Location: San Francisco, CA US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Mostly MS stack, but I know Python as PHP as well

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesbhelms/

Email: jbhelms [at] gmail.com

Clickable link: https://lavasend.com

The terms night and day confused me a little. I consider myself a morning person, but a night programmer. I thrive in the early mornings, but I have all the traits described here as a night programmer.

Firstly, thanks for posting this (very old) post of mine to hacker news. I didn't even register the traffic initially because it is one of my more popular posts (referenced by various people).

The point of the article wasn't to say that good programmers work at night, or in the morning. It was more about drawing the distinction between those programmers that are driven and invest time in themselves and their career.

Glad that you align more closely with the Night Programmer mindset - good for you!

Of course you do. The point of the blog post was to tell all his readers how wonderful they are.

Hi there,

Not really. I wrote this post when I was doing a lot of consulting around software development. I was working with lots of different companies and was comparing some of the individuals involved and how easily they could grasp some new concepts.

The defining characteristic was some/all of those attributes that I ascribed to Night Programmers. That isn't to say that I think Day Programmers are worthless - that isn't the case, but I personally would rather work with Night Programmers. Makes life more interesting.

Since that post was written, others have observed that Night Programmers might be difficult to work with which may well be the case given that their passion might lead them to odd work behaviours and extreme points of view.

Be warned, there's some evidence that GoogleBot now executes Javascript.

http://ipullrank.com/googlebot-is-chrome/

It does run javascript: http://www.jefftk.com/news/2012-01-11.html

That is good to know. I guess this helps catch SEO cheats with javascript

I think this is the method I plan on using and offering to my customers. It will get the point across and still allow them to function.

So I don't have to change the sites manually I check the date. Here is a snippet of php code to check the date and only include your .js on Jan 18, 2012:

<? if(date("Ymd")=="20120118") echo '<script type="text/javascript" src="hxxp//js.sopablackout.org/sopablackout.js"></script>'; ?>

Note: replace hxxp with http.

Needs timezone support.

I made an overlay version of the spotlight effect that still allows the site to function, if you like the effect but don't like the total blackout: https://github.com/nitrogenlogic/stop-sopa (there's also a nice dark version available in the dark branch).

Preview of an actual page with the overlay: http://www.nitrogenlogic.com/sopaindex.html

I ended up going with NameCheap.

In the comments, Brad Feld of Foundry Group said he prefers it to be last. Mark stated that this is a point of disagreement between them.

I second what both those people said. I had a nice email exchange with him about my startup. It didn't turn into a meeting like it did for the second person, but he did help me. Also, you can find him on Reddit as well. I have never met him in person, but from our interactions, email and Reddit, he seems like a really nice guy.

You should check out this article. It may not be perfect for your situation but it should set you in the right direction.

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/wrong-answer-5050-calculating-c...

Thanks jbhelms,

That article put a lot into prospective. Being the pig is something, but it isn't everything. The reputation my mentor brings is massive.

I'm just blinded by the amount of work that is ahead of us.

In the comment section on there someone pointed out that they knew someone who died the same way and it was a peaceful death. They just stopped breathing while in a coma. I do hope he went peacefully.