tomkarlo

If your ergo expert is talking about auras instead of measuring your dimensions and evaluating your posture, you need to find a real ergo expert. Even for ad-hoc use in meeting rooms and hotel rooms, a good expert can help you do a better job and protect your nerves. Anyone who works at a computer all day should probably go at least once a year, just like an annual physical.

http://mindfulmotionphysicaltherapy.com/what-is-an-ergonomic... (For info purposes - not endorsing this particular practitioner.)

It's worth talking to an ergo specialist, but if you can't easily keep your wrists up it often means your broader setup isn't right - your chair is too low or your keyboard is too high (common on desks based on old designs.)

I've had carpal and nerve issues in the past, so I watch this a lot... generally you can drive the better habits simply by reconfiguring the work setup.

No, because even if users tried to do that, the panopoly of non-Apple PCs out there, and their regular name changes, would counfound any kind of traction.

Apple laptops don't have numbers in the last decade. There's been several generations of the "MacBook Pro". The screen size is a descriptor and not actually part of the product name.

The same effect is evident in cars: if I say "BMW 3-series" or "328i" you have a pretty good idea what I'm talking about, but if I say "Kia Cadenza"... and that's because BMW has maintained that brand for what, 30 years now?

At least in the position on the right, that's not good form. You can see the intent on the top of the wrist, which means you're not in a neutral position for typing. I can't tell what's up on the left.

Personally, I find my watch tends to sit above my wrist, so it's not over the palm rest at all.

In terms of what the hand rests look like, it doesn't matter. They've been the same since the introduction in 2006. :)

It seems similar to how GPS is used to find location - you only know the distance from each satellite, not the direction. Contact with one satellite places you on an arc (or circle), two sats put you on one of the two spots where the arc around each intersects, and three isolates your position to a single intersection of three arcs at established distances from each satellite. (And four gives you altitude.)

You're not supposed to - but most of us do it. In theory, you're only suppose to rest your wrists downwards when not typing, because doing so takes them out a neutral position. I'm not saying you should change, just trying to discourage the notion that's a healthy habit. (http://www.webmd.com/back-pain/proper-sitting-posture-for-ty...)

Maybe because they have simple and straightforward names that it's reasonable to expect most people will understand. Whereas if you said "my Dell Latitude 3300" most people would have no specific mental image for that.

Like it or not, the simplicity of Apple's product line and naming scheme makes their product names more meaningful.

Just because a strap has a buckle doesn't mean it will ever hit your computer. I wear a Timex Expedition with a leather and fabric strap, and it's almost impossible to make the buckle touch my Macbook because it's too high up on the inside of my wrist - my hand would have to be almost perpendicular to the keyboard, with the backside of my thumb rotated down towards the keys.

They want it to, but unless it does today, it's not an "equivalent" yet. It's splitting hairs but the choice of that word implies they're equal in a way that "Microsoft's answer to Siri" or "alternative to Siri" does not. It's an implicit assessment of its relative capability.

Regardless of how insane deals may seem, you can still only evaluate them based on available facts. If you're going to start speculating about fictional future revenue streams, there's no point to even bothering to contemplate if the price makes sense.

Maybe, but they're also entirely speculative. We can only evaluate the price based on the business they have, not imaginary alternate revenue streams.

There's only about 1bn smartphone users, of which Whatsapp probably has 45% penetration, and some other large percentage are on competing platforms. Yes, that 1bn is growing, but it's also moving into market segments with much lower income levels. Even if we think this is going to increase 4x that probably doesn't justify a 12X sales valuation.

At 400M users, how much more are they really going to grow? Maybe 2-4x. They're at a point where they're almost bounded by the number of people on earth with mobile devices.

Not sure how you're figuring that. At best - 1.5Bn users locked in - you're at less than $1bn _revenue_ (after you net-out the 30% that goes to Apple or Google for an in-app transaction) and much lower net profits (presumably, it costs some fraction of a dollar in ops, bandwidth and cpu to support a paying user for a year.)

Also, even at $1bn in revenue, this is 16X sales... that's usually the kind of price you'd see for a company that can still grow a lot. When you have 1/12 of the world's population as users, and you're capped at $1 per year per user, there's not a lot of places to grow. Clearly FB valued this based on strategic value to their broader platform.

That's a lot of money for an app with relatively little lock-in and a $0.70 (maximum) ARPU.

The fact that FB chose to pay $12BN in stock for this tells you something about what they think of their current valuation.

The rush to build big desktop sites is largely over, and the stragglers / late adopters are the most likely to value lower-cost, lower-risk solutions than the early customers. None of that should be surprising.

There's another wave coming: although most top-tier web sites have already done it, a lot of these SMB web sites are going to need to adopt to a mobile-first world where more of their traffic is coming from phones.

I'd suggest that's the right place to look, but you should always expect that any industry so close to technology is going to evolve continually towards greater automation, because it's populated largely by software developers who are the exact group likely to implement that kind of automation.

If you want a job / industry that doesn't evolve quickly, you need to be somewhere with large amounts of physical implementation and low risk tolerance. Like bridge building, or oil drilling, or mining. People can go their whole careers in those industries in largely the same role, because they're more about repeating the same process exactly and dependably than attempting to quickly innovate.

As others have pointed out, the (regional) expectation may be that the subject is living at home with their parents (rent / utilities), that there's state-provided healthcare and education (debt). At this income level you might not be paying much income tax, either.

~30% of my post-tax take-home goes to rent, which is pretty typical in the US. If I didn't have to pay that, I'm sure I could save a bunch more!

A system that you can't afford to use is never very good for you. Healthcare systems should be judged on how they serve the overall population, not just those who can afford to use them.

Yes.

One Dropbox supports the API, you can open your files directly from external applications. Box.net already has support out.

The linked doc is specifically minimum grade-level standards. It explicitly states that it doesn't cover how schools should address students that exceed those minimum standards, which would include anyone taking more advanced math courses.

"The Standards set grade-specific standards but do not define the intervention methods or materials necessary to support students who are well below or well above grade-level expectations."

I.e., this defines what constitutes "grade-level" skill sets, but lots of better schools will exceed those standards by one or more years - their 10th graders may be operating at the 12th-grade standard, etc.

As others have pointed out, it varies widely by school and district. I went to public high school in the US, and we did Calculus and Multivariate Calculus in 11th and 12th grade. (And this is not uncommon, given that it maps to the two Advanced Placement math tests widely taken by US high school students.)

FYI if you just want to go to Mexico or Canada, they have Passport "Cards" that cost less.

> We'd love to go abroad, the only prohibition to that is the cost of passports.

? A US Adult Passport costs $110 and last 10 years; that's $11 a year. (Kids are less.) Are you in a country where it costs a lot more than that?

Here's a few: "Taxpayers", "Customers", "Voters"

Given the push to 4K on TVs and other video viewing devices, it seems like they'll catch up fast enough. 4K at the typical viewing distances is pretty close to retina in terms of the number of degrees of your vision each pixel covers.

Not for the protesters. The complaint is that tech workers are driving up rents and housing prices in SF, not that they're causing traffic. (As I understand it.) If there was an office anywhere on Bart, people would even more likely to live in SF and Oakland.

"Improving Bay Area Economy Pushing Caltrain Ridership To Limit" http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/11/29/caltrain-may-be-...

And that's at just ~54,000 daily riders. The big tech companies on the peninsula must have well over 100,000 employees.