kellishaver

I really don't think this is the case at all. I've known Mr. Stark for some time now and he is an honest man of integrity - a good, decent guy.

It's an experiment, exactly as he says it is. I discussed it with him the very first day he started the project.

I'll choose to believe my friend on this one.

As someone with a severe visual impairment, I use the command line as much as possible. It's easier to see and there is less I need to see. If I can type a command instead of having to hunt for a button, it means I can work that much faster and anything I'm looking at will be text, uncluttered, and high contrast.

From the command line, I can navigate the filesystem, install software, search, edit text, download files, play music, and send email all without even looking at the monitor. Once you're comfortable with it, you can just close your eyes and let your brain and your fingers do all of the work.

I agree completely.

I'm also naturally prone to staying up late and sleeping late. I've been that way since I was a (young) teenager. My normal routine is going to bed between 2 and 3am and getting up between 9 and 10am. It works out fine, but if I don't keep that schedule, I'm worthless the next day.

After years of working from home and feeling rather unsatisfied with it, a couple of years ago I started to lay down a more firm schedule. Work from 10 to1, break for lunch, work from 1:30 to 5:30 or 6. A few months ago, I turned the guest bedroom into a dedicated office space. Both of these things have made a tremendous difference.

Without a dedicated workspace and a set schedule, I find that I end up working off and on throughout the day, easily distracted, tending to wander. As a result, I would be less productive, but yet it would feel like I was always working. That lead to some serious issues with burnout and depression and made it very difficult to spend any sort of quality time with my family.

Google got my gender wrong, too.

Here's my full list:

    Arts & Entertainment - Humor
    Arts & Entertainment - TV & Video - Sci-Fi & Fantasy Shows
    Computers & Electronics - Computer Security
    Computers & Electronics - Programming
    Computers & Electronics - Software - Business & Productivity Software
    Computers & Electronics - Software - Operating Systems - Mac OS
    Pets & Animals - Pets - Cats
    Pets & Animals - Pets - Dogs
    Shopping - Apparel - Casual Apparel - T-Shirts
    Shopping - Apparel - Costumes 
    World Localities - North America - USA - South (USA) - Kentucky
    Demographics - Age - 25-34
    Demographics - Gender - Male

Some interesting points here aside from the incorect gender, as well:

1. I've only had this computer for about 2wks.

2. In that time, I don't recall having consulted Google in any way regarding my dog or my cat, but it knows I have both... kind of disturbing.

3. Apparently one good search for inspiration/ideas about a LEGO minfig costume is enough to get costumes dumped into shopping categories.... but not LEGO.

4. Given that they tend to dump some things into ad preferences after only a casual search (or out of thin air in the case of the dog/cat), I'm surprised the "Programming" category doesn't have a more specific breakdown.

I'm glad they're happy with the rewrite, but honestly, this makes me feel a bit nervous about updating my Node app utilizing NowJS to the 0.7 release.

Maybe it is better. Maybe it is more stable, smaller, and faster, and well-tested. But it hasn't had as much "real world" use thrown at it as the previous codebase had.

I'm not saying I won't upgrade, but I'll likely wait a bit until I do and stay with what I know works right now, at least in production.

Ah, I wasn't, so that combined with pilif's comments regarding the file being locked for writes would make a lot of sense as to why things were slowing down.

Thanks for the info.

The dark theme is nice. I quite often use Sublime in full screen mode, because I need a large font size to see the text, and use the blackboard theme to repvent eye strain. Having the bright sidebar on the left was always a distraction (while distraction free mode, of course, meant no sidebar).

This surprises me. Though I've used it with great success for several small projects, my only experience with SQLite on anything remotely large was a Rails app with maybe a million records in the DB. Over time, performance became very slow and switching to MySQL made a world of difference.

At the time, I attributed it to SQLite, but now I'm wondering if it was Rails or (more likely) my inexperience at optimizing performance of the app at that time.

It was about three years ago, though, so I am sure performance in SQLite (and Rails, too, for that matter) has also likely improved a lot during that time.

My problem is the exact opposite. I can't see to read unless I'm looking at a back-lit screen. For this reason, all of my books for the past year and a half have been ebooks, read on an iPad.

I'm not sure what I would have done in college had I had the problems reading then that I do now. At the time, my only option would have been a book on tape, which is an absolute nightmare for random access and complex subjects, or braille, which I don't know (though, admittedly, should probably learn).

Not that any of that is to discount what you're saying at all. I guess more than anything i just wanted to share my experience. I can certainly see the appeal of having a physical book over a digital copy, and that may well be the preferred choice for the average person, but for a certain demographic, just having the option of a digital version can be an almost life-changing experience.

I remember the first night I got my iPad, after a year of not being able to read a book unless I was tied to my computer/desk. I sat comfortably on the couch and read a novel. I cried, I was so happy.

I remember coming across this a few months ago. It's a great way to get some affordable solar light into a space, and seems like it would be great for poorer communities and places where electricity isn't readily available - so long as there's an available supply of bleach (though I suppose you could just regularly change the water).

My grandfather used to do this for lighting in a couple of storage sheds and part of the barn on his farm.

This is my main concern. The vast majority of the time, I'm browsing with text enlarged (without scaling up the rest of the site/images/css). I just hope it doesn't end up being a horrible case of DIVs overlapping, making things unreadable.

Unfortunately, I suspect the law could very well require a licensed human driver in the vehicle for just that reason. I would hope that this would change over time, though, as the technology improved and became more proven, because there is great potential in this for people who are unable to drive for whatever medical reason.

Maybe there could be some lesser qualification, between being a licensed driver and just an untrained passenger. After all, if you could simply pull over to the side of the road safely, that's about all that would be required in most instances.

As an individual who is legally blind and cannot drive, I very much welcome the day when this technology becomes wide-spread and affordable.

It is extremely annoying to be in your mid 30's and have to rely on/inconvenience someone else to drive you around.

So whether it were getting my own vehicle or seeing vast improvements made to less-than ideal public transportation systems, either would be great.

Performance was fine for me, when it would work. It just wouldn't work. It kept telling me I didn't have the plug-in installed.

That said, my computer has pretty beefy specs, so that may have something to do with it.

Kind of nice to have Flash working again. It had stopped working for me when I upgraded to 4 (Ubuntu 64 bit). I'd tried a few suggested fixes, none of which worked, so I'd just resigned myself to having to open up Chrome any time I wanted to view something that used Flash, which isn't often, but I'm glad that issue is resolved.

Technology aside, I am having a hard time wrapping my head around the social implications of no web, even on a personal level. My husband, my boss, my two very closest friends, the nonprofit I volunteer with that means so much to me - those all started first as internet acquaintances that grew into real, offline relationships that span thousands of miles and have had a profound impact on my life and have shaped who I am - and I'm just one person.

I tend to agree with this line of thinking. I was added to half a dozen projects today alone. It would have been a pain to have to confirm each one.

Your average professional developer isn't trolled on a regular basis, nor would they go about adding "tech stars" to their repos just to have a big name on there or because they wished that person was a contributor - it's unprofessional and rude. So just dismissing yourself from the projects you are maliciously or mistakenly added to seems much simpler than having to confirm each one.

Is it, though? I find it far easier and faster to click on field, type username vs. look at field, see username is incorrect, click on the field, highlight/backspace to select, re-type part of the username.

If I've gotten my username wrong, it's usually because I made a typo, in which case, re-typing it will solve the issue, or because I simply don't remember it, in which case, seeing what I typed previously isn't really going to help with that.

I met my husband on the internet, back in 1996, when it was considered unusual and weird to do so. We're about to celebrate our 11th wedding anniversary.

I met one of my very best friends and business partners online in '97. We talk nearly every single day and have worked closely together for years. We co-own a company together. - We've never actually met in person. We'll be doing that for the first time in 14 years next weekend.

I have other very close friends that have started as online friendships, as well.

I noticed recently that the Wordpress login page now does this.

I tend to intentionally take smaller projects, because I find the variety more interesting than working on the same thing for months on end, so it's rare that I get single projects over about $8k (most of them are in the $4-6 range), but that's because I'm not going after bigger ones.

Thanks for the advice. It seems to mirror what some others have been saying and is something I've been putting a lot of thought into today-definitely going to give it some serious consideration going forward and see what I can come up with on that front.

Wow. In what universe is this considered good copy writing?

Thanks. I'll keep Convio in mind - I have connections in Austin, so that's definitely something to consider. I've been getting more involved in nonprofit work lately and have several friends ho are, as well, so we can and want to start reaching out more.

I agree about the chicken/egg problem. I had considered adding a sort of nonprofit showcase, or case studies to the site, or even just covering them on an associated blog, something. I think one of the first things I'll add next is a "tell us your story" type page where nonprofits can submit info on what they're up to and I can start building up a database of interested organizations and details about them.

I'm attending a couple of big-ish charity events soon and primarily wanted to get the site up and hopefully get a few people signed on board prior to that, work out a solid plan going forward, add what I can in the mean time, and start doing some serious promotion in about a month.

It's a bit of a catch-22 on the promotion end of things, as well. You don't want to promote an empty site, but you need to get users somehow - which is a problem I'm sure everyone on HN who's ever launched a member-based site has face, and I'd love some tips on dealing with it. Right now, I'm mostly pushing it among friends.

I see a need for both, actually, but yes, you're absolutely right. Guidance in this area is just as much needed (maybe more so) than someone to hammer out code. I'll look into finding ways of addressing this need more in the future, when I start expanding. - Also, thanks for the design feedback. Design is definitely something I'm going to revisit as well, time allowing.

This doesn't seem to work in Ubuntu, at least not for me.

And it changed to a font that was much more difficult to read, too.

I'm the same way, and I know a lot of people like this. Many times I've been working on a project with friends and we'll get stuck on something and we'll joke that someone is going to have to go take a shower, so we can get past the hurdle.

Also, I may have, on one or two occasions, written code on the tile walls with tub crayons.... after all, you get a brilliant idea, you don't want to lose it in the time it takes to dry of.

I'd say that in addition to letting go of assumptions, it's just as much about breaking patterns.

I often find that once I start trying to fix a problem, my brain gets stuck in that way of fixing it and if that doesn't work, it then becomes a matter of fixing the fix, etc. It all just kind of builds up. If I'm standing in the shower with hot water pouring over my head, I can free my mind of whatever I was concentrating on and then new ideas emerge.

However, it makes it difficult to drop a cloister into just the perfect spot...

I was about to post the exact same thing. It would be cool if there was a service that pulled CC licensed photos from Flickr for this purpose and scaled them according to the user's wishes, pulling from an archive of photos based on aspect ratio, size, etc.