You forgot to first make a small lengthwise cut in the fig, and fill it with blue cheese. Then wrap it with bacon, secure with a toothpick, and put it on the bbq.
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My startup work began in 1993, and my career has been largely Internet related development, including these products and companies...
http://yourlink.ca/
http://sendables.jibjab.com/everyday_fun/category/starring_you
http://msnack.com/ (that company didn't work out to well, that site might be gone)
http://repairpal.com/
http://www.zendesk.com/
http://www.realgravity.com/
https://www.lendeavor.com/
https://ruby.social/@craftiness
I've done video transcoding in the past. While I wasn't an expert on the legal/patent issues, I know that the product we used (helix mobile producer, from Real) indemnified us such that we could then use ffmpeg as long as it was on the same machine.
If you use this service, you might want to inquire into patent issues, and if you are covered.
If we assume that people who live on less than $10 a day don't have a computer, or access to one, or cannot actively use Facebook on whatever computer they do have access to...
That's 5 in every 13 people who have access to Facebook.
From my experience, postgres is faster, especially at more difficult problems (complex joins). I've never had issues in postgres joining several tables into 10 million plus row relations, and then filtering down to the set of interest.
I did a recent test adding a similar column to a MySQL table with 3 million rows in it compared to adding a column to a postgres table with 30 million rows in it. MySQL took 3000 seconds, and postgres took 82 ms.
Functional indexes. Doing things like "create unique index user_emails on users (lower(email));" works great in postgres.
A quick google reveals this: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Why_PostgreSQL_Instead_of_My...
It's a bit old, but it might provide more insight.
I find that surprising. Maybe I'm just an edge case. I rarely make or receive calls on my 'phone' (maybe 2-3 times a month). Texts are much more common; at least 5 times a week.
Maps, however, are probably daily. My phone is basically a calendar, mapping, suggestion device.
It doesn't have to be overly taxing physical work (requiring a lot of strength), but it is usually a very active physical work (requiring constant movement).
Getting well paid while doing it might be tough. It is not a well paid job by default. However, with some imagination you might be able to use your scientific/math/engineering background to make products that have decent margin.
HN: http://to./4dw2
Note that the 'dot' (in to.) is necessary to make the hostname absolute, so it doesn't fail in pretty much every browser. Otherwise, the URL should just be: http://to/
If you think the cost of prevention is expensive, wait for the cost of the cure.
I highly recommend workrite desks...
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As an aside, it bothers me that news sites like CNET (and others) don't actually link to a source. In this case, they had no issue using the image from the Cisco site, but couldn't be bothered to link to Cisco's actual news post. I digress, maybe I'm making something out of nothing.
Still, as someone who really doesn't want to have to own a high-end windows box for the sole purpose of gaming, this announcement make me (cautiously?) optimistic.
However, even with fixed-width available, I almost always go after the "show original" feature* instead. I find that having the message isolated in a separate tab altogether makes it much easier to read.
* "Show original" is under the drop-down menu for the message itself.
Other than 'backstage' interviews, I suspect most footage is shot by IOC crews.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/love-and-super-bowl.h...
This statement was made in comparison to merb, which succeeded in getting more mindshare than the other 'Rails competitors.' This was largely because merb attempted to do much the same things that Rails was trying to do, but to do them in a much better way.
He was indirectly positive about Sinatra throughout his talk, and when covering router changes, kept describing how you could mount Sinatra applications inside of your Rails3 app.
The "prototype sucks comment" was made along with a very tongue-in-cheek "everyone will move to jquery" comment. He was laughing when he said it, and I got the impression that he was simply making a joke as the author of jquery.
He never once said anyone was stupid. Actually, that's not entirely true, he was pretty critical about some of the code found in Rails 2.x. He backed his criticism up by showing the code, and I certainly didn't think he was out of line.
My change from 'three squares' to 4-5 smaller meals a day has had quite a positive impact on my health and my lifestyle. As such, I'm not about to give it up. I really like never being really hungry. (note that I define a meal as 'eating something', even if that something is simply a banana.)
> Notice how you never hear from people who have stayed thin for years by counting calories.
No, I didn't notice. In fact, a lot of the people I know that have stayed fit for years have used calorie counting as part of their tool-set. The author of the book linked in my above comment is one of those people. However, that's just my experience.
Like the author of the original author stated, counting calories is used more as an educational tool than a micro-management tool. It helps people understand their own personal energy (im)balance. That may well be the crux of your point though.
I find it interesting that the research indicates something doesn't work that I have seen work with much success. I've always thought that calorie counting makes sense, since "you can't manage what you don't measure."
- count calories, and ensure that I maintain a calorie deficit (which is the only way to burn body fat).
- eat frequently, to reduce hunger and maintain an optimum metabolic rate.
- brief bouts of difficult exercise (3x30 minutes of anaerobic and 3x30 minutes of aerobic exercise a week) (the on an empty stomach part isn't very helpful).
- but, first and foremost, set goals and measure progress.
I've lost 25 pounds of body fat and gained 7 pounds of muscle mass in the last 14 weeks using this approach.
For the first 4 weeks I used the "Lose It!" application on my iPhone to help me better understand my calorie intake and burn rates. I couldn't recommend that application more.
My best source of information that I've found had been this...
http://www.amazon.com/Body-Fat-Solution-Principles-Maintaini...
(Note that the paperback is coming out in December.)
Since this particular plugin is aimed directly at postgres, I am not sure it really adds a great deal of value. It might be useful if it maintained the schema.rb file properly, but it does not.
So (at least IMO), I don't think this plugin is all that helpful. You can run straight SQL in rails migrations (and we do that whenever we need anything postgres specific).
According to http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/fbrowser.html the first web browser prototype was developed in late 1990/early 1991. Mosaic was released in March of 1993.
What I like about it the most is its level of verbosity for issues. It asks just the right amount of information, and no more.
A good example of redmine is the official Ruby language project: http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/
When I type this message (on mac firefox), ctrl-a/e takes me to the beginning and end of the line, which is what I expect. Also, ctrl-w, deletes a word backward, ctrl-k kills to the end of the line.
Most of these seem to work http://cheat.errtheblog.com/s/bash/
EDIT: I should add one more thing ... ctrl-w on firefox is very useful in the location bar (as in, it's very smart about what it defines as 'a word').
Seriously? An economist, of all people, is trying to convince me that we can't estimate the effectiveness of a health care system? At the same time he thinks he can estimate the effectiveness of a theoretical economic model for paying for a health care system? I call B.S.
His comment about Physicians earning much less in Canada than in the U.S. is also disingenuous. Canadian doctors spend the vast majority of their 40-hour workweek being doctors. In the U.S. doctors have to deal with both patients and insurance companies equally, raising the time they spend working and lowering the overall efficiency of providing care.
Besides, lawyers also make much less in Canada than in the U.S., as do senior executives. Is this also because of the health care system?
I like his thesis. I find it elegant and simple. It's too bad that any time he approached presenting a real fact in the article he did so dishonestly.
I do read the comments, as they are generally entertaining. If HN is a student lounge outside the computer lab, Reddit is the local pub ... right before closing time. Two environments that I find valuable :).
Very true.
"The fact that the plan for 'moving forward' [is] to pull in another framework wholesale, does not bode well for the Rails community."
Very untrue. In fact, very contradictory to what you first said. The fact that the the Rails community is so willing to adapt to the change that is Merb bodes very well for the community as a whole.
+1 for "the Ruby community != the Rails community." That's a statement worth echoing many times over.
Good luck!