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After doing moderate strength training in these areas along with core exercises as part of a cross training class (2x a week) my back pain that I’ve had for over a decade dissapeared.

I read a letter in the Financial Times over the weekend...

Forty years ago, when studying for my engineering degree, I learnt a rule of thumb that said that nuclear fusion is always 20 years away. I was therefore reassured by the date given in the report (“Sites sought for Step change in energy supply”, December 3) for the Step nuclear fusion plant — 2040.

(Edit: Unfortunately it’s behind a paywall but will include the link anyway https://www.ft.com/content/e5af6548-a3a9-451f-8f92-268679d5d...)

We used Hired to great success 4-5 years ago in Austin but overtime the quality of candidate went down. At a dinner with our account rep early on he said they spent $20k to acquire each candidate. Their pricing structure at the time was more like $25k/yr for 20 introductions/mo. My best guess is that over time they blew through all of their cash and had to spend a lot less on acquiring and vetting talent. At some point in the last two years they priced their product similarly to what a retained recruiter would (I don’t remember exactly but it was either 20k per hired candidate or 20% or first years salary), and they weren’t competitive

I can't remember the source, but I learned this in a management class in college about 10 years ago. It was a general statement about learning something new. You don't know what your don't know (so you are optimistic) -> You realize you know nothing (so you are negative) -> Then you get better with practice -> Mastery

We use Keen a lot on our engineering team. In our case we send them a lot of a events, but only query a few dozen times a month. However those queries are done in times when we need to quickly query data. Saved our ass a few times since started using it. They have libs on all of the languages we use. There is no excuse for a frontend dev or backend dev on any team to just log as much data as they can. That's the key...the barrier is low enough where there really is no excuse AND you don't have dev ops screaming at you sending too much data.

Most of our non technical people can't use the dashboard (I think this is from lack of effort rather than something wrong on Keen's side), but it is powerful and easy to use. Someone doesn't have to know SQL or Hadoop to get what they want.

Anyways YMMV but we have really liked using it.

EDIT: like others have posted want to also say that they have great customer service. Have had no issues but feel like they have made sure I could get in touch if I needed to

They might provide by paying for it rather than hosting themselves

I can't tell if this is corporate trolling or not

It's an equality vs liberty issue. Either my free speech is violated because you have more money to voice your side, or my speech is violated because the government isn't letting me express my views by buying an advertisement. My point is that there is a tradeoff. Surrounding any different issue you have different people on different sides of the scale. i.e. you don't like the person buying the advertisement so it is undemocratic OR I am very passionate about the issue but the government won't let me spend money to advocate my position.

This is how the WTO is able to enforce its regulations. Because the WTO can't actually forced a country to pay another for unfair trade practices (the WTO doesn't have an army), the WTO is allowed to permit winning plaintiffs to break agreements or enact retaliatory tarrifs to recoup losses[1]

It comes down to comparative advantage[2]: Countries are better off by opening up free trade and thus have an incentive to keep things relatively open. The WTO acts as intermediary to prevent an arms race of tariffs and retaliatory actions that end up hurting countries in the long run. It seems ironic because the WTO is letting another country enact a retaliatory tariff but for the most part the WTO is one of the more effective global institutions at enforcing its principal.

There is a lot more nuance but I hope this helps explain this a little more.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_United_States_steel_tariff [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_trade#Ricardian_m...

CYA blog post

They didn't. I believe Jacob left few weeks ago.

I found that renaming CSS file names using the hash of the contents does not always work because any changes to dependencies (e.g. images) won't always bubble up to the CSS. I forget all of the reasons why it didn't always work, but it I think it had to do with CDN invalidation for files that I could not-rename (e.g index.html).

The process I use computes the hash of every file and creates a dependency map then I use the hash of the contents of a file and its dependencies to rename the file.

I see.

Do you know if messages are encrypted from device-to-device on BBM or if they are just encrypted to the hub like I message seems to be

Protocol aside is there anything significantly different in the way blackberry handles BBM messages and Apple handles iMessage messages?

How reliable is this service trying to be?

While I think it is a cool service if a person is just hacking around, it is not something I would use with any revenue generating project.

many of these issues can changed to be more old-gmail-like http://jasoncrawford.org/2012/04/how-to-cope-with-the-gmail-...

1) remove important markers 2) add labels to actions/buttons

Yeah I never like when people toss around the term "media industry" especially in the context the author is talking about (it dying) because what exactly is media?

The author might as well have said "the media industry is dying...long live the media industry." Most of the companies that are indirectly referred don't appear to be dying at all. It's true that they are taking in less revenue, but the digital age allows them to produce and distribute at a fraction of the cost.

Hulu is a joint venture between Fox (News Corp), NBC (NBC Universal), and ABC (Walt Disney). The WSJ (owned by News Corp) has been successful in monetizing the audience instead of the content (charging you only after you have read a certain number of articles).

These companies will still be around for the foreseeable future, but instead of making billions on physical media (papers, DVDs, and CDs) they will be making billions from streaming and DRM'd content which have a lower cost to produce.

The cool thing though is that these same lowered costs allow artists to self publish if they want, but they will still need to make a deal with a distributor (perhaps directly with Apple or Amazon) to get there content into the market place.

Where the established industry has an advantage though is in its ability to market artists (and not so talented artists) outside of these new digital markets/channels.

Very clever. This seems like something I would see on reddit or even here on HN rather than on stack overflow.

I find the "locked" and "closed" messages very interesting. It is a good indication of the type of culture the stack overflow community has. While I find this very funny, many people that run the community clearly want people to ask seriously questions and for people to give thoughtful and on topic answers (not to suggest that it is a bad thing).

Completely agree with your assessment on taking a more "shocking" approach, and also with the original comment that many do not know that SOPA and Lamar Smith are connected some how.

It think they are using the current phrase as a parody of the famous anti-litter ad campaign "Don't Mess With Texas" [1]

As a Texan who happens to live in Lamar Smith's district, I think the effectiveness is entirely dependent on where in his district it is bought. His district includes SW Austin and many rural areas such as Kerrville.

Edit:

for some reason the wikipedia page is not linking correctly to wikipedia. using google search

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=dont+mess+with+texas+wiki

One of my friends said that his grandparents would light their stove before sundown on friday and leave it lit until sundown Saturday so they would not break kosher laws

I have also heard that a lot of devices have kosher mode. E.g. refrigerators lights not coming on and power randomly going in and out much like this swith

Like live wire

would like to see the app. it seems like it would have been a hard task.

now, trying to think of which apps were featured during the super bowl. the GM one? anyone have any guesses?

Glad there are people spearheading discussions around backbone project organization.

I agree that backbone is very powerful, but talk is just beginning on how to fit it in to current web app projects that don't fit the boostrapped-singled-html page model

Agreed. I also see this "some company no one's heard of only hiring geniuses/rock stars/talented people"

It's almost implying that all other job postings want to hire idiots.

A title of "startup looking for developer that wants to help us build our company" would be both refreshing and compelling

I mean I got the point of what the author is referencing and agree with some of his points about the Valley being an echo chamber. However it can not be considered a Silicon Valley darling unless one wants to admit that success (I think that Groupon is, but I will accept that many don't think so) is somehow only associated with the area. I guess that is why I felt the need to point out that Groupon is not based in SF.

Edit: clarifying success reference to be clear that I mean I think that Groupon is a success and not that I think that success must be associated with SF

going to get down voted, but Groupon is based on Chicago not in in Bay Area (or as the author calls "ValleyWood")

Congrats on launching. Saying this ruined your launch is a bit dramatic. The ability to put out fires when they happened is crucial to startups. Seems like the problem only existed for a few hours. It could have been worse. Write a test and move on

I do agree with the buzzword comment, but her pattern, however it is named, is a good one. We have been using at uShip.com for about 20 months.

It is also worth noting that facebook contracted her to help them reduce their out-of-control CSS. I don't remember her exact numbers, but I know she cut down the size down by >50%

Good tips for decreasing marginal js file size with google closure compiler, but this doesn't really protect your code at all. It might make it a little bit harder for someone to immediately figure out what your code doing, but by know means will it stop anyone who isn't new to js. I have gotten used to going through competitors highly minified code to make sure they rant stealing any of my js

An originator of a call/put option will usually always buy/short the underling stock to hedge against the risk of the derivative