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Nice design. However that article leaves me with a few questions. Does it work? Is it safe? Where's the fuse?
The advice here is to sit for 20-30 minutes at a time and then take a 2-minute walking break. This sort of schedule happens to correspond nicely with the Pomodoro Technique, which suggests 25 minutes of work followed by 5-minute breaks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
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Everyone seems to use a standing desk to stand, I use a standing desk to walk. Standing still will definitely murder my back, while walking feels comfortable and natural. Long term effects might be bad, but sitting down just feels uncomfortable after a while, even on very good ergonomic chairs.
Brilliant. AppleScript is underrated as an automation language. Sure, it's a bit cumbersome to write, but nobody says you have to use it for everything. It plays well enough with shell scripts that you can leave the heavy lifting to another language and use AppleScript as a bridge between the command line and the UI. Me and a friend once wrote a bot in Python to control various music players from IRC. The bot uses AppleScript to talk to iTunes on OS X, and GObject introspection (or whatever they use on GNOME these days; I have little experience with desktop Linux) to talk to Rhythmbox. See http://github.com/GeneralMaximus/amazing-horse

All of Apple's official applications support scripting, so do most good third party apps. You don't need extra JS on your page to autorefresh Safari. This little snipped reloads the front-most Safari tab:

tell application "Safari"
set sameURL to URL of tab 1 of front window
set URL of tab 1 of front window to sameURL
end tell

You can even send Safari a snippet of JS to run. It's possible to automate any UI interaction by sending mouse clicks or keyboard events to tell application "System Events".

You can look at any app's AppleScript dictionary using the AppleScript Editor. Go File -> Open AppleScript Dictionary ... and then pick your app.
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No WN prices (for Christ's sake, you are Google, how come you can't convince WN to fess up), never even heard of G4 and so on. Same old.
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Having your question answered on Hacker News is fairly obvious benefit.

HN mightn't normally be considered social media but it shares many of the characteristics; networking, shared interest, profiles and self promotion.

I think each social media channel can have different negatives and benefits. I've also had the "communicating into a vacuum" feeling about twitter, but I've found some great links on it. Whereas I find Facebook good for keeping in touch with friends and family but not work colleagues.

Nice blog post btw, any luck with the increase in girth?
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I think that frameworks like Rails or Django are not built to solve this problem out-of-the-box. Thus if you're not careful enough you'll end up with some messy ass JavaScript code (and I have seen it everywhere).

Lately though, I've started to build apps using Backbone (I guess you can use Knockout or Batman too) and Django (or Rails) just to build the API, and it's very simple to do this.

All you have to do is:

// Poll every 10 seconds to keep the channel model up-to-date.
setInterval(function() {
channel.fetch();
}, 10000);

At least in Backbone http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/#Model-fetch
The pre-1.8 release less than a week ago had an obvious and crippling bug. An experience system was added, and when you died you dropped your experience. But instead of doing so as a single object, it made thousands of objects each holding one single XP point. This made the game completely unplayable if you were in the same area, and even crippled multiplayer servers for people not in the area.

Also, while that is the most recent glaring bug, in the past there have been multiple occasions where a release broke trees so that the leaves didn't decay after the trunk was removed. Punching down a tree is something you do in the first 30 seconds of a normal minecraft game.
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Some options:

1) The code is available under MIT and the docs are CCed and specifically designed to make it easy to clone this. At least three people have successfully done so, in a variety of programming languages, web frameworks, and technology stacks. If programming Java is not difficult for you, block off about a week or two and bam problem solved.

2) If you have access to vast amounts of cash but your programmers are just too busy delighting people to write an A/B testing framework, you could hire me to rewrite the whole codebase in Java. This would only cost you low five figures.

3) If you don't want to program and don't have tens of thousands lying around but do have tens lying around, Visual Website Optimizer is a great option for $CHEAP.

4) If you have neither programming skills nor tens of dollars then you may want to reevaluate whether A/B testing is a huge need at this point in your life.
Ask HN: As a startup, how to get good developers and keep them stayed?
For an executive of a company, creativity and reliability will matter more than the willingness to make heroic sacrifices. For an entrepreneur, I am not so sure.
Very impressive! A neat trick to make small characters serif.
That's a great approach. I think one issue that can crop up if you do a fetch and reload the entire listing, some state like checked rows in the table etc can be lost.

So you have to add some more logic to preserve it. I think that's why it's a good idea to start thinking about this right at the start of your app/page.
linpack and eispack are vestigial. They were folded into lapack, which is the "one true package" now (e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EISPACK). The situation here is really not complicated.

scalapack is a different animal entirely. It's a parallel version of lapack (via MPI) so should not be expected to duplicate lapack results because partitioned algorithms will be used. But if you're using scalapack, you know that already.
In my view this looks like a great tool for agile workflow. A replacement for the board with sticky notes.

regarding the scale ... most if not all bug-trackers become a junk yard of bug reports. thousands of them. most never get fixed. lots never get looked at. This tool lets you store things that you are going to do in the near future. And the rest... lets deal with it when we get there.
I think if you can't remember it a month from now, it probably not important.

In any real project you can never deal with all the bugs and reports. so you usually deal with the most serious ones and the ones that get reported most often. the important ones go on todo right away, and the often reported ones do not need another place for them. people will keep reporting until you deal ;)

so this tool is effectively lets you plan your activities in the short and medium term. once you get to the 'next year' you will have other priorities and new things to do. there is no need to plan it now.

Im definitely going to try it. Currently we mostly work with Pivotal Tracker and also trying out Trajectory from Thoughtbot. It looks like Trello might be a decent contender in the space.
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The downvote because:

- The first thing I think when I read "this is bullshit" is "fuck you, you are bullshit". You start by obliterating any chance for a constructive interaction

- You are not actually engaging the arguments of the person you respond to. It seems you didn't get past his first three lines.

- Not only does it seem like you didn't read the arguments, it also seems you cannot think of valid reasons why a decent programmer would not have pet projects. Otherwise your response would have been less vitriolic.

- You are complaining about being downvoted ... by repeating the offensive assertion that probably got you downvoted in the first place and then poisoning the well by asserting that anyone that disagrees is engaging in 'knee-jerk defensiveness'. That's the second time I thought "fuck you", without even having considered what you actually wrote.
I was reluctant to enter my facebook details when I don't really know what the app does, so I didn't do it.

Also, discovering and sharing future happening with friends sounds like something that facebook already does well.
That's the 1997 way.
There's a disclosure process; if you're concerned someone might in future define your project as relevant, you submit a description of what you're doing and the company has a limited time to claim the project is indeed relevant - if it doesn't do so, then it gives up the right and the project is yours.

(Disclaimer: I'm the CTO not a lawyer, so this is just my opinion and doesn't represent the official legal position of my company.)
Of course, the other other side of this is that Microsoft has, over the past decade or so, become a company that specializes in three things:

1. Shipping Windows, Office and XBox.

2. Showing demos of revolutionary "coming next year" technologies that never ever ship.

3. Occasionally shipping something that's not Windows, Office or XBox, and then killing it as quickly as possible.

The last two have especially dogged Microsoft's mobile efforts; every year we hear that "next year's Windows for (this year's hot mobile category) will revolutionize everything", every year we hear the cries of "at last! History will repeat and MS will crush Apple again!", and every year we realize they either never shipped last year's great mobile hope, or shipped one version of it and then announced it would be replaced by next year's great mobile hope.

So at this point, why should anyone in this industry be taking Microsoft seriously?

[Disclaimer: not MSFT employee]
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Atkins diets and standing desks aren't going to fix more fundamental issues with a pervasively unhealthy culture.
I think you can use automated testing for games, usually... It requires a few compromises.

If you're feeding input into a non-deterministic game the character won't be exactly where they were last time, etc. You could keep track of the movement offset and see if it's within an acceptable range, or you could check the character's speed at two times and make sure they're accelerating properly, etc. Design a test level to highlight the potential problems (weird ground polys, whatever) and write an in-game script to test the behavior.

I think I could even script visual checks - mostly. You'd make, for example, a level prone to Z-buffering errors, where the colors were chosen to make it obvious - like a red wall showing through a white one. Save a stream of screenshots and compare them. Trivially, check for red. More complex, and perhaps better, check for high-contrast areas. It wouldn't tell you if the picture looked good overall but it'd be fairly good at finding instances of that one bug.

And for unit tests, don't be so quick to write such a good test that throwing it away is painful when you want to refactor the code.
I tried it on VMWare workstation 7. Works fine for me.
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Would give a tough competition to 37Signals guys.
As the article says, it's hard to type while walking.
Internal server error on the confirm link, and my full name has an "é" in it, so I guess it's the same issue. Also, log in with Google Account does nothing / doesn't work either.

You really don't wanna let me in, do you? :)
To answer to the question in the title of this submission:

You should not. As soon as a feature has got released to all users of a software, you won't be able to disable it without some users becoming really dissatisfied.

The solution is not to release a new feature to all users.

Before even thinking about releasing a new feature, first ask yourself:

What is the goal of this new feature?

The answer to that question is your hypothesis, you need to try to answer by experimenting.
That is, perform an A/B-test:

Launch the feature to a subset of your users and check if it achieves its goal.
This goal must of course be measurable and ideally there are KPIs that you can use to check the success or failure of your experiment.

When the experiment is successful you deploy the feature for all users.
If the experiment fails, you remove it for the subset of users and the rest will never know about it.

This also helps the codebase to stay clean, features not making it into the product, is code not making it into your codebase, which means less code to maintain, less complexity.
I highly recommend kneeling chairs. You sit with your legs underneath you instead of in front of you, which puts your back at a much more natural angle (much like standing, actually) than a standard office chair. They're cheap (mine was $75) and very compact, so you can augment them with a "normaller" chair. Long hours in a kneeling chair can strain certain muscles (the small of my back gets a little tight), so I do recommend using a standard chair about %20 of the time.

I alternate between a cheap office chair and a cheap kneeling chair (something like this - http://www.amazon.com/Boss-Office-Products-Ergonomic-Kneelin...), switching if I feel any twinge of discomfort, and my back and neck feel great.
This wouldn't be a problem if I could choose the number of articles per page - 30 articles per page isn't enough. I rarely go more than 5 pages deep on HN. If HN was just a single page with 300 entries that I could refresh (or would auto-refresh via Comet/AJAX) I would be a happy camper.
A company that has no growth potential is not very exciting to an investor. They 'make bets' on companies they think might take off. It's high risk high return as most small companies fail.

I think investor won't be interested in buying a business for small scale steady income. There are plenty of very safe ways to do that like bluechip shares or even term deposits.
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Another cue to place my twitter bot: http://twitter.com/officeworkout - tweets an exercise every 30 minutes.
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The central problem with kneeling chairs is that it's normal and necessary to subtly shift your sitting position on your chair with some frequency (often without even noticing), and kneeling chairs are not conducive to this since they effectively hold your legs in a fixed position.

Of course, if you're switching between two different styles of chair when you need to, that may well alleviate any problems.
FTA: "We need to test the readability of the font, particular the Cyrillic and Greek which have had less testing."

Why not release the Ubuntu font-in-progress to the general public and create a "font bug tracker" where users can report their experience with the font in various characters sets across multiple devices? Ubuntu is open-source, community based software - why not open source the font design?
Why is this? Sufferers of other diseases have no such problems, what is it about Crohns' disease that makes people shy to talk about it?

I looked at the wikipedia page and I can't tie the disease to anything that you as a sufferer should be ashamed of.
Oh yes, indeed. Please implement it well or of not don't implement it at all. Nothing is as annoying as reading an article and having it snap back to the beginning, or suddenly staring at an error page.

Sure, for console-like applications like EC2 you cannot do without auto-update. However, on content sites that require longer attention to one piece of information, it is not necessary.
Its cool that you can have a public board with public comments. But it would be even cooler to have a finer grained control over who can do what. i.e. have a board with some of the lists public read-only, others private, others read-write so anyone can edit, and public append-only, for things like bug reports etc.
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The original comment merely referred to "thousands of scientific articles". You've now said you'd be surprised if there were thousands of "independent" articles, or if there were thousands of "original" articles, without indicating what you mean by "independent" and "original" or why only thousands of "independent" or "original" articles are the right thing to look for.

If you're implying that the great majority of published climate science research is literally plagiarized, then that's an extraordinary claim and I'd like to see your extraordinary evidence.

But I'm guessing you mean something else -- e.g., that most papers (in that or any other field) aren't startlingly creative, or that most papers make some use of other earlier research rather than doing anything from scratch. In that case you owe us an explanation of why it's a problem.

Do you know of thousands of "independent", "original" articles supporting general relativity or the Standard Model or particle physics or evolution or, well, anything?

(I think "dependent", "unoriginal" work is vital, both for scientific progress and for providing evidence. Consider: One paper introduces a brilliant new idea and provides some experimental support for it. Ten other papers explore its theoretical consequence. Ten more report on experiments done using the ideas in the original paper and those ten successors, getting results consistent with the theory. If the research in those papers is sensibly chosen and competently done, we now have much more evidence for the original brilliant idea than after the first paper, even though that's the only "original" one.)
AeroFS isn't merely useful for security reasons (inside firewall), but for moving huge files around a LAN. Dropbox does do some LAN syncing on individual accounts, but being able to share big media files during the capture/edit/publishing process would be a great use case. In a lot of those cases, on location, you have Gig-E or better locally, but a 3G/4G hotspot for publishing a final stream (and general Internet use), so something cloud based isn't viable.
We do. Its hard to list every framework/library in there, so they're not all mentioned. Look for a future technical blog post that goes into more detail on what we used.
I think you can just bind the "add" event on the collection (I might be wrong) and fetch wont re-render (since you wont bind the "render all" function) the whole collection.
Of course you can sell a small business, the question is at what price. If your potential for growth is limited, you won't get a Twitter-like valuation, but if your business is solid and profitable, someone might be willing to pay a couple times your earnings.
another feature request: import from pivotal tracker ;)

They have api.
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One of the primary symptoms (in the people I know that have it, I don't know all that much about it) is that it causes heavy cramps that require immediate (as in, right now) sprints to the bathroom. I can imagine that it's not all that comfortable talking to people about issues that require quite explicit references to, eh, let's call it 'primary body functions'.
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Indeed! I'm the one that made the pull request adding support for copying the color as CMYK ;)
Voting and commenting on public boards can be allowed for everyone, restricted to members, or turned off. We chose to leave it on because we like the aspect of simple, quick feedback on where things are going.
It sucks when you have 20 pages to catch up on and you're forced to open all interesting looking links in new tabs, get to the end before your time runs out, and only then start reading the new tabs.
The issue is that in order to do that google would have to only list flights from airlines that are willing to pay them $5.

If the airline refuses to pay and google doesn't display their flights then their results are incomplete.

The airlines will probably understand that google wants to be able to list their flights and will negotiate harder because of it.
Not really relevant. English is much more pervasive in India (it's one of India's national languages!) than in China, despite English being one of the most-learned foreign languages there.

Subjectively, there's also a greater sense of nationalism in China. They want things "their way" to a certain extent. India seems to lack this (at least to a degree), possibly due to former British rule, or current relations with the US and the rest of the West. Compared to China, India is a ridiculously open society. The Chinese are much less exposed to Western influences.
Trello does use Socket.io. If your browser supports websockets it will use them, but it will transparently fall back to polling if necessary.
No it isn't. I've been doing that for 3+ years (on and off, now i'm doing it more, because it feels better). Nothing hard about it, from day one.
I guess the obvious way is to charge for in-the-cloud storage - using your own servers / disk space is free, to have an extra copy online you pay for the storage.
What about backups and offline access? Those are the two main drawbacks of 'one copy to rule them all'.