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{ "score": 0, "text": "1) Bring a short extension cord with multiple outlets, so you don't have to fight with people in boarding lounges to charge your gear. This will also make you a hero at conferences too...2) If you're going to begin a long term run of traveling look into the possibility of doing airline status challenges. I had started a job that had me flying 5K miles a week -- while I still would have earned it later, getting elite status in a month using the challenge meant better seats, better treatment, and more miles earned on all those subsequent trips." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "a few of mine:eat a bag of peanut m&m's as soon as you sit in your seat, then use an eyemask and drift off as the announcements are made. The sugar coma from the candy will send you off to dreamland for at least the first hour of the flight. Use earplugs and snag a window seat if you want to increase your odds of sleeping longer. Or, buy a big meal in the terminal and eat it as soon as you are seated for an even bigger food-coma-induced slumber.If the person in front of you leans their chair back when your'e trying to work, it's convenient to have a fake sneeze ready to unleash. I prefer to let my lips smack a bit and let a few droplets of saliva spray out (while making a sneeze sound). They will bring the chair back up for the rest of the flight. If they start to look ready to lean back again, start sniffling.If you're wearing a coat or blazer, be sure to ask to have it hung at the front of the plane in the special closet reserved for this purpose. There may not be seats in first class, but there is usually room for your jacket.If you want to avoid an armrest hog, the best way is to allow your body to touch theirs a bit too much at first with a subtle lean-in and leg adjustment, so they decide to withdraw to obtain more personal space. When they do, the armrest is yours. Don't relinquish it. A few sniffles sometimes help here as well.Wear a warmup suit, flip flops and socks when traveling. This is the optimal outfit, particularly a hoodie, because you can use it to get extra darkness/privacy if you need it." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "a few of mine:eat a bag of peanut m&m's as soon as you sit in your seat, then use an eyemask and drift off as the announcements are made. The sugar coma from the candy will send you off to dreamland for at least the first hour of the flight. Use earplugs and snag a window seat if you want to increase your odds of sleeping longer. Or, buy a big meal in the terminal and eat it as soon as you are seated for an even bigger food-coma-induced slumber.If the person in front of you leans their chair back when your'e trying to work, it's convenient to have a fake sneeze ready to unleash. I prefer to let my lips smack a bit and let a few droplets of saliva spray out (while making a sneeze sound). They will bring the chair back up for the rest of the flight. If they start to look ready to lean back again, start sniffling.If you're wearing a coat or blazer, be sure to ask to have it hung at the front of the plane in the special closet reserved for this purpose. There may not be seats in first class, but there is usually room for your jacket.If you want to avoid an armrest hog, the best way is to allow your body to touch theirs a bit too much at first with a subtle lean-in and leg adjustment, so they decide to withdraw to obtain more personal space. When they do, the armrest is yours. Don't relinquish it. A few sniffles sometimes help here as well.Wear a warmup suit, flip flops and socks when traveling. This is the optimal outfit, particularly a hoodie, because you can use it to get extra darkness/privacy if you need it." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "My favourite trick: If you have a \"print your own\" check-in card, print it with low DPI so the barcode on it can't be read with the scanner. On some airports they will send you back to get another one from the check-in desks and let you come back into a priority queue. On one airport I often use this is MUCH faster than the standard queue. (<5 min. -vs- 10+ depending on the queue)Of course it doesn't work everywhere and don't try it if you're almost-late." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "My favourite trick: If you have a \"print your own\" check-in card, print it with low DPI so the barcode on it can't be read with the scanner. On some airports they will send you back to get another one from the check-in desks and let you come back into a priority queue. On one airport I often use this is MUCH faster than the standard queue. (<5 min. -vs- 10+ depending on the queue)Of course it doesn't work everywhere and don't try it if you're almost-late." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "So go ahead and find an aisle seat near the back.It might get you good legroom, but it might also get you proximity to a smelly lavatory with a broken door.It also puts you behind the engines of most commercial airliners which means more noise." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "So go ahead and find an aisle seat near the back.It might get you good legroom, but it might also get you proximity to a smelly lavatory with a broken door.It also puts you behind the engines of most commercial airliners which means more noise." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "My advice for getting over jetlag: put yourself on the local clock immediately. If you fly a red-eye, get as much sleep as you can on the plane - then when you land in the morning stay awake the whole day and don't go to sleep until after 10pm! If flying west, do the same - put yourself on the new clock and go to sleep no later than 11pm or midnight. Also in both situations - get some good exercise the first day at a hotel gym or pool. Also if you have access to one, use a sauna!" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Personally, me and some of my other guy friends have not been able to maintain a relationship while working on a startup.I'd actually be curious to see if among entrepreneurs who have worked on a startup and also maintained a successful relationship with their significant other, if there's a statistically significant difference between male and female founders." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I would say \"tested\" would have been a better word.It's been difficult at times, but like ToniVlaic said, you need to try your best to balance relationships, friends, family, and health." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I would say \"tested\" would have been a better word.It's been difficult at times, but like ToniVlaic said, you need to try your best to balance relationships, friends, family, and health." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "No, my boyfriend (now husband) has been my co-founder for 3 years now." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "No, my boyfriend (now husband) has been my co-founder for 3 years now." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "No — my boyfriend of 4 years is also an entrepreneur and we both understand the demands of the business. My startup is stronger due to his support and help as well!" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "No — my boyfriend of 4 years is also an entrepreneur and we both understand the demands of the business. My startup is stronger due to his support and help as well!" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "No ;-)\nYou need to balance it as good as possible, love life, family, health...." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "No data provided. Here in Brazil DST actually reduces peak energy consumption by 4% to 5%, reducing strain on energy plants. I'd guess it has a similar effect on the US.http://www.aneel.gov.br/65.htm (if you can read portuguese)" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Tufts, not Tuffs." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Tufts, not Tuffs." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I don't see why it is expected to \"put our clocks seriously out of sync with Europe’s, costing airlines $150 million a year\". Changing DST shouldn't cause sync problems. More puzzling, why would such a problem only affect Europe?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I don't see why it is expected to \"put our clocks seriously out of sync with Europe’s, costing airlines $150 million a year\". Changing DST shouldn't cause sync problems. More puzzling, why would such a problem only affect Europe?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "It's not about golfers per se, but it never was about the energy savings. At least, that's not why people want it. It's purely cultural.Why do I say that it's cultural? It should be obvious. It starts in mid-March and ends in November. This doesn't make sense in the context of day length (February has more daylight than November). The standard time period (which is less than half the year) corresponds with the coldest months.DST could be year round, but in the winter, it's more of a downer to have darkness at 8 am than at 5 pm, and outdoor activities tend to be limited to 3-4 contiguous hours because of the cold, so short afternoons aren't an issue. But in the October-November leaf season, people still want light at 6:00 in the afternoon, which they wouldn't get without DST. That makes a lot of sense in the context of, e.g., fall hiking trips.DST isn't a bad thing. It's bizarre, but most people hate the idea of getting up an hour earlier. DST tricks everyone into doing this at the same time: to get up at 6 and just call it 7. It's brilliant how well it works.For the record, before DST, businesses had summer and winter hours because it just didn't make sense to expect people to conform to the same clock-time schedule year-round. DST just regularizes that process." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "It's not about golfers per se, but it never was about the energy savings. At least, that's not why people want it. It's purely cultural.Why do I say that it's cultural? It should be obvious. It starts in mid-March and ends in November. This doesn't make sense in the context of day length (February has more daylight than November). The standard time period (which is less than half the year) corresponds with the coldest months.DST could be year round, but in the winter, it's more of a downer to have darkness at 8 am than at 5 pm, and outdoor activities tend to be limited to 3-4 contiguous hours because of the cold, so short afternoons aren't an issue. But in the October-November leaf season, people still want light at 6:00 in the afternoon, which they wouldn't get without DST. That makes a lot of sense in the context of, e.g., fall hiking trips.DST isn't a bad thing. It's bizarre, but most people hate the idea of getting up an hour earlier. DST tricks everyone into doing this at the same time: to get up at 6 and just call it 7. It's brilliant how well it works.For the record, before DST, businesses had summer and winter hours because it just didn't make sense to expect people to conform to the same clock-time schedule year-round. DST just regularizes that process." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "No, no. DST is for idiots" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I've noticed this too. I think the decline has been going on longer than 30 years. It's because stuff isn't valuable anymore." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "What about the fact that it is far easier to steal your credit card/identity and then just buy the stuff one wants, instead of trying to find someone with the stuff you want and then stealing it." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "What about the fact that it is far easier to steal your credit card/identity and then just buy the stuff one wants, instead of trying to find someone with the stuff you want and then stealing it." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Not one mention of the most likely cause, which is demographics. Break-ins are a young person's game, the number of young people have declined." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Not one mention of the most likely cause, which is demographics. Break-ins are a young person's game, the number of young people have declined." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Freakonomics has an interesting perspective: It is due to the legalization of abortion. The authors do make a good case for it. I tend to lean towards this explanation which amounts to less poor young people." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Freakonomics has an interesting perspective: It is due to the legalization of abortion. The authors do make a good case for it. I tend to lean towards this explanation which amounts to less poor young people." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "More here:http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/03..." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "There was an action/sci-fi movie called Gamer a few years ago that briefly explored this kind of technology. I was still fascinated by what the script writers came up with - people whose job was to be real-world second life characters, prison inmates who were real-world bodies in a COD modern warfare style game called Slayers, and of course people committing crimes." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I always assumed we'd have private spaceships before we could decode the brain well enough to do something like this. Wow!" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I always assumed we'd have private spaceships before we could decode the brain well enough to do something like this. Wow!" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I was totally against this, but then I put on the cap, and now I can say I welcome it. Indeed, I must say that. Awaiting further commands." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I was totally against this, but then I put on the cap, and now I can say I welcome it. Indeed, I must say that. Awaiting further commands." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Yeah I'm sure the internet is a great place in which to plug our brains, what with all the collection going on. Last thing I want is for all this nightmare to become unopt-out-able." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Yeah I'm sure the internet is a great place in which to plug our brains, what with all the collection going on. Last thing I want is for all this nightmare to become unopt-out-able." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "This is really fascinating and I wish I had a better handle on the principles that underpin this kind of research. Can anyone recommend some starter books or papers that cover the subject? For background prior to reading some more advanced material, would it be better to get a primer in traditional neuroscience, or something like signals-processing?" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "In 2003, me and a partner decided it'd be pretty neat if companies could deploy firewalls that filtered AOL Instant Messenger, Jabber, and MSN IM, with rules for users and groups, not IP addresses, and with automatic encryption and message relaying to keep corporate secrets off the OSCAR servers.Then AOL announced they were going to go release the same thing. We had pretty much everything but the user interface done.Like the man said, \"In a situation like this, there's a high potentiality for the common motherfucker to bitch out\". We bitched out.A few months later, AOL dropped the product. Akonix and IMlogic, two companies that didn't bitch out, went on to gross something like 30-40MM in revenue each. I stopped paying attention to them; I assume they exited nicely.Your competitors don't decide whether you're going to succeed. Your judgement and execution do. We probably would have failed even if we kept moving --- our hearts weren't in it. Is yours? If you have to ask whether you're going to keep going, maybe you should do something else." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Two things:1. Respond to all user emails within 24 hours or less - even if it's just to say \"thanks\" or \"this should be released next month\". Not only will you know exactly what your users want; they'll tell your friends how quickly you responded. And of course, don't ever ever use form responses/letters.2. Keep your burn rate super low. If you do that you're a cockroach - no one can kill you." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Two things:1. Respond to all user emails within 24 hours or less - even if it's just to say \"thanks\" or \"this should be released next month\". Not only will you know exactly what your users want; they'll tell your friends how quickly you responded. And of course, don't ever ever use form responses/letters.2. Keep your burn rate super low. If you do that you're a cockroach - no one can kill you." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Go for it. One of the projects I am working on is Yet Another Photo-sharing Site. Here in SF the first thing people ask is \"Why? Why not just use Flickr?\"But when I leave SF, I tell people \"I am making a photo sharing site, kind of like Flickr, but how I want it.\" The response I get is \"Sounds Cool - what is Flickr?\"Sites like Fotolog and Photo.net and Photobucket eventually sold for way more than Flickr.The point I'm trying to make is that if the market is big enough, there will be people who want to use your product, even if there is an entrenched competitor. In fact, your competitor may not be as entrenched as you think." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Go for it. One of the projects I am working on is Yet Another Photo-sharing Site. Here in SF the first thing people ask is \"Why? Why not just use Flickr?\"But when I leave SF, I tell people \"I am making a photo sharing site, kind of like Flickr, but how I want it.\" The response I get is \"Sounds Cool - what is Flickr?\"Sites like Fotolog and Photo.net and Photobucket eventually sold for way more than Flickr.The point I'm trying to make is that if the market is big enough, there will be people who want to use your product, even if there is an entrenched competitor. In fact, your competitor may not be as entrenched as you think." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Definitely don't ignore them. Learn from them. Do all you can to see what works for them and what doesn't. Pay close attention to what users (and blogs) are saying about the product. What do they like? What do they dislike? What features are they asking for? This competitor will give you they best market research money can buy - for free." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Definitely don't ignore them. Learn from them. Do all you can to see what works for them and what doesn't. Pay close attention to what users (and blogs) are saying about the product. What do they like? What do they dislike? What features are they asking for? This competitor will give you they best market research money can buy - for free." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I've been reviewing web apps recently for accounting within my startup, there's a lot of offerings and most of them cover all the same functionality.But even though they all do the same thing, its the way that they've implemented the functions that makes each app different, and has ultimately influenced my decision.At this point, I have no idea what one came along first, that doesn't matter to my decision, and I didn't just pick the first one I found, I reviewed 5-6 before making a choice.Another point is, that after your initial release hopefully you'll get a user base who will provide you with feedback and ideas, its up to you how you act on that feedback. You may react to your users differently than your competitors, and ultimately that too will distinguish you from them further.Good luck!" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I can't believe they left the reviews for Veet for Men Hair Removal off the list.http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B000KKNQBK" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought ( at the Uranium ore [1]):Unicorn Cookie Cutter - 4.75I am not sure that all Amazon customers know how to make yellow cake.[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000796XXM/ref=azfs_379213722_Urani...Edit: Formatting" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought ( at the Uranium ore [1]):Unicorn Cookie Cutter - 4.75I am not sure that all Amazon customers know how to make yellow cake.[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000796XXM/ref=azfs_379213722_Urani...Edit: Formatting" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I am curious as to what effect do these reviews have on sales. Some of them rate the product 1 star as part of the joke bringing down the overall rating of the product. Anyone know if that reduces their sales?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I am curious as to what effect do these reviews have on sales. Some of them rate the product 1 star as part of the joke bringing down the overall rating of the product. Anyone know if that reduces their sales?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "the steering wheel laptop holder also had lots of pics of road catastrophes, etc." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "the steering wheel laptop holder also had lots of pics of road catastrophes, etc." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "A bit surprising that they went so harshly political, highlighting the Romney jokes on a lighthearted marketing page. The 47% of voters who supported Romney for President might react negatively to Amazon for that." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "512 MB and USB port makes it a fantastic target for a low power server -- it'd really like to run a Linux on this. Compare it to Raspberry Pi, the first neither has a box and WiFi nor a power supply and remote control and most important, it has twice as less memory... It seems a very good hardware for 100 USD -- the major problem is probably the need to jailbreak it." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Why not link to the original forum posting?\nhttp://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=125840" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Why not link to the original forum posting?\nhttp://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=125840" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "It will be amazing when apple opens up appletv app store. I had high hopes for android non phone apps, but aside from Netflix/Hulu/chrome on googletv, nothing good has come of it. Maybe the iOS ecosystem will be better." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "It will be amazing when apple opens up appletv app store. I had high hopes for android non phone apps, but aside from Netflix/Hulu/chrome on googletv, nothing good has come of it. Maybe the iOS ecosystem will be better." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "This device world be a pretty cool server if you could put your own OS on it -- kind of like a much faster Raspberry Pi with built in wif, flash storage and PSU" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "This device world be a pretty cool server if you could put your own OS on it -- kind of like a much faster Raspberry Pi with built in wif, flash storage and PSU" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "AOL blog spam.http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=125840" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "TinyMCE is not viable if users will be pasting content from Word documents, and generally does a terrible job of dealing with pasted styles...nearly impossible to override, so you end up pasting into Notepad, etc. etc. At my job, we're going to migrate our pilot Drupal sites from TinyMCe to FCKEditor due to this reason alone: To our users (content editors/admins who were stuck in Contribute before), this makes the Drupal software as a whole look bad. Even with the \"Word Paste\" plugin installed for TinyMCE, users have to click a special \"Word Paste\" button. This is silly, in FCKEditor you just paste normally.One of my least computer-savvy clients for whom I built a Drupal site in the spring had absolutely no trouble using FCKEditor, while even I have a hard time wrangling some content in TinyMCE.In short, TinyMCE's time has come and gone. It's still a decent RTE, but FCK has definitely surpassed it." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "TinyMCE in Joomla = atrocious.WordPress also has a surprisingly bad text editor, considering how long they've been around." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "TinyMCE in Joomla = atrocious.WordPress also has a surprisingly bad text editor, considering how long they've been around." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I would have liked a use comparison, not just a setup comparison." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I would have liked a use comparison, not just a setup comparison." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "But these have to be embedded by the webmasters, why doesn't someone make a rich text editor plugin for firefox, which would transform a regular textbox on any website to a decent editor (emacs, vim, etc.)" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "But these have to be embedded by the webmasters, why doesn't someone make a rich text editor plugin for firefox, which would transform a regular textbox on any website to a decent editor (emacs, vim, etc.)" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I made this guy http://utilitymill.com/utility/HTML_Tag_Matcher_andor_fixer to fix the crap tinyMCE in WordPress puts out. How can it manage to not match its divs anyway?" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "As the World's largest computer manufacturer, it is strange to me that HP would spend $1.2B to buy WebOS and Palm's patents and mobile hardware design talent, only to give out its sole marketable distinguishing characteristic to competitors. If any company is capable of exploiting WebOS's strengths with an array of skillfully designed and profitable hardware, it would seem that HP would be the one to do it.If I was a potential OEM partner with HP, I would have to question their long-term commitment to the partnership; I would expect them to drop licensing and capture the hardware profits for themselves should the platform be successful and build a healthy software ecosystem." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "They've got to be versatile if they can have a hope to at least challenge Windows Phone, much less dethrone Android/iOS. I also suggest they sell any device that they themselves make under the Palm brand. Go back to your roots!" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "They've got to be versatile if they can have a hope to at least challenge Windows Phone, much less dethrone Android/iOS. I also suggest they sell any device that they themselves make under the Palm brand. Go back to your roots!" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "If HP wants to go this route it should completely open source webOS. Even then HP will need to give away buckets of hardware to developers and pay top developers to write ports. Android took this same approach to grab the lead from Apple and it has a huge head start on HP.Honestly, if webOS went open source and came on hardware from multiple vendors I'd buy it over Android. But Google makes most of its money from Android with ad revenue. How would HP make as much money by giving away webOS? It probably can't." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "If HP wants to go this route it should completely open source webOS. Even then HP will need to give away buckets of hardware to developers and pay top developers to write ports. Android took this same approach to grab the lead from Apple and it has a huge head start on HP.Honestly, if webOS went open source and came on hardware from multiple vendors I'd buy it over Android. But Google makes most of its money from Android with ad revenue. How would HP make as much money by giving away webOS? It probably can't." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "With IOS tied to Apple and Windows Phone to Nokia it might not be such a bad idea for HTC (and Samsung etc.) to make sure to have a second choice besides Android." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "With IOS tied to Apple and Windows Phone to Nokia it might not be such a bad idea for HTC (and Samsung etc.) to make sure to have a second choice besides Android." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Adding another manufacturer to the ecosystem will probably make WebOS more attractive to \"power users\"." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Simple solution (from the software engineer's perspective): demand overtime pay. If you are officially expected to work 40h/week for certain amount of money, but in practise you're "expected" to work 50h/week, then your real wage is actually 20% lower than what your contract says. And that is pretty similar to theft.It's time to start comparing wages instead of absolute income." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Unfortunately there is a long history of management viewing overtime as equivalent to a person's 'dedication' to the project.One of my college Computer Science professors, the one I liked and respected the most, worked at Novell for quite a while back in the day. Not sure if his entire 20+ year programming career was spent there before going back to school to get his PhD. In any event, at one point he was a team lead at Novell. He made sure to hire, train and develop the right kind of programmers for his team. The kind that write tests, solid code, and practice good engineering principles.To my memory, when he was telling us this story, the overtime he and his team worked was somewhere between minimal to non-existant. Their code was clean, well-tested, and worked. So at 5pm they would go home.There was another team that was always scrambling at the last minute, and clocking lots of overtime.When it came time for company/management recognition, which team received the accolades? The team that clocked all that overtime, because they MUST have been working harder to get things done than the other team. Right?" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Unfortunately there is a long history of management viewing overtime as equivalent to a person's 'dedication' to the project.One of my college Computer Science professors, the one I liked and respected the most, worked at Novell for quite a while back in the day. Not sure if his entire 20+ year programming career was spent there before going back to school to get his PhD. In any event, at one point he was a team lead at Novell. He made sure to hire, train and develop the right kind of programmers for his team. The kind that write tests, solid code, and practice good engineering principles.To my memory, when he was telling us this story, the overtime he and his team worked was somewhere between minimal to non-existant. Their code was clean, well-tested, and worked. So at 5pm they would go home.There was another team that was always scrambling at the last minute, and clocking lots of overtime.When it came time for company/management recognition, which team received the accolades? The team that clocked all that overtime, because they MUST have been working harder to get things done than the other team. Right?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "True story: a CMM Level 5 software organization had precisely the exact same issue. There was a PM, who would literally spend the entire day wasting time and start real work around 5 PM. Then work till late night.Once he advised me, "Always make sure that you send an e-mail, late at night to anybody in the organization, before you call it day.""Why?"To make it short, per his advise, the single most important thing about those e-mails, wasn't the contents, but just the timestamp." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "True story: a CMM Level 5 software organization had precisely the exact same issue. There was a PM, who would literally spend the entire day wasting time and start real work around 5 PM. Then work till late night.Once he advised me, "Always make sure that you send an e-mail, late at night to anybody in the organization, before you call it day.""Why?"To make it short, per his advise, the single most important thing about those e-mails, wasn't the contents, but just the timestamp." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I like the article, and would love to apply, as "management" in my own company, effective measures to cure the pain instead of treat it. In fact, I generally try to do just that.But what this is basically suggesting is "locking out" your employer. While I agree that is absolutely what should happen, doing this without the leadership AND the developer in agreement about why sounds like disaster.I know it's likely impossible to capture all the work and discussion it takes to reshape a company's process in a blog post, but I feel like if I had a dependence on OT in my company (as the "patient"), and a lockout went into effect, I would be focusing on the lockout, not every other problem in the company that caused it (which as management, it's my job to figure those problems out). What is being suggested is basically arm twisting to get what you want :/That never works when you cause more pain to the company than it's able to alleviate over time. They'll eventually get tired of the pain and move on to another drug unless you succeed in getting them to understand.I feel like better advice is to tell developers that they need to discuss this with their direct reports, boss, whomever, and talk about the problem and WHY you'll actually make the company better gains at sustainable pace. And by all means, point out and suggest ways for your boss to improve things.If after educating your "patient" the issue still persists, of course, twist away. But not everyone in this world needs these sorts of tactics to improve their workplace, and even in those workplaces, there are likely more successful ways to cure the pain, not just treat it." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I like the article, and would love to apply, as "management" in my own company, effective measures to cure the pain instead of treat it. In fact, I generally try to do just that.But what this is basically suggesting is "locking out" your employer. While I agree that is absolutely what should happen, doing this without the leadership AND the developer in agreement about why sounds like disaster.I know it's likely impossible to capture all the work and discussion it takes to reshape a company's process in a blog post, but I feel like if I had a dependence on OT in my company (as the "patient"), and a lockout went into effect, I would be focusing on the lockout, not every other problem in the company that caused it (which as management, it's my job to figure those problems out). What is being suggested is basically arm twisting to get what you want :/That never works when you cause more pain to the company than it's able to alleviate over time. They'll eventually get tired of the pain and move on to another drug unless you succeed in getting them to understand.I feel like better advice is to tell developers that they need to discuss this with their direct reports, boss, whomever, and talk about the problem and WHY you'll actually make the company better gains at sustainable pace. And by all means, point out and suggest ways for your boss to improve things.If after educating your "patient" the issue still persists, of course, twist away. But not everyone in this world needs these sorts of tactics to improve their workplace, and even in those workplaces, there are likely more successful ways to cure the pain, not just treat it." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Consider the industry you are going into before complaining about overtime. I am expected to work long over time hours on a regular (daily) basis during busy seasons without extra compensation and this is what I expected going in. Highly skilled individuals who have extensive training will be 'put to work' in order to derive the benefits of this training by their employer.You are willing to put up with this behavior because you believe that one day your training and experience will lead you to a very high paying job. Lawyers, doctors, accountants, engineers, the professionals, all understand that there is a necessary grind in order to prove your worth.If you are not cut out for it, there is always work as a desk clerk making above minimum wage working 9-430. Yes, some employers have very relax policies relating to getting work done. But who are the ones producing the highest quality innovative work? The people working hard on a daily basis." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Classic Mac OS has been 'ported' (that is to say, emulated) on many, many platforms. It can still play many impressive games and the original hardware wasn't terribly beefy, so it's a great candidate for emulation on weaker devices. That's not to say the iPhone is weak (it isn't), just that this has been done more impressively elsewhere.For example, there's MinivMacDS: http://lazyone.drunkencoders.com/wordpress/?p=41There was MinivMac for iPhone before:\nhttp://namedfork.net/iphone/minivmac/screenshots.htmlBasilisk II for PSP:\nhttp://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=3741It also helps that a lot of the emulation materials are legally free. Apple gives out the disk images for System 6 and 7 on their website, for example." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "...And with that, the iPhone gained Copy + Paste capability." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "...And with that, the iPhone gained Copy + Paste capability." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Mac OS 7 was the reason I hated mac's from 1996-1998. I am curious what virtues it could possibly have because I just remember having to run around the UCLA computer lab troubleshooting that OS futzing with the network printer daemon." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Mac OS 7 was the reason I hated mac's from 1996-1998. I am curious what virtues it could possibly have because I just remember having to run around the UCLA computer lab troubleshooting that OS futzing with the network printer daemon." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Editor should probably switch link to the much less ad-happy source: http://www.macosiphone.co.cc/" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Editor should probably switch link to the much less ad-happy source: http://www.macosiphone.co.cc/" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "The article writer complains about not being able to enter text, but that's what the Key Caps desk accessory was for. It provided text entry via copy/paste for keyboard-less \"kiosk\" systems, which were common back in the day. (My university used them for printing stations and short term internet/e-mail terminals. Unlike Windows 3.1 (which could to be used without a mouse), classic era Macs could be feasibly used without a keyboard.)" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "10 hours seems far too short for most side projects. Maybe I'm too inexperienced as a developer, but I consider a lot of my projects to be \"side\" projects, and they take at least 30 hours.I just don't see how you can create a full, well designed, functional website based off an original idea in under 10 hours.For those that have side projects that you made in under 10 hours, could you share them?" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "If you've built side projects before, post them here! I'll start:- http://patternify.com – A pixel pattern generator that produces CSS Base64 code (made with jQuery)- http://thetoolbox.cc – A directory of useful web apps and tools (made with WordPress)" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "If you've built side projects before, post them here! I'll start:- http://patternify.com – A pixel pattern generator that produces CSS Base64 code (made with jQuery)- http://thetoolbox.cc – A directory of useful web apps and tools (made with WordPress)" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "What hosts does everybody use for these side projects? I'm interested in working on some of my own, but I'm just wondering if everybody is paying for hosting and as you expand into multiple projects how you keep it from getting too expensive. I'd really appreciate any information." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "What hosts does everybody use for these side projects? I'm interested in working on some of my own, but I'm just wondering if everybody is paying for hosting and as you expand into multiple projects how you keep it from getting too expensive. I'd really appreciate any information." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "One question: how many of you have side projects, whose main purpose has nothing to do with the web? I mean do you build/play wth furniture, micro controllers, cooking etc kind of stuff.I know that monetizing them is far more difficult compared to web ones due to default advantage of distribution on the web.But what are your successful projects which are non-web?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "One question: how many of you have side projects, whose main purpose has nothing to do with the web? I mean do you build/play wth furniture, micro controllers, cooking etc kind of stuff.I know that monetizing them is far more difficult compared to web ones due to default advantage of distribution on the web.But what are your successful projects which are non-web?" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I have a side project which is writing a production management plant for my brother in law's company.. That's not exactly \"a quick website\", took me around 600 hours (six hundreds) so far. I've worked 2 hours a day, 4 days a week on average for more than 1.5 year now... Still doin' great. No web site so far. Not even github (what for? I'm the only one working on it :-))" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I've used one of these 'vertical mice' for years: http://www.evoluent.com/You'd have to pry it from my dead hands ... works, is comfortable, has lasted years and comes in a left-handed version!" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "The logitech G602. I just bought one and it rocks. The USB dongle uses the full bus speed, tracks great, super comfortable, and battery life is fantastic. http://gaming.logitech.com/en-us/product/g602-wireless-gamin..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "The logitech G602. I just bought one and it rocks. The USB dongle uses the full bus speed, tracks great, super comfortable, and battery life is fantastic. http://gaming.logitech.com/en-us/product/g602-wireless-gamin..." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I like the Logitech G400s, which is essentially a rebuild of the well-known MX 518, with the same form factor. Might be a little small for you if you have larger than average hands though. It fits my hands perfectly." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I like the Logitech G400s, which is essentially a rebuild of the well-known MX 518, with the same form factor. Might be a little small for you if you have larger than average hands though. It fits my hands perfectly." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I really like Logitech Performance Mouse MX.http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/performance-mouse-mx" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I really like Logitech Performance Mouse MX.http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/performance-mouse-mx" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Actual trackball mice are still sold (and tend to be pretty gigantic). I've heard good things about vertical mice too as far as comfort goes, and they're definitely build for users to wrap their hands around." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "When I'm having an exceptionally bad week, around Wednesday or Thursday, just to get myself through the rest of the week I tell myself a couple of GOOD things that I could make happen, might happen or will happen that day. This makes the already bad week not seem so bad for the last few days." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Hey ZackGreat to see you are on board with 3GoodThings!\nI've been doing it since 18.6.12 and can attest to the MASSIVE difference its made to my headspace, experience of life and overall positivity. You might be interested in the wee community that's grown up around my daily posting on FB - https://www.facebook.com/thehappinessexperimentKeep up the great work and inspire others through your practice.KateB" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Hey ZackGreat to see you are on board with 3GoodThings!\nI've been doing it since 18.6.12 and can attest to the MASSIVE difference its made to my headspace, experience of life and overall positivity. You might be interested in the wee community that's grown up around my daily posting on FB - https://www.facebook.com/thehappinessexperimentKeep up the great work and inspire others through your practice.KateB" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "There is a whole field of psychology called positive psychology, and this is one of its practices. I don't know how well accepted it is in the entire psychological community, but I remember hearing about it in some undergrad classes. Here is an article discussing it some more:http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/positive-psychology-i..." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "There is a whole field of psychology called positive psychology, and this is one of its practices. I don't know how well accepted it is in the entire psychological community, but I remember hearing about it in some undergrad classes. Here is an article discussing it some more:http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/positive-psychology-i..." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "It seems like a useful technique but I'm wondering if it would be more beneficial to develop techniques that prevent dwelling on the past overall? Things such as mindfulness, which I've been developing recently, really, really help me.It seems depression and stress were a defining factor in my life, a remaining constant - negative thinking was winning. Then I started practising mindfulness and I've felt more free than I ever have." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "It seems like a useful technique but I'm wondering if it would be more beneficial to develop techniques that prevent dwelling on the past overall? Things such as mindfulness, which I've been developing recently, really, really help me.It seems depression and stress were a defining factor in my life, a remaining constant - negative thinking was winning. Then I started practising mindfulness and I've felt more free than I ever have." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "This is one of my app ideas that I've implemented a few times over the last few years. I've even purchased two domains towards the effort. I love hearing that others are doing it as well." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I'm surprised that no one has mentioned what is probably the best website about young parenting, and that is:http://www.urbanbaby.com/which I'm sure was created just to help city-dwelling mothers have and raise children, but now it really covers everything relating to being a young parent and a new family, though most geographically identifying posts are from and therefore about Manhattan/NYC. But the one thing is that you need to know the set of nice little acronyms that are used, and here are all of them:http://community.metroplexbaby.com/_Message-Board-Acronyms/b...It's been around since 1999, so it's not a startup, but the site is not a household name--even in New York City itself--but I think you'll find it very helpful, insightful, and entertaining, whether you're using it as a reference-point for creating a similar type of site, or using it yourself, or both. So go ahead and check it out! :)" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "http://www.ashleymadison.com/ ?" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "http://www.ashleymadison.com/ ?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "http://wittlebee.com/http://www.petitebox.us/https://www.honest.com/" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "http://wittlebee.com/http://www.petitebox.us/https://www.honest.com/" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "In france there is http://www.mykid.fr/ and they are currently hiring." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "In france there is http://www.mykid.fr/ and they are currently hiring." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "What about simplyus. The social network & shared calendar for couples." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I would suggest Django over RoR; RoR contains more magic (but RoR seems to offer more convenience for someone experienced with RoR since it is based on convention vs configuration.) Also, I have heard that Rails changes very fastly sometimes, so you may have difficulty catching up if you are a student (but at the same time, it has a livelier community, so that might be a plus -- check out http://rubyweekly.com/ ).With Django, the core structure is simpler to understand, and you may continue working on your site after a few week's break easily. This is a little bit like the difference bt. Python and Ruby/Perl; I find Ruby/Perl more flexible (there is more than one way to do it), Python to be more strict (there is usually a single best way).To sum up, I don't think it would make a difference if you were a full time developer working on the project every day, but for a student, occasionally working on a project, Django would be easier to get accustomed to, after not working on the project for a given time.PS: I suggest you to take a look at Flask (Python) or Sinatra (Ruby) too; they might be easier to start with. Your experience with Flask would help with Django, too (or vice versa)." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I have the solution to your problem:http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTMAll joking aside, you can be successful with any of the frameworks you mentioned, and any number of other ones. My personal default recommendation is Groovy on Grails, but I can't say that it's objectively better than, say, Ruby on Rails. It's just... groovy." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I have the solution to your problem:http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTMAll joking aside, you can be successful with any of the frameworks you mentioned, and any number of other ones. My personal default recommendation is Groovy on Grails, but I can't say that it's objectively better than, say, Ruby on Rails. It's just... groovy." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I'd say - it doesn't matter. As a person who faced the same choice two years ago, I went with RoR. Mostly because of the bigger community around it.\nBy now I mostly consider it great because it is basically a best-practise sharing example. Any of these frameworks expose you to currently brewing technologies - and that helped me a lot along the way." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I'd say - it doesn't matter. As a person who faced the same choice two years ago, I went with RoR. Mostly because of the bigger community around it.\nBy now I mostly consider it great because it is basically a best-practise sharing example. Any of these frameworks expose you to currently brewing technologies - and that helped me a lot along the way." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "If you are new, I suggest RoR, since, it takes all the nitty griddy details out of the way, and lets you focus on the real outcome of your app. Take a Ruby Crash Course and jump into Rails." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "If you are new, I suggest RoR, since, it takes all the nitty griddy details out of the way, and lets you focus on the real outcome of your app. Take a Ruby Crash Course and jump into Rails." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "If you are going to build in PHP there is no need for any kind of framework. Especially CakePHP. A simple PHP framework can be built in a day that for your needs is a lot better than any existing framework.As far as language choice: this question gets asked like every day. The answer is always the same. What do you feel more comfortable with? Once you answer that, you have your answer." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I found most of these sites to be pretty low on content..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "(Not mentioned) My personal favorite: http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "(Not mentioned) My personal favorite: http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com..." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "30 examples is a bit high; many of these are just clones of each other or similarly unremarkable. Alittle selectivity wouldn't hurt... Still, it's better than their list of 105(!) twitter webapps." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "30 examples is a bit high; many of these are just clones of each other or similarly unremarkable. Alittle selectivity wouldn't hurt... Still, it's better than their list of 105(!) twitter webapps." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Nice, they mentioned my site (simplecountrycodes.com)! I got some awesome feedback from HN on the design of that, so thanks everyone :)" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Nice, they mentioned my site (simplecountrycodes.com)! I got some awesome feedback from HN on the design of that, so thanks everyone :)" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I love d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com the best. I should register a site that explains the difference between principle and principal." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Two complaints: what is with Google's naming these days? \"Google Play Music All Access\"? If Gmail was launched today it would have been called Google+ Mail Unlimited. What's wrong with \"Google Music\"?Secondly- why would I use this over a specialist like Spotify or Rdio? I know why Google want me to, but as of right now I don't see the benefits from switching to a specialist provider that is dedicated to music to a generalist company that has a passing interest in the area." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Honest question, why does google want to get into every damn online market? They are freaking awesome at launching moonshots like Self-driving cars, maps/streetview, Glass etc. why they even care about 'smaller problems' (comparitively) like online music that is fraught with licensing problems and lawyers?There are so many problems in the world that Google could solve with it's resources and can turn into billion dollar markets. They are pretty much becoming MSFT rather than AAPL in doing so." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Honest question, why does google want to get into every damn online market? They are freaking awesome at launching moonshots like Self-driving cars, maps/streetview, Glass etc. why they even care about 'smaller problems' (comparitively) like online music that is fraught with licensing problems and lawyers?There are so many problems in the world that Google could solve with it's resources and can turn into billion dollar markets. They are pretty much becoming MSFT rather than AAPL in doing so." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "No word on number of songs in the catalog? More than Spotify? Less? What about vs. xbox music?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "No word on number of songs in the catalog? More than Spotify? Less? What about vs. xbox music?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Pricing is $9.99/month or $7.99/month if you sign up soon (I think he said in the first 30 days)." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Pricing is $9.99/month or $7.99/month if you sign up soon (I think he said in the first 30 days)." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "The lack of integration (and overall terrible UI) of Spotify is actually one of the key things to drive me from Android to Windows Phone for a subscription music service.It's not perfect, but this makes me a little bit curious about Android again, maybe in 2 years I'll jump ship again but Microsoft has a pretty solid offering at this point and a sizable lead in the subscription music market." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "\"But I actually think aesthetics are the best argument in favor of one space over two\"OK. Some people think two spaces look better. Who cares?" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "The argument this article makes: \"Typographers say it looks better. Readability? Evidence? Lol, what's that?\"I'll happily continue using two spaces and being able to parse sentences programatically (e.g. `dis` in Vim).Programs can display two spaces after sentences however they like (e.g. HTML, LaTeX), but the raw text having two makes it easier to parse." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "The argument this article makes: \"Typographers say it looks better. Readability? Evidence? Lol, what's that?\"I'll happily continue using two spaces and being able to parse sentences programatically (e.g. `dis` in Vim).Programs can display two spaces after sentences however they like (e.g. HTML, LaTeX), but the raw text having two makes it easier to parse." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I only ever use two spaces. I have always been under the impression it makes it easier to distinguish the end of a sentence and, therefore, readability.However, I think this was posted about a month ago and the reaction was mixed. Half think it's absurd to use two spaces, the other half think it's absurd not to. The real message here is that it's not a big deal either way and no one should really give a shit.edit: I just realized hn actually takes two spaces and condenses them into a single space. Weird." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I only ever use two spaces. I have always been under the impression it makes it easier to distinguish the end of a sentence and, therefore, readability.However, I think this was posted about a month ago and the reaction was mixed. Half think it's absurd to use two spaces, the other half think it's absurd not to. The real message here is that it's not a big deal either way and no one should really give a shit.edit: I just realized hn actually takes two spaces and condenses them into a single space. Weird." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "This article bothers me in that it doesn't seem to distinguish between the formatting of the text and the final appearance. It's as if one was to decry \"emphasis should be added with italics rather than asterisks!\" Whence this the tyranny of WYSIWIG?I use two spaces after sentences because it allows my antiquated but efficient text editor to distinguish sentence endings from abbreviations. When I hit meta-k, it kills what I want. I suppose a sufficiently fuzzy AI could figure it out, but I'd probably prefer the explicit control. I trust that when printed it will be adjusted.Browsers usually collapse these spaces down to one, and any typesetting program will realize that all spaces don't have to be the same width. Shouldn't the tirade be directed against the software rather than the user? Are we at least allowed to continue to use two newlines after a paragraph or must we now avoid that too out of fear of excess vspace?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "This article bothers me in that it doesn't seem to distinguish between the formatting of the text and the final appearance. It's as if one was to decry \"emphasis should be added with italics rather than asterisks!\" Whence this the tyranny of WYSIWIG?I use two spaces after sentences because it allows my antiquated but efficient text editor to distinguish sentence endings from abbreviations. When I hit meta-k, it kills what I want. I suppose a sufficiently fuzzy AI could figure it out, but I'd probably prefer the explicit control. I trust that when printed it will be adjusted.Browsers usually collapse these spaces down to one, and any typesetting program will realize that all spaces don't have to be the same width. Shouldn't the tirade be directed against the software rather than the user? Are we at least allowed to continue to use two newlines after a paragraph or must we now avoid that too out of fear of excess vspace?" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "TeX, one of my baselines for good typographical rules, does not do a double space after sentences, but neither does it do a single space; it's more like a space and a half (unless you turn French spacing on, in which case it is just a single space). So I feel he's wrong on substance. Additionally Emacs uses it for sentence motion and that's important enough to me to retain the practice, particularly given that if I care enough about the typesetting to do it properly I'll be using TeX." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Given the causes are myriad and well-defined (as he lists them), it sounds like this was normal exhaustion, not depression which is generally sadness without cause. Depression calls for therapy and sometimes antidepressant drugs, healthy sadness just requires removing the cause of sadness and doesn't constitute mental illness. We need to distinguish between negative feelings that are a part of mental illness, versus those warranted by an unhappy life." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Text-only cache http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Text-only cache http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://..." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Thanks for sharing. Something similar happened to me about 13 years ago. Basically I was burned out from working in a job I wasn't really interested in, and living with someone I didn't like. This resulted in chronic fatigue syndrome, suicidal depression, and my body basically shut down. At the time I didn't understand what was happening, as my work wasn't terribly stressful, and the other stresses seemed minor.I now realise that [1] all the stressors add up, [2] it's very important to enjoy what you're working on and [3] you need to craft your lifestyle to be fulfilling.Anyway, I made serious changes to my lifestyle (including working full-time on my startup), and things have worked out beautifully." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Thanks for sharing. Something similar happened to me about 13 years ago. Basically I was burned out from working in a job I wasn't really interested in, and living with someone I didn't like. This resulted in chronic fatigue syndrome, suicidal depression, and my body basically shut down. At the time I didn't understand what was happening, as my work wasn't terribly stressful, and the other stresses seemed minor.I now realise that [1] all the stressors add up, [2] it's very important to enjoy what you're working on and [3] you need to craft your lifestyle to be fulfilling.Anyway, I made serious changes to my lifestyle (including working full-time on my startup), and things have worked out beautifully." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Having gone to the monthly Start-up meetings at CU and talked with Brad in person (great guy, only VC in Colorado really) I can sympathize. Boulder is a great place to recoup and also a great place to go to the max. Especially in the winter months, you don't get out a lot, it is pretty cold at a mile high, and the mountains cause pretty early sunsets. You gotta go skiing just to get out and about in Boulder in the winter.Its very healthy that a high up guy like this is open and talking about mental health issues. It leads us all to talking about them. In fact I realize I need a break now too. Thank you Brad, for checking yourself before wrecking yourself, and making me think about it too." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Having gone to the monthly Start-up meetings at CU and talked with Brad in person (great guy, only VC in Colorado really) I can sympathize. Boulder is a great place to recoup and also a great place to go to the max. Especially in the winter months, you don't get out a lot, it is pretty cold at a mile high, and the mountains cause pretty early sunsets. You gotta go skiing just to get out and about in Boulder in the winter.Its very healthy that a high up guy like this is open and talking about mental health issues. It leads us all to talking about them. In fact I realize I need a break now too. Thank you Brad, for checking yourself before wrecking yourself, and making me think about it too." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Thanks to Brad Feld for sharing. As we work passionately on doing something we feel is important, we need to be sure to protect our mental health in the process.tl;dr for Brad's post: Depression was caused by physical exhaustion/injuries and lack of work stimulation.Not willing to say no to existing plans when they are no longer viable, and not keeping an eye on the internal balances of the work itself, can lead to a bad situation. Be mindful in your own life." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Not trying to be rude, but why is engadget linked here instead of the actual KickStarter? I can't be the only one who hates struggling to find a source link on most news sites? Wouldn't it be more useful to just link to the KickStarter?Edit: Ok so engadgets source links are easy to find but still why not just link to the KickStarter?" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "As a person that's bought an electric skateboard in the past and a lot of other dumb stuff, I feel like I have a decent grasp on the target market here... but I couldn't buy one of these, they just look so dorky. It's like wearing cement shoes or something. Way too bulky and garish. And the marketing video.. ugh. Like the shirtless dude and the weird slow-mo cuts and the obvious pandering to a male audience? It just gives off a very desperate vibe. If they have to go to such great lengths to make it seem "cool" you can be almost assured they realize exactly how uncool it looks.The other thing is, your target market is basically college students to start with (probably), or kids. 400+ is out of their range. I think you can get away with cheap/functional+dorky (regular skates), or expensive+cool, but you can't do expensive+dorky (segway territory)." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "As a person that's bought an electric skateboard in the past and a lot of other dumb stuff, I feel like I have a decent grasp on the target market here... but I couldn't buy one of these, they just look so dorky. It's like wearing cement shoes or something. Way too bulky and garish. And the marketing video.. ugh. Like the shirtless dude and the weird slow-mo cuts and the obvious pandering to a male audience? It just gives off a very desperate vibe. If they have to go to such great lengths to make it seem "cool" you can be almost assured they realize exactly how uncool it looks.The other thing is, your target market is basically college students to start with (probably), or kids. 400+ is out of their range. I think you can get away with cheap/functional+dorky (regular skates), or expensive+cool, but you can't do expensive+dorky (segway territory)." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "These look neat and they made a great kickstarter video. They know who's going to want those (25 - 30 something guys) and they made sure to have lots of shots of cute girls using the skates. I watched the whole thing ;) It was also fun to see my home town of Pasadena all over that video. Now I'm homesick. Good luck to you guys - they do look genuinely fun!" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "These look neat and they made a great kickstarter video. They know who's going to want those (25 - 30 something guys) and they made sure to have lots of shots of cute girls using the skates. I watched the whole thing ;) It was also fun to see my home town of Pasadena all over that video. Now I'm homesick. Good luck to you guys - they do look genuinely fun!" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I feel like I'll see these in SkyMall some day." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I feel like I'll see these in SkyMall some day." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "This is kind of neat, but it negates one of the great benefits of skating (or walking, or running, or bicycling) which is exercise." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "After 25+ years of coding and reading other people's code I would submit that the REAL problem is that the people who do code don't do it very well, some are downright stupid.There are a lot of people out there who will never be able to produce anything beyond "Hello World" and some will struggle to get that far.What if we focused early on identifying kids with good problem solving skill and other aptitudes that might make them good programmers and encouraged them to explore those areas. What if we did that for every discipline?No, that would mean taking an interest in kids instead of just herding them into classrooms where they can be safely ignored until they're 18. Let's keep doing that." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "This piece is genius. For those who don't get it, it's dripping in sarcasm. Not to say that the author doesn't think it would work (he may have some misgivings about just throwing money at developers), but that he's calling bullshit on the motives of those talking about "learn to code."People are paid in more than just money. There's job security, interesting work, autonomy, and (more motivating than people think) social status. The vast majority of developers don't have anything but money, and frankly a lot of them don't even have money!There are things more important than writing code (even good, well-engineered code aimed at solving real problems). There's: playing with your dog, going for a run, spending time with your family, and going out for a night with friends. People have chosen all these things over learning to code. Let them.Is it not a BIG RED FLAG that the prime message is "Everyone should learn to code...well, everyone but me, anyway."?" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "This piece is genius. For those who don't get it, it's dripping in sarcasm. Not to say that the author doesn't think it would work (he may have some misgivings about just throwing money at developers), but that he's calling bullshit on the motives of those talking about "learn to code."People are paid in more than just money. There's job security, interesting work, autonomy, and (more motivating than people think) social status. The vast majority of developers don't have anything but money, and frankly a lot of them don't even have money!There are things more important than writing code (even good, well-engineered code aimed at solving real problems). There's: playing with your dog, going for a run, spending time with your family, and going out for a night with friends. People have chosen all these things over learning to code. Let them.Is it not a BIG RED FLAG that the prime message is "Everyone should learn to code...well, everyone but me, anyway."?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Exactly right:Tech companies wish to encourage people into code primarily in order to reduce their wage bill.Zuckerberg and Gates are not credible authorities here." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Exactly right:Tech companies wish to encourage people into code primarily in order to reduce their wage bill.Zuckerberg and Gates are not credible authorities here." }

{ "score": 3, "text": ""If there's a shortage of programmers, we could pay programmers more money." - the idea is driving salaries down, unfortunately. Even Apple who happens to own the largest hedge fund in the world, was trying to keep salary level constant by entering the illegal agreement with Google et al." }

{ "score": 3, "text": ""If there's a shortage of programmers, we could pay programmers more money." - the idea is driving salaries down, unfortunately. Even Apple who happens to own the largest hedge fund in the world, was trying to keep salary level constant by entering the illegal agreement with Google et al." }

{ "score": 4, "text": ""Companies could increase the representation of younger people in programming by paying extra money to programmers below a certain age."With ageism being considered "natural", what about giving incentive for old developers to keep coding instead ?" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "This article is a really poor piece of journalism. It has dozens of paragraphs of text that can be summarized as \"the senate passed some form of the healthcare reform bill\", without any loss of information. It barely touches upon what's actually in the bill, and it uses some surrounding wording to make it appear grand, except that it doesn't sound grand at all.Is it a minor piece of legislation everyone calls a \"reform\", or is it an actual reform? What's actually in the bill? Who exactly will it affect and how? What changes, exactly, will it make? The article doesn't answer any of these questions." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "It is too bad that such a historic change is being done in such a bad way, but in some ways is inevitable.The challenge is that when Republicans saw that Obama was serious about health care reform, they trotted out their 1993-1994 playbook, where they managed to obstruct health care reform, and used the resulting negative publicity from special interests campaigning to take control of Congress in 1994. This time around Obama solved the problem by cutting side deals with every special interest he could, and engaging in some truly epic negotiating. The result is pretty much the weakest bill that could be called \"reform\", loaded down with complex provisions.However the Democrats are under a deadline. They need to get the thing passed and enough concrete benefits out there to fight the FUD in time for the midterm elections. That is why they have been working so hard - their political lives depend on getting something workable out.By my understanding now that both house and senate have passed the bill, the Democrats only need 50%+1 to reconcile differences, so they really have come too far to fail. Something will pass.If the experience of literally every other industrialized country is a guide, the result, suboptimal as it is, will be an improvement on the status quo. Over time it will become very popular, and barring unforeseen circumstances the Democrats will win politically from it for years to come. (Unfortunately for everyone there are a lot of economic train wrecks barreling down on us. For instance the collapse of many companies purchased by private equity circa 2011 and 2012. The Democrats are likely to get blamed for those disasters, and that is likely to matter more come the next Presidential election than health care.)Personally I'm still unhappy about how this unfolded. I would have liked to see Obama borrow Canada's legislative model. Not their solution, just how Pierre Trudeau got legislation through. What he did is passed a bill saying, Any province that passes some form of universal health care meeting these standards gets per capita transfer payments of this size. That pushed the problem to the provinces with a large carrot. After provinces saw other provinces successfully pass health care, every last province had it within 5 years.If Obama had done that, then I think he would have had an easier time with legislation because all of the controversial bits would be pushed to the states. And after a few brave states passed it, others could see what works, what doesn't, and most could just wait to adopt a successful model." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "It is too bad that such a historic change is being done in such a bad way, but in some ways is inevitable.The challenge is that when Republicans saw that Obama was serious about health care reform, they trotted out their 1993-1994 playbook, where they managed to obstruct health care reform, and used the resulting negative publicity from special interests campaigning to take control of Congress in 1994. This time around Obama solved the problem by cutting side deals with every special interest he could, and engaging in some truly epic negotiating. The result is pretty much the weakest bill that could be called \"reform\", loaded down with complex provisions.However the Democrats are under a deadline. They need to get the thing passed and enough concrete benefits out there to fight the FUD in time for the midterm elections. That is why they have been working so hard - their political lives depend on getting something workable out.By my understanding now that both house and senate have passed the bill, the Democrats only need 50%+1 to reconcile differences, so they really have come too far to fail. Something will pass.If the experience of literally every other industrialized country is a guide, the result, suboptimal as it is, will be an improvement on the status quo. Over time it will become very popular, and barring unforeseen circumstances the Democrats will win politically from it for years to come. (Unfortunately for everyone there are a lot of economic train wrecks barreling down on us. For instance the collapse of many companies purchased by private equity circa 2011 and 2012. The Democrats are likely to get blamed for those disasters, and that is likely to matter more come the next Presidential election than health care.)Personally I'm still unhappy about how this unfolded. I would have liked to see Obama borrow Canada's legislative model. Not their solution, just how Pierre Trudeau got legislation through. What he did is passed a bill saying, Any province that passes some form of universal health care meeting these standards gets per capita transfer payments of this size. That pushed the problem to the provinces with a large carrot. After provinces saw other provinces successfully pass health care, every last province had it within 5 years.If Obama had done that, then I think he would have had an easier time with legislation because all of the controversial bits would be pushed to the states. And after a few brave states passed it, others could see what works, what doesn't, and most could just wait to adopt a successful model." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "This is relevant to start-up culture.Employers would be induced to cover their employees through a combination of tax credits and penalties. The cost of doing a start-up just went up, but overall, I think it's a good thing, since taxpayers would end up paying for it indirectly, anyway.A neat visual: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e20...and note that without the reform, women would be charged 48 percent more(!)" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "This is relevant to start-up culture.Employers would be induced to cover their employees through a combination of tax credits and penalties. The cost of doing a start-up just went up, but overall, I think it's a good thing, since taxpayers would end up paying for it indirectly, anyway.A neat visual: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e20...and note that without the reform, women would be charged 48 percent more(!)" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Time to start trying to decide whether to pay the $1,500 to opt out or to not pay and go to jail." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Time to start trying to decide whether to pay the $1,500 to opt out or to not pay and go to jail." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Great. Nine votes worth of concessions we didn't need." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Facebook's the only one I'd consider at an IPO, though Zynga looks interesting. I am on LinkedIn, but really, who goes there when they're not simply updating their profile. I don't see the value in it as a social network." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "...thanks to his early investments in Facebook, Zynga, and LinkedIn—three of the most highly anticipated IPOs, with equally high valuations.\"Equally high valuations\"? I don't think anyone expects them to have similar market caps." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "...thanks to his early investments in Facebook, Zynga, and LinkedIn—three of the most highly anticipated IPOs, with equally high valuations.\"Equally high valuations\"? I don't think anyone expects them to have similar market caps." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Like the interview. He definitely comes off as generic. Somehow I wish one of us could of asked the questions, rather than Businessweek." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Like the interview. He definitely comes off as generic. Somehow I wish one of us could of asked the questions, rather than Businessweek." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "hmm... already submitted (and non-linkjacked)\nhttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1151999" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "hmm... already submitted (and non-linkjacked)\nhttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1151999" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I too know LinkedIn obsessors. I personally pay little attention to it..." }