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Proportionally spaced fonts are nice on the eyes. I've been using Input for the last few days and it makes code much more pleasurable to read... Mostly.

But I found that I rely on intra line alignment often and proportional fonts cannot deliver that. The end result is so ugly as to completely overwhelm the advantages.

I ended up returning to M+.
I'm use SASS, because it's default for Rails.
I think if we take the mid-point between your story and his, we're getting there.

Everything in moderation.

That means sitting is fine and standing is fine, just not too much excess of either.

My wife, an ex-carer, knows a number of athletic people who have very serious problems in their 50s and 60s as they've worn their hips and spine out. Conversely she knows a number of people with diabetes and heart problems in the same age range.

The interesting thing I did find out is that those who do not focus on any particular fitness goal, eat what they need and don't objectively go out and exercise are perfectly healthy and run rings around the other groups.

A word of caution: all of these people were quite happy with their physical state into their 40s. The same with drug use, particularly hash etc which really kills you when you get to your late 30s and early 40s.

A standing desk has little to do with any of the above. Moderation of all things does.
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...and in an ironic twist, people poke fun at the portion of their market who is just afraid to go online... given the revelations that have come to light over the past year or so, perhaps the rest of us who aren't afraid, should be. :P
I used to have an HSBC card that offered 2% cash back on weekend purchases. Capital One acquired HSBC's accounts a few years ago and no longer offers that deal.
Implicit or procedural learning refers to learning how to do things like tying your shoes: It requires considerable cognitive effort and attentive control of muscles to get right, but eventually, after you've done it many times, you don't think about it anymore.

Driving is another example: After sufficient experience, you drive without conscious effort, becoming consciously aware of things only when they exceed your implicit bounds ("That car is too close, what's that unexpected shape at the side of the road").

The basic gist of the article is that mindfulness (which essentially makes you both more aware of and detached from your conscious cognitive efforts) mixes poorly with learning tasks or activities that are intended to eventually be performed automagically.

I suppose, I speculate, that the reason for this is that implicit learning requires you be "all in" attending to the task, but mindfulness would have you at least partially attending to your attention, so your mind is in fact distracting itself.

I further speculate that this likely "weakens" the "signal" your brain is trying to send from the explicitly conscious regions of your brain that are attending to the new task to the implicit, subconscious regions that will eventually perform the task, once it has been well learned.

(Just for fun, try to describe to someone in step-by-step detail how you tie your shoes. Then try tying them while describing what you are doing. Report back on how many attempts it takes before you succeed.)
Not quite. The rate after the promo rate is 2.5% which still undercuts Square. The 2.75% rate is for manually Keyed transactions. Also, the promo lasts until 2016, a good amount of time to convince users to switch and then keep them with marginally lower rates.

From the page:

"Sign up by October 31, 2014 to lock in this special rate through December 31, 2015. Pay 2.5% beginning January 1, 2016. Rates apply to all major credit and debit cards."
They should have gone full-on tiling WM. Make it completely dynamic, as many tiles as you want, vertically or horizontally split.
OK, on that I agree. I bet this is not a skill the OP acquired.
> Writing a WPF app in F# is a real pain (no partial classes, no nice MVVM framework support like Caliburn.Micro). C# is way better there.

You shouldn't be writing WPF apps at all.
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This is a great story, and I enjoyed the look back at all the different OS. sadly if it happened today the x to close would have been patented.
I'm not a statistician.

Is it really that surprising? English has plenty of redundancy; Twitter statuses have limited length.

What's surprising to me is the niceness of the found anagrams. "another math genius" / "he ain't smart enough".
Or do that, then burn away the flesh and use it as a heat exchanger.
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I don't think you can cite one study concerning an increased risk of varicose veins and conclude that exercise is not all it's cracked up to be.

That study seems pretty legit, but it only concerns one health problem, and a relatively minor one at that. Fewer than 2% of the people in the study even required hospitalization for their problem. Comparing that to the numerous benefits of exercise for things like diabetes and heart disease, I think exercise is still a worthwhile use of time.
Usually these projects are open source which enable the community to make sure that no fishy stuff happens. Thats probably product type 4.
It's merely personal opinion based on personal experiences. Since it's a sunny day outside I'd like to expand on this topic here:

[1] Window management/Apple touch pad:
UX on window/workspace management, Cupertino did it right. As advanced users we open a lot of windows, not like my mom who would simply freak out when there are more than 2, she only look at one full screen window a time. Win8's metro app is natural for her but optional at best for me.
Mac:
Four finger up for Expose then pick the Terminal/Sublime/Browser window;
Four finger swipe left/right for virtual desktops;
I am flying through workspaces over that single 5 inch physical square, much less effort and drama than surface: fiddling through touch keypad/10.6" touch screen swipes/dropping and picking surface pen constantly.
One trick on mac is that I usually swipe a little to quickly sneak peak: say inbox list or server dashboard on my right virtual desktop to quickly check up on stuffs.

[2] Local search
see comments above

[3] Windows Update
A feel of being bullied, simply put. It prolong when you need it start up and do sth quick. It shut down when you dont want it to, and it never tell you what's changed, what is updating and how long it is going to be.

[4] Hibernate/sleep/Power button.
Redmond never got this right and never do I see them willing to. Out of my 2 years experience with surface, I would say at least 5 time it crashed while waking up from hibernate. at least one time I remembered vividly because I lost several hundreds lines of arduino code.
Many time right after switching off, then I realized I missed something: have to wait at least 5 seconds to switch it on again. Stressing that power button would only make it worse.
Surface has sensitive power button to the outside: every other day or two, I found my bag frying hot and surface drained all its battery inside, making it useless for the rest of the day if on the move.

[5] Color tone
This maybe picking bone out of eggs. But I would say those Disney like highly saturated UI palette are somewhat distraction (blue bars/amber buttons/red squares), compared to OSX's neutral gray color tone which let you easier focusing on the content working on.
You may be right, I agree that it's bound to happen at some point. I think one big difference is Amazon is rolling out revenue-producing products and Google was rolling out non-revenue-producing "experiments."
NextStep, yes. The first time I saw Win95 (Chicago beta), I decided it was a rip-off of the NextStep UI.
The difference between the Google scenario and Amazon is that from what I can see, Amazon makes money on almost all of the products it's rolling out vs. Google not really directly making money out of most of its products.
Wow, this is so cool. I've been looking for a hands-on tutorial for H-M typology for a while now.

As a side note, it's nice to see how OCaml somewhat seems to become the de-facto standard as the environment of choice for PL design & experiments.
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In addition to the visible data (the card number, the expiration, and the CVV), there is other information encoded on the stripe that you cannot see (its called Track 2 data).

A swiped transaction will include the Track 2 data, but a keyed one will not. The Track 2 data proves that a physical card was present, which carries a far lower risk of fraud, and thus grants a lower processing rate.

Notably, in the recent Target breach, the Track 2 data was stolen as well. This means the thieves could print up real, swipeable cards.
One suggestion which I got from here on HN is to have some sort of small stool or object on which to rest one foot at a time while standing. It's much more comfortable than keeping equal weight on both feet and the reason why there's a brass rail on the floor in bars.

I use my desk in sitting mode most of the time. Of course, I've been breaking up my working day with a 45 minute run in the middle, but it's still great to have the option sometimes to stand.
Kind of the opposite, really (see my other comment above for more): Learning a to-be-implicit-eventually task requires near-total attention while you learn it (tying a shoe, riding a bike), but eventually requires none.

Mindfulness, or paying attention to the fact you are paying attention, would appear to sufficiently reduce that required near-total attention so as to slow down the learning process.

When learning to swing the bat at the ball, focus solely on the bat and ball. Once you can hit the ball without thinking about it, then attempt mindful inspection of your actions - but not before.

EDIT: s/too/to/above.
this helps prove your point. This is from Qbasic that ran in DOS. I use to run this on my windows 3.1 all the time:

http://www.mysundial.ca/tsp/images/qbasic_screen_2.gif
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Isn't it in a Loop? :P
Scaling would be quite difficult. I'm sure you could hack maybe a Turing machine out of this paradigm, but it would be ugly and mostly an esoteric exercise.
He says exactly that:
> Finally, after graduation, I decided to write the first book about the NSA.
Five hours in programming is more analogous to a one-rep-max weight lift than to a marathon.
Cisco routers use a lot of energy because they're so god damn bullet proof lol.
Won't be the first time that I think Stroustrup has made a serious error, and is compounding his error by not repudiating the feature.

Go read Sutter's _Exceptional C++_ or any of its follow-on books. It appears nearly impossible to write solid software when you allow exceptions into your set of control structures.

The best response to an exception is: Restart. Catch the exception in something like main(), take a dump or write some diagnostics, and restart your app. You'll have a system that is more reliable and of better quality than if you try to handle exceptions "correctly" in the face of non-exception-neutral code, 3rd party libraries that get things wrong, and your own bugs, which are going to be many, and deep, and subtle, and probably intractable.
They're raising prices on Amazon Prime (and bundling more things I don't want into it, Microsoft-style).
I said goodbye to Windows XP, clearly I was ahead of the game ;)
(See my other comments) Basically, no: implicit learning requires you to think as hard as possible about nothing else, at least at first. Mindfulness takes some of your thinking away from the task you are learning and directs it at meta-thinking, if you will, observing what you are thinking about.

This reduced attention to the task at hand appears to cause you to take longer to learn that task.

EDIT: Fixed prepositions, missing word.
Ugh, yet another version of windows I need to help my dad transition to. He was happily using Windows XP until a month ago, when his computer stopped working and I finally convinced him to switch to the new Windows 8 laptop I got him for Christmas last year.

He's a very smart guy, and yet switching from Windows XP to Windows 8 was incredibly unintuitive for him. Now just when he's getting used to it, he needs to switch to another version?

Microsoft is doing a great job of alienating its users by forcing them into new releases with constantly changing, unintuitive "features." Most people I've talked to who use windows were perfectly happy with Windows XP, and the subsequent releases have been definite downgrades in terms of usability.

How long before non-Enterprise/government Windows users just start switching to Mac? If Apple released a $500 laptop, I imagine they would capture a massive percentage of the non-Enterprise Windows market. It's only a matter of time before Apple opens its doors to budget consumers. Personally, I can't wait.
Does anyone know the true bottom to transaction fees? Are they taking a loss at 1.75% to acquire user base?
You may want to take a look at this post from Airbnb. They tackled this problem, and have open-sourced their solution:

http://airbnb.github.io/infinity/
1 MHz, and while I only implemented UDP in my stack (https://github.com/oliverschmidt/ip65), Jonno Downes took over and added TCP later. There's also Adam Dunkels uIP and Doc Bacardi's HTTP-Load.

So yes, if a C64 can handle it Python should have plenty of power.
OSX got people to pay for the same OS, slightly updated, for a decade and a half. Only recently did they make updates free. Windows is quite exclusive in making major changes between OS releases (and now quite exclusive in charging for them).
Considering you didn't list Windows 98 SE (which was a stand-alone release) and called Windows 95 "shit" (which is laughable if you were around in 1995 when relatively speaking it was far from "shit," pretty groundbreaking frankly), no.

There is no pattern, people just alter history because they want there to be a pattern. We also have to ignore NT4, 2000, and the servers also.
Now if only Windows would "remember" these snapped window positions after you close and re-open a window/app. It remembers windows that you manually size, but not ones that you snap. Sigh.
Looks like I have traction, but no connections. Where to go?
The company I founded (a social web startup) is getting about 100 new users per day organically (would be more but I can't afford to let them all in), second day retention is between 60 and 70 percent, activation is about 20%, and the people who say they would be "Very Disappointed" if they didn't have the product is 42%.

By these measurements it would seem I have reached PM Fit, but I have absolutely no connections to raise a seed round. I live in Los Angeles, but wouldn't be averse to moving to SV. Any tips?
I'll second Shutter, it's fantastic.
Not sure I agree with this recommendation... shared-mime-info database usually trails file(1) database by several years. Case in point: pcap-ng file format was added to file(1) in 2011; was added to mime-info database in 2013.

Also, file --mime FILENAME gets you the mime type.
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I enjoy my sitting time and make up for it with a regular exercise regimen and lots of after work activities. At one big corp. I have been at, it was like a competition to see who could stand the longest and who appeared the most health conscious.
This sounds a little like a joke.

Amazon is the biggest competitor brick-and-mortar shops have ever seen; why would shops want to give that kind of information to Amazon, so that it knows in real time what people are buying outside of itself???

A coffeeshop, maybe, but for any other kind of business it sounds crazy.
I like LESS recently, since it is NodeJS (= fast and easy to setup)
I am a statistician. Maybe I should sit down and actually do some calculations.
+1/this.

I didn't like the new gmail at first, who likes when the things they use everyday change. But "pop out reply" is fantastic, for exactly the reason you cite: I can my emails search for context, for additional info, and move seamlessly back and forth between the compose area and the email area - it's like having a non-intrusive "always on top" window for note taking when doing research.
I don't think there is a bundled extension available. I personally don't know how to make one. To use it on my computer I just opened up the installed vanilla extension (turns out they are just compressed bundles of source code) and edited the files I found there by hand.
Standing in one place all day is the whole reason I never tried standing desks. It's painful as hell to stand all day. A treadmill desk might not be as bad, but my knees are generally unhappy whenever they absorb any kind of impact force. And sitting up/laying back isn't great because it basically atrophies your muscles from not being used at all for 8 hours a day.

It doesn't make much sense for us to work a set number of hours, anyway, since most tech jobs aren't repetitive labor, they're projects which can take anywhere between 15 minutes and two months. I'd rather just work less hours, have a more dynamic schedule, or just take an hour or two in the middle of the day to go climb a tree.
> You shouldn't be writing WPF apps at all.

Says who? Are we supposed to stop writing Windows desktop apps in C# just because the frameworks are in maintenance mode?
This is, in my opinion, the most unfortunate thing about just replacing the start _menu_ with the start _screen_.

We have nearly 2 decades of software installations that were designed with a hierarchical folder/menu layout in mind, including all of Microsoft's own development tools. Now it's changed and there is no more hierarchy.

My start screen is pages upon pages of shortcuts to HTML/text docs, CHM files, cmd prompts, uninstallers, helper programs, etc. You can't find anything because the hierarchy is gone, and as the parent describes you can't search for many of these things because everything has the same name or is inconsistently named.

It's telling that Microsoft's own software installation still isn't revised to take this into consideration.
We find Google adwords an invaluable way of backing up our TV ad campaigns and we are a fairly small start up. I've spoken to a number of Google reps and they were all really bothered about making sure that as a small business we were able to get up and running quickly because they "know we don't have a big ad department" - so from my experience, Google absolutely wants small businesses using them.

Thinking about it, with Google's push to make you add your business location to maps etc they are really starting to compete with the Yellow Pages which was/is basically 100% small to medium businesses - I guess it's a market where the combined long tail is much bigger than the big players.
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Agreed. Also, explicitly asking for a refund might yield some results in this regard.
#2 I got directly from the definition of Terrorism on Wikipedia, word-for-word.

#3: "Instead, al-Qaida has started incorporating more sophisticated open-source code to help disguise its communications. 'This is as close to proof that you can get that these have changed and improved their communications structure post the Snowden leaks,' Ahlberg said."

The insinuation here is that making powerful tools available via open source is dangerous. Don't you see it?
>> There are so many worthier avenues for pro-bono legal work than helping out for-profit companies.

I have a handful of students who want to be patent lawyers. Should I make them work on death penalty or civil rights cases?
Did you know you could actually read the source code of most extensions that are on the chrome webstore. I'd rather that people start publishing their privacy policy honestly else Google blocks them from the webstore.
The context was "If you are starting a new protocol ..."
As someone who used Windows 3.1 for years and now uses Powershell on Windows 7 every day at work, I'm ashamed to admit I had no idea.
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It's a trap. You, owner of a shop, don't do this.

Amazon will first analyze all your sales data, they will than attach reviews to your shop and finally they will oblige you to play by their rules or die (banned or killed by bad reviews) and either way they will grow thanks to your hard work.

I'm not joking, this is exactly what they have done (and keep doing) with "partners". Amazon is all but transparent and it has been growing like crazy during the last 6-8 years thanks to this exact strategy. Online is not enough anymore, they need to conquer local stores as well. The empire strikes back.
There is no replacement for WPF on desktop. I'm pretty sure at this point that WPF is still more popular than WinRT.
I suspect that it could be because "math" in USA elementary schools means years of doing arithmetic exercises, whereas kids in some other countries move on to symbolic math, like solving for unknown variables in equations. Kids need the symbolic stuff to be brought in as fast as possible, while their brains are malleable.
I prefer LESS since its syntax is essentially a superset of CSS.

I'd still be interested in hearing the arguments in favor of SASS.
All of Amazon's logistics for delivery / warehousing is available to you for a small fee..
No, the router still forwards the traffic, but in software rather than hardware. Read the section entitled "Background Information" inside the Cisco document linked at the bottom of the article.

In particular, the telling error message is:

%MLSCEF-DFC4-7-FIB_EXCEPTION: FIB TCAM exception, Some entries will be software switched
The spreadsheet, the one "graphical programming language" to make it into widespread use by nonexperts.
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I just want to second this, I didn't fully understand networking until I wrote my own stack and threw packets on the wire. A simple stack with ARP/ICMP/IP/UDP can be written in a day and seeing your very own ping packets fly across the globe is pretty damn awesome.
This is annoying to me in the US as well. I'm trying to stay fluent in my other language, and finding good non-English content on Amazon, iTunes, Netflix, Spotify, etc is close to impossible. No matter what my language is set to.