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+1 After doing moderate strength training in these areas along with core exercises as part of a cross training class (2x a week) my back pain that I’ve had for over a decade dissap…

I read a letter in the Financial Times over the weekend... > Forty years ago, when studying for my engineering degree, I learnt a rule of thumb that said that nuclear fusion is alw…

We used Hired to great success 4-5 years ago in Austin but overtime the quality of candidate went down. At a dinner with our account rep early on he said they spent $20k to acquire…

I can't remember the source, but I learned this in a management class in college about 10 years ago. It was a general statement about learning something new. You don't know what yo…

We use Keen a lot on our engineering team. In our case we send them a lot of a events, but only query a few dozen times a month. However those queries are done in times when we nee…

They might provide by paying for it rather than hosting themselves

I can't tell if this is corporate trolling or not

It's an equality vs liberty issue. Either my free speech is violated because you have more money to voice your side, or my speech is violated because the government isn't letting m…

This is how the WTO is able to enforce its regulations. Because the WTO can't actually forced a country to pay another for unfair trade practices (the WTO doesn't have an army), th…

CYA blog post

They didn't. I believe Jacob left few weeks ago.

I found that renaming CSS file names using the hash of the contents does not always work because any changes to dependencies (e.g. images) won't always bubble up to the CSS. I forg…

I see. Do you know if messages are encrypted from device-to-device on BBM or if they are just encrypted to the hub like I message seems to be

Protocol aside is there anything significantly different in the way blackberry handles BBM messages and Apple handles iMessage messages?

How reliable is this service trying to be? While I think it is a cool service if a person is just hacking around, it is not something I would use with any revenue generating projec…

many of these issues can changed to be more old-gmail-like http://jasoncrawford.org/2012/04/how-to-cope-with-the-gmail-... 1) remove important markers 2) add labels to actions/butt…

Yeah I never like when people toss around the term "media industry" especially in the context the author is talking about (it dying) because what exactly is media? The author might…

Very clever. This seems like something I would see on reddit or even here on HN rather than on stack overflow. I find the "locked" and "closed" messages very interesting. It is a g…

Completely agree with your assessment on taking a more "shocking" approach, and also with the original comment that many do not know that SOPA and Lamar Smith are connected some ho…

One of my friends said that his grandparents would light their stove before sundown on friday and leave it lit until sundown Saturday so they would not break kosher laws I have als…

Like live wire

would like to see the app. it seems like it would have been a hard task. now, trying to think of which apps were featured during the super bowl. the GM one? anyone have any guesses…