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Exactly. I was so desperate, I would have tried anything. But, I could not finish The Mindbody Prescription. General non-scientific fluff, and a lot of complaining about Freud not being taken seriously these days. No real evidence, although I only got through a few chapters.

However, despite me thinking the book was rubbish and tossing it shortly, my RSI problems disappeared. I guess the suggestion that pain wasn't actually physical in source was enough for the pain to stop.

I've gone from being dominated by RSI problems to not giving it much thought at all.

The placebo effect is real, sometimes even when the patient is aware that it's a placebo.

Note: I don't think the book is correct. There are plenty of phenomenon that we don't understand, and not having a real explanation is not reason to just make one up and assert its correctness without evidence.
It's not the shoe that's solving your problem, though. The trick is to run on your forefoot and roll back to your heel. That's it. That said, it's true that the key difference in the average running shoe and the Vibram line is the lack of heel-cushioning, which as a result encourages correct running, but I felt it pertinent to clear that up.

tl;dr run with an impact front-to-back, toe-to-heel.
To me, this reads as a guide of what not to do. There are two classic mistakes suggested here: (1) Hastily build something of questionable underlying quality because you know it will be discarded, and (2) Once you have clients, swap out your existing platform entirely for something new and... better!
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you can just as easily spawn multiple node.js servers and kill off the unresponsive one's
Somebody asked me this question earlier. So I went and counted; it was under 10% (sample of around 100).

I find it interesting that whenever there's a post on HN that's supportive of Google+, the community collectively reacts with extreme skepticism. Just... interesting, that's all.
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Love the list. Favorited that for future-use with spicing up my life.
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I was attacked, downvoted, for my main comment, and then defended myself. This is NOT nearly the first time for such. Usually the result of the downvote is to send my comment to the end of the thread where it is effectively lost, which is clearly the intention of the MOD.

Why a MOD? Because only a small fraction of the users can downvote, and users instead of the MOD attacking me personally write rebuttals. So far I have not a single rebuttal to any of the content of my original post. I did a great service to some lost CS profs -- outlined for them how to publish and, then, got attacked by a MOD.

Then I defended myself. You found my defense offensive. It was, but not nearly as much as that of the attack of the MOD.
My Google-fu is broken this morning and I can't find the context.

Who is Fred Wilson and why is it a big deal he allegedly pirated a Knicks game?
SMB?
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When adding comments via Android to the textbox, it is a nightmare, I have to resort to writing my post in a NotePad and copy pasting. An Android app. I can write one up for you if you need to. Im alost ready to write one myself and ad it up.
Perhaps you should look up the term rant as it's used in the CS community. It's hardly an insult.

You didn't seem to respond to my point. This article is largely about Google+'s anti-pseudonymity and its effect on the CS academic community. I dunno if I buy all that, but there's a certain irony to you claiming to have the CS cred to dis this guy while speaking under a pseudonym. Come out of the closet!

IAAI, JOTA, and JIS are a far cry from AAAI, PAMI, and JMLR. I've published in like venues: but citing them doesn't help your Mr. Big Shot stance all that much. :-)
I've had my fair share of comments being downmodded without any retort, meaningful or no, and have edited those posts asking for retorts as well in the past.

However, I have no illusion of a conspiracy against me. I'm not an "HN Mod" - in fact, I'm a very lightweight contributor. I've posted a handful of stories, but mostly just comment on things -- and my comments are often against the current here -- but I have the ability to downvote. Oh, and I can change the color of the bar at the top of the HN front page. It's not some elevated privilege enjoyed by the few.

You're being downvoted into oblivion because you're over-reacting, to the point where not knowing you outside these posts you've made now, I suggest you take a little walk away from the computer/internet. It's really not that important dude.
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I also run smack-dab into a 'create a popvox account' box. Nothing on bugmenot, and definitely not something i'd bother to create an account for.
As a Ruby developer, I'm glad I won't need to deal with a "All Rails Servers are Vulnerable to DoS" FUD post in the next few days.
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In fact, several countries made the list at around the same time:
http://www.ie6countdown.com/champions.aspx
how did you learn SAS programming - the same way as regular programming ?
Great post. I'd like to call attention to one point he makes:

"It doesn’t mean that stuff is bad, in the grand scheme of things. It doesn’t mean it has no value or is the wrong approach for many. But it’s the wrong approach for me, for sure."

Let's face it, the differences among Zend Framework vs Symfony vs Limonade vs Rails vs Django aren't really that big of a deal for most of our projects. In fact, I don't know if I've ever worked on a project that any of those frameworks couldn't solve effectively. The fact is that for the simple database web apps that most of us are writing, these decisions are not very critical.

It seems to me that Ed recognizes something that no one talks about as much as they should. The important consideration is not "Which tool is right for the project?". Most of the time "Which tool is right for the developer?" is the question that the success of a project hangs on.

Ed and his coworkers at http://gimmebar.com recognize this. They have adopted Javascript as the lingua franca that allows their frontend and backend developers to work together harmoniously. Developers working in harmony can achieve great things. The 5 Days of Gimmebar are proof enough of that (http://blog.gimmebar.com/post/12793742161/5-days-of-gimme-ba...).

Ed says that a simple framework with useful single-purpose third-party components is the right choice for him. Maybe it is for you too, maybe it isn't. I think the important takeaway from this post is that we should all strive for the self awareness that allows us to recognize what will let us work most effectively. I know I've been giving that question a lot of thought lately myself.
For those (like me) who still need to support IE6 for a while again, don't miss ievms (automated installation of IE in VirtualBox):

https://github.com/xdissent/ievms

(it recently added support for IE6)
X per month for up to Y hours of work sounds interesting. And if the time is not used it could just accumulate...
Here's an experiment: Introduce "stock market" type pricing for movies within a fixed range, ie minimum of $6 max of $20. With a limited number of seats per theater, limited supply already exists so the more ticket purchases for a movie means higher prices. People already offer similar solutions for night clubs and bars, see http://www.thedrinkexchange.com/ as an example.

Heck, you could even bake in movie "IPOs" and make it a game. New movie ticket prices come out a week before launch and go up or down depending on the number of people buying tickets in advance.
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Everyone else already said it, but you are completely dead wrong. Very little of the stuff on 4Clojure has anything to do with mathematics. It is about teaching you the standard library, concepts which are as common and fundamental in Clojure as std::map is in C++ or as list comprehensions are in Python. Without learning the stuff on 4Clojure, you will not be able to productively do anything with the data that comes back from the database, or transform data for delivery to a web service.

You can criticize it for being too much to learn, if you like, and keep writing Perl and Python. That might be a fair criticism, insofar as it would be nice to have a better-paved road to mastery coming from the land of imperative languages. But you can't criticize it for being abstract or unnecessary for programming in Clojure. It is not.
Ha! Couldn't agree more with you!

At my current job we're working with our own framework. I think it has two main downsides for my employers:
1) Employees are difficult to replace - they invested a lot of time in me, to teach me their stack.
2) New employees are difficult to introduce - fresh developers keep asking questions, disrupting the workflow.

For me it's a mixed situation. In short term I know I'm safe - why should they sack me? But in the long run I'll end up with untransferable skillset.
That lament was one of the leading topics in the Google+ community that was the the subject of the article.

Yes, the article was mostly about the community and not the issues of the community. But the article did list some of the leading issues of the community, and I responded to one of them. Uh, the issues of that community are more important than just the existence of the community! So it should have been appropriate for me to have commented on one of the issues of the community.
He's a prominent VC in the NYC area.
Traditionally when I've freelanced in the past I've billed hourly (varying rates, depending on what the client will bear) but I've read some convincing stuff that billing that way in essence punishes productivity. If you figure out how to do things faster, you just end up costing yourself money, so why bother? I've done agreed per-project rates as well and I think they're both more lucrative and better for your sanity.
That's a good idea actually! I could imagine weekly design lessons each focusing on a new design principle or element.

For example, one week you'd design a sign-up form, the next focus on contrast, etc.
It's a blame-evading way of saying something like "Google has had to suffer the consequences of our decision to reach out to bloggers and encourage them…"

(I think the most confusing word in the original is "media" — that's essentially PR-speak for "communication.")
What I needed in a framework was exactly what the author mentioned, something simple to start but could scale to complexity when needed. I tried a lot of other full stack frameworks and just couldn't get them to do really simple things without extensive customization. They were all very rigid in "how" you do things.

This is the reason I ended up writing my own micro-framework, Flight (http://flightphp.com/). The goal is to be as flexible and extensible as possible, while providing a tiny footprint.
Excellent advice, plus i need to ahve a small hand towel rolled up under my left wrist OTW i get pain.
Why do "jews" censor the truth about "jewish" corruption?
The kind of people that care about being able to hack on a system want full access to the system. Android provides that. The fact that Android is running on devices that the manufacturers of those devices never intended to run Android proves it.

The kind of people that care about being able to hack on a system should care that their device was designed to be hacked on and isn't going to force them to break it. Palm/HP hardware provides that. The fact that Debian/Ubuntu runs with very little modification and Android runs quite readily proves it.

WebOS never realized its full potential due to market forces, but the fact that the hardware still stands and is so easily hackable is a testament to the hardware design. It strikes me as odd that people are so willing to defend Android, in all its general customer unfriendliness at the hands of carriers/manufacturers, but since it's "open source", they're willing to overlook closed hardware and locked bootloaders. The Pre was (more) open hardware with a (mostly) open system, rooted by default with no carrier lockdowns.

Palm even gave directions on their website on how to launch a new kernel, and supported a side-loading market for kernel modifications. And they gave directions on how to unbrick your device should the new kernel fail. Is that not hacker-friendly enough?
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Very cool. Would be nice to see an easy C# implementation on Linux available through Heroku, even if it is unsupported.
I think it's more of a lack of interest. I myself find these stories very interesting, but I'm a physics student instead of an engineering/comp-sci student.
I bookmark a lot of links that I read on HN. Can there be a button next to links with which I can bookmark them on the HN server on my account itself and later revisit them chronologically or categorically.
Maybe also specifically 'search' these personally bookmarked links while coming back to read them.
I love these sorts of maps, but I noticed something unexpected that I'd never noticed before: Japan's IE6 usage is almost six times higher than in the US.

For a country that I usually think of as "high-tech" (and the same place that gave us Ruby), that's not what I would've expected.
We structure our projects fixed-time fixed-cost, works well for us.
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SMB definitely means Small/Medium business as mbesto already clarified.

Sorry, for all the writing I did I totally should have not used any acronyms, lame of me. :)
"Paradoxically, it was a lot of fun working on such a short timeline: it basically took all the pressure off and made sure I couldn't second-guess myself."

I couldn't agree more. I often give myself artificially short deadlines if I'm having designer's block, it works wonders.
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Thanks; upon re-reading the comment I see it now
I'm not sure I read pork's comment as skepticism, necessarily. Rather, I'm more curious as to why, if such a forum is an unmet need, an alternative hasn't managed to gain traction while Google+, at least in the author's opinion, has.

I wonder if Google, having a fair number of CS researchers, might be able to get past critical mass / escape velocity / choice analogy by simply starting with its internal users and growing organically from there. You have to have something for the community to nucleate around.
My vote goes toward Node.js.

My reasoning for this is because of the versatility of JavaScript across the stack (both front-end and back-end) - you only need to learn one language!

As per database, call me old-fashioned, but I'm still with the MySQL camp. NoSQL databases like MongoDB have their uses, but MySQL is king for me - for now, anyway. :P
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Oh, man. I spent all this time reading about algorithms, mathematics, and Backus-Naur form when all I needed to do was watch Railscasts!

I guess I'm never getting that time back.
Even as a non-physics-major, stories like this tend to be terribly lacking in meat. The article says almost nothing about the topic: only a general description, without any technical information or exactly what the theorized effect on Hawking radiation is.

As a hacker, a story that says "scientist invents/discovers new thing" is completely uninteresting to me unless it actually makes an effort to explain the new thing. If it does little more than state the discovery/invention, it's news, not science, and can't teach me anything.
It's good that your wrists are recovered. I think folks need to look at other environmental factors: how you close wrist joint when you're driving, riding a bike, playing guitar, holding a baby, using power tools etc
Great, we can use CSS3 transforms and Canvas now, right?

Oh, we still have to kill 3 editions of IE and the xp operations system (too bad, it was pretty good).
Hmm, something tells me L&B would be a bit peeved if all G+ ends up being is the "default medium" for "communication for actual research collaboration."
I'm at $50/hr doing SFDC -- I think a lot of my rate is based on the fact that I'm local and there isn't a large talent pool locally for what I do (Denver, CO)

I'm thinking I could move up to $75, if I didn't get benefits (very expensive and worth it here in the US)

If I thought I was working with a product where there were more people with experience around - I'd ask for less.

ALSO: LOWER RATE = MORE CLIENTS WHOM DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT AND DON'T WANT TO PAY FOR THINGS THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND.
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Woah, that's some massive hyperbole there; learning Dvorak does not risk your ability to earn a living in this industry.
Thanks for that clarification. If I may trouble you once more,

I do see a list of the issues of the community in that article, set apart in slanted font. As far as I can see, the issue which you highlighted in your comment here is not present in that list. Which among the listed issues, in your opinion, implies that they "can't get their research papers published" ?

EDIT : Removed unintended formatting.
I feel dirty trying to hawk my blog post, but I wrote one a few days ago about setting yourself up for success with New Year's Resolutions:

http://derwiki.tumblr.com/post/15086471518/setting-yourself-...

tl;dr is "pick measurable resolutions, try a bunch in a staggered manner starting with the most achievable first to gain momentum, don't be afraid to cut and run if some resolutions aren't making sense as you try to incorporate them into your life"
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Thanks. I'll post technical details on how people can deploy their own applications shortly.
Sitting in a nice chair doesn't help you program better, but it sure is comfortable to sit in.

I learned Dvorak a few years ago and I love it. I wouldn't go back at all; it is just too comfortable.

It takes a few months to get back up to qwerty speed (at a logarithmic slope though). If you plan ahead, its not that time consuming. For example, if you have a coding job that you could do in your sleep, that's a perfect time to learn. If you just started a company and need 110% mental effort, don't learn. Personally, I switched about 2 months before I started on my masters thesis and it worked out really well.

However, if you often use other peoples computers (or vice versa), you should seriously think twice about whether it is worth it for you.

One last thing, I would recommend programmers dvorak over regular dvorak. :)
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Skimming through the comments here it seems a lot of you work the corporate area of things in the contractor and consultant roles.

I'm curious how many people are like me and handle home users and small businesses in the freelancer role.

Basic break/fix situations, software and hardware maintenance, and navigating the minefield that is consumer level equipment.
"Rant" is an insult.

"Far cry" in what sense? The AAAI IAAI conference was about the best could expect from the AAAI.

I published in JIS because it has a wider audience than, say, another Elsevier journal on 'theoretical computer scince' or some such, which I did consider.

For JOTA, I contend that such applied math is closer to the important future of CS than nearly any journal in CS. If I am correct here, and my theme in my post was that CS needs to 'mathematize', then I have been helpful.

There's no "Big Shot", another insult, involved. I just listed where I got published. From the article, one of the leading topics on the Google+ community was the difficulty of getting CS published, and I indicated that I had essentially been successful even though I wasn't much interested.

For the academic 'pecking order' of the journals, I have never cared since I've never had any academic aspirations.

But for someone having trouble getting published, the journals I listed are a big step up from no publications. So, if they can do what I did, then they would be ahead. So, my advice should have been seen as helpful, which was clearly the intention.
I thought this was the coolest thing in '96. All these years later it just reads like self parody. The Internet is very much a part of the terrestrial world, and governments do possess methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear. It sucks, but grandiose proclamations don't change that.
Yeah, seems pretty skewed right/conservative in the few bills I voted on. I have seen this phenomenon before, for example in Votizen, where a lot of well organized Ron Paul supporters are some of the earliest adopters of online political tools.
Yea, not only doesn't it support most of HTML5/CSS3, IE8 doesn't even support XHTML and also most of the DOM Level 2, both of which by now is more than ten years old!