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Are you working on a Location based application? | prabodh: I am working on a location based services app...What are you exactly looking for |
What are your failures? | auston: Giving up too early. Thrice.Next time around I am going to ride it out for as long as possible. |
Name for Biological Buildings | Mankhool: Biotecture. |
What are your failures? | mixmax: Here's a true story involving theft, pregnancy, heart-attacks and ruined friendships. Definitely my worst failure...http://www.maximise.dk/blog/2009/06/worst-case-scenario.html |
What are your failures? | ramanujan: Deciding to join the laboratory of a really shitty advisor. I managed to survive, graduate, and even thrive.But just a little bit less laziness at the beginning during my advisor search would have helped a lot. |
Name for people who study without getting around to doing | pageman: sans sequitur/sine sequitur? - "nothing follows"Ex nihilo nihil fit - "from nothing, follows nothing"ab indeterminato nil sequitur - "from that is indeterminate, nothing follows" |
Name for people who study without getting around to doing | biznerd: Intellectual Masturbation |
What are your failures? | enjo: I attempted to start a mobile software company(Symbian, well before the iPhone). The biggest mistake: attempting to start the thing without adequate funding. We attempted to bootstrap, and despite the fact that we built a great application we simply didn't have the money to drive traffic and build the exposure we... |
What are your failures? | JustRick: In 1998 my brother and I sat down and planned a web service which would allow travelers and writers to write journals and upload their photos whilst on the road. It would focus on simple image uploads, short chronological posts and then notifying your friends/family of new content through a subscription servi... |
Joining a team later as a co-founder | newy: Be very careful with these type of opportunities, especially if a lot of time has been wasted on stuff that adds very little value in terms of getting the company traction. If the company has customers already that's one thing. If the company has just some standard incorporation stuff, an idea, some failed prot... |
Am I lazy, or really tiered. | thegoleffect: What kind of work do you want to get done? Do you have a list of prioritized, itemized goals? |
Am I lazy, or really tiered. | rooshdi: I recommend either taking a power nap (about 20 minutes), or a nice cold shower to wake your body up and get you refreshed. Also, some sort of outdoor activity or exercise can really get the blood pumping and make you feel more positive and energetic. |
Name for people who study without getting around to doing | rokhayakebe: Consumers."At any giving time you are either a consumer or a producer." |
Am I lazy, or really tiered. | jacquesm: I go through phases like this. Like a cat, either hyper-focused to the exclusion of almost everything else or totally lazy. How long the phases last is as far as I can see totally random. I've given up on trying to control it long ago, I just go with the flow.Making sure that what really needs doing gets done... |
Name for people who study without getting around to doing | undees: Dilettantes? |
Name for people who study without getting around to doing | ahoyhere: I don't have a suggestion for a new word, since many of the others are so good. But it's just procrastination, when you come down to it, and it probably has different root causes in everyone who exhibits it.But, as somebody who procrastinated for 6 years and then in the past year has shipped 4 new products, I... |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | zackattack: STEPS TO GET YOUR PAID ACCOUNT1. REGISTER ON THE WEBSITE2. WHEN YOU GET TO "STEP 3", WHICH ASKS YOU FOR PAYMENT, POST IN THE THREAD WITH YOUR EMAIL ADDRESSMy new website is CustomerFind.com.Remember my web app HipHopGoblin.com? Well, about a month ago, I wrote up a blog post detailing what I had learned and... |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | nkohari: Wow. Your website is a very blatant ripoff of Basecamp's design. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but yours is a little over the line. |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | workhorse: I would get rid of the horizontal bar.Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 GTB5 |
Little things/tools that improved your work or life lately? | catch404: Started using backpack from 37signals and have found myself using it all the time - now a very important part of my workflow. Granted it has many downsides but for now its working great! |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | marram: Here is one problem: After I authenticated my twitter account, I got the following error message:
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You registered the Twitter screen name foobar but authenticated the Twitter screen name fooBar.
"""I'm sure you know you should convert strings to lowercase before comparing them! :) |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | marram: Some feedback:
1. It is not clear to me what happens after updating the keyword list. Would the program then go find people and follow them based on those keywords?2. "People you have followed (controlpanel.php?p=following)" is empty. Shouldn't this fill up instantaneously? |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | AlexBlom: Registered alexanderdblom AT G MAIL |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | marcamillion: Hey Zack,
Firstly let me say that I love the idea. I can see it being very valuable. I am working on an idea myself, and I can definitely see us using this service once we are ready - who knows when that will be. I am sure you know how that process goes.Secondly, I must also commend you for charging ... |
What are your failures? | lemming: A few years ago, a friend of mine and I were DJing a lot. Just when CDs were coming in and people were starting to accept that DJs might not use only vinyl forever, we considered starting a website to sell electronic music digitally. At the time the bandwidth costs were so high that we couldn't have made a pro... |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | many: I'm really poor. Can I have 90 days? |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | jcoby: jacob.coby at gmail.com |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | mishmax: halshura at gmail |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | fjabre: I like this if only for the fact that the idea was born of necessity.For me at least it seems the ideas always come when I'm busy building other projects.It also seems pretty relevant to where online marketing is headed.Best of luck |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | flooha: flooha at gmail |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | Raisin: fdcleary at gmail |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | marram: Oh oh. Seems to be down now. |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | gaz: contact at tallstreet.com |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | ekpyrotic: ekpyrotic at gmail dot com |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | tonyvt2005: tonyhuynh29 at gmail |
I've tried lots of things but haven't finished any. | kitcar: You only need two skills to succeed in business: the ability to negotiate and the ability to sell. Buy low (goods, services, knowledge), sell high.Without knowing your personally, I would say you need to work on the sales side of things, as there is quite a bit of rejection in your past. |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | ABrandt: austin [at] beatnex [dot] com |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | slig: Feedback: Let the user choose the language of the keywords. |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | miles: "Free account for HN community" should read "Free trial account for HN community" in my opinion, as the former is rather misleading. |
How does one go about finding a mentor? | ScottWhigham: Talk about hubris - you sound like you are interviewing job candidates. Your mentor has to choose you just as much if not more than your choosing him or her, don't forget.This seems like one of those, "If you have to ask, you aren't ready" type of questions to me. |
Name for people who study without getting around to doing | MikeMacMan: Posers |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | jacquesm: only two ? tough!The diamond ageManifold: timeedit: this thread is going to seriously mess with my productivity in the next couple of weeks. |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | socratees: Maybe you should use proper grammar. "What are your favorite books?" or "Please name two of your most favorite books." |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | cesare: - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig- Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy |
How does one go about finding a mentor? | cnouri: Think about what areas of business/technology you need coaching on. You probably can use a little help in lots of areas and there isn't going to be one person to solve all those needs. Be open (I encourage) having lots of mentors. |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | ctingom: Founders at Work |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | keefe: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js></script>This lagged hardcore the first time for me. Pretty sure you are not supposed to hotlink this in production? |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | jsackmann: Moby-DickThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | CrazedGeek: It's Not News, It's FARK by Drew CurtisFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | redact207: Guerrilla Marketing - Jay Levinson
Quantitive Finance - Paul Wilmott |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | KC8ZKF: _Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid_ --Douglas Hofstadter_Moby-Dick_ --Herman Melville |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | ori_b: Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas HofstadterFiasco - Stanislaw Lem |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | unalone: House of Leaves - What literature should be. Innovative both in design and in prose. It's very long but you can finish it in a maddening evening, it's hilarious, it's terrifying. Along with Steven King's It, one of two books to give me nightmares. Incredibly complex. It's a puzzle I still haven't fully solved.... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | pgbovine: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
http://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Mihaly-Csik...The Design of Everyday Things
http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/d... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | trafficlight: House of Leaves - Mark DanielewskiThe Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | gtt: Nassim Nicholas Taleb -- The Black SwanSun Tzu -- The Art of WarLao Tzu -- Tao Te Ching |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | rjett: The Man Who was Thursday by GK Chesterton....very well written allegorical spy novel.The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas... I'm a sucker for a good plot and this has always been a favorite of mine since I first read it in 5th grade. |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | fogus: "House of Leaves" by Mark Z DanielewskiandCatch-22 by Josepf Heller |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | jacquesm: Building a windmill and powering my house with it ? (I guess that has mechanical, but it is also technical, hard to be 'mechanical' without 'technical').Not sure if this qualifies as a 'hack', but when abroad and stopped by the police I suddenly only speak dutch. That seems to reduce the interest level consid... |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | dryicerx: Lockpicking count? |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | loumf: "Cat's Cradle" Kurt Vonnegut
"Frankenstein" Mary Shelley |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | plinkplonk: Technical: Paradigms Of Artificial Intelligence Programming by Peter NorvigFiction: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | adw: "Spies" by Michael Frayn, "Words and Music" by Paul Morley. |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | mahmud: The Story of Civilization; 11 volumes of pure joy. Will and Ariel Durant will make you fall in love with mankind. The most humanist take on history I have read. I read them over 6 years and I still live under the Durants' spell. Exquisite and delightful read.Muqadimat Ibn Khaldun. History, Sociology, Political ... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | mrlyc: "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes (the short story, not the novel)"The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | kyro: A few of mine:-In college, I found that the card readers to open the gates into the faculty parking lots, and into the inner ring of the campus, didn't really check for anything... other than a physical card in the slot. So 3 years worth of free parking close to campus was definitely great.-I worked at a franchis... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | DanielStraight: Best non-fiction book I've ever read: http://inthelandofinventedlanguages.com/One of the best fiction books I've ever read: http://www.amazon.com/Piano-Tuner-Daniel-Mason/dp/0375414657 |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | niels_olson: 1) The Way Things Work, by David Macaulay, first edition, first read when I was, maybe 12. Taught me half-adders. Degrees in physics and medicine, and I still refer to this cartoon book.2) The House of God by Samuel Shem. It's about a medical intern 30 years ago. Raunchy, smart, and, now that I'm an intern... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | qeorge: Bonfire Of The Vanities by Tom WolfeEnder's Game by Orson Scott Card |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | mjfern: "Into to Thin Air" by John Krakauer and "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | secos: Lao Tzu - Tao Te ChingDave Thomas & Andy Hunt - Pragmatic Programmer |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | pg: My Family and Other AnimalsMedieval Technology and Social Change |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | Radix: "Les Miserables", I hated Thenardier, Javert too until I learned to pity him... The book rambles a bit, but it's wonderful. In parts uplifting and crushing. I don't communicate well enough to express how much I think of it."Where the Red Fern Grows", I believe it was the first book of quality writing and compe... |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | chrischen: Fiddling my ID card into the lock in the door of any room in my school would eventually unlock it. I got into a room after the teacher locked it for lunch once (we leave for lunch and come back after). |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | tjpick: Rocco by Sherryl JordanThe Dragon's Birthday by Margaret Mahy |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | ekpyrotic: 'Elements of Style', Strunk & White.It has changed my life. For the last two years I have endeavoured to simplify my thoughts/ideas, so they can be communicated precisely. It's hard, painful work.That aim has recoloured my being: music; literature; art. Philip Glass. Hemingway. Mondrian.I am not the same per... |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | zackattack: A Combinatorial Proof of the Summation Identity
(i=1,i->n,i) = n(n+1)/2http://img.skitch.com/20091012-mt5p22p1fxi3s1y32wqid49pwm.pn...Zachary Burt, University of Chicago, 2007Assume n people are in a room and they each shake hands with every other person. This constitutes n(n-1)/2 handshakes: each person sh... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | chrischen: The Lost World - Michael Crichton
Harry Potter - |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | anamax: Girls like sex and want to have sex with me. All I have to do is express interest and not piss them off until afterwards.Generalizing "afterwards" makes relationships possible.Women are girls in many respects. |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | ptomato: The Elements of Style, Strunk & White.Leave it to Psmith, P.G. Wodehouse |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | chaosmachine: NeuromancerDune |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | ghotli: Invisible Cities by Italo CalvinoWaiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | cperciva: Peregrine Worsthorne: In Defence of Aristocracy <-- an examination of the role of aristocracy (both de jure and de facto) in the modern democracies of Britain and America.Michael Ondaajte: In the Skin of a Lion <-- a modern retelling of the Epic of Gilgamesh via immigrant settlers in early 20th century Toront... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | dangoldin: Cat's Cradle by Kurt VonnegutRise and Decline of Nations by Mancur Olson |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | rokhayakebe: The world is flat..From Beirut to Jerusalem (not done yet).Both from Thomas Friedman. |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | MikeMacMan: Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto EcoAnything from Elmore Leonard |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | fogus: I once worked at a car wash were most of the employees were out on work release. Anyway, the days were long and boring so I took the time to devise a way to get free sodas out of the vending machine. I was not interested in stealing soda, as I hated it, but only in figuring out how to do so. I eventually did ... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | mynameishere: I don't have any favorites, but the books I've read the most are "Notes from the Underground" and Walden. The last time I read Walden I didn't enjoy it much, so maybe I shouldn't mention it...The first should be read by everyone though http://www.gutenberg.org/files/600/600.txt |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | jackdawjack: The Brothers KaramazovGravity's Rainbow |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | zachware: zgware@gmail.com. Excited to check it out. |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | rgiar: Non Zero: The Logic of Human Destiny
The Mating Mind |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | RobertL: "1984" George Orwell
"100 Decisive Battles: from Ancient Times to the Present" Paul Davis |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | rgrieselhuber: Shogun, James Clavell - read it when I was 9 or so, put me on the course to live and work in Japan. Has obvious faults but changed my life at an early age.The Brother's Karamazov. Pleasantly surprised to see Dostoyevsky mentioned a few times in other comments. |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | hamilton: Lately I've been staring at the Codex Seriphinianus quite a bit. Worth finding a copy if you haven't seen it before.From a technical point of view, The Elements of Statistical Learning, by Tibshirani, Friedman, and Hastie. Far and away the most illuminating demonstration that so many ML / AI techniques have... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | systemtrigger: Don QuixoteShogun |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | zackattack: For many years, jamba juice was running a promotion: buy a $25 gift card, get a free jamba juice. So one day I bought a gift card, got my free razmatazz, and was about to head out on my way when I doubled back.Me: "I'd like another $25 gift card please."Cashier: "That will be $25. What is your free smoothie... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | slig: 1984 and "the art of war" |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | nfnaaron: I hacked a skydiver once.I was a civilian/sport/fun/non-military jumpmaster in the eighties. Taught/supervised skydiving students from the second jump on. Sometimes sat in the plane and supervised/critiqued, sometimes jumped out with them for some task they were learning that involved another person in the ai... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | wgj: Reflections on the Art of Living: A Joseph Campbell CompanionThe Power of Now |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | edw519: "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair"When Bad Things Happen to Good People" by Harold Kushner |
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