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We have these "standing desks" that have electronic extending legs, so the user can just press a few buttons on the small control panel to raise/lower the desk to a comfortable height.
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One thing I once read about ergonomics and "the best working position" said that the only meaningful advice is that "the best working position is the next working position". No matter what you think is best now, you will eventually become uncomfortable and you will change to a different position. You need to have options, and it seems to me that a standing desk limits your options more than a sitting desk does. Though, as has been mentioned, a desk that raises and lowers offers even more flexibility.
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a standing desk limits your options more than a sitting desk does
How come? I can stand or sit at my desk (having a high chair as I do) - at a sitting desk I can only sit.
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Can you sit, leaned back, with your feet on the high desk?
Never kneeled at a low desk?
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The real solution is not to stay in one position too long. Every now and then you need to move around the office, get coffee or something. Long periods in one position are the worse thing whether it be sitting or standing.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forget about tests. If you have one part of your system that breaks whenever you change another part of your system, what can you conclude about the design of that system? Maybe he just needed tests for his tests?
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I love reading Uncle Bob's blog and find this conversational style of writing works really well at getting across his point. It's just like two regular guys / gals having a chat around the water-cooler. I wish more technical authors would take note.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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All code gets tested eventually - the question is whether or not you feel comfortable allowing your customers to be the first testers.
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I loved comparing and contrasting your response with Dominic's above
TTFN - Kent
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I was sorely tempted to reply directly to him. His fulsome praise of the article was a major factor in my ralphing all over the place again.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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A UK survey suggests that daylight isn't all that -- at least in young people's enlightened minds. Neither is hot water. But they do love the idea of more followers on social media. Mind you, it was done in the UK, so they might not be aware of daylight
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The good news: only 14% are total idiots without hope...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: they might not be aware of daylight
Hot water is a fairly recent thing in large parts of the UK too...
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Productivity Power Tools, first released in 2010, is a pack of powerful extensions to improve developer productivity. Now you have to improve productivity yourself
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Is that what MS do not when they retire tools?
"We're putting it out to the community".
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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That's something good! Some areas of the extensibility of VS still not documented or partially documented...Now we may learn some real tricks...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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It was a problem that had baffled mathematicians for centuries -- until British professor Andrew Wiles set his mind to it. OK, get started on Fermat's Penultimate Theorem now.
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He solved it a long time ago (in the 90's) , but only received his prize today.
Quite a long code review if you ask me!!1
I'd rather be phishing!
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At least it didn't take another 300 years for other people to grasp it
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Great men both Andrew Wiles and Pierre de Fermat.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Remember the desktop? It used to be a popular development target, before all the mobile-first, cloud-first and, most recently, Internet-of-Things hype. You mean we haven't all become Cloud/IoT/mobile developers?
Although they do include Web development as "desktop". So, yeah.
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"However, this isn't your traditional Windows or Linux or Mac OS desktop. Rather, it's a platform to present a Web app. (Also, as VisionMobile points out, today that term really means "laptop.")"
Wow. Sounds like the authors last looked at technology in the '60s.
/ravi
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Google quits robots? Remaining staff told they could be "reassigned to other things." "You only postponed it. Judgment Day is inevitable."
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The first Windows 10 builds from the next-wave Redstone development branch are already in the hands of Windows Insiders on the Fast ring - but for some, it's been a slightly frustrating experience so far. What, they thought of new ways to auto-install Win10?
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