Thanks for sharing. How do you manage the 48 hour and 7 day fast ? I presume you only consume water and nothing else. I skip breakfast always and can skip lunch and breakfast on alternate days. Are there any trick's to learn to fast for more than 20 hours while being mentally active like coding ?

I know I'm a little late here, but intermittent fasting is actually a pretty trendy thing in the valley right now because of increased mental clarity.

I didn't start it for the mental side effects, but I haven't noticed any strong negatives during my day job. I get 4-6 hours of meaningful work done and then my brain is about finished like most days.

Many people who do IF actually suggest working/playing to keep your mind off the hunger as it's easier to ignore when you're busy.

Smriti is correct Sanskrit of Pali 'Sati'. The 'Sati' you are talking about is a different thing. This 'Sati' is related to mindfulness.

It is a Hindu religious practice of taking the life of a Hindu widow after her Husband dies( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice) ). The central idea is to prevent remarriage with other caste men and preserve the purity of caste system.

You spoke valid points and after that you brought islam without any context. How does the reference to islam is coherent with your previous points?

> He asked me if I came into recitation, I said yes. He asked me if I participated in recitation and I said yes.

Non native English speaker here. What does "came in to recitation" mean. Recitation is the act of repeating something. What was the Recitation about and how can you go in to recitation. Could you please explain ?

A “recitation” session is generally a regularly scheduled classroom session that is not led by the professor or lecturer but by a teaching assistant (TA). These are along the same lines as a “lab” sessions used alongside Chemistry or Physics lectures.

May be it is an Americanism, never heard of the word used in that manner before(as a non American).

In Commonwealth countries at least, some synonyms for recitation are “tutorial” or “study group”.

I think it is rather an American tradition, and it's not not even present at every university here (or at least by that name), but it's also not recent. I've found references going at least to the 1910s.

And “came to” or “came in to” are equivalent to “attended”

In many schools/universities in the US, recitation is a kind of discussion class where a small number of students attend for more focused problem-solving/teaching

Does Fabrice Bellard knows any other language other than 'c' ?. Looks all his works are in 'c'. Just trying to look if there is a correlation among the 100x programmers and the number of languages they know. Because being extremely proficient in a language is important to be highly productive.

At the bottom of the page there is this the mention of "Charlie Gordon". Who is he ?. Any place to find the works of him.

They use the batch size as 1. That is surprising to me as all the online course i see the batch size b/w 32 and 256.

Also this is a open source https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf . By the way its really awesome project. I am very glad i found it.

Seriously can't understand why this post is getting upvoted so much(2896) as of now. Is there something i am missing.