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How do you deal with mental illness? | kylec: I have an intense compulsion to write. I'm good at it. I can pound out 2000 words of coherent English prose in half an hour.I wish I could do that. I always found writing for my English classes was incredibly difficult, especially as the length requirements grew. |
Domain management? | ObieJazz: http://www.google.com/search?q=registrar+site%3Aycombinator....Based on that, I chose to use NameCheap. I've been happy with it so far. |
Domain management? | blurry: I didn't like GoDaddy... switched to 1and1.com. Get a lot less spam now :) |
How do you deal with mental illness? | tstegart: Why code as opposed to novels? And what are you looking for? Some suggestions on how to get into coding, or ways to improve your coding? |
How do you deal with mental illness? | StrawberryFrog: It makes some sense that serious trolls are mentally ill. |
How do you deal with mental illness? | noodle: try writing a novel. i know people working on books that push very hard to get 2000 words a day. |
Are you working on a desktop software? | jamesbritt: My company, Happy Camper Studios, has just released JotBot: http://www.getjotbot.comIt a cross-platform desktop-based time-tracking application.We used JRuby + Swing plus Monkeybars. It needs a license key to run; we have a Web service handling that to generate 30-day trial keys or fully-registered non... |
How do you deal with mental illness? | astine: I'm good at it. I can pound out 2000 words of coherent English prose in half an hour.Damn, that's a problem I've always wished I had. I write too, but not much. I find that writing and coding to be very different activities, at least for me, so I'm not sure you could channel that energy into coding. From the so... |
Domain management? | compay: I use Godaddy. There are usually lots of coupons for domain registration on retailmenot.com which makes them the cheapest option I'm aware of.I'm not 100% happy with them either - they are definitely clunky as all hell. Lately I've just been setting my default nameservers to Slicehost and using their domain man... |
How do you deal with mental illness? | KevBurnsJr: "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." |
How do you deal with mental illness? | petercooper: Don't just try to turn your hypergraphia into hypercodeia ;-) A lot of people find that by writing about things they learn about them. For example, if you write a tutorial about a certain algorithm, a certain programming language, or whatever, you're forced to learn the topic well.Perhaps you could write c... |
How do you deal with mental illness? | zitterbewegung: I used to have panic attacks but they stopped after taking zoloft and eventually I grew out of them. I have cyclothymia and I deal with that pretty easily. When I get manic I obsess over thinking of new ideas and new approaches to problems that I have. I use all of my will to stay logical during this ti... |
How do you deal with mental illness? | pragmatic: Have you been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome (AS)? Many of these problems sound like symptoms of AS. Many, many programmers have AS (it seems computers were made by and for people with AS (see the book below)). I've worked with several whom I suspected but weren't formally diagnosed. They were misera... |
How do you deal with mental illness? | Allocator2008: A friend of mine who I won't name here is an accomplished sci-fi writer/critic of no little repute whose "day job" is technical writing/documentation, which is how I know him, since we worked for the same company at one point. I wonder if you have ever considered technical writing? If one is really good ... |
How do you deal with mental illness? | okeumeni: time_management, I admire your courage and understand your need to post this subject here on HN. Though your motive is to create a real debate around the subject of mental problem, some of us go through every day, I don’t think HN is the right platform to do this; here is why.Mental illness in general is a ve... |
review my app | SingAlong: Add a contact page or detail (other than twitter). How would people contact you if they want to?P.S: I was looking to contact you for a collaboration (like possible exchange of data). I didn't find any details on your profile too. |
review my app | modoc: A) The search appears to be jQuery driven and just does a text search of the records that already appear on the page. This won't scaleB) I can't do a useful search: "Ruby developers with an hourly rate under $150 with over 2 years of experience"C) You need standardization of the rate format to make it useful/sea... |
How do you deal with mental illness? | sabat: I'm mildly depressive. Mental issues are very common among smarter people. Meaning: you're quite normal. :-)* see a psychiatrist and possibly get on a drug. Can be very helpful.* see a therapist* start a regular exercise program and stick with it. Huge benefit there.* limit carb intake, especially simple carbs. |
How do you deal with mental illness? | sethg: I know nothing about hypergraphia, but I question the assumption that your desire to write could be "channeled" into coding. I don't think it's necessarily true that two superficially similar activities are really scratching the same psychological itch.When I had a blog, I'd inevitably find myself posting inapp... |
How do you deal with mental illness? | ChaitanyaSai: How did you get into meditation? What kind of meditation do you practice? |
How do you deal with mental illness? | ChaitanyaSai: I am speculating; Inevitably posting confessions and trolling seem to involve a need for attention perhaps? This may be a result of your earnest interest in fitting into your peer group at an earlier age? |
How do you deal with mental illness? | puzzle-out: Socialise with like-minded people - I play darts a lot with friends, its a mildly obsessive game, but also a social one. |
How do you deal with mental illness? | singleserving: I have had a pretty serious depression that lasted for around two years, and am still trying to get out of it. I've noticed that depression, and probably other mental states, is something you don't see in other people unless you have had similar experiences yourself. Now I can see that friends of mine ha... |
How do you deal with mental illness? | ratsbane: You've already won more than half the battle. You seem to have made a very studied and pragmatic analysis of yourself and you've shared that with your peers. That is a lot more than most people will ever do and it's certainly a big part of learning to control the the personal quirks which bother you. But y... |
How do you deal with mental illness? | tricky: Don't suppress your intense compulsion to write just because it got you into trouble a few times... It is a gift. Manage it.1. Always send your stuff to a few friends before you hit the publish button.2. Don't write inappropriate personal confessions. Invent a character, have them live the inappropriateness a... |
What are you doing differently due to the "economic crisis"? | noodle: i took a relocation package that i would have probably not taken otherwise.i'm also working on developing my resume/portfolio and finding some smaller freelance type jobs on the side to help pad my emergency fund.edit: i suppose i should include some 'good' things i've done --i made some very smart investment... |
How do you deal with mental illness? | perdurabo: No offense, but the lot of you commenters just need to get out more.I wasted a lot of my youth and early adult years psychoanalyzing myself in order to learn and master myself, when going out into the world and participating and exploring it, having relationships with people, is the true path to self-actuali... |
Domain management? | ConradHex: I've been switching my domains to namecheap, but this is for personal stuff, not business. |
How do you deal with mental illness? | juliend2: I have to say that Hatha Yoga can be quite helpful. (But be careful because some people tend to see it as a religion). It's more of a physical and mental concentration exercice (Probably like your meditation).Although It helped me a lot, i don't practice it anymore. But it's worth a try.Good luck! |
How do you deal with mental illness? | jawngee: I too have panic disorder, OCD, PTSD and mild depression. I also used to be hypervigilant and a hypochondriac. Being hypervigilant means that you are constantly monitoring your body for signs that something massive is wrong. I used to get a mild chest pain and would turn that into angina. Or I'd get a head... |
Rate my webapp | tdoggette: So, it's an online bookmark manager that solves the problem of a long to-read list by... deleting the list? |
How do you deal with mental illness? | strlen: Is your mental illness diagnosed (other than a self-diagnosis). I am not implying at all that you are, but am merely posting this for the community's sake: mental illness is serious (much like any other illness) so if you do seriously suspect mental (or other) illness seek professional diagnosis.(It could also ... |
How do you deal with mental illness? | Jasber: Sometimes I have a problem with anxiety and OCD. Generally I can control the OCD but sometimes the anxiety is overwhelming when I'm stressed.When this happens I've found exercise to be a good release. I'm able to clear my head and work out all the nervous energy.Perhaps you could have a journal instead of a pub... |
A good online broker without Windows | epall: I use Scottrade.com. $7 trades and works fine on Mac OS X. |
Rate my webapp | pedalpete: "problem is I don't have time to finish my reading at a stretch..." unfortunatly, this is where I stopped reading ;)Go for images or video rather than a paragraph of text.
You didn't really grab my interest with so much text on the page, and nothing else. |
How do you deal with mental illness? | ekpyrotic: I've been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, I just wait and persevere.I've had to wait through dark times: hoping the suicidal thoughts will go; hoping the crying will stop; hoping I won't take the final step.And, then, hoping the good will never leave; hoping my thoughts will continue to accelerate; hoping t... |
How do you deal with mental illness? | anonymousdude: My girlfriend is bipolar. I met her when she was going through a medication change, which was not fun, and she recently had to take a year off from school to deal with her condition, which was hard. She seems to be doing much better and things have calmed down with her.I've heard some people say that i... |
How do you deal with mental illness? | bprater: If you live in a state where medical marijuana is legal, you might talk to a doctor about seeing if this can help you.I've had a friend with a similar problem with anxiety and panic problems, and this really seems to help her. (She tends to do it in the evenings when she can't shake that panicky feeling, but n... |
Rate my webapp | villageidiot: I liked the clean design but I didn't understand why, after I logged in, I had a random link to a Forth programming website already stored in my links page. A little strange. The idea of only having 4 links per user is a good solution to the quotas imposed by Google App Engine, on which you are hosting th... |
How do you deal with mental illness? | zandorg: Do tech jobs discriminate against mental illness? By saying they couldn't possibly be competent? I think some jobs discriminate by default, by looking at someone's CV, which could be tainted by periods in hospital. Myself, I have a mental illness and haven't been able to find work. It's up to me to sell my own... |
How do you deal with mental illness? | fiaz: I would imagine the following would be of help:1) think positively2) set some goals for yourself3) direct your energy towards those goalsThe first step is the key. Without the right attitude the rest of it would be difficult. If you can bang out 2000 words in 30 minutes, then you have a talent that can be used ... |
SaaS vs. distributed app | answerly: It will likely depend on the nature of the app, the targeted end user and the type of data that would be stored within the app.Many businesses of all sizes are very comfortable with SaaS thanks to apps like Saleforce.com. Also, it sounds like you would prefer developing for the web anyway. So, that may be y... |
How do you deal with mental illness? | paul9290: For almost a decade 18 to 28ish (early 30s now) I dealt with obsessive thoughts and in turn anxiety that stifled me being myself around others/enjoying myself. 18 to 24 before I went out of state to finish my studies I had a ton of friends. We did stuff day in and day out, but i could never enjoy those time... |
Why no search bar? | yan: google for "site:news.ycombinator.com [query]" or http://www.searchyc.com/ |
Why no search bar? | brianlash: I'm pretty sure this came up before and PG's short answer was that while he isn't opposed to a search bar, it's a feature and features take time. And that time's a resource he didn't have between managing a new YC funding cycle and getting hitched. |
What are you doing differently due to the "economic crisis"? | owkaye: We developed a business specifically to take advantage of the fact that we're in a depression. It's not that hard to do when you think about it for a while, and re-adjust your 'thinking cap'. Unfortunately it seems that many people don't have this ability. Maybe they are so used to thinking about how to make... |
How do you deal with mental illness? | light3: have you tried eating differently, or moving to the country side, does that help at all? |
How do you deal with mental illness? | peter411: I have been dealing with dyslexia all my life. I tend to make a lot of spelling errors and editing my own work is particularity difficult, because I read what I think I see so "My god's namme is Rex" reads "My dog's name is Rex". The best tools at my disposal are:
- a text to speech reader
- spell check
- a ... |
What's up with the color at HN? | paraschopra: Sorry for the submission, I realized it has to do with Christmas. :)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=408253 |
Of all the things you've done, what are you most proud of? | jfarmer: I'll go first. I'm most proud of Adonomics, which I founded in 2007: http://adonomics.com/I won't lie, it's mostly because it's the most successful thing I've built. I also learned a lot of hard lessons from it, so it was valuable if painful.What about you? |
How do you deal with mental illness? | notmyrealname: Currently facing a massive challenge, and I have no idea of how to deal with it; to put it simply (but still very accurately), if you put me in jail for a few years with a computer and full internet access, it'd be pretty much the same as it is for me now.The only reason I'm still sane is the internet, b... |
Of all the things you've done, what are you most proud of? | physcab: Recently... I'd have to say its passing my PhD qualifying exam :) |
Of all the things you've done, what are you most proud of? | dbrush: Going from bailing hay during the summers in a town called Hope to New York City and starting a startup, all the while having learned on my own not to hate people.Hope has a volunteer fire department, a church, and a post office... only... and is more than 97 percent caucasian.New York City is, well, a melting ... |
How do you deal with mental illness? | bisi: SORRY FOR SHOUTING BUT YOU NEED B12 . Sublingal tablets or shots . You can get the Sublingal Tablets at any pharmacy store without prescription . You have to put them under your tongue .. I cured my panic attacks with B12 and I have added B Complex too.. Start with 1000 Mcg of B12It helps with your energy level a... |
How do I know if its time to change the host? | tower10: If your site's going down, it's probably already time. VPS's are pretty cheap. Alternatively, there may be some optimisations you can make to your code to reduce your concurrent MySQL connections.You can use tools like siege or Apache ab to probe the limits of your capacity, although I wouldn't run them agai... |
How do you deal with mental illness? | jesus_sav3s: I don't think you view your mental illnesses as something you want to change. i.e.
"... so I regard it as a blessing, though a mixed one."
"My most beautiful but also damaging..."
The post gives the impression you want to be seen as a damaged butterfly. I know someone very like you. He has the same hyper-s... |
Of all the things you've done, what are you most proud of? | pasbesoin: Selflessly (this can be more difficult that it sounds) helping someone else, and then learning that what goes around comes around.Corny, I know. Mod me down. But it's moments of genuine connection with another person that make me most proud, thrilled to be a human. I think we have to learn to empathize an... |
What are the most in-need charities? | gtani: admin overhead ratios are controversial, not really measure of effectiveness/efficiency in providing serviceshttp://blogs.asaecenter.org/Acronym/2008/12/impact_versus_ov...http://www.charitynavigator.org/http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2004/0112/036_print.htmlhttp://blog.givewell.net/?p=15 |
What are the most in-need charities? | undertoad: You could try:http://www.networkforgood.org/Default.aspxThere's a "Crisis Relief" link off the home page. |
What are the most in-need charities? | IsaacSchlueter: I don't know how it compares with its need for us, but we certainly all need it, so I give to FFRF. http://www.ffrf.org/ |
would you (founders) use this service? | chris_l: Also: how do you currently solve this problem, if you do. And if you don't, how do you feel about staying within your own country? |
would you (founders) use this service? | davidw: Interesting idea, and something I've considered doing myself, for Italy. The "downside" to it is that it's a linear-growth consulting business, rather than a product business. Still, it seems like something that US companies ought to think about so as to avoid having their lunch eated in other countries by cl... |
would you (founders) use this service? | puzzle-out: I think a product's sensitivity to serving a number of different locales often has to be sacrificed during the start-up phase, as otherwise the product development could end up, well, unfocussed.
I think your service would be most beneficial during the expansion stage - but then of course, with internet st... |
would you (founders) use this service? | tonystubblebine: Yes, I would love an affordable version of this service. I think of XHTMLized as a potential model for you. I think there are some parallel types of services popping up in testing.I think it's more important for you to be convenient then it is to be perfect. We have foreign-language users who struggle ... |
would you (founders) use this service? | brianr: Here's something related that I definitely would pay for: a subscription-based service that provides reliable proxy servers in a wide variety of countries. There was a thread recently about this sort of thing-- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=405946.Basically, I want to be able to browse the web, reliably, ... |
would you (founders) use this service? | aupajo: http://99translations.com/ |
What are the most in-need charities? | ideas101: Charities database and navigator:http://www.charitynavigator.org |
What are the most in-need charities? | popat: Choose your own by simple search:http://www.charitynavigator.org |
would you (founders) use this service? | DenisM: While there is more to localization than just translation, I colleted these resrouces for transaltion of small chunks:http://www.cucumis.org/translation_1_w/ - free (peer-to-peer)http://www.onehourtranslation.com/en/ - $4/100 words |
would you (founders) use this service? | mdasen: It depends on price and what's involved.Don't do it for free. As much as free and freemium has become all the rage, I'd want to pay for this. I wouldn't want excessive fees, but consulting like this can't be free. It involves human work and not cursory work if it's going to be good.Do more than simply transl... |
would you (founders) use this service? | sammcd: Currently I only localize things, if I have a friend that I trust very well that knows the language. Basically no matter what service I use, I am going to want to check it myself.If you establish trust I will be very interested in this type of service. |
How often do you look at stats? | agentbleu: GF is addicted and she has hardly any visitors, i stopped looking after the traffic went v high and it was all just boring then. |
How often do you look at stats? | aaroneous: Everyone in our (tiny) co watches them throughout the day. If the info is valuable enough it can give you very useful insight into the "life" of your startup organism.If it's wasting your time there's something wrong with your system or way your presenting the data -- it takes me about 5 secs to pull up and ... |
Of all the things you've done, what are you most proud of? | dkd: becoming better at dealing with people.1. patience2. patience3. patienceohh.. i guess i forgot to mention "Patience" :D |
what to do if you have only cash? | noodle: put it into a high yield FDIC online savings account (i use HSBC direct). your money won't disappear if the bank is FDIC insured (unless you have more than $100k in a single account, in which case, spread it out across banks until its less than $100k)save until you have 4-6 months of living expenses tucked awa... |
what to do if you have only cash? | mechanical_fish: I recommend this book:William Bernstein, The Four Pillars of Investing.(I also read Andrew Tobias' book, which is decent enough, although he's more of a light read.)The super-short version: Index funds.The Impatient Person's version: First, pay off all consumer debt (credit cards and car loans) and ama... |
what to do if you have only cash? | nostrademons: Are you in Germany or the U.S? I don't know much about Germany's legal protections or the stability of their currency. I'd imagine that given their past experience with hyperinflation, they're pretty careful.In the U.S, I think cash is about the safest thing you can hold, in an FDIC insured account unde... |
How often do you look at stats? | gsmaverick: I think you should probably look at them once a week. Don't get too obsessed with pure traffic stats as they can be misleading! |
what to do if you have only cash? | xayide: Gold worries me these days. It's gone up so much lately that I think it's overvalued. Of course, I discouraged my husband from buying up gold when it was much cheaper a year ago for this same reason and he still hasn't forgiven me. For a civilization collapsing catastrophe, I still think we're better off wit... |
what to do if you have only cash? | daniel-cussen: I'd go for the gold. 30,000 years of history deserve more respect than 100 years of a weird economy with major problems and a dearth of good explanations. So, physical gold, some silver, some mining company stocks, and maybe diversify by buying some stock in an farm company in US. Have some cash stas... |
Do you use your brain or Google to solve your problems? | shutter: Google shines when you must deal with a problem that occurs due to third-party code (particularly proprietary code). When things _should_ be working in your code, Google can help sort out an obscure issue much more quickly than trying to search through the source for a third-party library.Your brain works best... |
Do you use your brain or Google to solve your problems? | gtani: There's a macro question of how to use all resources at your dispoal to address coding questions: maybe look at pragmatics' wetware book.the micro skill you have to develop: scour delicious, IRC, stackoverflow, Yahoo search, forums for your language/framework. Also krugle, koders.com, gotapi.com, (can't tell if... |
Do you use your brain or Google to solve your problems? | noodle: both. brain, google, brain, in that order. |
Do you use your brain or Google to solve your problems? | mechanical_fish: Yes. ;)This is what programmers are paid for. To decide on a case-by-case, moment-by-moment basis whether to use Google (and, more importantly, which phrases to Google and which results you should try to use) or whether to work through something on your own, or phone a friend, or surrender and just do ... |
Do you use your brain or Google to solve your problems? | hs: google shines when there's a lot of data point (say ubuntu)man pages shine when the info is very specific (say openbsd)first time it's better to use google (to see whether it's an issue -- where people encountered the same problem ... or non-issue -- only ME? having this problem? it could be something else)but afte... |
Do you use your brain or Google to solve your problems? | known: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." -- Isaac NewtonShoulder = Google |
Any users of SimpleCDN? | MonsterMash545: No problems with simplecdn for about a month, but i have just a small blog site, doing a few hundred gigs a month in shareware downloads too, but so far everything good, saving about 3x what I was paying for S3. |
Do you use your brain or Google to solve your problems? | oscardelben: I first try to understand the problem. If the problem is going to take more than a few minutes to solve, I try to google about it, and if I found nothing, I put my brain into it. I do this because 98% of the times is a problem about libraries or programs maintained by someone else. |
Do you use your brain or Google to solve your problems? | gaius: There are those of us who remember the Internet before Google... |
website for viewing hackernews on weekly mode | xtimesninety: just an update: I created something that does this: http://hnweekly.watdahel.com |
Do you use your brain or Google to solve your problems? | brk: Google is a tool, to be used like any other tool.I'm very good at solving most problems that come up in whatever I'm working on, but Google can also be a massive "accelerator".Often times I've thrown at error message at Google just to get an idea about where the general problem may lie (is it me, is it the system,... |
what to do if you have only cash? | puzzle-out: I'm in a similar situation, I looked at stocks, but really to make much money out of the stock market in bearish conditions, you need a hefty amount to invest in the first place, unless you go down the spreadbetting path, but that's dangerous territory if your not in full control of your passions.
I'm going... |
Interested in coworking in Thailand? | thomasmallen: Random concern: I think spending too much time in a hammock is a bad thing because it hyperextends your knees. |
Interested in coworking in Thailand? | ojbyrne: Not really prepared to do that right now, but I'm curious about the logistics - work visas, tax concerns, etc. |
Do you use your brain or Google to solve your problems? | abl: Personally, I use lifelines. First I eliminate 50% of the wrong answers... If that doesn't work, I ask the audience. When all else fails, I call Bill Gates. :) |
Interested in coworking in Thailand? | aibon: i recently had that plan with a friend too, unfortunately she had an accident. i have a little project to finish und would join in. planed to leave alone for thailand in the beginning of january. i'll send you an emailwhy the hell would yo need a workvisa? |
Interested in coworking in Thailand? | Mystalic: Sounds nifty. I actually own a place on the beach in Thailand (technically, I'm a dual citizen of the U.S. and Thailand!); maybe I should stay there for two months and build new business ideas. Maybe I will see you! |
Interested in coworking in Thailand? | superkarn: I'm Thai and have been back there a few times the past few years.One time, I stayed at a resort on Koh Chang (Elephant Island, a few hours east of Bangkok). It was pretty nice, and relatively cheap. And it had wifi. Make sure the room you stay in (or wherever your hammock is going to be) gets good signal.... |
Interested in coworking in Thailand? | Heff: Sounds cool. I'm not seeing any info in your profile. Is it just me? |
Is making clones bad? | vaksel: he IS offering something better. Does the original site exist in French/Spanish? No. So he is doing something the original site isn't.Frankly I don't mind clones at all. Its all about execution...if someone can clone you and take any marketshare...then you might want to look for another job |
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