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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 once you're used to it. Concentration is something you have to work on, especially when you don't really like what you're doing.2. Music helps me get started on work, but I usually do my best work in complete silence.3. I get distracted more easily when tired.4. Create deadlines. If you're a deadline-junkie you may do your best work by skipping sleep the night before the deadline and working for 16 hours straight. You can't slack for more than a few minutes when you know time is running out.5. Realize that you don't really want to read social news sites, that's it mostly a waste of time. Think of the things you'd rather do, and then do that instead as "reward" for doing something productive. |
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 reading the article. Now I see the headline and try to figure which will be my reaction after I see the article. Most of the times, the conclusion is that I'm really not interested. |
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 used to land up on reddit/HN by "accident". That is, my fingers would go Cmd-L -> redd -> return.. even befor I realised it. Having a blocker works.
Sometimes, I consciously want to browse HN/reddit, but OpenDNS takes 3 minutes before the block is lifted. By that time the urge would have passed. Or, as I do now, I get up and move to the "fun" PC .Why am I on HN now?
I unblocked all the sites on election day to read the news from the fire-hose :p . Sine I don't own a TV, internet is the only news source.... |
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 quantity as your secret personal task during the day. This works really well for me. |
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 syntax, for example) work related. I could of course cheat and surf using IE, but that generally causes enough cognitive dissonance that I'm able to resist the temptation. |
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 to internet waste per day. No more. (I just spent 3 min on this) |
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 much on my plate :( Also had a plan to somehow enhance the way bookmarks are stored in FF, but I figured it was already covered by something like del.icio.us. |
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 your bookmarks bar, and drag it to your coding workspace.use things like growl notifications to alert you of instant messages and new e-mails. that way you can remain in your coding window and quickly glance at what that little chime was just for. if it's an important message, switch and take care of it (or don't). if not, ignore it. this way you aren't forced to switch workspaces and interrupt your work every time something comes in that you hope might be more fun than your current problem at hand. |
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 done. When I'm sufficiently motivated about my code, my brain automatically shuts everything else out. I don't force myself, I just wait until motivation/inspiration hits. Sometimes takes a day or two, but it's worth it, because then I'll have (say) a week-long burst of creative output that I couldn't have gotten any other way. |
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 realize it, and need to spend time burning in the necessary skills before I can return to "the big job".In either case, the solution's the same: work on something else for a while. That's what I'd recommend for you.As for war stories of defeat and then emerging triumphant, I've got a couple...My first big project that I initiated myself was supposed to be a quick PHP rewrite of a large Harry Potter fanfiction site. I was in college, had worked for a year as a programmer beforehand, and thought it'd take six months. When I started digging into it, I realized I had no idea how to architect a big webapp and a whole bunch of little corner cases that were about to make my job really different. Unlike you, though, I couldn't give up: other people were depending on me, and we'd already announced the rewrite to our ~40,000 users (lesson learned: never preannounce software). I finally finished more than 3 years later, after I'd graduated, having banged out a couple of other PHP webapps in the meantime for my college.When I was doing Diffle.com, I got to the point where I had to convert my cofounder's Photoshop mockups to HTML/CSS and bogged down. I'd never done the front-end of a website before; I'd always had other people do the HTML and hand it to me to turn into templates. So I shelved it for a couple weeks, launched another website with a dead-simple layout, and then came back to it. After having launched something else, I found my CSS issues were much easier to resolve. |
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 convenient, and it can help limit the growth of large numbers of open tabs and the resultant resource consumption and slowdown. Scrapbook also has integrated search.Scrapbook can be set to save every page visited, and to save a bookmark rather than the entire page. I'm not sure whether the two can be combined.HTHP.S. Looks like Scrapbook is supporting Firefox 3, now. I'm still on 2 and so don't know how that support is going. Earlier lack of support was one (of several) compatibility issues that kept me back on 2. |
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.Focus on a niche, not the entire world. A dating site is nice and all, but, you've got eharmony.com, match.com, singles.com, and you're real big competitor, plentyoffish.com. A social network is nice and all, but you've got Facebook.It sounds like your taste exceeds your skills. I know the feeling, and trust me it's the worst thing in the world. But if you want success, channel that frustration and make it work for you. Learn the fundamentals, and just try and try and try. Before you know it, you've gotten better. And as time progresses, you've become the best in your industry.So three things. ONE: Be innovative. TWO: Be small. THREE: Hustle your face off.--EDIT--Oh yeah, another thing. Don't get caught up in the little things. If you really want to be an entrepreneur FOCUS ON THE BIG PICTURE. If you like programming, but feel like you're getting lost in all the fiddly bits, then find a framework or language that doesn't cost you time. If you like designing, but feel like you're wasting your time trying to figure out where elements go, find a great design and understand what makes it great. Look to others to show you the way so that you understand the bottom line. Time == motivation. Motivation == success. Success == Awesomeness. |
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 similar.Email me at jonathan@infoaxe.com if you have other suggestions/questions. Thanks for trying out the alpha! |
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. Constantly share what you've learnt and built. Help others. Join the community and participate. You could be the best developer ever but it won't matter if nobody knows about you and your work. |
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 scripts as it would be to a language built on top of javascript.What specific situations do you think this would be useful? |
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 where people go to get help, share ideas and generally talk about development. There are probably people posting paid projects there. And that is your target.Wordpress is a pretty big niche with lots of buyers and sellers. The problem is that those buyers can be anywhere from total jokers to people with deep pockets. This happens with free stuff which is highly popular.A better opportunity is to find a niche that has relatively few service providers and lots of service consumers. Even better is if that niche is paid software which is used by companies with lots of money.Big new platforms are big opportunities. If you are an Iphone guru then you don't even have to post here asking how to find work. There are probably few sure bets out there than Iphone development. |
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/js/narcissus/) you could interpret a language that was a subset of javascript, with whatever restrictions you wanted. Though javascript's extremely dynamic nature would possibly make this challenging.More pragmatically, lethain's right that you should look into caja. |
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 something you are building together and you together get to decide how it works and looks.Just tell them you find this unusual, you want to discuss - ask what their view is. They might have a quite reasonable interpretation - of they might be jerks about it - or you might find out you're being a jerk about it... just start a rational dialogue first. |
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 of shares in some unknown startup. What you're proposing is freelancing more than founding/investing. |
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 not at the level of personal interaction you desire? If so, it's at least plausible that he thinks he's doing his role properly, until he's clued-in otherwise.() physical presence always helps but it's now very possible and even common for key contributors to be remote, and indeed sometimes that better fits a person's most productive workstyle. So don't get hung up on location if everything else is OK (or can be made OK).() speak directly with the 'CTO' about your desire for more interaction/mentoring before going to the 'CEO'.() There are many ways to be 'present' besides physically; give him a chance to deliver the closer involvement/mentoring you think that you and business need those other ways, too -- don't make physically "being there" the only litmus test of commitment.You concern is legitimate but focus solely on productivity (his, yours, and team's), not symbolism, and express your concern in a way that gives him many ways to address it without making it an ultimatum about returning by a certain date or otherwise making him defensive. |
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 progress if you do not open up communications and let yourself be heard. |
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 is not there to your satisfaction, you should think about moving on. But moving on is not something that should be taken lightly. Because you're going to have lots of really tough times in a startup. Full of doubt and angst. And I mean really. And there will be disagreements. Big time. |
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 suffering, then broach the subject with the CEO. Perhaps the guy will come back when a need is demonstrated.If this business is a good opportunity for you, just hang tight. The other guy could have the bigger problem anyway: Your proximity to the CEO is going to make you very valuable to him if you end up being a reliable player. The CTO may find himself out of the loop. |
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 themselves, but still wants to be a founder. If you can't prove that you're not going to abandon the project in a month, you're going to have a hard time convincing people to put any value on your equity. Providing some cash is one way you can prove you are serious. Another is to actually do a big chunk of the work yourself.I recommend that you find an idea that is simpler and less "meta", put some work into it, and then try to attract more developers. |
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 out there. |
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" vacation and lack of clear policies/directions are all prized in big corporations.Oh, and I second (or third) the idea that you just move to San Diego. Seriously. |
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 to kill it. |
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 head hunters), but it's something to keep in mind... if nothing else, it's a good reason to consider recognizing people within the company rather than acknowledging them publicly via credits. |
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 nightly. |
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 not useful for them.my $0.02s! overall, it's a nice utility. |
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 field automatically. You can just start typing" that I don't think really help to sell the product. I say just use the product while you explain how the product helps the user and why the user should use it.TC has two pretty good articles on how to demo a product:http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/09/how-to-demo-your-startu...http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/01/how-to-demo-your-startu...Joel also has a pretty good article:http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/11/16.htmlPS/OT - For future reference, what did you use the create the demo video? |
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 each laureate's important works to try to find the key ideas. It's slow going, but yielding some good results so far... |
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 for a better job?Also it seems like a pain to type things in. It seems like it would be simpler just to bookmark job listings than to use this site. Maybe you could have ways to import or connect with common job sites, or with a generic bookmark. A bookmarklet to import a job listing might make this easier. |
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 be useful if your account was compromised - even if you changed your password, if someone was logged in already he will not be suddenly logged out - so he might still retain control of your account.Good luck. |
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 using a Sanguino/Arduino for building a rep rap, so it might be a good start.I've found "Electronics - Self Teaching Guide" by Harry Kybett to be a decent introduction to electronics in general. I also picked up "Embedded C Programming and the Atmel AVR" which is regularly recommended for the AVR platform. |
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 electronics?
- System design and assembly?It's a great hobby. You can spend decades learning all this, and more. I have.. And don't get just one book. Get a few different ones. Google for stuff. Search Isohunt for ebooks. Get application notes from component manufacturers. There are tons of free useful info in those. |
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 mentioning in this thread and get busy. |
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 some paper), or if you only accept texted PDFs. In the latter case, you might want to explain that to your non-technical audience. In the former case, you're probably good already--the less mumo-jumbo, the better.Pricing seems a little high to me--but then again, I'm not in your target market, so...You seem to be shooting for the non-technical people here. In that case, you might want to focus more on the benefits of having digital data, which might not be immedidately obvious to your target market. |
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