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Curious to hear what is your preference on this. Do you use a solid color background on your desktop, or a vibrant background/picture?

Do you think a certain solid color without distractions could improve focus, or vice versa? Is a picture better? Why?

Thanks!

Some of you have probably seen the recently released whisper model from openai. Having this go two ways would open up for some neat conversational ai ideas, as in having two AIs discussing with each other, say backed by GPT3 but the output form being perfect audio/speech

So is there something as "state of the art" as whisper but for text to speech/audio?

Curious if there is a known brand or some specific chairs for home/office use tailored for us hackers who desire a bit of extra comfort? I am talking about something like dentist chairs or something like this: http://videogames.techfresh.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Emperor_1510.jpg , does anyone here use similar at home or in the office?

As the title reads, what platform/language would you pick for the backend, and why? Taking into consideration development time, costs and maintainability. Given you/your team were/are equally experienced with all languages/platforms. Thanks!

Yes as the title says. I am looking for books about algorithms that explain the algorithms with code instead of math. The reason being, I understand code better than sometimes foreign to me math symbols and formulas.

So what type of algorithms am I looking for? Graphics and machine learning mostly, but also the usual suspects, sorting, data structures, etc.

Big plus if the book is explaining things on a very understandable level, so that any average developer can grasp the concepts without too much hassle.

So, what are the best books that fall in this category?

How many lines of code do you write per day on average? Whats your record? Please specify in what language, im curious

Hi HN,

Since there is a bunch of web developers here I thought i'd ask this here..

What do you or your company use for a type of security solution for your internal web apps? What I am talking about is something which lets you configure permission to access methods or execute procedures based on groups

If we have 5 different internal webapps, which works using ajax that accesses webservices or some kind of backend, we would like to use the same security system/configuration for all of these webapps for for each request to access a method or execute a procedure they pass through some sort of filter/system which based on a group configuration tells them if they have the right to access said method/procedure, if they do then proceed to execute if not, return... "error".

Something "general" that would work for several different webapps, is there anything out there? Not sure if I make sense or if people understand what I am asking..

I'm sure I am not the only one, but I have a bunch of apps/games whatnot in development my own projects etc, I try to organize into folder/subfolders etc, but no matter how hard I try in the end I always end up with a bunch of folders open, and there is a mess.

Do you have any neat tricks or tips for maintaining your computer desk / project folders and files neatly arranged?

Is there anyone that follow any programming podcasts of any kind? Are there any good ones? I would love to watch one if there is any web oriented ones, html5, python, php, etc.

Yes. Queries to me is a "annoying" requirement of software/product/website development. What is strange to me is that we are living in 2010 and yet here we are writing queries for a backend layer that should simply be a lot more easy and fast to do. Imagine for websites, you have to create a database with tables and fields and so on, then you have to write extra code in some perhaps to you foreign language where you select what data you wish to present based on some parameter.

Why oh god why!? I don't want to write queries, and it's not because I think it's hard or anything like that, the reason is more about time and funfactor. Writing queries to me is the most boring part of any project and often a very time consuming process, imagine spending this time designing or improving your app in other ways. So what could we have instead?

Well imagine a perfect world where all you would have todo is create some table/fields or documents depending if it's a relational or no sql db. Then you would simply through some amazingly easy and efficient interface select what data you want to present and it would automagically generate whatever code/query or a process that is necessary, then you would just invoke that process to obtain that data.

Nooo no no I am NOT talking about query builders, those are horrible! They take even longer time to work with than just writing plain simple query code, I am talking about a revolution in the way we deal with this layer - "queries" I call it a "layer" because to me it's like a layer of a development process that is necessary but should not be as time consuming or boring as it currently is. Sorry to all you query writing lovers out there!

There should be some tool or way to generate a function/stored procedure/x that outputs your data as arrays/objects/json/xml/whatever based on some simple dragging or dropping or marking that you would do with a super neat efficient interface. The tool would then do all the work for you, and whatever query/procedure/function that it generates would already be amazingly optimized, now you would just invoke it and bam there is your result set ready in some array or object for you to use as you want. Que rico, verdad?

Maybe I am living in the 90s still, maybe this already exists, and I have been living under a rock, perhaps I am asking for too much, who knows I am just letting the world know and I am sure there is a lot of people that can agree with me. Especially people more oriented at design or frontend stuff...

Gaah the frustration, Please don't hate, ps english is not my mother tongue so forgive me if you can't understand it ;-)