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Emotion hacks? How do you work despite crummy love/life things going on? | matthardcastle: I keep work and my personal life very much separate. Not just when I'm having a hard time in my personal life but also when it's going good. This lets work almost be a sanctuary. When I'm there nothing matter but getting the job done.It's not easy, but if you are able to develop that separation you c... |
Emotion hacks? How do you work despite crummy love/life things going on? | wenbert: For me, I would run to friends and family. I am a Catholic (like most Filipinos are) so if all hell breaks loose, I pray. ;-)My dad died a few years ago, right about the time I was starting to hack things myself. Personally, what got me through was friends, family and religion. Just sayin'... |
What's the Browser Distribution for your site? | franksvalli: wwiaircombat.com (WWI flight sims) (June 18-July 18, 2009)
Firefox: 45.89%
IE (overall): 41.99%
IE 8: 45.64%
IE 7: 37.78%
IE 6: 16.54%
Opera: 5.38%
Chrome: 3.51%
Safari: 2.81%The large percentage dedicated to Opera is likely due to the fact that my site's been covering a WWI Flight sim developed in Russia,... |
What's the Browser Distribution for your site? | wenbert: I run a small web development blog. Most are using Firefox. |
What service do you use for personal file backup? | ballen: Jungledisk for my laptop, Duplicity -> Amazon S3 for servers. |
Does the website design matter? | jonny_noog: Others have mentioned that there are different definitions of what "design" means, but I will assume you're talking primarily about visual/graphic design more so than the other ways the word is used.As designers/developers or creative people in general, it's natural to think of our creations as art, they ar... |
Emotion hacks? How do you work despite crummy love/life things going on? | danielrhodes: Having a routine/schedule/structure in your life should help with mitigating such issues. Obviously you're not going to be at 100%, but setting up your life so it isn't a house of cards is very important. |
What's the Browser Distribution for your site? | sah: http://codepad.org/ Firefox 55.28%
IE 17.05%
7.0 38.08%
6.0 34.21%
8.0 27.77%
Chrome 7.51%
Safari 7.46%
Opera 5.53%
Mozilla 5.34%
Konqueror 0.95% |
Emotion hacks? How do you work despite crummy love/life things going on? | zimbabwe: I blogged. I had a pretty big readership (three hundred or so followers on Tumblr, not sure how many followed on RSS), and I wrote a lot about how I felt and what I was going through.The conversations I had with my readers led to a lot of self-growth and peace. I grew up a lot writing about the experience. Th... |
Code Generators | arebop: I think compilers exist largely to relieve humans of the tedium and difficulty of dealing with the target language. Accordingly, I'm more likely to look for a better compiler or a more flexible metaprogramming language or approach than to seek/invent a source code generation program. |
What's the Browser Distribution for your site? | sstrudeau: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com 6/2009 - 4.3m visits / 2.3m uniques
Firefox 42.52%
IE 33.59%
Safari 19.44%
Chrome 3.07%
All others under 1% each |
What service do you use for personal file backup? | rgrove: CrashPlan. I've got it backing up all my machines to a Drobo on my LAN as well as remotely to CrashPlan's servers, encrypted before it crosses the wire, and it costs me $5 a month. Been using it for years and have done several very large restores and it's worked like a charm. |
Emotion hacks? How do you work despite crummy love/life things going on? | b-man: Did you ever tried meditation (I recommend zen style sitting, aka zazen)?There is some nice, simple and to the point books about it, and for me it is something that really helps with concentration, sadness and focus.list of good bookshttp://www.amazon.com/Zen-Training-Philosophy-Shambhala-Clas...http://www.amazo... |
Emotion hacks? How do you work despite crummy love/life things going on? | gcv: Take up a (slightly) risky sport. I was getting into rock climbing a few years ago (gave up for logistical reasons), and I can just about guarantee that when you're on a route, with your forearms burning and no obvious next move, that your troubles fade into insignificance. |
Code Generators | bockris: About 4 years ago I was assigned to an internal project that was to provide a GUI CRUD interface in VB.Net to replace one written in curses on Linux. There were 50-75 attributes for the main entity plus multiple hierachical subsets of sub-entities. It was a mess. The business user specified a complex GUI th... |
What service do you use for personal file backup? | mjh: rsync.net has been fantastic over the years, I use them and several of my clients do as well. No first level support, straight to an engineer. Plus discounts for open source projects, students, etc.In addition to their own backup agent; they support rsync, scp, sftp, ftp, rdiff-backup, Unison, duplicity, svn+ssh, ... |
Emotion hacks? How do you work despite crummy love/life things going on? | rickdangerous1: Depending on the severity of what you're dealing with, work can be a refuge from life problems.
It sure was for me when I was going through hell a couple of years ago. After I'd have a guts full of sitting around hospital waiting rooms feeling emo for a month, i just got to the point where i had to wor... |
What's the Browser Distribution for your site? | astrec: Month to date: MSIE: 4,140,805 69.22%
Firefox: 1,182,624 19.77%
Safari: 437,645 7.32%
Chrome: 153,782 2.57%
Opera: 29,303 0.49%
MSIE Breakdown: 7.0 2,865,786 69.21%
6.0 893,234 21.57%
8.0 379,935 9.18%
FF Breakdown: 3.0.11 ... |
What's the Browser Distribution for your site? | dcurtis: http://dustincurtis.com/113,242 visits (past 2 days)1. Firefox 58.40%2. Safari 18.82%3. Internet Explorer 8.93%4. Chrome 8.76%5. Opera 1.94%6. Mozilla Compatible Agent 1.68%7. Mozilla 1.05%8. Camino 0.17% |
What has your startup venture financially cost you? | darwinw: Long story: I started really small. I paid around $20/month for a shared hosting when the site is really small (separate app server and db server) and not a lot of contents. my amazon S3 bill is even smaller. Later on when the site outgrows the shared hosting, I used EC2 to get two small isntances (for both ap... |
What's the Browser Distribution for your site? | auston: http://limitemagazine.com1. Firefox 49.65%2. Internet Explorer 26.99%3. Safari 16.47%4. Chrome 4.08%5. Opera 1.44%6. Mozilla 0.42%7. Playstation 3 0.19%8. Opera Mini 0.16%9. Mozilla Compatible Agent 0.14%10. Camino 0.09% |
Code Generators | gruseom: I use Common Lisp, which is the code generation tool to end all code generation tools. I used to use the kind of thing you mention, but now it all looks like unpleasant workarounds for the lack of an extensible language and compiler. I realize you may not be on that path, but seriously, since you're interested... |
What newsletter software do you use? | imp: I use Mailchimp and I like it a lot. It has a lot of features and different price plans. See if it might work for you. |
Code Generators | blasdel: "code generation with dynamically-typed languages is dead and I'm trying to apply my statically-typed background to a dynamically-typed foreground?"THISDon't ever generate boilerplate Python code (especially 'fill in the blanks' crap). You're using a language where you can put the data in an appropriate struct... |
Does the website design matter? | lsc: look at myspace. I mean, design matters in the sense that you need to be able to do what your users want to do, but no, rounded edges don't matter. |
What newsletter software do you use? | ratsbane: I use sendmail, mysql, and handful of perl programs. We considered using some outside service a year or two ago but we were doing some targeted campaigns based upon purchase histories, geographic region, etc. and the trouble to pull out lists like that and then sync them with an outside service becomes a pro... |
Develop on Android or iPhone? | Spyckie: Try PhoneGap or Titanium Mobile. Both of them use Javascript, HTML, and CSS to build apps that can be run on both phones and have access to the native controls. |
Emotion hacks? How do you work despite crummy love/life things going on? | erichsu: Work on computer problems to break out of melancholy. In my experience, many such issues have a specific solution arc. One tries different things to fix the issue and same error, same error, same error... then DIFFERENT error. Then suddenly it works.Example. I was very depressed over a relationship ending, and... |
What's the Browser Distribution for your site? | treyp: Extended Info (Facebook application, so you'd think a little more mainstream than a tech site, although Facebook has problems with IE6 so it may drive that number way down)25.5k uniques (last 30 days) Firefox 50.49%
3.x 96.4%
2.x 3.5%
Internet Explorer 31.25%
7.0 77.4%
8.0 12.0%
6.0 19.5%
Sa... |
What's the Browser Distribution for your site? | treyp: TweetingTooHard.com (last 30 days)
66k uniques Firefox 48.37%
Safari 25.52%
Internet Explorer 17.52%
7.0 58.8%
8.0 22.8%
6.0 18.4%
Chrome 5.82% |
Emotion hacks? How do you work despite crummy love/life things going on? | mbenjaminsmith: Maybe a little trite but I always try to look at the larger picture. I've traveled quite a bit so I often think about the poorest people I've encountered, for example, in India and the life that they live day to day. I figure any day I have food in my stomach and a computer on my lap is a good one. |
What's the Browser Distribution for your site? | ilyak: uw.ruMSIE 44.3 %
Mozilla 25.9 %
Opera 22.5 %
Safari 2.6 % |
What newsletter software do you use? | babyboy808: PHP List, It's free and works great! - http://www.phplist.com/ |
What's the Browser Distribution for your site? | eli: Jeez, I would kill for a site with 3% IE. For a site targeting enterprise users, we've got got 30% using just IE SIX |
Emotion hacks? How do you work despite crummy love/life things going on? | keithb_b: Amazing. In the adult world our "job" is part of our "real life".Here's the thing: you don't live in the Matrix, this isn't a game and there are no "tricks", there are no "hacks". There are two things you need to do—get on with it, and get over it.Some of the things mentioned elsewhere (like good diet, exerci... |
What's the Browser Distribution for your site? | zitterbewegung: Looking at some of the statistics one can conjecture that if your users are more technically inclined it is more probable that they will use firefox. They will use IE if your userbase is less technically inclined. |
What newsletter software do you use? | brm: I used to use dada mail and now I use oemproIf you're looking for a hosted solution that isnt too expensive Aweber is nice.http://octeth.com/products/oempro/http://dadamailproject.com/http://www.aweber.com/ |
Review My App | taitems: AjaxTrans seems a bit clunky as a name, even though this is essentially what it does.I have some spare time tonight and am keen on some design/UI practice, if you're interested? |
Emotion hacks? How do you work despite crummy love/life things going on? | indu: I work for a non profit whose purpose I believe. It adds an element of fulfillment and influence to my work that I otherwise find absent. (keep in mind professionally I'm a low level worker, while in the non-profit I am exclusively an executive or administrator) |
Develop on Android or iPhone? | credo: Since you mention that market size isn't a factor for you and since you don't seem to have a preference for one phone (though you've tried both), I'd suggest Android.I wrote a prototype app with the Android beta last year, The Android beta platform was fairly rich in functionality and had a lot of stuff (backgro... |
Emotion hacks? How do you work despite crummy love/life things going on? | neuromanta: Meditation... trying to "process" the problem, inside. Take the time, to think about it, examine your feelings, analyze yourself. And then, when you work, don't think about it, not even for a moment. |
Emotion hacks? How do you work despite crummy love/life things going on? | mike463: Did anyone answer the question? You can do lots of things to distract yourself while away from work, but I think the question is more -- what can you do to remain engaged WHILE WORKING? |
What service do you use for personal file backup? | smithjchris: 2x 16Gb USB sticks and TrueCrypt.I don't keep anything immediately replacable (like media). |
What's the Browser Distribution for your site? | nl: Large Australian Educational Website:
Internet Explorer 66.21%
Firefox 24.90%
Safari 5.76%
Chrome 2.25%The IE breakdown is
7.0 51.99%
6.0 27.02%
8.0 20.99% |
Emotion hacks? How do you work despite crummy love/life things going on? | tetha: Being a pretty rational person, for me it always helps to focus on emotions and understand what the source of this emotion is, Why do I feel this? What is the reason? Does it make sense? Once you grok why your soul tells you things, you can react to them in appropiate ways, because you know the deep reason behin... |
FAQ about technology-related contracts to address on a legal blog? | ScottWhigham: Very cool - good luck with the site. I had a recent situation in which internally we bickered quite a bit about a contract that a client proposed. The situation revolved around a proposed indemnity clause. My colleagues felt that this was a major opportunity that could really grow our business yet I was u... |
Independent Math Study | mping: My advice to you is to find a really good book and go with the book program. I passed many college classes just by studying hard with a good book. |
Are Google search results now padded? | indiejade: I noticed the breathing space earlier, but was hesitant to ask. . . surely some Googlers read this site and can answer my question. I need to figure out how to get the new padding to translate to search results @spaceminnow.com. Thanks! |
Thinking in Functional programming | spooneybarger: a couple things that i have seen help get into a more functional state of mind:make everything you can immutable. find a problem where you can build most of it without changing 'the state of the world'. function takes data, spits out answer which is feed into the next.refactor commonalities from part 1 b... |
Thinking in Functional programming | jm4: I'm kind of in the same boat. There are plenty of resources for learning Clojure, but I haven't found any that help with the transition from object oriented programming to functional programming. I read Programming Clojure and I feel like I know the language, but I'm still working on thinking in terms of functiona... |
Thinking in Functional programming | ntoshev: I think most functional programmers don't use TDD. Instead, they write little functions (and macros) that do useful things and approach the problem bottom up, constantly trying things out on the REPL and rewriting the code they have already written.This way of programming seems incompatible with TDD and I woul... |
Thinking in Functional programming | apgwoz: I think I'd normally say "read SICP" but Clojure discourages recursion in favor of it's looping constructs (due to the non-ability to optimize it on the JVM I'm guessing).That said, SICP will still teach you to think in terms of HOFs and functions as abstractions, so it'll definitely help out. And it's free onl... |
Thinking in Functional programming | diiq: I second the call to SICP; it is, admittedly, very hard to deal with not using recursion after reading the first few chapters, but even outside of that, it will change the way you program.Reading SICP is like taking a freezing shower; it's a bit of a shock at first, but afterward everything is crisp and clear. Co... |
Thinking in Functional programming | jwinter: Use clojure.test for TDD. There's a bit of documentation here:http://java.ociweb.com/mark/clojure/article.html#Testing |
What's the Mobile Browser Distribution for your site? | akaalias: Anyone who is interested in mobile metrics of your site, have a look at http://percentmobile.com/ --We're still in private beta, but you can use the invite-code 'yayhooray' (w/o quotes) to signup. |
Should I Build These Startups? | vincentchan: Notes: I don't mean to advertise my pages here. Actually I haven't finalized those product names yet. I just want to see if any entrepreneurs here can give me some advice. Thanks.This is the link of the surveymonkey page:http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=miJq7VOY6AvLHBYxjxk6hg... |
Thinking in Functional programming | jganetsk: Learn how to implement integers, booleans, pairs, tuples, lists, and trees in lambda calculus (and, more specifically, System F)... and you will be able to think functionally. |
Should I Build These Startups? | ErrantX: Your overviews are so brief it's nect to impossible ot make serious comment but...First up HR. You I dont think you would ever manage to sell this as a web app. Personal employee details are, well, sacrosant property at any large company. Trusting such details to a web startup is unlikely to happen.Handytree -... |
Should I Build These Startups? | ktharavaad: I think you should be a little more specific in order for people to give you any real advice.From what I can see, all of the ideas which you have listed deal with viable markets. HR, E-learning and Problem-Solving(??) are all useful domains but whether you will succeed really comes down to how you execute y... |
Are Google search results now padded? | tokenadult: This Google searchhttp://www.google.com/search?q=padded+search+resultsdidn't do much to answer the question, even when I looked at it on my own browser.Your question comes up as the first result with this search:http://www.google.com/search?q=padded+search+results+Google |
Thinking in Functional programming | crc: Some generic advice:1. Read lots of clojure code. There is clojure-contrib which has lots of little libraries, read through them and see how things are done.2. I will second the SICP suggestion, atleast the first few chapters. Bottom up programming, building layers of abstraction, is a natural way of doing things ... |
Should I Build These Startups? | abyssknight: If you have to ask HN, then you probably shouldn't.I'll probably be slapped on the wrists for this, but if it doesn't drive you then you won't survive. If you don't have a passion for your product, then you'll be tempted to give up. |
YC & other programs - is this data correct? | emmett: From personal experience:Kiko had a website at http://kiko.com, although apparently it's been recently taken down by the acquirer. We sold it on eBay for $258,000 in the summer of 06. We took follow-on funding from two angels (of a very very small amount) before selling it.Justin.tv was actually started in Octo... |
Was your first crazy startup idea anything like your current one? | Mankhool: Yes. Although through the years I have often grown tired of bashing my head against the wall and diverged from the core of my entrepreneurial interests, I have always returned to the same problems in one way or another. As an example, what was an idea for a TV channel 10 years ago has morphed into a mobile ph... |
YC & other programs - is this data correct? | il: It would be interesting to see more data such as traffic(Alexa/quantcast?), number of employees/founders and so on.
This sounds rather silly, but if you collect enough data, you may be able to approximate something of a "formula" for startup success, or at least increasing your chance of success by a few percent.
I... |
Thinking in Functional programming | bddbbdb: Little Schemer, then SICP. For sure. As for TDD, take a look at SchemeUnit, which I've found very handy in testing the exercises in Little Schemer.SICP is one of the single most valuable and important texts in CS. Little Schemer is structured as a real training regimen to get your mental muscles ready to handl... |
Paying for a "premium" domain name? | Mankhool: I've never really understood premium domains as being that important to a site. Oh you have to be able to find the site (keywords) but then, personally, I just bookmark it and if it is something I use all the time then I drag the site icon to my bookmarks toolbar, DELETE the NAME and just use the icon to show... |
Thinking in Functional programming | noss: The Mock objects in TDD are there so that after a test you can check that the code under test caused side-effects in dependant objects. (At least, most of the time this is why they exist.)Functional programming is very much about decoupling "pure functional" computation and side-effects. Using pattern matching yo... |
YC & other programs - is this data correct? | Savil: I believe you might have left out the Lightspeed Ventures program:http://lightspeedvp.com/summergrants.aspx |
most common hosts of URL submissions? | darshan: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=680104http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=679937 |
Best business structure for 3-person part-time startup | kyro: I was in a pretty similar position recently, and we decided to go with an S-Corp. We figured we'd avoid the double taxation, and if we happened to take VC funding, switching to a C-Corp would be relatively easy, as most VC's prefer C-Corps, or so I've heard.Just don't get bogged down in making that decision like ... |
most common hosts of URL submissions? | jm4: http://top.searchyc.com/domainshttp://top.searchyc.com/domains_by_pointshttp://top.searchyc.com/domains_by_average_points |
Best business structure for 3-person part-time startup | jacquesm: From your description an LLC sounds like the way to go. Partnerships have all kinds of drawbacks, depending on your locality you might become liable for your partners debts. An llc is a good step up to becoming an 'Inc' when and if you are more successful.It will give you more (a lot more) protection from a l... |
Is it inappropriate to ask why I was rejected from a job? | ErrantX: Dont expect to hear a valid response :) but I see no reason why you should ask (as long as you phrase it in the right way). |
Is it inappropriate to ask why I was rejected from a job? | jacquesm: For sure. Keeping the channels open is always good, and to ask for the reason for your refusal is a great way to do so, as well as a chance to learn some more about the whole process.Not all companies would respond to such a request though, because they're afraid that if you get your reason you will sue them ... |
Is it inappropriate to ask why I was rejected from a job? | yan: What have you got to lose? |
Is it inappropriate to ask why I was rejected from a job? | bkbleikamp: I've always asked. The worst they can do is not respond. |
Is it inappropriate to ask why I was rejected from a job? | Ardit20: I asked once and they offered me a job with a shorter period. I asked once again for another position and the feedback they gave me was really helpful. So, I totally would ask. |
Best business structure for 3-person part-time startup | modoc: We have a very similar situation. After talking with our accounting company, and our attorney, the consensus was to go with an LLC incorporated in our home state. It was easy, and so far has worked out very well.Only advice beyond that is to hire an accountant/accounting co to handle your books and make sure y... |
DEFCON? | aaroneous: Went a few times - last one I went to was probably ~2001. It's a fun party in Vegas with some bright//interesting people.No clue if//how it has changed. |
Is it inappropriate to ask why I was rejected from a job? | gojomo: Sure, ask, but ask right -- and "why was I rejected" is probably wrong.In all likelihood, you weren't 'rejected' as much as someone else was 'selected' as being better matched to their needs.So the proper, non-neurotic way to ask would be something like: "Thanks for your consideration. I was very enthusiastic a... |
Is it inappropriate to ask why I was rejected from a job? | nathanb: I got two rejections when on the job hunt: one told me that their policy was to not discuss the reason any candidate was rejected and the other gave me very general reasons that I didn't find helpful (and were probably chosen by the recruiter because they weren't actionable). Even though they weren't very usue... |
Best business structure for 3-person part-time startup | Travis: LLCs are the "hot" structure right now for a lot of things, but they don't necessarily have the case law to back them up. So it's possible that you could come up with a situation where there is no precedent.That said, my co-founder (an attorney) set us up as an LLC initially (when we were doing consulting type... |
How to safely buy a domain? | noodle: escrow services exist that do this. example:http://www.sedo.com/services/s_escrow.php |
How to safely buy a domain? | jacquesm: Use an escrow service, most of the big registrars will offer to do that for a fee.The only time when it doesn't make sense is when the amount is less than the fee for the escrow.If the amount is large enough you may want to use a notary public or a big legal office to handle the escrow bit.here is a short lis... |
Thinking in Functional programming | Confusion: You should be careful you're looking for something that doesn't exist. That keeps you wondering why you don't find it forever. Perhaps you already have the hang of it, but the purists are getting you down, making you think you don't get it. In practice, there is no such thing as purely functional code, just ... |
What has your startup venture financially cost you? | nailer: $AU 25,000, before I realized that employing other people who were more experienced as web developers was harder than learning web development myself (I have a hardcore Linux background, with no experience of the web until the last two years).Fortunately I have a decent job and paid off the debt. I've integrate... |
What was the latest book you read? | ErrantX: Mind Magic (by Marc Lemezma) - Im trying to improve my mentalism skills (and though that book is really basic it is a good refresher on ideas).Last serious book was a 620 page tome entitled "Writing Security Tools and Exploits". A book with potentially the largest "great title" to "boring content" ratio ever :... |
What was the latest book you read? | yan: "A People's History of the United Sates" by Howard Zinn. A decent history book, not exactly uplifting.Reading currently: "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York" by Robert Caro. Absolutely loving it.That, and my usual climbing books. |
What was the latest book you read? | scott_s: Current: The Road by Cormac McCarthy.Last: The World Without Us by Alan Weisman.The best recent: Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamon. |
What was the latest book you read? | michaelfairley: Last: I am a Strange LoopCurrent: Neuromancer |
What was the latest book you read? | deutronium: The Revenge of Gaia - James Lovelock |
What was the latest book you read? | TallGuyShort: Last: Hacker's Handbook 3.0 by Dr. K (waste of time)Current: Last Light by Andy McNab (awesome) |
What was the latest book you read? | mgrouchy: I am currently reading "beautiful code" by Greg Wilson, Andy Oram(and all the contributors) |
What was the latest book you read? | BrentRitterbeck: The last book I finished was Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.I am currently perusing numerous books for summer research. |
What was the latest book you read? | ddemchuk: Just finished "Anthem" by Ayn Rand (it's like 100 pages so it only took a few hours)Started "The American Political Tradition" by Richard Hofstadter, pretty engaging history of our major politicians and founding fathers... |
Would the Internet pass the Turing test? | jacquesm: noandit doesn't matter since it isn't a valid question.The internet is a collection of computers connected through various links that transfer data between themselves and the end users of those computers.If you would rephrase your question a bit it might start to make sense:Would it be possible for a computer... |
What was the latest book you read? | fogus: last book: The Dark Tower IIcurrently: The T Programming Language |
What was the latest book you read? | warfangle: Previous: AnathemCurrent: Programming in Scala |
What was the latest book you read? | jacquesm: The big switchbefore thatAccelerando |
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