You got the programming fatigue?

Is this a joke? How old are you? You're feeling tired and injured using a computer? WTF?

Imagine you had a real labour intensive job, rather than our soft, easy, cushy 'jobs'...

Imagine digging fence post holes all day, trenches, laying bricks, anything else really!

Wow what a pathetic, meek, frail society we have become where people wing about how hard it is to sit on your ass all day long!

Edit: I guess I should add... sure I can understand mental fatigue; sometimes we work with mind numbing, brain twisting complexities. But that just means you should go make a coffee, go for a 15 min walk by the river, whatever. But physically, if you're saying 'computing' is hard... surly this is a joke/troll ... !?

I'm not trying to feed the troll here, but I feel it should be noticed that this is a hacker community, and hackers don't generally dig fence post holes all day, trenches, or lay bricks all day. I'm sure some do, but programmers, who program for a living, need to be in front of a computer of some kind. Not all hard jobs involve labor. I'm guessing you've never had to sit in front of a computer and think logically for a week -getting very little sleep all the while. If you had, you would not only have not written that post, but would learn that thinking, and not moving while you think (limited movement), can be stressful and hard to say the least.

Well, that's my two cents, and from my point of view, and I am sure others share it, when you said "But physically, if you're saying 'computing' is hard," I dare you to do something some of the greater "computers" (people who computer) have done. You know, like make an operating system from scratch without ever seeing code of one, you know, like Steve Jobs did, for example.

Ok. I hope that didn't come out as a rant, and if it did, I apologize, but think about it, computing can be hard.

Getting your circulation going helps relieve both eye strain and wrist pain. I've had both on very stressful projects. Get into the habit of working on your cardio. It's been shown that cardio does help with stress management and brain function.

That sounds like another chance to plug my Twitter bot: http://twitter.com/officeworkout

It reminds you to take a break every 30 minutes.

I find Xah Lee's arguments unconvincing.

On a typical PC keyboard of today, the Caps Lock is the most difficult modifier key to press, and is pressed by the weakest finger pinky.

On keyboards I've encountered Caps Lock is right on the left of an A key on the home row - it is easy to type it (and certainly easier than the Left Ctrl).

It makes the left pinky do 2 pinkies's work.

You press Caps Lock instead of Left Ctrl - the same work.

It forces the left hand to strain into spider legs positions, or forces your right hand to flies about wildly if the letter key is near the middle of the keyboard (e.g. T, G, B).

The standard practice is to press the Right Ctrl (right hand) + t,g,b (left hand) - no flying.

It renders many Control-‹key› spots void, since now with only one pinky many otherwise good Ctrl-‹key› spots are hard to use.

The Right Ctrl stays therefore there is no need to use only one pinky. The most frequently used Ctrl- combinations in Emacs is point movement commands. Caps Lock makes it easier to type some of them e.g., C-n/p.

The left hand now constantly shift from home position.

See my comment to the first quote.