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guy07:07:42

Morning!

guy07:07:23

Is Green tea or coffee better for you on an empty stomach? I’m inclined to say Green tea. What are you folks thoughts?

mccraigmccraig07:07:41

coffee with double-cream 😎

guy07:07:27

mmm that does sound yummy

danielneal07:07:11

I’ve been getting into matcha lattes

guy07:07:59

😱 what are those? they sound cool

danielneal08:07:49

matcha is a powdered green tea, so unlike a steeped green tea where you leave it in water and you take it out, you put this powdered green tea in and whisk it up with hot milk, and end up drinking the green tea itself

danielneal08:07:04

it has more caffeine than a green tea, but not as much as coffee, and is slower release

guy08:07:19

oooh wow

guy08:07:36

where do you get it from?

danielneal08:07:34

you can buy the powder from various places if you want to make it yourself - I like it with coconut milk. But lots of the trendy coffee shops will do it. The chain coffee shops also sometimes do it, but it usually isn’t very good there and is excessively sweetened

guy08:07:01

ok great thanks! ill see if i can buy some 😄

danielneal09:07:02

cool!!! - worth trying one in a coffee shop first to see if you like it - it’s an acquired taste (like green tea, I guess)

mamapitufo10:07:43

I find it much lighter on your stomach as well. If you make it yourself you can make sure there's no sugar in it, oat "milk" works well too, and it's less sweet than coconut.

rickmoynihan10:07:36

I don’t know why I find matcha latte’s sacrilege; when I find the concept of matcha kitkats so utterly delicious

danielneal11:07:22

Talk of the devil

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rickmoynihan13:07:00

though what I really want to try are lindt’s matcha flavoured truffle balls. Sadly only available in asia 😞

danielneal07:07:26

thats almost exactly a compromise @guy

alexlynham08:07:10

I find that before my metabolism has started I sometimes get ill from diary (even milk in tea/coffee)

alexlynham08:07:20

started happening in my 20s

alexlynham08:07:49

my doctor mates say it’s p common if you have a fast(ish) metabolism but you’re a night owl

alexlynham08:07:09

can’t remember the reason, maybe to do with the wake up adrenaline boost you get?

alexlynham08:07:29

either way, black coffee for me, then tea with milk or green tea in the pm

dharrigan09:07:51

Coffee all the way

danielneal10:07:55

how come you quit?

danielneal10:07:07

do you miss it?

maleghast10:07:23

Also, how does Wolfram Alpha know when you last had coffee @jasonbell

jasonbell10:07:52

@danieleneal I had an operation on my neck to remove a disc that was crushing my spinal cord. As they don’t go in via the back of the neck, they move your throat to one side. Recovery is very random on how you’re going to speak or what you can eat/drink. So I went from 10 cups a day before the operation and then hated the taste of coffee. I thought it was the anti imflamatories and pain killers but it turned out I actually hated the taste of the stuff.

danielneal10:07:42

ah so you cut out consumption for recovery and by the time that peeriod was over you discovered you didn’t really like it 🙂

danielneal10:07:24

or the operation actually changed your tastes?

jasonbell10:07:30

I was up and walking about thirty minutes once I came round. They don’t mess about.

jasonbell10:07:49

The operation actually changed how I talk, swallow and taste things.

danielneal10:07:27

wow I wouldn’t have expected that

jasonbell10:07:56

When I say move the throat to one side, I mean it’s real shove to one side. There’s little mercy with that op. Not being able to speak again is a real possibility.

danielneal10:07:40

yikes! How do you breathe during the operation?

danielneal10:07:44

if you don’t mind me asking

jasonbell10:07:02

I was under general so I have no idea how I was breathing, I just assume that someone was helping me along.

jasonbell10:07:19

Don’t mind you asking at all.

danielneal10:07:03

I guess the throat even in its shoved-out-of-the-way state is still open enough to get air through

danielneal10:07:23

and yeah, there’s probably someone keeping an eye on that!

jasonbell10:07:29

Yeah it’s a major operation. Four hours all in all, comes with a ton of risks too. Makes you appreciate life a lot more.

jasonbell10:07:16

@danieleneal And yes, I do miss it, especially I can smell an open pack of fresh coffee.

jasonbell10:07:17

@maleghast Wolfram doesn’t, I do.

maleghast10:07:54

@jasonbell - I see; Alpha helps you do the time-delta calculation..?

maleghast10:07:17

That makes a lot more sense; sorry 😕

jasonbell10:07:26

Fine by me 🙂

jasonbell10:07:14

@danieleneal I thought that not liking coffee and using a walking stick was a better exchange than being paralysed from the neck down.

practicalli-johnny10:07:51

If anyone else has a talk they wanted to submit for ClojureX but missed the deadline, send me a DM today and I will include you in our discussions this evening. Thanks

flefik13:07:19

I have to spend 1500 GBP on Training and Development by the end of the year or I’ll lose the money and get yelled at … What’s the best way to spend this money?

practicalli-johnny15:07:34

You could always sponsor my books for the community at https://practicalli.github.io/ and help me have time to finish them 😀

Ben Hammond13:07:00

spend it on Clojure Exchange?

Ben Hammond13:07:21

I'm sure skillsmatter can think of ways to help

Ben Hammond13:07:05

oh you should definitely book some training with http://juxt.pro obvs

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flefik13:07:55

all great ideas thanks

flefik13:07:09

got my ticket for clojurex already 😄

yogidevbear14:07:07

Definitely 2nd the training ideas mentioned plus maybe a couple extra options: - Training with JUXT - http://PurelyFunctional.tv - https://www.learnreagent.com/ - https://www.learnreframe.com/ - https://lambdaisland.com/

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yogidevbear14:07:14

Or spend it on a ticket for a conference that is diversity friendly 👍 and pay for the slightly more expensive sponsorship ticket where someone less fortunate gains by getting a ticket too

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yogidevbear14:07:58

ah yeah, I haven't looked at them in a while. I purchased an AWS series off of them via udemy I think. The quality was really good

Olical14:07:06

For those of you that went to / heard about / were kind of interested in what I was talking about last night in London: Here's the post with all of the content https://oli.me.uk/2019-07-16-exploring-repl-tooling-with-prepl/

Olical14:07:26

Kind of a niche within a niche topic but still.