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   by thenomad 11y ago

   Oh, don't get me wrong. I think sit-standing desks are a good thing - as I say, the scientific evidence strongly suggests they are, and my personal experience with them correlates with yours. But if you're looking for peer-reviewe
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   by thenomad 11y ago

   I'm finding more and more new businesses are avoiding the self-hosted Wordpress option. People are increasingly aware of security as a problem - it only takes one business you know to have their WP install hacked and start distributing
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   by thenomad 11y ago

   Interesting - I find the same thing is true of filmmaking groups. Facebook conversations tend to be very ephemeral - requests for help, "yay we got into X festival", etc. If you want in-depth discussion, you need - again - old-sch
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   by thenomad 11y ago

   Is anyone recommending standing all day long as an alternative, though? There are a number of middle-ground options, and studying people who stand all day long doesn't really help with evaluating those. It makes intuitive sense that mi
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   by thenomad 11y ago

   Look for something which is an unexpected interaction of recently-developed or recently-reduced-in-price technologies. My go-to example would be the intersection of brushless motors and cheap IMUs from phones making the drone revolution pos
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   by thenomad 11y ago

   Not particularly convinced by this. All the article is saying is "no studies have confirmed that standing desks are correlated with positive health effects." Given that standing desks are a relatively new thing, and as they mentio
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   by thenomad 11y ago

   That works less well if, for some reason, your business is significantly built around chat (Live Chat for sales, for example). It's perfectly possible to pivot your sales funnel, but it's not something you can do in two hours whil
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   by thenomad 11y ago

   A good chair is definitely that good. Incredibly valuable purchase. You'll save significant money in lost developer hours, physiotherapy costs, etc by buying good chairs (and checking that the rest of your setup is ergonomic too) right
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   by thenomad 11y ago

   Forget translated, I'm just interested in reading transcripts. I find the podcast culture incredibly frustrating. There's so much great discussion and information being shared, but in order to absorb it I either have to multi-task
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    by thenomad 11y ago

    Also worth noting that most people haven't read the various studies on productivity against hours worked, and thus just assume - reasonably enough, but usually incorrectly - that over six months, you'll get twice as much work done
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    by thenomad 11y ago

    I see that sort of message a great deal in the "Lifestyle design" communities. A lot of the nomad-entrepreneur / lifestyle-design / ISV / four-hour-work-week culture values time with family, for example, very highly
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    by thenomad 11y ago

    TV as a platform? Seems like it's been around for a while. Or do you mean Smart TVs? I don't know much about the app ecosystem there if it exists at all.
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    by thenomad 11y ago

    Which all-new platforms would you currently recommend?
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    by thenomad 11y ago

    I'd assume the reactions in this thread are part of the reason why people have been asking for a guide like this for months, and one hadn't been forthcoming. The "if I write an article expressing my opinion on this controve
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    by thenomad 11y ago

    Interesting - thanks! OTOH, "Runner's Knee" does seem to be a serious condition affecting a lot of people (much like "Fencer's Knee", which I'm more familiar with). From the same subreddit: https:/&#
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    by thenomad 11y ago

    I agree for a one-off. But plenty of people have permanently damaged their knees by consistently running without getting advice on how best to do it. You don't need a personal trainer for that. But asking someone "to tell me how t
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    by thenomad 11y ago

    Hmm, very interesting. Thanks!
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    by thenomad 11y ago

    I didn't know about the latter! Interesting - thanks.
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    by thenomad 11y ago

    Aha. I was wondering about that. I've done some experimentation with neural network-based style transfer (this one: https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style_ ), and the results that I got pointed strongly to the s
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    by thenomad 11y ago

    Dammit. Cheap - very cheap - for everything but storage. It seems impossible to find a low-cost server with some big, slow spinning disks on it at the moment. I'm really not sure why. Anyone got any recommendations there? Where would I
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    by thenomad 11y ago

    FF44 for me too. Must be Noscript disabling it.
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    by thenomad 11y ago

    Also 3D graphics. Both in real-time and pre-rendered graphics, node graph-style programming languages are very much a thing. Unreal Engine's Blueprints system, Motionbuilder's nodes system, Maya's graph systems... And they ca
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    by thenomad 11y ago

    Either FF or Noscript disables that for me in Firefox. Works in Chrome though.
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    by thenomad 11y ago

    Hmm, this has real potential as an archiving format for video, too. Any news on what the processing overhead is like for viewing rather than creating the files? Is it less than PNG?
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    by thenomad 11y ago

    Yep, that all makes sense - good explanation, thanks! I mostly commented because HN (and other online forums) have a tendency to assume that the only possible explanation is the most cynical one. That's not always (or even often) true,
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    by thenomad 11y ago

    For reference on the numerous comments saying that The Rock is only as big as he is thanks to steroid use - he's claimed in a number of interviews that he hasn't used them since he was 18. http://generationiron.com&#x2F
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    by thenomad 11y ago

    If ZBrush announces a VR version I think I'll be having another "shut up and process my credit card" moment...
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    by thenomad 11y ago

    The announcement that TiltBrush will be available on the Vive's launch is what moved me from "Hmm, maybe" to "Shut up and take my money". I just hope there's a way to export the ensuing paintings in some kind o
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    by thenomad 11y ago

    AHA! Interesting. This explains why my computer has a bunch of USB3 ports that work... sometimes. (It also very sporadically has a massive wibble and hard-crashes with an error relating to USB.)
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    by thenomad 11y ago

    Ars Technica says yes - http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/raspbe... "The new Pi also gains H.265 support for the first time but is limited to 1080p at 30fps."