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How often do you work on someone else's computer? I almost never do. Kiosks (I presume you mean touchscreens like at airports, which are about the only place I use them) are similarly rare, and need little to no substantial text entry.

But for those times that I do need to use other people's computers (most usually, when at an internet cafe while on vacation, when I don't have my laptop with me, and I don't have internet connectivity with my phone, all increasingly rare times), I have a little Windows app I wrote that I can download and run from the web which uses a low-level keyboard hook to translate Qwerty to Dvorak. Installing a keyboard hook[1] on Windows doesn't require any privileges, and runs fine in user mode until the application is shut down.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms644985%28v=VS.85%2...
Gruber, they're not competing on price.
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Yeah you could go on for quite a bit with the list of things the Rails experience has over .NET MVC.

1. Ease of deployment, Heroku compared to IIS
2. Scaffolding generation, not as easy to use, fast, or smart. Extremely hard (read impossible) to customize by comparison as well
3. Routing setup, not as clean and nice, harder to customize (though there are some routing projects out there that help)
4. No database migration story

I could probably go on if I spent much time thinking about it and I'm a Rail noob compared to my .NET MVC experience.
First mover's advantage. YouTube got lots of videos in the beginning, so it had far more content than anyone else for such a long time. The only way to really usurp that is to have exclusive content, which is what Hulu and YouTube-owned Vevo both have.
Yeah my biggest pet-peve of being a .NET developer is deployment. It's as if we were never expected to actually ship something in .NET
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Apple really does have the materials/build quality thing down. I don't know anyone who makes a physically better laptop or phone...
Thanks, good to know that a medium instance is better value. We will have a look at Varnish now.
Definitely, this model did wonders for me in Gradschool, but I am wondering if anyone has tried doing this in a corporate environment?
I just started my first gig at a large company. I take "walking breaks" to circle the block several times a day to clear my mind and people seem incredulous that I am not tolling at my desk. Wonder how they would feel if I was devoting 4.5 hours of my day to "fun."
Yeah, the brain has a built in ability to identify context and fit the expression in those parameters. It uses the pre-frontal cortex. This is the same 'functionality' that allows bilingual people to identify which language is being spoken and respond in that one.

People don't trust themselves. You can learn to switch back and forth the same way you learn to talk in different style to your grandparents than your friends, and so on.
> I'd be surprised if even 10 make it through to compiling the Chrome source, and I'll be stunned if even 1 makes it through to the end

Isn't that part of his goal, though? It's great to find people who are that passionate about the work. Somewhere out there a developer is drooling to work on a browser project and would be in heaven if they could prove themselves good enough to make the team.
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I also do the 42 minute thing. A good amount of time to concentrate, but not so long that you are "out of touch" with people that you are communicating with.
"Unless you get everyone to switch to it, you will be disabled whenever you switch to someone else's computer, a kiosk, etc. Why bother?"

I take it you have not tried any alternate layouts. Why do you as someone who has not tried it feel inclined to lecture about the consequences to those who have? Which of us do you think has the clearer picture about the consequences?

Theorize about the potential downsides all you like. In practice, I find it has been a net gain for me personally, and no amount of mere conjecture on your part will change that one bit.
Wow. That sounds a lot like the consultants we have in house at the moment.
Passion isn't a belief, it's an emotion -- just like you can't simply decide to be happy, sad, or afraid.
So which 6 are the wonder children?
That's funny. I didn't think of that, I immediately thought that it looked like an atomic p-orbital. Then again, I was a biochemistry major...
I guess, its a suspense ;)
Can someone explain why Oracle should give apache exemptions from field of use restrictions? I thought the whole point with harmony was that Apache/IBM/Intel et al were trying to create a competing vm that could be used everywhere with no restrictions, with the intent of never giving anything back to Sun/Oracle. How can this be in Oracles best interests given their large investment - or am I missing something?
And THAT is the magic, but ultimately farsical response that opponents often have to defend against.

Not saying you're not being frivolous, but it's annoying how often people take the easy route.
Very engaging. A good design with decent writing made me enjoy reading the entire thing (and made me want to). I'll definitely save this page in my list of examples of great web page designs.
That's a really good point, and I should have mentioned that in the article. Thanks for the comment!
Rhino is really fast. Years ago I wrote a javascript scripting interface to one of my applications and I was surprised that for our use cases it was running ~ 95% of the speed of raw java!
I would write the content to file every 30 seconds on an lightweight webserver (not an app server) or a CDN. Point all the clients to the file and then have your application write the file say every 28 seconds. Get the high load out of the application server and cache the data on the edge. It will be far more performant and it is much simpler to scale the edge.
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A new location based website. Looking forward to get some users and feedbacks.
Gemütlichkeit sounds a lot like fellowship to me.
From what I understand, this seems to be a bigger problem in European countries (government/regulation included).

The cost of forming a German equivalent LLC is about 27,000EUR after legal fees, and take about a week to complete.

I heard a similar story from a friend who used to work at a German bank (a regional one). She mentioned that four or five copies of almost every single paper had to be made, with a copy going into a separate individuals inbox (a physical in-box).

Now she works for an IT startup in Alaska... You can imagine that she really appreciates the difference!
I'm going to give this a try for my after work side projects.
IANAL - is it technically infeasible for Apache to fork the language and call it something else? I think it's getting to the point where if the Java community really wants to continue using this language something drastic must be done.
We have a ping pong table at work, but I can't say it helps me feel refreshed. I often need a breather and to cool off after one of our grueling five game matches. Of course, we might go a little overboard since we have a professional player coach us every Friday and hold our own charity tournaments. haha. work hard, play hard or something like that ;)
Agreed. I've been using dvorak for 11 years and when I read "Unless you get everyone to switch to it, you will be disabled whenever you switch to someone else's computer, a kiosk, etc." I knew that this person wasn't speaking from personal experience but from imagining what it would be like if he/she switched.
if you have not looked at 'c interfaces and implementation' i would heartily recommend it. it is very, very good.
How do we distinguish Dépaysement from alienated?
Too many commas. But otherwise engaging.
An example of rules and unwanted outcomes. I once wrote an application at a big company, which had a strict application packaging process, for remotely installing apps on machines. A last minute change was requested, which resulted in a small error being made in the 'tab order' of the screen. It would have taken one compile and 20 seconds to fix, but because the rules said the executable couldn't be updated once packaged, it remained so. 7 years down the track, the same application was still being used, and the users of said app had to skip using the tab key to get around fields and instead mouse backwards. 7 years of aggravation and frustration on the part of users which could have been avoided with 20 seconds worth of rule breaking. I'm aware of what those rules are for, but having a structure so fixed that it causes this type of inefficiency is frustrating to all involved. It's not like anyone benefited from following the rules, save for the guy who could honestly say to his boss 'I made them follow every last rule'.
Over the last 2 years, I've built a number of Facebook apps.

For the ones that go big, they go big fast!

When we started out our business in 2008, we needed to double our capacity every week for 6 weeks. I spent a lot of time adding servers and moving providers as our old one couldn't move fast enough.
Asking whether or not we should "scrap" a certain resolution is missing the point. Media queries are far more exciting than "whoa, I can make my page super wide now" will ever be.

And the big gutters are a nice touch.
What I do is touch type with dvorak (max about 90 wpm) and look at my hands on those rare instances when I'm using qwerty (probably about 20-30 wpm).
They had me reading the whole page.
Nice. I will check it out.
There's something that often goes overlooked by promoters of open source licenses: The copyright holder is defining the licensing terms for others, not for themselves.

While it's true that it is culturally a faux pas to appear as though you are violating the "spirit" of your own license I think everyone needs a reminder that copyright holders are, by definition, not restricted in what they can do with their own stuff. Everyone else is a licensee bound to the terms of the license.

I realize that's not the only problem with Oracle's behavior. But I still think this point is important to acknowledge.

I'm not a lawyer, so if anyone can prove otherwise I'd love to hear the argument.

(Are there any licenses that do place limitations on the copyright holders themselves? Do we even need a mechanism for that?)
Hi, Chetan here. First off, thank you for your opinions.

About Colemak, I think a bunch of the replies to your posts hit the nail on the head. It's been a really rewarding switch, and I can still type QWERTY fine when I have to.

As for biphasic sleep, if you do a bit of research on it, you'll find that it's even more natural than a monophasic sleep cycle (think about why the siesta is so popular in other countries). It's just not as convenient for the average American, since everyone doesn't follow it. That being said, if you have some flexibility with your schedule and can implement it successfully, it can turn out to be better for your health and time than a monophasic sleep cycle.

And you're right about the 30/30 cycle being hard to use in a professional setting. That's why I would use it for personal projects, or when I'm working at home. It's just another tool for your productivity toolbox; you don't have to use it in every situation for it to be useful.
I actually do tend to change out of my pajamas, just into a clean pair of pajamas (or similarly comfy clothes).

What I absolutely cannot do is work in bed, under the covers--I'll doze off. Laying top of the covers, sitting on the couch, or at a desk or table works just fine though, for me.
I was thinking of doing the same thing, but instead putting on all these different hats as a solo founder.
Looks great, nice style.
I can only imagine the effort that has gone into making that page look so clean and engaging.

Their first app[1] looks beautiful too. I should give it a try.

[1] http://www.6wunderkinder.com/wunderlist/
Well, obviously if you have a kindle, it's not a problem - but not everyone has a kindle :) So I'm just wondering if there would be a way to buy the paper outside of signing up for a 1 year contract and getting a free kindle. I mean, if they want to sell me a paper for $1.75 and throw in a free Kindle ... sounds good to me, but in that case the profitability of this plan comes into question ;)

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for someone trying the idea - it sounds like a pretty awesome, and environmentally friendly way to go for the future of newspapers. Just playing the devil's advocate.

On the other hand, I've come to despise 1- and 2-year contracts, thanks to cell-phone service providers ;)
(In addition to the great advice that you need a medium instance, and Velocity+nginx would certainly become your friends)

Could you provide links and examples? I would be interested to know what headers your server is delivering (such as are you sending 304s on refreshes).

Is it vmstat or top that's showing "the sheer volume of traffic is what is killing the CPU"? You didn't mention using APC, I assume that you have that configured. Also, have you ran inclued to see how your codebase is generating?
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Yes, that's exactly the difference between the PC market, and the mobile phone / gadget market. The number one thing about a phone is looks. Then comes status. Then comes usability.

Though I might say the iPhone has turned the focus on usability much more than it was in the past - just because you can do so much with it so easily, so people now expect that from all phones.
Yeah, some of them (like the ones before "that" and "when") are a negative transfer from German. Trivial to fix though, and something tells me they will. Definitely a beautifully put-together page.
This just reinforces the suspicion I've had for some time now that time working is not tightly related to accomplishment, especially if the work is intellectual.
> This would require evidence of many young deaths from alcohol abuse. As far as I know, even heavy drinkers are pretty unlikely to die from their habit before age 50.

Don't forget people who have died as a result of accidents while intoxicated (driving drunk, etc.) or have been incarcerated for drunken infractions. They may be excluded from those statistics, adding a kind of bias. Not sure if the total is high enough to impact the study's results, but it's worth checking.
I generally save the Pomodoro technique for when I've got something I really need to do but really don't want to do. The shortness of the 25 minutes can be quite useful in those situations.

Sometimes I find the shortness of 25 minutes blocks of time works well as a kind of challenge - "holy crap, only 2 minutes to go... got to finish..."
Someone go find Jan Martin and compliment him on the great design job. :)
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For a long time now, I have wanted to code in a cabin in the country.

Just imagine going outside and chopping wood, hauling it back in, and setting your fire correctly. I can hardly imagine a more ideal alternative activity to coding for that second length of time.
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Lots of emailing and instant messaging, occasional Skype chats, and sharing photos and videos (generally work related, occasionally random or just for fun). Dropbox accounts also make it easy to share larger files, but that's less a 'closer' feeling than just making things more accessible and connected.
That's an excellent example. I've been a bit skeptical about continuation-based web services, but that makes a lot of sense.
This isn't really about copyright licensing per se. Sun promised (in the JSPA and other places) that they would certify independent JVMs and then weaseled out at the last minute.
Not doing this again now, but in my experience over the past few years the "Apple tax" on notebooks based on specs alone was about $100 - $200.

Apple doesn't sell cheap laptops but when you compare a $800 machine to a $1200 Mac, I dare say that many of the components in the $800 PC will be inferior, CPU, screen, etc. Not even mentioning the chassis where nobody can touch the unibody design of the Macs.

Apple makes premium stuff that comes with premium components - high end PCs which also come with premium components usually cost just as much, or just a tad less.

For the Mac Pro, it's probably a similar situation - you can probably make a cheap junk PC with the same CPU and as much HD space for much less, but if you use high quality components you'll be right up there fairly quickly.

As for tablets - Gruber's argumentation is way more conclusive, sorry.
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This disturbs me beyond words.

Popular music hasn't been doing too well on the all-important "making grown-ups uncomfortable" front recently. Great to see it catching up a bit.
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Google tried that and ended up on the wrong end of a patent lawsuit. The Java community is just going to keep using OpenJDK like they do now. As evil as Snoracle is being, it's mostly a theoretical problem given that so few people use Harmony.
saying something is "duplication of effort" is more often than not code for "I don't like competition"
Well...

(a) Java has always been marketed as an "open" environment, where alternate VM's were encouraged.

(b) Oracle doesn't make any money from the J2SE JVM anyway (it's free to use), and the income they get from licencing J2ME is dropping quickly.

(c) Apache/IBM/Intel have given a lot back to Java, and continue to do so. Look at their involvement on the JCP process - most JCP changes aren't led by Oracle/Sun and getting those done takes real engineering resources. The outputs of them are happily picked up by Oracle/Sun and included in Java

(d) Given that IBM/Apache have invested as much in Java as Sun/Oracle ever did it's not clear to me why Oracle should try and stop them investing more to build their own VM.

In anycase IBM has given up and join Oracle on OpenJDK (instead of Apache Harmony).
Lead, follow or get out of the way. Stallman hasn't offered a better solution than Java. Java is a better choice than C or C++. Developers are simply more productive in Java.
Python, Ruby, etc don't currently offer nearly the level of performance. I'm still waiting for the version of Emacs that's written entirely in Scheme.

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Funny, I got voted down. Hope you guys will volunteer to rip out the Java from Open Office and rewrite it in C++.
For people who do something like this: how do you manage logistically? Do you set an alarm? Do you just know when your 30 minutes (or 42, or 50) are up? Do you always keep an eye on the time? I'm curious because the concept seems like it could work, but I lose track of time easily.
Maybe I misunderstand you, but I think the point was it would be easier to understand if there was less contrast between adjacent answer groups. Strong Yes should be distinct but similar to Yes, which should be distinct but similar to Neutral, and so on. A stepped gradation between two colors works, or even just tints and tones of the same color.

Also, just another minor quibble, could the bars be sorted by some weighted score? So the statements they most agree with pile up on one side. Or, perhaps score by strength of feeling in either direction, so the "important" factors line up on one side.
Can someone explain why Oracle should give apache exemptions from field of use restrictions?

Because Sun repeatedly promised to do so. IBM and Intel spent (probably) millions on Harmony with the understanding that it would be certified.
I think RMS is now pro-Java since OpenJDK came out. Harmony is a tool of capitalist oppression anyway.
There's usually a lot of selective perception involved in things like this.

When you say "X may not be as nice" - that may be irrelevant to you, or hugely relevant to the next person. The point is, it's not the same.

Last time I had a forum argument with a guy who said he could build me a Mac Pro equivalent Dell for half the price. I went to Dell's website - no way. Best I could do was something like $50 less on a $3000 machine. So I dared him to prove it, and he came up with a machine that was worse in every way (oh we don't need a Xenon CPU, let's just go with a C2D... and things like that) and cost half as much. Total joke.

Your laptop that costs half as much - show us a link to the full specs page. This is the internet - prove it.
Their website uniformly crashes Safari on my iPad with iOS 3. Can anyone else confirm this?
Not pictured. They are the ones who are actually working :)
Yup, Apple's factories have the suicide rate to prove all that goes into their products.
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Well, the actual article says, "his favorite tools for debugging ruby and rails applications". It's less about debugging Ruby than about debugging servers gone awry, with an emphasis on those implemented in Ruby.
There's a lot of true in that and the response to the iPad can be construed as a collective aversion to risk by all the people involved.

Except Apple ;)
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This strikes me as misguided. Surely they cannot be equally concerned about the loss of any of their 23,000 employees. Wouldn't you be better off giving substantially larger raises to your higher performers? This way your high performers are pissed off and your low performers are happy, is that the outcome you want?
It was my understanding that there was never any problem as long as they agreed to field of use restrictions. Is this not the case, and if so do you have a link?
Ahh, is this a translation thing? I was reading through this page gritting my teeth at the appalling misuse of commas---and I am certainly not one to skimp on commas.
It's a great book with valuable insights, i have successfully used them multiple times to decrease build times of multi-million LoC projects.
Is Joyent any good? I was one of the original "VC"s on TextDrive where they sold a lifetime account for $400 back in '04. For the two years I tried to use that account there was a never ending string of technical problems that was swept under the rug by a rabid fanboy contingent in the forums. It left such a bad taste in my mouth that even today I doubt their technical competence even though their platform is completely different.
If I'm already over 90 on qwerty, is it worth switching to something else? Just do it to ward off CTS?
Isn't it just a (very good) copy of an apple product page? Just wondering.
You should ask the copyright owners.
Simply beautiful design!
Some asshat leaked the "CONFIDENTIAL: INTERNAL ONLY" memo. Good work, (presumably) newly unemployed person. You won't even get the goods.
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Great move by Joyent. I just hope Ryan got a fair deal here.
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