tl;dr He eats mostly raw fruits and veggies and gets his liquids from those. He had an "Addiction" to processed foods. Clearly he has issues with food and is compelled to share it with the world. It's about as obnoxious as you can imagine.
It's accurate. This book is being ripped apart by scholars across many different disciplines. It's a lovely piece of trash that makes Wolfe look as bad as this article suggests.
In the same paragraph where "Higher Dimensional Black Holes" is mentioned, the journalist hedges the outlandish suggestion with "But no theory yet captures the whole story. “I do not think that there is any remotely credible hypothesis proposed at this moment in time,” Zaanen said."
So... "Yea.. uh huh... interesting concept, not a chance" to paraphrase.
I'm more interested in finding a solution to the problem then I am about protecting my domain of knowledge, or insuring that my coworkers are aware that my domain is special and mine. I can't help but feel that this article comes from a perspective of competitiveness rather than problem solving. Perhaps the reason so many seem to agree with this (even tentatively) is the competitive culture in so much of IT (at least that I read about). I'm glad we don't have that where I work.
Has that never happened to you? You are stuck on a problem for what feels like forever. It's complex and difficult to keep completely in your mind at once. You've hit it from every facet that you can think off. Then you explain it to someone that knows very little of the problem and they throw out a little perspective, maybe preceded with a "Can you just..." and it may not be the solution, but your mind sort of jump starts down a different path than it had before.
I see this "Can you just..." business similar to the advice that you just stop working on the problem that you can't solve and think about something else for a while. Take a nap, go for a walk, have a drink. Wait until tomorrow. Often times the problem isn't that the problem is difficult to solve or that it's complex (it is), but rather that you are too mired in it to come up with the solution. "Can you just... " suggestions often pull me out of the trees so I can see the forest.
I agree completely. Going a step further, as OP has and shutting down potential helpful new perspectives and solutions by implementing a "jar" is reprehensible. When I've been mired in a complex problem for hours and I'm not any closer to a solution than when I started out, helpful "can you just" perspectives is often the key to unlocking a new line of thought that allows me to come up with the solution. Implementing a jar is like having someone pay you to ignore their often helpful perspectives. It's reprehensible.
I guess another way to put this is... I'm more interested in finding the solution than I am in making sure that everyone around me thinks that my domain is special and complex and that they don't share it with me.
Having dealt with both, I'm split. I think, in the end, I'd rather model the DDLs and have everything point to separate database on the same server or a new namespace in the existing database. You give enough rope for the customer to hang themselves, but sometimes their requirements are to build a gallows.
The borders of France, and other colonial powers, are considered to include all of their overseas territories. This is a bit easier to see with the USA.
In practice I don't think this affects the computation much, since the overseas territories have relatively small areas.
Speech can definitely be violence and suggesting otherwise trivializes emotional abuse and trauma faced by those that suffer from PTSD and other mental illnesses.
I don't think it needs to be Facebook to not be fucked, but I agree with OP that it could change it's user metrics to better affect behavior. Maybe similar to rep here on ycombinator.com where you get downvoted by the community if you are an ass or not adding productively to the conversation. Combining rep with privileges like stackoverflow.com where a user can't DM until they hit a certain rep, or can't cause a notification on other's devices when they tweet would curtail sock-puppeting and other trollish behavior that plagues Twitter.
As for up to date news, I follow Google's top 10 searches in Feedly (where I follow hundreds of sites) and it works as a pretty decent up-to-date top news trend that gets updated every hour or so. I can appreciate if every hour or so is too slow for some folks though. I'm not in media, and don't really care if Rihanna fell of the stage a few minutes ago during her concert, but I totally get it if others do.
Googles news is based on typical journo sites mostly. Twitter provides unfiltered live on-scene coverage and commentary, statements by police often are Tweeted as the press conferences are happening or in lieu of them. Ever since Sully landed a plane in the Hudson news on Twitter has just been a different beast and I love it. Nothing else is "good enough" for me.
