dinduks

This kind of articles are just another excuse for paralysis by analysis and for people to stay fat.

Most of the time, your metabolism doesn't matter.

And it never matters if you train with high intensity and have a decent muscle mass.

It depends on the fitness level of the subjects. The more fit they are, the less low intensity exercise (treadmill) is effective.

More info here: https://roguehealthandfitness.com/importance-exercise-intens...

Scala is exactly what you're looking for.

> It's _reasonably_ strongly typed

> time assurances of correctness _in a majority of cases_

So basically, let's do it and pray it works, maybe?

> I'm able to find code errors at compile time

I don't know Elixir.

How do you do that? Do you use Dialyzer?

Not in France for example.

Totally agree. I would personally not pay $20 for the unknown.

Nice read. I too highly encourage people to use CyanogenMod.

One thing that was worth being mentioned is one of the very best features of CyanogenMod: Privacy Guard.

It basically allows grained control over what permissions can an application have (read/write contacts, phone logs, location, etc). It's of course possible to allow an access all the time, or just when needs it.

Thanks to privacy guard, one can use applications that might compromise privacy, without compromising privacy.

When using the "ask every time", I've been surprised how many applications try to access my info for no obvious reason, sometimes even when your phone's idle.

It looks great and I'll play with it a little more later.

Suggestions:

- Host your scripts instead of using googleapis.com. Don't feed Google data about your visitors.

- Autofocus the new textareas.

- Support Ctrl+Enter (or Cmd+Enter).

I find it surprising that people are so desperate they beg the Dropbox company and still want to use the software after this.

1) You CAN live without Dropbox. There are alternatives (I personally use BTSync, which is great). 2) You shouldn't NOT be using an American service that holds and versions your data in first place. It is not new that all these services are wiretrapped, or at least easily accessible by the gov (not mentioning they sell/use your privacy to make money). 3) They won't kick out such an "extremely brilliant and accomplished individual". 4) Even if she gets kicked or leaves, this is yet another reason to not trust them, since they're blind/careless enough to hire her.

Your comparison is invalid and irrelevant. You're comparing writing a simple PHP script on a remote server to deploying a full Rails app. Please do the same comparison with Rails vs Symfony/ZF and then we'll talk about it.

When I used to be a Ruby developer, every time I heard that "PHP is easy to deploy", I made a less-than-one-minute demo showing how to create a Sinatra app from scratch and deploy it on Heroku is just few commands (any Sinatra dev here can do it).

You can do that by following the "Deleting my entire Google+ profile" procedure. I've done it few weeks ago and unless Google has changed which services get deleted along, you have nothing to worry about.

The Distributed Everything blog post encouraged me to leave most of Google' services due to their closed ecosystem and the violation of privacy. I managed to leave everything (GTalk/Hangouts, Agenda, Contacts, Google+, etc.) except Gmail because of how great and useful filters and labels are. In my opinion, these two points are the reason why Gmail cannot be easily replaced. I thus would encourage working on these futures.

Also, I don't want to sound like a troll, but I wish it was build in a more popular language, such as Java (it's not my favorite) to encourage contributions. Good luck!

What might be a good idea is allowing HD and disabling it by default, letting people choose if they want it or not.

I tried GitTogether and HD worked like a charm. The only problem is that resolution doesn't scale to the Internet speed, which means HD all the time but at low frame rate. However, the service is awesome and has a bright future in my opinion. Good luck!

I've been looking for software to video chat without being locked in an ecosystem (especially Google Hangouts), and WebRTC seems to do the trick just fine while being completely decentralized. I just tried vLine and the quality is pretty good compared to Skype for example. Thank you vLine. :)

By the way, is HD video not supported or is the problem from my side?

CEL is a similar and more generic script: it can do that for any program and works on Linux and Mac.

https://github.com/Dinduks/change-execute-loop

If you're interested by this application, please try it on a mobile device.

It was not written with desktop browsers in mind, which means it can behave incorrectly on them.

Hi,

Thanks for the useful insight.

* As the app is supposed to be used on mobile phones, the date field should pop a calendar on focus, which _normally_ doesn't give the user the opportunity to screw around. This field needs validation, but it's not primordial at the moment.

* Nice idea, thanks.

* On a phone, you can only select a date starting from today, so my Android doesn't let me try it. It seems buggy on desktop browsers, I'll check that out.

The two last ideas are awesome, but sadly the time won't let me implement them.

Regarding the names suggestions, a cache for food names is implemented, I just need to connect it to the app.

The problem with TypeScript is its requirement for definition files which are most of the time outdated. That makes it unusable in a real project where many JS libs live together. (not saying that's the case all the time)

Inotify is specific to Linux, while CEL isn't OS dependent.

We use Scala and Play to build (almost) any sort of web applications. The main reasons IMO are type safety in the code, the templates and the routes. The actors model allows doing side processing pretty easily too. Not mentioning the elegance of Scala itself.

> Play as a framework looked very heavy for my usage

What do you exactly mean by heavy? Actually I think it's quite simple since you only have to download an archive, unzip it, and start writing code as you would in any MVC Web framework.

Spray.io is great for building API. It usually has better performance than Play.

Scalatra is Scala's Sinatra, but the compiling times take out all the joy in using this kind of frameworks.

Another Scala Web framework is Lift, but I don't know much about it.

Scala is statically typed while Clojure is dynamically typed. Comparing them is irrelevant.

> There's almost no excuse not to use Scala if you're deploying on the JVM.

s/deploying on the JVM/a Java developer/

That's not the case for everybody.

I personally live thousand kilometers away from my family and friends, and it's just hard to keep in touch with everybody without a social network. Phone calls, mails and chat would never be as efficient/cheap/time-saving that social networks. Plus, they lack that "social" thing.

Regarding that "elitism" when you talk about your friends, there's "family and close friends", and there's "friends", the ones that are not _that_ important in your life, but with whom you'd still like to be in touch with.

Take for example the "keeping in touch" point. I'm going home in few weeks, I just had to post a Facebook status to tell all my friends so we can meet. How would I do it without Facebook? Send mails? Not everyone use emails. Call them, it's freaking expensive.

Privacy concerns scare me, and that's why I'm trying to leave Google stuff, but leaving Facebook is just impossible at the moment, simply because it's useful and there's no alternative.

I tired of seeing people posting stuff without explaining what is it about. Please do it next time, because I'm not gonna search for it.

A dark background is less agressive to eyes than a bright one. f.lux website has a section about research related to the topic.