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You need to balance what you need to get done with your natural curiosity. Separate them out and make sure both happen. 1. Work out what material you need to cover on your required…

Do you feel the same way about learning to speak foreign languages and play musical instruments? Is it obnoxious for a person to teach introductory French night classes, when fluen…

Drive metal stakes right through them. I don't know if this will make it impossible to recover data, but it'd be difficult.

I've got a better idea. You give me the $4k and I'll fly to San Diego and beat you with a stick any time you stop working. Seriously though, this is a really weird plan. It's a hug…

It's impossible to answer this properly without seeing your site. With that in mind, here are a few thoughts: 1. Features don't matter in the abstract. You can succeed with fewer f…

Why would there be such a thing? Would you create a service with that kind of value (and actual running costs) and give it away for free?

Say you have doubts, and that you want to discuss them. Then discuss them, in an orderly and dispassionate way. Keep in mind the possibility that you are the one who's wrong, and y…

My guess would be that there's very little money in it, and for what money there is (advertising of such events, perhaps), competition is fierce. But if you've got a good way to di…

http://37signals.com/bootstrapped

It's a patent application, not a patent. The difference is important.

Okay, that wasn't clear to me, but it's a good point. You could write up some advice to other non-programmers / "business guys" unsure of how to start: "writing a spec" is indeed a…

Why are you wondering whether you have an idea or 'something more'? Just build it, or hire somebody to build it for you, or talk it over with some people. Anything that moves you f…

The email is badly formatted. There are many unnecessary paragraphs / line breaks in the middle of sentences. It looks unprofessional, and does not reflect well on the sender's tec…

Just to clarify, it's not entirely down. It's just investments. I use this bank for checking and credit card and they're both fine.

I don't understand this at all. What is it you want from the New York Times, exactly? A more restrictive paywall so that you can't view things you find on twitter? Or just no paywa…

Looks pretty good to me, but if I limit the search to Heathrow and just a few months in the middle of the year, nothing comes up. Where are you getting your data from?

I was just wondering if any HNers are (fiction) authors, either as their main profession or on the side. I'd be interested to see what people here have written, seeing as how much …

Good looking site and a sensible product idea. A few thoughts: 1. "GIFT CERTIFICATE TEMPLATES FOR YOUR BUSINESS" is not the best tagline, I think. "Template? What's a template?" Pe…

It would be to allow you to concentrate on your core functionality without worrying about whether you are complying with spam laws, getting delivered, what your delivery rates are …

Techcrunch has a ridiculous number of widgets. Try browsing with a blocker (I use the Disconnect extension on Chrome) and you'll see the difference.

Goals don't work for me. Habits do. See if you can transform your goals into things you can actually do, rather than things you want to reach.

"Programmer" I think is a little like "scientist". It used to be possible to be an expert in all things, but it's not really any more. So don't be so hard on yourself. You're like …