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What's the best way to manage passwords in a small company? | alastair: http://keepass.info/help/base/multiuser.html |
From what countries do people use HN beside USA? | snitko: Surprised, no one have mentioned Russia yet. I've seen here a couple of people besides me. |
What should I do when I get laid off | jamesshamenski: 1. notify all of your clients and contacts on your last day. this network is your best shot at landing a new gig. "its all who you know" - mantra.2. be humble and thank the company for the opportunity. be shockingly nice and helpful. they wont forget that. This is how kevin ollie rode the bench in the NBA for 14 years with 14 teams --> everyone loved the guy because he had an awesome attitude.3. Do that 'crazy idea' you had that the mgmt told you would never work. It's a great time to try a new sales strategy that you couldnt get approved before and see if it really would have worked.4. Sleep with the bosses daughter. |
What should I do when I get laid off | gte910h: >Should I clean up my desk and stop coming to work from tomorrow?Not if you want your stock to vest. You'd possibly get re-fired.I suggest going into work, documenting the stuff you have around, then take your final check and stock and leaving on your last day. |
Examples of (but no "get-rich") paid membership sites? | davidkellis: The Motley Fool sells investment advice newsletter subscriptions. Is that the kind of thing you're looking for? Granted, their newsletters are about making money through investment returns, but not necessarily via the internet. |
Emailing users their passwords outdated? | jodrellblank: Send a one-shot link which logs them in.Optionally, takes them to the 'change password' area with no need to enter the previous password, this time.Yes, don't store or send passwords. |
What should I do when I get laid off | barnaby: also, doesn't hurt to ask your employer what they expect you to do. They most likely do want you to hand off some of your responsibilities to somebody else, or something, and may be too ashamed to bring it up. |
So what happens to RIM/BlackBerry now? | paulgb: I know a lot of BlackBerry users who have tried iPhones and the like but still swear by the BlackBerry for the physical keyboard.Surprisingly (and anecdotally), a lot of university-aged people are buying BlackBerries as personal devices. That one baffles me.Whether RIM can sustain either of these markets is beyond me, though. |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | wallflower: I would pick a development team here and have some small part in the codebase. Be willing to pay a little more for people who are willing to answer your questions and keep you accountable for small tasks. That is the basic framework (minus the pay) for a long-term iPhone bootcamp that I will be starting with a long-distance friend soon. Everything will be done over Google Wave and Github-like sites. |
Please share your e-mail workflow, tips. | pramit: This may be useful for youThe Zen of Mastering E-mail: In Under 100 words
http://bighow.com/news/the-zen-of-mastering-email-in-under-1... |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | catch23: Since you're in the SF Bay Area, you should hang around the Hacker Dojo and see if there are any takers. Generally speaking, there are pretty good developers there and they don't charge and arm&leg for development. |
What should I do when I get laid off | unohoo: what type of sales experience do you have ? where are you located ? contact me offline - depending on your profile, there's an opportunity i'm aware of |
What should I do when I get laid off | dryicerx: Do not stop immediately, stay the 1 week and keep it cool and leave them with a good impression. Also I have heard from some people that taking a nice vacation when this happens as a great option.On a side note: I have a need for a marketing/sales person at at the moment, drop me a line, my contact info in my profile. |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | tzm: I'm in Raleigh, NC. I develop iPhone / iPad and Android apps for a small dev firm. We price our apps on a fixed rate basis, typically starting at $3k, for full service work (graphic design to app store distribution); 2-3 week lead time.Although we could bill $100 - $150/hr, we find clients respond better to fixed rate pricing, which seems to be a more manageable on both ends.We focus heavily on providing excellent design and rich UI/UX. We often work with agencies behind the scenes or with enterprise customers, brands, publishers and entrepreneurs with an "idea". Pretty much all types of customers.We also build the web service infrastructure, which may include social, geo and eCommerce capabilities and/or integration.Btw, we've had iPhone apps approved in as little as 2 days.Your app seems like some of the apps that we've developed for $2-3k, assuming you have a workflow / spec draft and initial design consideration. |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | koevet: A couple of months ago I had an idea for an iPhone app that requires a client and server component. I decided to focus on the backend development and outsource the front-end. I have posted my tender on http://www.getappsdone.com/ and in a very short amount of time I have received several offers from shops and individuals from all over the planet, mainly US, UK and India.
I have replied to every contact asking for a portfolio and I ended up with a couple of candidates.
I also received all sort of prices, from suspiciously low (40US/hour)to rip-off high (> 200/h).
I have based my choice on the quality of the portfolio, on the similarity of apps already developed by the shop to mine and, of course, on the overall price. |
Is it wrong to not have a Terms of Use and Privacy Policy on your site? | eagleal: Not directly replying to your question, but maybe you can find something on the link below (if no one will reply with some insight):http://searchyc.com/terms+of+useEdit: If you have a big community website, a startup/company operating trough the website, you may need a ToS and privacy policy. You can at least "assemble" one like I did back in 2008 with my company, enterprise market. So I got relevant pieces from Google (especially the privacy policy), Yahoo, Microsoft, Adobe, Autodesk too, etc, and adapted it to my business. |
Is it just me, or is gmail slow lately? | setori88: slow very slow |
Is it wrong to not have a Terms of Use and Privacy Policy on your site? | twidlit: Automattic has licensed their TOS and Privacy Policy under creative commons. So anyone are free to copy and modify it.http://en.wordpress.com/tos/ |
Is it just me, or is gmail slow lately? | nreece: Works fine for me from here (Australia). |
Is it just me, or is gmail slow lately? | CrazedGeek: Initial load is a tad slower than usual, but everything's normal afterwards. (Oklahoma) |
Is it just me, or is gmail slow lately? | clusterfu_k: normal for me. (Waterloo, Canada) |
What's the best way to manage passwords in a small company? | gspyrou: http://www.onelogin.com/ |
Is it just me, or is gmail slow lately? | jazzychad: Seems a bit slow, maybe.. but I've noticed many many errors lately (namely, "your message was not sent (#008)", then I have to resend it) in normal gmail and for hosted domain accounts. I had never seen them before a few weeks ago. |
Is it just me, or is gmail slow lately? | AdamGibbins: Fine here. (London, UK) |
Is it just me, or is gmail slow lately? | thmz: Do you use Buzz and Chat?
Slow for me (Netherlands, Buzz & Chat turned off). |
Is it just me, or is gmail slow lately? | kierank: Nothing loads at all. (UK) |
Is it just me, or is gmail slow lately? | JCThoughtscream: Works just fine here. (SF Bay Area, CA) |
Is it just me, or is gmail slow lately? | ananthrk: Normal (even with Buzz & Chat turned on!) @ Chennai, India |
Examples of (but no "get-rich") paid membership sites? | headstorm: What about metafilter.com? I haven't joined, but I read their content daily. They charge a one-time membership fee of $5, which allows you to post a question on ask.metafilter.com once per week. Members can comment on anything they desire, leading to many diverse niche questions being answered by 'the hive'. They do supplement their revenue by google text ads, however. |
Is it just me, or is gmail slow lately? | TaraLOlson: very slow, with more errors than used to be |
Is it just me, or is gmail slow lately? | simplegeek: Normal (here in Lahore, Pakistan). |
What should I do when I get laid off | rainmaker: Damn, I love the valley, and the responses to my query have been warm, witty and wonderful. Though I kinda know what I want to do, I'm looking forward to connecting with some of you guys to see if I can add value.I also remembered I had a meeting setup tomorrow to help a colleague out with Salesforce - I think it'll be fun to solve her query anyhow. And that tip on reaching out to clients and contacts is really awesome. Too bad the bosses don't have no daughters. LoL.Thx again. Startup Sales Guy |
So what happens to RIM/BlackBerry now? | plq: i wonder why n900 isn't catching up. it's a truly developer-friendly platform while also being a quite user-friendly smartphone (just avoid the xterm icon) and has a decent qwerty keyboard (much better than anything rim offers, imho) . |
Is it just me, or is gmail slow lately? | shadowsun7: Just you; is okay on my end. |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | bobwaycott: If you think you can do it in a month, then save yourself the money. I don't think you'd really get any app worth it's salt in two weeks, no matter who is doing the coding. |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | BSousa: I develop iPhone/iPad apps in-house for the enterprise market, but when I take side projects, I usually take around 70-80 dollars an hour (depending on the whole scope of the project).But it is hard to quote a fixed price without knowing much about the application. An application with two custom views with a lot of logic can easilly take 10x as much time as a CoreData 10 view application that is just drilling data.Send me an email at brunomtsousa@gmail.com if you need any advice/help. |
Is it just me, or is gmail slow lately? | jeremyswank: noticeably slow, and for a couple days, the option to make new filters was gone (it's back now, tho). (Prague) |
Is it just me, or is gmail slow lately? | pierrefar: Mail as part of Apps for Domains was flaky last night but seems ok now. Lots of "still working errors" hangs. |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | mkramlich: I wrote the Postabon iPhone app (heavy location-based features), and wrote and shipped about 8 other iPhone apps before that. Your dev time expectations sound approximately right (without knowing more details), but I can't speak to current prices, they fluctuate quite a bit.Any other questions, ping me. |
What's a good place for South African programmers to emigrate to? | rmc: If your grandparent was Irish (unlikely in South Africa I guess), then you are entitled to an Irish passport. You are then a EU citizen and can work in any EU country with no visa issues. Just something that might be of benefit. |
Is it wrong to not have a Terms of Use and Privacy Policy on your site? | hga: "Don't get me wrong, we won't ever share emails, ip addresses of our users or anything."And I believe you. But if your assets go into a Chapter 7 liquidation, any such intent or formal privacy policy promise goes out the door (or so is my understanding, although we may see some change here someday).(Or your angel investors might turn out out to be devils, etc., but Chapter 7 is the one risk that nearly impossible to avoid.)Is there any sign you are losing people due to the lack of a formal privacy policy?Is there any sign that many people care about the usual impenetrable privacy policies? And how they can be changed without notice?How many people care that Facebook's motto/MO seems to be the opposite of Googles? Yes, they are big enough there's sometimes a lot of fuss when they do evil, but has it really hurt them?Personally, I'm looking for a (very possibly implicit) "we won't be jerks and we expect you not to be" social contract. A one liner "we will not share ..." can't hurt, though (I do like to see those), but I'd drop the "never" due to the above control problem that might make it impossible to keep. |
From what countries do people use HN beside USA? | ochekurishvili: Georgia, Tbilisi.
Country not State. |
Is it wrong to not have a Terms of Use and Privacy Policy on your site? | jacquesm: We wrote our own, and in 'plain' language, not in legalese. So far it has not ever come up other than when users violate the 'terms' and are banned.Feel free to copy bits and pieces:http://ww.com/policy.php3And keep in mind that a privacy policy only starts to carry real weight when your community feels that a policy is too restrictive or gives you rights that it should not have. A 'reasonable' level of protection of privacy and rights is the sweet spot to aim for.Too lax and you won't be able to ban users for terms-of-service violations, too restricted and your users will (rightfully) complain. |
The Walled Garden vs the Bazaar - is Apple dead? | verec: No. All the "Bazaar" is is "Pop Culture". Lack of taste or long term effort, immediate satisfaction and everything else needed to boost your own little ego irrespective of the value you bring (or not) to the world.Quit complaining, quit whining! Start your very own Apple, and then come back and tell us about the walls and what not. |
Examples of (but no "get-rich") paid membership sites? | JayNeely: http://StartupToDo.com - Provides community requested / rated guides on how to accomplish different startup processes, from making screencasts to getting press coverage.There are a lot of pickup artist communities that offer improved info & forum access for a membership fee.Most "deeply researched info about a niche topic" gets packaged and sold as an e-book. And most of it is about making money, relationships, or learning a skill. As they say, people will only pay for something that gets them paid, made, or laid.Searching for "membership site examples" brought up many results (most of which you have to pay to join a membership site on how to make membership sites to see). I'm sure if you go far enough through search results you'll find some, though.There are a lot of pickup artist communities that |
The Walled Garden vs the Bazaar - is Apple dead? | stonemetal: Proprietary Unix softwareProprietary APIs Browsers softwareProprietary Web Servers softwaremobile platforms hardwareYou seem to have forgotten Apple is a hardware company and it will use OSS whenever it is seen as an advantage. Right now Closed software helps prevent competitors so that is the road they travel. |
The Walled Garden vs the Bazaar - is Apple dead? | bgnm2000: Upon reading the title, I thought to myself, "not a chance, this person is nuts."That said, I would say it will certainly cause problems for apple down the road, when window mobile 7 is everywhere - and android has a better UX. |
What's a good place for South African programmers to emigrate to? | boris: Canada could also be an option, if you can stand the winter. Though the immigration process can take a long time unless you have a job offer from a Canadian company.If you are still interested in improving "plan A" (i.e., staying in South Africa), we are hiring system software engineers (compilers, object persistence, concurrency, UNIX/Linux, C++, etc):http://www.codesynthesis.com/jobs |
So what happens to RIM/BlackBerry now? | wendroid: May I bring your attention to this :
http://comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/4/comSc... Top Smartphone Platforms
3 Month Avg. Ending Feb. 2010 vs. 3 Month Avg. Ending Nov. 2009
Total U.S. Age 13+
Source: comScore MobiLens
Share (%) of Smartphone Subscribers
Nov-09 Feb-10 Point Change
RIM 40.8% 42.1% 1.3
Apple 25.5% 25.4% -0.1
Microsoft 19.1% 15.1% -4.0
Google 3.8% 9.0% 5.2
Palm 7.2% 5.4% -1.8 |
The Walled Garden vs the Bazaar - is Apple dead? | dzlobin: Yeah, apple is really dead. They just released a huge product that the average consumer is crazy about. They will make even more billions than they usually do, and they are "dead".
Face it, the hacker crowd will always have a soft spot for android and some of us will be die hard android fans, but as far as apple vs android goes, apple is winning and is head and shoulders above this competition.At least for now |
Is Mechanical Turk good for getting recommendations? | byoung2: It depends...If you are just looking for top 10 lists, it should be fine. If you want detailed reports like WikiTravel (http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page), you'll have a harder time finding people who can write well for a low price.Mechanical Turk is like any other system of inputs and outputs: what you get out of it depends on what you put in. From my experience, if you give very detailed instructions and examples of what you want, and you pay a decent reward, you'll get good results. If you want people to write 500 word articles for $0.05, you'll get crap. |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | jm3: http://theymakeapps.com - a directory designed to answer exactly the question you're asking. They also won a Best-of-Web award at SXSW last month. |
Review my web-publishing tool for Professional Photogs | saracen75: The design and layout of the site looks great. I like simple and clean designs. What's the main value that Shotblox has over say Flickr, Divvyshot, etc? |
So what happens to RIM/BlackBerry now? | Rust: Until there's an Android with a physical keyboard my wife loves as much as the one on her 9700, I will be the only one in my house who refuses to use a Blackberry. |
What should I say to a colleague who just got laid off | eru: Could you please help me understand your question better?Your headline says you are asking for advice on what to say to your colleague, but you do not mention that question (or the colleague) again in the body of your text. I am a bit confused. In what position is your colleague in? |
What should I say to a colleague who just got laid off | wendroid: K, tnx, bye |
How do you handle direct ad sales? | andyangelos: Still in private beta (which does not help) but isocket.com would provide ease in billing, reporting, and adjusting rates. Worth signing up for notifications as a future solution :)Have never used this http://www.openx.org/ - but removes the rate adjustment problem since you are dealing with a marketplace. Might be worth investigating as well. |
Is Mechanical Turk good for getting recommendations? | samratjp: You could start off with some automation i.e. make a crawler. Start with seeds from top rated places from Yelp, Gowalla, etc. Then, blast your queries across some travel site APIs and freebase.com to see what kinds of interesting places you get. Then, you can perhaps do model based collaborative filtering and do the recommendations automatically.Or for inspiration... http://www.tripbase.com |
How do you handle direct ad sales? | crxnamja: There are companies like appsavvy.com who do it for fb games.I always use agreements. Main things to cover are payment terms and collecting 1/2 of the payment upfront if they are a new advertiser.Ideally on request is what I send advertisers, otherwise a dashboard is always fun if you have the time to make one.Raising rates is more about creating competition and value for the advertising available. At the end of the day most advertisers just do the math on the ROI. If they want to stay you can raise rates. More important imo is about retention and having advertisers over the long haul.Freshbooks.com and other invoices. I just use a google doc template I have and email that to them. |
How do you handle direct ad sales? | apowell: Set up recurring billing, don't chase checks every month. Send invoices if it makes you and/or the client happy, but collect the payment automatically. I use Authorize.net for billing and Blinksale for invoicing.This will save major headaches and improve long-term advertiser retention. (And if your advertisers aren't long-term, I suspect you'll have a tough time continually generating the new accounts necessary to make this worthwhile.) |
How do you organize the online "content" you consume? | mrlyc: To organise my music and video collections and save information from surfing the web and the 77 RSS feeds and 160 podcasts I subscribe to, I use a partition which is structured as follows: multimedia
downloads
torrents
ebooks
to read
to keep
music
to select
to keep
speech
to hear
to keep
text
video
to see
to keep
The "to keep" directories have subdirectories named after authors, bands, genres, movies and podcasts. The "text" directory is for saved web pages as well as normal text files. |
How do you handle direct ad sales? | proee: try
trafficspaces.comoiopublisher.combuysellads.com |
What happened to rational discourse? | pg: There are often days when things get bad here in one way or another, but I don't worry unless they stay that way.At least when HN readers get hysterical it's about something (a) related to hacking and (b) really bad. |
What happened to rational discourse? | jimmyjim: >As is almost always the case, I suspect this TOS change will either be modified, re-interpreted, or Apple will suffer community backlash.Are you sure the TOS would change, if there was no backlash, like the one you're seeing on HN right now?Protests usually precede revolutions. |
What happened to rational discourse? | aphyr: In some ways, I think the recent obsession over iphone ToS is a community backlash, though it seems overblown. I am surprised that four developers I know are dropping their iPhones at the end of contract and switching to Android. We must feel strongly about it. |
What happened to rational discourse? | jdietrich: The phrase "straw that broke the camel's back" springs to mind. The anger and fear that you're witnessing has been building for years - since the launch of the App Store, maybe even back to the iPod with its proprietary connector and its proprietary software. For many people, their worst fears about the iPad platform have been confirmed by this TOS change. It might seem irrational, but as a loyal Mac user I'm genuinely worried about what little bombs might be in the TOS for OS 10.7.The most influential and powerful man in technology has a vision that many of us find appalling. He is imposing that vision as we speak and is being very successful in doing so. After years of rational debate, many of us have come to a conclusion about Jobs's intentions for the computer industry - a conclusion I see as perfectly reasonable and rational. It is no good closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. The developer community needs to air its grievances now, while there is still something to play for. |
What happened to rational discourse? | prodigal_erik: We're toolmakers, so this just hits too close to home. We can't be completely objective about the idea that any platform vendor wants to ban our favorite tools and demand we use something mediocre (so much so that hardly anyone has willingly chosen it for decades). It just makes it worse that this one might have actually amassed enough power to get away with it. |
How do people keep finding my gem? | cmelbye: I've been wondering the same thing. I'd bet that they're coming from a search engine. I routinely search on Google for something I need to do using Ruby. Almost always there's a result for a Gemcutter gem that does what I need to do, and that's how I find them. |
What happened to rational discourse? | bootload: "... I'm curious why the reaction to the Apple Developer TOS change is making this community react so strongly ..."In some ways message boards are to hackers what close knit provincial rural communities are Jane Austen novels. A place of petty intrigue and gallantry. |
Are you happy, well-rounded? (dealing w/ depression/lack of motivation) | samratjp: What you need is a Pensieve (like the one from Harry Potter where the characters can take out their memories to analyze). OK, Just Kidding!But, do go for a walk by a quiet lake or body of water. Take a notebook with you. Spill your thoughts on the paper and don't actively think about it. It's hard to look at oneself "passively" and this helps immensely. There is no shortcut here. Keep doing this everyday, you will find that negation helps. This is the closest you will get to a pensieve :-)This may help: http://www.selvesandothers.org/article16383.html |
What to cover in a MongoDB case study talk | cperciva: I would prefer "notes from a production deployment" -- I don't think anyone needs to hear the SQL vs. NoSQL arguments yet another time. |
Are you happy, well-rounded? (dealing w/ depression/lack of motivation) | spaceman77: I am 46 and had something similar happen twice in my life and it usually preceded a huge change, for the better.tricky waters to negotiate they are (yoda) |
What happened to rational discourse? | frossie: You're right, the reaction to the TOS was something to behold.I think due to the nature of hacking and hackers, most people here hate being told how to do their job, especially for what feels to them to be spurious or irrational reasons.I suspect people would have responded better to a more narrow (though perhaps legally more problematic) "no Flash" rule, rather than the legally safer but over-broad "no cross-compiling". |
Are you a single founder ? | pkc: 1. 6 months2. No. Haven't tried.3. No.4. http://roorky.com - Interactive ebooks (ibook??) |
Please review ebay mashup | pkc: I like the idea. Why the listings should be only from ebay? Aggregate listings from other popular shopping sites. |
Feedback on A Map of the Cat? | gaius: What am I looking at here? Like, is this a demonstrator for some content management tool? |
How do people keep finding my gem? | coryl: Google your keywords, maybe a blogger wrote about it or something. |
What software/app do you need? | charliepark: I don't know how much I'd be willing to pay for it, or how big of a market there is for it, but I would like an easy tool for cohort analysis. |
Feedback on A Map of the Cat? | aw3c2: The font shadow makes the text appear blurry. Font sizes need consistency. Do not use the same size for headlines and starts of paragraphs. The single big letters are just silly. Serif font does not fit technology/coding environment. The huge quote is so huge and long that I do not read it. Feynman name-dropping is lame, put your own quality in that space where the visitor looks first. |
What software/app do you need? | messel: Short list:I'd love a form of viral analytics tool similar to the work of Kotangent but for open social web apps (non-facebook web)I could use a great (open source?) front end for social feeds for a web app a friend and I have been building. I'm working on it now but I'm not sure of the right way to go about it. I'd pay for it. Many shiny nickels. One of the requirements is organizing the feeds, and setting up users to lay claim to the feeds.While you're at it, how about a great social reader. We could use RSS meets Push and I'll need to code that up as well for the above work I'm doing. We plan to build everything open source so folks can hack their own front ends (and their own databases if they wish).Last but not least, a social game that tags content in feeds. Kind of like the voting system here on HackerNews but folks get credit for tagging stuff they read, listen or watch. The top 2-3 tags are used for downstream filtering. The points are also usable from a marketing perspective, and can be spent to increase the visibility of a post.Where's the money come from?
There's plenty of valuable information to be mined, and who knows relevant social web readers outside of Facebook could be handy in a year or two with all the open standards work being done. |
From what countries do people use HN beside USA? | chethong: Malaysia! |
What software/app do you need? | helwr: i need a good, stable, fast, simple, distributed, reliable, inexpensive, non-relational database which understands sql |
Quick question about HN Toolkit regex | ScottWhigham: Send Xichekolas an email and ask him (he wrote it): http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Xichekolas. He's helped me out before with questions like this. |
What is the best qualtiy office chair for long stretches of coding? | akadien: Not a joke, whatever chair you buy, budget $20 or $25 for a professional grade stability ball for "sitting breaks". It's good for posture, core, etc. and helps one to stretch out a bit. I thought it was weird until I tried it, and now I always keep one next to my desk. |
What is the best qualtiy office chair for long stretches of coding? | mattm: I recently purchased a chair for my home. I looked at Aeron chairs. They were nice but I didn't get the WOW factor I thought I would. I also realised that I would be paying for the 10+ years guarantee. Since I would be the only one using the chair, I thought it was not necessary for me. It makes sense for businesses though as they will be subject to more wear and tear from moving and different use plus don't need to worry about your chairs for the next decade at least.The best way to help coders keep their health is to encourage them to take a 5-10 minute stretch break every 45 minutes or so. You may also want to look into getting standing desks that can be easily adjusted so people can stand while they work if they so choose. |
What is the best qualtiy office chair for long stretches of coding? | Hates_: I love my Aeron. Even more so when I was able to pick it up for a great price second hand. There seems to be a tremendous abundance of them available from second hand office furniture companies. |
What is the best qualtiy office chair for long stretches of coding? | buss: I got a used Steelcase Leap on craigslist and I am really happy with it. |
What is the best qualtiy office chair for long stretches of coding? | stcredzero: Sitting on one of these right now:Bungie LoBack Office Chair:
http://amzn.com/B0002XQJQ4It may not be quite as good as an Aeron, but I had an Aeron chair for two years at a former job, and this holds its own, especially for $129. I've had it for something like 7 or 8 months, and both the chair and its comfort have held up well. I can sit in this thing all day. The cheap task chair it replaced, I would get tired of sitting in after 45 minutes.YMMV. I also supplement the lumbar support:http://amzn.com/B000AP0HY4The combination may not be stylish enough for some. I would recommend trying it to a student.(I do not sell chairs, nor am I affiliated with Amazon. I'm just a programmer who needs a comfortable chair.) |
What is the best qualtiy office chair for long stretches of coding? | ruang: I noticed my neck and back problems started going away when I went to the gym. No chair will make your neck and back muscles get stronger. |
What is the best qualtiy office chair for long stretches of coding? | kbob: Aeron.My wife and I have both spent our own money on Aerons, and if we lost them, we'd get Aerons again.They also last forever. My older Herman Miller chair from 1993 is still in good condition too, in spite of having logged something like 40,000 butt-hours.BTW, Aerons come in three sizes, so get the right size for your people. At 6'2" and 240 lb. (187 cm, 110 kg) I need the large size. My wife is on the cusp between small and medium. |
What is the best qualtiy office chair for long stretches of coding? | karzeem: When you have a seat in the Aeron, you won't think, "Wow, this is incredibly comfortable." It's fine, definitely comfortable, but not mindblowing. Where it earns its price is after you've been sitting for, say, six hours and realize that you're still comfortable. In most chairs, you'll get sweaty and crampy long before that.The mesh in the Aeron is important, by the way. I find the limiting factor for chair comfort is usually sweatiness/stuffiness. |
What is the best qualtiy office chair for long stretches of coding? | itistoday: I honestly don't know why people rave about the Aeron. I went to a store and sat in a few and wasn't impressed, maybe it's because I'm skinnier than most people, may (as some suggested) you need to sit in them for a long time to appreciate them.What I do know is that for a period of time I was on a mad chair hunt. I went from store to store trying to find that perfect million dollar chair that would stop my legs and feet from hurting due to lack of circulation because of how long I'd sit for.In the end, after sitting in Aeron after Aeron and others, I gave up, realized every one of them was a waste of money.The solution was cheap and simple:1) I kept my cheapo $70 chair from Office Max2) I put a $90 cushion on it (one of those you can carry with you and put in your car).3) I put a wooden tangerine crate inside of a cardboard box, taped it up, and used it as a foot support to elevate my legs, thus relieving pressure on them from the chair's cushion.That's it. I was able to code much longer now without taking breaks, for a fraction of the price. Then again, if you're buying for other people, this sort of setup might cause them to roll their eyes, this is mainly just advice for people looking to buy chairs for themselves.Of course, don't forget to take periodic breaks and exercise. No matter how expensive or ingeniously setup your chair is, unless it's levitating you in the air with force perfectly distributed on every square inch of your body, you'll need to take breaks to allow your blood to circulate properly. |
What is the best qualtiy office chair for long stretches of coding? | hakan: I have an Aeron at work and I love it. It's absolutely worth the cost over time. There's no 'wow' factor when you first sit, but you'll still feel comfortable in it after many hours, which is not the case with most chairs. I also have had some lower back issues recently and sitting in the chair actually makes me feel much better.At home, I have a Steelcase Think plus lumbar support. I wanted something a bit less expensive and nicer looking for my bedroom. It's also great - I don't spend as many hours on it as I do on the Aeron and it's done a wonderful job so far - no back pain at all.Before that, I used a $10 Ikea chair for two years, and I felt serious back pain after a few months. It's absolutely worth it to invest in a quality chair. Even though the price tag is depressing, make the purchase once. Your chair / back pain will become a solved problem for at least a decade. |
What is the best qualtiy office chair for long stretches of coding? | jgeewax: Recently got an Aeron for about $600.http://www.madisonseating.com/aeron-highly-adjustable-by-her... |
What is the best qualtiy office chair for long stretches of coding? | sfriedrich: I've had one of these since 2002. It's a little over your budget but it is worth every penny (Get the gel seat-pan).I've survived shipping pushes that had 14-16 hr./day coding with this chairhttp://www.mcergo.com/humanscale-freedom-chair-with-headrest...http://www.humanscale.com/products/freedom_index.cfm |
What is the best qualtiy office chair for long stretches of coding? | tptacek: Eight hundred dollars per chair? That's a crazy high budget. |
What is the best qualtiy office chair for long stretches of coding? | cosmicray: Steelcase 454 ConcentrixOld, make sure you get the one with steel 5-way legs & hard casters, and without arm rests (unless you really want them). These have not been made new for ~20 years, but you find them occasionally on craigslist, or stuffed way in the back of used office furniture warehouses.My first one lasted 15 years, I found two more last year ( @ $25/ea ). |
What software/app do you need? | Scott_MacGregor: I would like to be able to color code the folders in MS Outlook with a right click just like FolderIcon XP does in Windows. |
Who's hiring? | MattF: Location: State College, PA, USAVideon Central is looking to hire a software engineer:http://www.videon-central.com/careers/openings/98Primarily C/C++ on bleeding-edge silicon, fantastic people and work environment, and great management.Joel Test score: 12/12State College is located right in the middle of Pennsylvania and is the home of Penn State University. It's not bad for a college town, has great MTB trails everywhere and is not far from Philly or NYC. |
What is the best qualtiy office chair for long stretches of coding? | zackola: I like my Mirra at home better than the Aeron I have at work. I'd check them out. Also been meaning to try out some sort of balance ball part time. |
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