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I do about 40 minutes of biking a day (commute to train station) and try to get to the gym twice a week for about 30 to 45 minutes. Since biking is enough cardiovascular exercise for anybody I mostly do weights at the gym, and typically (when I have an extra 15 minutes free) some yoga for stretching.

I recommend the chalice lift for a good all-purpose hacker exercise. Go over to that big set o' one-hand weights the folks are always using for bicep curls. Find the largest one you can comfortably lift with both hands. Hold it with both hands supporting the top, braced against your chest. Pick a point on the wall at forehead level -- your eyes never move from that point for the duration of the exercise. (This is a hack to avoid back damage.) From a standing position, pretend you are sitting down on a bench directly behind you. Then, from the sitting position, stand to return to your original position. You can actually use a bench the first few times to get a hang out of it. Sitting to standing is one rep. Do five sets of five reps or 3 sets of 10 reps. I like to vary the weight I use -- first work with one I know I can do easily, then with one I know is a stretch, then back to easy.

Works your legs, torso, and a bit of your upper body like you would not believe, scales trivially until you reach the limits of your upper body strength (but even for out of shape hackers you can get a lot of benefit at the final point for your arms -- I'm at about 30 lbs right now, which is really not that much, and it feels like a real workout and has been empirically effective since a few months ago 15 lbs was similarly tiring), requires minimal time, equipment, and skill. Biggest downside: you'll look like an absolute doofus doing it.

Bonus points: keep a journal. Things that get measured get improved, etc.
For an hour 3 times a week most weeks. It's tough, especially when it conflicts with coding time but it's worth it.
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Daily.

I commute on a bike (5 miles each way). I also run 5k's when they come around, Lift weights twice per week, and go on long (50+ mile) bike rides when I can.
if you're looking for motivation, i highly suggest finding some sport that you enjoy doing. go looking for it, i'm sure one exists.

i do a 2-3 hour workout 2-3 days/week centered around a martial art i compete in on the national/international level. the enjoyment factor really helps get you off the couch.

and i do about 1 hour or so of warmup into a weight routine 2 days a week to compliment the other training.
I run 6 days a week and ice skate 2-3 nights a week. Running allows me to both stay in good shape and do a lot of thinking; I've caught quite a few bugs during those morning runs. I played ice hockey in middle school and have loved skating ever since, so it's more for fun than health.
My understanding is that the evidence they are seeing is particle "tracks" that would not exist except as a result of fusion.
What is this "exercise" about which you speak?
You almost nailed it. It's not how much exercise you do during the week, but that you spend time to do it regularly. Again, it doesn't matter exactly what you do. The point of exercise is that it challenges you a bit. So, if you go to the gym 4 times a week, even half hour before they close, you will be able to get 20-25 minutes of running in.

That consistency of showing up, even for 15 minutes a day 4 times a week, is what builds the habit. Building the habit is the important part. After you get the habit, then you will naturally start doing more challenging things to avoid boredom, because the constant is that you keep going, but what you do is what may change day to day. As well, you will find yourself setting aside more time to go to the gym because you'll feel more confident with your surroundings and the people. You may also become interested in classes, and start promising friends that "you'll see them at 5pm tomorrow." As you get (or stay) in good shape, you will learn about and be invited to various other athletic events or sports, which will reinforce the habit to stay in shape.
Its mass media. Given the subject matter, I'm quite happy with the coverage. The fact that they didn't do a one-sided piece and find a lot of scientists to debunk it out of hand is very good. More so, they researched multiple research institutes who were able to replicate the experiments, had an independent skeptical scientist thoroughly examine one of the experimental setups, and even found Pentagon researchers who have also duplicated these results. For those of us who are really, really interested we know how to do more research. For the general public who are curious but not that interested, its a great introduction to something that can very well be changing our future very quickly.
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An average of half an hour a day.

Weights a few times a week, running a few times a week.
I play hockey during the winter twice a week.

I am hoping to get back into good shape soon...it gets harder as you get older.
i go outside everyday to at least play keep away from my dog with my husband. sometimes we play tennis, or variations on tennis, rather.

sometimes i run to a pool and then swim. on weekends i tend to do longer runs, or else long bike rides to ponds for swimming. this is now that it's warm. during winter i swim indoors after work most days.

i'm trying to start up weekly roller hockey (thurs, 6pm, ahern, cambridge). all you need are skates/blades and whatever protective gear you want. i can bring sticks if you let me know.

i also enjoy roller tennis and roller frisbee. hmm, i guess that's it. i tried indoor soccer this winter, which was prett good. i used to fence. sometimes i spar outside, but i miss the precision of electronics.

i love moving outside. i think people interact with such freedom and joy when outside, especially in nice weather (though all sorts of weather can be interesting). just shooting hoops with someone can make for a more easy going conversation.

recently i've learn yoga, which again is especially awesome when done outside, say after running to a nice field or creek.

i pretty much work constantly at my computer, though i try to read at night before sleep (rather than working until my eyeballs literally need massaging). i try to tear myself away from work with things like piano and sewing, but exercise is the most consistent and best feeling.

oh yeah! pickup ultimate frisbee at least once a wee!! winter pond skating and ice hockey this year was also sweet!!
From five years ago:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54964-2004Nov...

And even the best research is plagued by cold fusion's most nagging problem: a long history of failing to reproduce experimental results. McKubre is one of the more respected people in the field, and in more than 50,000 hours of experiments, he says, he has recorded 50 times when the setup "unmistakably" produced excess heat.

From tonight's 60 Minutes, an exciting new result!

McKubre says he has seen that energy more than 50 times in cold fusion experiments he's doing at SRI International, a respected California lab that does extensive work for the government.

Or, um, not. Sounds like he hasn't made much progress in the last five years. He's still stuck at "about 50" irreproducible results out of twenty years of experiments. Also, he still has no theory.

This guy's only reproducible result is his ability to convince credulous journalists to publish stuff about him every few years.

Wake me up when the Physical Review Letter is accepted for publication.
Cool! I always thought that the copyright claims against Turnitin.com were a classic example of a "strike suit," a bogus legal claim to shake down a defendant for a monetary settlement.
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=568358
so true! walking or running or biking or swimming make for excellent designing or problem solving time.

doesn't replace solitude with a whiteboard, or other parts of the process, but definitely helps with getting one's thoughts in order and seeing around assumptions. i feel more creative when my blood is flowing.
"But will it run linux" has been replaced with "but will it tweet?"
Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/license/).
While I might not completely agree with Raphael_Amiard he does raise the interesting point that the burden must be on the record industry to prove that they incur a cost (including an opportunity cost) if piracy is legal.

Having said that, I think both of us need to be aware of identity bias here. I don't necessarily support TPB but I do have strong views on liberty and on those who exploit the creative work of others. Similarly, I get the feeling that you have an emotional distate for TPB (based on their attitude) and identify yourself as belonging to the record industry so take the attacks personally.

I think I should make it clear that everyone here who opposes the "record industry" isn't talking about the people who do creative work, the engineers etc. but rather the people who previously had a monopoly on distribution and used this to exploit the creators and sound engineers. These people have lost their monopoly and can now be replaced by technology and so have taken to attacking the new competition. This doesn't just include TPB. It's like Kodak suing digital camera companies because the new medium allows reprints.
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I play ice hockey 2 to 3 times a week depending on the league's schedule. I would like to do more exercising like weight lifting and maybe some biking...
That lift looks far too complicated and awkward for a noob to weightlifting.

If you want to start weight lifting go really simple to avoid any problems early on.

Squat, deadlift, overhead press, bench press. Do everything with barbells to start if possible, if not go with dumbbells.

I do agree 5x5 or so is the way to go - especially starting out as this will allow you to go with heavier weights.

Don't go to failure, keep well below that and stay consistent a few times a week. It is by far the best way to gain overall strength. Lookup 'riptoes workout' as a good guide to that basic plan if you want the generally accepted best way to gain strength from scratch.
This guy's blog is great. He talks about exercise and eating in an intelligent manner, and is living proof of the results

http://theorytopractice.wordpress.com/
DTrace's innovation is that it provides an easy to use interface which
allows people to get results they want in a way that would otherwise
require significant low-level expertise and engineering time. That people like it should come as no suprise to the entrepreneurial crowd here - it's just another twist on Make Something People Want.

One thing I particularly like about DTrace is its awk-like language
makes it easy to borrow snippets of useful code from existing DTrace
scripts. When I needed the equivalent of linux's Paco [1] tool on my
OSX box I found I could easily build it from the code of /usr/bin/dtruss[2] and
/usr/bin/pathopens.d[3]

DTrace is also what apparently powers Sun's Storage Analytics[4]

[1] - http://paco.sourceforge.net

[2] - http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5.5/dtrace-4...

[3] - http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5.5/dtrace-4...

[4] - http://ctistrategy.com/2008/12/17/sun-storage-7000-analytics...
Same goes for renting movies. And it's worse, because there's about zero chance of winning money renting a movie. :)

Some people get a kick out of the whole buy a ticket, wait for the numbers, get excited dreaming thing.

For some folks, it's entertainment.
on one hand, I love this joke, but on the other hand, while i enjoy nice weather, I'm sufficiently sun burnable that my idea of nice outdoor weather is a bright day with diffuse light due to a thin film of clouds

[edit: i do tan, just very very slowly :p, though that may be a consequence of summers spent doing cs / math research rather than healthy stuff :)]
Google wouldn't be that crazy, surely. Imagine the copyright outrage, the legal fees, and the obvious need to track down authors all over the world.

Why such a fantasy would cost them $125M at least!
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30 to 40 minutes a day, 7 days a week.

4 days a week: cardio.
3 days a week: weights.

For cardio, it's most often the stationary bike in my condo gym. I pedal as fast as I can get to 1,000 calories (about 32 minutes). I sometimes go for a 10k run instead, if it's nice outside (about 45 minutes). In the summer, soccer with my work team replaces cardio once a week.

For weights, I run through a circuit of exercises in about 35 minutes. On a universal gym: seated bench press, quadricep extensions, hamstring curls, tricep extensions, lat bar pulldowns. With free weights: back flys, shoulder lifts. On a mat: various situps. To finish off: 2 minutes of very high-intensity cardio on a stairclimber.

Weekdays, I do my workouts right after work, before dinner. I don't think I've missed a workout for about four years, except when traveling. (When traveling, I do a 25-minute body-weight "core circuit" of situps and pushups in the morning immediately after getting up.) Weekends, I get the workout (usually the cardio) out of the way as soon as practical...usually after getting laundry or some other task started.

If doing this every day without fail seems rigid and bordering on obsessive, it's because I've learned for my own personality type, it's vital to make it part of my daily routine. The less I have to think about it, the more likely is that I'll stick with it and make no excuses. There's now never any question as to whether I will or won't exercise on any given day - it's as routine as eating dinner.
Yeah when I do exercise it tends to be a p90x cardio or plyometrics. It's crazy how many calories these burn too.
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But then it would have to be lifted straight up, which would require a lot of force. Are they really like this? Now you've piqued my curiousity, I'm going to look on the street!
>leave out the issue of technique. There are certainly times when I start heaving the ball at the ring with a lot less focus on technique and without taking the time to set my feet correctly. When I get my act into gear and concentrate on it I'd bet there is greater chance it's going in.

This is because you're a novice. Directing your working memory to step-by-step instruction will improve your skill performance. However, once the skill becomes more of a motor program (you become an expert), directing working memory to step-by-step instruction will decrease performance.

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> if you're looking for motivation, i highly suggest finding some sport that you enjoy doing. go looking for it, i'm sure one exists.

This is exactly what I've done. Rock climbing at a local gym 3 times a week. I also run 3.5 miles 2 times a week but only for the added fitness.

I really enjoy rock climbing; it's an excellent combination of physical fitness and problem solving.
I'd argue that the majority of people that are using URL shorteners have a more fundamental problem: They don't even realize that most of the params aren't needed.

For example, I recently looked at this King Hokum CD on Amazon (awesome artist BTW, this CD is stupid overpriced though): http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0012U346Y/ref=s9_sims_gw_s...

What's the relevant part?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0012U346Y

But how the hell does someone know that without dicking around?!
I tend to think of the anti-pattern of this: Jira. That always makes it easy for me to open my pages up.
Go to the local drug store and get some 80 SPF spray-on sunscreen. Also sun-protecting chapstick (the highest SPF I could find for chapstick was 30).

Don't forget to do your ears, the backs of your hands, and the back of your neck.
Sounds like skiing is for you, get to enjoy the great outdoors while usually being protected from the sun.
I think it's a lot more complicated than the diminishing-marginal-returns model taught in econ courses. For example, there's a pretty sharp discontinuity at "can move to a better neighborhood". There's another one at "can afford a vacation home", and another one at "can send kids to college". And then there's a big one at "never has to work again." When an event bumps you from one category into the next one up, it can often be rational to take a small chance at that rather unlikely event than to worry about a few dollars that don't make a material difference in your lifestyle anyway.

Actually, this is a big problem with conventional economics: it assumes that all variables are conventional. So income taxes don't affect people's willingness to work nearly as much as theory predicts, because their choice is usually between "Have a job" and "Don't have a job" and not "Do $30K of work per year" and "Do $40k of work per year". Unemployment exists because a business can't just drop wages to the equilibrium level, but rather workers make the choice between "I'm being paid fairly" and "I'm not being paid fairly" and act appropriately. Market niches are not instantly filled because entrepreneurship often has a binary outcome of "Get rich" and "Fail", and not a continuous distribution of outcomes.
Not only that, but the one company in their portfolio was founded in 2006, and it's still not anything anybody has ever heard of.

There are enough tech focused incubators that, assuming you are doing a tech start-up, would probably be able to offer you more.
Hmm I'd recommend against treadmills if you can find a good park. Less boring, easier to stay focused, breath of fresh air, better for the knees.
I think the article nailed it in that most programmers think they aren't any good because they have no clue where to start. With no training and a non-obvious technique (and perhaps some intimidation at trying and failing), programmers just say "I can't do it."

I would bet most programmers could do an OK job at designing things (at least, not painful :). But great design is still talent that has to be worked at, and I think it is hard for anybody to get to that point without devoting him/herself to it (and probably having innate talent as well).
on closer inspection, their is more than one portfolio company, just a very bad UI on their site.

Still, go with a known entity if you can.
I run. 5-12 miles a day depending on speed (5 being the shortest, fastest, and 12 being long and moderate with a pickup at the end) -- quit track to do programming and startup stuff seeing as I'm in high school, but I keep discipline cause it helps me stay focused academically too.
I've recently taken to exercising several hours a day; mostly weights and taking decently long walks.

What I've noticed is that this actually gives me somewhat more time to code, as I spend much less of the day feeling tired and don't need quite as much sleep.
Lunges are also a really good choice starting out - you can modulate the intensity with super easily - change how low you go, add weights, put your arms in the air, do intense rep sets, add kicks, etc. Lunges are a great exercise.
You should consider doubling or tripling it.
Twenty years is impressive. I admit I have patted myself on the back for a few times where I stayed up all night to find a solution to a programming problem. The problems seem so small in comparison.
> You need to do your research in person

You can probably get quite a bit of general research done before you head out and save yourself a lot of time.

The first thing you need to do is pop up google earth and take a look at the san francisco bay area to see that "silicon valley" can cover a lot of territory. You will probably want to have a general idea of what region of the valley you want to be located in; if you are just coming out to be a founder of a ramen-startup then you have a lot of flexibility, but you might also want to consider the fact that you might eventually need/want to get a "day job" or have others join your effort (which means that you might want to consider various commuting distances for places you are considering.)

If you have no other plan beyond "go out to silicon valley and change the world" then I would probably suggest that you stay out of San Francisco (too many fun social distractions) and aim for that suburban strip from San Mateo to Sunnyvale. This area is generally close enough to CalTrain that you can get in and out of SF with just a bike and you are more likely to replace social evenings at a club in SF with an entrepreneur meet-up in Palo Alto. Eventually you will need/want a car for general transit, but this particular zone will make it possible for you to get by without one for a while if necessary. After a year of this you will know the area a lot better, have a better idea where you want to live next, and will hopefully have made a bit of progress on your startup.

Start looking for a place on craigslist. You might find something you like, and at the very least it will give you an idea of what you will be looking at for rent in various locations.
I've been doing P90X for about 2 months now (entering phase 3 this week). Before P90X, I did almost zero physical activity - I didn't play sports in high school and in college the best I did was ultimate frisbee maybe once a month. I haven't been following the diet plan which is probably a mistake but I've seen fairly steady weight loss and muscle gain - for the first time in my life I can do pullups (I'm up to 2!) and pushups! It's an intense program and will (absolutely will) wear you out if you're out of shape but my fitness is soaring and being able to keep up with a game of bball or frisbee is extraordinarily gratifying.
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First 30 minutes is machines/free weights then 45 minutes on the treadmill jogging.

Mon/Tue and Thu/Fri 6:30AM -> 7:45AM before I go into the office. I have to do it before I go to work, so that I never miss any days due to working late. I don't allow myself to ever miss even one day, to keep the habit in tact.

I forgot how much more alive I feel when I exercise until I started again after a long break.
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Mostly every day. I go climbing two to three times a week, two to three hours each time. I try to run every other day, 3-4 miles, and I try to make it out to the gym twice or so a week. Nothing's that consistent except the climbing, so I hope to make it into a proper regimen. Last half year or so I've been going to the gym/running about twice a week but nothing on a schedule.

However, I have set definite goals for climbing and have a 5K and a 10K in May, so that's something specific to train for.
I'd like to add that I believe basic calisthenics to be superior to weight training for most people. Whereas weights are designed to exercise specific muscle [groups], I think that activities like sit-ups and push-ups work muscles in such a way as to deliver more real-life benefit. They certainly expose you to less risk than weight-training and can deliver a full workout without much planning, a requirement when using weights.

In my opinion, most people lifting weights do so for superficial reasons, (not that there's anything wrong with that). I feel more practical strength when using a conservative calisthenic workout than I do when I used to lift weights, although my physique was more impressive when lifting. Note that I had proper guidance when lifting weights.
Because rightly or wrongly the player feels like at different moments there are different probabilities that they will make the shot based on all sorts of things.

That is certainly true... but does the player's feeling have anything to do with the actual probability that the ball will go into the hole? According to the Cornell study mentioned by the article, the answer is generally "no".