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I'm hellbanned, so you almost certainly won't see this, but YES, I have personally corrected forward head syndrome and addressed a herniated disc in my neck. Primarily, I recommend…

[Note: I'm hellbanned, since pg and his mods support authoritarian, passive-aggressive douchebaggery instead of open conversation, but I'll write this anyway] Gun control gets a lo…

I hear people talk about the supposed legal risks of hiring and firing. I've personally seen a number of firings, and I've never seen a single issue arise. While I'm not going to c…

I have no doubt that your years of hiring practice have refined your ability to determine who is a good applicant. However, I question whether or not the steps you are following ar…

Are we in a Lobster bubble? ;-)

You're spreading FUD. Red Bull, which is caffeine and B vitamins, is nothing at all like Adderall. Caffeine is a very safe performance-enhancing drug.

The number of people obsessed with the Red Bull is ridiculous. It's 110 calories and 80mg caffeine. A cup of coffees (clasically) is around 150mg caffeine, and a Starbucks Tall Dri…

My recollection of angst surrounding Clippy and his gang of disk thrashers is of unexpected, ridiculously long wait times. Perhaps I was just too far behind the times with my cheap…

I graduated college with some debilitating wrist tendinitis setting in. By the time I got a few months into my first full-time programming job, I could barely shift my car going ho…

That's a rather contrived complaint. The idea of the simulator is to quickly show how the different settings affect the outcome. The simulator isn't designed to simulate your exact…

Viewfinder. The depth of field preview just closes the shutter to the expected aperture while you're looking through the lens. It will darken significantly, but if it's reasonably …

It's kind of weird that they called it the C1, given that BMW came out with a similar vehicle (minus the gyros), also named the C1, years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_C1 T…

HN is primarily about programming because the majority of its users are programmers. The majority of hackers are programmers. The majority of hacks are program-related. Lately, the…

I'm sure she'd only have to dye her hair red and throw out some witty comments every now and again to fool him...

Wildly inaccurate title for a misinterpreted anecdote that has no bearing on programming whatsoever. Flagged.

This entire article appears to be based off of the ramblings of one sheriff's deputy in Texas. I've read that RT is not a trustworthy news source. This would appear to back that co…

For what it's worth, I found VS2010 to be so slow and prone to crashing that I reverted to 2008. Since installing the VS2011 beta, though, I haven't looked back. It's been great. I…

This 3 year "absurd generosity" is nothing more than a classic bait and switch Marketing strategy As someone who is currently enjoying the benefits of BizSpark, you're completely w…

This is a very insightful theory and I really, really hope you're wrong. Regarding students, though, Microsoft has DreamSpark, which looks like BizSpark for students (all the way d…

Near the peak of the bubble, I was at the gym in Phoenix, AZ. Two guys on the stationary bikes in front of me were talking. "I just bought AOL at $ X today." There was a look of re…

True, but taking Facebook as an example, it's IPO'd with a 100:1 P/E ratio. It would take 100 years at current earnings in order to pay for its current value. So, the question is: …

My recollection of Apple leading up to and immediately following the introduction of the iMac and OS X, was that everyone in the press was beating the drum of impending doom. I rec…

I agree in general, but: 1) These are, by far, the most inspiring stories on HN. I would so much rather read about how a developer or small group sold X dollars of product Y than a…

Sure. But he didn't give any explanation for why SVN sucks. He merely repeated the mantra at every opportunity. Well, if you don't have problems with SVN, then he hasn't done much …

Bullshit right back. I don't pay attention to the others, but Torvalds is awful. His bizarro personal attack on C++ programmers when explaining why C++ isn't used in the kernel was…