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I'm a programmer. I am always angry at job. Is this normal? | wgj: There is a concept in systems theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory) that all systems must move toward equilibrium. There is also a concept that you are a component in any system that affects you. So, the course of action based on this is to change yourself, and the rest of the system must change aro... |
Start formal group to peer review climate code? | crux_: One thing I don't get is how people always seem to follow the pattern "I'm unbiased. #{strong_opinion_here}."Unbiased... really, hop?For the record: I think that open source + code cleanup + code review is a great idea, and not just for climate science. But it's important to keep in mind that ugly code isn't the... |
going to USA | freddythefoo: Look, there's a gray area here that everyone drives a truck through. Foreigners are able to start companies in America, just not be employed or get paid. Ever wonder why immigrants have small businesses like grocery stores? Because you can buy a store as a foreigner, you can operate it, and you can keep t... |
Ask to be acquired? | veteran: this might be helpful http://venturebeat.com/2007/06/22/sold-to-the-highest-bidder... |
Ask to be acquired? | jeromec: I just had another idea. I still think approaching them for acquisition is an option, mostly because I don't like businesses dependent on other businesses (for precisely this reason). However, an alternative route may work better. I wish I had a fuller understanding of text based RPGs like MobWars because they... |
I'm a programmer. I am always angry at job. Is this normal? | clueless123: Be professional (Read clean code chapter 1), do your best, don't take it personal.. it is just a job.If you are good at what you do, and behave professionally you should not have to be angry at your job.Now, If you are being asked to behave in a matter YOU consider unprofessional, it is up to YOU to say "I... |
Start formal group to peer review climate code? | david927: I'd like to start a formal group to bring back the glaciers and arctic ice cap. |
I'm a programmer. I am always angry at job. Is this normal? | xcombinator: Who cares?I don't care if this is normal or not, and honestly, I don't know you. How am I supposed to help you?You could be:
A bad programmer.
A good programmer.
A non social person, and hate socializing with colleagues.
A social person and hate writing code alone.
A good leader that wants to decide by him... |
Review my web-app for creating Android apps | benedwards: Clickable link:
http://redbirdapps.com |
Ask to be acquired? | qeorge: As a general rule, your community is valuable, your tech is not. They can reproduce your tech in-house, the user base is harder.Why did their first attempt fail? Was the tech that bad or was it a marketing problem? If its the latter, I like your chances better.Either way, I think you should approach them direct... |
Ask to be acquired? | zandorg: Not really on topic, but this is a great D&D website. |
I'm a programmer. I am always angry at job. Is this normal? | notphilatall: I don't think it is specific to software development, it sounds like you just aren't getting respect from your colleagues. The same could happen to folks in chemical engineering, public relations, or any professional setting.Set boundaries. If an unreasonable deadline is set onto you, insist on the reason... |
Any startups offering summer internships? | dreur: Thanks for starting this thread.I am a Coop CS student from Quebec Canada looking for a Summer internship around Toronto or Ottawa. |
Keyboard Recommendations? | hyyypr: I recommend the happy hacking keyboard professional 2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Hacking_Keyboard |
Ask to be acquired? | jlm382: From what you've described, there's a huge negotiation problem. You don't have leverage, and you're starting to sound desperate - everything they can use against you in the event that they contact you.Lets say you asked them to acquire you. They're interested, they google around for anything about you, and fi... |
Start formal group to peer review climate code? | yters: I'm definitely interested, not sure about the time. |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | grinich: Medicine for the 3rd world. It's a big problem. |
Start formal group to peer review climate code? | lutorm: I think you miss the fact that to figure out what scientific code does, you also have to know the science. Yeah, you can look for dumb bugs like the one they show in that clip, but you have no way of knowing whether calculations are correct without knowing what's going on.I found it disingenuous how they flashe... |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | tc: Programming languages and tools.There are some counter-examples (e.g. Franz, LispWorks), but I think it's best to just consider this sort of work a labor of love. |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | fnid: Amazon is losing $2 on each e-book. Sometimes forward thinking innovations take a while to get profitable. Sometimes the market is too small. There may be 5 people who want it, but it costs more than they can afford. |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | wmf: The CrunchPad? Ignoring the legal problems, it sounded like people would buy it at cost but with any markup it would be too expensive. |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | mcav: "Make something people want" is primarily valuable as a negative test:You probably won't profit if you make something people don't want.But making something people want doesn't correlate nearly as well with whether or not your product is commercially viable. |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | vaksel: It depends on your definition of profit. You can make something people want and end up with a business that makes $10K profit, but you won't be quitting your job to run that business. |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | philwelch: Any non-excludable goods, which includes public goods (which are also non-rivalrous) are very difficult to profit from. These include lighthouses, laws, national defense, clean air and water, a sustainable population of fish and game, and so forth.I say "very difficult" because search engines, for example, a... |
Start formal group to peer review climate code? | DanielBMarkham: The neat thing about being a professional programmer is that you are always working in somebody else's problem domain.So I wouldn't take the naysayers too seriously. If you can't peer review climate code, you can't peer review financial code, or medical code, or astronautics code.Sure, you'll need probl... |
I'm a programmer. I am always angry at job. Is this normal? | rmetzler: I had a love/hate relationship with software programming for a couple of years until I discovered test driven development for me and committed myself to do development cycles with the client.Maybe that would work for you as well. |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | apsurd: We really need to remember that "make something people want" is a specific piece of advice relative to building a product. We get all giddy about this advice because as programmers, that's what we love to do; build things. But a business depends on many many more things than just your product. I'd argue that a ... |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | ephermata: Jury is still out, but free/freemium music services look hard. (People don't seem to want subscription services.) lala sold allegedly because they weren't getting to profitability fast enough, imeem struggled, and Pandora needed an act of the United States Congress to deal with sharp increases in streaming r... |
Should URLs in browsers be displayed in fixed-width font? | jodrellblank: > Unless someone here raises some issue that I missedThat you haven't explained any benefit of doing so? |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | zitterbewegung: 4chan is probably the best example of this. Loads of people want an image board but it isn't profitable. |
Should URLs in browsers be displayed in fixed-width font? | tdonia: why does it make sense that a url be set in fixed width? |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | jeromec: A huge thing to note, even with a large number of unprofitable cases, is not that the YC mantra is flawed, but more likely systems may not yet be in place to facilitate profitability. For example, if there were an awesome micropayment solution I'll bet a lot of currently unprofitable sites could find profitabi... |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | ryanwaggoner: I think a better motto is "Make something people want to pay for." |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | zackattack: Wikipedia needs 7mm in donations but only has raised like 2mm so far.Hiphopgoblin had a bunch of people who proclaimed their love for the site, but I doubt any one of them would have paid cash for it. Maybe I could have cooked up some sort of new media advertising plan had I realized enough traffic, but I d... |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | chrischen: I give out free $100 dollar bills. People want it, I don't profit. |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | noonespecial: Making something people want : easy.Making something people want enough to pay what it costs to create it : hard. |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | physcab: Music |
Should URLs in browsers be displayed in fixed-width font? | ashleyw: You have a point when it comes to the proportions of dots and such, but I'm not sure if it'd be a fix to a problem which doesn't exist. I don't think it'd effect phishing much either, since that kind of user wouldn't understand that dots are important, et cetera.But anyhow, here's a quick mockup: http://grab.b... |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | staunch: What I've found is that there's almost always some people that want any particular thing. The two really big questions are 1) How many of them are there? 2) Can you make money off them?#1 is much tougher. If you're in a niche inside a niche inside a niche and you end up with 10 paying customers sending you $20... |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | slashedzero: Fully on demand cable television. So many people tell me "I'd love it if I could just pay per channel and forget about the other channels."That got me thinking it may be something to exploit. Not so, with infrastructure costs swallowing up so much of the potential profits. People will just have to deal wit... |
Front End Development | hellotoby: I've found the quickest way to speed up front-end development isn't necessarily with the slicing but more with having a robust library of my own code, and my own custom (pseudo) framework of html & css templates with which I begin every job. |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | byrneseyeview: It's a tautology (how do you know they want it? They're willing to buy it!), but a useful one. |
Review my windows/mac/nix application | DanBlake: Screenshots:Main view: http://ioj.com/v/qzbp3Alternate Theme, Settings open: http://ioj.com/v/0xretIndividual item view: http://ioj.com/v/yui6vIf you want to try out the windows beta client, You can grab it here: http://harknesslabs.com/setupcontrolc.exe |
Should URLs in browsers be displayed in fixed-width font? | duncanj: Not all code is in fixed font. Most older Pascal and Algol texts put their code in variable width, sans-serif fonts to set them apart from the text. For many texts, just changing the font is the solution.URLs look bad in PowerPoint, but sometimes they need to be there. |
I'm a programmer. I am always angry at job. Is this normal? | KevBurnsJr: Speak your mind. Even if your voice trembles. |
Review my windows/mac/nix application | ryanwaggoner: Did I miss the link to check this out? |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | teyc: General MotorsInvestment BanksRailwaysSubprime lenders |
How do you manage money? | patio11: Read a Random Walk Down Wall Street, give up, and put it in an index fund.You would naively assume that actively managed money has a higher return than passively managed money. This is pretty much the exact opposite of the truth, especially for small investors (and if you're at mid six figures, you're small).... |
How do you manage money? | joshu: Find someone who you can hire to help decide what to do (typically a CFA, I guess) -- someone who isn't paid by commissions on your decisions.The typical thing to do is allocate money to stocks (us, emerging, europe, etc) and bonds (govvies, soverign debt, corporate,) mostly via funds. You want to have a variety... |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | sw: Charles Goodyear |
Startups and Viral Marketing / Social Media | aaronbrethorst: I find counter-examples just as helpful. Maybe you could highlight how a handful of relatively high-profile startups could improve their viral marketing strategies. |
Review my windows/mac/nix application | est: Can't install in Sandboxie. Some file not found VB.NET error.Nice app though, But I don't know if 21MB memory usage is worthy for a collector like that.Can not collect HTML texts in IE or ChromeCan not collect richtext in Word or anything elseIf copied some Excel data with CJK characters, VB.NET yields a System.Ar... |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | swolchok: http://mbusreloaded.com/umbus -- several hundred people use it every day, all of them cheap/lazy college students who aren't going to pay for the privilege. The value of advertising on the system seems to be barely greater than costs (a few tens of dollars per month) and the current advertiser is behind on pa... |
I'm a programmer. I am always angry at job. Is this normal? | seymores: Thanks everyone for the replies. Helped me more than you know.I'm not going to quit my job -- this is the best job of all the jobs so far. Oh well, not yet anyway.I could be frustrated because it supposed to be a quiet weekends away from work or it could be that I just burn out lately. |
Recommend a nice man-bag/briefcase | marcamillion: Thank you all for your feedback. I think I am going to go with the Tucano suggestion. The Work-Out for the 13.3" MBP, is perfect for my needs. |
going to USA | gorbachev: As others have already mentioned, you can't legally do anything considered as work in the United States without a work permit.If you still want to do it (illegally), which I would strongly recommend against, no legit company will ever hire you, because you will not be able to show the requirement documentati... |
Ways for reading open source code bases? | nostrademons: Google Code Search:http://www.google.com/codesearchI use it for working my way around Google's codebase, which is a few orders of magnitude bigger than that.Also, there's no substitute for getting your hands dirty and diving into the code. You don't really understand something until you've changed it a f... |
Ways for reading open source code bases? | patio11: Once upon a time, a client of the day job dropped a substantial Perl codebase on our desk and said "Tell us what this does." My boss gave me the job, and expected me to actually READ all the code, but given that I had no desire to read through 100 kloc of Perl code commented only in Japanese, I went for visua... |
Ways for reading open source code bases? | xenoterracide: Maybe try this book? http://www.amazon.com/Code-Reading-Open-Source-Perspective/d... I'm not sure how good it is. |
Ways for reading open source code bases? | gte910h: Doxygen is great if it understands your language in question |
Ways for reading open source code bases? | cmars232: I used to use pdb.set_trace() liberally to poke around at the internals of Django to figure out what it was doing in undocumented places. |
Good alternative to Google reader | rcfox: To get your feeds from Google Reader, just go to Settings->Import/Export and click "Export your subscriptions as an OPML file."Any competent RSS reader will be able to import that file.Starred/Shared items have RSS feeds themselves, which can be accessed from Settings->Folders and Tags. |
Ways for reading open source code bases? | rajasaur: Itd be good to get a debugger, connect it to the process and run through the code. You will find a pattern emerging when playing with the application, say, for different clicks of a webapp. After a few days, you will know how the flow works.That said, Ive been more successful looking at the forums of an open ... |
Ways for reading open source code bases? | tptacek: Is it a web app? Open up Firebug, look for interesting URLs, and grep for segments of the URL. Find the function that implements it, read bottom-up. |
Ways for reading open source code bases? | gtani: ruby:http://eigenclass.org/hiki/rcodetoolshttp://railroad.rubyforge.org/http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/12/read-the-source-luke-a-re...http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37105/how-do-you-actually...---------------------------(you'll see lots of questions on stackoverflow: navigate/inspect/read source repo's)http... |
How do you manage money? | nearestneighbor: My take on trading is that it's a zero-sum game, and some people have inside information or particularly good insights into the market. If you are average Joe, or are trading randomly, you would be losing money on every trade. |
Do you find developer screencasts useful? | jonursenbach: It all goes about how the way you learn. I'd say offer both -- screencast and a traditional how-to document. |
Is there a canonical source for image processing papers and information? | Kliment: It's rather problematic. I'd start with sciweavers ( http://www.sciweavers.org/ ), since they have a lot of readable, new papers, but the vast majority of the references are fairly math-heavy and somewhat removed from the applications. A very good resource is the Oreilly book ( http://www.amazon.com/Learning-O... |
Where can I learn about game design? | RevRal: I went through sloperama back in the day. I even printed out every one of his articles.Ah, yes, fond memories. Unfortunately, looks like his website is down at the moment. You're going to have to check archive.org or something: http://www.sloperama.com .I believe his full name is Tom Slopper. I could be wrong.G... |
Good alternative to Google reader | jmonegro: http://www.feedafever.com
http://www.lazyfeed.com |
Ways for reading open source code bases? | ssamuli: I guess you could also take a look at a tool called "LXR Cross Referencer" at http://sourceforge.net/projects/lxr/. Page http://fxr.watson.org includes LXR-generated cross references for multiple operating systems. |
Where can I learn about game design? | bemmu: http://lostgarden.com/ has some good stuff |
I'm a programmer. I am always angry at job. Is this normal? | iworkforthem: It is not normal. Bad project mgmt if you asked me. PM did not manage the change request, did not manage users expectations, did not recruit the best talent, etc.But then have I done yet to help him? Hm... I think I have. |
Good alternative to Google reader | Gmo: I personally use gregarius that I host myself. Not perfect, but good enough for my needs and my independence :) |
How to learn to web dev for real ? | dan_sim: Hmmm... I'd say that you better start coding and stop reading. It will be a mess at first but you have to gain some experience.I don't want to discourage you but you probably won't have thousands of users on your apps at the same time at the beginning so don't bother with creating scalable sites yet. One day, ... |
How to learn to web dev for real ? | peterhi: Well there is nothing stopping you from getting a small host somewhere and put up a site of some sort. This can then be used to practice the skills you will require to manage a host. Make sure that the site is actually being used for something so that you will need to maintain it and do upgrades.Then you only ... |
How to learn to web dev for real ? | bbq: It's been hinted at in dan_sim's post, but if you have a "real project" in mind just go do it. Learn what you're missing when you need to. You probably know more than you think. |
How to learn to web dev for real ? | nethergoat: http://highscalability.com/ is a great resource for building scalable sites - it has consolidated architectural details (culled from presentations, blog posts, interviews, and more) for many large-scale sites (YouTube, Facebook, Amazon, etc).As for testing environments, take a look into the principles of co... |
How to learn to web dev for real ? | etherealG: the best way to learn is to try. all these things that only apply to "real" sites can be tested in smaller doses. try setup a "scalable" blog site.setup an artificial system that can't stretch very far by limiting the memory / instances of your web server e.g. then hit it with more than you know it can handl... |
Is this all there is to life? | jganetsk: Cheer up, for a million years, it was a lot worse than this. |
How to learn to web dev for real ? | nicara: (warning: going a little off topic here, sorry)
Might I ask how you got started in the first place? I've got a fairly reasonable background regarding the theory of it [programming], I know the principles of OO and basic algorithms, etc., but in school we don't cover the actual writing of code. (And even if we d... |
How to learn to web dev for real ? | flooha: If you are young and just starting, try to find a position with a web dev company who uses the technologies you want to learn. Pick an agile company who doesn't need a load of sign-offs to get something done. Don't worry about your $/hr. Worry about what you can learn.Basically I'm trying to get you to find ... |
How to learn to web dev for real ? | jmonegro: The best way for you to learn is to do so as you go. Plan an idea, a "big project" without worrying about your skills. Make what you can, learn what you cannot. When you come up with a question Google cannot answer, go ahead and ask it at StackOverflow. They are very nice and do not mind "noob" questions.That... |
How to learn to web dev for real ? | marram: I would suggest starting with Google App Engine (the Python version). For the following reasons:1. Python is a good language to learn. You can use it for other things beside building a web app. GAE is similar to Django.2. The GAE datastore is easier to fathom than a traditional database. For some reason, I alwa... |
Method/Tool to test if a link has already been submitted to HN | yan: If the URL is identical to one that has already been submitted, your submission will count as an up-vote to the original post. |
How to learn to web dev for real ? | roachsocal: For frontend stuff:High Performance Web Sites
Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers
(By Steve Souders)
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529307And for an intro to scalability:Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, Scaling, and Optimizing the Next Generation of Web Applications
(By Cal Henderson)
http... |
How to learn to web dev for real ? | iamelgringo: Updating and patching a server running a web app without down time is an art. And, there's not a ton of stuff out there about django deployment best practices. Here's a few thoughts from a fellow developer:Python has a decent way to isolate deployed apps using virtualenv. If you google virtualenv django... |
Is there a canonical source for image processing papers and information? | jremillard: The stuff that is posted on the web is usually trivial beginner stuff or research. The vast middle ground is all in books. If you are doing this for work, goto Amazon pick up 6 or 7 the books as they tend to only have 80% overlap. |
How to learn to web dev for real ? | Dmunro: Having recently started as a "professional" developer, coming from the realm of the hobbyist, I can say that the best thing you can do is get a job.Start with an internship if you are not yet confident in your skills. The best way to hone your abilities is to set up a situation where you get unexpected problems... |
How to learn to web dev for real ? | JoelSutherland: Scalability solutions are best found when you have a scalability problem.I don't know that I have heard of a project failing because it wasn't scalable enough. The types of things that create scalability problems also tend to bring the resources (and motivation) to solve them. |
How to learn to web dev for real ? | sanj: Spend some time at a company that does this stuff daily.(Yes, I'm hiring.) |
How to learn to web dev for real ? | almost: I wouldn't get to hung up on being "scabable" if I were you. Just do it and worry about that later if it becomes an issue (which it probably won't, plenty of sites are successful at what they're doing without having to many troubles in this area).Oh, and learn to use source control (Git or Mercurial or similar)... |
What code editor do you use? | c_allison: Currently giving Komodo Edit from Active State a shot. I too am trying to get away from NPP |
How to learn to web dev for real ? | moron4hire: "just do." I know that sounds rather cliche, but it's something that I've found a lot of beginners are missing. They spend a lot of time trying to find the "best" way to do something before they start doing it. Really, just do something. You'll learn from the experience either way. You'll probably learn mor... |
What code editor do you use? | DanielStraight: Sublime Text: http://www.sublimetext.com/Visual Studio for C# though. |
What code editor do you use? | russell: I use UltraEdit32 for everything but Java. It's feature rich, highly customizable, and works the way I do. For example it supports cross system editing via ftp or ssh.For Java, I use eclipse. The interface is non-intuitive, but the number of tools cant be ignored. |
How to learn to web dev for real ? | prakash: Software Engineering for Internet Applications by Philip Greenspunhttp://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/one-term-web |
Where can I learn about game design? | spokey: http://www.gamasutra.com/ might have some relevant content for you. |
What code editor do you use? | SlyShy: Pretty standard gvim setup. For writing Rails applications a lot more plugins come into play, but for writing plain C the simplicity is nice. http://mkbunday.googlepages.com/2009-12-07-113456_1024x600_s... |
How to learn to web dev for real ? | silentbicycle: I'm not a web developer, but I posted a similar question on Ask.Metafilter last summer (http://ask.metafilter.com/124165/Web-development-big-picture...) and got some helpful suggestions.For me, the most useful response in the long run has been delmoi's suggestion to just scrutinize the HTTP 1.1 spec and ... |
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