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It's not things like the lack of core strength in itself that is a problem. You are right that will improve.

But if you for example go to the gym with a tight posterior chain, you will squat with a form that either hurts your lower back (been there, done that) or makes you emphasise the wrong muscles (been there, done that) and leave you with progressively bigger problems lifting correctly.

Similarly, it is very easy to get used to lifting with a form that is bad for you because it feels easier, which often means emphasising the muscle groups that already feels stronger. E.g. with a weak core a lot of people will lean forwards in the squat and load the spine too much.

I got to about 60kg on my back squats before I kept slamming into a wall because of how bad posture had severely limited my mobility and left me with various weaknesses. I'd repeatedly either fail or hurt my back badly enough I had to back off for 2-3 weeks. As a result after the second time I started hesitating, and kept my weight low, but eventually I'd hit it again.

When I realized what was wrong, it took me 2-3 months of stretches and modified exercises before I had loosened up enough that I flew past 100kg. 6 months later I did 160kg. Now my personal best is 187.5k (which I did at a body weight of 98, so it's no amazing feat, but it's certainly a big difference from struggling with 60%-65% of my body weight...).
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Congrats for making it to HN front page with an incredibly disgusting marketing strategy.
"This app can save lives. Won’t you join us?"
No, it can't. She would have called her friends/family if she had a chance.
I agree with you that if you squat with good technique and if you work up to heavy loads, you will do fine.

But if you have bad posture, and your flexibility is limited as a result, you will be unable to squat with good technique, and you will either not even try to lift all that heavy (certainly not doing full squats with all that much weight) or hurt yourself.

A tight posterior chain, for example, prevents a lot of people from keeping their back tight at the bottom of the movement. As a result you see a lot of people either rounding (and hurting their back - I did that a few times) or resorting to half or quarter squats and making excuses.
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That, and stalemate ("what do you mean, a tie? You can't move, so you lose!"), but that is a rarer occurrence, as it requires the neophyte to be on the winning side (he won't complain if he is the one without a legal move, and you announce it a tie)
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I'd be interested in your opinion. I had the idea over the weekend. I'm thinking of it as an art project or maybe as something that could evolve to become a funny or serious site.
What cars were they getting though?

As others have said, this doesn't work for all cars. For less mainstream / luxur-ish cars, there won't be too many dealerships in 100 mi radius that carry what you want. At best you'd get a response that MSRP is this and that, please come in and we'll talk about discounts.
A similar concept was tried by Seth Godin - It is Broken or something like that. little different though.
I wish more people would play with working out plate wobbles than World of Warcraft.
> And without GNU tools, Linux by itself is also useless.

A world of Android-devices disagree with your definition of "useless". And so does my router and NAS (which both comes with Busybox, not GNU tools).
All the above; but they are closely related.

If the program has too many lines of code, it tends to be not too well organised (because it usually means it does too much) and it usually means it has too much features (thay could be easily moved into separate programs).

> I can easily just ignore the features
> I don't use (the vast majority)

Please excuse my blasphemous comparison, but how this is different from how people use MS Word? :)
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My thinking on the subject of Biden's failed attempt to require that the government be able to recover encrypted information is more akin to attempting to require that everyone leave a copy of their house keys with the local police station just in case they decide to get a warrant to search your house. That is conceptually identical to what Biden proposed, yet such an idea would be decidedly un-American and any politician that raised such an idea would be publicly skewered.
What the hell is wrong with people? obviously this comes off as nothing more than predatory, but I just can't fathom why this seemed acceptable to anyone.
The only storage array I know of that comes as a sealed unit where you don't do drive swaps, is the Xiostorage ISE [1]. It's a very fast array for the money, but it's not particularly high-end.

All the high end arrays, both in terms of performance and availability (IBM DS8000, EMC Symmetrix / V-Max, etc) have done drive swaps for as long as I've used them.

Without drive swaps, you either have to abandon traditional RAID concepts, which might not be a bad thing, or ship with enough standby disks to cope with 5 years of failures.

1 - http://xiostorage.com/products/hyper-ise/
Organised races are easy as they are provided at aid stations. My normal saturday run is usually my longest and is the one where calorie intake is needed. I've tried different solutions including carrying it all with me. Now I tend to park the car 'in the middle' of my run. Then I'll just do 2 hour loops from the car. The main item needed is water as its easily possible to carry enough calorie and electrolytes with you. I'm also currently living in Western Australia where is normally just hot and there isnt much water on the trails.

If you are interested in running nutrition (or any endurance nutrition) I wrote about a presentation I went on a few months ago http://justrunning.net/2012/09/the-steve-born-seminar-15-sim...
TL;DR: 5 myths about funded companies:

- Funded companies are all about fake business plans

- Funded companies are all about overpaid teams and making losses

- Funded companies are all about investors sitting on your board and driving decisions

- Funded companies are all about more for investors and less for founders

- Funded companies are all about sadist, not-so-cool people
I know these are looked down on, but this is a +1 comment.

Break program saved my ass, having been told by a doctor that I'd have to give up programming as a career. I had tried all sorts of other stuff (DataHands keyboard, a vertical keyboard, wrist rest, bla bla bla), but the enforced breaks were the game changer.
My proposed design is usually worse than my colleague's - how do I get better?
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Following on from where your startup should be, where your rental apartment should be based on average price of rental in an area:
https://www.kwelia.com/maps/public/sfbay

That was supplied by @danoprey
on a side note: this is part of the HTML5 specification. If people are not afraid of Google/Chrome and if being online is not an issue, it's as simple as this: http://jsfiddle.net/dirkk0/pGFuR/
When using addEventListener, "this" is not necessarily bound to the DOM node. You can also pass an Object whith a "handleEvent" function as attribute, instead of directly passing a function.

You can read more about it for instance here: http://www.thecssninja.com/javascript/handleevent
Nothing like this has happened to me so far.
But I am going to be watching for signs all the time.

Is going for a stand-up desk worth it?
I have heard that they really improve your working.
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Java swapping large objects to disk automatically
Not really either. Conj acts on collections (which can be lists, vectors, sets or hash maps), and adds the second and subsequent arguments to the collection in a type-dependent way. For a list, your hunch is correct, in that it's a bit like a reversed-argument 'cons', except that you can have add more than one item to the list;

e.g. (conj '(:a :b :c) :d :e :f) returns
(:f :e :d :a :b :c)
The place I heard first not doing drive swaps was Google. I also heard that they didn't use RAID, but rather relied on data just being replicated over 3 separate machines. Both of these may have been apocryphal. I'm sure someone around here can correct me if so :-)
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In my experience the most common way to kill an array (barring dodgy hardware RAID) is yanking the wrong drive. Yes, it happens.
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Great description. This reminds me of the guy who (basically) won the world championship cyclocross by being able to hop over the barriers instead of carrying his bike over:

http://xxcmag.com/archives/8282
Anyone with half a brain would now think twice before even applying for that job now.

When I clicked on the link, I thought it was an ad for a company that produces or sells security products - pepper spray and the likes, or maybe for a company making a new security app that would automatically text police/friends with your location if certain conditions were met - and there are a few apps like that. While in poor taste, nay abhorrent, it wouldn't be surprising for a company to try and exploit a tragedy like this for capital gain.

But the thing is, their product has nothing whatsoever to do with security! Who is the moron who thought this up? If it were my company I'd fire the person on the spot - not just for being an @#%@@#, but also for coming up with something so idiotic. And if the founder/owner was the one who came up with this, then I'd get the hell out because I wouldn't wanna work for a complete and utter moron.

Not are they completely insensitive, but they are monumental morons.
I think this is good.

Jailbreaking is often associated with piracy and circumventing DRM, when piracy is only a possible side effect of jailbreaking. The true purpose is getting complete control over the device.

Piracy will always exist on iOS, but now it is less prominent and less public.
Well, I suppose given it will cycle it can be simplified to an array indexed based on t; still don't think that's playing the game though.
I've not had any posture or RSI problems, but here comes that word: YET. A few people have commented that whenever I stop typing I like to stretch my arms right down to the fingertips and adjust my position on the chair, sometimes getting up completely and straightening my clothes. It's an unconscious habit so I find it hilarious when people point it out but that could be something that has helped me.

These sets look very familiar to me as similar core exercises to ones I've done as part of rowing and yoga, but there are a few new ideas here I can't wait to try. Thanks!
Moved to Amsterdam few months ago. Love biking to and from work. Average daily 60 minutes on my bike. Helps me a brown man used to tropical weather get over the cold. ;-)
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I'm surprised that the OP didn't mention reverse flies. I developed terrible RSI and upper back problems when I hit about 30. One of the biggest problems was my posture: slumping shoulders. By the time I got to this point, I could not physically hold my shoulders in the correct position with my back muscles, as they had completely atrophied, and a huge amount of strain was being placed on my neck muscles.

One part of the solution was physical therapy, which was mostly training me how to do the exercises I needed to do: reverse flies. First with a Theraband. Then with a stronger Theraband. Then with a stronger Theraband. And finally with dumbbells.

It was torturous! Especially since I was already in agony. But it ultimately worked like a charm.

What was also essential was getting a very good (i.e., expensive and highly adjustable) chair. And a Kinesis Contour keyboard. The Kinesis keyboard is the pinnacle of ergonomic keyboard design.
Sigh. I understand that perfectly, and I thought it would be implied that I meant "multiple user-defined namespaces" where I, and the commenter I replied to, typed the shorter "namespaces". Sheesh. Bring the pedantry, eh?

Your vitriol is uncalled for, and since it's only your second comment ever, you should pause a moment to consider whether Hacker News is the community for you (judging by the two comments you've left so far, it isn't; I recommend Reddit for dick jokes and personal attacks on comprehension).
Old discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1940778
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See "What I Learned From FarmVille - So You Don’t Have To Play It" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1940778
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"Do you really believe people just make products and they magically get purchased? "

In the future they do.
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"Why even bother to tell them then?"

Believe it or not. There is also the aspect of civil courage, one willing to protect the others from potential harm. Detectify was born out of the frustration that an overwhelming part of the internet is completely unsecure for users. Usually completely unaware users.

Analogy: It's like you walking by a leaning scaffold with people passing under it. You realize that the scaffold is just a hair's breadth from rambling down, potentially harming a bunch of people. Bounty or not, you report to the authorities or the hard hats. Don't you?

Co-founder @ detectify.com
Happy to be making a buck while hopefully making the interwebz a safer place ;)
I got rid of my RSI without using one. However, I do feel that a stand-up desk is good for my body as well. You can get some variation through the day by alternating between sitting and standing. It also makes it a lot easier to adjust the desk to the correct height when sitting at it (no more turning little screws at the bottom of the desk legs to adjust the height).

There were also reports a while ago about how sitting all day lowers your life expectancy - another reason to try to stand up part of the day.
Trademark is an expense. You are startup and you need to make an expense only if it brings something to you.

You are launching so right now your mark is worth nothing, so $18K or any other amount is just not worth it.

Launch, if you are successful and I mean successful in terms of revenue and profits (not user base) then you can start thinking of the trademark.
Starcraft has player numbers that would make a two-year-old game envious. I have no doubt Blizzard will kill it off at roughly the same player count as other companies with similar games, but for now it's well worth them keeping it running.
> No one's going to pull Noam Chomsky from the bushes.

Not that this doesn't sometimes happen with famous people, whether over here or over Reddit. The Internet is a small place :).
sublime or textmate with Railscasts. It's a dark theme, very nice. I find it very clear, easy to distinct keywords, variables, methods, comments just by the color.
Your screwdriver analogy doesn't really apply. Language choice has ramifications beyond 'appearance' and you know it. I'm afraid I don't believe that you really don't care about your choice of tools.
Years ago I also got RSI. One thing that helped me a lot was to think about lactic acid.
Your body doesn't have a lot of problems with repeating motion unless the milk acid can't be transported. And I think stress is the main reason why the transportation of milk acid is blocked because it make your muscles contract.
I also think we are so used to stress that we don't even realize we are under pressure.

That's why exercise is great. It will help your remove the milk acid but also to release stress.
I dislike it because the code samples I see look really ugly and hard to follow.

Now maybe that melts away when you learn the language but I've heard enough complaints from people who have to get the feeling that's not entirely the case.

Readability is probably the most important language feature.
With every passing moment I regret replying to this thread more and more. You completely missed how my analogy works, actually, since you think I'm limiting the problem domain to appearance (I'm not; I'm characterizing someone ELSE'S displeasure).

I wish the privilege to delete didn't disappear after a time, so I could wash my hands of this thread and forget that I ever spent more than ten minutes on it.
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Sometimes a break program will make things worse. When you are under (time) pressure and the break program is blocking your PC you will get stress. And stress is one of the main reasons for getting RSI.
This seems to be the most important/interesting part:

"There is a simple rule of thumb in speech recognition: The smaller the application domain, the better the recognition accuracy. [...] Simon can now re-configure itself on-the-fly as the current situation changes. Through "context conditions" Simon 0.4 can automatically activate and deactivate selected scenarios, microphones and even parts of your training corpus. For example: Why listen for "Close tab" when your browser isn't even open? Or why listen for anything at all when you're actually in the next room listening to music? Yes, Simon is watching you."

It is one of the best subconscious techniques humans use both for listening and reading, so it makes complete sense to implement it here. I do find the choice of words in the final sentence somewhat ominous though!
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May I ask what your age is?

Also, when you got the RSI did you have symptoms before that you ignored or was it a binary affair (ie. it just hit you hard one day and you had RSI).

I ask since I am 38 now and have been using computers (gaming and coding mostly) multiple hours per day since I was 12 or so. However, I have always listened to my body and naturally get breaks by getting a glass of water every 30 to 60 minutes.
Because it's difficult to have aligned interests among all the people working in an enterprise. Having sufficiently and appropriately aligned interests is the starting point for a non-hierarchical structure. People coming into jobs don't have this mindset. For reasons good and evil, people consider themselves fungible wrt to their employment, so a layered structure with managers, etc., accommodates that.

And, in practice, you see an approximation. Promoting developers to become developer-managers, developer-managers to become product-managers, etc., is (aside from structural needs) a way of recognizing that people have shown that they do have significant aligned interests and an increase in salary and rank is the quid pro quo.
The reason for the price difference is mostly VAT and import duties.
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I agree man.

We can't really make this world a great place if we don't live long. So, lets stand up.
That's why you should take frequent breaks. And from my own experience, it's way easier to take a mini break on a standing desk then when sitting down.

Removing even trivial hurdles can sometimes drastically impact behaviour.
Never used a laptop? Hard drives seem to be pretty good at parking heads when a shock is detected these days.
OP didn't mention conventional deadlifts, either.

I can second the Kinesis recommendation. I like mine, especially the build-in Dvorak. The only downsides are the lame function keys and that it's harder to use one handed than a more conventional keyboard.
It's not at all clear that having exactly the same content on G+ as on Facebook is a winning strategy for Google.

The twitter-clones tried this approach, encouraging content-"seeding" with a full r/w API. What actually happened is that they (nearly?) all ended up as networks full of bots spamming each other with duplicate content.

And it's hard to sell advertising when your only users are robots.
He might (but it is not clear from his comment, except that an iPhone is not a server) mean that he wants to be able to SSH into his iPhone.
As a geek who likes to exercise, you should also check out Starting Strength. (It always comes up in discussions about fitness here.)
The increasingly magnified images remind me of playing with fractal-viewing programs, with one major difference: here the zooming in leads to distinct patterns at specific resolutions, rather than repetition of one at a different scale. Once you get to the clearly visible "blocks" of Detroit and LA you're learning something completely different. Fascinating.
There was also some good articles on t nation some years ago:

(De)-Constructing Computer Guy
http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sports_body_trai...

(De)-Constructing Computer Guy part 2
http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sports_body_trai...

Possibly nsfw imagery on the site.
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I was 39 when I got it. It took about 6 months to develop from no symptoms at all to really bad. Before the first symptoms I hadn't had any problems at all (and I have been programming since I was 15).

In retrospect, I should have done much more as soon as I felt the first symptoms. However, I didn't really know what to do, and I was sort of just hoping that it would go away by itself. Then I went to see several doctors, but none of them could help. It was only when I started doing my own research that I found effective ways to deal with it.

Also, it seems pretty clear from the research I did that not everybody will get RSI, even if they work just like I did. But the problem is that we don't know beforehand who will get it. Listening to your own body is a good precaution though. I wasn't very good at that I think.
Nice. So lifting gave you the impetus to actually do something about your posture.

Yes, for people with posture problems a good coach is even more necessary than for your average Joe who can get away with just watching a few youtube videos, reading a book, and some practice.
I'm really glad somebody's working on this. When my ex got RSI a couple of years ago it seemed like there was no option but to go back to Windows. There aren't many unsurmountable issues left for Linux users, but this seemed to be one of them.
Yes, there are transaction costs. But overcoming them is worth it. (And you can create a make-shift standing desk pretty easily out of a normal desk with enough stacks of printer paper or boxes.)
Has nothing to do neither with oriental philosophy nor programming.)
Same thing in fewer words: 'Do yoga.'
I doubt that this is how lactic acid works..
>And the victorious party” (in a revolution) “must maintain its rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionaries. Would the Paris Commune have lasted more than a day if it had not used the authority of the armed people against the bourgeoisie? Cannot we, on the contrary, blame it for having made too little use of that authority?. - Engels

>As, therefore, the state is only a transitional institution which is used in the struggle, in the revolution, to hold down one’s adversaries by force, it is sheer nonsense to talk of a ‘free people’s state’; so long as the proletariat still needs the state, it does not need it in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the state as such ceases to exist - Engels

Democracy is a threat to the midwife State and the final state of what Marxism aims to achieve.
From my experience, standing desks are worth it. It will take a week or a few to adapt your feet and legs, though.
Switzerland is not the only nation with this model.
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Hopefully being under such time pressure is not the normal mode of operation though ;-)

All the break programs I have used have a "manual override", and you can also turn them off. Occasionally I have done that if is something really critical that has to go out at once. But for me that happens maybe once or twice a year.
:-) .. aptly summarized.