muruke

Hey all, my girlfriend and I will be in San Fran for new years eve and about a week after that before heading home from our around the world trip (5 months).

Thought I would see if I could get some thoughts on what we should do and where we should go/stay while in the area from the HN community as I read here often.

I'm hugely interested in the start up space (I work for a small, growing company in Australia) and love chatting technologies and new businesses etc. so I like to hopefully meet some people around that, either randomly around or at a networking event if there are good ones?

Other than that we both love good food, boutique beers (mainly I love these) and tea.

Is it worth staying in the city area or in the valley? Or somewhere else?

Thanks in advance guys and girls

Cheers, Luke

Hey all,

Last weekend I spent some time building a little web-app to place my Lift.do habit check-ins on a chart to look for any simple correlations.

This was useful for my partner and I as she tracks her back pain and other activities in Lift.do so we could see some correlation between them.

Thought I would post it on HN in case anyone else finds it useful. Feel free to give any feedback or comments as well.

Source is on GitHub: https://github.com/lukemurray/lift-trends

Check it out live here: http://lift-trends.herokuapp.com

For the devs, it is a real simple app using AngularJS and a tiny Node.js backend (using express).

Note: you have to upload your exported habits because Lift.do does not have an API currently. And to be honest I didn't want to invest too much time in this. Check the source I'm not doing anything with the uploads, they get deleted. Also you can run it yourself instead if you wish.

Cheers, Luke

I see it is more and more popular in job ads to say things like "we don't track vacation".

I'd like to know how this is working for both the employees that work at such places taking vacations and the employers giving the perk? Is it all paid, or not paid?

I work/management a small company and we have quite flexible working schedules. We have had a few people (including myself) take months off for holidays to come back, but we do track holidays and many times the longer vacations is unpaid time off.

Just wondering how it is working out for all these new startups.

Cheers