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I've found that Yoga is more effective in preventing wrist pain. Also I don't think typing speed is typically the limiting factor in coding speed. Even if it was, maybe switching to a less verbose language would be more useful than switching keyboard layouts, in my opinion.
I've been using the Dvorak layout for at least 9 years, and with the right hardware I've been able to get around the weird ZXCV placement. I currently use a 2030 from http://www.typematrix.com . It has function key mappings that place cut, copy, and paste directly below the ZXCV portion.

Also, you may want to try the Capewell-Dvorak layout by Michael Capewell at http://www.geocities.com/smozoma/projects/keyboard/layout_ca... . Mr. Capewell has an evolved layout as mentioned by trickjarrett, but the Capewell-Dvorak layout attempts to be a simple correction to some glaring issues in Dvorak like the inconvenience of the ZXCV placement, typing G and H on the same finger, placing A under the pinky and O under the ring finger, etc. I haven't had the time to spend to learn it, but I think it would be well worth the endeavor for someone just learning their second layout.
Yeah, I wasn't planning to respond at all until I saw that someone had modded it up.

I glanced at some of your comment history, and it looks like these off-topic posts irk you greatly. The third act ("Disturbing the Peace Train") of this This American Life episode came to mind, you might relate/enjoy:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=127...
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I would like to see a social news aggregation site, such as Reddit and Hacker News, focused on quality debate. Users would tag each submission with its label in Paul Graham's disagreement hierarchy (http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html).

This submission, for example, would probably be tagged "Level 4: Counter-argument". And, probably, also with "Strawman".

You could filter out all submissions rated lower than Level 5 or 6 or whatever your threshold is.
I think I once took the battery out of my MacBook, but it was because I was adding memory.

So, yes, definitely.
I know exactly what you mean about the habit of criticizing being like a drug. I don't know if I can completely give up criticizing; it may not even be a good idea to do so for reasons that others have mentioned here.

But after reading the Carnegie book recently, I am trying to be more tactful. Whether I change my behaviour in the long run or not, I find it is a good social experiment to carry out. Now when I disagree with someone or am tempted to criticize them for some reason, I have to think about it carefully. I don't just blurt out my first thoughts. I have definitely seen that it helps to start with a compliment or merely stating the things that we do agree upon. And then I politely pose the differences as questions, similar to what Ben Franklin suggests. It's too early for me to make any big inferences, but one thing I can say is that it certainly feels better to have pleasant conversations than heated abrupt arguments.
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I've found 1Password (http://agilewebsolutions.com/products/1Password) to be a great solution to this. It automatically generates passwords for you and saves logins on an encrypted file. The only problem I've found with it is that when you go to use a friend's computer or a public computer you don't always know your passwords. A web service version of it would be convenient, but the security implications are obvious..
Windows 7 Is "Less of a Resource-hog" Than Vista
Same here!

If it's couldn't.. then no way.. I am buying such a laptop; because at times my laptop freezes and I am left with no option than to take out the battery and reboot....
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> I'd say about a quarter to a third of founders we fund have never-give-up morale. The rest are mostly in the middle group.

What's the distribution of never-give-ups among YC startups? That is, do startups with a never-give-up tend to be composed entirely of never-give-ups? What are the dynamics for startups of mixed composition?
They really have to work harder on their value proposition. This accelerates the perception that Vista is a failure. I'm really amazed, usually reviews like this are ghost-written by MSFT's PR folks. Have they lost complete control of the reins?
I like Zed, but this is full of bullshit. Every economist worth the name (fuck that Krugman/keynesian bullshit, read some Tyler Cowen, Peter Boettke, Steve Horwitz) knows that the Fed is to blame for the current episode of the business cycle. They printed too much money, it causes inflation and, even worse, disastrous malinvestments. In short: printing money fucks up the structure of production.

Moreover, the Fed isn't even a libertarian institution. He tries to discredit libertarianism by proclaiming that an airhead like Greenspan is a libertarian. He's not. He might once have said he was one, his actions have proven otherwise. The Fed is a government monopoly on money. And that's a bad thing.
Glad to see they're doing alright. As an avid CCG Player I'm eager to see a parallel to them rise for the CCG gamers.

I think Video gaming is going to continue to grow into the spotlight, but it's going to have to have a star who "normal" people can relate to. Fatal1ty is just too gamer to be that star, and to be truly dominant beyond belief.
Why? Intuitively I would think that this would lead to bigger corporations.
Dream job. Yes, been thinking of starting one for years. Something like www.brainstore.com, but more technology based and less fluff.

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That's where I stand. I want a small government, and I think it's crazy that a government as hulking as ours doesn't provide something as essential as healthcare. On the other hand, I'm against social security and think that a general welfare system will do fine to take care of poor people, young or old.
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After that, I made toast, and found that toast is much better when made in an actual oven (400°) as opposed to a toaster or toaster oven.
If the least problem Facebook has is to make money, then why haven't they done it now? Don't you think it might be smart to get that little item checked off their list sooner rather than later?
Quite true that market research is critical. However, the choice of potential markets to research is even more critical. One of the points I read frequently about successful startups is that the founders set out to solve some problem that they had: something that was interesting to them. Doing so gives you an inherent domain expertise - and internal motivator - you wouldn't have otherwise. For instance, I don't have any interest in having a home theater so working on software to control the different components of a home theater leaves me guessing, rather than knowing, what people with home theaters might want.
Or, you could argue that the government should be limited to market failures.

Roads, defense, control, vaccines... all have significant effects outside of the markets, and thus their price does not reflect the benefit to society.
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The guidelines of this site contain a useful rule: act as if you were saying something to someone's face. If you're more or less normal, that means that sure, you can criticize things, but you won't be a jerk about it.
Not that I necessarily disagree, but you could argue that in the time there have been corporations, there was also government support.
I for one am thankful that you have saved me from "question mark creep" (hopefully).
But you are still attacking the person, rather than his argument.
I totally agree, and, in fact, one of the things I enjoy most about working with the people I work with now is that I can bypass all the bullshit and just get straight to the point. It's a pleasure for me not to have to add all these extra layers of foam around my points.

However, when faced with someone whose ability to take direct answers I don't know, I'd fall back to the "What about X" method. If they were to answer that by jumping straight to Z and looking a little bit annoyed at me, I'd probably try getting straight to the point next time, and see if that works better with them.

Different people, different conversation styles...
"1. Facebook continues to loose money at a rate that makes the government (really any government) look good."

Maybe they should tighten their grip.
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I'm not a fan of Windows, but I really hope Microsoft has created a wonderful operating system here for several reasons.

1. I do have to interact with Windows even if I don't use it - and my friends are too cheap to get a Mac and think Linux is a Peanuts character.

2. If Microsoft has good ideas, they will spread. The Windows taskbar turned out to be a great UI device that we see in KDE and Gnome among other places.

3. While I love the Mac OS X, Apple can be somewhat heavy handed with its users sometimes. Want a 17" notebook? No removable battery for you! Not a choice of whether it's important to you, whether you'd prefer the added weight, it just doesn't exist. The greater the competition from Microsoft, the more Apple will bend to users.

4. I can't wait to see the Apple commercials calling Windows 7 Vista 2 ;-).

While some Linux enthusiasts might see a stronger Windows as a barrier to Linux adoption, I guess I'm less hard core about FOSS and would rather pay up for a platform (as I do with my Mac) since I use it so much.
The Fed doesn't print money. It does affect the size of the money supply, but it does this with interest rates, securities, and the reserve rate (or can do this). The reserve rate is generally not touched (it causes shocks in the money supply). The last two generally affect lending and saving rather heavily (make the interest rate high enough, it's not worth it to invest; low enough, not worth it to save).

The fact that the dollar is fiat has little to do with the problems we ran into (printed money is only a tiny fraction of the money supply).
Superb word play - and a warning about ambiguities in your writing.
One of the problems with that viewpoint is reality is harsh. Pollution is a classic cases of the tragedy of the commons and all successful forms of government need to deal with this and thousands of other issues. Maximizing prosperity is something with many local minimums over the short and long term. IMO saying X is correct when you are wrong should lead to ridicule lest others assume it's a reasonable argument.

PS: Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene works as an analogy for ideologies. They don't need to help their followers as ideology only needs to propagate faster than it's killed off.
alexandros might be referring to the argument was made by Roderick Long in Cato's lead essay in November:
http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/11/10/roderick-long/corpora...

He points out that government funding of highways acts as a de facto subsidy of Walmart and similar chains by partly socializing the costs of shipping, making it easier to compete with local businesses; and that regulations (which large companies can more easily understand and comply with than smaller companies) provide barriers of entry to industries.

He concludes: "In a free market, firms would be smaller and less hierarchical, more local and more numerous"

(I don't have a strong opinion on this. It sounds plausible but it's a bit anecdotal for my taste.)
I switched over to the Dvorak layout about 2 months ago and I'm getting pretty good with it, but still am not up to speed mostly because when trying to 'think' type I end up making alot of mistakes. I'll do really well with a little concentration on typing but as I focus on the thinking I tend to make what I'll call mistake streaks where I'll get the same letter wrong 3-5 times before getting it right.

My Qwerty fingers are completely gone and I find it a pain to use since I learned to touch type in the early 90s and now have to lift my hands and look at the keyboard all the time when using that layout on someone elses computer.

Keyboard shortcuts and punctuation have been my least favorite parts of the switch. I still get them wrong all the time and not having the shortcut keys on the left hand is a bit of a pain.

I'm going to stick with Dvorak in the hopes that I things get better as I move forward. I switched mostly as a preventative measure to avoid the RSI issues I see in this industry alot, but I can't yet recommend switching to others.
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Does anyone know of an equivalent solution in PHP? Since I use the KohanaPHP framework, I assume this could be done in one of the routing routing or pre_controller events.

EDIT: found a good approach at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1180/how-to-make-subdomai...
"Printing money" is only a euphemism for "expanding the money supply." I thought that would be obvious. I know the Fed doesn't actually print the currency or mint coins.
Ask HN: Are social content aggregators ruining your ability to read a book?
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I swear my ability to read a book, magazine or most anything that is projected by my 24" LCD is degrading. It's not that I don't grok the content of the book, it just seems to be a struggle to read line for line.

I'm guessing that my brain is adapting to the style of the poorly written blogs and sensationalist headlines that I generally find on on the web.

Anyone experiencing something similar?
err...that should read... "... most anything NOT projected by my 24"...".
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"People no longer identify themselves by their email addresses, they do so by their social networking account, and he's right there."

That's an argument FOR OpenID, not against it! If every social network has to invent their own sign in protocol, they have two choices: roll their own, or use OpenID. The smart ones will use OpenID. They're welcome to disguise it under a "log in with MySpace" button, but under the hood it makes sense to use the existing protocol with the pre-written libraries rather than invent something new from scratch.
When I google 'Canary Wharf TV reception' your comment is the third result ( :
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The guidelines also include a useful example of how to keep criticism from being personal:

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

I love that "can be shortened to."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You suspected wrong, as I was using "scrubbing" as a metaphor for household work in general.

No kidding. But I suggest that in a society not yet capable of making scrubbing brushes, there probably isn't much housework going on.

As is the widespread availability of alcohol and other chemicals, which I suspect is a more important factor in the conduct of life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_alcohol
Alcohol was discovered very early on in the civilisation game. I doubt that women of the Stone Age had much in common with the ladies of Wisteria Lane...

If by "we" you mean "we women who read hacker news", sure. I'm looking at the aggregate. It's not a men vs. women thing, as men are also not driven to abuse by "mundanity" or other silly things.

Now you're just trolling. Or perhaps you have some evidence to justify such a ridiculous statement?
I find that I cherish books even more for their carefully constructed long-form arguments after reading online.
Really? Could you point to some government ministers saying that? Thanks.
The comments in the page seem rather interesting. A kind of war between the microsoft guys and the osx guys. I'm not anti microsoft, but i'm certainly not in favour of any bloated software.
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"powerpoint" and not Powerpoint?
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$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']

Parse that to get the first part of it like in the example.
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Public criticism is very bad. I once criticized a fellow team member in a fairly loud, emotionally heated public tiff saying stuff like 'If I have to implement that feature that way, I'll quit' (I really did feel like I would have). I was called into the carpet on my manager's office and made very well aware that I had disrupted the team dynamic (because I had surfaced conflict and more importantly other teams had overheard what I had said (which hurts our team's image). Among other things, one of the quieter members of our team expressed concern to our manager (which she had never done ever before). I had to apologize and repair the rift (which took months).
"People no longer identify themselves by their email addresses, they do so by their social networking account, and he's right there."

I don't find that to be true at all. Social networking sites have a long way to go before get anywhere near the ubiquity of email with the general adult population.

I could take a trip around my office and everyone has email, maybe 5 of the 30 use myspace or facebook. Grown ups still prefer email and see facebook/myspace as nothing more than a silly website kids like.
Those are the mystics who didn't "get it." They were fooled into inaction by others who profited by being able to deal with the world as it was.
Not his fault that "pg" hasn't implemented something along the lines of:

pre {
overflow: scroll; /* currently set to hidden. Why? */
width: /* something reasonable */
}

A little CSS goes a long way for usability.
Ask HN: How to write a business plan for an Internet startup?
I've been approached by some investors who want to invest in my startup. They've asked me to put together a business plan - listing costs/revenue etc. Do I include my salary costs in this or do I assume that I won't be taking a salary? Any feedback/reading material will help!
When you do something like that, you're ignoring lots of other factors that often turn out to be very important.
I'm sympathetic to this, but at the same time, most local sellers (outside of those who exclusively sell locally-produced goods) rely on the same transportation system.
Since we're clarifying things, I believe you meant "jujutsu" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujutsu ).

Imagine how a posh, and possibly a bit poncey Englishman might say "who", and you should be close to the sound of the U's in "jujutsu". The first U is elongated, and the rest are short.
Not being able to accept reality the way it is often leads to inaction. "We'd be able to refactor that subsystem if the other developers had written tests and documented, damn them!" [inaction follows]
The lookup table solution in the comments seems sane enough, Always nicer to do lookups than loops.
You could improve on it by pretty much runlength encoding the table. Instead of storing 0,0,0,0 just store the number of 0s, although then you might need to iterate instead of simple lookup which would negate the point of using a lookup.

Also seems like most RTC chips I've worked with store the year,date,month as BCD or similar, and deal with the rollovers as they occur, on the chip. Only Storing days since 1980 seems like a lot more work in software.

I do think it's quite right to put the blame squarely at MS for this though, a simple code review, or a quick test plan would have picked it up easily.
I had a customer once that wanted me to hire a team of the best consultants we could find.

So I spent about a month reviewing resumes and doing interviews. At the end, we had about 8-10 folks who had top-drawer experiences, top-drawer credentials, and top-drawer recommendations. (Their rates were top-drawer too, but that's a different post)

Once they started, I found that I was wrong all of the time. If I said it was raining, one person would say nope, it's misting, another would say that a better term would be scattered showers, while a third person would point out that the technical meteorological term was BR.

It went on like this for weeks. Whatever my opinion, technical or not, was wrong. Drove me nuts.

Then I realized that these really sharp folks were simply acting the way they had their entire careers. People who criticize and correct get noticed as being smart. You can either be a wallflower or you can stand up and show how much you know.

These were great guys, but they weren't working as a team. Instead, each was jockeying to look good.

Not sure if my example directly applies, but it at least seems to me that a lot of folks are simply playing for points, ie, looking to nitpick instead of trying to learn.

People are tough, you know? Computers are a lot easier.
Ask HN: How do you read? (And Yellowstone is a supervolcano)
A few days ago a collegue mentioned that she was going to visit Yellowstone next month. Remembering some details from a chapter in Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything on the park, I attempted to explain to her that Yellowstone was, in fact, a supervolcano.

The problem was that I couldn't remember many details other than that Yellowstone was a supervolcano, that it was due to erupt, and that if it exploded we'd all be in a lot of trouble. Frustrated that I didn't remember more than that, I went back and found the following from the book:

"Yellowstone sits on top of an enormous hot spot, a reservoir of molten rock that rises from at least 125 miles down in the Earth. The heat from the hot spot is what powers all of Yellowstone's vents, geysers, hot springs, and popping mud spots. Beneath the surface is a magma chamber that is about forty-five miles across-roughly the same dimensions as the park-and about eight miles thick at its thickest point. Imagine a pile of TNT about the size of Rhode Island and reaching eight miles into the sky, to about the height of the highest cirrus clouds, and you have some idea of what visitors to Yellowstone are shuffling around on top of."

At one point a few months back I read those lines, and yet all I remember now is "Yellowstone is a massive supervolcano." I read an entire chapter and that's was all I could explain to someone; very few specifics.

Two questions: When you read do you remember specifics or just the big picture? Has anyone found any good ways to improve their ability to remember details like this?
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Erlang has lots of pattern matching.
Actually, it fits a pattern that's been around since the Usenet days. We computer guys are masters of our digital domains. We often think that we can instantly understand anything that's well documented. The result is that the Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Economics guys are often annoyed at the stuff we post.
But not a type system like Haskell. I simply don't know enough about Haskell to have an opinion on how much of a good or bad thing its type system is, but it's definitely different from Erlang's. My original comment was meant to get the Haskell guys talking about what practical, real world advantages their language has.

Even if I don't see it becoming the 'next big thing', I like Erlang, in that it's extremely practical for certain types of problems.