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Everyone always over thinks it with the whole sit-stand desk. All you need to do is buy a standing desk (I simply adjusted my cubicle) and a tall chair. No adjustment required, sit when you want and stand when you want.
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In our field studies of sit-stand workstations we have found little evidence of widespread benefits and users only stand for very short-periods (15 minutes or less total per day). Other studies have found that the use of sit-stand stations rapidly declines so that after 1 month a majority of people are sitting all the time.

While this contradict my personal experience, I do trust the studies.

every 20 minutes stand for 2 minutes AND MOVE

I also believe this will no more work than sit-stand workstations. Every 20 minutes, walk to the water fountain or somewhere else for 2 minutes, will turn any large office into a non-stop walkathon. And just like people end up sitting all day with sit-stand desks, people will end up sitting all day with this setup.

I suppose employers could hardwire a loud buzzer to go off every 20 minutes, but I just don't see that happening on any large scale.

Personally I already stand for most of the day, two years after I switched to a sit-stand desk. But I could change from sitting to standing and back every 20 minutes without losing flow. I am not sure I could do it if I had to walk away form the keyboard, even just for 2 minutes. After the third or forth break, I'm guessing I would be out of the zone.
Hehe, yeah, I realized that after I read through it. But I found the first couple of slides interesting. Maybe I should edit it out. But I did find the first few slides interesting.
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Thanks. Those are great recommendations. I'll definitely look into testing them.
That was the original plan, but that wouldn't really generate much income. I did plan to add hotels, and hotel referrals pay very handsomely.
Sorry for that. Didn't notice.
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I think the more subtle question is what "best" means here. Knowing the sources jgc has probably been influenced by, it's going to be something like a measure of accurate information absorption by the audience.

If you want to lie, which it's quite unmistakeable that Job's chart intends to deceive, then accuracy absorption is not you aim. But if you don't want to lie, I agree with jgc that pie charts are simply inadmissible.
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Someone actually made this thing! It was probably a lot of effort, and there it is! Why would anyone want to use it?
> In my opinion, depriving you of the freedom to live in a non-ruined environment is a much more fundamental lack of freedom than the choices you are talking about being restricted.

You're assuming that the restrictions will make a difference between ruined and non-ruined. I disagree.

I have good company. Even the AGW advocates pushing the restrictions admit that the proposed restrictions won't have that effect.

Even if you believe in AGW, why do you support restrictions that do nothing to address it? More to the point, shouldn't you actually oppose such restrictions because they cost money that might be used to fight AGW?

Yes, I'm serious. Look at what the folks pushing the restrictions have predicted about the effects of said restrictions. They've predicted no benefit.[1] If you're assuming that those predictions are wrong, why?

> But attempting to include the scientists who have reached a conclusion based on scientific results among them helps no one.

Which scientists are you referring to?

Note that most of the "scientists" who have weighed in actually haven't looked at data.

[1] Yes, those advocates have also predicted that AGW will have huge costs. My point is that the proposed restrictions won't reduce those costs.
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Looks like an improvement. Though I think it should also say something to the effect of "If you've seen this screen more than twice today, you should have a professional examine your computer for problems."
I like this example a lot. It also follows the sufficiency heuristic: in TP the order of the categories is exchangeable.
Yes I walk the entire time and I don't find it tiring; I do tread lightly and walk on bear feet. I don't use a treadmill either; I walk in-place which is much (for me) less tiring than a treadmill which takes starting up and ending. In place walking (even on a WII board which counts what i'm doing) is very comfortable IMHO.
Do they do a naked version?
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This does point out the burden of bar charts: are can be unintentionally more informative than you wanted them to be.
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I have a very specific project in mind that I would like to do on my own. It's high time I learn a little bit of backend.

I have an iPhone app (already made) that requests an ad in two parts - an image, and text. We currently use OpenX to deliver our ads, but our needs are much more simple, and we'd like the control of rolling our own solution.

So, I would like to create a simple backend. Database that holds the image, text, link, mobile link, and advertiser info. Then some sort of script to pull and deliver that info to our iPhone app.

Also, I'd like a basic set of analytics: impressions, clicks, maybe geo, etc. should I build this in or integrate Google Analytics or go with something like MixPanel?

Some details about our expected performance. We currently have a 512Mb VPS (Linode). We have between 400,000-500,000 impressions each month. We would want to build something that could scale much larger.

I'm drawn to Ruby, but want to use the best and easiest setup for the project. Python? PHP? JavaScript? I don't know much about databases... MongoDB, MySQL, nosql?

As always, thank you for your responses and help.
If you have a family, I don't want you.

Is that really so unreasonable? I have a 1 year old daughter, and I'll be the first to admit that she'll take priority over any work project at any time. Looking around the office, the people without kids tend to work longer hours, to more unpaid overtime and take less days off. Is it really so unreasonable for an employer to want to those sorts of people.
I hate to be a downer, but I don't think there's any world in which two weeks is enough to make any conclusions. I think you need to give it a serious shot (think months) before you'll be able to objectively assess your business.
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I honestly wouldn't describe Eclipse as slow or buggy when I'm doing Java development. This is on a couple year old Thinkpad with maxed-out RAM. Is it worse on OS X? Or with the Android APIs? Or maybe too many plug-ins out of the box?
Good point. It's intended more as a metaphor. Arguably, most companies' R&D departments are little more than "development" anyway. But it is a place where experimentation & innovation is the focus. Hackathons often come out as equally effective sources of R&D compared to formal corporate divisions.

But this is Hacker News. It's a bit trite splitting hairs over the definition of "research" and "hack" here, no? :)
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Soooo... how about adding IBS to the list?
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It is really disruptive having to explain something from "muscle memory" in logical terms. That said, a good programmer should always be able to explain what they are doing to another capable peer.

Years of experience as a quality gauge is an interesting choice. Just from anecdotal experience or simplification?
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It is much more than that. On a good day the only thing you have to worry about is the sprinting. Then there is the very loud gurgling noise…almost like your hungry but 100x louder and disruptive. Try sitting in a meeting when that kicks up. Then there is the 10-12x trips to the bathroom and the issues with rawness that comes with it. Don’t forget about the constant, and I mean constant, pressure associated with having to go. It becomes very hard to translate the pressure vs the real thing. This is one reason “they” recommend carrying a backup set of clothes just in case. These are just some of the side issues the real issues are the pain and cramping. During a flare you basically shed the inner lining of your intestine. Painful, irritating and interesting to pass. Your intestines are inflamed and you feel bloated in a weird way. You feel full and eating is the last thing you want to do. Your diet shifts to low residue foods which equates to nothing fibrous and could pass through a straw. You get very tired as it is physically and emotionally draining. You don’t eat because it hurts, you don’t sleep because you are getting up 2-3x a night to go … or try to go. I could go on and on.
In the end it’s unlike any other disease. It has a huge impact on a very core function required to sustain life. It is difficult to describe and convey to a healthy person. There is no cure other than removal of the colon and the medications to get you by are very expensive($850+ a month) and come with their own set of issues
See original thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2250103 . Went from my MVP to launched product in about 4 months. I'm at Disrupt this week if anyone wants to give me feedback. Thanks again HN!
I'm using it on OS X. My system is a few years old but in comparison to Xcode (which is also pretty buggy) Eclipse is bad. Some of the crashes have been because of Android (for example closing a project while the Android SDK is still loading causes a crash) but I'm not sure of the cause of the other problems.
Great idea, I think it could be really useful.

I'd like it even more if you decrease the focus on the giant map and instead have a little form like

+--------------------------------+
| Leaving from: ______________ |
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| Going to: ______________ |
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+--------------------------------+

Let me put in, for example, Vancouver, Canada and New York City

Show me a mini map for my end points and let the rest of the screen show what flights I can take. Maybe with some controls to let me filter on things like "what car rental my company uses", "time on train from airport to city center".

Let me pick specific airports... but don't force me to.
Seems like the modern Microsoft is willing to inject a surprising amount of humanity into their projects. Wether you agree with the new direction or not, you do have to applaud how bold they've been recently. (You could argue they have to be bold considering the computing world seems to be trending away from the business desktop towards personal devices, but it's still impressive to see these bolder moves actually emerge from a large company. The thing about Microsoft is that when they need to shift strategy, they usually can. That's why you can never rule them out.)
Dang. Must be lucky with mine. Good luck with VBox :)
So the (open) sources of this font family are available in a closed format and not a single tool used by the designer is available on Ubuntu itself without resorting to convoluted solutions and (possibly) breaking a bunch of licences in the process.

What if an actual enthusiastic Ubuntu user wants to participate in the project or fork it? Well he is forced to tinker with wine or work on a Windows PC or buy a Mac.

Great.
It has some strange memory caching settings by default. In OSX this makes it slower than it needs to be. I forgot the exact name of the flag, but changing it from the meager 128MB to 512MB speeds it up immensely.
One of the few things I remember from my ergonomics class several years ago is the professor specifically citing Aeron chairs as terrible ergonomics-wise. His argument was that the less comfortable the chair, the better, as it forces you to constantly shift about to remain comfortable.
It looks like Texas did change it: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Vehicle_regis...

The only two states I've lived in (FL and PA) don't require front plates, so I was probably overestimating the popularity of only rear plates.
Try Eclim, it runs Eclipse in headless mode and connects it to Vim, letting you use the code inspection & analysis of Eclipise within Vim.
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Well good luck with it. I'm in the process of scoping the market to find somewhere I can make some money. At the minute I'm looking at selling actual product but I like service software as it can be a lot "cooler" than selling products.

You got some good functionality in there, I like being able to select multiple airports very easily and I like the UI.

Sure, there are some aspects of it you could improve but in a lot of ways I am surprised you even needed to ask whether it was worth pursuing as it appears you have put a lot of hard work in already.

I would certainly use it and I would also recommend others using it once everything is back up to date too.
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Apple doesn't provide a multi platform SDK. If I want to develop an app for iPhone I must own an Apple PC. Now, that's messed up!."
Touch-based gaming goes without saying (but I said it).
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I'm having the same experience; I've read a bunch of reports from people stating that their back pain vanishes, while I've found sometimes my (minimal) back pain can get worse on some days.

I don't have the option of swapping it around; my "standing desk" is a regular desk with cardboard boxes and telephone books stacked on top ( http://instagr.am/p/MUmlP/ ). At this point I can't get a new regular chair, let alone a high stool, unfortunately.

I'm giving it a week; after then I'll decide whether to switch back or not.
What's the purpose of the 'false;' statement? I believe CoffeeScript always returns the last line of a function.
I was under the impression that a lot of Google desktops are Macs, so I doubt that they don't care about Macs. As others have explained it's more like they "don't give a fuck about the emulator".
Make sure your keyboard and monitor are very securely attached.
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I was looking for a trash can to drag a card into, or an x to click or a delete button or something.

If there is a delete functionality, it's not intuitive or apparent.
I concur.

I started playing with Android over the weekend. Even though I know Eclipse pretty well, Intellij community edition was way better.
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I'm pretty sure when Steve Jobs showed his Market Share pie chart at 19% that was merely a progress bar too ;)
I watched a little bit of Notch's thing, it was fun. And for a more in depth topic, it could certainly be a great way to learn.

On the other hand I've come across 1-2 minute YouTube videos several times when googling how to use some specific API call, and I find it aggravating when all I really need is one little code snippet. I know how to type or copy 'n paste. I don't need to watch someone else do it. All I want most of the time is a well commented, nicely highlighted, code view on someone's blog (StackOverflow and github are just fine too!)

Maybe I'm just old or old fashioned.
I think you mean about:crash

But, yes, it looks like Microsoft took a rather direct cue from Chrome.
The "sausage" (worst. name. ever. :-) ) solve some of the problems, but not all of them. With enough slices, it's not always clear which is larger than which. Depending on what the viewer wants/needs, often a humble bar or column chart would be more effective. The sausage and the pie both do a decent job with just a few slices (the sausage is definitely an improvement), but both break down with a lot of slices.
These "sitting studies" condition on a person's lifestyle, i.e. given two people who are both active outside of work, the person who sits more has a greater risk of problems than the one who doesn't.

I'm sorry I don't have a citation (nor am I going to dig for one) but this has been mentioned ad nauseam in prior threads. You should check those out (as well as the studies they discuss).
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A few more notes at lunchtime.

There's a fundamental distinction between apps running windows style and the new metro style that are launched from the panel. To 'grok' that distinction see 2:57 onwards. The interface is vastly simplified for a 'metro' app and much more touch centric. Windows key switches between panel and old style desktop.

Forgot to include but at the beginning of it they mentioned spell checking everywhere. I think they meant in every textbox.

See 2:39 onwards for someone actually using windows 8 to see the new UI.

There's quite a few quality of life improvements for power users and programmers, including:

- Task manager overhaul, much better
- Can 'refresh' PC, restore defaults while keeping all your files and settings
- Can Reset PC, completely wipe all settings and files
- Can set a new baseline for the reset image, i.e. after you've installed your go to programs, VS, SQL, etc.
- Windows assessment console included, internal tools to test computer performance in particular setups

Finally I mentioned it earlier, but this is heavily integrated with windows live id. It's supposed to be your logon anywhere, and when you logon it makes all your settings available, apps, certain passwords (like facebook login), etc. Automatically hooks up to your sky drive.

I kinda stopped watching there as the windows live guy annoyed me and I'm tired of watching it :). Also with regard to that I'd have to see the performance over the general internet before I got excited by it. I also know MS's obsession with automatically logging you into messenger and crap like that, which is annoying.

(sorry for formatting in first post, I always forget how to do lists)
Did you think about your comment for months before you posted it? I think you need to give this article a serious shot (think months) before you'll be able to objectively assess this article.
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Gruber is no idiot. However, he missed the mark and has his Apple-blinders on here. Apple pre-announces nearly all of its operating systems and give developers access to betas. (Didn't I read Gruber talking about pre-release versions of OSX Lion? How about his recent posts about iOS 5?) The vendors have to provide information ahead of releases so that developers can write applications for them.

Thurrott isn't an idiot either. He has long been frustrated by Microsoft's boneheaded mistakes and tweeting his excitement over all the things Microsoft seems to be finally getting right with Windows 8 in a humorous way doesn't equal some kind of prediction. However, he conflated a software-only platform (Windows 8) with an integrated hardware/software platform (iPad/iOS). No doubt decent tablet hardware will arrive for Windows 8, but we'll see how well they'll work together.
> The chief beneficiary of taking down Android would be Apple, chaired by Ellison’s friend Steve Jobs.

It seems exceedingly unlikely that Oracle would go after Android simply to help a brother out. It's much more likely that Oracle sees the potential for this to cement its control over Java so it can also control licencing revenues.
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That is a 'kernel panic' screen. The lighter, the better.
I get a navy blue screen, with white graphics in the middle:

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Aw, Snap!

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and the "Learn more" is a hyperlink to https://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=9...
But this lets the author go on to make up odd theories in the vein "What is Oracle really up to?" (accompanied by a photo of Larry Ellison), culminating in the notion that Oracle really hopes to lose this at the Supreme Court level. Sure, lots of companies bring expensive lawsuits so they can set a precedent against their case. Uh huh.
I'm generally pretty optimistic but I feel that I should push back against the crowd a little here. Plenty of people say "I'd use it", but who will say "I'll pay for it"?

If you're not in it for the money, are you sure it's the most interesting, inspiring or needed tool/app you could be working on, given that it seems the competition may take care of this need anyway?

I've learnt the hard way that you shouldn't let sunk costs of a project sway your decision to carry on with it.

All the best whatever you decide.
I can definitely see this as more of a 'watch me code something cool' idea rather than wanting to learn how to solve a specific problem. A lot of the benefit of being able to watch the streams is to see people get their questions answered during the cast, that relate to what the caster was broadcasting at the time.
From what I can see it's a lot simpler than Basecamp - it seems to be great for a single view if lots of small things rather than managing the detail of larger things (if that makes sense).
"I do not believe there is a better representation than a pie chart for this: http://goo.gl/yQMve

awesome.
On the flipside, you're more likely to be developing for a lot of different versions of that OS, and – over time – you'll be developing for the lowest common denominator among them.
I could never get in the habit of stopping every 20 minutes and moving around. However, after several months with my sit-stand desk, the Steelcase Series 7 (what they have at 37 signals), I find I stand for around 5-6 hours of each day. I move around while standing, and am able to switch between sitting and standing without interrupting my flow.

I'm guessing the reason that sit-stand workstation "users only stand for very short-periods (15 minutes or less total per day)" is because of people who aren't motivated to stand in the first place (i.e. their employer bought them the desk).
Key word here is 'Another'. Just do what you want, and if you put all your eggs in one basket, don't complain if at one point its owner purposefully empties it to put his own eggs inside.
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Thanks for the suggestions. I didn't even know a community edition of IntelliJ existed.
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Dancing definitely makes it easier on the legs and feet, as you're not stuck in the same static position all day. Alternatively contracting and relaxing the calf is necessary to achieve return blood flow up the leg. If you stand without moving, you are at risk of varicose veins and such things, but this effect is much reduced if you are dancing at the same time.
Plus, it's loads of fun!
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After receiving an email this morning with the words:

"We'll keep your details on record"

has an employer ever come back to you with an offer for a job?

Me? Never. I don't even respond any more. The employer doesn't perceive me to be good enough for the role that I believe I am suitable for for, so presumably at best they would only invite me to apply a for a role that was less suitable to me, that's if I were to ever hear from them again anyway.