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Whether you are working or wasting time is decided by the pre frontal cortex, which is responsible for the decision making process in the brain. However the creativity is a whole-b…

Thanks. Meditation would be great in the morning.

More time doing work does not translate to more creative output. Wasting time is the most effective way to come up with ideas. Its been proven and written many times over. But I gu…

Great roundup. Its nice to see all this points. One big difference between scripting and non-scripting languages is that, in scripting languages you can modify the structure of the…

I totally agree. I would not write web services in C++ unless I have only one computer and million users.

"5/5 (or whatever the scale is) means that you can accomplish the most advanced task possible in the language" I appreciate your sympathy. I have no problem with people who are bor…

I mean how advanced can you be in a scripting language ? There is no memory management, no low level systems knowledge required. Can you give me an example of writing really really…

If no programming experience required, What are the other prerequisites for this course? Can anyone without a collage degree join ? Do you think person with zero programming experi…

It would be interesting to know how many Christian Hackers believe in Evolution.

Wow my comment got deleted! Didn't know HN has censorship board.

they are bettering society..they have a huge NSFW content.

In social networks, companies are not trying to fix email or group communication because its broken. They are trying to produce users for their specific applications. If they use E…

So I guess we don't have to take pills anymore, just inject it!

There are many companies in Finance that make finance professionals as partners and share profit with them, rather than just an employee. What about software companies? Do they exi…

If you are into research you can become a professor and get a tenure. No need to live on $20k. However if you want to be/stay as an entrepreneur you better spend some cache on thin…

If the goal of retirement is beach-sitting I don't want it. Money is energy of your experiments in life and if you spend bare minimum you are missing a lot in life. I would rather …

All this non productive discussion aside, Can Hackers solve this problem ? Entrepreneurs take risk and should be rewarded accordingly. However not all Rich people are Entrepreneurs…

I am doing similar thing, I quit my job in Oct 2011 and making iPhone apps. Made 4 apps so far but just earning $10/day from it. But its a lot of fun and exciting than a job.

Are there any business books written for/by hackers that give data structure/algorithm analogies for understanding social/business processes ?

I wrote a blog few weeks ago on social impact of self driving cars. Please check it out and suggest other significant changes that are not listed. http://neurographs.wordpress.com/…

there is no such thing