I clicked around a bit and found some "word lists" for Spanish. They seem to be doing a standard description of a visual, with pics to come later I suppose.
Ie. Buen Tiempo (good weather)
The instructions say to imagine eiher:
When the weather is good you can go out and have a "good time".
or
When the weather is good a jazz bad will have "good tempo".
I've seen this stuff for years...hints like imagine an arrow in a bowl of rice to remember that "Arroz" is Spanish for rice.
About time. I have been getting these for years and never even unwrapped the plastic. It is a massive waste. Four phone books have sat unopened in the lobby of my apartment for weeks now. No-one wants them and no-one wants to throw them away.
This is a welcome set of changes. It looks like with some clever programming you can finally map reduce across collections which was a huge limitation before.
I disagree. There are hundreds if not thousands of people willing to waste his time (Linus) with theory and conversation, his abrupt, rude tone makes it clear that unless you are communicating actual information, not just theories, don't bother him with this stuff. It is rude but I expect he does not want to be bothered with fluff, only real information.
Another gotcha with sharding is that during a re-balance some documents will be on "both" shards simultaneously. Thus issuing a count command repeatedly on a 100k doc collection will see the count bounce up as it shards. 100k, 106k, 100k, 104k etc. This is not a problem for lookups of single documents but means any row scans will produce inconsistent values if the collection is re-balancing. There is a certain mode you can trigger for scan queries that may address this but I have not tested it yet.
You learn a lot about mongodb just by playing with it. It is super simple to set up and just hammer with different tests. I'm playing around with 4 extra large instances wired to 4 drives each in raid 0 on amazon right now and having a blast.
This is a language driver issue. By default, some language drivers for mongo use connection pools. When operating in this mode, five inserts will get processed by five different connections in an arbitrary order. The advantages are speed and no need for managing connections (ie. try { getConnection() } finally { freeConnection() }. Thus in default usage, no leaked connections and speed is great but this behavior is very surprising when you learn about it as it is not at all obvious.
Mongo servers can be run in a mode that rejects the query with an error if it would result in a row scan. Very useful for safely avoiding bad queries slamming your server.
There is no contradiction. The second paragraph is just paraphrasing the standard calorie-in->energy-out theory of weight gain and averaging the 'graph' of weight gain for analytic purposes. Ie. he never states that you are storing exactly 19 calories per day, simply that over 20 years, you are storing an 'average' of 19 calories per day. This is a very normal way to discuss these numbers. For example, a scientist might describe the PHV (pubertal height velocity) of a typical male as 9cm/year but these are growth spurts and are not actually continuous.
I also stopped using shaving cream. My method is as follows. Turn shower up just slightly hotter than will kill you. Sit on floor of tub and just let water soak your head and face. The extra distance to the floor of the shower is why the water should be hotter than is normally tolerable. Now just sit there and enjoy your sauna/steam. After a good time soaking I am now very relaxed and the hair on my face should be super soft. I then grab the razer, just a normal disposable, and do a blind shave while sitting under the hot water. When I'm done, turn the water temp down a bit and clean up the missed bits in a mirror. The whole process is very relaxing and easy and takes only a few minutes.
Agreed. I would be shocked to see an email from any mass mailing that did not include this kind of tracking. If you don't like this sort of thing, turn of images and HTML.
Cloudant has a very cool couchdb fork that uses a dynamo style k/v layer that then uses couchdb as its storage engine. They implement chained map/reduce with the caveats that A) the chained m/r is generated async, so it is always out of data a bit and B) I never got it working in their hosted product. I checked them out for the chained M/R but was really wowed by the scale out capable with their system. The dynamo layer takes care of sharding, migrating shards, re-reducing parallel queries etc.
I am annoyed by this post a bit. I think the first problem is that to the average person who likes classical music, the stuff he is talking about has absolutely nothing to do with what they think of as classical music. They have attempted to hijacked a genre from its popular meaning. His analogy to modern art is revealing as modern art took great pains to distance and distinguish itself from the movements that came before it. By contrast, this "new" music is desperate to inherit the mantle of the classical label while abandoning the core tenants of why people like it in the first place. In all other walks of music, artists just write and play it, the listeners categorize and name it. Classical music is, by contrast, a tightly controlled club with a bunch of smart guys deciding behind a curtain what is and is not legitimately classical. In the real world, new genres are formed constantly and people are expected to have preferences. I can imagine how silly this article would sound if he was pondering why more Trance fans don't like Industrial (after all, they are both electronica). Mostly though, I find it massively hypocritical to criticize audiences as obsessed with "dead composers" while insisting that this new music, unrecognizable to most listeners be called classical music. They are themselves attempting to lay claim to the same legacy that the author is deriding his audience for obsessing over.
This treatment was widely used to control epilepsy before the advent of effective seizure drugs. The extreme difficulty of maintaining this diet made drugs the preferred choice. It is still used for epilepsy that resists drug treatment and doesn't really fall under quackery.
Dunno....looking at the code examples , particularly PolicyNodeImpl.java looks like they where simply converted straight from the original code. There is simply no way the Google code was not copied/generated from the Sun code.
The only drawback I can see to this system is that you can't spin the pedals backwards while coasting. I do this a lot to stretch my legs and just to pass the time on hills when I don't feel like speeding up. Peddling backwards will engage the forward motion "but along a miserable curve".
Virtually nowhere compares to Zurich in this regard. I have never seen a place that was so efficient and well run in my life. If there wasn't such a nasty anti-foreigner sentiment I would jump to move there.
I have always been terrible at multiplication and when I am forced to do it always use a method identical to the grid method. Except I didn't know it had a name. I just cheated and did this because it seemed like a non-optimal but straight forward way to an answer that was self evidently correct.
Not sure why your being down-voted. I had to re-read the first few sentences at least four times before I could understand what he was trying to say. It was a horribly constructed opening that almost made me abandon the article.
My wife has the verizon droid and she has not bought a single app while I have at least 30$ worth of apps on my iPhone. It is not just the reasons you have listed. Go into the reviews and you will find that every app in the store does not work on at least one model of phone. Additionally, when my wife had a problem with her phone the Verizon rep told her to uninstall all her applications and put them on one at a time, with a day or two between installs to try and find which one created the problems she was facing. I tried to help out by going online and found forums discussing which versions of which apps on this or that handset killed performance, battery life, stability etc. In short my wife has basically refused to install anything other than the stock applications and a few google apps. Google has, in my opinion, failed to create an ecosystem where people feel safe purchasing software.
* OK Computer (by Radiohead)
I've probably done 3-4 dark rooms listens through this in the last year alone.
* Venomous Villian (by Victor Vaughn aka MF Doom)
* Timeless (by Goldie)
* The Stone Roses (by The Stone Roses)
* Tranceport (by Paul Oakenfold)
I try and turn out the lights and listen to an album or two whenever my wife has Yoga or dinner with friends. Ideally I do this slightly drunk which helps me really lose myself in the music and keeps my brain from ruining everything.
I think a lot of these comments are missing the point. There is a huge difference between a mouse and a finger and you cannot just abstract this difference away by pretending that hover is only used for tooltips. Flash programmers from the very beginning embraced the platform because it allowed dynamic and flowing interaction with the movement of the mouse pointer. I can think of dozens of very common Flash techniques that will never work with a finger without being re-writen.
* Combo boxes that only expose the drop handle of hover.
* Controls (video) that only appear when you move the pointer
* Camera controls where the mouse motion is used to anchor view.
* Animated buttons, flyouts etc.
This app has an "AUDIO" link in the upper right that scrolls out on mouse over to expose the actual controls. This app simply will not work in a finger environment and would have to be re-written. I would argue virtually 100% of the flash applications written will have broken functionality in a click+drag only environment.
Most of these apps will "work" but in a massively degraded state. Many of them will simply be incapable of being used.
You cannot gracefully degrade to a click/drag system from a hover/click/drag system. They are too different. Flash was developed to maximize the mouse paradigm. It will never work well with a finger interface.
Sometimes it is just laughable...I went to a website on my phone to look up the menu. I got a "flash required" message. I was at home so I dug out my laptop and went to the site. The "Flash" application was a static image with the hours and phone number printed on it.
This is really very key here. A study in China trying to figure out why two identical towns, right next to each other seemed to have radically different health profiles on their elderly eventually came to the conclusion that it was because one of the towns had a a modern road while the other was still paved with cobblestones. The difficulty of walking on the cobblestones kept the population substantially healthier. There are even some experimental retirement homes in Japan designed around this idea. Instead of trying to make everything easier, and allowing the population to grow weaker in response. The entire home is designed to challenging. Things like short door frames so people have to duck.
He is missing/ignoring the obvious. Although the iPhone may only be 15% of the smartphone market in terms of units shipped, it represents something on the order of 98% of the market in terms of user dollars spent on applications. This is the only number that matters if you are selling an app. The number of installed platforms is meaningless.