Vito, you're an excellent writer and I found this post hilarious and wise in a programming Zen kind of way.<p>"A student asked the Master: 'I can't sit. I can't concentrate. How do I cure my hemorroids?'<p>The Master replied, 'Have you tried Lisp?'<p>The student stood pensive, then was not in pain anymore."
Use a Japanese-style toilet bidet. Bolt-on, cold water ones are less than $50. (You get used to the cold water, surprisingly.) Warm water ones, less than $100. Top-of-the-line (entire) toilets, $4000.<p>WFM, YMMV
Hemorrhoids are awful. I have a close circle of friends that have different careers and are in a range of physical shape and most of us have some degree of hemorrhoid issues going on. One of them had surgery for them and they said it was one of most painful surgeries they have gone through. At least we can gripe about our shared ass pains together.
I'm hijacking the thread but I'd be grateful to read about other people hemorrhoids experience. I'll start:<p>I had hemorrhoids which had to be operated because they become thrombosed. So I did a surgery (with general anaesthesia) to remove them.<p>The recovery pain was unbearable, a real torture. For like 3 months I was in pain all the time and had to take painkillers and put some special cream on the operated area (my ass). I couldn't sit and had to lie down all the time(I was lucky that I wasn't working at this time). Going to the toilet was really painful at first but that improved after some weeks. This was considered normal.<p>The thing is that even now, almost 5 years after the operation, it still bothers me, depending on my stool (if it's hard it's a big problem). Does it ever heal?<p>All in all unless really required I don't recommend operating your hemorrhoids. Change your diet, use a bidet, use creams and try to avoid surgery!!!
Long ago in the age before the semiotics of standing-desk superiority came into fashion, I worked with a gentleman who made his own stander from plywood and screws and so forth, and stood all day every day, and he was in fact a Lisp programmer in good standing. It was rumored that he had patootie problems but I chose not to pry.
Sitting down is not a great position for a human or any other animal. Good ones are on your knees (like Japanese) or squatting (if you can hold this position for a while, you can put something under your heels to make it easier), or lying down
It sounds like Jack's medical condition was bad enough that his decision to go for the surgery was inevitable, software installation trouble or not.
I had the surgery a long time ago. It was not terrible, and without too many disgusting details, self-care afterwards is the most important thing.<p>Funny story: when I was at Google, a friend and his wife came to visit. She went into the ladies', and beforehand I told her about the bidets in the toilets. She came out and said, "My God, you have to study to use one of those!"
It seems the post is down:<p><a href="https://stats.uptimerobot.com/RLZ25tGzKx" rel="nofollow">https://stats.uptimerobot.com/RLZ25tGzKx</a><p>it also happened the last time I posted something here, here is the backup:<p><a href="https://vitovan.com/jack.html" rel="nofollow">https://vitovan.com/jack.html</a>
> <i>If you have any interest, here is the ass-curing software: Focolizzare.</i><p>How does this compare to other "take a break" programs like xwrits and Workrave?