Saturday, May 16, 2009

Saving Paper By Using Outlook

Forever Beta?

Ci sono paradigmi that change, and do not realize it. Who has a minimum followed the evolution of software engineering was clear that the software is a product life cycle. There is the invention, there is development, then there's the testing. Testing is fascinating. It begins with the pre-alpha, where the features are not complete and a few close friends start to try, doing a slalom between failures and bugs, hopeful. The guru of the few pre-alpha, people who usually would be able to do a calculation to a toaster also able to enter data in binary, are integrated with others, not programmers sleepers, people who spend their nights to try and install, usually malnourished and without social relations, happy to test and have the latest, whatever that is. One day the product matures, and goes to Beta, a version that can be spread to humans, to all who want it, where the probability of failure is located at an acceptable threshold, but unknown. All are quick to have the beta, because the news is always a sign of distinction, because there are ads feature and useful and never had, because maybe there will be no money to take the final version and then at least you have the thrill of have been the object itself. After the beta changes depending on the evolution of the parent, however you can get the product or release candidate, which would be the final product that can be tried without being purchased, and while we're at, do some additional testing.

Well, that no longer exists. Today we have Web 2.0, applications running inside the browser, so the idea is that we take them in beta, we use the world as a tester, and leave them in beta forever. An example, among all, is gmail. In beta since 2004, after five years it still is and probably will remain so forever, but this does not matter. The idea is that the product is evolving. Being accessible from the web, the "code" that is the object that governs the functionality, it is downloaded every time we connect. It can then be updated every day, even more times a day. The features are introduced gradually, the product evolves, and you almost do not you know it. Every now and see a new button. Every so often you have a new function. Every so often you have a new look and feel available, but all is well compatible with the previous day and almost did not you know it. The so-called corrective maintenance (for errors) and evolutionary (for new features) is completely embedded in the continuous new changes, we can no longer call release, not only because I have no indication of what release I'm using, but I probably will change between few hours and above is different from OS to OS, but also between the browser and browser.

Evolving, leading to beta write next to the name of the product, beta once meant object in debug probably full of errors that distrust, now it 'dynamic object that is constantly changing and that is the result of a worldwide collaboration and continuous of a constant evolution, with no plans known but the results were appreciated. It 's a different world. Realize it really hard. Furthermore, a new specter is haunting in the web 2.0 and beta. It is called caching. If it is true that my whole life is organized by some software, it is true that social relations are also my oversaw these systems, it is assumed that the mode of operation is web 2.0, web 2.0 if it works in a browser connected to the network, what ever happens to me if they are disconnected? Even for a few seconds, but in a second key. Suddenly I no longer have access, I do not have a piece of myself. So caching. The browser becomes smarter and syncs with the Internet, data and programs Allien equally appreciated by the browser between the network and the local browser. I know if I stop or not access, I cease to know when they are connected and when not. We think of him in a ballet between realtime and caching, always and automatically synchronized. All this, of course, always and only in beta.

Long live the beta, beta forever.

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Military Going Away Cakes

Atkins Diet?

One day my wonderful digital scale wrote 113. Si tratta di un numero impressionante, sia perchè ricorda il numero di emergenza della Polizia, sia perchè è un numero primo, sia perchè onestamente guardandomi si sarebbe detto massiccio ma non grasso. Però trasportare un 113, sebbene ci si abitui a tutto, non è uno scherzo. E allora ho accarrezzato l'idea di una dieta. Cercato in Internet, come avrei cercato qualsiasi altro oggetto, ho trovato l'idea della dieta di Atkins. Me ne sono innamorato dopo circa 10 minuti. E l'ho interpretata, sicuramente male, a modo mio.

Brevemente, l'insulina è ormone proteico prodotto dal pancreas che favorisce la penetrazione del glucosio in alcuni tipologie di cellule. La lipotropina è un ormone prodotto dall'ipofisi che promuove l'utilizzo del grasso nel corpo. Un gioco interessante è il bilanciamento tra questi due ormoni. Atkins suggerisce una dieta iperproteica, in cui vengono praticamente annullati i carboidrati. I carboidrati sono il primo combustibile ad essere metabolizzato, se non ci sono l'organismo utilizza i grassi, che scioglie, producendo, tra l'altro, chetoni.

Questo regime alimentare è semplice. Basta leggere le etichette ed evitare i carboidrati. Il che significa evitare pasta, pane, qualsiasi oggetto contenga farine, zuccheri, alcol, ma anche frutta e molte verdure. Che cosa rimane ? Carne, pesce, formaggi, uova, ed alcuni altre cosucce. Se piacciono, allora è tutto facile, se non piaccono, non è la dieta for you. If you are not in good health, the diet is not for you. I've tried. Starting from the results: in 20 days-10Kg, 15Kg in 40-day-20Kg in 80 days. The important thing is to approach a target weight, and head towards that.

For me it was easy. Instead of eating pasta with meat sauce, I only eat the meat sauce. Unafraid to ask the restaurant. I found myself in the air to clear their stuffed tortellini. I became a connoisseur of small salami, but I have always loved. I have reviewed all the derivatives of the pig. But also of other animals. I completely exceeded all moral about being carnivorous, they are. I discovered many things about the cheese and now I recognize them. I almost started to love France, per la loro capacità di fare formaggi estrosi e saporiti. Ho scoperto che ovunque sei, trovi sempre qualcosa di compatibile, a qualsiasi ora. Sempre. Anche nei paesi esteri più difficili. Mangio nei fastfood come ho sempre fatto, ma mangio l'interno del panino e non l'esterno. Dopo mangiato, non ho più fame. Prima non erà così.

La dieta è un momento strano. Tutti ti dicono che fai bene ma ti consigliano su cosa fare. Se gli speghi che la tua è una dieta particolare, che non puoi magiare 2Kg di pomodori sconditi ma 2Kg di zampone, allora diventi un diverso, e tutti iniziano a dirti che sbagli. E' quasi una lesa maestà alla dieta mediterranea. Quasi un insulto alla patria. E' il momento di non ascoltare. E subito are a popup that tells you a huge misfortunes, I predict a monster cholesterol, we predict an almost instant death. Here, fortunately, your metabolism does not listen and does what it is programmed. Try not to even listen to you. The ketone diet is different. Everyone reacts differently. Try it out on you you can listen to the signals coming from your body, so read and studied so much about both. Go to a doctor if you want, but be careful to select a doctor and a philosopher.

The idea of \u200b\u200bAtkins is that eating little, starving, you get little. Instead, eating only protein and fat in abundance, perhaps you'll make it. The idea of \u200b\u200bbeing able to eat as long as you want is wonderful. Sin bread is that without a moment difficult to eat 1kg of sausage. So in the end, you find that you eat the right, without realizing it. And you're full. And stop thinking that the goal of morning and afternoon lunch and dinner. And life, let me, it becomes different, it becomes more life and less food.

But are not all rosy. Carnivores are faster. Your mood changes. The first week is monstrous, can not stand anything or anyone. A pin that falls is a bell that will tingle. Feel the noise of the fabric of the clothes and you annoy the individual movements of your speakers. Would you like to jump in my throat. Quiet, passes. But you gotta be calm, controlled. It lasts a week or two. Then you come back to be you. Ketones are nasty beasts to be disposed of. Your body uses the lungs and kidneys. Drink a lot. Always. So the kidneys do not have it bad. And then the gut, without fibers, is not easy to manage, but, in fact, must be managed appropriately, with various aids. Supplements peep, but must be acnhe those without carbohydrates. A platitudes when I take vitamins every day, I have not had a flu or colds. It will be a chance.

One nice thing is that it increases the level of attention. Always. In the afternoon, after lunch, while others yawn, you're in top form. You sleep less, but can produce much more. Sleep is more alert, more ready. In general, we feel different, you feel more present and more controlled. Then you get used to, as always, at all, and even these feelings disappear.

Gradually you realize that you have a new kitchen in front. So you invent new recipes, new tastes, new quantities. Table of carbohydrates is your enemy but also your ally. You have to read, store, investigate. It says what you should not eat. But there are also suggestions of what you can eat with a little imagination and what you can invent.

The firmness and perseverance are the key elements. Above all the dinners, especially with friends. There is no room for overdriven. Atkins says 20g of carbs daily. The which means very little. This does not mean 20g of pasta, but that the food we eat must be taken so low in carbohydrates does not exceed a total of 20g per day.

Finally, it is true that this diet is more expensive than others. I thought so, but the end is not true that you eat salami costs that much more of the bread that we eat, and in general that the seasoning is so dramatically more expensive than what seasons. It seems incredible, but it is not, and this is also a clear sign of our times. Good diet at all.

Friday, May 1, 2009

Nikon Archers Choice Craigslist

Appennino I