Comment Re: First Post! (Score 1) 263

Not so simple. A lack of essential nutrients in the diet will obviously have consequences, but thankfully it is possible, with supplements, to avoid that situation. That's why people can stay healthy vegans for years and years.

As for the claim that there may exist some "vitamin X", that is not yet on the scientific list of essential nutrients, that has become increasingly unlikely as the years of research go by.
The two candidates mentioned by the article, creatine and taurine, are considered non essential because the human body can create them itself.

The article fails to mention that the same authors who published an article saying vegetarians who supplement with creatine may see a small increase in intelligence (two iq points) also did a study that showed the two groups has statically the same iq levels initially, before supplementing. That's right, the added iq points were on top, better than the omnivores.
As for taurine, I'm not aware of any research showing differences in health or cognitive abilities between the two groups.

Comment Still going strong, huge community! (Score 1) 511

My workplace provides Java consultants for hire, and is doing quite well.
Recruiters are in contact with me every week.
The amount of Open Source Java software available and actively developed, especially libraries, is amazing!
All Android apps are Java-based too.

To balance this out, some of my colleagues and I are looking into other languages and consider ourselves polyglot programmers, not Java-only.
Especially other languages on the JVM like Groovy and Scala are popular.

Comment Android Studio best there is (Score 1) 140

I've been an Android developer for three years now. Android Studio has impressed me very much and I've used it every day for the last six months.
It's miles ahead of Eclipse in terms of useability and features.
Android Studio actually makes the coding more fun, as I don't have to spend so much time on the boring and annoying bits!
The second place goes to Intellij IDEA, in my opinion.

I can see no reason to use Eclipse unless you need C-language support for NDK development.
Eclipse doesn't integrate with Google's new Gradle-based build tools for Android. It blows the old ant-based build-tools out of the water.
If you're still using the old on ant/maven build tools for Android, you have a enjoyable experience to look forward to after migrating :)

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