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Having suffered with RSI for over 10 years, and at one time or another dealt with: carpal tunnel, wrist flexor tendinitis, wrist extensor tendinitis, rotator cuff tendinitis, and upper extremity numbness.

I've been around the block a few times – enough to practically A/B test the various treatments out there.

I think this post covers things pretty well, although I have not had any luck with the psychosomatic approach, despite trying that too.

For the past 10 years, I've been retreating, so various things have worked at various times. I can't praise the kinesis keyboard enough, but unfortunately I'm too far gone for that. I currently use Dragon NaturallySpeaking for practically all of my typing, a bamboo tablet for mouse input, and a capacitive touch keyboard called a "cleankeys" for typing (it's made for dentist offices), although this is forcing me back to hunt and peck typing.

I've also had some limited success with some herbal and vitamin supplements at various times (and some definite failures).

However, my issues have not really improved a great deal until about nine months ago when I started a real strength training program (starting strength), although I have a few caveats for that program if anybody decides to pick it up.

I also believe that my upper extremity numbness is coming from some sort of thoracic outlet syndrome exacerbated by tight pectoralis minor muscles (I recently injured my pectoralis minor lifting weights and have noticed that my upper extremity numbness has gone away while I have been doing rehab stretching). I also had a nerve conduction test which came out perfect, so there's no impingement in the extremity itself.

Be careful with standing desks, because my shoulder tendinitis developed after switching to a standing desk and typing with my arm unsupported for a few months.

Not be self-promotional, but as a hobby I put together a website where I do reviews of RSI equipment for beer money: www.RSIinformation.com Most of what I would write in this comment is already elaborated quite a bit on the site.

The one thing that I would pass along is that tendon injuries do not heal correctly without stress. This means that tendinitis/tendinosis and a lot of other RSI issues will not heal simply from rest; you must "rehab" the tendon with exercise, but make sure it's the right kind.

I only wish that I knew 10 years ago when I know now, so if anybody is having issues, hit me up via email and I'm glad to help. I probably know more than your doctor does about RSI at this point.
1995 Smithsonian Institution Interview with Steve Jobs
Ikea uses particleboard (not plywood), and certainly not for its strength.
If they succeed in enjoining everyone else's smartphones, then yes, they are a monopolist, and should be held to the same standards that Microsoft was held to.
I've been an avid climber for three years now and the amount of strength I have built up in my upper body, wrists, and fingers has proven to be the best guard against my relatively horrid posture at work. About the only thing I am careful about when coding at work or home is making sure my keyboard and mouse are at a comfortable, even-level height to my chair's armrests.

Additionally, the mental component can sometimes not be ignored. Short story -- friend of mine had back pain all through his life, saw doctors, chiropractors, no help. I am randomly listening to the radio, hear Howard Stern comment that a Dr. Sarno completely cured his chronic, debilitating back pain and that it had been all mental. I recommend Sarno's book to my friend, he reads it, boom, back pain gone. Now whenever his back or neck starts acting up, he knows to check his mental health and make sure he is addressing stressors in his life.
Charging for spam just means spammers buy accounts to post spam...
You're missing the point. If you spend most of what you earn, that's an additiona 10% (in my state) on sales tax.

Most very wealthy don't spend nearly what they earn, so the effect of sales tax is negligible.
It wont seem spammy if it is well executed. Just make it easy to unsubscribe from the tips without unsubscribing from the book notification. Also, make it clear in the first email that the recipients only signed up to get notified about the book but that you thought it would have been useful to send periodic tips. Also be sure that the tips have are posted on the web, so they can be shared and viewed without having to reference an email.
Steps for introducing more chaos into systems (yes: a good thing)
I think it's a great idea, especially if the tips are concise and easy to absorb.
There's an entire thread about it on the Element 14 forums here: http://www.element14.com/community/thread/19236

Unfortunately, unlike some of the other modifications in newer board revisions, there's no easy fix for this for owners of older boards. The level to which boards are affected varies and it's not clear how many (if any, for that matter) have stability problems as a result.

Doesn't help that most people don't actually seem to report when their board doesn't work properly, in part because the moderators on the official forums are quite hostile to anyone mentioning problems.
You can maybe lure people in with nice marketing, packaging or a fun interface, but in the end you want users who stick around.

If you think about apps the most every day, they're quite plain or unfun. They're maybe pleasant, probably effective, and you use them to get things done.
I'm curious why you think it takes a law degree or formal legal training to develop expertise in patent law.
Maybe its time to stop using music at public events
My theory is that it's the diet and lifestyle of the chicken that most influences its taste and texture, hence why smaller-scale free-range chicken is more tasty and tougher than industrial chicken raised on grain and confined to a tiny cage their whole lives.
beautiful design ... what exactly is it?
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No.

No, no, no, no, no.

Idiotic design decisions like this are why computers have long been the province of mathematicians, scientists, programmers, and other eggheads.

Sheuomorphism is the RIGHT way out -- if you are designing for the general mass of human beings. I happen to know personally the designer of one of the first pieces of personal finance software -- "Electric Checkbook" for Macintosh. (There's a site going by that name that appears to have been started by his son.) It was the template from which Quicken was largely derived, but that's a long, sad, and dirty story.

The advantage of Electric Checkbook over any of the competition, its creator told me, was implicit in the name: it literally worked just like a checkbook with on-screen checks you fill out and an option to print your electronic checks as real checks. It was far easier and more comfortable to use than any of the professional accounting systems out there because it offered the average user the comfort of the familiar.

That Apple successfully deploys skeuomorphism in order to make its average user base feel at ease is a big part of why they're so much better than any other tech company out there. So what if iBooks looks just like a bookshelf, to no functional use whatever. It helps avid readers get into the reading zone, giving them a bit of the joy of perusing their favorite real bookshelves. And that's an edge over the competition.

And no, Microsoft Bob didn't lose because of skeuomorphism. Microsoft Bob lost because it was tacky.
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>The written word allows us to lend ideas (memes, concepts, what have you) a sense of permanence that they never would have had otherwise.

I agree, and that's why it was horrible for 4chan. In the beginning, there were new memes, concepts, and what have you every other day, and old stuff was forgotten (or rather used to show you'd been there for a while.) Now, it's just a constant recycling of the first few years of the site.

IMHO it was caused by archives and meme dictionaries. No need to lurk moar anymoar. Also, very little reason to laugh.
Will Twitter's Uncanny Luck Ever Run Out?
I got the N9 here in New Zealand a couple of months ago. It is absolutely brilliant.

By absolutely brilliant, I mean $200 cheaper than the Lumia 800 (which I also got for my wife); A mile better than the crappy samsung gio I previously had; beautiful hardware design; very hand front facing camera and auto adjusts screen brightness to ambient light; very good account management/integration.

The thing that lets it down is app availability.
I'll provide the other side of the coin.

I've been a climber now for at least a decade, and programming for just under that long. I only started getting pain in the last 5 months, almost directly coinciding with the startup I'm working for raising a round, moving cities, being acquired, and a personal decision to go from development to technical sales. It's probably been the most chaotic 5 months of my life, and I'm getting wrist pain for the first time ever.

I think this post will probably put me over the edge -- more vacations, and it may actually be time to go talk to a doctor.
This article is making an awfully large assumption, that the "organic" in the supermarket is anything close to "organic" as originally envisioned. It's not.

Major agrobusiness concerns have latched onto "organic" as a way to charge premium prices, and hence, do the absolute bare minimum whlie fighting to water down the standard.

It's honestly so bad, I'm surprised "organic" food demonstrated any advantages at all in the study.

Polyn covers a lot of this in Omnivore's Dilemma, in the industrial organic section.
"...a world of flat squares with Helvetica labels takes a whole lot more mental cycles to process than that beveled 3d button, and it always will."

Do you have a citation for that? I'm genuinely interested in reading more about it, because it seems somewhat counter-intuitive. The idea that simpler shapes would be harder to process visually is very fascinating to me.
Let me know when, say, /tg/ stops casually tossing around f-g and f-ggot while pretending that's not at all homophobic.

Garbage dump is entirely appropriate. I have no idea how anyone older than 20 can tolerate 4chan.
The Mali400 GPU is used in the A10/A13 is used by numerous other SoCs, and was developed by ARM Ltd.
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'Free' bitcoins? I'd think he's taking considerable risk, and the nature of BTC is such that if you can do traffic analysis on more than a few nodes in the network, it's going to be relatively straightforward to track down the node where an address is accessed from. There is no guarantee that he (or she) will be able to access their ill-gotten gains without getting caught.
For me I see it as breeding a culture of passion. I'm sure there are tons of people who really want to work for GitHub.

This is a small example of why that is true.

Toward that end, I'd say it's a fantastic use of resources.
You can (and should) be removed from private property for not complying with the rules.

Apple makes it very clear:
"We view Apps different than books or songs, which we do not curate. If you want to criticize a religion, write a book. If you want to describe sex, write a book or a song, or create a medical app. It can get complicated, but we have decided to not allow certain kinds of content in the App Store."

Go to Walmart and take your clothes off and see what happens. Nobody dragged you into that party and I'm guessing nobody even invited you. You looked at the market and picked what you thought was the best.

Stallman and his "free" Chinese tech are always at hand if you really feel abused.
Actually it's a pretty good idea, maybe even better than the book itself. I'd be glad to receive vim tips everyday in my e-mail.
Romney war room's reaction: http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/9405/b6e532a7a0ba.jpg
Awesome. I guess my addition to what you said is basically that you can lead your company culture to a degree, by doing the kinds of things you mention and creating a structure that supports a good culture. Also culture really does affect people once you reach a certain size. I think you're mainly talking about smaller companies, basically how to "bootstrap culture", but it's important to keep it going as you grow and realize not only how your employees affect your culture, but how your culture affects your employees.

Thanks, & apologies if I came off harshly.
Can anyone explain in general what is the point in WhatsApp which isn't compatible with anything except itself, vs normative XMPP/Jingle client through which one can communicate with any user from federated XMPP servers? I have hard time understanding why new closed (walled garden) IM networks appear in these day and age.
If you buy on element14, I believe you can get it in a few days. Supposedly these guys can ship immediately:
http://www.mcmelectronics.com/content/en-US/raspberry-pi

I bought one last week and it arrived no slower than amazon.com so I think it's safe to say orders are no longer taking forever.
I see the gimmick culture stuff as more of a way for employees to brag about where they are. It's harder to explain to somebody without a software background why the company culture where you work is great when you can just say "Oh, and we have free beer in the fridge and weekly nerf battles!"

That said, I agree with you that people shouldn't be using these gimmicks to guide their career choices, and I never would.
Whoops. Fixed and gave you a credit in the post footer.
"Ever since the Raspberry pi shipped, credit-card sized computers have been coming out the woodwork"

No, they've been here all along in the SBC and industrial spaces. They're just on your radar now because they're cheap.

Is Gumstix a line of "one-off industrial computers"?

http://www.gumstix.com/
You're missing the fact that nobody is denying that economic principles are a bit noisy in reality, and nobody's denying that demand curves are shaped by marketing and that the price itself is part of this.
Data can't be intelligent.
Good find!

Didn't realize Github were using 2048 bit keys. I would be interested in knowing what the actual performance differences are between key sizes, given RSA is used in the initial negotiation before symmetric SSL takes over.

>so one could say that googleapis and fb use snake oil rather than ssl ...)

Given that Paypal, my bank, Google and Facebook use 1024 keys, I think labelling 1024 bit as "snake oil", might be a stretch. ;)
Sounds like a textbook case of psychosomatic stress presentation. Get it checked out, then relax and read the Sarno book.
Switching from a mouse to a Wacom tablet made a massive improvement in my life. There's a learning curve, but it's totally worth it.
cat foo | less

Normally I'd typed something like "grep -i 'something' foo | less", and wanted to just up arrow the previous line and change the grep stuff to cat. I don't know why, it doesn't really save me anything. Maybe it's the hackerish "because I can, that's why" instinct at work.
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crazy political hacker. demands bitcoins for anonymity

sends USB keys in the mail

that part lead me to believe he/she is probably clueless
If you like xargs, but want jobs to execute in parallel, you may enjoy GNU parallel.

Your trivial example:

find images -name "*.jpg" | parallel convert -geometry 200x {} {.}_thumb.jpg
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Not to be a pedant, but if people are searching for the book it's Michael Pollan.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62290639
Everyone should read this for some interesting comparisons,

http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2010/09/is-trickster-rove-b...
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Sure, here are some references for you to dig through.

First, by definition RSI is an inflammatory response. So, here's a good overview of what is meant by "inflammation" in the body:

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/inflammation/

And here are studies related to the causes of inflammation I mentioned:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17402291?dopt=Abstract

http://jn.nutrition.org/content/135/3/562.full

http://www.nature.com/ajg/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/ajg20104...

http://scienceblog.com/40178/poor-sleep-quality-increases-in...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20036931
Not at all, the chicken in Vietnam is likely organic and bred for flavor by somebody a couple doors down from the restaurant (you could hear the chicken coops everywhere throughout Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi), and the dry-farmed wines and tomatoes I love specifically embody organic techniques (reduced water consumption) in their production which are intrinsic to eliciting their superior flavor.

Feel free to dry-farm some tomatoes and spray them with round-up just to prove your point though. As others have stated, the definition of organic at this point is too vague for it not to stray into areas like this.
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This is Brad for Meldium. Thanks for the kind words Adrian. We enjoyed participating in Demo Day: it's quite an experience to have to handle a wide variety of product, business, and team questions in real time - Boris and I were kept on our toes.

We wish we would have had an opportunity to demo the product, as there was some confusion about the types of applications that Meldium manages. We were one of the few B2B companies in demo day, and I think many eyeballs were drawn to the consumer apps.

Our application is available to try for free at https://www.meldium.com - though it does require a Google Apps account for sign up. We'll have a demo video and a "sandbox" mode up soon for anyone to try the app immediately.

Thanks to the nReduce team for organizing and to all the mentors and other participants; this was a unique experience and we're happy for the exposure.
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I don't think it's an extremely small exception. If you have content that could be copyrightable (i.e. classical music, or anything that you've licensed yourself) it will definitely get caught by the automatic filters. Here's dozens of videos in response to a company using the filters fraudulantly http://goo.gl/eI8kj I've done the research and this affects a large percentage of legitimate users (yes, overall its a small percentage of the TOTAL users, but a large percentage of legitimate users who have copyrighted material in their videos).
It's not moving the goalpost, it's pointing out a straw man fallacy. "Organic" just means that (among other things) no synthetic fertilizers, irradiation, sewage sludge or genetic engineering was used. I'm not sure who seriously expects that food produced like this would be "more nutritious", but it's proven that organic food contains less contaminants than conventional food [1]. Also, the studies mentioned probably only observe a few well-known micro-nutrients like vitamins. But I read somewhere that an apple for example contains more than a hundred organic compounds, the effects of which we haven't fully researched yet (ever heard of ursolic acid for example? [2]). Some studies showed that organic chicken and eggs contain more Omega 3 fatty acids.

The organic label is also an indicator that the production process is not as low-cost as possible, and usually high quality and low price are opposing goals. This is not necessarily always the case, but as I said it's an indicator.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/sep/04/organic-foods-...

[2] http://www.naturalnews.com/036312_apple_peel_obesity_ursolic...
Let's have a look at how much marginal effort this takes:

- time spent thinking about what needs to be on the page (not extra)

- time spent thinking about what order the data should be displayed (not extra)

- time spent laying out the data (extra)

- time spent replacing the default font on the stylsheet (extra - minimal)

- time spent with getting graphs together (extra - but it is a skill. Once having done it, they could do this over and over)

Overall, I think the marginal time spent is well justified. Put it this way, your company probably hires cleaners to clean the office every day - that's a recurring cost. The cost sunk into a nicer design template gives the workers a nice working environment - that's significantly cheaper.
Hey guys, I like what you're doing. Here is some unsolicited advice: create a startup news magazine like HN.

That's it. Will read it from day one.

HN vs NR.

Endless fights, endless clicks, endless promotion for your startups.

We all win at the end.
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The RSI treatment in The Mindbody Prescription by Dr. John E. Sarno worked for me. See YC partner Aaron Iba's blog post for more information:

http://aaroniba.net/articles/tmp/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain.htm...

My experience has been virtually identical to Aaron's: after years of struggling with RSI, my symptoms disappeared within a few weeks of starting the treatment in The Mindbody Prescription, and they haven't returned in over two years. To quote Aaron: "Now I can type for as long as I want, on any keyboard, in any position, without stretching or taking breaks, all without any pain."
"the argument in this article is weak. It's not an argument to stop censoring apps, it's just saying, "continue blocking speech, except when its speech that I like". "

That's how a proper counter-argument has to be structured. "just do what I want to do" is bullshit and does nothing to counter to "Apple is a private company". It has to be "what you did in case X is outrageous". Not serving people without shirt and shoes as a policy is acceptable. Not serving black people as a policy is outrageous.

"Personally, I believe the answer is to allow side loading"

The "sideloading is enough" view concedes that not approving Drones+ fails the outrageousness test above.
You can convert .dex files back to .class files, and then use a java decompiler. Not all functions will be properly decompiled but overall it's still quite good. Knowing this, reversing Android apps is actually a lot easier.
They've also been bred for yield rather than flavor for generations:

http://usda01.library.cornell.edu/usda/nass/industry-structu...
Doctor, and maybe a therapist? :)

I'm a huge advocate of treating the full condition, not just a single aspect of it. I personally see a therapist once a week, and pay out of pocket for the privilege of gaining some clarity about my life and my actions. I've tried various different modalities and settled on contemplative psychotherapy as a great fit for myself (it helps that I'm at the epicenter here in Boulder):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemplative_psychotherapy

I will say that my experience has not emphasized the "religious" aspect that the article mentions, and instead focuses on the non-linear, ever-changing perception of self and how that relates to my actions and experiences.
Why oh why is pusher better than a websocket here? Especially since pusher is a third party service and it's probably using (or is able to use) websockets as a transport for that push anyway?

Sure, you can use Sever-Sent-Events, but a Websocket would be sufficient too (and probably works in more places, no less).
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People sign up to your list because they are interested in content you provide. No one will mind, and it will certainly improve your sales once you do launch.

I did this with my book. 0 unsubscribes.
Wait, it is unjust to trick a criminal into revealing himself?
It's quite literally exactly what propaganda is, according to dictionaries, wikipedia, etc... it doesn't stop being propaganda just because you like what they have to say, that just makes it successful propaganda. Also in the literal sense.
I agree to the daily or maybe have an option for a weekly thing, but I am not sure how this will match up with the model/book you have planned out so far.