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thirtysixred··on Ask HN: Fitness/Weight Tracking Website I Used to Use
Kind of sounds like the Hackers Diet: https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/

Alternatively, I have used https://trendweight.com/ for many many years and love its approach.

thirtysixred··on Working alone sucks
If you're close to the Portsmouth area check out: http://alphaloft.com. They have regular talks and meet ups.

You could always head over to Boston there's a ton of web development stuff happening there and regular meet ups.

thirtysixred··on Show HN: NotesTab - A notes app with real-time syncing for iOS, OS X & Windows 8
Clickable links:

NotesTab: http://www.notestab.com

iPhone/iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/notestab/id502287001?ls=1...

Mac (Lite): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/notestab-pro/id506772307?ls=...

Mac (Pro): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/notestab-pro/id506772307?mt=...

Windows 8: http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-us/app/notestab/b44bcc73...

thirtysixred··on Show HN: My user-friendly outbound firewall for Mac
I'm really liking the design of the website.
thirtysixred··on The future Firefox UI
I hope they don't get rid of the ability to have extra toolbars since I use the web developer toolbar quite a bit, and adding an extra step to get to it would be very annoying.
thirtysixred··on Ask HN: Is their any large scale, real life Node.js app?
Etsy is using node.js for aggregating stats: https://github.com/etsy/statsd
thirtysixred··on Ask HN: What are your productivity hacks?
My take on productivity is:

If I'm going to be productive and get things done, then I'm going to want to.

If I don't want to get things done, and I force myself to, I won't become magically productive, I'm just going to try to get the task done as quick and cheap as possible because I don't want to be doing it. So the quality of that work lacks.

So when I'm feeling unproductive, I go browse the internet for a little while or get up and walk around until I want to work again. So far this has worked for me throughout my jobs and my managers have yet to complain about it.

thirtysixred··on Ask HN: How is the Portland web dev/startup scene?
COLOURlovers is hiring.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2512274

thirtysixred··on Ask HN: what makes Node.js hip?
The only thing that makes node.js hip is people who call it hip.

Using node.js isn't about being hip or cool, or whatever else you want to call it. It's about solving a problem you have.

Personally node.js has solved a problem I was having with a recent project that needed a Comet server, and since node is all async I got this server up and running in a few minutes. I was never successful with Apache or Nginx.

I recommend taking a look at this Stackoverflow answer as it outlines the benefits of node.js: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1884724/what-is-node-js/1...

Also I recommend watching Ryan's Introduction to node.js talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo_B4LTHi3I

thirtysixred··on Tell HN: The Secret To Launching Is Removing Unfinished Features
37Signals take on this: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2895-link-svn-flashback-essen...
thirtysixred··on Amazon Web Services are down
SHUT. DOWN. EVERYTHING.

Good plan though. :p

thirtysixred··on [dead]
I made something very similar to this, but less features.

I was looking for something to just remind me of something at a given time.

I'm currently using it to remind myself of things to bake on Saturdays, but I've used it for a lot more than that.

Right now you enter in What, and when, then it emails you at that time.

I've been meaning to add recurring tasks, and I like the idea of "nagging tasks"

Screenshot of my finished items (Ignore the poor design) http://kttns.org/vinjq

thirtysixred··on Sprint and T-Mobile in merger talks
T-Mobile is the only good US carrier. Don't know what I'd do if they merged with a company as poor as Sprint.
thirtysixred··on Stomp.io for social adventures (launch conference)
I'm enjoying this site. I already found 2 things I didn't know were around me, but wanted to do.
thirtysixred··on Facetime for Mac is now $0.99
Facetime "beta" was free.