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I have been thinking (but it hasn't gone past the thought stage) of setting a 90 min timer and making sure to do simple calisthenics at that interval.

By calisthenics, I mean the kind of thing you see older Chinese men and women doing in the morning around Columbus park in Chinatown NYC (probably not the only place on god's-green-earth that this happens...)

I have also thought there might be a hidden benefit in smoker's breaks in that one gets up, moves around and changes context for a bit. (And yes I know - forcibly introduce all kinds of poisons into the system.)

I don't know if it is just sitting that is at issue or if it is to have your muscles in one set position for a long time. Perhaps sentries, mimes and others who must stand still for long periods suffer from the same issue.

As I understand it - and this was gleaned from a brief scan of an NYTimes article. People who remain in a stationary sitting position for more than x hours a day are more prone to certain cardio-vascular issues associated with a sedentary lifestyle EVEN IF they regularly exercise.

I would imagine simply standing would be better for you but I feel like the real point is to do something that circulates blood and lymph through your system multiple times a day.

One of the 'use cases' that intrigues me are monks who meditate for long periods. I wonder if they suffer a greater incidence of blood clots and heart disease, etc.

I would be surprised if they do...

But, I am in no way an expert nor even an amateur physiologist and with diet and exercise I am prone to believing half digested notions (think xkcd 882 and 903).

To misappropriate Pascal's wager. I can't see how it would hurt to do something 'non-sitting' every 90 mins or so.
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Works well in webkit-based browser (Chrome 12 and Safari 5 tested). This is due to the extensive usage of -webkit-animation-, -webkit-pointer- and -webkit-transform-.

The crocodiles are radio buttons and animations are controlled via the :checked pseudo-selector, very clever.
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Couldn't agree more. Not saying that a good article about the differences wouldn't be worth the while, but what I've been reading lately here is just the usual mumbo-jumbo of "Italy has no Twitter" and "Wharbargl, socialism!". Never mind that calling all that technological innovation is a bit of a moot point. Maybe there's a bunch of articles where Germans make fun of US cars in economic magazines, and this are just the well-deserved replies...
Maybe it doesn't matter (bc as I understand it, the image is really what notifies you - but this might tip off a hacker if they're perceptive), but would it be better for the zip file to be .zip instead of .gz? I would think that most banks, when interacting with "regular customers" would send zip files instead of gzip files ... maybe I'm wrong?
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Are there some automated penetration testing tools to test against my server? I would like to know basic stuff like the following.

1) Only SSH and HTTP ports should be open
2) Root login is disabled via SSH,
3) SSH uses only public key authentication and does not use password based auth

The idea is to have a quick tool that checks and reports if we miss setting up a firewall and such. I have root access on all my machines so any tool that runs on the machine is also fine.
Is it possible to automate sign out and password change?
The only reason we're overpopulated is the prevailing culture. If everyone lived like the natives in the Amazon rain forests the world would be just fine with this many people on it. Instead we all live to acquire excessive amounts of human-made everydamnthing.
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I do not want to accept iTunes EULA, but I feel like I'm blackmailed to do it: if I don't, I'll loose ability to synchronize/activate/restore my phone, I won't be able to update or download any applications for it. With cable-free iOS5 it looks like there isn't even a choice — you either accept iTunes EULA or you won't get past Welcome screen.

I'm locked-in and I have to perpetually "agree" to whatever Apple comes up with.
Seems like two erfectly sensible points to me. Why did people downvote this without even bothering to comment on why?
That depends on the motive. Some attackers might want to snoop your mail for a long time without being detected, instead of making it unusable (and instantly detectable) for you. Arguably, those are the creepyest.
The operators may make more money with iMessages
pornel's point is that this isn't a point in Apple's favor, they just saw that being horrible didn't work for them and scaled it down to being merely terrible.

Also, I find the metaphor quite apt.
Very cool. But it has some strange results. 0.9 gets lots of results, but 0.09 none. also nothing for 0.1, but do get couple of results for 0.2. Why so?
Cool we can have reflinks by default.

http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix_links.html

Fedora changes seem to go in cycles.
F11 and F14 were good stabilization releases.
F17 should be of the same ilk I think.
Low-spec computer: Alt Linux vs Windows 7 Ultimate
the shift key could have worked... and frankly if it's Les Paul I think I should at least be able to play a few power chords ;)
I was in Shanghai, and Tianjin. They were 12+ people or so, and a lot of the cost was attributed to alcohol and tea. An original Da Hong Pao, for example, will put you well over the 20k RMB mark, but restaurants won't serve it so you need to make special arrangements.
I'm late to the party :) .

Labamba: http://goo.gl/doodle/JQgc
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Yes. Easiest way would be to just have a script (for example, Firefox addon or greasemonkey script) that drives a browser.

Or if you don't want the overhead of a browser, a somewhat more tricky way is to do it once yourself and record the traffic using a plugin, and repeat that in a script... (but this might require some reverse engineering work on the clientside JS if there are fields like one-time tokens)
No, it's encouraging the customer use an established, stable currency which doesn't force him to closely monitor the exchange rate. Usually, he doesn't want every transaction to be highly speculative.
They're different problems. This is about running two versions of a web application concurrently and migrating clients from old to new gracefully, without bringing down the site. JRebel is about hot-swapping the bytecode that's loaded into the JVM.
Ironically, can't play the birthday song due to a lack of B-flat (could be played in G, but not enough notes)
brtfs doesn't have an fsck yet. I've been waiting for it before I try it. Is it really safe to go ahead without this, or will it be ready by release?

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#When_will_Btrfs_...
Last time I checked, btrfs had a read-only fsck implementation, i.e. it could find errors but not fix them. I hope fsck is finished and stable now (the project page still says fsck is not available).

Edit: this also means Fedora doesn't use LVM by default anymore
This would have been most useful when I first starting learning Rails, but it's still useful nonetheless.
I think I got lucky as far as working hours went. I was in an account and with a client that didn't seem to care so much. Even at that client, some Accenture teams worked long hours, but the teams where I spent a lot of time were never the 12-hours-a-day workaholic types. I'd say that for 98+% of my time at Accenture, I arrived at work around 9am and left work around 6pm, with a decent lunch break in the middle (30-60 minutes).
The problem here is that considering how these consulting companies are structured, how they work and their size, the capability to hire good developers imho is not even there.

Also, are companies like Accenture chosen by their clients for the incredible quality of their work? I'm also from Italy, so i could have observed something peculiar to this market, but the clients of those big consulting corps (usually from the financial sector or similar) just pick one of the biggest players as a "safe" bet, technical considerations are not part of the decision.

Which big player do they choose and why? I remember a discussion here on HN about "golf course software", that could be the methodology.
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Get into a good mood, read it in a good environment, sleep, and repeat. If you want to read it and type in bits, then read it through entirely away from the computer, then on another day read it through stopping to type bits in to compile.
This is what I love about consulting companies. They get the contract by talking up their experience with the client's business, but once the deal is signed they just scoop a bunch of warm bodies off the street to do the actual work.
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I think that a good code talk for itself. Explain a code sounds like to explain a joke.
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Just started using OS X heavily at work on a large monitor and started to notice a bit of a window clutter problem. Your app looks like it could be the ticket!
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"All the code is now on the new platform." (points to code print outs sitting on top of the new computer).
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An update from overnight:

<i>The City of Cupertino has responded to Apple's stunning new campus proposal. In the statement, Cupertino Mayor Gilbert Wong states "there is no chance we are saying no" to the new Apple campus. Apple proposal will still have to go through an environmental and a public hearing, but Wong says they are willing to bring on more staff to accommodate the process.</i>

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/09/cupertino-certain-to-app...
Everything Breaks, All the Time.
It really doesn't seem like sound playback is there yet, except in Flash.
Why can't an iPad do an over the air software upgrade like Android? Ugh.
The tense is weird in that sentence you quoted. If this information came out today, when were they criticized?
It's not sand-boxing if you use bureaucracy instead of technology.
The amount of use the US govt gets from the ability to create money out of thin air and exchange it for physical assets and services, means that any competing currency in whatever form will be attacked.
Credit card numbers get sold to people who use them to commit fraudulent purchases.
I believe there are two basic parameters here: (1) range (2) expense. The basic principles (as est. in Taiwan related war games, as in other places) is that if you send enough missiles (e.g. spamming) no matter how good your missile defense system is, some will get through. Which is to say, when it comes to missiles defense has not kept up with offense and "mutually assured destruction" remains a policy even with relatively incapable nuclear powers.

There are a variety of missiles which could potentially sink an aircraft carrier. ICBM has the longest range with the largest expense. Torpedoes (not really a missile) have a much shorter range so presumably the old principle applies -- if you can keep subs at a distance your carrier will be safe.

In other words, what you want to hit a carrier is the cheapest missiles where the launching platform (which could be a sub) are outside the range of the enemy, to present the largest quantity of missiles in order to overwhelm the defenses of the carrier.

ICBMs are most likely not the best way to do this, given their expense, but are worth bringing up since the basic principle is the same as in the cold war (shoot lots of ICBMS at a city/country to assure that some will get through).

Also, I believe whether or not any of the armaments are nuclear is fairly irrelevant since a non-nuclear missile (or two or three) can sink a carrier easily enough. That said, sooner or later someone (e.g. N. Korea) will use a nuke, and then all bets are off.
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No it is about $3000, if the bank employee thinks something is "suspicious". $10K is always reported, anything lower than that is at discretion.
I have to be the only person who just didn't like this. Trying to get a class full of teenagers to work when everyone was busy playing the guitar was a headache :P

Beautiful and creative, sure, but having what's essentially persistent sound in a web page just rubs me the wrong way.
I dunno, I think they're more inspired by this: http://d.pr/dQPu
Great post! I came from consulting into start-up world also (although I'm non-technical) and while you definitely have to re-learn many things to adjust to building a company, there are many many valuable lessons from working in that environment that entrepreneurs are all too quick to dismiss.

But the bottom line of your post is definitely the right summary: Do what feels right when it feels right, and you'll be fine. You can't lose when you're choosing between multiple interesting options. And as soon as your current path becomes uninteresting, look elsewhere.

Thanks for posting.
Ignoring navel gazing history, perhaps. We've never had open war with a first world power since WWII, that's why we've never lost a carrier.
The p-value means "chance of this happening, if the two were equally effective". So 1-p means "change of this NOT happening, if the two were equally effective".

Note that in frequentist statistics, the sentence "Probability this is all luck" doesn't even make sense. Either the universe is so that it was luck, or it is not. In frequentist statistics you do not assign probabilities to models of the universe. You only assign probabilities to observations, given a fixed model of the universe.
Where are they a monopoly?
Do you think Apple really cares about competition from an e-book company who we never heard of before their open letter, and who's name we can't remember now?

I find that unlikely.
It's probably a bit late by the time they've got to looking at the extension of the attachment - the image will have already loaded and they'll be "busted".
Well, I'd imagine they still can't sell it in the app, because the agency model means that they have to pay out 70% of the sale price to the publisher. After Apple's 30% cut, that leaves nothing for them.

However, it seems as though Apple's ok with apps selling content through a website, as long as it isn't linked to from the app.
Do you think that we'll be able to move to another inhabitable planet in the next few decades? I'm not holding my breath.
The whole point of the metaphor is that it would be better if the wife beater hadn't started beating his wife in the first place and doesn't deserve any kudos at this point.
gaahh, all this apple shit, so 2009
well, maybe it's actually all about timing, the article implies he's grossed in the neighborhood of $500k so far (minus the impact of "sales")
Give the government a break. After all it is designed to benefit all! And without taxes -> no government. If you want anarchy, go to some country where they have civil war at the moment.
Try to find places where there are people who would benefit from your product.

Post free links to your site on non-spammy relevant places. If you get creative this should produce a nice set of inward links and a bit of traffic.

Look at your competition. They probably have relevant expertise. See where they advertise and are listed.
How random is RandomChoice[]? For everyday applications I figure it wouldn't matter, but when taking ~160,000 steps (as with MC methods) we could possibly observe a non-uniform pdf for the sailor's steps.
facebook can alert your by email when you log in from a new computer. http://www.google.com/search?q=facebook+computer+email+login
Great for beginners, or people who want to hack together a quick website! Personally, I stay away from scaffolds altogether though so I don't get stuff that I don't need being generated. Also.. as I continue to develop and my website designs become more complex, I find less and less of my projects needing the cookie cutter design of a scaffold.
Thank you for this reference. I was curious if there was some formal work on this subject. This was one of the holes in my studies.
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True, but you at least get a head start on changing passwords/emails on other websites to limit the damage.
I always love seeing how the skillset used to find vulnerabilities in software and analyze malware applies directly and equally to just figuring out how something works so you can do it yourself.
I don't know how it is you're supposed to build a business on top of Apple's platforms. I'm staying as far away as I can.
Had similar experiences (i guess this is the norm) in my first years as a consultant and yes, while is often frustrating working in a big corporation (consulting or not) is really an eye-opener and can leave a positive mark on how you approach your profession (as in becoming completely intolerant toward: bad use of time, useless bureaucracy, inconsistent planning or design/architectures, etc... ).
While I agree with your points, I believe that the reference framework is incorrectly rooted in the past rather than the future. China does not need to match the USN carrier for carrier to effectively modify US naval policy in East Asia.

A relevant analog might be the effectiveness of diesel submarines in local waters. In anything short of a shooting war with the US, China's carrier will allow it to project massive influence over critical shipping lanes. If nothing else, the carrier's presence will create significant planning and tactical considerations for US forces in the region.

In addition, a Chinese carrier will allow it to project influence in distant parts of the world where they have moderate national interests. One needs only look at the impact a single less capable carrier, HMS Invincible with an undergunned air wing was capable of achieving in the Falklands/Malvinas conflict.
So is an apple with a bite out of it.
Very impressive skills at work...
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The silly thing is that if they do make it illegal because some businesses won't report bitcoin profits to the IRS, that will just guarantee that all businesses (licensed or unlicensed) using bitcoin won't report profits.
No unblurring required. Just some 3DES brute forcing. http://pastebin.com/aJ5rzVY0
Judge reverses course on letting his court be used for mass copyright suit farce
Thanks. So going the non-ad route would work better then. I have a few communities to target in mind. Specifically, I think Low End Box and WHT would might work well. I am just worried that giving away free premium accounts would devalue the product.
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Aren't iTunes gift cards Apple's big constraint? They pose a more difficult problem than developers abandoning paid apps in favor of in-app purchases (which could, as you say, be solved by Apple keeping in-app purchases at 30% outside a narrow app category).

Gift card retailers get most or all of the standard 30% cut, as I understand it, leaving Apple with nothing. If that's true there's no way for Apple to withhold less than 30% without either breaking their unified payment system or losing money on each sale. Taking the loss would expose them to massive fraud from collusion between app vendors and retailers.

Charging a lower rate for some categories (like News Stand content) without risking losses from gift card arbitrage would mean creating another payment tier where gift card balances didn't work, complicating the model.

Can someone with knowledge of the situation confirm whether this is accurate?
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That is one of the most aggressive subscription-pushing site I know.
Sticking with your horrid analogy, it's more like announcing that beatings will begin on a certain date in the future. They received feedback of the negative flavor and changed their minds before the date arrived.
It's like price-anchoring (see iPad) except instead of dollars it's restrictions. Apple sets the restriction bar at a crazy level, and then when they relax the restrictions it feels like we're all getting something great when in fact Apple is getting exactly what they wanted.
They never went away, a pure css game is very obviously not going to work in ie6, there is nothing for it to degrade to, some people push the standards (mostly fun experiments) and some people have to be very careful about browser support (the amazons of the world)
I've had false positives on these alerts too, but I'm willing to put up with them. As long as there are no false negatives, I will be happy ;-)
That's a good point. Invading Gaul et al. was probably more lucrative than invading a country like Afghanistan as the Romans were more obviously and unabashedly imperialistic and that war had to do with territorial expansion.

The invasion of Gaul is more akin to the way (relatively) early Americans forced out the Native Americans, and their culture certainly changed/doesn't really exist anymore. WWII Japan and Nazi Germany are examples of a places where a short war changed the culture.

The reason it won't work any more is because that style of 'total war' appears to have gone out of style. Probably a good thing, though Fareed Zakaria was on the Daily Show the other night talking about how one reason America has been so powerful is because Europe was leveled in WWII and the US had the industry to rebuild.
Questions like this are always posed in a vacuum, which makes no sense, because modern warships do not operate in a vacuum: 1 carrier vs any conceivable technology.

Military defense strategy isn't all that much different than IT defense strategy. It means using layers of security. If your only defense against missiles is a single missile-defence system, you're probably going down.

This ideology is at the core of how how a US Naval Carrier Battle Group works. A carrier battle group (CVBG) is a complex interplay of various types of ships and aircraft with many layers of defense. The idea is to never let your enemy get in a position to execute a fatal attack.

If you want to take it further, think of it in Starcraft terms. No one asks, "Is a Terran Battlecruiser a political statement, not a practical asset?" Any reasonably talented Starcraft player knows that you don't send a Battlecruiser in to battle alone [1].

1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox82uAVdUKM
Math and hard science learning can be reasonably measured by the kind of objective testing that KA does, however that is inadequate for subjects like history. Knowing about a bunch of events says nothing about the "lesson". I wonder how KA plans to address that, if at all.

IMO, it'll be good if KA focuses on the hard basics like mathematics. (By "hard" I don't mean "difficult" btw.)
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China has been working on the former, as well.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_class_submarine#Possible_i...]
It also depends, psychologically, on how early you got in. If you bought a bunch of bitcoins at $1 per BTC (or less), and a company is selling X for 1 BTC, you might think "Ooh, I'm getting X for just $1!" (Or if you do mining, calculate the electricity costs.) Sure, 1 BTC may be worth ~$30 right now, but you presumably want item X right now. Plus you get a physical asset worth ~$30 for what cost you in stable-money $1. (Though with the surge over the past week or so I'd agree with you on avoiding spending for that period if possible.)