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New comment by tdicola in "Where Is Nokia Now?"

tdicola — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 00:30:58 +0000

Just use a Google Sheets or other online doc and a normal scale. It's so much faster in my experience to use a normal scale, read the number, then pop open the sheet (it can be a direct link on your homescreen) and type in the weight on a new line vs. fumbling with bluetooth connections, horrible apps, etc. Your data is never locked in to a service and you can graph, chart, analyze, etc. as much as you want too.

New comment by tdicola in "Area 120 – A workshop for Google's experimental products"

tdicola — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 05:20:49 +0000

Can someone at Area 120 make bringing back Google Reader a thing?

I'm serious.

New comment by tdicola in "The Holder Report on Uber"

tdicola — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 22:47:14 +0000

From what I saw it's part of the company culture. Managers were there late so of course their subordinates didn't want to leave and be seen as not working as hard.

Also there's no concept of overtime with salaried fulltime employees. You might work 100 hours in a week and you're still taking home the same paycheck as if you worked 40 hours. That's just the way corporate America works.

New comment by tdicola in "The Holder Report on Uber"

tdicola — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 21:09:00 +0000

Your interpretation is wrong, I've been to Uber's office in SF and its dinners are big trays of catered food brought in late in the evening. They're dumped in the kitchens and employees who are still working can come by to get whatever they want.

New comment by tdicola in "RISC-V Foundation"

tdicola — Sun, 11 Jun 2017 17:58:38 +0000

The Arduino Cinque board was just announced and has a RISC-V chip along with an ESP32 and STM32: http://hackaday.com/2017/05/20/arduino-cinque-the-risc-v-esp...

New comment by tdicola in "Please Make Google AMP Optional"

tdicola — Sun, 11 Jun 2017 04:43:41 +0000

Nitpick but your request is most likely not going to space. You're going to a cell tower that's at most a mile away from you, and that tower is probably linked with fiber and copper to all the routers on the net. Even if for some reason you go through a satellite link it's in earth orbit and not technically 'outer space'. It's still pretty magical but at the end of the day it's just a fancier wireless telegraph.

New comment by tdicola in "Be Careful with UUID or GUID as Primary Keys"

tdicola — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 19:35:02 +0000

That's why you typically add caching (like cookies) that store the UUID with some user context so it can be provided directly in queries.

New comment by tdicola in "Uber Fires More Than 20 Employees in Harassment Probe"

tdicola — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 18:19:37 +0000

That's why you list references from your last job and people call them to see what kind of person you were while there.

New comment by tdicola in "Ask HN: Ex-Founder. Should I take lowball buyout offer?"

tdicola — Mon, 29 May 2017 20:03:30 +0000

Not in San Francisco or the Silicon Valley area. Median home prices are well over $1m. That's not even enough for 20% down on a mortgage.

New comment by tdicola in "Ask HN: What does your diet look like?"

tdicola — Mon, 29 May 2017 19:00:59 +0000

For 16:8 fasting it's just water (I like using a sodastream to make seltzer water) and black coffee. Maybe a tea if I want to mix something up. Never any sugar, cream or other things added to coffee/tea. For the 72 hour fasts it's the same but I have a couple cups of bone broth during the day. It's a minimal amount of calories (~100-200 cals) but more importantly helps get more electrolytes, which I've noticed can be trickier to manage while fasting.

New comment by tdicola in "Ask HN: What does your diet look like?"

tdicola — Mon, 29 May 2017 18:52:57 +0000

Yeah some studies show exercise in a fasted state increases adrenaline and human growth hormone production, so it's kind of like getting natural steroids. :) It also helps train your muscles to burn fat for energy which is great for endurance (you have far more fat in your body vs. sugar for energy). Great info here: https://intensivedietarymanagement.com/fasting-and-exercise-... and http://leangains.com/

New comment by tdicola in "Ask HN: What does your diet look like?"

tdicola — Mon, 29 May 2017 18:43:22 +0000

Avocado, fatty cuts of meat (bacon, beef, etc.).

New comment by tdicola in "Ask HN: What does your diet look like?"

tdicola — Mon, 29 May 2017 18:38:13 +0000

Yeah it's wild, here's a before and after: http://imgur.com/hHtyMPF Training to climb Mt. Rainier later this summer--something I could never have imagined being possible 2 years ago.

New comment by tdicola in "Ask HN: What does your diet look like?"

tdicola — Mon, 29 May 2017 18:34:56 +0000

> I have to say that this is not working very well for me, and I'm gaining weight.

Try ditching the grains and sugar, they're doing nothing but adding weight. Eat foods that have low glycemic loads to keep from spiking blood sugar and causing sugar to be stored as fat: http://burnfatnotsugar.com/diet-2.0-explained.html

New comment by tdicola in "Ask HN: What does your diet look like?"

tdicola — Mon, 29 May 2017 18:22:55 +0000

I do daily 16:8 fasting (only eat from noon-8pm) and keep things paleo/low carb when eating. Recently I've tried some extended 72-hour fasts and really like them too. The big thing for me is that I love exercising in a fasted state--I'll do 30 mins. of cardio and about 10 mins of bodyweight strength training each day in the most fasted state (right before noon when I break the fast). The combo of eating low carb, intermittent fasting, and fasted exercise is pretty incredible--I'm in the best shape of my life and still getting better. Two years ago I was 300+ lbs and now I'm a lean 155 lbs. and running half marathons--it's wild.

Just a multivitamin and magnesium supplement are all I take.

New comment by tdicola in "How Much Does it Cost to Climb Mount Everest?"

tdicola — Thu, 25 May 2017 18:34:52 +0000

Rainier is awesome and a worthy endeavor for anyone but it's 14k feet vs. 28k feet and a whole other ballgame. To put it in perspective base camp for Everest is at 17k feet--well above the whole summit of Rainier. Or another way to think of it, when you get to the summit of Rainier imagine that as just the halfway point for an Everest climb.

New comment by tdicola in "How Much Does it Cost to Climb Mount Everest?"

tdicola — Thu, 25 May 2017 18:33:19 +0000

Into Thin Air by John Krakauer, although maybe you don't want to read it until after the attempt. :)

New comment by tdicola in "Carbonated beverages induce increased food consumption in rats"

tdicola — Tue, 16 May 2017 20:21:28 +0000

People have been drinking carbonated water for over a hundred years now (maybe even two hundred years actually). If there was a strong link between carbonation and damage to your body we would have seen it by now.

New comment by tdicola in "Using Google Assistant with AutoPi to enable voice control of a car"

tdicola — Fri, 12 May 2017 18:24:50 +0000

Actually OBD on moderns cars is pretty much useless, it only reports the basic federally mandated emissions info for e-checks and that's it. All the fun stuff is on CAN and other often proprietary buses.

New comment by tdicola in "U.S. Census director resigns amid turmoil over funding of 2020 count"

tdicola — Wed, 10 May 2017 00:14:15 +0000

By 2020 President Zuckerberg will mandate all citizens have Facebook accounts.