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Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | andrewf: See a medical professional! That said, anecdotal not-medical-advice:I had mousing-related pain, and I fixed it by mousing left handed. The first couple of days were incredibly frustrating, but after a week I had probably 80% of my right handed dexterity.To prevent the same issue from building up in my left han... |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | quellhorst: I switched to dvorak, got an Aeron chair and Humanscale KB tray when my hand started to show signs of RSI... 3 years later I haven't had any more symptoms of RSI. |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | DenisM: Mind telling us which machines do you and your friends use? Are those MacBook Pro's by chance? I starteted having quite a bit of problems soon after buying one. |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | smanek: There was a thread a few years back on comp.lang.lisp about this very topic.Peter Seibel (of 'Practical Common Lisp' fame) replied:"Okay, here's how I do it. Of course I tend to overdo things--how do you think I dorked up my wrists in the first place so I can't say this is necessarily recommended practice:a. Fi... |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | yummyfajitas: First thing: figure out where your problem is. Next time you feel pain, try to determine exactly where it is. Also useful when you talk to a doctor about it.Then find a map of the nerves in your hand (Grey's Anatomy has one). Find the joints that that nerve goes through, probably one of those is squeezing... |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | rtf: Things that have worked for me:-Stop using a mouse. Use a trackball or a trackpad or anything else. I have a death grip on mice and I bet others do too.-If you have to use a mouse switch your mousing hand. Deal with the fumbling and inaccuracy. You'll figure it out.-Lean farr back in your chair(legs propped up) an... |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | Prrometheus: Good thread from 6 months ago:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=104977Some of the tips given there took my pain away.In particular, the Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboards with negative key pitch are awesome, as are ergonomic mouse pads. |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | slackerIII: Things I've done: -switched the mouse to my left hand
-installed WorkRave, actually did what it said
-switched the caps-lock and ctrl key
-switched to dvorak
-use the ergo microsoft keyboard
-avoid laptops
-learned to sit up straight and not cross my legs
-stopped using the mouse scroll whee... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | mechanical_fish: Ask around. Find the professors who are the best at teaching Introduction to X (where X is any field) and take their classes. The teacher is more important than the subject matter, almost every time.Useful values of X: statistics, biology (esp. molecular biology), linguistics, statistics (I mention it ... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | PStamatiou: Start a website or blog. It is the single best decision I have done in the last decade. I have found many interesting people online that are interested in the same things as me and many interesting people have found me through it.And yes, go out with as many women as possible too. I made the mistake of goin... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | romainl: Pick up skydiving!I did during my military service (compulsory between sophomore and junior year at my engineering school in France), and there's nothing better for your ADHD. Seriously, it looks very ballsy from outside, but it actually would fit super well with your craving for learning and discovery - plus ... |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | eyudkowsky: Dvorak solved this for me permanently. |
What should I try to do while still in college? | andreyf: I was in a similar boat as you 2 years ago, and I wish I did two (seemingly contradictory) things different: 1st, go outside of your majors - take some acting classes, some poetry classes, some philosophy classes. 2nd, understand your majors - take a couple of hours to research every class your major offers, a... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | natch: Male bonding activities are never wasted time. Seriously. Even something as small as going along on a beer run, might get you a position on a board twenty years from now, or a great job in an amazing place, or, by far the most valuable of all possibilities, crash space on a sofa in San Francisco. |
What should I try to do while still in college? | webwright: Be careful avoiding things that other people enjoy because you think they are vapid. Try to enjoy them instead.Travel a LOT-- long trips (3-4 weeks per trip if you can swing it). It's very hard to pull this off after college for most people.I'll echo the "meet women" sentiment. For some, it can be hard to... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | keefe: For one thing, don't be too quick to underestimate the value of socialization. You don't have to be a vapid partier just looking to hook up, but making social mistakes is much less costly in college than it is in the business world. Find some groups that interest you, and there are probably girls there that shar... |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | keefe: I have had the beginnings of that unpleasant tingling at 27, and I make a conscious effort to keep my wrists straight. After a few years, it didn't even feel like an effort. Remember, it's compressing this little tunnel through which a nerve runs that is the problem - that doesn't HAVE to happen while you type. |
What should I try to do while still in college? | vaksel: My advice, is a little different from the rest. All those things are good and all, but it doesn't hurt to lay the ground work for your future.I recommend that you start coding your statup now. This is the best time for it. You have no expenses. You have very few commitments. And you are surrounded by a lot of o... |
Critique my startup | tectonic: Hey pstam! |
I want to add SMS to my service, tips/help/advice? | mailanay: Please checkout http://txtme.savitr.net. This is a service started by my startup Savitr Wireless (http://www.savitr.net)We have built a SMS Engine / Framework which easily integrates with aggregators / carriers to send and receive SMS messages.We license out the Framework directly as well as provide API to ou... |
Critique my startup | Hexstream: I don't like the slider presentation widget.1. It keeps moving automatically. That's irritating.2. It always seems to be sliding too fast or too slow. I don't feel in control. Do you really want to place yourself in a situation where the best you can do is guess at the best compromise and hope your setting w... |
Critique my startup | akd: Do people ever get the undirected urge to blog but don't know what to blog about? Usually people blog about the things they care about, and don't need suggestions. |
Critique my startup | brianlash: I'm not a technical guy so I can't comment on the implementation. But it should say something that I'll absolutely use it when I get set up with my new blog. I like that Skribit's lean and won't clutter my sidebar or dramatically decrease my site's load time.Are you distributing via any widget networks? I ... |
Critique my startup | nadim: For some reason I'm not finding the front page of http://skribit.com to be informative enough of what your startup does. Could easily just be me though.I was going to ask if there was a way to vote, but then I found this example and it answers my question:
http://paulstamatiou.com/After looking at that example, ... |
Critique my startup | trickjarrett: Just to say that I'm a user of the skribit.com site for my podcast and that you guys have been great about watching for feedback and taking my suggestions. I think it's on the right track but you're a bit away from finding the real gold there.Some of the things you lay out are going to be real good, the a... |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | gcv: The following three things helped me tremendously.(1) Stop using an external mouse. Right now. The sideways flick your wrist does when you reach for it is murderous. Most laptops' integrated pointing devices will help a lot. The Apple trackpad is great. IBM (Lenovo) trackpoints work well too. Switch up hands you u... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | mdakin: Try to meet everyone. Remember, keep track of, and develop real relationships with all of the people you click with. |
Interview with the competition? | icey: I think we need some clarification. Is the web site you're currently working on YOUR website? Or are you being paid to work on this site by a third party?If its your site, and you're looking to move on; it could be worthwhile. But you should be aware that you will probably not be able to work on your site any mor... |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | timcederman: Exact same age and symptoms as me - 3M ergonomic mouse fixed it right up. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=3&url=h...Also using my left hand for touchpads and wearing a brace helped get through the worst of it. |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | delackner: Exercise.You will probably ignore that, so let me say it differently.Every day, at least 15 minutes, cycle, run, I don't care. Move.Every week at least once, do something (I like Climbing) that gets your whole body, but especially your ARMS dead tired.You don't need any kind of special keyboard layout, just... |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | sb: hi there,i am 27, and just have had the worst tendonitis ever. adding to the already brought up advices, my doctor provided the following important insight: if your blood contains too high values for uric acid, or you are a candidate for urarthritis, then you also might take some concern for minimizing purines in y... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | pjuska01: Take your best idea and RUN WITH IT! Don't quit college - the degree DOES matter; But use that free time and run all aspects of your "startup" business - create it, deploy it, market it, refine it. You can do that AND keep your classwork up. Once you're out in the post-grad world, the pressure is on - so t... |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | elai: For me, I was starting to get wrist pain with my mousing. I purchased 12 different mice, tried them all out, keeping note of how I felt in my hand. I eventually found out that really large mice is what work for me. The M$ intellimouse explorer specifically. The MX revolution, and all the other fancy mice were... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | knv: Smoke pot. |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | Tichy: Yoga (in a workout variant) seems to help the most. A lot of exercises stretch the wrists.Also, I had a cyst in my index finger and had to get surgery to remove it. The doctor almost didn't discover it, because he wasn't sure if the "common RSI" symptoms would even warrant taking an x-ray. Luckily he decided for... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | cousin_it: Everybody's saying run run run, time's running out! I beg to differ. You'll have time enough for things you don't want to do, later in life. For now, kill time, relax and don't do stuff you don't want to. |
What should I try to do while still in college? | saundby: Start doing some part-time businesses now. Get with classmates, especially classmates outside your major, put together something quick and dirty and see if you can make a few bucks. You'll learn what you need to complement your skills & personality and get some experience balancing different parts of your life... |
Interview with the competition? | Tichy: Don't sign any NDAs, I guess. |
What should I try to do while still in college? | paraschopra: start doing regular blah blah on HN ;) |
Which is the best prog. laptop (battery, Linux Hardware support etc.)? | aitoehigie: Lenovo |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | iamelgringo: Get religion about ergonomics. I've spend close to $1k on my workstation's ergonomics at home (decent desk, chair, keyboard, tried a bunch of different mice, adjustible monitor arms, etc...) I probably need to invest another $500-1000 just to get it tuned even further. A small price to pay, to not have ... |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | talkaboutadate: This won't help with the current symptoms you have, but when you've recovered:The best thing you can do is to switch hands frequently through the day. The second best thing you can do is work out in the gym regularly. This will strengthen your fingers, wrists and arms. |
Which is the best prog. laptop (battery, Linux Hardware support etc.)? | babul: If you cannot buy a new Mac (or better still a Mac Book Pro) why not try and get a used one from eBay? $1000 should get you something fairly decent. |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | axod: "hitting keys"Stop hitting them then. Only use a laptop, and touch them lightly. Don't use a mouse, use a trackpad. |
Which is the best prog. laptop (battery, Linux Hardware support etc.)? | macmac: Anything from ASUS. |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | JFred: I've had it, and it did get better slowly. It cost me many thousands of dollars of lost work. The doctors are pretty useless in many cases.0. Proper sleep, exercise and nutrition are important.1. Hit the keyboard more gently.2. If you're a wide person, like me, your elbows are out to the sides and your hands c... |
What software engineering process for startups? | ntoshev: In a current project I do mostly exploratory programming (figure out the code structure as I go), but I will probably also have automatic tests that exercise large chunks of the application at once, from user perspective, without going into any detail. These are supposed to serve as smoke tests, ringing the al... |
What software engineering process for startups? | babul: Exploratory programming to play with ideas and concepts and to quickly prototype and evaluate things.Once a clear vision/direction is established, I switch to a more test driven development model more to ensure robustness and iron out errors than anything else. |
Critique my startup | mikkom: What's your business model?That's the most important question. If you don't want to talk about it it's okay but there is no point in discussing about a startup without knowing the business model. If we do, we are talking about something else than the startup. |
Which is the best prog. laptop (battery, Linux Hardware support etc.)? | djm: I wouldn't be worried about what laptop you have - I generally find it's better to buy cheap stuff and replace it often (I tend to stay about 1-2 years behind the best in PC's for example and buy a new one each year, selling the old one on ebay to cover part of the cost).The only hardware aspect worth thinking abo... |
Which is the best prog. laptop (battery, Linux Hardware support etc.)? | olefoo: Shop around for a Thinkpad, you can occasionally find a batch of them off a corporate lease, which can be a real bargain (half what you'd pay for a new laptop of equivalent specs). |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | wensing: Thanks everyone--some really awesome, useful advice. I really appreciate it! |
Critique my startup | steveplace: The title of the main page may need some work. "Blog Topic Suggestion Application" seems to lack any fluency when you describe it. Perhaps "Cure your blogger's block" or something like that, except much better.You also might want to think about bringing your signup forms up to the front page, or at least ma... |
Critique my startup | truebosko: My 5 second feedback: Going to your front page, it doesn't excite me, looks boring, nothing really STICKS out.I've seen your widget in action and I think it's great, but for a new comer who is checking out your site I don't see anything exciting on the front page and it leads me away. |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | gtani: see keyboard review threads:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185743http://developerlife.com/reviews/?p=46http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=221434http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=199493http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=104977That's about 3 days' reading material: some bullets as i dimly remember:1. lapt... |
How to set up a payment gateway | swombat: There's already quite a few players in this market. What will you do differently to make it worth using you instead? |
How to set up a payment gateway | gm: Coming from a financial services guy: Look at the legal aspects first before you sit down and write code. It sounds like you are jumping right into the transfer money aspect of it, bypassing the laws ytou need to comply with.If you are in the middle of a money transactions you are subject to many federal and stat... |
How to set up a payment gateway | olefoo: Would Amazon FPS do what you need?http://www.amazon.com/Flexible-Payments-Service-AWS/b?ie=UTF...If not, then you will need funding if only to pay the lawyers who will be helping you charter your new financial institution. |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | nunb: One thing cured my RSI carpal tunnel problems: the dyna-flex ball. You can find it in sports shops and sometimes golf or tennis pro shops.Edit: found a mention of dyno-flex ball above. This thing is awesome! Plus the usual things of course. I recently bought a Dvorak keyboard but haven't yet started using it. I a... |
How to set up a payment gateway | blender: Anything is possible but the due diligence on your idea is enormous. Good luck getting investment. 1.5M probably won't even cover the upfront legal costs. |
Critique my startup | globalrev: Well nice webapplication. But a startup? Isnt that suggesting that you will make money from it? |
Critique my startup | Jax: Great Pstam! I agree with you. People actually need topic ideas to blog about(depends on what kind of topic they focus on). Consider a popular example, Arrington wouldnt find news to talk about if no one tells him about it or if he hasn't read anything. I just read the idea. I haven't seen the site yet, i'm on my ... |
What software engineering process for startups? | syalam: agile/xp. release early. release often. a startup in its infancy needs to get the product out fast. |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | dreish: http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/wrists.htmlStep one is to see a doctor about it. Or as jwz puts it, "Do not fuck around. If you are experiencing any kind of pain, get to a doctor and get it diagnosed." Your hands are your livelihood and you do not want to be cavalier about this. Nobody here is qualified to diagno... |
How to set up a payment gateway | pageman: contact me at paulpajo [at] gmail
maybe asiapay [dot] com can help.
you can browse through this: http://www.slideshare.net/ebiziseasy/pesopay-presentation/
slide 17 might be of interest to you (payalert) |
How to set up a payment gateway | drusenko: A payment gateway doesn't handle the transferring of money, they only communicate with the interchange. Then, you go to a processor to settle the transaction given a specific transaction ID for which you have received an authorization.There's a very important distinction: A gateway doesn't involve transferrin... |
I want to add SMS to my service, tips/help/advice? | ucdaz: You might want to check out teleflip.com. It's a free sms gateway. |
What should I try to do while still in college? | ucdaz: College was the best years of my life. Here are my guidelines.1. Learn as much as you can from class and people.2. Build authentic relationships. A lot college friendships usually last a lifetime.3. Follow your passion. Studying a subject you enjoy learning, and don't force yourself to learn something you don't ... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | bobochan: N == 1 in my sample but a few random things that I did in college that have made me happy ever since: meet you future spouse; make lifelong friends; learn a foreign language; play in a band; act in a play; and find a life long sport that you enjoy. |
Practical Advice on Data Analysis | babul: Not limited to just unique startups, but simply record and measure the metrics that are important to you. |
What should I try to do while still in college? | logic_fiend: I'm currently in my last year of computer science. This will be my second degree, the first being a B.A. in Philosophy. I definitely think that your on the right track with the comp.sci./math double major. However, like you, I find the comp.sci courses easy and, for the most part, really uninteresting. Not... |
managing subdomains cookbook | richesh: http://www.intridea.com/2008/6/23/subdomainfu-a-new-way-to-t... |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | mstefff: Hey,My latest web application went public today and I'd love to hear some input from everyone. The site is called Streetread. I've been dubbing it 'Google Reader meets Wall Street'. Streetread is a single-page ajax-driven interface that simplifies the process of gathering the large amount of news and data that... |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | auston: I say it's semi-useful. But very easy to use.1 thing though... I don't like what happens when I try to scroll up on news stories for a stock. |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | slater: Why do I have to be logged in to edit the list of stocks? |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | sc: Overall a nice, simple interface.The scrolling, vertical, ticker-like lists tripped me up for a second, though. I thought the left-hand arrow, pointing to the left, would scroll the list in left, that it would kind of pull the list in that direction like a ticker. |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | noodle: allow people to vote up some of the news stories, and have the main page display the popular stories. |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | JimEngland: Solid idea, but the one problem I noticed right away is that the site does not currently load news. "Error loading news. Please try again or contact support." Here are two other issues I think you should look at:UI issue: When I click on a stock, I get the stock quote and information on the right side just... |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | czstrong: Incompatible Browser.I'm at a large Nation-wide law firm and stuck on IE6. I imagine there are Wall-Street corporationss that are also still using old browsers. |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | Stabback: Good concept, but could be implemented better. Definitely make the logo sizes at the top the same size. Don't stretch or anything, but leave grayspace between them. It just looks cluttered right now.Center the instructions vertically as to not have so much empty space. Although it will still be the same a... |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | avinashv: Firefox 3 on an Intel Macbook running Leopard: the scrolling is completely broken. If I click on a stock, the new loaded data just scrolls wildly. Further scrolling using the scroll wheel seems to just send the page to various locations at random.Seems like an interesting idea, but there's no way I'd use it... |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | steveplace: Pretty slick.What advantages does this have over me hopping over to Yahoo Finance and plugging in a ticker?Also, I get live news feeds in my trading platform for any security.I know you've probably done competitive analysis, but here are some other sites that do pretty cool stuff too:theflyonthewall.com (fa... |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | chollida1: - Scrolling is too slow,
- Page loads are too slowIf your going to target the investment banking community, you'll find we want our information fast. You'll notice the old stock tickers had symbols whizzing bye, not slowly scrolling.If I detect even the slightest lag I'll go somewhere else, probably an rss... |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | mercury: I get "error reading data" from all news sites...hm |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | jjburka: Looks nice. The only thing I found is if you scroll up in the news list area it doesn't stop at today's news , it loops back to a couple days ago. Which is rather unintuitive. |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | axod: Scrolling is seriously broken. (ff3/OSX)You display some articles, then I scrollwheel, and things go bezerk. I scrollwheel down and it jumps up and down like a kid with hyperactivity disorder. There's no scrollbar - I have no idea where I am in the list of stories. Trying to match up where I was with where I am n... |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | sebg: Incompatible Browser.
As someone who is in your target audience (I work for a well-known Wall Street Firm), this seems to miss the point.Also, it seems to me that you are going against Reuters, Bloomberg, finance.google, and finance.yahoo. What is your value added there?Good Luck! |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | maxklein: It's brilliant, exactly what I need. Excellent for hobby stock traders. I don't want to sign up for an account though, I just want to be able to edit that top bar. Till you implement that, I won't sign up. |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | rtra: What I did, after my 2 years away from computers. It sucked, but I was in real pain.- Switched to a big logitech trackball, which I use with my left hand
- Negative tilt splitted keyboard (microsoft natural 4000, I higly recommend it)
- setup my chair/screen height
- Xmonad (proper window manager)
- minimize ... |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | tstegart: It does a nice job of laying out information, so I give top points for information design. The scrolling is a killer though. sounds like you really love the idea you came up with, but unfortunately, its very annoying and very confusing. It was like that Star Trek episode where they keep repeating the same day... |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | mstefff: Ok, the weird article scrolling is being removed momentarily. Thank you for the feedback. |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | dmix: Well designed, works very smoothly for me on FF3+Leopard. I love how quickly it switches back to the reader.First two things that stood out to me: 1) I would like to be able to input a stock symbol on my own with out signing up, that would show how its valuable to me personally without jumping through hoops. 2) S... |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | s3graham: I thought the ticker symbols were associated with the logos above them at first. I think you need to edit the layout a bit or improve whitespace somehow.Scrolling broke in a strange way when I moved up. Also, there must be a scrollbar. |
Seeking Hacker/s for Co-Founder | aggieben: attempts to start such a community seem to frail [sic]I think that's because such communities have to be built on trust and personal relationships, which are notoriously difficult to build using a faceless and impersonal medium like the internet. |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | dustineichler: Really good job mstefff, the feedback seems good too. Don't rest on your success... |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | elai: This seems like a part of google finance's news view (except with more news). What I liked about google finance is how it pegged news articles with exact times on the market. Yours might have more articles, but I don't see how it's that much better than something more integrated. |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | cjc: mstefff, I think this is a great idea, but I have to agree with the majority of commenters that the implementation is poorly executed in three main ways:1) the scrolling simply does not work as expected2) you unnecessarily reinvented the scroll bar (axod elaborates very well on this)3) needing to sign up before ty... |
Seeking Hacker/s for Co-Founder | pmjordan: The main problem I see with building such a community is that the people who return to it aren't the kind of people you'd want to have as cofounders. All the good candidates will form startups and get on with it and no longer have a need (or the time) for such a community.As for a good way of finding cofounde... |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | alaskamiller: This is pretty darn cool, you need to keep working on it. I would love for a search box to either search or quickly hit on the stocks I have in my list instead of relying on the side scroll buttons. |
Please review my webapp (Streetread) | mstefff: The scrolling issue is fixed and I'm working on all of the wonderful comments you've suggested. Please check it out... |
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