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Ask YC: What is the best lighting source for a room with no windows?

We moved to our new offices, and they are great, except for the fact that I now work in a room with no windows. There is only an overhead fluorescent light.I usually program for 10-12 hours a day, and have now noticed that my eyes hurt, and I am getting bags under them.What is the best way to light the room so that my eyes are happy again?

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Re:Best service for printing postage? on Tuesday January 22, 2008 @10:12PM (#102580)
Is Endicia capable of accessing a sales database on a remote MySQL server?
Re:Ask YC: Your bug tracker on Monday October 22, 2007 @02:08PM (#71220)
I submitted a similar idea as a last second YC application.

Basic points of differentiation were that it would be fully extensible (add/remove any input fields), and that it would have a killer API.

The API would allow you to submit issues from anywhere you please: you could write a plugin for Eclipse (or favorite IDE) or you could widgetize it into a js include file so people could submit issues directly from your web page (think beta testers).

Re:Chicago Hackers & Entrepreneurs on Thursday August 16, 2007 @04:24PM (#43194)
I live in the city north side - Lincoln Square. What are you guys working on? Web apps I presume?
Re:Amazon S3 and offline development on Thursday August 16, 2007 @12:13PM (#43063)
Nevermind, I can just use htaccess to redirect image paths when I am developing on my local computer.

Amazon S3 and offline development

Let's say I want to use S3 to serve all of the images for my site; I also do alot of my developing offline on a local setup.Do I just have to bite the bullet and have the page layout broken when I am not online?

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Re:Where is your startup? (for me Atlanta) on Sunday August 12, 2007 @08:22PM (#41764)
Chicago, IL
I think menuism.com is doing something similar. They are based in Chicago and are targeting only select cities at first.
We use Subversion, so each developer has a local copy of the code on their machine. They also each have a copy of the database and table structure. What is the best way to manage changes in the database/table structure so that each developer is using the latest db version?
I am looking for something like the quality equivalent of Agile Web Development with Rails, but for CSS.
I enjoy a nice mix a Vault energy soda while listening to the Chemical Brothers - Come With Us album.
Have you checked out Code Igniter? It is a php framework that implements the MVC design pattern. Forcing the seperation of the different layers makes things much "prettier" in my opinion.

http://www.codeigniter.com/

There seems to be much talk thrashing the web language incumbent PHP. What exactly bums you out? and why is your language better?
Re:What is the best credit card processing setup for startups? on Wednesday April 11, 2007 @05:10PM (#12056)
Are there any limitations with Google Checkout? Such as accepting credit cards only in US? Heard a rumor about that...
Re:What is the best credit card processing setup for startups? on Wednesday April 11, 2007 @03:13PM (#12012)
I have been researching this for a while, and have been mostly confused. The obvious answers I have seen are authorize.net or paypal's services. But what is the ideal setup for a new company with not too much money in the bank?