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   by naner 14y ago

   Has anyone successfully fixed the computer guy posture? I see a lot of prescriptions and speculation (Yoga, Egoscue, Alexander Technique, weightlifting plans, stretching/foam rolling, etc) but zero evidence. At least some empirical evidence
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   by naner 14y ago

   I don't think it was intended to be an instruction manual.
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   by naner 14y ago

   Anyway a lot of things that look like they took a lot of time (I think the Grand Canyon is the canonical example) are alternatively explained as being results of the Flood. That is not remotely plausible. I'll admit I am a little aggravat
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   by naner 14y ago

   Is your netbook powerful enough to run games?
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   by naner 14y ago

   Also, because most of them dont use Google+ yet. Why would Google+ be any better?
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   by naner 14y ago

   I'm having a hard time visualizing this. If I am standing directly in front of this mirror and slowly reach forward with my right hand until I touch the mirror, will my hand be touching its mirrored self?
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   by naner 14y ago

   Accessible mental health care for everyone would make society better overall, if not decrease the likelihood of these mass shootings. Yes, people with mental problems are not going on shooting sprees en masse, but whenever someone goes on a
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   by naner 14y ago

   they have managed a solid second place sales showing because of their dedicated distribution channel, heavy marketing, loyal and affluent base and reputation for customer service. And pricing.
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   by naner 14y ago

   The option is opt-in (which is good, the fickle reddit community would revolt otherwise) which means almost nobody uses it. If Reddit would remind their users frequently (e.g. at the end of popular Reddit Blog posts as an aside) or reward p
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    by naner 14y ago

    I always wonder if problems like these are exacerbated by our (comparatively) massive population in the US. We have somewhere around 311 million people to Finland's 5 million and we are all spread out over 50 states. Is it any surprise we c
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    by naner 14y ago

    Btrfs and Ext4 work fine with tuning (enabling TRIM, partition alignment, etc.[1][2]). Samsung is working on a log-structured file system designed with SSDs in mind called F2FS[3]. There is also NILFS (also log-structured) which has been ar
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    by naner 14y ago

    I was pretty floored when I saw homeopathy cold remedies on the same shelf as actual cold medicine at a US Walgreens. I'm sure people who aren't very careful end up purchasing the homeopathic item by accident. This bizarre experience made m
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    by naner 14y ago

    There are a lot of motivations for discovering ways to synthetically produce meat. Cheaper and easier to make, higher yield, better nutrition, better taste, consistent quality, etc. I don't think the ethical considerations are the driving
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    by naner 14y ago

    I was struck by the comment that, slow and plodding as the U.S. court system is, it generally works well when it plays out as it should. This is very true and is for me borne out by over three decades of experience with the courts. The sy
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    by naner 14y ago

    Disney could (should) be most profitable when they make access to their product (content) easier. Have you ever heard of the "Disney Vault"[1]? 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Vault
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    by naner 14y ago

    As a software engineer, the idea of streaming video to listen to music (ignoring video output) hurts my soul. You're wasting all those bits! In a normal world it wouldn't make much sense to allow video to keep playing while the screen is un
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    by naner 14y ago

    I sort of did the opposite. I took all my aliases that were created because I couldn't remember something (commandline switches, non-trivial tool invocations, non-trivial regexes, etc.) and just set the alias to echo the command. Whenever I
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    by naner 14y ago

    I'm a big supporter/user and small contributer of free software. That being said... Make our software open source and hope that it spreads in the wild. This is not a business strategy. You are going to give away for free what you are curr
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    by naner 14y ago

    Well this is a little embarrassing: How does one 'save' stories on HN? Also it looks like you hardcoded your personal HN saved page url into the script.
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    by naner 14y ago

    There is no new Basic. Computers are massively more complex now and expectations have changed as well with the Internet and tablets and smart phones being what they are. Most first-world kids would be bored out of their minds with Basic. Bu
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    by naner 14y ago

    I want advertising. It tells me about things I might like. Assuming that I wanted to be aware of relevant advertising, the signal to noise ratio is absolutely microscopic. Even sites that have massive data dossiers on me (Facebook and Goo
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    by naner 14y ago

    Just an FYI, there is no way to tell how much of that article is machine translated since Google Translate allows anyone with a Google account to "Contribute to the translation". Though I imagine it is mostly machine translated and it requi
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    by naner 14y ago

    Another fork article FFS. Nobody cares what you people buy! Please stop submitting/voting this tripe.
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    by naner 14y ago

    FYI, the source code that iD Software released for Doom 3 BFG edition[1] includes support for the Oculus Rift[2]. 1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4833987 2: http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/11/27/1535206/doom-3-bfg-...
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    by naner 14y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_3#Doom_3:_BFG_Edition The BFG Edition features enhanced graphics, better sound with more horror effects, a checkpoint save system, and support for 3D displays and HMDs. Also on the Doom wiki: http://do
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    by naner 14y ago

    In a cursory glance it appears to be MIT licensed for anyone else who was curious: https://github.com/redline-smalltalk/redline-smalltalk I imagine I'm not the one who generally is unwilling to pay for development tools or languages that
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    by naner 14y ago

    The worst part about the self-inflicted "stupid hour" is that your decision-making faculties are already working poorly by the time you decide whether to keep going or not. It reminds me of the tragic comedy of trying to overcome a bad habi
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    by naner 14y ago

    There's still a lot of sugar-coating in the US. Obviously we are nowhere near as a bad as China in this regard, but the US isn't utopia of truth. In school we are not taught that Christopher Columbus was a moron, tyrant, and slave trader n
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    by naner 14y ago

    For what it's worth, the OP's site is much easier to read or skim. I'm guessing it has to do with column width and coloring.
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    by naner 14y ago

    I've been using Cinnamon after getting frustrated with Gnome Shell, it works quite well.