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What amazes me more, right now, is that there are people on HN who not only KNOW about climbing, but actually DO it. By comparison, I tend to consider a brisk walk too much exercise.
On most business trips I have always pair of my climbing shoes and first lookup in a new city is for climbing gym :-)
Every time time someone uses the world "conquer" to describe a climbing accomplishment, a million climbers face palm. That said, this is a pretty descriptive article describing what happened in a way accessible to fairly general audience. I particularly liked the comparison "it's akin to Usain Bolt also being the fastest marathoner alive. That’s the hold Ondra has on climbing." It's incredible to imagine how far this…
For the non-climbers, conquer is much easier to understand than send.
In what way is this a hacker piece of news ? What's next ? "This cat completes Record Backflip" ? Please refrain, Thx
You can find an explanation here https://blog.codinghorror.com/software-projects-as-rock-clim... http://adaptivepatchwork.com/2011/01/10/why-programmers-love... http://breckyunits.com/what-can-a-programmer-learn-from-rock...
Your second link mentioning problem solving is interesting. But overall I think the comparison is a little stretched.
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Here's Caldwell on pitch 15 last year: https://youtu.be/PLd_c4CjG44
What kind of strength does one have to have on the finger to be able to hold himself with just the tip? I have always wondered. I only saw climbing scenes in movies and have always wondered if people actually are able to work with such little grip and it seems they are. So for such climbing do they use earlier runs to put the rings (whatever they are call) for the safety lines during the actual climb?
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It's much, much harder, particularly when you realize that the Yosemite Decimal System progresses like the Richter scale, in the sense that a step from 5.13a to 5.13b (an increase of 1 grade unit) is leaps and bounds harder to achieve than improving from, say, 5.8 to 5.9. Although this was the myth I was taught (or what us precocious kids must have made ourselves believed, since obv. we were progressing so well/so po…
I've always thought of it in the way that if you went to an area like Yosemite or Font (bouldering) - then for every 100 people messing about, then 10 of them would be able to climb (5.12, Font 7a+) and 1 of them would be climbing (5.13, Font 8a). Those difficulty conversion are possibly way way off and this areas may attract particularly good climbers ... but my point is the scale is logarithmic in the sense of how…
Gill was a Math professor, so this is somewhat interesting to the discussion. He famously thought of boulders as, "problems", of course.
In what way is this a hacker piece of news ? What's next ? "This cat completes Record Backflip" ? Please refrain, Thx
> In what way is this a hacker piece of news ? As always when someone asks such questions (including when I asked one a week or so ago), the answer is that this is a site for news of interest to hackers, not necessarily news about hacking. If you want to judge whether this is of interest to hackers, then just look at the lively activity of the rest of the thread; it compares quite favourably to even some quieter fron…
Still, the livelyhood of the thread is not much of a factor in my opinion.
Though rock-climbing is in itself interesting (maybe more than average to devs) it has no direct link to being a hacker/dev.
It borders on 'lifestyle' kind of content.
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It's much, much harder, particularly when you realize that the Yosemite Decimal System progresses like the Richter scale, in the sense that a step from 5.13a to 5.13b (an increase of 1 grade unit) is leaps and bounds harder to achieve than improving from, say, 5.8 to 5.9. Although this was the myth I was taught (or what us precocious kids must have made ourselves believed, since obv. we were progressing so well/so po…
It's a log scale, just not necessarily log10. It's like lots of things in sport, actually. Imagine the progression from running a 6 minute mile to a 5 minute mile to a 4 minute mile. Now go to a 3:55 from there. It's a much smaller notch than 6:00 to 5:00, but will take you ten years of training. So sure, you can consider it just adding more weight to the bar in a linear fashion. It still a lot harder to lift each in…
There's no objective way climbs are organized in difficulty except by subjective feeling. Holds may be (say) smaller, and/or farther apart, but the difficulty can only be sussed out in a general sense - there's far too many things to take into consideration.
Compounding all this is that a climb could be more/less difficult because of a climber's body type (tall/short climbers excel at different climbs)
So you're left with a consensus, which is living and breathing, not a calculation.
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It's much, much harder, particularly when you realize that the Yosemite Decimal System progresses like the Richter scale, in the sense that a step from 5.13a to 5.13b (an increase of 1 grade unit) is leaps and bounds harder to achieve than improving from, say, 5.8 to 5.9. Although this was the myth I was taught (or what us precocious kids must have made ourselves believed, since obv. we were progressing so well/so po…
Yeah, 5.10a -> 5.10b is about the same step up as 5.7 -> 5.8 and the Yosemite Decimal System was indeed developed somewhere other than Yosemite: Tahquitz/Suicide in Southern CA [1] (where many of the golden age climbers and stonemasters honed their skills) [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahquitz_Peak
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For the non-climbers, conquer is much easier to understand than send.
Never heard of send before, is it just short for ascend?
Plug for Valley Uprising (on Netflix) if you're interested in climbing. The progression of difficulty and (mostly friendly and supportive) competition between climbers is inspiring. Amazing feat! PS: Would be happy to take anyone else's recommendations for videos or books too.