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How do I regain my attention span? | JasonWyatt: Don't make your projects big monolithic tasks, make them consist of a series of fun, small iterations (like Agile development). You'll have a better time, and it'll be easier to stay motivated - especially if you're making your project open source and can do minor releases along the way. |
How do I regain my attention span? | makecheck: Break up tasks into the smallest parts that you can. Once you start finishing a few of these, you'll notice significant forward progress.Release to the public often, and write notes that highlight your changes. That's important, because it forces you to think in terms of those notes; if there's nothing "re... |
Please review my web app: WantsThis | chris24: I love apps like these, especially when they have domains that make sense to have usernames in them.The amazon.com price comparisons are a little annoying to me, though, because most products don't ship internationally from Amazon.com. Not only that, if I'm entering prices that are in CAD$ and price comparison... |
Please review my web app: WantsThis | taitems: 1. NSFW thumbnail in recently added items list2. The grey boxes and text-shadows combine to form some really unreadable text |
How do you consume Hacker News? | edw519: Hey volare, I can see how it can easily happen, but please don't let any of these things confuse you: - the links to current hacker related content
- a fairly sophisiticated way to present those links in an "optimal" manner
- discussion like you'll find nowhere else
- content from which to learn better h... |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | infloop: Damballa in Atlanta is hiring top notch developershttp://www.damballa.com/company/employment.php |
Review my jQuery Plugin (jQSlickWrap) | pbhjpbhj: nice, like the reflect plugin too (but it could use a spacing option for "hovering" images above the reflection) |
Review my jQuery Plugin (jQSlickWrap) | zackham: This looks great, will be using it. If I run into anything I'll let you know. Am I safe in assuming that if canvas is not supported it just does around-the-image wrapping? |
How do you consume Hacker News? | bayareaguy: I often read HN when I happen to be at an impasse away from my laptop or desktop. I'd like to HN's interface offer better support for mobile browsers.For example, http://m.ycombinator.com could be a version of news.ycombinator.com with margins, indentation and other settings appropriate for a Blackberry or... |
Please review my web app: WantsThis | Sandman: I just checked your app for sql injection. The password I chose while registering a new list was d'artagnan and, sure enough, I was granted access without any error message whatsoever, but once I logged out I couldn't log in again. I thought that you might have removed the ' character automatically, but I also... |
How do I regain my attention span? | daeken: I've found myself at the same place, and though I'm still working on it, I've found the following to be useful:Don't force yourself to work on something unless you want to, assuming no time constraints. If you force yourself, you're going to do less and hate life. It's an easy way to lose your focus.If you're... |
Do you develop on a Mac? What apps do you use? | bgnm2000: I develop (rails) on a mac - I use textmate and terminal |
Please review my web app, Docley | zandorg: No comments for now, but I'd suggest SSL (https) encryption which should be fairly simple to implement. |
Do you develop on a Mac? What apps do you use? | rickharrison: My most common applications in my workflow are Coda, Terminal, and Fireworks for the occasional graphics editing. Also, XCode is a big player when I'm doing my iPhone development. |
Please review my web app: WantsThis | Cybourgeoisie: Hey, this looks great; I'm signing up purely out of interest. Though, one small thing - if neither password field is filled out and the form is sent, I receive this message: "The password fields must match". Insignificant non-bug, but still not the correct error message to display. I look forward to see ... |
How do I regain my attention span? | gkoberger: I've always found deadlines are a great way to get things done. My biggest problem is that projects tend to seem never ending, which is a huge turnoff for me.You can try self-imposed deadlines, but those rarely work for me. I prefer real deadlines- promise to show it off at a conference or meeting, or some... |
How do you consume Hacker News? | kijun: Try using hn-filter, a feed that I made last week.For example, http://hn-filter.heroku.com/rss?cmt_gte=2&point_gte=5...
gives you 10 HN articles with more than 1 comment and 4 points in RSS format.It also gives you the number of comments and points.The source is at http://github.com/kijun/hn-filterHope it helps... |
How do I regain my attention span? | j_baker: My experience is that difficulty concentrating is rarely the problem itself. It's usually a symptom of a problem. Rather than trying out tricks, your best bet is to tackle the problem head-on.First thing I would recommend is that if concentrating is a serious problem for you, you should see a doctor. Since ... |
How do I regain my attention span? | dfranke: Step 2: stop reading Hacker News :-)But seriously, log off for a while. Stop Twittering, stop IMing, stop reading your RSS feeds. If you're regularly employed, then take a vacation and go to the mountains. If not, go there and stay there. Come back once the spontaneous urge to do so goes away. While you'r... |
How do I regain my attention span? | wisty: Willpower is like a muscle. It gets stronger with use.Buying a copy of GTD might help, but it won't be an instant cure. There is none.Also, consider exercising your willpower on smaller (but non-trivial) projects. |
How do I regain my attention span? | natrius: The most effective thing for me has been social pressure. If I'm working with people who are depending on me to get my work done, I'm more likely to get it done on time. If my coworkers can see my computer screen, then I'll definitely get it done on time, because I'll feel too ashamed to procrastinate. This sy... |
How do I regain my attention span? | rabidgnat: You have to be honest about the best way to motivate yourself. In the speech "You and your Research," Richard Hamming[1] talks about how he uses his ego against himself. When he went on sabbatical to write a book, he told everyone he was going to finish by the time he got back. He wouldn't dare suffer the em... |
Has anyone used machine learning to trade? | ad: How much do you know about trading now? If you know little, I would recommend the textbook Trading & Exchanges by Larry Harris. It's somewhat out of date but still very good. I work at a high-frequency trading shop and that is the first book they shove at you when you walk in the door.Other than that, I'd like t... |
How do you consume Hacker News? | tdupree: I always thought a HN API would be awesome, would give us a lot more freedom to mold HN into different interfaces. I have toyed with the idea of a scraper but I think that ends up being a bit of a broken solution.I wrote a greasemonkey script for HN a while back that I can't live without now. There are actual... |
How do I regain my attention span? | josephkern: I'm horrible at this as well. But I think I found a good way. I have a timer on my blackberry that I set for 15 mins. It vibrates on the 5 min and 1 min and end marks.I focus exclusively on a task for 15 mins. Then at the end I reset it again, or move on to the next project. |
Do you develop on a Mac? What apps do you use? | zaphar: I use a mac but the tools are pretty much the same as a linux box.ITerm + Vim + various Gnu Utilities |
Please review my web app: WantsThis | Concours: nice design and intuitive UI, I like it. What about sync the wish list instead of import the wish list? sync a wish list will cover import and export as well. As User, I will love this option, but sure there's a lot to do to make this work properly, if that's possible. |
Please review my web app, Docley | kylebragger: Can't see how this would ever replace dropbox + google docs for me. |
How do I regain my attention span? | mattlanger: It's funny: several months ago I decided to make 2009 the year of my return to the command line. I did it "for the lulz", and it ended up being my greatest productivity hack ever.I moved personal and work email to Mutt and uninstalled my Gmail notifiers; I moved IM to bitlbee on irssi; I moved RSS to Newsbe... |
How do I regain my attention span? | Mz: My standard answer to seemingly 'everything' these days: Work on taking better care of your body. "A sound mind in a sound body" and all that. |
How do I regain my attention span? | DanielBMarkham: You want a 20-second piece of advice to help you gain your attention span back?Does anybody else see the irony in this?Okay, I'll play along. Remember Yoda: "Do or do not. There is no try." |
How do I regain my attention span? | sganesh: I usually take off a few weeks, leave my laptop & phone, pack a backpack, and find a remote beach or mountains :) Even if i have to take a paycut, I do this every three to four months. One way this helps me relax and rejuvenate, on the other hand I'm forced to finish the projects I take, so no one needs me dur... |
How do I regain my attention span? | fmeyer: - Buy a moleskine and start writing stories or drawing, or even spend a few minutes learning a musical instrument, the left side takes care of the logic, programming and math, but if you spend too much time ignoring the right side your will start lacking on concentration. I spent about $19k on psychologist to r... |
How do you consume Hacker News? | IgorPartola: I mainly use the RSS feed from NetVibes. I wish clicking on the link there took me to HN, instead of to the source article. Sometimes I am more interested in comments to a feature than the actual feature (the title might say it all, but the reaction is what's interesting). I am to the point where I might c... |
How do you consume Hacker News? | windock: I use http://hacker-newspaper.gilesb.com/
That's just a nice newspaper-like layout. |
Review my jQuery Plugin (jQSlickWrap) | woid: a great idea Jason!It is great for dynamic images, but I would think 99% of use cases is for static image. I would appreciate feature which does the magic and enables me to render static piece of HTML+CSS for direct replacement.This way I would be able to bake static version during development and publish it with... |
Please review my web app: WantsThis | flapjack: If a user searches for something like 27" iMac, there are no results, but if the user searches for 27 iMac, the 27" imac is found. It might be good to strip any "'s in the add field before searching. |
Please review my web app, Docley | evandavid: I think there are small/medium companies out there (similar to the one I've been working with recently with around 40 employees) that require a really simple self-hosted document management system. You might say that these companies should have a full blown CMS implemented, but often times all they want is d... |
Do you develop on a Mac? What apps do you use? | billturner: TextMate for code and SequelPro for MySQL. The rest is built in: Terminal, Apache + PHP. Also, I off-and-on use Things for task lists (now I'm back on using TODOs in Textmate). |
Do you develop on a Mac? What apps do you use? | weaksauce: I use xcode, textmate, cyberduck for sftp, gitx for basic git usage, terminal for most of the heavy lifting, vim on servers. Photoshop when needed to tweak something minor but mostly I am a programmer. |
How do I regain my attention span? | initself: Fasting. |
How do I regain my attention span? | Kaizyn: The problem is that the workplace is filled with constant interruptions. Either a coworker needs to talk to you about something, you need to get up to go talk to someone, or you end up interrupting yourself when you should focus on working by checking email, browsing to a website, or any million other things.T... |
Do you develop on a Mac? What apps do you use? | bgray: Aquamacs is fantastic! |
How do you consume Hacker News? | mhartl: I recommend "hnweekly: this week's top stories from Hacker News" at http://hnweekly.chibidesign.com/ to find good stories you might have missed. |
How do I regain my attention span? | cmars232: Why do you have trouble finishing these products? What makes you lose the focus?Sometimes, attention problems can be corrected by taking better care of yourself. Personally, I've found my attention problems come more from ultimately not caring than from some weakness of character. It's easy to think up ide... |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | petercooper: I want to recommend Mike Rohde. You might have seen his work with the various "sketchnotes" posts around here. He's a great guy: http://www.rohdesign.com/weblog/index.html |
Do you develop on a Mac? What apps do you use? | mwerty: This has saved me a lot of time: http://infinite-labs.net/afloat/ |
Please review my web app, Docley | slay2k: "I have been working on Docley for about 6 months."<withsalt>
Given the technical complexity of a site like this, and the fact that you aren't yet open to the public, that seems like forever.Have you talked to your future customers yet ? Do you know who they are ? If I was in your shoes, I'd implement the absol... |
Do you develop on a Mac? What apps do you use? | redrory: I use Coda and MAMP.. and they do everything I need |
Has anyone used machine learning to trade? | gradschool: You might find it interesting to look at this site, which gives you a lot of the infrastructure for testing your FX strategies with real time data (although not direct access to the data).http://preview.collective2.com/Strategies are independently monitored and ranked on the site, and can be switched from s... |
Do you develop on a Mac? What apps do you use? | alttab: Terminal, Vim, Cyberduck, and photoshop.Keepin' it simple folks. |
How do I regain my attention span? | akkartik: Wow, so many possible causes for poor concentration! I like this thread as an exagesis.What works for me is I think also the lowest hanging fruit: a combination of working on things I care about, and actively bringing my wayward bad habits under control.A reset requires a change of scene. It's likely that you... |
How do I regain my attention span? | anonjon: I read trashy fantasy novels and poetry.To me, the ability to sit down and finish a project is inversely proportional to the amount of urgency that I attribute to its completion. I recognize tension that I feel when trying to finish a project is really something that I'm making up; I know that programming is e... |
How do I regain my attention span? | msluyter: Meditation / Yoga (mindfulness). |
What small problems do you face frequently? | adatta02: I have trouble finding interesting and attractive girls to go drinking with ;) |
What small problems do you face frequently? | DanielBMarkham: I would like one spot to go to remind me of when everything is going to expire. I have warranties, domain names, web services, SVN services, email accounts, airline miles -- all kinds of crap that has some sort of expiration date on it. And I can't keep track of any of it.And I want the machine to do al... |
What small problems do you face frequently? | tonystubblebine: Oh, I have a rant. I have trouble hanging up on telemarketers who prey on entrepreneurs (VC associates, recruiters, biz dev, consulting firms). My problem was that hanging up violently put me in a violent mood. So I went as far as writing up scripts that were polite but moved toward hanging up within 1... |
Please review my web app, Docley | matt1: David, glad to see you launched, that's more than most people ever do. As a few of the other folks have said, this is a tough field and you definitely have your work cut out for you. And I bet a lot of naysayers would have said the same thing about Google doing search in 1999.Your background and drive will go a ... |
What small problems do you face frequently? | neodude: windsurfer, are you trying to find startup ideas? ;) |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | kentosi: Visit a CSS showcase site such as cssremix.com and get in contact with some of the designers from there. |
What small problems do you face frequently? | spaghetti: I have trouble finding the "Programming Pearls" of various topics. For example I'd like to find a book of similar quality and style that deals w/ networking computers. This applies to non-computer related subjects too... for example I'd love to find great books/lectures etc about caring for animals but I d... |
What small problems do you face frequently? | diN0bot: i wonder about your example. is it that i don't know where my time goes, or that i lack the means to change my habits? perhaps both are occurring, since sometimes knowing just how much time is wasted on <foo> provides motivation to stop....but really, the means are the tough part.how can we motivate positive c... |
How do I regain my attention span? | arohner: Get into a habit that you only do while doing "serious work". For me, it was listening to music, on headphones. When I start doing "serious work" I put the headphones on. When I'm distracted, I take the headphones off. Repeat.Now, a few years later, I can get into Serious Work Mode, just by putting on the head... |
Has anyone used machine learning to trade? | maconic: UCSC Professor Helmbold used machine learning to discover optimal portfolio allocation: http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~dph/mypubs/OnLinePortfolio.pdf |
How do I regain my attention span? | rkts: Ritalin. Only thing that's ever worked for me. |
Do you develop on a Mac? What apps do you use? | dlevine: Textmate and Eclipse. I use vi for quick editing.I also use Virtualbox for running virtual Linux and Windows (for testing) |
Please review my web app: WantsThis | silvershadow118: the "create your ultimate wish list" text distracts the viewer from the search |
How do you consume Hacker News? | rosshill: I consume HN through a feedmyinbox.com subscription, that takes the most popular articles of the day and emails them to me at 3pm each day. I then click the interesting ones into new tabs and go through them. |
How do I regain my attention span? | mattm: Do less.Start by working on it for only 15 minutes per day. Set a timer and when you reach 15 minutes you have to stop no matter how much you want to continue. It will help you look forward to it for the next day.After a few weeks you can increase the time you allot per day. But if you ever find yourself gett... |
A start-loading button for videos? | thristian: What really annoys me is video-players that automatically start playing when the page loads, or that assume that if I pause, then drag the playhead back to the beginning of the timeline, that means 'start playing from the beginning'.I've always assumed this was because sites with video are generally designed... |
Where to find startup partners? | catweasel: Are you a member of any user groups? I find them invaluable for networking local peers with the same interests. And, by definition, members are going to be passionate about what they do.
I've also come across http://collabfinder.com/ recently, might have been on HN actually. |
How do I regain my attention span? | ighost: Practice doing things that take long periods of concentration, like reading difficult novels or playing chess or doing math proofs or... |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | known: I'd recommend http://www.pro-photography.net/ |
Review my jQuery Plugin (jQSlickWrap) | jimmybot: I think what's really cool about this is that it looks like a really helpful tool for breaking the boxy, straight-line feel of nested elements and display:block that is normally the natural state of web page design. Props. |
What small problems do you face frequently? | richcollins: If you're looking for good startup ideas watch Mixergy. Each episode gives me a few. |
What small problems do you face frequently? | pkc: I have one problem - Recently launched products are always in need of spreading the word about them. One of the better ways to do it would be find blogs, articles or discussions going on to related to the product. I would like to setup a service which sends me some N urls everyday where I can go and add some usefu... |
Review my jQuery Plugin (jQSlickWrap) | PanMan: Quite like the idea, and the execution seems simple enough. What I would add to your site tho, are examples of the actual examples :). Now your examples are just code, while it would be nice to see them. Either next to the code, or with tabs, or... You get the idea. Kind of how the jQuery site does it. |
How do I regain my attention span? | known: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development may help you. |
Do you develop on a Mac? What apps do you use? | docmach: I use SubEthaEdit or TextWrangler depending on what I'm writing. SubEthaEdit has better syntax highlighting for some things, including Go, but TextWrangler acts more like I want it to. |
What small problems do you face frequently? | maxklein: I have a problem hooking up my TV to my PCI have a problem making my playlist play good songs, but not just then keep repeating those songs till I got sick of themI have a problem finding good accessories for my home that match the color, tone and style.Socks & Underwear. Regular delivery. Cheap price.Daily E... |
Where does one start to learn how to code? | known: http://cetus-links.org/ |
How do you consume Hacker News? | prakash: Here are some links that might be useful:- http://hackerhackernews.com/- http://news.ycombinator.com/lists- http://hnsort.com/ |
What APIs do you wish existed? | known: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Market_Access to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRIC |
The Primers on different subjects | carpdiem: With regards to physics in particular (my specialty), I think it's important to understand what part of physics you want to learn, and in what depth.If you want a good, basic introduction to mechanics and E&M, I would point you towards Serway. The problem is that Serway is a very basic book, and not really w... |
How do I regain my attention span? | sheldonwt: I don't condone it in any way but
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adderall
is extremely effective. |
What's your favorite Windows Text Editor? | ciniglio: notepad++ |
How do I regain my attention span? | nitrogen: I've realized that the times when I manage to force myself to implement just one more feature for the day, refactor one more API, etc. are the most productive. So, I try to keep that in mind when my focus is waning and I want to skip off to HN or Hulu, and things get done.One word of advice for retaining you... |
Has anyone used machine learning to trade? | known: Please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fooled_by_Randomness before you take a plunge. |
How do you consume Hacker News? | adrianwaj: I consume on Twitter via hackerlinks: http://twitter.com/hackerlinks - (personally over Twitya http://twitya.com/#hackerlinks) ..parses the new comments for links and posts up the result - check it out, over 500 followers and stabilizing
-- it is a bit of a hosepipe so open wide |
How do you consume Hacker News? | jgamman: left to right, top to bottom. other standards exist in the world but YMMV |
How do I regain my attention span? | mcobrien: I guess there's two kinds of attention here: short-term (I can't concentrate enough to do an hour's good work) and longer-term (a few weeks into a project I get bored and do something else).For short-term, some people love the Pomodoro technique but I found it too restricting. For me, I just have to find some... |
How do you consume Hacker News? | chengas123: I'll tell you how I don't - via Chrome. The site looks awful in it. I have to switch to FireFox. |
When to raise from angels | swombat: The simple rule is: do it as late as possible.The longer you can delay fund-raising, the less of a share you'll be giving up (or the more money you'll be getting for it), and the stronger your position (presumably). Some businesses raise money on an idea. Others raise money once they have a product with tracti... |
Do you develop on a Mac? What apps do you use? | elmindreda: In addition to the Xcode tools, I use MacVim, MacPorts and iTerm. People who do more than quick edits with Vim on OS X should have a look at MacVim. |
When to raise from angels | Thyraon: In addition, I think it's wise to wait with approaching investors (be it angels or VC's) until you have some actual stuff to show them. People (and especially investors) are hard to get enthousiastic with only an idea, whereas a pilot/demo can really trigger them to see the success in your startup.A friend of ... |
What's your favorite Windows Text Editor? | akiin: Sublime Text (http://www.sublimetext.com/) |
How do you consume Hacker News? | sabon: If you want to come rarely but don't want to miss the most important stuff, this should help:
http://news.ycombinator.com/best |
What's your favorite Windows Text Editor? | jim_lawless: I use SciTE ( http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html ) at home and UltraEdit ( http://www.ultraedit.com/ ) at work.My needs are simple: I just need an editor that can handle LF-delimited or CRLF-delimited text and one that has some syntax-assistance ( highlighting, brace-matching, ...etc. )UltraEdit was chose... |
How do I regain my attention span? | scorpion032: Procrastinate until when you can. When you know, if you don't do it now, you are screwed, you will do it.PS: Kidding of course! |
When to raise from angels | Aegean: I would do it only when absolutely necessary and there is no other way going forward.I have a feeling that some people think about approaching a VC just because there is so much stuff written about VCs and funding and it seems necessary. I think it is not something you can't do without, and as other posters sug... |
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