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What's changed over, say, 20 years ago, is that there's a wealth of experience available online. Well, 20 years ago, there was a wealth of experience, but it was in books, and you had to do a lot more work to find people to talk to about what did or didn't work.

Why doesn't a gym hold your hand? Because there's no percentage in it for them (or at least that's the naive calculus). There are exceptions, but they're rare and hard to find. A gym wants you to either 1) sign up and not go (free money) or 2) sign up and go and sign up for a bunch of additional services (personal training, massage) and products (supplements), which have rediculous markups.

What they don't want you to do is become knowledgeable yourself on what works to accomplish your goals. But ... you can do this.

For a couple of nutshell basics:
Beginners' Health & Fitness Guide: http://liamrosen.com/fitness.html
Hierarchy of Fat Loss: http://alwyncosgrove.com/2010/01/hierarchy-of-fat-loss/
Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie: http://www.mensjournal.com/everything-you-know-about-fitness...

For a great beginner's book, The New Rules of Lifting (Schuler and Cosgrove) distills a lot of good knowledge, and Starting Strength (Rippetoe and Kilgore) has one of the most brutally effective novice strength programs bar none.

It helps to understand basic physiological response to stimulus:

- If you eat more food than you need, you'll gain weight. Whether that's fat or muscle depends on:

- If you overload your muscles periodically (more weight or reps than they're used to), and provide sufficient rest/recovery and fuel, you'll build muscle. How you lift (sets, reps, rest) focuses the adaptation (strength, size, endurance) somewhat. What lifts you do affect what muscles get developed (curls do nothing for your glutes).

- Doing cardio of varying modalities (2-bit word for "types") will maintain/increase your abilities here. Tabata intervals, hill sprints, and HIIT training are great for short, intense work. Doing periodic (1-2x weekly) longer-duration stuff will help your endurance system training (mostly making your body more efficient and effective at burning fat for long periods of time). Which is not the same as losing weight.

- If you're interested in skill-specific activities (skiing, gymnastics, juggling, whatever), do that. Training is highly activity-specific in this regard, though cardio in one are translates well to other areas. Your specific motor skills may not.

There are a few other bits: you need rest and recovery. You can't target fat loss. Too much cardio is catabolic (wastes muscle mass), though most weekend warriors don't need to worry about this. Men and women in their 30s onward are losing muscle mass at the rate of about 1/2# per year, unless they're strength training. And benefits of exercise (strength and cardio) accrue throughout life, even to those in their 100s.

It's something you've got to do regularly, 1-2x weekly if you want to maintain, more often (3-5x weekly) if you plan on progressing.

That's it in a nutshell.
you have to admit that you're the minority though. the average user doesn't like files. if you've ever done end-user support, you've seen how foreign the whole concept of a filesystem is to most of them. the goal in an average use case is not to modify a file, as so much software seems designed to do, it is to generate some output. people don't open up microsoft word so they can write a letter and save it on their hard drive, they open up word so they can write a letter and print it out. the fact that it gets saved at all is mostly incidental to them, where it gets saved is totally irrelevant.
Sure is Reddit in here...
I've seen people post "Stand in line for me at the DMV" on TaskRabbit. I haven't tracked how many tasks, but it would be interesting to see growth over time. I wonder how that compares to the specialized services.
The font looks awful.
If you were developing an app today, you'd probably want to target 2.2 as a baseline profile. That covers 90+% of the devices out there, and it excludes some of the first and second generation devices that are going to be the real pain to develop for. In six months to a year, 2.1 will be off the radar for developers:

http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...
Oh, c'mon. You KNOW they licensed that knife image from Victorinox. ;-)
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I think Bitcasa may fit the bill. They are in beta. I haven't received my invite yet, complain, complain.
Article won't disclose why 12 girls suddenly developed tourettes.

It appears they have answers, but because of HIPAA, they aren't releasing the details. This is a good thing. If the parents want to get together and talk, they will.

The first thing that came to my mind was that they were all using ritalin (or something similar) or some other 'legal' drug.
you're missing what i'm saying. i don't think there's an opportunity for competition dropbox's market, they are undoubtedly the best at what they do and their users love them. they do a great job, but i think that the job they're doing is going to become irrelevant soon.

>As for long term growth, consider that for each of us the amount of digital data we have keeps growing

the amount of digital data i have is not growing, it's shrinking at an alarming pace. i don't have any documents. google has documents that i have authored, and i can retrieve them from google any time i want to, but i don't have them and i don't have to worry about where they're stored. i don't need a service to keep them synced between my computers because they're not on my computers. i let google worry about delivering them to me.

>there keeps being new kinds of data beyond binary files

this is what i'm talking about. dropbox keeps track of binary files. it doesn't currently handle new, less tangible types of data, and until it does its potential is pretty limited.
Odd that compiled languages (C, C++, Java) are higher than some interpreted languages (PHP, Javascript). Of course, the search will match comments as well as code, so it may just mean they have better comments.

Also fun to search on "functino".
Not just europeans, but also japanese and all countries in south america (not sure about other asian countries and africa). Also, pin works for credit cards too, in these countries, not just debt

Why do the banks need signatures in the US? Specially badly-drawn ones that don't even ressemble the actual signatures? (I can never sign properly in one of those POS machines from CVS, ever)
The OS version is one thing, but screen size is a real PITA. As well as orientation and the presence of a real keyboard ( or not). iOS is uniform in that space (just iPhone/iPod and iPad). To me that is the real issue, not the OS version.
The thing I've found most refreshing about iOS dev is that I can finally get close to the hardware and really push it because I can make a lot of assumptions about my target devices. After 10 years of web development this feels like real programming again.

I've only dabbled with Android but the diversity of devices and versions seems to require the same lowest common denominator techniques I burned out on as a web programmer.
I agree with you. I'm not sure why email, with a few added features, can't just replace dropbox completely. I have more space in gmail (and unlimited space on yahoo) than I do on dropbox, for free. Email syncs better than dropbox on every machine I have because I don't need additional software. The only other limitation is sharing but I think this is where something like "wave" would have worked.

Just my thoughts.
A fiddle is not monotonic.
And an e-petition for the amendment of the extradition treaty with the US.

https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/22467
Whether your language is compiled is not the issue, it's how you model objects and calling methods on them. In smalltalk and other languages that take a message passing approach doing a.b() sends a message "b" to object a, and the object can do anything it likes with that.

Now the normal (and optimized) route is to find the method on a’s method table and then call that, but if a doesn't have that method then a second method may be called to allow this to be handled. Once you have that sort of mechanism you can make ORM libraries that dynamically examine a schematic at run time and generate accessor methods only as they are needed, decorators, proxies and many other patterns become wonderfully simple, and there are often many more opportunities for meta-programming at run time.

The downside is of course that it becomes harder to find errors when writing or compiling, but tight integration of your development environment with your runtime can help with this.
I see dropbox files as MY FILES. I don't like when
they are obscured behind some application

The important thing is that it's YOU (and me), not the average computer user. Apple and Google are successful because they fill average users' needs with simple, intuitive and easy to use products; not by presenting them with an scary concept like 'file system'.

I hate it when I'm on my iPad and have to do all sorts of stupid tricks to move files between applications. It's just stupid. But I'm sure Apple will fix most of the nightmare in iOS 6.
But I must side with Steve Jobs when he said "When you try and teach someone to use a Mac, everything is fine, until you show them the file system."
Average computer users have extremely cluttered and unorganized folders and desktops. Dropbox does not help that.

I think Apple's strategy will work better for them (in the long term) than that of Dropbox's...
“A lot of us have been working for 10 years to get rid of the file system so the user doesn't have to learn about it.” (Jobs, WWDC 2011)

And this is my favorite quote about Dropbox:

"Dropbox... It's a feature, not a company"! (Steve Jobs)
Is tonal character the same as timbre?
There's a few points of this I'd disagree with.

The principles are pretty simple, but it's not so much as "get a jump rope and jump 4000x a day".

The basic parameters I'd tell someone:

- Cover the bases. Do strength training. Do cardio. Do flexibility, motor control, and p/rehab (flexibility, soft-tissue work). You can still cover most of this in 20-90 minutes/day (45-60 is preferable, less is OK in a tight spot).

- Do strength first, then cardio. It has to do with glycogen availability and training stimulus, look it up.

- Make sure your strength program is whole-body, whether you do that in 1 day or as a split. Your basic muscle groups are legs, glutes, back, chest, arms, and abs. Your basic movements are squats, lunges, deadlifts, rows & chins (back/biceps), presses (chest/triceps), and twists/bends (core/abs). These can be done with freeweights (preferred), machines, bands, cables, or bodyweight, though you'll get best results with freeweights if available and you can use them.

- Emphasize compound movements over isolation, for strength.

- Understand that intensity matters for cardio. You'll do much better getting an intense 4-minute workout (Google "Tabata intervals") than plodding lazily on a treadmill for 40 minutes. No, Tabatas aren't easy.

If you want to lose weight, eat less. If you want to gain weight, eat more. Eat real, whole, unprocessed foods, not too much, mostly plants. Eliminate harmful noxious stuff (processed carbs, trans fats). Get an appropriate balance of carbs, proteins, and fats (40/30/30 or 30/40/30 are good starting points).

If you're concerned with body weight, toss BMI out the window (it's completely bogus), and understand the basics of BMR and your estimated daily expenditure.

Agree on bar, bench, and rack. Though the bench is optional -- you can press off the floor. I'd add (or ensure the rack had) a chinning bar. And plates might also be useful ;-)
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A few videos are useful and great to have, but they are not replacements for good written documentation. Often, I don't want to or cant watch a video but can read written documentation (or I can watch videos, but without sound..). For programming related documentation, I usually just close the browser tab if the documentation I find is only in video format - I often won't even bother trying. For programs, I don't do it as often, but I've done it enough times that it matters. Often I'd rather google for five minutes than watch a five minute documentation video. Other times, the video is too slow or too fast for my taste and I end up skipping most of it anyway.

Also, I can easily perform text search for something in written docs, but not in videos.

Bottom line: written documentation is a must have, video documentation is very nice to have, but IMHO should never be a replacement, but rather an added bonus.
Absolutely awesome. If they can make it relatively accessible in term of price, I think it could change the world, yup really (especially in the streets and in the shops).
I'd prefer if people like this just stayed inside and did not have to interact with the rest of us normal humans...
It's a shame that we can't have more "culinary forward" dishes in casual diners. I'm always eager to try new foods. In particular, I want to try more "authentic" cuisine from different regions, but sadly in America it seems that even when you go to a quasi-Italian restaurant like Olive Garden, you're just getting "Italian-inspired" food (a.k.a. practically American).

I didn't know about the improvements AppleBee's and TGIF have made in the past few years though. Might start going back again and trying their dishes.
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Kate Beckinsale shows she defintely wont be a 1 hour hit ask yourself relating to their shows and also besides that.
Does anyone have a link to the latest list of websites taking action on the 18th?
Hiring a personal trainer (who is used by an early facebook engineering director, friend, and investor of mine) is probably the best health related decision i have made in a long time. One or two times a week, plus tracking diet with her help, and advice tracking and motivation for on my own gym sessions, total bargain.

It basically turns fitness from a long feedback cycle to basically daily. I would probably cover up to 1k per month in employee fitness related costs; it is a huge boost to health, motivation, and productivity.
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The case of Stripe is a rather bad example: most of the work is schleps, leaving very little for the enjoyment of creating something new, something unique, something that has the potential to not become an "also ran".
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Doing a crappy subset of their job will become irrelevant - I certainly agree about that. Doing the "whole" job is really what we are debating. I'd make the case that having lots of crappy different services out there is what provides the case for something that can aggregate, backup and provide access to those pieces. (Only time will prove that right or wrong.)

> the amount of digital data i have is not growing, it's shrinking at an alarming pace

You then list how you have new digital data in the form of Google documents :-) They used to only have a few types of data ("documents" and spreadsheets). You now also get presentations, drawings, forms, tables and collections. And guess what, Google do indeed provide a crappy subset of their experience. Have you every tried to edit/view a Google doc on an Android device? I'd be delighted to have those docs also sitting in Dropbox available on all my devices at all times and to the many local programs I have that provide better viewers/editors than Google ever will. (Note this doesn't mean I want Dropbox to be the primary location for them, just that I want Dropbox to provide enhanced access and backup.)

> dropbox keeps track of binary files. it doesn't currently handle new, less tangible types of data, and until it does its potential is pretty limited

It does handle photos and sharing. I agree that binary plus photos is limiting, but the whole point is that by expanding beyond that they will have the opportunity for growth.
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he colony than they
did in the mother country. It was found, however, that the price of all
goods from the mother country rose exactly in proportion as they raised
the denomination of their coin, so that their gold and silver were
exported as fast as ever.

The paper of each colony being received in the payment of the provincial
taxes, for the full value for which it had been issued, it necessarily
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I've done similar in a personal project before: a multiplayer text game (a MUD). In general, in these games, the actions you and creatures perform only interact with things that are locationally close to them. Each location belongs to an "area" - so each "area" had a thread to execute actions. There were also world "actions" that had to execute in isolation, but those were much rarer.

That said, a lot of people seem to dislike threads. The problem isn't with threads, but rather having to shoehorn every attempt to parallelize your program into a threaded model. I would feel similar ire if I had to shoehorn every attempt to parallelize my program into an event model.

Threads are a way you can reason about and simplify your program. I've written programs where threads make the program easier to reason about rather than harder. Because of this, telling me your method is better than threads makes no sense to me - for what class of problems?
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Wuala.

It's not that convenient, but that's the tradeoff when you want client side encryption.
Most people don't notice good service; they notice bad service. For any restaurant that already has good servers and good training, this type of thing will destroy the flow of service and the interaction between guests and servers.
You could do what Stripe does, but with international support. That would be awesome.
There's nothing specific to going through an incubator in what you mention, that all applies to the decision of starting a company regardless of incubators. If you can't handle a bit of saving, planning, sacrifice and a bit of logistics then you probably shouldn't start a company.
I noticed another problem is that the highlighter will select the language name as well as the term which means <?php and (c) Copyright are shown instead of the actual mistake.

I put together a GitHub Illiteracy Index script https://github.com/jond3k/sandbox/tree/master/github-illiter... which you can play around with if you like :D
yeah cool, I always thought it would be awesome to have 3d "windows" installed that makes it look like youre underwater, or in space or in the jungle or wherever!
No surprise. All movies are reviewed by the Indian government's censor board. The 'world's largest democracy' has a long way to go!
As has been said: Good written documentation is essential. If only for ease of looking at an index to jump straight to a specific section instead of having to 'guess' what part of a video I need to skip through to watch a specific bit...

...that said, screencasts and the like can be invaluable for actually demonstrating things like using convoluted software or coding for example!

Ideal world: Thorough, clear and well organised written documents are a must, use videos to 'highlight' things that don't come across well in the documentation or demo things!
# Language Illiteracy
1 C 0.02877583
2 Perl 0.01635618
3 Ruby 0.01560477
4 JavaScript 0.01330989
5 Shell 0.01235425
6 Python 0.01046104
7 PHP 0.00910218
8 Java 0.00736395

(For height, length and hierarchy, averaged out)

And you thought this would end up being a PHP joke...

https://github.com/jond3k/sandbox/tree/master/github-illiter...
Or you can use my competing plugin: https://github.com/bitc/vim-bad-whitespace

which has some advantages (described in the README)
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"Someone who's "good at passing exams" can extract clues to your mental state from the wording of the questions and figure out what kind of answer you want."

I actually tried an experiment on this when I was in high school. I took the AP Comparative Government without ever having taken the course, or really having any sort of academic exposure to it (hey, it was free with the purchase of the AP US Government, and I was taking the day off from school anyway for the latter test). My only knowledge consisted of what I read in the newspapers, plus half an hour with a test prep booklet at breakfast that morning, plus whatever I could glean from the test questions themselves.

I scored a 3 on it. Not a great score, but passing. Pretty good, actually, considering that the test involved writing 4 essays on a subject I knew nothing about. So I figure perhaps 50% of the outcome of a test is knowing the material and the other 50% is test-taking skills.

Ironically, though, I think that the skill of extracting subtle clues to the mental state of the people around you, and the answers they expect, is far more valuable than any subject matter you learn in school. It's absolutely essential if you work in an organization, so you can understand who the decision makers are, what their priorities are, and what will really impress them without them having to tell you anything. It's absolutely essential if you manage people, so that you understand why they're working for you and what will motivate them to do their best work. And it's absolutely essential if you choose to strike out on your own and be an entrepreneur, because that's how you tell what customers want. They're generally indifferent to you and often have no clue what they actually want; there's no way you'll get them to tell you.
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I'm interested to see what it looks like from outside if it's supposed to be one-way.
"If a media outlet uses your youtube video inside their own video broadcast without permission, get their entire website blocked."

Will YouTube be around if SOPA passes?
I can see dropbox turning into a service that stores and connects you to your whole "environment" so you can access it from any device.
I've worked with protobufs in Python a bit, although not in production, and it seems fine. What trouble have you run into?
Big Content haven't just declared war on Boing Boing and Reddit and the rest of the "fun" Internet

If it's war, then we ought to develop some kind of offensive strategy.
I had dug into the math behind this at some point and recall that Borda was argued (e.g. by Saari's "Basic Geometry of Voting") to be the "best" in the sense of invariance under impossible-to-satisfy group preference cycles (A > B > C >A), with Condorcet a close second.

If you have any references arguing for Condorcet over Borda, I would be very interested to read them.

Edit: For people unfamiliar with the jargon, Borda is ranked-list voting, with the winner being the candidate with the highest average rank. Condorcet is pairwise-comparison voting with the winner being the candidate that wins the highest fraction of pairwise comparisons.

In this jargon, "first past the post" systems select the person with the highest fraction of being ranked first; this is argued in the literature to be intimately tied to the two-party dominance in the US.
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Yeh, uWink. I think it went bankrupt.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UWink