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Re: Ask HN: Tell me your biggest pain and I will try to solve it

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Post by jrpt »

anonymousDan wrote: post #28

My wifi is ridiculously annoying - I live in an apartment block where there are literally 30 other wifi routers interfering with my own router. I pay through the nose for superfast broadband but it's completely redundant!

I had this exact problem so I empathize with you. It was really painful, because my internet would go out sporadically for at least a minute every once in a while. My problem was also too much noise coming from a crowded apartment complex.

The solution I found was to upgrade to a 5 GHz router. The one I bought can transmit on both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz, but I configured it to only transmit on 5 GHz. This forces my computer to always use the 5 GHz connection, which has less noise. The 5 GHz signal decays faster when it goes through walls, so the signal will not be as strong as a 2.4 GHz would, but the signal-to-noise ratio will be much better because 5 GHz is significantly less crowded.

Re: Ask HN: Tell me your biggest pain and I will try to solve it

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Post by RollAHardSix »

I have no income. I don't want much income, or rather I don't want much income in the long-term, just enough to pay the mortgage off and then I won't feel so completely stressed. I could take a low-key job or work on my own projects full-time (music, writing, and acting, and software lol), or ideally, open a martial arts school.

That's my biggest pain point, that I have to work to pay the mortgage instead of pursuing my passions and living my life. I'm lucky, my mortgage should be paid off by the time I'm around 35, but I don't want to lose the next ten years to working...I've already been working for ten years, I want the next ten years to be a combination of passion, hard-work, and chasing MY dreams.

Re: Ask HN: Tell me your biggest pain and I will try to solve it

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Post by avinassh »

PublicEnemy111 wrote: post #50
Red_Tarsius wrote: post #5

I don't expect you to solve it, but since you're looking for problems... I'm kind of a perfectionist (not in a good way) and whenever I want to learn something new, I spend days and days beforehand just searching for the p.e.r.f.e.c.t. books, video lectures and what not. For example, I'd like to get back into physics, especially quantum mechanics. A website that, given any scientific field, gives me a list of the mos…

Open source courses would be cool. Not open source like mit's ocw or coursera, but a platform where everyone collectively decides on the material. So, for an algorithms course, maybe MIT's hashing lectures are second to none, but some guy on YouTube has better explanations for divide and conquer algorithms. The idea would be to find the best material for each lecture and compile it into a class

How it can be resolved if there is a conflict? Like, for hashing, some are suggesting for Video A and some for Video B. So you ask them to vote? And then who is eligible to vote?

Re: Ask HN: Tell me your biggest pain and I will try to solve it

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Post by avinassh »

Not really biggest pain, but I would appreciate your help on this. I am learning Swift and iOS Dev. What kind of apps I should have in my portfolio, so that I can apply for jobs? I have built basic to-do apps etc. and I am not getting any new ideas which I can implement. Either I find them too easy or too complicated for me.

Re: Ask HN: Tell me your biggest pain and I will try to solve it

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Post by enigami »

Yaa101 wrote: post #21

My biggest pain is not solvable through software? It is my back that hurts badly...

There could be more than one reason for your back pain. First try to understand what causes your problem for example: do you have all day sitting in desk job, do you lift weight frequently, your sleeping position etc.,

I had this issue couple of months back; i had severe pain which shoots down till my toes from hip. I knew it has something do to with the Nerve. I visited an Ortho and took an MRI and we found out I had a Slip Disc problem. (FYI..I am in a software job and I sit all day, also due to my height and my incorrect seating posture this problem developed). While my doctor suggested an Operation, I was shitty scared and was researching in internet about the problem. One of my friend suggested an alternative treatment "YOGA". I thought why not give it a try, I found an institute where they specialize in treating body pain through yoga, I had to stay there for couple of weeks and do the routine. At the end of the second week, I wasn't feeling any better, but the people in the institute asked me to keep faith and asked me continue the exercise.

I continued for a month and suddenly like a magic my pain got disappeared and never had again till today. So, the point is try to find out what is causing you pain and try to do some research and find the best physio or exercise. Happy to help you, if you need more information about my problem and how I got rid of it. All the best!!

Re: Ask HN: Tell me your biggest pain and I will try to solve it

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Post by mostafaberg »

oigursh wrote: post #63
mostafaberg wrote: post #40

I'm never satisfied with my multi computer setup / multi screen setup, i always ending with not knowing which one to use for what, or if i even need more than one, also i can never find that perfect keyboard...

BTC 6100, 6200, 6300 http://www.btc.com.tw/english/2-7-25keyboard.htm

looks nice, but forgot to mention i'm a mac user and have a KBC Poker II with Cherry MX blues, do you have any mechanical equivalent ?

Re: Ask HN: Tell me your biggest pain and I will try to solve it

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Post by mostafaberg »

CSDude wrote: post #49
mostafaberg wrote: post #40

I'm never satisfied with my multi computer setup / multi screen setup, i always ending with not knowing which one to use for what, or if i even need more than one, also i can never find that perfect keyboard...

A tiling window manager like xmonad, awesomewm can help

unfortunately it doesn't work 100% under mac :(, right now i use moom ! but my problem was about the screens themselves, not how to tile windows in them, but what way to actually setup screens to make best use of them

Re: Ask HN: Tell me your biggest pain and I will try to solve it

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Post by Yaa101 »

Yaa101 wrote: post #21

My biggest pain is not solvable through software? It is my back that hurts badly...

To be honest, I answered this post because of the headline which was a bit absurdistic or too general while the person really meant a software pain. I did not expect the number of reactions of you all, first of all thanks for the reactions. It tells me how deep this problem is for computer programmers.

B.T.W. I do have a back problem and I did found out what was causing it, too much physical stress on my back for much of the past year (having to do with fulfilling a business opportunity for myself while not being able to pay for construction workers and being one myself in the past).

The other problem was my bed, both problems are solved and with a lot of stretching exercises I am getting my back into healthier condition.

Re: Ask HN: Tell me your biggest pain and I will try to solve it

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Post by bramgg »

daw___ wrote: post #53

I cannot measure my tinnitus. Some nights it gets sensibly louder, yet I have no clues on how to "calculate" its loudness since the ringing I hear doesn't actually exist.

Not sure if your problem is your tinnitus or your inability to calculate it's loudness. If it's the former invest in a fan and leave it on near you when you go to sleep.

Re: Ask HN: Tell me your biggest pain and I will try to solve it

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Post by daw___ »

bramgg wrote: post #89
daw___ wrote: post #53

I cannot measure my tinnitus. Some nights it gets sensibly louder, yet I have no clues on how to "calculate" its loudness since the ringing I hear doesn't actually exist.

Not sure if your problem is your tinnitus or your inability to calculate it's loudness. If it's the former invest in a fan and leave it on near you when you go to sleep.

Ah, good point. I would not have the problem of inability to calculate tinnitus' loudness if I had no tinnitus in the first place, but let's say that now -- after ~3 years since its appearance -- I resigned to idea of suffering from tinnitus, so it's some how not a problem anymore, I now don't even need a fan or any other noise source to fall asleep.
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