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A piece of advice that works for me - when you can, change things up by changing your workplace. Once or twice a week, grab your laptop and go working somewhere outside your normal, work environment (like library or college campus) and work from there. Even if you stay as little as few hours, youll be amazed at how refreshing that is and how your creativity and productivity will increase.

I have had the same experience when my 'Is tumblr a bot fest?' post got #1 on HN. I went from 10 views a day to more than 1k a day. Those types of things are crazy.

My only advice is - dont let it go to your head. Keep writing. Keep thinking. Keep hustling.

I think , if startup founders were to emulate anything from Apple's early days, it would be to emulate THE TEAM.

Founder-teams should consist of one brilliant engineer (Woz), one business guy (Markkula) and one design guy (Jobs).

Everyone should be themselves, but for a company to truly succed, a perfect combination of people is needed. And a perfect timing. Apple had both.

Allthough I give this guy a credit for praising often neglected designers, he is in no way entitled to bash on engineers and say that they are less valuable. A good design might attract the user on the first, but if the backend sucks; adios muchacos.

I have a feeling that he doesn't understand that to be a truly great designer, one has to have a great knowledge of the backend programming as well. Design borders dont end at the front. They strech deeply into all the lines of code. And for a product to work nad become great, designers must become engineers and vice versa so that they both get best of both worlds.

I suggest the author to look more into 37signals, and how theyre designers operate. There is an excelent video on peepcode where Brian Singer shows his design methods. Allthough you need to pay to see them (24$), they are one of the most valuable insights in the design process.

ofcourse, good point. but there is a difference in the way a sincere man says 'challenge' and the way that a phony says it.

damn, sorry, didnt realise that. works just fine on chrome :(

Great stuff! but, why have you not used big oversized X's? These blue check marks dont give enough satisfation as big red X's. Test it :)

They should be treated as Flight controllors. My friend is one and ,it being a high-risk job like being a doctor, they have 8hr workdays with 2 hours of working and 2 hours of resting, and their salaries are sky-high. So sad all those smart,kind and hard-working people are being so used.

(plus, so glad I didn't end up in med school, I almost did :)

I hate when they oversimplify entrepreneurship and pitch us all these easy 'earn 1.000.000$' schemes. (especially when it's acompanied with ego-trippin')

I love when they demistify entrepreneurship and give some insight in how to start. (especially when a concrete marketing advice is give)

Overall as with all posts on Tim's blog - they are generally great. Just, take them with a grain of salt.

I am also fueled by his answer here. I guess that learning parameter depends on your teacher - the better the teacher, the better and faster you learn.

I just started learning HTML, CSS, jQ, PHP recently , and I found myself advancing at surprisingly high pace (now watching jQ new_boston tutorials on youtube).

Main problem for me is finding good material to learn from, since I only learn from the internet.

You have any advice considering good online sources for a total beginner to learn coding really well ?

Fascinating how boring data may be presented interesting and fresh by simple vizualisation. This remings me of the TED talk given by Hans Rosling about global statistics of population, mortality, internet access etc. Whoever made this map should contact mr. Hans, I smell collaboration there.

hipmunk, hold on to your 'nackers :)

Agreed. Those deliberate measures are perfectly executed by both HN and Quora members. They don't let their content be crowd/outsourced totally, they moderate it. And that's what makes HN and Quora stay great.