Halfbakery - <AUTHOR> http://www.halfbakery.com/ <comment><USER2> Half Bakery is some awesome old-skool internet stuff. Back in the late 90s it was one of my favourite haunts. Sadly they lost all their content somehow and didn't have a full backup so, funny though it is now, there was some epic stuff on the old site that is lost forever.

<comment><USER3> I remember browsing it in the 90s... remember any epic stuff from back then?

<comment><USER2> Always loved "Film Noir House" where every room was wired such that it narrated whatever you were doing around the house, but in the style of a Film Noir movie... "He walked into the bedroom... switched on the light..."

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> That's kind of clever:

[http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Eutectic_20water_20heater#151...](http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Eutectic_20water_20heater#1510113076)

Although rendered kind of pointless with modern on-demand boilers.

<comment><USER5> There was a pretty successful Kickstarter a while back for a product ("Coffee Joulies") that was exactly that, but for your coffee mug. Little bean-shapes made of stainless steel, filled with material that changed phase at 140F.

<comment><USER6> There's also Ember [1] (also a kickstarter I think) that just made a mug with a heating element and controller to keep your beverage at a specific temperature. Using materials with specific phase change temperatures sounds like an innovative solution, but it's also grossly engineering a problem that can be solved better by $10 worth of components.

[1] [https://ember.com/products/ceramic- mug](https://ember.com/products/ceramic-mug)

<comment><USER7> I'd also be really worried about toxicity and materials that changed phase at that temp... Or well any temp. Can it leech through the walls? I wouldn't be Keen on dropping molten steel in my coffee either.

<comment><USER8> It's isolated components of vegetable oil:

[http://discovermagazine.com/2013/september/21-running-hot- an...](http://discovermagazine.com/2013/september/21-running-hot-and-cold- forever)

Not really terrifying.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> Gold stuff right here [http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Fake_20Failure_20Agency](http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Fake_20Failure_20Agency)

</comment><comment><USER10> Oh wow, I found a post I made 10 years ago, when I was 12:

[http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/lego_20case#1173590361](http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/lego_20case#1173590361)

It's really strange to read something I wrote almost half a lifetime ago.

<comment><USER11> And now I feel old...

</comment></comment><comment><USER12> This was another old favourite [http://www.pimpthatsnack.com](http://www.pimpthatsnack.com)

</comment><comment><USER13> Wow, this is a blast from the past. The website looks largely unchanged from when I first visited. I think it was featured by Attack of the Show on G4TV.

</comment><comment><USER14> I know this isn't 100% relevant (but used to contain half-baked ideas, for sure), but this old-school throwback also makes me remember AfroTech mods... Anyone else remember that guy?

[http://afrotechmods.com](http://afrotechmods.com)

Seems he's updated his site since the olden days... It used to be a cardboard box image with link maps over the image regions and hand-drawn stuff on the box. :D

<comment><USER15> He has a YouTube channel now. [https://www.youtube.com/user/Afrotechmods](https://www.youtube.com/user/Afrotechmods)

</comment></comment><comment><USER16> The comments are clever as the posts. This is pretty darn funny. [http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Solid_20Underpants#1510132874](http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Solid_20Underpants#1510132874)

</comment><comment><USER17> I've been a fan of halfbakery for many moons. There are a lot of good (if incompletely thought through) ideas there. :)

<comment><USER18> Would it be fair to say that the ideas are half-baked?

</comment></comment><comment><USER19> I like it! I have random ideas all the time, and I'm pleased to have somewhere to post them.

If anybody here works at Google, here's my first post: [http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Translated_20Search](http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Translated_20Search)

</comment><comment><USER20> "Child Vouchers" sounds like it's from 1970-s, a notorious example of not everybody getting a memo.

</comment><comment><USER21> TL;DR anyone?

<comment><USER22> I always wondered why TL;DR requests are being consistently down voted. Sometimes this is not a "too long don't CARE to read" but rather "I'm not sure I'm getting what this is about without investing a few hours into it so please kind Sirs and Ladies, can you sum up in a sentence?". Thanks for responding, responders.

<comment><USER23> For me, "TL;DR" inevitably implies a certain laziness. If a person really means, "I tried to understand this but I'm not getting it", maybe they could say that.

Given that the top reply to this post is a copy and paste from the first paragraph of the about page, I could see why people suspect the querent did not work very hard before posting, and so values their own time more than that of other people here. That might not be true, but I think it's on the asker to make that clearer, not the readers to guess.

<comment><USER21> I skimmed the page up and down and couldn't find what it was all about.

And I redid that same thing before posting the TL;DR;

<comment><USER23> Then that would have been a good thing to say. If you say you didn't read something when you actually did, you can't blame people for taking you at your word.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER24> Site seems to be momentarily down, I'll make a note to come back later. Thanks for posting this, OP.

</comment><comment><USER25> Some old man tell me what that is. All I know is it's fun.

</comment><comment><USER26> Site seems to be down for now, I will come back later. Thanks</comment>


"I'm walking across America." - <AUTHOR> http://imjustwalkin.com/

<comment><USER2> I'm usually more interested in the reasons people have for doing out-of-the- ordinary things than on what the actual activities are. Here's what his details page has to say:

<http://imjustwalkin.com/details>

"From John Steinbeck's Cannery Row:

 _Once when Doc was at the University of Chicago he had love trouble and he had worked too hard. He thought it would be nice to take a very long walk. He put on a little knapsack and he walked through Indiana and Kentucky and North Carolina and Georgia clear to Florida. He walked among farmers and mountain people, among the swamp people and fishermen. And everywhere people asked him why he was walking through the country.

Because he loved true things he tried to explain. He said he was nervous and besides he wanted to see the country, smell the ground and look at grass and birds and trees, to savor the country, and there was no other way to do it save on foot. And people didn't like him for telling the truth. They scowled, or shook and tapped their heads, they laughed as though they knew it was a lie and they appreciated a liar. And some, afraid for their daughters or their pigs, told him to move on, to get going, just not to stop near their place if he knew what was good for him.

And so he stopped trying to tell the truth. He said he was doing it on a bet - that he stood to win a hundred dollars. Everyone liked him then and believed him. They asked him in to dinner and gave him a bed and they put lunches up for him and wished him good luck and thought he was a hell of a fine fellow. Doc still loved true things but he knew it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress._

I'm not walking because of love trouble. And lord knows I haven't worked too hard. But the rest is right on. I'm anxious. I'm not sure what I'm doing with my life. I need an adventure. And I do want to smell the ground and look at grass and birds and trees. I want to savor the country. And there's no other way to do it save on foot."

</comment><comment><USER3> Great idea and i'm sure an incredible experience.

But, Wow, what a cultural indicator the way this guy travels is! i remember reading Peter Jenkins's book _A Walk Across America_ as a kid (highly recommended) and he just had a backpack and a dog. this guy has a cart with a rubbermaid box full of stuff. It captures something about our culture that 'savoring the country' now requires a shopping cart.

<comment><AUTHOR> In one of his early entries, he explains that he made a conscious decision not to wear a backpack to save his knees and feet, it adds weight to every step. He's an engineer; if you read some of the posts he mentions researching different ways to take care of his needs while on this trip.

Although he seems to have spent enough time thinking everything through, I do think you have a point, I wonder if he will post later that he is getting rid of some stuff. He hasn't hit the Rockies yet (will he go through South Pass? I don't know).

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> This guy will end up making a ton of money in donations, eat a lot of great food, become super fit, write a book or two or three, get a ton of television interviews, perform a cameo or two in some low and mid grade movies, and then have a super healthy network of people to write, visit, and call upon for the rest of his life.

Where do I sign up?

<comment><USER5> That's the beauty of it. You don't have to.

</comment></comment><comment><USER6> I think my favorite character of this variety is John Francis, dubbed planet walker. [<http://www.planetwalker.org/>]

That he spent years under a vow of silence never once setting foot in a motor vehicle and still managed to get a PhD and actually teach in that time is just awe-inspiring.

</comment><comment><USER7> 'The G' - that's Art Garfunkel, of course - walked across America. And nobody cared.

<http://www.artgarfunkel.com/poems/america/trek.html>

<comment><USER8> well, it took him 14 years.

</comment></comment><comment><USER9> I have two family friends who are recently retired and are currently about 2 months into their walk. The American Discovery Trail is actually a partially- marked cross country trail. The thing I take away from their trail journal is how many great people they've met along the way. <http://www.discoverytrail.org/>

<comment><USER8> wow, that's awesome. how long would it take to walk across?

</comment></comment><comment><USER10> This is one of those awesome stories of a guy getting a crazy idea and just doing it.

It looks like he's making some great progress, too.

</comment><comment><USER11> My cousin is doing the same thing other direction, Oregon to Boston. He is a very spiritual kid doing it to get closer to god or something like that.

<http://mywalkhome.com>

</comment><comment><USER12> This guy ran (north-south) across Europe last summer. He'd average a marathon or more every day and some days he would run the equivalent of two marathons.

He kept a daily blog which is very inspiring. Home page: <http://www.ryanlukejohns.com/runseurope/> Blog: <http://ryanrunseurope.blogspot.com/>

</comment><comment><USER13> My uncle did something similar in 2008 -- he rode his bike across the world; flying over the oceans, obviously. His local paper did a story on it: [http://www.modbee.com/2008/10/21/v-print/469931/west-side- ma...](http://www.modbee.com/2008/10/21/v-print/469931/west-side-man- takes-a-10000-plus.html)

</comment><comment><USER14> I spent many hours reading <http://walkingtom.com/> about 10 years ago. He got three quarters of the way across, found a wife, and stopped where he was! It's cool to see how improved technology is having an effect on journals like these.

</comment><comment><USER15> People hike across Canada all the time. So much so that there is a national network of trails: <http://tctrail.ca/home.php>

<comment><USER16> All the time?

Not really. The fact that there's a trail system doesn't mean people do it.

Driving across the country is a pretty huge undertaking, much less walking across it.

The Bruce Trail essentially cuts through my back yard. It is 800km. It is a major accomplishment if, over your life, you manage to walk all of it (in intervals). Very few do it end to end.

<comment><USER17> Sounds a bit like the Appalachian trail here in the US

<comment><USER18> Not that you asked, but Bill Bryson, one of my favourite travel writers, wrote about his experiences on the trail: [http://www.randomhouse.com/features/billbryson/bb_title/disp...](http://www.randomhouse.com/features/billbryson/bb_title/display.pperl?isbn=9780767902526).

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER19> I don't see a mention of "A Walk Across America" by Peter Jenkins, who did a similar thing back in the 1970s.

</comment><comment><USER20> This guy is my fucking hero.

I moved away from my hometown a few years back, but last time I went up and visited it, I just went walking. I've driven through it/around it/in it thousands of times, but this time, I slowed things down and just explored, looking at random houses and feeling trees and grass. It was the most pleasant thing I've done in a long time.

Sometimes I hate the internet, it has trained me to have multiple tabs open in life at all times. Disconnecting and just looking and touching the real world is something I, and most of us actually, rarely do anymore.

I want to ride a bike around the country, maybe I'll blog about it one day

<comment><USER18> > I moved away from my hometown a few years back, but last time I went up and > visited it, I just went walking. I've driven through it/around it/in it > thousands of times, but this time, I slowed things down and just explored, > looking at random houses and feeling trees and grass. It was the most > pleasant thing I've done in a long time.

I think this is a beautiful idea. It doesn't need to be limited to vacations, either; since about 5 years ago, I've been working on transitioning to an appreciation of this sort of thing. I now walk wherever I can (rough guideline: If it's within 4 miles, and I don't have anything heavy to carry, I'll walk there regularly; if it's within 10 miles, I'll walk there occasionally), and I try to take the train when I travel rather than flying. They're both great ways to get in touch with the terrain, as you mention; I had a colleague in Vancouver tell me that I knew my way around better after a few days than he did after staying there for weeks.

</comment></comment><comment><USER21> Bah, so derivative: <http://www.thefatmanwalking.com/></comment>


The Suggested Users List as a tool to control news? - <AUTHOR> http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/09/22/theSulAsAToolToControlNews.html

<comment><USER2> What's so unusual about it? Is there any imperative to list Techcrunch and keep it listed no matter what? Even after they publish confidential information that wasn't supposed to be published at all?

If one of your friends (like in real life, you know) stole your diary and started telling all your other friends everything from that diary, would you still be obliged to be friends with him? Pretty obvious, isn't it?

And keep in mind that Twitter's aim is not to be the most objective and complete source of news, you know? They just have a list of sources they think are worth checking.

<comment><USER3> Sorry but the fact that twitter did this to Techcrunch must be masking people's views here, otherwise I can't understand the comparison with someone's diary.

At the end of the day I value journalism of this kind which is in part investigative and doesn't, to my uneducated eyes, appear to have any personal cost. I'm not sure how interesting it was in this case, but in general "wasn't supposed to be published" is about a fraction of the rationale that needs to be there for a media organisation not to publish.

At the end of the day, TC broke a story here and leaked something Twitter didn't want out in the open. They took a hit on traffic and, by extension, to their exposure which as a media company presumably is a measure that affects revenue. Therefore Twitter deprived TC of revenue as punishment for publishing information they didn't want to see in the public eye.

That's a bad thing, for me, for a media company to have done and it is unusual + interesting.

<comment><USER2> Well, so while Twitter "deprives TC of revenue as punishment" (can you even say this with a straight face? Really?) is a crime, but TC hurting Twitter's image is perfectly OK? I'm lost here...

Also keep in mind that providing TC with this revenue from Twitter is strictly their good will and should not be taken for granted. Do you really not see this?

<comment><USER3> Of course I see what you're saying, its not a question of whether it is or isn't good will - it's whether you're comfortable with a company exercising this kind of power against a media company on the basis said company wrote something which was unfavourable.

As far as depriving revenue goes, I'm obviously talking up the effect because I find the stance Twitter took interesting. I'm not suggesting this is tens of thousands of dollars and I don't think its less interesting just because it isn't.

TC certainly shouldn't be in the industry of doing this or that because they do or don't hurt Twitter's image.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> If Twitter did drop TechCrunch from the suggested users list at that point because of TechCrunch publishing internal Twitter documents obtained by a hacker then... I applaud ev and the Twitter team.

<comment><USER5> Why? Because they're biased with the information they present to their users? When I see a suggested user list, I want the a list of users whom I would like to follow. Not a list of users who are popular and have not pissed of twitter.

Ok sure, I know this is techcrunch, but I despise it when information comes with hidden agendas. It just smacks of censorship.

<comment><USER4> _It just smacks of censorship_

It is censorship which a private company like Twitter is perfectly entitled to perform. I have no problem with them doing this. Every company decides on its view of the truth to present to the world.

<comment><USER3> I'm not sure that "perfectly entitled to perform" statement holds up. "Legally" entitled to perform, yes... "Morally" entitled to perform, hmmm.

It does seem Twitter was willing to deprive a benefit (read exposure/revenue) granted to TC on the basis the documents were leaked. In the future if TC had interesting/harmful information on Twitter to reveal they would decide commercially whether to publish by taking into account any negative impact for them in exposure on twitter.

That's unhealthy isn't it? Twitter would be less likely to receive negative/unhelpful press than other similar companies on the basis they can punish those who do it.

I know I'm deliberately talking up what happened here but it is an interesting question, to me at least

<comment><USER6> Dude, we're talking morality over a list of recommended people on Twitter. That's Twitter's way of saying "We like these people!" Saying that their removing TechCrunch is immoral is like saying that it's immoral to stop dating a girl who cheated on me.

Twitter would be justified in what they did, even if their "recommended" list was important enough to be worth an argument, and it's not.

<comment><USER3> I don't see the comparison with respect to dating, this is sanctions against a media company on the basis they gave unfavorable coverage.

As far as the scale goes, this is what it is - its cost TC 600,000 followers on Twitter - if there is a numeric value to that of even a dollar I still personally find the situation interesting because I find the principal of this kind of sanction to be a moral point of debate.

Moral is a strong word though I admit!! I just can't think of another way to express it.

<comment><USER7> > _I don't see the comparison with respect to dating, this is sanctions > against a media company on the basis they gave unfavorable coverage._

If removal from the list is 'sanctions' then what would you call not being included in the list at all? Should Twitter be forced to add _all_ news sites to that list (and never remove them)? If so, what constitutes a 'news site?' Should _all_ blogs be included in that list too?

Just because being on the Suggested Users List garners you a steady stream of new followers doesn't necessarily mean that once you are on that list Twitter is _obligated_ to keep you there because you are now 'entitled' to keep that steady stream of new followers from now until the end of time. I will admit that there is a fine line when dealing with these issues, but removal from the Suggested Users List isn't that harsh... it would be different if Twitter banned their account or 'accidentally' screwed up their account beyond repair (forcing them to create a new account with a new name, possibly permanently losing a number of followers in the confusion). Or excluded TechCrunch's twits from search results or something similar.

{edit} Bringing this possible conflict of interests to light is a _good thing_ but jumping up and down like the sky is falling and Twitter is the 'Evil Empire(tm)' is over the top and completely unnecessary {/edit}

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> Poor Dave--he's obsessed with not being on that Suggested Users list.

<comment><USER9> Also, his own app ships with a hand picked suggested users list:

<http://eyeonwiner.org/archives/2009/dave-admits-hypocrisy>

<comment><USER10> ... And even better he accepted money for listing on his suggested users list. Pay to play!

<http://radio.weblogs.com/0001014/2003/07/07.html#a4052>

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> SUL is editorial. Techcrunch made a dicked move against twitter. There is no story here. If they wrote an article saying "twitter is bad" it would be far worse.

</comment><comment><USER12> All this article points out is that being on the SUL is a significant source of followers. There's no surprise that being removed from the SUL would cause growth to stagnate.

<comment><USER13> Plus, it's their list, their service, they can decide who is on it for whatever reason they choose to.

</comment></comment><comment><USER14> The problem is with the publications who accept positions on the SUL and then won't write a negative piece about Twitter for fear of being removed from the list. Those publications have an integrity issue. Most of you guys are looking in the wrong place. It's hard to argue that Twitter did anything terribly wrong. The ones you should be looking at are the journalists who are still on the list.

</comment><comment><USER15> Finally a way for Twitter to make money! Grabbing or securing spots in the SUL.

[http://pulse2.com/2009/03/12/jason-calacanis-offering- twitte...](http://pulse2.com/2009/03/12/jason-calacanis-offering-twitter- with-250k-to-be-suggested-user-to-follow/)

</comment><comment><USER16> It was a while -- it looks like almost two weeks -- between TechCrunch publishing the article and twitter removing them from the suggested followers list.

I wonder if there are any more examples, or if anyone on the suggested followers list has been critical of twitter.</comment>


What's the point of Android now? - <AUTHOR> http://blog.dustindoiron.com/whats-the-point-of-android-now/

<comment><USER2> Your two complaints are that 1) your phone is slow and old, and 2) a specific app is poorly put together. Somehow, from this, your conclusion is that the entire Android ecosystem is broken/worthless/something.

That's ridiculous, to put it mildly.

<comment><USER3> The phone is not slow and old, the OS is a resource hog. Compare the specs to a Windows phone and see how smoothly it runs with similar hardware.

<comment><USER4> You have a point. The tighter you can control the hardware, the tighter the integration with the OS will be. Windows Phone, iPhone, game consoles, they can all make due with slower hardware than more general-purpose systems.

Android makes some tradeoffs to give their users choice. It has upsides and downsides, but the true benefit is that people can decide for themselves if they want beefier hardware to run the same relative speed but have more control over the OS, or if they want the other give-and-take. There's less overhead on iOS and WP7, but there's also less control.

I love the market we have right now. There's almost literally something for everyone. I just wish Palm was back in to round it out with WebOS.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> He is complaining that the best feature one should expect from an Android phone would be the seamless integration with Google's services. If even at that it fails to deliver a good experience, what's the point then.

And whoever complained he's using an old phone... I'm still using an iPhone 3GS (released _2009_ ) with latest iOS. Why can't he complain about a phone that is almost a year newer?

<comment> jack-r-abbit I would be more inclined to take his "I'm outta here... moving to iOS" statement and the "seamless integration with Google's services" argument a little more seriously if the article had outlined even a short history of all Google services repeatedly failing to seamlessly integrate on the phone over a variety of situations. But one coupon, in one app, for one service, one time sounds more like someone just looking for any reason to say "screw Android... I'm getting an iPhone". Yes, he does say "countless other" apps have issues... that really isn't very specific nor does it show a pattern. I've had times when (for no apparent reason... other than maybe the phone trying to multitask _too_ much) an app loads slow... when it worked fine before and after that. I'm not willing to accept that iPhones don't ever have similar hiccups... ever. I'm in a house divided so I get to see first hand the frustrating things that the iPhone and iPad can do.

But even that doesn't really matter to me. I hope he finds what he's looking for... whether it is with an iPhone, a Windows phone or even a new Android phone. I wish everyone luck in finding the phone/OS/carrier combo that works best for them. I'm just so glad that there are plenty of those combos for everyone to choose from.

</comment></comment><comment><USER6> They really did do a bad job with that Starbucks coupon, it isn't integrated with the Offers app at all but for some reason they still pushed you to view it in the app. Not that I'm ditching my phone over it.

</comment><comment><USER7> i agree, the offers app is useless.

why does offers need to be an app? it would work perfectly well in-browser. it's not android that's pointless, it's the tendency of users to expect an app for every little tiny feature that belongs on a website. and it's only worse on iOS.

<comment><USER4> I actually like having apps that might only launch another browser to take me to their mobile page.

Opening a browser and going to a website is great on a computer, and I'd hate to have a separate program to do that, but on a phone it's nice to have a shortcut right where everything else is. I like that when you click it, it does one thing.

It's just my opinion, and I know not everyone shares in it, but I abhor mobile browsers. On a screen that small you either sacrifice viewing space or easy access to navigation. I keep my bookmarked sites stored in my app list, because launching an app is rote versus launching the browser app then opening the bookmarks menu then selecting the bookmark.

The problem with this app, from what I got from the author, is that it _doesn't_ launch a browser window, but instead has a complex and slow app, _then_ redirects you to a browser. If it simply opened the browser window, I don't think this article would have been written.

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> Google's trying to build the future.

They don't care about your ancient phone that was designed _last decade_. Get over it.

<comment><USER9> Well I bought my phone last _year_ and there is already dwindling support for it (no OS updates, just extra HTC crap), not to mention that the same model is still on sale as new now.

Many people buy smartphones on a 18 month - 2 year contract and often will wait until the price has dropped a bit to buy it. So I think 3-4 year old phones should still be well supported if they want to gain people's trust.

</comment></comment><comment><USER10> My T-Mobile contract ended this month and I am very much looking forward to switching to an iPhone

</comment><comment><USER11> Summary:

Guy complaining about his Nexus One being slow. It should be, that phone was designed to run up to Android 2.x and has long lost any support for system updates. It wasn't even originally designed to run Android 3.x. There's a whole lot more about your phone's compatibility than "still duking it out specifications wise", in his own words.

Edit: Oops, yes, no claim to run ICS. Either way, he's using an incredibly dated phone. The comparison isn't far off from trying to run iOS 5 on an iPhone 3GS.

<comment><USER10> Nexus One was release approximately a year ago. Is it really an unfair expectation that it should be able to download coupons in a non-painful way?

<comment><USER12> Correction: over two years ago. Anyone who bought a Nexus One at release is out of their 2-year contract by now and eligible for the full subsidy on any new phone with any carrier.

<comment><USER13> Did any carriers offer a subsidy for the Nexus One? I was under the impression that everyone who owns one bought it outright.</comment></comment></comment></comment>


Presentation Hacks: It's a performance - <AUTHOR> http://blog.rafaelcorrales.com/2010/04/presentation-hacks-its-performance.html

<comment><USER3> [http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2010/02/the-secrets-of- malco...](http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2010/02/the-secrets-of-malcolm- gladwell/)

Got to learn the talks by heart.

<comment><AUTHOR> Great link. This is key:

"Gladwell's success as a speaker illustrates one of his homespun themes - <USER2> work pays off. But he has also made an important realisation. He is not giving a speech or a lecture - he is giving a performance. And like any good actor, he knows that you have to learn your lines."

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> I have found using a screen capture program to capture your presentation while your rehearsing is very useful, there are lots of free and open source ones out there. You have your power point and you basically go through the slides, presenting to your screen capture program. after you can review the video and make changes accordingly. I have also noticed that the real presentation ends up being ~1 1/2 to 2 times as long as your rehearsed version.. this is probably because when i present i force myself to go slow and I always ask the audience to interrupt me when they have questions, therefore you get immediate feedback and you can change things up on the fly

<comment><USER5> I wrote up some comments on using a screencasting tool here

[http://jamesbritt.com/2010/3/5/a-technique-for-creating-a- ta...](http://jamesbritt.com/2010/3/5/a-technique-for-creating-a-talk)

and

[http://jamesbritt.com/2010/4/11/a-technique-for-creating- a-t...](http://jamesbritt.com/2010/4/11/a-technique-for-creating-a-talk- part-2-ish)

</comment></comment><comment><USER6> I learned a lot from this: [http://www.amazon.com/Stand-Deliver-Carnegie- Method-Speaking...](http://www.amazon.com/Stand-Deliver-Carnegie-Method- Speaking/dp/0743571037/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272379428&sr=8-4)

Part of it is common sense, but I found it useful to see it systematized and explained.

</comment><comment><USER7> A thing that I'm realizing more and more is how few presentations are one- offs; that is, when you're developing a presentation, it's actually going to become part of your repertoire, and you're going to be able to use it again and again. Convention and conference speakers certainly reuse presentations, but the same applies to entrepreneurs (to investors) and employees (to senior stakeholders).

Rehearsal and practice became more palatable to me once I came to see individual presentations as permanent fixtures in my professional archive of works.

<comment><AUTHOR> "A thing that I'm realizing more and more is how few presentations are one- offs; that is, when you're developing a presentation, it's actually going to become part of your repertoire, and you're going to be able to use it again and again."

Agree. I was thinking about this today because I'm coming back next year to give a talk to this school about being a "Startup MBA" and how that presentation is applicable to any MBA program. Put in the work once, it pays dividends for a long time.</comment></comment>


Show HN: Live Crypto Mining on WebGL Globe - <AUTHOR> https://coinminingstats.com/globe <comment><AUTHOR> Works by geolocating the ip of the stratum port of the mining pool, then plotting on the globe whenever the pool reports a new coin was found</comment>


From $0 to $20,145.92 in 2 months with a side project - <AUTHOR> https://www.indiehackers.com/post/from-0-to-20-145-92-in-2-months-with-a-side-project-f8cd530242 <comment><USER2> From $0 to $20,145.92 in 2 months with a side project (after 10+ years of experience doing what he's done)

<comment><USER3> "Build this beautiful dining room table for only $150! First, take your $600 table saw..."

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> These themes look pretty sweet. also it's nice to see that I can theme Firefox/atom/npp/terminal to all look the same.

The price mentions wallpapers? did you make some?

<comment><AUTHOR> Me? No, I didn't write them. The topic matter has no connection with me.

I just posted because I thought others might find it interesting.

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> I found this claim on the Dracula site interesting: "By having the same color scheme across multiple apps, you reduce the time it takes to switch context between tasks."

Mightn't it be easier to context switch between environments that differ _more_? E.g. your work email in Outlook vs your personal Gmail?

</comment><comment><USER6> In the fine HN tradition of picking fault with every article:

"It took me a while to realize that money is not evil, money is oxygen."

No, money is like food: you need it to survive, but when it becomes your reason for existing, that's pretty sad.

</comment><comment><USER7> As a non-sales person I find it hard to believe anyone would spend $49 for something that is only very slightly different than dozens other high quality and free solutions.

But apparently people did.

And that's why I didn't make $20,145.92 in 2 months.

<comment><USER8> I feel this is going to be a trend going forward with the big name text editor + ide syntax themes.

For another example, look at Monokai which also released a paid "Pro" version. [https://monokai.pro](https://monokai.pro)</comment></comment>


Dear 22 Year Old: Concerning your economic Future - <AUTHOR> http://www.drurywriting.com/keith/20something.future.htm

<comment><USER2> There is a word for this sort of viewpoint: Luddite fallacy (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite_fallacy>)

It amazes me how people fail to see their own Luddite-ism. Look, here's the deal: The Luddites protested the mechanization of the textile industry during the industrial revolution. Their reasoning was that if one person maintaining one machine could do the same work as 100 individual laborers, then that would mean 99 people out of work. It turns out, what businesses actually did was _keep_ all 100 workers employed and instead turned out 100 times the product.

The U.S. (and the rest of the developed world) is only in trouble if we cannot continue to grow our economy exponentially (and keep in mind that an exponential increase in efficiency or an exponential decrease in material costs is just as good as an exponential increase in gross product). What really _kills_ me, though, is that the very thing that we need to achieve sustained growth is the _very same thing_ that people are trying to cut out: funding for science and technology research.

Every time I hear some Republican's campaign add talk about: "Can you believe we spend money digging up dinosaur bones in China? Shouldn't we spend that money at home?", I die a little inside. If China overtakes the U.S. as a world power, it will be due, in part, to the rapid increase in Ph.D.s and research funding that they are currently undertaking.

In the history of the world, there has never been a time when the most powerful nation was not also the most technologically advanced.

<comment><USER3> "This sort of viewpoint" is fundamentally different from the luddite fallacy. The crux of the fallacy is misapprehending the results of productive increase, thus mistaking a Good Thing for a Bad Thing. That's not what's going on in the article (unless you have a very different perspective on intergenerational debt).

Now it is certainly true that we'll be in less trouble if the economy grows faster than the hole being dug, _but a hole is still being dug_. If things improve it would be in spite of, not because of, the indebtedness being incurred. Again, the luddite fallacy is not applicable.

It is also certainly true (and proven over the centuries) that investment of capital accumulated through deferred consumption can, when applied toward improvements in technology, yield productivity gains, thereby improving the balance sheet of the inventor and the living standards of the common man. Such gains will emerge from the market, revealing what works and what doesn't, and in not working will free that capital to be put to more productive ends. It's not at all clear to me that a debt-funded, politically-allocated system will yield better outcomes.

<comment><USER4> I think "Ludic fallacy" might be a more accurate fallacy to cite.

The Ludic fallacy refers to making predictions based on past events, even though the probability of future outcomes includes variables not contained in the past dataset.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Right now, in the wake of the most significant financial crisis in decades and with the country staring down enormous structural deficits, the most contentious issue is whether it's fair to let tax cuts expire for people making more than $250k/year.

America isn't _remotely_ close to a serious debate.

The problem with articles like this is that they assume the country is still capable of negotiating changes that would require significant shared sacrifices. The last thirty years, and 2008-2010 in particular, show exactly the opposite. Americans are going to insist on high spending and low taxes until a serious, generational crisis like the Great Depression makes that impossible.

Can anyone seriously look at the political culture today and imagine that a VAT could become law? Or that anyone is going to fall on their sword to cut Medicare and Social Security benefits? If anything is clear about American politics since the emergence of movement conservatism, it's that any attempt to increase taxes or tackle popular social programs is political suicide. Look at Obama's health care bill. I hope you like it, because _no one_ is going to touch healthcare again in our generation.

I expect exactly nothing to be done about America's problems until those problems are so serious and the social dislocation so severe, that one party assumes near-dictatorial control of Congress and the motivation to use it, as happened during the Depression. There was an opportunity for rapprochement after the 2008 election, but that moment has passed. Now it's only a matter of time until the next, far more serious crisis.

If you want to plan for the future, don't assume American politics is somehow going to become more rational on its own. Plan for the crisis. Invest defensively. Don't assume the existence of government programs or the absence of sudden, sharp tax hikes.

<comment><USER6> * Look at Obama's health care bill. I hope you like it, because no one is going to touch healthcare again in our generation.*

Well, no one's going to take on the mantle of vast reform anytime soon, but there isn't an administration in recent history that hasn't tweaked health care a bit one way or the other.

<comment><USER7> I think it will be touched again. When everybody realizes they can just pay a fine instead of buying expensive insurance, then just load up on it when they get a serious illness, the insurance companies will be clamoring for a redo.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> There seemed to be a disconnect here. Just because one is a Baby Boomer (i.e., has life experience) that doesn't give one the magic ability to predict the economic future of, really, the entire world. This article takes the tone of a wizened elder bestowing his wealth of knowledge on the younger generation but it's really just another futurist taking potshots on what's to come for the United States.

At this point there are so many people talking of what's 'inevitable' that I'm disinclined to trust anyone who has a prediction range longer than a week.

<comment><USER9> > At this point there are so many people talking of what's 'inevitable' that > I'm disinclined to trust anyone who has a prediction range longer than a > week.

I would at least give it more credence if it was from someone who appeared to have _any_ sort of track record with or familiarity with economics. Looking at this guy's past columns, I see a pretty strange mix of stuff: <http://www.drurywriting.com/keith/>

<comment><USER8> Ugh. Yeah I found this.

 _I teach practical ministry courses at Indiana Wesleyan University. I write a weekly Tuesday Column during the school year and am usually backpacking or bicycling in the summer._

A real economics guru we've found.

<comment><USER10> Have the "real" economics gurus like Greenspan (snicker) delivered?

<comment><USER11> I'm sure some people might argue he has, but ultimately it doesn't matter in this context; failure of 'real' economics gurus to succeed does not mean any random person is equally capable in the subject.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> Being a 22 year old myself, I'm grateful that nothing in here is surprising to me and that my parents made me start a savings account when I was young (like 10 or something). To be honest, I don't think I've met anyone from my generation who expects to see money from social security when they retire.

<comment><USER13> Social Security is good till 2040 at minimum. Some modest adjustments can extend it even further and more radical changes gets it to the 22nd century. All of this is possible without even touching the ~50% of the budget that goes towards military spending or raising payroll taxes significantly. My personal opinion is we shouldn't even consider cutting a single social safety net until military spending has been slashed. Even China is now limiting the growth of military spending yet in the US this topic is totally off the table.

<comment><USER14> From your tone, it sounds like youre critical of the original article, but Social Security collapsing in 2040 means, for anyone in their 20s, that they wont see a payout. What was proposed in the article was, to my twenty something view, "modest adjustments".

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER15> Interesting thought on the tax loophole closing (when considered a bit more broadly). If we must put up with high taxes, then what's the point if only the people who can afford clever accountants can find a way to shuffle money to loophole their way into lower tax brackets? I used to work for a Hollywood account, and every single actor has their own company for this reason.

Wasn't it Warren Buffet that mentioned he pays less taxes than his secretary? Or is this propaganda that I've been duped into believing?

<comment><USER9> Warren Buffett did say that: [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/tax/article1996735.ec...](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/tax/article1996735.ece)

Whether it's a good example, propagandistic, etc., is another story, but on the factual question of whether he said it, he did. The main reason isn't so much loopholes as source of income: employment income (what his secretary gets) is taxed at a higher rate than investment income (what Buffett gets).

</comment></comment><comment><USER16> Son, There is massive opportunity out there waiting for you to seize. Be thankful you were born in America and have the opportunity of free enterprise. Our country has a lot of debt and there will be inflation ahead, and taxes will likely be higher too, but they will be higher for everyone else so don't sweat it - wealth is relative.

Be frugal, marry wise and start a business. Take risks now while you are young. The future is bright.

</comment><comment><USER17> Most prognostications about social security seem to be predicated on a closed demographic system, and take no account of immigration's impact on the ratio of taxpaying workers to retirees. Now would be a sensible time to come to grips with this question, but of course in a time of high unemployment and electoral angst, it's politically radioactive.

This is the best analysis of the issue that I've come across, and well worth the reading time: [http://www.ssab.gov/documents/IMMIG_Issue_Brief_Final_Versio...](http://www.ssab.gov/documents/IMMIG_Issue_Brief_Final_Version_000.pdf)

</comment><comment><USER18> "You shouldn't expect (student loans) for your own kids... You might have to be your own kids' bank when they need $40,000 for college like you did (they'll need more)"

I believe that's exactly backwards - they should need less total money if that happens. If student loans immediately ceased to be available, couldn't we expect the price of college education to drop in response?

<comment><USER19> Yes, and no...

If no student loans are available, affordability goes down followed by demand. The bottom feeder Universities get wiped out of the map first, but enrollment will fall across the board.

If a critical mass of applicants exist to support a reduced University System, a new equilibrium point will be found, and education cost will be cheaper. However, if this is not the case, the only survivors will probably be a handful of Ivy League schools, who will actually _raise_ tuition and cater to the children of the wealthy.

</comment></comment><comment><USER20> As an 18 year old reading this sort of writing makes me want to leave the country. Except that I'd be taxed for ten years after expatriating, and there isn't any country that I know of as being similarly entrepreneurial. If anyone has suggestions, though, I would love to hear them.

<comment><USER21> You can't control everything. Stop worrying about things you can't change and start enjoying life.

<comment><USER22> This doesn't contradict what you said but: you can change what country you live in.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER23> I thought that this applied to those 40 and under.

<comment><USER24> yes, me too. There seems to be an entire generation of people missing from this thought bubble. It's not going pass from a bunch of 50 and 60 year olds straight to 25 year olds without skipping the ones in the middle. The ones that worked through the 90's recessions and probably remember the '80s recessions as well.

</comment></comment><comment><USER25> Founding Fathers of the United States failed to anticipate the Negative effects of _globalization_ and _internet_.

</comment><comment><USER26> Very well-written. I wish I shared the pastor's optimism!</comment>


Life as an entrepreneur can be a tough and lonely ride - <AUTHOR> Hi guys,
Life as an entrepreneur can be a tough and lonely ride. I've experienced it first-hand for almost a decade, now.
As many of you know, your friendships will be critical when you're stuck in the mud or have to kill your startup. For about half of my entrepreneurial career, I haven't had a good friend group, and it really took a toll on my health and happiness.
So I decided never to go through it again, so I built an app that matches you to the most compatible people nearby for the purposes of friendship. For two years, I've been working on the compatibility algorithm and I'm super proud of the result.
Your support would be awesome, but it would make me even happier to know that you met some amazing people on We3.
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/we3
Or
https://www.we3app.com <comment><USER2> You should post this as a "Show HN: …", you'll get more visibility that way.

<comment><AUTHOR> Thanks! I'm a bit of a n00b at this, so I really appreciate it.

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> Fun fact, this is very close to the original goal of Adult Friend Finder before its pivot to a more specific type of connection.

<comment><AUTHOR> lol. not surprised, though. THat's where the money is. ANd that's why all other "friendship apps" are really thinly-veiled dating apps. SAD!

<comment><USER4> Has it occurred to you that it's not "where the money is," but perhaps rather "where human behavior is?" There's a reason "friendship" apps don't work.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> I loved the marketing video on your Product Hunt post. It's the first app video I've ever laughed out loud at (the message thread emoji's). Great work.

</comment><comment><USER6> Very valuable mate, I'll be downloading and will spread the word! Where is most of your user base located?

<comment><AUTHOR> We're mostly in English-speaking countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia). Especially cities like Boston, LA, NYC, London...

But we're growing the team now! We're no longer just two guys. So we should be growing much faster in the coming weeks/months.

Thanks for your support

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> I don't like that it says 'Always meet friends of the same gender'. As a male, I want to be able to meet female friends as well. Why is it limited by gender?

<comment><AUTHOR> At the moment, we're keeping genders separate. I know, it's very 90's. The issue is that we're just two guys and we don't want to police the platform. The reality is that the friendship apps out there are thinly-veiled dating apps, and that's ruined it for everyone else just looking for friends.

I put down some more thoughts on this in this blog post: [https://www.we3app.com/why-tribes-same-gender/](https://www.we3app.com/why- tribes-same-gender/)

We'll be experimenting with mixed genders later this year, but it will have to be in a careful rollout to make sure it's not abused.

<comment><USER8> Perhaps consider having no visible gender queues. Maybe go so far as to also not show names. If the goal is truely for friends, does the gender and name matter?

<comment><AUTHOR> It doesn't, but the problem is that people aren't usually very kind to other people on the internet. So I can see a good chunk of users rollin' the dice and seeing if they match with attractive people, and if they don't, they just move along. This would ruin the experience for the other two people that are left hanging and feeling like shit. I really want to prevent that from happening.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> Love the idea and I'm downloading it right now. I know I've felt these same things nearly my whole adult life.

<comment><AUTHOR> Nice! I hope we can connect you with some awesome people nearby.

</comment></comment><comment><USER10> Love this mate - Thanks for creating and sharing something as valuable to connect people :)

<comment><AUTHOR> Thank you! I really hope it helps to connect you with some awesome people.

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> Nice idea! Oh no.. no Witcher in games I love ;(

<comment><AUTHOR> Just added it!

<comment><AUTHOR> If you send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com, I'll add that choice to your account.

<comment><USER11> And one more thing to add "I am often on..." \- Hacker News of course!

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> I like the animation, who made it?

</comment><comment><USER13> Are you still lonely though?</comment>


Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (April 2011) - <AUTHOR>

Lets see it is useful to have a freelancer matchmaking thread.<p>Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility. <comment><USER3> SEEKING WORK

Remote work preferable. Nomadic, currently in Hong Kong.

I've worked professionally with python, ocaml and erlang. I've worked in search ( <http://bit.ly/ji-texsearch-opt> , <https://github.com/jamii/texsearch> ), testing ( <http://bit.ly/ji-fuzzer> ), distributed systems ( <http://bit.ly/ji-mealy> ) and am making inroads into p2p ( <https://github.com/jamii/dissertation> , <http://bit.ly/ji-telehash> , <https://github.com/jamii/erl-telehash> ). I have a strong background in math (real analysis, probability, discrete maths) and computer science (randomized algorithms, AI / epistemic logic, machine learning) .

I'm willing to work on anything interesting but my main interests are distributed systems and p2p networks.

Resume - <http://bit.ly/ji-about>

Blog - <http://bit.ly/ji-blog>

Github - <https://github.com/jamii>

</comment><comment><USER4> This thread is almost all people looking for work, but the (mainly on-site) hiring thread is almost all people offering work.

Seems like a little flexibility on either side could get good results.

</comment><comment><USER5> Let's give this a shot. SEEKING WORK.

I have a baby on the way and hours outside of my day job to turn into dollars. I work for a defense contractor, and the contract I work on disallows any work above 40 hours a week, so I have plenty of time on my hands that I'd rather not spend looking at Babies-R-Us catalogs with my wife.

I live in Denver, but strongly prefer remote work. I've worked professionally with Java, C++, Javascript (both in browsers as well as an embedded scripting language) Groovy, and PHP as an intern and am currently on a quest to figure out Lisp to see what "the profound enlightenment experience" ESR talked about is. I'm open to small, one-off jobs as well as a long-term relationship, but because this baby is approaching at 60 seconds a minute, it wouldn't be prudent for me (or cheap for you) if I quit my day job to pursue another opportunity full time.

My contact info is on my profile page. If you've got anything you'd like done, let me know and we'll work something out.

</comment><comment><USER6> SEEKING FREELANCER

We are located in New York City but remote work is totally fine.

We are rebuilding the backend of our application on Google AppEngine. Solid Python/Django skills are required. AppEngine experience would be a big plus. Familiarity with browser addons/extensions is also a big plus (Chrome, Firefox, IE).

Remote work totally fine. We prefer at least 10 hrs a week that you can commit. 20+ hrs would be great.

Would love to see work samples, github code, resume, random facebook photos, and blood samples. (kidding)

<comment><USER7> Contact info Please. Here or in your profile

<comment><USER6> Oops... should be in my profile now

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> Developer seeking Designer for paid 10hr / week contract.

If you're a designer who loves playing tabletop role playing games and would love to play a key role in improving Obsidian Portal, we've got an opportunity for you. Read more about it here [http://blog.obsidianportal.com/seeking-a- user-interface-desi...](http://blog.obsidianportal.com/seeking-a-user- interface-designer/).

<comment><USER9> I found a fantastic designer on oDesk <https://www.odesk.com/users/~~1929b5c931432527>

He did our landing page <http://www.9to5culture.com>

</comment></comment><comment><USER10> SEEKING WORK - REMOTE ONLY

TX (DFW/Austin)

Native iOS (iPhone/iPad) and Mac Development

Apple-related consulting (enterprise software, Mac/iOS ports, app review help, performance tuning)

ABSOLUTELY NO full-time job offers, unpaid/equity gigs, NDAs

<http://drewcrawfordapps.com>

<comment><USER11> Nice looking portfolio. Is it just you or do you have a team of devs?

<comment><USER10> Me + two part-time contractors.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> Developer seeking work, NYC or remote.

I'm a developer with about 10 years experience. I started out using Perl scripts in computational biology, and have long since left the research world behind. My skills include OO Perl, MySQL, PHP, JavaScript, Lucene/Solr, Objective-C, and of course my current favorite: the powerful Django, Python, Postgres, jQuery combination. I have even been known to do some web design (keep it minimalist!).

I've worked on projects spanning the spectrum, from startups that never got beyond 10 users and a virtual server to those requiring several dedicated servers, an index of millions of documents, and plenty of moving parts to keep everyone happy. I'm pretty dogged in solving any problem that comes my way during a project, and really enjoy the process of learning new skills.

Contact info is in my profile.

<comment><USER13> interested - can you send us an email with details of your past work. contact info in profile.

</comment></comment><comment><USER14> SEEKING WORK

Remote and local, SF Bay Area.

Performance engineer and frontend web developer. Worked at Yahoo! and Mozilla as a frontend engineer specializing in performance and scalability. Available for consulting and short duration work (~10hrs/week). Would love to help make any site faster.

<http://www.ryandoherty.net/> <https://github.com/ryandoherty> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryandoherty>

</comment><comment><USER15> SEEKING WORK, Bay Area

I'm working on a startup, but have to pause and do some short-term consulting to pay the bills. I am particularly interested in helping anyone who needs system-level work done, in C, on Linux or Unix environments. I have experience working with filesystems, and have written custom network filesystems which run on top of Samba. Although I have never done any kernel hacking, I would love to learn it and will give a substantial discount to anyone who gives me the opportunity.

</comment><comment><USER16> SEEKING WORK

Student looking for part-time remote work. Will probably charge less than most.

Well versed in Linux networking (specifically Ubuntu Server administration), Python, C, and Java. Have done significant amount of work with PHP, iOS/Obj-C, OCaml, Common Lisp, and x86 assembly. Pretty good background in math and computer science, some background in physics/electrical engineering/biology.

Would love to work on anything interesting!

</comment><comment><USER17> SEEKING REMOTE WORK

I'm a professional hacker, currently working at a super-cool ISP in Yellowknife, Canada. I've worked on automated testing frameworks in Perl at NITI (startup, sold to IBM), device drivers in C++ at ATI, RTOS hacking at National Instruments, systems software at Redback Networks, and lots more. In my spare time, I've been hacking lots on Node.js and building stuff for iOS. I'm mostly building stuff that uses Twilio, and my Node.js Twilio library (<https://github.com/sjwalter/node-twilio>) has good adoption (and it's pretty innovative--it turns interacting with a REST API into interacting with an EventEmitter--check it out!).

Interested in filling my spare time with interesting projects and money to help me fund my startup (as yet in the noodling and experimenting stage until I can get some fulltime work on it).

Github: <https://github.com/sjwalter> Email: email@example.com Blog: stephenwalters.posterous.com Twitter: twitter.com/sjwalter

</comment><comment><USER18> SEEKING UI WORK

Remote only. Nomadic, currently in Berlin.

I'm a designer who code in vi and track changes with git. I've worked with Rails, Django, web.py, node.js startups and associated templating languages. My CSS preprocessor of choice is Stylus.

Get in touch if you have an interesting project.

Portfolio - <http://nylira.com>

<comment><USER4> nice portfolio

</comment></comment><comment><USER19> SEEKING FREELANCER

We are located in Oakland, CA and prefer a bay-based front-end PHP Web Developer for exciting local apparel company

We are currently looking for an experienced PHP Web Developer. This is an exciting opportunity in Oakland for a new apparel company that uses Magento and Wordpress for our two main sites.

This is for part-time, contract-based work best suited for freelance developers near the Bay Area with availability to occasionally come in for meetings in Oakland (most, if not all, work can be done remotely). Weekly hours will vary depending on projects/tweaks. Quick turn-around is highly important.

Must able to communicate effectively and be able to work well with art/creative director from sketches, PSD comps, wireframes or sometimes (though not often) merely telephone conversations.

This is a great on-going opportunity for those with other clients and looking for an extra boost of work here and there.

Pay hourly or project-based.

</comment><comment><USER20> I run a number of personal start-up projects that I constantly hire for, and I project manage a few for other firms as well.

Constantly looking for talented technical professionals that are a pleasure to work with.

Email me: email@example.com or Add me: <http://www.linkedin.com/in/vlokshin>

</comment><comment><USER21> SEEKING WORK

Remote and local, Antwerp area BELGIUM

Well-versed in front-end development as well as back-end stuff, most experienced with Java but comfortable with other platforms.

Domain experience includes compilers, open-source GIS and image processing.

Not available for full-time development, but I can put in the hours in evenings.

</comment><comment><USER22> SEEKING WORK - remote or local PA-Lehigh Valley (Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton)

My partner and I have a small design studio LLC called Solid Design Group.

I am a Rails/jQuery programmer with ops experience constructing, deploying, and maintaining many production websites/apps. I run a nice Rails stack including hoptoad/github/backup/capistrano/haml/sass/compass, etc

He is a print/web/advertising graphic designer.

We both have many years of experience working with small businesses and fortune 500 clients.

We specialize in websites, web apps, branding for small bus/startups, and print work (brochure/bus cards/letterhead/etc).

Website: <http://soliddesigngroup.net> Github: <http://github.com/jonathanb> and <http://github.com/soliddesign>

</comment><comment><USER23> I am currently bootstrapping MightyCV - a resume platform with hacker leanings. It has integrations with HN, github and StackOverflow along with some other cool features. I've built and designed the whole service myself with the help of some great ruby gems. Thanks guys! Signing up for an account will therefore give you some idea of what sort of web app I'm capable of building. I'm looking for web development contract work, either remote or in London, while I continue to bootstrap MightyCV.

Here's what my MightyCV looks like:

<http://robeastham.mightycv.com>

If you like the look of it you can sign up for your own MightyCV resume by joining the private beta at <http://www.mightycv.com> (use this beta signup code: 22MARCH2011 after clicking the sign-up link on the homepage).

</comment><comment><USER24> SEEKING FREELANCER

We are located in Silicon Valley, but remote work for this project is just as good.

I am with SkillAddiction.com and SA provides casual gaming tournaments for people to enter into, for a chance to win cash and prizes. Players view a variety of tournaments and select which one to enter. Tournaments are free, cost virtual currency, or cost cash to enter and compete; which is where our biggest question is - what denomination, or entry cost, is optimal and attracts the most participants? We have a bunch of data and are looking to identify and extract key customer metrics so that we can gain better insight into our customers.

If you love to dig around numbers and identify cool metrics that help make a difference, drop us a line!

[hnname]@skilladdiction

</comment><comment><USER25> SEEKING FREELANCER (Developer)

Dev to build a MVP rails geo app and data infrastructure ( will be accessible in the near future by mobile devices).

Familiarity with the following is helpful to take this on: * Storing location data in ActiveRecord (PostGIS/PostgreSQL and MySQL) * Accessing location data in Controller * How to use open geo-standards for sharing data: GeoRSS, WMS, WFS, WCS, Microformats, KML, GeoJASON * How to use geocoders * Geographic data formats (Vector and Raster) * Using Ruby/Mapscript, Ruby/GDAL, Ruby/GEOS * Talking to Mapserver (IvyGIS) * Using Geonames Ruby API

or * YM4R * GeoRuby * Spatial Adapter for ActiveRecord * GeoKit * acts_as_locatable * acts_as_geocodable * graticule

<comment><USER22> I'm interested. Have ample Rails experience, no domain experience with geolocation, but I'm a motivated and quick learner. Please see my post in this thread for contact info

</comment></comment><comment><USER26> SEEKING WORK - REMOTE WORK ONLY

Boca Raton, FL

Mainly Ruby on Rails.

I've done work with HAML/HTML/ERB, CSS, some jQuery, and a multitude of gems to build fully functional websites and web apps.

Available immediately and able to communicate through IM, Skype, Phone and email.

My Github: <https://github.com/gduplessy>

My Resume: <http://gduplessy.com/about.html>

My Blog: <http://gduplessy.com/about.html>

</comment><comment><USER27> Seeking Work - NYC or Remote

I'm a freelance (mostly client-side) developer looking to find interesting projects to work on.

I'm passionate about JavaScript and am itching to use Backbone, Handlebars, node, Knockout, etc. to solve real world problems.

Beyond HTML/CSS/JS, I have experience working with PHP and Ruby/Rails, would be excited about hacking my way around a Perl or Python project and am not above working with Joomla and WordPress.

Contact email@example.com and check out my resume/work samples at <http://ethagnawl.com>

</comment><comment><USER28> SEEKING WORK

My specialty is data visualization and technical graphic design. I primarily use R (ggplot) and Protovis, and tie it together with LaTeX (for print/PDF) or HTML + JavaScript on the web. For data munging I use Ruby (for hacks), R (for adv. analysis), and Clojure (for couth). I live in Portland, Oregon, USA.

github profile:

<https://github.com/lynaghk>

recent algorithm + dataviz project:

<http://www.dirigibleFlightcraft.com/prote.cs/>

</comment><comment><USER29> SEEKING WORK - REMOTE ONLY

UI, Web Designer

Can design your website, blog or give you a brand identity. Mostly been doing design consultation for startups lately. But anything short-term will do.

Though I am not really looking for it, but if you have a web-app you need a UI for, do ping me - if things are interesting I'd like to get along.

Unfinished Portfolio: <http://design.64notes.com>

Forrst: <http://forrst.com/people/kingsidharth>

</comment><comment><USER30> SEEKING WORK. New Orleans, LA (or remote).

I'm a full time developer concentrating on doing high quality front-end / UX work for web applications and startups. I can help you handle both design, app-flow, mockups, as well as the cross browser compliant HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript required to build it.

I also have especially good experience working with Ruby/Rails/Sinatra/Rack based applications (due to the fact that I've built many of my own from scratch as self produced applications).

Email in profile.

</comment><comment><USER31> Let's give this a blast.

SEEKING WORK - <USER2>

I'm a PHP/JS developer, with a background in the embedded field. You might know me from the DSemu and jsGB projects, building games console emulators in C++ and JavaScript respectively.

If you need PHP/MySQL/JS work done, I'm available on a remote-work basis. I'm also open to embedded C/assembly work, if you have any.

Email address on my profile, articles and code samples at <http://imrannazar.com/>

</comment><comment><USER32> SEEKING WORK, remote or Baltimore, MD area

I've got around 10 years working in webapp development. Experience in Scala, Groovy and Java, some Python and PHP as well as HTML, CSS, JS. Enthusiastically interested in any web application work, but not much in the way of web design chops. Small or big projects welcome. Happy to talk about projects and ideas!

I'd like to find enough freelance work to replace my full-time job and free up some time to work on my startup.

<comment><USER13> interested, get in touch, email in my profile.

</comment></comment><comment><USER33> SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote essential :)

Designer needed. Ability to code valid HTML is desirable but not essential.

We are a team working remotely (Europe, US & India) on a wide variety of client sites and workload is getting too big for us to manage alone. There should be quite a but of freedom to run wild with design work if you can justify it as useable ;)

Email is in profile. Send me a link to a portfolio or a bunch of links and we'll go from there.

</comment><comment><USER34> SEEKING WORK

My partner and I are currently bootstrapping our startup, Fitocracy (<http://www.fitocracy.com>) and are looking for web development contract work either in the NY area or remotely.

We cover everything from wireframes and Photoshop mockup designs, to user flows and interactions, to fully fleshed out web apps using plenty of Python/Django, HTML/CSS/Javascript.

Contact at firstname.lastname@example.com

</comment><comment><USER35> SEEKING WORK.

Remote work only. Live and work in Austin, TX.

I've worked with Java for 13 years and jQuery for over 3 years. I'm open to anything really as long as it's interesting and gives me a reason to get excited to sit in front of my computer for full days of coding. Something that's interesting to work on would take preference over something that's dull but pays well. Flexible to work on your schedule. Contact me via the e-mail in my profile.

<comment> barry-cotter The email in your profile is only visible to admins. Edit your textbox if you want anyone else to see something.

<comment><USER35> My HN id @ gmail.com

Will fix the profile when I'm not on the iphone. Thanks.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER36> SEEKING WORK, Colorado/remote

Front-end web development, WordPress

My personal site: <http://benword.com/>

My freelance site: <http://www.hypetreatment.com/>

My WordPress theme for developers based on HTML5 Boilerplate, Starkers, and Blueprint CSS/960gs: <http://www.rootstheme.com/>

</comment><comment><USER37> SEEKING WORK

I'm late to this party but posting anyway.

I'm in Dallas. Local or remote is fine.

Development background - Java and Python primarily. I'm also really good with JavaScript, server or client. I'm an expert with Google App Engine. If anyone is looking for something there, I am your man.

Contact info in profile. LinkedIn: <http://www.linkedin.com/in/bakerjay>

</comment><comment><USER38> SEEKING FREELANCER

Seeking design and or design/front-end dev freelancers that work remotely. We need help with front-end design for a professional web 2.0/"3.0" feeling look (think Turbotax.com in look and feel). Ideally designers that have some (or a lot) of front-end development in them and can also convert their designs into XHTML and CSS and do some UX work with JavaScript and jQuery.

firstname.lastname@example.com

</comment><comment><USER39> SEEKING WORK: Phoenix AZ area or remote

Android/Rails programmer by preference, but I have experience almost everywhere. I'm looking to help out small to medium size companies on a project basis. I like to work with your team to improve the code, fix the tough bugs, and help your programmers improve, but I can also take over the project as a whole if necessary.

Contact info in my profile

</comment><comment><USER40> SEEKING FREELANCER

(throwaway account) Looking for a designer for design/markup/css/js work.

Southern California, preferably Orange County area. This will likely be a three month project requiring roughly 10 hours per week. The project is a fairly straightforward web design project.

Contact via email@example.com and if available please link to prior work. Thanks.

<comment><USER41> Never understood why people looking to hire someone would use a throwaway account. Just makes you look a little shady

</comment></comment><comment><USER42> SEEKING WORK

I've just released an open source X server for Lisp hackers.

Am now available for Systems, Mobile and possibly Backend projects !

Straight to my Github : <https://github.com/pyb>

Or for more info : <http://pyb.github.com>

</comment><comment><USER43> SEEKING FREELANCER For videolla.com

1) web UI/Designer contract. Rails experience preferred. For redesign of our fastest growing startup videolla.com

2) Marketing PR hacker intern/freelancer. You will make us famous!

If you feel you are 1)+2) you should also apply. Bay Area preferred. Remote is possible for exceptional candidates!

</comment><comment><USER44> SEEKING FREELANCER

Opzi (YC S10) SOMA/SF. Looking for designers with a clean, minimalist (FB, Apple-ish) sense of design to polish our enterprise knowledgebase product. Ideally you can Photoshop and create clean CSS. Local would be great, but remote ok as well. Send samples and your rate to:

email@example.com

<comment><USER45> My portfolio is at <http://www.irvbriscoe.com>

</comment></comment><comment><USER46> SEEKING WORK, SF Bay Area, Contract/Remote. Seasoned UI Developer (HTML, JS, CSS, AJAX, LAMP), 15 yrs experience, having worked on the world's most trafficked sites: Yahoo! AOL, eBay (<http://www.linkedin.com/in/rchgrca>)

</comment><comment><USER47> SEEKING FREELANCER -- developer

We're located in Seattle, but remote is okay.

Hiring for mobile app development (ios & android).

email@example.com

*To those seeking work, it would be great if you provided a link to a list of your past work and/or portfolio.

</comment><comment><USER48> SEEKING WORK. Remote.

Recently moved back to India from Bay Area.

HTML, CSS, Javascript Developer.

<http://github.com/ashitvora> <http://ashitvora.com>

</comment><comment><USER49> SEEKING FREELANCER

I am looking for a Ruby on Rails developer to help me with <http://taskarmy.com>

I am based in Australia and would love to work with someone in Eastern Europe or Asia.

Thanks!

<comment><USER26> Would you accept remote freelancers?

<comment><USER49> Yes! REMOTE ONLY

<comment><USER26> Just sent an email your way!

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER50> SEEKING WORK

Quality design concepts, website layouts, user interfaces & marks/logos/brands/icons. Only taking on concept work at this time, too backlogged with development.

<http://celsius.ws>

</comment><comment><USER51> Developer seeking remote work.

I work full time as a web developer for a transportation company, but I am looking to start freelancing more. My tools include PHP, Javascript, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and HTML/CSS coding. Email is in my profile.

<comment><USER52> Hey, I am the founder of <http://www.virtualrockstars.com> and I might need some PHP help here and there. Maybe we can get in touch?

</comment></comment><comment><USER53> We're seeking a .NET developer, preferably in london. Experience with Umbraco would also be a plus but not essential.

Get in touch via the website.

<http://www.appliedworks.co.uk>

</comment><comment><USER54> SEEKING WORK - REMOTE ONLY

I have been doing Java web development for 12 years with skills in related tools (Spring, Struts, Hibernate, Javascript, jQuery). I have also done some Python and App Engine.

Contact info is in my profile.

</comment><comment><USER55> SEEKING WORK - REMOTE or NYC

I do freelance work and focus on projects that use or want to use mongoDB, backbone.js, rails, nodejs. my github is <http://github.com/codebrew>

</comment><comment><USER56> SEEKING WORK (Remote or Local)

Boulder, CO

Freelance PHP/MySQL/HTML/CSS/jQuery, 10 years experience.

Work full time as a lead engineer / architect, looking to turn spare time into dollars.

E-mail and sites in profile.

</comment><comment><USER57> SEEKING WROK.

<http://flochip.com>

</comment><comment><USER58> SEEKING WORK

Based in Austin, TX. Willing to work remote or in Austin.

Industrial strength C# and ASP.NET development.

View the links on my profile (inluding LinkedIn) for recommendations, examples, etc.

</comment><comment><USER59> SEEKING WORK Let's see! <http://advancewith.us/stuff/Resume.pdf> <http://about.me/dytrivedi>

</comment><comment><USER45> SEEKING WORK

I code HTML, CSS, JS, PHP and JQUERY. Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator are my favorite design apps.

Portfolio at <http://www.irvbriscoe.com>

</comment><comment><USER60> Seeking Work:

DC area or remote. Copy editing, copy writing. I'd love to help you identify and communicate your vision articulately and passionately!

Email in profile.

</comment><comment><USER61> Seeking freelancer

Web developer, remote ok.

Project is to catalog every product in existence.

Database knowledge a bonus.

E-mail is in my profile.

</comment><comment><USER62> SEEKING WORK

I code Java/Javascript/CSS/HTML.

I automate web testing with Selenium/Sahi.

Remote work - Asia & US. Ask me anything.

</comment><comment><USER63> SEEKING WORK - REMOTE ONLY

If you need help with python, drop me a line. App Engine projects welcome.

Contact info in my profile.

</comment><comment><USER64> Seeking Work, Austin, TX (or remote)

College Student/Bootstrapper

Rails, HTML/CSS, UX

Email in profile

</comment><comment><USER65> SEEKING WORK (REMOTE PREFERABLE)

UNIX systems admin, python (mostly django), a bit of clojure and ruby.

</comment><comment><USER66> SEEKING WORK, New York

iPhone/iPad developer looking for extra work. Contact info in my profile.</comment>


Why Successful People Take 10 Years to 'Succeed Overnight' - <AUTHOR> http://www.inc.com/empact/why-successful-people-take-10-years-to-succeed-overnight.html <comment><AUTHOR> I believe this kind of ties in with [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13437332](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13437332) in that many "lucky" people prepared so that when luck struck things were aligned to take off.

</comment><comment><USER2> The first domino when programming is your 'Hello World' program.</comment>


Merry Christmas, Nerds - <AUTHOR> <comment><USER2> Shh, this is the best time for side projects to add to the CV. You snooze, you lose.

<comment><USER3> But when you overwork, you're acting like a dork.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Merry Christmas! :)

</comment><comment> throwaway-123 Merry Xmas....</comment>


The Life Course Dynamics of Affluence - <AUTHOR> http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0116370 <comment><USER2> Abstract

Social science research finds that the only group to have experienced real economic gains over the past four decades is the top 20 percent of the income distribution. This finding, along with greater awareness of growing inequality, has renewed interest in mobility research that identifies how individuals and their progeny move into and out of upper versus lower income categories. In this study a new mobility methodology is proposed using life course concepts and life table statistical techniques. Panel data from a prospective national sample of the U.S. population age 25 to 60 are analyzed to estimate the extent of mobility associated with top percentiles in the income distribution. Empirical results suggest high mobility associated with top-level income. For example, 11 percent of the population is found to occupy the top one percentile for one or more years between the ages of 25 and 60. The study findings suggest that many experience short-term and/or intermittent mobility into top-level income, versus a smaller set that persist within top- level income over many consecutive years. Implications of the findings are discussed in terms of inequality buffering, opportunity versus insecurity, and the demographics of income inequality.

<comment><USER3> Lots of claims not being sourced in that abstract.

<comment><USER4> Abstracts typically do not include citations. They are left for the body of the article.</comment></comment></comment>


Google stole Nexus name, says PKD family - <AUTHOR> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10426802-92.html

<comment><USER2> This reminds me of a trademark suit out of the 1980s, when the Lexis-Nexis people sued Toyota when it introduced its "Lexus" luxury car to the U.S. market.

From a Wikipedia article summarizing this dispute: "When Toyota launched the Lexus line of luxury vehicles in 1987, Mead Data Central sued for trademark infringement on the grounds that consumers of upscale products (such as lawyers) would confuse "Lexus" with "Lexis". A market-research survey undertaken at the time asked consumers to identify the spoken word "Lexis"; the survey showed that a minuscule quantity of people thought of the computerized legal search system, a similarly minuscule number thought of Toyota's luxury car division, and an overwhelming plurality thought of a soap opera character. Mead lost on appeal in 1989 when the Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit held that there was little chance of consumer confusion. Today, the two companies have an amiable business relationship, and in 2002 implemented a joint promotion called 'Win A Lexus On Lexis!'" (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LexisNexis>)

If a survey were taken today asking people to identify the spoken word "Nexus," I would suspect that responses would be all over the board, with only a very few associating it with the Nexus-6 androids (ironically, a good number might even associate it with the Nexis search service - maybe the Lexis-Nexis people ought to litigate the other half of their name, just for completeness!).

Of course, the word "nexus" itself is of ancient origin, deriving from the Latin fourth declension noun ("nexus," meaning a "bond," "binding," or "fastening").

On a final trademark footnote, if a fictional character acquires a "secondary meaning" (meaning that the public strongly associates it with a particular source, e.g., "Mickey Mouse" = Disney), this can be an independent basis for infringement. Can't even begin to imagine this to have happened here, however.

</comment><comment><USER3> This is such a silly lawsuit. Nexus is a generic word, long used by geeks to describe anything vaguely cool with a centralized component.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus>

There are 4 magazines, 2 video games and at least 5 different pieces of software (the very first version of WWW, written by Tim Berners-Lee, was called Nexus). There are also 5 bands and another 5 albums called Nexus.

<comment><USER4> I largely agree that it is a silly lawsuit but, to play devil's advocate for a second, there are a few factors that make it slightly less cut and dried.

Firstly, Google's phone is the Nexus One while the androids' model in "Bladerunner"/"Do Androids Dream..." was Nexus Six - presumably the last in a series beginning with something like Nexus One.

Secondly, how come the "Droid" has to mention George Lucas's claim to the term but the "Nexus One" does not need to refer to PKD?

Taking off my devil's advocate hat, I think that the name "Nexus One" was clearly inspired by Bladerunner (engineers/nerds working on a platform called "Android" was always going to lead to lots of robotic cultural references) but that does not mean the estate of PKD should be able to make a buck from it. The use of "Nexus One" in this way should be a sign that "Bladerunner" has become an important cultural touchstone, at least in tech circles.

<comment><USER5> Ok but the word "Droid" was indeed coined in Star Wars, whereas "Nexus One" was never coined anywhere, since the Nexus-1 model was never mentioned in the book or the movie. Its just a vague allusion

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> This seems a stretch, as there, so far as i know, no merchandising based on stuff in PKD's work. Give that science fiction is an imagination-rich medium, many things that are realized were first mentioned in science fiction. Would the Frank Herbert estate clamp down on manufacturers of Crysknife? <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crysknife>. Or any of the concepts in Larry Niven's Ringworld, like the Sunflowers, or the _cziltang brone_? And who would own the IP rights there--Larry Niven, or the Ringworld Engineers?

</comment><comment><USER7> The lawsuit's main weakness is that the masses aren't familiar with a cult movie called Blade Runner, and even less of them know of Philip K. Dick and his literary works even though a lot of his books have been turned into smash box office movies.

There is no confusion.

In my eyes, Google if anything used the name to pay homage to Philip K Dick, much like Apple tried to name a computer after Sagan.

<comment><AUTHOR> _In 1994, Apple Computer began developing the Power Macintosh 7100. They chose the internal code name "Carl Sagan", the reference being that the mid-range PowerMac 7100 should make Apple "billions and billions."Though the internal project name was never used in public marketing, it did come up in Usenet postings and news of the name grew from there. When Sagan learned of this he sued Apple Computer to force the use of a different project name. Other models released conjointly had code names such as "Cold fusion" and "Piltdown Man", and Sagan was displeased at being associated with what he considered pseudoscience. (He was at the time writing a book discrediting pseudoscience.) Though Sagan lost the lawsuit Apple engineers complied with his demands anyway and renamed the project "BHA" (for Butt-Head Astronomer). Sagan promptly sued Apple for libel over the new name, claiming that it subjected him to contempt and ridicule, but he lost this lawsuit as well. Still, the 7100 saw another name change: it was finally referred to internally as "LAW" (Lawyers Are Wimps)._

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan>

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> They have no case.

You can't copyright a name (especially not one which is also an english word), and trademarks only apply within their specific commercial category, and books (even SiFi books) and phones (or computers) are not in the same category.

</comment><comment><USER9> Since when is it theft to make a literary reference?

</comment><comment><USER10> am i the only one that didn't immediately know PKD was Philip K Dick and now feel a bit sheepish (no pun intended)...

<comment><USER11> PKD also stands for Polycystic Kidney Disease which was my first thought.

</comment></comment><comment><USER12> Apple stole apple name, says McIntosh family.

</comment><comment><USER13> Heck, who will speak for Henry Miller?</comment>


Google engineers claim that Chrome PWN bug is a Flash bug - <AUTHOR> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/google-engineers-claim-that-chrome-pwn-bug-is-a-flash-bug/12743

<comment><USER2> I thought Chrome was protecting me against Flash bugs running Flash in a sandbox. If so, this exploit needs to break through Chrome's sandbox and it seems legitimate to call it a Chrome exploit.

<comment><USER3> "Chrome's sandbox" is the Windows "low integrity mode" mandatory access control mechanism. If the process elevation was achieved through a privilege escalation attack against this mechanism rather than by attacking the non-low integrity mode Chrome master process, this might not be a bug in Chrome at all...</comment></comment>


Show HN: Aura – 3 Minute Meditations, Personalized by AI - <AUTHOR> https://www.aurahealth.io/ <comment><AUTHOR> Hi guys, founder of Aura here.

Aura is the first mindfulness meditation app powered by AI— it recommends short, 3-7 min meditations based on your demographics, stress levels, positivity levels, and your ratings for meditations every day. Users can state how they're feeling to the app (I'm feeling stressed / anxious / etc) and Aura delivers the best meditation for that emotion.

Would love to answer any questions and hear your feedback.

</comment><comment><USER2> Saw this on TechCrunch and Product Hunt. Love the product keep it up

<comment><AUTHOR> Thanks! glad you enjoy the app</comment></comment>