Ask HN: unfulfilled needs in the personal analytics field?
What features/offerings are currently missing in the personal analytics / quantified self space?
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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your "TO READ" list?
on Friday May 03, 2013 @04:15PM (#5652370)
Also, I would give a lot for effective software that actually helps with info overload.
tldr.io seems nice, anyone tried it?
Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your "TO READ" list?
on Friday May 03, 2013 @04:15PM (#5652363)
I don't manage it, I barely cope.
I would probably look into transcranial stimulation and smart drugs if I had more gumption :)
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Re:Successful and Schizophrenic
on Sunday January 27, 2013 @06:23PM (#5126148)
What results did you get from it? I am currently reading the "Mechanical Problems" section.
Re:Successful and Schizophrenic
on Sunday January 27, 2013 @01:52PM (#5125150)
Off-topic: way cool to see the name Antero Alli mentioned on HN! Which of his books have you read? I am currently reading Angel Tech and The Eight-Circuit Brain.
Re:What was your most painful realisation of 2012?
on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @03:51PM (#4993928)
OK, so basically the difference between conscious and subconscious motivations.
There's a lot of good self-help material dealing with getting those better aligned. Tony Robbins comes to mind.
Re:What was your most painful realisation of 2012?
on Monday December 31, 2012 @02:56PM (#4990621)
Can you elaborate on that?
Re:Diffie: Don't secure the internet, it needs crime
on Thursday October 18, 2012 @06:17AM (#4668129)
You know, in a way he is not that wrong. Bad things often are necessary for good things to happen. Crime may not the best example, though. But a good example would be striving for excellence. People who come from the rock bottom are often insanely driven to reach the ultimate heights. People who are happy and mellow by default most often don't feel the need to do so. Kind of like how a grain of sand irritates an oyster into making a pearl.
Re:RIP Hans Camenzind, Inventor Of The 555 Timer
on Monday October 08, 2012 @03:07PM (#4628324)
Widlar's been gone 20 years, now he was a guy who packed 2000 years equivalent of wild heroic living
Never heard of him but now you got me curious. Do tell more.
Re:Ask HN: What did the really successful programmers do differently?
on Monday October 08, 2012 @11:23AM (#4627260)
I bet you could turn that into a profitable book. HyperInk?
Re:European entrepreneurs: Les misérables
on Saturday September 29, 2012 @11:51AM (#4589897)
As an American living in Denmark
How did that happen?
Also, would love to meet up.
Re:A group of Finnish math teachers write an open textbook in a weeken...
on Saturday September 29, 2012 @11:38AM (#4589865)
Idea for startup: crowdfunded translation of open source content (including textbooks).
Re:Want To Disrupt An Industry? Try Actually Working In It First
on Friday September 28, 2012 @03:34AM (#4584614)
Many tech guys on HN often ask: what use are business co-founders?
Superior domain knowledge would be one thing. If I'm going to team up with a business guy, I want him to be a top notch expert in his field.
There's a tendency for tech guys to discount domain knowledge, believing that it's just a matter of "hacking something out in a weekend, after all it's just a matter of shovelling data" (I used to fall into this trap myself - now I know the value of domain expertise).
Re:No Desire To Spend
on Sunday September 23, 2012 @08:26AM (#4560740)
I question how effective the Ramit Sethi tactics would be here in Sweden. Has anyone here tried and gotten a raise?,
Re:Why Your Customers Would Be Happier If You Charged More
on Saturday September 22, 2012 @06:00AM (#4557524)
In part 1, Ramit mentioned an e-book about customer retention. Do you know the name of it?
Re:The Lost Chapter
on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @05:50PM (#4545748)
I always used to say "preaching to the satanists" :)
Re:Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie on Getting Your First Consulting C...
on Monday September 17, 2012 @05:37PM (#4535032)
Anyone know which customer retention e-book RS is referring to?
Re:Nerf guns don't matter
on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @12:37PM (#4511505)
I live in Sweden. When I was an employee I didn't get any sun on me during a significant chunk of the year.
I run my own business these days.
Re:Nerf guns don't matter
on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @12:24PM (#4511418)
The reality is we spend most of our waking lives at work.
Bloody hell, that sounds so depressing when you put it like that...
Re:Photo uploading is broken
on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @06:02AM (#4504592)
I am wondering if you did any testing to determine your pricing? IIRC, patio11 recommends not putting a price for the Enterprise option.
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Re:What have you tried
on Sunday September 09, 2012 @11:58AM (#4496067)
And I've seen this in areas other than programming too. It's _really_ common for motorcyclists with a year or two of riding experience to be offering all sort of advice to newer riders - advice which riders with 10 or more years of experience will sometimes just roll their eyes at, and sometimes will step in and say "that's not just wrong, but dangerous enough to get you killed if you're not careful".
Tell me more, I'm curious about this :)
Re:An apology to readers of Test-Driven iOS Development
on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @10:12AM (#4474587)
the orders of magnitude difference in programmers productivity
I am skeptical of this too. It makes more sense to have huge swings in ability, not productivity. Ie a poor programmer won't take 10x as long to code a given feature, he will just hit a ceiling of ability and not be able to do it at all.
Re:I quit my job, and am building Tindie fulltime
on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @08:56AM (#4474311)
Does the site have some kind of "request commission" feature? Ie I can send out a request for a specific gadget I need made and people can bid on the project.
Re:Jiro Dreams of Sushi
on Saturday September 01, 2012 @06:39AM (#4463322)
Japanese people get in trouble on the tip thing all the time in the US
I think it's not just Japan. Here in Sweden, tipping is done at times but it's certainly not something mandatory.
Please do educate me more on US tipping customs. I don't want to be a fool when I go there in future...
Re:Big 3D printing machine prints metal objects
on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @03:57PM (#4450734)
That's interesting. I would imagine you would need precision to the hundredth of the millimeter when making guns? I hung around some people who reloaded brass once and they were using these measuring gauges with that kind of precision.
Re:MongoDB 2.2.0 Released
on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @09:39AM (#4448449)
I have used Mongodb a bit, but only for applications that mostly need to read a lot. What issues might I run into if I need to do lot of writing as well?
Re:“Growth Hacking” is BS
on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @06:15AM (#4442882)
To me, "growth hacking" evokes more than just marketing.
Let's say my startup hustles like crazy and carves out a deal with a major coffee chain (like Square did with Starbucks IIRC).
Suddenly we have access to a whole lot more users. We grew the user base drastically, yet it wasn't exactly a result of marketing but rather one of strategic dealmaking.
To me, that is the quintessence of growth hacking.