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The Real Pain of Software Development [part 2] | You've Been Haacked
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How I Beat Repetitive Stress Injury | Henrik Warne's blog
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| | Early in 2005 the muscles in my forearms started to hurt. In the beginning it was only a slight irritation, but over the course of about six months it gradually got worse, until it was so bad I actually thought I would have to switch careers and stop programming altogether. I realized fairly quickly that...
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10 Simple RSI Prevention Tips
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| | These ten simple tips can help you prevent or recover from Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)
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Keyboard Pants // -dealloc
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| | Repetitive strain injury stinks. But what can I do about it?
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How I stopped the RSI pain that almost destroyed my programming career
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| If it hurts to type you'll have a much harder time working as a programmer. Yes, there's voice recognition, but it's just not the same. So when my wrist and arm pain returned soon after starting a new job I was starting to get a little scared. The last two times this happened I'd had to take months and then years off from programming before the pain went away. Was my career as a programmer going to take another hit? And then, while biking to work one day, I realized what was going on. I came up with a way to test my theory, tried it out... and the pain went away. It's quite possible the same solution would have worked all those years ago, too: instead of unhappily working as a product manager for a few years I could have been programming. But before I tell y...