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How do you get things done in hourlong intervals? | jey: Don't let them interrupt you..? |
How do you get things done in hourlong intervals? | dryicerx: End of day, I usually list out the things I want to get done the next day (just point format a small list) on my notepad (a physical paper and pencil). Then I stick to it.I don't think writing paragraphs helps, keep it real simple. "Fix bug #12345, Test blahblah, Tune XXX, etc" |
Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles | fburnaby: I find it impossible to search by keyword. The trick I use is to find one relevant article via miracle, then do a reverse lookup on authors that were referenced by that paper. Once you know some names, everything becomes much more readily searchable. |
How do you get things done in hourlong intervals? | edw519: Work in 48 minute increments...http://successbeginstoday.org/wordpress/2006/09/the-power-of...I've been doing this for years (depending, of course, on what I'm working on). It can be very effective.Get a digital timer. Set it for 48:00. Start it. You may not stop working until it beeps. 12 minutes for stre... |
How do you get things done in hourlong intervals? | tetha: I have and am experiencing what you experience atm.The first thing which is helping me very, very much is focus training. After like a month of training to focus fast and hard, I am able to dive into a problem and ignore everything around me within minutes, allowing me to work more efficiently faster, resulting ... |
How do you get things done in hourlong intervals? | keeptrying: http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/And for the best tool to use to apply the technique:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/development_tools/pomo...This has really changed my work habits. The tool is just perfect. One easy click and you can see what you've worked on the whole day for how much time. Brillia... |
How do you get things done in hourlong intervals? | JimmyL: When I know I am wrapping up a coding session, I'll often leave a few trivial things unfinished - so that when I sit back down again for the next session, I'll have an easy place to jump right back in, and it will force me to (consciously or otherwise) get back to somewhere near the mental state I was in when I... |
Is it possible that gmail is working better on chrome? (intentional?) | spydez: I've been consolidating email accounts for the past few months; transferring thousands of emails from one account to another, sorting, labeling, archiving, etc.I keep one gmail account open in Firefox, and another in Chrome.There is no difference in speed for me. Chrome stutters plenty. |
Interviewing for a User Support position and need interview tips | jacquesm: Offer a free trial period of a week or so, if they like the way you work you get to stay!Worst case you'll be out of a week of your time, but such a no-risk offer would be hard to turn down. Then make sure they never ever want to let you go... |
How do you get things done in hourlong intervals? | breck: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html |
Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles | MrGunn: I depends on your field to some degree. For life sciences, Pubmed works pretty good. You can also find some articles you didn't know you were looking for via shared bookmarks on Citeulike or recommendations via Mendeley. http://mendeley.com |
Is it possible that gmail is working better on chrome? (intentional?) | nostrademons: (Disclaimer: Work at Google, but no inside knowledge on this, and this is of course just my personal opinion. I was a Chrome fan well before I joined Google.)Could just be that Chrome works better in general on JavaScript-intensive sites. One of the selling points of Chrome is its lightning-fast JavaScr... |
Interviewing for a User Support position and need interview tips | sharpn: User support differs from many other roles in that a standard interview actually can be a very good way to evaluate a candidate: it gives you a chance to demonstrate clarity and succinct answers to questions you initially have no control over. Remember that your interviewer (should) be looking for someone who c... |
Startups in DC? | mattrepl: I'll second Social Matchbox as a good place to learn about startups in the DC area.I've recently started a software company with a friend from Mason, but unfortunately we can't afford to hire.Hit me up if you want to grab coffee/beer (contact info in profile). Good luck and welcome to DC! |
Realtime chat engine | newsdog: Comet? |
How do you get things done in hourlong intervals? | mannicken: Extremely detailed microtasking. Like this: http://taskulus.com/taskulus17.png or http://taskulus.com/taskulus16.pngEach of these is a very small tasks that 1-20 minutes but it's important that I can devote my complete concentration and focus to it, without the need to load everything else in my brain.That o... |
How to - Looking for work? | icey: If I were in your position, I would start by building a portfolio that you can share. Either some throwaway app that people can download if you're trying to do client-server work, or a simple webapp you can show people.After that, I'd start checking Craigslist for people looking for small jobs that they need to g... |
Realtime chat engine | jalammar: I looked into this previously and was interested most by XMPP. You can use open source servers like Openfire (Java, http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/index.jsp) or eJabberd (Erlang, http://www.ejabberd.im/). It's more instant messaging than chatting, though (although it does support multi user c... |
Realtime chat engine | icey: Are you looking to write something, or use something like mibbit?(In other words, would mibbit do what you needed?) |
How do you get things done in hourlong intervals? | wglb: Much of what I am doing these days takes a couple of hours to spin up, so I don't have any ideas for you here. Maybe find a way talking with your friend about your need for long stretches of uninterrupted time. Already mentioned here is Paul's very relevant essay http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html. |
Realtime chat engine | jaddison: Ummm... your own IRC server? Seems pretty realtime to me, and quite configurable. Of course, IRC is geared towards group chat, not user-user.Perhaps include some more details about what your restrictions/requirements are - will the users be web-based? How many concurrent users will you expect online at any... |
How to - Looking for work? | andhapp: Do you want to look for a job? I mean to say do you seriously need a job? I would suggest spending sometime looking into open source world and improve your skills and online profile. This would automatically get you a good job couple of years down the line. |
Share your long-term travel experiences | TheElder: I finished up my masters degree in computer science last December. To celebrate I traveled to Japan, SKorea, China, Taiwan, Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar, Comoros Islands, Seychelles Islands, Israel, Jordan, England, and Hungary. I did this all in about two months. An entire month in east Asia, a week in Isr... |
Does your cable ISP suck? | byoung2: At home I have Time Warner Business Cable 15mb down, 2mb up. The speed tests always report near-advertised speeds, and connectivity is reasonably reliable. |
Question about default location sharing popup for iPhon App | there: from what i remember, the prompt is part of the framework and will ask the user to confirm twice before saving it as a default answer. |
Does your cable ISP suck? | makecheck: I have no problems with the performance of SuddenLink, however I do absolutely hate their "helpful" redirects of domain typos to crap pages. |
Startups in DC? | yangtheman: I've lived in DC suburb, tried a startup, but had a major problem finding like-minded entrepreneurs in the area. There are many high-tech folks there, but they don't want to take any risks starting or joining a startup. I have moved to the Silicon Valley in 2007 (used to be in SV from 2000 to 2004), and eve... |
Does your cable ISP suck? | icey: I don't know about testing continuously throughout the day, but you can do on-demand tests at speedtest.net or dslreports.comI have cox and it's hit or miss, depending on the day. |
Share your long-term travel experiences | pasbesoin: A few suggestions (hardly comprehensive):Less is more, in terms of luggage.If you have a U.S. type fashion sense (if you are Canadian, hopefully living under the maple leaf has provided some protection ;-), realize that the rest of the world tends to dress a bit "better". Not necessarily expensively, but e.... |
Does your cable ISP suck? | stse: Here in Sweden some government agencies and a foundation (who also handles the TLD) developed a program called tptest, which measures your speed against a server: http://tptest.sourceforge.net/
http://opensource.iis.se/trac/bbk/browser/trunkNow there is also a flash application available (but probably not foss) h... |
Startups in DC? | corbett3000: All you need is this for a full database of DC startups and their open jobs: http://crossmine.com/Take a look at the Startup sponsors on these RSVPs:
http://twintech.eventbrite.com
http://twintech2.eventbrite.com
http://twintech3.eventbrite.com
http://twintech4.eventbrite.comOh and for an upcoming event (1... |
Best code editor? | ElbertF: SciTE on both Linux and Windows. Simple and highly configurable. |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | poltergeist: 1. Tilda.
* Buggy when you have transparency enabled and resize ( or minimize and then maximize ) the terminal. Otherwise, looks and feels great.2. Yakuake.
* No bugs that I have discovered, and looks great. Is meant for KDE, but works awesomely on GNOME as well. The only nuisance is the title bar ( ... |
Rate my Product : QueryCell | chem: Looks like a good idea to me.I don't work with Excel often enough to purchase but will keep in the back of my mind in case I have a future need.Marketing advice: invest in a copy writer and voice actor and reproduce your video. |
Recommended books for a sales newbie? | petercooper: I suggest these all from personal experience and success (yes, these books have indirectly made me money):* Tom Hopkins - How To Master The Art Of Selling (some of it is a bit American but the overall concepts learned here are priceless)* Harry Beckwith - What Clients Want* Leil Lowndes - How to Talk to An... |
Recommended books for a sales newbie? | lsc: Unless you are good at sales, focus on1. provide a product with a compelling, obvious, and objective advantage over the competition. (either better or cheaper, but preferably both.) You don't have to be better in every way, just obviously and objectively better in some way.2. let people know you exist.Seriously... |
Recommended books for a sales newbie? | ankeshk: I would also recommend:
Ice to the Eskimos: How to market a product nobody wants - by Jon Spoelstra (an awesome awesome book. More about strategy than face to face selling though. But one of the best marketing books I've read.)Top Dog Sales Secrets: 50 Top Experts Show You Proven Ways to Skyrocket Your Sales ... |
Translating Academic papers | jacquesm: I run in to this every now and then, I really want to read a paper but either it is in a language that I don't have enough skills in, or, alternatively the paper requires so much background terminology that I can't work my way through it without spending half a day in dictionaries and reference material.Wheth... |
Review my Startup - KaBadge.com - Achievements and Badges | vyrotek: My goal is to create a service that allows users to carry their good reputation from service to service. The idea is to collect the achievements you have earned from many sites and make them accessible via a single API. These badges or achievements could come from many types of sites and service. Some example ... |
Review my Startup - KaBadge.com - Achievements and Badges | vdibart: It's an interesting idea but there are a couple of things you should think through before taking it too much further. I don't think depending on partnerships is necessarily horrible, but what I'm trying to determine is what the benefit for the partner is. In the Stack Overflow example, Stack Overflow has to ... |
why is ftse dead ? | icey: I think it's pretty obvious if you look at the comments just prior to the [dead]ing. (It looked like ftse started exploring troll country.) |
why is ftse dead ? | Ardit20: I thought u meant footsie 100. Was going to say that it is bank holiday today in UK, therefore it might not be opened.As for your actual inquiry, perhaps you need to make the title clearer. I personally do not know. |
Review my Startup - KaBadge.com - Achievements and Badges | zackattack: i could see this becoming useful if you did ALL the work for the users. get their email & facebook connect, and then scrape their browser history for visited links and find them there. |
why is ftse dead ? | allenbrunson: i really don't think this is a good way to go about this.when editors kill accounts here, that person doesn't know that his or her account is dead without going to a lot of trouble to find out. that's done for a reason. making account killing into a big public deal short-circuits the original intent. |
Review my Startup - KaBadge.com - Achievements and Badges | joshfinnie: Seems like there are still some growing pains with this site. I received a few errors just trying to explore the site. Also, I agree that even though this is a great idea, I think it is going to be difficult being first in this market. |
Is it possible that gmail is working better on chrome? (intentional?) | Semiapies: One of the big things hyped when Chrome came out was its better JavaScript performance. Anecdotally, it seems to run script-heavy sites I use, including the Google apps, more quickly than IE or Firefox. |
Review my Startup - KaBadge.com - Achievements and Badges | edw519: View which badges you have already earned.Very clever. Almost irresistable.Of course, once you get to the next page and see that you haven't already earned anything, "curious" is replaced by "disappointed". |
Review my Startup - KaBadge.com - Achievements and Badges | jdrock: My first thought was "Xbox Achievements for the Internet". This may be a good 1-sentence elevator pitch for certain audiences.Definitely think working with the partner sites to make the end-user experience as transparent as possible is the way to go. Also want to make it very easy for partners to hook in to y... |
Review my Startup - KaBadge.com - Achievements and Badges | generalk: The main page you've linked to tells me almost nothing about the service you're offering. From the first page I should be able to answer the following questions:- What's an achievement? What's a badge?- How do I earn them? If I want to go off and earn something right now how do I do that?- Why do I care? Wha... |
Best code editor? | mdoar: emacs, 20 years, nothing else comes close |
why is ftse dead ? | ftse: ftse here.I didn't know my account was dead to the world, but thanks jacquesm for letting me know.In hindsight my comment at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=765153 does appear trollish, but I assumed the bright sparks reading would have taken it in context. It was exactly the type of comment Dvorak would have... |
why is ftse dead ? | jacquesm: for those who don't have 'showdead' on:ftse here.I didn't know my account was dead to the world, but thanks jacquesm for letting me know.In hindsight my comment at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=765153 does appear trollish, but I assumed the bright sparks reading would have taken it in context. It was ex... |
why is ftse dead ? | mynameishere: Seems pretty arbitrary. I'm amazed I was never put on perma-dead. |
Is Thesis Theme the right choice for my blog? | steveplace: I use it in a couple niche blogs, and once you master it, it's quite versatile and useful. It does have a learning curve and you need exp in WP and PHP to shorten said curve.A buddy of mine did a writeup on it and he is a much better user than I am: http://bit.ly/nicksthesispage[Edit] As full disclosure he ... |
Is Thesis Theme the right choice for my blog? | shabda: Its a pretty good themem which I use myself, but I wont use it on any new blogs, as it has been used so much that no matter how much you customise it, I can take a look and tell you that it is thesis. |
Startups in DC? | djb_hackernews: Wow. I'd just like to thank everyone that replied to my inquiry. Lots of great ideas and great resources.OT: This post would make a good argument for links/comments being a good metric to test for submission worth. |
Review my Startup - KaBadge.com - Achievements and Badges | Maciek416: If you want to be the gravatar of badges, you need to make it just as quick and easy to implement.To that end, you should have your partnering system working as soon as possible. Ideally, it should be as easy as clicking "become a partner" and copy + pasting some simple parametric URLs into your app (or some... |
How best to heal your body? | adrianwaj: Just be patient, good luck. Don't break it again in the same way. |
How best to heal your body? | yannis: Please do not try any X-Ray experiments on yourself, unless you want to neuter yourself!As regards to dieting go with what your body tells you it wants to eat. As to focus learn a new computer language or contribute code to an open source project. |
How best to heal your body? | yan: The best you can probably do now is eat well and rest. I hurt my tendons quite a bit and I know for bones and connective tissue, you can't do much better than rest.edit: and I hope you feel better. I'm sure we can expect more activity from you now.. or more frequent updates to mibbit :P |
How best to heal your body? | Tichy: "Or at least would give me something to do"I don't think it will heal so fast that you can actually watch it live ;-) |
How best to heal your body? | jaddison: Patience is indeed key.I've had several sports related injuries over the years; two things have always caused problems for me:1. my impatience to get back into the swing of things too soon2. not listening to the physiotherapist/doctor/rehab personnelThe above two points combined together caused me to start do... |
How best to heal your body? | terpua: I have had 2 major neck operations due to 3 fractured vertebrae so...Listen to your doctors and your physical therapists. I did lots of fiction reading and exercised like hell when I was allowed / needed to. Eat healthy, like you normally would even without a fractured hip (although your doctors probably recomm... |
Why does a url use ://? | californiaguy2: The : separates the protocol and location, and // is the root level of a path. |
How best to heal your body? | keeptrying: You can learn a lot about your body while your recovering.
This will help you understand the objective of the physical therapy exercises that you'll be doing when your injury has healed to that point. Also you'll understand how better balance and just being in better shape can stop you from getting re-injur... |
Why does a url use ://? | makecheck: Technically, not all of them do; "<schema>:" is the common prefix, and everything else depends on the URL type.See: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txtIn particular, section 3.1, 'The scheme specific data start with a double slash "//" to indicate that it complies with the common Internet scheme syntax.'. S... |
Why does a url use ://? | kwantam: RFC 1738 section 2.1 specifies the colon between the scheme (e.g., "http") and the scheme-specific-part (e.g., //news.ycombinator.com). The // is specified in section 3.1 as part of the "common internet scheme syntax." Specifically, the // is intended to identify the scheme-specific-part as complying with th... |
How best to heal your body? | pasbesoin: Since physical health directly relates to our performance as well as well being, I don't see this topic as at all off-topic.From another perspective, many people "hack" their health. It seems a worthy topic. |
Why does a url use ://? | jacquesm: The ':' is to separate the scheme from the bits that are specific to the scheme. The // is to indicate a hostname and not a directory. http:/test is a valid url indicating a relative path on the machine that the current resource came from, http://test is a url that specifies a resource on a machine mapped to ... |
How best to heal your body? | araneae: No.Probably almost nothing you can do can make you heal faster. You can make it heal slower, however, pretty easily (say, by breaking it again!) but it's hard to beat millions of years of evolution with only a few hundred years of medical science. |
Why does a url use ://? | TimothyFitz: Note that a url like //www.example.com will use the context's protocol, which means an img src="//www.example.com" will use http or https depending on which the page was loaded in. Very handy! |
Why does a url use ://? | DXL: Tim Berners Lee, the creator of the Web and of URLs, wrote some time ago that he regretted the double slash in URLs, saying that one would suffice. |
How best to heal your body? | icey: Good lord, that sounds painful. Hopefully you have a rapid recovery.Your doctor is probably the best source of information regarding exercise.As far as your diet is concerned, you should just focus on eating as healthily as you can. Your body is going to heal itself at it's own pace; assuming your normal state is... |
What sorts of consulting work do you do? | edw519: ...the only thing stopping me from beginning looking for work is my irrational fear of technical inadequacy...The most important thing I ever learned from my first programming mentor, "Consulting is not a matter of how good you are, it's a matter of how far in front of your users you can stay."I've done hundred... |
Why does a url use ://? | dtby: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=101 |
What sorts of consulting work do you do? | byoung2: The last few consulting projects I did were for a company looking to cut costs using technology. They hired me for 3 projects:1. Cost/Benefits Analysis for switching to Angel/Salesforce and VOIP
2. Vetting outsourcing/offshoring companies for data entry/low-level programming work
3. Budget forecasting for com... |
Review my Startup - KaBadge.com - Achievements and Badges | waxpancake: Related: BravoNation http://bravo.yahoo.com/ -- an experimental site launched by a very small team at Yahoo! in 2007. I wrote about it on Waxy, describing it as "a web-native equivalent of XBox Live's achievement system, abstracted to work with any online community." http://waxy.org/2007/12/exclusive_yahoo/ |
What sorts of consulting work do you do? | DanielBMarkham: I do a lot of high-end stuff now, but let me tell you about how I started:I went door-to-door downtown asking small businesses if they needed any help with their computers. By the time I got to the second business, I had my first gig, setting up a small network.That gig led to others, which led to other... |
Why does a url use ://? | vinoski: In a private conversation some years ago, Tim BL told me that he used to use Apollo workstations back in the 1980s and that he really liked Apollo Domain/OS, so he took the // from the Domain distributed filesystem, which used // as a way of addressing possibly remote files, i.e., //hostname/path/to/file . I s... |
What to do with my $100 adwords coupon? | icey: You could use it for an idea you want to A/B test. |
What to do with my $100 adwords coupon? | jacquesm: Find a way to make you $110, rinse, repeat! |
What to do with my $100 adwords coupon? | mixmax: An artist friend of mine bought the search phrase "Is Peter Dyreborg the coolest guy in the world?" When people searched for this phrase they would be presented with an ad reading "Yes, Peter Dyreborg is the coolest guy in the world". |
Review my Startup - KaBadge.com - Achievements and Badges | vyrotek: Thanks for the fantastic feedback everyone! I was hoping to respond and discuss things as comments were left but it was busy day. I hope to address some of the suggestions directly tonight. |
How best to heal your body? | billswift: If you are going to be mostly immobilized the most likely potential problem is gaining weight. Be very careful not to eat more than you need (be especially careful about snacking from boredom). I speak from experience when I say not gaining weight in the first place is a LOT easier than losing it later. |
Why does a url use ://? | mikeytown2: Kinda wondering, but doesn't a question like this belong on stack overflow? |
limiting new account registrations | notaddicted: I have 2 credit cards. |
limiting new account registrations | joez: Maybe an email account that should be unique... i.e. a school or employer? @google.com or @berkeley.edu. Although people might have multiple schools/employers or a mix of both. This also might not work for certain demographics (ones without email!) but I am not sure who your audience is. |
limiting new account registrations | johnnybgoode: Why is the SMS confirmation code method less stringent than a CC check? |
limiting new account registrations | anigbrowl: Paypal? |
limiting new account registrations | ScottWhigham: The only way I know of to prevent duplicate accounts is to give people a code to redeem that is tied to a physical address. In other words, mail them a post card with a redemption code on it and only mail one card to one address. I'm sure this can be readily abused too though! |
limiting new account registrations | johnnybgoode: Actually, if you want to be really stringent, you should charge a small fee without any refund. I take it you don't want to go that far, though. |
limiting new account registrations | donw: Out of curiosity, why is it so important to prevent users from signing up multiple times? Is it a scaling issue, or...? I ask, because there may be an alternative (and less invasive) way of reaching the same goal. |
limiting new account registrations | jsz0: SMS isn't a very good solution. Only slightly better than a simple e-mail verification. There are a number of services that would allow someone to receive texts on unique phone numbers. I'm assuming you have a good reason to limit accounts which means inevitably someone thinks they have a good reason to get aroun... |
limiting new account registrations | rms: In the USA it's really easy to get a business bank account. Just go into the bank and tell them you want a business bank account and they will set you up with a free business account. Is it harder in the UK? |
limiting new account registrations | udfalkso: This is almost certainly overkill, but you can do what Google does for services like adsense. They deposit a small amount of money in your bank account, like $0.02 and then you have to tell them what the amount was for verification. |
limiting new account registrations | JimmyL: If you're really that concerned about multiple users, I think doing the CC check would be the way to go.The larger question I think you should be asking, however, is why this guarantee is so important. You're setting up a huge barrier to new sign-ups - if I came upon a site asking for my CC details, even if it ... |
How to kill the Trojan horse PSW.Agent.ABTK | profquail: Try Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. One of my friends got a nasty little piece of Malware on his computer last year, and that was the only thing I found that could get it off.http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php |
How to kill the Trojan horse PSW.Agent.ABTK | noonespecial: fdisk it from linux, Its the only way to be sure. :)Seriously though, the only way to fix stuff like that is to get outside the system. Boot with a livecd like knoppix and run a virus scanner on the infected partition.There's usually no way for an infected system to "heal thyself" without an uninfected re... |
limiting new account registrations | barryrandall: Generally speaking, if somebody wants multiple accounts, they can get them easily enough. It would help to know a little bit more about why you're trying to block multiple signups.I'm in the US, and I write checks to my customers. We're required to submit information to the IRS on a quarterly basis, so we... |
What to do with my $100 adwords coupon? | EinhornIsFinkle: You can sell it on eBay for around $25. Buy beer for your team this Friday. Swap the Natty Ice for the good stuff. |
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