live in the tropics
not sure why this is being downvoted.
i live in the tropics, used to have cold fingers, now i don't have cold fingers.
seems like an honest solution to me?
Ask HN: How do you deal with cold fingertips when you code?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with cold fingertips when you code?
#62Perhaps counter-intuitively, I have found that applying more layers to my core rather than to my fingers/hands tends to keep my fingers warmer. Of course, this only works if blood can circulate heat from your core to your extremities. Try throwing on a vest and, when coding, make sure your elbows are not bent and your writs are not resting on a pad in such a way as to obstruct blood flow. Good luck!
I tried googling for this but got mixed results. Shouldn't the wrists be touching/resting on the desk (the piece of desk between the keyboard and me) or are they suppose to float?
They're supposed to float. It's much better ergonomically.
Look for images/videos of professional pianists -- ideal wrist ergonomics for typing are very similar to those for playing piano.
Specifically, your wrists should be loose and relaxed, so that your hands would hang down loosely if the fingers weren't resting on anything. My piano teacher used to spend a few minutes at the beginning of each lesson shaking my forearms until the wrists loosened enough!
Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with cold fingertips when you code?
#63live in the tropics
not sure why this is being downvoted. i live in the tropics, used to have cold fingers, now i don't have cold fingers. seems like an honest solution to me?
cool, more downvotes.
so if someone at facebook said "how can we keep our servers cool?" and someone else replied "move them to the subarctic", you would shower him with proverbial downvotes too?
Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with cold fingertips when you code?
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
not sure why this is being downvoted. i live in the tropics, used to have cold fingers, now i don't have cold fingers. seems like an honest solution to me?
cool, more downvotes. so if someone at facebook said "how can we keep our servers cool?" and someone else replied "move them to the subarctic", you would shower him with proverbial downvotes too?
alright, now i'm just getting trolled, because that's something facebook actually did and i'm still getting downvoted.
Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with cold fingertips when you code?
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
cool, more downvotes. so if someone at facebook said "how can we keep our servers cool?" and someone else replied "move them to the subarctic", you would shower him with proverbial downvotes too?
alright, now i'm just getting trolled, because that's something facebook actually did and i'm still getting downvoted.
From the guidelines [1]:
Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
It's fine to make whatever comment you think is appropriate, but if others think your suggestion is, say, unhelpful, they express their discontent by downvoting your comment. It's no big deal :)