[dzink]

Nice work! In order to balance my project and school I ended up taking 2 hour naps around 6pm (right after school) to refresh my brain for coding between 8pm and 4am, then napping again till 8am for the 9am till 5pm cycle. The good news was that the project I was building allowed me to post all of my side projects for others to be able to contribute to and see all cool projects done around me ( http://doerhub.com ) , so now that both helps me jump back on the bandwagon faster and energizes my new cycle of work.

[JTenerife]

Uhh, that's hardcore. On the one hand I admire that kind of energy and your results, on the other I'm old enough to see the risks. I hope that was only over a small period of time. Let me generalize without knowing you :-): You need to sleep more at night. It's all about waves. If you overstress during productivity periods your brain will go to a forced shut down afterwards. That can trigger serious issues (burnout a.ka.a. depression).

[dzink]

Yeah, it lasted about 2 months. Now I can only do it a couple of times a week unless absolutely necessary. Instead of coffee I used milk/high protein foods to keep the brain going. At one point it got so bad I couldn't recognize myself and I think I lost a good friend in the process. Another hacker friend who tried this approach said it only worked for him if the naps were perfectly timed - you shift by one hour and you turn into a monster. (he promptly lifted his hands waving frantically and screeched to demonstrate) If you make one of the naps last more than 4 hours, I think you can get some REM sleep and last longer.

[uioffoo]

Why don't go fuck yourself ? Every time I see your comment I always wonder why the FUCK you post link to your website. I mean, just see your own comment history. We all know you are girl who code, so there are thousands many like you , more smarter , brilliant than you. Don't for FUCKING sake relate everything to you. Its like saying I am super hard worker and everyone else is stupid. Again, go fuck yourself

[dzink]

If you're taking the time to dig through my posts and/or remember them then I assume you stick around as a more active member of this community and create a fake account to vent. So I'll reply for you and for others who may think like you.

I LOVE building things and creating things that add value. That's it! The world can be a very very lonely place for someone like me and many others here. I try to find the handful of people who do that in my real-world community, because only a handful of my 1500+ peers do what we do here. Three of us are so desperate, we are actually teaching hacking culture and development skills to 190 non-tech classmates, just so we can have a common language with them.

That is why I come to HN. To find other doers and share work and get feedback and grow and help others who are facing the same issues. (I am away from the Silicon Valley for 5 more months, but it feels like an eternity of living on another planet) I'd much rather talk about projects than gossip or news and I miss this type of community in real life so much that I've built a full-blown site that allows people like me to team up, and do things for each-other, and discuss projects tackling cool stuff, regardless of who we know or where we are located. It's working and I keep building it without 1 cent of compensation from anyone, because it has to exist. I am also building a people search tool, mobile apps, wearable apps, and a drone, and mentoring a bunch of other entrepreneurs in the making (who found me because they saw my projects). I vote with my time and I am what I do. Thousands of others are here doing the same.

If we see a problem we tackle it. The AMA was done to help. As you can see I haven't posted any of my projects for scrutiny on HN yet because I'm busting my ass to make them good enough to be worth your time.

I'd rather do constructive stuff, than spend it in a flame war, so please do all of the things you accuse me of doing - post your web site, relate this stuff to you, show how hard you work, show what got you fired up to do what you are doing, and what you've learned, and let's talk about that instead.

[etjossem]

There's nothing remotely egotistical about what dzink is saying. In no way is she putting other people down, let alone saying "everyone else is stupid." This is one of the few places on the internet I can go and expect to have a civil conversation, and you're ruining it for me.

You are obviously new here, so I'll explain: people post links to their own projects and seek out constructive feedback all the time on HN, and it's totally acceptable. "Fuck you" is not.

Edit: thanks for the downvote, I would have done it if I could.

[visakanv]

Hey, I'm sorry that somebody else is getting you down. Is everything okay? Are you going through any sort of trouble?

I ask not to be condescending or sarcastic, but because there are usually deeper causes for such anger and aggression. You can talk to me if you like, email or whatever. Take care.

[groby_b]

Well, she did an AMA - it would be kind of expected that most of her recent comments are about herself. But unlike you, she's posting under an actual account, not a sock puppet specifically made to insult.

If you want to disagree with her, how about cutting the insults and engaging with a real account?

[eloff]

Geez, take your own advice. And please leave this community.

[cma]

Have you tried therapy?