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there is no evidence that suggests standing in front of a computer screen helps

From the last of the three links I posted:

"They found that standing up engages muscles and promotes the distribution of lipase, which prompts the body to process fat and cholesterol, independent of the amount of time spent exercising. They also found that standing up uses blood glucose and may discourage the development of diabetes."
> Also a perk of living in a city (such as San Francisco) is I can walk EVERYWHERE, [...]

Or cycle. It's somewhat faster and more fun. (I like city life, too, for exactly that reason.)
> At 1:19pm (PDT) today, a researcher noticed that the New York Times' website wasn't loading.

So if the content on the redirected page had been more subtle - for example, mirroring NYTimes but editing stories etc - then things would have taken a lot longer to have been noticed?
Between the two 'extremes' of standing and sitting, there's also the saddle chair [1]. I've used one at home for over a year now, but only up to a few hours a day, so can't really tell how much it has affected my posture in addition to regular exercise.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddle_chair
Where does it say that he used machines?
It is not about abosolving. My reply was about the wish to see move away from Apple and my point was that there is nowhere to move.
I ran into the same difficulties. I came up with a very easy fix. Put a sticker on the back of your phone. The sticker will make it so that it doesn't slip off the charger and slide around in general. I do agree that it was rediculous that they sold a charger that wouldn't work with the phone as designed. The fix for the problem is very easy, however hackish.
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In some limited ways. I don't think the technology and lines of approach are fully mature yet.

I don't know any MongoDB users that I think would be better off on Oracle - especially for the reasons cited in the article.

My own view is the critical pieces will converge. If I could have PostgreSQL with a greatly simplified replication/parallelisation solution I'd be a happy man.

Equally if MongoDB could do a COUNT query in even double the time of psql. Or compress their keys. Or have fine-grained locking... (All of which I'm sure they will get to, just when).

Maybe that's MongoDB 5, PostgreSQL 14, Rethink 3 - I've got no idea and I'm sure I'll look at them all. However, I'm not the guy rocking up to a MongoDB conference and coming away with the conclusion "Oracle had that in 1988".
Strangely, I was literally just discussing the near-term inevitability of this with someone last night.

While an ever-more subjugated, time poor mass of humanity walls themselves in to ever smaller apartments in ever larger cities, stringing along their physical bodies through ever more artificial means, moving ever further from nature and sustainability, we see the rising tide of ever more immersive virtual experience: writing, phonographs, radio, television, computer games, three dimensional environments - now with depth - eye tracking, motion tracking, direct nervous system stimulation, even virtual emotion through the megacoroporate pharmacopia ("ever feel tired? hard to focus? unhappy? ask your doctor about...").

Humanity nears a fissure of potential future realities: constrain our engine of consumption, or face handing a once virtuous and verdant home planet down to succeeding generations as a biological desert demanding ever more artificial means of sustenance for an ever-smaller elite, clinging desperately to a bygone quality of life through the corporate-military force of dynastic capital.

Well, not quite so hyperbolic, but that was the gist: it'd be a shame if instead of dealing with the issues facing our planet we all just shut down and went virtual.
Lifting weights is a sport. A solitary one, just like running or rock climbing. No need to disparage it.
I put a sticker on the back of my Nexus 4. The phone no longer slides off of seemingly level surfaces. In fact it doesn't slide around much at all after the sticker.
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The One still has the bs hardware buttons. Nothing is ever vanilla Android these days with hardware buttons IMO.
All he said was "soon" and that was about a month ago, so it's hard to extract what he actually meant by that. I'm guessing he doesn't want to be the leak for any info. I also asked about the hardware and all he said was "it's gonna be great". Sorry to be a let down, but I guess he wants to keep his job.
The end of the article says, "If you're looking for a job, any job, try North Dakota." The article that links to blames the great ND economy on oil.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/08/the-geog...

Energy's partly responsible. But there's a more important reason that NoDak didn't suffer at all during the recession: its publicly-owned State Bank. It remained sane and stable and crime-free while those traits were rare in the other 49 states. Check it.
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Recently, there was an article in New Scientist about this[1]. Basically, if you sit for more than 6 hours a day, one hour of exercise a day doesn't undo the damage.

The solution is to get up and move around often, i.e. every ~20 minutes or so.

Exercise is still good even if you stand/move around often. And standing all day also has its problems, like others have mentioned.

[1] http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829233.200-dont-take...

(edit: wording)
"Sitting at desk considered harmful considered harmful"? To be fair, I haven't seen any standing desk articles claiming that standing is some sort of magical panacea that can fully substitute for conventional exercise and a healthy diet, although I'm sure there's at least one out there.
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A lot of people got that video (I Forgot My Phone): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OINa46HeWg8
which shows a well known first world problem.

Maybe there is time for an mobile device (n)etiquette?
Let's catch some rules and i will put them together ;)
Is the missing micro SD slot due to price or to encourage you to move your data to the cloud I wonder?
n of 1 != proof.
There are arguably a fair number of moving sidewalks in Hong Kong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%E2%80%93Mid-Levels_esca...
I've been considering getting a Nexus 4 for months now, but my Galaxy SII still mostly works (with Cyanogenmod) so I didn't have much of a reason to spend the money. But this new price is right in my impulse buy range, so it looks like I'll get one after all!
I agree that Pomodoro or similar practice help a lot. After the school days long gone, it is hard to just sit down and focus. But if you got use to some triggers, like Pomodoro, that makes you sit down, and do the same stuff for 20-30 min, than practice can help a lot.
Growing the money supply -- inflating it -- does help finance the deficit, by allowing federal debt to be repaid with deflated currency.

The US has grown its way out of past debts. Because real wealth and economic activity was also growing, the inflation, while significant, was still reasonably limited.

Attempting to continue growing the money supply while the real economy is stagnant or contracting won't have that effect.

Unless the Fed directly injects money into the Federal treasury, where it's paid out. In which case, unless the money is then lost through nonproductive economic activity, it will inflate the currency. In any event, the ability to continue immense levels of Federal borrowing will end.

I'm not inclined to swallow the Republican line, but I'm coming to see long-term Federal deficits as a looming and increasing problem. Keep an eye on those Federal Reserve interest rates.
Nice UI, although it does seem to get confusing when you blend in a video.
My winter workout: pomodoro technique + no heating + pull-up bar. Work 25 minutes. Now you're so cold your fingers are about to drop off. Do push-ups until warm again. Work another 25 minutes. Now do pull-ups. Repeat..
Link to the presentation of the reverse-engineers: https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protec...
If anyone wants more evidence of just how easily the Nexus 4 slides off things, here's a very unscientific video I took after witnessing my Nexus 4 slide off something and shatter the rear glass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1hbVgO7_k8

It's incredible watching it slide ever-so-slowly on a surface that I previously thought was pretty much level.
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"Sitting is bad for you" is one of the hottest topics in popular health right now.

Standing isn't so much a panacea as an alternative to the aforementioned sitting.

Our forefathers didn't formally "exercise" in a gym - they moved around. As a practical matter, standing allows desk workers more movement than sitting does.
I'd get this one if it was curved and without the numpad to reduce the distance to the mouse.
I apologize, I skimmed through that article too quickly.

Nevertheless, I will still hold my position that I was once "Fat", with high cholesterol and could barely hold my own body up. With what I have stated in my post, I am now healthy and can do things that most 20 year olds can not do. So, I guess it works for me pretty well.
Do you not recall those recent strikes?
Then it's seems that it's working out for you and maybe that would be a "middle road" for us, desk-bound people. However we still cannot fully counteract the negative effects of sitting, to quote the article which I linked in my previous post:

"Adding to the mounting evidence, Hamilton recently discovered that a key gene (called lipid phosphate phosphatase-1 or LPP1) that helps prevent blood clotting and inflammation to keep your cardiovascular system healthy is significantly suppressed when you sit for a few hours. "The shocker was that LPP1 was not impacted by exercise if the muscles were inactive most of the day," Hamilton says. "Pretty scary to say that LPP1 is sensitive to sitting but resistant to exercise."
I really don't think carriers have any say whatsoever to what phones are sold within specific area.

edit: Also, the phone is sold here (from regular stores, or through carriers), just Google Play doesn't sell it. So only Google is to blame here.
Blog author here. I understand perfectly well what problems MongoDB solves. However, I also understand perfectly well what problems RDBMSs solve. This is not about technology; it's a complaint about the hype and spin.
Right, it isn't just that exercise is good for you but rather all the time spent not exercising is bad for you.
9.3 matviews are a step forward, yet you could probably roll your own matviews with triggers.
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Not quite stock photos, but I just came across https://www.freevectormaps.com for vector based maps, which might be useful to some people.
> Another possibility is that your opinion is wrong.

And yet another possibility is that your opinion is wrong!

I like this "adding nothing to the discussion" game!
> I'm most interested in the features that commercial DBs like Oracle have that free/open-source DBs [..] don't. Are things like "a materialized view (1996!), a continuous query, the result cache" available in any free DBs nowadays?

I cant answer your question, but looking for feature X in other products is the wrong approach IMHO. You're often better served by looking at what problem feature X is solving, and how that problem is other places. Sometimes the problem doesn't even exist.
Now that I reread, I see that your comment was less a recommendation for Fortran-using Jeff Sagarin as it was a so-what digression. I took the bait, mea culpa.
Not a big fan of phones that large, but I'd cope with that if it would meant that I could own a product called "Nexus 6".

Even if it isn't available in a "basic pleasure model" configuration.
Mongo is a great way to cache and distribute intermediate results in large computations, for example, if you have an efficient way to serialize and deserialize the actual in-memory representation of your data (e.g. if all your machines are the same architecture, you can just shovel blobs of memory around this way). I wouldn't use Oracle for that, the overheads are too great.
I've been testing out various keyboards, also the mechanical ones. The one that I have liked most is the Apple wired keyboard (with numpad). Since I'm using this with windows I remapped a few keys[1] to make it for more suitable for my habits.

The keyboard has low profile and the feeling on the keys is "very precise". Also it is quite affordable.

[1] http://juhap.iki.fi/webdev/keymapper-mappings-for-using-appl...
In the 90s, we had "document stores", except we called them object databases.
Every time one of these articles comes up, the author posts blood tests, 'health screening results', and bizarre plots from sleep EEG machines. These are all worse than useless.

Because there is only one sample. You have no way of disentangling the effect of the condition being tested, from the effect of everything else. You'd need like a hundred people for that. There are never 100 people.

For the past month, I've added shoulder stands to my workout, and also been feeling really energetic. It would appear they are amazing. That, or it's due to the weather being sunnier, and being on a nice project at work. I bet a blood test would show my cortizol levels are lower, which would give this headstand thing the appearance of science.

These N=1, test my blood, wear a skin salinity tracker for no reason experiments are playing at science, rather than achieving science. Like paintball is expensive but still doesn't kill people.

If this guy wants to write about his subjective experience of doing situps while doing sitdowns, it's not any less scientific for lack of a blood test.
I've been using Linux and BSD for thirteen years and I can't even remember the last time I had to manually build and install an application from source (not counting random, early-stage hobby projects from github and things).

Open source Unix systems are the kings of package management. OS X pretty much does the exact opposite of 'package management', and any third party solution is based on existing Linux and BSD implementations.
Always the simplest way to solve these things, this is what I always use on my phones for hand grip as well as when laying on a surface.

If you don't like to have a sticker some appropriate colour duck/duct tape works perfectly.
I personally use some sort of rubber sticker instead. It does not effect the resale value, as you can remove it easily, and does not look bad if you cut it properly.

All this without the bulk of a case, for less than $5.
Personally my biggest peeve with iOS 7 is its status bar overlapping the main screen/view instead of pushing it down 20px.

It has created a lot of work for me to put things back where they belong.
You could say that standing while working could have positive effects, but it's not the complete solution for good health.
I do this as well. I guess I should elaborate on my 8-12 hour days. It's rare now that I will sit in the chair for more than an hour at a time. Not only due to my awareness of the issues that it causes, but also because it just helps me clear my head to get up and go talk to some people, walk around the office, etc...

This should be done if you have a standing desk as well.
It looks like we are ~20 years from an actual experimental fusion power plant (DEMO) although the ITER reactor currently being built in France (with the EU being the largest funder) should produce 500MW of thermal energy for nearly 500 seconds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMO
And the 16GB version is gone in the UK. Good lord, that was fast
It's the same here in Ireland. Which is ironic, as Google's European HQ is here.
then they should write down the spec. The correct solution to disparate facebook is the same class of problem as IMAP, SMTP, HTTP, Jabber etc.
Too much of anything is usually bad for health. You can even exercise too much. So I don't think standing all day is the best solution. With adjustable desks it is pretty easy to alternate your working position during the day.
While I wouldn't defend the wording of the original post, I don't believe it's too far from the truth. What do you mean by the _real_ interest rate?

While Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke claims the Fed is simply "managing the monetary base" [1], the Fed does in fact purchase US Treasury Bonds without requiring the Treasury to pay back the debt. This monetization of debt allows the Treasury to increase government spending. The outcome is an increase in the monetary base which leads to rising price levels, or inflation.

So while saying that inflation is created with the goal of financing government deficit is somewhat backwards, it's only a conflation of cause and effect--not a "crackpot conspiracy theory".

1. http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/es/article/9644
Once you start adding all those features in, the performance you gained by not doing them evaporates. That is the lesson of MySQL.

My argument is not that MongoDB users would be better off on Oracle. It's that Oracle users would not necessarily be better off on MongoDB, since Oracle actually does many things that the makers of MongoDB claim it can't. If MongoDB had been made by MS, everyone would call that "FUD"...
It doesn't. :) I use none. I workout in my garage with a pull-up bar, a heavy bag and a barbell.
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No worries, I'll stay tuned in.
yeah right, and my bill looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/WxZCFrH.png

Thanks to Google maths I presume!!
I will wait for the Nexus 3 then.
With a mouse in your off hand? That's got to be slower.
I think your cynicism is merited. It never ceases to amaze me how many competent people there are in the world who are incapable of articulating their own competence. However, on some level, I'm rather glad for that, because most people don't want to hear how awesome you are. In fact, most hiring personnel don't want to hear how awesome you are, so it's better to let your work speak for itself.

I edit CVs on the side (because I'm an editor), and I find people 'fluff' their applications for a wide variety of professions.

The advice I generally offer is this, and maybe you can confirm/deny whether it applies to your hiring approach?

1) Wage war on adjectives, they offer the reader nothing and merely take up space.
2) Talk about projects, not positions or skills – in the course of discussing the project, discuss honestly what skills you brought to it and what your role was; articulate what you learned on the way; and tell me the conclusion of the project. It can be bullet points, but let it tell a story that's easy to understand.
3) Discuss outcomes. If your project was scaled, resulted in a sale, became a template for similar initiatives, or made your colleagues' lives easier, discuss that outcome.

It would be nice to learn whether I'm steering people in the right direction, if you don't mind sharing... In any event, when I have to advise on a new hire, I usually appeal to those three criteria when reading a resume, and I toss anything that doesn't meet it.
If you feel like you're lacking energy it could be that you're not eating enough calories during the day.

I took up resistance training a few months ago and it required I increase my daily calorie consumption by about 500kcal. I only realized how little I was eating after using an phone app to meticulously record everything I put in my mouth on a daily basis for a few weeks.

Since I started it really forced me to learn a lot about human physiology (because you can injure yourself if you do it with bad form), nutrition (because I want lean mass gain and optimal recovery), I sleep more (recovery) and stopped smoking. There's an amazing euphoric feeling after a heavy weightlifting session when you've got a good pump going. It can be quite a "technical" sport once you start factoring in all these things. The actual process of lifting a heavy object is the easy/least time consuming part.

Just yesterday I completely changed my sitting posture after I was having trouble with my infraspinatus muscle (bad posture at the desk). Now I'm finally sitting up straight at work because it negatively affects my weight lifting if I don't. Man there are so many benefits...
Unfortunately, as people who are tied to their computer screens for most of the day, we have very few options.

Treadmill desks have been growing in popularity lately for this reason.
Nice example. It combines aliases for the Unit type with the sort of hybrid function/value nature of Unit to produce a truly baffling array of options. =)

I'll agree that this set of cases does not reflect well on Scala; at the very least, it supports your point that the syntax is too large. Still, I don't mind it too much. Although the "multiple ways to skin a cat" nature of Scala means you can get very WTF-y code like above, it also means that you can construct a list by writing `1 :: 2 :: 3 :: Nil`, or send an actor a message with the Erlang-inspired `actor ! Message("hello")`.

I don't want to be an apologist for it, though. You're correct that there are some nasty corner cases. Using Scala for serious work is difficult if people don't agree on a consistent style.
yeah, my short attention span and inability to sit still is rather useful.
OK people it's pretty simple.

The scientific evidence is you can not undo the damage from sitting extended periods by exercise or anything else known.

Current scientific evidence is you can only not sit.

Like all things there is some science that says hey maybe it's not true but the trend is going towards not sitting.
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Would you mind writing up a review? I'm interested to see how they hold up.
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" so they slam the technology rather than accept that they, themselves, are the ones lacking. Most of them tend to come from the typical LAMP/SlashDot crowd that only have experience with the minor technologies."

Behind Facebook and Twitter there's a big usage of MySQL. Not even PostgreSQL, MySQL.

Of course it's a pain for them, but it works and they're profiting from it.

The question is, how much they are saving by not using Oracle or other proprietary DB? They priced themselves out of the web, now they can't "cry to mummy" about it.

"For me, thousands of transactions per second and 10s of terabytes of data on a single database is normal"

It helps when you have dedicated top notch hardware (especially true some years ago) and the startups have to work with EC2 and EBS (ok, there are some better choices, still)
I'm glad to have watched House of Cards. Great Show, and love Bingeing.
A single X session cannot span two graphics cards. X just doesn't support it. You're waiting on Mir or Wayland for that one.

If you manage to get all four monitors on one card somehow, X can handle the multiple geometries just fine. Though it will generally do a terrible job of automatically detecting the right resolution.

Love Linux, but this bit does disappoint.
Something something a smart man knows he knows nothing...

Perhaps part of it is a personal predisposition to be able to face a hard truth or accept that the chances of failure are high.
A pretty interesting read.

But I would love to know how they tackle the harder parts, i.e. when everything isn't working so well with someone accounting their time, or when someone can't make a retreat because of family issues, etc. Maybe because of their hiring they haven't had to tackle this bit yet.