I was wowed by "we track 500 to 600 statistics".
Stat geek ? Becoming one too ! I'll track yours if you'll track mine.
The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg
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Re: The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I keep meaning to pick up the synergy source code and improve it a bit. Things I'd like to see: * Make it peer to peer instead of client/server, keyboard & mouse events from all peers are shared, not just the server's * Use mDNS (e.g. Bonjour) to auto-detect nearby peers and auto-connect to known ones. Also, use some kind of authentication - you don't want random people on a public wifi to be able to get access to yo…
I'd be willing to sponsor this.
I'd love to shuffle around my project priorities in return for sponsorship. :) I've emailed you at m@..., my email address is in my HN profile in case it gets filtered or whatever.
Re: The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg
#43Some aspects of the bubble lifestyle irritate me, but this was an interesting read. In my home office, I have two large, 30-inch computer monitors -- a Mac and a PC. They share the same mouse and keyboard, so I can type or copy and paste between them. I'll typically do Web stuff on the Mac and e-mail and chat stuff on the PC. What does this actually mean? A Mac with a virtualized Windows instance on one of the monito…
This has to take a toll, right?
Maybe not, if he's getting some benefits of ad-hoc polyphasic sleep?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=652650
The theory is that one should be able to train one's body to enter deep sleep immediately (that's the kind of sleep that matters) and get along with just several 20-minute naps throughout the day.
Re: The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
You'd think that if the hifi was that good it would be hard to concentrate on the code.
Sometimes, that's why a single song on repeat lets my brain put it in the background.
Exactly! That was curiously one of the things that most surprised me from the article, I didn't know other fellow programmers put the same song over and over. I used to try to fight it, to expand my musical culture, but I see now that there are reasons why I kept doing it.
Re: The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg
#45This resonates strongly with me:
"People write a lot of comments on my blog, and I actually read and manually approve every comment before it gets posted. I think the broken-windows theory -- that a broken window or graffiti in a neighborhood begets more of the same -- applies online. One bad comment engenders 10 more. I'll happily approve a comment from someone who completely disagrees with everything I believe in, but if I get a positive comment with a curse word in it, I'll edit it out. My blog is like my living room. If someone was acting out in my house, I'd ask that person to leave."
Re: The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sometimes, that's why a single song on repeat lets my brain put it in the background.
Exactly! That was curiously one of the things that most surprised me from the article, I didn't know other fellow programmers put the same song over and over. I used to try to fight it, to expand my musical culture, but I see now that there are reasons why I kept doing it.
Yeah, I too listened to one song on repeat when I hacked. I too felt like the odd one out.
Re: The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think what matters most in that respect is probably whether you get enough sleep, rather than when you get that sleep. I slept at very normal times, but nowhere near enough, while launching my first start-up on the side of a full time job, and that definitely took its toll.
True, how much matters a lot more than when. But is sleeping for 8 hours a day at unusual times worse than sleeping 8 hours a day at normal times?
After you've done it long enough, there are no unusual times to sleep. Most months I will sleep at least once for each of the 24 hours.