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What Web apps increase your productivity? | pj: qrimp.com |
How much do you sleep at night? | pj: I go to sleep between 1 to 2AM and get to my computer about 10-10:30AM. But I usually lay in bed for a little while as I regain consciousness. |
What Web apps increase your productivity? | nader: We use compuccino time track in relation with basecamp for all our project / time management. For invoices and quotations it's still words since it's more flexible than any tool out there. |
What makes you adopt an API? | makecheck: In addition to doing what I want, I appreciate APIs that make reasonable attempts at backward compatibility and clearly document their plans for changes (e.g. deprecation); this shows that the API providers respect their developers' investments.I also like canonical/primitive APIs. Functions with side effec... |
How much do you sleep at night? | noss: With spring/summer allergies I get really tired. I wish I could sleep an extra REM period. But I get 7 hours each night.The theory that it is best to wake up during soft-sleeping between REM sleep interests me. As others have mentioned, sleeping too much can make you sleepy all day as well.Anyone got one of those... |
What makes you adopt an API? | mahmud: Deja vu! You asked the same question 11 hours ago?http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=640944Also, what sort of API are we talking about here? I want different things in a compiler backend API (IR) than I do in a GUI toolkit or remote procedure call or a web service.Most important thing in all is portable data r... |
Which tool(s) do you use to install/upgrade your app on production? | jerryji: Mercurial (distributed revision control system) -- $ hg pull ; hg update |
Which tool(s) do you use to install/upgrade your app on production? | lpgauth: Deploy? We use Capistrano which is ok for simple setups, but it gets hairy if you have multiple configurations (staging, production). |
How much do you sleep at night? | der_ketzer: I think it's also important not only how many hours, but when. If you have a daily work, well you must sleep at night. But if you are a Freelancer for example? Do you sleep at 3am? 6am? 10am? |
Which tool(s) do you use to install/upgrade your app on production? | jermy: We use puppet for configuration that varies between systems, but otherwise bundle our software as debian packages so just need to run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' per machine. Separate private repositories for testing/staging/production sets of the packages. |
Which tool(s) do you use to install/upgrade your app on production? | bretthoerner: Fabric: http://docs.fabfile.org/ |
Which tool(s) do you use to install/upgrade your app on production? | Jasber: Lately I've been using Fabric: http://docs.fabfile.org/So far it meets my needs well. The only issue I had was getting my SSH key working, but I was eventually able to iron that out. |
How much do you sleep at night? | JimmyL: Currently unemployed, so like 10. |
What Web apps increase your productivity? | jasonlbaptiste: I started using Evernote. Few reasons I like it and continue to use it:* Can capture whiteboards and make data searchable. Was very useful after brainstorming this weekend.
* Has multiple options for using: Web, Cocoa App, iPhone
* Easy to use for simple things such as todo lists, jotting notes, vo... |
What Web apps increase your productivity? | zaidf: Gmail. When its ajax is not acting up. |
How much do you sleep at night? | godDLL: The IDF foobar'd my sleep forever, or so I thought. When you're in the army the first few months is boot-camp -- they give you exactly six hours a day, that's including the time it takes for you to fall asleep. Teaches you submission or something along these lines.Thing is, I really like sleeping. I love it.... |
What Web apps increase your productivity? | pageman: Heroku/Herokugarden - in terms of teaching my students how to deploy an ecommerce app in less than an hour (actually 31 minutes). This would have taken A LOT MORE TIME if there was no such thing as instant deployment!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0WhxO0W_n4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt0RHqRHyvA
http://w... |
Which tool(s) do you use to install/upgrade your app on production? | petercooper: git push && ssh wherever 'cd /wherever; git pull; [touch or restart something]' |
Which tool(s) do you use to install/upgrade your app on production? | zacharydanger: I use Git in with a detached working copy a la http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto but with a little more flair for schema updates and things like that.So my deployment looks like: git push live |
What Web apps increase your productivity? | middayc: www.qwikitodo.com |
What Web apps increase your productivity? | adrianwaj: Not an app, but buy a larger screen, or add a second if you don't. Keep them at head level. |
Any ideas on a good migration strategy from Visual Source Safe to SVN? | synnik: Are they looking for just the latest version, or do they need history, too? |
What makes you adopt an API? | dannyr: Good documentation.Sample Apps.Client Libraries for popular languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, .Net, etc.) |
What Web apps increase your productivity? | dangrover: ZenDesk is awesome. If I didn't have it, I'd probably have to hire someone to handle support for me. But now I can handle more requests and satisfy more customers than I normally would be able to with just an email account |
Which tool(s) do you use to install/upgrade your app on production? | oakmac: I use git on development machines and have an rsync script to push updates to the server. |
How much do you sleep at night? | tptacek: About 5 hours. I fall asleep at ~2, I get up at 7 to get the kids to school. I sleep in on Saturday and doze Sunday morning until the kids force me to make the weekly pancakes at around 11a. |
How are your eyes? | gtani: For the sake of your other body parts: lower back, neck, wriststake breaks and do little exerciseshttp://www.slifelabs.com/http://www.floydprice.com/2008/08/productivity-tip/http://bc.tech.coop/blog/060131.htmlhttp://www.workrave.org/http://www.lcdf.org/~eddietwo/xwrits/http://cameronyule.com/2008/11/taking-regu... |
Is Bing running on a non-MS stack? | trickjarrett: There's about a 0.01% chance they would use a Linux architecture. If it came out that they didn't trust Windows to run Bing then it would be a big hit to their server market I think.I imagine it's not a standard IIS setup though, so the response header is probably unique due to this. |
How are your eyes? | trickjarrett: I keep eye drops at my desk and usually around 3pm I'll stop and use them, otherwise my contacts get to be super dry and painful. |
How much do you sleep at night? | midnightmonster: 5-6 hours during the night, if the kids are sleeping well. If I have to get up in the night, I often take a 20-45 min nap the next afternoon. Even if no child wakes me up, I virtually never sleep more than 8 hours. |
Which tool(s) do you use to install/upgrade your app on production? | gamache: We don't use source control on our production machines (which I think is crap), so I use an rsync script from my dev machine. Many people just scp the files over every time they make a change. (There was once a tendency by a few folks to directly edit files on production, without ever checking these changes ... |
Is Bing running on a non-MS stack? | kierank: www.bing.com appears to me on Akamai and they are huge linux users so in some sense Bing is not on a MS stack. |
Is Bing running on a non-MS stack? | johns: From an MS employee: http://twitter.com/shanselman/statuses/1951354013 |
How much do you sleep at night? | access_denied: As far as I am informed, the amount of sleep one needs varies from person to person. I am no expert but I did read some stuff about it. Also on the whole there is not done that much research about sleep.I did test it out for myself. Without caffeine-intake my body regulates to a 7,5 hours sleep patern... |
How much do you sleep at night? | yan: "You can't steal time from your sleep schedule, you can only borrow it. Eventually you have to pay it back. With interest. Yes, you have to get XYZ done by yesterday, or... or... Well, something really bad will happen. Take a minute to consider most deadlines you've had. Is the deliverable going to ship the day af... |
Which tool(s) do you use to install/upgrade your app on production? | zacharypinter: I recently setup a Rails app to deploy to EC2 with chef and chef-deploy (http://github.com/ezmobius/chef-deploy).I think chef has a lot of potential. However, I found the learning curve rather high. If you end up using it, you'll definitely want to use a VM with snapshots. |
What Web apps increase your productivity? | Raisin: http://doihavetokickyourbutt.com/
Stops me from zoning out on the web and get back to work. |
How much do you sleep at night? | polos: As much as necessary, and no hour longer.It's not hours that count, but quality. You have to prepare your sleep time, really shutting down as much as possible. |
What Web apps increase your productivity? | brown9-2: Stackoverflow, for two main reasons:1. The obvious reason: for making it easy to find answers to problems I might have.
2. The larger reason: I feel like in browsing and reading thru other people's questions, in areas that I'm interested in, I've learned a TON of new things which I would not have otherwise le... |
Which tool(s) do you use to install/upgrade your app on production? | dedalus: I wrote my own custom python program that pretty much acts like a distributed shell to automate pushes (svn/git,etc)Its pretty close to this: http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/dsh.html.en |
What Web apps increase your productivity? | MonkeyMachine: I've been recently trying out apps to help better synchronize multiple 2 man (developer/artist) teams for casual game development, and this is what we've found so far. (All of these are free, we're not yet big enough to need heavyweight features that are worth paying for, but when the time comes, I'll ha... |
Which tool(s) do you use to install/upgrade your app on production? | cera: capistrano.You should spend time understanding all of the given capistrano recipes before you should start building any of your own since many things are already done for you.I wasn't able to do this without staring at the capistrano code for a significant amount of time, but it was worth the effort IMHO. |
Is Bing running on a non-MS stack? | chanux: But the Kumo (the code name for bing) days were like this ...http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10235400-16.html?part=rss&... |
How much do you sleep at night? | lurkinggrue: Lately, not enough but usually at least 7 hours. |
How much do you sleep at night? | Beanblabber: I get anywhere from 12+ to 5 hours of sleep, depending.I'm 14 and I go to bed when I'm tired. I wake at 7:30 on weekdays for school and sleep for as long as I like on the weekends. The reason for my fluctuation of sleep is that I think most clearly during the night, which is when I get most of my hacking d... |
How are your eyes? | chanux: Not wearing any galsses. Still no problem with eyes. |
What Web apps increase your productivity? | olegp: http://checkvist.com |
How are your eyes? | ScottWhigham: Used to be 20/20 w/ an astigmatism and never needed glasses. After working w/ computers for about 7-8 yrs, I went to the eye doctor to complain about my eyes hurting. Strangely enough I still have 20/20 vision yet, due to eye strain, my eyes have trouble compensating for the "fuzziness" of fonts; the doc ... |
Connecting developers and marketers | noodle: i think a better question is -- how much would you pay and/or what is something like this worth to you? if there's actually a market, i imagine that it would be an interesting concept to try and execute on. |
Connecting developers and marketers | mahmud: Affiliate programs do that. Marketers sign up and get a commission per sale, in return they're allowed to use your advertising creatives and assets. They're given unique referrer IDs which they can use to generate links and they can use those links in social media, website and email campaigns.If your commission... |
Connecting developers and marketers | pclark: Read "Permission Marketing" by Seth Godin, and "Guerilla Marketing" by Jay Conrad Levinson.Similar jist: Basically your marketing is how you interact with your customers. That face time is crazy valuable. |
Connecting developers and marketers | marram: Why don't you hire interns? Or a marketing pro to moonlight in exchange for equity? |
Which tool(s) do you use to install/upgrade your app on production? | __david__: darcs push
which sends patches to the test repo and ssh remote darcs --repo=live pull ../test
which is in a makefile so we can just do: make release
Let me add here that darcs' inherent cherry picking abilities are a wonderful match for web development. Being able to fast track changes to the li... |
Won't Local Newspapers Still Survive? | trickjarrett: Depends on your definition of Local. Most City newspapers are owned by conglomerates, the Orlando Sentinel is part of the Chicago Tribune and as a result is bankrupt. We're all waiting to see what they do but it's not doing well afaik.As for the local newspapers that aren't part of the bigger machines, ye... |
Won't Local Newspapers Still Survive? | noodle: hyperlocal newspapers will always do well, but that is because the bar is effectively lower for them. where i grew up, the local newspaper was run by one person, and it wasn't their only job because the profits couldn't sustain them. content was always coming in and was a self-sustaining cycle -- stories abou... |
Connecting developers and marketers | TallGuyShort: If you're wanting a marketing version of rent-a-coder, I think that's a great idea. I've never heard of one myself, but I have several friends who are talented artists, etc.., but just don't have the where-with-all to get a decent job marketing. They would totally go for a freelance network if there was o... |
What Web apps increase your productivity? | Ripst: google calendar and notepub.com for web clips, bookmarking, todos, and general note taking. |
What Web apps increase your productivity? | silentbicycle: BookBurro (http://www.bookburro.org/). |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | gaius: Your point 2 is far from ridiculous. We do it that way so the business logic exists and is enforced in one place rather than being scattered around this desktop app and that website and so on. Only the most trivial applications can afford to put all their business logic in the middle tier.Also I'm not allowed to... |
Won't Local Newspapers Still Survive? | knieveltech: Local dailies that run a combination of world, national, state, and local news are hosed. That segment of the industry is in a tailspin. Ad revenue slips, then a round of layoffs to try to cap costs. Fewer people means fewer articles, shoddy reporting, or both. Quality of the paper declines. Ad revenue sli... |
Inheritance? | gaius: The effect is this: it looks like real work but doesn't require you to hit compile and run the app and find that it doesn't work. It's the same with refactoring. People love doing it because you seem busy but don't have to take the risk of revealing (if only to yourself) that your code doesn't do what you think ... |
Connecting developers and marketers | DenisM: The success of a startup consists of two parts - finding product/market fit, and developing the product. Steven Blank claims that for a wide class of web/computer technology startups the former is the ultimate risk item and deserves the most focus of the management (that's you). Hardly any technology startup fa... |
Inheritance? | makecheck: It seems natural to overdo a new tool until you've found its best uses.But I think the only drug is perfectionism, and it applies to anything reasonably complicated. The cure is brutal honesty. How much will you really be able to reuse in a sophisticated design? (Not much.) How likely is it to change? (... |
Where should I sell my good short (5-char) domains? | ScottWhigham: Other than those, I'm not sure what else you can do beyond (a) generating traffic to the domain, and (b) putting a FOR SALE sign up. |
Inheritance? | ScottWhigham: Yeah, I hear ya. I think everyone has that to a certain degree. Once I heard of YAGNI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Ain%27t_Gonna_Need_It), I was able to let go and just code more efficiently. |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | stewiecat: We're limited to what we can do/use by the technical depth/breadth of the 'architects' (mid-level devs at best) that we have. Pretty much limits us to java 1.4 and earlier and libs that have been open source for at least a decade.I'd written some script in ruby to help us automate some maven grunt work and ... |
Any ideas on a good migration strategy from Visual Source Safe to SVN? | ScottWhigham: Google's got tons of hits on this exact search term. I found this: http://www.poweradmin.com/sourcecode/vssmigrate.aspxInteresting and worth checking out? |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | rdj: The last two points seem to be pointed towards architecture decisions, not necessarily coding practices. I see coding practices more as language selection, indentation styles, the forced use of asserts or null checks, etc. ... Things that say how you write, manage or release code.As for the very last point, maybe ... |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | intheory0: Our HTML dev team builds the HTML/CSS so that we can complete our UI specs, then when we hand off the final HTML/CSS and UI spec to our big money development team, they rebuild it from PSDs. They use the same CSS structure framework, so there's no good reason, but we basically pay for the same work twice. If... |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | bradford: We worked on a web application. The web-code (asp) and business layer (vb) were under source control. We used visual source-safe, which was ridiculous enough (though not my main gripe).My main gripe is that while those two parts of the project were under source control, the database definition was not. So,... |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | abyssknight: Our entire system was written in ColdFusion. I was asked to add a feature. That feature was to be embedded in the ColdFusion system within the nested includes and infinite scope of tag mush.It had to be written in PHP. Why? Because we were moving to PHP.So I wrote it in ColdFusion and used PHP REST webserv... |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | stuff4ben: I remember a couple jobs ago, back in 2004 we were stuck using JDK 1.1.8 because the IDE we used didn't support anything better, like 1.4.2. The IDE was MS Visual J++ so you can imagine my pain. |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | frankus: Does a ridiculous lack of any coding standards whatsoever count? |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | xama: All business logic placed within stored procedures that others can modify.All main application development by the technical director and no-one else. |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | MrFoof: We were explicitly barred from using tools that were not published by Microsoft. Even if Microsoft didn't make a tool to solve the problem. Instead, we were encouraged to create our own, on our own time, outside of regular business hours.The same place barred the use of code generators, the use of snippet mac... |
Where should I sell my good short (5-char) domains? | ujjwalg: http://www.igoldrush.com/sell.htm |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | swolchok: Extensive use of Hungarian Notation ("i" before integers, "sz" before C-strings, and the kicker: "ob" before objects).No use of STL, using a hand-rolled dynamic array instead that grew by a constant size instead of doubling.Extensive amounts of application logic written right in the GUI builder's generated ev... |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | daleharvey: I was once banned from using ternary operators, that was weird |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | jcromartie: I've been discouraged from putting code in reusable modules because it would mean one central location for everything to break. The rationale was that if every routine was copied and pasted where it was needed then introducing an error in one place would not affect other places.I am leaving a company that ... |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | joshu: I once had a boss that forbade regular expressions, including split().The task was parsing datasets in a variety of formats (one per vendor, hundreds of vendors.)The only acceptable way was substr. Everything else causes "memory fragmentation," apparently.The language was Perl. |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | hoyhoy: I was paid over six-figures to share a computer with another programmer all day long even though studies have shown that to halve productivity. |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | Dilpil: Rumor has it theres a coding standards manual floating around at IBM that forbids the use of pointers. In c++. Yes indeed. |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | sarvesh: I was told not to use constants on the left hand side of an expression e.g., if("hello"==strVar) and was made to change it throughout my code. Needless to say I quit after making that change. |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | edw519: Promote code that's indented 3 spaces instead of 2: rejected by QA.Promote code that deletes the entire production Customer Database if the user hits "Esc" on Form 11 by accident: no problem. Unless it's indented 3 spaces instead of 2. Then it's rejected. |
What's the best IRC client for a Mac? | cpr: Not that I've found... |
What's the best IRC client for a Mac? | evdawg: I really like XChat Aqua (http://xchataqua.sourceforge.net/). It's not really being maintained anymore, but don't let the low version number scare you. It has never crashed on me once. I like it because I was so used to XChat on Linux, it provides me with a familiar interface.If you're hardcore, try MacIrssi (h... |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | stcredzero: I actually once worked for a large insurance software company. They had a desktop workstation application that was entirely written in C. It consisted of about 2000 DLLs, which were used to get a kind of primitive polymorphism. Most of the money came from "customizing" the app for clients, and most of th... |
Please review Utilium.com – a web app for sharing learning materials | joepestro: 1. Awesome visual design2. I really like the screenshots and large sign up button. They're all the same screenshot, though, so I can't get a better idea of what is inside.3. I'm not the target audience since I'm not a professor. I wish there was a video or more screenshots so that I could see all your work b... |
Please review Utilium.com – a web app for sharing learning materials | kalid: Just took a look as I'm very interested in education. Clean design, but the purpose was unclear.* Screenshots too zoomed out to be useful. Looks like some type of list, but of what?* List concrete examples of what the site does. "Organize and share learning materials" --> I can do that on del.icio.us right now. ... |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | kentf: Version control done wrong:Version was code written onto a CD-RControl was a person who got a full 60K Salary for monitoring a room with a bunch of file folders with different versions of the software. When you made a commit you burned a new CD and brought to Tim on the 5th Floor.You can't make this stuff up. |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | larrykubin: Excel spreadsheet for version control |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | forinti: Our company spent US$50K on an Oracle database and my boss forbade me from using triggers, because he wanted the application to be database independent. Never mind that we used Oracle syntax in our queries. |
What's the best IRC client for a Mac? | johng: BitchX |
Please review Utilium.com – a web app for sharing learning materials | Xichekolas: Blue text makes me want to click it. The three blue headings next to your screenshot and the 'adopt' and 'author' list items under "two ways to use utilium" specifically feel like they should be clickable to me.Make them link to a more detailed explanation of why this is more engaging, why it'll cost less, ... |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | holograham: 80 characters per line limit....ridiculous when we live in the age of cheap widescreen monitors. |
Please review Utilium.com – a web app for sharing learning materials | hypermatt: Looks interesting idea, after reading your FAQ I still didn't quite get everything your doing. Maybe a video demo or link to some content on the homepage. |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | viggity: I worked at a place that for the most part banned vowels from database column names.I hope you feel better knowing that you probably bank there ;) |
What Web apps increase your productivity? | rjurney: This is kinda lame, but I use it regularly because I cannot remember regular expression syntax: http://www.addedbytes.com/download/regular-expressions-cheat...The perl regex cheetsheet. |
What's the best IRC client for a Mac? | pclark: irssi |
What's the best IRC client for a Mac? | qhoxie: What is it you do not like about Colloquy? That will probably lead to better answers to your question. |
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