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The Importance of a co-founder | teabuzzed: Solo is fine. You don't need a co-founder. Yes in many cases a good co-founder will help your company succeed.. but in many other cases a bad co-founder will most certainly help it fail.If you haven't already identified one then you can forget about it. The question is moot. You don't want one anyway. That's... |
Where do you live? | mkramlich: Northglenn (near Denver), Colorado, USA, Earth (or so they tell me) |
Inspirational Biographies | SwellJoe: I enjoyed all of Asimov's autobiographical books: In Memory Yet Green and In Joy Still Felt, and the posthumous memoir, I. Asimov. I'm a huge fan of Asimov's non-style literary style (clarity over all), and it works well in autobiography. If you like scifi, at all, Asimov was an eye witness to nearly its en... |
Trivial etiquette question - can he touch my laptop screen? | vl: If somebody actually touches my screen while pointing at it I immediately say "Do not touch the screen!" It appears that people don't perceive it as rude and just continue pointing without touching. |
Inspirational Biographies | antiform: There are two biographies that I think should be required reading for wannabe Silicon Valley entrepreneurs: (1) High St@kes, No Prisoners by Charles H. Ferguson and (2) The New New Thing by Michael Lewis, about Jim ClarkAnd two that, while light on content (i.e. math), never fail to stimulate the childlike na... |
Trivial etiquette question - can he touch my laptop screen? | vnuk: I threaten them openly. Touch my screen again and I will hurt you. If they repeat the offense I snap them over the fingers.Worked in every company I was employed... |
Why do Internet dating sites charge the same amount for men and women? | DrJokepu: Just think about it. What would happen if a site started charging only black people? Or only asians? And now think about how race-based discrimination is any different from gender-based discrimination. Our society has rules that you can't break, not even for maximalizing profits. |
Staying Sharp | known: Brain starts declining at 27
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/17/148217 |
A new word for hacker? | jacquesm: Just like any other word hacker reflects the concepts that YOU assign to it.So, if you just simply use it consistently with its true meaning as perceived by you then you are part of reclaiming that word from abuses.On another note, it is not a problem for a word to have multiple meanings, most people are more... |
Is sed an insult to "human readbility" ? | digamber_kamat: hmmm HN looks like is susceptible to Code injection! Work on it guys |
Trivial etiquette question - can he touch my laptop screen? | cromulent: OK, at least I know it's not just me, even if it is trivial.Good points all around. I still think that some things are not for casual touching (camera lenses, laptop screens, TV screens, eyeglasses, mirrors, etc) but I get that the smudges don't bother some people at all, so it's not that they are being rude... |
Is sed an insult to "human readbility" ? | mahmud: You will understand why Sed is concise the first time you write a lexer in C by hand. To lex a single character token you don't need any FSMs; the input character = the lookahead = all you need to recognize that token. You can use getc and ungetc to move forth and back in the input stream; the whole thing can b... |
Is sed an insult to "human readbility" ? | jacquesm: If you think sed is bad try to make sense of apl:(~v∊v∘.×v)/v←1↓⍳10000For all the primes up to 10000 |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | known: http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/where-to-find-startup-jobs-in-... |
Is sed an insult to "human readbility" ? | qohen: The following page explains "Famous Sed One-Liners", including the one you mention (it's #36, though you'll likely want to work your way down from the top):http://www.catonmat.net/blog/sed-one-liners-explained-part-o...(CatOnMat.net is the site of one Peteris Krumins; he also has pages about AWK and Perl one-lin... |
Inspirational Biographies | dmfdmf: Chuck Yeager |
Inspirational Biographies | sidmitra: "Surely, You're Joking Mr Feynman"
was a fun read. |
Inspirational Biographies | 321abc: John von NeumannGottfried LeibnizHelen KellerKyle MaynardBrooke Ellison |
How effective is porn branding association with latest technologies? | iag: Found this funny strip on xkcd. But all jokes aside, how successful do you think this strategy is in terms of branding? Have you tried to market your product through association with other popular technologies? If so, can you share your success/failure stories with everyone? |
How effective is porn branding association with latest technologies? | ErrantX: I can see why they chose Facebook as a brand because that is the kind of site you associate with building relationships and making much more personal connections.So when they say the "Facebook of sex" the idea is to infer a personal connection to excite punters. Sites like Suicide Girls rely heavily on the sam... |
How effective is porn branding association with latest technologies? | stijnm: I don't think this has as much to do about porn, than about being able to explain what you do by linking to a known entity.To create a powerful elevator pitch you try pack as much meaning/punch into every word you utter. The semantics of the word 'Facebook', for example, conjure up networking, friends, messagin... |
Is sed an insult to "human readbility" ? | bhousel: I actually still use sed once in a while. I sometimes show up at a corporate client and need to cleanup files on a unix or cygwin machine that is completely locked down (no install of anything allowed ever) and doesn't have anything easier to use (perl/python). At least you can always fall back to it and per... |
How effective is porn branding association with latest technologies? | steveplace: They're going a little bit beyond "The Facebook of Sex." They've also got popups that resemble the Facebook chat window popup on the lower right. Very clever. |
Is sed an insult to "human readbility" ? | DanielStraight: Isn't the basic idea that sed is essentially typed-out keyboard shortcuts/commands for ed? |
I'd like to start taking amphetamines. What do you recommend? | ErrantX: > I'd like to be able to get long stretches of difficult work done with greater concentration and faster thinkingThe question I would ask is why?A lot of my friends complain about wanting to work longer hours etc. but I dont always understand the desire. If your working to a tight deadline then fair enough - b... |
I'd like to start taking amphetamines. What do you recommend? | jacquesm: Beware of the downsides...I knew a guy (singer) that would use 'speed' like others smoke or chew gum, he burned out before he was 50.Now, this guy was a pretty heavy user and I guess that is what it is all about but any kind of substance use can slide into abuse.Don't get burned. Please.I'm not going to lectu... |
I'd like to start taking amphetamines. What do you recommend? | peterhi: If you feel that the only way you can achieve what you want is to take amphetamines then I would hope that what you are working on is very important (for you at least). The side effect from overuse are enough to take years off your life.Also I suspect that no doctor would willingly supply you with amphetamines... |
I'd like to start taking amphetamines. What do you recommend? | fogus: My advice, Don't. Taking them will not turn you into Paul Erdős.Someone had to say it. |
I'd like to start taking amphetamines. What do you recommend? | dkersten: Perhaps his lack of concentration when he stopped for a month wasn't because the drug helped him concentrate, but rather that his dependence on it made him not be able to concentrate without it anymore - that is, when hes on the drug, his concentration is at the same level as those not on the drug.Now, I don'... |
The Importance of a co-founder | Tawheed: You really have TWO options here:# Bring on a co-founder that is an obvious fit# Have a plan that identifies what your own weaknesses are and how you plan to mitigate them.From the sound of this thread, there is no obvious co-founder that you know of right now, so going with the latter is far more respectable ... |
I want to build/learn something this weekend - suggestions? | indrax: So what did you learn? |
I'd like to start taking amphetamines. What do you recommend? | peoplerock: There have been a lot of thoughtful threads here that offer pros, cons, and the variety of personal experiences. In particular: note that the impact on someone with ADHD (maybe Paul E was one such?) are likely to be different that for a non-ADHD person.searchyc.com seems to be down right now but a google o... |
Why is concurrent programming so hard ? | ErrantX: > So we tend to 'break up' our programs into sequential pieces of code, each running in parallel with the rest, and the spots where they meet, like trains using a railroad track, have to be scheduled to make things execute in the proper sequence.Dead on. We've been working on single threads for SO long and the... |
Why is concurrent programming so hard ? | makmanalp: I think it's rather not that our brains are inherently that way, it's just that we've (stereotypically) thought that way all our lives.It's like learning formulas for 2D geometry and then trying to extrapolate to 3D formulas, such as the sum of all the sides of a square vs a cube. If we learned about general... |
Why is concurrent programming so hard ? | makecheck: It's probably more accurate to think of concurrent programming as what's going on in the brains of multiple people, instead of looking at it as how one person's brain would handle parallel threads.Whenever you need access to information you don't have available, there's a barrier before you can continue that... |
I'd like to start taking amphetamines. What do you recommend? | jwecker: A good doctor will help you optimize your focus and creativity without you needing to self-medicate or do anything illegal. I'd spend some time setting up an appointment- he/she may find that you suffer from ADD/ADHD and prescribe something- maybe not. If you decide to do something (IMO stupid) illegal, you'... |
Why is concurrent programming so hard ? | mbrubeck: A program that use both mutable state and concurrency is nondeterministic: when run twice with the same input, it might produce completely different results (based on the order in which concurrent parts execute).This is one reason that languages good for concurrency tend toward functional programming or other... |
I'd like to start taking amphetamines. What do you recommend? | Perceval: Check out this New Yorker article on "neuro-enhancing" drugs: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/27/090427fa_fact_...It has some info on Adderal (an amphetamine) and other drugs used to increase mental performance. |
I'd like to start taking amphetamines. What do you recommend? | Hexstream: You mean meth?Then I recommend watching:http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=videos&search... |
If everyone could program, would you feel less self-worth? | bockris: Sure because there are always different levels of skill and desire.My self-worth is dependent on how well I think I solved a given problem, not the fact that there are others who could solve it also. |
I'd like to start taking amphetamines. What do you recommend? | someonepassing: Don't.As someone who used them for a long time I can tell you:They are not physically addictive - I could also have easily stopped for a month. When I did stop the problems were psychological like the fact that most of my "friendships" were shallow and drug basedIt destroys your judgment. I once wrote a... |
Why is concurrent programming so hard ? | sybreon: Try sheet music? |
If everyone could program, would you feel less self-worth? | theoneill: It would probably be better. It wouldn't hurt any of our egos, because only a few people would be able to program well, just as, despite near universal literacy, only a few people can write well. But people would at least give us precise bug reports when things broke. |
If everyone could program, would you feel less self-worth? | noodle: even in a world where reading is a required skill, there are many people who can't, many people who are bad at it, and many people who are professionally good at it. |
If everyone could program, would you feel less self-worth? | jacquesm: Programming is not like reading, it is more like solving puzzles.Everybody can learn how to program at some level. But few really enjoy it and even fewer will feel satisfaction at squashing some obscure bug. It is closely related to having patience and to tinker with stuff.I'd be more than happy to have the r... |
Why is concurrent programming so hard ? | tocomment: I tried to make an SVD algorithm run in parallel one time, but for the life of me I just couldn't figure out how to do it. Maybe I just needed a deeper understanding of the linear algebra. |
If everyone could program, would you feel less self-worth? | makecheck: If you expand programming to its most basic definition, "customizing the behavior of a computer", then we are nearly there already. People can make computers do much of what they want (view TV shows, find interesting things to read, play music, write journals, buy things, etc.) without using an actual progr... |
Do you use GnuPG? | cperciva: I use GPG to sign the hashes on tarsnap source code tarballs -- without that, tarsnap users would have to trust that my SSL server was feeding them the right bits.I also sign security advisories and patches while wearing my FreeBSD Security Officer hat. |
I'd like to start taking amphetamines. What do you recommend? | retroryan: I would discourage the use of amphetamines without a real mental need, they do have some very serious side effects. However I have found due to a combination of mental disorders - mostly depression related - I am unable to function without amphetamines during certain times of the month.As an alternative to ... |
If everyone could program, would you feel less self-worth? | gdp: I would feel enormously pleased, because it would mean that we had finally lowered the barrier of entry for programming to a point where people with little or no specialist training could create useful programs that were largely correct and bug-free, presumably with a minimal commitment of time deemed reasonable b... |
I'd like to start taking amphetamines. What do you recommend? | pstuart: Check out Ritalin via your doctor. |
Do you use GnuPG? | yan: Yes, when I need to use it I, I sign/encrypt my emails with GnuPG |
Do you use GnuPG? | spooneybarger: No because I don't consider any of my data important enough. Nor any emails etc etc. |
If everyone could program, would you feel less self-worth? | DanielStraight: No, I would not want to live in such a world, but it has nothing to do with self-worth. I don't want programming to be a required skill for the same reason I don't want chemical engineering to be a required skill: most people don't need it. Most people need reading. Most people need math (despite the fa... |
Review my idea: Python programming by voice | makecheck: I think it's a neat concept, but keep in mind that many programmers can type very quickly; speech should probably deliver something that is difficult to achieve in as much time with a keyboard.For instance, "begin decorator" might write the entire function-wrapping-function code that is typical for producing... |
Fedora style version of RedHat RHEL MRG? | jacquesm: I haven't but I really wished that the realtime patches would be made a standard part of the kernel. Lots of code could take advantage of that.MRG supports MPI, the de-facto message passing interface for clusters, that alone makes it worth looking at.One step closer to QnX...To have the CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT patc... |
Review my idea: Python programming by voice | JimmyL: I think it's a neat idea, but I don't think I personally would use it much - a lot of how I think and organize code is visual. For example, I'll write half of an invocation of a function, move it around a bit, and then complete the signature. Or I'll write out something three ways, jiggle them around a bit, com... |
Review my idea: Python programming by voice | drobilla: Efficiently? This would be FAR slower and FAR less accurate than typing.Frankly, I can't see any programmer taking this idea seriously at all. Go look at a piece of code, then dictate it PRECISELY in a way that could be unambiguously interpreted by such a thing. There's no way... |
Why is concurrent programming so hard ? | alexgartrell: We all learned to program in a non-concurrent manner and we're trying to reuse knowledge from that. Instead, we should focus on re-learning programming, namely what it means to have side-effects and global memory and what we should use instead to operate on those things in a safe way.Concurrent programmi... |
I'd like to start taking amphetamines. What do you recommend? | Grinnmarr: I used Dr. prescribed Amphetamines (Dextroamphetamine) for six years until 9 months ago when I gave them up in order to quit smoking. During that time I was the happiest and most productive I have ever been in my life. If you can get a Doctor to prescribe them go for it, but to take them (even pharmaceutic... |
So, what's wrong with iTunes? (or what more would you want?) | phamilton: I use Amarok for my music needs. The feature I enjoy most is the Now Playing playlist in a split window with my music library. I can add whole playlists, whole albums, whole discographies, or just individual songs.Another feature I would like to see is some sort of network control... I am frequently on th... |
I'd like to start taking amphetamines. What do you recommend? | electronslave: To reiterate other sentiments on this site: don't. Just. Don't. And if you're going to do it, get a prescription for Adderall. A physician is a valuable resource, even if you have to go out of pocket. Your average street dealer is guaranteed to sell you cut goods, even if he didn't do it himself. P... |
If everyone could program, would you feel less self-worth? | mmt: I would suggest that writing:coding::reading:computer-use. Arguably, we already have an appropriate term in "computer literacy."That is, I agree (assuming "coding" is equivalent to "customization" or, perhaps, even "confinguration") that we're rapidly approaching computer literacy as a required required skill, if ... |
What is the worth of an hour of your life? | avalean: You should not put a price on your hour if you're developing a product. Since if you do the math afterwards, then your hour is worth pretty little. |
What is the worth of an hour of your life? | icey: Your product could save your customers 1000 hours of their time over what period of time? Is it a savings of productive time or leisure time? The number sounds hand-wavey.Someone might tell you that their time is worth $100 bucks an hour (for example), but I think you'll find there is no way they'll pay nearly th... |
What is the worth of an hour of your life? | yannis: Hey! I thought this question was philosophical! If you could save me two hours a day of commuting in heavy traffic by teleporting my body I would pay $ 39,000. |
What is the worth of an hour of your life? | makecheck: I think the best guideline is to imagine the percentage of time someone has to work. Although some people are lucky enough to work reasonable hours for high pay, many are not. Assume that an hour of their free time is basically priceless.Having said that, some people will also be more efficient. Imagine i... |
What is the worth of an hour of your life? | fburnaby: It completely depends on what's happening at the time! And even worse, you can only know in retrospect. Some of my time in this life has been priceless and I wouldn't give it up for anything. Much of it turns out to be near useless, on the other hand.I make ~$12/hr right now, but I'm into what I'm doing (that... |
Review my idea: Python programming by voice | Chickencha: It's an interesting idea, but this seems more like something that could be a neat tech demonstration rather than a product that people would want to use.First, speech recognition is very difficult. Fortunately you have a limited number of key words you have to support. Unfortunately, there's an almost infin... |
A startup for the "Coming soon" startup pages? | dcbrandao: LaunchSet.com sounds like what you're talking about. |
Review my idea: Python programming by voice | lpellis: I dont think there will be a big market for speaking out Python code, but I can think of a few other uses for specialized voice recognition. (In fact I'm working on something vaguely similar, but in way different direction)
Do you have an email address, maybe we can get in contact? |
Please Review my app - TwitterBatcher.com | davecardwell: Clickable link: http://twitterbatcher.com/I love that despite it being a simple app for a simple problem, you’ve really thought about the UI and design. It does what it says on the tin, and does it well.I would have liked an extra step after submitting my @users—a list of the users with their full name, t... |
A startup for the "Coming soon" startup pages? | jacquesm: One problem is that a lot of those 'coming soon' pages eventually end up on sedo parking or something like it (or worse...).I'd rather have people announce stuff when it's ready to be test driven than all these pre-pre announcements. When you have a beta product it's about the right time, early alpha you usua... |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | riegel: EnergyHub is a CleanTech startup in Brooklyn, New York, near Carroll Gardens and Park slope. We are looking for two super smart developers for Web Developer and Embedded Java positions. Why would you want to work for us? We do both software and hardware, so your programs can actually reach out and interact w... |
Why is concurrent programming so hard ? | thstart: The so called von Neumann computer design is the way most of computers are still made. The computer defined in the First Draft Report on the EDVAC was never built and its architecture and design seem now to be forgotten.This intrigued me to read the original: First Draft Report on the EDVAC, June 30, 1945.
Her... |
Why is concurrent programming so hard ? | clord: Humans are immensely good at concurrent thought, and really bad at sequential thought.Consider driving. Your brain is processing millions of things in an out-of-order manner, and producing continuous motions in your hands and feet that guide the car so perfectly that few would be surprised to hear of someone dri... |
What's harder? Starting or Quitting? | tokenadult: I wonder if any of you guys have thought of quitting on something you have been working on for years but cannot do so mainly because of the amount of time and effort spent on it.Yes I have. I found that one project I worked on for most of my adult life just fizzled out when I realized that there just hadn't... |
Why is concurrent programming so hard ? | vicaya: General concurrent programming is hard because of the shared mutable states and their interdependencies, which are ripe grounds for deadlocks and race conditions. However, there are many successful attempts to solve large chunks of problems by avoiding shared states in user/application code: e.g., actor models ... |
What's harder? Starting or Quitting? | ddemchuk: I have actually found it too easy to start things and equally easy to just let them fall away. What I have found distinctly difficult to do is actually finish something I've started.I have enough half finished projects to keep a team of 50 busy for months. |
A startup for the "Coming soon" startup pages? | dannyr: Thanks for the shoutout to Launchset.Launchset is not doing startup pages.However, there's Launchsoon.com in this space. |
What do you think of e-cigarettes? | charlesju: How does nicotine help your brain? Relaxation? |
Review my startup, HipHopGoblin.com (Pandora + HypeM + Hip Hop) | zackattack: Click Me
http://www.hiphopgoblin.com |
Review my startup, HipHopGoblin.com (Pandora + HypeM + Hip Hop) | aditya: This is awesome. Currently background for a (hopefully regular) cooking session.1) Don't make it autoplay - "Press play to get started" is much, much, much better2) Ask me for artists I like and make recommendations3) Ask me for friends that are also on hiphopgoblin and let me see (and play!) their likes/dislik... |
What do you think of e-cigarettes? | rdouble: The weird, unregulated and unknown chemicals in the nicotine packets will kill you.You'll also be the kooky spaz smoking the electronic cigarette, killing your chances to have normal interpersonal relationships with other human beings.If you want to look stupid and do something socially alienating and dangerou... |
Review my startup, HipHopGoblin.com (Pandora + HypeM + Hip Hop) | brk: This is awesome. Love it. Added a link to my precious bookmarks toolbar space.Is it best voted of all listeners, or does it remember my preferences? It implies the latter, but wasn't sure.Suggestion: find a way to detect excessive auto-tune use and auto downvote those songs :) |
What do you think of e-cigarettes? | SwellJoe: This is going to kill you:http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/07/2... |
What do you think of e-cigarettes? | DanielStraight: I think it's generally agreed that addiction is the opposite of hacking your brain. Unless by hack, you mean like with an ax. |
Review my startup, HipHopGoblin.com (Pandora + HypeM + Hip Hop) | alaskamiller: Took me a bit of time to realize it's just one gigantic Flash app, I kept trying to highlight the song name but couldn't. But I love love that I can squeeze the Safari browser window to just 377 pixels wide and have everything scale and still usable. Love it. |
What do you think of e-cigarettes? | sirsean: It sucks. It produces almost no smoke, the cartridges that they claim "contain as much nicotine as a pack of cigarettes" last for 2 hours of intermittent puffs, the thing decides to start "cleaning" itself regularly after about a day, and the battery runs out way too fast.It's a good idea, I think, whose time ... |
What do you think of e-cigarettes? | daeken: I started smoking in November of last year because nicotine is very interesting to me, and I planned to get an e-cig shortly thereafter. Well, the e-cig never happened, and after smoking for about 6 months, all the effects of nicotine that I enjoyed were gone. I smoked because I had to, not because I enjoyed ... |
Review my startup, HipHopGoblin.com (Pandora + HypeM + Hip Hop) | physcab: Are you using Pandora to grab music recs? The recs are surprisingly good! |
What do you think of e-cigarettes? | justlearning: "a new way to get new high" = hacking your brain?
one way to hack your brain - sit in complete silence focusing on your breath only for as long as possible..other ways include picking on drawing(over painting)"hacking" brain has nothing to do with drugs in my opinion.(a tangential thought into the misuse... |
Review my startup, HipHopGoblin.com (Pandora + HypeM + Hip Hop) | ljharb: I like it - but ABSOLUTELY turn off autoplay. Autoplay is the devil.Don't force choices on users by playing audio for them - and if someone doesn't know how to push "play" then they don't deserve to hear music. |
Review my startup, HipHopGoblin.com (Pandora + HypeM + Hip Hop) | krisneuharth: This is great. A couple of things that come to mind. 1) It would be nice to maybe have a replay option in case I really like the song. 2) It would be nice to be able to go back also in case I accidentally hit next. 3) It would also be cool to see where your crawler found the song, credit in the right plac... |
What do you think of e-cigarettes? | dc2k08: As an avid e-cig user, I would advise against it. If you are not already addicted to nicotine, then there is no need to start. Although there are some studies that suppose nicotine might help people stave off alzheimers and help with other mental disorders unless you think you stand a good chance of suffering f... |
Review my startup, HipHopGoblin.com (Pandora + HypeM + Hip Hop) | jrnkntl: Great! Works like a charm.Obvious way to monetize; link to Amazon or any other affiliate music store for every track (and show a cover ;)) |
Review my startup, HipHopGoblin.com (Pandora + HypeM + Hip Hop) | qeorge: I'll be that guy: this seems illegal. What's the plan there?(I like the site a lot, and hope it lasts.) |
Review my startup, HipHopGoblin.com (Pandora + HypeM + Hip Hop) | dpcan: What if the hottest songs linked to Google searches so I can hit the artists' sites and listen there or buy? Not sure if this is OK to do or not though. |
How do you memorize? | icey: I am a big fan of visualizing weird pictures to remember names and numbers. You have to have a system though, so your first sentence confuses me.If you want to learn how to have a good memory, try these:http://www.amazon.com/Memory-Book-Classic-Improving-School/d...http://www.ludism.org/mentat/ |
Staying Sharp | volodia: Try solving some Putnam problems in your spare time, for fun :) |
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