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Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | pclark: > You need to confirm your email address to play Taxi Mogul. Please proceed to the activation page.ugh. |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | cperciva: Run a taxi company? Thanks but no thanks -- that sounds far too much like work to me.I'm sure this game must be more entertaining than it sounds, but you might do better if the website makes it more clear where the fun part of the game is. |
good books about military strategy? | phdmageddon: While older books may be interesting, they are totally archaic. I would read things by communist revolutionaries and other practitioners of asymmetric warfare. There are going to be very few 'real' wars in the future, because the countries that could engage in them all have nuclear weapons, which basical... |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | r7000: Spelling Nit to fix immediately: "Purchased cars are delivered immideately"BureauPoints seems like an odd name at first. |
good books about military strategy? | kingkongrevenge: "War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning" is the best book on the psychological dimensions of war that I'm aware of. |
good books about military strategy? | kingkongrevenge: > for some reason I have wondered about this (maybe for strategy game development...).It's OK, you can be honest here. Your Kraut blood is imbuing you with an inexplicable and overwhelming drive to invade Poland. Reclaim your heritage! |
Goal Setting Software | eoyola: If you're an Emacs user, I suggest the Org Mode package. |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | hotshothenry: you guys need a better looking website coughemail mecough =D |
Looking for part-time PHP coders | hotshothenry: email sent =) |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | annoyed: i placed the waypoints but wasn't shown the resulting route...the routing needs to be explained more clearly |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | Mystalic: Okay, I'm going to rail into you. This is only because it will help you out in the long run1) Your website looks like a slipshod piece of junk. It's a crap blog format with some images. Where's a video overview of the game? A column showing recent scores and users? A smoother interface? Come on, there's... |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | ars: Add a guest mode, where I can try out the game without registering. Registering is the point where I stopped, even though it looked interesting.Make sure you can covert a guest account into a real one by registering if someone is interested. |
good books about military strategy? | fdschoeneman: I highly recommend John Boyd. His presentations are a bit dense, but you might try reading the biography of him written by Robert Coram first. |
how much karma do I need before I can downmod stories? | brk: divide by 0 errorThe feature you requested does not exist. |
how much karma do I need before I can downmod stories? | scorpioxy: If i am not mistaken, you cannot down mod stories, just comments. |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | imasr: Loved it!
To all the harsh comments, do not forget it's not a google beta. These guys are probably working their ... off to create an original gaming experience, that as far as I could see, is really adictive, took me 1 minute to start playing and really really liked it.
Great work. Congrats! |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | teej: Here are a few critiques solely from the game & Facebook perspective:- You've got an iframe app and you have both horizontal and vertical scrollbars (on mac FF at least). Get rid of them, they drive people insane.- First time experience is pretty horrid. The "tutorial" is 20 click beast that goes through every ... |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | cellis: I just tried playing your facebook app. I've gotta say you should just do this a facebook app and nothing more. 86 the website or hire a designer. Do not waste people's time: i am not going to enter text into any inpot boxes to get started playing your game. Perhaps this is because you hit me with too much text... |
good books about military strategy? | jedi_stannis: I'm reading The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene now and am enjoying it, I have also previously read the 48 Laws of Power by him which is written in a similar fashion. Very extensive and uses a lot of historical examples from both military and other fields such as politics and business. |
Ad Network that serves to Adobe AIR apps? | icey: I don't understand your question. Do you have an AIR app that you want to embed ads into? |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | trevelyan: I signed up and it dumped me on a page that looked like a blog. Lots of buttons I could press to do things but no idea what they do. And this page was clearly not fun. Why does it look like a bad blog and why aren't I doing something fun at this point?So I disable the tutorial because it's the most prominent... |
good books about military strategy? | RobGR: A lot of the suggestions here seem to follow the philosophical advice from generals meme, like the people who read Sun Tzu to learn how to better manage their sales team and etc.The best book I know of in the "detailed stuff, like how to use tanks, planes and so on" area is James F. Dunigan's "How to Make War". ... |
good books about military strategy? | rokhayakebe: What are you up to? |
good books about military strategy? | popschedule: The 33 Strategies of War (Robert Greene) |
good books about military strategy? | pg: Along with the Anabasis and Caesar's Gallic Wars, I particularly recommend Johnnie Johnson's Wing Leader, Hanson's Western Way of War, and Oman's Art of War in the Middle Ages. |
good books about military strategy? | rchiniquy: <i>analysis of historical battles</i>I'd love to see a book of this nature concentrated on the Civil War. |
Hacking Mail Server | icey: I think Zed's Son of Sam may do what you're after:http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/sos/index.html |
What's a good general seed list for a web crawler | fizx: dmoz |
good books about military strategy? | jaspertheghost: I would recommend:
1) The Art of War by Niccolò Machiavelli (read by Napoleon)
2) Certain to Win by Chet Richards (talks about OODA loop by John Boyd) |
What's a good general seed list for a web crawler | okeumeni: Yahoo directory is a good start. |
What's a good general seed list for a web crawler | alex_c: I've never done something like this myself, but what about using something like http://www.dmoz.org/? |
c++ or iPhone? | nickfox: Well, I've made my decision. I'm going to go with iPhone programming. I've actually done enough c++ programming to know what it's about. Having never done any iPhone programming, I can't make a real comparison. The library has an online copy of "Beginning iPhone Development" by Mark and LaMarche and I will wor... |
What's a good general seed list for a web crawler | soult: Wikipedia provides dumps of it's link table: http://download.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html |
Upsides and Downsides of Facebook Integration | Spyckie: A suggestion - your question is too vague. At the very least, tell us if you're looking at Facebook for mass marketing or integration with your site.Without any context, I'm going to assume you're asking about Facebook as a time waster. It does have tremendous power to draw people who already waste a lot of ti... |
Hacking Mail Server | briansmith: Make all of the <whatever>@isms.pk address aliases of a single mailbox (or forward them all to a single mailbox). Poll that single mailbox for email.Or, try something like http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/sos/ |
What's up with Rapleaf ads *everywhere*? | jaspertheghost: What websites are you talking about? I haven't seen any Rapleaf ads. |
What's a good general seed list for a web crawler | xenophanes: could you google the dictionary and use top 10 results from each? i don't know if this is decent idea or not. maybe someone will tell me :) |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | m_eiman: I think it's a fun idea, with three area that can be improved:1) Like the others are saying, you need to find a (better) designer2) Playing the game seems to be a massive time sink.
I could never spend that much time on a game, regardless of how good it is. And I don't think it's just me, pretty much nobody w... |
good books about military strategy? | mgk: The best I've read wasn't a strategy book per se.
1776 - http://www.amazon.com/1776-David-McCullough/dp/0743226712 by David McCullough was full of useful insights on General George Washington and how he used his smarts to defeat the enemy. He wasn't a great strategist, but very pragmatic (like counting the number... |
Has anyone ever gotten funding from this website? | andrewljohnson: This site charges $250 to put you in front of a bunch of angels. They claim 5% get funded. Has anyone ever gotten funding through this outfit?I'm considering applying for my company - www.trailbehind.com, after we launch our new version next week. |
Sample of code ? | cperciva: "Here's my website, go look at some of the open source code I've published" tends to work well. The more code you throw at people the better -- that way it's clear that you're not hiding a large volume of garbage while showing them a few good lines of code. |
Sample of code ? | suhail: Perhaps you can just say "here's something I've built, completely by me."--I don't seen how a few lines of code is going to say much, writing neat code is like comp sci. 101. |
Sample of code ? | defunkt: This is where contributing to open source really comes in handy. For one of my earlier jobs I was unable to show any code from previous employers but had a project on SourceForge. From what I heard, it helped land me the job. |
What's a good general seed list for a web crawler | gojomo: DMOZ, Wikipedia, Yahoo Directory are the classic broad starting points. You could also begin with the top 100, 500, 1000, etc. sites from some ranking service (like Alexa), or top N results from major search engines on queries of special interest.Depending on how you order discovered URLs and sites for crawling... |
Has anyone ever gotten funding from this website? | Cunard2: Thank you. I had the same question. |
Has anyone ever gotten funding from this website? | point: If you're dumb enough to pay money for this, you're dumb enough that your site will never make any money. The only ones who will get rich from this are the owners of the site - they are selling you a dream, and you are paying for it.Spend the money on some proper SEO services instead, it will do you more good.An... |
Has anyone ever gotten funding from this website? | amobilebiz: Angelsoft has two business models. One is where they charge entreprenuers to essentially pitch their angel members. The second is they provide a platform for angels and even some VCs to automate their application process. With this model the process is free to the entreprenuer and the angel or VC covers ... |
Has anyone ever gotten funding from this website? | matthias: The live activity monitor is pretty nifty. |
Sample of code ? | rchiniquy: Code is not always requested just for the purpose of representing the applicant. Sometimes interviewers (like me) just want to have code to hand which you are guaranteed to be familiar with; It's nicer to reference code you've actually written to ask specific questions about, say, stack vs heap usage or OO d... |
Has anyone ever gotten funding from this website? | alain94040: As much as I like the creator of AngelSoft, I think the $250 offer is wrong. AngelSoft provides good value by unifying the application process to many legitimate groups out there (angel forum for instance). One thing I hate is when each web site has a slightly different format to ask me about my business. T... |
Mechanical Turk and beta testing | satyajit: Aaarrgggghh ... I wanted some insight from the HN community and got none!! |
Fuzzy Logic SQL select framework | mdasen: So, you can just think of this like a math problem. To get a score, you can take the reciprocal of the person's age (so, someone 30 becomes 1/30) and then (for readability's sake) multiply it by a constant (say, 30) to make someone 30 a 1.0, someone 31 becomes .96, someone 35 becomes .85, etc.If you want it to... |
Fuzzy Logic SQL select framework | russell: I don't have a compelling need for a framework. If I had the need for such a query, I would probably write a simple query to gather a superset of the candidates, or not, if it looked like most of the records would be in the set. Then I would write a Python program that would rank the candidate according to w... |
Fuzzy Logic SQL select framework | Tangurena: If I were doing this, I'd look into writing CLR code to integrate with SQL Server 2005/2008. As long as you could define classes and functions in .NET, you could use them as datatypes or functions in SQL Server. For membership, you might want to define them as functions in code, separate from the db.http://m... |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | paul7986: My constructive feedback...This is game, when page loads let me start playing the game right away. Not read about the game. I read a little but ultimately left cause there was too much text and no interaction.You use a lot of buzzwords free and stuff like that, but that just adds to why I left. Too much t... |
Rate my sister's voice | andrewljohnson: My sister recently joined a blues band, and I hadn't heard her sing in years. And she really blew me away with this song.Blinded by brotherly love, or does she sound as good as I think? |
Fuzzy Logic SQL select framework | frig: Sorry not to be more specific, but someone did almost exactly what you're sketching. I'll get back to you once I've found the paper, or if I've not found it again.At first pass this might be it, but it looks different from what I remember:http://www.lcc.uma.es/~ppgg/FSQL.htmlWhat I saw basically translated "fuzzy... |
Term Sheets | suhail: Read Paul Graham's essay on it =) |
Term Sheets | alain94040: Thousands of people have access to thefunded.com. It's the best resource out there to answer your question, together with my other favorite: venturehacks.comAccess to thefunded is restriced to CEOs usually. If you don't qualify, it's going to be tough to answer all your questions here :-) |
Term Sheets | rms: http://venturehacks.com/articles/term-sheet-hacksAlso just apply for access to The Funded. You're a CEO, right? :D If there's some specific info you want right now send me an email and I can send it to you. |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | bemmu: Registered for account, was happy there was no confirmation email. Wanted to get quickly to core game, so dismissed tutorials. I tend to believe that games should be self-explanatory, going over tuts isn't much fun. Got a taxi and was very confused trying to double click around the map. I got near what I believe... |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | ii: It would be great if you put a big shiny button on your website: "Play now" or "Test drive" and let people try it without registration.Also, I think if you start charging money for premium services and make some features paid-only you will immediately look more serious and increase satisfaction from game for those ... |
good books about military strategy? | sam242: Hmmm, guess no-one here is in the military? The (American) military branches all publish their own reading lists, updated annually, that'd be a great starting point.
http://www.af.mil/library/csafreading/
http://www.history.army.mil/reference/csalist/csalist.htm
and the National Defense University has a big co... |
Fuzzy Logic SQL select framework | arthole: because your fuzzy allocation is going to change from table to table, it would probably be best to keep a master table of fuzzy allocations.something along the lines ofcolumnname, lowvalue, highvalue, weightthat way, you could keep all your weightings for whatever column you wanted to test on and do your joins... |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | enki: signup required. ugh.i won't register before i know if i like it. |
Fuzzy Logic SQL select framework | statictype: Sorry, ompletely unrelated, but I also recently looking at doing some 'mining' on NBA stats. Where do you get your raw stats from? |
What are some (good) hacker movies? | Xichekolas: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bogus JourneySeriously. The timeline in those movies is an awesome puzzle. Not quite Primer, but the same vein. |
What is the best version control software for lone web developers? | tsally: So did you link it because of the interesting subject matter or the fact that there is actually a serious discussion happening on reddit? |
Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? | s3graham: And linkage for the lazy:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446507http://www.transmoggit.com/http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/9876/transmog.htm... |
Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? | jgfoot: this is awesome.Automating the first 50-80%? Try some very simple natural language processing, with a human being acting as a sanity check. If the PHP documentation for a function is "upper case" and the Python documentation for something also is "upper case," then the two might be similar... |
Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? | inerte: Hey :)- A submit button; I typed "trim" and it did nothing :p Had to change language's dropdown or click a suggestion;- SEO! There's no unique url, with proper title, for the entries. None searching for "trim in python" will find... my blog post is getting 2 or 3 visits a day from people searching "python trim"... |
Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? | mattmcknight: It looks like a hard part is going to be method scoping. For things that aren't in the global namespace, it's sort of hard to give a single answer, because you are asking two questions (e.g., which object or module and which method or function?). It might be better to pick the object/module first, and the... |
Fuzzy Logic SQL select framework | bayareaguy: This was a hot topic in databases 20 years ago and there have been
various academic projects which implemented user defined types and
operators to do this for systems like PostgreSQL.Most of them haven't produced any useful code but a quick search
turned up this more promising site:
http://calypso.cs.put.... |
good books about military strategy? | pingswept: War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today by Max Boot. Just published in 2006.http://www.amazon.com/War-Made-New-Technology-Warfare/dp/159...I don't agree with the guy's politics, but his view on the melding of technology and military history is pretty interesting."My major ... |
Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? | jonursenbach: This is pretty sick. Nice job. |
good books about military strategy? | kicker: http://www.microworks.net/PACIFIC/battles/index.htm
has very good accounts of naval battles against the Japanese.Highlights:
http://www.microworks.net/PACIFIC/battles/vella_gulf.htm
http://www.microworks.net/PACIFIC/battles/savo_island.htm
http://www.microworks.net/PACIFIC/battles/leyte_gulf.htm |
Fuzzy Logic SQL select framework | hboon: It is probably better to build such a framework on top of a search engine rather than SQL. |
What is the best version control software for lone web developers? | johngunderman: I use SVN with the repository hosted on the same machine for all my lone projects. |
Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? | ctice: "Shucks, the transmogrifier doesn't know what PHP's count is in PHP."hehe |
Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? | SapphireSun: Awesome!I couldn't figure out how to submit it though :(I know it's probably a bad idea, but I feel wistful for the original "How the fuck is ___ in ___?" |
What is the best version control software for lone web developers? | patio11: The most important thing: ANY source control is better than NO source control. It is 10,000 times more important that you pick one package, learn it, and USE IT than you pick any particular package. (Source control isn't useful until you've made it a routine part of the workflow.)I use SVN, because that is w... |
Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? | andr: What about Scala? |
good books about military strategy? | jamesbritt: Che Guevara's book, Guerrilla Warfare, is quite good. |
What is the best version control software for lone web developers? | bayareaguy: I'd say Mercurial because1. in terms of design, performance and features it's about as good as git. sure it may be missing this or that but see point 5 below.2. in terms of end-user complexity it's about as easy to use as svn (which everybody knows)3. 99% of the code is in cleanly written Python and highly... |
Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? | tow21: Any chance of adding Javascript as an option? I spend half my life tripping up over Javascript/Python inconsistencies, this would be immensely useful.Also, I'm not convinced your google account sign in thing works right; I clicked on it to login to google, and then google didn't know where to redirect me to. |
good books about military strategy? | uuilly: I've been waiting years for someone to ask this question :)Wishlited this last night on amazon:
Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power by Victor Davis HansonHave read these and enjoyed these:General Warfare theory:
History of Warfare by KeeganIntel:
Intelligence and War by KeeganCoun... |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | Tichy: There is another game based on Google Maps where you play a truck driver.From a hackers perspective I like the idea of using Google Maps, but as a player, I guess I am more into fantasy and epic battles. I felt no desire to try being a taxi driver. |
Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? | revorad: This is awesome. What about VB? :-P |
Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? | mseebach: First impression: Nowhere near enough swearwords :)Also, if I type "trim" and hit enter, I get imagick_trimimage. If there's an exact match, I very much probably want that. |
Which accounts (twitter, gmail, etc) should I secure? | vaksel: just to clarify...do you mean YourBusinessName@gmail.com? |
Which accounts (twitter, gmail, etc) should I secure? | Zev: Why not just secure all of the domains? |
What is the best version control software for lone web developers? | defunkt: Any DVCS. $ mkdir solo_project
$ cd solo_project
$ git init
Similar steps for hg and bzr. |
How to learn languages with non-Latin alphabets? | pg: What makes it so hard is that you can't recognize words as words so easily. You have to decode them letter by letter. I studied classical Arabic in college, and at the end of a year I could only recognize a couple hundred words as words.I doubt there's any solution besides practice. Perhaps you could optimize pr... |
How to learn languages with non-Latin alphabets? | jlc: Sorry, I don't have any specific tips. I studied Russian in college and didn't find Cyrillic to be a barrier at all. I just learned the sounds and with a week or two of practice, it seemed natural enough.I've lost much of my Russian (such as it was) through disuse, but I can still read the alphabet just fine. |
How to learn languages with non-Latin alphabets? | Morieris: Take a class. I know that sounds like a cop-out answer, but personally I have only been able to learn languages in a classroom setting. For me, classes in Japanese and Spanish have proved effective, but self-taught German or Russian via websites, books, or tapes just never worked. |
algorithm to slice a number into parts | arstotel: write an algorithm that compute the factorial of a given whole number |
How to learn languages with non-Latin alphabets? | RiderOfGiraffes: I found this really useful ...http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/LearningLanguages.html?HNWorks for me too, even with Cyrillic. I've not tried it with Japanese yet 8-) |
algorithm to slice a number into parts | arstotel: how to write an algorithm |
Which accounts (twitter, gmail, etc) should I secure? | sam_in_nyc: ...I'm surprised by the lack of input. |
How to learn languages with non-Latin alphabets? | gruseom: This isn't the kind of tip you are asking about, but...I studied several languages academically (by taking courses and/or studying books). It finally dawned on me how utterly inefficient this is, and I will never make that mistake again. Next time I want to learn a language I will move to where it is spoken.Am... |
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