jdrols's comments

Squats and deadlifts.

You are forced to adopt good posture if you want to do them properly and with any heavy weight. You'll carry that posture with you into your daily activities.

It's only a "major design smell" to "bounce back and forth" if it's computationally expensive. This theory makes it sound like electrons aren't firmly rooted in space and time to begin with.

Maybe it's computationally cheaper to define something as existing in all places and all times.

> Bottom line is that gas distributors don't have to precisely reflect the drop in oil prices at the pump because they can make more money that way.

This is a gross simplification. I'm not an expert or someone with a deep understanding of how gas stations work, but even I understand that a barrel of crude requires a complex process to turn it into gasoline and even more logistics to get it to the pump. Every one of the people in that process needs to be paid, including your friendly neighborhood gas station cashier.

This line of thinking is the equivalent to wondering why the price of a new car hasn't decreased if steel prices hypothetically dropped. Most products cost much more than their raw materials because to change them from raw materials to products and to put that product on a shelf requires the hard work of many people.

Beautiful. A few of them almost look like something you'd see through a telescope.

I've been looking forward to a glass of Macallan to kick off the holidays, I'll be thinking about these while sipping on it. Thanks for the post and cheers!

Warning: youtube vid. But this is some of my favorite personalities from ye olde mod scene talking about their very successful business. Very happy for them, and i'm always interested in non-standard corporate hierarchies.

I'm extremely skeptical when I read an article that discusses growth percentages without mentioning a single raw number.

I agree. Everything I've read about them just seems so weird and fascinating, especially since it seems like they could introduce something completely unexpected with the ad-hoc way the teams are organized. Valve doing R&D on wearable computing just because someone felt like doing it is mind-blowing to me.

Care to explain why you feel that way? It's a major feature from the dominant social network that could have consequences in the academic space. Personally, I'm curious what effect this could have on Blackboard if they continue to (re-)expand into .edu territory.

>When Apple dropped floppy drives from the iMac, they were dealing with an early-adopter set of consumers.

No, this is incorrect. The iMac was the computer for people that were new to computers and the internet. It was the computer for everyone, not early-adopter gadget geeks. When they dropped the floppy there was an enormous amount of bitching from said gadget geeks, yet the computer still sold very well with the general consumer.

The rest of the article is iffy at best, I don't see Apple adding another tier of laptop products when they are simplifying their other product lines (e.g. iPad 2 -> iPad)

It seems to me that the manufacturing strength would be an very strong option for Intel in the future. Even in the event that ARM completely dominates the CPU market, Intel could still profitably function as a fab producing ARM processors.

Are you seriously 12??? I was building static html pages with frames at your age! That is seriously impressive dude. Shoot me an email, my hn username at gmail.

Are you the kid? Pretty impressive!

>So, wikis are cool and all (and we use them extensively at our startup), but let's not pretend businesses are going to roll them out. They require a server, and getting your IT department to set that up is nontrivial unless you are super tiny.

This is completely false in my experience.

1) Businesses use wikis all the time. The last 4 places I've worked at have had department wikis. This includes a University, a Mega-Bank, a family owned e-tailer, and a medium-sized consulting firm, which hits just about every size business you can have aside from "start-up".

2) Getting a wiki set up is trivial. For the large companies you request the IT side to give you a VM and an address on the intranet. For the small companies it's usually a spare box and an address on the intranet. It's dead simple.

Also I suspect you would be surprised at how much leeway managers have in choosing collaboration mediums. Email is the old standby, yes, but many managers will choose other ways to collaborate within their department. Most businesses have an IM server for internal chats as well.

Sounds more like the ex-Zynga poster on reddit is an anti-social person who likes finding ways to categorize people into groups he can disparage on.

Agreed on all points. This is a total gamechanger in terms of hardware and software architecture. Even if it follows the relatively-slow uptake of SSD's it completely revolutionizes the *aaS side of the net.

Amazon is a big player with AWS and this is the perfect opportunity for someone to come in and eat their lunch and change everything.

Seems too complicated. Personally, my bet is on an editor who is pulling in some weekend hours and has had a few drinks. Gotta have a few rubber-stamped articles to justify the double-pay for the last few hours of "work" ;)

Wow, that might be the worst lede I've ever seen in an article:

>Workers at the Regency Ceramics factory in the India raided the home of their boss, and beat him senseless with led pipes after a wage dispute turned ugly.

Led pipes and "The India", seriously Forbes?