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Where do you get 90 seconds per set from? 4 seconds per rep would be 32-48 seconds.

I've always had that reaction to that 3rd piece too. I wonder if there is any objective reason for that.

It's worth a mention that this is a common complaint in the UK. We've even had a few government ads run railing against "benefits fraud."

You can't train a cat like you can train a dog.

Unfortunately, that repressive regime I live in is my mum's house.

Why is this blocked by my ISP under "Pornography"?

Wow... somebody wanting Facebook's data?

A lot of cross-posts from Reddit lately. Could this mean Reddit is improving?

Is this really happening? Are they really giving up on Flash and supporting open standards?

Has there been much research into this idea of concrete vs. abstract thinkers?

Java + super-intelligent octopuses + underwater robots... what could go wrong?

(Sorry guys, couldn't resist.)

How come articles like this come up on the homepage so often? A lot of us here already know how to code, and those who want to probably aren't reading Hacker News.

I get that Twitter is the bees knees and all, but it's got some pretty serious problems for such a simple service. For example, the last time I tried visiting it, it only showed the top banner and kept redirecting back to itself. And Google, perhaps on the opposite end of the complexity spectrum, loads before I can start typing my query. And when I do, results come straight away -- even on my shitty TalkTalk connection. But perhaps that's not a fair comparison, since this is Google after all.

On my UK keyboard, $ is <shift-4> and £ is <shift-3>. They're right next to each other.

I got the opposite idea from that book. I remember it explaining that ants (or perhaps it was something else) would cooperate because often they all had the same DNA, and so were working to propagate the same genes.

'the Microsoft boss later grumbling that after 10 hours of browsing the Internet, he "had not seen a single Word .DOC, AVI file, Windows .EXE (other than content viewers), or other Microsoft file format," then adding, "I did see a great number of Quicktime files"; and his determination to "match or beat" the services offered by Netscape, a "competitor 'born' on the Internet" who then boasted "70% usage share" in the browser market.'

This seems to confirm my biggest problem with Microsoft. Why do they need to have their own version of everything? What do they get from this? How come they don't try to innovate as much as open source does, instead?

Much better. This has more to do with income than "seduction" theory or whatever.

As of writing this, the link is not working for me. How come error 404 has become the new 500 for web servers under load?

Interesting. I wonder how much that skews hiring, including in other fields.

Yeah, but packaged source code probably shouldn't be riddled with warnings.

I don't think he meant it as an optimization. It's easy to understand as 5 * 2^20, and quicker to type.

How are you changing yourself, now that you know this?

This is just a list of random tweets, I think.

Who or what is Gartner? Do you mean this company https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Gartner ?

Clip won't work in the UK.

Doesn't quite belong on Hacker News, but still hilarious.

I heard about that tool. Can you tell us more about what it does?

I don't get it. How come this article has not been flagged to death? How come this article has over 100 comments? Am I missing something?

And now since that comment is dead, I have no idea what you were arguing against. I suppose from the response it's not worth worrying about, but it does sort of irritate me.

Are you actually getting some message about 'phorm', or are you just getting redirected to slated.org like I am?