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Please name two of your most favorite books. | falsestprophet: I'm not sure I have two most favored books. But, I'll recommend two: The Life and Death of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | thesnark: I made a portrait of my girlfriend out of dice.http://www.elusivesnark.com/2008/11/carolines-dice-portrait.... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | pingswept: Here's a list we maintain at work: http://blog.greenmountainengineering.com/greenmountain_engin...I contributed Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder and Desert Solitaire by Ed Abbey, among others.For nonfiction: Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact... |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | iigs: It's not a specific hack, but it has given me the same feeling, something I keep discovering: It's just a bunch of rules. Learn the rules and you understand it.We've probably all seen it with computing; it looks mysterious from the outside but learn the logic and you can make it go.Fixing cars is the same way (fu... |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | petekoomen: I'd love to check it out: pete at carrotsticks dot com |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | thesethings: * Cooking: Ramen can be used not just for soup, but for stir-fry.* Travel: Any supermarket is your fee-free ATM. (cashback) (US)* Travel: In the middle of your urban trek and have to pee? Hotel lobbies usually have clean, open bathrooms. (Specifically talking about the one you're NOT staying at, when you'... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | throw_away: Gödel, Escher, BachInfinite Jest |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | bcl: I'll pick 2 at random:Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyZodiac by Neal Stephenson |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | prawn: Just one for now:Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | Scott_MacGregor: I only read technical and business material, I love this type of stuff.1. The Windows 3.1 manual. A hardcopy in a small grey ring binder that shipped with the operating system when I bought it new. I read it cover to cover to cover 3 times because I wanted to know everything about it. I kept thinking t... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | paraschopra: Brief History of TimeFooled by Randomness |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | baddox: 1984(I don't read much) |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | elblanco: Dune, The Rama Series. |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | seven: During chaos communication camp (lots of hacker do camping) 2003 in Germany was one of the hottest days recorded since $longtime. Normal fridges where not allowed on the campside, because of the heavy power consumption. So I built a fridge out of a box, a towel, plastic bottle and a fan. Worked like a charm. Mos... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | justlearning: among my favorites. Every time you pick a page to read, it's just like watching a sunset; it's never the same.Hackers and paintersGitanjali |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | sateesh: Siddhartha -- Hermann HesseDragons Of Eden -- Carl Sagan |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | teehee: Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleCharlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | jey: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | tomsaffell: When WilliamHill.co.uk (a gambling site) launched in the UK they offered a promotion: a 50% rebate on your first stake (max 50 GBP)The hack was simple, and spread like wildfire on campus: Place a GBP 100 bet on a basket ball game, at odds of 1:1.9. Get GBP 50 rebate.
Get a buddy to take the opposite bet... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | cromulent: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - PirsigAsterix in Britain - Goscinny, Uderzo |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | kirpekar: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid; Douglas Hofstadter.Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies; Jared Diamond. |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | tokenadult: How Children Fail by John Holthttp://www.amazon.com/Children-Fail-Classics-Child-Developme...The Nature of Paleolithic Art by R. Dale Guthriehttp://www.amazon.com/Nature-Paleolithic-Art-Dale-Guthrie/dp... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | chops: Atlas ShruggedandMasters of Doom: The story of Carmack, Romero, and id Software |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | simanyay: Everytime I read a very good fiction book (or series) like Asimov's Foundation, Simmons' Hyperion Cantos or (currently reading) Stephenson's Cryptonomicon I think 'hey, this one is going to be my favorite'. |
What are your failures? | paraschopra: Not joining a fully sponsored two month summer studentship MRC Lab, Cambridge,, UK because I wanted to startup something during summers back home India. It is the only lab with most number of Nobel Laureates in the world (12 and the 13th one this year from the same lab won the prize for his Ribosomes resea... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | spudlyo: Burning Chrome, William GibsonA Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | defen: Tough to pick just two. For now I would say:War And Peace (Pevear & Volokhonsky translation)Dune |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | chickamade: The Analects of Confucius |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | vital101: The remote for my car has a very weak signal strength, so sometimes when I forget where I park I place the remote underneath my chin and press up. My head (skull + fluid) acts as an antenna and voila! There's my car!You might look like a fool doing it, but I promise it works! |
How does one go about finding a mentor? | mahmud: Write to the people you admire and ask them for help. |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | vital101: Atlas Shrugged
American Gods |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | uvince: uvince AT yahoo.comthanks for the free account! |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | noonespecial: If you hold a coin halfway into some older parking meters for a while, it will think its slot is jammed and registers "out of order." Most cities won't ticket an an out of order meter. Free parking. All day. |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | akeefer: The Windup Bird Chronicle - Haruki MurakamiCryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson. . . and really, basically anything else by either of them. |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | StevenHodson: Time Enough for Love - Robert Heinlein,
Small is Beautiful - E.F. Schumacher |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | sjs382: The Last of the Savages by Jay McInerney
Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | zzzmarcus: The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene. The mind boggling science of the very big and very small laced with small doses of humor and philosophy.The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle. I haven't ever read a single other new age book in my life but this one really changed me. I feel consistently happier and more pe... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | jseliger: I listed six here: http://jseliger.com/top-five-books :These books are worth reading immediately:1. Lord of the Rings
2. All the King’s Men
3. High Fidelity
4. Get Shorty
5. Cryptonomicon
6. Almost anything by Robertson Davies, though I recommend starting with The Deptford Trilogy and skipping The Salterton T... |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | dryicerx: Chemistry hack.Distilling Alcohol. I wasn't of age at the time, actually was still in high school, and had a hard time getting alcohol, so I decided to make it my self.Designed and built a reflux still with embedded temp sensors, a condenser, and one-way air locked gasoline containers for fermentation. I used... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | keefe: lord of light and in search of the miraculous |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | david927: Crime and Punishment, DostoevskyLolita, Nabokov |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | grendel: grendel - john gardner
bluebeard - kurt vonnegut |
Best startup space in NYC? | quizbiz: Isn't it better to just go for a setting that is as cheap as possible? Like a room in an apartment to make ramen profitability a lower number... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | JangoSteve: Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)Second is a tossup between Hyperspace (Michio Kaku) and Made to Stick (Chip & Dan Heath) |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | jfarmer: The Great Gatsby and The Book of the New Sun |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | keefe: Human beings have a nearly infinite capacity for self deception. I am not a special, unique exception. I must be merciless in my self observation. The only way forward is to look at where I am and make a simple, realistic plan to take me towards my goal. Underestimating cost in time, effort and money leads to fa... |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | Shooter: I made all of the public area lights at a major hotel and convention center strobe for about an hour during an international science fair. The hotel had a huge glass atrium with elevators and several thousand bulbs, so it was quite a spectacle. It looked like a single huge strobe light had landed in the cit... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | benl: Atlas Shrugged, Ayn RandFirestar, Michael Flynn |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | niyazpk: Two good books I read recently:1) Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos by Michio Kaku2) The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (I haven't read Atlas Shrugged yet. So cannot compare them.)Yesterday I finished Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell and it is a very good book t... |
ASK HN: I'm lost -- need direction | Scott_MacGregor: You asked "Is it too late to get into startup mode?", I don't think so. I think that you might want to discuss this with your wife and get her input into this decision too. Marital acrimony along with the stresses of a startup might take its toll on both of these things, and that would be regrettable.... |
Please review my startup Wingify - Realtime Conversion Optimization | paraschopra: Here is the clickable link - http://www.wingify.com/Here is the link to the product tour - http://www.wingify.com/product/tour.php |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | nikolayv: 1. Guns, Germs, and Steel2. Hackers and Painters (expected to see this more here) |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | marcamillion: Words that work: It's not what you say...it's what they hear - by Frank Luntz (awesome book about the power of language and linguistics - a must read for anyone that wants to know the power of communicating)Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely - haven't finished but pretty interesting so far.Oh...I have be... |
Please review my startup Wingify - Realtime Conversion Optimization | mahmud: http://www.wingify.com/ (clickable)http://www.wingify.com/product/tour.php (Tour)Godspeed Paras! the most hardworking, self-improving, tireless guy I know in online advertising. And it doesn't hurt that you're smart as well :-)You might need to water-down the technical jargon with descriptive sentences. The ... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | kingnothing: Fuqua and Ugly Americans |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | lux: 1. The Count of Monte Cristo
2. The Great GatsbyAnd yet I read mostly non-fiction... :)It's hard to say these are my absolute top two (that's probably an eight-way tie in reality), but Gatsby definitely hit me at a pivotal time and became a subtle but big influence, and Monte Cristo was just a brilliantly entertai... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | rmanocha: Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Ulysses - James Joyce (keep going back to it - to understand it better) |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | gruseom: Dostoevsky, The DoubleKeith Johnstone, Impro |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | louislouis: It was the last year of college, my student card had only 2 months left before it expired. I deliberately lost it and got a replacement which extended the expiration date to 3 years more since new cards were in for next years batch of students. Needless to say I've enjoyed the student discounts all this tim... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | bayareaguy: Sophie's World by Jostein GaarderThe Power and the Glory by Graham Greene |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | knv: Quantum Psychology, Robert Anton Wilson
Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins |
Voting Do Over? | nostrademons: I'd actually like to be able to unselect either up or down arrow, returning my vote to its neutral state. I end up clicking on one of them by accident disturbingly often. |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | ramidarigaz: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (shame on you if you don't know it)and Shogun, by James Clavell |
Please review my startup Wingify - Realtime Conversion Optimization | sh1mmer: I looked at this and completely failed to "get it".Then I read the summary here and it sounds like a grab bag of stuff to both analyse and deploy content to sections of your site's audience.However, "Realtime Conversation Optimization" was a completely meaningless buzzwordified summary for me. |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | akamaka: Tale of GenjiBrave New World |
What are your failures? | vegai: Didn't do backups when I was about 16yrs old. One dark and stormy night, I was experimenting on Stacker or Doublespace or some such, and ended up losing all my files.All my files in this case included every single song (tracker/module) I made since I was 12, which I think was about 50 pieces. Gone. I cannot reme... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | entropie: aldous huxley, islandstephen king, the dark tower |
Please review my startup Wingify - Realtime Conversion Optimization | patio11: Split test a shorter elevator pitch emphasizing benefits over features. :) My impression of them:Cutting-edge conversion optimization made simple, with optional outsourcing. Spend less time fighting your software and more time bragging about your ROI.Incidentally, I finally got around to playing with the de... |
Fios or Optimum Online Boost? | awad: Optimum user for a few years. Don't have FiOS in my area yet, so nothing to compare to, but I'm fairly satisfied with OO. The speed is GREAT. The customer service, much less so. I've had a few instances where a neighbor cancelled their service and had my line taken out as well by the technician. Also, there's alw... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | aharrison: Stranger in a Strange Land - HeinleinZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Pirsig |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | iang: Sophie's World - Jostein GaarderLives - Hendrik van Loon |
Voting Do Over? | guadalupejoe: blow me... |
Please review my startup Wingify - Realtime Conversion Optimization | fauigerzigerk: It looks very good to me. I like the website and I understand what the product is supposed to do for me. What I don't completely understand is whether the focus is on software or consulting and whether the two are available separately.Also, I never quite got the distinction between products and solutions... |
Voting Do Over? | bdfh42: A few clicks here or there will not stop the world turning...Master the Zen of HNVote up posts or comments for the good of HN rather than as a reflex action to something you have just read.In my opinion HN would be a better place without a down vote on comments - the simple choice between an up-vote and no-vote... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | gsk: Read both the books when I was a teenager. I have read other great books but as two most favorite books, these will stay.A Story About a Real Man by Boris Polevoi. A wartime russian novel about love and courage told in a simple and endearing style, based on a true story.Surely, you're joking, Mr Feynman! |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | rimantas: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Inmates Are Running the Asylum by Alan Cooper |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | arijo: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas TalebThe (Mis)behavior of Markets - Benoit MandelbrotThe Stuff of Thought - Steven PinkerThe Logic of Scientific Discovery - Karl PopperThe Four Steps to Epiphany - Steven G. Blank |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | admp: Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand.
Still not sure about the second one. :-) |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | ComputerGuru: 1. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand1. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyAnd, sorry, but I have 3 "number 1 fav" books:1. 1984 by George Orwell |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | arethuza: 1984, Orwell
The Demon-Haunted World, Sagan |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | coffeemug: Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovHyperion by Dan Simmons |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | grizzydot: In college my friends and I would go to the driving range a lot. It was a 3 tier range with a golf ball dispenser on each level, all networked together. We figured out (by chance) that if we swiped our range card and then quickly selected the bucket size of range balls, it would dispense the balls before it ... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | Locke1689: This is really tough.Dune probably had the greatest effect on me as a person.GED was probably the most thought provoking.Heart of Darkness influenced basically all 20th century literature.Tolstoy may have been the most thorough.Darkness at Noon may have been the best political critique ever. |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | tim_osin: Unforgiven by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | ErrantX: Brother in the Land, Danny SwindellsThat needs explaining. It's a teenagers book I read about when I was 16. Of all the books I've ever read it is the one that sticks with me most strongly - it is about passion, anger, compassion and loss. I always think it captured humanity really well.
EDIT: for the plot thi... |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | skwiddor: Shoplifting |
Please review my startup Wingify - Realtime Conversion Optimization | cschwarm: Congrats, it sounds like that's a great product!Unfortunately, it took me 14 page views and 1738 seconds to find the product tour on the page. In general, I found the organization of the different product descriptions to be confusing.I also missed an answer to the 'How?' question. Of course, it depends on you... |
Best tool to book "office hours"? | ErrantX: Interesting idea; I cant think off the top of my head of a service that does do this...Might be willing to give it a shot - got any other ideas for what sort of thing you'd look for? (drop me am email if you like) |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | dlgtho: Walden; or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauName of the Rose by Umberto Eco |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | Tichy: Star Diaries by Stanislaw LemSherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
Voting Do Over? | ErrantX: No offence intended but perhaps a better way is for you to hack your voting methods.This is what I did; when I joined I voted liberally and daily. Now I upvote perhaps 3 times a day on comments and only a few times a week on submissions. |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | matthewking: Dove by Robin Lee Graham |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | hristov: Ok I read a lot so I will just give you my favourite authors just in case someone is looking for new writers to explore. I have read the majority of books written by each of the ones below, and really cannot choose a favourite. So here they are:sci fi:
PK Dick, Stanislaw Lem, Vonnegut (some of Bradburry's work... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | chris123: "Hero With a Thousand Faces" (by Joseph Campbell). On Amazon.com: http://tr.im/hwatf |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | sidmitra: Just to name two out of the many i love:Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy and The adventures of Sherlock Holmes. |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | paraschopra: Great app, it seems. Just curious, what do you mean by "whitelisted by Twitter"? |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | maxklein: Picture of Dorian Gray and the short story collection of William Hope Hodgson. |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | danspodcast: Maverick - Ricardo Semler (For inspiration)
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway(For enjoying the process) |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | Mz: I guess my biggest hack is getting myself well and off all medication with a condition where the typical answer is drugs, drugs and more drugs (plus surgeries) until it kills you.Life is chemistry. Knowledge is power. But many people seem to think only drugs are chemistry and power. <shrug>Edit: Secondary relate... |
Please name two of your most favorite books. | mortenoffline: Accelerando - Charles Stross. Has the fast speed feel of "the flow" coding throughout half the book. Really good for keeping motivated. |
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