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This article mentions several problems caused by stiff muscles and strategies for coping and preventing them. It may be useful to understand the mechanisms that cause and perpetuate this problem.

There's the muscle sheaths that have stiffened by the lack of use of the full range of motion and the constant deposition of collagen, which literally glues the sheath to itself. This tight sheath can impair blood flow to a muscle, especially when the muscle is contracted for a long time. The contracting muscle presses out against a tight sheath. Blood takes the path of least resistance.

That lack of healthy blood flow can cause the sarcomeres, the contractile unit of muscle, to get stuck in their contracted position. This is how a muscle gets tight and actually shorter.

When a muscle gets very stiff, a trigger point can develop. A trigger point is just an area where many sarcomeres are tight. We certainly notice trigger points, but the muscle gradually hardens for a while before a trigger point develops.

The hard muscles are shorter and thicker and this makes manipulating the sheath to break up the collagen much harder. But if the muscle is softened first, it can be done.

Massage is how you soften the muscle and get the sarcomeres in it functioning again. Massage pushes depleted blood out and then new blood is pulled in from the capillaries.

But there's still one other factor and that is the way muscles communicate with each other to accomplish work. When one muscle is engaged, other muscles receive nerve signals to help. And if there is a trigger point in one muscle, other muscles are engaged via the nerves.

So you may have a tense muscles but it may be another muscle that is the root cause. All of the muscles need to considered and massaged in a systematic way.
So I know this won't be popular, but I've got to say it.

I'm baffled at these text editor debates.

It's almost like developers think that code-input is a significant part of their job. It's not. It's just some accidental complexity that goes with the territory. Speeding up your text-wrangling ability won't do anything to help you be a better/faster developer.

I use vim all the time (as well as a bunch of others) and yes of course it was an unnecessary pain-in-the-ass to learn. It's all mindless rote learning that doesn't prove anyone's smarter than anyone else either. My theory is that people won't admit this because they're already invested and on the other side of the steep learning curve.

The bottom line is that there's no editor that will make you a better programmer. If you're worried about quick input, you're probably banging out boilerplate and not working at the right level of abstraction.
As an Aussie, in the current YC batch, I have to say that the answer is unfortunately no. YC is just an unbelievable phenomenon, and I think it's unlikely to be successfully replicated anywhere.

To understand my answer, you really need to understand the value that YC gives you. The money is one thing, but it's really not that much -- I don't think you should be doing YC if the money is your primary objective. What has been amazing for me is the access to people who have, it is no understatement to say, changed the world. Getting office hours with PG is massively helpful -- it's saved us a bunch of time when we've been worried about something to just head into YC's offices and have a candid discussion about it with Paul, and he has a particular talent for focusing startups energy in the right direction (users and cheques!).

The big part of this that will be especially hard to replicate in Australia is the introductions to all these people -- fundamentally, those people live in Silicon Valley, and there's not much you can do to change that.

My last comment here is that I don't think Australia (well, Sydney in particular, that's where I'm from) has the same kind of acceptance of entrepreneurs that we have here in the Valley. It's pretty weird to go to a party and not run into someone else who is starting a company over here, but entirely the opposite is true in Sydney -- everyone who could start a company takes an ok job and enjoys the lifestyle. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, but you don't get the same exposure to the startup lifestyle in Sydney, and it's a big mental barrier to get over.

I hope I'm wrong, and I'd love for it to change, because I do think there's some real talent in Australia that could be doing great things (and frankly I miss the beaches!). But making that happen is going to be a lot harder than just throwing some cash around.
That is fairly helpful....however, I don't really even know what I want as far as skill set goes, and there is no way to submit a project and see if people are interested, so I would have to pick people at random and just email them.....
If P were to be equal to NP and we found a polynomial algorhythm to just one NP problem, then through polynomial conversion, we should be able to solve all, or at least most, NP problems in polynomial time. This would be very superior to heuristics even for the most naive of implementations for most relevant NP problems.
I think what will be really fascinating is that if statistical mechanics does end up being the mechanism that finishes the puzzle I do think that CS will have to take a much harder look at making physics a more core part of the curriculum.

This would mean that the two largest results in CS in the past 20 years have both come from working with feet both in CS and physics (Shor's work on factorization with quantum computers being the other huge result, IMO).

I'd love to see undergrad CS, at least the theory tracks, to require a physics concentration in quantum and statistical physics.
Ya, managing memory in objective-c (again, on iOS) is a colossal pain.
"which in turn can't be simulated in machines in full."

If you mean "can never be simulated in machines in full" I would disagree.
+1 for swype. It's actually the thing that absolutely keeps me from considering an iPhone going forward (at least until Apple adopts it). I'm 3x faster than I ever was even on a physical keyboard.
I prefer reporting with a strong point of view to that which adopts an "objective and neutral" pose.

Perhaps because he's so pro-Apple, he sometimes has new details -- as in this piece, that the internal bug for the antenna issue was two years old.
Not to mention the OS X/Mac environment which some people just can't stand.
Totally disagree. The kind of shoe you wear is conceptually orthogonal to your job of walking from one place to another. Practically, however, your choice will drastically impact your comfort, walking range, and possibly even overall health.

So pick an editor (or set of editors) that fits, is comfortable, and lets you walk, run, jog, and sprint.
What do you think guys with 20 years experience blah blah blah blah blah...

That would be the "staff" engineers. I myself is a "senior" design engineer with 4 years of experience. You seem unfamiliar with the industry lingo.
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You wouldn't need to use helium. Nitrogen is the standard "inert gas" for such purposes. At standard temperatures and pressures, N_2 does just as good a job at not reacting with stuff as noble gases do.
This is incorrect. You would need to find a polynomial algorithm for at least one "NP-hard" problem, not any problem in NP. And a polynomial, exact algorithm would not necessarily be superior to heuristics for relevant real-world NP problems such as 3SAT... what if the polynomial were O(N^1000)?
How is Apple making HTML5 a second class citizen. The HTML5 app store came out 1 year before the native app store? All the HTML5 applications are free, and there are a lot more of them.
Or you can use your desktop zoom features: http://viennot.biz/full_screen.mp4
If P != NP, that doesn't mean we will never be able to automate human creativity; it just makes it a bigger challenge.
I would hardly be able to imagine programming being obsolete until we approach near technological singularity.

I take it for granted that there are problems for us programmers to solve.
Summarized as: due to one largely theoretical and two solvable potential issues with a widely understood, proven, and practical language, I propose we adopt an imaginary, non-existent language with a programming model foreign to most.

"no standard specification of the Python language" - given the existence of at least 4 implementations of the language (cpython, ironpython, jython, pypy), it's hard to seriously argue that the language is poorly specified.

Purely functional - you'd be hard pressed to find 1 in 10 good programmers who'd be productive in a purely functional language.
Start with "english", then figure out which skills you're looking for.
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Hey, everyone here should give you a break, it is easy to criticize, and English is clearly not your first language.
By the time the technological singularity approach, the human beings who are living might as well be kings to us.

So it become less urgent for the have to give to the have-not.
Oh, I absolutely agree it's accidental complexity and won't make you a better developer, but we can always optimize, no?

Is there a really good reason to choose Python over Ruby? Usually not, but some people do take a lot of time thinking about such things :)

I personally find the ecosystem of software development interesting, I enjoy debates about minuscule language features or text editors or design patterns. I am not really sure why; maybe I think it exposes the variety of the discipline, and I think it might make you a more well-rounded programmer if you take in that wider view. It's hard to put my finger on and verbalize.
What do you mean by that, exactly?
If the proof works, he would easily get the Millenium prize and the Fields medal.

Edit: Also the Goedel prize
In previous times, there was a liquidation event such as war which then made humans in whatever capacity scarce again.
What a horrible idea.
We could merge ourselves with machines.
>Or we can rephrase the entire posting as “How comfortable would you feel working at your present job alongside someone whom you would rate as among the least competent 25 percent from your high school?”

Middle management are also part of the mass of unemployed.
> Will the haves (people with relevant education, who are disproportionately represented here of HN) give some of what they have to the have-nots just because they are human?

Depending on what the ratios of the two are, they might not have any choice. If it gets more towards the extreme of 10% of people having lots of money while 90% starve, then those 10% had better get used to living in fortified enclaves, 18th-century-France style.
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"... Perfect. Just what node.js need now, another web framework. I just can't decide which one to use. ..."

Usefulness can also be measured in viewing the source code to see how its structured.
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designed by evolution

I think the credited view of evolution is that there was no design involved. It may indeed be true that the haphazard adaptations of breast milk to infant needs (and maternal limitations of resources) under selection pressure makes breast milk better food for babies than any human-designed infant formula, but that's an empirical question. It is possible in principle, at least, that human design could eventually make better (by whatever criterion you use to define "better") for human infants than breast milk.
But since we're talking about Kurzweil... let's define "human" first.
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I work with jamesg (who's already commented) as an Aussie in the current YC batch.

The short answer is there isn't really an equivalent, although I think I speak for many expat Aussies in saying we wish there were!

There are certainly many entrepreneurs in Sydney - check out some of the local meetups like http://www.meetup.com/open-coffee-sydney/ or contact people like Mick Liubinskas and Bart Jellema.

However as James said, the incredible wealth of talent, opportunity, and funding available in Silicon Valley has to be seen to be believed. Without such a context, I think it will be hard to develop such a seed funding model.

The debate about why Australians need to come to the Valley to start companies has been raging for decades - see commentary on Atlassian's most recent round of funding as a classic example.

I think it notable that YC's specific value proposition especially makes sense in a climate where later stages of funding are plentiful. I have no quantitative data to back this up, but it appears sensible to assume that the volume of deal flow (in $M terms) raised in Australia for tech startups would need to be massively higher before a seed investment funnel model would make sense.

Finally, go for it! If not now and you, then when and who? :-)
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Cambridge is a great place for hardware and biotech. It's alright for enterprise software. It's downright poor for web.

(We moved Timetric from Cambridge to London towards the end of last year.)
"... If you actually have any evidence of this "kiss of Startup death" you should post it. ..."

start here ~ http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/lifeguard/
When I was in graduate school, I took up pool. I played every day for five years, at least one hour a day and often as many as three or four. In my second year, friends gave me a pool cue. Most pool halls provide cues, of course, and most of those cues are fine. (Other than truly warped ones which are rare and easy to spot, it's mostly a matter of finding one in a size and weight that suits you.)

The nicer cue didn't make me a better player in any direct sense. However, it was (and is) a joy to handle. It has obvious craftsmanship: the weight and balance is just so; it swings easily in my hands. I look forward to using it, and I care for it very well. So, indirectly, it probably contributed to the improvement of my game.

tl;dr A well-made tool can bring its own reward. Tools you want to work with and care for encourage good habits and practice. These things are not nothing. Programming is not merely a mental activity of juggling abstractions.
I've seen economists mulling over your second point a little lately - it's not a new concept though, it's called "basic income": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income

A fictional basic income exists in Star Trek TNG in relation to Federation credits. This is achievable because the Star Trek TNG universe is post-scarcity but credits are used to ration non-replicable goods.
Why, in particular, do you think so?

On a one off basis, it sounds like a good idea.

I do think in the long run you're better off to use a build process/documentation to allow rebuilding of hosts. This is especially true if you're running 100's of instances.
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London or Berlin are where all the action is in consumer and B2B web startups. They're where the money and markets are. If you're doing something connected with the media or financial industries, then I think there's a very good case that London's the best city in the world to start it; Silicon Valley doesn't have the depth in banks, advertising, publishing, music, TV, film or fashion. The only competition for those startups'd be New York. Net-a-Porter would never work in Silicon Valley.

The Baltic states, especially Tallinn, have benefitted from Skype; the Scandinavian countries are full of developer talent. They're also full of English speakers, and if you're looking to go global, that doesn't hurt.

If you're doing hardware or biotech, the answer's Cambridge, though.
I had some success with iTunes running on XP as a VMWare Guest under Ubuntu 09.10... was a bit of a pain but it worked.
"Which?" Really? Just start a project and decide that way you pansies.
I find the sentence comical in its humility and practicality; I assume leif did too. Acangiano puts it in the same league as Fermat's famous note in the margin of his copy of Arithmetica.

I assume he included the paper in two font sizes to suit the reader's preference; no deeper meaning.
Even if P = NP, the search for efficient polynomial time algorithms will be the key. For e.g., the problem of determining whether a given number n is prime/not was thought to be in NP, until Manindra Agarwal showed that "PRIMES is in P" (it's called the AKS algorithm). Its asymptotic complexity (as n -> infinity) is O(polylog(n)), but it is not widely used in practice, it is still "slow".
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A difference between 18th century France and a medium-term future may be that peasants were essential members of the workforce in the 18th century, whereas the "have nots" may, for the first time, be entirely unnecessary to the ruling classes in order to maintain their quality of life.

If that situation came about, I doubt they'd need fortified enclaves unless they truly preferred that set up. They could merely wipe out the have-nots and be done with it. Or, if we're going to the distant future and the "haves" are more moral, they could just leave Earth and live elsewhere leaving the "have nots" to fight over dirt.
Well the original author did not post the paper on scribd, he forwarded it to professors working on this problem, who in turn forwarded it to others. Someone down this chain then posted it on the Scribd Slashdot, HN etc.

To give an example, revolutionary papers by serious researchers are generally directly forwarded to top researchers in that field. No one wait until Science or Nature forwards it to reviewers.

To give an example consider paper proving Primes in P.
It was also sent to the researchers in that area rather than waiting for a reviewers of some journal to give review.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test
It's very helpful thanks. Honestly, I am disliking the WIndows experience more than I disliked the Ubuntu experience, so I will probably give it another go.

To be thoroughly honest, I don't know if it was Samba acting up on me or if it was the Ubuntu file browser (Nautilus?). Every couple days or so, I would have to click the refresh repeatedly for about 30s in order to get it to see the network shares. Was that Samba's fault or GNOMEs? I don't have the knowledge to say either way.

Thank you for the information.
Why is this a protip? What does putting it on before or after putting a shirt on do? Sounds like personal opinion, and not a clever technique to accomplish an old task.

invisible already stated that a dark shirt and white non-gel type deodorant will most likely result in a rather embarrassing slash down the side of your shirt. One that I have been a victim of more than once. Seems like a good enough reason to get in the habit of applying it after putting on your shirt.
I think I'm getting to be a cranky old developer like you (I'm just shy of 20 years of professional programming). I thought the same when I saw five years = senior.

On the other hand, 6 years into my career I was promoted to Principal Engineer, over guys with 3 times my experience. Go figure.
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The "Family Talk + Text + Web" with unlimited minutes and no contract is $139.99: http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/Cell-Phone-Plans.aspx?cat...

At least, that's what I'm paying and that's what T-Mobile's site shows. If they're showing different prices in your part of the country please let me know and I'll reopen negotiations with them.

With taxes and fees I pay $89.66/month. There's only one phone (the N1) on this account.

[Edit] I did start thinking about this so I just called T-Mobile. The "FP" in the plan name stands for "Flex Pay," which in T-Mobile's world means you don't have a contract.
Note that it is unlikely that WSJ would invite Carr so that he could promote his book. WSJ doesn't really give a shit about Carr. They do give a shit about certain stances and promoting them.
On the other side of the coin programming, especially web programming, probably moves forward faster than most other professions. You may not need formal training again as the underlying concepts are usually the same but the vast majority would have to learn new methods and languages over their career.

I can see this happening in the near future with concurrency in programming, there is going to be a shift more and more towards concurrent programming where most popular languages and methods now will struggle and we will have to move towards programming in ways that the compiler can help us a lot more with concurrency as languages like Haskell have been designed to do.
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