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High intensity work is nothing new. Anyone who played sports in high school will tell you that practices are all about doing as much volume as you can in the limited time you have after school.

If it works for high school athletes, it works for people who are ten years older, too.

Personally, I look at results. If you can be motivated by Richard Simmons, go for it - the guy is 15 years older than my dad and is still in damn good shape. If you can be motivated by Crossfit, go for it, as long as you aren't getting scoliosis for time. If you can be motivated by the standard bro-split, that's great. Everyone is different.

All I can say is that when I show up to the gym, I'm lifting heavy, and I'm lifting to get freaking tired. It's worked for me. If flouncing on the elliptical for half an hour and doing 3 reps of 10 to success isn't doing anything, you might want to consider changing it up.
As a powerlifter, I still don't really understand the allure of crossfit. You don't develop strength nearly as efficiently as when following powerlifting or olympic lifting routines, you expend exceedingly more effort than traditional routines, and the strength gained isn't nearly as translational (there are few situations where such a blend of strength and endurance would actually be necessary).

Instead of doing crossfit, why not just lift and do HIIT?

Perhaps an element of it is the daily novelty. Maybe people dislike going in and doing the big 3 or olympic lifts every session? I don't really know.
This whole thread is a generalizations.All americans are not "fascinated" with extreme fitness.
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> Text is the most efficient communication technology. By orders of magnitude. This blog post is likely to take perhaps 5000 bytes of storage, and could compress down to maybe 2000; by comparison the following 20-pixel-square image of the silhouette of a tweeting bird takes 4000 bytes: <Twitter Logo Here>.

My reaction when reading this was, "Yeah, but that's because you encoded it in PNG. That's a 'good-enough' encoding, but you can definitely make it more efficient by making it an SVG, since that image is of the kind that's ideal for vector graphics." And then I remembered SVG is a text-based image format.

Touché, frog hop. Touché.

Adding to the point: karma system on sites such as Reddit has incentivized converting text into images, because text posts don't get karma. For example, r/quotesporn[1] (safe for work) has many more users and quotes than r/quotes[2] which allows only text.

As a collector of quotes, this annoys me to no end, because I can't copy/paste the quotes into my personal quotes collection.

[1] http://reddit.com/r/quotesporn (safe for work)

[2] http://reddit.com/r/quotes
How London's 2020 Tube trains were designed
The Design Thinking Behind London’s New $4B Subway Trains
We measure everything in our SaaS offerings with web analytics, mobile analytics, click-throughs, eCPM, etc - but what about true customer satisfaction?

The Net Promoter Score (NPS) is probably the best and most researched customer feedback metric.

Do you know what your SaaS's NPS is?
But really, all the other interesting stuff aside (cascading errors, modal input), it really boils down to the undefensible decision by Airbus to average inputs from both pilots.
Why clickbait titles are Overrated.
Was Dickens being paid by the word?
I started writing a sample-level audio suite in Java, for musical purposes:

https://github.com/williamberg/audioDCB

which I'll probably discard because Java is not the right tool for the job. Inspecting pydub/pydub/pyaudioop.py , I see there are methods for working on the sample level. I'll make a mental note to come back to this project when I get back on the computer music bandwagon again.
I would argue Philip Glass as being as important as Beethoven to music but I'm probably in the minority here.
This is like complaining about the difference between Perl and Java. Use the right tool for the job. I for one relish the kind of writing that used to be normal before WW1 and Hemingway. I also like Hemingway and newer writing.

Maybe the writing asked more of the reader in the past because it was a proportionally larger share of their attention, in the days before electronic media.
This was my impression too, as an American studying in Europe. I was amazed that everyone seemed to be in "okay" shape, but few people focussed on exercise as in America. They went for walks after meals out of habit, biked places out of convenience, and ate moderately sized meals as normal.
That's a kludge. "True" form is text and the the IDEs add a layers on top.

Why is text the "true" form? What's the difference between an IDE that uses text as the "true" form and one which uses a tree as the "true" form but uses text as the UI and serialization format?
I've grabbed the missing routines from musl libc (and culled some parts of the Lua standard library for the sake of reducing the number of requirements, e.g. io.*), and used venerable Doug Lea's malloc for memory allocations.

The stock Lua 5.1 has the least number of dependencies, so I picked it - the idea is to practice and then to eventually have LuaJIT run on bare metal.
Projects fail slowly, and then all at once
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We do that when it's necessary for stability of the structure, not as a goal to itself. What is strength useful for?

(and yes, this is a rephrase of the previous question because of your non-answer)
For three years I worked for a second hand store, using the companies box truck to both deliver purchases, and pick up donated materials from peoples homes.

This article reminds me of some of the hoarder houses I came across during that time. Sometimes it was my job to help clean up junk, but usually when I came across a hoarder it was because they found something in our store that they just couldn't live without and wanted it delivered for them. It was always a bit unsettling to come to a hoarders house with more junk for them to pile up and realize that I was contributing to an already out of control mess.

I've seen houses that were so packed with crap that the owner literally had to carve out walkways so that they could move from room to room. The rest of the space was stacked with boxes, books, furniture, etc. and was inaccessible.

I met a few fanatic collectors as well that I would consider hoarders.
One guy had so many toy trains and so little livable space, that he was moving boxes off his bed every night so that he could get to sleep, and then stacking them up again in the morning so that he could get around. He was very proud of his train collection.

The strangest to me was an older woman who had worked out a deal with my manager to get all the boxes of Christmas knicknacks we had leftover from the holiday season. There was a good 20-30 boxes. She lived alone in a big old Victorian fully decorated with Christmas things. Her living space wasn't really out of control, just over the top tacky. She then showed me the barn where she wanted me to unload the truck, which was packed with more Christmas memorabilia than I've ever seen in one place. I asked her why she thought she needed any more stuff and she said that she just really loved Christmas. She too was very excited about her collection and felt proud to have gathered so much. It was kind of sad...

Now, the coolest collection I got to see was from an aging computer repair guy. This guy wasn't really a hoarder though, just an enthusiast. He had a room in his house where he was storing old machines and called me in to help him get rid of them. There were a good 2-3 hundred computers in his collection. He had been collecting them since the 70's and for years wanted to open up a computer museum. Old Commador PETs, Radio shack TSR-80s, all kinds of neat stuff and most of it was still working. When he contacted me, his health was failing and he just wanted to clear it out. I tried to save as much of the older machines as I could for resale, but most of it ended up being recycled.
I found Dickens' sentence a little easier to follow. Perhaps because it didn't really shift subject/object so much?
Here's an interesting portion of a Q&A panel from the same dotGo 2014 conference (http://dotgo.sourcegraph.com/post/99652344343/go-team-q-a-de...)

Q: There are several dependency management tools in the wild: godep, gpm, etc. Are there any plans to provide this functionality in the core?

Brad Fitzpatrick: We don’t want to dictate a policy, so we hope the community fights it out and a victor emerges. Then maybe we’ll bless that one. Then if everyone likes it and it has been stable for a couple of years, maybe we’ll add it to the core.

Brad Fitzpatrick: Part of the reason why we don’t care as much about dependency management inside Google is that we don’t use the go tool inside Google.

Andrew Gerrand: The lack of versioning built into the Go tool incentivizes library authors to provide good, stable APIs.
Interesting. I still think that the Flux (specifically Reflux) is the way to go with React. I know this solves a different issue, but I've been itching to build a truly unidrectional data flow application with something like a Rails REST API and an Elixir socket server with a Redis queue in between.

All requests go to a REST API which only returns head responses, and shoves the actual data response onto a queue. The websocket server reads off the queue and publishes the response to connected clients.

On the client side it's all actions and dispatchers and react components. Keep meaning to write an in depth blog post about that when I get the time.
the + attribute is not supported everywhere so please for the love of god stop giving out your bad in fact terrible tutorials and polluting the internet with bad code
Why is it that 'this' has appeared as a one word response in 3 of the 6 sibling responses to this question? Is it related to the subject matter? Should I start reading 'This.' in a meat-head voice?
It's just periodic paragraphs in Dickens. He is kinda showing off that he can make the whole paragraph make sense.

WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.

In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the day and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that I was destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender born towards the small hours on a Friday night.

I need say nothing here, on the first head, because nothing can show better than my history whether that prediction was verifed or falsified by the result. On the second branch of the question, I will only remark that unless I ran through that part of my inheritance while I was still a baby, I have not come into it yet. But I do not at all complain of having been kept out of this property; and if anybody else should be in the present enjoyment of it, he is heartily welcome to keep it.
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Hey! I implemented that DLL in Wine! :) Doesn't currently parse INF files, heh.
Great work. Eventually consistent state across sessions will be the norm rather than a novel feature in a few UIs.
Benchmarking Go State Machine Implementations
7 out of 10 app developers don’t earn enough to sustain full-time development
Yeah it's basically just conditioning work rebranded. Nothing new that boxers, rugby players, an so on, didn't do before. It's a little bit a "response" to the strength and size centered lifting, or simple endurance cardio.

I think the problem and criticism is that many of those programs aren't programs at all, and they aren't based on anything, not even personal experience. If you look at any elite crossfitter his training is more likely to look like traditional strength training with proper form lifting, plus maybe WOD for the conditioning part, than pure crossfit WOD centered training. Centering the training in whatever weaknesses he may have, and so on. And of course whatever exercise they are planning to compete on.

Of course if your trainer is a good trainer you are going to get that, in a normal gym or in a crossfit gym. The problem is that as a program the base crossfit program doesn't offer much to a novice, except for the community and the encouragement that comes with it to pursue high intensity training. But outside of that the program itself won't offer any proper guiding unless you have a trainer that provides that guiding outside the program.
Angle Of Attack sensors would be my thought.
No discussion of labor? You guys are missing a major part of the argument.

Looking at OPs article, if my purpose is to explain human rights, text is staggeringly more efficient in labor of creation, not just time spent interpreting it or storing it or searching it.

An artists life work might produce a painting that conveys the entire meaning of the definition from the article of human rights. Maybe. I bet that would be an amazing painting and I'd enjoy viewing it. But ... aside from high art, can we afford general commerce in an artistic style? Is it affordable for society to create an interpretive dance implementation of my mortgage statement and is that a wise use of limited artistic skill and labor?

Its possible to create deeply meaningful works of art, at staggering expense of materials and labor both creation and interpretation and storage and archiving. That doesn't mean that most human creations (my water bill, the instructions for my TV, the receipt Amazon included with my $4 HDMI cable) are worthy of artistic labor.

If a graphics artist or painter is any good, I don't want that artist to waste time on my electric bill, I'd much rather have the fruits of their labor hanging on a wall in a frame. If they're not any good, I don't want them screwing up my electric bill making it incomprehensible.
Video seems to be popular with younger people. I believe this was discussed on HN a while ago. It might also explain the enormous abundance of frighteningly long videos going over the most simple things. My 8 year old daughter regularly makes 20-60+ minute videos about play sessions (dolls, LEGO, Play-Doh - not that LEGO isn't fantastic, but there's a limit...). YouTube seems filled with similar stuff. I've seen 10+ minute videos that are really just about how to type tracert in a Windows command prompt. Someone apparently watches this stuff.

There's also the people that like having videos running while doing something else. I find this to be a disturbing habit, especially when it's done advertisement laden TV nonsense. But people seem to enjoy it.
How can I get the author and title by knowing the ISBN using Google Book API?
very similar to this notion:

"How did you go bankrupt?"
"Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly."

-- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
How to attract Kickstarter fans before your project becomes another failure
I think there is no "proper" difference. For what I understand it's only a practical way to have a segregated state only the component is interested of. React.js is a valuable precursor but I hope we'll have something different soon.
I think the allure is in the barriers to entry.

I see a lot of heavy lifters who start out solo, or lift in groups of 2 or maybe 3. They use their time efficiently and get a lot done, they don't spend the whole day in the gym and besides the casual chat with other people in the gym, they don't form a huge group. The heavy lifters do routines that seem impossible to start with. Nobody looks at a powerlifter and says 'sure, I'll do that'. You have to start small, and then good form is really important. Frankly it may even be a bit scary to step into the weight room and start with light weights, unsure of your form.

Then there's cross-fit. It's mostly done in huge groups by people of various levels of fitness. It's very vocal, it's very collective/team based. While exercises are done individually, they're done within a group, often with some form of coaching. Anyone can start, form isn't a priority and from what I've seen, form is adjusted to finish the exercise, meaning you can take shortcuts and use bigger weights and do more reps easier, without actually training as hard as when you'd have used 'proper' form.

It's inviting with low-barriers to entry.

The thing that surprises me is this, once you're doing cross-fit for a few months, get into it, do your reading on diet, resting and exercises, how the hell you can continue doing cross-fit is beyond me.

That having been said, a guy above this post said 'do whatever works for you'. And I really agree with that. Somehow some people really dig cross-fit and it's the only thing that gets them excited about exercise. If that's true, then great. I applaud cross fit for that reason alone. As long as they don't lift really heavy with bad form like I've seen some do, cause that can give you injuries you'll feel every day for the next 20 years. It's that bad.
I think the complete saying is "the market has the capacity to stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent".
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When I pass a crossfit gym I think, "Hey, that looks like fun." I've never thought that about any standard gym. Olympic lifts are interesting and technical, but I wouldn't call them fun.
> Traditional gym exercises are boring and hard.

I think it's not just about boredom, it's about the time it takes. If you can trade 60 minutes on a treadmill 5 times a week for 20 minutes of HIT 3 times a week, that's over three productive hours a week saved already (and more likely 5-10, if you count going to and from gym, additional showering and the fact that it fragments your day if you're not smart about your daily routine).

I'm planning to start HIT for this very reason. I don't like exercising, I have many more interesting things to do, but I need to improve my health. Therefore I seek to maximize effect while minimizing time wasted.
Any clue as to what they do use internally?
Once you actually explain them to people, it's hard to argue that Arrow's theorem still lists desirable criteria. Some are surely reasonable sounding (eg non-dictatorship), but the "independence of irrelevant alternatives" is very deceptively-named: it requires that when voters preferences form a rock-paper-scissors relationship among a set of candidates, the system should never reflect that by having rock win once scissors enters the race.

Arrow calls scissors an "irrelevant alternative" to the race between paper and rock (since scissors doesn't win but makes paper lose). This is just unreasonable -- if there exists a rock-paper-scissors loop among the top preferences of voters, then the voting system should at least acknowledge that reality and make sure it picks someone within that loop (the particular winner is somewhat arbitrary).

And, indeed, if you instead use a more reasonable criteria that requires just that -- that the winner must come from the smith set -- then all of the "reasonable" criteria are satisfiable. Hence the overhyping of Arrow's theorem.

You are right, though, that basing analysis of voting systems on rigid criteria can lead you into trouble. Over-reliance on Arrow's theorem is just an example of that.
Anonabox could be the everyman's answer to Internet privacy
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Anywhere I can keep track of you and your progress? I am looking at an almost identical setup (with Elixir) and need to get some inspiration.
It was bound to happen as most things well suited to the market.
I can see the day when teenagers can't drive a non-automated car, just like most people today have a hard time driving a vehicle with a standard transmission. It wasn't that long ago that everyone had to know how to drive a standard.
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Feet-on with RocketSkates, which are exactly what they sound like
A shorter article on the same topic (900 words vs 3000 odd)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewcave/2014/10/13/whats-best...

tl;dr “Throughout history, the best leadership has come from teams that that combined people who had complementary talents”
Can't access the site, seems like there's some quota on docs.google.com... Does anyone have a cached version? (WebArchive can't crawl it due to robots.txt)
So what is your minimum definition of fit?
Yeah, check the comments at http://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/2j65lb/go_qa_at_dotg... (specifically the blogspot link and Andrew Gerrand's (enneff's) comment).
I think that a lot of people play sports in high school, were in reasonable shape then, and then find themselves in their 20's/30's/etc. in worse shape and uninspired by the routes they can take to get fit.

I remember hating running suicides on the basketball court, but I got into better shape running those than I do running on the treadmill, which I find largely tedious and am constantly finding ways to keep my mind entertained/distracted.

There is also the team aspect. When we did conditioning, we had coaches sharing the same experience. I don't get that running, lifting by myself, doing P90x, or other solitary workouts.

I've never done Crossfit, largely because I find their power lifting routines dangerous, but I can certainly understand why more extreme group exercise is really increasing in popularity. I think a lot of people grew up exercising in similar conditions, know that it worked for them then, and want to find something similar later in life.
Also, if we're talking about theoretical "students," quality is often more important than subject. Academics often recommend undergraduates "choose your course by the teacher, not the subject." Same principle here, if they work on something fun and they have fun, they will learn more.
The exploit seems to leverage PowerPoint files which are generally considered safe, and thus are allowed through mail systems and most normal good-practice behaviors. It uses a sideband exploit that allows PowerPoint to download and execute arbitrary content via a system service.

That is absolutely an exploit, similar to if I linked to an imgur jpeg that actually ran a trojan on your machine.
If it is in the wild then it is most responsible to let firms know right now. Now the administrators can choose if they want to block said files until the patch is released.
Not always, obviously. But I think it's important to at least differentiate between the purpose of law and the purpose of business. Assuming the best case for the former but the worst case for the latter doesn't make a lot of sense.

Laws at the very least could act to limit the ability of corporations to limit access and mine user privacy - but businesses in the best case are still going to attempt to do what makes money, which will almost never mean the less lucrative option of allowing their customers greater freedom and more privacy.

I think the general thesis here is that internet freedom is more secure in an environment where it is considered a right and not a term of service.
All of that can be abstracted at the OS-VM level.

As for Trillek I see that now. However if you looked at the project page alone without these references, it's very off-putting by the lack of a concrete plan and the abuse of flamboyant language.
I read the article and watched the videos at the end. Is this just one elaborate troll?