starkfist
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Comment · 16 years ago
Comment · 16 years ago
In my experience, that combination works. :)
Comment · 16 years ago
You have to be too close to the face in order to throw out the background with a 20mm 1.9. It's going to make the nose look weird and accentuate a double chin, if you have one. (I have the same camera and lens)
Comment · 16 years ago
Is the self portrait in a bedroom mirror really more sad than these photos that look like they were semi-professionally staged? In my experience with OKCupid "good" photos are often the least "accurate."
Comment · 16 years ago
A 20mm lens is not an excellent portrait lens. It will make your face look fatter.
Comment · 16 years ago
4. Nobody wants to have sex with the Android wielding sysadmin
Comment · 16 years ago
but my blood panels were dramatically better on a low-carb diet
My blood panels were exactly the opposite - bad when I ate cheese, meat, fried, oily stuff... good when I switched to a diet consisting mostly of rice, noodles, fruits and vegetables.
Comment · 16 years ago
I'm sure it's cool but it's a topic I have no interest in.
Comment · 16 years ago
Yeah I've read that. He's an interesting guy but still kind of the textbook definition of patent troll.
Comment · 16 years ago
I don't think academia is really like that. One of my former roommates was a Physics PhD student at MIT, so I know him and his colleagues. They all drank beer and played chess and cards in this one basement bar in Cambridge, did stuff like hang gliding, rock climbing, ultimate frisbee and played in various awful experimental-folk bands. They were nerds but they were all bros and even attracted the weird kind of cyber-hippy chicks who are into dudes like that. They all eventually got married. They seemed pretty happy to me. In contrast I once got stuck in a corporate programming job, which was the most uninteresting and socially isolating experience of my entire life.
Whenever I read these HN screeds against academia, I wonder what they are comparing it against. In my experience academia was way more interesting and fun than working as a professional programmer. The only thing good about the later is that it pays a lot.
Comment · 16 years ago
When I was broke I read lots of books but certainly didn't care about what a patent trolling dong from Microsoft thought about Sous Vide (still don't). Maybe that's what t.ptacek meant?
Comment · 16 years ago
There's a lot of glycemic index nonsense out there today. There is a low carb meme which will have you believe that just a few ounces of "carbs" will throw your metabolism out of whack and you won't lose weight even if you keep calories low. This is bullshit.
However, if you are trying to lose weight, it's often good to leave out carbs simply because it is so easy to overeat carbs. I love pasta and could easily eat 1200 calories worth of spaghetti and still have room for more. On the other hand , I almost have to choke down 1200 calories of eggs, fruit and vegetables.
Comment · 16 years ago
I love coffee, but when I go on a cutting diet, it makes me feel much more anxious than normal.
- it gets really hot
- the battery only gets about 2.5 hours, max
- in NYC area, it is slow.
- it's not really cheap, it's $60/m for 5GB. Plus you have to pay $150 to buy it in the first place
If that still sounds good to you, I've got one for sale... ;)