Ask HN: How do you manage work/life balance? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage work/life balance?

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Post by Raphael » Mon, Dec 29, 2008, 12:47 PM UTC

nailer wrote: post #40

fallentimes wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HD Net was the first all high definition television network, and is what helped spur all the mainstream networks (due to competition and audience response) to go HD. Cuban was on the HD bandwagon when it was empty. Haha he certainly didn't invent the Mavericks, but he completely transformed them & more importantly, made them a contender - much to the admiration of hundreds of thousands of Dallas Mavericks fans. Micro…

Aren't they shutting down the analog TV network in the US and re-using the spectrum elsewhere, per the rest of the world? And aren't most networks happy with more channels and more chances to grab ad-revenue? Surely that would spurn the adoption of HD more than a particular competitor being first of the boat. But I have heard of Good Night, and Good Luck, and perhaps the other film, if you mean the Enron documentary…

Digital broadcast has a shorter range and is more finicky. If an analog signal is not the clearest, you just see or hear a slight interference, but you can still follow the program continuously. I watch the digital broadcast now, and it is common for it to drop out when I move around the room. The digital mandate was a ploy for the cable providers to grab more market share.

But I'll be glad when the freed up bandwidth can be used for internet.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage work/life balance?

#42

Post by fallentimes » Mon, Dec 29, 2008, 1:16 PM UTC

nailer wrote: post #40

fallentimes wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HD Net was the first all high definition television network, and is what helped spur all the mainstream networks (due to competition and audience response) to go HD. Cuban was on the HD bandwagon when it was empty. Haha he certainly didn't invent the Mavericks, but he completely transformed them & more importantly, made them a contender - much to the admiration of hundreds of thousands of Dallas Mavericks fans. Micro…

Aren't they shutting down the analog TV network in the US and re-using the spectrum elsewhere, per the rest of the world? And aren't most networks happy with more channels and more chances to grab ad-revenue? Surely that would spurn the adoption of HD more than a particular competitor being first of the boat. But I have heard of Good Night, and Good Luck, and perhaps the other film, if you mean the Enron documentary…

The move to shut down analog TV was made well after the networks had already began deploying it. Initially, there was actually a big opposition to HD TV (very costly, have to using separate cables, etc) that many people forget. And yes I meant the Enron documentary; I added an "s".

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage work/life balance?

#43

Post by a-priori » Tue, Dec 30, 2008, 8:56 PM UTC

rms wrote: post #36

rms wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I very rarely did homework at home during high school... therefore my panic time was reduced to schooltime as I frantically tried to do the homework during other classes.

Did other people do this? Or was the upmodding to say "I should have done this"?

I don't know about other people, but I certainly did this in high school.