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Comment · 3 years ago
If you want to lose fat, healthy eating is king. If you want to increase muscle mass (but also to maintain it), some exercise is necessary.
Comment · 3 years ago
I started working out at home. I really like the exercises from Caroline Girvan, especially the Iron Series ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhu1QCKrfgPWmStsg7imo... ) I've done this series 4 times and I can say that I see results (including feeling better). It was hard in the beginning but now I'm (mostly) looking forward on doing the exercises.

I use a mat, a (round) resistance band, a (small) yoga block, and some weights: two dumbbells of 5/10/15/20kgs each (we now also have other weights, like 3/8kgs). It took me some time to use the 20kgs weights. A chair/sofa/bed I'm surely you can already find at home.

Including the warm-up (do it!) you'll need a little more than 30 minutes, but not a lot more.

Comment · 4 years ago
Yes. You download a zip archive. Unpack from 121MB to 263MB, and start the exe. (assuming you're using Windows)
Comment · 4 years ago
> ... and could not get a straight answer I was told.

I guess he can't get a straight answer either. I would have loved to see a thoughtful reply.

Comment · 4 years ago
Their answer:

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  Since there is no further action required from our end at this time, we will be marking this ticket as solved. That said, if still you have any other questions or concerns with which we may assist, please let us know, and we will be happy to help as required.

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I had a hard time logging in to get in contact with them. My fogbugz link (for which I should pay) returned 500 Internal Server Error, logging in Firefox didn't work, in Chrome it said that the password in invalid, and I didn't get a reset e-mail (tried twice), I've logged with Google credentials but I got a "This page doesn't exist" on a central-supportdesk.zendesk.com page.
Comment · 4 years ago
After reading some comments from the history of the other user, I'm asking myself if HN supports shadow banning.
Comment · 4 years ago
> as it's mostly very rushed, badly designed software

What's stopping you in improving the situation? Time pressure or unwilling colleagues?

Comment · 4 years ago
I've worked on good (enough) code: good code coverage in tests, relatively fast tests, easy setup to develop (integrated DB, mail server, LDAP server), consistent formatting, no useless comments, good naming, code organization that was logical, even if it required some time to get accustomed to it, some good documentation as READMEs.

Not everything was perfect, but it was much better than the code changed by future generations which tried to mess it up with almost every commit, in the name of "it's good enough", "consistent style is not needed as I can still read the code", "what tests?", "we can refactor later"...

Comment · 4 years ago
If everybody is 0.5x, everybody is 1x.
Comment · 4 years ago
Can a 1x engineer design a simple web page?
Comment · 4 years ago
Like the terms "fast" and "secure" in "Google Chrome - Download the Fast, Secure Browser from Google".
Comment · 5 years ago

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