I’m all about advancement, but this just kinda starts to freak me out, fearing that we just may end up as in the movie Surrogates. But, it’s so cool 🙂 – can’t wait to see how will they make fighting games for it. Yeah, I’m sure pr0n industry will have it’s market for it too 😉

So, I guess, it’s just as with everything “groundbreaking” – shut up and take my money 🙂 But, on a more serious note – we just may wanna keep our vigilant eye open…

edit: Today (9.05.2015), on a developers conference in my hometown I tried out Oculus Rift, and  all I got to say is that I’m still feeling dizzy and sick, so yeah, this just may not be for everyone – not for me that’s for sure :/.

This error come up when I tried to use the debugging tools for Node.js program using Visual Studio Code, as outlined in their official tutorial.

The solution was quite easy actually – on a Mac all I had to do was run the following command:

brew install mono

You’ve all heard the news – Microsoft made a free editor for developers called Visual Studio Code. You can download it from the official page here. The cool thing is that it works on Windows, OS X, and Linux, with support for IntelliSense, debugging, and GIT.

It’s worth making a distinction between Visual Studio 2015 which is still the full integrated development environment (IDE), while Visual Studio Code is “just” an editor – but from what I saw so far, a good one.

For the past 26 weeks I’ve gone through the MaxCapacity program 2 times (2 * 12 weeks + 2 weeks rest time between), and I can tell you that the program is all but easy. I really like it, but no matter what others say – I don’t recommend it for beginners (I did, and it didn’t work out so well). So, if you can’t do like 10 pushups straight, there’s really no sense in trying this workout as it will leave you disappointed.

The app (Android and iOS) is free to download, so this is a review in a way to say thanks to the author Samy Peyret (you can support him by buying his book on Amazon).

So, the main breakdown is pretty simple; you have to exercise only for 16 minutes, 3 times a week for 12 weeks. Honestly, if you don’t have 16 minutes for exercise, then something is seriously wrong, but that’s another topic… Exercises are very well planned and they grow in toughness as the weeks go by. Main idea is that in 3 weeks you do the same set of 4 different exercises on Monday, a different set of 4 exercise on Wednesday and  a different set of 4 exercise on Friday. You rest on Saturday and Sunday.

First week is a 50/10 regime, meaning that you are doing the exercise for 50 seconds and then you rest for 10 seconds – you should log your best (usually the first set) score. Second week is a tabata (20/10) regime, and here you should log your weakest score (usually one of the last sets – here you have 8 sets since the exercise is only 20 seconds long). The twist comes in the third week where you have to beat the time and do the calculated amount of repetitions ([max 1st week score + min 2nd week score] * 3) as fast as you can – and if you can do it below 16 minutes, you Rock.

I logged each and every set (you can download the full excel file: MaxCapacityTrainingLog), and as you can see it turns out that the second time I got to do the exercises, I did them with a whopping 24.32% increase in number of repetitions, so yeah – it works in only 16 minutes 3/week! The 24% increase is the average of all the exercises, some of course vary as you can see in the aforementioned excel file. The biggest advancement I noticed was with the diamond pushups, where I did a 150% increase in number of repetitions for the max count, and 135% in total sum!

So, to sum up – very much thanks to the author for making this a free resource. If you like it, you can support him by buying his book on Amazon.

An example of the first week the first time I went through the program compared to the second time I went through it:

Monday
[table id=1 /]

Wednesday
[table id=2 /]

Friday
[table id=3 /]

Give it a try and hit me back with your numbers and let me know what you think!

App idea alert!: Maybe a good idea would be to make a repository of scores so that one could see where he stacks up between others!?

An eye opening post from Jason Lengstorf.

After a few days of too little sleep, you’re a drunken zombie. We wouldn’t go to work drunk, so why the hell do we go to work on four hours’ sleep, when we’re more impaired than if we were hammered? To make matters worse, sleeping less than six hours a night may lead to an early death.

If any of these sound familiar or if you can totally relate (like me :/), then something needs to change

Feeling Guilty About Any Time Away from Work — Even Time with Family and Friends

Frequently Working More than 40 Hours a Week

Frequently Sleeping Less than 6 Hours a Night

So, yeah, advancement is good, but not worth it in the long run in terms of sacrificing the time spend with your child, spouse, friends. I’ve read a quote somewhere that goes something like “On his deathbed no man ever wished he spent more time in the office”. I believe balance in all mayor areas of your life is key but, of course, not easily attainable.

The author goes on to say how he managed to work less time, but in turn be more productive.

I know this may sound too idealistic, but at least from time to time – why not give it a try, right?

I’m a big fan of Stack Overflow and I tend to contribute regularly (am currently in the top 0.X%). In this category (stackoverflow) of posts I will will be posting my top rated questions and answers. This, btw, is allowed as explained in the meta thread here.

My question was:

I just can’t get this thing to work in javascript. So, I have a text “game_1” without the quotes and now i want to get that number out of it and I tried this:

var idText = "game_1";
re = /game_(.*?)/;
found = idText.match(re);

var ajdi = found[1];
alert( ajdi );

But it doesn’t work – please point out where am I going wrong.

 The answer, by Naltharial, was:

If you’re only matching a number, you may want to try

/game_([0-9]+)/

as your regular expression. That will match at least one number, which seems to be what you need. You entered a regexp that allows for 0 characters (*) and let it select the shortest possible result (?), which may be a problem (and match you 0 characters), depending on the regex engine.

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My question was:

I was wondering if there is a way to set the setTimeout function to different timeout on the fly.

So, for example I check something every 1 second, but if I don’t get an expected result in like 10 seconds I want to “reconfigure” this setTimeout to wait 3 seconds instead of 1.

Here is my code:

var br = 0;
var waitInterval = 1000;
var sleepInterval = 2000;

var waitForNewRace = setInterval(
function checkForNewRace(){
    if ( $("#data").html() == "1"){        
        $("#res").html("got it!");
    }
    else{
        $("#counter").html(br);
        if (br++ > 9)
            waitInterval = 3000;            
    }                   

    $("#tst").html(waitInterval);
},
waitInterval
);

If you want to check it out here is the mentioned code on jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Hitman666/Vyczj/2/

 The answer, by KooiInc, was:

You have to stop the interval and restart it. See this fork of your jsfiddle.

EDIT: I’ve copied your code here in case something happens with your jsfiddle code:

var br = 0;
var waitInterval = 1000;
var sleepInterval = 2000;


function checkForNewRace(){
    if ( $("#data").html() == "1"){        
        $("#res").html("got it!");
    }
    else{
        $("#counter").html(br);
        if (br++ > 5){
            clearInterval(waitForNewRace);
            waitInterval += 1000;
            if (waitInterval > 10000)
                waitInterval = 10000;

            waitForNewRace = setInterval(
                 checkForNewRace,
                 waitInterval
            );  
        }
    }                   
    $("#tst").html(waitInterval);
}

var waitForNewRace = setInterval(
    checkForNewRace,
    waitInterval
);

StackOverflow updated the users profile pages, which now look awesome:

It’s way cleaner now. All in all, thumbs up from me, and as it seem, most of the community. You can read more about it on their blog.

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My question was:

I am wondering if there is a way to write the SQL so that it would return me a result as usual but now, on the first row that would return also the attribute names.

To explain what I mean:

say you have a table “test” which has 2 attributes “id” and “name”:

id name
1  nik
2  tst

query:

SELECT*FROM test;

produces:

1 nik
2 tst

but what I want it to return is this:

id name
1 nik
2 tst

Is this possible?

edit: I am using PostreSQL

 The answer, by a_horse_with_no_name, was:

You cannot return the names and the actual column values in a single result unless you give up on the real datatypes (which is probably not what you want).

Your example mixes character data and numeric data in the id column and Postgres will (rightfully) refuse to return such a result set.

Edit:
I tested the “union” solution given e.g. by JNK and it fails (as expected) on Postgres, Oracle and SQL Server precisely because of the non-matching datatypes. MySQL follows it’s usual habits of not throwing errors and simply converts everything to characters.

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