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How do you learn to be creative? | brianto2010: Be around creative people. Participate alongside them. |
How do you learn to be creative? | tsally: You don't. It's not so much that you learn to be creative as it is finding something you're inspired by. I've never seen someone fail to be creative at something they were inspired by. I'm not sure you can teach someone to be creative about a non inspirational thing. How do you find the inspirational thing?... |
How do you learn to be creative? | tokenadult: I overheard an MIT admissions representativeWhen was this? Undergraduate admissions? |
How do you learn to be creative? | Zev: Its pretty hard (if not impossible) to write a step by step guide on how to be creative. This makes it very hard to teach someone creativity, which is probably what the admissions rep was talking about.But if I had to take a gander at answering "How to be creative", It would go something along the lines of... Take... |
How do you learn to be creative? | erlanger: You can't learn creativity, but you can keep it in good shape. It has plenty to do with social inhibitions as well. With a tendency to question others' ideas and to trust yourself comes creativity. Here's a start: Be more creative than to ask others for this answer. |
How do you learn to be creative? | wenbert: I think you would have to change your mindset, the way you think etc. |
SEO Mystery - What's this 'MarchSEO' guy up to? | qeorge: (S)he's probably building an autosubmitter of some kind, and testing it using arbitrary stories.You're getting a ton of free links, so it can't hurt you. I wouldn't worry about it. |
SEO Mystery - What's this 'MarchSEO' guy up to? | quizbiz: Pardon me but isn't this the point of social news sites? To spread the word about issues, articles, etc. If you didn't post the articles on all these different sites, why can't he? |
How do you learn to be creative? | chaosmachine: There are some interesting connections between creativity and schizophrenia.http://www.google.com/search?q=creativity+schizophreniaFurthermore, there are various drugs that induce schizophrenic-like mental states.It's been shown drugs can make you smarter, faster, stronger, why would creativity be any dif... |
How do you learn to be creative? | briancooley: I don't know how to actively increase creativity, but I do know how to actively decrease my fear of failure.It seems like the less I fear failing, the more my creativity emerges. |
How do you learn to be creative? | Eliezer: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/10/original-seeing.htmlhttp://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/10/cached-thoughts.htmlhttp://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/10/how-to-seem-and.htmlhttp://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/10/outside-the-box.html |
How do you learn to be creative? | bkbleikamp: "Observe everything. Communicate well. Draw, draw, draw." Frank Thomas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Thomas_(animator)) |
How do you learn to be creative? | vamsee: Hmm, I think creativity comes from being bold, and not being afraid to experiment and putting something out there that is uniquely your own. I takes being comfortable with oneself and what you have to say. And being able to handle ridicule/disappointment if it flops, and being able to keep experimenting. |
How do you learn to be creative? | rjurney: Feed your muse by consuming creative things, and then repetition. |
How do you learn to be creative? | jyothi: Have a lot of peace, smile - be happy then pump in a lot of passion, get excited and just think how to make things better. |
How do you learn to be creative? | spaghetti: Solving algorithm puzzles helps a lot for general creativity. I think the most important thing to understand and embrace when being creative is: a lot of people will not understand/like/approve of your creative efforts. Do NOT let this get you down or discourage you. Enjoy being creative simply because i... |
How many of you use ad blocking on most websites? | nopassrecover: Heh strange seeing people like Google ads - I tend to view them as the graffiti of the web.They are nearly always irrelevant, have a very high proportion of spam/scam associated sellers and don't have enough information or value for me to click them. |
How do you learn to be creative? | whacked_new: I'm with the camp that it's hard to teach. I'm talking about "creative" in the romantic sense of the word: the kind that is stereotypically exhibited by mad scientists, hermit authors, and bipolar playwrights. The kind of "useful abnormality" that does not occur to the common mind.In these cases, I would a... |
How do you learn to be creative? | grandalf: Creativity is the process of getting your brain not to shut down ideas that it comes up with before you can really give them a chance.One way to do this is to focus on asking questions:- What if this is the wrong approach?
- How can this be made more general?
- Should it be more general?
- Should I be doing t... |
How do you learn to be creative? | simianstyle: Get outside of your comfort zone and experiment with things that would otherwise seem 'ugly' to you. |
How do you learn to be creative? | jpedrosa: Over produce according to one's own standards. ;-)Keep pushing. |
How do you learn to be creative? | tripngroove: "creativity" is all about process. come up with methods for putting ideas / objects / anything together and when you have a whole series, pick the ones that are most intriguing and run with them.it's a tough sell to imply that any product, any idea, or any thing is creative in the sense that it appeared ou... |
How do you learn to be creative? | braindead_in: Dissect things which appeal to you. Break down the elements. Get to the root of it. Learn from them. Most importantly keep it simple. |
How do you learn to be creative? | ambulatorybird: I believe Einstein once said, "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." |
SEO Mystery - What's this 'MarchSEO' guy up to? | acro: I don't think there is a scam, he is just submitting interesting content to build up his profile. He didn't copy the articles, at least the couple of submissions i checked. Its good for you, its good for him, whats the problem? |
How do you learn to be creative? | stevenjames: Apply your imagination. |
How do you learn to be creative? | DarkShikari: I wrote a post here:http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/862en/you_and_your_...that, IMO, somewhat explains how "creativity" comes about--how seemingly great ideas come out of nothing (or do they?). |
How do you learn to be creative? | cb33: think different |
How do you learn to be creative? | chris11: Scientific America had a good article on creativity: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-to-unleash-your-crea...Brief guidelines for creativity:1. Get a good system for capturing and preserving new ideas without judging their merits.2. Challenge yourself. Challenging problems will force you to use more div... |
How do you learn to be creative? | jacoblyles: Depends on the field. If you are a musician, empirically I would recommend drugs. |
How many of you use ad blocking on most websites? | mooism2: I want to block all adverts, except search engine ads, which are sometimes useful and never prevent the page from loading.In practice, I only use AdBlock+ and FlashBlock to block ads; if I used GreaseMonkey too I could probably filter out ads in GMail and Facebook, that appear as part of the html.I would pay m... |
Why are contracts written so poorly? | quellhorst: The problems with contracts are that they are written for lawyers by lawyers. Not the actual users of the documents.There is a 'plain english' style that is much better than the standard legalese.http://www.cap-press.com/books/1476 |
Why are contracts written so poorly? | noonespecial: However, I have been going through this template for over 4 hours and still unable to understand a single line because its just so bad english.Contracts are not actually english, although they may contain familiar words. Contracts are actually a kind of code designed to be run in a courtroom. Many of the ... |
Why are contracts written so poorly? | moeffju: Maybe people could just agree on a canon of shorthand phrases (in clear english) that expand to legalese mumbo-jumbo. Then slap a huge disclaimer "this document uses ClearContract[tm] shorthand" on.Seriously though, this problem is not limited to contracts. Most of the law is written in a convoluted way, becau... |
Why are contracts written so poorly? | jodrellblank: I sometimes wish it was as simple as saying "this contract to be interpreted in the spirit of the following examples", and then a small summary + examples. |
How do you learn to be creative? | bengtan: I used to read an article 'How to be creative'. This is the updated version:Ignore everybody
http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000932.html |
Why are contracts written so poorly? | adilsaleem: I wish someone invented python for contracts :) |
How to ban users from your site? | chuffwaffle: Proxies make it impossible to ban anyone. You can detect open proxies like slashdot does and prevent anyone from using any open proxy, but offenders can still use non-open proxies. You can charge for access like somethingawful does so that when you ban someone's account they have to pay $10 or so for anoth... |
Why are contracts written so poorly? | medianama: You'll get used to it. Its always difficult understanding/negotiating contract for the first few times.I started liking that language after going through that process a few times.Tip: Try to read as slow as you can and don't miss any word/phrase. Look up dictionary if you need to. |
Why are contracts written so poorly? | Flankk: Legalese is formal English intended to be very specific with respect to the Law. Terms used in a contract are often described in a definition section at the start of the contract. The contract will make more sense when you read the definitions first. However, contracts are designed to be legally sound; they are... |
Please review my Hybrid Mail Site BlueMailCentral.com | slater: One thing that I immediately saw: You seem to be sorting the currency dropdown on the frontpage according to the country's name. Which isn't listed. So instead of making me hunt for "CHF" (I'm in Switzerland), sort the list alphabetically. Seems a no-brainer to me.Also, please don't play favourites: "USD" shoul... |
Please review my Hybrid Mail Site BlueMailCentral.com | dreur: I really like the little animation on the homepage.
Will try your service soon. |
Please review my Hybrid Mail Site BlueMailCentral.com | wlievens: Nice concept and execution, but you really have to work on your english. "How bluemailcentral works?" is the demo page title's for instance. It should be "How does bluemailcentral work?". I suggest you find a good proofreader.(this is advice, not an insult) |
How to ban users from your site? | lacker: You can't really ban users from a website that's free to the public. All you can do is bore problematic users into going away. |
Please review my Hybrid Mail Site BlueMailCentral.com | perokreco: You should include a list with locations of your printing locations, and approximate time delay, as I would say those are pretty important. I had to email you to find out the location and speed. Moreover I think that an "affinity" program, allowing people to sign up to print/mail stuff at low-quantity plac... |
Please review my Hybrid Mail Site BlueMailCentral.com | perokreco: Moreover, a web interface that allowed someone to upload a doc or pdf instead of having to install software would allow people to use the service from public computers and non-windows computers. |
Please review my Hybrid Mail Site BlueMailCentral.com | m_eiman: Do you have an API for using this from something other than your application? Ideal for my needs would be a web service that I can post PDF:s to... |
Please review my Hybrid Mail Site BlueMailCentral.com | terpua: Check out http://postful.com - they allow you to send postal mail via email. They also have one price for US and one price for international and support postcards.They have an API. |
Why are contracts written so poorly? | dctoedt: It takes some work, but contracts can be expressed in short, clear sentences and paragraphs. A leading proponent of this style is Ken Adams (see http://www.adamsdrafting.com),In the interest of promoting "code reuse" by contract drafters, I've been building a community form file of contract forms and clauses ... |
Why are contracts written so poorly? | radu_floricica: OP should clarify this, but i'm pretty sure he's not referring to legalese in particular, but simply bad English. As in grammatically incorrect and badly written. I've seen it too. |
Please review my Hybrid Mail Site BlueMailCentral.com | profgubler: From this teaser in teh bottom right, "What does BlueMailCentral do for the environment?
Because you use BlueMailCentral, your CO2 emission is lesser than when you would not use BlueMailCentral. The exact amount of reduced CO2 is impossible to calculate, but a reduction is.."Lesser should be less. |
Online Degree Programs | stonemetal: USC, Purdue, heck even harvard have online only degree options. Try finding a school you actually want to go to then see if they offer an online program. There is no need to scrape the bottom of the barrel just because you need a little flexibility. Find a school you want to go to and see what they offer... |
How do you learn to be creative? | HeyLaughingBoy: It may be difficult to teach, but it's not hard to learn.1) Hang around other creative people2) Do stuff. Just try to build something, don't be afraid of failing. Some people get together for "bad art nights"3) I am always inspired when I visit museums, galleries, etc. It just makes me want to do someth... |
Anyone else notice a higher churn rate for the front page? | nopinsight: I'm not sure, but I think it's too fast. Some worthwhile topics could be easily missed if one stays off HN for just half a day. (Even with AutoPager, after 2-3 days, most topics go off the first few pages entirely.)Perhaps there should be some sort of 'classic' or 'long-term' article tab that people can che... |
Anyone else notice a higher churn rate for the front page? | trickjarrett: I tend to skim the front page and then hit the new section for the majority of my time, and I don't think we're running much faster than we have been. This is obviously unscientific and I have no data to back it, but from my perspective I haven't seen that many new stories.Perhaps its an influx of new inv... |
Anyone else notice a higher churn rate for the front page? | vaksel: I think it just became much easier to get frontpaged. I see a ton of stories getting front paged with 2, 3 upvotes. |
How do you learn to be creative? | ggruschow: One way may be to get stupid."Thinking outside of the box" is tough when you're used to living in the box. Maybe it's easier to just get away from things you're familiar with to see creativity expressed.For instance, take your average boring chemistry student out of a lab, and tell them they've got to make 2... |
Anyone else notice a higher churn rate for the front page? | zacharydanger: If you're subscribed in Google Reader, you can view details about the feed and it does show a steady incline in "items posted" over the last 30 days. |
How do you learn to be creative? | josefresco: Get happy and optimistic. Creativity comes to me when I'm feeling good about life and my future. Pessimism and slacking creeps in when I'm down and feeling negative about past/future events. |
Please review my Hybrid Mail Site BlueMailCentral.com | vaksel: frankly I think if you want to focus this much on being green, your actual name should be green. So I would spin off as a separate site greenmailcentral.com and link to that from your original site.And on the greenmailcentral.com site, I would let users pick some enviro related domains to use as their emails. |
Anyone else notice a higher churn rate for the front page? | csomar: i'm afraid this become like "Digg". In past, the time between stories that hit front page (in digg) is 1 to 2 hours, now it's less than 10 minutes and a new story hit it.That's why I rarely upvote stories in HN, if we all upvote a little only Worthwhile topics that we can increase the quality. |
Online Degree Programs | jhawk28: DePaul University has the largest online CS programs. Illinois Institute of Technology has a decent program too. |
How do you learn to be creative? | qaexl: This link was posted up on YC recently: http://the-programmers-stone.com/about/While it does not directly address "creativity", I have found that the "juxtapositional thinking" state it describes as a required state for creative thinking. Look on the second article for the precise neuroscience.In summary, the pr... |
How do you learn to be creative? | csomar: Creativity needs to think: Good Learning and practicing.It's simple, if you want to write English, then first you should learn the basics of grammar and spelling. Next, depth learning, like reading articles on news papers or blogs. Finally practicing like writing on own blog or on forums. |
Anyone else notice a higher churn rate for the front page? | marksutherland: http://news.ycombinator.com/bestThe highest rated posts in the last N days (not sure what N is). Not very well documented, but interesting to know about. |
How do you learn to be creative? | wensing: Give yourself a chance to have an original thought--dramatically reduce or eliminate TV, and at least temporarily cut out 90% of the music you listen to. You'd be surprised how stuck in a rut you are until you try it. |
Anyone else notice a higher churn rate for the front page? | AndrewHampton: I don't think the churn is a big problem yet, but I think the position of stories on the front page uses a formula similar to gravity. Upward acceleration is determined by upvotes/time and downward acceleration is determined by the time since submission. pg could always decrease the acceleration of "gra... |
How do you learn to be creative? | ganley: Just produce. A lot. It's hard to produce original work in a medium without first mastering the medium itself. There's an old chestnut about the pottery class in which half was graded on quality and the other on quantity; in the end, the quantity half produced better work. Picasso's early work, while technicall... |
Online Degree Programs | walesmd: I recently discovered Troy University has an office local to me as well as offering the Computer Science degree online.Growing up, near Tallahassee, Troy was always seen as a great school for those individuals going into fields like Sports Medicine. |
Anyone else notice a higher churn rate for the front page? | mattmaroon: I've noticed that too. Big stories (i.e. ones written by Paul Graham) used to stay up here for days, they do no longer. My guess is they increased the time factor to account for the increase in traffic. |
Why are contracts written so poorly? | systemtrigger: It's a problem. No modern man understands all his written obligations.> Perhaps an opportunity of a startup that would introduce a new way of writing contractsYes! Every contract I've ever seen is just an analog program, a decision tree really. Legal concepts are mostly classes. Since you can do things l... |
Please review my Hybrid Mail Site BlueMailCentral.com | adityakothadiya: clickable link: http://www.bluemailcentral.com |
Anyone else notice a higher churn rate for the front page? | pg: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=553959 |
Anyone else notice a higher churn rate for the front page? | TweedHeads: Take a look at the front page. The right half is blank space.That space can be used to show two sections: popular & upcoming. |
How do you learn to be creative? | KentBeck: My experience is that I am often creative but I am inconsistent in my follow through. When I get an odd idea, at my best I just try it. That makes me more likely to have another odd idea, and if I try that the cycle accelerates. If instead I listen to The Editor and get back to the humdrum, the cycle runs in ... |
How do you learn to be creative? | jpwagner: Learn to re-define problem statements! |
Please review my Hybrid Mail Site BlueMailCentral.com | Tacomanator: First thing I notice is some trouble with the currency widget, which is taking a long time to update when a new currency during the first few minutes after the page is loaded. I would suggest an indicator that the new currency list is on the way for these slow cases (otherwise the currency list is blank). |
Anyone else notice a higher churn rate for the front page? | themanual: So many exciting things happening in the world. Try and keep up :)The churn rate is fine!! |
Please review our (open-source) code sharing site | metachris: A friend and I have been working on this website for sharing code-snippets for the Android API for a few months now. Over the last weeks we made many improvements and are preparing the next release of the source code. The backend of the site is based on djangosnippets.org source ('cab'), with the code being ... |
How do you learn to be creative? | gcheong: Be widely read, dabble in a lot of different things and always look for opportunities to apply solutions from one field to problems in another field. |
Please review our (open-source) code sharing site | davidw: Seems a bit limited in scope. |
outsourced support | swombat: I would suggest doing it yourself first, and then, once you've already developed the FAQ and canned answers, hire someone to do a specific, time-consuming part of the support for you - rather than trying to find a whole "outsourced support" provider that will no doubt have lots of issues and restrictions. |
How do you learn to be creative? | lpolovets: Michael Michalko has two excellent books on creativity:Thinkertoys (http://www.amazon.com/Thinkertoys-Handbook-Creative-Thinking...) and
Cracking Creativity (http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Creativity-Secrets-Creative-G...)They're both among my fave books of all time, though they are relatively similar in ... |
Please review my Hybrid Mail Site BlueMailCentral.com | prpon: You've mentioned in your OP that you print in the destination country. I had to carefully look for it on your website to know that. I would highlight that aspect.A friend wanted to mail his movie script to Mumbai, India from Hollywood. He wanted it to be there fast. I looked for services like yours and couldn't ... |
outsourced support | vaksel: I'd do this:a) Get a Google Voice account. Forget the 1-800 number, it just makes them want to call you. Get a local number that looks professional. i.e. something that looks like 1-404-444-000#b) On the #, create a voice message stating something like "please check our FAQ and if you still can't find an answer... |
outsourced support | TomOfTTB: I had to design something like this recently for a consulting job and here's what I did. These steps were in addition to him writing a document that covered the basics of supporting the program (that he could give to support people)First, I convinced the client to not have phone support. My argument was tha... |
outsourced support | markessien: How about getting a couple of college students who get paid on a per-call basis? Then you find a way of routing the calls to their personal lines, using for example the services that the telephone sex people use?Get cheap phones with extra numbers, so they can answer professionally, and don't open with "DUU... |
Why are contracts written so poorly? | johnnydollar: Think of Legalese as C++ for the law. Very powerful, often verbose, and very easy to get into trouble if you don't understand how it works.Many awkward sounding phrases actually refer to a specific case law precedent. Judges are disinclined to contradict a previous ruling. By inserting the phrase into ... |
SEO Mystery - What's this 'MarchSEO' guy up to? | checkwit: his sites don't have to rank #1 to get traffic. also other search engines might rank his sites higher. he's trying to get content to his site. |
what types of softwares are needed during (this) great depression | shaunxcode: What about ad-hoc collaborative gardening/crop sharing? Skill sharing, car pooling and generally anything that fosters real community would do well I should imagine. |
outsourced support | pmikal: I've used http://liveops.com/ with some success. On-demand agents "in the cloud". Requests can be routed to agents based on training, experience, language, time of day... |
what types of softwares are needed during (this) great depression | quoderat: A site listing foreclosed and abandoned homes for squatting?Or perhaps the same for gardening?A house trading site so that you can trade houses with someone where your and their job prospects are better?A better roommate matching site than any one I've seen so far?A kid-sitting exchange site?A more-local Ebay... |
what types of softwares are needed during (this) great depression | jgilliam: Make Me Dinner - a match making service that would connect people who need meals with people who can make them, presumably in their neighborhood.So a single working person indicates what kind of food they like, and mom who cooks for a family of 6 adds a couple extra portions to what she makes that night and d... |
what types of softwares are needed during (this) great depression | DannoHung: lootr - CRM software for thieves and scrappers. |
what types of softwares are needed during (this) great depression | markessien: This is not a depression, but an idea that would work is the house listing idea. Prices are going down, so speculators are going to rush to purchase. |
what types of softwares are needed during (this) great depression | vaksel: an iphone app that tells you where the soup kitchen is |
what types of softwares are needed during (this) great depression | FiReaNG3L: Common Sense Software, many people who created this mess could use it |
what types of softwares are needed during (this) great depression | andreyf: Well, if Google trends is any indicator of interest: http://google.com/trends?q=porn |
Possible loophole for angel investing net worth restriction? | Tangurena: Those numbers come from the SEC.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investorhttp://www.sec.gov/answers/accred.htmIf you want to incorporate a company in order to make such investments, then you're going to have to register with the SEC. The phrase that comes to mind immediately after "OMG! NO!" is "you'l... |
Why doesn't Google come up with Project Planning service? | gaius: My guess would be that Google is still smarting from this:http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/huddlechat_campfire_rip... |
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