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Greg (2017) 3 years ago

Most of the times that "move fast, break thing" is more like "move fast, do stupid things".

Greg (2017) 3 years ago

A very stupid metric, or very useful if you want to know who just wait for emails instead of doing long strands of deep work, with notifications off or not visible.

N=1, as someone would say. I asked because if there are real and evident health benefits i expect it to be documented somewhere.

And considering that crossfit isn't anything substantially different that things available in other disciplines (weightlifting, etc...), i don't expect it to be substantially different even in the outcomes.

Reminder:

Always reflect on who you are associating yourself with, in a cult, company owned group, non-democratic group, activity that marks you as "one of them",etc... you cease to be an individual and become just the fuel behind someone else's agenda and values (neither of which you can control).

Be an individual.

Nice project.

As an aside, I genuinely wonder under which circumstances a CDN will be useful for a static website nowadays. I have a static website that has been on the HN homepage a few times and got picked up by the Chrome mobile recommendations and a nginx/https with slightly tweaked configuration never had a problem handling the traffic even on the smallest DO droplet.

Edit: Thanks for these replies.

Dear friends at Google, since I guess many of you will read this, I have a question for you. Is there any internal discussions going on about what you should do with all the money you are earning once your basic needs are covered and you find yourself with money that could be invested in interesting projects?

If you have never programmed before I wouldn't care about the fastest, you risk learning nothing fast.

Avoid any hacks, shortcuts or methods more appropriate for less practical subjects.

Find a good and definitely not concise book or a good MOOC that explains all the basic concepts with lots of examples you can try in a Jupyter notebook. The more you code the more you learn.

You don't say how much above normal it was and for how long or give details about your current physical state, just in case I'd recommend a general health check-up. My guess is that as most of us you don't do those regularly.

Hypertension is most of the times but not always caused by your life style choices and can be fixed (not dealt with) improving weight, diet, fitness level (chronic stress and caffeine/smoking are a factor too).

For diet recommendations you could look into DASH[1] to get an idea of the direction you should take.

Anyway, this is a good time to start improving your life style as any[2].

[1] https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/guide...

[2] I did. It worked. A lot.

Sure, but there is not much to do here, those who follow these clearly steroids/photoshop/BS-fuelled influencers are not the target audience of people that produce real fitness/bodybuilding/calisthenics content.

I'll stay with AthleanX, Jeff Nippard, Fitness FAQ, Calisthenic Movement and many others... to each his own.

cnahr, it's the average American that is extreme in the opposite direction. You can be extremely healthy following some basic and well tested advices (the HN crowd have contributed to great threads on this) without eating iridescent Himalayan thunder berries juice every full moon like Dorsey could sooner or later recommend.

Read the article and ask yourself which one of the things described would seem out of place in one of those sad gossip magazines targeting low-income housewives.

E.g. water mixed with Himalayan salt and lemon in the morning.

And since I'm mentioning it, Himalayan salt is not better than normal salt. It could also contain more contaminants and it has no iodine (that could not be desirable in some countries).

For some time I've searched a way to define him (that didn't include insults) and this one is quite good.

Can't understand how people can follow this guy and his trivial/dumb advices. To me, he is just like that person that can't stop blabbering about stuff that has been around for decades but that he has just discovered or one of those people that blindly follow every popular trend (see the ones listed in the article) without even thinking if they really should.

Since it seems that he used Ruby throughout the book, I wonder if that's the right choice or it will limit the book's audience.

I'm contemplating writing a long "from scratch" style book on another topic and I'm still not sure which language I should use. Using more than one (Java, Python,...) and generating multiple flavours of the book could be a good idea I think.