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I have recently started using a laptop underneath a big honking monitor. It is fantastic. You get a second screen (down low) for stashing things like shells or firebug and looking at the big monitor (up high) forces good posture. Going back and forth feels more natural than looking left-right. Switched away from equal sized dual monitors. Never looking back.

I just want to point out that Canvas is doing a rather good job of modernizing LMS software: http://www.instructure.com ...It took me a long time to find that tool when I needed to spin up an LMS, so I wanted to make sure folks were aware of it.

p.s. Canvas is foss https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/wiki

My first computer was a Macintosh Plus at age ~5. Not sure what I would be doing with my life without his contribution.

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I wonder if anyone has data on the broader question of whether numbers that are easily divisible perform better than prime or hard to divide numbers?

Someone had shared a public repo with me on Monday. It started 404ing the next day and I had assumed he took it down. I realize now that it must have been this issue. I just checked for it and it is back.

I like the way your eyes get directed on that page. Read the whole pitch then follow the trail back to the top.

My guess would be that it doesn't. A public DHT can ensure that data is not corrupted or changed, but you cannot prevent others from seeing your data.

I hope posterous is hard at work building a delicious clone!

edit: Not completely sure why you all hate this comment, but fwiw I was being sincere not snarky.

It seems to me that all their sites are run off one complicated db schema. I just confirmed that my Lifehacker user name is in there.

Monopolies can do a great deal of anticompetitive things without the help of the government. In the past antisocial pricing that was the primary concern. While these firms are different in that they do not charge users directly, their revenues are directly related to the size of their user base and other familiar tactics can be employed: For example, using their user-base to squeeze competitors in vertical industries, and employing defensive tactics that ensure direct competitors can never gain traction (see contacts spat).

A trick my mom taught me to find a neutral posture: Stand normally. Stick your arms straight out at your sides, palms facing straight up. Bring your arms down slowly, letting them rotate naturally.

There is after all a strategic benefit to this; getting your talent for cheaper. Consequently a deal like this b/t direct competitors is harder to get off the ground. Also as an optimization problem, there are many different constraints that come into play at different parts of the curve. When you saturate the employment market with this behavior the market would likely seize up.

Exactly. These deals were not really Apple vs. Google. The real contest was managers vs. employees. In this case managers were cooperating to suppress the pay of engineers. Now without this collusion, engineers are free to extract greater rents for their services.

This code was released to developers as an incomplete preview. I'm not sure why people are holding it to the same standards as a finished product that's being released to end users. Seems like a pretext to talk trash.

Admirable, but note that JavaScript is quite different than Java. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/245062/whats-the-differen...

I always love reading these types of stories. The NYT has taken the art of dancing around obvious vulgarity to another level.

How about a dead simple document sharing website that lets people read the same doc, on multiple computers, at the same time? (i.e. if you have a bunch of people on a call with computers up, the speaker can send around a reading link that lets him or her flip pages for everyone viewing.) I find myself wishing for this functionality pretty regularly lately. Broadcasting the pointer, real time comments & annotations seem cool too.

I was mostly pointing out the irony that Conde Nast is continuing the legacy of William Randolph Hearst. My assertion isn't completely implausible though.

After all these years, it looks like the publishing industry is still threatened by marijuana.

"Groupthink (wikipedia.org)"

Love the juxtaposition!

I'd suggest anyone in this situation try slicehost / ubuntu / nginx / fcgi as a starting point. Reasonably fast, low memory, slicehost is awesome and has awesome tutorials. I find nginx much easier to configure than apache. These articles should cover everything. You should pretty much be able to paste the code in, but consider what you are doing first.

http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/11/28/ubuntu-intrepid-set...

http://articles.slicehost.com/2009/3/5/ubuntu-intrepid-nginx...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/605173/how-to-nginx-virtu... OR http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoAndNginx

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/fastcg...

That's a pretty thin pretext and it only covers a fraction of the behavior I'm referencing.

I'm unfamiliar with those incidents. So sure.

I was of course using them as examples of a reference news service or the closest thing we have one in this age. Wikileaks was in a position to become such an institution. One that no one could ignore. That does not seem very likely anymore.

The press wikileaks was getting before Assange emerged from behind the curtain was far better than it is now. They seemed poised to become the reuters/AP of primary source data. Now that seems almost impossible.

Assange's antics have turned me off to Wikileaks to the point where I will have trouble taking anything they publish at face value. He is doing a disservice to the transparency movement. It's pretty remarkable that someone can be both a paranoid recluse and shameless attention whore, but Assange pulls it off quite well. Wikileaks would be much better off with someone both low key and competent like Clay in charge.

"The stereotype gives the impression of a geek with glasses or someone who is bald. Actually, they are just people who ask and answer questions."

Nice!