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New comment by sghodas in "Why I am betting on Julia (2014)"

sghodas — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 22:41:59 +0000

The 1-indexed arrays can sometimes be nice, but I've run into bugs so many times when translating the code into a language with 0-indexed arrays.

New comment by sghodas in "Uber wants access to browsing history, bookmarks, and running apps"

sghodas — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 22:05:31 +0000

Not 100% sure, but I think the access to contacts is so that you can split ride fares with other people.

New comment by sghodas in "Visual Studio Code 1.0"

sghodas — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 17:07:42 +0000

Yes, they're both text editors, but they're completely different classes of text editors. MS Word is also a text editor, but it would be ridiculous to fault it for not having a CLI. It's nice that Emacs and Vim have GUI modes, but I doubt they're the primary way users use those editors. Emacs/Vim and VS Code/Sublime/Atom fulfill different needs and preferences.

I'm curious about your answer to this: would you argue that MS should combine Word and VS Code into one text editor?

New comment by sghodas in "Visual Studio Code 1.0"

sghodas — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 16:51:21 +0000

You're asking for VS Code to be a completely different product. VS Code is a GUI text editor like Sublime and Atom. There's no reason for it to run in a terminal. Vim and Emacs are classical CLI based text editors. Are you asking for an alternative to those?

New comment by sghodas in "Porn site xHamster blocks North Carolina users to protest anti-LGBT law"

sghodas — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 15:38:29 +0000

You're still missing the point. Users who know little to nothing about the law NC passed will be made aware of the issue. Some of those people will take action against the lawmakers and/or people that support the law. Overall awareness of the issue will rise and hopefully cause a real discussion.

New comment by sghodas in "John Oliver on the ugly state of credit reporting and background checks"

sghodas — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 18:53:05 +0000

Really? I haven't found that to be the case. Everything that I've set to specific privacy groups (me only, friends, etc) has stayed the same.

New comment by sghodas in "Hands-on with HoloLens: On the cusp of a revolution"

sghodas — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 17:08:04 +0000

Technically it's not holography, but using the term is the simplest way to convey the idea to the average person. What would you suggest calling it instead?

New comment by sghodas in "Elimination of HIV-1 Genomes by CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing"

sghodas — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 17:00:47 +0000

That's also true for most major breakthroughs like this one.

New comment by sghodas in "NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?"

sghodas — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 01:24:10 +0000

That's exactly the problem the parent comment suggests we focus on fixing. Once a library is published, npm shouldn't allow anyone to use that name even if the library is pulled.

New comment by sghodas in "Swift 2.2 Released"

sghodas — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 21:37:48 +0000

I think you're seriously overstating the issues with Xcode. There are bugs and annoyances, but things have gotten better over the years. It's not as great as Visual Studio, but it's far from horrible. Remember, we live in a world with Eclipse.

New comment by sghodas in "Medicine’s Uncomfortable Relationship with Math (2014)"

sghodas — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 23:42:47 +0000

I'm studying for these boards right now, and these equations do show up. However, it's not the curriculum (at least not at my school) pushing the rote memorization of drugs, side effects, contraindications, microbes, etc. It's the board exams. A huge component of the exams is raw memorization of random facts that have no relation to anything (did you know rifampin makes your tears turn orange?). Unfortunately, there seems to be no incentive for the board examiners to change their exam.

New comment by sghodas in "Break Up the Insulin Racket"

sghodas — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 01:15:08 +0000

That's not how type 2 works. The resistance is developed for unknown reasons and it continues to build over time. For a while, your body can compensate by producing more insulin to overcome the insulin resistance of your cells. You don't become symptomatic until your cells are almost completely insulin resistant. Your pancreas will continue to make insulin at crazy high rates, but eventually the cells that make insulin will die off (presumably from hyperactivity). This is the point at which type 2 diabetics need insulin.

As far as cutting sugar out of your blood - you can't. Your body tries to maintain 80-110 mg/dL of sugar in your blood. You NEED sugar. It's energy. In fact, sugar is the ONLY energy source your brain can use. The problem is when you're a diabetic, your body's cells can't take that sugar out of the blood to use it for energy. That's when you try to minimize your sugar intake, because if you don't, you can do irreversible damage to your nerves and vasculature.

New comment by sghodas in "Understanding Git for real by exploring the .git directory"

sghodas — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 01:16:11 +0000

I saw this posted a couple years ago, but it was a great guide to starting out with git: http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/

New comment by sghodas in "Doctors Unionize to Resist the Medical Machine"

sghodas — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 20:45:59 +0000

Hell, I'm only in my second year of med school in the US, and I wouldn't recommend young people go into this profession.

New comment by sghodas in "Open Letter to Mozilla: Bring Back Persona"

sghodas — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 17:30:56 +0000

You'd rather share your phone number or home address than your email address?

New comment by sghodas in "Decline in gun violence in the United States"

sghodas — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 02:07:30 +0000

There's an interesting (although controversial) correlation between legalized abortion and decline in crime for that time period. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_e...

New comment by sghodas in "Safeway, Theranos Split After $350M Deal Fizzles"

sghodas — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 03:43:14 +0000

The positive predictive value for the prostate-specific antigen test for prostate cancer is only 30%. This means that only 30% of people who test positive for elevated levels of prostate-specific antigen actually have prostate cancer. This is an intrinsic problem with testing for prostate-specific antigen not with Theranos' testing.

New comment by sghodas in "The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review"

sghodas — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 02:05:46 +0000

You're right - there's no one size fits all solution. I'm glad that phones have gotten bigger because they fit my use cases, and based on their popularity I'm definitely not alone. I am surprised that 4" phones have been lost - especially by Apple. Despite the low sales of the 5c, I figured we'd still see a 6c to satisfy those not wanting a bigger phone. It seems like a decent number of people are refusing to upgrade to a newer iPhone, and I'm not aware of any good, modern Android phones at 4" for these people to switch to.

New comment by sghodas in "The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review"

sghodas — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 22:49:05 +0000

I have the 6s+, and yeah I can't use it with one hand, but I'm okay with that because I love having the bigger screen so much more. I can see a lot more while typing, watching videos is a better experience, and I've noticed myself using the bigger phone (I used to have a 5s) in new ways a lot more.

Before, I would avoid doing some tasks on my phone like taking more than a few lines of notes. The bigger screen feels less cramped and I don't feel annoyed while using it. In fact I wrote this comment out on my phone. I've never done that with any of the smaller phones I've had.

New comment by sghodas in "Graduate student takes a problem-solving approach to his brain cancer"

sghodas — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 21:24:09 +0000

I skimmed that study, but it looks like all the samples they tested came from the same guy, and they didn't actually test putting people in MRIs.