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I'm biased because I'm one of those people who feels like he can't live without going to the gym at least every other day. But there are some things to make it easier, putting on my UX hat:

* Put your workout clothes on the floor right in front of your house door - can't walk out to work without taking your gym clothes

* Find a convenient gym - is it on the same bus/train/car route as you are already taking to get to/from work?

* Go to the gym on that route as part of your morning/after work routine. If you have everything you need to workout with you and you're passing by that gym, you have no excuse. Now you just have to get in the gym.

* Pick an activity you think you'll enjoy. Or at least try a bunch and see which ones suck the least. Some people like to run, some people like to swim, some people like to lift weights.

* Pick a routine for that activity that has a logical progression. Now that you can't avoid the gym and know what you want to do, then pick a routine so you have no question as to what you have to do when you're in the gym. Get a routine as pre-planned as necessary, so you can just go in, do what the routine says, and get out.

If you follow the above steps, it should drastically reduce the cognitive effort and strain required to get yourself into the gym.
The showdead setting in your profile is part of the problem. You need to have showdead set to yes to see dead posts.

The other part of the problem is that Algolia search doesn't return dead posts, so you're not going to find it by using the site search box.
At it's very core, Simplenote relies on a library called Simperium (http://github.com/Simperium/simperium-ios/).

In the past few months / years, we've significantly improved both, it's performance and reliability.

Sync'ing bugs are taken very seriously, if you ever experience any kind of glitch, please: just let us know.

We'd be thrilled to have you back with us!
I have a T460p with a dedicated NVIDIA graphics card, and it runs just fine under Ubuntu 16.04 with the newest drivers. Steam also runs fine.
Have you tried Arch Linux? The install experience is quite bare metal, but once you're past that, the experience is very smooth. Thus far, I've installed it on five machines (three laptops) with varying hardware and had only one hardware issue (and even then only with the boot CD, where I had to add nomodeset to the boot parameters).

On second thought, I have also had a few issues back when I thought BTRFS would be a good idea. (It's not). Those were my own fault, though.
Pandoc is fantastic! Just a few days ago, I used it in a makefile to keep markdown, HTML, and PDF versions of my resume in sync.
I also watched a lot of VPRO when I was a kid at the end of the 80ies and beginning of the 90ies. They had many great off the wall programs. E.g. mevrouw Ten Kate was also great:

https://youtu.be/9VOJEzbW2b8

Not full of sex references, but definitely politically incorrect dialogues and some swear words for good measure. I don't think it had any negative impact on my childhood ;).
Well, you can't go wrong with Oliver Postgate, who I now notice made nearly half of the programs in my (completely randomly selected) list...

Also I appear to have remembered a fairly small selection of the 'children's television on drugs' genre. See also: Banamaman, Jamie and the Magic Torch, Roobarb and Custard, Captain Pugwash...

While talking about children's television: it's not British, and it's slightly later, but any person of any age who doesn't like Fraggle Rock has no soul.
Awesome productivity tool. Pandoc changed my entire document preparation workflow. Thank you!
Actually, even now the car can not be towed if it is out of power.

To tow, you need at least a booster battery to boot the 12v systems in the car. Or you need to lift it. Not a problem for an road assistance service, but potentially irritating if you are on your own.

The traction battery does not have to be online though.
So this might not be the right place for this, but i'm curious.

How do people deal with "eventual consistency"?

In my head once a transaction is done, it's everywhere and everyone has access to it.

What happens if 2 nodes try to modify the same data at the same time? Or what happens if you insert on one node, then query on another before it propagates? And if the answer to those questions are what I think they are (that bad stuff happens), how do you setup your application to avoid doing it?
Buy a flight along with the hotel and you could save as much as 75$!
That was actually one of the first shows she really paid attention to (along with Clarence), but it was back when she was really just interested in colors and sound and not able or interested in repeating what she saw. If we let her watch TTG! on the regular now the house would be a burning pile of rubble.
I actually think Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder sounds pretty bad, primarily because it says "disorder," i.e. it's an admittance that something is wrong.

Whereas "Operational Exhaustion" sounds very soft and innocent.
I know nothing about French typography.. having said that..

pandoc allows you to use different LaTeX templates than the ones it ships with. So, you can take the default templates, add the overrides necessary for French typography and voilà! (hopefully).
> It was made in an era when... um... let's just say that it was focus grouped.

If you're implying drugs were involved I think it's a tad insulting to the creativity and artistry of the people behind these wonderful shows.
Perhaps this is a geographical problem. I've always had paid time off, sick time etc as a working programmer. But I have been working in Europe. I know Americans get less sick time and vacation time but I'm pretty sure it's more than nothing.

Being subject to too many meetings is a pain but most workers would hardly see it as a major quality of life issue.
Some modern examples: capital punishment, euthanasia, abortion.

All involve killing a human being, but euphemisms are used to soften the reality.
You're right... I was thinking back to 2000's SGI. It's hard to track of when / where these companies are. SGI buys Cray, SGI spins Cray out to Tera, Rackable buys SGI, HP splits, HPE buys SGI...

It's all crazy.

But yes, Cray still has some impressive gear independently.
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except fonts...
As I said repeatedly above, the basic job guarantee is just another job. It pays primarily in-kind benefits (i.e. rooms in govt dorms, govt cafeteria food, etc) and little money, and it's available to anyone who wants it. Also welfare is eliminated the day we create the basic job (or after some phase-in period, more realistically).

So basically yes, the government will pay for an army of child carers, an army of infrastructure fixers, an army of trash picker uppers, etc. It just won't pay very much and most of what it pays will be in-kind benefits rather than money (e.g. rooms in government dorms in low cost areas).

It's interesting that you are suggesting people who are currently on government benefits are disproportionately unsuitable for child care. Can you expand on this? My attempts to fill in the blanks here lead me to the idea that poor people are irresponsible and morally defective (e.g., they might ignore it when children start hitting each other with rocks), but I suspect that isn't a claim you'll endorse. Could you clarify in detail what you mean?
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Out of curiosity, what are these workarounds ?
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It's all part of the 'Pacific Solution'[0], the main component of Australia's policy of nobody reaching the country without a visa (including asylum seekers).

Australia essentially pays Nauru to host an immigration detention centre, and sends asylum seekers who tried to reach Australia by boat there, regardless of age or legitimacy of claims or anything else.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Solution
Hi everyone, OP here (Pete at ZeeMee).

Thanks for all the discussion around this! The point of the article wasn't "How to get the most performance per $" - I would never recommend Ruby, Rails, or Heroku for that.

Rather, it was "If you're using Rails on Heroku, this is what it looks like to scale, and this is how far we could get it to go" For us, it's great! We can sit nearly idle (cheap), most of the year, and can crank it up to "expensive" a few days a year when needed.

If you need more/bigger/better scale than that for most of the year, then this article is still helpful because you know which technology to not use.

At ZeeMee we currently have about 2.5 people working on backend/rails stuff, and right now it makes more sense for us to work on features at this scale, rather than work on scaling itself. We were happy with how easy it was to crank up to this scale when we needed without really optimizing anything else.

Of course we'll switch off of Rails+Heroku when the (cost to swtich) < (cost to continue). Keep in mind that the cost to switch includes engineering costs, and opportunity costs (other things we could be working on).

Love the discussion, thanks!
"(If you post any article by 8/31, the membership will be extended to the end of 2016; then we’ll see how things go and decide what to do next.)"

aren't these rather crazy terms for a text editor ?
Try swimming. The combat swimmer stroke is easy to learn and will get you on your way in the pool in a jiffy. Search for Stew Smith's videos on YouTube, and you'll be swimming 500 yards nonstop in a few weeks.

Also, skipping rope is really easy on the knees and is great cardio. Get yourself some rubber horse stall mats to put on the ground (~$50) and buy a speed rope ($10) [1]. Start out doing 30-second rounds, and work yourself up to two-minute rounds. Then bump up the intensity, and add auxiliary exercises between rounds to make it harder once you get in shape.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AQ6X9GU/ref=oh_aui_sear...
Are we talking days or weeks ?
You'd have to unionize globally though, and that'd be very hard. The incentives to undercut a unionised workforce are massive. Yes there's been some outsourcing but I also know many companies that are squeamish about remote work and insist on having local workers even in high cost localities. Unionised workforce and constant strikes would get rid of that squeamishness double quick time.
Depends on us if that's the end of history, or just a stage though. ;)
I wanted to work at Atari. They went out of business. I wanted to work at DEC. They went out of business. I wanted to work at SGI. They went out of business.
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Me too. I believe Facebook limits what type of deleting 3rd party apps can do.
Imagine if it ran IRIX...
Readiblity bookmarklet does just that but it is very simple heuristic and is good enough for articles/layouts with single main column.
>There's a tradeoff between setting limits and teaching children what's right and wrong

Absolutely, but it's mysterious and nuanced and a giant pain in my analytical brain. Allowing her to wander off with a phone or tablet can be a life-saver when things need to be done without any outside "assistance" but our daughter is highly susceptible to a condition I have named "iPad Face" wherein a screen held at arm's length or closer (how I laugh about what my parents' generation would say about eyeballs so close to a TV) can turn the happiest of moods into a dark sulk.

The other problem is everything needs to be taught by example, not by legislative fiat, which is another PITA and a bit of a challenge in These Modern Times. Looking forward to getting her interested in video games so she has another excuse to never go outside!
You probably forgot that it's possible to remove current element via Iterator, which indeed gives us O(1) for LinkedList in best case. Removal from ArrayList is more expensive except the case when you remove the last element.
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Sounds fun but I don't know if my downstairs neighbors would like it :) and have you ever seen anyone older than 12 skipping rope in public?

Never been a swimming fan but I should see how it goes. Thanks for the suggestion.
I am considering writing a blog post series on 'Quantum physics for programmers', would you find that interesting?
IBM is best at writing iron clad contracts that mean precisely that -- no matter the outcome, they get paid.
You changed the meaning! For example, "It's not quite so obvious" means "It's not as obvious as Orwell seems to think it is", and is not the same as "It's not obvious". (Otherwise the "quite" would have been unnecessary, and I wouldn't have used it.)

;)
I absolutely loathe working out in the gym. I hate the stale air, the incessant cable news shows on the TVs, and the thought of contracting MRSA or something like it from lying on a bench. Also, I hate commuting in a car (boooooooring!) or train (gross!). The only exercise I get nowadays is my bike commute, but that seems to be enough. I have to ride 9 miles each way, 5 days a week. I live in Chicago, so the weather can be disagreeable, but I've gotten more and more tolerant of things like that (I ride unless it's below 20F, above 100F, or if there's snow on the ground). Not only does the bike commute save me from having to go to the gym, but it also saves me from sitting in car traffic during my commute! It really helps that my employer supports bike commuters by hosting a secure bike cage and showers.

Also, just throwing this out there, but having a healthy diet is just as important, if not more important, both for losing weight and for just general health. I've taken a nerdy approach by considering the microbes in my poop and the ecology that I establish for them. I hate to get all pseudosciency, but essentially I feel like the more bad food you eat, the more you microbial community will be composed of microbes that feed off of that crap food, perpetuating a cycle of increasingly unhealthy eating habits. Eat lots of fiber! It'll make your crap factory hum like a well-tuned machine, while also helping you lose weight! Roast veggies (chop 'em to about thumb-size, toss 'em with olive oil and salt, then put 'em in the oven @ ~400F for like half an hour or more, flipping them every ten minutes or so), eat lots of raw veggies with hummus, whole grain bread, fresh fruits, and drink lots of water. I also try to stay away from sugar and alcohol, but that's not so easy for me. I try to replace alcohol with weed, but that just increases my sugar consumption, of course.
Ah, Mathman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgaCCxwUml8
I know quite a few people that have pretty much stayed working in exactly those same buildings for 25+ years.

Same window, same view, same job, new business cards.

Hazy memories: electropaint; doing some graphics with my housemate after a grateful dead concert. (I seem to recall playing with the water worm from
"The Abyss" and its texture map having been the interior of The Tied House from downtown mountain view.)
Ok. I don't think it's my job to argue you into understanding Kuhnian paradigms as distinct from other uses of the word. I also believe you continue to misunderstand what's going on with both the oil-drop experiment and with Feynman's take on it, but I don't see more words from me helping there either, but I'm happy to agree to disagree.
"Have you calculated your actual, after-all-expense returns?"

Yes. I very rarely sell, so I can see it clearly, and the purchase costs listed in the interface include the purchase commission (I buy in lumps of 1000 GBP, so take a hit of about 1% on initial purchase). Holding charges comes out to a couple of hundred a year, which comes out of dividends.

In one account, I invested gradually over three years, from April 2012 to March 2015. That's up on the order of 50% as I look at it today - looking at it this very second (it's a little rough as I reinvest the dividends, which count as fresh purchases in the accounting - it's up exactly 46% if reinvested dividends are considered to be fresh money). Some of the early purchases are up 100 to 200 percent, later purchases less so. There are some losers in there as well. I have sold only once at a loss in that lot; some BP shares that I changed my mind on. All other losers are still in the mix, and I leave my worthless shares in KAZ there to remind me of my losses. Big winners - ARM, Nokia, a global smaller companies fund. Big losers - KAZ, Bonmarche Holdings, Tesco.

Another account that I opened (because I didn't want to exceed the government insurance limit) and placed money into for the last 15 months or so is currently up 20%. I've never sold anything from that. That is principally US and Japanese index funds, although some ARM in there is up 70% thanks to Softbank buying ARM.

An earlier investment from about 2009 (which was nothing but safety) is up a little over 50% today, but that really was safety. Likewise never sold anything.

I have done this by doing absolutely nothing special. Absolutely nothing. I simply took the common advice; low-cost index funds. I also read the news and sometimes buy into companies with brighter futures. A couple of years ago I read many articles about how GSK and AZN had been through tough times and were coming out of it. Bought some shares. Worked out well. That's all I do. For as long as I can remember, ARM has had nothing but growth in the news. Bought into them repeatedly.

I have significant advantages over hedge funds; they have to trade. I can sit and do nothing for month after month, and when I suffer a 20% drop, I can continue to sit still and do nothing. If anyone wants to pay me to tell them when I buy something, knock yourself out :)
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>> They were stylish. Not many were back then.

The 90's were full of stylish cases. Maybe it's just nostalgia but there were so many cool looking computers back then.

SGI did make them another level of cool. Purple computers! Even something like an Indy that was just going to sit in a web farm looked cool.
Oh, one tip that I found pretty useful if, like me, you don't have a gym buddy. Grab your phone, prop it up against a wall or a bit of equipment, and video yourself from the side while you're lifting.

I'd had a couple of people tell me that my squat form was poor and that I was going to injure myself, but I found it impossible to figure out what was going wrong as I had no feedback loop. Once I could see myself on video, I could try different techniques and see how they affected my form. Starting Strength has a lot of writing on how to recognise and train good form, so once you can see yourself it's not too hard to correct.
Compare this to the logical conclusion of capitalism that Marx put forward 150 years ago. For him, capitalism creates an ever-growing proletariat, a majority of the population being transformed into a commodity; individuals become interchangeable, and are payed only enough to have their basic needs met. The proletariat as a whole was a necessary condition though. Their labor produced value, the surplus of which went to the owning class.

Your take is similar, but instead now people will actually become redundant. Not even producing value anymore.

Things did not exactly turn out the way Marx thought they would. I certainly hope your prediction won't either!
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http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/humans-need-not-apply

What is different this time, I think is that we're giving up our main advantage: Intelligence.

Humans have always been able to fall back on work no animal/machine can do, but we're running out of work that machines can't do.
I think it depends greatly on the cost of supporting the free plans, mine just went a little out of control, I was getting ~100 or more users per day. If it was really cheap to support them it might be worth the marketing side of things. And of course for VC backed companies this still looks more attractive than not having the free users at all.
I bet this could be a great unintended outcome for those astronauts :)
The space of possible experiments is enormous. If someone takes time to find a conclusion that the theory predicts from the first principles but for which experimental data are lacking, may it be somehow valuable? Especially if the theoretically predicted effect is somehow interesting.
It is a bit of friction.

There are online services that do this much easier. Doing it manually is a big pain using Twitter's UI. I had around 20k tweets before I ran this and I wouldn't want to keep doing it periodically.
For desktop PCs, not at all, Nvidia GPUs are very easy to get working and will give the best performance.

In modern laptops, you usually have the complication of 'optimus' which allows you to switch between the onboard Intel graphics and the Nvidia GPU. This can be a bit awkward to get working, but it's improved recently. I've had plenty of issues getting it working right on Windows too.
Oh dear god, I couldn't watch past the first clip in that video. Agonising.
It's because Eich was told to make JS C-like. In C, an empty array, an empty string, 0, false and null are all the same value: a word with all bits 0. So in JS, those are all are falsy and == to each other.
"Marxism and the Problem of Linguistics" (1950) by Stalin [1] is an interesting read to go alongside this. You've got Stalin saying that we shouldn't distort language so much so that it loses it's practical use in everyday matters simply because it is inherited from pre-communist ideologies. In a way he is saying that the slippery slope of language manipulation is useful for political purposes, but should not be followed all the way down into impracticality. This was a problem Stalin had as people were excessively fanatical to the point of absurdity to avoid being purged, so he had to give them the ability to limit their fanaticism by saying that some allowance for practicality in the use of language was part of the Stalinist orthodoxy and thus not "reactionary".

[1] https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1950...
I agree that's another attempt. It doesn't work for me though as it always makes me think of a cauldron of bubbling fat -- not the soothing effect the speaker is after.

EDIT 'effect/affect' fix
it is because Intel borked skylake. Even windows users have issues.
OK read it. Not impressed. Orwell is a liar because: "Let's move to his first rule 'Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print'? Yet we only need to read as far as the second sentence of his essay to see him talk of the 'collapse' of civilization. That would be a literal collapse would it?"

This is pedantry. All language is metaphorical at some level. 'Vagina' literally means 'sheath'. Should we avoid that one? How about describing an argument as 'crystalline'? I would argue that 'collapse' in that sense is no more metaphorical than crystalline.
Hi there,
Thanks a lot for the comment.
Yes, We have plans for specific domains such as SaaS, ECommerce, Enterprise applications etc
To put it simply, I don't feel like the current human lifespan is too short.
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> One of the saddest things about the modern Internet is how little hypertext is used.

Right click, search google (Or however FF does it/extension), without the hard to read hypelinking standard (hard to read because it's for important stuff, you should stop there and think)

Wikipedia is a joke in many articles around this hyperlinking irrelevant points.

A hyperlink should reinforce the article, not detract from it in a random manner.

We read linearly not in a hash.
Not sure, a lot of my family is London-ish area English and it works well for them.

I think the detection algorithm will look past accent and probably do some deep-learning based technique. Google are probably smart enough to tailor the voice recognition algorithms geographically - if you spend time in Scotland it will probably use the Scottish trained net to detect what you want.