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I should have put "off topic" in my comment, but I thought it was obvious since I didn't mention a pesticide or depression. I just thought my comment might be of interest to anyone that would be reading the post.

Just read about Roundup being commonly used by wheat farmers to "desiccate" the crop before harvest (allowing for earlier harvest). Maybe this whole gluten intolerance thing is actually a Roundup intolerance.

There aren't very many schools that make your resume stand out. If you aren't going to one of them (Harvard, MIT, etc.), then any cheap, accredited school will do. The degree on the resume gets you past the filtering process, and nobody cares that it is from a no-name school.

This is going to be a huge boost to ClojureCLR, IronPython, and F#. I think F# especially is going to take off in popularity now that its best VM target is going to run on Linux and Mac.

This is the best Wikipedia page on the topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer

Basically, a balanced-ternary system would be smaller and more efficient than a binary system that can match it. I'd like to see an open architecture chip designed and built with balanced ternary logic. It would probably need to be made from memristors once that is feasible. We will need a computing reboot at that time anyway in order to take full advantage of memristors.

Haskell is strongly and statically typed which means its compiler can generate more optimized code. The compiler also creates programs that run without a virtual machine. Clojure is dynamically typed and runs on the JVM. It is still really fast compared to many other dynamic languages.

TCO isn't really transparent to the programmer. Some recursive calls cannot be optimized, so the programmer has to know how to write recursive functions that can be.

The U.S. is full of people that can barely make it to the next paycheck, but they'll have an iPhone, a car, cable tv, cigarettes, etc. Unless you are taking public transportation to your 2 jobs without all the consumer goods I've mentioned, then you aren't poor.

The U.S. is overly protective of children and young adults. We can't drink alcohol until 21 and many cities have curfew laws for kids up to the age of 16 or so. My city has a curfew for those 16 and under. They can't be out after 11 pm during the week and after 12:30 am on weekends.

There's not enough science to support either side in this debate. My guess is that a small percentage of people actually have a gluten intolerance. I also think that modern wheat can cause inflammation and gut problems. Mostly I think that reducing carbohydrates benefits anyone that isn't very active (which includes most Americans). The unfortunate truth is that the food industry is now producing more gluten-free alternatives (breads, beers, etc.), and these alternatives create a bigger insulin response than the originals.

If it is possible, move one person to another role in the company so that one isn't reviewing the work of the other.

When I read about the falling asleep at work and waking up to a headache, I thought sleep apnea was a probable root of the problems. Lack of sleep does terrible things to a person.

Technically it has taken cues from ActionScript (which is also an EcmaScript language).

Don't worry about it. He is schizophrenic and believes God talks directly to him. If you had this problem, you probably wouldn't want to take medication for it. He thinks he has been chosen. It really isn't under his control.

I donated about 20 programming books to the local library after seeing that the selection was decades old and almost non-existent. It was very frustrating to find out that they sold all of them in order to buy a few popular titles.

A four minute mile is under four minutes.

I think TDD is good when writing something you've done a few times before ("I know exactly how to write this app"). I tend to get projects that require exploration. I refuse to write a bunch of test code for each new class knowing that I might delete the class later.

I have 2 counter examples. My wife's step father would come home from his sales job and drink glass after glass of whiskey and coke. Each was about 15 ounces of whiskey with 1 ounce of coke to give it color (trying to hide how much he drinks). He's a good provider and only a little emotionally abusive to his family. The other example is the woman my wife works with. She is a contract-medical coder that is faster and better than anyone else in the company. She also drinks a bottle of wine with the meal she doesn't eat every night. She is the best employee my wife has as long as she's not in the hospital for electrolyte imbalance.

Go read the blog now. He did the drug trial, and it went well.

This question shows a lack of self confidence. Be confident in your skills when networking and interviewing. Seems like you are latching onto one way of getting a more interesting job. It is a reckless plan and totally unnecessary. Finding a job is like finding a mate. There's a small overlap between what you want and what potential partners want. Willingness to fail, repeatedly, is a big help in these situations. Just keep interviewing. If you are good at what you do, someone will give you a chance.

Anyone know why clang on mac os x doesn't know about edit/history.h? The line editing portion of the book requires it.

I don't like IntelliJ, but I do like Netbeans for Java and PHP development. IntelliJ has a behavior that I can't stand (almost an OCD trigger for me). When I click on a page of code somewhere past the last character in a line, I expect the cursor to appear behind the last character. IntelliJ leaves it floating out in a very unsatisfying manner. I know that IntelliJ does auto formatting and that it doesn't really matter, but I feel real anxiety with this default behavior. And Netbeans is free for the full version. To me IntelliJ doesn't offer enough to pay for it.

A free-market society would never average a 15 hour work week unless there's no incentive to pay for the work anymore. This could happen if we find a limitless energy source and real artificial intelligence. As long as someone is willing to pay for hours of work, people will be willing to work more than 15 hours a week to get ahead.

Seems like switching from yellow to red still leaves them open to law suite. They'll be less likely to lose the suite, but I don't think the court will throw it out based upon the trademark wording. Just make it black.

I think the better message is to think about what would happen if you or your spouse died or couldn't work. There isn't a one-size-fits-all plan. Someone with a $500,000 mortgage, $50,000 in other loans, and no real nest egg needs more than your recommendation. Someone with a spouse that makes a good income, has very little debt, and having a substantial nest egg may not need any life or disability insurance. The key is to be realistic with your situation.

Microsoft says TS is supported in Visual Studio Express 2013 for Web. That's a free download with a license that allows one to do commercial development. It won't have everything the pay versions have, but it will be more than enough for TS development.

Erlang needs a production quality web server that is a fully compliant OTP application, and mnesia needs to have its dependency on dets abstracted away so that other storage engines can be used (relational database of choice, dynamodb, etc.). This would give a web developer a single platform that is extremely fault tolerant and scalable. This sort of thing may be possible (by using an embedded web server wrapped in your own OTP code and by experimental mnesia extensions), but it wouldn't be easy to get it set up and working.

Article says to talk to your talent at least once a quarter. You should do it once a week.

My kids have mentioned how adults always end messages (especially facebook postings) with "...". I wonder how that started?

In assembly language, a sub-procedure can save the state of all the registers it will use before using them and then set the state back when it is done (push register values on the stack, do work using those registers, and then pop the state back). This is the safe thing to do, but it wasn't the best way to write code back then. People would use unsafe procedures instead to reduce code size. With that said, I think Bill was talking about the fact that if the program doesn't repeat itself (by using procedures to abstract common idioms), then a mistake would be amplified since it would cause problems for all call sites.