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How do you fight procrastination? | dtran: I think its all about the right environment which puts you in the mindset to get things done. I've noticed that being in my dorm room is usu. not super productive, so my co-founder and I most work in group study rooms in our student union or coffee shop hop. Part of it is fewer distractions, but part of it is al... |
How do you fight procrastination? | robinsmidsrod: I had the same problem myself. Yet again I would suggest to read the book Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy. This book teaches you a set of methods to improve your ability to get the right things done. It's available on O'Reilly Safari (where I read it) and from Amazon.http://my.safaribooksonline.com/97815767... |
Is this idea worth pursuing ? | streblo: I'd do it |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | nostrademons: Post-its on a whiteboard. |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | fpotter: Try Pivotal Tracker. It's more geared for todos / feature stuff (and does it really well), but you can use it for bugs, too. If you're tracking more than 50 or so bugs, I could see wanting to use something else, though. |
How do you fight procrastination? | stretchwithme: In my experience, when I am working with others or for a customer, I have no problem taking the actions needed to deliver on my commitments to them.But when I am working on my own thing, setting my own goals, with little interaction, I tend to get easily distracted and start my things I don't finish.So f... |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | blogimus: How lightweight are you talking? Are you looking for a hosted tool (like fogbugz) or are you definitely going to manage/host it yourself?I've been using Jira, and there's a $10 version for small groups.Whatever you chose, make sure of one thing: every tracked bug or task has a unique URL. |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | thomaspaine: Trac is great and plugs in really easily to SVN. It's at least worth playing around with since so many open source projects use it.I wrote a Django middleware that uses Trac's xmlrpc plugin to automatically create Trac tickets for errors. I'm sure it's just as simple to do for whatever you're using. |
How do you fight procrastination? | zackattack: Do things that you are actually interested in. Seriously. It makes life MUCH easier and it's easier to be productive.That being said, willpower is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it gets. Practice willpower whenever you can.. for example, try not zipping up your jacket when it's cold. (I'm talki... |
How do you fight procrastination? | djm: I wrote about my efforts to avoid procrastination previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=809638Since then I've changed a few things. Here is what I am doing now:1) Make a list of what I want to do tomorrow before going to bed.2) Write down what I am doing during the day on a time sheet of one hour blocks.... |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | hlidotbe: We use Redmine here (~4 people) and it's great. Rails backed, lots of plugin if you need more and easily extendable.It integrate cleanly with CVS, Git, Mercurial, SVN, ... and we'll even do invoicing with it in a few weeks.There are paid hosting options if you don't want to maintain it yourself. |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | raytheon: I recently started using redmine (http://www.redmine.org) and only had good experiences with it. It's an open-source ruby on rails project management "framework". It supports everything you are looking for, and then some more, namely:- roadmap for upcoming versions/features
- dedicated site for documentation
... |
How do you fight procrastination? | bootload: "... I often find myself with piles of work to do and many projects to complete but yet distracted ..."Focus, discipline & strategy. You have to focus on getting your tasks done. Be disciplined in not being unintentionally distracted and plan a strategy to avoid or discourage distractions.- Focus by planing e... |
How do you fight procrastination? | Luff: I try to identify and break hedonistic loops. Changing environment helps, even if it's such a simple act as shuffle the furniture at home around.Another way is to optimize away loops. The first example that pops ups is that I was at one point manually visiting >20 news-sites, webcomics and blogs, and when I'd rea... |
How do you fight procrastination? | tome: This is my favourite productivity blog.http://www.doitfuckingnow.com/I'm serious. Of course, it's partly a joke, but there is an extent to which we just have to get on with stuff we don't like. Asking for a method to fight procrastination is a symptom of the problem itself. |
How do you fight procrastination? | scotty79: Pomodoro technique. You pick task that can be done in 25 minutes, you set up timer for 25 minutes and start working. You do your best to finish the task. When timer rings you set it up to 5 minutest and make a 5 minute break from computer. Take a walk to the bathroom, get coffee, do some push ups or sit ups, ... |
How do you fight procrastination? | Dylanfm: Please do read "How to Get Things Done" by Robert Benchley, written in 1949. It's such a gem: http://www.hackvan.com/pub/stig/etext/how-to-get-things-done...There was a simliar thread to this quite a while ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=187132 . A comment by nickb (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id... |
How do you fight procrastination? | xcombinator: It is a complex issue. I read and watched videos and went to a lot of seminars on psicology of productivity. "Read The Power of full engagement"(This is the best book you can read ever!!) and create rituals.I like investigating new technologies too, so I do it, with limits. I read HN each day but no commen... |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | jacktang: Redmine and Trac |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | 1331: Flyspray is as advertised: "uncomplicated." If you want a simple system, it is worth a try.
http://flyspray.org/ |
How do you fight procrastination? | daniel-cussen: I once looked high and low for habits to get me to stop procrastinating.Now I take Ritalin (I have a classic case of ADD, which you might also suffer) and it is willpower in pill form. I also drink a half-gallon of coke a day (dissolved glucose for the win) which is the mental fuel ritalin is not. |
How do you fight procrastination? | Hates_: Ask yourself constantly "What is the most important thing I could be doing right now?" and act on it.Forget GTD and read "How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life", by Alan Lakein. |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | Jim_Neath: I'm currently working on a bug tracker (http://purifyapp.com). I can send you a beta invite if you're interested? Also open to anyone else who fancies trying it out.Email me at jim@purifyapp.com |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | petervandijck: I like unfuddle.com |
How do you fight procrastination? | froo: Oh, quick plug for rescuetime.Go sign up for www.rescuetime.comThat should definitely help you when you can really see where you're wasting your time with procrastination. It's definitely an eye opener. |
How do you fight procrastination? | Murkin: Choose one thing each week that you know wastes your time.. and quit cold turkey.Delete your relevant accounts, remove from bookmarks, clear browser history and just stop using it.I find it gives me immediate results, got rid of lots of needless web-games, news-sites, blogs, TV-series and such.And yes, HN is in... |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | jacquesm: We use trac. And it works really well, has a built in wiki for other bits and pieces that need remembering. |
How do you fight procrastination? | scorpioxy: I don't try to fight it. I accept it.During the day job, I open up the all the tabs that I'd like to read(usually links from HN) and then start working. Whenever i want to take a 5 min break between coding tasks, i read 1 article and then close it. This also helps when a task is proving annoying to go throug... |
How do you fight procrastination? | ggruschow: Solving your problem (procrastination) may require figuring out the root problem(s). People have already mentioned a lot of good solutions for a lot of problems, but trying to solve the wrong problem can make your's worse.. or at least frustrate you more.It may be you're too distracted, so eliminate the dist... |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | epi0Bauqu: I just started using http://speckleapp.com/It's relatively new, very lightweight, and made by HN member elliottkember, who is very open to feedback/suggestions. |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | elliottkember: I've been building Speckle (http://speckleapp.com) for a little while: a to-do list with multiple checkboxes per item. it's reasonably light-weight -
I don't know whether it suits what you're looking for, but Id be interested to know what you think :)Edit: epi0Bauqu beat me to it! |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | AnneTheAgile: Based on posts here I found the "Task-focused API" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task-Focused_Interface . There are lots of extensions available based on it: http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylyn_Extensions . For example, from gmail, you can add a task by tagging a message! This Extensions page also seem... |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | scorpioxy: There's a difference between a bug tacker and an issue tracker.Bugzilla works great as a bug tracker but is not a great issue tracker. Trac, the opposite.From what you described, seems you're looking more for an issue tracker or a project planning sort of thing.I've liked Redmine, though I haven't used it pr... |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | charliepark: You might check out Garret Dimon's http://sifterapp.com. I think it's what 37signals would make if they made bug-tracking software. |
What application do you use to take/store notes? | scorpioxy: I tried to write my own because i wasn't satisfied with all the different ones i tried. But as free time kept getting shorter and shorter, I abandoned the project and reverted to using Tomboy on my Ubuntu desktop.Not exactly cutting edge, but I yet to overcome the information overflow that i suffer from. |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | middayc: For bugs http://curecode.org/ is ery lightweight and fast. You can see it in use here http://curecode.org/rebol3/view-tickets.rsp .For sharable todo's I can "recommend" (my) http://www.qwikitodo.com , you can even make "actionable" Plan/Todo meshes with it that have titles, subtitles, free form mixing of text ... |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | andrewcooke: I haven't used it, but this is "interesting" - http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/index.wiki(I use Trac myself, and it's OK, but not wonderful - haven't found anything better, but will be trying Redmine after reading comments here).[edit: also, you can do bug tracking with Google code, which ... |
How to interview programmers | scorpioxy: Personally, i found that typical programmer interviews are a waste of time. I played both sides of the table and now I just ask for a small project as a sample to be written and brought to the interview and then discussed.The discussion reveals a lot about the candidate from coding style to design decisions ... |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | megamark16: I'm currently working on a web app builder called AppRabbit (http://apprabbit.com) and used it to create my bug/issue tracking system for tracking my progress with...it. I'm still working on finishing up a few fairly fundamental features, but you're welcome to try it out if you'd like a beta invite. Shoot... |
How do you fight procrastination? | jodrellblank: Re: procrastination/akrasia: I've never been fond of the idea that "different things work for different people". As a predictive hypothesis, after all, this is only slightly more useful than saying "a wizard did it". It says nothing about how (or why) different things work, and therefore gives you no ba... |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | grk: http://www.codebasehq.com/features/tickets-milestonesCodebase has a nice feature - you can modify tickets from your commit messages. |
How do you fight procrastination? | antirez: Trying to do what I really like, sleeping more, exercise. Procrastination is often a symptom not a disease: you are doing something you don't care enough, you are tired, or don't exercise enough. Also a fix can be stay away a few days form the PC having fun with friends or girlfriend and so forth.Also remember... |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | chappi42: +1 for redmineWe (~7 people) migrated away from trac and use redmine for several projects with subversion and now git. Working very well since 3 years.A friend of mine uses indefero and was happy with it. Link: http://www.indefero.net/open-source/ |
How do you fight procrastination? | wisty: SelfControl for Mac. It puts up a temporary firewall, so I can't read the news for a few hours.Other techniques - tell somebody else what you are doing. Tell them when you expect to get it done. Bragging is easy to do at the time, and puts pressure on you to get it done. Procrastination is all about future commi... |
How do you fight procrastination? | gyardley: In my experience, simple technical solutions (like hosts file site blocking) force changes in behavior which end up strengthening your mental resolve - you'll create a habit which you'll then stick to, even with a clear hosts file.You are what you do, not what you think. |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | tophercyll: Our three man team recently took advantage of the FogBugz YC offer and gave it a try. There were some things we liked about it, but in the end it felt too heavy for us. It was more of a support ticketing system than an easy way for a small team to track their bugs (although it would probably be good if you ... |
Just bought Drople.com what should I do with it? | JohnMy: 6. Sell it to me for 99USD
Contact under eingradcelsius.comGreetings |
Rate my site (DebateZone) | chegra84: I like the concept.You should categorize because someone people wouldn't care about certain issues but will fight tooth and nail for others.Like us being entrepreneurs, we would have an opinion on "fast fail", so we would want to get to these topics more quicker than something related to politics or sport.Cat... |
Rate my site (DebateZone) | chegra84: Oh yea have anonymous posting.People would like to post stuff quickly without having to signup.
Eventually, they will realize that "hey I want to track what i posted", so they sign up. |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | keefe: mylyn makes bugzilla a lot easier to use if you use eclipse. |
How do you fight procrastination? | aufreak3: Hmmm.. I'll see if I can answer this tomorrow :PHeheh .. more seriously sometimes I find my tendency to procrastinate is telling me exactly what I should be putting off. So instead of going "I have this stuff to do and I don't know where to start", I generally pick the easiest and most fun of that list and do... |
How do you fight procrastination? | cadalac: You have to see and fully understand the consequences of your procrastination, and the benefit of doing your work, in order to fight procrastination. |
How do you fight procrastination? | rubinelli: The most helpful book I've read about procrastination (and I've read many) is The Now Habit. It explains why people procrastinate, what they think when they procrastinate, why even simple tasks stress them out, how they can reduce this stress, why they feel they don't have a life, and specific chapters on ho... |
Rate my site (DebateZone) | charlesju: My friends started a debate site a while ago, and I'll tell you what I told them.For an part-time and fun project this is a very cool web app. I like the simplicity and it seems like a fun way to talk about various issues.As a startup idea, you would do better finding an idea that doesn't revolve strictly on... |
Rate my site (DebateZone) | durana: With the up vote and down vote arrows, have one or the other light up when you mouse over a specific one, instead of having both light up. It will make it clearer which arrow you are about to click.I like the layout of the two sided debates over the debates with more than two sides. The two sided debates have... |
Rate my site (DebateZone) | chegra84: Allow pictures to be uploaded with your debate thesis.
Sometimes a picture or video can say more than words can. |
How do you fight procrastination? | phugoid: I find that I procrastinate the most in the early stages of a project.First, it takes time to decide what to do first.There's also the spoon effect. I just made that up. The first steps you take still leave you so far away from your goal. But as you progress, say to the half-way point, every action has a pr... |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | briancary: Mantis is great. Easy to install and use. Definitely go with that if you're on PHP/MySQL. No need to fuddle with the rest. |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | shadow: Try Lighthouse, http://lighthouseapp.com/
Been using it and it's great |
How to get into car engineering/making | mechanical_fish: I will give you two answers.The first one is this book: Build your Own Sports Car for as Little as 250 Pounds... And Race It!http://www.amazon.com/Build-Your-Sports-Little-£250/dp/18596...a book which, oops, appears to have become priceless since I bought it years ago. I guess it's out of print. This i... |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | dtran: Overview of Small teams bug tracking software:Unfuddle - Hosted solution, SVN/Git hosting + really clean bug tracking. Free for 2 people, $9/mo for small teams. Has Mylyn support and a OS X dashboard widgetBugzilla - everyone seems to agree it's too heavy and I don't want to deal with installing and configuring ... |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | sdutoit: Try roundup: http://roundup.sourceforge.net/ |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | bloonlabs: If your using git, try http://wiki.github.com/schacon/ticgit/ |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | abovesun: Unfuddle is very good, very light and easy, it specially helpfull if you are using Eclipse IDE, unfuddle has Mylyn connector to synchronize bugs with ide. |
How do you fight procrastination? | jmonegro: Do one small part of something, and you'll soon start doing the others. |
How do you fight procrastination? | tbrownaw: Just put off the procrastination until tomorrow, it's really not that fun anyhow. :)Seriously. Why are distractions enticing? Why is the stuff that needs doing scary/boring? Find a way to cast your work as an interesting problem to solve (like the WoW example upthread) and the distractions as just more of the... |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | gouki: I'm also a Mantis user, and I'm quite happy with it.Mantis supports Git and SVN integration, if you use the Source plugin. You can find detailed information on how to add these functionalities to Mantis at the following URL: http://leetcode.net/blog/2009/01/integrating-git-svn-with-ma...Note: Importing repositor... |
How do you fight procrastination? | tsally: My opinion is that procrastination is a symptom not a disease. The average life span in the US is 78 years, and you're really only at your peak for about 50 of them. Ever have a year just fly by? Well that was 1/50th of the total time you have.To fight procrastination you have to ruthlessly eliminate the thi... |
How do you fight procrastination? | leif: This is sort of a technical solution, but as long as I'm working on something that doesn't need a browser for reference (so, C programming, where I can look up manpages), I just kill X and do my work on ttys. It helps you focus on only one thing at a time. |
Is functional programming really worth it? | tsally: I can't speak with authority on OCaml or Haskell, but Common Lisp isn't lacking in terms of libraries. You just have to know where to look (http://www.cliki.net) and how to manage them.And one last thing. Is functional programming really better than imperative programming? All that brain-racking to implement a... |
Is functional programming really worth it? | DanielBMarkham: F# --- functional language with thousands of the most easily available languages anywhere.It's worth it, but it's not a magic bullet. Language wars are for people who like tools better than they like workshops. |
Is functional programming really worth it? | andrewcooke: i use python for anything that's not speed-critical. see http://norvig.com/python-lisp.html (norvig being a very famous lisp programmer).my own experience is that learning functional programming gave me more options - that can be useful when solving problems. when writing code for myself i try to combine... |
Is functional programming really worth it? | kalid: I think Clojure may be your answer; functional programming with access to Java's enormous libraries.Regarding "betterness", it's a philosophical shift -- some problems are better suited to one domain or another. My favorite metaphor for functional programming is Unix pipes:cat file | grep XYZ | sort -r -n | ...T... |
Is functional programming really worth it? | fragmede: The right tool for the job. Just like object oriented code isn't the be-all-end-all, function programming isn't either. Computers are functional! Everything is data! All actions are operations upon that data! Computers are a real world of mathematical elegance & correctness, it's all zeros and ones. It's so m... |
Is functional programming really worth it? | Uchikoma: Immutability, reusable and composable functions, side effect free methods are worth to use in every programming language, even in Java (I've been using functional ideas for a long time in my Java works) |
Is functional programming really worth it? | RiderOfGiraffes: One word: Blub.From PG's famous essay (even quoted on WikiPedia): > ... when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other
> direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's
> looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He
> probably considers them about equivalent in ... |
Is functional programming really worth it? | SMrF: "The world is imperative! Things have state! We do not live in an imaginary fluffy world of mathematical elegance & correctness."I don't think that this means an imperative language is therefore better than a functional programming language. Many problems would be better solved with more 'mathy' models.I'm not ac... |
Is functional programming really worth it? | JoshTriplett: I do believe a better language helps as much as great libraries, if not more.Better libraries can't give you the compile-time error checking that a good compiler can. In Haskell, I half-seriously joke that "it compiles, it must be correct".Also, modern functional languages have great library support. Fo... |
Is functional programming really worth it? | wynand: I'm a functional convert but my colleagues will tell you just how convoluted some of my code has been due my trying to shoehorn everything into a functional mold.Many in the functional world realize that some things are akward (see Peyton-Jones's talk "Wearing the hair shirt" about Haskell).To answer the questi... |
Is functional programming really worth it? | xenoterracide: You can write functional code in perl 5 from 15 years ago... and you can do an even better job of it in perl today. CPAN has no shortage of libraries. See Higher Order Perl book (it's free too). |
Is functional programming really worth it? | Shamiq: Expand your mind. It'll pay dividends later. |
Is functional programming really worth it? | lisper: Yes. But not as worth it as hard-core advocates of FP like to think.There is really only one difference between FP and traditional imperative programming (which I'll call IP). In IP you have direct control over where the results of computations are stored and in FP you don't. This is, of course, a two-edged ... |
How do you fight procrastination? | Estragon: It really depends. You don't sound particularly excited by the "piles of work" and "many projects to complete." Why do you want to finish them? When you think about starting to work on them, what do you feel and think about? |
Is functional programming really worth it? | keefe: It's certainly worth learning, but I make no secret of my fondness for having local state when programming. It's critically important to consider the breadth and quality of libraries available for your particular task as well as the tools available. With eclipse+maven+continuum+junit+jprofiler I can generate a h... |
Dealing with abusive users | jacquesm: We have this on a daily basis.We deal with it like this:- first we write the email that we would like to write telling them exactly how we feel- we then delete this email- we then write an overly friendly email which takes care of the users complaint and adds sugar on top as well as a pony.Usually they get th... |
Did you order an iPad? Why or why not? | morphir: I'm waiting for a similar (cheaper) device that runs android. I wont commit to apples tyranny. |
Is functional programming really worth it? | gtani: It's hard to generalize, but I would say there are at least 8 non-obscure FP's that either hook into java and .NET libs, or have some level of stdlib and community libs (I've only used 3, and I hear C# is getting some functional aspects, but I'm not following).- lisps: scheme, CL esp. SBCL, clojure- F#, scala- e... |
Is functional programming really worth it? | jganetsk: The world is imperative! Things have state! We do not live in an imaginary fluffy world of mathematical elegance & correctness.Yes, all true. Also, the world is extremely concurrent, made up of billions of independent actors sending each other messages.That's why we need to use Erlang, an imperative, stateful... |
Dealing with abusive users | slig: If your main worry is that they will start trolling/flamming your community, you could try http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hell%20ban |
Is functional programming really worth it? | jvdh: "1 line of LISP replaces 20 lines of C"Might be true. But in my experience that single line takes as much time to think up as the 20 lines in C. So it doesn't really work as an argument for either. |
Is functional programming really worth it? | harshavr: Before you arrive at a judgement of the paradigm itself be sure that you know some of the standard ways to solve problems in the field.Some basic things which i didn't knew in the begining :Fast persistent data structures - Coming from imperative langs, one might be hesitant to write functions which take a mi... |
Is functional programming really worth it? | garply: "From experience I can tell you the lack of libraries in these languages kills off almost any code size advantage you get from using them. So I ask you all, be honest to yourself; is using such a language worth it?"As someone who has programmed extensively in Arc... you're right. The language is very pretty and... |
Dealing with abusive users | michaelfairley: Not Always Right (http://notalwaysright.com/) has shown me that some customers cost you more than they'll make you, ans has convinced that keeping users who consistently waste time and resources is not the best strategy. |
Is functional programming really worth it? | pw0ncakes: Yes, it's worth it.Haskell: where the great ideas are coming from, although early implementation decisions have made those a bit painful to use (language extensions). It's probably the most "mind-bending" language out there so I recommend it for growth.Ocaml: excellent and very simple language, with a kick-a... |
Dealing with abusive users | prawn: I have a forum that allows anonymous posts. I have a list of banned IPs, sets of IPs that must register to post, various banned words (spam, mostly), banned user agent strings, etc but there are still griefers that get a new IP and return. Any tips on how to block them more aggressively? |
Is functional programming really worth it? | dons: Libraries have been the focus of the Haskell community for the past 2 years, there's now:* 1918 libraries for Haskell (according to http://hackage.haskell.org)for comparison, there are 1420 Erlang libraries (according to http://projects.trapexit.org/web/)Was there something you were looking for that's not on Ha... |
Is functional programming really worth it? | andrew1: The company I work at uses Java as its 'main' language. In the past year my team has been increasingly using Scala for new development. One of the most useful features of Scala is the functional treatment of collections. Most of the programming we do (that everyone does?) is really just manipulation of collect... |
Is functional programming really worth it? | lallysingh: Short answer: yes. If your code is so imperative, then it can probably be abstracted up a bit. That's been my experience so far. |
Dealing with abusive users | ErrantX: All of our abusive ones are forwarded to me; I write sugar sweet emails and try to fix their problem like any other support email. But sign it like this:TomXXX Product Manager / Team LeadP.S. Please take a quick look at this friendly FAQ <link> on how we suggest users contact staff members. We try our best to ... |
Should I try Lead Generation? | maconic: From an ethical perspective, I think it just depends on how you will use the leads. If you make sure you're giving the leads to a scrupulous company who will offer the customer a valuable service that (s)he was looking for, then I don't see any ethical problem there.From a business perspective, I think you'd n... |
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