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How many of you are 2nd gen Entrepreneurs? | puzzle-out: I would be interested in hearing how many people are 3rd generation entrepreneurs. A number of entrepreneurial friends of mine are following in the footsteps of their grandparents, whereas the financially tight lifestyle that can come when a parent is the entrepreneur, can often push the child toward a more secure, salaried lifestyle. |
How many of you are 2nd gen Entrepreneurs? | jmtame: I'm the opposite. My dad is a fairly senior executive at a Fortune 500, but he is the supportive one of my entrepreneurial endeavors. My mom on the other hand isn't so much. |
news.yc without refreshing? | pj: Use Opera, then right click on the page and choose: Reload Every > 1 minute, etc... |
news.yc without refreshing? | siong1987: It is not too difficult to implement Comet on news.yc. But, the limitation I have is the maximum request I can make to the server. It is impossible for my web app to request to the news.yc server every single minute just to detect the change. And, eventually, the server will refuse the web app request.The only possible way to implement this technique is to create an iframe that will contain news.yc and refresh the iframe every single minute automatically using javascript. Then, the request will be made from your IP instead of my server. But, I believe that news.yc will refuse your request to the server eventually.But, I do like to see YC implement this feature. |
How to upload lots of data? | koraybalci: can you just send the data on dvd's with regular mail (ups etc)? of course I don't know where the server stays, if it's human accessible.. |
Notice a jump in Page Rank today? | tokenadult: Can someone see if the Friendly Atheist (that phrase just written out as two words) now returns Hemant Mehta's blog site as the first result? For a while he was way back on the second page of results, even though he should plainly be in first place. (I used the wiki tools to modify results for that search on Google, so I can't tell if there has been an improvement.)I see a mixture of better and worse results with my usual torture-test searches. It still looks like brief entries on blogs get page rank that is too high compared to more substantive articles, presumably because they get lots of inbound links. |
Notice a jump in Page Rank today? | epi0Bauqu: Yup, 4 :) (for duckduckgo.com & gabrielweinberg.com) |
New Years Resolutions? | sjs382: My resolutions:Start an OSS project.
Learn and use a new programming language in a project.
Keep up my current pace at the gym.
Write more.No specific metrics and nothing too ambitious, I guess. :) |
Notice a jump in Page Rank today? | axod: Where is the definitive place to assess ones pagerank?edit:http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.phpLooks like Mibbit is a 7 :) |
Notice a jump in Page Rank today? | jhancock: yep, my yet unmarketed shellshadow.com is from 2 to 3 now. 2009, the year of inflation ;) |
Notice a jump in Page Rank today? | mg1313: No changes for my wesite :(...I guess I need more link development and more updates to the site. |
Notice a jump in Page Rank today? | gscott: From 3 to a 4 although another site I maintain stayed a 3 so it wasn't a universal jump. |
Notice a jump in Page Rank today? | catone: I think it actually happened a few days ago. I noticed a jump last week. |
Notice a jump in Page Rank today? | PStamatiou: went from a 7 to a 4. wtf? i blame my bbPress forums, which I didn't realize for a while didnt no follow links until i hacked the theme a bit to no follow. |
Notice a jump in Page Rank today? | newmediaclay: Yea, we jumped to a 6 and blogged about A New Year a New Page Rank. http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/page-rank-updated-in-d...I think submitting to Yahoo and getting some press for our microsite were the biggest factors. We also put footers on the bottom of our sites linking back to us which can't hurt |
Favorite Books or Articles about Economics? | nostrademons: Grab a good textbook or two. I learned mostly from Paul Samuelson for microeconomics and Gregory Mankiw for macroeconomics. Other good sources: Benjamin Graham's investing books, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway letters from the chairman. If you want to understand anything about Keynesianism, I'd suggest reading the original Keynes (The General Theory of Interest, Employment, and Money); almost everyone who writes stuff about Keynesianism on the net doesn't understand it.I'd be skeptical of almost every easily-understandable article you read on the net. They always seem to fall into one of two categories:a.) They're written by amateurs who don't really understand economics but think they do. (This covers nearly everything on Reddit.)b.) They're written by professionals who understand economics but are writing for an audience that doesn't, and so they leave out crucial detail. (This includes Krugman's columns and most econ blogs.)Expect to pay money; it's not like computer science, where nearly all the good stuff is available for free on the net. You don't need to pay a lot of money though; my dad picked up Samuelson's textbook for me for $5 at a flea market in Harvard Square. And unless you've got a really good professor, textbooks are just as good as courses. |
Notice a jump in Page Rank today? | fallentimes: Woohoo http://ticketstumbler.com is now a 5! |
New Years Resolutions? | gaius: Not really New Year's resolutions, but I am committed to 100 pressups by end of March and a Marathon in May. Both of these will take me at 33 to fitter than I was when I was an 18-year-old lifeguard. |
Notice a jump in Page Rank today? | merrick33: Matt Cutts officially confirmed a pagerank increase yesterday on twitter - http://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/1087531183 |
Notice a jump in Page Rank today? | Eliezer: http://www.overcomingbias.com 7... we get a lot of random incoming Google traffic.Though it's worth noting that our traffic stats fell off a cliff over winter break, for some odd reason. Anyone else seen this? Or is it just that OB is commonly read as a procrastinating substitute for school/work?Holiday cliff: http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s28overcomingbias... |
New Years Resolutions? | mdolon: Spend more of my time and money on others who need it more. This past year has been an eye-opener for me when it comes to realizing how much people are struggling around the globe. Too much of our time now is spent on things we can't take with us to the grave while those around us continue to suffer. |
Notice a jump in Page Rank today? | wheels: Went from 4 to 5. |
New Years Resolutions? | calvin: Finish a project. It's easy to start a hundred projects, but hard to finish one. |
New Years Resolutions? | mattchew: Yes, a meta-resolution. When I want to get something done, I will break up the project into specific tasks that can be done in less than one day, and then make a written commitment about when I will finish that task.If it's a big project, I can start by breaking off the early steps without figuring out all the steps at once.The idea is to make myself take actual actions, no matter how paltry, rather than staying stuck in daydream mode.My first actual resolution: create a text file on my desktop to store this list of to-dos, until I decide on a better approach. Due: 2008-12-31 13:15. Done! |
Favorite Books or Articles about Economics? | billturner: Free, updated ebook called "Introduction to Economic Analysis": http://www.introecon.com/ (subtitled "The Open Source Introduction to Microeconomics")Haven't had the chance to read it, but I've heard great things. I think I may have even got the link to it here on HN. |
New Years Resolutions? | GrandMasterBirt: Never made resolutions. If I want to do something I just do it. If it don't I don't. If I want to improve myself I just tell people what I am trying to do and ask them to ensure I don't stray. Otherwise I always felt it is deceiving myself that I will miraculously change myself somehow. |
New Years Resolutions? | comster: Def working more on my own or oss projects... but gotta shamelessly plug our startup - http://www.ichange.com to help you change yourself with reminders and accountability from the community. |
How many of you are 2nd gen Entrepreneurs? | answerly: I hadn't really thought of this before, but I guess I am actually the fourth generation of entrepreneurs in my family. Great-grandparents on either side owned their own businesses and both grandpas were entrepreneurs in different fields. My dad was an attorney, but started his own firm with a co-founder right out of law school that he ran for over 30 years. |
Notice a jump in Page Rank today? | bd: Still the same. Though PR doesn't really seem to matter that much anymore. My site with PR 0 gets much more traffic from Google than my site with PR 4. |
Notice a jump in Page Rank today? | parenthesis: Does anything apart from google.com have a page rank of 10? |
Notice a jump in Page Rank today? | EGF: No change for me on my sites - hopefully its a rolling change |
How to upload lots of data? | pskomoroch: I talked to jeff barr @amazon a while back about these kind of issues (if you have large datasets to shuffle on/off EC2, is there an efficient & cost effective way to do it?) - shoot him an email or comment on the aws blog so they know more people have this need. Amazon public datasets can help with this for some use cases, for example certain bioinformatics or other academic use cases. |
How to upload lots of data? | timf: I had a box downtown in the loop (in the Chicago Board of Trade building) here about 4 years ago:http://www.fdcservers.net/ContactUsLike all colo, it's not cheap (if you buy for a year, it's $82 a month). But you get a great pipe and 24hr access (it's manned at all times) to drop DVDs in the server (you can colo towers, it's not just limited to rackable).If you only need to do this once or twice a month, I'll bet you could email them and they'd work something out where you could pay something small to come in with a laptop or even maybe drop of a whole USB drive for them to upload (you'd be willing to entrust your S3 keys like that?).It wouldn't really take that long with their network speeds. Let's say you could get 10MB/s to S3 from there, 30GB would take, what, like an hour?Anyhow, they're reasonable, won't hurt to ask. |
Notice a jump in Page Rank today? | sachinag: http://www.dawdle.com dropped from a 6 to a 5. Not happy, since all our inbound links are from October 2008-onwards. They're not that old. |
Notice a jump in Page Rank today? | ejs: Nope, still at zero for me... really need to work on that ;) |
How many of you are 2nd gen Entrepreneurs? | cheez80: both my parents are entrepreneurs; my father is in the import/export business and my mother opened and ran a fine watch and jewelry for a few years. |
Notice a jump in Page Rank today? | paul9290: Does anyone here use grader.website.com on Hubspot? It perplexes me that my site receives a much higher grade then my competitors, yet their page rank is higher (we have more inbound links then they do).Is Hubspot's grader reliable? |
New Years Resolutions? | jodrellblank: or you can allow the goal to inject your present reality with new hope, enthusiasm, and motivation. Even though it seems like you’re setting goals for the future, you’re really setting goals for the present. The better you understand this, the more easily and enjoyably you’ll achieve your goals.
- http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/08/how-to-set-goals-yo...Alternatively, any of you setting 30 day trials for January 09? - http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/12/start-the-new-year-... |
Notice a jump in Page Rank today? | hs: will a google search query increase page rank?for example if i search "ycombinator startup" then google (PR10) will produce links (no rel=nofollow in <a href>)i think that will increase search volume index in google trend, but not sure about page rank |
Page Rank Suggestions | jmtame: There's no easy way to improve it. It's logarithmic, so each jump you make is substantially more difficult than the previous. They tweak it sometimes when they find out how people are gaming it, so every time you try to find some "trick" they're going to fix it. I spoke with one of the engineers who works on the core algorithms and page rank team, and they tweak that stuff sometimes hundreds of times a day. They're extremely diligent, so you won't figure out a way to easily increase your page rank.The best way is to get highly credible sites to cover you. Time is taken into account (how long your domain has been up), the amount of content on your web site, how relevant your content is to a search query at the time, the amount of traffic you receive, amongst several other things that are more minuscule. You're best hope is to just do whatever you do really well so that it inspires people to talk about you. |
Page Rank Suggestions | FiReaNG3L: More links point to your site than your site points out to others, basically. Quality of links is taken into account, of course, so permanent front page of a high pagerank could boost yours quite a bit. |
Page Rank Suggestions | mdasen: The basic factor is how important your site is. Important sites get higher PageRanks.I know that's not the answer you wanted, but it's the truth. Lots of people have schemes. They might work for a little while, but Google figures them out and often punishes participants.The best information can be found here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...In basic: Links to you from reputable sources help you. Having your pages have good content for users helps you. Doing anything to manipulate Google will hurt you eventually. Hiding things (like with CSS), trying to load up on keywords, duplicating content, and other sneaky things hurt you. Hiding content behind a registration or other thing a search engine can't do hurts you. Being browsable with a text browser helps you.Google's software is advanced. If you put something in an H1, it will realize that it's important to your page. However, if you then resize it to 10px, it's likely to pick up that you're using H1s inappropriately as the Googlebot now grabs CSS as well.And PageRank often isn't as important as other factors. For example, let's say you want users to find your site when they search for "blog". If people are linking to you with the line "There are cool accounts at [site name]!", that's not going to count much to the keyword "blog". However, if people are linking to you with "Get a [free blog] over at site name!" it'll help a lot more. The fact is that one doesn't care about PageRank so much as one cares about where they get placed in results for certain keywords.Most of it is just common sense. If your site has compelling content, it will be seen positively. If it doesn't, it won't. It becomes harder and harder every day to fool Google. I suggest not trying. Best case, it boosts you for a short while. Worst case, you get delisted. |
Page Rank Suggestions | siong1987: Google Official Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide: http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimiza...Note: Link to PDF |
Page Rank Suggestions | tk999: Here is a case study about how big company like 1800flower boost the page ranking.http://blog.ask2link.com/case-study-advertisers-get-great-re... |
Page Rank Suggestions | Anon84: The basic factor is how important your site is. Important sites get higher PageRanks.
Well... that's somewhat of a self fulfilling prophecy. Sites that get high PR show up first in search results, which helps them get more traffic, becoming more well known, hence becoming "important".PR solves for your score (self consistently) by basically averaging out all the scores of everybody linking to you while coupling this with a (rather crude) model of user behavior. Of course, this is how it's described in the original paper and definitely very far from what actually goes on under the hood now a days.It should also be noticed that several improvements on/replacements for PR have been suggested over the years, with:TrustRank http://www.vldb.org/conf/2004/RS15P3.PDFBrowseRank http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/tyliu/fp032-liu.p...HITS http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/auth.pdfbeing the better known ones. Alternatives usually revolve around improving the user behavior model (like including real traffic data in the calculation http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/fil/Papers/click.pdf ), but there is still a lot of work to be done in this field (there's couple of interesting papers coming out in WSDM09 and WWW09 about this). |
reasons for www. subdomain | gojomo: There is no inherent technical reason why you couldn't. And this article at Google (expand the first [+] area) suggests you can use non-www domains just fine:http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...Where did you get the idea you couldn't?(The only trick might be something specific to App Engine for generating the www -> non-www redirects, as you won't have the usual access to web server configuration options. But that'd be a better question for the App Engine forums.) |
What will you learn this year? | vaksel: Keeping costs as low as possible long term. |
What will you learn this year? | mikeyur: I want to learn more about marketing and SEO. I have the basics, but I want to take it a step further. |
What will you learn this year? | zitterbewegung: Lots of mathematics, abstract algebra, computability, topology, linear algebra. Also, I want to understand more about theoretical computer science. |
Tips for a student going to Europe? | bdfh42: You can get a Europe wide rail card for a remarkably low cost - and rail travel in Europe is (largely) fast and comfortable. There are also low cost airline options (check out Ryan Air and FlyBe on-line) although sometimes they use airports a little outside major cities.Hotel prices in Amsterdam are not too bad, Paris more expensive and London and Stockholm might well boggle your mind - still good quality, centrally located, comfortable hostels do exist and are well worth checking out. |
Tips for a student going to Europe? | mechanical_fish: We don't exactly want to backpack across Europe and stay in hostelsWhy on earth not? That's half the fun! I was relatively shy and antisocial on my European tour and I still have two or three hostel stories to tell.And if you want to find a critical mass of people who know how to tour Europe on the cheap, why are you avoiding hostels? Were you planning to look for fellow bums in the lobbies of three-star hotels?Having said that: There are relatively cheap pension rooms / B&B rooms / zimmer around, and you can leverage the economy of scale of having three people that are willing to share a room. There are also persistent rumors that many European countries have awesome campgrounds. Though you might have to haul sleeping bags around.I toured Europe by following the general advice in Rick Steves' general-advice book. His reader demographic probably skews a bit more "middle-aged NPR listener" than "college student" (advertising via PBS specials will probably tend to lead to that), and sometimes he comes across as a bit of a nerd, but then again so do I. His advice was pretty solid. If you don't like meeting fellow tourists who are clutching a copy of his book, don't go to the specific hotels and restaurants that he recommends. (This apparently also goes for all the places mentioned in, e.g., the Lonely Planet guides. Guidebooks are excellent guides to finding your fellow tourists.) |
How to upload lots of data? | timf: Some similar talk herehttp://solutions.amazonwebservices.com/connect/message.jspa?... |
Tips for a student going to Europe? | parenthesis: In the UK, instead of London, you might like to consider going to Manchester or Edinburgh instead. Both much nicer cities than London (IMHO). |
What will you learn this year? | raju: Go back to the basics - This year, there is only book that I want to read - SICP. I get through that, and I know I will be a better developer for the rest of my days...Of course I am currently reading Real World Haskell (just took a break to read HN), so its not quite the start I wanted, but hopefully learning Haskell will bring me to a closer understanding of the math behind programmingLess multi-tasking - I started this a week ago, when I was working I switched off the twitter client, the email, and the phone. And I got so much more done with so less effort.Finding myself - More time meditating, and writing (like a journal). Time over the last 2 years has flown by and I feel like I have nothing to show for it. Meditating had always helped me compose myself, not to mention it will help with finding the "zone" (Along the lines of less multi-tasking)More hacking, actually putting what I learn to metal. I tend to be academic in nature, but deep inside I know I that its when I put it to use that it really resonates with meFinally, just being happy. Fretting over every new technology that I feel I just have to know about gives me the satisfaction of knowing about it, without getting enough depth to "know" it. |
What will you learn this year? | davidw: The raising of my daughter. |
What will you learn this year? | mtw: be serious about javascript, re-learn C, re-learn stats, master user interface design |
What will you learn this year? | qqq: I'm going to learn more philosophy and maybe some physics. |
What will you learn this year? | shimon: I'm going to learn about making money via subscription payments. I've launched a few apps, some that I'm very proud of, but nothing that attempts to make money in the most straightforward way: charging for use. Consequently I've never felt like I really understood this simple thing, or how easy it would be to deploy it on a new or existing app.More broadly, my goal is to learn about bringing a business to life. Having quit my day job and switched to consulting in the last year, I'd really like to start exploring new opportunities that could make money while I sleep. |
What will you learn this year? | sidmitra: 1. Statistics: Hate the way it was taught in college.2. And maybe the Guitar. I'll start by learning to tune it first, which was the reason it's gathering dust in the first place. |
What will you learn this year? | effektz: Ruby! |
What will you learn this year? | djm: I want to learn more about social psychology. I've just read Cialdini's book "influence" and have become fascinated with the subject.As far as technical stuff goes I'd like to go through SICP - I had a small exposure to lisp years ago and would like to try it out again.I'm also going to be doing some courses with the UK's open university (distance learning) - a math refresher and a course on processors/hardware. |
What will you learn this year? | gommm: Learn to manage my time better and stop procastinating with HN :-)More seriously, I want to read SICP seriously and play again with Ocaml (I used it quite a bit in university and really liked this language)On things outside of programming, I'm going to get my chinese back into shape... |
Predictions for 2009 | redorb: I really think microsoft will get yahoo; these 17% layoffs would mean less overlap and more Capitol even though they already have enough...also I think this is to ask.com's advantage as they would have a stronger 3 spot |
What will you learn this year? | yummyfajitas: Statistics and Eskrima. |
Predictions for 2009 | mixmax: I'll happily blow some smoke. No guarantees - if you use this for anything serious you're insane.1) SAAS will continue to grow and 2009 is the year where it will enter the mainstream with at least one IPO or major sell to a large established company.2) Jquery will beat the other javascript frameworks and become the de facto standard for doing javascript.3) Startups will stop focusing on B2C markets and move into the B2B market, primarily SAAS. Greentech will also surge ahead fueled be the Obama administration's policies and money.4) Venture capitalism will be redefined. The mix of the plunging cost of doing a software startup and companies like Ycombinator and others will force VC's to move into greentech and away from software. VC's will face financial problems due to a slump in the market and at least one major VC will tank. |
Tips for a student going to Europe? | mixmax: If you drop by Copenhagen I'll probably be able to fix you up with a place to live for a week while you're here. I live on a boat in a Copenhagen Marina, and I'm sure I'll be able to loan a boat or something for a week.Copenhagen is great in the summer - the beer is cold and the chicks are beautiful.My mail is in my profile :-) |
Predictions for 2009 | tptacek: The mean time between Blu Ray BD+ cracks will increase as Macrovision starts deploying more sophisticated code. Slysoft won't give up by Dec'09, but people will be wondering why they haven't. |
Predictions for 2009 | andr: Since we are not even aiming for plausibility, I say Google will buy Apple and convert the iPhone to Android. |
Predictions for 2009 | jpcx01: I'll go ahead and predict the obvious: the tech sector will finally crash hard in 2009 like all the other industries in America. Technology is typically a lagging indicator, as its still dependent on other large industries for most of its revenue.Look to see 25-30% cutbacks in spending for the industry leaders (Google, Microsoft, IBM) and tech startups (the funded ones) to tighten belts for real this time.It may seem bad now, but the tech sector all and all has been nearly immune to the economic downturn compared to other industries (retail, auto, financial, and real estate).The tech companies that will contract least will be ones who cater to the entertainment market (games primarily).Hopefully I don't sound too pessimistic. Personally, I've been happily employed throughout the downturn, making as much or more than I'd been getting in the boom times. However I have pretty good second hand view (from friends and family) on other parts of the economy so I'm bracing for the same impact on tech. |
What will you learn this year? | tptacek: The math behind signal processing; curing and drying ham and salami. |
Predictions for 2009 | gtzi: I turned some out of these predictions into markets (<disclaimer!>) at my start-up http://askmarkets.com (</disclaimer!>), you may want to go put your (play) money where your mouth is, or crowdsource the probability of your forecasts by creating your own markets. Thanx for your attention. |
Predictions for 2009 | smoody: Counter to what most people believe, I see development on Open Source apps and libraries slowing waaaay down in 2009.- Most people are expecting a downturn uptick in open source development because there will be more unemployed engineers, but unemployed engineers need to pay rent, put food on the table, etc. so developing open source code will be a luxury like subscribing to premium cable channels. Instead, they'll be fully focused on finding work.- Because being part of a team of people working on open source apps can help engineers get a job, expect people to 'join' projects for resume purposes but not really have the time (or desire) to participate.- Desperate times call for desperate measures and when engineers are considering taking their substantial code base and making it open source, I believe they are less likely to do it during a bad economy simply because there are fewer ways to profit from that move.- And, on a tangential note, I expect the biggest winners during 2009 will ultimately be the drug companies -- especially those that produce anti-anxiety pills.My two cents. |
Predictions for 2009 | fnazeeri: I already got my whoopin' for making this prediction! http://www.altgate.com/blog/2008/12/microsoft-buys-37signals... |
What will you learn this year? | mtrichardson: Judo. I was so happy when I was doing it previously and I'm disappointed I ever stopped (graduated from college). But, the best dojo in town is right near my house, so there we go.After that, I want to focus on polish. I too often focus on the end result but I'm bad at getting to the done-done stage - specifically, UI/UX. |
Tips for a student going to Europe? | speek: Also, How much money do you think I should set aside for this trip? |
What will you learn this year? | tokenadult: I'd like to learn more about economics. I'm happy to hear suggestions about what I should read.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=415683Someone who likes to read a lot elsewhere in cyberspace just recommended to me the Becker-Posner blog.http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/ |
What will you learn this year? | swombat: Public speaking. I'm signing up to some Toastmasters meetings and learning to do that well. |
Tips for a student going to Europe? | davidw: No Italy?! Why those countries? Not that they're bad, just that they're also fairly expensive (although if the pound keeps crashing, maybe England will finally be cheap) in a continent that, at least at the moment, is already expensive for Americans. Cheaper countries: Portugal, Spain, Greece, lots of places in "Eastern Europe". Italy's not cheap, but it is, of course, the most amazingly beautiful country anywhere even if it's not really run very well:-) I can't offer to put up people, necessarily, but I'm always willing to take some time to show people around Padova, my home away from home in Italy, where hopefully we will be returning soon.Hostels aren't bad, actually, and you don't have too many other options for 'cheap'. Just try and figure out which ones are good, and which ones to avoid. |
Predictions for 2009 | yummyfajitas: I predict that there will not be a great depression.I do predict larger government involvement in health care. Electronic medical records is political gold (Bush, McCain and Obama all agree), and lobbyists will be involved. Invest in the medical records software vendor with the best political connections.Some biostatistics software startups might hit it big too, depending on regulatory conditions (legal question: how do you datamine medical records without violating privacy?). |
New Years Resolutions? | viggity: take one week off work every 3 months. I've taken a total of 13 days off in the last 3 years working 40 hours/week as a consultant and 15/week on my own stuff. I'm burnt out and my productivity has gone straight down the crapper |
What will you learn this year? | yan: My plans: - dedicate an hour a day to nothing but reading
- ditto for exercise
- finish the MIT opencourseware course on intro neuroscience (scored the textbook on eBay for $14)
- start a software project and bring it to being released
- build an arduinome if finances permit
- learn to dance
- finally complete my pilot's license and get a glider certification (again, finances permitting)
- go climbing outdoors as much as possible, time and weather permitting.
- figure out what I want to do professionally for the next few years (current job obligation ending summer) |
Predictions for 2009 | qqq: I predict Apple stock goes up a lot. |
Predictions for 2009 | whacked_new: I predict that most predictions will be incorrect. |
What will you learn this year? | whacked_new: I decided to learn about deciding to learn about something. |
What will you learn this year? | lionheart: How to turn a one-man startup into a real company. |
Predictions for 2009 | lionheart: I predict that the economy will rebound a lot more quickly than expected. |
Predictions for 2009 | drinian: More Linux on the desktop, mostly via netbooks.Solid-state disks will probably make average load and response times for desktop-based applications significantly drop for the first time since the introduction of the GUI. By the end of 2009, people will have different expectations of computer response time.Perhaps more importantly, the increased read speeds will be used by someone to work some database magic that's never been seen before. I'm not sure what the killer app will be.Android will not become dominant in any meaningful sense, but Google will sustain it as a platform. |
Tips for a student going to Europe? | conorh: For free accommodation I recommend couchsurfing.org. It might be a little tricky with 3 travelers, generally people have couches for 1 or 2 people, but all of those cities will have lots of couches available. I have hosted lots of couchsurfers (highly recommend this if you can do it) and I've couchsurfed in other countries, never had a bad experience. When you are staying with someone living and working in a city you will have a much different experience than if you are staying at a hostel or hotel. |
Predictions for 2009 | mtw: 1. Microsoft will buy a majority stake in Facebook2. war between android and iphone, new iphone format released, between 20+ android handsets also released3. facebook omnipresence, it's the new Yahoo! |
Tips for a student going to Europe? | ahoyhere: My advice would be to skip Stockholm and go to Berlin or Vienna.Having been to several Scandinavian countries, I can assure you they are the most boring and American-like places you can go in Europe[1], owing to the relative newness of their cities and also mind-bogglingly expensive. Even for Europe. We're talking $10-13 US for a beer.Berlin is dirt cheap, even with the exchange rate, and full of interesting and exciting culture and things to do and (as far as these things go) a very friendly citizenry who speak great English. Its ultimate personality is the personality of a fanastically diverse mutt of a place, and yet it all works. It feels amazingly alive.Vienna, by contrast, is more expensive than Berlin but cheaper than visiting NYC. It is less exciting than Berlin, being more homogeneous and sedate, but still has its own incredibly distinct personality and gobs of awesome stuff to see and do.[1] yes, even more so than London, call it the tyranny of small differences |
Predictions for 2009 | puzzle-out: The era of subscription-based consumer internet services will begin. |
Predictions for 2009 | ajmoir: The US is going to be in a world of hurt. With Europe not far behind in the pain stakes. As always the countries with the most open markets will recover first.Un-fettered markets are not the end solution but they are far better than the current politically controlled markets.The handouts are damaging on two fronts. Firstly, it rewards poor businesses and stops better firms entering the market. Secondly, Joe Public who made dumb financial decisions are not punished but instead everything is done to allow them to make more damaging decisions later on.The current debt loading of the US currency is not sustainable at the current levels of productivity. The US looks more and more like the USSR of the late 80s, running as fast as it knows and still sliding into bankruptcy.I rather think we are looking at the end of the US as a going concern.I'm hopeful that a short civil war will ensue and that out of that there might be the chance for a small Capitalist/Anarchist state to be founded.Feudalism, Democracy, Fascism, Socialism and Communism have all failed the acid test. What other forms of government do we have? It would seem that Karl Marx was the last political thinker to offer a new idea for governmental organization. |
Predictions for 2009 | lunchbox: This is fun, so I'll join in with some wild guesses.- Most people in the news who are making 2009 predictions are overestimating the amount of new tech developments that will happen in 2009. With the economic situation, it will be a generally slow year.- The personal health records space will heat up, with more hospitals and employers supporting HealthVault, Google Health, etc.- The smartphone will have a great year, spurred by great competition, free platforms, hungry vendors, and features that appeal to customers. The iPhone will continue to grab market share from all other smartphone OSes (except Android).- BlackBerry will stagnate and eventually (post-2009) go the way of Palm unless it changes its platform and strategy somehow. The outlook for Symbian isn't rosy either.- Phone manufacturers will fall in love with Android. Even though Symbian will be free as well, phone manufacturers will be wary of using a rival's platform (Nokia). There will be a bunch of Android devices on the market by year's end.- If Apple launches a large touchscreen device apart from a tablet laptop, it will be a failure. I just can't see this happening. |
Predictions for 2009 | ComputerGuru: I predict I'll (finally) get married :) |
What will you learn this year? | jcapote: Math. |
Predictions for 2009 | markessien: My predictions:1. Web apps will start to die, and will start being replaced by web connected desktop or device apps2. Integrated and restricted stores for distributing software by the major players3. Some company that is still using spinning media will dissolve the entire line and switch to solid state media4. Stock market will quickly rebound within the first quarter5. TV will move mostly online |
Predictions for 2009 | RK: 3G cards beginning to be standard for laptops. |
Predictions for 2009 | auston: I think Twitter, Mint & Mobile Apps are going to reach a larger part of US society? |
What will you learn this year? | oscardelben: Time management: I want to become expert at time management.
Math and business in general.
Regarding programming instead, SICP, Erlang and Closures are what I'm working right now. |
Predictions for 2009 | waleedka: - Chrome surpasses Firefox in market share- Amazon Kindle 2 will be a huge hit and trigger a frenzy of copycats- Facebook continues it's fast growth and a few other social networks stop growing and go on the decline. Facebook Connect gains big traction.- OpenSocial becomes the largest platform on the Web around the end of 2009 after they clean up the garbage that's the current version |
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