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This is what helped me the most - shortening the distance between the home row and the mouse. The next best help is to use Vim everywhere which reduces the need to reach for the mouse.

I use a leopold 660m which is a 60% keyboard that has arrow keys tucked close.
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It probably goes without saying, but it is quite important. Proper technique is vital when strength training. Mobility work is also important. I have injured myself way more than I should because I yanked up a deadlift bar the wrong way, or damaged a shoulder because I didn't warm it up properly.

If you're gonna do it, do it properly.
Thunderbird Feeds feature is enough for me and i don't see if i want another rss reader client

email + feeds?

Thunderbird!
I order drinking water from Amazon, beat that!
> you must ship a native app

I believe this is the main reason Autodesk is doing this.
+1 for the Advantage - I have one at work and one at home and for the amount I use them they're worth every penny. I mount a Magic Trackpad to the centre too. The downside of these keyboards is that once you're used to them switching back to regular keyboards quite literally becomes a painful experience by comparison. Additionally, I wish there was more space between the keywells - Matt Adereth's Dactyl keyboard might provide a solution in that regard, though I have yet to build one: https://github.com/adereth/dactyl-keyboard
This is a 35-year-old multi-million-line codebase working in a browser.

Yup. I don't know what to say - I'm impressed by the amount of effort not spent on other things (for your infinite pick of other things).

The future will tell but in the meantime I don't see the problem that was solved by this fix (except for the problem of not running the app in Chrome).
Yes, there are bad cultures. More commonly, there are companies without a culture. Oh, different departments may have a de facto culture, but the company as a whole doesn't have one. That's a problem. Because where a company grows and delivers value is in the alignment of very disparate concentrations and expertises. You can build the best damn software system in a given domain, but if your marketing team isn't on the same page, it will fail. And if your marketing team is awesome, but the product completely misaligns with what they're selling it as, you will see some initial success, but very quickly be disrupted or flat out fail (though if your business people are good they can possibly swarm to buy any competitors before they become a threat).

The decisions are important, yes. But the person at the top isn't making every decision. They may have the best intentions, but if somewhere down the chain of command someone is prioritizing the wrong thing, focusing on the wrong thing, but still doing their job okay, they won't be told to do differently or let go. Defining a focus allows their immediate superior to recognize they're not doing their job. It even allows their subordinate to tell the manager "Hey, our mission/values statement says X; are you sure we should be doing this?" and possibly fix it without escalating it (though if escalation is necessary, it also provides a reason to escalate it, and a reason for the superior to pay attention).
I may just be imagining things, but it seems a disproportionate number of RSI-suffering programmers use emacs. From my own experience, I suffered the worst RSI of my life while using vim. It subsided a bit when I moved to Sublime and almost completely went away from I switched to VS Code. Obviously correlation does not imply causation and I have taken a number of other steps to fight RSI (ergo keyboard, heavy keyboard remapping) throughout the years.
Coinbase is trying to create a bridge between centralized financial systems and decentralized financial systems. I can understand that some people might not like that but I think this is ambitious and necessary if we want crypto to be part of our everyday life.
>People that aren't consuming eggs might do so because of health issues.

The authors are aware of this, and excluded people suffering from several common health problems for this reason:

"In the present study, we excluded individuals reporting medical histories of cancer (n=2577), heart disease (n=15 472) or stroke (n=8884), or having prevalent diabetes (n=30 300) defined by self-reported diabetes or on-site plasma glucose testing (fasting blood glucose ≥7.0 mmol/L or random blood glucose ≥11.1 mmol/L). We made these exclusions to avoid a prevalence–incidence bias and minimise the effect of reverse causality led by potential confounders such as lifestyle factors."

This isn't all possible sources of reverse causality, but it does at least make it less likely.
Regional bus services are popping up and including amenities like wifi, friendly customer service, and stops for breaks (usually once every 2-3 hours). Greyhound service is abysmal however, and a last resort economically.
I'll throw out my $0.02, which is C is a terrible language to learn. Much of writing "good" C revolves around knowing all the pitfalls to check for, then dealing with the archaic error handling mechanisms. Tomes have been written on the subject of proper error handing in C.

> fundamentals of things like memory allocation, data types, call stacks, etc. remain a mystery to them.

I don't think C is especially good at teaching these.

Unless you roll your own malloc, the big difference in memory allocation in C vs. say, Java is that C requires the programmer free memory after allocation on the heap. This is more tedious than difficult.

Data types exist in other languages. You can unpack raw bytes of data using Java and simulate the behavior or unions.

You'll have to explain how call stacks are more exposed in C. Best I can think is calling conventions, but that's more the domain of compilers than language. Buffer overflow prevention, maybe (but again, I think that's more tedium to deal with).

C is great because it's a small language. But I don't think it's an especially educational language.
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I imagined more of a discontinuity with the passage of the 1924 immigration restriction act to prevent all those "red" Italians from entering the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924
Martha Stewart went to prison for lying to the government even when not under oath - and so have countless other people. This is now standard operating procedure for law enforcement, as it's much easier to catch a person in a random (and possibly unintentional) lie than to prove a real crime.
Yes--every government employee stereotypes, and profiles. Government employees=federal, state, and local.

It's embarrassing, and I'm questioned all those days in grade school I repeated the Pleadge of Allegiance.

If I had a do over; I would have high tailed it to Europe, or Canada in my twenties.
What I'd really like is an open-source program with equivalent capabilities to those of SolidWorks 2005. It was sufficient for our needs then and would be sufficient for our needs now, had licenses not expired.

Browser-based apps tend to disappear or change, and we need to reference/alter drawings and assemblies on decadal timescales.
I know what you mean. If I'm good about using the grayscale, when I see a site with color it's almost overwhelming. You get desensitized to all that color.
The last time this is posted, the author had me at "Interlude: why is there no Lua, Erlang, or Forth memory model?" .. and .. a year later, it still holds true.

Lua doesn't get quite the cred it should, in the language wars. Its one of those "just going under the radar, getting things done" languages..

EDIT: like, isn't everything a finite map eventually, or at least partially expressible, idktb......
Did these editor changes correlate with any other life changes, e.g. job change?
In an alternative reality, Delphi would have won and we would have native Delphi apps instead of Electron.

But we can't have nice things.
Here's a pretty interesting map showing TPH (and number of train cars) in 1954 for the AM rush. I believe some lines are running fewer trains today than they were then.

http://transitmap.net/image/55177865550
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Ask HN: Companies or startups that are *actually* changing the world?
I just read about another startup that wants me to "come change the world" by making some app that does nothing, so I started thinking:

Let's discuss companies that are actually changing the world, rather than Not Hotdog or Facebook for Cats.

We've got stuff like Boston Dynamics and SpaceX (and friends) which could very plausibly change the world in any number of ways (Giant satellite internet constellation? Robocop? Lunar Resort?).

We've got the big AI companies (for better or worse, surveillance, self driving cars, it's definitely changing the world).

There are I assume medical and sociological companies or nonprofits doing wild new things that I am not aware of. Paul Allen's research institutes (brain and cell) maybe.

What are some places (startups, corps, nonprofits) that are actually changing the world, for better or worse?
I want to agree with your first point, because I'm confident there are unexaggerated highlights on my resume which would make certain hiring managers skeptical. But if we're more charitable about it, they did use the word "clearly"...presumably there is some unconveyed context there about obvious cases of exaggeration. It might not be about claiming something unbelievable so much as it is about claiming something very impressive but not filling in a corresponding amount of detail about it?
It's very large, so your hand just sort of rests on it. You don't need to grip it, unlike other mice.

Also due to the form I find I'm forced to keep my wrist in a good position, and basically can't use it to move the mouse. Instead I have to use my shoulder.
Throwing in a vote for Clojure since you already know Java. It's a great bridge language into the world of FP, and it lets you leverage the JVM ecosystem, so you can take advantage of Java libraries/packages when needed. From there, you can bridge into Clojurescript for front-end, and reagent/reframe are great ways to learn how to build single page react-style apps (all the rage these days...).
Wow, hopefully if it becomes a webapp they can charge less than $5k - $10k per seat.

Haha, probably not.
I find lifting relaxing and stress reducing, and the linked article mentions the author had other techniques for stress reduction of varying levels of success. Aside from stress reduction there is probably also some fraction of better muscles and tendons via lifting result in less RSI pain.

I think this explains the effect where a guy starts lifting and the pain goes away in a week, although it takes a little while longer than a week to obtain a professional powerlifter physique.

Something to consider is bro-science in lifting, which is rampant. I machine/circuit train lift because the odds of going out with a back injury from freeweight squatting is maybe 10% annually, but the odds of injury on the machines is approximately zero. If your whole point of lifting is becoming a world class athlete then you MUST freeweight and accept you'll spend some time in the ER and hospital due to injury because the machines don't have the capacity; I max out the leg press at 400 while the freeweight guys at the gym do much more. On the other hand if you merely want to be the strongest healthiest guy you know outside of the gym or want to prevent injury or improve lifestyle in general, the machines are more than good enough. Basically freeweights are for people trying to win a competition (and there's nothing wrong with that) whereas the machines are for injury and lifestyle improvement, so pick the right tool for the job. On the topic of bro-science, unless you're putting in lumberjack levels of effort and superman strength, ignore all the supplement and diet advice specific to lifting; I started doing bicep curls with 50 pounds and you don't need to eat 17 raw eggs per day or take 42 pills per day to curl 50 pounds, the exotic stuff is for people performing exotic activities. If you're trying to lose weight, its true that you can't outrun a fork, but weight lifting is an entirely different topic than either weight loss or aerobics, so bro-science for aerobics people or fat people isn't relevant ... although you probably should be eating paleo / low carb regardless of exercise routine.
Yeah, that’s one of common things people claim. Someone has said pushups would do the trick.

Tavis Rudd in this Programming by Voice video thought his rock climbing helped prevent issues before he got RSI.

https://youtu.be/8SkdfdXWYaI

I’ve cataloged lots of solutions:

https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes
Lower the prices... Or make it more accessible like how JetBrains did before they switched to a subscription model? That would give you instant developer love.
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"[P]ainlessly." "The web just works." "Cross platform." "Mac is better."

These are all just not accurate. The last is objectively not true in the context you use it (Macs account for a tiny fraction of all desktop and laptop computers in use, the vast majority of which run Windows or Linux in the case of servers).

There are a number of web "applications" which only work on one or a small number of browsers, which have complete features on just one browser (e.g. Slack and calls, which work on Chrome, not Firefox on Mac), and many if not most such "applications" have a lot of very complicated, poorly conceived JavaScript code backing them.
Most of my calories come from meat, cheese, and organs, and my blood work looks just fine. I honestly just don't pay any attention to the ping-ponging research findings these days unless something is directly toxic.
Still better to link directly to the HTTPS page to prevent SSL stripping. Unless the site is already on the HSTS preload list of course; then it doesn't really matter.
Maybe not in a trading firm, but Java is still heavily used across tech/enterprise companies. I used to work for a IB which used Java heavily and so do Spotify, Amazon, Google.
Fish or cut bait.

Often the expected value of committing to one side, even if it is not the optimal choice, exceeds the probable value of the optimal choice delayed for additional evaluation.

But there is a human tendency to increasingly feel that one's choice is more obviously correct than it really was, leading to discounting contrary evidence and even demonizing those who make the opposite choice.
Free speech mostly and sometimes interesting screenshots.
Still a worse version.
Great, one more app that we can rent forever.
When was the last time you tried Xamarin.Forms? Visual Studio 2017 doesn't have these issues, and Visual Studio for Mac rocks.
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And archive.is: http://archive.is/l834w
We need to stop pretending Microsoft's the only company that puts ads on their OS.

The only consumer products I think Google does better are YouTube, Maps and search. Office+Outlook > Gsuite. Windows Phone > Android if weren't for the lack of apps. Windows > Chrome OS.

Outlook > Gmail probably comes down more to preference but I'd like to hear why you think Google's offerings are better.
Your assumption that nobody at Apple cares about the customer's privacy and security is completely ridiculous.

The fact that they have a setting to wipe your device after 10 failed pin/password attempts proves that they care about my security and privacy. There's no other reason to include such a feature.

Not to mention the secure enclave in iOS devices (and the MacBook Pro and iMac Pro, I think) or Apple's refusal of FBI requests to assist in unlocking iPhones.
Blast from the past, I did a lot of work on 3B2/600's at Bell Labs back in 85-93...

UNIX on Amdahl and VAX 11/785 those were the days.
> delivery fees

> amazon

?

Also I expect a grocery bagger to not set a bunch of stuff on eggs, I think the same can be expected of someone packing boxes.
Thanks, I'll look at this, though I would advise retaining some skepticism when evaluating data from a single source, especially when that data is confirmatory of that source's stated mission. Here's some more to evaluate:

http://jmrphy.net/blog/2018/02/16/who-is-afraid-of-free-spee...
You imply that computing of ten years ago was arguably worse than what we have today. In what way?
There has been an effort to attract technology business to small cities and rural areas since the mid-1990s. I recall driving through West Virginia around 2000 and seeing a sign labeling a stretch of highway as "West Virginia's Tech Corridor." Knowing West Virginia, any company that built along there would have zero taxes, heck they probably wouldn't have to pay for the land.

Purely monetary incentives don't work. You have to look at the full range of what incentives people to move to a place. And companies are still run by people who are swayed by those same incentives.

Even in the Bay Area, companies with large campuses and competitive pay are opening offices in San Francisco because their talent is demanding it.
Never heard of it before but farmer's walk look like a nice exercise[1].

Any issue with doing them with dumbbells v.s. something slightly longer? Imagining the range of motion I feel like the dumbbells may sway and feel awkward.

[1]: https://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/farmers-walk
Mostly subscriptions.
Yes, Apple users spend more money on average. But it's not like Apple has a monopoly on these juicy users, and uses its evil walled garden to lock out poor indie developers from milking these "valuable" users.

These juicy users willingly chose the Apple ecosystem, precisely because it's a safe and trustworthy walled garden, in contrast with Android's offering.

Complaining about this is like a door to door salesman protesting to be let into a gated community to sell his crap. The people living in the gated community chose it precisely because they don't want any of your crap (among other things).
Thanks!

Originally I was going to implement a slider where you could adjust the amount of grayscale, but wasn't sure if anyone would use it. I really like the idea of having it gradually go gray, I might look into that when I get a chance to work on this again.
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>I just learnt about him and ordered my first book of his last night. Odd.

No odder than any of the billions of cases of people who hadn't just learned about him and ordered their first book of his last night, though.

Edit: this is the same fallacy behind a good portion of claims of "miracles" and "supernatural" phenomena, and other apparent coincidences. If no one bought his book on the night before he died, that would be odd. Not sure why all the hate.
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No idea. It just seems based on our own experience that resources aren't likely to be evenly distributed.
Don't think Apple maps is as good outside of US
The books I read have non-trivial content and are written in an engaging fashion, so, no, I don't.
If you have values that are out of place in Europe.

For example, schooling your kids at home is not only absolutely forbidden in Germany - but when I was in Germany, people reacted as if I was suggesting making a terrorist attack. Meanwhile, 9% of students in North Carolina are homeschooled.

Or, I have an German, non-tech acquaintance living in the US South. He loves it. He gets to live on a farm, buy giant sniper rifles, and go to long range shooting competitions. In much of Germany these would be both unaffordable and the sign of deeply dangerous mind.
"As one of the three big internet giants together with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates..."

Please, that's just a poor attempt at flattery, right?
This is a conspiracy theory. In all likelihood it was just a few fascist businessmen concocting dream scenarios.

Reactions [1]:

"No doubt, MacGuire did have some wild scheme in mind, though the gap between contemplation and execution was considerable, and it can hardly be supposed that the Republic was in much danger"

"At their core, the accusations probably consisted of a mixture of actual attempts at influence peddling by a small core of financiers with ties to veterans organizations and the self-serving accusations of Butler against the enemies of his pacifist and populist causes."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot#Later_reactions
Colin, you are right. Of course if you are sliding along it you have some option to grip it and thus provide additional force needed to keep you in the vicinity of it.

Of course, if you decide to actually fall to Earth from L1 that starts becoming problem. I'm too lazy to calculate exact terminal velocity you would reach when falling L1 to Earth (it won't be the 11km/s you would reach if you were falling from Moon orbit because you also have Moon tugging you). I estimate it not lower than 9km/s (Moon has 2.4km/s escape velocity).

Now, if you moved along the pole at 9km/s you would feel much more tug (noticable 2.5cm/s2) or about 1/40th of Earth surface gravity. If you were 80kg person that would mean about 2kg apparent force.

Of course, by that time you wouldn't be thinking much about it as you would have other problems in mind...
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You sound like a cross between King Canute and Darth Vader.
> If it works for them, web version might be the only one that gets distributed.

How could it work for them? Most decent sized projects would promptly run out of available memory and have nothing to do about it. And before that they have to deal with the ever longer list of restrictions put on web applications because of the trust model.
I've seen smart people making dumb mistakes on a bad day. You simply can't trust any random person's judgment and lose money along the way.
You have a point. But even though HN doesn't have a ton of color, it still feels different on grayscale I think.

Most of the evidence is anecdotal, but it seems to work for a lot of people (myself included). I went into it more here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17133984
/r/AskScience on Reddit is pretty great in getting your random questions answered - perhaps not in the same entertaining way, but there's definitely some smart people there.
There's a gamble in selling a future too - if your crop fails and you have to buy yourself out of your obligation. The upstream supplier can afford to do so, especially if they can buy on a different continent if a widespread famine/drought happens.

Of course for an airline with ready access to capital then the risk is virtually zero in buying futures; it is always going to be a hedge. Cashflow in that situation will be very different though. Capital is king, as they say.
Except it's just linking the home page of whatif, not the specific post.
The only book I read of his was Patrimony, about his relationship with his declining father, which I really enjoyed.
At these scales the rock that makes up the Earth and Moon is just a low-viscosity liquid. A strong pole would just go through the Earth without a ripple.
Thank you! I'm glad to hear that : )
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Puts down bro-science. Then proceeds to bro-science. Classic.

"a back injury from freeweight squatting is maybe 10% annually, but the odds of injury on the machines is approximately zero"

Got a cite for this? My pure N=1 experience is that I've only ever been injured on machines forcing the body into unnatural movement patterns, while I've been squatting for 10 years with no issues. Sure I only squat a few hundred pounds, not like the 1000+ lb monsters.