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What do you eat? | Aron: I just bought chicken for 2$ per pound, while the bulk granola was 4.45$ per pound. I'm thinking they don't feed the chickens bulk granola. |
What apps are essential for mac? | ronnieliew: This post might be useful:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/110065/must-have-tools-fo...It listed all the userful tools that would be relevant to a programmer. |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | RiderOfGiraffes: I felt like that until I was 19. I joined Mensa, and found people who loved puzzles, knowledge, intelligence and discussion.When I moved town and did my PhD I found the local Mensans complete prats, but the university gave me the stimulation I needed.You need to find people with whom you can be yourse... |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | bayareaguy: Perhaps you should check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperHappyDevHouse ?If you don't live near one you could help start one in your area. |
What apps are essential for mac? | papa: Lots of excellent pointers from others...I'll add a few I haven't seen posted:- InstantShot: nice little screenshot utility (I use it daily)- VueScan: swiss-army knife of mac scanning apps if you need to hook up a scanner. Costs a little, but you get lifetime upgrades. Well worth it.- LittleSnitch: network monito... |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | phugoid: You're complaining about having two sets of friends? I think I'd settle for one.But I won't dumb down. |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | jacoblyles: You sound like a socially-uncalibrated egotistical person who blames his short-comings on other people.I don't really see what the problem is with "switching modes" depending on who you're talking to. Everybody does it. It's natural. You don't want to be the guy that yaps about the research project he's doi... |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | DanielBMarkham: People are social animals. I think as analytical people we forget this aspect of our humanity a lot.So you need to feed that social part of yourself without doing, time-consuming and mostly pointless things, like getting drunk with the guys and watching naked women dance. If you dig naked women dancing,... |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | dazzawazza: We are all different people in different social circles. This is just how successful humans operate. You don't behave the same way over dinner with your parents as you are over dinner with your friends.It seems to me you have unrealistic expectations. As you grow older you gain many different social circles... |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | ellyagg: My friend, you sound like my clone. I haven't really figured it out. We may just be doomed. |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | anshul: > So when I hear people confidently repeat urban myths like "we only use 10% of our brains", or "you'll drown if you don't eat an hour before swimming" etc, I don't bother trying to explain why I think they're wrong.Why would you do a thing like that? I just go to extraordinary lengths to do the exact opposite... |
What apps are essential for mac? | coderholic: There is a good list of free (as in beer) Mac apps at http://www.freeapps.co.uk/mac |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | edw519: You may not like my answer, but you asked, so here goes:I think the only problem is with your attitude. Like ilitirit, I hate the expression, "dumbing down". I am probably similar in nature to you, and I have never had this problem, much less even thought about it.At the bookstore over coffee, my SO reads abo... |
What apps are essential for mac? | lmoorman: 1password. A must that makes your life much easier. |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | eugenejen: I just think it is more important to be authenticate with myself and people who knows me.I do not to dumb myself down if I am really smart. And I know there are chances that someone is smarter than I am or learned more domain knowledge than I have. I need to be modest but I need to hold my own ground. Otherw... |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | durana: I think you're looking at this problem in the wrong way. Apply some of that intelligence of yours and try to figure out why you have to "dumb yourself down" to have a good relationship with your friends.Conversation is a real skill. Communicating your ideas in terms that someone else can really understand and... |
What apps are essential for mac? | hboon: * OmniFocus
* CSSEdit |
What apps are essential for mac? | chris24: Here are some of my favs:1) Quicksilver. (free) http://blacktree.com/?quicksilver2) VLC Media Player. (free) It plays pretty much every type of video file. http://videolan.org/vlc3) Skitch. (free) Essential for quick screenshots, and quick annotations of screenshots. http://plasq.com/skitch4) Tweetie. (free - ... |
What apps are essential for mac? | zimbabwe: I'm going to be a fuddy-duddy and say: most of these apps are not essential for the Mac. Lots of them are nice, but you can skip them entirely when you're just getting started.Here are the ones I consider absolute essentials for my daily work:MegaZoomer - http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html - lets you ful... |
What apps are essential for mac? | davi: (not free, but cheap)taskpaper http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/taskpaperscrivener http://www.literatureandlatte.com/trial.htmlcurio + small pen tablet http://www.zengobi.com/products/curio/, http://www.wacom.com/bambootablet/bamboofun.php |
What apps are essential for mac? | quizbiz: What about... games? :P |
Using personal code at work | corewarrior: You need to check any contract you might be under with the University. If your code was developed on university time with university resources it probably doesn't belong to you! If you open source personal code then add it to the University code base you may be creating a problem if the code will ever be s... |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | helium: Don't dumb yourself down. People will sense that you are not being yourself and you will be miserable anyway. I have made the same mistake myself in past and I have realised that often times people that you consider less 'intellectual' are capable of very stimulating conversation if given the right subject to t... |
What apps are essential for mac? | juliend2: I just reinstalled my mac today.
Here is what i installed so far :1-quicksilver2-iTerm (terminal. with tabs)3-Photoshop CS3 (cs4 is slow on my macbook)4-Transmit5-DropBox client6-Textmate7-Git8-The Hit List (best osx app for lists)9-LimeChat (irc client) |
start on my own or negotiate with the employer? | makecheck: Leaving the company to work on a competing product will sometimes violate any agreements you may have signed for this employer, so check those first.Usually the barrier to doing a parallel rewrite is staffing. If the company barely has enough people now, sending people off on something else needs (in the ma... |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | DenisM: It's funny how a simple "I find most people intellectually boring, what to do?" got a lot of highly up-voted "get off of your high horse, smarty-pants" replies. I suppose the first lesson here is not to let people know you think lowly of them. Otherwise they get angry and stuff, silly bipedals.You would have ha... |
start on my own or negotiate with the employer? | swombat: Starting a closely related competing product is not something that can be reasonably considered ethical. Many contracts prevent you from doing that. Just because you're not in such a contract, doesn't make it right, though. I would suggest talking to your employer and remaining on good terms whether or not you... |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | xenophanes: There do exist groups of people who like being corrected, and seek out their own mistakes. e.g. critical rationalists (see the philosophy of Karl Popper).if interested, email me (see profile). |
What apps are essential for mac? | JoshRosen: Gitx is a native OS X GUI for git. It comes with a nice command line tool, gitx, that works like gitk. http://gitx.frim.nl/ |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | cromulent: I believe that I can relate. I have a deep interest in various permanent and ephemeral topics that I simply have no idea who I would discuss them with. I am far more interested in these than most front pages of the newspaper, but the wonderful people who are my friends wouldn't sit still for the hour or so i... |
start on my own or negotiate with the employer? | russell: Dont start working on a competing product while still at your current employer. You probably have an employment contract that gives them the right to your work. (This is different from working on something totally unrelated.)How you approach your employer depends greatly on the corporate culture and your imm... |
What apps are essential for mac? | sreitshamer: Nambu Twitter client. I like it much more than Tweetdeck. |
What apps are essential for mac? | makecheck: Some of the things I use:- DragThing; you will never miss Apple's Dock, this is an absolutely essential desktop enhancement, e.g. to create multiple tabbed docks anywhere you want, with themes.- OmniWeb (now free); I've tried many web browsers, and I like this best. Safari engine.- MacTelnet (tabbed termina... |
What apps are essential for mac? | travisjeffery: Editors: MacVim, Emacs.app (build from source `./configure --with-ns` -- f Aquamacs and last resort TextMateTorrent: uTorrentRSS: NetNewsWirePDF, Document Reader: Skim |
start on my own or negotiate with the employer? | HeroJr: Violating your non-compete will at least damage your professional reputation and at most get you sued.If you are passionate about the product and industry you should recognize the awesome opportunity your employer is giving you even if you are unhappy with the progress.Hone your skills on refactoring code and d... |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | csomar: This is happening with me also. I'm a hacker (ok a developers) and my friends don't understand really what the web is, so I turn to spend 98% of my time in front of computer and avoid to go with them anywhere because their talk makes me headaches.However (few months ago) I did found a friend that really underst... |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | pj: Your predicament is more common than you may think. There's a book called "Pretending to be Normal" it's about an aspie. You may not be an aspie, but a lot of what the author goes through and her behaviors could be lessons for you.http://www.amazon.com/Pretending-Be-Normal-Aspergers-Syndrom... |
start on my own or negotiate with the employer? | csomar: I would start my own! You have said "but I’m sure, if done properly, it would become a hit" if so, clients will go hundred by hundred.But do you have sufficient funds? do you have time? Make a good study of your project (the case you build a company) and what are the problems you might encounter.Making your own... |
What apps are essential for mac? | pWneD: 1. Quicksilver - There are already explanations on this and I don't like Spotlight that much.2. MacPorts - If you are a developer or you're just an open-source lover, this is a must have app for you. It has 5811 open-source programs ready to install, easy and... open-source! ( which is good... )3. TexMate - My e... |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | ChrisXYZ: My first thought upon reading your problem was, "I have friends who are smart and fun. Why doesn't he get some of those?"It almost sounds like you have two very black and white social circles: dry, boring 'smart' friends, and shallow, ignorant 'fun' friends. Maybe you are too picky and elitist, I can't say,... |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | c00p3r: There are several kinds of human-human relations in which dumbing yourself down are good thing. For example, in employee-employer relationship employee usually act dumber than his boss. Many women 'playing dumb' when it seems useful for them, especially when a man pays, and most of sales people doing this all t... |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | ilitirit: FWIW, after reading the 40 or so comments posted so far, here are some of my thoughts, observations and things I've learned after submitting the original post (in no particular order):1. Either there are very few people on HN who can relate to this "problem" (when I put something in quotes, it sometimes mean... |
What apps are essential for mac? | zackattack: Cyberduck for FTP.
Colloquy for IRC.
VLC for video.
Growl for notifications. |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | IsaacSchlueter: Be the person you wish you were. Anyone who doesn't like it is not a friend you need. It is absolutely possible to have a very active social life and also have intellectually stimulating friends.I have long tried to make a point to never dumb myself down for the sake of others. The people it scares a... |
start on my own or negotiate with the employer? | akamaka: Fear of violating contracts isn't a valid reason for not pursuing great ideas. This is what Silicon Valley was built on. If you have investor backing, you'll have help in handling the legal issues.A much better reason to try to sell your idea within the company is the fantastic support you'll have. You're s... |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | Notorious_PWN: Around women: No, but I should, because even smart women find intelligence above IQ 130 to be sexually unattractive.Around men: No, I don't care enough to do so, but I don't make a point of being smart either.Regarding urban myths like "You only use 10% of your brain", everyone has heard those and believ... |
start on my own or negotiate with the employer? | pedalpete: Seems you have a few competing opinions here, but I think there are a few key themes that you need to consider
1) Ethical
2) Legal
3) Financial
4) Processes
5) I'm sure their are othersFrom the sounds of the sounds of things, your boss is still in development. Has the product you have been working on been re... |
What apps are essential for mac? | elidourado: Everyone is linking to Quicksilver. I am a former Quicksilver user, but I find it unbearably slow and bloated. Instead, I use Google Quick Search box, which does most of what Quicksilver does with much less bloat.http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/ |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | adrianwaj: The problem is you need to find even smarter people than the smart ones you mentioned, ideally geniuses who only hope they can meet smart and socially able people like yourself. In the end everyone has different levels of intelligence in different areas.As for the engineering dance, I don't do it. If someone... |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | phil_collins: nerd alert |
What Web frameworks exist around Python? | tialys: I'm not really a Python guy (I love my Ruby/Rails...) but I've heard good things about Pylons. http://pylonshq.com/ |
What Web frameworks exist around Python? | coconutrandom: http://webpy.org/ import web
urls = (
'/(.*)', 'hello'
)
app = web.application(urls, globals())
class hello:
def GET(self, name):
if not name:
name = 'world'
return 'Hello, ' + name + '!'
if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run() |
What Web frameworks exist around Python? | mcantelon: Juno is a minimalist, Sinatra-like framework: http://wiki.github.com/breily/juno |
What apps are essential for mac? | hbien: Terminal.app + Visor is a great combination for me since I use the command line so much. |
What Web frameworks exist around Python? | spooneybarger: don't forget the grandaddy of python frameworks: http://www.zope.org/ |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | oz: http://www.iwillnotdie.com/why-people-dont-like-smart-people... |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | adrianwaj: Okay - check this room out: http://hackernews.speeqe.com/It's for people that feel they're in the same predicament as ilitrit...or anyone here for that matter. |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | radu_floricica: Been there. But I find I haven't felt that particular need for quite a while. I guess what helped is that in the last year I started to read a lot. I made a "never look at the price" policy when it comes to books, and used amazon to the max. I still have a backlog of 2-3 books, and usually one in the ma... |
What apps are essential for mac? | teilo: Controllermate (http://www.orderedbytes.com/controllermate/) - This is an outstanding program that allows you to customize almost any USB keyboard / mouse / controller / joystick to do exactly what you want, with a very clever and powerful graphical scripting environment. I have a Logitech Dual Action (with NO L... |
What Web frameworks exist around Python? | emmett: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=python+web+frameworks&l=1 |
What Web frameworks exist around Python? | vthakr: So here (http://fewagainstmany.com/blog/python-micro-frameworks-are-a...) is a post that lists some micro-frameworks for Python, such as web.py. Many of them are similar to Sinatra for Ruby (if you are familiar with that framework) and basically allow you to create very simple web applications in a single file ... |
What Web frameworks exist around Python? | plaes: Werkzeug - the anti-framework. It is more like a library and that's good as it allows you do things the way you like...http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/ |
Building a simple utility site to build pre-launch traffic? | dugmartin: Clickable links:http://www.htpasswdmaker.com/http://passwordchart.com/ |
What apps are essential for mac? | soundsop: macports (http://www.macports.org) for installing unix utilities that are not already included in OS X. |
What Web frameworks exist around Python? | koenbok: I like webob a lot: http://pythonpaste.org/webob/Also more a library then a framework. |
What Web frameworks exist around Python? | buster: Easy to use, one-file thingie: http://wiki.github.com/breily/junoCan do everything thingie: http://www.twistedmatrix.com |
start on my own or negotiate with the employer? | Paul_Johnson: First, read "Things You Should Never Do" by Joel Spolsky (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html) to understand why the suggestion "lets rewrite this from scratch" might not be well received.Second, I think that your employer is ethically entitled to first refusal on any ideas you come ... |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | ConcreteBeton: You sound like you're torn between Niles & Frasier Crane and the cast of Friends!FWIW, I have a LOT of different interests, and I get really cheesed off by one group of nerdy friends who are anxious to put down anything popular but am similarly frustrated by normal people who won't branch out of their co... |
What apps are essential for mac? | philwelch: If your file system ever gets corrupted, DiskWarrior.DiskWarrior will reliably maintain and rebuild your FS. It will work when fsck fails and is better than the other paid alternatives. It looks like (and is) a Mac OS 9 port, but it's the same filesystem so no worries.If your filesystem is ever, ever fucked,... |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | tokenadult: As Richard Rusczyk says, "If ever you are by far the best, or the most interested, student in a classroom, then you should find another classroom."http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Resources/AoPS_R_A_Calcul...That generalizes to how to live in adult life. Seek out the smartest people you can find, and spen... |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | pixpox3: Re: The engineering dance thing.I find that technical people, developers/hackers etc. can often be incredibly annoying when they do this. Many also have a tendency to call other developers idiots or constantly talk about their skills. It's really not a great way to make people think highly of you, either profe... |
What Web frameworks exist around Python? | aheilbut: cherrypy http://www.cherrypy.org/ keeps things simple |
What Web frameworks exist around Python? | russell: The reason that there are so many frameworks is that writing one used to be a rite of passage for Python programmers. It was so easy to write your own.FWIW Guido settled on Django. I dont know if he has changed his mind since. |
What Web frameworks exist around Python? | simanyay: You may find interesting a web frameworks discussion started by Guido: http://www.artima.com/forums/threaded.jsp?forum=106&thre...At work we use Django and somewhat happy with it. In past I used to use web.py and I liked it. |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | sachmanb: look into "INTP" personality type if you haven't already.the way i see it is that between people, we want to communicate ideas. in order to communicate we have to meet at a shared context, and shared semiotics. the way i'm writing this is not how i would talk to someone at work. the way i talk at work is n... |
The HN karma paradox | ttam: HN and most karma-based forums follow the bandwagon effect. The exception is probably slashdot, due to it's different way of power assignment and levels of voting |
What Web frameworks exist around Python? | JereCoh: Pylons is awesome. |
What Web frameworks exist around Python? | rabidsnail: Web.py is great for small projects.web2py is the new up-and-comer.zope is the grey-bearded veteran that nobody uses anymore.twisted is more of a networking framework but people sometimes use it for web apps. |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | mooneater: A few years ago, I discovered there actually are circles that are truly both very smart, and totally cool.For example in Toronto, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SumkidzPreviously I thought this was impossible, and I was didnt even dare hope to find it.But, Im no longer in TO, and yes, its hard once again t... |
How do I customize code coloring in emacs? | travisjeffery: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=django+emacsTo change the color of a specific face in emacs, go to the face and do M-x set-face-foreground Return and put the color you want. |
How do I customize code coloring in emacs? | realrbman: Emacs Django mode http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Emacs |
How do I customize code coloring in emacs? | spydez: Download color-theme. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?ColorThemeChoose one of the included themes that you like the most, and start customizing.Personally, I like zenburn. http://www.brockman.se/software/zenburn/zenburn.el But that might be a bit heavy to start off with.Or, the shortcut way, define some s... |
What apps are essential for mac? | joechung: Stuffit Expander. |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | joechung: Do you have a girlfriend? |
What apps are essential for mac? | ivankirigin: I actively use firefox (and camino + safari to have multiple sessions for the same site), iWork, tweetdeck, birdshot, itunes, last.fm, VLC, uTorrent, Quicktime pro, snaps x pro, skype, textmate, parallels (though switching to VMware), RescueTime, DropBox, and QuickBooks.About 40% are paid apps. |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | rogojin: You must be very smart. Wish I Was You. |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | lastps: Intelligence is a commodity and is often over-rated. For example, I think energy/focus is more important.Everyone has something valuable to give whether they are smart or not. More relevant is "Do I like this person?"A focus on intelligence rather than "do i like them" seems like you are rigging the game in f... |
What apps are essential for mac? | scottymac: Some stuff I use that I didn't see mentioned:MenuMeters: http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/Hyperspaces: http://hyperspacesapp.com/Yojimbo: http://barebones.com/products/yojimbo/Leap: http://www.ironicsoftware.com/leap/ |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | kgc: I dumb myself down occasionally when I realize I'm making the person I'm talking to feel bad.I used to just keep on educating/making corrections for people until I realized that the primary purpose of socializing in the majority of cases isn't necessarily for communication, but for camaraderie.Now, instead of goin... |
start on my own or negotiate with the employer? | esdaniel: Life's too short (time our most precious commodity) so you have to evaluate what makes sense in terms of what you are prepared to live with and look back on - if it's been your ambition to launch a software product then this could be the perfect time, here's a few soundbites to help you think this through:Rul... |
Ask HN:Help, Looking for Rental house in SV | falsestprophet: Craig Newmark set up a list for questions like this.craigslist.org |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | mingyeow: I got over it at the age of 25. Bloody hard transition. Pick new friends. If you are in SF, lets do beer!http://v3.mingyeow.com/?page_id=5 |
What apps are essential for mac? | pstinnett: Just adding in LittleSnapper for keeping screenshots of sites / designs I like and also Wallet for keeping track of my passwords. |
How do I customize code coloring in emacs? | capablanca: instead of using a hack like highlight-regexp, perhaps it'd be better to place a bug or hack the mode itself :) |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | dionidium: One way to look at it is that you'll inevitably dumb yourself down in front of someone you haven't yet realized is actually smart. So it seems you have a choice between 1) frequently appearing pompous or out-of-place but occasionally identifying yourself as smart to other smart people, which is likely a desi... |
What apps are essential for mac? | rw: gcc (not installed by default) |
What Web frameworks exist around Python? | iamelgringo: Straight up WSGI: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/09/27/introducing-wsgi-pythons...Django, Pylons, Cherry.py, Turbogears, web.py, Zope, Plone (more of a CMS than a framework, though), Juno, itty, djng, mnml, itty, newf...I'm sure there's others that I forgot. |
What apps are essential for mac? | tommy_chheng: Textmate - Best text editor hands down.
Cyberduck - FTP client. |
What apps are essential for mac? | cericsmith: I just went through the same thing.Follow me on twitter as I explore the world of OSX and my adventures with all things "Hackintosh": @cericsmithHere's my list:1Password -- Perhaps the greatest piece of Mac OSX software. You must try to believe it. Password storage/sync/creation/ID management at its fine... |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | lallysingh: Find people smart in things you know little about. I had years of fun with a group deep in political theory. Then I left school and now I have to find a new group.But, there's a large percentage of people who just aren't intellectually motivated. Which is fine: family, friends, and/or fun are all equally... |
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