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To anyone suffering significant hand, arm, neck & shoulder pain, I suggest you consider asking your doctor about Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoracic_outlet_syndrome)

I was diagnosed with bilateral arterial T.O.S. last year after reading about it in a comment on HN. I very recently had corrective surgery on my right side and I hope to have my left side done soon. I was diagnosed when an ultrasound showed full occlusion of my subclavian arteries whenever I lifted my arms (but only when sitting or standing upright, like at my desk, which was not a standard discovery).

If anyone has any questions feel free to message me.
I suspect what's happening with all the people who this works for is that given there are some people who have a psychological component to their pain and some who have a mostly physical component.

Even if there are far fewer suffering from the psychological version, they are the ones who physical treatment will fail for. So they will be the ones that get as far as trying the pseudosciencey approach to dealing with the pain. So the mind body approach will have a high success rate amongst the people trying it even if it would be a terrible initial remedy to try.
Me too, not the RSI though.

I am generally as skeptical as it gets, but I read the book, then spent some time contemplating how it applied to my situation and - poof - a debilitating hip joint pain I had a mispleasure experiencing every few months was gone. I went through an MRI and a bone scan prior to that and all I got back was that everything was A-OK. Frankly, I was stunned that thinking about the problem was the remedy. You can basically talk to your body, say "stop that" and it will comply. Really weird.
Implicit in that statement is a shortage. If programmers have choices, by definition implies more demand, less supply. You contradict yourself!
Rather than a poster, check out the original source[0], I find Ira Glass' delivery more relatable.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U7U2aUY
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> I don't think they expected him to bring guests to a tech conference.

I wouldn't consider TechEd to be a tech conference. It's more of a Microsoft sales event that requires an entry fee.
> Is there actually a legitimate performance or scalability need to incorporate a NoSQL database in this case?

Usually the most compelling reason not to use a traditional SQL database is that they're expensive to field in distributed environments and require specialist engineers to support when you get out into the weeds.

But I submit it's a category error to call Redis a "NoSQL database." It was also a category error to put data that needs to be redundant and durable into a storage system that is really specialized for high volume but low-reliability cache work.

I mean, seriously. Minimum viable PostgresSQL deploy in EC2 is pretty damn expensive, but you may not have enough cash on hand to buy your own hardware and pay to put it in a "real datacenter." If you can find something cheaper and you're not even seed funded yet because no one funds your social product until you have 100k users, you're probably more likely to actually make it to where you can afford a different database by just using Redis. It's called "technical debt" and we accrue it both bitterly and often willingly.
Read: Whom to vote out of office.
I don't have data. It is anecdotal, based on the complaints of friends trying to hire people. A huge proportion of applicants, with CS degrees, fail basic litmus tests (including fizzbuzz) in interview.
Furthermore, some urban districts are invisible at that scale.
"Lisp is the language of loveliness. With it a great programmer can make a beautiful, operating thing, a thing organically created and formed through the interaction of a programmer/artist and a medium of expression that happens to execute on a computer."

It's this kind of statement that makes me suspect Lisp is not very practical. I'm not programming for the sake of programming to create something that "happens to execute on a computer." There are other artistic endeavors for my free time that are more interesting than a lovely computer language.
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Both. There are plenty of resources in the brain to master one language and be competent with many others.
Billing systems are not to be taken lightly, namely because money is inherently involved.

When developing such systems, it is irresponsible to use new, unproven technologies without justification.

When developing such systems, it is irresponsible to trade off the reliability and safety of the system for some "developer productivity".

Such irresponsibility is just not acceptable. Failures due to such irresponsibility should not be tolerated, either.
I'm not selling this dvd, but even the 5 or so videos here really helped. http://www.youtube.com/user/HealthyTyping. It is very practical, showing how tendons are strained in positions that seem like they should be pain free.

Since then I don't use arm rests so I can keep my elbows in, and dont curl my fingers. The pain went away almost over one weekend.
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What I appreciate about the OP is that he has plenty of reason to get mad, but he also recognizable the failure as a result of systematic flaws: the lack of point people and support staff, for instance. I hope I can show as much reasonibility as the OP if I ever get caught in a shitty bureaucratic mix.
Even if that's true and this was an unexpected situation, they handled it in the most inhumane and callous way possible.
Well, I'm talking about compressed Netflix bitrate, vs. only losslessly compressed AirPlay audio. The Netflix stream is bigger, but the bitrate of music isn't tiny.

But it's not the bitrate that matters so much -- it'll work perfect for 20 minutes, and then completely fail for 2, then come back perfectly again.

I think the issue with my wireless is I'm in the middle of Manhattan and there are 40 wi-fi networks I can see, so it's already a little tricky. But whenever I turn on my microwave, transmission completely drops. So it's basically anytime I or any neighbor in five directions turns on their microwave.

5ghz channel sounds like a great idea, unfortunately I can't figure out from any manuals or docs whether my Zeppelin Air supports 5ghz or not -- the official specifications and manual just say "supports Wi-Fi". [Edit: Googling forums suggests it only supports "g", not "n". So, no dice. Oh well.]
Yes but crowd funding is generally raising a bit less than $32 million. Impossible to tell whether this project will follow others.
With >50% regularly in polls, I'd say it's a fairly safe bet.
Thank you Ed, you have not idea how I needed those words right now.
Good question. It's more muddled than typical votes.

If you take the party line (Dems favored the amendment, Reps disfavored) as a baseline, you have to explain two things: solid red (R's who voted Yes) and striped blue (D's who voted No).

So, the regional delta's on that baseline: (1) the Western states (Montana down to New Mexico) had plenty of Republican votes for (solid red); (2) the DC-NY area had more Dem votes against (striped blue). The standard explanation of (1) would be libertarian Westerners, and for (2) would be, that was where 9/11 was, plus that's where much of the intelligence community lives. If you're in the government, you may trust the government more.

I don't know how to explain the consistent voting of Tennessee and South Carolina.
While I completely agree with the general sentiment and I think Microsoft went in the wrong direction here, presumably his wife is an adult and could find a Starbucks or something to entertain herself for an hour or two.

While it would have been completely reasonable and courteous of MS to accommodate the speaker's wife, it's kind of wild to equate not letting her in to kicking her to the curb/abandoning her.
> He will probably live to regret this....

I hope nothing in life makes you regret more than canceling after security escorts your significant other outside.

As to the admission money, we pay the $ because we gain something. Expecting a speaker not to bring someone is just plain foolish.
Oh yes. Every non-tech job I've ever had is riddled with inconvenience, drudgery, pointless paperwork. The information revolution has barely even begun.

The best part of my current contracting work is that while it isn't HN-glamorous, I save real people I talk to real hours of horrible tedium by automating away busywork. It also pays pretty well.
A HDMI port can provide 5V at a maximum current of 50mA. This would not be enough (or rather practical) to charge a mobile phone. It's less than the 100mA offered by USB2 (before device enumeration).
I'll just leave this* here: http://www.stsci.edu/institute/software_hardware/spike/

* satellite code written in Lisp
WebObjects is a web application framework. It's OLD old. It's about ten years older than Ruby on Rails, putting it on par with PHP and Ruby itself. NeXT made it and Apple decided to make it free. It was Objective-C and is now Java.
If this is to be fought the time is close at hand. First off if this is played as a left vs right issue it will lose. Second this needs to be won at the primary level. If both the democrat and the republican in a district/state are against it, then it doesn't really matter who wins as far as this issue is concerned. Bonus points if when the debates start, instead of opposite sides of the issue, they try to one up each other on how they will dismantle the surveillance state. I think asking your Representative their stand on this issue as well as any one else who enters the race is a good start but also try to get some sort of pledge that they will work across the isle with the other party to get this done.

This will need at least two election cycles to be successful. Everyone in the house is up for re-election every two years but the senate requires six for everyone to go through the re-election process. I think with some luck, the third senate election cycle might not be needed if enough momentum can be attained. But I think to really succeed it will have to survive a filibuster and possibly a presidential veto.

We can do this if we are willing to put aside our political differences, work together and think long term.
it was a joke. no need to mod down.
Yea, I must say it's a bit weird to assume you can bring your wife to an event like this, with such absolute certainty that you feel it would be entirely incomprehensible for her if you did not manage to get her in but instead had to give your talk...
7 to 10% of your male programmers will have trouble with your red/green coding of information.

Saturated vs lighter-desaturated is accessible to all people with vision.
That's like saying that a walker allows you to traverse a floor more "practically" than dancing.
Pain treatment is one of the few areas where a placebo actually 'works' (in the sense that it leads to better outcomes than non-treatment). See Pollo et al, "Response expectancies in placebo analgesia and their clinical relevance."

So even if it's full of nonsense, it's not surprising that the book could work (and not just anecdotally). The question is whether this book is any better than a placebo, and anecdotes can't answer that. (I also wonder if it's any better than any other book that would help you cope with psychological stress.)
So many envious comments here, ridiculous. Jennifer, this is really inspiring stuff!
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From the article "What man would just leave his wife in a foreign country stranded outside a conference hall for almost two hours without even letting her know what was going on."

How is that not kicking her to the curb?
I wouldn't launch this kind of project without some kind of ace up my sleeve.

I'd either prepare it in advance, vamp it all from the "tutorials," or have some backup code somewhere.

That would be necessary to avoid having a mundane interruption cause the project to fail.
Why are some listed with their state name, and some are not?

At first, I thought this was to disambiguate when there is more than one Representative with the same last name, which would explain the listings for Smith (MO), Smith (NJ), Smith (NE), Smith (TX), and Smith (WA).

However, there's also "Frankel (FL)", but there is only one Frankel in the House, so that shoots down that theory.
Somewhere is the many paragraphs of typing he did for this article, he mentions that perhaps fixing the psychological component improves the physical condition. His idea is that mental stress over RSI restricts bloodflow to the parts of the hands/arms that need blood.

While I don't buy into this article's theory, I do think that the mind is tightly coupled to the body and that people who draw too many distinctions between the two are misguided. That said, I still seek out good ergonomics personally and think RSI, at least for me, is due to me typing for 12 hours a day. I never worried about RSI until I had pain in my hands the went on for weeks. We can debate until the cows come home about whether the mental stress caused the hand pain or whether the ergonomics caused it--in the end it's the same pain and same RSI and just semantics. If wearing wrist pads eliminates the pain or if telling yourself to not worry makes the pain go away--the physical and mental result is the same. For me, wristpads worked. But I know from experience that stress on the mind and stress on the body is basically the same in many regards.
They paid for his wife's one-way plane ticket to the event, so it probably shouldn't have been a total shock. Regardless, that's just not a nice way to treat people.
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I saw the price and immediately ordered one. For $35 (which is really ~$11 since I'm already a Netflix subscriber), I'm okay if it sucks.
It's interesting that you reach so quickly for the adjective "libellous" given the tenor of your comments and the insinuations therein.

And, unlike the subject of the post, you don't even have the courage to stick your identity to your work.
You could say that about any vendor conference. It still has value.
So the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation supported them with a grant, but not enough of a grant to do product testing?

Something sounds fishy to me....They seem to be all about results-based investing, and I just don't see the foundation providing funds without providing enough to "see it through" the development and testing phase.

Am I wrong here?
The 2011 revision of the New International Version of the Bible, because:

The gender-neutral pronoun "they" ("them"/"their") is by
far the most common way that English-language speakers and
writers today refer back to singular antecedents such as
"whoever," "anyone," "somebody," "a person," "no one," and
the like. Even in Evangelical sermons and books, where the
generic "he," "him" and "his" are preserved more
frequently than in other forms of communication, instances
of what grammarians are increasingly calling the "singular
they" ("them" or "their") appear three times more
frequently than generic masculine forms."

http://www.biblica.com/niv/accuracy/
Nobody is writing satellite code in CLOS, though.

Ahem: http://flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html

Also

Even C++ would be a bit more safer depending on what flavor of CLOS you are using.

Assuming you meant CL rather than CLOS, I disagree with intensity. Considering CL is actually memory safe, and has the condition system, this this is the weird statement.

CL was used for building a lot of big and expensive software, and still is in certain niches. I say actual reality trumps HN PL theorizing. True, there are challenges, but somehow actual humans have managed to get a lot of really good work done with this language.
This is a great Roku 3 competitor! Except roku can't play youtube.
I really like this library.. it's been a while I've been looking for something similar. Angular was a bit "too big" for some of my projects, and backbone was just too verbose. Something like this will let me keep the code clean while still not getting involved in a big framework.
Have a look at this poll by WashPost/ABC:

http://www.langerresearch.com/uploads/1150a3SnowdenandSecuri...

A majority of those surveyed now think Snowden should be criminally charged for his leaking and don't view the surveillance as an unjustified intrusion into people's privacy; interestingly, more people thought it wasn't an unjustified intrusion into their own privacy vs. the privacy of others.

It's just one poll, yeah, but don't assume you know the will of the people.
Ah you must mean that nutbag Cindy Sheehan whose son was killed during the ill-judged invasion/occupation of Iraq.

"Near the end of his active service, the U.S. invasion of Iraq began. [Casey] Sheehan reenlisted, knowing that his unit would be sent there.[5] Sheehan's division, the First Cavalry Division, was sent to Iraq. On March 19, 2004, Sheehan's Battery C, 1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, arrived at FOB Camp War Eagle in Sadr City. On April 4, 2004, Sheehan was killed in action after volunteering to be part of a Quick Reaction Force to rescue American troops."

She then goes on to become a vocal critic of the previous and current admin. She becomes an antiwar activist.
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It sounds very good, but how can I invest in them, if they make such a great effort in their video to avoid explaining what it does exactly?

How do you hide a CO2 footprint, when that same footprint could be smelled by a from musquito 100 meters away? Why not just tell us?
Thanks for the links! I learned who my representative was and sent him a respectful e-mail inquiring about his nay vote.
Forced fsync on every write.
That he couldn't say "Well, this isn't working out, let's meet in 2 hours at X." before she was escorted out seems very implausible to me.

I've spoken at plenty of conferences, and brought my wife along, and have had my share of complications, and my wife has been able to "wing it," as I expect any adult should be able to do.

I'm not saying it's completely absurd that she should have to wing it, but I just don't feel like this is the substance of the issue being presented. His wife is not a helpless child with no money, information or ability to move freely, so I am just not willing to accept that being escorted out (which was stupid in the first place) is tantamount to being abandoned.
I guess whatever works for you.

Personally, I was having problems in my dominant hand and switching from a mouse to a Wacom tablet with a pen made a colossal improvement.
Wow I wanted the same thing as well. For some time now I have been thinking of hacking AirPlay support into my TV (it runs Linux) but I worry about its lifespan.

I would totally buy this and hack it instead.
This has nothing to do with an "all knowing central authority." This only affects people selling or developing using Apple's tools or distibution. Turning this into George Orwell borders on ridiculous. When AWS goes down, which is far more frequent than the Apple Dev center, are you still making tin foil hat assumptions, despite the fact that AWS outages affect a significant portion of the web, while the dev center means that we can't download a particular tool to build an App that obstensibly makes us money. If the freeway gets shut down because of an accident, I don't think we equate that with a totalitarian plot.

If I subscribed to Art Bell/Coast to Coast theories of the world, I'd be far more concerned about Google (and Facebook) than Apple. Google's product is you, sold to advertisers. Apple's product is primarily hardware. Apple has no financial incentive to know everything about you because that data doesn't really help them sell more stuff, if it does, it's marginal. While with Google, the more they know, the more they can then sell that information in the form of targeted advertising. Remember, Google is the one that wants(ed) to store health records. They store every single search query, indexed by IP, and if you're logged into to Gmail, to your name and every email you've ever sent. I don't hate Google or Apple, but to bring up some dystopian future because a dev center is down?
If congress were to pass some law (over Obama's veto) limiting the intelligence agencies, what is to stop the administration from coming up with a secret interpretation of the new law that effectively ignored it? They are already in violation of current law, as the author of the Patriot Act has stated.

Democracy has been completely subverted at this point. We need impeachments and new anti-secrecy laws.
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a great story about the realities of being a young entrepreneur
So in your estimation all other computer languages are walkers compared to the beautiful dance of Lisp? I'm curious, maybe I really do need to learn Lisp.
Depends on your goals.

If you have a product in mind, another platform might be more suited for the product, so it may be better to learn that.

If you have fun learning new platforms, why not go for it?

From the standpoint of generating the max amount of "code value", I'd stick to one platform. By maximizing "code value", I mean the max amount of features you can create and the cleanliness of that code given a platform. Note that this does not necessarily translate to business value or value to the consumer. Technology changes so fast, that the value of your knowledge depreciates proportional to every platform you go into. It's like for every basket you put eggs into, you lose more eggs.

In terms of happiness, you might choose a platform based on various characteristics. Do you like UI? Do you like being on the app store? Do you like the intricacies of code? Etc, etc.

For me, I like utilitarian code. It isn't flashy UI-wise or techwise, but it's clean, saves me from headaches and gets the stuff done.

In summary, if you have no goals, choose a platform and stick to it. Each platform has it's own pros and cons, it's up to you to decide what's important.
First, thanks for your willingness to admit a mistake - it's unfortunately rare. Second, you're right, all the same - plain old detective work is still effective without the privacy concerns (or, fewer concerns, at least).
The biggest advantage of Nexus over iPad is the plastic back that the Nexus have. I hate, absolute hate, loate the meta back of iPad. It sends shivers down my body everytime I touch it.
Well, the first question is if a better font text more readable.

The next question is how you identify a better font, and if most $99 fonts are better than most free fonts or not. Certainly there are going to be some crappy $99 fonts, and perhaps a couple good free fonts, sure, the price isn't a guarantee.
A lot of Python, where is the Lisp?
I think he means since he donated $20 just for nothing, if he was buying a device, adding another $50 on top isn't a huge deal.
Sorry OUYA. This will play any android game. :)
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The TV doesn't have to be blank while you do this. You could be searching on the phone and seeing results (best for the searcher), and the TV could solely show results (as opposed to half the screen being taken up by a ridiculous keyboard). Best of both worlds.