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Comment Both sitting AND standing are bad for you. (Score 2) 235

This just in, http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/CUESitStand.html

From TFA:

The bottom line:

Sit to do computer work. Sit using a height-adjustable, downward titling keyboard tray for the best work posture, then every 20 minutes stand for 2 minutes AND MOVE. The absolute time isn’t critical but about every 20-30 minutes take a posture break and move for a couple of minutes. Simply standing is insufficient. Movement is important to get blood circulation through the muscles. Research shows that you don’t need to do vigorous exercise (e.g. jumping jacks) to get the benefits, just walking around is sufficient. So build in a pattern of creating greater movement variety in the workplace (e.g. walk to a printer, water fountain, stand for a meeting, take the stairs, walk around the floor, park a bit further away from the building each day).

So the key is to build movement variety into the normal workday.

Comment Re:Sauce for the gander (Score 2) 794

I'm of course bummed about this news, but I can't help but wonder why there's such a difference in reaction between Amazon/EasyDNS/PayPal's actions with WikiLeaks, and Rackspace's actions with the Koran burning guy.

I feel like the general attitude here towards Rackspace when they pulled the Koran burning guy was positive, whereas the attitude about Amazon/EasyDNS/PayPal is negative.

Should we only be happy with companies that pull sites when we agree with them? Or, what? Is there some difference between these two cases? How should we resolve this cognitive dissonance?

Comment Code Reviews (Gerrit) (Score 2, Informative) 477

Traditional everyone set aside time and review checked in code is hard to do, difficult, and time consuming.

On the other hand, automated code review tools are life changing. There's a bunch of tools out there, but the one I think is far and away the best is Google's Gerrit tool (http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/), which is what Google uses publicly for Android.

I cannot understate how helpful Gerrit has been in this regard. So many things that are trouble down the road are easily caught by even just one other pair of eyes. Everyone who has used Gerrit at my compnay has fallen in love with automated code reviews. It's refreshing, leads to better code, etc. I seriously could gush about Gerrit for pages.

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