27 Aug 2010

Cala Mitjana, Menorca, Spain

Take me here.

27 Aug 2010

The Paleo Powerlifter: Paleo Powerlifter: A Day In The Life

Here is what I ate today:

8:00 A.M

6 Whole boiled Eggs
1 Avocado

11:30 A.M.

7 Chicken legs
2 cups of broccoli

3:00 P.M.

I have some Organic Grass Fed Beef marinating and I will cook that on the stove with an onion in an iron skillet on low heat. Depending on how I feel I will either eat some vegetables or berries.

27 Aug 2010

Dresden, Germany

27 Aug 2010

Fortaleza, Brazil

A nicer version of limbo.

27 Aug 2010

Edinburgh, Scotland

The Shire.

27 Aug 2010

If You Learn Only One New Thing This Year, Make It Rack

Rack is a "shim" between a web server and a Ruby web framework. It does the "grunt work" - the parsing of the HTTP, establishing the environment "stuff" (or HttpContext if you're a Microsoft person), and working with the web server so you don't have to.

That definition might make it seem like it's some massive chocolate cake framework - bloated and cranky dealing with the low-level machinery of the web. In fact, it's about as elegant as... well elegant can get. In fact I think it defines elegant.

27 Aug 2010

What To Look For In A Technical Co-Founder

There are two points to this attribute. The first is the ability for your cofounder to be able to not flake out and keep to their actual deadline. This comes from having previously built things and understanding how longs it actually takes to finish something. It also comes from straight up work ethic and dedication. The second point is your cofounder’s ability to have a strict cutoff for features to implement and what to “refactor”. A good technical cofounder will be able to say no to many things and put a hard stop on adding features in order to meet a deadline. Even if a technical cofounder has the ability to finish on time, they may not be estimating what’s realistic due to their inability to say no + leave things be. Taking twice as long was not due to their lack of work ethic, but the fact that they added too many things causing it to take twice as long. Many of these ideas may have even been the business cofounder’s ideas. A great technical cofounder will have the ability to tell their business cofounder no for the sake of meeting a deadline.

27 Aug 2010

WHFoods: The World's Healthiest Foods

130 foods that can serve as the basis of your Healthiest Way of Eating. Links to the articles about these foods can be found below.

27 Aug 2010

Four Signs of an Awesome Coder

The most awesome coders have a sense of beauty in some form of metric that gives them a direction. This is the source of most (if not all) of the flame wars in the field since people have to work together yet have to do so with different (and often incompatible) metrics. Your metric may be performance, brevity, organizational, extensibility, obfuscated, or any other innumerable metrics that we judge code by.

As long as you have a metric, then you are awesome.

27 Aug 2010

"Granite Gary"

Yeah, but what's his Fran time?

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