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Who else is hacking a project instead of watching the Super Bowl?

126 points by bdclimber14 16y ago

I'm curious to poll the HN community to see who is working instead of watching the Super Bowl?

Skywing 16y ago
if i'm doing both, does that count?
- tbeseda 16y ago
  That's how I'm rolling... http://cl.ly/4RRV http://cl.ly/4RRV
consultutah 16y ago
That's what I'm talking about. I'm sure that the super bowl is awesome, but now that I have my weekend project (http://goo.gl/JdBqR http://goo.gl/JdBqR) out of the way, I am working on the backend.
coderdude 16y ago
I'm working on my startup. I figured if I can be watching the game I can be working just as well. Work won. :)
mindcrime 16y ago
Count me in; I'm lying in bed with my laptop, hacking (and checking HN every now and then) right now. ATM, I'm trying to remake myself into a UI person (well, at least a half-assed UI person) and trying to clean-up the user-profile form for Quoddy[1]. To hell with football, the Dolphins aren't in the SB, and there's code to be written... [1]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy
- bdclimber14 16y ago
  "there's code to be written..." So true.
  - mindcrime 16y ago
    I should have gone for a way to work in a reference to this quote: There are worlds out there where the skies are burning, where the seas asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke, and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice...and somewhere else the tea is getting cold. Come on Ace...we've got work to do! Oh well, maybe next time...
RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
There's a poll: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2186782 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2186782
- bdclimber14 16y ago
  Do you know how much Karma you need to create a poll? I don't believe I have enough, or don't know how to.
  - tgriesser 16y ago
    I think it's pretty low... http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
    - dreur 16y ago
      20 - At least that what it says when not logged in.
  - bdclimber14 16y ago
    I swear I read somewhere there was a high karma limit. Guess not, thanks.
    - corin_ 16y ago
      It was 200 when it lauched a couple of years ago, not any more.
bluecobalt 16y ago
Working on my startup, getting ready to launch this month, although I think its wonderful that the rest of my nation is really into a Superb Owl.
developingJim 16y ago
Just got done with a 2-3 week binge of programming, taking time to regroup and refocus. Just got done reorganizing all of my research in one note, loaded up on skydrive (impressive how far live has come since I last looked). Ran across this device which I must own: http://www.wirelessgoodness.com/2011/02/04/noteslate-the-100-single-color-tablet-that-will-replace-your-legal-pad-forever/ http://www.wirelessgoodness.com/2011/02/04/noteslate-the-100... Toying with the idea of dumping all of my research out of one note and into the interwebs, raw. Haven't decided one way or another yet.
gsivil 16y ago
Count me in! I am in a bookstore checking HN and putting together some physics related data in Lisp (if this can be considered hacking of course).
bdclimber14 16y ago
Just for the record, I am multi-tasking as well.
PureSin 16y ago
Multi-tasking! Programming isnt really something you can multi task, but I'm only watching forthe commercials and half time show.
sudonim 16y ago
What's a superbowl? Im at the office building a desk for a new dev starting tomorrow, doing some wireframes, and then working on my side project.
- bdclimber14 16y ago
  Rock on, seriously, rock on!
sabj 16y ago
If by hacking project, you mean, "writing my senior thesis," then yes! And if by "writing my senior thesis," you mean, going onto HN instead, then double-yes!
- RK 16y ago
  Not watching the super bowl to write python for my PhD project, but instead checking HN.
peregrine 16y ago
In Wisconsin it is sacrilegious to not watch a Packer game; that said I am still on HN.
michaels0620 16y ago
Why choose? :) I am watching the game (Packers just scored) while working on a hobby game project.
37prime 16y ago
Define "hacking" and "project" please. Well, I'm doing something with PHP and CSS. Does it count?
pbreynolds 16y ago
I'm in the home office with a hot cup of Casi Cielo working in the bowels of CoreText and Quartz for a huge feature update to my iPhone/iPad app. When I need an eyeball break, I walk into the living room to see if I can catch a cool commercial)
rudle 16y ago
Doing both is certainly not difficult, football games feature a lot of downtime. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704281204575002852055561406.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870428120457500...
pdenya 16y ago
...is that today? I've been busy hacking for weeks, didn't even notice.
reneherse 16y ago
Working on my site so i can launch my freelance web design & UX business! Time to get back to wrestling with the CSS, which isn't always easy for us right-brained types :)
cgranade 16y ago
I am. Playing around with Google App Engine and Honeycomb at the same time, making some tools for tabletop gaming. Just uploaded first revision (very feature incomplete) at https://github.com/cgranade/ProjectUmbra/ https://github.com/cgranade/ProjectUmbra/.
FirstHopSystems 16y ago
The super bowl isn't going to code my start-up project for me!
xenophanes 16y ago
I had no idea the super bowl was on today. Or this month...
danenania 16y ago
The only competition going on that I'm aware of is a three-way match-up between python, javascript, and my brain.
snguyen 16y ago
I'm tutoring a compsci student. Does that count?
bdclimber14 16y ago
My bowl game happens to be between Postgre and MySQL. My development environment MySQL instance and Heroku's Postgre are very different with aggregate functions. i.e. How can I possibly select parent rows where ALL children match a certain criteria.
shaunxcode 16y ago
I've been working on finally beating zelda 2 on virtual console, catching up on client work and thinking about my next move with the TryAPL (https://github.com/shaunxcode/TryAPL https://github.com/shaunxcode/TryAPL) project I've been hacking on.
jdp23 16y ago
me -- social hacking rather than code, but still ... http://bit.ly/no2hr514 http://bit.ly/no2hr514
jrockway 16y ago
I didn't even know it was today until all these Super Bowl articles started showing up. I was happy that the Bears lost a few weeks ago because it means I have another year to be able to walk around in my neighborhood without being hit by drunk drivers. (I live right by soldier field, and it seems they don't let you drive away from it unless you are utterly tanked. Someone ran a red light and was inches away from hitting a baby in a stroller. What the fuck.)
- deleted 16y ago
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- cbo 16y ago
  Sometimes it's hard to cheer for sports teams when you see the havoc their fans wreak. I used to think Chicago had it bad, but I have since learned that we're actually pretty tame when it comes to sports riots (at least until the Cubs finally win). Reference: Montreal.
anigbrowl 16y ago
I'm doing both...
d3fun 16y ago
there are bugs to fix..
vito 16y ago
I'm putting together the release notes for the most substantial update for any project I've ever done. Probably shouldn't release yet if everyone's watching the Superbowl. Tomorrow it is? http://atomo-lang.org/notes/0.4 http://atomo-lang.org/notes/0.4
mcantelon 16y ago
Yup... added support for ignore files to my CLI util (written in node.js) for managing dotfiles using git: https://github.com/mcantelon/node-deja https://github.com/mcantelon/node-deja
joe6pack 16y ago
I'm not naturally a sports fan, but I always find it good for social purposes to stay at least marginally aware of them (at least the major events). So, hacking in front of the TV for a change. That said, football brings to mind a great PG quote: "Kids are sent off to spend six years memorizing meaningless facts in a world ruled by a caste of giants who run after an oblong brown ball, as if this were the most natural thing in the world."
zinssmeister 16y ago
Totally! Hacking away since 24h on my project: http://www.virtualrockstars.com http://www.virtualrockstars.com My wife across the room is also hacking on something for SXSWi. Love being married to another coder!
- mbm 16y ago
  That's awesome.
raganwald 16y ago
Got dynamic class loading working for my Faux framework yesterday. I guess I really ought to write a blog post about it tonight, but for now this sketchy overview will have to do: https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2011/02/misadventure_part_iv.md#readme https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2011/02/...
AdamTReineke 16y ago
I'm watching Murder! by Hitchcock as homework for my film studies class. First time in years that I haven't watched the game.
Breefield 16y ago
I'm working on an AM/PM taskmanager circle-clock. http://breefield.com/lab/days/ http://breefield.com/lab/days/ Japanese characters are via Google translate, probably horribly wrong, but mostly for aesthetic.
ronaktal 16y ago
I've been working on Datkey.com for a white and it's way more fun than superbowl...that's just me though
keithburgun 16y ago
Oh crap, was that today?
ericmsimons 16y ago
Watch a few dozen guys play with balls for a few hours or work on an unbelievably cool project...I'll stick with the latter :)
cperciva 16y ago
I was playing music from Borodin's Prince Igor at an orchestra concert this afternoon; does that count? (We had a good audience, too -- I have a feeling that the set of people who attend classical music concerts doesn't overlap very much with the set of people who watch football.)
keithba 16y ago
Too true - I've been leanring Ruby on Rails 3 + Koala + omniauth today. Lots of fun...
sim0n 16y ago
Yep! Working on my startup: www.interstateapp.com :)
jenn 16y ago
I've been taking a break from working on http://101in365.com http://101in365.com to watch the commercials sometimes, but yeah... hacking on a project is way more fun! Managed to get a lot done today too! Good that my friends have all be pre-occupied by the game so I can concentrate!
LeachyPeachy 16y ago
I am working. I am the CTO for Alliance Acquisitions (http://www.alliance-acquisitions.com http://www.alliance-acquisitions.com) Much left to get done.
jarin 16y ago
I'm doing both, since neither team is my team I'm only half paying attention to it. I also think it's hilarious how so many techies love to brag about not caring about football. I'd have thought that hackers would enjoy the complexity of the game (most of the programmers I know love football, and meeting up for beers on football Sundays is a ritual for us).
- jedberg 16y ago
  People think that sports and programming are mutually exclusive for some reason. As if you can't be a good programmer unless you hate sports. Personally, I like to hack and I hold football season tickets.
  - SapphireSun 16y ago
    I don't watch sports, but a good half of my team at work does.
  - tejaswiy 16y ago
    My attention span is way too low for something like Football. I love soccer because most of the time, people are actually playing instead of standing around.
    - jff 16y ago
      I find that in soccer they're usually rolling around on the ground peeking out from behind their hands. Also, maybe if anybody ever scored in soccer it would be a little more interesting. At least hockey has better fights and the players don't fall down so much.
- evanhanson 16y ago
  The complexity is actually one of the reason's I'm less attracted to American football than, say, soccer. In my experience programmers like simplicity and elegance, of which the NFL, with its large collection of seemingly arbitrary rules, has neither. That's not to say I don't enjoy watching it (especially being a Wisconsinite...).
brennannovak 16y ago
Yup! Hacking happily away on http://social-igniter.com http://social-igniter.com couldn't care less about the Super Bowl- I don't even know who's playing.
emartin24 16y ago
I'm doing a bit of both ;) Hacking a WordPress theme for http://beyondthefocus.com http://beyondthefocus.com while watching bits of the game & commercials.
irae 16y ago
Not realy hacking, bug I'm bugfixing as webOS app =)
zmitri 16y ago
Wow, I didn't even think of it, but yes, I am hacking on a new rails project instead of watching the superbowl.
jedberg 16y ago
Can't I do both? :) I'm on my laptop hacking while sitting in front of the TV. Also I'm watching my website traffic do this: http://www.reddit.com/tb/fgjid http://www.reddit.com/tb/fgjid
- yakto 16y ago
  Yup, doing both here, too. Was hoping for another halftime wardrobe malfunction, and getting close to having invite codes ready: http://yak.to http://yak.to
  - jedberg 16y ago
    I just looked at your site, but I have no idea if I want an invite code. :) Perhaps you could put at least some sort of teaser on the homepage as to what problem you might be solving or at least some clue as to the problem space.
    - yakto 16y ago
      Thanks for the feedback. Still trying to figure out the one-liner. The current meta description tag has the latest tagline: Overshare Anything. I've been inspired most by Reddit (thanks again jedberg), but Yak is more playful, flirty, and local.
  - TheAmazingIdiot 16y ago
    I'm interested to see what it is. If you pass an invite code, I'll be glad to play with it and report bugs I run in to. My email is in my profile.
derrida 16y ago
What is the "Super Bowl"?
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thascales 16y ago
I'm chipping away at rewriting my uni's timetabling system. I am very full of caffeine.
Mmccue 16y ago
I'm drawing sketches for next ver of Flipboard while watching superbowl on twitter on flight to SFO. Does that count?
Mmccue 16y ago
I'm drawing sketches for next ver of Flipboard while watching superbowl on twitter on flight to SFO. Does that count?
Mmccue 16y ago
I'm drawing sketches for next ver of Flipboard while watching superbowl on twitter on flight to SFO. Does that count?
NZ_Matt 16y ago
Oh America are playing their version of rugby today? I did wonder why my twitter timeline suddenly filled up with tweets about commercials :P
- paylesworth 16y ago
  Yes, sadly our version of "rugby" features lots of standing around, pads, and helmet-induced concussions. Are you gearing up for the Rugby World cup in your backyard this year?
  - barrydahlberg 16y ago
    It is actually having quite an impact in Auckland. I don't care too much for the rugby, but I welcome any improvements to our transport system etc. http://www.auckland2011.com/Getting-Auckland-ready.aspx http://www.auckland2011.com/Getting-Auckland-ready.aspx
mgkimsal 16y ago
Doing project work (not my own though) but definitely not watching the super bowl. Had a nice dinner with my wife, now back to hacking.
Mmccue 16y ago
I'm drawing sketches for new version of Flipboard while watching game via twitter (on flt).
cmeiklejohn 16y ago
Definitely. Startup work in full effect.
kgutteridge 16y ago
Well actually just given up as its late UK time, always get a lot done in the quiet time on Sunday evenings when no one else is about!
eswat 16y ago
Ever since I left my old job (heavy football culture) I haven’t really gave a damn for handegg. Working on my local city bus webapp instead. The new FUEL PHP framework is great, BTW.
h3xdump 16y ago
Oh. Wait, the Superbowl was this weekend? Oops. All I knew was that Pittsburgh was playing Green Bay.
ylem 16y ago
Does running an experiment count?
flipdeadshot 16y ago
Did anyone else have the misfortune of seeing the halftime show? The biggest stage in the world, and they get the black eyed peas to perform?
adnam 16y ago
I'm watching my first ever super bowl, and I'm full of chilli dogs. It's 2.30 am and I'm at work in 5 hours :-/
DarrenLehane 16y ago
There are two types of people: Those who watch the Super Bowl, and those who run ads during the Super Bowl.
andywood 16y ago
Sort of. I'm finally getting around to making a bandcamp page for my unreleased music: http://cubit.bandcamp.com/ http://cubit.bandcamp.com/ This is a direct reaction to seeing this excellent chart from the "Knack for Getting Money" thread, and wanting to move as much finished work as I can from the middle category to the right-hand category: http://joeyroth.com/charlatan-martyr-hustler/ http://joeyroth.com/charlatan-martyr-hustler/
jasongullickson 16y ago
Working on my new smartphone project.
burgerbrain 16y ago
Does brewing beer count? -dashes off as his wort boils over-
covati 16y ago
For sure, I'm hacking away on some utilities ArgyleSocial.com, while the wife watches a Masterpiece Theatre movie. The Super...what is on tonight? :)
lewq 16y ago
Building a query cache for the distributed proxying layer in http://www.hybrid-sites.com/tech/ http://www.hybrid-sites.com/tech/ - much better than this "football" of which you speak ;-)
johnnyjung 16y ago
Starting a project for my cs class...due tomorrow.
sigzero 16y ago
I am in a Python class getting to take a quiz.
pinchyfingers 16y ago
Visiting my girlfriend's dad at the cancer center. He is a lifelong Steelers fan. I am a lifelong coder. The game is on, but I am sitting here working on a Django app.
efnx 16y ago
I am! I'm working on a modular synthesizer. But I've taken a couple breaks to get food and catch up with friends partying downstairs...
manus 16y ago
My bowl is business casual, wearing glasses, raised in Kansas.
oxtopus 16y ago
I plotted the week's hourly average Locational Marginal Pricing (LMP) as reported by ERCOT, looking into the "rolling blackouts" in Texas. http://bit.ly/f1lXqk http://bit.ly/f1lXqk
digiru 16y ago
The super bowl is today? I'm hacking Spork!
peter_l_downs 16y ago
I am! I've been fixing up my side project, www.bookshrink.com, which I recently submitted here and got a bunch of feedback on. What project are you working on?
Pyrodogg 16y ago
Working on personal projects tonight. Nothing that'll make me money directly but it's enhancing my skill set. Don't have the game on in the background even, no tv reception. It simplifies life quite a bit.
olalonde 16y ago
Mostly watching the commercials...
GiraffeNecktie 16y ago
Some of us just weren't born with the sports-watching gene. You'd have to pay me, and pay me well, to watch the SuperBowl or any other TV sports (they're all equally tedious, in my eyes). And, in answer to your probable question, no I'm not female or gay.
jamesmiller5 16y ago
Definitely working on my blog.
blhack 16y ago
I'm working on setting a new layout for thingist (the current one [http://thingist.com http://thingist.com] looks terrible). The new layout is here: http://dev.thingist.com/index.html http://dev.thingist.com/index.html nothing here will work properly, though, and it will probably blip in and out of actually working (it's a staging server [well, a virtual one]).
- sfphotoarts 16y ago
  agreed on the current, and the new one seems broken.
  - blhack 16y ago
    Yeah, I'm still working on getting the new one into the code. Unfortunately, it's more than just a simple css file rewrite. edit: new layout is pretty much applied (to the staging [virtual] server).
Vivtek 16y ago
Super What now? Oh, you mean that new-commercial showcase everybody talks about? Most of them were on YouTube yesterday.
paylesworth 16y ago
I'm hacking my pantry. Right now, making chicken stock by using leftover carcasses from whole chickens that I cut-up myself in the last few months. Will freeze the stock to keep it up to 3 - 4 months and during that time can cut-up some more chickens to use in the next cycle. The stock is very simple to make and involves mostly inactive cook time (3-4 hrs simmering) and it teaches you to work with whole chicken rather than cut-up parts, making it more economical. And, it makes your house smell wonderfully delicious :)
- sgallant 16y ago
  Hah, I'm doing the same thing. But I'm using my stock for fresh chicken soup. It's a good break from hacking. Super bowl (of soup).
daspecster 16y ago
...Are you stalking me?
arjn 16y ago
I have zero interest in football (and its not really football anyways ;)
- mediaslave 16y ago
  I call it American Tackleball...
pjscott 16y ago
I noticed that there seems to be no easy way for Haskell programmers to use bcrypt, so I made something similar, with the goal of making good security trivial. It's just a slick API around PBKDF1, with painless support for increasing the number of iterations: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pwstore-fast http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pwstore-fast Now I've just got to persuade a few people to switch away from insecure methods.
gourneau 16y ago
I was able to get shoehorn jquery-facebook-multi-friend-selector (https://github.com/mbrevoort/jquery-facebook-multi-friend-selector https://github.com/mbrevoort/jquery-facebook-multi-friend-se...) To work for a beautiful mobile app I am working on, that I hope to show off soon.
girlvinyl 16y ago
I've been working on my project non-stop this weekend and yesterday was my birthday. Took a dinner and cake break and got back to it. When you're really into something, it's all you can think about!
ajaimk 16y ago
Amen to that
atgm 16y ago
I am. I come up with a dumb little site idea and decided to implement it using PHP and the 960.gs system, both things I want more practice with. Also tried out some new (to me) Photoshop techniques to try to modernize my design style.
tony_landis 16y ago
SuperBowl? http://github.com/tony-landis/PonyExpress http://github.com/tony-landis/PonyExpress It needs a few more hours of for docs and testing before it is ready.
apperoid 16y ago
What is Super Bowl?
espeed 16y ago
Yeah, just started it two days ago -- http://developers.propagandaproject.org http://developers.propagandaproject.org
jc123 16y ago
Watched a little and spent time debugging why Facebook invites with fb:multi-friend-selector were not working (serverfbml leading to 404). I solved it and Facebook's new https feature, if enabled by the user, is the cause :( Filed bug: http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=15066 http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=15066
ajray 16y ago
Doing circuit board layout and ordering samples online for my next embedded electronics project.
jff 16y ago
Oh that superbowl thing? Yeah I just found out they played one last February, I guess that's cool, does it happen every year? I wouldn't know, I'm not one of those proletariat mouth-breathing football fans, it's not even real football anyway. Instead I've been hacking a RESTful Ruby on Rails application that combines social media, blogging, and Markov chaining, all in 200 lines.
hydrazine 16y ago
Pacman AI > Superbowl!

126 points by bdclimber14 16y ago

I'm curious to poll the HN community to see who is working instead of watching the Super Bowl?

Skywing 16y ago

if i'm doing both, does that count?

tbeseda 16y ago
That's how I'm rolling... http://cl.ly/4RRV http://cl.ly/4RRV

consultutah 16y ago

That's what I'm talking about. I'm sure that the super bowl is awesome, but now that I have my weekend project (http://goo.gl/JdBqR http://goo.gl/JdBqR) out of the way, I am working on the backend.

coderdude 16y ago

I'm working on my startup. I figured if I can be watching the game I can be working just as well. Work won. :)

mindcrime 16y ago

Count me in; I'm lying in bed with my laptop, hacking (and checking HN every now and then) right now. ATM, I'm trying to remake myself into a UI person (well, at least a half-assed UI person) and trying to clean-up the user-profile form for Quoddy[1]. To hell with football, the Dolphins aren't in the SB, and there's code to be written... [1]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy

bdclimber14 16y ago
"there's code to be written..." So true.
- mindcrime 16y ago
  I should have gone for a way to work in a reference to this quote: There are worlds out there where the skies are burning, where the seas asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke, and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice...and somewhere else the tea is getting cold. Come on Ace...we've got work to do! Oh well, maybe next time...

RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago

There's a poll: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2186782 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2186782

bdclimber14 16y ago
Do you know how much Karma you need to create a poll? I don't believe I have enough, or don't know how to.
- tgriesser 16y ago
  I think it's pretty low... http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
  - dreur 16y ago
    20 - At least that what it says when not logged in.
- bdclimber14 16y ago
  I swear I read somewhere there was a high karma limit. Guess not, thanks.
  - corin_ 16y ago
    It was 200 when it lauched a couple of years ago, not any more.

bluecobalt 16y ago

Working on my startup, getting ready to launch this month, although I think its wonderful that the rest of my nation is really into a Superb Owl.

developingJim 16y ago

Just got done with a 2-3 week binge of programming, taking time to regroup and refocus. Just got done reorganizing all of my research in one note, loaded up on skydrive (impressive how far live has come since I last looked). Ran across this device which I must own: http://www.wirelessgoodness.com/2011/02/04/noteslate-the-100-single-color-tablet-that-will-replace-your-legal-pad-forever/ http://www.wirelessgoodness.com/2011/02/04/noteslate-the-100... Toying with the idea of dumping all of my research out of one note and into the interwebs, raw. Haven't decided one way or another yet.

gsivil 16y ago

Count me in! I am in a bookstore checking HN and putting together some physics related data in Lisp (if this can be considered hacking of course).

bdclimber14 16y ago

Just for the record, I am multi-tasking as well.

PureSin 16y ago

Multi-tasking! Programming isnt really something you can multi task, but I'm only watching forthe commercials and half time show.

sudonim 16y ago

What's a superbowl? Im at the office building a desk for a new dev starting tomorrow, doing some wireframes, and then working on my side project.

bdclimber14 16y ago
Rock on, seriously, rock on!

sabj 16y ago

If by hacking project, you mean, "writing my senior thesis," then yes! And if by "writing my senior thesis," you mean, going onto HN instead, then double-yes!

RK 16y ago
Not watching the super bowl to write python for my PhD project, but instead checking HN.

peregrine 16y ago

In Wisconsin it is sacrilegious to not watch a Packer game; that said I am still on HN.

michaels0620 16y ago

Why choose? :) I am watching the game (Packers just scored) while working on a hobby game project.

37prime 16y ago

Define "hacking" and "project" please. Well, I'm doing something with PHP and CSS. Does it count?

pbreynolds 16y ago

I'm in the home office with a hot cup of Casi Cielo working in the bowels of CoreText and Quartz for a huge feature update to my iPhone/iPad app. When I need an eyeball break, I walk into the living room to see if I can catch a cool commercial)

rudle 16y ago

Doing both is certainly not difficult, football games feature a lot of downtime. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704281204575002852055561406.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870428120457500...

pdenya 16y ago

...is that today? I've been busy hacking for weeks, didn't even notice.

reneherse 16y ago

Working on my site so i can launch my freelance web design & UX business! Time to get back to wrestling with the CSS, which isn't always easy for us right-brained types :)

cgranade 16y ago

I am. Playing around with Google App Engine and Honeycomb at the same time, making some tools for tabletop gaming. Just uploaded first revision (very feature incomplete) at https://github.com/cgranade/ProjectUmbra/ https://github.com/cgranade/ProjectUmbra/.

FirstHopSystems 16y ago

The super bowl isn't going to code my start-up project for me!

xenophanes 16y ago

I had no idea the super bowl was on today. Or this month...

danenania 16y ago

The only competition going on that I'm aware of is a three-way match-up between python, javascript, and my brain.

snguyen 16y ago

I'm tutoring a compsci student. Does that count?

bdclimber14 16y ago

My bowl game happens to be between Postgre and MySQL. My development environment MySQL instance and Heroku's Postgre are very different with aggregate functions. i.e. How can I possibly select parent rows where ALL children match a certain criteria.

shaunxcode 16y ago

I've been working on finally beating zelda 2 on virtual console, catching up on client work and thinking about my next move with the TryAPL (https://github.com/shaunxcode/TryAPL https://github.com/shaunxcode/TryAPL) project I've been hacking on.

jdp23 16y ago

me -- social hacking rather than code, but still ... http://bit.ly/no2hr514 http://bit.ly/no2hr514

jrockway 16y ago

I didn't even know it was today until all these Super Bowl articles started showing up. I was happy that the Bears lost a few weeks ago because it means I have another year to be able to walk around in my neighborhood without being hit by drunk drivers. (I live right by soldier field, and it seems they don't let you drive away from it unless you are utterly tanked. Someone ran a red light and was inches away from hitting a baby in a stroller. What the fuck.)

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cbo 16y ago
Sometimes it's hard to cheer for sports teams when you see the havoc their fans wreak. I used to think Chicago had it bad, but I have since learned that we're actually pretty tame when it comes to sports riots (at least until the Cubs finally win). Reference: Montreal.

anigbrowl 16y ago

I'm doing both...

d3fun 16y ago

there are bugs to fix..

vito 16y ago

I'm putting together the release notes for the most substantial update for any project I've ever done. Probably shouldn't release yet if everyone's watching the Superbowl. Tomorrow it is? http://atomo-lang.org/notes/0.4 http://atomo-lang.org/notes/0.4

mcantelon 16y ago

Yup... added support for ignore files to my CLI util (written in node.js) for managing dotfiles using git: https://github.com/mcantelon/node-deja https://github.com/mcantelon/node-deja

joe6pack 16y ago

I'm not naturally a sports fan, but I always find it good for social purposes to stay at least marginally aware of them (at least the major events). So, hacking in front of the TV for a change. That said, football brings to mind a great PG quote: "Kids are sent off to spend six years memorizing meaningless facts in a world ruled by a caste of giants who run after an oblong brown ball, as if this were the most natural thing in the world."

zinssmeister 16y ago

Totally! Hacking away since 24h on my project: http://www.virtualrockstars.com http://www.virtualrockstars.com My wife across the room is also hacking on something for SXSWi. Love being married to another coder!

mbm 16y ago
That's awesome.

raganwald 16y ago

Got dynamic class loading working for my Faux framework yesterday. I guess I really ought to write a blog post about it tonight, but for now this sketchy overview will have to do: https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2011/02/misadventure_part_iv.md#readme https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2011/02/...

AdamTReineke 16y ago

I'm watching Murder! by Hitchcock as homework for my film studies class. First time in years that I haven't watched the game.

Breefield 16y ago

I'm working on an AM/PM taskmanager circle-clock. http://breefield.com/lab/days/ http://breefield.com/lab/days/ Japanese characters are via Google translate, probably horribly wrong, but mostly for aesthetic.

ronaktal 16y ago

I've been working on Datkey.com for a white and it's way more fun than superbowl...that's just me though

keithburgun 16y ago

Oh crap, was that today?

ericmsimons 16y ago

Watch a few dozen guys play with balls for a few hours or work on an unbelievably cool project...I'll stick with the latter :)

cperciva 16y ago

I was playing music from Borodin's Prince Igor at an orchestra concert this afternoon; does that count? (We had a good audience, too -- I have a feeling that the set of people who attend classical music concerts doesn't overlap very much with the set of people who watch football.)

keithba 16y ago

Too true - I've been leanring Ruby on Rails 3 + Koala + omniauth today. Lots of fun...

sim0n 16y ago

Yep! Working on my startup: www.interstateapp.com :)

jenn 16y ago

I've been taking a break from working on http://101in365.com http://101in365.com to watch the commercials sometimes, but yeah... hacking on a project is way more fun! Managed to get a lot done today too! Good that my friends have all be pre-occupied by the game so I can concentrate!

LeachyPeachy 16y ago

I am working. I am the CTO for Alliance Acquisitions (http://www.alliance-acquisitions.com http://www.alliance-acquisitions.com) Much left to get done.

jarin 16y ago

I'm doing both, since neither team is my team I'm only half paying attention to it. I also think it's hilarious how so many techies love to brag about not caring about football. I'd have thought that hackers would enjoy the complexity of the game (most of the programmers I know love football, and meeting up for beers on football Sundays is a ritual for us).

jedberg 16y ago
People think that sports and programming are mutually exclusive for some reason. As if you can't be a good programmer unless you hate sports. Personally, I like to hack and I hold football season tickets.
- SapphireSun 16y ago
  I don't watch sports, but a good half of my team at work does.
- tejaswiy 16y ago
  My attention span is way too low for something like Football. I love soccer because most of the time, people are actually playing instead of standing around.
  - jff 16y ago
    I find that in soccer they're usually rolling around on the ground peeking out from behind their hands. Also, maybe if anybody ever scored in soccer it would be a little more interesting. At least hockey has better fights and the players don't fall down so much.
evanhanson 16y ago
The complexity is actually one of the reason's I'm less attracted to American football than, say, soccer. In my experience programmers like simplicity and elegance, of which the NFL, with its large collection of seemingly arbitrary rules, has neither. That's not to say I don't enjoy watching it (especially being a Wisconsinite...).

brennannovak 16y ago

Yup! Hacking happily away on http://social-igniter.com http://social-igniter.com couldn't care less about the Super Bowl- I don't even know who's playing.

emartin24 16y ago

I'm doing a bit of both ;) Hacking a WordPress theme for http://beyondthefocus.com http://beyondthefocus.com while watching bits of the game & commercials.

irae 16y ago

Not realy hacking, bug I'm bugfixing as webOS app =)

zmitri 16y ago

Wow, I didn't even think of it, but yes, I am hacking on a new rails project instead of watching the superbowl.

jedberg 16y ago

Can't I do both? :) I'm on my laptop hacking while sitting in front of the TV. Also I'm watching my website traffic do this: http://www.reddit.com/tb/fgjid http://www.reddit.com/tb/fgjid

yakto 16y ago
Yup, doing both here, too. Was hoping for another halftime wardrobe malfunction, and getting close to having invite codes ready: http://yak.to http://yak.to
- jedberg 16y ago
  I just looked at your site, but I have no idea if I want an invite code. :) Perhaps you could put at least some sort of teaser on the homepage as to what problem you might be solving or at least some clue as to the problem space.
  - yakto 16y ago
    Thanks for the feedback. Still trying to figure out the one-liner. The current meta description tag has the latest tagline: Overshare Anything. I've been inspired most by Reddit (thanks again jedberg), but Yak is more playful, flirty, and local.
- TheAmazingIdiot 16y ago
  I'm interested to see what it is. If you pass an invite code, I'll be glad to play with it and report bugs I run in to. My email is in my profile.

derrida 16y ago

What is the "Super Bowl"?

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thascales 16y ago

I'm chipping away at rewriting my uni's timetabling system. I am very full of caffeine.

Mmccue 16y ago

I'm drawing sketches for next ver of Flipboard while watching superbowl on twitter on flight to SFO. Does that count?

Mmccue 16y ago

I'm drawing sketches for next ver of Flipboard while watching superbowl on twitter on flight to SFO. Does that count?

Mmccue 16y ago

I'm drawing sketches for next ver of Flipboard while watching superbowl on twitter on flight to SFO. Does that count?

NZ_Matt 16y ago

Oh America are playing their version of rugby today? I did wonder why my twitter timeline suddenly filled up with tweets about commercials :P

paylesworth 16y ago
Yes, sadly our version of "rugby" features lots of standing around, pads, and helmet-induced concussions. Are you gearing up for the Rugby World cup in your backyard this year?
- barrydahlberg 16y ago
  It is actually having quite an impact in Auckland. I don't care too much for the rugby, but I welcome any improvements to our transport system etc. http://www.auckland2011.com/Getting-Auckland-ready.aspx http://www.auckland2011.com/Getting-Auckland-ready.aspx

mgkimsal 16y ago

Doing project work (not my own though) but definitely not watching the super bowl. Had a nice dinner with my wife, now back to hacking.

Mmccue 16y ago

I'm drawing sketches for new version of Flipboard while watching game via twitter (on flt).

cmeiklejohn 16y ago

Definitely. Startup work in full effect.

kgutteridge 16y ago

Well actually just given up as its late UK time, always get a lot done in the quiet time on Sunday evenings when no one else is about!

eswat 16y ago

Ever since I left my old job (heavy football culture) I haven’t really gave a damn for handegg. Working on my local city bus webapp instead. The new FUEL PHP framework is great, BTW.

h3xdump 16y ago

Oh. Wait, the Superbowl was this weekend? Oops. All I knew was that Pittsburgh was playing Green Bay.

ylem 16y ago

Does running an experiment count?

flipdeadshot 16y ago

Did anyone else have the misfortune of seeing the halftime show? The biggest stage in the world, and they get the black eyed peas to perform?

adnam 16y ago

I'm watching my first ever super bowl, and I'm full of chilli dogs. It's 2.30 am and I'm at work in 5 hours :-/

DarrenLehane 16y ago

There are two types of people: Those who watch the Super Bowl, and those who run ads during the Super Bowl.

andywood 16y ago

Sort of. I'm finally getting around to making a bandcamp page for my unreleased music: http://cubit.bandcamp.com/ http://cubit.bandcamp.com/ This is a direct reaction to seeing this excellent chart from the "Knack for Getting Money" thread, and wanting to move as much finished work as I can from the middle category to the right-hand category: http://joeyroth.com/charlatan-martyr-hustler/ http://joeyroth.com/charlatan-martyr-hustler/

jasongullickson 16y ago

Working on my new smartphone project.

burgerbrain 16y ago

Does brewing beer count? -dashes off as his wort boils over-

covati 16y ago

For sure, I'm hacking away on some utilities ArgyleSocial.com, while the wife watches a Masterpiece Theatre movie. The Super...what is on tonight? :)

lewq 16y ago

Building a query cache for the distributed proxying layer in http://www.hybrid-sites.com/tech/ http://www.hybrid-sites.com/tech/ - much better than this "football" of which you speak ;-)

johnnyjung 16y ago

Starting a project for my cs class...due tomorrow.

sigzero 16y ago

I am in a Python class getting to take a quiz.

pinchyfingers 16y ago

Visiting my girlfriend's dad at the cancer center. He is a lifelong Steelers fan. I am a lifelong coder. The game is on, but I am sitting here working on a Django app.

efnx 16y ago

I am! I'm working on a modular synthesizer. But I've taken a couple breaks to get food and catch up with friends partying downstairs...

manus 16y ago

My bowl is business casual, wearing glasses, raised in Kansas.

oxtopus 16y ago

I plotted the week's hourly average Locational Marginal Pricing (LMP) as reported by ERCOT, looking into the "rolling blackouts" in Texas. http://bit.ly/f1lXqk http://bit.ly/f1lXqk

digiru 16y ago

The super bowl is today? I'm hacking Spork!

peter_l_downs 16y ago

I am! I've been fixing up my side project, www.bookshrink.com, which I recently submitted here and got a bunch of feedback on. What project are you working on?

Pyrodogg 16y ago

Working on personal projects tonight. Nothing that'll make me money directly but it's enhancing my skill set. Don't have the game on in the background even, no tv reception. It simplifies life quite a bit.

olalonde 16y ago

Mostly watching the commercials...

GiraffeNecktie 16y ago

Some of us just weren't born with the sports-watching gene. You'd have to pay me, and pay me well, to watch the SuperBowl or any other TV sports (they're all equally tedious, in my eyes). And, in answer to your probable question, no I'm not female or gay.

jamesmiller5 16y ago

Definitely working on my blog.

blhack 16y ago

I'm working on setting a new layout for thingist (the current one [http://thingist.com http://thingist.com] looks terrible). The new layout is here: http://dev.thingist.com/index.html http://dev.thingist.com/index.html nothing here will work properly, though, and it will probably blip in and out of actually working (it's a staging server [well, a virtual one]).

sfphotoarts 16y ago
agreed on the current, and the new one seems broken.
- blhack 16y ago
  Yeah, I'm still working on getting the new one into the code. Unfortunately, it's more than just a simple css file rewrite. edit: new layout is pretty much applied (to the staging [virtual] server).

Vivtek 16y ago

Super What now? Oh, you mean that new-commercial showcase everybody talks about? Most of them were on YouTube yesterday.

paylesworth 16y ago

I'm hacking my pantry. Right now, making chicken stock by using leftover carcasses from whole chickens that I cut-up myself in the last few months. Will freeze the stock to keep it up to 3 - 4 months and during that time can cut-up some more chickens to use in the next cycle. The stock is very simple to make and involves mostly inactive cook time (3-4 hrs simmering) and it teaches you to work with whole chicken rather than cut-up parts, making it more economical. And, it makes your house smell wonderfully delicious :)

sgallant 16y ago
Hah, I'm doing the same thing. But I'm using my stock for fresh chicken soup. It's a good break from hacking. Super bowl (of soup).

daspecster 16y ago

...Are you stalking me?

arjn 16y ago

I have zero interest in football (and its not really football anyways ;)

mediaslave 16y ago
I call it American Tackleball...

pjscott 16y ago

I noticed that there seems to be no easy way for Haskell programmers to use bcrypt, so I made something similar, with the goal of making good security trivial. It's just a slick API around PBKDF1, with painless support for increasing the number of iterations: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pwstore-fast http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pwstore-fast Now I've just got to persuade a few people to switch away from insecure methods.

gourneau 16y ago

I was able to get shoehorn jquery-facebook-multi-friend-selector (https://github.com/mbrevoort/jquery-facebook-multi-friend-selector https://github.com/mbrevoort/jquery-facebook-multi-friend-se...) To work for a beautiful mobile app I am working on, that I hope to show off soon.

girlvinyl 16y ago

I've been working on my project non-stop this weekend and yesterday was my birthday. Took a dinner and cake break and got back to it. When you're really into something, it's all you can think about!

ajaimk 16y ago

Amen to that

atgm 16y ago

I am. I come up with a dumb little site idea and decided to implement it using PHP and the 960.gs system, both things I want more practice with. Also tried out some new (to me) Photoshop techniques to try to modernize my design style.

tony_landis 16y ago

SuperBowl? http://github.com/tony-landis/PonyExpress http://github.com/tony-landis/PonyExpress It needs a few more hours of for docs and testing before it is ready.

apperoid 16y ago

What is Super Bowl?

espeed 16y ago

Yeah, just started it two days ago -- http://developers.propagandaproject.org http://developers.propagandaproject.org

jc123 16y ago

Watched a little and spent time debugging why Facebook invites with fb:multi-friend-selector were not working (serverfbml leading to 404). I solved it and Facebook's new https feature, if enabled by the user, is the cause :( Filed bug: http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=15066 http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=15066

ajray 16y ago

Doing circuit board layout and ordering samples online for my next embedded electronics project.

jff 16y ago

Oh that superbowl thing? Yeah I just found out they played one last February, I guess that's cool, does it happen every year? I wouldn't know, I'm not one of those proletariat mouth-breathing football fans, it's not even real football anyway. Instead I've been hacking a RESTful Ruby on Rails application that combines social media, blogging, and Markov chaining, all in 200 lines.

hydrazine 16y ago

Pacman AI > Superbowl!