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Find out what the problem is first. A stand-up desk may make it worse.

Look up Montessori.

It's such a shame they don't offer encrypted sql databases like adobe air, it would make life so much easier for many applications.

What? Anyone who understands the evidence for evolution should accept the theory, because it's just that compelling. If there is another explanation for all of the data & experimen…

Of all the true geniuses I have met none are "on the internet", or if they are, are passive observers. They tend to be too busy doing amazing things than writing about it. I have n…

That's a pretty big claim to be implying - that TS has less exits than YC and are second string. Do you have the numbers in front of you, or was it a guess? I've heard otherwise, s…

Performance under extreme pressure is by definition what sorts out he great from the average in other disciplines: sports, music, performing etc. If you haven't experienced sport (…

They would be pretty rare on youtube I expect, the sensei's i have encountered have always been pretty secretive. I would suggest just starting up (they love helping beginners) and…

Eclipse + java6 would make a marked difference, agreed.

>Not the easiests of problems though. Do you know what statistics you would apply? There are many ways. Off the top of my head: - to focus on speed of development you could use a p…

One impossible study: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1016762

I refer you to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1016762 What's wrong with that as evidence for lisps superiority?

This is what statistics are for, and is exactly the same situation that many other disciplines find themselves in where treatment a influences treatment b.

This is a testable hypothesis due to the number of popular open source projects around we can draw from.

If the effect size is large (i.e. the magnitude of difference between the means of lisp vs non-lisp programmers) the size of problem should be irrelevant. Many thousands of program…

Now that is interesting. I personally agree with the hypothesis that lisp is a step forward, but often wonder why it's an anecdotal argument than one that is data backed. This pape…

It's computer science not computer woo. I'm asking for evidence not anecdote :) Surely, there has to be at least some evidence in it's 50 years? Especially given the claimed huge e…

That's the same explanation psychics give. If the effect size is large (as is claimed), it should be an extremely simple study. So why has no one done it? Why don't the lispers org…

Surely if lisp makes a programmer N times more efficient then it would be easy to study scientifically. Have there been any studies comparing productivity? Why is it that in RAD ap…

The last time I was employed I got frustrated with this having deployed 5 applications to customers in a few months on my own, and simply negotiated a contracting role. We came up …

I'd like to know, does anyone actually do all these "productivity" methods? I've never known anyone who tries all the things you read on blogs and sticks with it for very long.

Agreed. We had the same problem with flash charts, it was like the most requested feature so we just ripped them out and replaced with a server side generated chart.

As soon as you need to embed an image of the chart in a pdf you may run into issues with these libraries.

blueprint by lombardi is pretty good https://blueprint.lombardi.com/