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"VLC, while it is a bit of a resource hog, will play anything you throw at it."

I'm not sure that is a victory of OSS as much as it is that they have more freedom to play fast and loose with patents than a commercial/closed source developer would have if directly selling their software (particularly in the US market).
Perhaps it is the lack of movement that is the issue, not what static position one chooses.

Even laying in bed without moving leads to bed sores. Normally, we move around even while sleeping.

How stiff our muscles are is more important. Stiff muscles are weaker and less flexible. They tire out very quickly. And they tend to make us sit longer because they are more difficult to move.

Being immobile for a significant part of the day makes stiffness worse. But it does not cause it.

Its actually when we don't use our full range of motion often enough that we lose that range of motion and get stiff. Sitting for long periods won't make your muscles unhealthy; not moving enough, regularly enough, is what does it.

Why is this the case? If you fully extend and flex all of your muscles frequently enough, the sheaths surrounding the muscles will stay flexible. And circulation will remain healthy.

Its when circulation is impaired that using a muscle leads to stiffness.

There is a structure called the sarcomere that does the actual physical work of contracting and extending our muscles.

The sarcomere can get stuck in its contracted position if blood flow is impaired to it. And the sarcomere pumps its own blood, so getting stuck in contracture means it can't get out of that state on its own. Only then do you start feeling it.

So, this is a problem with a non-obvious root cause that takes a very long time to manifest. Its no wonder it happens to most people eventually.
we are testing a fully logged out version of the songkick experience with our new iPhone app. would be curious to hear how that works for you.
Noticed that the site is really, really slow. Someone posted the article here (unformatted, though): http://www.tinychan.org/reply_post/107709
Retailers, on-line or otherwise, have to pay sales tax on sales within a state where they have a physical presence. That's the way it is. The problem in this case is that CT wants sales tax on a sale that was referred by an affiliate... Even when the retailer (Amazon) and the customer are both not located in CT. In states that charge sales tax, most (all?) charge "use tax" of the same amount as sales tax, on items shipped to them from an out-of-state retailer that did not charge sales tax. Retailer customers almost never pay it, probably don't know it exists. Sates usually don't go after the tax for consumers, but they do go after businesses for it (at least they do in CA) presumably because the amount of tax is potentially much higher.

In other words, technically, you have to pay sales tax when you buy something, and if you don't then you're supposed to pay the equivalent amount in "use tax". In this case, CT is trying to wedge in there and get tax when neither the buyer or the retailer are in CT.

It's not a business killer for Amazon to charge and pay the taxes for every state. Many on-line retailers do. There is software and subscription services to keep billing systems up to date with current tax tables. But, who pays sales/use tax on what when a guy in CA buys something from Amazon that was referred by a CT affiliate? What about when someone in a state where Amazon has no physical presence buys from Amazon through a CT affiliate? My brain hurts and I suspect someone's getting screwed.
Is there a reason why r/trees is the only subreddit with a chat group ;-)
Can you post a recording to your interpretation of that? Press the red "record button" and you will get a link like this:

http://goo.gl/doodle/F4ih8
If most of this is true, you're working at the wrong place.

Needing medical insurance will change most peoples' perception of this argument (assuming they live in the US).
i don't think silverlight is going away in the nearest future, but if you're really "infuriating", the only reason i can assume is that you based your whole business in a proprietary technology owen by a company known for promoting something new, and making it obsolete after two years. you jumped with both feet in a technology that won't be an official standard and multiplatform like one of the competitors (html5 + js) nor as widespread like the other most direct competitor (flash).

that would be _your_ fault, not microsoft's.
First thing that came to mind. That's it, I'm starting a new railroad.
Completely agreed. That is why I prefer OSX. It has most/all of the great points of Linux, and most of the great points of Windows, plus great stability.

Of course, work profiles do differ. But... I am so happy working with something that Just Works.
That's not a very good comment, but it is a good article.
write permission is set at an app level, not a per-user level... so asking at auth time is already to late to know.
Nah, just a supporter of LEB. If you actually looked at the post in a sensible way you'd come to the same realizations.
I respect and appreciate your opinion, thank you. I'll try to keep that in mind when contributing in the future.
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To be fair, those are the early years of the hacker acceptance of Linux. Audio wasn't a priority then, for most.
As a photographer, and talking to lots if photographers, the number 1 tool is Lightroom (or sometimes Aperture / Capture One). We all own Photoshop but only a very small percentage of images will pass through PS (usually for complicated cloning or exposure merging).
The rotors are fixed. My guess with this is that each fan has a blade running forward and backward underneath it that can be rotated by a computer (thrust vectoring: [1]). You can exert a torque on the vehicle by pushing some of the thrust to the left or right instead of straight down. You can exert a torque forward or backward by adjusting the power going to the forward and backward rotors. So, turning left means vectoring forward thrust to the right and vectoring backward thrust to to the left, giving you a net CCW torque. Sliding left means vectoring both thrusts to the right, accelerating you sideways. Forward and backward are handled by increasing and decreasing power to the fans.

The quadrotor drones are easier to control than helicopters because they don't need any control surfaces at all. You can exert a torque in any direction by adjusting the power to the rotors. Need to go forward? More power to the back, less power in front; the front of the drone dips and the thing drifts forward. Controlling the power to each engine is trivial and the dynamics are easy, so the math is pretty easy to do.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust_vectoring
I get this at least once a month from my non-tech friends with the next great idea.

I actually took one of my friends up one one of these offers. The problem is that when you are working on it, they have nothing invested and can easily just move onto something else and you are left holding the bag.

I worked on the project for a couple of weeks and he eventually just lost interest and told me he had to concentrate on what was making money for him at the time, which was a PC repair shop.

This was in 2004 and the PC repair shop went out of business went out of business within 6 months.

I don't need an ideas guy..and you probably don't either. I have no shortage of ideas I think could make money. I would only partner up with someone who could provide me with funding, business contacts, or has prior experience in my industry.

The other problem is that once you get the app done, what does the "ideas" guy do? Is their effort really going to be worth a percentage of the company?
I used a ball for almost a year, and my opinion is that it's no better than a chair overall, and in some ways worse. Items 1, 2, 4, 5, and 7 in the list linked above are completely untrue in my experience. Not only is it every bit as possible to sit with poor posture on a ball as it is in a chair, but the ball actually encourages poor posture in some circumstances. I found that as the day progressed and I grew tired, I settled into a low-energy perch with my feet wide, my butt hanging more rearward on the ball, and my back rounded. This is a very stable position on a ball -- no core correction needed. It's pretty much the worst posture possible, and it was extremely difficult to mindfully avoid it.

When I get tired in a chair, I lean against the back, and if it's a good chair I won't be stressin out my discs.
I'm working on YAMRF (yet another MR framework) in C#. I wanted something like Hadoop but something that was much simpler to setup and to hack on.

There's no question that Hadoop is the elephant in the room, so to speak. It is very robust and performant, and there's a great ecosystem and community. It is quite complex as a result and getting it set up and tuned can take a lot of time and effort.

I've got the distributed file system working and am working on the processing part now. The underlying framework is more general purpose than MR, working at the level of data or record streams which can be run through LINQ, for example. Dryad has this but it's a much more complicated beast.

Even though more general purpose computation is possible with such a framework, it turns out that to achieve scale, your problem needs to be parallelizable and MR is a good way to do that. I think that's why we aren't seeing much in the way of alternatives, yet--it's a question of the "enemy of good enough."
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However, Microsoft isn't necessarily logical

It's not useful to think of it in terms of what "Microsoft is" or "Microsoft isn't". Microsoft is a very big place, and the internal power struggles are what shape it. In this case, it's Windows division under Steven Sinofsky versus Developer Tools division. DevDiv owns .Net, WinDiv is less keen on it, and they have IE9 now.

Sinofsky is the one who came up with the "native html" non-sequitur at the mix11 conference. How do you start to try to get platform-specific coders to adopt a cross-platform lowest-common-denominator technology? Call it "native".

If this is Kremlinology then so be it. it's the only way to make sense of MS. It's sad that their best technologies are used as ammo in internal battles.
You're assuming people care to evaluate Linux in the way Linux advocates want to evaluate it. They do not.

"Hardware just works" is a characteristic that normal people consider important to an operating system. If you don't do it, you are deficient in that area. "But all these other also-rans fail at it too" is not an excuse. The standard, for better or for worse, is Windows, and you either meet the standard or you don't complain that people get tired of dealing with your failures and move on.

And it's certainly not surprising that even a Linux enthusiast gets tired of dealing with substandard, broken hardware after a while. I know, I was one. Eventually I got tired of trying to balance having decent, modern hardware with having hardware that supports an operating system that, on the desktop, is essentially a novelty (it affords me nothing that Windows or OS X doesn't), and I tubed it. Because it wasn't worth the effort.
Clarification: where I refer to my x201 having an i5, that is to say it has a non-ULV i5, running at 2.4GHz.
From what I've read, it looks like the people most concerned are the ones who have become accustomed to the 'visual' programming interface. ... Going through 'wizards'

You read wrong. Expression blend is not a wizard. It's more like Photoshop.
If I'd been buying a SSD new, I probably would have gone with an Intel one, but I had a Corsair lying around. Whoops.
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For a counterpoint:

* you can get "EBNF"-style operators using traditional LL parsers like ANTLR.

* Likewise, top-down parsers can have integrated lexing also.

* The downside of prioritized choice is that you don't get any insight into what inherent ambiguities your grammar has. The dangling-else ambiguity in C (for example) is a real ambiguity that you have to tell your users about. Prioritized choice hides ambiguities and gives you no hint when you develop your grammars where the ambiguities are.

* PEG-based parsers are less efficient than LL parsers. LL parsers are O(n) in time and O(d) in space (where n is the length of the input and d is the depth of the nesting). To parse a PEG in O(n) time the space complexity becomes O(n) (this is a packrat parser). To parse with O(d) space, time complexity becomes O(n^d) (as with lpeg). And the constant factor for LL parsing is much lower than with packrat parsing.

I think the future is LL. When the tooling gets good enough with LL, I think that the primary motivation for PEGs (that they are easy to use) will evaporate.
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The constitution explicitly prohibits states from interfering with interstate commerce, which is what Connecticut is doing (forcing regulation on a company outside their state), and is why Amazon is calling the law unconstitutional.
> officials declined to say where they believe the attack originated

Which means they know. Which means it's China since if it was some backwater country they'd just go ahead and say it, and if it was a western one they'd assume it was teenagers. But coming from China, it is the government doing it, so that's the only country that's taboo to name after being hacked.
What part of it involved IL? Are you being deliberately obtuse? You living in IL. States charge taxes to provide services to the people who live and enter the state. You live in the state, therefore it is entirely appropriate for IL to charge you income tax. If you don't like it, vote in different representatives because the other thing that you get to do in IL is vote for IL state representatives.
My preferred one is http://goingtorain.com
This makes the assumption that a good implementor is also a good idea-person, manager, etc etc. Some people are best off working for someone else and just doing the implementing. Others -prefer- it for their own reasons.

Anyone who can (and wants to) do it on their own, will. In their good time. There's no point in telling them to do it.
Former sonic.net customer here, then speakeasy, current teksavvy customer. Speakeasy just isn't in the ballpark, teksavvy is great service, but sonic.net was hands-down the best ISP I've ever had.

This article makes me happy to read.
Don't forget Firefox either; while Chrome has taken the lead in many areas, Firefox is still ahead in some (graphics acceleration and JavaScript language features for example), and more importantly, Firefox led the way in terms of innovation for years and years before Chrome was on the scene.

Other open source products I can think of with fantastic UX are Transmission (the BitTorrent client) and Colloquy.
Except it doesn't occur outside their state if an amazon affiliate is in CT. Hence amazon withdrawing.
Yeah.. you are admit..
Looking at it in a sensible way.

1) Title was written and posted as such to draw flame
2) Post is quickly started with a discount
3) The page is littered with advert

The merit of the technical write up is not in question; its the specific intention to incite controversy. thats the problem.

Its obvious to this crowd that 64mb is plenty to run a 18 Static Sites.

It is the very fact of challenging the ability to run 18 static sites on 64mb via a VPS is ridiculous. Now, if the article asked the question of "how quickly can you max out 64mb VPS and tactics to avoid it" -then, it would be less inflamatory.
Wouldn't you just have an end symbol for if statements, "end" or "}" or something? That's what I did in my little recursive parser.

Maybe what I should ask is, how does a PEG parser resolve it?
flagged for the modal signup garbage.
We're trying to get users, and I figured the r/trees crowd would love an app like this.
Nope, you can do it when redirecting the user to the OAuth provider:

http://blog.stochastictechnologies.com/gaining-read-only-acc...
Also most of us often confuse psychopathy and machiavellianism. Together with narcissism they form the so-called dark triad.

I do not have concrete studies to back my claim, but most movers and shakers in the third world are rather Machiavellianistic. They may not create anything of value or change they world, but most gate keepers certainly fit the description. So do most non-tech entrepreneurs.

I am not sure about the first world though, I have only experienced it inside the tech bubble.
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Can you point to the real "showstoppers" on this platform for comparison to other apps on iOS/Android?
It is possible to install apps bought in the Mac App Store on an unlimited amount of Macs. The App Store also shows all apps that were bought with an Apple ID for easy installing on, for example, new Macs without any user data.

Apps are not deleted or deactivated if someone with a different Apple ID logs into the Mac App Store.

Apps are available to all user accounts on a Mac, no matter which one bought the app. The Apple ID doesn’t have to re-entered if an app someone else downloaded is opened†.

Apps someone else bought will not stop working after they are copied from one Mac to another, no prompt for the Apple ID appears†.

The Apple ID is necessary for updates∆.

Legally you are allowed to put your apps on all the Macs you own or control for personal use (i.e. not the Macs at your workplace or school if personal use is not allowed on them), though nothing is preventing you from putting them on every Mac you want to, either by copying† or by re-downloading in the Mac App Store.

A credit card is not required for creating an Apple ID. (It is possible to pay with gift cards. In some countries alternate means of payment might also be available.) Apple’s terms of service do, however, require you to be truthful when you sign up – you are legally not allowed to enter a fake name or address.

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In my opinion Pixelmator’s pre-App Store DRM was less or about equally permissive. You used to have to enter a serial number, now you have to enter your Apple ID (and I wasn’t even asked for my Apple ID when I was just copying apps around, see †). I’m not sure whether Pixelmator’s license was quite as permissive. (Being able to install apps on all Macs you own or control for personal use is certainly generous.)

As for privacy, if you want to pay with a credit card you have to give your data to someone. Either some payment processor like PayPal or directly to the app developers or – now – to Apple. I fail to see the big difference and, as I said, you don’t even have to use a credit card.

Is there some reason that makes you believe that Apple is less trustful than whatever payment processor Pixelmator used before?

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† Apple’s help documents claim that users may be asked for the Apple ID associated with the purchase after first running the app on a different Mac. In my own testing I was never asked for an Apple ID. I tried several different apps – free and not – with several different Apple IDs on two different Macs.

∆ I’m not sure whether you have to enter the Apple ID of the account that bought the app or whether it is sufficient to simply enter a valid Apple ID and I have no means of testing that right now.
I agree that implementers are undervalued in their own organizations. Unfortunately this happens because the implementer is too busy to play the "political game" to move up the ladder. It really is a lot of hard work to implement something. It will be in your mind all the time. While other people who are not implementing have a lot more time to play the political game and to refine their social skills to continue climbing ladders.

Of course, there is also the implementers that want to do nothing but implement and would not want to play political games even if they had the time.
Not sustainable? All sorts of businesses collect sales taxes in CT -- every establishment you enter. And despite the (to you) obvious non sustainability of this, somehow the businesses are still there. Which could lead you to believe that collecting sales tax is, in fact, sustainable.
The title is all wrong. He is not in charge of Silverlight. Pure speculation.

My reading of directui is that XAML is staying but Silverlight libraries are a dead end. If you are a component vendor, you will stop writing additional components for Silverlight. This also heralds the end of any ecosystem for Silverlight. Yes, there may be SL die hards, but they are going to be like Visual FoxPro developers today. Abandoned.

Developers over the next few years are going to have to migrate their work over to DirectUI for tablet development while retaining Silverlight for Windows 7 OS. Oh Silverlight, we hardly knew you.
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You don't have to take my word for it. The Telcos did their own reliability surveys.

Underground utilities have do deal with more intrusions from water, ice, salt, digging, backhoes, insects, rodents and other stuff you find at "ground level." Ask any outside plant engineer and they will tell you that cost goes up and reliability suffers when you place utilities underground.

Aerial utilities primarily only have to deal with trees and ice. Oh, and gunshots. In the backwoods, the local yokels will sometimes shoot at transmission towers, taking out the fiber links with them.
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Couldn't they simply tell their affiliates they were considering terminating the program as early as possible? I have to believe they were aware of the situation, and monitoring patiently as it unfolded. For example, I knew it was imminent in Colorado. yet I've never collected a penny in affiliate revenue. It was debated quite a bit before it passed.

Edit: I guess what I'm asking is: am I missing something, or is there some reason why the affiliates couldn't have been alerted to the possibility earlier? Or, does alerting them at all require Amazon to pay sales tax?
The title is ridiculous though, didn't they use science to make stronger steel or did they make them out of magic?
Space leaks.

Also, unpredictable program behavior (which nearly destroys its usefulness in embedded beyond what perhaps Galois has been doing).
I infer from your tldr that your opinion is that this long blog post can be condensed down to a single line conclusion, and that this is a commentary on its (lack of) usefulness and depth.

However, we wouldn't have been know the conclusion without the analysis that went into the blog post. It's interesting stuff for web designers, and to get a general overview of the colour of the web.

If OTOH your tldr was not intended to imply that the blog post was superficial or uninteresting then my rebuttal is unnecessary.

Either way, I find tldr's useful when made in earnest, and about complex subject matter, but too often they are applied in a snarky way which adds nothing. Also, HN should be the sort of place where nothing is too long to read. If you can't be bothered to read it, go somewhere else.