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How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | marvin: When I need to do work, I close the browser. |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | bOR_: Partially managed to fix the 'read the mail, websites' urge by replacing it with a distraction that is still useful to my work 'scan the titles / abstracts of new HIV publications'. I just need a distraction occasionally, and that one works just as fine as reddit.Find yourself a useful dstraction :) |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | jd: A few things work well for me:1. 10% rule. Whenever you're doing something and feel like taking a break do 10%-20% more. Usually you go over the bump. After fixing a couple of bugs and you want to take a break - fix one more. Just read 50 pages? Read 10 pages more before you take a break. And so on. It gets easier ... |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | coderrr: The question I'd like to know the answer to is...How much would you be willing to pay for a solution to this? |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | narag: At my day job, I can't, here I am. At home I have two computers, an unconnected desktop where I program and a laptop that has net access. I try to keep the laptop shut as long as I can.Also I've developed a mental filter, an attitude of "did I really want to read this?" comparing the feeling before and after rea... |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | JoelSutherland: It is really a 2 step process.1. Stop reading the internet.2. Get to work.If you can't do that maybe you find the internet more interesting than work. If that is the case, consider making a change so that reading the internet becomes your work. No sense spending your life fighting yourself. |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | cstejerean: I found that getting work done on the train or other places without internet conneciton does wonders to my productivity. Only works well though when I'm really familiar with what I'm working on and don't need to research things, and when I have whatever documentation I need installed locally. |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | FraaJad: The solution that has worked for me:1. If possible, use two computers. One for work. One for fun. I do all my work on my macbook and browsing etc on my ThinkPad.2. Use OpenDNS to block all the news sites. You can add reddit, HN and all the other news sites to the blocked sites list. Most often than not, I u... |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | michael_nielsen: I use stickk.com. I decide a time period over which I'm not going to use the net (typically, between starting work and 4pm, for an entire week); I then pay out $20 to an anti-charity of my choice if I fail. Works a charm. |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | coliveira: This is a really difficult problem, specially for developers. A solution I use is:
a) decide the times you want to access the web. In my case is early in the morning, and after lunch.
b) If this is difficult to stick to, maintain a timer of how much time you spent away from the web. Try to maximize this qua... |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | DaniFong: Usually I save chunks of the problem I can solve without a computer. I go on a long walk to figure them out. when I come back I want to write up what I've thought, and get it implemented. This gets me started, which is the hardest part. |
Sifting through & making sense of browsing history? | yan: I always wanted to create an extension that would store history as a graph of traversal and not a list of visited URLs. The link is what makes the web powerful, I don't see why history doesn't share the same connected nature. |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | sown: Don't. Alt-tab or ctrl-alt-arrow around windows on a ssh session to a terminal somewhere running lynx, links or elinks. I always run screen and sometimes will lock it if I really need to but for the most part the best way to banish temptation is to give into it. |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | msluyter: I sometimes use Temptation Blocker (http://sourceforge.net/projects/temptblocker/). It prevents access to certain applications for a specified period of time. I'll block Firefox -- where all my typical news/blog sites are bookmarked -- but leave IE unblocked in case I really need to google something (some sql... |
How do you look for QA jobs? | aneel99: Sorry. But title should have been "Where do you look for QA jobs?". |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | sovande: http://seoblackhat.com/2007/01/29/do-it-fucking-now/ |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | lallysingh: Shrink the web browser window. It really helps. |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | imp: Stand up and get a drink of water. Walk away for a minute and you'll realize how much time you're wasting and get back to work. |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | sethm: 1) (I guess this only works if you're a programmer) Don't completely finish your last task of the night, leave a comment with TODO-110608 (that would be the date of tomorrow) where you need to polish. Gives you an easy entry point to your work.
2) Schedule your wasted time. I have three 20 min blocks dedicated t... |
Sifting through & making sense of browsing history? | decadentcactus: Yeah, I was planning on making something for Firefox that tracked my Wikipedia treks, because I wanted to keep track of pages I went to and when, but also how I ended up there. It'd be interesting to see but also good for preserving topics.That being said I haven't even started it yet because I have so ... |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | Shamiq: Brew a strong cup of coffee. Drink it while being away from your desk. Return to your work as soon as you finish enjoying it.Creating a pre-work ritual is amazingly useful in getting into the correct mindset. |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | there: use virtual desktops (or spaces or whatever it's called on mac os). put your web browser in one workspace, your e-mail/im client in another, and your coding environment in another. work in only the coding workspace with no other apps showing. if you're working on a web app, open a new browser window, hide you... |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | randomwalker: Most of my reading is in google reader. Part of my work involves following a number of blogs and news sources, which are rolled together with the feeds I follow for fun. So even when I'm wasting time on the Internet, 50% of my time is productive.Of course, there are times when you just have to get shit do... |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | iloveyouocean: I consciously quit being such a 'victim', own my actions, set my intention, and work.Stop embracing weakness. Empower yourself. |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | markessien: I have a potential solution. Send me an email at markessien at gmail dot com if you'd like to help me test it. |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | lst: Simply train yourself to abstain from something.It can be very simple and small things, the only important point is to make it a habit.There is no better way (all other things suggested can help, but if you are not able to do the above, nothing will save you...). |
how many points do I need to be able to censor others people's headlines? | qhoxie: It does not have to do with points. HN moderators can change titles.They only change titles when they are inaccurate or misleading. That was clearly the least of the problems with the story considering it has been deaded. |
Can't get motivated. Help? | nostrademons: When I have motivational difficulties, I've found that they usually stem from one of two root causes:1.) I subconsciously know that what I'm doing is pointless and so my subconscious won't let me waste any more time on it.2.) I'm lacking one or more skills to make the project happen, but don't consciously... |
Sifting through & making sense of browsing history? | pasbesoin: Sloggerhttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/143Scrapbookhttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/427Both are configurable. Not sure whether they would achieve what you want, but they are worth a look.For myself, I use Scrapbook to save interesting pages for future perusal. This is very conv... |
Can't get motivated. Help? | stillmotion: Your problem is, you're thinking up ideas everyone else has thought up. I find when I'm demotivated, I'm really working on something I know will fail. If you don't believe in your product, you're going to fall short of any motivation very early into development.Here's the tip, work small, but think big.Foc... |
Can't get motivated. Help? | bcater: Do something - anything - even if you know it's wrong. You're bound to hit upon something eventually. Just don't waste good time. |
Sifting through & making sense of browsing history? | jonsid: Hi Prakash, this is Jonathan (from infoaxe).Would it help if infoaxe tracked and made available to you all the urls you have shared with friends in the past? infoaxe offers ways to share content from your web memory (over email and to facebook) and we could archive and show this ordered by time or something sim... |
programming languages written in JavaScript? | lethain: Look into Caja http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/ it lets you safely imbed third party JavaScript into your pages. |
programming languages written in JavaScript? | mindaugas: I'm not really sure but maybe ... processing.js ?
http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/I think it can serve as an example. |
programming languages written in JavaScript? | wheels: Objective-J is a Objective-C-like language interpreted by JS from a YC startup:http://cappuccino.org/learn/No idea if it's possible to do what you're hoping for though, just glanced at the API a while back. |
Advice for those getting started in the Web Industry? | danw: I'd have given myself three tips: * Learn constantly. Read books, blog, tweets, attend events and network.
* Build things. Apply what you've learnt and constantly build things. Either at work or as personal projects. Don't worry if the things you built are crap or pointless or un-monetizable.
* Share. Consta... |
Advice for those getting started in the Web Industry? | ram1024: keep abreast of emerging tech and trends. stuff moves fast and it's very easy to fall behind. |
programming languages written in JavaScript? | streety: As a website user what's the benefit to me? Why would I invest time and effort in learning a new language just so I can play with the emaciated relative of javascript?I can envision situations where additional functionality could be created by site developers but it would be as accessible to greasemonkey scri... |
Advice for those getting started in the Web Industry? | vaksel: Stop being a perfectionist, build something and get it out there as soon as possible. Don't waste time making sure everything is perfect. Better to lose a few people who get annoyed, than lose the 2-3 months w/o any users |
Advice for those getting started in the Web Industry? | gexla: Make a list of niche areas of development. Find the communities for those areas and become an authority in those communities. Make sure there are buyers in that community, or find another. Take on work.For example. Wordpress is a niche area. There are lots of Wordpress communities. Find the communities whe... |
Advice for those getting started in the Web Industry? | blender: Although the first rule of a startup is build something people want (after PG) more and more that something should solve some "serious" problem (after O'Reilly).Please - no more social networks!Cheers |
Advice for those getting started in the Web Industry? | noodle: * learn while/from doing
* continuously learn
* avoid planning paralysis
* don't be afraid to scrap chunks of code or whole projects. |
programming languages written in JavaScript? | llimllib: Strands is a language written in JS; the language is javascript itself except with concurrency primitives added: http://www.xucia.com/strands-doc/index.htmlI mention strands to say that you could do something similar: by using narcissus (a js interptreter written in js - http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/... |
Advice for those getting started in the Web Industry? | yaj: Do -> Read -> Repeat |
What are the useful parts of agile programming? | noodle: i think you leave out the usefulness of the focus on building by adding on to and maintaining working software. |
Firefox Right-click Bug? | schof: I've had a similar experience. Not 100% reproducible -- more like 5% -- but annoying when it happens. Ubuntu 8.04, Firefox 3.0.3. |
Can't get motivated. Help? | known: You may find the solution at(1) http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/25/0329226(2) http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.402425.9... |
How to keep your milestones and co-founders in check. Incentive/Punishment? | icey: You should send him your entire post, verbatim. If you have told him exactly what your problem is, and you guys can't come up with a solution in a grown-up manner, then it's time to part ways. |
programming languages written in JavaScript? | Kaizyn: There's always OMeta: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~awarth/ometa/This is a generalized tool that will let you specify any language you want and target Javascript. OMeta has been implemented in several different languages; the Javascript implementation is just a couple hundred lines of code. |
Reasonable expectations of a senior co-founder? | jwilliams: Going into business is sort of like a marriage. There is no right or wrong - just people's expectations, their individual effort and willingness/determination to get along.Aside from when people are being ludicrous (it happens) there is no point in asking "should I be annoyed at this?". The company is someth... |
Ask HN:Would you build or use such a service? | gojomo: At its heart, the "just in time mentoring" or "rent-a-mentor" aspect is interesting and might be popular.I think the injection of impossible-to-value equity into the payment model confuses things. The kind of talent looking to pick up semi-anonymous part-time piecework over the internet wants cash, not promises... |
Reasonable expectations of a senior co-founder? | gojomo: Thoughts in no particular order:() a 'working vacation' isn't really a vacation() make sure there aren't other personal matters which make his indefinite presence in San Diego more important -- an ill family member, crucial relationship to be maintained, etc.() is he still being highly productive, even though n... |
Reasonable expectations of a senior co-founder? | vaksel: how does your equity break down? |
Reasonable expectations of a senior co-founder? | cardmagic: I think you are asking the wrong people here. It might sound scary, but it will be a lot easier than you think to just have an honest and frank conversation with the CTO. Don't go into a blame game, just explain your expectations in an honest, direct, and highly respectful tone. You are not going to make any... |
Reasonable expectations of a senior co-founder? | critke: I also think you should discuss it with the other two - this can't be good for your productivity - which is essential in such a small team. I've always been pretty good at making sure I'm happy and productive with my work AND learning stuff. Each of those ingredients is important - I think that even if only one... |
Reasonable expectations of a senior co-founder? | mdakin: Arrange for your company to house you in San Diego during this critical period and enjoy the winter in California. |
Reasonable expectations of a senior co-founder? | dhimes: I'm not sure I would discuss it unless it really gets in the way. He may have picked you for a bright team member who can handle it-- and maybe you can. When and if it starts to be a problem, that is, when you actually are sure you are not learning what you feel you should be from him and the project is suffe... |
Ask HN:Would you build or use such a service? | lacker: It's not that programmer time is worth more than any idea. The issue is that an equity agreement requires a lot of trust that both of you will put a lot of work into this venture. Too often equity-for-programming deals are offered by an MBA type who doesn't have the ability or desire to add value to a business ... |
programming languages written in JavaScript? | cabalamat: Papert is a Logo interpreter written in JavaScript -- http://logo.twentygototen.org/ |
Reasonable expectations of a senior co-founder? | lacker: This might be crazy, but if you are afraid to bring it up, you could pull a Seinfeld-style maneuver and say, it's really important that we all be in the same place, and suggest that if the CTO doesn't want to ever move back, then maybe the whole company should move to San Diego. At least it's a way to get it ou... |
Reasonable expectations of a senior co-founder? | bestes: Having a highly skilled and productive co-founder is a huge asset. Nobody is perfect and living 3000 miles away doesn't seem like a deal-breaker (not even close).Effort (and appearances) are not the same thing as results. It's possible you are mixing these up to some degree. Consider: face-time, "earning" vacat... |
Reasonable expectations of a senior co-founder? | petergroverman: I'd be disappointed and speak your mind... |
do you know what companies are having hiring freezes? | alaskamiller: dell (announced), aapl (according to friends), goog (announced), yhoo (assumed) |
UserVoice or GetSatisfaction? | paul9290: I like them both on principal, but GetSatisfaction needs to remove forcing your users to sign up to leave a comment!
Should be no barrier because if there is Im gone and would say those who felt compelled to say something are too. |
do you know what companies are having hiring freezes? | iamelgringo: Two months ago, I heard that VMware had a hiring freeze on. I don't know what the situation is now. |
UserVoice or GetSatisfaction? | thorax: Depending on what you're using it for, there's also our featurelist.org -- which is free and lets you export your data out if you so desire. |
Reasonable expectations of a senior co-founder? | taw: I really don't see what you're so pissed at. He is not on holidays, he's working remotely. People are much more productive when they're as far away from each other as possible, if you were all in the same place you'd probably lose too much time to stupid distractions. This is more likely to save your startup than ... |
do you know what companies are having hiring freezes? | markessien: Airbus. |
Are there ways to get your programmers treated like celeb CEOs? | cperciva: Many companies don't want their programmers to be recognized as stars -- that's the fastest way to convince your competitors to hire them away from you.I'm not saying that this is a good strategy (for one thing, making your developers feel appreciated might make them stay in spite of a flood of calls from hea... |
do you know what companies are having hiring freezes? | vaksel: pretty much all of them |
review my site, afterthepinkslip.com | lethain: It's an interesting idea, although for me personally I much prefer using a general tool that can hold that data and connect it with other data, rather than a myriad of applications each with a separate reservoir of data.My only specific complaint is that I found the video player to be a bit wack on WebKit nigh... |
review my site, afterthepinkslip.com | adityakothadiya: why limit this to only people who got laid off? this can be helpful for all job-seekers.so instead of keeping http://afterthepinkslip.com/ as a domain name, keeping generic domain name will help more.i think people who did not get laid-off and simply looking for job search may find that this tool is no... |
review my site, afterthepinkslip.com | thomasmallen: It doesn't necessarily have to be a pink slip:* www.afterembezzlement.com* www.aftergettingcaughtwithyourbossesdaughter.com* www.neverhadajob.com |
review my site, afterthepinkslip.com | jadence: Don't have the video auto-reply/loop. Just play once.Also I would tweak the demo video so that you're explaining what problems the product solves and how the product helps rather than explain how to use the product. There are some lines such as "Notice when you view this page your cursor is in the first form... |
review my site, afterthepinkslip.com | jrnkntl: Have you ever heard of XSS? I didn't fcked it up though. |
review my site, afterthepinkslip.com | BenS: Maybe you could call it postpinkslip.com It's a bit shorter and (IMO) sounds better. It's also available. |
What are the great ideas in computing? | apu: I'll start with one way I've been trying to find some of these ideas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_AwardYes, awards always have a component of politics in them, but it's useful to look at these for a zero'th order approximation of at least some of the important ideas in our field. I've been working through ... |
What are the great ideas in computing? | dmaclay: Look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
to see how much of what has recently become mainstream dates back to 1968. |
review my site, afterthepinkslip.com | lacker: I expected this to be a job posting site a la monster, hotjobs, etc. I was glad to see it was different. This is more of a job-hunt-organization tool. But you could maybe have the name suggest that. "after the pink slip" - why wouldn't this be just as useful for someone who wasn't fired, but was just looking fo... |
review my site, afterthepinkslip.com | hopeless: Looks good and quite useful (my wife was recently laid off).My only question is whether you intend to run it as a business or not? It seems that the recently laid-off won't be the most generous with their cash and neither (hopefully) will they be long-time customers. |
review my site, afterthepinkslip.com | rms: I like the name. |
What are the great ideas in computing? | MaysonL: "Turtles all the way down."check out vpri.org (Alan Kay's current organization) and Newspeak, the programming language (see Room 101, the blog). |
What are the great ideas in computing? | davidmathers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_important_publications_... |
GMail reads and archives mail on its own | igorhvr: At the bottom of the gmail page, you will find text like: "Last account activity: 40 minutes ago at this IP (201.82.153.204)." followed by a "details" link.Click on the details link, and you will see the last IPs from which Gmail activity took place.You will also find a "Sign out all other sessions" that might... |
GMail reads and archives mail on its own | mmelin: The easiest explanation for that behaviour is that you have either forwarding or POP/IMAP enabled and have a client running somewhere you've forgotten about. |
What's a good book to learn electronics? | PStamatiou: I don't know whats happened recently but I grew up with Forest M Mim's books. They were written on engineers/graph paper and handwritten but overall very informative. I bought them at RadioShack back in the day, but you can probably find them online for very cheap.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Mims |
What's a good book to learn electronics? | lpgauth: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=317376http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=111798http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=149317http://searchyc.com/ask+electronic |
What's a good book to learn electronics? | sigstoat: When you're ready for a bit of theory, the Art of Electronics is good stuff, with broad coverage. |
What's a good book to learn electronics? | Anon84: For me, electronics only started to make sense after this book:http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/05213... |
What's a good book to learn electronics? | agarren: I've wondered about this myself and have found that the most common responses usually reference, "The Art of Electonics". Great book, sure, and very heavy on theory.There are a few books out now that touch on the Arduino platform - the Make/O'Reilly site has a few. Additionally, there are a couple of folks usi... |
What's a good book to learn electronics? | markessien: Don't bother. If you use the arduino board, you can approach electronics the same way as one would programming - by trial and error.Learn the basics - resistors, clock signals, how chips work, and the rest you can pick up by experimentation. |
What's a good book to learn electronics? | comatose_kid: the art of electronics is cool, but the ARRL handbook is even better. |
What's a good book to learn electronics? | pt: i usually suggest folks get a kit - arduino, or an open source hardware kit from http://www.adafruit.com -- they're all fully documented and you'll learn by doing and move along harder projects as you become more proficient.(phil from MAKE magazine, also a good resource) |
What's a good book to learn electronics? | ra: Art of Electronics is a very good book, but if you want to learn from a fun / programming point of view I highly recommend "Making Things Talk", by Tom Igoe.http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510510/ |
Review my startup, reportminers.com | Harkins: Your page titled "How it Works" does not actually include any information on how it works. |
Review my startup, reportminers.com | dmix: I thought this would be really valuable, especially if it had an API. But then I looked at the pricing and "How it Works" and started to realize its not an application but a service. Is that correct? |
What's a good book to learn electronics? | 3flp: Electronics is pretty broad. There are books for each area, depending on what you want to do:- Building kits?
- Building circuits someone else designed?
- Designing printed circuit boards?
- Designing digital circuits?
- Designing analog circuits?
- Designing power electronics?
- Designing RF and microwave ... |
What's a good book to learn electronics? | kaens: http://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/in combination withhttp://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/socratic/ |
What's a good book to learn electronics? | bprater: Analog electronics and digital electronics are different beasts. Most of what you'll do when hacking together projects will be digital.If you are a programmer, and especially if you are a low-level programmer, you won't have a problem getting your feet wet on the digital side.Snag one of the kits folks are men... |
Review my startup, reportminers.com | drewcrawford: Not in your target market, so take my advice with a grain of salt...Page design is really good. Lots of people fail here--you are not one of them. I clearly understand what your business is and does.Samples are excellent.It's not clear if you magically OCR the PDFs (i.e. PDFs made with a scanner and som... |
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