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weef··on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
I've been using your site daily during the MLB season, the design is perfect. If you displayed a plain text advertisement I wouldn't even mind.
weef··on Dice baseball: a tabletop tradition
I even played Strat-o-Matic baseball by mail when I was a kid! We'd fill out our rosters and managerial instructions then mail them off to our opposing team's manager. A week later I'd get the results back in the mail. Hard to believe such a relaxed pace.
weef··on Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software?
LINQPad by Joseph Albahari
weef··on Easy Listening Acid Trip: An elevator ride through Sixties psychedelic pop
The entire 1968 Yellow Submarine movie from The Beatles is a good example, particularly the Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds scene.
weef··on Easy Listening Acid Trip: An elevator ride through Sixties psychedelic pop
Great example! It was 1968 actually, I saw it at the theater when I was 7 years old.
weef··on Thanks HN: Lessons learned after Google nearly killed my site
Clicking the OP link I get a warning page from my ESET AV:

"Potential phishing attempt. This web page tries to trick visitors to submit sensitive personal information such as login data or credit card numbers."

Is this somehow related to the Google situation?

weef··on Ask HN: Is working as a developer on technical route until retirement feasible?
I started coding at 22 years old out of college and am now 58. I've resisted the pressures of becoming a manager my entire career and have had no regrets. Recently I turned down yet another manager role for all the reasons you gave and couldn't have been happier. Management at my place understands my career plans and have been accommodating. I plan on retiring in 10 years but know a lot can change between now and then so if my current job becomes unbearable, I'll leave and take on freelance coding projects. I will never become a manager.
weef··on Ask HN: Why are the titles 80 chars?
It's the number of columns on an IBM type punch card.
weef··on Show HN: Userbase – Add user accounts and persistence to your static site
Have you looked at https://commento.io/ as a replacement for Disqus?
weef··on The Decline of Stack Overflow
I can't stand when someone answers a question on SO by first admitting they know nothing about the subject then take a guess with an answer. Why bother answering if you don't know the subject?
weef··on Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music
This looks cool but the first one I listened to (Music Genres\Rock\Wallula) is almost identical to Bohemian Like You by The Dandy Warhols (https://youtu.be/CU3mc0yvRNk?t=15s).
weef··on How to Improve a Legacy Codebase
Great advice. Writing integration tests or unit tests around existing functionality is extremely important but unfortunately might not always be feasible given the time, budget, or complexity of the code base. I just completed a new feature for an existing and complex code base but was given the time to write an extensive set of end-to-end integration tests covering most scenarios before starting my coding. This proved invaluable once I started adding my features to give me confidence I wasn't breaking anything and helped find a few existing bugs no one had caught before!
weef··on Show HN: (Baseball fans) Distance and Vid link of all Home Runs hit yesterday
Nice. It would be great though to be able to see any recent date.
weef··on From Vertigo to Tinnitus, Ear Ailments Are New Focus for Drugs
My wife has been diagnosed with Meniere's so I know first hand the problems that go along with it. I hope they can make some advance with these treatments.

One thing I would suggest because it's something we have control over, is to avoid prolonged loud noise as much as you can, e.g., concerts in a small setting. I'm 53 years old and have been listening to loud music my entire life, mostly through headphones, and it's starting to show recently. I certainly didn't help matters by going to an extremely loud concert last year in a small club without earplugs - this surely damaged my hearing even more.

weef··on Ask HN: What do you use to manage your tasks?
I use MyLifeOrganized for Windows. I'm a big fan of creating hierarchical lists of projects and tasks and this tool allows me to do that.

My organization uses FogBugz to manage our releases, projects, and tasks and I can't say enough great things about that software.

weef··on Paint.Net 4.0 is now available
The lite vs. pro version is a great suggestion and I would have purchased a pro version for my daughter immediately to avoid the malware hassles it caused us. Instead she purchased an academic version of Photoshop which was $100 USD or in that ballpark. This is a shame because Paint.net is a great product and I'd like to see it succeed but their business side is poorly executed. I'll need to head over to the PDN forums and express my frustration.
weef··on Paint.Net 4.0 is now available
My daughter accidentally downloaded 6 different programs while trying to download Paint.net some which were malware. While I understand these are ads probably out of their control, their website is extremely deceptive in my opinion and should be modified to make the actual Paint.net download more obvious.
weef··on Ask HN: What software does your employer/you use, that sucks?
I'd like to see better search functionality. It seems I can never find any relevant emails when searching in Thunderbird.
weef··on Ask HN: How many of you use Windows as primary OS?
I do and always have - currently have Windows 7 on my desktop, Windows 8 on a new laptop (had to buy Start8 to get the start menu back to avoid that metro crap). I develop websites in .NET (ASP.NET webforms and MVC) for enterprises. While I'm typing this I'm repairing my VS install because the Resharper keyboard mapping isn't working on this Windows 8 laptop for whatever reason. I guess I should be used to this time wasting stuff by now but I'm not...
weef··on Free HTML Starter Templates for Bootstrap
Very nice! What would be great is if you accepted contributions from the community. Also I was looking for a bootstrap template this weekend for a site with the logo above the navbar but wasn't able to find a good free example.
weef··on Ask HN: what alternative to Google Reader have you chosen?
FeedDemon is my replacement. It's a Windows program, not web based and there is no phone app, but I'm perfectly happy with it so far. It's free now but to be honest I would have paid it.
weef··on Ask HN: How do you manage older employees who report to you?
I'm close to 55 and have no problem reporting to someone much younger and have done this on numerous projects. As long as we have mutual respect there's never a problem as we both have the same goal completing the project successfully. There are a few things though I don't have in common with the younger generation (e.g., video games) but I make up for that with my "in my day" stories about life before the internet.
weef··on Which service to print and deliver individual stickers?
I've recent heard of this place - you can buy 250 custom black and white stickers for $21.

https://www.stickerguy.com/index.html

weef··on Ask HN: How can I make HackerNode App better?
You have a fantastic app and I use it daily. I would like the ability to email a link to the HN comments page. Right now I'll email myself the external page if I find it interesting but there are sometimes I'd like to receive the HN page. Being able to bookmark or save a HN page would be useful too.
weef··on One Year After Quitting My Job
Very impressive story Nathan - you'll go far for sure. I would be interested to know now that you're working for yourself if you think you'll develop more iPhone apps in the future or does that effort consume too much time for the return?
weef··on Ask HN: I have 9 days off for the holidays. I want to write/submit an iOS app.
Look at the Corona SDK for developing iOS and Android apps in Lua. This is fantastic tool. A friend has used this to crank out a number of book apps for iOS using this SDK and the Kwiksher add-on. One note, last time I looked this SDK wasn't using the native UI components, maybe that's changed recently.
weef··on Hacker News Reader is Free Today
No commenting but I'm a read-only lurker on my phone so that hasn't bothered me. I'll give your app a try.
weef··on Hacker News Reader is Free Today
I use the HackerNode iPhone app and find it to be a fantastic way to read HN from my phone. Not free though but I would definitely recommend it.
weef··on Ask HN: What apps are you most thankful for?
Microsoft Office, Ultraedit, xplorer2, My Life Organized, Visual Studio 2010, LinqPad, Snagit, HackerNode (most excellen HN reader for my iPhone)
weef··on Mathematician cracks Beatles mystery - perhaps
> right time, right place, bloody clever manager

So true but I'd like to add: amazingly innovative producer (George Martin) and brilliant engineer (Geoff Emerick).

Without those two guys the Beatles recordings might have been just ordinary.

Interestingly, the fiddling by Capitol Records might have contributed to their success early on (when they weren't destroying the intended album track sequence) - for example I prefer the US mono version of I Want To Hold Your Hand over the English version.