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itmagon Ask HN: How do you manage your "TO READ" list?

Also, I would give a lot for effective software that actually helps with info overload.

tldr.io seems nice, anyone tried it?

itmagon Ask HN: How do you manage your "TO READ" list?

I don't manage it, I barely cope.

I would probably look into transcranial stimulation and smart drugs if I had more gumption :)

itmagon Successful and Schizophrenic

What results did you get from it? I am currently reading the "Mechanical Problems" section.

itmagon Successful and Schizophrenic

Off-topic: way cool to see the name Antero Alli mentioned on HN! Which of his books have you read? I am currently reading Angel Tech and The Eight-Circuit Brain.

itmagon What was your most painful realisation of 2012?

OK, so basically the difference between conscious and subconscious motivations.

There's a lot of good self-help material dealing with getting those better aligned. Tony Robbins comes to mind.

itmagon What was your most painful realisation of 2012?

Can you elaborate on that?

itmagon Diffie: Don't secure the internet, it needs crime

You know, in a way he is not that wrong. Bad things often are necessary for good things to happen. Crime may not the best example, though. But a good example would be striving for excellence. People who come from the rock bottom are often insanely driven to reach the ultimate heights. People who are happy and mellow by default most often don't feel the need to do so. Kind of like how a grain of sand irritates an oyster into making a pearl.

itmagon RIP Hans Camenzind, Inventor Of The 555 Timer

Widlar's been gone 20 years, now he was a guy who packed 2000 years equivalent of wild heroic living

Never heard of him but now you got me curious. Do tell more.

itmagon Ask HN: What did the really successful programmers do differently?

I bet you could turn that into a profitable book. HyperInk?

itmagon European entrepreneurs: Les misérables

As an American living in Denmark

How did that happen?

Also, would love to meet up.

itmagon A group of Finnish math teachers write an open textbook in a weekend hackathon

Idea for startup: crowdfunded translation of open source content (including textbooks).

itmagon Want To Disrupt An Industry? Try Actually Working In It First

Many tech guys on HN often ask: what use are business co-founders?

Superior domain knowledge would be one thing. If I'm going to team up with a business guy, I want him to be a top notch expert in his field.

There's a tendency for tech guys to discount domain knowledge, believing that it's just a matter of "hacking something out in a weekend, after all it's just a matter of shovelling data" (I used to fall into this trap myself - now I know the value of domain expertise).

itmagon No Desire To Spend

I question how effective the Ramit Sethi tactics would be here in Sweden. Has anyone here tried and gotten a raise?,

itmagon Why Your Customers Would Be Happier If You Charged More

In part 1, Ramit mentioned an e-book about customer retention. Do you know the name of it?

itmagon The Lost Chapter

I always used to say "preaching to the satanists" :)

itmagon Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie on Getting Your First Consulting Client

Anyone know which customer retention e-book RS is referring to?

itmagon Nerf guns don't matter

I live in Sweden. When I was an employee I didn't get any sun on me during a significant chunk of the year.

I run my own business these days.

itmagon Nerf guns don't matter

The reality is we spend most of our waking lives at work.

Bloody hell, that sounds so depressing when you put it like that...

itmagon Photo uploading is broken

I am wondering if you did any testing to determine your pricing? IIRC, patio11 recommends not putting a price for the Enterprise option.

itmagon What have you tried

And I've seen this in areas other than programming too. It's _really_ common for motorcyclists with a year or two of riding experience to be offering all sort of advice to newer riders - advice which riders with 10 or more years of experience will sometimes just roll their eyes at, and sometimes will step in and say "that's not just wrong, but dangerous enough to get you killed if you're not careful".

Tell me more, I'm curious about this :)

itmagon An apology to readers of Test-Driven iOS Development

the orders of magnitude difference in programmers productivity

I am skeptical of this too. It makes more sense to have huge swings in ability, not productivity. Ie a poor programmer won't take 10x as long to code a given feature, he will just hit a ceiling of ability and not be able to do it at all.

itmagon I quit my job, and am building Tindie fulltime

Does the site have some kind of "request commission" feature? Ie I can send out a request for a specific gadget I need made and people can bid on the project.

itmagon Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Japanese people get in trouble on the tip thing all the time in the US

I think it's not just Japan. Here in Sweden, tipping is done at times but it's certainly not something mandatory.

Please do educate me more on US tipping customs. I don't want to be a fool when I go there in future...

itmagon Big 3D printing machine prints metal objects

That's interesting. I would imagine you would need precision to the hundredth of the millimeter when making guns? I hung around some people who reloaded brass once and they were using these measuring gauges with that kind of precision.

itmagon MongoDB 2.2.0 Released

I have used Mongodb a bit, but only for applications that mostly need to read a lot. What issues might I run into if I need to do lot of writing as well?

itmagon “Growth Hacking” is BS

To me, "growth hacking" evokes more than just marketing.

Let's say my startup hustles like crazy and carves out a deal with a major coffee chain (like Square did with Starbucks IIRC).

Suddenly we have access to a whole lot more users. We grew the user base drastically, yet it wasn't exactly a result of marketing but rather one of strategic dealmaking.

To me, that is the quintessence of growth hacking.

itmagon Still waking up at 5am to code?

Another good one: using social support.

Say you want to get fit. It's going to be a lot easier if you recruit your friends to go to martial arts and cook healthy meals in bulk together a few times per week.

This can be extended to all areas. Social support lets you put hard work on autopilot. It's still hard work but you have a safety net of accountability which doesn't permit you to slip up easily.

itmagon Still waking up at 5am to code?

Waking up really early makes me feel like I am getting more out of my life, the day seems to stretch out longer. I also feel more happy somehow, like I am doing the right thing.

I'm not so sure that I am more productive, however. I seem to spend those early morning hours browsing the Internet, mostly. Well, unless I have to get up and go to a job. Then I am productive. But that also negates the happiness bonus. And it would probably be the same if I had to go up and go to a job at 2pm in the afternoon.

itmagon The Hidden Truths about Calories

Has anyone here tried Seth Roberts' Shangri-La Diet?

itmagon Ask HN: game devs, how do you mock-up your graphics?

Did you know that the game is still under active development? Have you tried the 1.13 mod? For added goodness, try the HAM mod on top as well. It's like a whole new game :)

http://www.ja-galaxy-forum.com/board/ubbthreads.php/forum_su...

Also, I could use some collaboration partners on this. Send me an email if it tickles your fancy.