"But wouldn't any other researcher who obtains the data from doctors who recruited the patients have to give credit to the doctors who shared their data?"

In academia, it's better to be the primary author of a paper. More primary author publications makes it easier to get funding, keep your job and advance your career. If you share the data that you might have spent a lot of time and money collecting, you will either gain a citation or a non-primary author position. This is worse for your career. I don't like the system. Most academics would prefer to share to have their work verified or even to see what others might find but the incentives are to keep it private so that you can squeeze as many primary papers (or papers from your research group) as possible out of a data set before sharing the paper.

I used Dart a while ago for a personal project. Language-wise, it has dramatically improved by 'await'. My favorite part about Dart is the standard library. I've never used a language with a better standard library.

Does anyone know how Dart will be affected by web assembly?

> Does anyone know how Dart will be affected by web assembly?

WebAssembly right now is a suitable target only for C++ like languages. There is a hope that in the future WebAssembly will introduce features enabling efficient compilation of dynamic languages, but so far it's unclear when this hope is going to materialize into something more tangible than a few entries on the road map.

> I've never used a language with a better standard library.

I found myself wishing that it would take more from Scala's example, especially the collections, where they could certainly use some more utility. I also wish they'd do more to support a more functional style of programming; little things like, say, turning `if` into an expression, which, while I don't think it would affect existing code at all (the result would just be thrown away), would allow you to assign to a constant value, avoiding undefineds altogether.

I'm really hopeful that Concepts will dramatically reduce the amount of code needed for std::transform. Imagine no begin() or end(). It would suddenly become less verbose than the classic for loop.

That problem is due to the STL not being built around iterators/ranges. I don't see how concepts enter into it (though contra Andrei Alexandrescu, I'm still a big believer in concepts).

Abstract

An increasing number of animal studies have shown altered markers for health in subjects exposed to intermittent fasting, i.e. regularly and repeatedly abstaining from eating during 12-36 hours per period. It has been hypothesized that the reported beneficial health effects from caloric restriction on excess body weight, cardiovascular risk factors, glucose metabolism, tumor physiology, neurodegenerative pathology and life span can be mimicked by alternating periods of short term fasting with periods of refeeding, without deliberately altering the total caloric intake. Therefore, a systematic review of available intervention studies on intermittent fasting and animal and human health was performed. In rodents, intermittent fasting exhibits beneficial effects including decreased body weight, improved cardiovascular health and glucose regulation, enhanced neuronal health, decreased cancer risk and increased life span – some of the effects independent of the effects attributed to calorie restriction alone. The human studies performed to date are generally of low-quality design. Beneficial effects such as weight loss, reduced risk for cardiovascular disease and improved insulin sensitivity have been observed, but conflicting data exists. The potential health promoting effects of intermittent fasting in humans and applicability to modern lifestyle are discussed. - See more at: http://www.lift-heavy.com/intermittent-fasting/#sthash.HPQDE...

Are there any numbers on how much it generates compared to a traditional design? I imagine it generates less electricity but it costs less so there's a trade-off.

I really like the idea of capitalization selecting public and private scope. However, how do they use protected scope?

There is no protected. There's no inheritance anyway.

Note that everything in the same package can access all the private stuff... so you do have some flexibility. You can write two types that reference each other's private data/functionality... they just need to be in the same package.

I know it sounds unrealistically pessimistic but it's very similar to my experience. Colleagues developing a host of awful conditions due to a terribly stressful environment. Doing a Ph.D. was my biggest regret.

I love the passion Bob puts into his work. This is such a fine book. I've already read it but I'm definitely getting the final version in paper.

Very handy. Thanks.

My wrist pain is so bad I've had to change profession. Nevertheless, computers are used in every job. At first, ergonomic keyboards and mice were enough. Then any kind of mice was too painful. Then I became fully ambidextrous, writing and using mice with left hand. After I maxed out the pain in that hand, I've moved onto tablets. I find almost no pain typing on a Swype keyboard on my tablet.

I got Samsung Note 12.2 2014 pro because it has a huge screen. If I need to do a small amount of programming, I use Splashtop to accept Swype input into my Windows laptop just across the room.

If anyone has better ideas for an extreme case of RSI, please let me know. Thanks.

Not as bad as you describe but there was a period when I used to click a lot (in a game) for many hours a day until it became painful. I used AutoHotkey to remap Ctrl and Alt to left and right click respectively and that was it. I'm not saying it's enough but it may help.

Have you considered seeing a hand surgeon?