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Can anyone who uses an adjustable height desk comment on the impact it has (if any) on their productivity?

For some reason, it sounds hard to procrastinate standing up :)
I can vouch for this desk, and it's nothing short of wonderful. I've been using it for a year as a standing desk, supporting the load of a 24" iMac, a second monitor, and a stereo receiver. The trick to avoiding back pain is to make sure the desk is at elbow height. It feels like it should be lower, but anything short of elbow height will cause serious pain. Picture of it in use: http://cl.ly/beQ
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I don't think so. Or at least not at the cost of inhibiting discussion. I don't have any answers, and as the article discussed, you can't design a reputation scheme in a vacuum - you need to define your goals and align the incentives with them.

That said, it seems to me that sites like HN vastly over-reward early posters to popular threads. On the other hand, this is only a bug in so far that it leads to problematic behavior. I don't see people taking advantage of it (yet). I'm more concerned with the problem of under-rewarding late, thoughtful replies. I think this is a critical problem with the Stack Exchange (StackOverflow) platform.
Actually, you've brought up a good point. Now that we've seen the device, with all the corroborating information to prove its legitimacy, I'm now unlikely to read any more stories speculating about the new iPhones, since the veil has already been lifted. Gawker has lost all the traffic to the countless iPhone rumor stories they were going to post from now until June, in exchange for the burst of traffic now. I wonder if it was ultimately worth it for them. iPhone rumors are a serious media industry.
Well, excuse me, I thought I was simply responding to the question about why more affordable education would be desirable.

Didn't mean to get pulled into your Ayn Rand reality distortion field. I'll just be moving along.

Btw, Opaque budget data? Get off your lazy butt and go to Town Hall or City Hall. It's all there. If you put in the mental effort to read it and ask some smart questions, you might learn details that complicate your simple world view.
How much of the $200 was the treadmill?
I used a Media Temple (gs) server as a testing/staging server for a project I worked on last year. The MySQL server was comically slow (I'm talking 5-10+ second response times), and would simply stop responding multiple times a day. Support acknowledged a problem but nothing ever got fixed. I eventually moved over to Linode, where response times were near-instant and downtime was never a problem.

During that same period, I started using email hosted on my own domain through my Media Temple account, and would see straight up email downtime 1-2 times a week (as I remember there were periods were emails were dropped without notification), and usually saw terrible performance when the server was running. Since then I've used Google Apps and Fastmail, and have had absolutely no issues with either.

It's possible that I just had extremely bad luck and made some errors on my end, and I know some smart people who seem to use Media Temple without any problems, but I've been burned way too many times by them to even consider using them for something in the future.
Pretty much everyone I love is alive and healthy today because of science. I myself am alive and healthy today because of science.
Aren't most of the concerns people have with cloud computing related to privacy? I won't ever trust Mr. Zuckerberg with anything slightly private.

And I'm not very concerned with privacy in general.
But what does "public" mean there? If your privacy settings have information access as "visible to friends only", can "these partner sites" access that data if your friend doesn't opt out of this sharing?
I agree. I find the new kubuntu with kde 4.4 much nicer.

http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.4/plasma.php
The bugs just aren't visible enough. For example look at MMOs & how they attract new users. Tasks are clear, there's always an easy training level, & difficulty slowly ramps up to keep people engaged & interested. I might suggest something like "bug of the day" with easy/medium/high difficulties.
I think it's obnoxious to hear Zeldman say this; it's kind of like a millionaire lecturing me about how money isn't everything. (Zeldman has 55,000+ followers on twitter and most of the web design/tech community attention at his beck and call when he starts a new project.)

It is a valid point, so maybe this is just sour grapes. I always find dismissive platitudes like this coming from the haves as annoying. (For the record: I admire Zeldman and have read his books. I think he's a visionary and deserves the attention he does command.)
Is something supposed to happen after "Click to Play?" I'm just staring at a blue coffee cup stain.

(Linux, FF 3.5.9)
I love this as I think it does a good job explaining one of my favorite cartoons by Hugh MacLeod, which screams: "I'm not delusional. I'm an entrpreneur."

If you think someone is delusional, maybe they're onto something and just haven't turned on their distortion field yet?

http://gapingvoid.com/2010/02/28/random-thoughts-on-being-an...
I think it's comfy. Sometimes I wish I had gotten a model with armrests, but it's already better than the average office chair just cause I can shift my legs around more.
because it was a secret prototype, Gizmodo’s unlicensed reproduction is different: it has clear and quantifiable damages to Apple’s business

We haven't seen clear and quantifiable damages yet. If the new Android phone were to show up looking exactly like it (not talking about the port http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1283780) and subsequently Apple's sales fell substantially below expectations, then maybe.

I doubt they'll be hurt at all by this, actually. I'm already hearing "oh, sick, I can't wait to get it!"
Yep. Since it's very unlikely the gun can always get the range right, you'll also be able to conveniently blame any "mistakes" on your equipment.
Eh, can't agree with you here; too many obvious examples to the contrary. A lot of people realize their entrepreneurial streak later in life, I'd like to bring that moment of realization earlier and better institutionalize it as a career path, that's all.

"gun-for-hire"; I mean, we're talking about 22 year old kids at the end of the day right? heh
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I'd be happy to sample your MacRuby screencast and give you feedback on it, if the review copies are still available.
Briefly, but all those dead links are now pointing to a message that says the video got removed at the behest of the company that made the movie, that's a negative experience.
It would be pretty simple (and much cheaper) to build one.

(This is hacker news, no?)
I think it's safe to say more people click "the Net" than Facebook all day.
But is it possible that making the bugs we have more apparent would scare people off from using it? "Oh no! A programming language with bugs!"
I use Python on a daily basis, for about three years now. I can't remember ever having a problem or a gripe with the language or the standard library. In all those years it has served me well and it continues to do so - I also have no hurry migrating to Python 3.

I miss nothing in Python, it's all there, source code, excellent documentation and website, very nice and clean language, superb datastructures, a fairly complete stdlib and a fantastic community of people around it.

Is Python complete? It seems that for me it is indeed. Others may still miss things. But I perceive the 'stagnant design' mentioned in another post as an advantage: it provides stability.
If the plugin system really causes that much trouble, then why was Adobe complaining about the lack of a low-level API for hardware-accelerated H.264 decoding?

As you pointed out in your next paragraph, it was because that way Adobe can point a finger at Apple and say "it's them to blame". This blog post [ http://www.kaourantin.net/2010/02/core-animation.html ], quite similarly informative as the one astrange linked to, describes very well part of the reason why the Flash plugin is a dog on Mac OS X. I can only add to it a detail that is not explicitly mentioned in there - the drawing contexts mess and lack of support (e.g. OpenGL) is only applicable to NPAPI plugins. WebKit has an alternative, modern, clean, and fairly flexible plugin API. So if Adobe really wanted to make Flash highly performant on Mac OS X, they could have done what Apple do with their Quicktime plugin - have an NPAPI one for compatibility and have a WebKit one for performance for most users.
True, but I mean at a consumer level :-)
Ok, but how many people never get the settlement? And it's not like any of the people in power learned anything. That's tax money.
You're forgetting that that was a Flash being developed by a hungry Macromedia. Progress in Flash development today has to bear the weight of Adobe's lethargy.
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It's unfortunate that things can not be appreciated solely for their functional utility and that everything gets judged on its visual impression and that visual impression is valued so highly that every other aspect takes a back seat; do we really stare at our currency for so long that we are offended by its "bad aesthetics"? People are increasingly using cash less frequently thanks to the ease of ETF and credit for small transactions. One of the goals of cash is to be easily and quickly identifiable and the different monetary values to be distinct. If you have enough time to seriously appreciate the look of your currency, it's not currency. Is anyone going to say "Sorry, I'm not going to accept your $20 bill because it's ugly"? Get real.

I think calling the work that engravers do the result of a committee of blind bureaucrats does a disservice to the work and artistic effort that goes into designing cash.

There's also a reason not to make cash valuable for reasons other than the monetary value it is meant to represent, bad "aesthetics" is perhaps one way to do this. Turing cash into works of high art may end up making the value of the paper greater than the monetary value.
I just stick my laptop on top of a filing cabinet at work that's sitting right in front of a window. It could be a little taller but it's close to the right height and I get an upgraded view
This blog post is very misinformed. "YouTube" did not take down the videos. The copyright owner requested that they be removed.

The blog post seems to think that YouTube/Google should fight for the people who created/uploaded these parodies, but that's not YouTube's place.

If the owner/uploader of a parody wants to contest the takedown, they can do so (it's pretty easy to contest it if one of your videos is taken down due to this). The real problem is the copyright law is fuzzy when it comes to "fair use" and many people aren't willing to risk an expensive lawsuit just to keep a video on YouTube.

So send an angry letter to your congressman, not YouTube.
Haha, good one. I had prepared a rather sharp reply, but just before hitting the reply button I figured this is just some awesome trolling... Right?

I hope so!
For Chrome users, I made this last night:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bpbpebgbbdknfehh...
While your comment has some merit, tasers are a completely new class of weapon. The non-lethal rounds that this weapon fires are already a known quantity. The same dangers apply to them that applied before except the weapon will help prevent accidents related to misjudged range. You still need to aim it properly to avoid breaking someone's neck or skull. The fact that even though it's less dangerous than before it's still far more dangerous than a taser is considered to be. This weapon will still kill or seriously injure if used improperly.

The major difference is predicting when a taser will be lethal is difficult. Predicting when a fist size piece of silly putty punching the snot out of someone is much easier. Physical trauma is much better understood than electrical.
I installed the beta a few days ago, while it isnt an overnight, omg this is better than osx, it certainly is a big improvement.

the default menu bar is incredibly nice, very similiar to osx, and glad to see the new weather icons that have a great finish (the old ones were so bad they were often confused as a bug)

The rest of the changes arent that significant, the new buttons and scrollbars are nicer but arent a huge improvement. I quite like the toolbar text, dark themes have always been my preference.

nautilus is still godawful, I am not a particularly huge fan of finder but nautilus does obviously lack here.

but I did take the time out to try xmonad and I am loving it - http://junk.arandomurl.com/xmonad.png , ill probably write it up soon.
No. A claim was made by two individuals, one a mining executive, the other an economist, in a trade publication called Energy and Environment with no peer review. Both of the authors are well-known industry skeptics. The claim was subsequently refuted by Mann, and ultimately discredited in a peer-reviewed article for the Journal of Climate (http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/JCLI3351.1), in which an alternate method confirmed the original result.

The skeptics were Canadian, though, so at least you got one thing right.
Have you looked at any of the other Raphael demos?
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. The desk stays high and you hop on and off. Anyone has tried this?
Distracting weapon? Have you looked at sound or light based weapons?
The planet is in no dire straits for additional children. Remove this factor and the only use for binding someone to a marital contract is strictly for financial and emotional property reasons. The term 'soulmate' is as ambiguous and silly as the term 'god'.
Don't you understand? We're not really learning how to critique The Bell Jar from a absurdorealist point of view, we're learning how to use our minds!
Any change that exposes more of your personal information should be opt-in, period. This should be a mantra for these kinds of services.

This move by FB makes whatever mistakes Google made with Buzz look relatively innocent. They need to get burned hard over this.
Yes, that is basically the point and the reason they call it "instant" - they don't want anything to be a click away.

The opt-out prompt is in the form of a blue bar at the top of the page. Once you say "No thanks" they are required to remove any of your information and not connect you on future visits.
Why would I want to? I bet their bounce rates are through the roof, and their return traffic approaches nil.

And because you wouldn't want to, nobody should?

There's a reason why Flash, and Flash websites, exist. Think about it pretty hard. You'll eventually figure it out.

And no, their bounce rates are not through the roof. I've monitored plenty of Flash websites, including FWA ones. Unless 3% is "through the roof" (and this is for a website we've published just a couple of weeks ago, running on the latest Flash Player version), you've just lost your bet.
I've worked with gRaphael. it's still immature, and the code base is still immature. I'd look at protovis before taking a look at gRaphael.

However, I do wish that protovis is based on Raphael and jQuery.
I agree with you there. I've stuck with the Gnome flavor of Ubuntu, despite my preference for KDE because Kubuntu feels like Ubuntu with KDE duct-taped on top. It seems to be missing quite a bit of the functionality and polish of the Gnome flavor, which is really quite unfortunate.
Thanks for the tip! While the 184 page Putt book is $15 on the Kindle I've just found a 30 page PDF that gives the gist:

http://www.rako.com/Other_Voices/Putts_Law/Putts_Law_no_ads....
Then we have two options--either someone is wrong, or we get to sit around playing moral relativist all day.

It wasn't a rhetorical question, either--what is the greater good that justifies being an accomplice to theft in this case?
In this video, Brett Cannon explains the Python development process.

"How Python is developed"

http://www.blip.tv/file/1947394/

"Python, like any other open source project, has its own way of doing things when it comes to development. To an outsider it can seem complicated and difficult to break into. But in fact, Python's development practices are simple as long as you know what the basic workflow is. This talk will go over that workflow, from how a bug ends up getting fixed to how a new language feature get added. In the end people should have an understanding of how Python is developed and how anyone can contribute to the project."
Remember when everyone and their dog wrote and spoke about this 2 years ago? Here's another insight: The Internet is going to change the way we do business! :p
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If anyone is in the Detroit area next weekend...
my point was similiar to you last one, while html is catching up with video / audio / animation, flash is still miles behind html in terms of a lot of basic features, accessibility, adoption, easy of introspection, reliability, performance, I am wary of "html is catching up with flash" arguments because as you said its all situational.
Does anyone know the rated spec on these for max weight? That is, what is the motor capable of lifting without damaging the desk?
I've been thinking of posting an online commonplace book of ideas that I want to see implemented but don't have the time or inclination or domain-knowledge to implement myself.
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Exactly.

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like
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Yeah, I don't know about that. I'm not a designer, but my wife is, and loves Adobe. Adobe this, Adobe that.

She's tried other free tools, and always ends up finding things that simply can't be done. And then there is the packaging, all together. Everything works together.

And I can appreciate that. A single suite of applications makes it easier to learn, makes it easier to manage, and makes it easier to train others.
And hilarious!
Yes, a moving square, from a couple lines of code, that can be easily changed to a twirly throbbing square, and can be shown on anyone's computer or mobile phone in the world by sharing a URL.

To get a moving square on the desktop twenty years ago took more lines of code, arguably harder to change to a twirly throbbing square, and usually copied to disk (or emailed) to show someone else by sharing the executable that may or may not run.
I saw those last night. I was wondering, but wasn't able to find out -- the videos, are they compressed time? Or 1:1 time? Because the one of the flare is absolutely amazing.
A big reason I don't do much for python core is that I find it good enough for most of my needs. I do like to contribute to ecosystem stuff tho. Here are reasons I've stopped contributing, or never contributed to some projects:

1. They work good enough for me: a big reason for my contributing is me needing it to work a certain way. I have a tendency to whirlwind into a project, dump lots of source, suggestions and whatnot, then not not come back. There is frequently little incentive for me to continue participation. The ones I stick with have a good little community -- this is important. Even solo authors that respond frequently and quickly are community enough for me.

2. Non-attribution/recognition -- There are at least 2 projects out there that don't attribute my code, despite it being in the "trunk". Another project that factored my code out, took my name off the contributors list. Another never used my code, but took lots of ideas (with email exchanges explaining my intentions with my code), but never recognized my help. In all of those cases I have moved on. I don't like to complain and won't point fingers here, but it does negatively motivate me. Similarly there are a few projects that I would like to participate in, but am very wary based on individual's connections with the above projects.

3. Fear of what I call rabbit-hole-itis. Sometimes it is safer for me not to delve into the code well enough to make it better, because I will spend a week on it instead of being "for-real" productive. This is prolly not fixable as it's about me not the community (of course it wouldn't be a problem if y'all stopped with the neat projects).

4. A lot of times it seems like more hassle than it's worth to try and contribute. I think the article hits those on the head -- mostly the part about "convincing others my patch actually helps". It is frustrating to deal with project core devs that don't want to look at your code because of silly reasons that are not technical -- e.g. "why would you ever need to do that" or "it works 'just fine' already".

HTH
Screenshot of the instant signin

http://yfrog.com/iymcjp

This was without prompt, as qhoxie states.
I have been looking into drafting tables for this very purpose - used ones can often be found in the local buy & sell for quite cheap. Being adjustable by design, they look ideal (not sure about weight capacity though). Anyone have any experience using one of these as a computer desk?
Surely you jest. Word can be coerced into making great print documents. Not as good as applications focused on print, sure, but orders of magnitude better than gdocs.
It sounds like you're just jumping into web development when you say that. Adobe has been faster with release cycles than Macromedia.

Often known as Hackromedia, they were not the powerhouse dev. studio it sounds like you're trying to push.
Who is indicted for jailbreaking their iPhone?

Oh yeah, nobody.
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SVG is currently supported in all major browsers except IE, and SVG 1.1 support is slated for IE9. (AFAIK, Chrome Frame also supports SVG, as a stopgap for pre-9 IE.)

It would seem that SVG has a bright future.
Just want to add:

* You can't easily save an object for personal use, such as a photo or video.

* No mute button, it's up to the content creator to do that. Is anything on the web more annoying?

* Overuse. Purely a matter of taste, but every time I see a flash site animating content than really should be static I flash back to the days of <blink> and <marquee>. As a web developer I've encountered clients who consider flash the apex of website technology. They don't care how the site works or how it responds as long as it's "on flash".
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I think anyone scared off that way is just looking for an excuse to run anyway. It's not like there exists a programming language that actually has no bugs. At best we have finally given up on those bugs being fixed and call them warts now.
I presume you put your monitors on a separate shelf to keep them at eye level. That is how I set it up, anyway.
It's already in the web browser.
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I'm just pissed by the shit they've turned Macromedia's Mac apps into, namely Fireworks, at least as of CS4. I will reserve judgment on CS5.
Not at that scale it doesn't. As I said, if I actually had billions of followers, there's no way I wouldn't be able to extract a huge amount of value. I might destroy my following in the process, as you point out, but not before I got rich ;)
Persistant URLs are possible. What Native UI elements are you talking about? Form elements? The same form elements that so many websites change anyways?

My understanding is it has features for people with handicaps. Granted, what accessibility features do recent HTML5 games offer to someone visually impaired? Probably nothing.

Closed, proprietary technology; something neither Windows or Mac users can really complain about. =)

As for superfluous visuals, that's debatable. Blame the designer, not the tool.

As for Flash applications sucking: Trust me, there are probably more sucky HTML/JS/CSS websites out there. =)
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