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How to update a large network of computers | st3fan: Some other thoughts:You mention data changes. So what about sending just the changes?What is the real problem? That it takes a lot of time? Or that it requires bandwidth?If downloads are slow, are your central servers overloaded?
What about putting the data on a CDN or Amazon S3? |
How to update a large network of computers | bayareaguy: A friend of mine told me this was a Google interview question. Anyways, I'd recommend taking a look at this:The Frisbee server uses a custom multicast protocol to distribute highly-compressed disk images to consenting clients. The Frisbee client is a multi-threaded marvel that receives, decompresses, and ... |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | tortilla: I'm an Apple fanboy, but I use this MS Wireless Laser Mouse 8000 with my Macbook Pro:http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Wireless-Laser-Mouse-8000/dp...I like it because I can switch to my right and left hand (I'm right handed). I used to get the sore finger and shoulders, so I switch sides often (every hour).The... |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | brianloveswords: I actually try very hard to do everything with the keyboard. I'm an emacs zombie, though I'm sure the vim-o-nauts would agree: mousing is just really inefficient.BUT! It depends on what you do. Occasionally I have to break out the graphic design “skills” and for that, I have my Mighty Mouse. I don'... |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | jonny_noog: For my main desktop PC, I have for some time now had a Logitech G5, which I love. Coupled with my fUnc Surface 1030 mouse pad, it's awesome. Super light buttons and super smooth movement.I also have a Logitech G15 keyboard to go with, which is equally as awesome, mainly due to the feel of the keys, they too... |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | ivank: I use both the new G5 and the G9, alternating when I get tired of one or the other. However, all the new Logitech mice have inferior rigid cords (non-plastic), and it's fairly hard to middle click on either mouse. |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | Zak: IBM Trackpoint. I'd use a Trackpoint keyboard with a desktop if I regularly used a desktop. |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | wenbert: I always prefer those wired optical mice. They light and very responsive. I never liked those wireless ones. SO heavy :-( |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | bjclark: Call me crazy but I like my bluetooth mighty mouse. |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | xlnt: razer diamondback mouse. on mac, the razer proclick mac drivers work for it.it's designed for gamers. i like the mousing accuracy. i used to have a cheap mouse. one can tell the difference; this is much nicer. |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | s_tec: My main computer three pointing devices, a mouse, a trackball, and a tablet. If my hand gets sore from using one device, I just switch to another one. This works pretty well, since all three devices need different hand positions and muscle motions. |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | wmeredith: I've used all three of the Logitech Revolution mice and I recommend them to anyone I meet who uses a computer. Simply put, they are badass. |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | silencio: I absolutely love my logitech MX Revolution, except it's for right handed mousers (I like using both). I use a razer copperhead for gaming.To be honest, I prefer my tablet or the touchpad on my laptop. Feels more natural and comfortable. |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | ihartley: I have a logitech vx revolution and I love it. The freespinning mouse wheel is pretty awesome, and it has a few configurable buttons. The logitech control center on OS X sucks really hard, though. I recommend SteerMouse to solve that problem. |
managing subdomains cookbook | senthil_rajasek: Are you asking how http://www.morbidkk.com points to http://morbidkk.weebly.com ?There are a couple of ways you can achieve this,I use CNAMEs, this would be done by someone who controls the source domain's DNS, morbidkk.com in the above case.The other way is to create a direct DNS A record which is not... |
managing subdomains cookbook | samt: have not run not such a site myself, so take this with a grain of salt. I assume that most use a database-backed DNS server like MyDNS, so adding/removing/etc subdomains is a simple db call. |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | timcederman: My 3M ergonomic mouse takes away 90% of my RSI pain. |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | elsewhen: i couldnt be happier with the logitech v470 laser bluetooth mouse. if you have a laptop with built in bluetooth, this little mouse is fantastic. excellent mouse features (back, forward, scroll, and middle click) and the batteries last for weeks even with heavy usage. it takes AA batteries, so you can just ... |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | apu: I really love the Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826105...It's a 5 button corded optical mouse. Some people don't like the symmetric extra buttons, but they're really awesome for web-browsing (forward and back), and in other applications too. It has great acc... |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | hs: How about trying to repair your mouse first?Just open it. Most of the time (microsoft wheel mouse in my case) the prism lens is not aligned to the LED. Securing these with ducktape solved the problemBut really, use keyboard more and just ditch the mouse (or use less) so that u don't worry about it -- the biggest ... |
managing subdomains cookbook | johns: Wildcard DNS entry. Create an entry for *.example.com that points to your service and let the code figure it out. |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | gizmo: Laser is a must. It's inexpensive and is that much more reliable. Less frustration => less wrist pain.I use a G5.(If the tendon of your index finger is an issue RSI is on the way. This might be one of those cure the problem not the symptom situations.) |
managing subdomains cookbook | kitt: Pointer: google for subdomain rewriteIf you are using apache, and mod_rewrite, you can set up rewrite rules for subdomains.http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum92/4640.htm suggests rewrite rules to redirect a subdomain to a page/app on the main domain.Then, use a domain wild card to point everything to your main w... |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | ra: Kingston Expert Mouse :- The sturdiest, healthiest most hacker friendly, RSI defending pointing device ever built.Worth their weight in gold (and they're quite heavy). |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | patrocles: when life gives you lemons, make lemonade ;)http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/ |
managing subdomains cookbook | natch: Your examples lend themselves to confusing answers, so I am changing the examples to use my own examples, which are of course totally clear and correct.Here's how the record in your zone file should look:foo IN CNAME lalala.bigpipe.com.The above (from foo all the way to .com.) should all be on ... |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | MaysonL: Contour Perfit Optical Mouse (5 sizes righty, 4 lefty) three finger buttons, thumb-op scrollwheel + 2 thumb-op buttons. |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | edu: I switched to a trackball a couple of months ago. I own the Logitech Cordless TrackMan Wheel: http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/trackballs/d...It's a pretty awesome piece of hardware, big and very comfortable and with a nice touch. It uses an optical sensor so almost no cleaning is needed. Being cord... |
How to update a large network of computers | bayareaguy: Here's another useful tool I just remembered.http://saf.bio.caltech.edu/nettee.html |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | arthurk: MX510 + Steelpad QcK |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | mhb: Is there a way to keep crud from accumulating on the low-friction pads on the bottom of my mouse? I thought that getting a Wowpad would take care of this, but it hasn't. Maybe the Surface 1030 that was mentioned solves this? |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | cpr: I love the "IBM USB Optical Scroll Travel Wheel Mouse" (search ebay with those terms to see what I mean). $1-2 each (I buy them by the dozen and spread them around liberally to friends and family; when they wear out (scroll wheel gets sticky or clunky) I just throw them out like a used-up pencil).Wonderful, small,... |
Recommendation for a good UI/UX expert? | alaskamiller: Should leave your email or contact info.Also, good UI/UX experts would already be busy with ongoing projects, your solicitation barely registers anything on an excitement scale. Should divulge a bit more info about your project, or industry, or what you want to do. |
Recommendation for a good UI/UX expert? | swombat: I hear the guy who does Apple's products is pretty good. |
Recommendation for a good UI/UX expert? | nextmoveone: Hey man I need to find a good one too. Too bad Tony Wright isnt for hire! |
Recommendation for a good UI/UX expert? | boucher: The best way to find a designer is find something you personally think is beautiful and well designed (or, if you think you have no taste, substitute your opinion for someone's you trust).Contact those people and try to convince them to work with you. Be prepared to spend a lot (which is going to be worth it ... |
Recommendation for a good UI/UX expert? | guy_davis: Kaaren Schulz at Practical Usability (http://www.practicalusability.com/)Disclaimer: She's my cousin. :) |
Recommendation for a good UI/UX expert? | tptacek: I'd say Blue Flavor --- http://www.blueflavor.com --- they wrote Blueprint. I liked them a lot; excellent consultants. They may be out of your price range though. For the shops that you've heard of, for projects that include IA and UX in addition to pushing pixels, a small project falls in the 10-20 range.It d... |
Recommendation for a good UI/UX expert? | luxstyle: Are you looking for a designer or a developer? UI folks like myself tend to come in 2 flavors. One is skilled at the wireframes, architecture and look and feel and can do pretty mockups and prototypes. The other is a programmer whom is familiar with the latest AJAX, JSPs etc and implements the design created ... |
Recommendation for a good UI/UX expert? | luchandy: Amy Hoy. She's amazing. She made twistori and Color Wars among other things. She's spoken at lots of conferences, so you can see her thoughts about UI right out in the open via her slides. Aside from knowing UX/UI, she seems to be an accomplished hands-on Ruby programmer, Javascript programmer, and graphic d... |
Recommendation for a good UI/UX expert? | izak30: I have a guy.He did the UX for our CMS, and has just quit his day job to do Freelancing full time (and work for Servee)Check out http://demo.servee.com for some UX work and
http://kkellydesign.com for general Design(also highlandpr.com/portfolio for branding work) |
Recommendation for a good UI/UX expert? | boredguy8: "web-based research aggregation tool"I personally know of at least two other in-the-works tools like this. I'm interested to see what the competitive space looks like for this market in the next 6-18 months. |
What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest? | jacobroufa: I highly recommend Logitech's VX Nano. I've had mine for almost 6 months now still using the original batteries, and I use it every day! It's small which I thought would be a pain at first (remember Apple's infamous "hockey-puck" mouse?), but it really feels natural in my hand. Also, it is precise on any su... |
What criteria do you use to {up,down}mod submissions? | noodle: i upmod sparsely. there's only 3 reasons i'll upmod:1) a new Ask YC/HN type thread that pertains to my interests. i want to see more experienced people respond to it, so i'll upmod it.2) a thread that has an interesting discussion in which i want to see more responses. i'll upmod it to get more eyes and answ... |
IS there a Fiddler2-equivalent for the Mac? | jawngee: Charles. http://xk72.com |
How many of you willing to give gmail/yahoo info to expand the network | iamdave: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001128.htmlI wouldn't.editIt's worth noting to answer one of your questions: I don't follow my friends around to every new site that pops up. Primarily because only 10% of my friends are technically savvy enough to the point where I would actually use the word "Twitte... |
How many of you willing to give gmail/yahoo info to expand the network | michael_dorfman: I'd never use a site that asked me for my gmail (or any other) username/password.I'm not the only one who feels this way. Take a look at this, for a start: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001128.htmlIf your social networking idea depends on this, start again. |
How many of you willing to give gmail/yahoo info to expand the network | colinplamondon: Most people don't care, the privacy implications are only worried about by people who know enough to worry about the privacy implications.Despite the Facebook Beacon blowup in the blog echo chamber, very few users cared:http://www.sawickipedia.com/blog/2007/12/05/facebook-bites-t...So, sure! People who ... |
How many of you willing to give gmail/yahoo info to expand the network | IsaacSchlueter: OpenID: If they have a yahoo account, the user just has to remember "yahoo.com" and if you're supporting OpenID 2.0, it'll work. If they have almost any kind of blog or social networking profile these days, it's also an OpenID.Users remember their OpenIDs. Use the discovery mechanisms built into the s... |
How many of you willing to give gmail/yahoo info to expand the network | babul: This may be helpful http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=209870 |
How many of you willing to give gmail/yahoo info to expand the network | elad: Personally, I never ever give my email credentials out. I totally agree with Jeff Atwood on that.However, while you're at it, why not ask people for their facebooks/myspace credentials? You'll find many more "friends" there than in my email contacts, plus facebook is far less sensitive privacy-wise. If someone go... |
How many of you willing to give gmail/yahoo info to expand the network | xlnt: Don't ask for people's passwords. Ugh. Just because other sites are acting badly doesn't mean you should too.Those sites that want your passwords have not figured out a decent solution to the problem. That's an opportunity. Do something better. |
How many of you willing to give gmail/yahoo info to expand the network | PieSquared: I think OpenID may be a good choice, especially as more sites begin to support it. Take a look at ClickPass, it seems promising, though I suppose you should offer a normal sign up too. |
How many of you willing to give gmail/yahoo info to expand the network | cmars232: Won't use it. |
How would you implement a small-scale EBay? | olefoo: Implement some sort of secured cryptographic identity for members that is tied to a phone number and a personal presence at a given place and time (stop by any $foo to use our automated signup kiosk and receive your free picture ID membership card) this would vastly reduce opportunities for fraud. |
How would you implement a small-scale EBay? | babul: For a start I would actually try and do something different from eBay initially just to offer USP/differentiation.However, assuming you want to create an eBay for use in your own site/society/community and competing with eBay is a non-issue, I would do it in the tools that allow building as easily and quickly as... |
I want to add SMS to my service, tips/help/advice? | jonknee: Unless you're huge you aren't going to connect directly in with the operators. There are too many and the implementation is hell. You connect into a middleman who has direct connections to all the majors.Search for premium SMS providers. There are quite a few. It's probably not going to be cheap, especially if... |
I want to add SMS to my service, tips/help/advice? | gizmo: It's called reverse billing. Lots of information out there, and a lot of providers. Don't use SMS as your primary source of revenue. Use reverse-billing just for a "fun" feature and hope to break even on it. |
How would you implement a small-scale EBay? | ericb: I'd start by looking for an open source project that does what I need and has a permissive license, then modify that.If I was starting from scratch, I'd probably use rails, and the activescaffold plugin. |
I want to add SMS to my service, tips/help/advice? | ruslan: As for simple sending/receiving SMS messages, we at gtalk2voip.com use Clickatell's SMS service, which is very flexible, offers good technical support and providers a number of APIs including SMTP, SMPP and HTTP (we use SMTP). Among their cons: their rates are quite high unless you pre-pay for 1M messages a mon... |
How would you implement a small-scale EBay? | webwright: I would go to hotscripts.com or drupal.org and see if there is already something pretty close. |
I want to add SMS to my service, tips/help/advice? | tlrobinson: http://www.textmarks.com/is free but they insert ads sometimes (always?) |
E-mail invites to our closed alpha. How to gather? How to send? | danw: http://www.launchsplash.com/ sounds like what you're after. Theres an overview at http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9973373-2.html?part=rss... |
I want to add SMS to my service, tips/help/advice? | ismail: Look for WASP... Wireless Application Service providers, they usually have links to all the mobile operators and they charge you a fee. |
E-mail invites to our closed alpha. How to gather? How to send? | Tichy: Are you asking how to save form data in a database? |
How many of you willing to give gmail/yahoo info to expand the network | wumi: who is this product targeted at? many hackers don't give out their emails, import contacts, but if you've received email spam from your other friends, you probably know they will willingly do so ... |
How would you implement a small-scale EBay? | Zak: I did something very similar a couple years ago. Details are covered by an NDA, but the software stack consisted of SBCL, TBNL (now Hunchentoot), CLSQL, CL-WHO, PostgeSQL and a few other random libraries. The archetecture was informally MVC. |
I want to add SMS to my service, tips/help/advice? | phpdev: I recommend Zong.com - They specialise in this and have an API. |
E-mail invites to our closed alpha. How to gather? How to send? | jakewolf: constantconstact.com. with any list you use don't forget about CAN-SPAM laws. |
E-mail invites to our closed alpha. How to gather? How to send? | ra: I've been using crm.zoho.com - it has a web-to-lead form, which adds the details as leads in the CRM. I can then contact them via the CRM, or extract them all using the REST APIedit: BTW: it's free |
I want to add SMS to my service, tips/help/advice? | bluelu: This is called premium sms. There are lots of providers out there offering a service for this. |
E-mail invites to our closed alpha. How to gather? How to send? | quellhorst: Why not be different and have an open alpha? |
I want to add SMS to my service, tips/help/advice? | iloveyouocean: How to go about this (generating revenue from Premium SMS transactions):1) Secure a 5 or 6 digit ShortCode from Neustar(the only seller of shortcodes, usshortcodes.com) This will take approximately 1 month and cost $1000/month billed in 3 month intervals. Premium messaging only works with a shortcode,... |
Digital Signal Processing | menloparkbum: I liked this bookhttp://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Digital-Signal-Processin...Also the 2nd volume of "Musimathics" by Gareth Loy has a good introduction to DSP in the context of music and audio.http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstrip... |
How would you implement a small-scale EBay? | keefe: It seems that payment processing is the biggest issue here. People are very reluctant (rightfully so) to give up their financial information, so I think it is a good idea to start with an existing service like PayPal or amazon FPS. Next, I would select frameworks based on the development environment you're most ... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | izaidi: Get heavily involved in a campus organization that suits your interests. If such an organization doesn't exist, start one. |
What should I try to do while still in college? | spencerfry: My biggest regret from college is not getting more involved with the activities/groups my college offered. I was plenty active around campus socially, but I was only in one group my entire four years. (Well, two if you consider being a computer assistant a group.) You will gain a lot and not feel as if you ... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | wallflower: #1 regret (which I will probably make up, job quitting possibilities) - Not going abroad - Doesn't necessarily mean studying abroad but traveling for month+ outside your home country during inter-school summer vacations |
What should I try to do while still in college? | alaskamiller: What's your ADHD symptoms like?I remember a period of my life where I would have to spend hours on a single page of a book because I wasn't able to retain anything. I should have went to the doctors about it. |
What should I try to do while still in college? | slackerIII: If you want to do the startup thing, notice people who are smart and more ambitious than you and spend your time hanging around with them.If you want to have your pick of a quality corporate job and find your excitement elsewhere, build something tangible you can point to during an interview. It doesn't ha... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | dkokelley: I'm in the same boat you are, my friend. I'm taking two classes over the summer to start my Jr. year on time.While I can't give you advice from historical experience, I can tell you what I'm doing.Right now I'm using this time to save up some money. I know that I ultimately want to start a company, but I don... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | boucher: If you're planning on a career in programming, I'd recommend trying to get an internship somewhere before you graduate. If you think you might want to start a startup, go that route, but it won't hurt to do an internship at a big company either (it's actually probably better than working at one after you grad... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | ctkrohn: See what else is out there. Computers might be fascinating, but until you learn about a bunch of other fields, you will never know if they're what fascinates you most. Take as many classes as you can in as many areas as you're interested in, and be sure to take lots of classes outside your major. Finish mor... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | Kevin_Johnson: First off, since your a sophomore, your plans will change. Bet money on it. Don't get caught up in specifics of where you want to be. Instead take advantage of the powerful abstractions where you can to work out what "axioms of life" you want to design your life with. That's your homework assignment ... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | Ravenlock: Do as much extracurricular stuff as you can manage with as much time as you can give it, in whatever interests you. I was also a CS major, and my free time went to theatre. I actually ended up with two degrees, the second one being theatre, so I guess for me it was a little more than extracurricular, but the... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | gm: Do EVERYTHING you can that will not be economically feasible (travel for a month or three) or even possible (spend a summer at Cambridge University in England). You will live to regret not doign these things when, after you get a job, you get two measly weeks of vacation per year.Use it all up: take extra classes,... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | auston: I'm 21 myself, so I don't know if I qualify as an advice giver but...If you want to meet like minded people, you've started in the right place.With this in mind, depending on what metropolitan area you are in/near there should be events... like BarCamp [http://barcamp.org/] or Refresh [http://refreshingcities.o... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | menloparkbum: Go out with as many women as possible. Once you join the startup life the women will be few and far between. |
How would you implement a small-scale EBay? | aneesh: More importantly, why do you want to create a small EBay? EBay works because of it's size & scale.The hardest part of this would be handling the actual payments. The rest of it can be done with whatever you like best.Edit: After I wrote this, I realize it's pretty similar to Keefe's recommenation |
What should I try to do while still in college? | sah: Travel while you can do it cheaply. Take as many electives as far outside your majors as you possibly can without graduating later; college is better at giving you exposure than skills anyway. Make friends that you want to have parties with. Meet people who do things you know nothing about; you'll have fewer ch... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | tialys: Wow... you sound just like me. I have the same issues with working, and the same desire to work in startups or similar. Honestly, I think it helps a lot to know that I'm not alone.I actually just got this account as I only discovered this site a few days ago (and I love it!) so I don't know if there is an eas... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | Spyckie: College, after sophomore year, tends to be less about the classes and more about the people. Choose as many classes as you can solely based on the professor's character/infamy. Those people will inspire you and help you choose what is interesting.Also, try to see as much of the world as possible, and this does... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | thomasswift: take art 101 or design 101 or calligraphy 101, something that forces you to learn the basics of design and composition. |
What should I try to do while still in college? | SCVirus: Smoke weed (or do tantric yoga) until you become conscious on a new level (you'll know when you have, if you have difficulties smoke more stronger weed, hash, oil, use a vapourizer or take it orally after extracting it with fat (bake < 300f) or alcohol).Take mush (of the psilocybin variety) until you understan... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | Prrometheus: Participate in the COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling. It was the 4 best days of my undergraduate career. I did problem B in 2005, here's a link to the problem set:http://www.comap.com/undergraduate/contests/mcm/contests/200... |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | adrianwaj: My solution was to place a standard building sized block of wood measured to the length of my standard keyboard under the keyboard so the nearest edge of the keyboard sits up on the block, and the furthest edge of the keyboard sits on the table as usual. This way, the wrists can rest on the flat upside sect... |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | Stabback: I just went to a physiotherapist about this very issue, here's what I was told.First, I've been experiencing a dull pain shooting up the BACKS of my hands to my wrists, following the middle finger. This may or may not be what you have, and I recommend looking into this yourself. It cost me 80 CAD to visit a... |
What should I try to do while still in college? | tlrobinson: Others have suggested great things to do outside of class, but I have some related to CS.Take a compiler course (or several). This really should be required, but unfortunately it wasn't at my school until after I graduated. Also, lots of algorithms and other "real" CS courses. Now is the time to learn that ... |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | DenisM: 1. Ergonomoc evaluation by a specialist to set up your desk, monitor etc. Ask your employer, they should provide it.2. Inquire about work-place injury laws in your state. Your employer will likely have to pay the expenses.3. Record all expenses no matter who pays for them. If you become disabled reciepts may he... |
Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries | tortilla: 1) Get a mouse that's flexible enough to use with either your left or right hand. It might feel weird at first, but switching sides every hour will reduce a lot the pain. Takes a bit to get used to but you'll eventually adjust.2) Try to use the keyboard as much as possible for everything. Go into your Keyboar... |
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