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One thing to keep in mind is that an inclined treadmill is going to make your head bop up and down a little bit. I'm not sure whether or not it'd be distracting, but you might want to try just walking up a mild hill some time and pay close attention to the movement of your head.

Awesome rig with the On Stage stand. I'm considering building a second treadmill desk for home use, and that's a fantastic idea I had not considered.

One question: Does the Pro Form treadmill allow you to adjust your speed in small increments (~0.1 MPH)? What's the lowest speed it can go?

Wrists - not at all. I have the old model of the Lifespan Treadmill desk - check here for a photo: http://www.amazon.com/LifeSpan-TR1200-DT-Treadmill-Desk-Mode...

I rest my elbows on the pad on the front, with my keyboard about a foot forward on the desk. No matter my body's movement, my arms are stable and anchored.

With respect to eyesight, there is mild movement but I don't find it bothersome or difficult. First, it is very mild - maybe an inch or two between steps. Second, it's more of a front-back movement than up-down (remember, this is a walking treadmill, not a running treadmill), so I find it does not at affect my field of vision nor what my eyes are focused on.

I made an effort to try to bend my legs with some frequency, but I wouldn't call it "walking in place," nor can I say I was very consistent about it. I'd usually do it for a few minutes, then get deep into a problem, and realize I'd been leaning on a leg for 10 minutes. Rinse and repeat.

A big part of the value of the treadmill for me is that it forces me to always move and bend my legs, which means I never have the opportunity to default to a bad posture. That's the reason why I walk all day every day.

A cheaper alternative I considered was getting a Bongo Board: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D...

I went with a treadmill desk because I thought with the bongo board I could still default into a balanced inanimate position, and because I'm fortunate enough where I could afford a treadmill desk without it being a huge sacrifice for me. But, if that weren't the case, I think the bongo board could be an improvement over standing.

Same here except I've been doing it at work.

I suffer from chronic lower back pain due to a herniated disc, and never has my back felt better since my injury in high school. Sitting is absolutely terrible for it, and standing, while an improvement, leads to poor posture because I found I would lean on a particular leg for too long, and muscles in my back would get unevenly strained.

I walk between 1 and 2 MPH all day long. I find it very easy to do all computer tasks while moving. The only time I stop is when I need to write something down on paper, which I can't even do well at the lowest setting of 0.4 MPH.

It is a bit tiring, but in a very good way. My two "breaks" are sitting down with my team for lunch and then sitting on the couch for a little while after I get home. I did not work my way up slowly as some people recommend; I had been using a standing desk for about a year and I just dove right into the walking because I prefer it to standing even when I'm a little tired.

Low profits are absolutely a problem for Amazon's plan. Profits != margins. Being in a low margin business means you need to make up the difference in volume.

And volume actually hurts you if your margins are in the red. ;)

At the very least there should be !s after those 9s.

I disagree. It would provide a formal acknowledgment from our government that it was wrong to prosecute Aaron for his crimes with the severity that it did, and if worded thoughtfully, could establish some limiting precedent for how far future crimes like these should be prosecuted.

It's true that the laws themselves need to change, but I think you're underestimating the impact of a President's words.

Why?

I much prefer the ENV method because it keeps private keys and passwords out of source control.

So you think it's a fad, fine. But why the hatred for it? Why do you think they're bad? Have you seen research that shows them to be unhealthy? Did you have a bad experience with them? I'm trying to understand what you feel is disadvantageous about them in light of my and others' experiences to the contrary.

Did you consider any of the Lifespan Fitness models? They sell complete kits, some for less money than the cost of what you built yourself:

http://www.lifespanfitness.com/tr800-dt5-treadmill-desk.html... http://www.lifespanfitness.com/treadmill-desk/tr1200-dt5-tre... http://www.lifespanfitness.com/treadmill-desk/tr5000-dt5-tre...

I have the mid-tier model and absolutely love it. Curious if there was anything in particular about it that turned you off (you obviously researched this project thoroughly).

Why do you maintain this is just a fad? I walk that same distance every day on my treadmill desk. It's helped my chronic back problem and it's better for my joints because it prevents bad posture. What's wrong with it?

You don't have to be in the loan business to make money on the float, you just need to invest it. Say you have $100M of revenue per month and are paying out all $100M of it in 60 days. You can very safely keep the float in an interest-bearing account earning, say 3%, giving you $500k/mo. Because your revenue stream is constant, so is your investment. In practice you would also need to buy some insurance (FDIC won't cover you and surely there are some regulations here), but that's the idea.

I find this to be a questionable practice. When coding I like the idea of "trim whitespace from _my changes_ on save", but doing it globally within a file creates a lot of diffs and makes for convoluted commits. Having a +/- 75 lines when you fix a typo in a comment is annoying when doing a code review.

If everybody on the team uses SublimeText (or an equivalent vim extension) I think this is a good idea, but when you have some folks using TextMate or other editors that are notorious for leaving extra whitespace, I find it better just to live with it.

Huge congrats on the launch, buddy. I'm stoked to see all your hard work pay off. My only gripe is I miss working with you :)

It would be useful if you had a demo or explanation of the process before requiring Oauth. The bottleneck for me is that I don't want to Oauth via Github until I know I'm going to use your product.

Agreed.

I won't give read/write access to private repos unless I've committed to using your product and I fully trust you.

Right now there's not enough content on your home page to cross either of those bars.

Thanks for the clarification. I got confirmation on this from Ryan Zezeski as well. Riak-search used to be built on Lucene, but now it's all built by Basho, using Lucene's query syntax.

If anybody would like a copy of the slides (sans video), I've made them available here: http://rob.by/2012/migrating-to-riak-at-shareaholic

Thanks for watching. We didn't try running Mongo off of SSDs. We're on AWS, and we were using Mongo long before SSD storage was available. I suspect SSDs would help quite a bit with cold starts, albeit at a significant additional cost.

It is absolutely affecting more than one availability zone. Just because people didn't lose boxes outside of one AZ doesn't mean there weren't service disruptions outside of it. I know multiple people, myself included, who STILL cannot launch new instances anywhere in US-East. The EC2 web console and API have also been down intermittently and throwing errors for hours.

>> "3. There are only so many form factors a tablet can take. Doesn't the Kindle Fire look suspiciously like the Playbook?"

A lot of people say this but there is much evidence to the contrary: https://twitter.com/digeratii/status/165324320179109888/phot...

To add some perspective here, Justice Scalia went so far as to claim the government has the right to kill a known-to-be-innocent person so long as they were at some point found guilty by a habeas court.

Here's the quote:

“This court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is ‘actually’ innocent. Quite to the contrary, we have repeatedly left that question unresolved, while expressing considerable doubt that any claim based on alleged ‘actual innocence’ is constitutionally cognizable.”

I personally loved Alan Dershowitz's retort, though it's a lot less relevant than the words of someone who sits on the Bench:

"Let us be clear precisely what this means. If a defendant were convicted, after a constitutionally unflawed trial, of murdering his wife, and then came to the Supreme Court with his very much alive wife at his side, and sought a new trial based on newly discovered evidence (namely that his wife was alive), these two justices would tell him, in effect: “Look, your wife may be alive as a matter of fact, but as a matter of constitutional law, she’s dead, and as for you, Mr. Innocent Defendant, you’re dead, too, since there is no constitutional right not to be executed merely because you’re innocent.”"

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2009/08/18/scalias-cat...

Thanks, I must have missed that. I got that info from my publisher dashboard, which still says this:

http://cl.ly/1O1F011f1H3p1T2h0j0Z

Ha. You actually don't get $0.18 though, because the minimum payout is $50.

Looks like the Mac Pro is alive indeed.

http://www.macworld.com/article/1167247/cook_apple_planning_...

Quoting email from Tim Cook:

Franz,

Thanks for your email. Our Pro customers like you are really important to us. Although we didn’t have a chance to talk about a new Mac Pro at today’s event, don’t worry as we’re working on something really great for later next year. We also updated the current model today.

We’ve been continuing to update Final Cut Pro X with revolutionary pro features like industry leading multi-cam support and we just updated Aperture with incredible new image adjustment features.

We also announced a MacBook Pro with a Retina Display that is a great solution for many pros.

Tim

It's 30% plus the payment processing fees. It varies because Apple is clever about charging multiple purchases at once (which works to your benefit), but it's closely in line with processing PayPal, SimplePay, etc.

But remember, they're charging that $0.15/MB even for people who don't own a 3G-capable Kindle. In those cases it really is roughly a 120,000% markup over an already profitable service.

You assume all of the Amazon traffic was organic. He directed all of his marketing efforts to the book on amazon.com; presumably he could have captured a good number of those purchases elsewhere.

I think the real issue is less about costs and more about how Amazon hides big revenues behind "delivery fees." Most platforms (Apple, Google, PayPal, even Amazon in the AWS world) that take a percentage cut + special fees separate the special fees to mirror actual costs (e.g. credit card processing). In this case Amazon just used it as another place to add significant markup, presumably in a way that was not expected.

Should he have read the contract more closely? Yeah, no question. But it still strikes me as sleazy on Amazon's part, even though I agree with you that a lot of what he did was only possible because of what Amazon's done.