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I have just completed week 4 day 1 of this program (plus I am also doing the 200 sit-ups program at the same time). I like it because it is SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time framed. That said, I have spoken to a qualified physical trainer, and they weren't to impressed by it. She said a workout program should be more varied.
But it works for me because I am extremely out of shape, so I have been using the program to develop the habit of exercising 3 times a week. Once the 6 weeks are up I hope to move to a more balanced and realistic fitness program.

The outcome of all this is that I have set a goal to complete a triathlon within a year (just the sprint TA: half km swim, 16km bike and 5.1 km run) Its a tough goal for me because I smoke heavily, drink a lot and I love to cook heavy gourmet meals.

All the same, this program (100pushups) is starting to instill the discipline I need to reach my one year goal.
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Thanks CodeMage.

>Also, bear in mind that he wasn't charting the emotions of the protagonist, but the protagonist's fortune.

Taken from the article:

"Is she even sadder now? No, she’s already a broken-hearted little girl."

"and she becomes off-scale happy" [draws line upward and then infinity symbol]

So I don't think Vonnegut differentiated much between fortunes and emotions of the protagonist. He exchanged the terms for one another freely.
I found "The Complete C Reference" by Herbert Schildt to be quite good. Most of the language is covered in about 250 pages followed by standard library function, algorthims and data structures and ends in a good project "The Little C Interpreter". Its about 800 pages but then its a reference so you don't need to read it in one go :-)
Meh. Extruded buildings, no labels, ugly colors. If you like maps with 3D houses, better check out these (listed by increasing awesomeness):

http://maps.google.com/?ll=40.744315,-73.986021&spn=0.00...

http://hangzhou.edushi.com/

http://kart.finn.no/3d/
This is a tempting solution, but the food industries would simply game the system and/or lobby and pressure the decision makers.
I like the focus on desktop/mobile apps, there already are plenty of "pretty website" aggregators around (see CSSRemix etc.).

I also like the selection, most of these apps do indeed look awesome. If you know a good-looking win/lin/android program then why not submit it to him?
This was also in "A Man Without a Country", his last book. So it goes.
I might have come out as patronising, sorry about it. I do imagine the situation less safe than the US for some reason.

Anyhow, moving to the US wasn't just so he could be safe or whatever but so he could really contribute to the field.
I honestly don’t know any – that’s why I would like a website focusing on that :)
That’s what Google is. I mean, why can’t everyone lavish these sort of perks, and this sort of environment, on their employees?

Not all businesses scale well. Software is one of them. Once you develop them the cost of adding more users - or selling more ads is virtually zero. Music was another. High speed trading maybe is also in this category.

The real world is outside Google:) Does anyone know how many employees are at Googleplex or take a guess?
People go to chatroulette to talk to another random person, not to be broadcast to the whole world. It's not any more ironic than "rain on your wedding day".
How to make the most out of 200$?
I am self-employed in the education business. At the moment, I'm not that well paid, I make about 25$ an hour. So I have to work a lot to have a descent lifestyle. Sometimes I think about taking simply 200$ and trying to make the most out of it, by reselling things, investing them in online advertising for some kind of simple webpage, etc. What would you do to maximize those 200$?
Wow I randomly jumped to this scheme, which is actually a fairly popular [Textmate] theme known as Argonaut - http://inspiration.sweyla.com/code/seed/951824/

I guess it's not entirely random, but just has a big db of popular schemes?
what the fuck was he going on about there
There is nothing here that you couldn't figure out even if you aren't an employee of Google. An example of the insightfulness: Look at Google’s age in years and current size and do some arithmetic; insane growth is an everyday constant. Groundbreaking.
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OK, eight years, then. The timeline I found gave 1993 for 4.4BSD.
> Alternatively, you could learn to do it yourself, though you do need a truing stand.

It is a useful skill to learn, and instructions are available online. You don't even need a truing stand, just leave the wheel in the frame and use the brake blocks as a guide. It's not ideal, but it's workable, and the price is right.
Very cool app.
Zsh does that for you:

$ rm *
zsh: sure you want to delete all the files in /home/viraptor/tmp/zsh [yn]?
"Saul Bellow was in that same department, and neither one of us ever made a field trip."

Thats strange, I am almost certain that he had an extended trip to Africa ;)
Most people have very different ideas and goals for fitness than a physical trainer. They come from the perspective of already having a minimum level of fitness, so a more rounded regime is necessary. For a bare beginner, the 100 pushup and 200 situp programs are great. They are compound movements, meaning they use lots of different muscles, rather than the typical machine workout you get with most trainers. I would only add a similar program to get you to 300 squats so that you get some lower body workout in as well, especially as your goal is a triathlon, requiring both running and cycling. The buildup should be about the same as the other exercises, so it should be as easy as multiplying the 100 pushup workout by 3. Good job for getting started and if you get really serious, I highly recommend looking up your local Crossfit affiliate (http://www.crossfit.com). They take it to the next level.
I think that free speech is a basic human right, not an American cultural value.

The Chinese government is trying to evoke feelings of xenophobia and fear of cultural imperialism to justify its control of information and muzzling of criticism. In this case, it is a total feint to redirect attention away from a core issue: that an uncensored Google lets you find anything, including "objectionable" information. That's not an American idea. The ability to search for information is a core human right.
I wonder what Kilgore Trout has to say about all this?
Much better to join a gym, this can do more harm than good.
I highly recommend _C: A Reference Manual_ by Harbinson and Steele. It has many tiny examples, but it is mainly used as a reference manual (as the title suggests).

http://www.amazon.com/Reference-Manual-Samuel-P-Harbison/dp/...

A good book for learning C is _Mastering Algorithms with C_ by Loudon. The source code is over-commented and contains too much white space, which is a bit annoying, but the content is quite nice.

http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Algorithms-C-Kyle-Loudon/dp/...
not for learning, but as a reference to keep on your desk when programming in c - harbison + steele http://www.careferencemanual.com/

this is also worth reading once you've got the basics down - http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Programming-Peter-van-Linden/dp...
They made another successful launch this week, according to this article:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/23/2853372.htm
Related ebook about pushups: http://www.lulu.com/product/download/the-little-book-of-push...

I've found occasional pushups a rather convenient exercise to do when working from home.
Well, they're right -- a well balanced exercise plan does feature more variety. That said, I'm a HUGE proponent of calisthenic-type workouts, and I think that something like this is definitely more good than bad.

If you wanted to supplement this, without significantly increasing the difficulty, do something similar with situps on the off-days. If you're doing M-W-F for pushups, then do the same incremental workout with situps on T-Th-S.

Better still would be to add some walking to the mix. Walk a mile on Sunday, perhaps.

One other thing that I do to round out cardio (as I am also in horrible shape at the moment) is to start off each 'workout' session with jumping jacks. They're simple, easy, hard to screw up more than a little bit, and do a great job at getting you warmed up. Start with 10 or 20, and again, just keep incrementing upwards as they get easier. I personally would do jumping jacks (or jumping rope as they get easier) before every workout.

Regardless, good luck on your goal. Doing SOMETHING towards achievement is definitely better than doing nothing, regardless of how unimpressed your trainer friend might be.
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It appears that it's not equivalent in the quality/bit sense: http://keyj.s2000.ws/?p=356
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Well, I suppose it'll enable you to do 100 pushups in a row, although not much else.

You'd be much better off with a sensible weight training program involving squats, deadlifts, bench press, military press and chinups/pullups along with a decent diet.
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I agree that there are no simple answers and the guys over at 37s do tend to come across as if they claim there are. That can be attributed either to brevity (or as some people say, rushed) or to them having a more idealistic and less realistic view of the world.

My point is that without completely agreeing with it, the post still has value.

Spending money you haven't earned yet (either through an investor, a bank loan, etc.) can be a very good way to accelerate growth, and sometimes the only way to allow any kind of growth or even continuity. But I do think there is some truth to the cost of debt in having to deal with your creditors one way or another.
To be frank, Tim is pretty good at doing this - writing posts with very little content but vaguely cheering on the corporation. I unsubscribed from his RSS feed over a year ago, and at no time when I come across his blog since do I feel like I missed anything, or feel compelled to resubscribe.
I've never seen a sysadmin do that, they just nuke the offending app. So I'm filing it as "science fiction". Don't worry, use /MT.
Yep, that paragraph is crafted for internal consumption.

The average American reads this and thinks "that's not quite right, I don't have most of these restrictions."

The average Chinese reads this and thinks "yeah, every country censors, why is Google singling us out?"
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I had a similar experience (strangely enough, also for a company that did online surveys). The questions weren't quite as tough, but they did have me attempt to solve toy store puzzles while answering questions (pull jumbled pieces of metal/puzzle boxes apart, etc).

I put up with it because it was for my first job and I was desperate. Now, I don't do all day interviews, long programming assignments, recite the alphabet backwards while parachuting and coding a quick sort on a laptop, etc, at least not for the typical job. I might jump through some hoops for the dream job, but most jobs just aren't.
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This is a strange post to me. Are you saying that Google deciding not to allow censored results is a bad decision or are you just pointing this out? I'm trying to figure out what your position on this is.
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At the moment I work out M-W-Sat. I start with about 15 minutes of loosening up (I still remember my old kung-fu warm-up routines) then I go for a 2 km run. When I get back I do the program for the push-ups and sit-ups together. Its varied and interesting enough that I have been able to keep on schedule so far (even whilst having a bad hangover a couple of times:) The main goal is to really make it a habit, something I will just do without thinking. I am trying to educate myself on different aspects (i.e. I have been reading up on nutrition recently to try to fix my diet) I will look into the crossfit site, but I am currently living in the Czech Republic, (and I don't speak Czech) I don't like gyms and machines, but depending on where my studies of fitness take me, I may well end up using them. But I like the idea of body weight exercising, especially as I have a lot of weight to throw around. Should be good for a while... Thanks for the well-wishes.
I tried this when I taught a programming languages course a couple years ago. I thought it went well enough, but to prevent wasting too much time in class, you should rehearse.

During office hours and personal consultation I would also do live coding with students, but that wasn't rehearsed. In some cases it went really well, in others, it didn't (usually because something would just take too long -- or maybe because it was Scheme). Still, I enjoyed it and I know at least some of the students did.
It was striking on a recent visit to Canada, that nothing in the shops, even cereal appeared to include HFCS as an ingredient.

But still, Canada also faces an obesity epidemic.
C Interfaces and Implementations by Hanson. It'll give you back most of the things you depend on in Python, like variable length strings and dictionaries.

I'm teaching a 4-month weekend C class for Ruby programmers starting in April, and my syllabus is pretty much built around CII.
My first thought was that they were trying to protect their employees from the Chinese people, a subset of whom seem quite keen on starting nationalistic internet lynch mobs. Obviously the government is pretty dangerous as well, but I thought it was interesting that they weren't the first thing that sprang to mind.
I think this page is the most interesting thing to come out of the whole discussion: the dashboard highlights how open access to information is becoming more and more a minimum requirement for business.

Maybe we ought to take this further and create a dashboard which includes other critical internet services that are not available in China, i.e. Facebook, Twitter, ...
and they are utterly failing to prevent with medicare. so I don't see how magically they will solve all these problems if they can't even manage what they are already responsible for.

15% of medicare spending is lost to fraud apparently. please don't bring these same "efficiency" to the whole system. ugh

on top of this, medicare costs are expected to skyrocket w/ babyboomers starting to retire. one more unsustainable situation brushed under the rug
Are any of the existing webkit browsers any good? The built in one is great but I think I could get benefit from a more geek-focused one.
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Come on, give the guy some credit! This is a really nifty use of the OpenStreetMap data, and shows (yet again) what can be done with free and open geodata.

That said, the day someone figures out how to generate edushi.com-style pixel art from a combination of photos and LIDAR data will be an awesome day indeed. It's too bad that only in China can they afford to pay artists to hand-render an entire city's worth of buildings.
I see it as doing something right now is more good than bad. I decided to get into this after I realised that I am currently doing a lot of mind work (trying to fix my weaknesses in Math and Statistics as well as programming) so I need to balance it with doing something with my body. You will see in my comment below that I am running and doing sit-ups too. I wanted to do something like squats or burpees, but I have slightly dodgy knees, so I am trying to strengthen them first before putting them under too much strain. (Note, I live out in the countryside here, so I run on grass which has less of an impact on my knees than concrete would. Oh, and to clarify, the trainer was happy I am doing something, and said she will help me balance out the training when I am finished with this 'habit-forming' stage. Thanks for wishing me luck, I know I need all the luck I can get right now as the program is starting to get tougher, but I am going to make it through. Cheers!
Wow.

It is utterly incredible what an election you are likely to lose will prompt politicians to promise.

Over here the election has begun in earnest, with the big guns coming out in just one day to promise big new initiatives - from a industrial strategy for green energy and biotech, to UK Space Agency to Semantic Web-enabled government departments.

Some of this is aiming in the right direction, like releasing OS maps, broadband for digital poor and access to government processes online. But some of this terrifies me - "allowing users of government services to identify themselves simply and definitively" sounds like an ID card online.

I love that Gordon has been listening to some of the right people. I am scared that my government is going to try and go online when they support things like the Digital Economy Bill copyright sections. Whoever wrote this speech did not do the policy work on clause 17.

roll on may 6th
Where are you giving the course? And who/how can sign up?
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I considered engineering and looked at the numbers and concluded, rationally I think, that the pay was not in line with the amount of work necessary to obtain the education. There are easier ways to make more money, so why bother?

I'll grant you that money isn't everything. I'm sure some would argue that I don't love engineering enough to do it anyway, and the field is better off without me. Maybe they're right, but I figure there are other areas that can be interesting and suffer from less of the wage and job pressures engineering is facing. You can imagine my surprise when I started to get excited about engineering and then I did my research and found the 'shortage' is really not so dire or real as public pronouncements had me believe.

I think it's a complex problem and would agree that dismissing any doubts against it as being largely xenophobic is a little unfair. I don't know what the answer is, but if we really want American born engineers we should recognize that we have a problem here. If we don't mind importing them, maybe this is a cheaper way at the cost of pushing Americans into other fields.
the US's advantage is not that people are self employed. it is that one can start a business and grow it rapidly (or slowly and steadily), eventually hiring a lot of people and/or creating efficiencies for those using the product or service.

in other words, its the ability to be entrepreneur and not have boot anchors placed in you path. having many small shops making products by hand is not what creates wealth
Plan 9 versions of these tools are straight forward:
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http://www.c-faq.com/resources/books.html

Take a look at the Amazon reviews of some of these, you'll probably find something to your liking.

K&R is an important book to have on your bookshelf but the idea that it's the only or best book to learn C from is absurd.

Another thing to do is scan the C FAQ and some of the online C tutorials just to get a feel for the language and where it fits in the language universe and to understand why a 'modern topic like threading' is not strictly a C topic. The C coding standard documents of various projects and organizations are also useful to give you an idea of what peoples' notions of sensible C look like - they can be surprisingly varied.

Lastly, review known good code in the field you're interested in - in your case, this might be Python extensions. There aren't a lot of terribly good reasons to use C to 'hack on small Unix tools'. Your best path to learning the language is writing things that you actually need and where C is a good (or only) choice.
I've seen a few auto stereo displays and they only work if you view dead on from the center, at the right distance - though for a portable device that might not be too much of a restriction.
This is awesome, I never knew about this; I usually type "delete from where" and then fill out the query, just to avoid accidentally hitting enter after typing "delete from users".

For me, this is sort of like standing at the edge of a big cliff; you just have this weird feeling that you might accidentally, compulsively jump.
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I for one am looking forward to the ballot screen on iPhone!
From the author's website: it uses an algorithm to randomly generate pleasing colour schemes.
Web Workers was born for this purpose.
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-workers/current-work/

(and it would be non-trivial to detect this kind of code in Javascript).
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The tories have been surprisingly on-the-ball with support for open source IT and similar so with both main parties supporting positive moves in this direction the only problem will be if they're all talk and do nothing about it when the time comes to actually take action.

Oh, just burst my own bubble there.
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An example would be this cell phone:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1597252/hitachi-3d-...

Just wondering (probably stupid), but could that be combined with a camera to track where the head is, so that it could be viewed at multiple angels?

Sort of like this effect:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWAg1s7xfz0