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Post by chedigitz »

parlin wrote: post #139
chedigitz wrote: post #94

Just resigned from my 9-5 to focus full time on my baby GMTV, a sketch comedy series on YouTube, and other fun projects. Currently, Building a sound stage in my loft for filming. project 2 - a music aggregator that delivers new hip-hop tracks being discussed on twitter, the goal is to rank based on conversational patterns. m.grownmantv.com for fun, I help students make sense of financial aid through video, twitter, a…

Hey, i tried the music aggregator - nice I want something like that. Feedback: It would be great if the the the next song would start playing automatically after the current song. Much like www.hypem.com. also, maybe there is a way to make the song info not pop up in its own box, but somthing more inline, in the page? good luck

Thanks!! an inline in the page is great idea, like growl, that's my new goal.

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Post by justlearning »

reading everyone's tasks on hand, i feel like an ant standing in a herd of mammoths.

anyways,I am working thru clojure -using the only book available. reading some code. unlearning OOPS...and trying to make sense of the marsh of doing many things and not accomplishing anything.

in one word - struggling.

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Post by yummyfajitas »

markbao wrote: post #104
defen wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you want to go to college? Speaking as someone who did, I'm not sure you'll learn much that you haven't already.

College social experience, connections, academics, and excuse to be in NYC (that is, if I get into my top choice NYU)

I'm also at NYU. Contact me when you are in NYC.

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Post by plinkplonk »

bemmu wrote: post #118
plinkplonk wrote: post #85

I am doing something slightly weird. (I can talk about this on HN, but I am keeping it quiet otherwise). I read an article on Slashdot about John Carmack where he said, (emphasis mine) " After I took the job at Softdisk, I was happy. I was programming, or reading about programming, or talking about programming, almost every waking hour . It turned out that a $27k salary was enough that I could buy all the books and p…

What kind of pace are you setting yourself? A month ago I started a routine of doing a few math problems each day, and reading a Japanese article every day that contains at least 10 new kanji characters. I'm testing the tip I heard somewhere that instead of doing huge chunks and then forget about your goals for a while, it's better to do a bit every day. At least it feels nice, as if I'm traveling on a road that will…

"What kind of pace are you setting yourself?"

I am working "flat out", but it doesn't really feel like "work", though some proofs are taking longer than I'd like. More like when started to program when I was about 10 years old and didn't have to worry about things like making a living and so on. I guess this is what working for a ycombinator startup feels like minus the revenue related stresses.

"I'm testing the tip I heard somewhere that instead of doing huge chunks and then forget about your goals for a while, it's better to do a bit every day."

Even better might be to work a lot every day and not break off. I once asked a (top notch) musician about whether it was better to practice only a little every day, or "woodshed" in huge chunks, he replied the best way was to have both quantity and quality, but if that is not possible have high quality and regularity, rather than a huge effort followed by a vaccum. I suspect that might be advisable to programming skill upgrades as well.

So yes I am "working" 10-12 hours a day, but I am not forcing myself to do anything and don't feel stressed. It is just that without the "distraction" of consulting etc, I am able to work uninterruptedly. I keep the guitar nearby, to play an etude or noodle around when I need a break.I also work out every day. I suspect this is not a sustainable (over years, say) pace, but so far so good. we'll see how it evolves.

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Post by paraschopra »

Been working on Wingify (http://www.wingify.com/), a behavioral targeting, real time analytics and website optimization software. Lots of learning on the way: Design of Experiments, Tokyo Cabinet, Distributed System Wide Job Queue, Scaling, etc. etc.

Aim is to make best on site measurement and targeting app ever!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by spitfire »

Zak wrote: post #63

I'm working on newer and better software for controlling stage and club lighting. It's still in the early stages, so the final form of the product(s) isn't clear to me yet. A likely initial release will be aimed at the club market, currently dominated by Martin LightJockey since a decent offering there won't require any custom hardware. I'm using Haskell and functional reactive programming. I intend to expose some so…

I've done this before profitably. I ended up leaving the market in frustration. I can give you one piece of advice, don't deal with club owners. They are the scum of the earth.

Owners of night clubs don't get into the business for profit, but rather for lifestyle. Your fancy code will just be seen as "huh it lights some shit up".

If you can put yourself above dealing with individual owners, more power to you.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by michaelkeenan »

jimmyrcom wrote: post #23

A free ear training and music theory software http://www.trainear.com/ that few people use because no one cares about ear training and music theory

The ear trainer is very cool.

I think it might benefit from a simpler interface, and/or making it more obvious where I should look first. I wasn't paying much attention when I first checked it out and I thought I was supposed to hit the piano keys to answer the questions. Then I read that I could hit Replay, but I didn't see the Replay button, so I just hit Play. This changed the interval, which I thought was the intended behavior and didn't like that. Then later I saw there's a Repeat button, and then I saw the song answer choices.

If I were you, I'd do something like:

-Make the Song Answer Choice buttons bigger and/or brighter.

-Bring the Play and Repeat buttons closer to the answer choices and the piano.

-Change the instruction to click "Replay" to be consistent with the word "Repeat" (or change "Repeat" to "Replay").

-Hide the statistics, songs and other buttons from the main interface; instead, have them accessible with Show/Hide buttons or tabs.

I know there's a tutorial video, but I think you could still alter the interface to make it easier for people who don't want to watch videos (for example: me. I'm on a relatively slow connection right now and YouTube videos take ages to buffer.).

You might also like to grab random people, put them in front of it, and watch what they do, see what confuses them, etc.

I think it could be really successful! Maybe post it to Hacker News separately as a "review my app" kind of post.

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