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I appreciate that the author shared his data because it's interesting to compare notes. I embarked on a strict ketogenic diet in 2012 from a significantly higher initial weight and observed a very different pattern of weight loss: https://i.imgur.com/mOt6P.png

I hit a loss plateau around 180 lbs that I couldn't break through until I began eating on an 8-16 fasting schedule like Ariel mentions in his "Further progress" section.

I gave up on the diet during 2015 and have since regained a significant amount of weight, but I suppose that's just an opportunity to apply some of the tracking techniques in this article to my next foray.

What do you do about WebSocket connections or hanging GETs? Do you lie to the page about whether its still being rendered visibly? Etc etc.

This all seems terribly expensive relative to removing a hotkey used by fewer than 1% of users.

Site looks terribly defunct. No announcements since 2012?

That's untrue; Linode offers PV-GRUB. I've been using it to boot FreeBSD with their Xen offering for years.

You might also consider setting Content-Security-Policy headers to enforce your intent. http://content-security-policy.com/

You might be surprised at the amount of innovation that has happened on that very page.

As an example, I believe it was the first place that U2F was deployed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_2nd_Factor

Ubiquiti makes wireless equipment, so this is not the traditional sort of anechoic chamber: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anechoic_chamber#Radio-frequenc...

I think that the majority of unhappy open-office employees are more upset with distractions than with the lack of privacy.

The widespread application of headphones to "solve" this problem is silly. It does nothing to screen out the visual distraction of working with 40 other people in your sightline, and it cuts you off from meaningful discussions with your direct peers.

I've been happiest in spaces where workgroups of 6-8 people were in large-ish shared offices that broke up sightlines and isolated noise. Doors that close, folks (partially frosted glass or not).

It's not necessary to forklift the entire population of 20,000 employees when you have the option to grow elsewhere in the region.

You might be surprised to hear that a significant number of Google employees in Mountain View were recently moved to a new campus outside of the city, and it wasn't exactly an opt-in affair.

Don't forget that the PlayStation shipped with a 33MHz MIPS CPU before the SHA1 standard was even published.

This game came years later, but it's possible that CRC was the most effective option from a performance perspective.

The kernel and X stack get regular backports over the life of the LTS release (since Precise):

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack

You'll have to forgive me for the awful presentation format and pacing, but here's a fun trick for bypassing the auth system on the Asus WL-700gE circa 2007:

http://www.toaster-of-doom.com/~brandon/no_crawl/router/

Spoiler alert: it makes the WRT120N look like Fort Knox. These companies have come a long way over the years.

I am happy to clarify!

By "blanket" I mean to say that there's no organization-wide policy. I don't know of any specific cases, but I would not be shocked if certain groups within Google have stricter policies in this area.

I was just trying to be specific by saying "currently"

No such blanket prohibition currently exists.

My favorite tool for this is the Saleae Logic[1], but I've had mixed success with the cheaper Bus Pirate[2] as well.

[1] http://www.saleae.com/logic [2] http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Bus_Pirate

Fun fact: the A6, while designed by Apple, is fabbed by Samsung.

Two-finger scrolling works great, but I've never had any success configuring three-finger gestures under X11 (on this laptop or any other). I used to be an aggressive user of those same gestures when I used OSX, but frankly around the Lion timeframe they started getting in my way more often than not.

I've got an X1 Carbon running 12.04 without any significant hardware issues besides battery life. I only get 3-4 hours on a charge, but I've also not done any intense tuning as of yet.

The trackpad on the X1 Carbon works phenomenally well on my unit running 12.04.

Fortres was still alive and kicking in the early 2000s. (Actually, it appears to still be alive today! I love that their icon is a sad kid: http://www.fortresgrand.com/products/f101/f101.htm)

My internet forebears had already catalogued most of Fortres' flaws by the time I became familiar with it, but most of the holes had been closed upstream. The one obvious chink in the armor that still remained was their "Backdoor Password"

If you keyed Ctrl+Shift+Esc, an Unlock dialog would pop up and prompt you for the admin password. Alternately, there was a 6 digit integer in the titlebar that you could give to Fortres customer support and they would give you back a corresponding 6 digit unlock code. Some enterprising individual had figured out this algorithm and published the VB(6?) source for a keygen application.

My contribution to The Fight was a port of the keygen to the TI-83+ (it was a very prevalent platform at the time). No acclaim ever came to me for the port however; after I experienced the IT personnel rage when they discovered a classroom full of un-hobbled PCs, I decided to keep the authorship a secret.

He didn't go on a starvation diet; he went on a ketogenic diet. While there are still risks associated with this kind of weight loss, its rapidity can be attributed to a few things:

1. As water retention is significantly diminished while in ketosis. 10-15 pounds of initial loss can be sometimes be attributed to water weight coming off.

2. As jacques_chester put it below, "Gluconeogenesis is difficult and wasteful. Lipolysis is by comparison a doddle." The standard benchmarks around rate-of-loss are simply inaccurate for this metabolism.

Just as a point of reference, I've been on an MD-supervised ketogenic diet for roughly 7 months now. My blood pressure is perfect (down from stage-2 hypertension levels) and my weightloss has been phenomenal: http://i.imgur.com/nghqf.png

It doesn't.

Glass is designed to project the image at far-focus, so if you have good eyesight or corrective lenses (like me) that allow you to see in the distance, there is no need to re-focus to see the image.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/131877-ive-seen-the-futur...

I can corroborate this for Tripplite switched PDUs, but their dumb metered PDUs always held up for me.

It's really cool that Maciej is so open about his setup. This is especially true given how opinionated people are about these sorts of operations. For example:

I'm hoping the Hurricane Electric facility he mentions is Fremont 2. The Fremont 1 facility has been plagued with power and packet loss issues over the last year (ask your friends with Linodes in Fremont all about it ;)

It also seems a shame to put both of the deployments so close together. Proximity to your machines is a non-issue with a decent colo provider: his example of driving to Vegas every time a drive fails assumes that the provider would be unable or unwilling to sell him 20 minutes of remote hands. Spend a little extra money up front for out-of-band access to your infrastructure and leverage the provider for the physical stuff!

There's also a substantial Awesome user base at Google; I think the choice of tiling window manager is largely based on peer usage.

Most of the big name hardware vendors are starting to get more serious about supporting Linux on their professional product lines. The bigger problem is that no attention is given to Linux on consumer gear and the components within are refreshed on such a frequent basis that keeping up is tough even when you try.

(Context: I'm the lead on hardware qualification for Goobuntu)

The biggest possible upside to this project will be if Shuttleworth & Company get on board to support the XPS13 as a first class Ubuntu platform because of Sputnik.

And when I say first class, I don't mean "give it the Supported Platform stamp." I mean "respond to user reports of touchpad bugs" and "fix them."

I'm completely cool with it. Modern equipment can handle plenty of SSL traffic, and SSL-by-default will protect me (and you) from lazy developers.

The real question is whether or not this will proliferate and to what extent.

I've had a lot of success with denyhosts. As a bonus, all of my machines with publicly facing SSH synchronize the generated ruleset.

This feature actually came together very quickly and in large part due to volunteer after hours efforts.

I miss code search too, but it's not fair to compare the upkeep of a production service to small one-off art projects.