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by edraferi 13y ago
> Lifting weights doesn't burn that many calories, compared to walking, running, etc. Doesn't increasing your muscle mass increase your metabolism? That is, your body's base calorie burn rate increases when you have more m
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by edraferi 13y ago
Interesting. Looks like a more solid implementation. It includes more useful audio queues, and a "what's next" display. Doesn't have the nifty music though, which seems to be the main point of the 7min.io implementation.
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by edraferi 13y ago
Tried out the app. A few thoughts: - There's no way to tell what exercise is coming next, which breaks up flow. - The music changes sporadically, so you can't trust it to tell you when the exercise is going to change. This is conf
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by edraferi 13y ago
Thanks for the background. This information should be easily accessible from the site.
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by edraferi 13y ago
Surprisingly well-written response actually. Not too hard to figure out what they're talking about.
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by edraferi 13y ago
Really? That's.. pretty bad. Sounds like China during the Olympics. My first reaction was "vote the bastards out," but then: casinos. Maybe you can get a tech company to help crowdfund a new mayor who will constrain tech inve
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by edraferi 13y ago
Just copy/paste this in and watch the edit war edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_cre...
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by edraferi 13y ago
True enough, but just because it comes up often doesn't make it a solved problem. In fact, I think it comes up so often because it's so damn hard to get right. To the extent that the author is advocating for better communication a
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by edraferi 14y ago
There are a lot of different certifications out there. Have you found any that seem particularly high-quality?
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by edraferi 14y ago
Thanks, I'll check it out.
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Ask HN: Best Intro to Linux resource?
4 points by edraferi 14y ago|4 comments
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by edraferi 14y ago
Oh my god yes.
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by edraferi 14y ago
Yup. There's a winner-take-all dynamic with social networks and cloud productivity services.
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by edraferi 14y ago
If you don't have skills, can you bring experience? Many start-ups try to disrupt existing industries. If you understand how an industry works and why it's vulnerable to disruption, you can join forces with technical people to become that d
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by edraferi 14y ago
a DB bottleneck and lousy regionalization seem like exactly the kind of thing EA's experience in this area would prevent. What gives?
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by edraferi 14y ago
I like the point about smaller firms' vulnerability to this kind of thing. I think it speaks to the whole "code literacy" issue. An educated consumer solves cures many ills.
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by edraferi 14y ago
I agree, and I think you get at a key concept: literacy vs. mastery. Relatively few people will become professional software developers, but everyone will live a life impacted by technology. Learning the basics of coding empowers you to liv
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by edraferi 14y ago
A lot of it comes down to institutional strength. There's probably some good academic models for this, but I'd say: 1) Institutional cohesion and alignment with population. Many dictators have ethnically homogenous security services - their
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by edraferi 14y ago
Dude, have you ever seen footwear in the third world? There's a lot of people out there who are lucky not to be barefoot. People don't wear flip flops in combat by choice, but many don't have a choice.
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by edraferi 14y ago
Complexity and reliability. If the batteries die on your xbox control mid-Halo, it's just annoying. If the batteries die on your remote machine gun with the enemy literally at the gates, it's life and death. I don't think there's much need
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by edraferi 14y ago
I also found that picture very interesting. The juxtaposition of technology is striking. It is generous to call an improvised set of rocket tubes "targeted" and the small conventional explosive payloads of those rockets falls far below the
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by edraferi 14y ago
I wish I could upvote this more times.
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by edraferi 14y ago
You should read "So Good They Can't Ignore You." It lays out a clever mental model for turning interests into skills into control over your career. http://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp/145550912...
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by edraferi 14y ago
It's very possible that you are right. Some things are too far out for the mainstream economy to support. However, if you see a real need, then there should be a way to finance a solution. What can you do for your dream before making your f
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by edraferi 14y ago
This is not ridiculous, it's the definition of Software as a Service. There are two main factors at play: 1) Cost of reproduction (copying) 2) Value to end user Hardware has historically been harder to reproduce because it's physical. This
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by edraferi 14y ago
Interesting link, with some prescience: "What most users want, though, is a cheap simple device that lets them collaborate with others... Thus the market for computing may in the end boil down to simple stuff to be used by consumers and rel
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Patent troll Uniloc attacks X-Plane(x-plane.com)
3 points by edraferi 14y ago|0 comments