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Slitaz (http://www.slitaz.org/en/) claims to provide a fully featured Linux desktop environment in 35 Mb. (!92 Mb RAM) It uses LXDE and Openbox.

It has great internationalisation.

It has scary stuff that people should be careful of.

There are a few minimal Linux distributions - LFS; TinyCore, etc.

I'm not sure where TomsRtBt fits in the list anymore, but he crammed quite a lot onto a floppy disc.
I think the issue is journalism vs scientific reasearch. In journalism, you do not have the luxury of spending huge quantities of time developing your methadology and validating your statistics; and it is understood that journalism is much more by-the-gut than science.
One of the major jobs of journalism is to help your reader draw connections and get context for current issues. As long as readers get a diversity of sources, and views are expressed in rough proportion to how they are help by people in the field, then I think journalism is doing its job.
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I started with two days of cardio and three days of body circuits. Each workout was about 30 minutes long, though cardio sometimes would go to 40 or so. I kept doing two cardio days throughout, switching from circuits to lifting and back as the trainer told me.
Author here, I really like what you're doing for Newtown. Best of luck to you with that!

As far as the press goes, you're definitely correct about other reporters reaching out. My main point there is that we found more success by personally contacting people (press included) about what we were doing, rather than sitting around, waiting, and hoping for them to come to us. We badgered newspaper reporters and called local TV stations to make sure that we were being talked about and that people knew how to get involved with our relief effort.
Do you have any example of HTML5 "done properly"? I don't believe I've ever seen any. (Yes, saw the video link, but it would be nice to have something I can actually try.)
It actually seems like a correct justification. It's greener, and forces a more logical way to use a product, even if it isn't familiar. That isn't a sin.
Go to the sports palace in south sf. The guy who wrote the Olympic lifting book mentioned in the article coaches there.
I recently started swimming since I'm planning on doing a triathlon next summer and it is by far the hardest of the three disciplines. I started out not being able to do more than 50m without having to catch my breath and this was after an entire summer of running and a month of road biking, so it's not like I wasn't in decent shape. Swimming is a whole different ballgame. I'm now at the point where I can swim indefinitely (did 1500m with two 20 second breaks at the 10th and 20th laps recently) but it took a while to get there. Like anything, it's all about your form. I had to learn how to settle down and swim slower, gliding through the water, controlling my breathing, and reaching on every stroke. Once you get the form down you can pretty much go and go, but it's hard to trust that you won't start sucking water in when you get too tired. I find it helps to really exaggerate your rolling motion so that your mouth clears the water more easily when you go to take a breath. It also helps you reach your arm out a couple extra inches.

The most surprising aspect of swimming was how ripped my chest and arms felt afterwards. I've been an avid weightlifter since high school and it's the same feeling I get after doing bench presses or fly's.
There seems to be some irony here. Namely that "escape time" is staring at another screen.

Nothing personal here - what you do with your time and how you unwind is entirely up to you, I just thought it was worth noting this isn't entirely different physically than sitting at a desk, starting at your computer screen.
Do you have evidence to support this claim? Citation needed.
K&R, and Harbison & Steele were my two favorites.

HN says that Learn C The Hard Way by Zed Shaw is good.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22learn+c%...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1027549

As with any new language, once you're comfortable with a small core of the language, start working on your own problems. Start with little made up problems, and move on to useful tools as soon as possible. You don't have to be a master to write your own tools, and you won't become a master until after you've written your own tools.
Pretty hilarious!
We use SliTaz as the platform behind our bootable recovery CDs - it's incredible what their team has managed to accomplish. It's important to stress that this isn't another Knoppix or whatever: it's a complete distro. By that, I mean that they have their own package manager (tazpkg), build toolchain, package formats, etc - the whole shebang.

We were able to create our own "from-scratch" Linux live CD that weighed around 20MiB, but ended up going with SliTaz since having someone else maintain that for you is worth the extra 15MiB :)
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Reminds me of Eric Schwitzgebel's question: is the United States conscious? http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2011/10/is-united-state... (and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbQi0tVNsdo)
Higher reps for hypertrophy is around 8-12 I believe, not 50+.

The problem with reps at that level for me personally is that its very difficult to know where your limit is. With failure around 5 reps it's very obvious which is your last possible rep.

Also 50 reps is just much more pain for the same (or less) gain as I see it. I can do 60-70 press ups which would be in that range, but it's significantly harder work than 5 reps near my max bench.
Paying for journalism is not a yuppie/Valley phenomenon. Newspapers were a staple of working class cities for a long time. Though I'll agree with you on the iPad and Starbucks.
a restricted subset of c++ (embedded c++) is exactly what is used to write drivers for Mac OS X.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I/O_Kit

The kernel itself is in C though.
Once we addressed the initial concerns, people were much more willing to donate to us and we raised around $1500 in the first three weeks. After that, it was just a matter of packaging and shipping out the t-shirts.
The problem is very few gyms have bumper plates and platforms. Further, many gyms frown upon the use of chalk.
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> HTML5 done properly

I've seen Gmail.app on a friend's iPhone 4S (with dual-core A5) and it's slower than Apple's Mail.app on my sister's iPhone 3G (with a 300MHz ARMv6, which I think is under clocked to 230MHz or something like that).

When Google (king of the Internet and HTML5) fails to "do HTML5 properly", then the rest of us really don't have much chance.

(and, no, it's not (entirely) UIWebView's fault. If Google were allowed to use Nitro or V8, Gmail.app would be 40% faster. But that iPhone 5's CPU is like 20 times faster than that crummy old iPhone 3G)
Personally, I'm a bit mixed. On the one hand, information wants to be free, blah blah. But on the other hand, if they really BASED the idea off what CMU did without compensating them, doesn't that mean the private industry is profiting off public work without compensating the public for it?
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I agree that walking is a great start, but your body will quickly adapt and unless you're walking up hills you're unlikely to get to aerobic HR levels.
Beware: the whole point of this is article (and train of thought) is to cast a shadow of doubt over gun control. It's to remind us how these are random and extreme events. Yes, mass-shootings are random and extreme. A layperson can conclude this without having to look at any statistics.

But unfortunately this distracts from the real problem. Machine guns. And how they're legal, and easy, for anyone to buy. And ammo. And modifications for guns.

When the constitution was written to allow citizens the right to bare arms, the only arms in the legislators' wildest dreams took a minute to load one bullet, likely would miss, and probably wouldn't kill with one shot. Since the world is very different today, shouldn't the laws change too? Look at the success of gun control in the United Kingdom.

Enough of this nonsense. It reminds me of climate change deniers pointing out "Yeah but it's snowing now."
So we could be looking at a society that grows ever richer, but in which all the gains in wealth accrue to whoever owns the robots.

The robots will create wealth for the people that don't own robots. If they can't afford this wealth the robots will never be created in the first place. It's no different than any other automation technology.
I was at a family dinner party that included a father and two young daughters (probably aged 5 and 7).

They were tugging at his slacks while he was balancing a martini and talking about something to me and another adult.

He leaned out of the conversation and spoke to the host:

"Do you have a wii we can throw these two on?"

This feels deeply troubling for child development. Learning how to interact at a young age often comes from watching elders interact.

For the kid to be staring at a phone/tv so they won't disturb the adults and be "quiet" takes this crucial learning experience away.

If you haven't noticed this parenting pattern before - pay attention next time you're in a queue, family restaurant or group gathering including young children.
I can attest to the final point. I had to give up running for a month to heal from shin splints and I started swimming and biking to train in the meantime. My previous 5k personal best was 24:00 and when I ran it again after that month of swimming/biking I ran it in 21:52 with relative ease. I attribute it to the swimming which kicked my ass.
If you're goal is fat loss, not cardiovascular health, then lifting weights works just as well as running or using the elliptical, and it is easier on your body if you learn the correct form.
Although the physical position is the same (sitting) and the object of focus is the same in a general sense (a screen), the two activities are very different.

Watching a movie can be much like reading a book: a concerted focus on a long story. In contrast, reading Reddit on your smartphone might be more like browsing the funnies in the newspaper.

As an analog analog, you wouldn't say that reading Dostoyevsky and reading Zits are very similar activities, despite that both involve sitting and staring at paper.
I would say it fits with point number four in the article. I found swimming especially good for avoiding normal "office injuries" in the back and hips. I also think it's great mental training as most of the difference for a novice to go from say 10% to 60% in swimming ability is just relaxing and "finding" decent technique.
Most anything that you might want will be BSD-style licensed without the attribution clause. If your employer is allergic to that... then your employer is an idiot. GPL'd, even LGPL'd, libraries are fairly few and far between.
Yeah, I agree - a basic income welfare system may be inevitable. One other thing to think about is - basic income allows for more people to live a life of independent experimentation/research. The effect might be quite positive on open source communities in technical fields but as well as the arts.
Most of my workouts were 30 minutes long, and most weeks I did 5 workouts. The other part of the time was spent on commuting to the gym (10 minutes) or getting ready, etc. This is an important point, as most of my weight loss did not come from the exercise: I burnt about 400 calories at a time and immediately replenished them after. The weight loss came from the calorie restricted diet (not overly so, I did create a deficit), which included lots of vegetables and fruit.

I have tried doing dieting alone but it never worked: I could lose weight, but then would gain it back within a year. Combining diet and exercise completed the feedback loop. Eating like crap meant feeling like I was going to die when working out. Conversely, eating well meant performing well. This clicked for me.
either by getting fired (as soon as a CO is made, the boss is working on a replacement plan)

Does this actually happen? Has it happened to you, or have you gotten rid of someone as a manager in this way?
I don't think it's reasonable to consider that a stereotypical HN reader - after all, the discussion started with an observation of how many people apparently do not read a paid Times subscription, on an iPad or otherwise.

And I can only speak for myself when I say I consider Starbucks coffee prohibitively expensive. In that respect, the comparison is apt.
> ARC has absolutely killed garbage collection

... In Apple's Sandbox. Apple has also killed ethernet and other very not-dead in the real world things.
And hope that any client libraries and APIs I want to use made the same choices I did.

Code reuse at the level of strings and containers is essential for any kind of higher-level programming. C fails here.
I'm twenty-one and the email referenced something called "Excited Live". Can anybody explain what that was? Google hasn't been much help.
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All corporate biographies are written by people who know the end of the story and now have to retrofit some facts and omit the others to backfill the story so that it seems like a straight line leading to success/failure.

I present to you a set of quick templates for writing business advice where you know how the story turned out.

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CEO failed: They see themselves and their companies as dominating their environment.

CEO succeeded: They expressed confidence in their leadership and weren't afraid to explore riskier opportunities.

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CEO failed: They identify so completely with the company that there is no clear boundary between their personal interests and their corporation’s interests.

CEO succeeded: Laser focus is what differentiates them from other [loser] CEOs. Ability to identify major problems and relentless pursue them instilled energy in top management team and eventually led to success.

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CEO failed: They think they have all the answers.

CEO succeeded: Successful CEOs have to be quick at their decisions. Sometimes the underlings will deliberate too much, as rarely there are obvious strategies, and some elements of risk are involved in pursuing any new opportunity. A CEO is someone who's able to cut to the core of the issue and make a decision, so even when failure happens, it happens faster and lessons are learned.

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CEO failed: They ruthlessly eliminate anyone who isn’t completely behind them.

CEO succeeded: There's no "i" in the "team". Avoid detractors and those who try to play politics. Focus on execution, remove all obstacles to flawless implementation.

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CEO failed: They are consummate spokespersons, obsessed with the company image.

CEO succeeded: Not afraid to stand up and be the face of the company. This builds trust in customers, even when the reason for standing up is to apologize for a mis-step.

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CEO failed: They underestimate obstacles.

CEO succeeded: Focus on the end goal. A lot of people will try to scare you from expanding into new markets, and you know there will always be problems. It's how you deal with those problems that makes or breaks the company.

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CEO failed: They stubbornly rely on what worked for them in the past.

CEO succeeded: Stick to your gut feeling. If the business model does not seem viable, there will be plenty of distractions telling you that "this time it's different". Recognize core issues when you see them.
Did you consider using MonoTouch/MonoDroid? Going all the way down to C seems pretty extreme just to achieve some code reuse.
How to fix computer freezes issues
Maybe it is a common phenomenon that computer freezes when someone is using his computer on playing games, watching movies or working. That would be alright If after restart the computer everything is ok, but if the computer freezes randomly ,that means something wrong with it and you have to check. The article will tell you how to stop computer freezes. Just read the article when your pc or laptop freezes.
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It’s supposed to be standard HN practice for a poster or moderator to do so if the article isn’t from the current year. I’d guess you’ve noticed it because there are more such articles, not because there’s more moderation.
A lot of the newer JVM languages provide better equivalents to Obj-C categories. Most of them also let you mix in instance variables along with methods. Check out Scala or Kotlin for specific examples.
+1 for that feature. I think that the niche for good-pgp-support email client is still not completely occupied. Only couple of programs/extensions are doing this job:
1. Enigmail (thunderbird plug-in)
2. Prolly Outlook
3. Mailvelope (chrome extension, AFAIK)
Isn't that simple, as simple as what? Part of what you pay for in a large ad campaign is for people to attend to all of the complexities.

Spending tens of millions of dollars airing the high-quality commercials that the NYT had commissioned? I doubt what they did was simple, but it was damn sure expensive.
In fact, this article has been submitted to HN 7 times in the last year!
Agreed that technical debt is a pain to deal with. But it's definitely possible to migrate and upgrade live systems without significant technical risk. The company just needs to make the decision to invest the proper resources and decide to have executive-level focus on Operations. From your comments it sounds like this was a failure of management to properly plan out these changes. Lack of resources shouldn't be an issue here, since clearly github's $100 Million+ in funding is enough to build a reliable HA system with adequate redundancies and hire the people who are qualified to run it. There just isn't anyone to point fingers at, including vendor screw-ups. All of those items would be addressed in a proper risk assessment plan.
It's a terrible Frankenstein monster but it can be pretty useful. My most popular iOS app is a synthesizer with a UI in Obj-C and a DSP core in pure C++. Interfacing the two is pretty trivial thanks to Obj-C++.

I've been considering a port to Android but all the JNI boilerplate I'd have to write is putting me off.
Well, actually... Daniel the author neglected to tell Nicole the illustrator that the thumbs on the squatter (first graphic) are in the wrong position -- according to Rippetoe, not me. :-)

Humor aside, lifting heavy works for women, to. Women are afraid to get bulky. I got over the idea that lifting heavy wouldn't _make_ me bulky. This is just the way I am. Might as well make the best of what my DNA doled out. As for gyms, I've been harassed at my gym by a trainer for dropping 250lbs a bit too hard (it ripped the callus on my left hand and fell less than a foot, and gym doesn't allow chalk) when I routinely see/hear male lifters throw 100+ dumbbells to the floor. Can't wait to get a cage in my basement so I can spend less time in that place.

I'll be trying Brown's movements to see if they help with the pain in my knees from derby drills. Thanks for posting this!
Can you shoot me your email address to support at zapaang dot com?
100K is a lot of money for a domain! The name can really build the brand of the company though. If you're solving a painful problem that people are willing to pay for, the name in my opinion is irrelevant. If not, the name can be make or break the business for a unique company. Some of the startups that I've came across in the past I wonder how they get the domain in the first place and how much they paid for it. One that really stuck out today was branch.com. I wonder how much they paid.
I wasn't aware the gmail ios app is HTML5. Do you have some link that claims that it is?
While the author believes that "the ease, access, convenience and lower cost [offered by online education] appeals to people just about everywhere" the huge - giant - glaring omission here is that education is not so much about enjoyment, ease, or cost as it is about developing your core competencies, content knowledge, and cognitive development - it must, in a word, work.

And, it doesn't.

I'll be quick to change my tune when online education proves itself effective - but right now online k12 education is failing miserably all around the country despite great promises and powerful support(e.g. there are current 16 online k12 charter schools in Pennsylvania getting terrible results).

This isn't a field in which innovators are allowed to fail for a year until they find appropriate answers to their problems - that year of failing is a year of their students failing to advance. There is no stomach from teachers, administrators, or parents for such bumbling - nor should there be.
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Yes, they are. Inexpensive and trivial to install (replaced the one at my last house: probably less than an hour to get everything done).

Newer models will use less water than the average person doing the same amount of dishes.
How long is it before you see your ideas posted by others?
Every idea I have someone does and posts to HN a few weeks later if it doesn't exist already. Anyone else suffer from this? I suppose being part of the HN hivemind contributes to this a bit.

*idea: Idea is taken to mean 'good' idea. A good idea is an idea that meets the criteria from PG's "Startup Ideas" article. Preferably, the idea is something you actually wanted to use yourself.

Maybe it really is about speed, and I need to build something fervently as soon as I have the idea...Any suggestions?
0-7 days
1 month
1 year+
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I won't question the (proper) assumption that enterprises typically use Exchange, but I will say that this is why solutions like Dropbox exist and are adopted in enterprises: because it's easier to get the information where it needs to be than what "enterprise" solutions offer.
A large part of the push for crowdfunding has come from entrepreneurs and their advocates who believe that a larger pool of funds will be beneficial to the entire country. However, investors expect that the regulators are watching out for them when they invest, by making sure that they are not being maliciously misled by stock salesmen.

The SEC is struggling to write rules that keep that investment expectation intact while still fulfilling the requirements of the JOBS Act. It is nowhere near an easy task. If this had been pitched with the nasty truth - that opening the crowdfunding door meant that a lot of investors would lose their entire investment when the company went bankrupt - then we might have had some faster turnaround. But instead, Congress requested that the SEC write rules that would offer investors the same level of assurance for startups that it requires for large publicly-traded firms. That doesn't get done in a Congressional pie-in-the-sky deadline.
It just doesn't work that way.. I've spent entire days trying to get a feature to work perfectly, often winding up with fewer lines of code than I started with. Were I to judge such progress by lines of code, an achievement would be transformed into a failure.

That's why I suggest going by TODO-list entries. Those are concrete things that you know need to get done. You can even score them in terms of anticipated difficulty, then try to reach a certain number of points per day/week.

Think of yourself more as an editor than an author. An editor might spend a lot of time re-factoring, looking up syntax, trying to make things flow better, asking people for advice, etc. Amassing words and lines isn't your goal.
Just to be clear - by orthogonal, do you mean mutually exclusive? Is there some visual diagram by which you could illustrate the point? I suppose that since there are 3 components to 'total' power, that such a diagram would be a circle divided into 3 sections or something? I can only imagine a grid with 4 quadrants, but don't know how the quadrants would be labeled, but I'm definitely interested in the concept. How would the diagram be best constructed?