MostAwesomeDude

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Comment · 13 years ago
You sound like you are a paid shill. I know that you aren't, which disappoints me further, because I'd like to think that people are capable of educating themselves instead of spreading misinformation.

On your first paragraph, pondering whether sucrose breaks down into fructose and glucose immediately: No, it doesn't. HFCS makes sugars available to the bloodstream sooner, causing larger swings in overall blood sugar levels. Additionally, this study covers rats which were given strict diets; the idea that HFCS made them fatter because they ate more food is not borne out based on the experiment's premises.

Second paragraph: Irrelevant. Honey is not being discussed here. Additionally, you contradict yourself by noting (correctly) that HFCS is not half-and-half fructose and glucose, like sucrose.

Third paragraph: Inverted appeal to authority. You dismiss the information that science makes available, and then put your own opinion up for offering as if it is informed and accurate. You further confuse the issue by putting a well-accepted opinion (the diets of the USA are overly rich in sugars) next to a dismissal of this study.

Fourth paragraph: A delightful strawman, substituting artificial sweeteners for table sugar.

Fifth: More ignorance of the general study of nutrition, with a sweeping statement that is obviously true and yet completely uninformative.

Please go read the article before commenting further.

Comment · 13 years ago
I'm confused. What part of this causes an eyeroll for you? Did you attempt to read the words in a spiral instead of the standard left-to-right, top-to-bottom style most English readers prefer?
Comment · 13 years ago
"Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules."
Comment · 13 years ago
As we say so often in the Python commmunity, "Try It And See." Do you use cffi and/or ctypes in your code? Have you run your tests against this newer PyPy?
Comment · 13 years ago
You don't sound like a hacker. You sound like somebody who types a lot in order to change the patterns of lights on their monitor.
Comment · 13 years ago
I agree with the author entirely.
Comment · 13 years ago
It is not up to PyPy to support non-pure-Python libraries; it is up to those libraries to fix themselves by evicting their C and FORTRAN balls and chains.
Comment · 13 years ago
Let's define "virtually." There are plenty of websites that don't use JS.
Comment · 13 years ago
I hope that you did not flip this around and force yourself to learn PHP and JS based on this philosophy.
Comment · 13 years ago
The author appears to not be aware of where the big leagues are. Additionally, as is becoming a recurring theme here, he doesn't know about PyPy nor Twisted. This is continually disappointing.
Comment · 13 years ago
Image macros come from Japanese message boards; they are not really related to the faux motivational posters that are commonly known as "demotivationals".
Comment · 13 years ago
I politely submit that you have not heard of E.
Comment · 13 years ago
"I believe there are two reasons why some people want to disable JavaScript: the feeling of extra privacy and improving page speeds."

I normally get along with Armin, but I feel that he left out a key thing here: Some people disable JS because they feel that JS obfuscates and degrades the Web-browsing experience. Sadly, we are no longer catering to these people: viewing a website without JS enabled should not render the fundamental content of the website unavailable, and we have forsaken that ideal in favor of fancy bells and whistles on our pages.

There's a fourth reason, as well: JS should not be required on grounds of security, not just privacy. Sites should not have to run what is essentially unsafe, privileged, arbitrary code in order to do their daily business. A company might claim that their JS is harmless because it only animates a title bar or powers a dropdown menu, but proving that requires a manual audit of all JS on the page, which amounts to thousands of lines of JS on a modern site. (Have you read through the copy of jQuery being served to you? Probably not.) Common repositories of JS ameliorate the problem somewhat, but it can't be eliminated.

This is not okay, by the way. Requiring JS to read a news article, or upload an image, or view a forum thread, is insane and we should not tolerate it.

Comment · 13 years ago

  $ twistd -n web --wsgi your.wsgi.app
You have been misinformed.

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