15:[[9582563,{"by":"haack","descendants":2,"id":9582563,"kids":[9582790,9582750],"score":1,"text":"Do you work with headphones at a coffee shop after 2am with a pint in hand?

I'm curious to know how everyone works. So far I've failed miserably at figuring this out for myself and I'm really keen to be as productive as I can. \nSo, how do you work?","time":1432215014,"title":"Ask HN: How/when/where do you work best?","type":"story","url":""}],[9198514,{"by":"freefouran","descendants":19,"id":9198514,"kids":[9198592,9203264,9201203,9216585,9200279,9200895,9206482,9199514,9206886,9200875,9200489,9198977,9200080,9199819,9201649,9198771,9199672],"score":9,"text":"Hi HN. What tools do you use for development? It doesn't matter what Operating System, nor the language. I am specifically looking for some interesting tools related to C/C++/Java that could make my life easier, but I suppose anything is welcome since perhaps some others will find them useful (i.e web development related tools, etc).","time":1426268811,"title":"Ask HN: What tools do you use for development?","type":"story","url":""}],[7646511,{"by":"talhoo","descendants":5,"id":7646511,"kids":[7646606,7646582],"score":2,"text":"Please help. I personally dont care about the job, this challenge is just bugging and I need help. Any hints or suggestion would be appreciated.

If you go to this site: https://www.rainforestqa.com/jobs/\nAnd click apply it’s a Challenge...I don’t care about the job I just want to figure out the challenge loll it's been bugging me.

So far I believe it's some sort of JavaScript challenge which would then unlock into the application site....\nThis link might help understand also: http://www.jsontest.com/

Thank you","time":1398434838,"title":"Ask HN: How do I figure out the JSON challenge?","type":"story","url":""}],[7558884,{"by":"cajuntrep","descendants":8,"id":7558884,"kids":[7567607,7559220,7560919,7560865],"score":9,"text":"Hey guys / gals, after validating the idea of using the Google Maps API to search for jobs and a successful beta, we've relaunched - implementing much of the feedback and comments from both the HN and Reddit communities. Plus, we've got an all new design which I couldn't be more excited about!

Would love to get some feedback from you guys. What do you love? What do you hate? Any WTF's?

Currently we're focused on service type jobs and food service as these types of jobs are most dependent on location, but we'll branch out soon.

Thanks for your support!

The site can be found here: www.jobkaster.com

Regards,

Paul Chittenden\nCo-Founder\nJobKaster

paul@jobkaster.com","time":1397047153,"title":"Ask HN: Review my startup: JobKaster Google Maps for Jobs","type":"story"}],[7218785,{"by":"zvanness","descendants":13,"id":7218785,"kids":[7219018,7226047,7218824,7236909,7244833,7223398,7221754,7218923,7218945,7218873,7224581,7218853,7225345],"score":5,"text":"It's always neat to hear people's stories of their first computer running on some 4 or 8 bit processor.","time":1392139437,"title":"Ask HN: What was your first computer?","type":"story","url":""}],[7023276,{"by":"pedalpete","descendants":70,"id":7023276,"kids":[7023577,7023602,7023458,7023380,7023521,7023446,7023651,7024457,7023719,7023419,7023633,7023821,7023370,7023884,7023676,7023856,7023386,7023376,7023418,7023415,7023786,7023777,7023441,7023896,7023482,7023631,7023817,7023526,7023766,7023762,7024083,7023649,7023424,7023974],"score":17,"text":"What are the features of your IDE that you think separate it from the rest? What can you not live with out.

If there are things you don't like about your chosen IDE, what are those?","time":1389187316,"title":"Ask HN: What is the must have feature of your IDE","type":"story"}],[6247476,{"by":"moubarak","descendants":10,"id":6247476,"kids":[6247698,6247736,6247544],"score":3,"text":"I have a VISA gift card containing $90 and i want to spend it buying software. i tried to use it with iTunes but that didn't work because it has no billing address.

i'm a software engineer and i work on image processing. What software do you guys recommend worth buying. It could be anything since i'm willing to give it a try if you guys think it's worth $90.

In other words, what software first comes to your mind if you had an extra $90?","time":1377044726,"title":"Ask HN: How to spend $90 on software","type":"story","url":""}],[5895050,{"by":"Noel_V","descendants":14,"id":5895050,"kids":[5895089,5895241,5895632,5906758,5899876,5895186,5896920,5895540,5897115,5895753,5895644,5895117,5895182],"score":13,"text":"I'm thirty years old, I work in the fast food industry, I'm pretty good at HTML and CSS and can put together a pretty website. I'm learning PHP and Javascript slowly and for the past couple of years I've spent my every spare minute coding something. Yet, I haven't got any work experience in the industry and I want to be a programmer. How on earth do I break into the industry?

Responses would be appreciated","time":1371494407,"title":"Ask HN: How do I get into programming?","type":"story","url":""}],[5856205,{"by":"tlow","descendants":2,"id":5856205,"kids":[5856256,5856296],"score":1,"text":"Am I the only designer who prefers pen and paper as my main tools of creation?","time":1370889741,"title":"Designers, do you prefer tools others than pen and paper?","type":"story","url":""}],[5854690,{"by":"DanLivesHere","descendants":3,"id":5854690,"kids":[5854748,5854772,5883282],"score":2,"text":"Hi HN!

I'm looking to create a one-page website which is just curated links organized by topic. Ideally, it'd be driven by a bookmarklet similar to the old del.icio.us one. I'd click the bookmarklet, title and categorize the link, and it'd be added to the page. I could re-order/remove categories and links from the page through the page itself.

Does this exist anywhere?","time":1370875306,"title":"Ask HN: Does this curation tool exist?","type":"story","url":""}],[5794149,{"by":"jkaykin","descendants":1,"id":5794149,"kids":[5794391],"score":1,"text":"Most doctors don't love going into the hospital to see a patient in the middle of the night but they love what they do as a consequence of the meaningful work they do.

So does your love for programming come as a consequence of what you do or a motivation?","time":1369937613,"title":"Ask HN: Love for Programming. Consequence or Motivation?","type":"story","url":""}],[5738149,{"by":"volitek","descendants":2,"id":5738149,"kids":[5738197],"score":1,"text":"I'm working on my own startup, and I can manage it on my own for now, but it would be nice to work with someone. I was thinking it would be cool to find someone already working on something of their own too, so it's easier to stay motivated, to give each other ideas and insights, and help each other if one or the other gets stuck. Then, if either of our projects take off, we've got someone we can turn to if we need. What do you think? Anyone interested? How many of you are working on something solo, and are you a developer or a designer?","time":1369063734,"title":"Finding a startup partner","type":"story","url":""}],[5714080,{"by":"dont","dead":true,"descendants":3,"id":5714080,"kids":[5714164,5714243,5714094,5714091],"score":1,"text":"To anybody to heard him speak at Google I/O - please tell me you felt the same on hearing his voice?","time":1368645077,"title":"Is Larry Page really Darth Vader?","type":"story","url":""}],[5670148,{"by":"Blockhead","descendants":8,"id":5670148,"kids":[5670463,5670280,5670187,5670170,5673343,5675092,5670156,5673493],"score":6,"text":"You can point them to a book, a website, an online course, a screencast series, etc. The novice has no preference for a particular language or platform.

What would you recommend and why?","time":1367954566,"title":"Ask HN: A novice programmer asks you for one educational resource","type":"story"}],[5607197,{"by":"bladedev","descendants":5,"id":5607197,"kids":[5607314,5607251,5607262],"score":1,"text":"MV* JavaScript frameworks are the latest craze in website development but are they really more suited to app development rather than content heavy websites such as bbc.co.uk or guardian.co.uk? Is that approach plain wrong for that type of project, if so which approach is better suited?","time":1366898601,"title":"Are javascript frameworks suitable for content websites","type":"story","url":""}],[5597115,{"by":"chrisbuchholz","descendants":6,"id":5597115,"kids":[5597151,5597159],"score":2,"text":"I have been stuck in Vim land for a great many years, but looking around at my coworkers and their setups, I got the cool stuff running everything command line but they got project intelligence, code refactoring, great completion and lots of other great features because they use whatever editor or IDE that fits whatever task at hand because it was created specifically for it.

For a long time, I have been dismissive of their setups because they didn't have a single editor that they had mastered, but used many of which they were only okay at using. Hell, I even disliked programming for Mac and iOS in the beginning because i had to use XCode!

But I have begun to put doubt in my setup. Is it the right choice when it's not perfect at everything?

Do you use a single multi-purpose tool, or do you use different tools for different jobs? What are your thoughts about it, and what do you use and for what?","time":1366742668,"title":"One editor/IDE or multiple?","type":"story","url":""}],[5564569,{"by":"hkarthik","descendants":11,"id":5564569,"kids":[5567178,5565104,5564612,5564600,5565396,5566794],"score":8,"text":"I've identified an opportunity to create a simple website builder (like Wordpress.com or SquareSpace) for a niche market. However, I have zero experience in this market or with site builders in general so I'm unsure what the challenges are.

My initial thought would be to offer just a small set of templates specific to the niche market and host the sites for a small monthly fee ($9/month). Adding more features (like Facebook Integration, Twitter, etc) would carry certain additional premiums.

What are the biggest challenges in starting and running a business like this? I know many others do this for niches like Church websites, Family Physicians, etc.

Thanks for any feedback provided!","time":1366208060,"title":"Ask HN: Are niche website builders a good space for bootstrapped startups?","type":"story","url":""}],[5498398,{"by":"celljunk-e","descendants":14,"id":5498398,"kids":[5498614,5498895,5502147,5498585,5505350,5498649,5499166,5498528],"score":6,"text":"Has anyone here become an \"Expert\" in their field when learning a skill at an advanced age? I'm not giving up on my passion, but I'm just wondering if any of you guys/gals have become a respected peer to developers who started much younger than you did?","time":1365170007,"title":"Becoming an expert 30+","type":"story","url":""}],[5406872,{"by":"voho","descendants":2,"id":5406872,"kids":[5407006,5409716,5406887],"score":1,"text":"Hey guys. I am dreaming about an IDE which allows you to seamlessly walk through multiple levels of detail and want to ask if you heard about something similar what already exists.

Imagine. You open an IDE. You see a list of projects. ZOOM into the project you want to work on. You see a list of packages. ZOOM into the package. You see a list of classes. ZOOM into the class. You see a list of variables and methods. You can move the methods up and down, etc. ZOOM into the method and you can edit the code. ZOOM into the code and you can see e.g. call diagrams or documentation. What do you think?

The point is you can zoom in and out easily and quickly navigate on various levels of abstraction.","time":1363783842,"title":"Multi-level-of-detail IDE","type":"story","url":""}],[5402991,{"by":"heatonjb","descendants":1,"id":5402991,"kids":[5403008],"score":1,"text":"","time":1363721019,"title":"I created this startup in my lunch break","type":"story","url":"http://sugardaddy.gorgebox.co.uk"}],[5402386,{"by":"ep103","descendants":8,"id":5402386,"kids":[5402745,5402778,5402526,5402413,5409066,5402390,5403295],"score":3,"text":"A different library seems to appear on HN every few weeks. Does anyone have good insight to the pros / cons or their favorite particular library?","time":1363714912,"title":"Ask HN: Best library for adding charts / graphs to your website?","type":"story","url":""}],[5375205,{"by":"itrinity","descendants":2,"id":5375205,"kids":[5375226],"score":1,"text":"I want to focus this project mainly to startups. You know, we want to check number of visits, signups, sales, etc, several times per day/hour. We have to sign in to each service each time and it can be very strange to do that on mobile phone. With Reltrek dashboard, you can have all this data together in one single app and you can check it everywhere and everytime. What do you think about this idea? Would it be valuable for you?","time":1363271887,"title":"Real-time dashboard for mobile devices","type":"story","url":""}],[5324611,{"by":"techenvent","descendants":2,"id":5324611,"kids":[5324843],"score":1,"text":"As being designer all of us sometime came across to painful situation of getting more and more changes from client and start feeling what I should do to stop this non-ending cycle of iterations in design. So when do you think that's enough and how do you say to your client, no more changes plz.","time":1362493618,"title":"As being designer when to say, no more changes plz..","type":"story","url":""}],[5178574,{"by":"celljunk-e","descendants":12,"id":5178574,"kids":[5178584,5181726,5179305,5179522],"score":5,"text":"I'm looking for a recommendation for a good hosted task management system. All I need to do is post tasks, notes with the tasks, file attachments and set priority. I found basecamp to be really annoying. Any suggestions? Paid is fine...not looking to be cheap.","time":1360182267,"title":"Task management software","type":"story","url":""}],[4698968,{"by":"rubiks","descendants":22,"id":4698968,"kids":[4699052,4699116,4721307,4711391,4699002,4709529,4706365,4699484,4699025,4699311,4707232,4700885,4699414,4710814,4699808],"score":24,"text":"$16","time":1351191504,"title":"Ask HN: Seriously Frustrated. Encouragement, Advice, Bitch Slap Needed.","type":"story","url":""}],[4683294,{"by":"ishener","descendants":74,"id":4683294,"kids":[4683462,4683616,4683605,4683626,4683643,4683642,4683415,4683474,4683543,4687472,4683424,4683716,4683621,4683908,4683696,4683581,4683732,4688663,4683664,4684238,4683850,4683697,4683886,4683872,4683312,4683329,4683660,4683498,4691785,4683653,4683385,4683592,4683600,4683772,4683440,4683431,4683448,4684754,4683599,4683622,4685375,4683666,4683333,4683511,4683508],"score":44,"text":"I have a zillion pet projects I really would like to work on, but how can I find the time for it? I mean, I have a full time job, a wife that I need to keep entertained, and I need some time for sports/relaxing/whatever, no?

So really, how to make time for pet projects?

The real reason it's so important is that I would really like to start my own startup one day based on one of these projects...","time":1350916408,"title":"Ask HN: How do you find time for pet projects?","type":"story"}],[4417873,{"by":"dory-whitt","dead":true,"descendants":3,"id":4417873,"kids":[4417892,4418092,4418006],"score":4,"text":"","time":1345649871,"title":"Adobe to open-source Photoshop Q1 2013","type":"story","url":"http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/201208/201208AdobeNewGeneralCounsel.html"}]]

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