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I'm not sure I understand. I can't think of any ads I've seen that make you sympathize with the incompetent opponent. Could you elaborate?
Most people I've seen taking a logbook approach to working out over-train...

First of all, if you have time to take notes or carry a water bottle while working out, as far as I'm concerned you're doing it wrong. Pick up the pace. It's almost always just porky nerds who have notebooks.

A structured planned mentality to lifting is counter-productive. In terms of how much and how hard to go, you really need to listen to your body on any given day. Some times your immune system really is telling you to take it light and easy and wrap it up in fifteen minutes.

Also, it's most effective to dramatically vary routines and volume/intensity quite randomly from a large repertoire of exercises to prevent habituation. This simply doesn't produce useful time series, so notes are pointless.

Perhaps the biggest problem with a structured and planned approach to exercise is that it's not playful. It's of the wrong mentality to enjoy yourself.
We should get in contact. I work on http://voomaxer.com and my mantra is to prevent people from overtraining.

So far I only handle run/walk/swim/bike/sleep/heart/weight but I want to get into weights.
Man, how is this guy so famous? This is poorly organized and poorly written. It's one step above stream of conscious.
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You're selling a service- if the design of the website fails to relate that service in a way that draws people in and makes them want to purchase, you fail. If the design of the site does draw people in and make them want to purchase, you succeed.

It's a question of effectiveness, of if you'd be able to sell more effectively via a good website.
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Forty minutes twice a week is more than enough time if you're doing it right. If you can lift two days in a row in perfect comfort you're doing it wrong.
Seems like a solid idea, but the tech crunch color scheme is a bit suspect. Is that something they chose or are they all like that?
What about a website which says "my service is successful and lucrative (and therefore probably useful) enough that I can hire a good web designer"?
We see inventions like this every few weeks that have the potential to "completely revolutionize" a field (e.g., long-life batteries, 3D printers, etc.). The notable examples of ones that have come into fruition that I can think of are drinking straws (filtering on-the-spot) and the OLPC project.

It always frustrates me to see things like this so undervalued. To me, it seems something like this could have a societal impact on the same order-of-magnitude as the internet, yet the story only has 16 upvotes, and it will probably take over two decades, if not longer, for this manufacturing system to materialize in, for example, my neighborhood. Why is that? I realize there are certain costs to introducing it and it does have its risk (and some problems, as gibsonf1 mentioned), but wouldn't this be a marvelous investment not just financially, but in general for humankind? I suppose the point of my ramble is to raise the question: why is viral marketing so hard to perform in "real life"?
I completely agree. I've been using ubuntu for a few years now, but use OS X at work. A lot of coworkers are pretty hardcore developers but still insist on using OS X.

Anyone who tells you that Macs "just work" and that linux takes too long to setup (or hardware isn't supported, etc) haven't used linux, and specifically ubuntu, in the last couple of years. It does what OS X should be doing -- easy to get started, but doesn't go out of its way to shield you from advanced features.

Quick side rant -- OS X does in fact "just work" if you're doing basic to intermediate things (checking email, digital photos, etc). As soon as you want to do something slightly advanced, it isn't the beautiful experience anymore at all -- a coworker of mine got so frustrated trying to setup PGP in mail.app that he switched to using Thunderbird. Planning on doing any serious C development? There's no ldd command for OS X. Want to really tweak your terminal (see parent)? Good luck. If you're serious about development and want something that'll scale with your skill level, use linux.
Out of all the elements I mentioned, muscles are the weakest, which you don't counter except to acknowledge. So not a bullshit thought.

You only need the muscles to position the body. Structure and grounding toward the earth is the source of strength, not actual muscle exertion. If you can properly use your body you will not need the muscles for more than position, not resistance.

Real speed and strength comes from complete relaxation and not tension, which weight lifting only promotes.

The problem, in my eyes, of current weightlifters, is that they believe that they are healthy because they can lift certain weights under certain conditions. Move to a different context and that "strength" does no good and generally is a detriment both to coordination and to speed.

Let me add that this is from a martial artist perspective. Of course muscles are needed to do work like climb a mountain or such, but your are better at growth trying to climb that mountain than some form of gym weightlifting activity.
You can select the color scheme -- it's something they chose.
They're also available for Unix/Linux, although the Window's versions seem more slick.
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/purify/unix/

Of course they perform a different function to gdb in general.
I read that as an observation, not opinion. The interfaces that are the best end up ugly, not that ugly interfaces are the best. Not because they need to be ugly, not because quick and efficient means ugly, not because ugly means doesn't require training, and not because there is a bias against aesthetics among hackers. They are ugly because no one actually cares what the admin interface looks like as long as it gets the job done.

As for hackers having a bias against aesthetics, I find this to be false. There is beauty in efficiency independent of looks. Getting the job done and being able to go home gives people pleasure. Concentrating on the veneer of the UI while ignoring user productivity is not providing a decent user experience, because a large portion of the user experience is based on getting the end results, not on the trip to get there. The chore of going to the supermarket is not made significantly better by taking the scenic route or having the building that houses it be designed by some big name architect, it's made better by minimizing the time it takes to perform (efficiency).
There's an excellent lesson to be learned here. The level of passion and technical competency the detailer displays in his quest to clean the car is what's also needed for a startup to succeed.
The robot could embed steel or kevlar tape pretensioned during the pour.
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But there are still "better ways". I was not discounting the ability of weightlifting to strengthen bones, tendons, and ligaments, but to point out that other ways may be more beneficial and healthier and have less negative effects.

Weightlifting of almost all forms generally promotes overall tension in the body, which, in my opinion, is not a good thing.
I've been in and out of an Apple store in 10 minutes. Just go in knowing what you want. Tell the salesmen/woman clearly, right up front. If you don't want applecare, list it like a feature. 2 gig ram, dvd-burner, no applecare. Are you sure? Yes. You don't even have to go wait in line at a cash register. The sales guy just checks you out.

At circuit city, I got two spiels about extended warranties. One from the sales floor guy. One from the cashier. It also took 25 minutes to "find" the computer I wanted in the back. And this was for a preconfigured toshiba from the display.
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When absolutely necessary, we would solve this by keeping global (centralized) ID's in an autoincrement table either on the master or on a vertical shard. It didn't come up that often, because most tables (in our app) are really dedicated to one specific entity (ie a customer's inventory items).
I think the user interface for data entry is the key problem in using software to track gym workouts. I lift 4x per week and have tried various workout logging software, but have yet to find anything that works better than a simple notebook and pen.

A typical session's data includes 6 exercises, 4 sets each, weight and rep count for each set, so 48 numbers altogether, all related to each other in different ways. Plus I like to keep notes in the margin like "grip the bar wider" or "slower negative movement".

If you can create an iphone app with a user interface that makes it really really easy to enter workout data, then I think you would find a large market. I payed for gyminee.com because I thought it might deliver this, but the data entry was still too annoying. The built-in Notes program on the iphone was actually better.

Also, as other people have mentioned, "overtraining" has negative connotations, so I'm curious why you picked this name.

Best of luck. I think this is something people want.
We mostly used simpler RPC mechanisms like XMLRPC or REST. But cross-language calls (other than client-server) were really the exception. Probably the only really performance sensitive ones were to our SOLR-based search.

Yes, you can easily move chunks of the address space around, but we decided that the pain that results from remapping (like when you add a new machine) is worse. We very rarely had a problem with our master (which we ran in master-master replication, how's that for term overloading). The few exceptions were times that our own bad code ran amok driving load. It was way better to invest in an automatic query killer.
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You forgot the operative word "web"....web developers. For existing apple developers, this is solid gold.
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Linux has no viruses because not a whole lot of people use it as an end user operating system.

If only we could say Linux has no exploits... ah... now that would be truly remarkable.
"my service is successful and lucrative (and therefore probably useful) enough that I can hire a good web designer"

That would be dishonest at the moment. :-)

When tarsnap is lucrative (which implies "after it gets out of free beta") I'll probably revisit the issue of website design. :-)
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The "bad Apple" puns, indeed. You, sir, are a bad apple.

I shiver at the thought of a generation of people putting full stops between their written words. As. A. Way. To. Emphasize.
It was more about not appearing to be the elite... You want to be the underdog, not the intellectual or similar. Both sides want you to feel they're like you and the other is aloof or out of touch.
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"... Why would you call a site for athletes overtrainer? ..."

Maybe because there is an optimal point in training. Working with weights is about repetition. Too much and you overtire or worse, injure yourself. Too little and you miss out on the benefits.

The thing I would want to know is what benefit I'd get from logging this on a site (with all the associated hassles) compared to noting it in a log book with pencil & paper? Being able to see the results is a good motivational point.
Even worse. Use an SMTP gateway or just buy a dedicated server somewhere...
"... This isn't so much of a problem for the types of applications Cappuccino is intended for: long running applications, rather than transient web pages. ..."

Good point I totally missed this.
Valgrind is also incredibly useful if you are working with Linux.
"I was a college football player and could put 375lb above my head, squat over 500lb and bench press 225lb over 30 times."

and then

"Real speed and strength comes from complete relaxation and not tension, which weight lifting only promotes."

May we assume, then, that now that you don't lift weights, you can squat and bench more? No? Maybe it isn't a good idea to use "strength" to mean something other than what everyone else means by it.
I've used Valgrind on Linux, but it's one of those applications where I have the time and patience to install it once, but not twice. That's my fault for not taking notes on how I set it up.

It is in some ways as good as Quantify and Purify, except that they're much easier to use, being based around a good GUI.
There's structure and then there's rigidity. I always took a structured approach (today I'm going to do legs & lower back), but modulated the intensity according to how I was feeling, my energy level, etc. By using that structure, I knew what my plan was and I could avoid overtraining a bodypart.

And my notes are useful 10 years later. I can see progression, and the comment "allergies bad today" will explain why I cut sets short, etc.

That said, I wouldn't use software to do this. My clipboard served me well for years.
I've never heard someone complain the ads don't work. Their factual accuracy, on the other hand, is far more dubious. But they're good ads.
He is just trying to market himself by trashing newcomers. His # 1 reason for the sucketivity of these startups is "Almost no company on this list is using video". This comes from a guy whose job title is "video blogger".
His entire career revolves around camera and camera related stuff. Has this guy done any real tech stuff other than 'assemble computers' ?
I cannot squat nearly as much nor bench nearly as much, but if that is you metric of health I will point you to several power lifters that died an early death.

The strength I am referring is the strength of the "climb a mountain" type or the "move from point A to point B in the most economical way" kind or the "take on an adversary much stronger than myself" kind.

On the speed side, for example, weightlifting, as it is popularly promoted, slows down the body. The biceps and the triceps work against each other and unless you can properly relax the countering muscle your intentions will be dampened. Weightlifting generally promotes tension in all muscles, thus a general slowing down.
nice tagline for the post. its a great idea to have beta testers be in your target market
"It's almost always just porky nerds who have notebooks."

I've logged every workout I've done over the last 14 years. I squat over 300 lbs and deadlift 450 lbs.

My roommate in university was an olympic lifter. The entire team logged their workouts. Serious athletes log workouts.
I thought I was going to miss Linux package management tools, but MacPorts is just as good

MacPorts is decent, but it is definitely not as good as apt/dpkg in terms of overall package quality, comprehensiveness, and convenience. In the same way that Mac power management "just works" (and I agree with you enthusiastically there), Debian/Ubuntu packages "just work." Also, MacPorts only applies to Unix-style software: most Mac applications do their own installation/uninstallation/updates, which is much more annoying.

Another delightful thing about package management on Linux is that it is commonplace to upgrade all the packages installed on your system every 6-12 months, for free, whenever new revisions of your distro are released. Compared to paying $99 for a new version of OSX that isn't integrated with any of your installed packages, it's not nearly as nice.
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I just posted another technique for DRYing up variable initialization in rails controllers: http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/2008/09/06/dry-up-contro...

The method I used doesn't let you use method names instead of instance variables, but then again I think it's actually better to use instance variables. In my code I mostly use instance variables for active record objects, whereas I use methods galore. The little @ thus helps me find the active record objects quicker.
I'd happily beta test. I currently use http://www.gyminee.com to track my workouts.
It's a great idea. I've always wanted to run contests but the hassle of doing so just kills the fun out of doing it.
Although the writes are expensive and very infrequent reads, the cost of having a failed read can be so expensive (like, your house, rapport with the IRS, etc).
There's plenty of all of those things to be found in Northern California, though sometimes I think Sarah Lacy is determined to corner the market in Shoddy Reporting.
You can add to this the fact that Google is also in the mix.

e.g.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&...

Personally I like Yelp better, but I've only really been looking in SF (which is their strongest card).
I've just started working out in the last few weeks, now that college has started.

1) Is your start-up one that would help me, new and inexperienced? If so, I'm interested, providing:

2) Do you need people testing that aren't particularly skilled at working out?

Either way, best of luck with your app.
I think it's a bad idea to model a personal fitness regimen on competitive athletes. They are typically over trained. Really, they're typically damaging their health somewhat. And again, metric driven discipline is just not the right mentality to bring to exercise for 99% of the population.

Also, you should read about high weight dead lifts and spine stress fractures. You are probably damaging your back.
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2 years ago he wrote the exact opposite:
http://scobleizer.com/2006/03/04/the-role-of-anti-marketing-...
Agreed. Scoble is one of the most obnoxious people in tech.
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Question: does anybody think there's worth to a start-up that's being made primarily to offer a service rather than to make money? As in, something where the main focus is offering a top-notch service, whether it's to a small community or no? Because the start-up I'm working on is one that I have some plans for making money with, but I've done no research as to whether or not such markets are typically profitable and I don't care to. I care more about creating a service that doesn't exist. Is that a bad thing? Or, to be more focused, is there something I still ought to beware?
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Out of curiosity, why do URLs turn into links in comments but not Ask YC posts?
Previous thread from 2½ months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=221750
I guess the author's spell check doesn't work for JIT-ed (the article kept saying "jittered")
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"Yes, I do know rsync. I do know cron. I do know all kinds of tools. Did I use them regularly? No, I was too lazy, as I suspect most people are."

Laziness is the oddest reason to have for not using cron. Not using cron regularly? This is a joke, right?
Ask YC: You are promoting me too mentality and not intellectual debate.
The current voting scheme promotes herd mentality and not a diversity of thought. I do not have a solution, just this observation.
Oh, and interestingly, suspend and resume work flawlessly on my MBP under Fedora 9, without configuration. So yeah, this is still a hardware issue, and when the hardware is good, it works fine.
As others have noted in his blog comments - up until a few months ago his site was absolutely terrible and now he's already on his high horse.

Glass houses.

Don't worry he's not actually famous he's just tech scene famous, which is similar to winning the special olympics. Ask your Mom, non CS college professor, Grandpa or neighbor who he is. They won't know.
His point (a good one) is more about positioning and less about design. i.e. How startups you describe what they do. I think he's right-- most startups (most companies, really) are woefully bad at communicating in a way that their customers understand. The closer you are to a topic, the less likely you are to be able to put yourself in the shoes of someone who isn't.
I once had to tell a guy at the Apple store to cut his spiel short and that I was going to be the easiest sale he had all day, he just needed to get what I wanted from the back and move on to the next customer.
It depends on if you want to live on this idea or not. If you want to make enough profit to support yourself, you need to make sure there's enough of a market for that!
I made a website for real estate brokers to manage their apartment listings. One of my partners was a sales guy. We made very little sales headway as the problem wasn't pressing enough to brokers--getting available apartments by fax and keeping them in 3-ring binders was a "good enough" solution for them, and in terms of paying a monthly fee, they just didn't have the money to spend on something they saw as a luxury. Services can be great businesses, but creating them for their own sake is a recipe for failure. My real estate agent co-founder was sure this service should exist. He was just wrong about the extent of brokers' willingness to pay for a better mousetrap.
It's almost always just porky nerds who have notebooks.

Sorry, I don't find that to be true at all.
I think it's a bad idea to model a personal fitness regimen on competitive athletes

Agreed, but logbooks are not a fitness regimen, they're a simple, useful technique for maintaining control of whatever fitness regimen you pick.
I voted this up because I think it's the beginning of an interesting discussion, but (in general) I disagree. I'd like to know what types of discussions you think suffer the most.

Tech-wise, I think the site is more diverse then ever, there seems to have been a decline in general lisp-evangelism since I joined about a year ago.

Though I might agree that there is a certain "start-up philosophy" to which any reference is guaranteed upvotes, but competing ideas are usually just as well received.
Hmm. In that case, I suppose I'd say that while my goal is making money, and lots of it, my motive is not profit, but invention.
I've always wondered how you tell if an ad has actually "worked" -- Apple's increased revenue could be due to a million different things.
I'm not in the same situation. I don't gamble on services that are slight improvements - such things are never certain. Instead, I think I offer something genuinely new. So hopefully there's a chance to be had.
One side thinks Mac is overrated. The other thinks Mac is a godsend. And, call me biased, but I think that that's always the reaction you get with truly top-notch products. It happens in all fields. It's the reaction you get with Samuel Beckett, or The Big Lebowski, or Portal. It's never "awful versus wonderful," it's "wonderful versus overrated."
Sites like these are all about a herd mentality. Maybe you're looking for a forum atmosphere?
Um... what? You install valgrind by selecting it from your package manager (e.g. "apt-get install valgrind"). You run it by prepending "valgrind" to the command. Then you read the output. Valgrind is one of the most dummy-proof development tools I'm aware of. For someone to claim that they don't have the patience to "learn" it is just beyond me.
There is nothing particularly slight about moving from a paper office to digital. We even offered data entry of their inbound faxes, and a consumer facing website back end. This was new to them.

I'll put it more plainly--if you don't know if your market has money, and a real problem, there's a good chance you're wasting your time. They liked our service--just not not enough to justify the expenditure of money they didn't have.

Best of luck, and I hope it all works out.
Herd mentality = when everyone has the same opinions. Going by the number and nature of comments, I don't think that is true.

Diversity of thought: Barring phenomena like the Chrome launch, look at the variety of articles here. I think it's great. Remember that this isn't generic news, but Hacker News. So it's going to be more internet & technology centric that your Wall Street Journal.