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Javascript best practices? | mahmut64: i want to find my wife from london.she is from romania and work at one old people care house
pls help me
when you find her adress pls send me |
What company/industry would you like to see open their data? | pmjoyce: Financial institutions. While you could certainly argue that they already open up their data by way of regulatory reporting, I think there is certainly a case for standardizing output and possibly even increasing the scope. |
Javascript best practices? | mahmut64: she is name miea stanescu and she is 41 years old |
Who makes the best APIs? | chrisbolt: I recently integrated with Zendesk and it was painless. Simple and straightforward.http://www.zendesk.com/api |
What company/industry would you like to see open their data? | SePP: public transportation in Belgium |
Whom do you admire most? | snitko: I like George Carlin, but I do not admire him. I called that name here, because currently he gets a lot of my attention (haven't seen all of his performances yet). I find Carlin views very close to mine and admire professionalism and desire to work hard on his job.But I don't think we should admire people, espe... |
Whom do you admire most? | abrahamsen: Doug McIlroyhttp://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sinclair/doug/?doug=mcilroy |
Whom do you admire most? | cromulent: Teddy Roosevelt. They don't make presidents like that anymore, in any country.Also my buddy, who, whilst being induced into the Catholic confirmation process whilst in primary school, refused, saying that "I'm not convinced. It sounds like some sort of cult". I wish I had been so self-confident (not that bei... |
What company/industry would you like to see open their data? | RiderOfGiraffes: Food. I want to know what's in every packet, and what else is made in the factory. If you're gluten intolerant, it matters that flour is used on another process line in the factory that makes the chocolates that themselves have no wheat, oats, barley or rye.If I had access to the complete ingredients... |
How do you get a grip on phantom errors? | psyklic: I've had this happen many times on random users' systems. If the user is nice enough to work with you (and they were in my case since they were caught pre-deployment in contract work), you can often ask them to try new things with a dev build for instance.The main key is to reproduce the errors on your system,... |
How do you get a grip on phantom errors? | tallanvor: Mark it as 'unable to reproduce' and don't worry too much about it until you get enough information to track down the cause. It sort of sucks, but if very few users are seeing the problem, sometimes it's not worth the effort unless you get a clear lead as to the cause of the problem. |
Whom do you admire most? | nick007: Ralph Nader... he's one of the great American patriots |
Who makes the best APIs? | leej: a sub-question: could someone comment on other types of apis like windows (win32) or posix api? |
What company/industry would you like to see open their data? | elmindreda: The security theatre industry. |
Whom do you admire most? | replicatorblog: Walt Disney doesn't get the credit he deserves as an innovator and entrepreneur. His legacy has been tarnished a bit my the hyper-consumerism that the Disney company is famous for. That said he:1. Invented the feature length animated movie. A multi-billion dollar business that paved the way for Pixar, A... |
Whom do you admire most? | tomjen2: George Washington.The one of two people in all of history I know of who truely didn't want power.After the war the British Monarch asked what Washington wanted to do; he was then informed that he planed to return to his farm (which he did) upon which the king commented that if he did that he would be the great... |
What HN-like sites do you visit? | scorpioxy: I try to visit prog.reddit every week or so. But I find most comments there to be highly annoying and child-like. |
How do you get a grip on phantom errors? | jacquesm: Without the screenshot and an idea of the applications state at that moment that's kind of hard to answer.What you could do, is figure out the IP address of the user (that shouldn't be too hard), then go back into the log files and check all their actions one by one rebuilding the state up to the moment of th... |
Ask HN:help to find that article about testing an idea without building a site | danielh: Have you tried http://searchyc.com ? |
Ask HN:help to find that article about testing an idea without building a site | flybird: just tried. Didn't find it.
thanks though.The link is useful for the future. |
Whom do you admire most? | edw519: My grandfathers.Both left eastern Europe, alone, as teenagers, to come to the U.S., knowing that they would never see their birthplace again, and that they probably would never see most of their relatives again. They did this because they knew they had much better chance for a better life, for themselves and f... |
Whom do you admire most? | MikeHawk: Noam Chomksy. |
Whom do you admire most? | nahumfarchi: Leonardo da Vinci because he didn't limit himself to the art/science divide. |
Whom do you admire most? | jlees: Emmeline Pankhurst, because without her activities, and their effect on society, I would never have had the chance to achieve what I have. Also my grandmother; entrepreneur, politician and pillar of her local society.(I felt this list needed more oestrogen, though both of the above are completely genuine. I'd ad... |
Whom do you admire most? | jacquesm: Eckart Wintzenhttp://extent.nl/about-eckart/Unfortunately he's no longer. |
Who makes the best APIs? | _pius: Definitely read what Joshua Bloch has to say about API design. I'd highly recommend this talk he gave: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/effective-api-designTypically he talks about APIs more in the sense of library design than web service design, but he's very relevant nontheless. |
Whom do you admire most? | chanux: The Woz for being the hacker he is and being different from other Steve.(I'm not sure. Few people came in mind, RMS, Linus, My friend geekaholic, But Woz was strong.) |
Whom do you admire most? | niks: George Foreman....because without him I'd have to use my barbecue ALL the time |
Good books to learn Prolog? | jherdman: Prolog is a pretty neat language. It feels really strange at first, but as you grow used to its weirdness, it becomes much more enjoyable.I learned Prolog in university using the book "Prolog Programming in Depth", by Michael A. Covington, Donald Nute, and André Vellino. Frankly, I didn't use the book all tha... |
Whom do you admire most? | david927: Alan Kay, for constantly inventing the future. |
Good books to learn Prolog? | sb: one of the best texts around is "the art of prolog, advanced programming techniques" 2nd edition, by leon sterling and ehud shapiro.however, by now, it seems a bit dated (e.g. on the constraint logic programming side), so there is another recommendable text "programming prolog for artifical intelligence" by ivan br... |
How do you concentrate? | kakooljay: Did you see this? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=868967 |
Who makes the best APIs? | mumrah: Any of Amazon's APIs - Product Advertising, AWS, et al. |
Good books to learn Prolog? | BigO: if statements and loops in prolog oh man |
Whom do you admire most? | hegemonicon: Marcus Aurelius - relentless in his quest for self perfection even while ruling one of the most powerful empires in the world. |
How do you concentrate? | arfrank: If I really need to block out everything I use http://simplynoise.com/ and turn the brownian noise all the way up and turn on oscillation. It both calms me and lets me focus on what I need to do for extended periods. |
How do you concentrate? | shrikant: In the context of tackling a niggling problem that really could be dealth with in minutes, but appears to be taking forever - I find that a short nap (about 15-20 mins tops) helps me focus and gather my thoughts.If you're in a crowded and/or noisy work environ, noise-cancelling headphones are useful for zonin... |
How do you concentrate? | hegemonicon: Practice.Something I've discovered is that the more I let my mind and my mouse wander away from what I'm supposed to be working on (ie: right now), the harder it is to maintain focus. I suspect this has to do with the reward circuitry in my brain - when I desire something (going on the internet, sending a ... |
How do you concentrate? | n-named: Exercise, meditation, yoga, spending time in nature. Sleeping regularly. Eating breakfast. Spending enough time per day not working, i.e not overdoing it. |
How do you concentrate? | edw519: 1. Do not have access to the internet on your work machine. If you don't have 2 computers, get a netbook for < $300 and connect it to the internet. They should be in 2 different workstations, ideally in 2 different rooms. The thinking is that if you have to get up, you'll only do it if it's really necessary... |
How do you concentrate? | yarapavan: Perhaps, this best advice works for you!!http://productiveblog.tumblr.com/ |
How do you concentrate? | uptown: I switched from talk radio to music. It helps me focus better.
I also force myself to close my RSS reader and email because the alerts were pulling me away from what I was trying to get done. I open it up every hour or two, or after I reach a milestone.
Those two small things have helped me immensely. |
How do you concentrate? | UsNThem: I would recommend some of the tracks by the group All india radio http://www.myspace.com/allindiaradio . I use it effectively to differentiate the signal from the noise ! :)
Anything without lyrics works for me |
How do you concentrate? | srn: Listen to music. Get the headphones that encompass your entire ear so you don't hear other people talk. I've done this for 10 years now. Also possibly get people to write you emails instead of dropping by the office even if you're 5 feet away. Work from home or from somewhere else occasionally, and work hours wh... |
How do you concentrate? | rubentopo: I normally try to schedule blocks greater than 4 hours for programming and i do everything else on the remaining block of time. This normally requires a little bit of planning the day before and may be disrupted by peers or emergencies, but it works for me. |
Good books to learn Prolog? | fogus: I loved Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence by Ivan Bratko. |
How do you concentrate? | jmtame: try adderall. you might be adhd. |
Clean Lisp implementation for study? | fogus: I wrote a version of McCarthy's original Lisp in Python if you want to study the roots of Lisp.http://github.com/fogus/lithp |
How do you concentrate? | diN0bot: record every hour of your day in an easy-to-record system such as OSX's iCal. facing your inefficiencies and patterns is crucial for doing better. combine what you learn from your past with what others here are saying about better planning and habits.
http://github.com/diN0bot/iCal-Analyzer |
Good books to learn Prolog? | jonjacky: "Clause and Effect" by Clocksin. Also, the worked exercises
at Ninety-Nine Prolog Problems, https://prof.ti.bfh.ch/hew1/informatik3/prolog/p-99/ |
What HN-like sites do you visit? | yarapavan: Arstechnica, RWW, Mashable (less frequent), Twitter (if I may say it), LWN |
Clean Lisp implementation for study? | draven: I'm far from being an expert but "Lisp in small pieces" is frequently recommended.There are a lot of free/opensource implementations to study. SBCL is widely used and ppl working on it are available in #lisp. It may be the same for ClozureCL. |
I want to start a vertical ad network, any recommendations for tools? | mahmud: Feel free to email me about deploying our targeting ad server.When I was in your shoes a year ago, I found out I had to write my own. In advertising, you either have the technical know-how or you have the sales force. You can't just use OpenX, sit back and hope to make money.It is a sick twisted industry, but i... |
How do you concentrate? | maxer: i use http://rescuetime.com its free and helps me track what i waste time on and gives me a target to focus on when developing |
How do you concentrate? | gcv: Try to work on something interesting. Hate to sound snarky, but it's that simple for me. |
Clean Lisp implementation for study? | mahmud: T 3.0http://mumble.net/~jar/tproject/t3.0.tar.gzThe most beautiful compiler for any language.P.S. Why not ask the specialists? the people hacking Lisp compilers for the love of it; unpaid and unsung heroes? Drop by #lisp or #scheme in Freenode and see who is there. Most competent Lisp compiler hackers wouldn't ... |
How do you concentrate? | ojbyrne: I know this is weird, but for me the best way for me to concentrate is to lie down on my stomach with a laptop in front of me. Not good ergonomically, and I think its because as a kid I did all my homework lying on the floor in front of the TV.Hard to do in an office environment without strange looks. ;-) |
Clean Lisp implementation for study? | vanekl: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%...Appendix B. |
How do you concentrate? | mahmud: I am only distracted when I have no problems. Show me a good problem or show me money, and nothing can pry me away from work.I am a heavy chain smoker, averaging 30 cigarettes a day .. except when I am in hack mode. I can go for up to 10 hours without even noticing I haven't had smoke all day.The other thing th... |
How do you concentrate? | bjclark: First I write a test.Then I write just enough code to make that test past.Then I refactor my code so that it meets the 4 rules of simplicity.Then I write another test. |
Seeking advice from programmers for non-programmers | icey: A problem I've seen from both sides of this fence is that one side tends to over-simplify what the other side needs to do to get something done.A business guy may say "oh just slap this together and you're done", while a software guy might say "just go get some sales and we're golden".I think taking a few minutes... |
Clean Lisp implementation for study? | jlwjr: If you just want to understand the basics, Andru Luvisi has written an interpreter in less than 400 lines: http://www.sonoma.edu/users/l/luvisi/sl5.c
and an interpreter I threw together based off his design adding garbage collection & more ops in 500 (though the macro system is non-standard and maybe broken): ht... |
How do you concentrate? | projecktzero: I turned off email notifications. I put on earbuds and listen to instrumental(sometimes ambient) music and focus. |
How do you concentrate? | run4yourlives: 1. Right click rescue time in sys tray.
2. Click "Get Focused"
3. Enter three digits (at least)
4. Get back to work.Not being facetious here at all. The internet for a computer worker is the biggest concentration killer out there. Blocking it all means losing part of your toolbox (i.e. googling some obsc... |
How do you concentrate? | jfoutz: I take speed.After 30 years I decided I probably have ADD. Talked to a doctor and he agreed.Very small doses give me hours and hours of concentration.Only about six months in, but the difference is night and day. |
Seeking advice from programmers for non-programmers | christonog: Dan, I can't speak to all your questions, but I'll try to help out where I can. in my experience the easiest way for a techincal person to respect a "business type" is for the business guy to know a thing or two about coding and software development. This doesn't mean knowing how to build Twitter over a wee... |
Seeking advice from programmers for non-programmers | maudineormsby: Also interested in hearing people's thoughts on this, as a "demand side" guy who asks programmers to do stuff.My advice, FWIW, is that talking to and really trying to understand the problems faced by the engineers/developers working for you goes a VERY long way. Typically, they just want to know that som... |
Where Can I Get Some Free / Royalty-Free Music Tracks | billpg: ccmixter is good. |
Seeking advice from programmers for non-programmers | gdp: From my own experience as a confirmed programmer with little interest in business, here's a couple of observations:Programmers end up knowing a heck of a lot about the business just by virtue of needing to know how it operates in order to turn it into software. Use this knowledge. Include programmers in high-lev... |
Clean Lisp implementation for study? | clord: If you just want to understand Lisp, and not platform-specific stuff, I recommend tackling it at a higher level.Haskell is a great language to implement other languages in:http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp-in-haskell.html |
Clean Lisp implementation for study? | rufius: LispKit lisp is a pretty good example. A good description exists in "Functional Programming: Application and Implementation" by Peter Henderson. |
Where Can I Get Some Free / Royalty-Free Music Tracks | dstik: you might be able to find something you like at http://www.youlicense.com/ they have a lot of bands and if you can't find something you like for free you'll still definitely get a good licensing deal. |
Seeking advice from programmers for non-programmers | maxcap: Your prompts are very broad and a discussion based on them is open to generalizations that may not apply to the people you eventually end up working with.You are far better off discussing these questions with the people you intend to have around you when you start your new venture. |
Seeking advice from programmers for non-programmers | run4yourlives: Dan your points are all valid and your intent clean.As a programmer turned business person, who (IMHO) has a decent enough grasp of both, I'll say this: you're missing the elephant in the room here.Your approach to the problem seems to be: I have an idea and a plan, I just need someone to build it. What ... |
How do you concentrate? | bham: For the love of all things good in the world, block Google Reader.I disable auto-checking for new email.Quit Tweetie.Quit your IRC client.Listen to some slow, drone-like ambient music (favorite: "The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid" or a Buddha Machine).Also, while in school (when I really had to and wanted to c... |
Seeking advice from programmers for non-programmers | edw519: Great questions, Dan. Thanks for bringing them here.An overwhelming majority of the time spent on a software startup is at the terminal, coding. If you're not doing that, then you damn well better be bringing something else of value, a lot of value, to the table. Things I'd be looking for...- Specific domain... |
Where Can I Get Some Free / Royalty-Free Music Tracks | jmillikin: Take a look at Jamendo < http://www.jamendo.com/en/ > -- it offers music licensed under Creative Commons licenses, and it's relatively high-quality. |
Seeking advice from programmers for non-programmers | Kirby: The typical view of a business type by a software engineer is not pretty. It gets pretty close to, we do all the work, they do little but interfere with us, and then they take all the money. So it's an uphill battle to have a good relationship. (The _truth_ of this view varies wildly from company to company, ... |
How do you concentrate? | keefe: I have read that meditation helps build a control circuit in the brain and I practice it regularly. I often listen to music or some well known old TV show, something that flows familiar impressions to block out external noise but does not command my attention. Finally, my somewhat silly but surprisingly effectiv... |
How do you concentrate? | bingaman: If you really do need a network connection to do work I've found that the Leechblock plugin for firefox helps me regain at least some measure of control. You can set it to allow yourself a certain number of minutes per hour of "freedom" and the rest of the time it simply blocks the sites that you tell it to. ... |
How do you concentrate? | bhousel: The right kind of background music really helps me concentrate on a task. It has to be something with enough energy to get my pulse up, but brainless enough not to distract me.I've been listening to http://www.philosomatika.com/ a lot lately. 24/7 streaming psychadelic trance. |
Where Can I Get Some Free / Royalty-Free Music Tracks | dalenkruse: Check out iamusic.com. |
Seeking advice from programmers for non-programmers | tc: Having spent time on both sides, I'll offer one pro-tip:Never comment on how difficult something should be. Just don't do it. Physically restrain yourself if necessary from saying, "but it's only doing X, it shouldn't be that difficult." [1]If a smart technical person says that it's going to be hard, then it is g... |
Where Can I Get Some Free / Royalty-Free Music Tracks | stevejohnson: There are a lot of musicians who advertise themselves on iDevGames in the Classifieds section of the forum (http://idevgames.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=4). A lot of them will work for free, or under very reasonable terms, because they want to experiment with games or they're just feeling generous. And t... |
How do you concentrate? | anelson: I find the thing that most kills my concentration is lag. For example, right now I'm at work and we're facing a crucial deadline, but I'm not working. Why? Because I just made a change that requires re-running an integration test, which takes several minutes to run. I'm not about to sit there staring at th... |
What HN-like sites do you visit? | johns: I wrote a HN clone for .NET developers: http://www.managedassembly.com |
Seeking advice from programmers for non-programmers | gte910h: You need to develop the ability sell, advertise, publicize, make deals, etc. In short, all the things a programmer may wish to not do.I'm the very deepest of technical kinds of guy, but on many co-working projects, I'm still the business guy, as I'm very comfortable with talking to customers, selling and negot... |
Where Can I Get Some Free / Royalty-Free Music Tracks | marcusestes: If you find a track licensed under Creative Commons, be sure that it's not licensed Non-commercial. It's bar far the most common CC provision.Also try Rumblefish's music licensing store:
http://musiclicensingstore.com/ |
Where Can I Get Some Free / Royalty-Free Music Tracks | samsonasu: Archive.org has an "open source audio" section that contains a lot of CC licensed music.
http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio |
Where Can I Get Some Free / Royalty-Free Music Tracks | aw3c2: Whatever you end up with, make sure to double check it's legality. People like to put copyrighted music on free music websites.I too recommend archive.org and jamendo.com. Also check out http://www.freesound.org/ |
How do you concentrate? | esila: Taken from "Time Management for System Administrators", however I feel this particular principle applies towards your situation:Figure out if you're a "morning/mid-day/late-afternoon/night" person when it comes to your brain activity. Some people, for the life of them, can't get their brain functioning when the... |
Seeking advice from programmers for non-programmers | Quarrelsome: I'm an apps developer (I work more "end product" than services) and architect who deals day to day with system engineers (who build the tools we build upon), product managers, project managers and testers. So i'm a few steps down from yourself and also have a step "lower" in regards to system engineers (wh... |
have you built an electromagnetic levitator? | jacquesm: The reason they only lift an object only an inch or two (and usually less) is that magnetic field strength falls of to the cube of the distance.I think you'll be learing a lot about servo systems, search for PID control loops.And good luck, that's a tricky thing you're trying to do there.Be sure to post it if... |
Seeking advice from programmers for non-programmers | jcoby: I'm a programmer by trade but I also have my own startup and have a decent amount of business experience. I'm writing this from a programmer's perspective though.> How do software engineers perceive business types?The idiots who constantly make bad decisions that cause programmers to work even harder and miss s... |
Clean Lisp implementation for study? | brianm: Probably better to ask this question on lambda the ultimate ( http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ ) |
Seeking advice from programmers for non-programmers | endtime: I'll answer the ones I have answers for:- How do software engineers perceive business types?The stereotype is that you guys are a bit jockish, and/or that you tend to have good social skills but less hard/technical skills.- How do they come to respect or disrespect someone in this role?I'll respect a business ... |
How do you concentrate? | angelbob: One thing I had to work hard to figure out is that I code in two different ways, and I need to alternate them. They are physically incompatible -- I can only be doing one or the other in a given hour or so.One of these is design. When designing (software, not visually) I need to avoid getting into ruts. I ... |
How do you concentrate? | monological: I love to work on things that interest me, like coding up a back-end for a site. If it's interesting, I start thinking about solutions, I get in the zone automatically and just code away.Be careful to not overdo it by having balance between hacking (analytical) and dreaming (creative), lest you get burned-... |
How do you concentrate? | javanix: I do my best to give myself ridiculous deadlines, and then do my damndest to meet them.If I absolutely have to meet something, I will. Granted, I can only keep it up for a couple of weeks or so, but during that time I can productively code for > 10 hours at a time. |
How do you concentrate? | snitko: This might sound weird, but under no circumstances start concentrating and working unless you've previously jerked off. Or unless you're absolutely sure your mojo's not going to be awake for some time. This thing distracts you like in a moment when you're really starting to get deeper into the code and it's rea... |
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