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i use vim a lot and i got the 11". i simply remap capslock to esc, which i would do anyways.

"(and passes the "clearly understandable", Khan academy style, 10 minute video lecture)"

it definitely doesn't pass the 10 minute video lecture requirement though. Strang talks about SVD for almost 45 minutes.


You are right about speed. However, I would like to have handwriting simply for symbols and drawing (i.e. mindmapping). How are you going to enter math formulas faster with a keyboard than a pen? Same goes for marking and annotating things. IMO, precision and speed for marking/annotating is pretty bad with iOS.

But I don't see how apps like Omnifocus can make use of it.


thousands? if your average book has 300 pages, and you read 30 pages per hour, you would need to read for 10000 hours, doing it for 8 hours a day you need 1250 days. that's without repeating anything of course. am i wrong? in what timespan did you read those thousands of books?

care to explain how he was rude and his tone off-putting? and i hope my question isn't rude ;)

correct. but if you don't know it even exists, how could you need it? especially considering that all startups are just luxury products, since humans don't need anything other than water and food.

i thought about getting a standing desk as well. what do you don't like on standing desks like the steelcase activa lift [1]? (other than the quite outrageous price ;)) what would you change?

[1]: http://www.steelcase.eu/en/products/category/desks-tables/sy...


restoring a deleted file and versioning comes to mind, if i am not mistaken?

looks good.

one thing though: on my 30" the distance between the phone elements and the bin is extremely far (worse on the rotated 24"). move the bin or let me remove an element by dbl-clicking it.


no. i resize with sizeup (macosx) and the right frame with all the control elements is just a tad too big (in height) than half of my screen. i would have to resize with my mouse which - plain and simple - sucks.

sizeup works great, i evaluated moom for only a very short period of time (their trial period is too short IMO).

i have been using sizeup for a long time now, started using it when moom wasn't all that powerful. i think nowadays i would go with moom and customize everything. on the other hand, sizeup does everything i need except for shrinking/growing a window and is extraordinarily stable.

disclaimer: i use Witch => I have nothing against Many Tricks.


If you don't mind me asking, are you running those 120 paying restaurant customers as a SAAS type of deal or is each an independent individual?

same happens to me in Chrome 15.0.874.106 on OSX 10.6.8.

in austria it is always before. heck, i know a lot of people who don't even know how much they make after taxes

yes and no. Some just don't check their balance as they don't care about 100 or 150 euros a month.

what makes it a bit more complicated too (not complete, i am sure there are other reasons as well): we get paid at least 14 times a year, where the non-monthly payouts have a completely different taxing. my father working for a bank gets paid 16 times a year plus a bonus once or twice a year.

also, once you have paid a certain amount for your social security, you don't pay it at all anymore, skewing your net wage.

it might be that the employer miscalculated your net wage and you might have to pay the IRS at the end of the year (or if you are lucky, you get money back)


i just tried it on oneworld.

route: frankfurt - johannesburg - hong kong - tokyo - sydney - new york - buenos aires - rio de janeiro - frankfurt

cost: around EUR 5000

not claiming this is the cheapest rate though.


Could you tell us what gear your where schlepping around? backpack, electronical equipment (cam, laptop, batteries,...)

what did you actually do about health insurance, if you don't mind me asking?


isn't public transportation quite good in germany?

> Cannondale

In 2009 there were reports Cannondale is going to move production to Asia (http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/cannondale-closing-us-...). Did they decide against it? Wikipedia says the production sites are in Vietnam and Taiwan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannondale_Bicycle_Corporation#... - second paragraph)


"particular customer hitting their 30 day mark w/o canceling including my system's guesstimate of their likelihood to stay a customer and their LTV"

care to share how you calculate the likelihood, please?


use studded tires. mine last at least 3 seasons with daily commute. http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/studdedtires.asp

since i put the studded tires on, i have not slipped once. i haven't even come close to slipping to be honest. i pretty much rie as i would on clear, dry asphalt.


No, i have the same problem.

edit: i was able to vote now on a few dogs and i see nothing, not even a frame between the two horizontal dark loading-bars.


maybe i am missing something but why is the light in the basement on when nobody is in the basement?

because plan-subsidized prices depend on the negotiator, i suppose?

the network company i am currently with offers a plan for the iphone/android cellphones too. i can get the Samsung Galaxy Note or HTC One X for the same price/same contract as an iPhone 4.

I am not sure i would say "inexplicably runs Android 2.2, looks like a Hummer, & has 3 hours of battery life" about either the Samsung Galaxy Note or the HTC One X.

edit: and since i pay around EUR 6,00 per month for my mobile telecommunication needs (EUR 4,00 for internet, rest for voice, EUR 0,00 for text), I am not sure I care about plan-subsidized phones either (unless they are attached to a EUR 5,00 plan).


how could i dragondrop a pdf viewed in chrome into another app without having it to store on disk first?

is there some kind of minimum-wiggle-movement i have to hit in order for drangdrop to get activated?


i had the same problem until i found Witch. http://manytricks.com/witch/

what about the kinesis advantage? http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/advantage.htm

could you please post your findings?

> and your keyboard tray

i have an kinesis advantage pro too, hence i am wondering why you are using a keyboard tray and which one?

maybe you could answer two problems i can see with dvorak: a) home row changes. isn't this a big problem in vim, as in, you have to re-map basically every shortcut (otherwise you are basically de-dvoraking) b) wouldn't you need different dvorak layouts for different tasks? ruby needs different keys on the homerow than java, which is different to plain english which is then different to plain german etc

thank you


wouldn't using a popular VM (e.g. JVM) give you quite a few of those choices though?

what do you mean by "product"?

what put me off RTM is the list/project management. one list per project is fine but how do you get subprojects? how do you quickly create lists? how do you quickly set a list to "complete"?

never been able to figure those questions out, would appreciate it if you could help me. thanks.


so for each project you have to manually add lists? (Settings > Lists > Add List) that smart list is a manual creation as well?

that seems a lot of work compared to e.g. Omnifocus


those 31k are something completely different though (normalised, purchasing power, disposable income, household)

the median income in sf/nyc is closer to 45k (http://project.wnyc.org/acs2011/income.html#12.00/40.7310/-7...)


I just signed up for the AnnotateMyPDF website but i see nothing regarding the course in there. is it only available to CMU students?

> Slow, one person at a time, low hauling capacity, no protection from the elements, and easily stolen.

http://www.milan-velomobil.de/index_en.htm

> Like it or not, cars have their place. People who are so proud of not needing a car?

well, considering that 70% of car rides are less than 10km, I don't need much mooching off...


Have you tried the penclic over a regular vertical mouse like an evoluent? care to tell us how you like it?

> Is a DRM-free PDF good enough or should I do the .epub format?

Definitely epub, makes it just much easier to read, at least on my used platforms (kindle, ipad mini)


> There are far better sources out there

Don't hold back on us, please.


which laptop at $1000 can rotate its touchscreen by 90 degrees? only one i can think of right now is the msi slider

> which probably costs more per mile than gasoline

Though electric cars are much more efficient [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car#Energy_efficiency



> all you get over a good €1000 bike is some protection from the elements

and speed. http://www.kreuzotter.de/english/espeed.htm at 200w i would be 50% faster (with no wind) than with a road bike. with wind its far more. imagine going 50km/h or 60km/h with a bicycle


> Vagrant is the execution environment that you set up, share and whatnots. Your dev environment (IDE, text editor, etc) can still be in the original environment you are familiar with.

Sorry if i have missed this but how do you execute/debug in the IDE through Vagrant? e.g. how would rubymine use vagrant's ruby binary?


Would love the idea/app/service but I am not sure what exactly your app does. Would it be able to extract enough information from hundreds of business meetings to actually pinpoint not just meetings but also just segments of meetings? => I don't wanna listen to a 60 minute meeting but really only listen to 2 minutes where we discussed feature XYZ

I assume the split is in percentage of calorie intake? genuine question: how do you eat 40% protein?

say you need 2700 calories on a workout day => 1080 protein calories => 250g of protein per day. that's more than 1kg of lean meat/fish a day?


Thank you for the explanation. And kudos for eating almost 1kg of chicken breast per sitting ;)

Did the helmets break?

Pharma companies spend twice as much on marketing/advertising for a new drug than on its R&D [1,2].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2174966/ [2] Ben Goldacre. Bad Pharma. 2012. Fourth Estate


is this the google research paper you were talking about: https://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrus... ?
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