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How do you deal with alienation? | mattdennewitz: social life at that age is ebb & flow, man. just find your similarities and try not to exacerbate the differences. youre in a hyper-sensitive stage of development and anyone you can find to lean on for growth is going to be an invaluable resource. hell is (mostly) not other people, hell is over-analyzation.college, hopefully, will blow your mind. it may not be everything you want it to be, and may not even be right for you, but it will take a great personal undertaking on your part to not meet some excellent people. |
Ask HN:Finding a Break | RK: Maybe you should try working on some open source projects and or your own projects while working in a shared space with other programmers, allowing you to bounce ideas off them.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coworking |
How do you deal with alienation? | point: Do you have any true friends who are just plain old normal, and not exceptional in any way? If you don't then you are lacking something fundamental - it's you who is flawed, not them. |
How do you deal with alienation? | FlorinAndrei: It's all in the deeper layers of your brain.Look at all the "popular" people you know - individuals with lots of friends, a pretty busy social life, etc. What makes them like that? Easy: when they interact with people, the things that light up in their brains are all sorts of pleasure centers and reward sites and parts of the brain that generate positive emotions, and stuff like that. I don't know the proper names for those things, but you get the gist, I'm sure.Even when just thinking about social interactions, before they even get up and go out and do it, the simple thought of interacting with people generates the same reaction in their brains. So they are motivated to start doing it, rather than sitting passive.How about those with few (or no) real friends? When interacting with people, there's no such reaction in their brains. No reward sites, no positive emotions, nothing. Or, even worse, negative emotions are generated. And yes, that may happen even as that person feels "alone" - those are different processes, not mutually incompatible.The solution? This is one of those rare instances when self-help books and New Age literature and stuff like that actually works. "Change starts with yourself", "positive thinking", heck even "love thy neighbor". All those stereotypes, in such a situation they do apply pretty well. |
Any tips for using Python Interactively? | artificer: If you are going to use it interactively, I strongly suggest you insist in using IPython. Try to read the nice manual first in order to get yourself familiar. It offers autocompletion via the tab key, you can easily execute shell commands, change directories etc. |
Any Tips for Applying to Berkeley or Stanford? | lacker: The most important thing is your recommendations. If you have three professors who went to a top-tier school, and who will give you a good recommendation, then you should get in.So, how to get a good recommendation. Just ask your professors, would you give me a recommendation, and would you expect me to get in. If they are actually going to give you a good recommendation, they will tell you that they definitely expect you to get in. If they are sort of noncommittal, you are probably going to get a mediocre recommendation. Ask them what you would need to do to be a great candidate. Then do that.Publication helps of course, especially in convincing your professors to give you a good rec. If you don't have any publications or ideas on how to get some, you might try a REU. |
How do you deal with alienation? | brandong: I feel like just another Holden, which probably makes the entire situation worse.Holden?
I've wiki'd it to no avail. Can someone enlighten me? |
Recommendations for work-queue software? | mechanical_fish: emacs org-mode ;)http://orgmode.org/GoogleTech.htmlThere must be ten thousand other options, of course. My general experience is that all of them are wrong in some way. That's software for you. |
How do you produce product demo videos? | callmeed: We're producing some for our online image sales app and websites. You can see a few recent ones here:http://www.nextproof.com/holidays/I use ScreenFlow and it's incredible. Very easy to record and create zooms/transitions.For technical ones, I record the audio myself. I have an AKG 3000 studio microphone that goes into an ART TubeMP pre-amp. The pre-amp then goes to my MacBook Pro. I've found that it's better to record the audio after the video.We were also lucky to find a great voice-over person on Craigslist. Usually, we just send him the video file and a rough script with a few time markers for guidance. He does a GREAT job and is not very expensive (especially compared to how many takes I require). I would definitely recommend going this route if you can. |
How do you deal with alienation? | yef: This appears to be a popular thread, and I don't have time to read all the comments, but let me throw in this quick recommendation: How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie. Try putting the basic techniques into practice along with developing your skill for finding others interesting. |
How do you deal with alienation? | chris11: I agree with the idea about going to a college that is different than most of your high school classmates are going too. I did that too, and not knowing anybody forced me to meet a lot of people. Besides, I personally didn't want to spend the next four years of college hanging out with the same people I hung out with in high school.Sure, the college you choose will be the standard destination for some group of people, and so they will be coming to college knowing a lot of their classmates. But people usually come to college with the goal of meeting a lot of new classmates, and as long as you make an effort to meet new people and get involved, you should be successful.I remember coming to college not knowing anyone, and somewhat stressed out that I might not make a lot of friends. This might have made me come across as a little desperate. So, don't worry about making close friendships when you just meet someone new. Just get to know a little bit about them and what they find interesting. And when you get invited to something, or are doing an activity, invite people who you know might be interested. And then, after a while you will have made a lot good friends. Personally my social life now is a lot better than it ever was in high school, or even my first quarter of college.I also had the problem of over-analyzing my friendships a little too much. I just realized that I couldn't expect to have the same level of friendship with everyone I meet. So what has helped me is spending time with more people. Sure, I'm better friends with some people than others. But knowing a lot of people helps when my better friends are all busy with other people or activities on the weekends, since I know that I'll be able to spend time with somebody I like. And once I realize that I don't really need a specific friendship to be around interesting people, or too spend time with people I like, then I mostly stop over-analyzing that relationship. |
How do you deal with alienation? | sheriff: Just stop alienating yourself.Stop coming up with reasons to dislike your friends. Stop waiting for something to magically change in your life (college won't be that different.And definitely stop framing the problem as _other people_ alienating _you_. Even if it were true, that's not a problem you can do much about.Spend time with people you like, and try to let people surprise you. |
Recommendations for work-queue software? | davidw: You could hack at Stuff To Do. It's not searchable, but you could add that yourself. It's not going to be super easy to set up, either, and the code is kind of crufty. But hey, it's free: http://stufftodo.dedasys.com/ |
Educational Software Opportunity | yan: I think you have to ask yourself whether you can spend the time that would have otherwise went into creating this system in a better way. Consider the following three scenarios:(1) You do take on the project and fails completely. Was that experience worth the time spent? Did you maximize how much you can learn/take away from it? Are you worse off than if you didn't start it at all?(2) You complete it and achieve moderate success.(3) You complete it and it surpasses what you originally thought it would achieve.Are you already spending your free time in a better way? Here, I use "better" completely subjectively. You are only a senior in high school once and it very well might be the case that this time is better spent in company of friends, partying and enjoying your life. |
How do you deal with alienation? | anewaccountname: There is an old saying: "bored people are themselves, boring" |
Educational Software Opportunity | babyshake: Soshiku comes to mind, especially because Andrew Schaper is only 18, I believe.I'm a Canadian citizen (living in the Bay Area) working on an education startup, and believe me, this is a very good time to be "breaking into" education. There are several startups doing very interesting things in this space.I'd be happy to share ideas and make introductions if you need them. my email is in my profile.good luck! |
How do you deal with alienation? | giles_bowkett: what in the hell does this have to do with hacker news? why are you asking programmers for advice on making friends? I think you're missing some key information about programmers here.anyway, if your friends annoy you, spend less time with them, and go to places you haven't been before, pursuing whatever interests you have, and see if you meet people.personally I deal with alienation by telling everyone I know to go to hell and seeing who sticks around anyway. I'm not actually qualified to give anybody advice on this topic, but I'm just reiterating my initial point now.might as well reiterate my second point. I have the opposite problem: making too many new friends and not having the time to follow through on the friendship. this comes about because I have a lot of interests that I pursue really intensely. if you pursue a lot of interests, you'll meet people. so do that, but without being too intense about it to make any space for new friendships to develop, and you're good. |
How do you produce product demo videos? | kinoglaz: For best results you need not relay on just software solutions. Think about visual composition first. I can't give you any useful url, but start here [ http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/montage/mont... ] and you can google more. |
Any Tips for Applying to Berkeley or Stanford? | njoubert: Recommendations and research experience (published if possible) is absolutely the dealbreaker |
Educational Software Opportunity | glen: I'd be interested in talking more with you. You can reach me at: glen at nixty.com. |
Awstats or Google Analytics | RobGR: I don't think you can use just one. A lot of people like myself block the analytics cookies. I have had problems with AWStats too -- recently some log entries have caused it to barf and quit parsing the file (they have no referrer or user agent string, and come from a site monitoring service that scans for vulnerbilities -- I may have to hack AWStats and submit a patch to fix that). |
Which school do you attend? | jmtame: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Which school do you attend? | jaytee_clone: University of California - Santa Barbara |
Which school do you attend? | rscott: Purdue University |
How do you deal with alienation? | Scriptor: This is coming in a whiles after your post, but hopefully I can still put in some input.I am a freshman in college with my first semester finished. In high school, I had about 3 good friends I enjoyed hanging out with. Besides them, I rarely had any social interaction. I was rarely (maybe once or twice?) invited to anything by anyone other than those 3 friends. The end of my senior year especially was depressing. I got to see everyone else, including my good friends, get invited to a good number of graduation parties while I stayed home. Weekend nights on the computer (like this one now) were common.Enough about myself, but hopefully that gives you an idea of where I'm coming from. This advice is from very recent experience. I understand what you mean by having people you only have a specific interest with. While others say this is normal, I don't think they git it. If every time you're with them, the conversation turns to just computers or whatever, it's not real friendship. One piece of advice is that you could try doing something or going somewhere with people, so it's not all about a conversation. I also know that living in certain towns (like my hometown) finding something to do can be near impossible.Now, for making new friends. Honestly, this is hard in high school, but not impossible. Friendships ebb and flow, and all of my friendships have seen different levels. Joining clubs is one good strategy. You could even try starting a club with someone else. For example, if you know someone who enjoys programming and you do too, you could both start a programming club. Why when I just said that only talking about computers is not frienship? Because having a club means you have to interact with people and it can bring in situations for meeting other people. Often, just having a good time with someone is a good sign.Now, for the advice that is probably most important, what will happen at college. I'm a geek, and I chose NYU, a college that I'm pretty sure is not very geeky at all. I did this on purpose, because I wanted a clean slate and an environment that actively pushed me to become more social. Here's some tips:- You have to do whatever you can to meet random people in the beginning. Sit with people at lunch, talk to people before class, join clubs, go out with floormates. I didn't do this at all, and now I regret that my only friends are from my floor. You just have to take advantage of this critical period when socializing is extremely open.- I was extremely depressed during my first few days at college. Many others seemed to have something amazing about them, playing an instrument, photography, acting, etc. Everyone else also seemed much more sociable while I stayed quiet most of the time. I often thought whether I made the right college choice. But after those few days, I suddenly fit in well enough. I was still very much the same person, but after all the stuff about "whoa! you play guitar!" or "dude, you've got so many movies", personalities became more dominant. I wasn't an asshole, and I could be funny on occasion, and I danced like an idiot, but a funny idiot. So the moral of this is, do something in high school that you can show off to other people so those first few college days won't be as painful. Otherwise, just be a nice guy and if you come up with something funny, clever, or interesting, say it!- After a few weeks of college, you will notice that everyone seems to have an individual label. I don't mean prep, jock, goth, or things like that. More like, everyone has a few personality traits that make them who they are. Somebody might be the big, outgoing guy, or the californian Asian dude, or the quiet we-need-to-get-this-guy-a-date nerd (guess who I am). Whatever happens, don't be the awkward guy. This will mean being natural and casual. If you don't think you can hold a one-on-one conversation with a girl, even if she's just a floormate, then frankly, don't. Large groups are your safest bet.To return to your high school troubles, here's one last piece of advice. Even though the guy who might be good at acting or talking to girls has his own kind of smartness, make sure that both you and other people respect you. Don't mix with people who disparage science if you're into science. Find people who are willing to be intellectual.I'm afraid that much of the above was too long, off-topic, or just weird. I'm pretty much writing this as stream-of-consciousness. Just remember:
Be yourself. You can change yourself. You have to like what you change into. |
Which school do you attend? | mikexstudios: California Institute of Technology |
Which school do you attend? | infiniteloop: Santa Clara University |
Which school do you attend? | riahi: Emory University |
Which school do you attend? | mdolon: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
Which school do you attend? | teuobk: Stanford University(or rather, I went there until I graduated a few weeks ago) |
Which school do you attend? | evilneanderthal: drexel |
Which school do you attend? | hbien: University of California, San Diego (recently graduated though) |
Which school do you attend? | Jebdm: Bard College at Simon's Rock (currently, will be transferring after this semester) |
Which school do you attend? | maneesh: Stanford undergrad, although I am taking 2 years off to work on startups/travel the world in south america, asia, europe, etc. |
Which school do you attend? | sjs382: Penn State |
Which school do you attend? | timcederman: University of Queensland |
Which school do you attend? | chris11: Walla Walla University -small denominational school with under 2k students. Graduates about 25 engineers a year. |
Which school do you attend? | dice: I no longer attend school, but when I did it was at the University of California at Irvine.Just down the street from Blizzard, for all you WOW players. |
Which school do you attend? | chaostheory: from Georgia Tech |
Which school do you attend? | stephenbez: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Which school do you attend? | showerst: Mizzou, 02-06 |
Which school do you attend? | gintas: Vilnius University |
Which school do you attend? | njoubert: University of California Berkeley |
Which school do you attend? | amjith: Univ of Utah |
Which school do you attend? | pifish: Australian National University, Canberra |
How do you deal with alienation? | known: Consider joining local chapter of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toastmasters_International |
Which school do you attend? | core77: Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden |
Which school do you attend? | Raphael: University of Washington |
Which school do you attend? | dangrover: Northeastern University :( |
Which school do you attend? | kobs: University of Florida |
Which school do you attend? | derwiki: Case Western Reserve University |
Which school do you attend? | endtwist: Washington University in St. Louis |
Which school do you attend? | ice_man: University of Toronto (graduated) |
Which school do you attend? | Eliezer: Hillel Torah North Suburban Day School (graduated)Oh, and I once took a linear algebra class at Northwestern University, but it didn't take and later I had to reteach myself from scratch. |
Which school do you attend? | pclark: APU - www.anglia.ac.uk - a 3rd rate polytechnic university in the UK ;) |
Which school do you attend? | ScottWhigham: Berklee College of Music |
Which school do you attend? | travisjeffery: University of Toronto -- Undergrad. |
Which school do you attend? | casta: Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca |
Which school do you attend? | enra: University of Vaasa, Finland |
Which school do you attend? | mikeytown2: from University Of Southern California (USC) |
Which school do you attend? | bigbang: U. of Arizona, Tucson (graduated) |
Which school do you attend? | atestu: Epita, Paris, France |
Which school do you attend? | anc2020: University of York, UK |
Which school do you attend? | dotpavan: UNM, surprisingly had to point that NM was part of US! keyword 'Mexico' makes ppl jump to conclusions.. |
Has Facebook Connect helped your user growth? | pclark: just make users want to register and then make registration really really easy - allow them to trial your service before registering, allow them to register without having to verify their email. |
Which school do you attend? | treo: TU Darmstadt |
Has Facebook Connect helped your user growth? | markessien: You should know this by using mathematics. Do the following:1. What age range is your primary consumer?2. What country is your primary consumer?3. What is the intersection between facebook users and the two questions above?4. Based on whatever statistics you can find - how many users get turned away because of sign-up problems?5. How many consumers will your initial marketing push reach - i.e, the consumers you hope to gain in the period when you don't have hard feature choices to make?Intersect those 5 criteria and estimate what the benefit of facebook connect will be. You may want to contrast it with the benefits of the other features. Understand your numbers before spending time on stuff. |
Which school do you attend? | jonas_b: Gothenburg Uni, Sweden |
Which school do you attend? | meqif: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
please review "Introducing Fathomer" | pclark: this is a very very good idea!I'll be implementing this, kudos. Hope twitter doesn't fix this "bug"(?) |
Which school do you attend? | tokenadult: Long since graduated. Attended University of Minnesota, where oldest son now attends as a dual-enrollment "eleventh grader." |
Which school do you attend? | zitterbewegung: University of Illinois at Chicago |
Has Facebook Connect helped your user growth? | dpeq: Very theoretical responses - I suppose Yeti had those thoughts before he posted. I think he is looking for something like "Yesss, our signup rate went up 50%" or "Nope, not really a difference". |
Which school do you attend? | dmarques1: Babson College alumnus |
Which school do you attend? | CalmQuiet: What about University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)? My graduate school. Anyone remember when they built their own campus-wide system - wasn't it a rather unique hardware - early Amdahl or something? |
Which school do you attend? | neuromanta: University of Miskolc, Hungary |
Which school do you attend? | chris_l: Cambridge University (alum) |
Which school do you attend? | sammcd: University of Kentucky |
Which school do you attend? | PieSquared: Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland.I wouldn't be surprised if someone at HN was from there too... we have quite a number of computer-interested people. Anyone? |
Which school do you attend? | nuclear_eclipse: Rochester Institute of Technology. |
Which school do you attend? | steveplace: University of Central Florida. They paid me the most to go to their school ;) |
Which school do you attend? | trefn: Arizona State University |
Which school do you attend? | pkrumins: University of Latvia |
Which school do you attend? | rsayers: University of Southern Mississippi. |
Which school do you attend? | rlm: University of Copenhagen, Department of Computer Science (called "DIKU", an abbreviation of "Datalogisk Institut, Københavns Universitet"). |
Which school do you attend? | matttah: Tufts University |
Which school do you attend? | sebg: MIT |
Which school do you attend? | Staylo: Boston University '07 |
Which school do you attend? | utsmokingaces: The University of Texas |
Which school do you attend? | sirsean: The University of Chicago. |
Which school do you attend? | daveambrose: Georgetown University, '07 |
Has Facebook Connect helped your user growth? | vaksel: most people I know don't use it. Top 3 reasons seem to be:a) Fear of giving away the login info to third party sites
b) Privacy concerns, with every account on the internet being linked to them
c) Too used to quickly register with BS info(name: AA), so they don't feel like they should bother with FCActually if I think about it...I don't think I've ever heard anyone praise Facebook Connect. |
Which school do you attend? | a-priori: University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada) |
Which school do you attend? | jasonlbaptiste: University of Miami |
What's the state of the web in your (non-English) language? | juliend2: It seems to me that if you need to get some technical information, you need to understand english. That's the main reason why i learned english. I'm Québécois (Canada).
The french web is not bad i think. But it's not the english Web. There's a lot less content in french. But there is still some nice communities and forums in some France-based portals. |
Has Facebook Connect helped your user growth? | mattmaroon: The general impression so far seems to be that FC doesn't so much net you new users as it does increase engagement among current ones (if integrated well). That isn't surprising given what I've seen running my Facebook app (which is now at about 50k MAU after 2 months) and what I've seen of sites using FC.Facebook Platform (and presumably Connect) is great for virality, but haphazardly slapping it onto something that wasn't designed for its strengths and weaknesses from the beginning nets you little. To use it properly, you have to design your app or site from the ground up around the platform. Otherwise you're wasting your time.I haven't looked into connect much yet, but I'm guessing that if it allows for solid virality (invites, notifications, profile boxes, mini feed entries, etc.) people just haven't quite built the app that takes advantage of it yet. They're just adding it onto their blogs and social news sites and hoping, and unsurprisingly they're not getting much in return. Look through the portfolios of contractors who build Facebook apps and you'll see a lot of that. Some newspaper thinks they can just stick sports scores in a Facebook app and it will go viral. Those apps always have 12 active users.So I guess my advice would be don't do it half-baked, or you won't get much from it. If you're going to integrate it, rework your entire product to use the viral hooks you get from it. It doesn't seem to be that much easier for a user than a streamlined signup process anyway. |
Which school do you attend? | Shamiq: Northwestern University |
Which school do you attend? | arthurk: University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Germany. |
Which school do you attend? | omarish: University of Virginia |
Which school do you attend? | bd: EPFL (graduate school alum) |
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