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I'm not really clear on the authors stance on Kettlebell swings or Deadlifts and a cursory search of her blog didn't provide me with a link to either of the articles she mentioned. Why do you think they are "generally bad"?

The author mentions regarding swings, "I don’t do those either because it is not a beneficial movement for the body and typically puts the back in bad positions". I'm not sure what angle she's coming from here (aesthetics?) but explosive hip extension is extremely important for many sports involving sprinting and jumping and kettlebell swings are a nice exercise that's easier to learn than varieties of clean. Like any other lift it has its own risks but there is no reason that with good form one can't perform swings without risking the back any more than other exercises.

Her comment about deadlifts is pretty questionable and I wonder what the author is replacing them with for hip dominant movements. I wonder if in this instance she is specifically talking about heavy barbell deadlifts where the back is often the limiting factor rather than the deadlift movement (single leg, staggered, etc) as a whole. The excerpt, "I had never done and to this day I still don’t do them" is pretty suspicious given that the knowledge she would need to have to make an informed decision about whether deadlifts are worthwhile is unlikely to be something she would have had when she started lifting. Seems the author has a predisposition to worrying about her back.
Another article on CrossFit, written by Mark Rippetoe, a famous and influential strength coach, is here:

http://www.t-nation.com/training/crossfit-the-good-bad-and-t...

He makes many of the same points, but I find the arguments more persuasive. It's also interesting to note the arguments in favour of CrossFit.

Finally, Mark seems to have completely different opinions about deadlifting; he regards them as a staple to strength training, whereas the OP "doesn't do" them for unknown reasons. I find the disagreement among professionals to be intriguing.
Grats on the raise. Your response was childish and inappropriate. If your goal is to get PR then that might be a good strategy except now in the Media you still look childish and only a certain portion will think it was appropriate. If your goal is to win this case then little things like that name calling can hurt you and do nothing more than stroke your ego.
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Rejection sucks some times, and bitterness and blame is one way to cope with it (and hopefully it is only temporary, and you don't take it out on anyone). Bitterness often manifests itself as unfairly blaming the other party. These are emotions, the words and opinions that they evoke don't necessarily have any rational basis.
Unfortunately, your snarky response is entirely devoid of anything close to an answer to my question.

I did read the TOS and I don't see how "tweets from others retweeted by Eden Alexander offering adult material in exchange for donations" "is in direct violation of our terms of service". (quotes from http://blog.wepay.com/post/86048891401/wepays-terms-of-servi... )
The football clearly hasn't been fully commercialised. A durable foam moulded ball is one of those ideas that's super-obvious but requires just the right material to actually be fun to kick. Surely once the right polymer and foam density have been found it can be churned out for pennies.
>Crossfit looks to be a kind of sports conditioning training, and as such of course it's going to involve higher intensity, shorter rests and higher reps.

That's kind of the problem, though. Because Crossfit is somewhat randomized, your body never really gets adapted to actually become conditioned.

Mark Rippetoe -- who was associated with Crossfit in its early years -- has a pretty decent rundown here:

http://www.t-nation.com/training/crossfit-the-good-bad-and-t...

>But in a perfect world those people would __still be training that way__, albeit with better instructors and choice of exercises.

I think this is one of the things that bothers a lot of people - a lot of the people doing Crossfit would not be doing explosive barbell lifts otherwise, and they especially wouldn't have a trainer telling them to do them to high reps under time pressure.

Like the article I linked says, it's great that Crossfit has gotten more people into barbell training. It's just the way it's gotten them into it that's worrisome.
Yeah, sorry, but that's you. I can bring my own anecdotal evidence to the table and say that for me, compilation, linking and algorithms were very secondary to the thrill of typing in "commands" to the computer and have it do all the work for me automagically. Programming, which I learned in college, was a very pleasant method of getting around all that boring math by letting me figure out how to solve the problem and then having my computer do the mechanical calculations.
I get coached at Olympic Weightlifting and all the people in our circle slag of Crossfit due to the cult nature of it, the lack of form and the cost. Is it really that expensive how much is it to train at a Corssfit gym in the states?
I'm not going to refute the author, merely, here is my experience: I've done CF for 2+ years, and frankly, I've gotten a lot out of it. I like/trust my coaches, I like the community, and I like the challenge. I never thought I'd be capable of what I can do these days, and so for me, it's a success story.

I go twice a week, and have been doing so (roughly) for the past two years, except for a period of a few months where I had a hernia repaired. The origins of the hernia were 5-6 years old, and it never was very painful or caused much in the way of problems, and I actually think that a year of CF actually helped reduce the severity of it (and my surgeon agrees).

Thess days, I take things much easier, but am still making progress against my personal goals.

So at the end of the day, does the author have valid points? Sure. But I think, like pretty much everything people are passionately for or against on the internet, the truth is in a gray area. It's not as black and white as I think the author is making it out to be.

CrossFit has helped a lot of people, myself included. CrossFit hasn't helped some people who have tried it.

You could replace "CrossFit" with "college" (or a lot of other things in life), and I think you'd find that again, the truth is really in a gray area, somewhere in between the opposing factions.
This sounds like my sister-in-law lol.
I like the concept. It is subjective so it needs tweaking.
I don't do CrossFit and I think CrossFit has many problems. I do not however, think that given proper instruction and supervision, the exercises and rep ranges are particularly problematic. The key point to keep in mind regarding CrossFit is the end goal, the CrossFit games. CrossFitters are not training to be bodybuilders, powerlifters, strongmen, football players or sprinters, they are training to be CrossFitters. If they do a WOD, it is not designed optimally to make them aesthetic or strong, it is designed to improve them in competition. Much like you would not go to an athletic track and complain that the sprinters are not optimally training for a marathon or go to a powerlifting gym and complain the players are not training optimally for bodybuilding, why would you go to a CrossFit gym and complain they aren't training optimally for any number of other forms of competition that involve weight?

That said, it should be clear to people when they sign up to a CrossFit gym that this is indeed the case and other benefits are side effects.
Very clear explanation! Thanks. RemoteForward is often not explained with a plausible example.

Hint for an addition: I find it easier to specify tunneling in ~/.ssh/config file (LocalForward and RemoteForward directives).
That was my first thought too but I figured they couldn't be referring to that. :)
I both agree and disagree with the truth part of your joke.

I agree in that a bunch of people I know started out with Wordpress or even Joomla, and managed to get a site working for a paying client relatively quickly. And making money was a great motivator for them to get better, and 'grow' out of php, or at least start using better CMS' or frameworks (or write their own wordpress plugins). I've found that especially designers who 'know a bit of html' seem to get pretty far with Wordpress and a bit of jQuery they copy and paste.

The result is usually an abomination in my eyes, but hey, if they're getting by doing it, and especially if it's a gateway to getting better at actual programming, why not? That's how I did it!

But I I also partly disagree in that I've also met quite a few web 'developers' who did so well 'snippeting' their Wordpress/joomla sites together, that they never moved beyond that and eventually succumbed to fierce competition. Because now they're competing with non-programming designers who can build fancy looking websites with cool interactivity, and are better at making it look good.

Because I've seen both good and bad come out of it, I usually try to gauge what kind of person I have in front of me when they approach me for help or advice.

If it's someone who doesn't seem to have the inherent curiosity to become a better programmer, I might just help them set up their first wordpress site and do my best to keep them from doing too much 'damage'.

If I do see a bit of curiosity, I try to gently steer them towards other solutions (Middleman + heroku, or Ruby on Rails for example) that are a nice midpoint between some 'coding' and seeing quick results.

And if I think I have full-blown future programmer in front of me, I just throw tons of stuff at them, usually right in the browser dev console, (closures, callbacks, functional-style programming) and relish seeing them try to figure it out and go home and tinker with a Fiddle! Those are my favorites.
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The number is indexed on price and salary changes (similar to retirement benefits).
Be honest and upfront tell him it sucks but back it up with your reasoning. If he can counter your reasoning it might be that you're in the wrong. Only one way to find out. Honestly if you can't call your friends ideas shit they probably aren't friends worth keeping around. (In my experience)
I use Memrise for the spaced repetition part. In the courses that I'm taking, the mnemonic techniques (associating pictures or whatever to new words) are just flat out horrible.
From my cursory run-ins with either community I would say the "snootiness" has very little to do with the fact they train differently and quite a lot with the fact they often train poorly.

Additionally you are creating a ridiculous dichotomy between crossfit and powerlifting. There is such a thing as doing exercises with proper form without necessarily doing 500lbs deadlifts.

That being said I'm sure there are many decent cross-fit gyms where injury and bad form are not a problem - and the exercises they do, particularly the gymnastics aspects are incredibly impressive. Of course you could get those benefits from - you know - doing gymnastics in combination with your workout. And you'd probably be safer off on average.
note: void main should be int main(at least in c++)

You could just give

from __future__ import print_function
import os
def main():
print("hello world from:" + os.name)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()

as the hello world that covers functions(main/print), entry points(python runs the code top to bottom defining classes and functions at the top level and running any other code it encounters, to allow importation of libraries we put the code we wish to run in a special block that only runs it when the script is the only being directly run, not imported), we imported os and used os.name to demonstrate a library, + is an operator.
Color/good for mobile. Title text is too large. Can't scroll and from at the same time - it gets blury, scrolling is a big browse feature, makes you feel like you're doing something useful even if you're not really reading anything.
What type of injuries? Maybe you need to warm up more, lower the weight and concentrate on the form more than the strength. Crossfit is hard because it incorporates Snatch and Clean and Jerk, to get good at those requires 3+ years
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You need to make sure what you're learning is actually what you think you're learning; The blog post says "sobolanul" means "rat" but it actually means "the rat", "sobolan" is "rat".
This presentation is tasteless and totally takes any seriousness that should be related to making and promoting an OpenSSL replacement. I personally can't take it seriously and I would recommend hackers to think about what image their presentation and design conveys.
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I don't really see what there is to misunderstand.
You'll find it disturbing if you fundamentally distrust capitalism. It's true many social workers tend that way.

We won't settle anything in this discussion: it's fundamental to the left-right divide. One side thinks that it's vital to allocate resources fairly, and this can be done efficiently if only people would be good enough. The other side thinks that market forces are the only way we know to allocate resources efficiently, and that deviating too far from this in the name of fairness will become self-defeating due to excessive waste. Extremists on both sides make it hard to have a sensible conversation.
I've had the most success with Spaced Repetition Systems when I create the cards myself, and the cards are all material that I am reviewing, not something I have never seen before.

I think this makes a large difference for foreign language learning. I never focus on learning words. I always learn words in the context of a sentence. I choose my sentences by taking them from things people say, books I read, videos I watch, etc...This is especially helpful because when I review the sentences in the SRS sometime later, I will read the sentence and almost always recall the broader context in which I learned it (the page in the book, the scene in the movie). This works really well for learning how to use words (and idioms especially) in their proper context.

Mnemosyne is my SRS of choice: http://mnemosyne-proj.org/. Very customizable, but a lot easier to get started with than Anki. It's a local app, so no Internet needed, like Memrise. The one downside is no good mobile app version.
That sounds like a painfully abnormal work environment. Not even considering dating opportunities here - spending most of your waking time in an almost entirely male domain for so many years seems torturous, like some kind of prison experience.

Maybe it's time to look for a different job, with a more gender-balanced workforce? Five years is a long time to work in one place anyway.
Is this an official government site or some polling/news site?
Yes, but they have more purchasing power and a higher quality of life index (http://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.js...).
They're aiming at binary compatibility, as such it is a replacement (but also a fork). Similar to MariaDB v.s. MySQL.

Fork and replacement are not mutually exclusive. In fact I'd think that often forks start with the intention to provide a replacement.
Do you mean a directory name cannot contain a hyphen (-)? Or perhaps you did mean a slash (/)?
I have never heard nor encountered about a package manager or filesystem that does not allow the use of hyphens.
I don't speak a single word of Romanian, but it seems similar to italian and a little french. I can read a newspaper and 'get' the meaning of the articles, for instance. It's an amusing language, not slavic at all like its neighbouring countries.
Good luck learning Romanian!
Side note: the Danish have a similar word to 'gezellig': 'hygge'.
100% correct, the suffix 'ul' indicates the article is present. I'll correct the post. Thanks!
The horrible design of the page itself made it damn near impossible for me to follow the message they were trying to express.

Its design is really all over the place. There's no consistency when it comes to the font sizes, capitalization, text colors, and paragraph width. The images and text are mixed in a disruptive manner. Some of the images are pointless and irrelevant, yet still take up a large chunk of the visible portion of the page.

After reading a chunk of text, it'd take far too much effort and time to search around to figure out where they were continuing. That proves to be very distracting.

I eventually gave up rather quickly. They should just offer their message as a plain article, without such a frenzied design taking away from whatever it is they're trying to say.
I guess my point is that creating software is not a simple task.

Simplifying the parts you mention does nothing to simplify the important things in software development, which, as VB has demonstrated, leads to two things: crappy software and people who know how to create a barely working program, but not how to structure it to be maintainable or to prevent data loss in somewhat unexpected situations.
Very much worth reading is this post by gwern:

http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition

(I've been reading that and the tons of references from there pretty much all day since writing that post).
The Workout Of The Day is one of the main things he takes issue with. The OP can claim “every single” because the primary methodology of Crossfit is ubiquitous—that’s what makes it a Crossfit gym. He doesn’t have to visit every Crossfit gym to know they do a WOD; it wouldn’t be a Crossfit gym without the WOD.

It’s like saying I don’t need to visit every movie theater in America to know that they all show movies at regular intervals.
Yes, context is everything. That's one thing that really strikes me about learning this way, the lack of context. But that should be fixable.
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What basket of goods/services defines a "normal/decent life"? And what goods/services in the aforementioned basket do you believe people in the west are lacking?
Do you mean the comic sans or calling the code terrible and (presumably) its developers incompetent?
I know a fair bit of Polish and keep seeing Slavic influences, but that could - now that I think about it - have been just as easy the other way around.

Makes you wonder if Russian picked up 'Da' from the South or if that somehow crossed over from the North. Most other Roman language use totally unrelated terms for 'yes' or general affirmation.
Pointing out that categories are used to create a false dichotomy in public discourse is not "playing coy", or a "quibble".

Unless you can show scientific research that firmly differentiates the addictivity and/or health effects of what people would consider hard drugs from what people wouldn't, in some meaningful way, your argument that "hard drugs" is a meaningful category doesn't hold up. You need to be able to make a meaningful distinction between 'hard drugs' and 'soft drugs', which holds up under scrutiny, which hasn't really been done in the public discourse.

As I said before, I don't think anyone is claiming that there are drugs that're more addictive and more harmful than marijuana: it's just that many legal drugs also fall into that category. If you aren't going to consider alcohol a hard drug (which is frankly an incredibly dangerous substance, fairly easy to overdose on, addictive, incredibly bad for almost all of your body, has one of the most dangerous withdrawal profiles, and causes some people to become aggressive, violent or otherwise dangerous), then you're clearly drawing the line somewhere other than where you're claiming to have drawn it.
I don't get the moderation here at HN these days. Currently, the comment I'm replying to has been voted down, and I can't for the life of me figure out why.

The content seems very reasonable, informative and detailed to me, even if it may partially contradict the submission's article. It gave me a different perspective on the issue, which I find useful. I see absolutely no reason why it should be greyed out.

I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up getting voted up soon enough, too. It's just disappointing to see so many totally legitimate and valid comments ending up in this state these days.
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I meant the cutoff point for the processor - 1% for adult content compared to 10% for everyone else.
Deadlifts are very effective for strength training if you use correct technique, but it is very easy to injure yourself while doing them. If you have someone to teach them to you and correct your mistakes and focus technique, they are very effective. They lead to injuries if you do not know how to do them right or do not focus on technique.

Note that CrossFit is not strength training and strength training normally focus on technique a lot.

So, it may make perfect sense for the OP to refuse doing them normally (after all he does not seem to go after strength training) and for someone going after strength celebrating them.
I remember watching a very disturbing video once, where a deer ate a sparrow. I can't quite find the link. Will post if I am able to.

I personally feel that some animals understand their nutritional requirements and select their food accordingly. It's for survival, nothing personal.
There are a few more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driverless_trains#Grad...
Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. I suppose a better comparison would be Narbacular Drop, which Portal is related to.
> When you work at least 8 hrs/day, 5 days/week (because somebody wants your product/service), you should be able to have a normal/decent life.

This is a fantasy. Imagine if I decide to become a human calculator, and that my job is going to be solving algebra problems. People will mail me simple problems (5+7) and I'll mail them back a solution.

You might say "thats ridiculous! We have computers that can do that much more efficiently". Can I then argue "well, I work 8 hours a day! therefore I deserve a living wage"?.
Hey, it sounds like you might be interested in my webapp for reading to learn foreign languages: http://readlang.com

It lets you:

- Upload texts to read, even entire novels, or read any webpage using a bookmarklet.

- Click on words or drag across phrases to translate them.

- Every word or phrase you translate is stored to your account, along with the context sentence, to learn with flashcards.

- Flashcards are prioritised using word frequency lists so you learn the most useful words first, they also use a SRS similar to Anki to schedule future appearances of a word.

Please give it a try, and if you are interested it could be cool to share some ideas.
I hacked up a simple commenting system for my static site, modelled after disqus but far less featureful:

http://github.com/skx/e-comments/

As used on http://tweaked.io/
That's not moderation, that's user voting. And it is simply corrected by up voting.

Downvotes are common and are sometimes accidental. Upvote, or ignore, and move on.
Copenhagen has cool driverless subway trains. But the rest of the world doesn't.

There are quite a few cities with driverless trains now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driverless_trains

Vancouver's system is both the oldest (opened in 1985) and the largest (68.6 km) driverless train system in the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_(Vancouver)
It started to happen when a moderator came out of the shadow encouraging users to downvote comments they don't agree to. So here we are now, reddit without a reddiquette.
I too was perplexed by the OP's aversion to deadlifts. It's pretty much a staple exercise in most strength training programs - right from Rippletoe's classic "Starting Strength Training" to "New Rules of Lifting" to even StrongLifts 5x5.