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How much do you exercise a day/week? | patio11: I do about 40 minutes of biking a day (commute to train station) and try to get to the gym twice a week for about 30 to 45 minutes. Since biking is enough cardiovascular exercise for anybody I mostly do weights at the gym, and typically (when I have an extra 15 minutes free) some yoga for stretching.I recomme... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | nolanbrown23: For an hour 3 times a week most weeks. It's tough, especially when it conflicts with coding time but it's worth it. |
Is there an archive, dataset or RSS feed of all HN posts? | nose: I converted about 8700 links to delicious (along with tags for each link). http://delicious.com/tag/hn_links |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | rsayers: Daily.I commute on a bike (5 miles each way). I also run 5k's when they come around, Lift weights twice per week, and go on long (50+ mile) bike rides when I can. |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | noodle: if you're looking for motivation, i highly suggest finding some sport that you enjoy doing. go looking for it, i'm sure one exists.i do a 2-3 hour workout 2-3 days/week centered around a martial art i compete in on the national/international level. the enjoyment factor really helps get you off the couch.and i... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | mattyb: I run 6 days a week and ice skate 2-3 nights a week. Running allows me to both stay in good shape and do a lot of thinking; I've caught quite a few bugs during those morning runs. I played ice hockey in middle school and have loved skating ever since, so it's more for fun than health. |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | quallsd: What is this "exercise" about which you speak? |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | vlad: You almost nailed it. It's not how much exercise you do during the week, but that you spend time to do it regularly. Again, it doesn't matter exactly what you do. The point of exercise is that it challenges you a bit. So, if you go to the gym 4 times a week, even half hour before they close, you will be able ... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | mrtron: An average of half an hour a day.Weights a few times a week, running a few times a week.
I play hockey during the winter twice a week.I am hoping to get back into good shape soon...it gets harder as you get older. |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | diN0bot: i go outside everyday to at least play keep away from my dog with my husband. sometimes we play tennis, or variations on tennis, rather.sometimes i run to a pool and then swim. on weekends i tend to do longer runs, or else long bike rides to ponds for swimming. this is now that it's warm. during winter i swim ... |
Equiv of MIT/BSD License for Artwork | halo: Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/license/). |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | jemerick: I play ice hockey 2 to 3 times a week depending on the league's schedule. I would like to do more exercising like weight lifting and maybe some biking... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | krav: This guy's blog is great. He talks about exercise and eating in an intelligent manner, and is living proof of the resultshttp://theorytopractice.wordpress.com/ |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | hschenker: 30 to 40 minutes a day, 7 days a week.4 days a week: cardio.
3 days a week: weights.For cardio, it's most often the stationary bike in my condo gym. I pedal as fast as I can get to 1,000 calories (about 32 minutes). I sometimes go for a 10k run instead, if it's nice outside (about 45 minutes). In the summer,... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | kajecounterhack: I run. 5-12 miles a day depending on speed (5 being the shortest, fastest, and 12 being long and moderate with a pickup at the end) -- quit track to do programming and startup stuff seeing as I'm in high school, but I keep discipline cause it helps me stay focused academically too. |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | jjs: I've recently taken to exercising several hours a day; mostly weights and taking decently long walks.What I've noticed is that this actually gives me somewhat more time to code, as I spend much less of the day feeling tired and don't need quite as much sleep. |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | staunch: First 30 minutes is machines/free weights then 45 minutes on the treadmill jogging.Mon/Tue and Thu/Fri 6:30AM -> 7:45AM before I go into the office. I have to do it before I go to work, so that I never miss any days due to working late. I don't allow myself to ever miss even one day, to keep the habit in tact.... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | yan: Mostly every day. I go climbing two to three times a week, two to three hours each time. I try to run every other day, 3-4 miles, and I try to make it out to the gym twice or so a week. Nothing's that consistent except the climbing, so I hope to make it into a proper regimen. Last half year or so I've been going t... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | quellhorst: I used to do from 1-3 hours of trail riding on my mountain bike every day. Lost 70lbs of fat doing so.The benefits to my physical and mental health were huge. |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | graemeklass: 3 to 4 times a week. Running, weights and occasional team sport (footy, basketball).
I try to mix it up a bit to keep me challenged and motivated. |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | rudyfink: Seven hours a week, assuming golf doesn't count as exercise.My commitment to myself is to spend at least a half hour a day on average doing something. This is an antidote to being a professional sitter. The doing something was a response to having trouble with sticking with other plans.For the last several ... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | arnorhs: I go indoors-climbing about 1-5 times a week.
Gymnastics 1-2 times a week (even though I haven't been showing up for some while now)
In the summertime I also go jogging maybe once every one or two weeks |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | CraigBuchek: I love DokuWiki. It's really easy to set up, and doesn't even require a database. It uses flat files, which you can read even if the DokuWiki site is down. It's pretty easy to use as well. |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | branden: I'm not someone who can exercise for its own sake. I'm no good at creating a structured routine for myself, and I'm terrible at following schedules. I get around this by living a bikeable distance from work and the grocery store. I've been able to cram in around 30 miles of bike riding per week simply by forsa... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | Derferman: I play ultimate here at school, which entails three practices a week. I find that if I don't exercise on a weekly basis, I become easily irritable. |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | baguasquirrel: When I was in school, I learned the real value of exercise. When I had time to do them and still get 6 hours of sleep, I stayed healthy. When I didn't, I'd start to feel sluggish after a week and I was prone to sickness.Doing a startup can be particularly difficult because there's nothing to force you ... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | lleger: I play ultimate frisbee for my university. We play for three hours three days a week. That's enough exercise for me.When it's the summertime, and, thus, when I have more time, I work out with the powerlifting team. |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | donaq: I exercise thrice a week, on average. Twice are chin-ups, sit-ups and push-ups followed by a run. The other is basketball. |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | christofd: I cycle around 30 min everyday to get around town and on nice days or weekends I'll go for longer trips on my mountainbike. Used to do long distance running and martial arts 3 times a week. Don't care to pick up running again, which can be perfectly substituted with cycling, but I'll get back into martial ar... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | jamiequint: I do CrossFit (crossfit.com) 2-4 days a week, its really hard, has good results, and is time efficient. I also swim occasionally. |
Is there an archive, dataset or RSS feed of all HN posts? | oscardelben: By looking at the URL item?id=569492 you should expect to get nearly 570,000 posts. Maybe RSS is not the best :) |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | quisxt: I run about 3 miles every morning and then a longer run on Saturday or Sunday. I've found that I really need to exercise every day, or during the day I can't get into that deep zone of concentration where I'm the most productive. Running more than 3 miles, and too tired and sore, and end up napping during the... |
Protection for iPhone Development | dangrover: An LLC is enough to protect you personally from liability, if you're really worried about that. |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | wallflower: I run with a group two to three times a week. If I were not running with a group, I don't think I would run at all. The social aspects and accountability of exercising with other peers cannot be underestimated. |
Should comments like this be encouraged or discouraged? | boundlessdreamz: Comments like this, telling why they upvoted/downvoted are part of the reason why digg is unbearable.According to me they add nothing to the discussion and is just noise.What does the HN community think ? |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | nightowl: If you cannot do any excersize (ie - can't leave the office) I found the Tibetan Rites to be a very good alternative to jogging/cycling. At least you are doing something.Since I started doing to tibetan rites I manage to work longer without needing a break, and manage to keep to deadlines more (but yea, still... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | siculars: for minimal time commitment i would definitely recommend running. i recently started running to train for the nyc triathlon. running is easy to pick up and offers serious physical challenges. time wise, you can adjust the challenge to your fitness level by increasing the speed without increasing the time. as... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | silencio: I've been trying so hard to get in the habit of exercising for any amount of time on a regular basis, but every time something's managed to break it, something usually involving massive amounts of pain in my legs or chest that make me not do anything for like 3-4 days when it becomes impossible to get motivat... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | alrex021: 5 days a week Monday to Friday with each weekend off to rest. I eat healthier foods by making sure I have home-made food with me, in my office, every day during the week. |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | jacoblyles: I'm an outlier. I could never stick to running or lifting weights. Too lonely, too boring. On the other hand, a team sport that met once a week was too easy to skip.So I fight. I admire fighters, and I figure it is right for a young man to try to earn himself some glory.It's the hardest thing I've ever done... |
Should comments like this be encouraged or discouraged? | sgrove: It's as simple as this:Does it stimulate intellectual interest? If not, don't upvote.Does it discourage intellectual discussion? If so, then downvote.Note: One-liners often end what was otherwise an intellectually interesting thread. |
Should comments like this be encouraged or discouraged? | swombat: Both this and the parent should be downvoted for being reddit-like, pointless one-liners.Note that comments complaining about the downvote should be similarly downvoted. If the posters seem genuinely surprised about being downvoted, or if there is a reason for them to wonder, a kind soul may be willing to post... |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | wlievens: Head-up-display eye gear. WANT! |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | intranation: I cycle to work every day, which is about 4.5 miles each way. This adds up to about 40-45 minutes of exercise per day, which is awesome as it's both quicker than public transport and also keeps me fit. |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | radu_floricica: What took me off my armchair some years ago, when I had really become a couch potato, was weightlifting. By chance a gym opened 2 minutes from my flat, so I paid them a visit. First the guy there showed me how everything works: he did a few repetitions, then I did a few repetitions (of course, at the lo... |
Shall I become a Freelance? | nightowl: If you do decide to go the freelance route, do what I did:Get yourself a backup/recurring income project. I had a client who started a new "bad debt tracing" company. The final quote came to around $20k for the development of a pretty large management system (it would track all open cases, mail clients when t... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | dfranke: I'm a fencer. I fence three times per week for about two hours. |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | philh: Mostly I just walk places. I willingly walk over an hour into town to avoid catching a bus. If I'm late, I'll run part of the way.I'm currently living on campus and have far less walking to do, but I play airsoft every few weeks. I also go to clubs and spend hours at a time dancing.I have no idea if this really ... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | known: One hour brisk walk between 5AM to 6AM. |
What would you do if you knew the future? | quoderat: Anything I wanted to.But first, I would get enough money to completely opt out of doing anything like starting companies, worrying about what anyone thinks, etc., and find a lot of land in the middle of nowhere, drop my own fiber link in at vast cost, and ignore the rest of the world as much as I could. |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | mroman: I am doing around 2 hours per week total, and it has positively changed my life in many ways.I bought a crosstrainer a few months back, and it is the very best $200 USD I have ever spent, I highly recommend it to everyone.I do 20 minutes or so on it, at a decent pace, and as many pushups as I can handle, every ... |
What would you do if you knew the future? | vorador: Well, Cassandra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra) knew the future but no one believed her. It would probably be the same with VCs. |
How do people prefer to pay online in your country? | lucumo: Link for your clicking convenience: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=569607 |
What would you do if you knew the future? | zepolen: I think a lot of success is down to circumstance, right moment, right time, right person and I doubt if you tried to make another Google you'd succeed in the same way. |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | jasonlbaptiste: 4 times a week for certain, sometimes 5.Run a 5k, then abs and 24 sets of lifting.Can't stand treadmills, so usually run outdoors.I usually get insanely focused and clear my head while working out, so it's equally as beneficial from a mental health standpoint as a physical health standpoint. |
What would you do if you knew the future? | mattlarge: I think Zepolen is correct, so much comes down to timing. If you look at a lot of the "successes" that you would want to get there before they were reaching slightly beyond current tech/social environment. For example, Flickr/YouTube were predicated on the fact that storage costs were crashing and end user b... |
What would you do if you knew the future? | gaius: you could start companies called Google, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook etc. and do everything right from the beginningNo you couldn't, because you only see these companies from the outside. You might know the idea, but how many search engines, social networks, etc are/were there? Amateurs talk about strategy, pro... |
What would you do if you knew the future? | fiaz: I would try my hardest to prevent 9/11. |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | zackola: Try to run 3-6 miles at least 3 times a week + http://hundredpushups.com/ Also try to stretch, but that doesn't always go so well. Yoga makes me crack up laughing. |
What would you do if you knew the future? | mrduncan: The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay |
Good introductory article on source control | ananthrk: Series of articles written by Eric Sink http://www.ericsink.com/scm/source_control.htmlHe is also currently working a book on the same topic. A lot of his recent articles are about his experiments with various version control systems and are worth a look. |
What would you do if you knew the future? | mseebach: I'd start a bunch of buzzword-heavy .com's and cash out late 1999. Then I'd go into real estate and cash out in 2007. Then I'd retire. |
What would you do if you knew the future? | Tangurena: Going back to 1996? With what I know now? I'd try to make a lot less mistakes with the woman I was in love with back then. |
What would you do if you knew the future? | rgrieselhuber: Two chicks. Oh wait. |
What would you do if you knew the future? | josefresco: Don't you people watch movies? This never turns out well.Quoting Jeff Goldblum: "Ooh, aah, that's how it always starts, and then later the running and screaming" |
How do people prefer to pay online in your country? | swombat: In the UK, credit cards are very common, and most debit cards are Visa cards too.I hear that in Germany, credit cards are very uncommon. I think I heard that "International Maestro" is the option that's much better supported there. I'm not sure about the rest of Europe, but I'd love to know too! |
How do people prefer to pay online in your country? | raquo: In Russia, most popular online payment systems are probably webmoney.ru and money.yandex.ruThe major difference from PayPal is that 1) these systems are de facto local, and 2) your account is not linked to your debit/credit card, rather, you have to add funds to your account proactively. At least that was true w... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | mannicken: 5-7, usually closer to 7, I take a day off only if I'm extremely sore, and two days if I'm sick. Last summer I did about 10-14 sessions a week (morning and evening) but that was just wrong and I was constantly depressed and overtrained. Now I'm just running every day for fun :)Oh yeah, I'm a runner. |
Who else is going to Geeknrolla? | swombat: Btw, if all else fails, in terms of finding a way to recognise each other, my photo is on http://danieltenner.com/, so you know what I look like :-) |
Who else is going to Geeknrolla? | pclark: Amir Nathoo (WebMynd YC08) will be there too, apparently. |
How do people prefer to pay online in your country? | Celcius: In Sweden I'd say we almost always use Visa and to a lesser extent master card. If a website doesn't want to deal with credit cards, I think a local version of paypal https://www.payson.se is more common than paypal if it's a page that's only avaliable in Swedish. I'm only really basing this on my own experien... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | artlogic: Last year after trying a bunch of different things fitness options, I got into cycling. I now commute by bike whenever I can and participate in long (50+ mile) weekend rides. In the summer I am riding on average 10 miles a day, but that drops to maybe 10 miles a week for the winter months.One great thing ab... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | jgalvez: Earlier this year, I started taking a 7km walk everyday. 210km a month. I never stopped. My health and overall physical aptitude has been awesome. |
What would you do if you knew the future? | Celcius: I've got no idea but re-coining (or I guess pre-coining) the term web 2.0 into something that doesn't make me cry a bit on the inside every time I or others mention it is pretty high on my list. |
Career path for developers | ScottWhigham: I've done a bit of the "technical liason for sales" and that can be entertaining for a short time. You get to be in front of people - both customers and colleagues - and you get input from both sides. With what you're looking for, that might be a good fit. If you do opt for that, I'd want a cut of commiss... |
Career path for developers | iron_ball: Obvious official HN response: do a startup, where your people skills will be just as important as your technical chops, yet you will still take full advantage of your years of experience.My response: "management" is a fuzzy area. A product manager, for instance, can be very different from a project manager -... |
Who else is going to Geeknrolla? | nailer: Going to the afterparty. My real name's Mike, I'm working on a Python based security monitoring tool. Would love to meet other London pythonistas.I have no bright orange T shirts, but I do have red pants. Feel free to come over and say 'Excuse me, are you red pants guy from HackerNews?'. |
Who else is going to Geeknrolla? | intranation: The founder of the company I work is pitching there as one of the invited start-ups. Watch out for Jason Trost from Smarkets. |
Who else is going to Geeknrolla? | DirtyAndy: I'm going to be at both events (photo on http://www.twitter.com/DirtyAndy ). Don't really know anyone going although interestingly met jlees at a pitching course two weeks ago and exchanged e-mails with axod a month or so ago. Small world message! I do have a bright orange t-shirt but shall not be wearing it... |
Career path for developers | coglethorpe: Some of the best career advice I ever got was from a recruiter who had a PhD in microbiology: "Don't lose your technical edge." I sensed that he regretted stepping out of the lab into a sales/recruiting role. He's a great guy but had to step out of recruiting and I met him again when he was working manag... |
Who else is going to Geeknrolla? | mooders: Very much looking forward to being there! I don't have anything to pitch yet - just checking the scene out and expecting to meet some interesting people <looks pointedly at you guys>.No bright orange shirt but I shall be tweeting the day as we go as @neilmoodley so do say hi! |
Career path for developers | edw519: Interesting question. I don't think I've ever seen it here before.I am a solo founder working on a startup that needs lots of hands-on hacking now, but the plan is to evolve to the point where a much greater percentage of the resources required will be for people with heavy technical backgrounds doing more fac... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | luccastera: I play 2 outdoor soccer games a week + 1 indoor game. That's about all I do these days. In the offseason, I try to go to the Gym once or twice a week. |
Who else is going to Geeknrolla? | Bastianlehmann: Many good UK startups will be around. Mike (@mikebutcher) did a great job here!See you all tomorrow.Bastian - Zensify |
Career path for developers | Femur: Have you considered consulting? By that i don't mean "charge hourly to do development" but true consulting.I worked for the technical consulting branch of one of the "Big Four" accounting firms as an Oracle DBA for a few years and found that I used my soft skills much more than my technical stuff. Most of the ... |
What would you do if you knew the future? | banned_man: Founding a company would be the wrong way to go about exploiting this time hack. Too much relies on execution, so the possibility for failure is substantial. There is a much easier way to make money if you can time-travel.What I'd do: ask for 30 minutes before I go, and log into Yahoo finance. Find a 2% gai... |
What are you doing to counter the recession? | tokenadult: What measure you took to counter recession (save bottom line)In general, the thing to do in all economic conditions is to spend as little as possible, as infrequently as possible. Fortunately, my start-up has no employees yet, only contractors. So we haven't had a staff reduction issue, but we have been ann... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | wushupork: martial arts training twice a week and calisthenics in between for core training.the martial arts training is about an hr of warmup and basics and half and hr of running forms (standardized routines).between the martial arts, I try to do core workouts at home which include exercises with the chinup bar, gymn... |
Career path for developers | wallflower: Consider volunteering your skills for a non-profit and getting into a leadership role. I've done that (without the intention) but it is amazing how involved you can get with the mission/issues of a non-profit organization (where you don't have any financial stake - e.g. salary). Yes, I primarily help with t... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | arantius: Never. But, living in NYC, I walk around a mile in 15 minutes, each way to and from work, every day. I also walk or bike any time I need to run errands. |
Legitimate speed reading method? | Travis: DavidSJ,The courses all teach you the same kinds of things. It's not exactly snake oil, but it's not something that's easy.I took one of these years ago, as a kid, and got little out of it. Why? Because I didn't practice. Here are the main things that I recall from the class:
1) they trained you to read grou... |
Why do I have to type print "x: "+str(x) in Python? | eru: See http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/: Explicit is better than implicit. |
Why do I have to type print "x: "+str(x) in Python? | aristus: >>> x = 1234
>>> print "x:", x
x: 1234 |
Why do I have to type print "x: "+str(x) in Python? | vorador: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=568033 |
Why do I have to type print "x: "+str(x) in Python? | vomjom: If you want Python to "be smart enough to cast x automatically", then you want a weakly typed language. Weakly typed languages are difficult to reason about.For example, should "3" == 3? Should 3 automatically be converted to "3" in that instance, or vice-versa?Anyway, a better solution is:
print "x: %s" % x |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | HeyLaughingBoy: I try to get on my treadmill for at least 30 minutes three times/week. If I have the time I do more and I also do weights, but that's my desired minimum and I can usually make it. Now that it's finally warming up (can't believe it snowed yesterday!), I'll probably be taking the running outside.But IMHO,... |
Why do I have to type print "x: "+str(x) in Python? | ajuc: You haven't work with that many languages, have you :)>>> x = 3 + "7"What type should be x now: int or str ?Also: "10" is lesser than "2" but 10 is greater 2.Should (3 + "7") > 2 return true ?Such automatic conversions forces you to remember many arbitrary rules, and when you forget it, you have bug that shows l... |
outsourced support | newy: Thinking of starting a service provider in this space. Huhtenberg, if you're still reading, feel free to give me a ping. |
If your startup ever goes public, what stock symbol would you use? | bgnm2000: EXC (granted I have yet to check whether it exists) |
Best User Registration & Password Management Package | dshah: Very timely. I had the exact same question (need to implement some sort of simple user management system for http://grader.com).I looked at ClickPass a little while ago, but thought they had merged with someone else and wasn't sure if they're still pursuing this particular idea. Need to revisit.Meanwhile, I'm ... |
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