If you want a good measure then look at the carbs. More carbs approximates to less satiety.
It's all based on where the food sits in terms of its Glycemic Index. High GI foods trigger an insulin release and insulin effectively tells your cells to lower your blood sure levels. Lower blood sugar reduces the feeling of satiety, aka makes you hungry.
By avoiding insulin releases in the first place (sweet/grainy/starchy shit) you'll come out a far healthier person.
From personal experience, I believe that it's not always so simple. When I eat a steak for dinner (rare), I notice that even right after the meal I feel incomplete, and I'm hungry within an hour or two. When I eat a muffin for lunch, I feel content for several hours. (And the muffin has about 2/3 the calories of the steak.)
It's a very interesting contrast of experiences. When I eat a steak I'm not hungry for a long time afterward (whereas a muffin doesn't sate nearly as well). It makes me wonder what causes such a variance between people with regards to how they experience food.
HipChat's fatal flaw, IMHO, is publicly-accessible file downloads, even in private conversation, with no ostensible lifespan (that I've seen). While the URL for shared files might be extremely hard to guess, I can never feel comfortable not being able to predict what files someone might openly share.
Agreed. Also, coming from iChat before Hipchat, sending files on the same network was so fast. I hate that Hipchat requires me to upload the file to an external server... It's handy for members of our team that are out of office though. I'd rather everyone's files ended up on our internal server, even if it was a little slower for outsiders.
The only thing you need to change is your attitude. If you become more balanced (I've noticed a lot of nos and cants here), you'll probably spring back much better.
Are there other things in your life that you can change for the better? The answer may be a couple weeks of enjoying time with some friends or family.
> If you become more balanced (I've noticed a lot of nos and cants here), you'll probably spring back much better.
I know what you mean, but I can't just 'change' it like I do a channel. All my life I've been a loser. Got straight-Fs all through school and college because I can't learn right, now I've got my employer saying I'm just barely satisfactory with other programmers saying they're unhappy with me. It's objective stuff that I can't dismiss so easily.
Things I can change? I dunno. I lost a bunch of weight, I can now run a few miles, do pull ups. I've gotten better at talking to people. Maybe I should go into sales (laugh*.
> The answer may be a couple weeks of enjoying time with some friends or family.
I don't have any of those. I'm trying to fix it. I do want to take some time off, though i'll probably just work on my own stuff.
> Things I can change? I dunno. I lost a bunch of weight, I can now run a few miles, do pull ups. I've gotten better at talking to people. Maybe I should go into sales (laugh*.
Well, why not? The goal of life, if any, is probably more in line with being yourself and enjoying it while you can, not writing C++ code because that's what "real hackers" do, or whatever illusion you're using to punish yourself.
Seriously, losing a bunch of weight, running a few miles and doing pull ups are awesome things. Getting better at talking people is beyond awesome; it can be life-changing.
You got straight Fs because you're playing their game. You'll ace it when you start playing your game. And the best thing about life is that you get to define your game. That's the meta-bug you need to fix! :-)
It sounds like you're seeing some positive changes in your life outside of work. That's really good. I bet you had to put a fair bit of effort into that too.
IMO Microsoft is still one of the scariest companies when it comes to the gaming industry. I'm overjoyed to see tricklets of sanity rise up (the PC market)through Valves efforts, but MS is still a very big, very scary beast in AAA gaming.
My guess is that Valve is being watched by every other game maker. I wonder what is being said behind closed doors in meetings with a lot of suits. If Valve is successful, I don't think they will be alone for long.
This one is not worth 90k. It got published on multiple news website and now there's ton of fake bid on it. In good condition it's worth 6k but I've never seen one in this bad shape, it's probably worth much less. The gold one is worth way more, about 20k in good condition.
My experience tutoring at university would beg to differ. Perhaps irremediably bad is not the right word, but as a tutor of ~30 first year students you find yourself almost having to give up on half the class.
I TA'd Intro to Computer Science (Java Programming) at UCSC for 2 years and I would emphatically disagree with you. The whole time I was tutoring (groups and one on one) I never met anyone who I thought couldn't learn to program. It was 100% a function of time. Some people certainly got it quicker, but I never met anyone who couldn't get it at all given they put in the time. I probably worked with over 200 students indirectly and 50 one on one and I never felt I had to 'give up' on any of them. In fact it was one of the most enjoyable and rewarding jobs I've had.
One of the problems I have with formal education is that nobody has ever considered how to motivate students. As you say, most subjects really are a function of time and effort. Even with serious roadblocks, a good tutor should be able to teach you if you spend the time. The only place where you can't teach someone is where there are discoveries to be made.
I guess I could’ve phrased it more carefully. Sure, I think everybody can learn to program, but given the limited amount of time you can spend with each student and their predisposition toward some of the key elements of programming it's just unlikely that you can teach 30 first years how to legitimately program given just a 2 hour lab each week. Keep in mind some of the students are just 'tasting' programming and some students have ridiculous external commitments too.
I tutor people 1 on 1 now, besides working, and it's incredibly better. Never in this scenario have I met anybody who's never had those 'aha' moments.
Hmmm. Given your financial situation I don't think your problem really has anything to do with 'not being rich'. It just sounds like you're depressed about something.
Why not consider donating a portion to a charity? If anything it may absolve yourself of some responsibility regarding your cynical outlook? Be the change you seek :)
As we've all read here, past a certain level of security more money doesn't make you happier. You have more than enough money and savings for what passes as security in the US. My guess is that you're sad or depressed about one thing, but looking at the rich issue instead of whatever it is that's troubling you.
Fundamentally, as you can see from other comments, you don't seem to have an obvious reason for depression just from what you wrote, in fact you look like you have a pretty good situation. Yet you feel like you do, so there's likely something else going on.
You should make contact with a counselor or similar, and do some exploration as to what might be bothering you. Many times we don't know what's bothering us, we just feel bad. The result of counseling could be identification of some issue and how to address it, and additionally some idea of things you can do to make yourself feel good, independent of any issues.
Mental health is not just fixing what's broke. Promoting what's good is just as important.
You sound mentally unhealthy. You wouldn't hesitate to set a broken arm and put it in a cast. Go talk to a professional or two, and get yourself healthy.
EDIT: This should have been a reply to the OP. Weird that I put it here. Recalibrating brain ...
It really has everything to do with not being rich. A million dollars is not rich. 100 million is.
When you have a million, you make passive income of 60-70k per year. When you have 100 million, you make passive income of 7 million per year (but probably much more), which gives you almost 600k per month. You can do anything and you really don't care about saving money at this point, so you can spend all of it. As opposed to 5k per month, and you are living off 3k per month, trying desperately to save money to re-invest every year.
Donating my money would just make me panic more. The problem is that I have nothing except money. I need to start on something, but I don't know what.
> It really has everything to do with not being rich. A million dollars is not rich. 100 million is.
100 million isn't rich, 10 billion is.
Look, there's always going to be someone richer. Only one person in 7 billion gets to be the richest person on the planet. Stop staring at the top, and consider the over 99% of the world's population that's a lot poorer than you.
You are easily in the richest 1%. You are rich. You've made it. If this doesn't make you happy, then maybe you should change your outlook in life and do something totally different.
Have a long vacation, travel around the world. Maybe go see all those places and people that have it a lot worse than you. Go build houses in Africa. Find some people worse off than you and make a difference in their lives. Quite likely that will make you feel a lot better.
Honestly, I would be fucking happy with 100 million. If someone has 10 billion, good for them, I don't want to be famous.
100 million is what I want. I feel like then, I could live how I wanted. I want to help people. I want to make the world a better place. I have no evil desires. If someone came up to me right now and said hey buddy, I'll give you 100 million if you help me starve just 1 dying boy in africa right now, I would punch that cock in the face. I do not want to make money at the expense of other people.
I want to help people. I want to improve the world. I believe in evolution. I believe in our planet.
I don't know what else there is to say. Except for- I will make it my business to murder people who oppress other people. I really will.
> Honestly, I would be fucking happy with 100 million.
And who wouldn't? In fact, anyone who's not a millionaire would be happy with a million. If being that rich doesn't make you happy, why would being even richer work? Maybe you should focus on something more fulfilling than money.
> If someone came up to me right now and said hey buddy, I'll give you 100 million if you help me starve just 1 dying boy in africa right now, I would punch that cock in the face. I do not want to make money at the expense of other people.
And are you sure you haven't made your money at the expense of other people? I'd hate to depress you even further, but it's very hard not to make money at the expense of others. Particularly at the expense of the poorest people in Africa or Asia. Many of the cheap goods we buy are made by people who are terribly exploited for just cents per day. US and EU agriculture gets subsidies that make it impossible for African farmers to compete, and our surpluses get dumped below cost, driving them out of business, causing famine.
If you're serious about not wanting to be rich at the expense of the poor, and don't want to be the cause of kids in Africa starving, then focus on that. You've got enough money to visit Africa and Asia, to see how people live there, and do something about it. Raise awareness, build a school, campaign, whatever. There's tons to be done.
And you don't even have to eat up your million buck for it. Your 60k of passive income is more than enough to do something. After you've spent a few months or a year or a few years on this, you'll still be rich, and you can still decide that helping the poor isn't your thing and do something else with your money instead.
Just stop focusing on that 100 million, because almost nobody gets there, and focusing on that above all else will only destroy you at no benefit to anyone anywhere.
You have 60k passive income, which is more than most people on this site have for passive, and is more than most people's salaries in US. My point is you are very well off financially.
Sounds like you want the luxury of going into a store and buying whatever you want - that might not happen. The reason it's bothering you is psychological, not financial. Would you rather be Steve Jobs? rich ... but he can't buy anything now.
You sound young, based on 4 years in college and 8 years working, so as an introvert keep that in mind, and realize that your mind is playing tricks on you, and making things seem bad even though you are doing great or at least good. It's hard to self-inspect, but as an introvert you should be able to question your thoughts. Question them in a quite room, because you may just start to laugh.
My suggestion - don't waste your 30's, 40's and 50's chasing big score. Prioritize - get family, that's a lot harder later in life (I would assume chasing a toddler at 45 is different than at 30, and maybe biological impossible at 50). You can keep doing things on the side, so look for a supportive spouse.
Coming from someone living paycheck to paycheck - a million dollars is extremely rich. You could do with counselling to find the root cause of your current depression. Don't make any big decisions until you're in therapy, you'll probably end up regretting them.
A million dollars in savings isn't rich, good lord.. that's rich!
He is actually correct if you define rich as being able to buy big ticket items. 1 mil cannot buy a luxury mansion. Let alone staff it. You can't have a luxury yacht. No private jet. It is not rich by a long shot.
If you have a passive income enough for survival (which you do), but you have feelings of desparation about a need to re-invest more + thoughts of spending cause panic then this is a sign that your worrying is hurting you, badly.
Try investing part of that money not in savings, but in psychotherapy; improving on all that anxiety will make you much happier and you'll have an easier time making decisions about your financial goals after that.
dude. if you could understand how much 'psychotherapy' I have been through, you would not be saying that I bet. If you have someone whom you think can bring me out of this funk, please recommend. I don't doubt you. I have been out of this funk once, but a long time ago.
I live in butthole texas. I have been all over the US, Canada, Mexico.
I have volunteered at homeless shelters. I have played golf at a professional level, I have an engineering degree, I have given speeches to high school classes about life, I have built a blog and website (not good @ coding though).
I have traveled and enjoyed some of the finest food in the American nation. I have owned some of the finest sports cars and lived and some of the nicest places (douche). I have caught world record fish in the gulf of mexico. I have shot a 59 on a golf course (18 holes). I have raided with a top 6 worldwide guild on wow. I have made it to the top 18 in quake live duel rankings. Wow I am fucking loser. I haven't done shit with my life. Fuck me. I should kill myself. lol.
1. Stash pushes git change notification to bamboo
2. Bamboo checkout git and run cucumber tests on ec2
3. Green tests means puppet changes are pushed to puppet master under staging env
4. Manual build step to push to prod env
5. All affected infra will pickup puppet changes on next run
