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15,400 | comment | BitGeek | 2007-04-21T06:23:44 | null |
What would you do with $5M anyway? Would that cover your salary for a year? Or for 50 years? <p>I'd like for people to realize that venture capital is not a fantasy, it is a nightmare. | null | null | 14,918 | 14,807 | null | null | null | null |
15,401 | comment | BitGeek | 2007-04-21T06:26:07 | null |
IF they were doing that much business, they shouldn't have taken venture capital--- but they, like most entreprenuers and people who get bad advice-- don't account for the real cost of venture capital.<p>That real cost is $24B in this case.<p>A quickly growing business can get funding from a variety of sources, many of which will take %6 payment, not require %600 and force you out of the business.<p>....but it sure is interesting to see all the different ways that VCs try to screw people-- re-vesting is something I saw in the past, and it didn't make sense to me then, but I have since come to understand just how asinine it is.<p> | null | null | 15,003 | 14,807 | null | null | null | null |
15,402 | comment | BitGeek | 2007-04-21T06:28:07 | null | I've been subjected to meetings without chairs. The problem is, there are some people for whom standing is not much of a burden and they go on and on. So, I was forced to stand there at this daily mandatory meeting while people talked about stuff that was not relevant to the work I was doing for 30 minutes. <p>If you want to have a standing meeting, that's fine, and it can be good-- but I think the rule should be no meetings can ever be mandatory, and anyone can leave any meeting at anytime. If the person calling the meeting doesn't have an agenda compelling enough to get people to show up, then the meeting shouldn't happen anyway.<p>I will no longer stand (literally) for mandatory meetings. (Which is, just another of the daily things I am thankful for about being my own boss.)<p>
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15,403 | comment | bls | 2007-04-21T06:32:47 | null | Did you see Nozbe.com? That is the most GTD-centric TODO list I have seen. I also found it to have some good user interface ideas, like drag-and-drop reordering of lists.<p>But, there is also RememberTheMilk.com, toodledo.com, and many others. Toodledo.com has a nice comparison table of the biggest names in this space. <p>IMO, the biggest problem with most of the entrants in this area (Backpack being the exception) was UI clutter. | null | null | 15,195 | 15,030 | null | [
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15,404 | comment | aston | 2007-04-21T06:34:03 | null | Yay, capital gains tax.<p><a href="http://valleywag.com/tech/greed/the-grotesque-1-salary-251104.php">http://valleywag.com/tech/greed/the-grotesque-1-salary-251104.php</a> | null | null | 15,379 | 15,379 | null | null | null | null |
15,405 | comment | jward | 2007-04-21T06:36:35 | null | Python is, because Ruby sucks.<p>In all honesty, both are great. People who use either love their language and will pretty much tell you to start with the one they use. Both are free and have good tutorials online with large user communities you can go to for help. Spend a few hours with both and see which one 'feels' best to you and go with it.<p>I'm a Python guy so I'd recommend Python over Ruby. I just find it easier to read and that makes it easier to understand. | null | null | 15,391 | 15,391 | null | [
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15,406 | comment | danielha | 2007-04-21T06:36:52 | null | Maybe it's the image they suggest in the description: "Paris Hilton meets Larry Flynt." I'm not sure what that culminates to, but good things don't come to mind | null | null | 15,397 | 15,366 | null | null | null | null |
15,407 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-21T06:40:22 | null | <i>'... I've heard that Bill Joy could, which may be why he invented an OS and made a billion dollars ...'</i><p><i>'... I can live without NFS, Java and related technologies. I'm not sure if I can live without vi ...'</i> [0] <p>Well actually no. Bill cashed in his shares early and while he lives in Aspen he's by any means is not as cashed up as say McNealy or Vinod.
But neither McNealy nor Vinhod Kholsa wrote <i>'vi'</i> and thats worth more than money.<p><i>'... banging my head against what appears to be a bug in Web.py ...'</i><p>web.py hey, keep it up it's a great famework.<p>
Reference<p>[0] register, 'Bill Joy's greatest gift to mankind the vi editor'<p><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/09/11/bill_joys_greatest_gift/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/09/11/bill_joys_greatest_gift/</a> | null | null | 15,358 | 15,348 | null | null | null | null |
15,408 | comment | BitGeek | 2007-04-21T06:42:16 | null | I've just unsubscribed from the venture hacks feed. Two articles of bad advice in two days... and I am not interested in getting VC money anyway.<p>Too much time would be spent debunking their self-serving misinformation, and nothing to be gained.... | null | null | 15,396 | 15,194 | null | null | null | null |
15,409 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-21T06:43:16 | null | I concur, and I'd add that I think Python is better as a <i>first</i> language. The basic language features in Python are all fairly intuitive, and the syntax is about as English-like as you're likely to get. You don't run into weird stuff like all the __methods__ until you do more advanced programming, at which point you'll be ready for them.<p>Ruby has a bunch of added concepts like sigils, blocks, weird operators, redefinable methods, metaprogramming, etc. These aren't terribly hard to understand if you've been programming a while, but they can be a little overwhelming for a newbie. I'd say Ruby is more suited for a Lisp or Smalltalk refugee that wants something a little more practical, not for a complete newcomer.<p>In terms of actual programming power, they're both good. Ruby is a little bit more flexible and provides a few more shortcuts for common operators, but anything you can do in Ruby can be done without too much trouble in Python. | null | null | 15,405 | 15,391 | null | null | null | null |
15,410 | comment | AF | 2007-04-21T06:56:46 | null | Also keep in mind that Python has much better (quantity and quality) libraries.<p>Compare, for example, SQLAlchemy to ActiveRecord. Not even close. Heck, you could even compare Django's ORM or SQLObject to AR and they too tend to be more impressive.<p>In my mind a beginning programmer benefits as much if not more from quality libraries than a veteran programmer. | null | null | 15,391 | 15,391 | null | null | null | null |
15,411 | comment | wehriam | 2007-04-21T07:18:34 | null | I'm interested to see what people say here. <p>I've been using S3 for some time; my primary complaint is the lackluster performance. So my request would be additional caching to accelerate things far away from wherever the S3 data center is.<p>
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15,412 | comment | gggggdfgdfg | 2007-04-21T08:09:33 | null | Your claim that no-one uses Windows anymore is a bit, eh, out of touch with reality. Even though many web designers and web programmers use Macs, the majority of businesses still run Windows on their desktops.
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15,413 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-21T08:41:36 | null | Why is everybody on Yahoo's case? I don't know much about their leadership or their ad revenues, but I know their products and I think they are not bad. Google has YouTube and Google Earth, but Yahoo has del.icio.us, flickr, yahoo answers and lots of other things. So I think it's not fair to claim that Yahoo is totally missing what is currently going on with the web.<p>When I go shopping for physical stuff, I very often end up in a big store. Why? Because it is most likely that they have everything I want. I think Yahoo currently has more products than Google, so in that sense they seem to be in a better situation than Google. <p>That said, the question is a no-brainer: would I like to have 40 billion $ in the bank? I sure would. | null | null | 15,273 | 15,273 | null | null | null | null |
15,414 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-21T08:48:04 | null | I don't get it - just because they allow users to create friends list, they think they will be the next MySpace?? What about users expressing themselves, I think MySpace offers music, photographs, blogs, whatever (they could probably add a slide show feature within a day, if they don't already have one). What if people have more to their identity than slide shows? <p>Actually I think most people don't think about themselves in terms of slide shows, so no, Slide is nowhere near to MySpace. | null | null | 15,296 | 15,296 | null | null | null | null |
15,415 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-21T08:49:31 | null | So come on, tell us the story behind this at least... | null | null | 15,361 | 15,251 | null | [
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15,416 | comment | danielha | 2007-04-21T08:51:56 | null | What he's saying is "Well, you'd be miffed too if you were in this situation." And okay, I might nod along trying to identify or understand -- to a limited degree. I'm just not convinced, especially with all of Amazon's moves of this nature. This lawsuit is just bad news any way you cut it. | null | null | 15,227 | 15,227 | null | null | null | null |
15,417 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-21T09:03:16 | null | I think this would work so much better in Second Life or other "universes" like it. If you haven't tried SL, do, and go to a concert, for example. It just feels different to be somewhere in SL, you are much more involved than on a web page. Also, is your own homepage really a place you go to to feel at home? I think we create web pages mostly to present ourselves to other people. In second life, on the other hand, people are creating homes for themselves just to hang out there and feel good. So I think a place like that would be much more suited for memorials. <p>Also, one question pops up: do you think people would rather create a memorial on a graveyard, or in some private place? The graveyard might be good because it makes you feel less alone, but technically it isn't really necessary. | null | null | 15,050 | 15,030 | null | null | null | null |
15,418 | story | danielha | 2007-04-21T09:03:50 | Web Startups and the Lying Liars that Lie About Them | null | http://mashable.com/2007/04/21/web-startups-and-the-lying-liars-that-lie-about-them/ | 3 | null | 15,418 | 0 | null | null | null |
15,419 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-21T09:08:25 | null | I think there's something to be said for being informed and a bit well-rounded. Bill Joy may be one of the greatest C hackers of all time, but his NerdTV interview was one of the most boring things I've ever watched.<p>I think today it is <i>vital</i> for hackers to stay informed because the investors are also far more sophisticated and you need relevant information to help you get what you want. If all you want to do all day is write code, then unrelated news that doesn't expand your thinking is a waste of time. However, in that case you need a co-founder who <i>does</i> keep on top of everything and will represent your interests as strongly as you would have.<p>Besides that, I can't even count how many all-night debugging sessions were a product of the creeping IQ drop and would have taken all of 20 minutes the next day on normal sleep.
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15,420 | story | danielha | 2007-04-21T09:09:32 | Problems with the current state of online discussion and argument | null | http://www.digitalkarate.net/?p=20 | 1 | null | 15,420 | 0 | null | null | null |
15,421 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-21T09:24:52 | null | > If you watch the video closely the story is a little different from that.<p>I watched it several times. Your summary doesn't seem to conflict with my post... However, it also doesn't seem to quite fit what they said.<p>> The hired management forced Sandy out by threatening to quit en masse if she didn't leave.<p>Don Valentine:<p>"Seven vice presidents of Cisco Systems showed up in my office. We had a reasonably civil meeting in our conference room, the outcome of which was a very simple alternative: Either I relented -- and allowed the President to fire Sandy Lerner -- or they, all seven, would quit."<p>
> I got the impression that Don Valentine actually wished she could have stayed.<p>Sandy Lerner:
"Don's opening words to me, you know, the first time I ever met that man -- I wouldn't have known him from the man on the Moon -- were, <i>"I hear you're everything that's wrong with Cisco."</i><p>I didn't say they left in disgust, I said they sold their shares because of disgust with the way they were treated. | null | null | 15,315 | 14,807 | null | [
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15,422 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-21T09:39:36 | null | Here's what I have to say about the California girl problem:<p>Try the UK and Ireland plus Western Europe. Women outside California have a very different attitude compared to those inside California. That's what I have to say about that.<p>
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15,423 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-21T09:43:39 | null | I've tried a couple frameworks and for everything they make easier, they make something else harder. There's a learning curve, so your first stab with any framework is actually likely to be <i>slower</i> than using something simple.
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15,424 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-21T09:45:05 | null | IIRC this time they had about 500 applications and no fixed number of slots. In a previous round they had 30 interviewees and I think 13 were picked...
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15,425 | comment | jaggederest | 2007-04-21T09:53:10 | null | Nope, as I posted in another thread, trying to code all the time gets you a microsecond view, when you (most of the time) need a year-long view.<p>I have a hard enough time distracting myself from micro-optimization etc without trying to intentionally limit my goofing off. | null | null | 15,348 | 15,348 | null | null | null | null |
15,426 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-21T09:55:52 | null | A nice, sane Assembly language on a processor that does what you tell it, without speculative/out-of-order execution, etc.
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15,427 | comment | danw | 2007-04-21T10:01:27 | null | <i>I don't think Myspace has any merit</i><p>It doesnt matter if you don't think it has any merit, it's the 25+ million unique users per month that matter. Myspace is a great site in that it allows you to craft your profile into any look you want. This identity creation is what teenage users want. Combined with the network effects and you have the reasoning for myspaces success.<p><i>better-designed contenders</i><p>There are a few better designed contenders such as BeBo and Mixi who are doing very well outside of the US. I don't believe facebook counts as a competitor since it's lack of customisability and requirement for users to 'conform' does not appeal to the same users as myspace. | null | null | 15,247 | 15,133 | null | [
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15,428 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-21T10:12:50 | null | Where DO people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Bill Joy hang out online? Surely they need to chill out some time, too?<p>While online discussions like YC news are a big waste of time, I find that they tend to inspire me a lot, too. | null | null | 15,358 | 15,348 | null | [
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15,429 | comment | ralph | 2007-04-21T10:26:56 | null | Oh, you said earlier "I just switched my most intensive app to only use the database for backing up the data to disk and reloading from on startup" so I thought you meant you only read data from the database on start-up, hence all data fitting in core.<p>If you're reading data from it whenever you find the data isn't in core then aren't you using the database?<p>As for the "thread that writes changes back to disk at its leisure", how do you guard against machine failure after accepting data for writing but before it's been written?<p>Cheers, Ralph. | null | null | 15,071 | 14,421 | null | null | null | null |
15,430 | comment | ralph | 2007-04-21T10:31:56 | null | This <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=15227">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=15227</a> page says "12 points by Sam_Odio 11 hours ago | 3 comments" yet there are only two, before I post this one.<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=15416">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=15416</a> <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=15385">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=15385</a><p>Does the root post count as a comment? Even if it does in the code, it would seem to confuse the reader. | null | null | 15,227 | 15,227 | null | [
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15,431 | story | bootload | 2007-04-21T10:35:03 | The Meaning Economy | null | http://jeremie.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry070328-000042 | 1 | null | 15,431 | 0 | null | null | null |
15,432 | story | bootload | 2007-04-21T10:36:27 | Information wants to be _found_ | null | http://lists.wikia.com/pipermail/search-l/2007-January/000058.html | 2 | null | 15,432 | 1 | [
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15,433 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-21T10:39:08 | null | <i>'... Thanks Jimbo for galvanizing the effort , looking forward to the
future that this group is going to help influence ...</i><p>Is this related to this? ~ <a href="http://searchengineland.com/061229-193718.php">http://searchengineland.com/061229-193718.php</a> | null | null | 15,432 | 15,432 | null | null | null | null |
15,434 | story | Tichy | 2007-04-21T10:47:15 | Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 | null | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA | 14 | null | 15,434 | 2 | [
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15,435 | story | bootload | 2007-04-21T10:47:55 | Web Economics | null | http://jeremie.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry051117-022358 | 1 | null | 15,435 | 0 | null | null | null |
15,436 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-21T10:47:56 | null | Creidt: found in Jared Kim's weblog: <a href="http://blog.jaredkim.com/">http://blog.jaredkim.com/</a> | null | null | 15,434 | 15,434 | null | null | null | null |
15,437 | story | bootload | 2007-04-21T10:59:40 | Jimmy Wales On Search Wikia | null | http://searchengineland.com/061229-193718.php | 1 | null | 15,437 | 0 | null | null | null |
15,438 | story | bootload | 2007-04-21T11:00:12 | MicroID - Small Decentralized Verifiable Identity | null | http://microid.org/ | 1 | null | 15,438 | 0 | null | null | null |
15,439 | story | bootload | 2007-04-21T11:04:12 | Desktop web applications and browser debate | null | http://blog.pullur.com/2007/04/03/desktop-web-applications-and-browser-debate/ | 1 | null | 15,439 | 0 | null | null | null |
15,440 | story | bootload | 2007-04-21T11:04:37 | Bringing the best of Desktop and Web together | null | http://blog.pullur.com/2007/03/12/combining-the-best-of-desktop-and-web-dekoh/ | 1 | null | 15,440 | 1 | [
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15,441 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-21T11:06:42 | null | I don't think it will improve Google's searches. Surely they are already tracking all that data already, so they won't gain any extra information from the service.<p>I assume that the number of people who don't have a Google cookie is neglectable. Besides, they can probably track you even without the cookie (Javascript tricks, flash cookies, good guessing etc). | null | null | 15,261 | 15,261 | null | null | null | null |
15,442 | comment | wlievens | 2007-04-21T11:07:35 | null | I'm all for Scheme as first language. When combined with the SICP book for an introductory CS course, it allows you to explore pretty much any concievable paradigm in a single solid framework.<p>Sounds like a sales wrap, but it's really how I feel about it. And it's the MIT thing to do :-)
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15,443 | comment | yfain | 2007-04-21T11:17:59 | null | I blogged on the subject at <a href="http://yakovfain.javadevelopersjournal.com/microsoft_is_not_dead_it_just_has_a_flu.htm">http://yakovfain.javadevelopersjournal.com/microsoft_is_not_dead_it_just_has_a_flu.htm</a><p>Yakov Fain
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15,444 | story | bootload | 2007-04-21T11:24:45 | Tips for Naming Web 2.0 Startups | null | http://www.folksonomy.org/2006/10/7_tips_for_naming_your_startup/ | 5 | null | 15,444 | 7 | [
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15,445 | comment | ralph | 2007-04-21T11:24:59 | null | Seconded, please explain. I don't have a view but was wondering about using Berkeley DB, including its replication, to have the web server running on each machine, with the BDB library linked in. Each machine would be a web server but also one of the replication group, with one master and many replicas. Writes go to the master, reads can be shared around the replicas.<p>BDB seems pretty flexible in policy decisions, e.g. the master can say the commit is complete when it hears back from N replicas depite not having written to disc itself yet. | null | null | 14,964 | 14,605 | null | null | null | null |
15,446 | comment | jonmc12 | 2007-04-21T11:45:34 | null | I'd agree, environment is different. Risk of being on a management team is different. As is the culture of compensation and employee marketplace.<p>What has not changed is that company ownership is about investment risk.<p> | null | null | 15,217 | 14,935 | null | null | null | null |
15,447 | comment | Goladus | 2007-04-21T11:58:14 | null | You can even download full-length lectures for SICP:<p><a href="http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/">http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/</a><p>Anyway, I'd say the differences between Python and Ruby as a first language are too minor to matter. By the time differences in available libraries should matter, you should be able to decide for yourself which language to use. | null | null | 15,442 | 15,391 | null | null | null | null |
15,448 | comment | ecuzzillo | 2007-04-21T12:18:01 | null | You're missing the point. I'm saying that the reason for their success is not their own merit, but this random butterfly effect described in the linked study. It's a relevant discussion to have, since it indicates that there's a limit on how much you can control your own destiny in a social startup. | null | null | 15,427 | 15,133 | null | [
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15,449 | comment | Rares | 2007-04-21T12:20:42 | null | Hey Paul,<p>Just because Microsoft sucks right now in Internet stuff and is not that flashy like the cute AJAX startups (who are dying like flies), doesn't means too much, we need to see how the winds are blowing:<p>a. You can't build an Office with AJAX. AJAX is too hard to program, relative to the functionality you get out of it. Heh, I am sure I will get a lot of smiles for this. The keyword is "relative". Btw, I have been doing AJAX in 2001, and it sucked big time.<p>To build a WebOffice, you need something much more reliable, faster and powerful than the shitty JavaScript. A development environment with static compile time checking, better control of machine resources, faster. A FLASHy virtual machine for example.<p>Google Apps (Sheets and Docs) are nothing more than toys, and they are locked in pit. They cannot grow larger than they currently are in an incremental manner.<p>It is a pity Google did not snatch Macromedia, for lack of vision. Now Microsoft is building their own lightweight virtual machine, for exactly this purpose: deliver large scale apps to the web.<p>b. .NET binding to the OS (the binding of Windows GUI to .NET 3.0). That's the single most aggresive move I have ever seen from a company. It goes like this: we are a monopolist of the OS market. Should you want to develop for our OS (which you must), you MUST use our developments tools and proprietary languages, which do not work on any other OSes. The monopoly is self-reinforcing, with one more leg added. The plan of the MS new boss is far-fetched (they mentioned 10 years), but it is sound.<p>The seeds are in place and the wind is blowing Microsoft's way, just give them time to grow.<p>So, I will start to respect Google's strategy the moment they push for the control of their underlying platform, making that little virtual machine.<p>Regards,
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15,450 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-21T12:26:55 | null | What is GTD (Getting Things Done), does it stand for a specific work technique? Which one? Does it work? | null | null | 15,403 | 15,030 | null | [
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15,451 | comment | rms | 2007-04-21T12:37:01 | null | <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=9965">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=9965</a> | null | null | 15,415 | 15,251 | null | [
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15,452 | story | Dillon | 2007-04-21T12:42:09 | AppScout:More Google Search Alternatives | null | http://www.appscout.com/2007/04/more_google_search_alternative.php | 4 | null | 15,452 | 0 | null | null | null |
15,453 | comment | ecuzzillo | 2007-04-21T12:46:32 | null | I think the comment count counts spam comments, but you don't see said spam comments. | null | null | 15,430 | 15,227 | null | [
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15,454 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-21T12:46:59 | null | I wanna know what the TechCrunch comment was. ;-) | null | null | 15,451 | 15,251 | null | [
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15,455 | comment | bls | 2007-04-21T12:53:27 | null | I just started using GTD-like techniques. The basics of it are this: (1) write everything down as you think of it, so you don't forget anything. (2) very often, go through the list of random items; do the small (two minute) tasks immediately, and organize the rest of them into into (groups of) "next actions." (3) spend all the rest of your time eliminating items from the "next actions" list.<p>I think it is effective. There were many times when I let a lot of email pile up in my inbox. Now, I very deliberately go through my email and respond to everything ASAP; everything that I can't do immediately gets filed away in a TODO list so I don't forget it. My inbox is thus ALWAYS empty. I don't know why but that makes me happy. It also makes other people happy because they are getting their responses faster. And, I get more done because having a list of "the next thing I need to do" makes me want to do things to get them off the list.<p>The other thing I found to be helpful is to schedule all my distractions. Now, I have a reminder that tells me "hey, check your email" and even "hey, check your feed reader." This seems silly, but it is really helpful; I know that I will get the "check your feed reader" reminder soon, so I just keep working until it comes. Sometimes, I get annoyed and refuse (!) to check my email because I'm busy; in fact, I had started with scheduling them hourly but I am slowly reducing it down to three times per day. As a result, I check my email and weblogs WAY less frequently than I did before (even with an hourly reminder), because before I would check my email basically in between each item on my TODO list or even in the middle of something. | null | null | 15,450 | 15,030 | null | null | null | null |
15,456 | comment | bls | 2007-04-21T12:56:47 | null | I also want to point out that it is easy to waste a lot of time looking for the absolute best productivity solution. The reason I picked GTD is because it seemed reasonable and other people claimed success with it; I didn't want to waste a ton of time evaluating methodologies. Similarly, there are a lot of productivity tools (especially software); I spent WAY too much time evaluating them, but only because each of them suck in their own special way. I think now I'm simply going to use Outlook 2003; I can't access it from the internet but I can sync with my phone which in many ways is even better. | null | null | 15,450 | 15,030 | null | [
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15,457 | story | whacked_new | 2007-04-21T13:02:06 | "YBombinator" | null | http://www.ybombinator.com/ | 3 | null | 15,457 | 7 | [
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15,458 | comment | Goladus | 2007-04-21T13:02:50 | null | double post | null | null | 15,448 | 15,133 | null | null | null | null |
15,459 | comment | Goladus | 2007-04-21T13:03:01 | null | There is a butterfly effect, yes there is a limit on how much you can control your own destiny in a startup. But it's not an insurmountable obstactle. It means you can't just copy myspace exactly, improve it in a few minor ways, and expect to win over all their users.<p>In terms of competition, you may not realize what your competitor is doing that is stealing all your customers. From what I remember, the main competitor to Myspace was LiveJournal, and the networking features of myspace were far superior. Customized pages with photo albums and links to all the people you know are a lot more intrinsically interesting than an article about taking your cat to the vet. The other competitor I read about was friendster, which had a head start in social networking but was beaten because musicians and their fans used myspace. [0]<p>I remember the first time I saw myspace, all I really noticed was the music. The random user profiles barely registered, although I remember thinking it would be cool to have a band page with lots of fans attached. <p>[0] <a href="http://emergic.org/collections/tech_talk_the_myspace_story.html">http://emergic.org/collections/tech_talk_the_myspace_story.html</a>
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15,460 | comment | omouse | 2007-04-21T13:03:05 | null | You're very right, the UIs look cluttered. It might be a good idea for me to continue working on this then :) | null | null | 15,403 | 15,030 | null | null | null | null |
15,461 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-04-21T13:03:46 | null | Interesting play on words.<p>YBombinator! is a concept that was conceived in real time by real people in an Internet chat room on April 17, 2007 @ 2:09AM Pacific Daylight Time. Think of YBombinator! as the un-incubator, helping cultivate un-companies. | null | null | 15,457 | 15,457 | null | null | null | null |
15,462 | comment | omouse | 2007-04-21T13:04:51 | null | What would make those tools suck less? | null | null | 15,456 | 15,030 | null | [
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15,463 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-04-21T13:11:17 | null | Does folksonomy qualify as a good name? I registered a name that violates almost every point in every guideline list I have read to date. To oops or not to oops. | null | null | 15,444 | 15,444 | null | [
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15,464 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-21T13:12:03 | null | Why? | null | null | 15,457 | 15,457 | null | null | null | null |
15,465 | comment | bls | 2007-04-21T13:13:23 | null | That is exactly what the operating system's virtual memory system does. But, there comes a point where there is too much swapping. | null | null | 14,971 | 14,605 | null | [
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15,466 | comment | bls | 2007-04-21T13:17:27 | null | mashable.com is censored here in Thailand. Do have an alternative source? | null | null | 15,252 | 15,252 | null | null | null | null |
15,467 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-21T13:19:06 | null | What is it? | null | null | 15,457 | 15,457 | null | [
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15,468 | comment | rms | 2007-04-21T13:21:41 | null | oh, you can probably find it. Should get you at least ten karma if you submit it here. | null | null | 15,454 | 15,251 | null | [
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15,469 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-21T13:23:01 | MacBook hacked in contest at security event | null | http://news.com.com/MacBook+hacked+in+contest+at+security+event/2100-7349_3-6178131.html?tag=cnetfd.mt | 1 | null | 15,469 | 1 | [
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15,470 | comment | weaver | 2007-04-21T13:23:26 | null | I suppose this really is the best alternative for someone so far from the valley or cambridge. Lots of nuggets in these archives. I hope everyone appreciates the power of what is happening here. | null | null | 14,947 | 14,947 | null | null | null | null |
15,471 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-21T13:25:56 | Beware pretty Web 2.0 apps | null | http://webware.com/8301-1_109-9708248-2.html?tag=cnetfd.mt | 2 | null | 15,471 | 0 | null | null | null |
15,472 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-04-21T13:26:11 | null | No idea. We'll find out when "soon" comes around. Nevertheless it was interesting. It reminds me of Trogdor; in fact, that was the reason why I checked that URL. | null | null | 15,467 | 15,457 | null | null | null | null |
15,473 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-21T13:26:55 | Mix faster, MixerCast(er) | null | http://webware.com/8301-1_109-9710980-2.html?tag=blog | 1 | null | 15,473 | 0 | null | null | null |
15,474 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-21T13:29:16 | Mowser mobilizes any Web page | null | http://webware.com/8301-1_109-9710731-2.html?tag=blog | 1 | null | 15,474 | 0 | null | null | null |
15,475 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-21T13:30:47 | The Webware 100 (Top Web 2.0 Sites Nomination) | null | http://webware.com/html/ww/100.html | 2 | null | 15,475 | 0 | null | null | null |
15,476 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-21T13:37:12 | Plenty of Google to go around | null | http://news.com.com/Plenty+of+Google+to+go+around/2009-1030_3-6178033.html?tag=cd.lede | 1 | null | 15,476 | 0 | null | null | null |
15,477 | comment | ralph | 2007-04-21T13:42:27 | null | Explain. | null | null | 15,055 | 14,900 | null | null | null | null |
15,478 | story | amichail | 2007-04-21T14:04:42 | Visual programming Java applet for teaching binary search tree algorithms (including ones for balanced trees) | null | http://opsis.sourceforge.net | 1 | null | 15,478 | 0 | null | null | null |
15,479 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-21T14:10:42 | 'MySpace will fail..' | null | http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2102112,00.html | 3 | null | 15,479 | 2 | [
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15,480 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-21T14:17:09 | null | This one? <a href="http://forums.techcrunch.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=2929">http://forums.techcrunch.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=2929</a><p>Or this one? <a href="http://forums.techcrunch.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=6120៨">http://forums.techcrunch.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=6120៨</a><p>Or this one? <a href="http://forums.techcrunch.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=6796᪌">http://forums.techcrunch.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=6796᪌</a><p>Edit: Oh never mind, TechCrunch's braindead Java forums don't seem to take well to direct linking, and yCombinator mangles the URLs when it attempts to hotlink. | null | null | 15,468 | 15,251 | null | [
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15,481 | comment | vikram | 2007-04-21T14:23:13 | null | Use hashtable for everything. So Person who has a name address age and occupation is represented as a hashtable with those fields. When you want to add a new field like emailaddress it's just another key in the hashtable.<p>Ideally you want to code the person accessors so that they still specific externally <p>person-name
person-age<p>the rest of the program uses these so it becomes easy to move person to a different structure if that's what you want .<p>You want to write some function to read a hash-table and write on to disc. In lisp this is trivial, but most languages have some sort of serializer. Then a function to load all the hash tables up when you start up. | null | null | 14,643 | 14,605 | null | null | null | null |
15,482 | story | wyday | 2007-04-21T14:33:51 | The Perils of Being Suddenly Rich | null | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/21/technology/21hayden.html | 13 | null | 15,482 | 7 | [
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15,483 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-21T14:35:13 | null | You're getting the point - that we trust Mathematics even though it involves faith, because there is plenty of correlation to the 'real' world.<p>Similarly, Jesus is a real person, not an emotional crutch. An absolute truth, not a relative choice. Like 2+2=4 and not 2+2=5.<p>How do I prove it? Simple. Ask Jesus himself to show that he is real, to you. However when you ask, you cannot have an attitude - otherwise he will ignore you.<p>"you will seek me and find me when you seek me with all of your heart" [God]
(<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2029%20:%2013;&version=31)">http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2029%20:%2013;&version=31)</a><p>He himself, will checkmate you. | null | null | 15,234 | 14,253 | null | [
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15,484 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-21T14:43:06 | null | Java Web Start does this.
That is why I used it for juwo.<p><a href="http://juwo.com">http://juwo.com</a> | null | null | 15,440 | 15,440 | null | null | null | null |
15,485 | comment | sabat | 2007-04-21T14:44:40 | null | I'm PG's age and definitely thinking about finding a way to do a startup. No, seriously. Maybe a consulting company that becomes a startup. Who knows?<p>But I envy the hell out of you guys who are in your 20s now. I had bad luck: when I was in my 20s, it was the late 80s/early 90s, and the economy was a wreck. No one was hiring, and doing startups was not all that easy. There was no internet to speak of, and so not only was it harder to start something (where??), but there was no place <i>to talk about starting something and exchange information</i>.<p>You guys really have some good opportunities, I think. If I were you, I'd just spend my 20s and early 30s (and maybe beyond) attempting to make a successful startup. Fail? Try again and learn from any mistakes. Adapt to the market as it changes and never stop learning! (Part of the reason guys my age don't do startups or invent new things is because they get complacent -- they stop learning. I have refused to do that, even though I am in an 'executive' position where I work.)
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15,486 | story | vlad | 2007-04-21T14:47:08 | What do you notice in Nerds 2.0.1 -- a Great Three Part PBS Web Documentary? | null | http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4599819258094767185&q=nerds+2.0.1 | 3 | null | 15,486 | 1 | [
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15,487 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-21T14:49:13 | null | But what is GTD? Do you have an URL that explains it? | null | null | 15,456 | 15,030 | null | [
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15,488 | comment | vlad | 2007-04-21T14:50:51 | null | I hate those shirts, pants, old monitors, bad haircuts, and huge glasses, but this is pretty cool.<p>8 mins in: Excite in 1994.<p>11 minutes: "Jeff Bezos figured out books were the ideal internet product because you don't need to touch in order to buy." It's funny that the warehouse looks like a library, but were already valued at B$1 before profit or technology.<p>Steve Ballmer - "I probably get at least 100 pieces of e-mail a day. E-mail is #1!" So, let's buy hotmail and not do anything with it for the next 10 years except change the user interface to blue! | null | null | 15,486 | 15,486 | null | null | null | null |
15,489 | comment | omouse | 2007-04-21T14:52:43 | null | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTD">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTD</a> | null | null | 15,487 | 15,030 | null | null | null | null |
15,490 | comment | inklesspen | 2007-04-21T14:55:40 | null | All part of the service, Sir. | null | null | 15,327 | 14,957 | null | null | null | null |
15,491 | comment | ralph | 2007-04-21T15:15:44 | null | Looks like you could be right. That's a bug then, I guess. If it's any use to me knowing how many comments there are, it should be how many non-spam ones, ones that I can see. | null | null | 15,453 | 15,227 | null | null | null | null |
15,492 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-21T15:18:23 | null | Yeah, it'll be replaced by FaceBook...<p>And then FaceBook will be replaced by something that probably hasn't been invented yet. I wonder when folks will learn that "lock in" in the social networking sphere is vastly overstated... | null | null | 15,479 | 15,479 | null | null | null | null |
15,493 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-21T15:42:58 | AOL founder Launches Health Care Portal & Social Network-Revolution Health | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/21/aol-founder-launches-health-care-portal-social-network-revolution-health/ | 1 | null | 15,493 | 0 | null | null | null |
15,494 | story | Sam_Odio | 2007-04-21T15:58:30 | History behind the Pirates: Jobs announcing MSFT collaboration | null | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxOp5mBY9IY&mode=related&search= | 4 | null | 15,494 | 3 | [
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15,495 | story | vlad | 2007-04-21T16:16:06 | Vote up if you think there should be a video section | null | 1 | null | 15,495 | 3 | [
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15,496 | comment | Sam_Odio | 2007-04-21T16:20:39 | null | This was probably one of the more motivating speeches I've heard in a while. It's especially significant once you've watched Pirates of Silicon Valley.<p>I can only hope that - in the next decade - some of us will be giving speeches this memorable and inspiring. | null | null | 15,434 | 15,434 | null | null | null | null |
15,497 | story | abstractbill | 2007-04-21T16:47:10 | jwz: flat-files vs databases ("To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb") | null | http://www.jwz.org/doc/mailsum.html | 14 | null | 15,497 | 0 | null | null | null |
15,498 | comment | vlad | 2007-04-21T16:50:48 | null | I think after the 3 hour Nerds documentary I posted, everybody's been watching it and nothing has been voted up since! I'm still watching that but I'll watch your link right after. | null | null | 15,494 | 15,494 | null | null | null | null |
15,499 | story | natrius | 2007-04-21T17:35:13 | Who are some quality law firms who have deferred payment plans? | null | 6 | null | 15,499 | 4 | [
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