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Seems reasonable that bald people seems to be percieved more masculine, men as well man as women. Although I'm not sure if baldness makes those people more atractive. I think it's that they did something unusual. They gained more self confidence and people love self confidence.

In fact, I have dreadlocks and people like it, because I look healthy and self confident. I think it's even better than bald head. In XXI century agression is no longer advantage - charisma and inteligence are much more efficient these days.

However, a bit of masculine look may help women, they seem to look very atractive with no hair. Maybe not every woman, but I know women that looks good with no hair.

I think it's nothing new. Although I wonder how actual is that "not having root argument" when UAC is on. Isn't it just like sudo? Generaly I think, that what matters in security is conciousness of users. I think if Linux had more unconcious users, there would be Linux mallware, I think it'd be possible.

Well. It's very nice project. Thanks that, I've learnt quite much about building essentional environment. However it's tough as hell. I know pretty much about Linux and Operating Systems, low level programming, but it was just impossible to me to succeed some time ago. I admire anybody who can build it properly. :P

To people who want to give a try I'd say - sure, do it. It's worth it, but don't expect it's going to work. :)

Realy nice text. Good luck.

How does that lulu.com? On their site I see they offer to publish for free, but how they do it so it's profitable?

Well, I'm afraid I wouldn't like it. It seems it continues the only thing that is annoying me in iOS input method - not writing what I actualy type. Sorry, too often I use words it doesn't know (maybe in english it's better, but in polish/russian/ukrainian it's quite a big problem). It would mean disaster when using this app, isn't it? Does it support other languages at all? How about cyryllic script? Does it allow to switch between languages easly? Does it replace standard input method everywhere in iOS?

HPPD is not so bad. I had one and know people have one and nothing happens. It's rather not harmful. For me, even flashbacks are not something worth to be afraid of. Anyway there's much more to gain than to lose. Not for everybody, needs much responsibility, but definetely worth to take advantage from.

And people says they want good for us. :( LSD is best gift from god I've ever got.

Learn to code in 8 weeks... Lol. http://norvig.com/21-days.html

>I actually wrote this blog post in reaction to the ongoing debate about the exploitation of undefined behavior by C compilers for optimization.

So, it looks like they do quite good job. They noticed that there was some feature needed, provided with some workaround. They added it to standard. No workarounds needed anymore. Workaround that uses some compiler features, but in terms of programming language don't make any sense. That's great, makes C better with same, good sanity. In fact, one of best things I like C for. :)

Doesn't "undefined behaviour" means that solution might not be portable? Anyway it looks like a mess. I guess the most of C programmers wouldn't have any idea what that first line of function does and why. If one see restricted he just looks on google what does it mean. Looking for meaning of your solution might be troublesome.

Maybe you should suggest some language that don't create such problems? There are many languages that use mathematical symbols similar way to maths. Functional languages should be better, since there variable values are not reassigned too often. There are also languages that use another operators for value assignemnt, like := in Pascal and <- in GNU R.

This site is great and contains so much information. Unfortunately it's hardly meaningful part of knowledge you need to write any modern OS. Unfortunately, because it's realy good fun to do stuff like that. It's quite hard to enjoy for a long time creating stuff that even you would not use.

Yeah, I know that there are many institutions and people. But those people create a whole system. And I guess there are not so much players in that market that can develop such cure without any help. Research itself is expencive and nobody can just state he created cure for cancer and let people test it. They need much money to make it legal medicine. Can you tell me how much people/institution has enough resources to do that?

Moreover I guess medicine is quite homogenous as a science. What if way they are looking for that cure is simply wrong? What if law specifies wrong ways of testing drugs? Is it easy to change the law? If way of looking is wrong, I guess it's extremely hard to get money for research since people who decide rather trust the science. If law don't let find cure, I think it's even more difficult.

Well, I won't argue any longer if cure for cancer would be more profitable or not. I'd need some professional analysis. I'm not proffesional so I don't know. Anyway they already take much money for treatments that doesn't realy work. It's quite good bussines. For sure it's very easy and safe strategy to keep status quo. What if cause of cancer would be found and it would no longer come back after treatment? Working cure wouldn't be so profitable then.

Yes. I wrote that everybody know that people should live healthier. But there is big problem. Telling is not enough. How people who never had proper lifestyle and diet can know what "healthy" realy mean? They only can assume that if they feel like they felt before they are healthy. Maybe not perfectly, but they are. This assumption is simply wrong.

Do you know people who live healthy? It seems to be highly addictive and spread quite fast. The only condition is that people have to see that those one who live healthy are far more healthy than they ever asumed. For example one of my frieds i live with in one flat needed only few weeks of watching how do I eat to decide to improve his diet. He's happy he did that. He loves oatmeal for breakfest too (also my habit). I doubt if someone who live healthy would like to stop. If you go to doctor you don't see what to expect so you don't change anyhting.

Yeah, but if no drug is not realy needed, you can't earn on it. Groceries and gyms does. Sorry, change of lifestyle made very big impact on my health. My immune system works so well cold can't become enough serious even to make me feel bad. I practicaly don't get sick. Moreover I noticed mood lift, better work of brain, no insomnia anymore, I have much more energy.

My body seems to know what is good for it - it prefers healthy food and don't accept stuff are not healthy. It even doesn't want beer anymore. ;) Why the hell nobody told me about that? If science made reserch on that, no flu vaccination or pro-immune drugs would be needed! Even more - there would be less cancers, heart diseases and so on. Nobody deny diet has big impact on those disieses, but noone what to use it. THEY KNOW how to do better, THEY DON'T!

And I'm not the only one. I know guy who treated asthma and alergy, which is in fact possible, in some cases, but no doctor even tried to do that.

And since he found information how to do that and I did - surely there are far more people does better than mainstream medicine. Think about it, some regular guys with no medical knowledge does better then proffesional doctors. Doesn't that mean there's something wrong with healthcare? Is there realy no reason to be sceptical about how it works?

Because see how healthy man can be if only he want? Ever tried? Moreover technology evolved so much and healthcare seams to work worse than before. Think about it, science can tell what happens billions of killometers away and what happens in subatomic scale and it can't find out how human body works enough to cure most common diseases? It doesn't convince me.

And why not to believe? There are many people doing bad things. There are wars, animals are treated like garbage. Why not to believe someone want to make bussiness on disieses?

How about remissions, why nobody believe they occur for a reason? People are too stupid to find out that reason? I don't think so. Or maybe am I wrong and scientists try to find out why they happen?

Why basis of caring about health in mainstream medicine now are meds and vaccination and not healthy diet and doing sports? I use no drugs and I don't get sick. I used to, before i started to care what I eat and what I do for my health. Noone ever told me to do what I've done. I rather seen commercials of drugs that are not healthy and not realy work.

Does anyone care about that psychedelic drugs relieve cluster headaches (where no other good working med is known)? Anyone cares MDMA decreases symptoms of Parcinson disease? Is it so difficult to find out why? I mean, if anybody except single scientists care? I don't mention how great can they impact on state of mind.

Hemp is great painkiller, medicine for insomnia, and others. Why I can't use it to relieve my pain or to help myself fall asleep? Why medicine use much more dangerous drugs if hemp could be used? As far as I know It's illegal because someone don't want to admit it's useful for medical reasons.

Medicine is so broken. For me someone want it to be broken or people in medicine are stupid. I can hardly believe they are so stupid so I'd rather believe second option. The fact that some people always wanted to enslave somehow other people. We had explicit enslavement and religion. Why medicine wouldn't be next one?

Yeah. So why you didn't earned bilions of dolars on new, great e-mail clients? Maybe it's not what people needs, huh?

Yeah, so what? UTF-8 is Linux standard. I use it, probably most of web use it(where needed). Why I don't see problems with it in software I use and on the web? I can't remember when I had any problem with UTF-8 last time.

Nice to know, but I bet It won't be used widely soon, no matter if it works or not. Medicine wants keep cancer pacients alive, not cure them. Curing is not profitable. If they (and people themselves) wanted us not to be sick, almost nobody would be.

"Limiting the time we spend sitting to just three hours a day could add an extra two years to our life expectancy, scientists calculate." -- I guess it's poor article. I think it depends on how much I sit per day, isn't it?

On the other hand a agree that people sit too much - they need more doing sports, walking, etc. Together with good diet it makes life not only longer, but happier too.

"A software architect lives to serve the engineering team -- not the other way around."

I thought they are supposed to serve people who are going to use software.

It's very sad that there are so much sites with poor readability. I close site very often few seconds after it's loaded because I don't want to read such ugly stuff. I'm delighted if site looks well. I guess it's because design tools evolve and we must wait a bit before good readability becomes standard. You know, few years ago we were happy if there was any text on website at all. Maybe one day MS Word documents are going to look like LaTeX ones. I hope so.

Thanks very much for those "read later" stuff. I think I might find them useful. I'll see.

"I am very sceptical of the euphemistic suggestion that the primary purpose of these sites is to enable postponement of reading." - You write. Well, many things weren't initialy supposed to be used way they are, but as they evolve, things change. It could be so with that stuff too.

Nice, but I think it's far too few. Stuff that this tutorial could be handled with tar as well. I'm not sure if it would encourage to use git somebody who doesn't know much about version control. Somebody who know, probably don't need it because commands like "git log", "git add" and "git commit" are quite obvious for someone who used SVN or other version control system.

Wow. Realy nice. I remember first Jetpack very well. One of the best games I've played. I think it's realy worth to pleadge this project!

I'd add "Reality Test" by Guy Kawasaki.

So the good solution is make a test that finds it out, for example in configuration script and set proper preprocessor constant and test that constant instead.

It's standard behaviour or one compiler does so? Outside preprocessor char has another meaning? Thanks anyway.

So what they are? Why it doesn't work? Your quote don't clarify.

Yeah, that' true. I speak (better or worse) 5 languages and thinking in each of them is pretty different. :) The most interesting thing i found there are very few words that would have exaclty the same meaning in two different language. For instance, even the simpliest english words like "go" or "cat" doesn't have exact translations in polish. The exception i know are slavic languages, they are very similar to each other. Anyway set of available meanings in laguage has pretty big impact on what we think.

"That’s a lot of trouble being caused by a two-line function. C may be a small language, but it’s not a simple one." I disagree. C is very simple. You need to know C is not suppoused to work the same on platform and I guess behaviour you have tested is not defined by standard. I think every good C programmer know when he have to be causious because behaviour may be platform dependent. In matter of fact you did as well. I guess case you've studdied is not common to be used in real code. If so, there is very easy solution:

  #if ((char)CHAR_MAX) + 1 > ((char)CHAR_MAX)
   /* some code here */
  #else
   /* some code here */
  #endif