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Slightly related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7789014

Exactly. The title of the article feels like a link bait. It's only been two months!

You should try and get this on http://www.producthunt.com/

ExtJs has been a pain where I work. I remember being horrified at how it takes over and starts adding styles all over, even to the body tag even if all you were doing was displaying a grid in a div. Why would it leak out of your div and take over the whole page like that?

I feel like working on client projects aka work a few months and then taking few months to learn/work on your own ideas seems ideal. I have issues with depression and a hate-hate relationship with my work atm. I constantly fantasize about not working for anyone and spending all my time pursuing my own ideas.

When they said in their post that they were working to neutralize the attack, I started wondering how they are doing that. If anyone else is curious, this article - http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/22518-How-to-Protect-a... - briefly describes how DDoS are neutralized.

Thank you for your advice. "Your brain throws a hell of a fit" sounds just how it feels :)

I know how you feel :|

This job is not directly for the startup. I have been contracted out by the startup to this job and the money it brings is important for the startup atm.

I have heard a lot of people say that they feel more creative after smoking marijuana. They make connections between ideas that they normally wouldn't and come up with creative solutions to difficult problems.

I worked with someone who designed a sophisticated DSL and a framework surrounding it. They said the basic design of the framework occurred to them when they were high.

I am guessing this could be the reason the OP is running this poll. He or she might consider Hacker News readers/contributors to be the smart/creative. And might be wondering if there is a correlation between these readers/contributors and Marijuana use.

I am not a CSS expert, but I would think there must be a reason frameworks like Bootstrap went with the gutter approach? I don't know what it is, but I suspect there is a reason because otherwise this is so much simpler to deal with.

I feel the same way. When I moved from Windows to Mac, I nearly burst into tears due to lack of simple keyboard shortcuts. And it was surprising to me given how geeks prefer Mac over Windows. I expected Mac to be more keyboard friendly and was disappointed.

Because of this awkwardness, I never minimize windows either (like others who replied here). I simply hide them.

"Since then, researchers have found that in darkness most people eventually adjust to a 48-hour cycle: 36 hours of activity followed by 12 hours of sleep. The reasons are still unclear"

This statement was interesting to me. I wonder if it resonates with anyone else on HN. My BF who works from home a lot can spend days/hours at home splitting his time between working (programming) and playing video games. He has said a lot of times that the normal 24 hour cycle does not work from him. That he feels his body needs a 36 hour day followed by some hours of sleep.

After reading the aforementioned statement in the article, I wonder if it is because of he spends so much time indoors.

For me it was a colleague when I mentioned I feel so out of date.

Not to start a religious discussion, but I think the Hindus have this idea that the world is created, it goes through a set of 'ages' and is destroyed at the end of the last age. The whole cycles is then repeated again. Sounds a little bit like the Big Bounce.

It's been years since I have actually read a programming language/framework book end to end. Or even done an online tutorial from start to finish. When I started learning iOS, I started with Stanford's CS 193P lecture series available on iTunes. After some lectures, I started working simultaneously on the project I had in mind. Sometimes, I would go back to a lecture (like the one on UITableViews) to review the basics. But after a while, I stopped going back to the course (I must have finished about 50% of the course). At this point I was comfortable just Googling up whatever I needed to know. And of course posting questions on StackOverflow.

So, I'd suggest 1. Get enough from whatever source you like - books, online tutorials to get started on your own project. 2. Start working on your project. Google for best practices, libraries whenever in doubt. Post questions on SO when you can't figure something out. When you need to go in-depth into a topic, find good documentation on it and take time to read it through.

I think I am emotional about programming. My intuition, more than 'design principles' guides me design choices during coding.

Thanks both to you and thenomad for your replies.

vijucat, your answer reminds me of Eckhart Tolle[1]. I have a tendency towards depression. And among other things I have listened to Eckhart in past to deal with it. And he helped me greatly. I feel like you are right. Intuitively I feel I need to simply acknowledge that these folks are better than me at this thing and I should admire their skill without envy. I feel like it will be a great weight off of me when I am able to do that. And I understand what you mean by you don't know what would follow after that. I have found that in situations where I have stopped fighting 'what is', things have turned out such that the cause of my struggle was removed. 'What is' became 'what I wanted'. Maybe this is what will happen again. I do feel I have the ability to master this frontend development but comparison with others has become a debilitating factor. In any case, I have decided to make my goal #1 to become able to acknowledge others' achievements and skill without pangs of envy.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Eckhart-Tolle/e/B001H6GZ5K

EDIT: added link to Eckhart Tolle.

Could the fact that America has been a melting pot of immigrants moving in from various parts of the world affected the average American height? I am from Southeast Asia, where average heights are less than European or Americans'. And my impression is more people like me have settled in America in recent years than say several decades ago, causing the average American height to go down. In which case, nutrition and healthcare may not be the (sole) cause.

You are right design is not just frontend. And the design of a good codebase is a whole another neuroses for me :) Here, I did mean 'how things look'.

(The longer I have been programming, the more difficult it has for me to work with the enterprise software I work with. I dislike the architecture, the hodge-podge way of doing things. I used to be able to 'enjoy' the complications. Now I abhor it.)

I do try to do that. I have wondered if it some type of psychological problem I have that I want to be good at everything and thus am always feeling inferior. My brain is filled with all these ideas that I want to execute but I want them all to be executed in a polished manner and I want to do it all! Not gonna happen. I need to learn to delegate to experts and not feel inferior.

The 'no code satisfaction' aspect of web frontend development has been an issue for me whenever I have tried my hand at it. The chaotic, un-organized nature of the code drives me a little crazy.

But at the same time it increases my admiration for the people who can handle such chaos and be cool about it.

Another author (and neuroscientist) is David Eagleman. His book - Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, is fantastic.

Is there any statement/belief in Christian philosophy that

Human cannot be divine

or

Divine cannot be human?

If there is then the paradox does exist.

Printouts of often needed code snippets is a great idea. I think it would help me to put up printouts of 'context-switch-snippets'. Like when I need to go to iOS programming after doing Ruby for a while, a quick checklist of the syntax and things I end up looking up again every time I make the switch (diff between retain/strong/assign).

"The great thing about strangers is that we tend to put on our happy face when we meet them, reserving our crankier side for the people we know and love."

This is so true. It is such an irrational behavior on our part, yet we all seem to do this.

Well, by doing I meant physical/mental group activities. Games, sports, building something, learning something new etc.

I like eating alone. My favorite way to eat is to eat while reading something interesting. A good book somehow makes the food more enjoyable.

I think as a culture we socialize too much around food. People meet, date, celebrate, have family get-togethers around lunches and dinners. I think we need a cultural shift where we socialize around doing something together.

I am curious, what is the worst that can happen to someone if their email address + iPad SIM identifier is exposed.