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Comment · 9 years ago
Anecdote from my experience; having a cup of decaf tea with a spoonful of unfiltered honey leads to some of my most restful nights of sleep. My tea of choice is chamomile. My other, debatably healthy crutch is a fan which manages a cool temp while providing a constant noise.
Comment · 11 years ago
I met my now fiancè in an adult social sports league which I highly recommend for social activity in general, not just romantic purposes. The league was/is adult kickball, but there are several out there that encourage solo signups and will place you on a team.

I'm inherently more inclined to not be social and prefer it that way, however, I do enjoy sports a lot which was the catalyst for joining some leagues. It doesn't have to be just for the sport and you don't have to be good at it, but it definitely encourages social interaction, plus some exercise. I won't name any leagues, but google around and you can easily find local leagues for kickball/dodgeball/volleyball/football (I recommend kickball as it really doesn't matter what your skill level is).

Feel free to drop me a line if you want more info

Comment · 11 years ago
Coming from a complete novice; can you expand upon the "NGS" technology, particularly the temporal aspect?
Comment · 12 years ago
Fair point, but I do appreciate stories that have to do with health of the human body as it lends to the idea of body hacking and performance tuning. If you peruse around, there's a lot of HN contributed stories and comments having to do with concepts of mixing in exercise and healthy eating habits to minimize lethargy and burnt out symptoms and maximize energy and life balance. (Hopefully no citations needed)
Comment · 12 years ago
Send me an email through the site with your email, and I can give you a json file of the stats. It just wouldn't be practical to keep it up as a reachable endpoint - too costly
Comment · 12 years ago
There is not one at this moment. It's quite an expensive request to serve season stats for n teams.
Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
Thanks for the interest! For MySQL I wanted an easy ORM layer for team, conference and player data. Essentially those 3 objects are stored in MySQL. For redis, I use ordered lists for sorting and easily discerning indexes of team and player data, eg: how I come up with "n overall" and "n in conference" http://madness.io/teams/fak

For Couchbase, all game data is stored in a document, including player stats. I actually use Couchbase as a cache layer as well instead of Redis. Voting and some cache keys are documents and I write couchbase views or use traditional get's to grab that data. Couchbase does the map reduce to give me the numbers I need to come up with all the stats you see on the site. It also comes in handy for things like standard deviation and the tempo-free stats on the matchup pages

Hopefully that helps!

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