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My workplace has become absolutely impossible without headphones, so I recently went on a search for something better than what I had on hand, and ended up with three pairs. Specifically I wanted closed 'phones so that I don't drive my coworkers as insane as they drive me, but I didn't want noise cancellation.

* Shure SRH-640. Amazing sound, but a bit heavy and annoyingly prone to creak every time I move my head a millimeter. I keep these at home for light use.

* Beyerdynamic DT-235. By far the tinniest sound of the three, light and comfortable for short period, but boy do they make my ears feel hot after a while. I might start taking them on planes; otherwise I don't use them.

* KRK KNS-8400. A noticeable step below the Shures in quality, but still better e.g. than the HD-280 which I've also tried. No creaking and comfortable even for long-term wear. These are my every-day phones at work, even though the extra-wide headband does look kind of goofy.

I'm no audiophile by any stretch of the imagination, but even I can tell that some of the popular brands are absolute crap. It's too bad more people haven't heard of brands like Beyerdynamic and KRK, because they actually do make much better-sounding 'phones at prices that any geek should consider quite reasonable.

For a real geeky good time, go to http://www.headphone.com (no relationship except that I bought the Beyerdynamic and KRK from them) to check out the frequency response curves and such.
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I'll be adding redis into our $work stack in the next couple weeks to add pub/sub (email subscriptions) and a job queue (Resque). The ordered sets will likely be very useful to help us scale sorting of search results, etc.

From what I've read, it's going to blow my mind and open so many new possibilities. I can't wait for the clustering in 3.0 to come out!
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I have multiple MDR-V600's. Great combination of easy to find, cheap(ish), doesn't require a pre-amp, and good sound.

Edit: Oh and they are comfortable. Which for long listening is essential to me.
Hmm sounds useful, and very directly related to revenue.. but personally I rather not rely on any third party system to do this for me, I would rather get dirty with it myself.. it's just too important
"and the movies are years old."

... and, that's bad? Personally, most of the movies I might want to watch are certainly in black-and-white anyhow.
Thanks! The app was developed for an NYC app making competition (http://2011.nycbigapps.com) and so, with a deadline- so the Android version ended up not being finished in time.

Rest assured, the Android version is on the way. In fact, this app-crippling native <-> webview communication is what has taken up all my time and stopped me from developing the Android version.

Looking forward to the day you guys have a solution for background processing- the Appcelerator JS/native hybrid is a mess I'd love to see the back of.
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Would be curious to know why Trigger didn't use the URL interception method in Android. Is that significantly slower?
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I tried out the "audiophile" headphones by Grado on display at a neat little audio store near MIT[1].

While the sound quality was phenomenal, they were really loud outside the headphones, meaning I wouldn't be able to wear them at a quiet workspace. Does anyone know if other audiophile headphones have that issue?

[1] http://www.qaudio.com/
"This probably means that 'controllers' need to go away in favor of 'resources', and routes can be vastly simplified, if not completely derived/inferred by the framework."

http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/1.3-branch...
If you're thinking about getting those grados be forewarned they have huge noise bleed that your coworkers are not going to appreciate. They sound fantastic and are really reasonably priced but I leave mine at home for hacking in solitary only.
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I've been using some Denon D-2000's for my work usage for a while. Were about $250 when I bought them 5 or 6 years ago, looks like they run closer to $350 these days.

They're closed, but not super-isolating, a good tradeoff between not leaking sound, and being able to hear my phone ring.

They're very comfortable, more so than other phones I own (At home I have a couple different pairs of Grados, Beyers, and AKG 301s).

They also drive well of a standard headphone output, when many audiophile grade phones (the AKGs and most higher-end Sennheisers, for intance), don't.
Everyone I know that has had a Zune, really loved it. They praised it. The people who didn't have a Zune talked about it negatively on the basis that it was a Microsoft product and no one in their right mind would invest in a Microsoft product. They usually have no future. Sadly, this stereotype rings truer and truer with each passing year.
Very interesting anecdotes, but I don't see how it shows that TV is "broken", other than OP's daughter thinking it was broken when first exposed to commercials. Additionally, Hulu / Hulu+ and streaming shows directly from a network's exposes you to as many commercial breaks (albeit shorter) as watching a show on cable.
The example you cited just looks like an awfully convoluted way to recreate HINCRBY. Obviously there are much more powerful things that you could do with scripting, but this example makes me wonder if all those H-commands might be replaced with JSON & scripting (or handled internally by JSON & scripting) some time in the future.
I've been exceptionally happy with the "Beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO" ($179). It has lovely padded ear cups and I wear it all day. With the sound off, it even acts as reasonable ear muffs helping to reduce distractions. The sound is great for classical and operatic works. A disclaimer -- I'm not an audiophile.
That's a great looking app. Can I ask what framework you used?
I imagine it as originating in knowledge about plants and animals. To know is to be able to separate one species from another, or one individual from the group. In the Genesis myth, the first thing Adam does is give names to different animals. And the Tree of Knowledge revealed the separation of nakedness from non-nakedness. This was before people "knew" things like history or math. I suppose this kind of knowing is similar to how the function `filter` separates things based on a predicate.
> When will the day where instead of having to pay 25$ for a haircut, I can go to an automated barbershop and have it done for much less ?

It will probably take some time before a robot is cheaper than 4 EUR per hour (hairdresser's collective agreement in Saxony, Germany).
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So, what took the other 99% if not model instantiation?
Why would you be running a real time industrial automation control from a phone?

This is about making mobile phones and tablets that have the ability to run web browsers, not replacing all computers with web browsers.
Has anyone here tried Titanium Appcelerator? You can build native cross-platform apps in javascript. I've been using it to build my app: http://getswaggur.com and it's been pretty good so far.
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Meh, for closed over the ear headphones I prefer Beyerdynamic's DT 770 Pro. The only problem is that they put quite some pressure on your head. You have to like it and best should test them for an extended period of time before you buy them. For me it's not an issue.
Those don't really affect the HTML that gets sent.

# wget --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3" http://www.cnn.com/ -O cnn.mobile.html
# wget http://www.cnn.com/ -O cnn.standard.html
# ls -lhrt | grep cnn
-rw-r--r-- 1 pavel staff 29K Feb 24 13:12 cnn.mobile.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 pavel staff 104K Feb 24 13:13 cnn.standard.html

I don't need 100K worth of stuff on BlackBerry 1.half's browser that can't render most of it.
Wavii is using LUA in Redis to implement extremely simple single object atomic consistency. Some but not all of the Redis data structure types support "do XYZ only if the key exists". For example lists support LPUSHX but there is no "X" equivalent for sorted sets. With LUA I can add the ZADDX command in about 4 lines of LUA and 4 lines of Ruby in my Redis driver. We have lots of sorted sets backed by the database. Suppose we add an item to the set. If the set is in Redis we want to do the O(logN) ZADD, if it is not in Redis we need to do an O(N) reload from the DB. The use of ZADDX + transactions in our DB lets multiple writers contend on adding an item to a sorted set and guarantee that at the end all the items are in the sorted set while doing O(logN) operations almost all the time.
I feel like a lot of complaints about Rails 3 being harder to use are coming from Rails 2 developers who don't know it as well.

I've only played around with Rails 3 (I'm following Michael Hartl's tutorial) and have never used Rails 2, but I don't see how new Rails features like `has_secure_password` or the asset pipeline (which is super dead simple) make Rails 3 any harder. It seems like the opposite — perhaps someone who has developed on both major versions can enlighten me?
Well obviously you need someway to write to the physical wires and if true real-time is required you will have to skip Javascript, but I can't see the issue with having the user facing part of the system be a webapp -- in fact it would properly be easier to do and would be safer too since the system is better walled of from things like viruses and malware.
I still think traditional TV is capitalizing on the lack of good (or overabudance of bad) recommendation engines online. Social recommendations are blurry, popularity is, well, a popularity contest and movie reviews are so subjective. Even with well-intented efforts like boxee you have (a) an anavoidable pile of juvenile nonsense and (b) too many options (and that's a problem). TV offers a simple, dumb stream of mediocre-but-curated programming. Maybe we should have that for online video too.

(btw that illegal torrent u suggest is still going to take hours to download)
They seem to have missed out on Pioneer cans ...

I have the Pioneer SE-MJ71 steel wheel series headphones. I've used Pioneer headphones for a long time as a DJ, they have excellent response and range and for daily wear work perfectly. One thing I have noticed is that when I am wearing them while working that you need to pump very little volume into them (slide the volume slider all the way down) to get large and expressive sound. I've thought about getting an external volume control in line with the 3.5mm to be able to control it even better.

At home I also have an older Sennheiser headset that I don't use nearly as much anymore because the foam has deteriorated so bad that the plastic casing is pressing into my head when I have them on (which frankly is uncomfortable). I've wanted to get a replacement for a while. The one thing I absolutely love about the Sennheiser cans is that they came with a REALLY long headphone wire, and can be unplugged from the headphones and from the computer (So when I've accidentally stepped on the cord or spin around in my chair I don't send stuff flying!). They have gone through years of use, I've had them since I was 12... I am now 25. If I could get new foam pads for it I would do so in a heartbeat.
I went through a search for quality headphones that can also work for Skype calls a while back. I ended up going with what is marketed as a gaming headset. While I'm not a gamer, I've found the SteelSeries Siberia V2 to be pretty great.

The pull-out mic is by far my favorite feature.

http://steelseries.com/products/audio/steelseries-siberia-v2
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It seems it needs my email password? Not sure I wanna give that out to just anyone.

Also, FYI, your site made my Google Chrome crash (XP)
Not everybody is a hipster :)

I actually like the action movies where you know that the guy gets the pretty girl once he is done blowing things up. And recently the explosions have become more awesome, so I prefer the never movies.

You keep Casablanca, if you want.
My god,"hacker" is really used under every circumstances on that website.

Next: frying and sauce pans for hackers. Hack your eggs.

PS: The only music I listen to while working is the beat of my fingers on the keyboard.
I love mine too, but only after I replaced the pleather pads with velour pads. I liked the soundstage and smoother high end of the 280s, but they just weren't comfortable. Wish I had a door on my office so that I could use Grados...
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I'm happy with my trusty Nokia BH-503 Bluetooth stereo headphones - I could never go back to wired ones, unless I really need high fidelity. Wish there was more choice on the market, though - Bluetooth headphones are really under-appreciated...
If they really wanted to indulge in bullshit science they should've correlated headphone brand and model to exit valuation.

Heroku should have a badge in their footer 'powered by Beyerdynamic'
Emglish speakers make that mistake all the damn time. I have learned to ignore it and not be annoyed by it anymore.
It would have been great to see these improvements contributed back to PhoneGap/Cordova, which has an extremely permissive license and whose code is open-source. As it is, trigger.io comes with a restrictive license, I have to create an account to use it, I can't see the code, and they mandate that I include their branding with any free use of their product. Yay.
Did you serve while the Sheridan tanks were still being used? Those saw action in 'Nam.
And if you're spending big money on good cans... buy an amp. You'll be pleasantly surprised. I'm running a NuForce Icon with Senn HD650s (a Woo WA6 on the way, yes!). Definitely the way forward.
Bah, real hackers make their own (passive) noise canceling headphones :) Here's mine: http://media.aeminium.org/~slug/2008/headphones/P1010608.JPG

For $18 + headphone speakers, can't beat the price. Worked so well I made two to keep at different locations and also carry one when flying. There's an instructable too http://www.instructables.com/id/Jackhammer-Headphones/

The difference to mine is that I drilled a hole to pass the wires and used hot glue to make sure there's no way sound can come through there.
Phew, I'm not alone! I'm sure posting so much here is part of their content/marketing strategy, and that bores me to death. Very aggressive and totally boring marketing strategy. But seeing how many upvote their articles, I guess it works.
World of Goo is a really great indie game that's massively pirated, but it's still successful. The question to ask is whether the pirates would have bought the game if there was no option for piracy? It's not like they are physical products, nor are these pirates using these developers' bandwidth. From an economics standpoint, the developers lose nothing but pride. At the same time they stand to gain a massive mind share for sequels

imo I think most pirates in the West, pirate mainly because they're broke students. Once people grow up with a post college job the piracy tends to end unless there's no other option.
I would think its a little different since the infrastructure was already in place for gasoline. There isn't the same infrastructure nation-wide for electric vehicles.
Couple of things:
1) Your domain name has too many t's. Hard to remember.
2) Your site has a chicken and egg problem. This makes it doubly hard to get traction if you're not willing to spend money.
I wonder if as much digital ink would have been spilled on this whole kerfluffle if the original article had not used the term 'bricked'.

Bricking, at least in my mind, is something that happens suddenly usually when attempting something at least slightly risky. Jailbreaking iPhones, replacing your laptop harddrive, desoldering components in an audio amplifier and other 'warranty voiding' all carry some 'bricking' risk.

The situation with Tesla is more akin to leaving your (very expensive) bike out in the rain: Given enough time it will rust up and need to be extensively repaired but I don't think you would say you 'bricked' it...
I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean (so if this is the wrong answer let us know). But if you mean why do we use a different method on Android compared to iOS: we can communicate directly from Javascript to Java as part of the WebView in Android, which is very fast. The URL interception method is actually the slowest part of iOS but there is no way around it.
It really does take hours to find something worth watching if you don't already know what you want to watch.

I do not watch much TV to begin with, but when I do, I will load up Netflix and see if anything catches my eye. Most times I'll spend 30 minutes looking for something and then simply give up and move on to something more interesting. Having access to even more content just makes the problem worse, not better.

Sometimes I'll catch wind of good programming recommendations from others, but those sources are easily exhausted. The internet does a much better job. I can just turn up here and I'll probably find at least 50% of the links interesting at any given time. TV needs something like that.
Microsoft today is the exactly opposite, full of politics and back stabbing. Which is why I left 2 years ago and is now so much happier.
I spent two years building one of these systems (http://rez.urbanspoon.com). It runs on the iPad and I'm pretty confident it's the market leader in terms of usability.

A lot of the responses in here make it out like this is about stupid arrogant programmers who didn't bother to understand anyone's needs. That's not true; what's really going on is that the design challenges are significant -- think high end calendaring plus inventory management, but used one handed for 5 seconds at a time. And design is not how restaurants get sold anyway -- they get sold on the marketing and table optimization stuff, which Live Bookings is actually pretty good at.

A good counterexample to look at are the back of house systems restaurants use. That's the touch screen they plug your order in to. Next time you're out to eat, notice the high information density and the fact that your server can key the entire order for your party of six in like 3 seconds. The fact that they all look like ass is not really relevant -- a lot of those setups are very well designed.
The term you're looking for is "open" vs. "closed" headphones. "Open" headphones are generally considered to have better sound quality for the price if you're listening in an empty quiet room, but they

a) leak sound to the room
b) let sound in from the room
Ablation damage might not be a concern if everything is vaporized, i.e. turned into gas. Also, if you're getting bombarded with high-energy oxygen atoms, that's just called rusting! Anyway, it's all SF.

BTW, new crazy idea: a weapon that propels high-energy oxygen atoms toward the enemy, instantly oxidizing the enemy's rifles. Enemy combatants might also get killed as a side effect. :)
People on most teams still get their own private office, at least in Redmond and Mountain View.

What other place in the valley has private offices?
My thoughts exactly. But beyond trust there's also confusion. I'm not much of a Microsoft customer or user but from I've seen it feels like they keep doing this every few years. There used to be MSN which is now somehow rolled into Hotmail and the Live ID thing which also has something to do with Hotmail but I'm not quite sure and so on which is very confusing to me. If I don't get it as someone who is very familiar with a plethora of (not) confusing web services then I fear for the mere mortals out there who receive some sort of notification that Microsoft Service X is now Microsoft Service Y. The other thing I notice is the Applefication of MS branding in some of this. Music, Calendar, Photos? If I were a MS customer I'd be reminded of Apple's offerings and wondering how they compare with names like this. Now that last concern is pure conjecture but I think it could be reasonable to guess that the more their services sound like Apple products the worse it is for them. There has to be another way to simplify the brands. Google does it without sounding like they're trying to be Apple.

Edit: After thinking about what I just said it occurred to me that it's very easy to be a critic and while I still stand behind my statements I think there's a ton of room for me to be very wrong. After all, I don't work at Microsoft and I don't have complete information. They're a multibillion dollar company so they must know something. Meanwhile I'm just some asshole making flip judgements in my pajamas, dreaming of my business being successful one day.
Am I the only one face palming from reading "Here is why the rumor is unfounded" followed by the first two paragraphs confirming exactly what the blog stated? That batteries must be kept charged, and that if they get too low will contact Tesla HQ?
Audio-Technica ATH M50 is one of the best closed headphone. ~$150
How do you know any of this is true?
One wonders how a planet like Courscant, with a population exceeding a trillion, could possibly import enough food to maintain its population. Sure, in Star Wars we have cheap space travel, but there's still the difficulty of distributing everything at the space ports. Perhaps they have a large hydroponics system to supplement imports?
Also, Zope maps URLs to method invocations on objects or their containers - http://server/ob1/ob2/m1 is served by storage['ob1']['ob2'].m1() (there are ways to mess with that, of course)
Great job on the app! How's the reception been so far from taxi cab companies?
Incidentally, does anyone know why the wheels of a 'bricked' car would be locked up, preventing towing?
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At Goldman, this was the precise approach in the group I worked in. Create a DSL that prices equity derivatives. Create a DSL that handles bond math. Create a DSL that lets junior traders whip up custom swing UIs of their exposures.
One big problem with this approach is what happens when you get hit by a truck ? The programmers you hire to replace you don't want to learn your DSL, nor want to write code in some custom DSL. Its not a transferable skill. I cannot put a bullet point in my resume saying - I wrote bond math code in GS custom DSL. What would that even mean ? Maybe I just invoked some routine and it did all the bond math for me, so what specific skill did I learn other than memorizing your DSL's syntactical conventions ?
So this sort of approach doesn't work for anybody in the long run, except the DSL creator who can justifiably be very proud of accomplishing a shitload of tasks using 2 lines of a custom DSL.
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Anyone have experiences of moving from PhoneGap to Trigger.io? Sounds like the tooling is a bit simpler to use (you can avoid XCode): http://www.quora.com/How-is-Trigger-io-better-than-PhoneGap-... But otherwise I can't see many inducements to using Trigger.io's commercial service over open-source PhoneGap.
> (which, no matter how loud they are, would be hard to hear from across the country, if you've left it in an airport parking lot).

Which is presumably why they're doing this:

> Starting with Roadster 2.0, owners can also elect for their car to contact Tesla headquarters once the state of charge falls below a specified level, and we can then contact the owner.