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How do you stay healthy? | brandonkm: Walk everywhere, excercise, keep track of what you eat, play sports with friends, and pick up a new outdoor activity like rock climbing. |
How do you stay healthy? | silencio: wii! (and by that I mean like wii sports|wii fit|ddr, and for more than like 10-15 minutes a day)I haven't had mine for long but some friends|family keep telling me that I look better than before. I have an elliptical at home and I try to go to the gym often but I don't have any motivation to bore myself to d... |
How do you stay healthy? | LPTS: I don't. :) I like to hike and do yoga, but only because it feels nice to do, not because I care about healthy.I'll live 50 or 60 or 70 or 80 years and die. You'll live 50 or 60 or 70 or 80 and die. Maybe I'll die a little sooner then you. So what? Maybe you'll get hit by a bus and I'll laugh at all your wa... |
How do you stay healthy? | alanf: I've been pretty seriously interested in natural health for a long time. To condense what I've learned into a few of the most important ideas:- Research what a good vitamin is. There's a HUGE spectrum in quality. Expect to pay $1-$2 per day, and take more than one capsule. A good indicator of a high quality ... |
How do you stay healthy? | stillmotion: I workout at home, 6 times a week. |
How do you stay healthy? | noodle: since you're in NYC, i would HIGHLY suggest taking up sport/olympic fencing.its really quite similar to tennis, except it requires less space. NYC is one of the best locations to do it. its both physically and mentally challenging and is competitive enough to suck you in, if you enjoy competing, so that you'l... |
How do you stay healthy? | timr: The Grad School Diet!During the time I spent in grad school, I completely changed my body. Today I weigh about the same amount that I did in high school, I can run for miles, and I have a lot more lean body mass than ever before. But after my undergrad, I was overweight (by about 50 pounds), and something as si... |
How do you stay healthy? | Frocer: Ah... there are tons of things you can do in NYC! Besides the normal gym routines, here are a few things I recommend:- There are excellent bike trails all around Manhattan. You can bike along both East River and the Hudson on the west side, there are also excellent bike trails in Central Park- You can run al... |
How do you stay healthy? | hbien: Nightly visit to the gym. At first it was tough to get into a routine, but it got easier when I started bringing my iPod loaded with podcasts. And of course, the podcasts are usually about hacking with Cocoa, Django, or Rails.Quitting soda helps a lot too. |
How do you stay healthy? | giardini: Cut back on sweets (limited to one oatmeal cookie per day) and work out 2 hours 6 days a week. Nothing else works.Good news:
I'm stronger than ever - on a moment's notice I can help someone move a piano or push a car down the street; I can work all day and not hurt the next, I don't get hurt, and my old back... |
The Secret Sauce of Angel Investment? | LPTS: Your story sounds inspiring. I'm just about to pull in some money from an angel kind of like you are. We are in a very similar boat. My start up in not software related though.In the spirit of helping you to make your business better, I was much less inspired by your name. officezilla? Really? Maybe one pro... |
How do you stay healthy? | snewe: Start going to gym or running or "insert activity here" regularly. One of these things has to be something you like or will like when you get good at it. Personally, I find the gym boring and...vain.It will suck at first, but eventually you will reach a point where you feel guilty not going to the gym or runni... |
How do you stay healthy? | pavelludiq: I play soccer a lot(who came up with this stupid name for football anyway) And basketball and sometimes volleyball, when there is nobody to play with i run, jump, climb and stuff. Its called parkour and if you are careful and concentrated it beats gym and its more fun too, and it requires creativity. I eat ... |
How do you stay healthy? | adr: skateboarding :) |
How do you stay healthy? | tyn: I play soccer. Not only good for health (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20893097/), it's also fun. You have a bigger risk of injury, though, than e.g. jogging. |
How do you stay healthy? | mightybyte: 1. Eat right
2. http://crossfit.com |
How do you stay healthy? | jrockway: Cycling 30 miles a day, and avoiding processed foods. |
How do you stay healthy? | hunterjrj: Find a gym that is on your route home. The days when you skip your workout, you will walk/drive/ride by and feel extremely lazy for not stepping in. |
How do you stay healthy? | coglethorpe: I run. I ran 3 miles this morning.When I'm at my best, I'm eating nearly vegan and I feel great. I also avoid sodas and get lots of sleep.I'm not at my best right now. :-) |
Ask HN:What e-commerce package should I use? | tstegart: I would look into Amazon Webstore as well, just to see if it meets your needs. It is less customizable in terms of changing the code, but it definitely encourages purchases, which Amazon has down pretty good, and you can also probably get a few products that you might not want to stock, and sell them on commi... |
How do you stay healthy? | fortes: I too live in NYC, recently transplanted from Seattle. I coughed up the (not insignificant) cash in order to get a gym and make sure to work out every morning as a start to my day. Do at least 30 minutes of cardio at a good clip (most machines give you numbers, so try to burn 400 calories at least). Lift some w... |
How do you stay healthy? | pistoriusp: I eat food, not much, mostly plants. And for exercise I do offroad cycling. |
How do you stay healthy? | shutter: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly Plants."Throw in regular exercise, and that's how you can maintain a good healthy lifestyle. Don't obsess over it; just learn to enjoy the healthy stuff. There's a lot of great, healthy food that tastes good. I'm not an expert on getting away from an unhealthy lifestyle, but onc... |
How do you stay healthy? | azsromej: I live in Atlanta and have essentially been sedentary since graduation a few years ago (I average 1 or 2 30 minute workouts a week). This isn't enough to keep the creep off.I moved right into the middle of the city so that walking opportunities would be more prevalent and that's helped as a lifestyle change.... |
The Secret Sauce of Angel Investment? | mediageek: Great work. This is a great advice for folks like us who are looking for some heads up. I know its hard, you have proven that with confidence and passion, nothing can stop you from acheiving what you want to |
How do you stay healthy? | Tamerlin: I live in a fairly large city (Seattle), but it's not QUITE like NYC...I walk a fair amount, mainly to and from the bus, and within downtown Seattle when I go to after-work gatherings and events.I also spend a lot of time in the dojo, both as a teacher and as a student. I tend to take advantage of being a tea... |
How do you stay healthy? | noelchurchill: I surf as much as I can. |
Stats/Monitoring Sites you admire | ScottWhigham: We like Clicky. |
Carbon neutrality for a startup? | lux: Another question I didn't include in the original post but is also important: Are the carbon certificate issuers worth trusting? I'd definitely want to do some research on any company I potentially invested money into for something like this.I wonder if there's a site where you can rate or talk about these compani... |
Carbon neutrality for a startup? | coglethorpe: Well, Fast Company magazine just had an article about American Apparel's failed attempt at ethical marketing. That isn't quite the same as "green" marketing, but I think it's parallel. They chose to market a sexy young image with ethics as a subtitle:http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/126/sex-vs-ethics.... |
Stats/Monitoring Sites you admire | alaskamiller: A buddy of mine built this by himself: http://www.statsinsight.com/ |
Carbon neutrality for a startup? | stcredzero: Carbon Neutrality is something systemic. Take any process that is locally "carbon neutral" and you can trace back to some input or prerequisite that involved an emission of carbon dioxide. Right at this moment it's hopeless. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't try. It's millions of small steps that wil... |
I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow night... got any questions? | j2d2: Please ask them to tackle the e-meter from scientology! |
I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow night... got any questions? | stcredzero: Please have them debunk water-for-gas once and for all! And thank them for improving the science-education aspect of their show! It's gotten much better over the past year/year and a half. |
I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow night... got any questions? | einarvollset: Ask them if I can have a job. |
I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow night... got any questions? | jacobbijani: Do girls poop |
I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow night... got any questions? | dmateos: Dead body raft like on Rome. |
I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow night... got any questions? | edw519: Does nickb = pg? |
I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow night... got any questions? | yan: They should set up an experiment where different people pray for the same thing using different prayers (and different faiths) along with a control group of people reading poetry and tally the percentages of people that get results, so we know which prayers are most effective. |
I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow night... got any questions? | jrockway: Ask them for help pluralizing words in your HN submissions ;) |
I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow night... got any questions? | froo: I'm only suggesting this because I'm sure there are others out there that are thinking it.... Can you get me Kari's number? :) |
Carbon neutrality for a startup? | alexwg: A number of venture-backed startups I know use CO2Stats Pro. Take a look: http://www.co2stats.com |
I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow night... got any questions? | vaksel: ask them to find manbearpig |
I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow night... got any questions? | alaskamiller: I remember you! Glad you have an opportunity to make it out here to California! |
How do you stay healthy? | keefe: Time is the limiting factor as I am building my application and working full time. Every morning, I run 1 mile and do 25 pushups. Starting next week I'll repeat that in the evening. I make sure to stretch and do some of the katas I can still remember.I monitor my basic nutrition intake. The only thing that is im... |
I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow night... got any questions? | gunderson: Is the movie JFK2 true?http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=818267521031292324 |
I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow night... got any questions? | ynniv: I would like to see if they can melt steel using an open kerosene fire, but I hear they won't touch that because of the politics. |
I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow night... got any questions? | alex_c: Is there any tech (in the sense that most news.yc readers are used to - software, or computer hardware) that is invaluable to making their show? |
How do you stay healthy? | quickpost: Unicycling (it's an amazing workout). And lifting. |
I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow night... got any questions? | Infosourcer: Is it true that the North Pole won't have any more Ice by the end of 2008???Twitter: Infosourcer |
How to get started with photography? | eznet: Well, I am far from an authority or expert, but really all it takes is getting a half decent camera with a hand full of manual settings, a half decent tripod and start clicking. Click a lot. Luckily with a digital camera and a 2GB memory card, you can click until your finger is sore and all you have spent is t... |
How to get started with photography? | tjr: Read http://photo.net/ Most especially the introductory "textbook" and the product reviews. This will give you a decent foundation of basic terminology and available equipment.I would suggest starting with an SLR camera, even if financing restricts you to getting a film SLR camera. Add a prime lens, possibly 35... |
I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow night... got any questions? | ulvund: Is there any truth to the "Birds mimicking cell phones" stories.Like this one: http://web.archive.org/web/20031005163144/http://www.ananova...This would also be a great opportunity to talk about tits. |
Terminal Literature? | makecheck: Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, it now has a 2nd edition. |
I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow night... got any questions? | ericb: I'd like to know if washing colors in cold water vs. hot really makes a difference. Maybe that's not explode-y enough though... |
Terminal Literature? | msg: I went through Classic Shell Scripting by Arnold Robbins and Nelson HF Beebe (O'Reilly) recently. It was a pretty solid coverage that highlighted portability issues and canonical uses of the shell. I don't know if you'd call it advanced, though. |
How to get started with photography? | uzi: What's your end goal? What do you hope to achieve? For me, I wanted to get to be good before I had kids, so I totally immersed myself for a little while for fun. Now I have a 2 month old little girl and I've backed off, but I'm happy with the photos I'm taking of her.The suggestion of http://photo.net/ is a goo... |
Carbon neutrality for a startup? | rms: There's a big difference between buying carbon credits and actually reducing carbon emissions over time. You need to investigate your carbon credits to see if they actually are reasonable. The best thing for offsetting carbon is running an environmentally friendly tree farm. It's good to cut down the trees because... |
How to fight Javascript memory leaks? | alexk: UPD:http://www.squarefree.com/2006/01/13/memory-leak-detection-t...http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Using_XPCOM_in_JavaScri...http://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance:Leak_Tools |
I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow night... got any questions? | notauser: Can you ask them to watch an episode from the first season, then straight away an episode from the most recent season?I hope that the shock from seeing how much the quality has gone down might prompt them to do something about it. The new ADD friendly format is still better than anything else on television...... |
Idea for privacy-enhanced web apps | djm: I don't really understand your idea, but I do have a few comments:1) I'm skeptical that most corporate users know or care much more about the security of the applications they are using than anyone else. They might take more interest in cases where failure on their part may lead to individual criminal liability ho... |
Idea for privacy-enhanced web apps | tortilla: I like the idea (or at least the direction you're heading).If I understand you correctly:
One reason a lot of companies don't use Basecamp is because they prefer to have the data under their control (regulations, corporate policy, or preferences). So XYZ Mega Corp would pay you a service charge to run it in y... |
Idea for privacy-enhanced web apps | bayareaguy: Isn't this already trivial with EC2? What's the difference between what you're proposing and just signing up for an Amazon account, uploading your certificates and launching an AMI with whatever application you want?Also given that corporate types seem to have no problem with Salesforce.com, I'm not sure t... |
I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow night... got any questions? | BigZaphod: It'd be cool to have a behind-the-scenes style show like I've seen done on Dirty Jobs where you kind of get to know the camera people and sounds folks, etc. that are always behind the camera. |
What do you want in a software PM? | djm: I've never worked as a part of a software project team that had a dedicated "manager", so take this with a big grain of salt. I have worked for good and bad managers though and I have one thing to say:Care about that you do and get stuck in with everyone else.In my experience doing this will solve all of the worri... |
What do you want in a software PM? | gaius: A PM's job is to manage the project. If someone's falling behind, find out why and do what you can. But don't ever make the mistake of thinking that because your title is "manager" that you're in charge. Remember that you need the engineers on-side to fulfill your obligations. Remember that the demand on engine... |
What do you want in a software PM? | pmjordan: Thoughts in no particular order:- Know the limits of your knowledge. This is probably hard. The less of a programmer you are, the harder this will be. The people you're managing probably know more about a lot of the detaily that are part of the project. Try to keep track of who is the expert on what. That's o... |
What do you want in a software PM? | dazzawazza: * a schedule is to measure progress not to dictate progress. When deadlines are missed it is a failure of planning, not engineering.* Deadlines will be missed and don't always expect me to have a clue either. Together we can nearly always work it out and account for it in the future.* don't make me update ... |
What do you want in a software PM? | DavidSJ: Other commenters have said it but it bears repeating: the single most important thing you can do is be honest and straight. Programmers can detect bullshit, and it's about the worst thing possible for morale. |
What do you want in a software PM? | fuckymcfuckfuck: Sexy legs |
What do you want in a software PM? | gruseom: Well, for starters, don't patronize me: most importantly, how many beers is considered fair compensation for pulling a late night to hit a tight deadline?most importantly: don't talk down to me with cutesy phrases.how many beers: don't manage me with a system of rewards like a laboratory rat. And please don't ... |
Importance of Easy Sign up? | sosueme: horrible nameposterior |
Good Sources of Coverage? | gscott: 1. A press release is great, a lot of people pick up on it and it gets indexed heavily by Google. Go to prLeap.com for the best prices.2. Go to adbrite.com and spend $5 a day on a run of network text ad or go into there directory and find sites with about 1000 to 5000 visitors and sign up for the CPM advertisi... |
Importance of Easy Sign up? | colinplamondon: I once read that for every question you add to a form you lose 40% of the people viewing it.Putting it into action- currently working on a web development firm with leads gathered via AdWords, and trying to optimize the deal pipeline. At first there was a "Click to Contact" button that then forwarded to... |
Any list where web developers can find development contests? | antiform: 99 Designs [http://99designs.com/] |
Any list where web developers can find development contests? | rokhayakebe: Daylife.com is running an API contest |
What do you want in a software PM? | mattjung: I expect from a project manager to remove all obstacles from programmers. Programmers should be able to concentrate on producing the right code and not to answer support requests, report individually about progress to sales people, write documentation, worry about testbeds, etc.
Another important point: the p... |
Any list where web developers can find development contests? | JimEngland: The Weatherbug API contest is open to international entries, you should check that one out. The link was on ProgrammableWeb. I think I'm going to code up an entry this weekend after reading this post! |
I want to add SMS to my service, tips/help/advice? | ivey: I've worked with mxtelecom (it was so-so), mblox (better than mxtelecom) and mindmatics (best experience so far). The whole process will be frustrating from the beginning, and it never gets much better. But it's doable, and if your service is compelling, there's a decent amount of money to be made. |
The Secret Sauce of Angel Investment? | clb22: thank you a lot for sharing this! |
What do you think of my first start-up? | aasarava: I think that currently you have a blog, not a startup business. :)That's not to say that a blog can't be a business, but it seems like you have a lot of work yet to do to form some sort of product offering (which could be content) and a business model. |
Press Release Effectiveness? Advice? | pg: When was the last time you were influenced by, or even read, a press release about a newly launched web app? |
Press Release Effectiveness? Advice? | zacharye: As someone who writes for a blog with a relatively large reach, all I can say is do it and circulate it as best you can. You never know who might pick it up and what kind of links may ensue.As to circulating it, a [reputable] PR company is a good bet but hardly free. There are services such as PRNewswire that... |
Press Release Effectiveness? Advice? | aaroneous: If you have something legitimately news-worthy then I've found a press release can be the "in" to getting attention from big blogs you don't have an existing//personal connection with. Check out businesswire and marketwire (especially Marketwire's "Tech Hotspots") to help get your release into the hands of p... |
Press Release Effectiveness? Advice? | froo: Hi Mike,Press releases are also thought to be useful from an SEO perspective if you want to help garner some inbound link juice in that manner. I know of a few SEO guys that utilise the various sites in that fashion (I think they use PRweb, but dont quote me on that).My suggestion is that if you are going to writ... |
How safe are unique URLs as an authentication method? | pg: Google didn't guess your url. So the way you've set up the question also answers it: safe unless you happen to expose a link to one. |
How safe are unique URLs as an authentication method? | icey: Outside of the safety of URLs (which, in my opinion are not terribly secure); you really should set up a robots.txt file, so that you don't have a repeat occurrence of this. |
How safe are unique URLs as an authentication method? | mdasen: They can be made pretty secure for those purposes. Most likely what happened in your case was that one of your clients/coworkers/other posted such a URI in a blog/forum/other that Google spiders. As a rule of thumb, GET requests should never add, destroy, or alter data. Spiders won't* follow POST.Here are my... |
What is the point of Karma Points? | byrneseyeview: The point is to measure your contribution to the community. The perks are just a way to ration certain features. |
what is wrong with asp.net? | jeremytliles: I think hosting cost is the biggest issue, especially if you reach a point where you need to balance load across many servers. There is also the cost ofthe development tools, although I think MS has some programs that allow you to get Visual Studio .NET for free or for minimal cost. Other than that, I thi... |
what is wrong with asp.net? | gaius: Nothing is wrong with ASP.NET if your problem is building websites the same way you build Windows desktop apps.If not however, ASP.NET is simply the wrong tool. |
How does Amazon EC2 compare to shared web hosting? | wmf: Are multiple AMI instances run on the same physical servers?Yes. A physical server is probably 8 cores and 32GB RAM, so an instance is 1/Nth of that.If so, does the load from one customer's server instance negatively effect all of the others on the same hardware?Not much, since CPU and RAM are not oversubscribed. ... |
How important is to invest in DB design from scratch ? | falsestprophet: You are asking all of the wrong questions. Learning a proper web framework is the best way to catch up the the community. I recommend Django (visit djangobook.com and djangoproject.com). |
How does Amazon EC2 compare to shared web hosting? | pskomoroch: 1) yes. 2) no. 3) no. ...there is a minimum guaranteed performance level for each instance type. for small instances (1 core), each user gets a minimum of 1/N of the system resources. If you fire up an extra-large instance, you essentially get the whole box to yourself, including I/O.see: http://docs.am... |
what is wrong with asp.net? | babul: Why use it when you can use good, free, robust/reliable, open-source tools to do the same things? |
How does Amazon EC2 compare to shared web hosting? | geuis: Thanks for the answers folks. My roommate is talking about needing tens of thousands of dollars of servers for a company he's thinking about starting and and my immediate thought was "why?" I just got my first EC2 instance up and running from the terminal in OS X so I'm doing my little happy dance. Thanks for th... |
what is wrong with asp.net? | bdfh42: There is nothing wrong with ASP.NET. The guys at Microsoft who write the developer tools are second to none. The wide availability of excellent books and the choice of languages makes this option well worth considering. The .NET framework itself is great with all the functionality you might want.The downside as... |
what is wrong with asp.net? | bayareaguy: Unless you have a specific partnership or business model in mind that requires it, I'd say ASP.NET's advantages are not sufficient to offset the disadvantage of being coupled to Microsoft's decision process (both business and technical). |
what is wrong with asp.net? | ScottWhigham: Reddit, YCombinator, Digg are all rife with anti-MS folks so, if you follow the idea that, "The world must be like what my experience is" and you only visit those sites (or similar ones), then you would absolutely get the impression that ASP.NET is a bad choice. There are as many if not more "hackers" usi... |
does scarcity lead to better design? | ulf: This is something you have to figure out for yourself. As long as you are very aware of the things the IDE does for you, it does not necessarily end up in worse design. As for the opposite, using only a text-editor will not make your software better automatically. You have to find your own balance. |
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