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How do you monitor your services? | babul: Used to use Big Brother. |
Good Hacker Cities | zain: San Francisco is an excellent place for a hacker. 1) Plenty of other hackers in close vicinity
2) Lots of startups all over the city
3) Excellent public transportation
4) Awesome bike trails all over the place
Plus, you can walk into pretty much any coffee shop in SF and see at least one or two techies co... |
Afraid I've dug myself into a hole | mechanical_fish: Of course you can get a different job.Pick a specific alternative technology and field, and learn that. If you go looking for "anything but SAP" of course you're not going to find it. That's spread too thin. And "I could be productive with any of those languages" is a very bad sales pitch. People don't... |
Good Hacker Cities | nostrademons: Boston/Cambridge. #2 tech hub (behind the Bay Area), and you don't need or want a car in the city. Unlike in Silicon Valley, where you basically need a car.Neither is exactly inexpensive, though. The problem with living in a tech hub is that tech people tend to make lots of money and bid the price of e... |
Bottom Up Programming Question | speek: The Design Recipe from How To Design Programs is very bottom-up based.Personally, I'm against HtDP because it strips out all of the romance in programming for me, but it does work. |
Good Hacker Cities | pg: Cambridge/Somerville, Berkeley/Oakland, SF, Portland. You can live well without a car in Silicon Valley, though it's not a city. Maybe Austin, but I've never been there, so can't say for sure. Maybe Boulder, if it's over your threshold of urbanness. |
Good Hacker Cities | dangrover: I was enamored with Boston as a city until I moved to Palo Alto a couple weeks ago. Already, I can't imagine ever moving back. |
Bottom Up Programming Question | andreyf: It isn't a question of "only top-down" or "only bottom-up". Of course, some thinking will have to go in from both directions. This is why, personally, I think the directed-tree metaphors don't really work.A much better way of thinking about "bottom-up design" is exploratory programming - where one decides what... |
Bottom Up Programming Question | patio11: Duck 1.0: Has a beak, which can open and close, but only eats green bugs. If you attempt to use it on a blue bug it crashes. Unfortunately, no eyes.Duck 1.2: Eyes.Duck 1.21: Eyes now see color.Duck 1.22: Eyes now see colors including black. Apparently, some bugs are black. Damn users and their damn uncolor... |
Good Hacker Cities | jayp: Champaign/Urbana, IL. Cheap cost of living. Lots of good engineering students on tap. Great community. Great bus service, especially around campus town. Get from any point A to any point B in town in less than 10 minutes. Plenty of events (athletics, theatre, parties, etc.) due to being a university town.Negative... |
Good Hacker Cities | phyr3wall: You cant beat Los Angeles.If you want great Metro Transit, this is it, and each city within LA has its own metro line. like the blue bus in santa monica/venice. south bay transit in the south bay.Plus tons of employment opportunities in the IT field with great pay. i make 90K as a front end developer.No doub... |
Good Hacker Cities | cookiecaper: I was going to suggest Salt Lake City, and you don't absolutely need a car here, but you're much better off with one. It meets all of your other criteria finely, though. There's a very large group of IT companies here, especially in Utah County, 15-30 miles south of Salt Lake. Predominantly, Novell (as wel... |
Bottom Up Programming Question | hs: there should be a feedback element (or resistance of media)btw, duck can't fly so u may want to cut that feature |
programming and science related podcasts? | ricree: In addition to SGU and Astronomy Cast, both of which are excellent, you might want to check out the Nature Podcast ( http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/ ). It's gives a good overview of new science news, and often includes interviews with the researchers.Also, SE Radio is an excellent programming podcast. h... |
Afraid I've dug myself into a hole | andr: Over the last 4 years you've gained more than SAP-specific knowledge. You've developed a process, or methodology, for solving problems. This is very important, and smart employers will recognize it.Also, use your spare time to code in one of those languages so you have something to show employers. I would suggest... |
Afraid I've dug myself into a hole | reg4c: Also, having some kind of certification like Sun's Certified Java Programmer/Developer thing can be usefulIMO, you should write something cool and then apply for some jobs and if nothing works out then just wait a while, write something else, then apply againOw, and you are definitely not in a hole, SAP is an aw... |
programming and science related podcasts? | jwtanner: CBC's Quirks and Quarks, great science radio show ( available in podcast ).http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/ |
Good Hacker Cities | theantidote: I'm gonna go ahead and add DC to the mix. It has 3 airports, an excellent metro and bus system, Verizon FIOS, relatively cheap out in the exburbs or apartments in formerly sketchy neighborhoods, and great proximity to NYC.The only issues are the lack of people and VCs. You can always do contract work for t... |
Afraid I've dug myself into a hole | noel_gomez: I am looking for someone to help me build a web app. I think it may be possible to do by building or extending a module for Drupal. If you are interested I would share my concept and you can see if it is appealing to you. This way you can gain some experience and maybe we can create something great. :) |
Afraid I've dug myself into a hole | scorpioxy: Why does the employer have to take your word for it? Why don't you write something in the language/technology that you want to work with and post it up on your website...or contribute to an open source project that uses it...etcThe point is, code speaks louder than words. And your project doesn't haven't to ... |
Afraid I've dug myself into a hole | dobes: I think the best advice so far is in fact to learn other tools in your spare time and work on some open source and personal projects so you have something to show. Start a blog to describe your experiences. Send a potential employer to look at your blog and projects and they will see someone who (hopefully) co... |
Bottom Up Programming Question | gruseom: Your analogy seems to me to go awry here:you would start with cells - sounds goodyou would first have had to have divided the duck up conceptually into different parts in order to know that different cell types are needed - does not follow.I noticed that your premise assumes a requirements analysis that alread... |
Good Hacker Cities | thingie: Europe (every city) ;-) |
Afraid I've dug myself into a hole | bayareaguy: I don't know much about SAP. All I've heard is that it's a beast big corporations seem to seek out and battle with varying results. However I'm guessing there are likely places where a little Python or Ruby program could have made a positive difference in an SAP implementation.Is there any way you can fin... |
What do you want to be able to customize? | makecheck: Customize the number of "reply comments" visible below each main comment. Or maybe, a widget to show or hide a comment tree (with the option to be hidden by default). |
Proposal for Managing the Addictiveness of This Site | mwerty: fwiw, I built a facebook app on this exact premise (shame): http://apps.facebook.com/friendlybets |
Afraid I've dug myself into a hole | samyxp17: Simple, been there before. I call it the "Four Step" career turn.
- First pick a language you like, that could land you the kind of job you want and STICK to it.
- Second, practice, write a few complete apps
- Try to get any type of "paid" work that involved coding in that particular language... I recommend... |
Afraid I've dug myself into a hole | liangzan: From an employer's point of view, they don't like to take risks where hiring is concerned. Your wages are a sizable cost. That's why most would require you to work in a similar environment before they would hire you. Not many would want to spend $$ to train or risk hiring a lemon.So going by reverse psycholog... |
Who wants an intern? | rochers: You should apply to intern here:
http://ict.usc.edu/internships/I did it in '99 and '01. Then I was hired fulltime out of school and worked there for three years. Most definately an awesome place for a creative person with Computer Science and Psychology background. |
How do you monitor your services? | aaroneous: munin and pingdom.com |
Afraid I've dug myself into a hole | c1sc0: This begs the question: why is SAP work so grossly overpaid (at least over here in Germany)? Doesn't look particularly exciting or challenging to me. Most of the implementations I've seen are of the 'meh' type: buggy, boring, bloated. I'm a bit biased though since a colleague of mine ran away screaming from a hi... |
Good Hacker Cities | macco: If outside the US would be an option, Berlin (Germany)
Public transportation is great (24/7), a lot of cultural activities, quite a view of web startups there and in contrast to other big cities in Europe and the US, it very cheap. |
Bottom Up Programming Question | ntoshev: Your duck example is interesting. Obviously the evolution doesn't use any top-down design. |
Afraid I've dug myself into a hole | nailer: Ask HN: Afraid I've dug myself into a hole12 points by fbacon 80 years ago | 20 comments | flagHello guys. This is my first time writing to HN - I've held off mainly because the internet hasn't been invented yet. I'm an interior designer, and I have been doing that for the last 4 years...http://en.wikipedia.org... |
Who wants an intern? | Jakob: I like it how you list Delivered tech support to many families in a local neighborhood,
spreading the word of Free and Open Source Software in the process.[…]
This is real work and should be listed there. Will add sth similar to my CV, too.Perhaps so one day this would be seen as work even by relatives. |
Good Hacker Cities | nandemo: You didn't specify the country so: Tokyo.Rent is expensive, though. |
Good Hacker Cities | dualogy: Exotic developing countries for the win!I'm still having a hard time "getting" the whole "hacker city" question, which comes up every now and then and always ends up with SV / SF / CA as the only reasonable options.If you're plannign on hacking away most of the time, possibly even bootstrapping product develop... |
Where's the best place to purchase a domain name? | tsetse-fly: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=186369http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=377301http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150561http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=339823http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=436364 |
Good Hacker Cities | maryrosecook: If you're willing to not confine yourself to the US, London is great for cheap public transport. On average, the cost of living is quite high: housing and nights out are expensive. However, if you're clever, you can actually subsist on a low amount of money: eat at home, live in a small flat outside cen... |
Good Hacker Cities | madmotive: Brighton, UK works fantastically for us. You can walk between most parts, most tech businesses and coworking spaces are fairly central. There are regular trains and buses to get out to Sussex University where there are a bunch more. The community is very welcoming and there are events and user groups almos... |
Who wants an intern? | TPLDrew: Marc, what kind of work would you like to do this summer? Perhaps working with the guys at Bee Hive. They'd be a great match for your skills. |
Bottom Up Programming Question | wulfcry: Nice but you have to program the cells to contain the appearance of the duck the cells should know about and because that is a feature difficult to grasp it does not matter where you start.
First design the beak put it in the cell
Design the webbed feet put it in the cell
Design the head put it in the cell
C... |
Good Hacker Cities | lv_: Manila - Very Cheap, lots of Tech talent. You def dont need a car and you shouldn't if you value your sanity. |
Who wants an intern? | iuguy: We're based in the UK, about 45 minutes from London. What type of things are you looking into? Do you have (or would you like to gain) any experience with particular languages/frameworks? |
Afraid I've dug myself into a hole | iuguy: Try to move across from BW/BI to Enterprise Portal-type work, anything on the Netweaver side will bring you closer to Java, PHP and Ruby etc. From there you'll find it easier to migrate into a generic dev role.I got very heavily into SAP security a while back and I understand your situation completely. Your alte... |
Bottom Up Programming Question | markessien: What you look for first is always a unit that functions on its own. Then you program that. For example, a feather could be used in a feather bed, or it could be used in a duck. You can program a feather, test it and make it work, without needing to have designed or modelled a duck yet - of course, you'll ha... |
Good Hacker Cities | c1sc0: Do you even need a fixed city these days? I've spent a lot of time on the European high-speed train network lately and I've jokingly been thinking about 'setting up office' in the train. For some reason I'm very creative and productive on trains.You got wireless, snacks & drinks, relative quiet and if you take o... |
Who wants an intern? | point: A friend of mine works in the military, and he says that there is good pay on short term contracts at the moment in Iraq. I could get you in contact with him if you're interested. It's much safer than one would think actually. |
Good Hacker Cities | disambiguated: Bangkok - great food, good connectivity, close air-wise to Singapore/HK, low cost-of-living, good overhead/underground trains, cheap taxis, tuk-tuks, and motorcycle-taxis.Plus, it's easy for even totally unattractive social misfits to obtain intimate companionship, with no strings attached.;> |
Afraid I've dug myself into a hole | davidw: Here are a couple of ideas:* Like other people said, start doing some projects in interesting languages. Preferably, they should be open source projects so that you can get feedback about what you're doing, and meet other people.* If you want to do something that's not too far from SAP, is open source, and cou... |
Good Hacker Cities | mtw: montreal, canada. There's foulab.org (a hackerspace), also FreeHackers meetups, lots of tech user groups (scheme/ruby/python/php...), one of the cheapest cost of living in North America, great friendly people, culture too (it's bilingual, active art scene). For connectivity, there's IleSansFil around the city, whi... |
programming and science related podcasts? | knapr: I'm actually working on a podcast aggregator/recommender site right now, it will launch within 1-2 weeks, as soon as I finish it.
I have plans for how to make money from it and my reason for creating it is, there are loads of podcast-sites out there but very few(or none) helps you to actually find the good ones.... |
Bottom Up Programming Question | brent: Hmm... I thought this was going to be about dynamic programming based on the title. |
Good Hacker Cities | talleyrand: New Orleans! You can get around just fine without a car, great people, and good times. |
Where's the best place to purchase a domain name? | tlrobinson: I always start at http://instantdomainsearch.com/ ... very handy for quickly checking availability. |
Good Hacker Cities | andrewhyde: I can't believe Boulder has not been mentioned.Thriving tech community, really beautiful place and a great transit system.I ride my bike 80% of the year.http://www.boulder.me for more info (calendar there too). |
Bottom Up Programming Question | lgriffith: Isn't it more a matter of means vs ends. Top down is more or less means programming in which you don't really know where you are going but know how you are going to get there. Bottom up is more or less ends programming in which you don't know where you are but know how you are going to get there. Seems to... |
Bottom Up Programming Question | jerf: The biology analogy immediately starts you off on the wrong foot. That has nothing to do with code.In code, a function to trim whitespace from a string is perfectly functional on its own. When you actually try to write code this way, a rather large number of things can be written, larger than you may think.Rather... |
Good Hacker Cities | time_management: New York has a lot of incredible people, and our public transportation is probably the best in the country. However, the cost of living in New York truly sucks. If you lose your job, you're fucked. Housing costs are kept very high by three factors: (1) rent control, which leaves a lot of upper-middle-c... |
Afraid I've dug myself into a hole | snowbird122: This reminds me of something one of my professors wrote about: "Don't get good at something you hate because then people will pay you a lot of money to do it and you'll never be able to stop".Lots of good advice on this board. I love Hacker News. |
Good Hacker Cities | jbrun: Montreal, Canada. If you don't mind the cold, you have great public transit and bike lanes throughout the city. Not to mention amazing food, culture and low cost of living. |
Afraid I've dug myself into a hole | pingswept: I don't think you're in a hole. You've got a high-paying job and four more years of experience (in a field you dislike) than all of the folks coming out of college.The point is that if a kid coming out of college can get a job writing Python or whatever, you can too. You even get a salary while you look for ... |
Afraid I've dug myself into a hole | rufius: Hack on an open source project. Get your work out there for people to see and link it on your resume (Direct links to a web-VCS/SCM or something like Ohloh or CIA.vc).Employers like seeing things like this, its verifiable that you did what you said you did on your resume.My analysis is that you should probably ... |
How do you get someone to help with the CSS on an open source project? | ZenzerNet: Use one of the CSS frameworks, like Blueprint. I'm no designer, but it's easy even for me to box everything up to look pretty good. Plenty of whitespace helps :) |
Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS | ssharp: The answer could be to source it now but still learn it for the future. The nice thing about learning the entire vertical of a platform is that you don't HAVE to rely on outside help for any part of the process. You may still want to, but being able to do everything yourself is a definite advantage, especiall... |
Afraid I've dug myself into a hole | pj: SAP is dead. Listen to this debate between Saleforce CEO Mark Benioff and SAP's Chairman Hasso Plattner. Benioff totally destroys SAP for an hour.http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8481Your best bet is to save up a /lot/ of money, enough for a year or two, then quit and start working in your own time on another projec... |
Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS | rsayers: I am also a back-end developer and have found design knowledge to be very useful.Very often I'll be given a layout which breaks once I started adding code to it, a good html/css understanding will let you fix issues like this without having to pass it back to a designer.I can think of many times where design ... |
Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS | rockstar9: I think it's important to learn HTML/CSS. A good understanding of user interface will complement and affect the way you program. You should have a good grasp of how a website should "flow."On the other hand, graphic designs is a different story. Developing a good artistic sense will take time and practice. I... |
Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS | wallflower: The more you know about design in general, the more effective you are. People don't respond to a back-end transaction program - they respond to the user experience.I would highly recommend checking out a CHI meeting (Computer-Human Interface a.k.a. UX/UXD). I guarantee you will learn a lot by meeting and li... |
Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS | sachinag: I'm going to, as someone who cannot code, take the minority view here. You are more valuable to your company or to your clients (if you're doing freelance work) if you know systems administration in and out. Between crowdSPRING + PSD2HTML, you can get a decent implementation of a design relatively cheap. T... |
Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS | pj: omg, this question is painful.HTML and CSS are skills that are worth your /time/. Forget the money. You can improve your /own/ life with HTML and CSS.The more you know, the more powerful you are!Have you ever been approached by someone from the front end who said, "Man, it's hard to build this page the way I want ... |
Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS | inerte: Yes, it is worth, specially since you're making a website, even if you're going to hire someone. You can at least glance if they're doing correctly, as far as you will know.HTML/CSS isn't hard. And you need to consider if what you're doing will work on multiple browsers, including mobiles. Knowledge about this ... |
Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS | functionoid: I'd say learn html/css and along with that concentrate more on usability of the website. To be really good at creating graphics and flash for websites could take some time. So I'd say definitely learn HTML/CSS also learn the usability aspect of web design and out source the graphics part. May be for this p... |
Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS | code_devil: I am often in the same boat as you are in. I would say for this current project, hire a Web Designer to complete the project. However, also try to learn HTML/CSS so you can follow the HTML/CSS written by the outsourced programmer. |
Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS | eugenejen: I did back end for a long time. But in last two year I have to get into the front end because I couldn't find good front end guys for the project. It helps me to be better in looking at whole pictures and prevent some mistakes that front end developers made for the the back end and vice versa.Business wise, ... |
Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS | Encosia: In the ASP.NET community, we catch a lot of flak for the terrible sites that some developers have created with ASP.NET WebForms. That embarrassment is due exactly to developers choosing to hide behind the (leaky) WebForms abstraction and remain ignorant of the markup that their server-side code produces. I'd... |
Who wants an intern? | Dilpil: Perhaps we should hold some sort of HN internship fair, as I doubt that speek is the only student looking for an internship this summer. |
Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS | critke: From my experience I would suggest learning html/css coding but finding a creative person to do the actual design (colors, logo, white space, typography etc etc). I really doubt that it's possible to be good at everything - but html/css is 'just' coding - design however is a completely different story. |
Good Hacker Cities | ken: I know many people here in Seattle who don't have cars (and others with Zipcar, if you only need it on occasion). I have a car, but I only drive it every couple weeks, at most, and I would certainly get along fine without it. |
Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS | siong1987: So, you are a MC Rails guy without the V. IMO, you really have to learn how to design a simple website with CSS and HTML.One thing that definitely can help you is to screen shot or bookmark every website that you think that is simple and nice. From those example websites, you can start designing your website... |
What web framework(s) do you guys use? | webmaven: Zope: http://zope.orgAlthough I am also currently experimenting with App Engine: http://www.webappwednesday.com |
Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS | ggruschow: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SpecializationIsForInsects |
What are the best Arduino starter projects? | minimee: any arduino starter kit with Ethernet ??? |
Afraid I've dug myself into a hole | hugs: You're in a rut, but not a hole. You'll be okay! :-)First step... start looking for a new job! Second step, look for jobs that require SAP experience, but at employers that will give you room to grow as a developer beyond a strict SAP admin/dev role. (For what's it's worth, I think Lego is an SAP shop. :-)I was i... |
Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS | sokoloff: It depends on what your goal is.I'm a backend guy who runs an IT department for a top 100 e-commerce site in my day job. Knowing HTML/CSS doesn't do me any practical good there.For my side projects, I know just enough HTML/CSS to be dangerous. (http://www.almamatersports.com is all programmed by me in a coupl... |
What's the most widely used contact management solution? | phombaiah: Import from CSV, most contact management tools have an "export to CSV" option. |
Bottom Up Programming Question | mbac: > So, once again the question, how can bottom up programming work without some level of top down design?Ever heard of something called... LINUX!? |
Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS | csuper: It can't hurt to learn it, right?I would image that you will find it very simple to pick up and likely very rewarding. |
Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS | jraines: Based on my experience just this morning, yes. And don't neglect Javascript, either -- no matter how hard you try, you're not going to be able to avoid needing it.glances at copy of Simple and Direct on bookshelfLearn HTML, CSS, Javascript, a library like JQuery. You'll need them. |
Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS | raffi: I'll avoid me too and agree you should learn these front end technologies. That said, there seems to be a question of how and what underlying your post. I'm not a designer by any stretch of the imagination, still I hope this helps:== XHTML/CSS ==1. Learn basic HTML, understand what "semantic markup" means. I ... |
What's the most widely used contact management solution? | buro9: Outlook works for businesses that have implemented AD and require an internal address book, accessible by all.MS Access databases or Excel spreadsheets for small businesses that tend not to have AD set up.Go for CSV to start with. |
Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS | cmars232: Yes, you need to know design. Even if you hire a designer, you'll be better off in understanding what you're paying for, being able to maintain the site they deliver (and being able to tell if what they give you is maintainable).I learned design by reading a bit on CSS, JS, and reverse engineering & imitatin... |
Good Hacker Cities | russell: How about telecommuting from where you are/want to be? Are any of those of you hiring willing to engage telecommuters? |
Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS | phoreo: I straddle the line between these worlds. My day job is frontend development with some Ruby here and there, while I've been designing and building out a Rails app on the side.I think my response would be similar to your 'developer-side' response - if at any point in working on a project I find myself confronte... |
Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS | travisjeffery: CSS/HTML is simple as shit. Frameworks like Blueprint make layouts/grids easy as anything. |
What web framework(s) do you guys use? | rodrigo: JSPs, Servlets and POJOs. Im a complete beginner so im trying to learn the basics first. Im very aware of some Java shortcomings but I like the fact that I can get responses from thousands of books, tutorials, and the web. A bunch of Python frameworks looks very nice though, and the languaje also, but Im requi... |
Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS | alnayyir: Learn HTML and CSS, then you'll know the full circle.You need to know these things as a backend developer and as a programmer period. |
What's the most widely used contact management solution? | drm237: Depending on your requirements, outsourcing the first version might be the best option. Check out http://www.plaxo.com/api/widget |
What's the most widely used contact management solution? | cdr: When I centralized my contact database about a year ago, I pretty much had no viable choice besides Outlook. Most applications have an "export to Outlook" feature and it's at least pretty decent at contact management. |
Need help solving simultaneous nonlinear equations | sgk284: Be honest. Is this a homework assignment? |
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