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What tool makes you most productitive? | wlievens: Eclipse, oh god yes. |
What tool makes you most productitive? | fiaz: Netbeans, JRuby/Java, and some music |
What tool makes you most productitive? | blogimus: A notebook and a set of habits (my processes). A simple paper notebook which I can write ideas down in meetings, which I can keep by my bedside and scribble down my thoughts if I get a brainstorm when I'm sleeping.
There have been a number of discussions.
All electronic tools I've used over the years (languag... |
What tool makes you most productitive? | jlgosse: Definitely Eclipse. The debugger is basically the most valuable feature ever developed. Ever. |
What tool makes you most productitive? | aw3c2: Linux/GNU/Unix (don't murder me, I do not know which one applies here):grep, sed, awk, sort, uniq, shell scripts and pipes now do things in seconds that took me hours if not days to do with Windows GUI tools. Of course my experience plays a big part to that but I don't think that I would be were I am without tho... |
What tool makes you most productitive? | gourneau: Ambient Music, mostly http://www.hos.com |
What tool makes you most productitive? | plinkplonk: Increasingly, mathematics. Not sure if that would be considered a "tool" for the purposes of this discussion. |
What tool makes you most productitive? | mailanay: textpad |
What tool makes you most productitive? | imack: A locally running version instance of issue tracking software. Use whatever you're comfortable with, but I go with JIRA; It costs $10 for a license for up to 10 people.It helps me keep track of side projects. For a long time I had trouble remembering where to pick up a project and would get distracted by unimp... |
What tool makes you most productitive? | physcab: I do a lot of data mining using Hadoop. Hive has become one of my tools of choice for SQL-ing large datasets. |
What tool makes you most productitive? | slackerIII: Valgrind. If you are writing c/c++ but not using valgrind all the time, you are wasting time. |
What tool makes you most productitive? | yan: * Bash shortcuts. Learn ^l, ^r, ^a, ^e, ^w, the substitution syntax (^one^two), bang commands (!cmd, !!, !!:0, !!:1, etc)* Learn a good text editor well. I use vim, but learn whatever you feel comfortable in. Just make sure it doesn't stand in your way.* Learn the core unix commands and use them often (tail, sort,... |
What tool makes you most productitive? | code_devil: - Notepad++/Textpad/Emacs- Python [You can write quick programs on the command line or use it as a calculator]- ToDo List/Notes App running on the background.- Multiple Desktop Windows(workspaces)- Dual Monitors. |
What tool makes you most productitive? | gcv: Two things: Emacs and pen-paper (yes, the old-fashioned paper notebook and a pen).Eulogy follows:Emacs has helped me eliminate software clutter. Seriously. Computer and software maintenance is a major productivity killer for me. Install this upgrade, update this app... I really hate that process, and even Mac OS d... |
What tool makes you most productitive? | unalone: Fresh.app is the core of my activities online. I can't recommend it enough.http://www.ironicsoftware.com/fresh/index.htmlMost of my activities concern the most recent things I've moved with or played with. Fresh lets me handle all of that without worrying about any other workflow. Downloads/screenshots/etc all... |
What tool makes you most productitive? | misterbwong: Visual Studio, Launchy, Web Developer Toolbar, Firebug |
What tool makes you most productitive? | r11t: Most frequently used zsh/bash Shortcut : Ctrl + rMost frequently used Gnome Shortcut : Ctrl + Alt + Arrow Keys to switch workspacesQuicksilver like launcher for Linux with numerous plugins : Gnome-DoVersion Control : gitText Editor : vimManaging multiple remote ssh sessions : screen |
What tool makes you most productitive? | xcombinator: Vim, paper and good quality colors pens. Valgrind, grep, gdb, inkscape for drawings... |
What tool makes you most productitive? | nathanwdavis: Graph paper and a pencil. Just pull it out and start drawing, jotting down ideas, and organizing a strategy of executing on the project at hand.Also, Excel (or other spreadsheet program). Not usually thought of as a tool, but putting small functions in cells and passing inputs/results cell to cell is a go... |
What tool makes you most productitive? | Freebytes: I use Joe's Own Editor. You must configure it to prevent it from making backup files (which are security risks) and to highlight based on your language, but overall, it is excellent in terms of its speed and intuitive interface.I use putty for my SSH connections. It is a nice way to remotely access your se... |
What tool makes you most productitive? | kunley: Emacs. Kudos to an univ professor who made jokes of anyone who was not using it. He used to say we'll be using emacs for decades if we really invest some time learning it. He was right.A REPL for any language used atm. Cool if coupled with the above.REPL/shell history with incremental search, like readline. Thi... |
What tool makes you most productitive? | ScottWhigham: I was surprised to see no one mentioning calendar/reminder tools. Maybe it's because this is Hacker News and more folks are focused on, well, hacking and therefore when they hear the term "productive" they think about being a more productive hacker - I don't know. I do know that I would be far less produc... |
What tool makes you most productitive? | jey: echo "127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com" >> /etc/hosts |
What tool makes you most productitive? | maglob: Jira |
What tool makes you most productitive? | nkohari: I don't mean to spam, and I'm admittedly very biased, but my product Zen (http://agilezen.com/), helps me stay organized and makes me much more productive and happy. I always have a million things to do, and Zen stops me from being overwhelmed. (That's why I wrote it!)On a less self-serving note, I'd also sugg... |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | khandelwal: I find it interesting, that as far as I can tell, only a couple people said "previous co-worker". |
What tool makes you most productitive? | txxxxd: A computer not connected to the Internet. |
What tool makes you most productitive? | fjabre: TextMate for macDjango for framework |
What tool makes you most productitive? | aceofspades19: Git, or any distributed source control software. Even when you are working solo, it helps to have something like git |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | ca98am79: He read my blog |
What tool makes you most productitive? | pcestrada: Cygwin makes life bearable on Windows. |
Lets talk stats | jacquesm: Even though it is off sometimes by as much as 100% and has many shortcomings I have yet to find something better than Google Analytics, but I'm sure that you are already familiar with that.I keep a spreadsheet on the side with most of the key indicators as well.If the situation asks for it I'll write some qui... |
What tool makes you most productitive? | sidsavara: RescueTime!http://sidsavara.com/product-reviews/review-of-rescuetime-fr...Of course if you're using Unix, you can get the linux version (which I don't believe is officially supported).Just knowing where I am spending my time makes me more productive and less likely to randomly web surf etc |
How long to grow organically? | Slashed: In my opinion, it doesn't matter if his doubt is reasonable, as long as you want to get funds from him, you better explain why. Good luck with your startup!:) |
What tool makes you most productitive? | jonallanharper: Learning the ins and outs of regex is well worth it. I find myself doing regex search/replace almost daily within textmate. |
Ask HN:Pop-ups, previews, help bubbles, etc. | alex_c: I think many tech blogs are the worst offenders, and go way overboard with widgets and third party services. Take the front page of TechCrunch - it weighs in at 508KB. Mashable gets to about 884KB before FireBug gives up in disgust.I can't really see this being sustainable in the long term. |
What tool makes you most productitive? | raintrees: A good cup of orange pekoe. More often than not, a quiet time to meditate with a warm cup in my hands gives me the greatest productivity breakthroughs.I fear I have fallen to the monks of old: "First, boil water." |
Any ActionScript Programmers in Attendance? | rmobin: I recently got interested in flash games development for fun, and found this book to be pretty helpful: Foundation Game Design with Flash (http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=1430218215). It doesn't assume any previous programming or flash experience, plus you get to make games! |
What tool makes you most productitive? | natch: Knowing well how to do for loops on the command line of whatever shell I'm using at the time.Saving snippets of how I get things done.Always saving command lines in shell scripts, sometimes with parameters, instead of just trying to remember them. Bash history is great, but it isn't available when changing syste... |
What tool makes you most productitive? | spudlyo: GNU ScreenMy top level screen session is a list of hosts I log into. On each of those hosts, I also run screen (screen within screen) to give me virtual windows on that host. As a UNIX admin this makes my life a lot more productive, as I'm often logged into 5-10 machines at once. Instead of hunting around f... |
What tool makes you most productitive? | jamesbritt: * vim + numerous custom scripts and mappings* JotBot (note: it's my own commercial app, but I use it every day)* Todoist.com + a few custom apps that work with it* Scores of little scripts to automate assorted tasks* My G1, for notes and reminders* git; almost everything gets a repo, so I more easily try th... |
Lets talk stats | bemmu: I got a lot more out of Google Analytics after I discovered events and user defined values. For an app I have, someone passing a link to a friend is an event. If that app is used embedded in Facebook rather than MySpace, I can segment based on user defined values. |
What tool makes you most productitive? | tyrmored: Familiarity with functional/declarative programming methods. I'm not a guru on this at all but learning a different way of thinking about programming like this has been terrifically helpful -- in some languages more than others. You can write functionally to at least some extent in almost any language -- even... |
What tool makes you most productitive? | iamwil: For me, just recognizing that something was painful and I was doing something repetitive. It's easy to get lulled into a sense of 'this is how things are'. When you're conscious of it, you can then start looking for features in the tools you're already using, other tools, or build your own. |
How to "involve the user" on a consulting type website? | chris100: usvisanews.com was the best immigration web site last decade. They had a blog, they had live chats, etc. They provided a great service to everyone who had concerns about immigration.Especially, the "ask an immigration lawyer" live chat was super-popular. Everyone wants to ask a quick question to a lawyer with... |
What tool makes you most productitive? | hariis: the key productivity enhancer:Having a good reason why you are doing something |
How long to grow organically? | eberfreitas: Thanks guys :) |
Ask HN:How many LOC is/was your simplest useful application? | cperciva: According to sloccount, bsdiff + bspatch is 425 lines of code. I've written smaller applications, but that's probably my smallest useful application -- at least if you consider being used (albeit unknowingly) by millions of people and being responsible for saving hundreds of man-years of waiting for download... |
Ask HN:How many LOC is/was your simplest useful application? | aristus: iSVN is an interactive shell for SVN. Think CPAN or RPM shell. Normal use is to list all files that are modified, and to pick various ones by number and operate on them (commit, revert, diff, etc). It's 60 lines of Python. Reminds me, have to release it... $ cd ~/svn
$ isvn
svn> status
1) ? ... |
Ask HN:How many LOC is/was your simplest useful application? | aristus: g, an interactive shell for grep and ack that lets you search files and open them to specific lines. 120 lines of Python. $ g --js FooBar
1) static/web/www/foobar.js
4: var FooBar = function( options
9: FooBar.superclass.constructor.call( t, $.extend( {
28: Foo.inhe... |
Is it worth buying misspellings around your domain name? | andrewljohnson: No, even facebok.com isn't worth much according to a recent HN post.Also, you should have more important questions to deal with, like how to get people to your actual domain. |
Is it worth buying misspellings around your domain name? | fizx: Don't worry about trying to snap up typos. I usually only buy ones that users could make through misunderstanding my name (i.e. parselets.com vs. parslets.com). The best solution is to make sure that your name doesn't lend itself to ambiguous spelling. |
Ask HN:How many LOC is/was your simplest useful application? | makecheck: First ask if LOC is a good measure for programs. :)LOC can be very misleading. A better estimate, to me, would be: how long did it take to write your simplest, useful application? |
Is it worth buying misspellings around your domain name? | JacobAldridge: I would imagine a customer or potential customer who misspells your domain will realise they've gone to the wrong site. Buying misspellings might be worth it in either of two situations1) Those clients are unlikely to try again after the misspellings.
2) Squatters / other sites on those domains will neg... |
Is it worth buying misspellings around your domain name? | jack7890: It depends on what your site is worth and how much traffic you are driving. If you are Google, it's a no brainer. If you're getting 1k uniques/mo, it's a needless expense. The tipping point lies somewhere in between. My guess is on the high end, but I have little evidence to back that up. |
Is it worth buying misspellings around your domain name? | dasil003: It's not worth the time to think about it. Go with your gut on this one and then move on to more important decisions. |
Is it worth buying misspellings around your domain name? | patio11: I have bought a misspelling exactly once, because I couldn't stop myself from doing it when writing an apache config file, and I figured if I couldn't get the domain "right" then I shouldn't expect anyone else to.Customers largely don't type in domains anymore. They use Google. You're going to win on google ... |
Is it worth buying misspellings around your domain name? | christefano: It really depends on what you're using your primary domain for. If you want people to give you money, for example, I believe it's critical that you get the misspelled versions of the domain. If it costs you $10-15 a year for a domain and you get $10-15 per download, subscription, online listing, etc. from ... |
Is it worth buying misspellings around your domain name? | tsally: When you have the popularity for this question to matter, and the staff to answer it, you'll have enough money to buy whatever domain your research tells you that you need. This was the approach Dropbox took (getdropbox.com -> dropbox.com). Delicious did it as well (switching from del.icio.us to delicious.com... |
Is it worth buying misspellings around your domain name? | Major_Grooves: According to TechCrunch the most common mistake made when typing in domain names is to miss out the period between www and domain name. Hence you should own www.domainname.com and www.wwwdomainname.comhttp://gregarius.dropcode.net/demo/TechCrunch/2009/10/07/WWW...I don't think I've ever made that mistake... |
Is it worth buying misspellings around your domain name? | vaksel: I got one for mine, since I always misspelled it myself. |
Ask HN:How many LOC is/was your simplest useful application? | MaysonL: 1 - back in 1964 I wrote a utility for the operations staff at the stock brokerage I was interning at that copied a deck of punched cards which fit on a single card, and I wrote it at the keypunch machine. |
What tool makes you most productitive? | TomasSedovic: A web browser, actually. Plus that whole Internet thing. |
Is it worth buying misspellings around your domain name? | techiferous: Here's a datapoint for you:There is a movie that starts with "the", let's call it "The Prince of Darkness". I noticed that www.theprinceofdarkness.com was the official movie site, but www.princeofdarkness.com was unregistered. So I registered www.princeofdarkness.com solely for the purpose of measuring h... |
Is it worth buying misspellings around your domain name? | techiferous: newsycombinator.com is available... ;) |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | ProjectOscar: jquery,I think the answer to your question is quite clear to me. Be the founder or part of the founding team at your next startup. What's been holding you back, you seem to be a good enough engineer to either be part of an upcoming YC class or do it on your own? You'll work just as hard, but I think th... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | nostrademons: Take more risks.There's this idea that's beaten into us as children: our success depends upon how hard we work. That's only true insofar as zero effort probably equals zero reward. In reality, your reward is much more proportional to the risks you take (and of course, you have to be lucky and skillful e... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | mattrepl: Get in touch if you're interested in search and thinking about starting something. One never knows...matt@dynamictyping.org |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | adrianwaj: Do a startup, use this history as part of your pitch, and make sure you get the best term sheet. This pitch is good - it's real. Find a cofounder if you must. |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | pm: I would agree that you direly need to found your own startup, but right now you need to find balance. You need to reduce your working hours. You need to work less during those hours. And you sure as hell need to forget that your stock options even exist, because in the end they aren't going to be worth horseshit... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | nhashem: Here's a link to a blog post by Mark Suster a few weeks ago, which I think was listed on HN:http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/11/04/is-it-time-for...It sounds like you had some pretty negative experiences at your previous positions, but I'll bet the experience you gained puts you in a position to be a lo... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | ankeshk: You're not being impatient. But what you need to learn is how to parlay opportunities.Use your current job to build a 6 month nest egg (calculate what you need to live on if you won't earn a penny for 6 whole months). Then parlay that 6 month safety net to start your own venture, or become part of another st... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | ofaurax: You should ask Tim Feriss. |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | mahmud: Are you sure you're being milked? Are you sure you're not merely "adequate"? Don't answer, it's a rhetorical question. You're 3 years out of college, and whatever you're doing now, whatever you're good at, it is just something that requires < 5 years of training and experience. That's barely the number of years... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | jacoblyles: It's weird that you have such concern for your "twenties slipping away". Every year you learn more and put yourself in a better position. Why the existential angst? Your 30s will probably rock, too.Then again, I might just be rationalizing away the horrors of aging as I near 27 years of age. |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | andrewtj: How is the increased salary going to help exactly? If you haven't already I suggest you quantify your dreams and where possible take them for a trial. The former will let you know if they are as far out of reach as you think they are. The later will let you know whether they live up to what you imagine. Money... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | dkersten: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/11/04/is-it-time-for...Actually, I feel the same, so I've decided my learn period will be up soon. I'm saving up enough money to live off and early next year intend to work on my startup full-time. Staying where I am isn't bringing me closer to my career goals. |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | kineticac: It's sometimes your own fault for being taken advantage of. If the most you can do is quit the job or post on HN about it, then you're not doing enough. You seem smart enough to know when you are being taken advantage of, it's you're fault for letting it happen.Take risks, make demands, or else you'll neve... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | timr: Given the audience of this site, I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that the top answers so far are variants of "do a startup". That's all well and good, but it doesn't really get at the heart of your question. Assuming that you're even in a position to start a company of your own, in all likelihood, a startu... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | Wump: to live the good lifeWhat does "the good life" mean to you?Is it about money? Building useful things? Improving your relationships? Having a family?Take time to reflect on this question. Let the answers guide you. If what you are doing now doesn't fit your ideal of the good life-- change. And, if that chang... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | noonespecial: This advice is going to have a little bit sharper edge than what I usually dispense:If some one pays you $50k to work for them, give them $50k worth of work. The rest of the time is your time. You can donate it to your employer if you'd like because the work interests you (I'm sure they won't object), but... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | kixxauth: If you are as great as you seem to be saying, you may want to try working on a member owned and managed corporation. It's like a co-op, or an employee owned organization, but better. You are paid in equity, which is determined by your peers. All of the profits are distributed amongst the equity holders / me... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | bemmu: If you want to travel, I think it's more about just deciding to do it. Your salary certainly is enough to travel. You make more than most in upper management here in Finland. On a bare bones budget, you could spend a year in many SE asian countries on a budget of $12k and that includes flights. Actually you coul... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | dualogy: There's always a "risk" that a company in which you work as a salaried employee "takes off", which could cause thoughts like "the founders are rich now" (are they? have you seen their bank accounts?) "because I worked so hard and well" (as did others in your team, I presume --- pat yourself on the back, take a... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | jaytee_clone: Sounds like you are in a great position to start your own company.- You can make products that make money.- You have startup experience- You can work hard.It's time to make yourself rich. What are you waiting for? |
Free sources of historical financial data? | jacquesm: http://www.traderji.com/data-feeds/19943-commodity-historica... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | patkai: I've been in the same shoes several times and I had to realize that it is a personality issue. I was raised to be respectful, helpful and a "good guy" and nobody taught me how to negotiate for a salary or how to draw the line for helpfulness. Those who are different will take advantage of you without noticing, ... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | gaius: It's interesting to see the two attitudes. When an engineer says "I quit" it means "I really am done here and I have already accepted another offer", but management hears "I'm finally ready to negotiate seriously". Worth going back, if you haven't already, and reading yesterday's post on part 2 of the Gervais Pr... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | scotty79: First of you are already burned out so make yourself two year holidays to rebuild your strength and relationships with the people you care about. Surely you must have accumulated enough wealth by now to afford such things (of course this will require cutting down on some expensive stuff).After two years start... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | wehriam: You may be clinically depressed. If the personal problems you've described persist do not hesitate to seek help from a physician. |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | andrew1: I'm baffled by all the 'do a startup' advice.Your complaints seem to be:- you feel you're working too hard and too long- you don't have a work/life balance, hence the girlfriend problem- you want to lead the good life- you are peeved that your hard work is making money for othersAnd who are you?- by the sounds... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | philjr: Here's my advice, as someone fully employed who did the working like a dog thing for my own business for a while, and then for someone else for a while, got half burnt out and stopped.1. Treat yourself as your own business. If your business is selling it's services for $50k a year, you deliver what you feel is ... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | jbrlondon: Go into banking.Seriously. You picked the wrong career. Become an investment banker. If you're smart, competitive, highly motivated by money, and want to be rewarded in some respect, at least at junior levels, in proportion to your diligence (as opposed to your commercial acumen, sales skills and depth of yo... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | Tichy: Just don't work 100 hours for somebody else, while only being paid for 40 hours. Why do you do that? |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | marcofloriano: You just dont know how to LIVE. Dont panic, You are not alone. Most people (and i´m like you) only exists and dont know how to live. |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | mpf62: I personally doubt that you have been taken advantage of the way you describe it. Did you really take the one product from $50 to $700+ daily revenue all by yourself or did you “only” make it easier for the salesmen to place it in the market?If you had worked for yourself, would you have been able to actually se... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | volida: "Don't start your own company because you want to be your own boss." reference http://philip.greenspun.com/business/startup-tips/Potentially you were the means that their product did succeed thanks to your talent, but assuming they were lucky to have you on board and you play that role it doesn't mean they woul... |
Is it worth buying misspellings around your domain name? | bhseo: Buying typo domains is good if:1. You have a lot of money.2. You might be a phishing target.3. There's an affiliate program on the non-typo domain.It's a good idea to try to buy the most popular typos, you can get an idea if you check the search query frequency for each typo (try the Adwords Keywords tool) or yo... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | moon_of_moon: Think about why it is you do this. I'm guessing you either grew up in a family where money was tight and you're determined as hell to make it, or there was something else you need to prove a point about.There's nothing wrong with that. Once you figure out where the drive is coming from, it will clear up y... |
the equivalent of Code Complete in high level design? | mahmud: Define "design". |
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