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Where should I buy an SSL certificate for my site? | braindead_in: I recently bought a domain from namecheap and got a 1 year SSL free. Havent tried it out though. |
Where should I buy an SSL certificate for my site? | ropiku: GoDaddy is pretty cheap and I don't see why you shouldn't use them. |
Where should I buy an SSL certificate for my site? | socialtistics: Most of the resellers out there are reselling Comodo certificates. Comodo is probably the leader in terms of number of certificates issued and you can buy direct direct from them to save the middleman. They offer two classes of certificates but both are essentially the same. The difference is the amount of insurance Comodo provides you and the level of authentication you must go through to prove who you say you are.You can check them both out at:
http://www.instantssl.com/ (the lower end)
http://www.enterprisessl.com/ (the higher end) |
Where should I buy an SSL certificate for my site? | rarrrrrr: FYI, if you buy a wildcard cert covering .example.com, example.com itself does not match -- only subdomains do. |
Where should I buy an SSL certificate for my site? | tontoa4: I paid $14.99 for a GoDaddy certificate and I was up and going within a few minutes. The certificate creation process was pretty simple. You have to search "SSL Certificate" in Google to get the reduced price, otherwise they charge about $10 more. |
what would your ideal language for web-pages look like? | joshuarr: How about just adding height: 100% to CSS. Would that be so hard!? |
Where should I buy an SSL certificate for my site? | hikari17: What about thawte? |
Review my side project: Sqrt(2) | jgalvez: That's incredibly hilarious. |
Where should I buy an SSL certificate for my site? | merrick33: Network Solutions Pro certificate was easy to setup, offers good value at $139/year. |
Where should I buy an SSL certificate for my site? | mkull: we used thawte, but wish we used verisign because they have a cooler 'secured by' icon ;pseriously |
Where should I buy an SSL certificate for my site? | sirsean: Trustwave |
I need feedback for my feedback site | ahoyhere: I thought Satisfaction and UserVoice were for small businesses.Are you really trying to build a company based on "We're like Coca Cola, but with a different name!"Also, for the love of god, coordinate your colors. Rainbow text is so 1992. |
Where should I buy an SSL certificate for my site? | dhess: Anyone here have experience with StartCom? http://cert.startcom.org/ |
I need feedback for my feedback site | Juliet: Its the classic Chincken and Egg situation !
You wont succeed without traction so you are forced to grow regionally like Yelp and City search etc .. If you launch Nationally you will spread yourself too thin ..
Yep - Building the software is one thing Marketing is a different beast all together .. |
Where should I buy an SSL certificate for my site? | mikeyur: I went with a comodo SSL through NameCheap.com - works great. |
Employee benefits/perks as a recruitment tool | cperciva: What are some other things that a small IT startup can do/offer to "attract" better talent?Convince me that the work is interesting. |
Employee benefits/perks as a recruitment tool | noodle: some other thoughts:offer equity. offer a competitive wage and then some (i'm assuming competitive = average -- which means you'll get average recruits). offer a serious office setup (good computer, big monitors, nice chairs, etc.). offer a flexible schedule and relaxed environment. etc..most of all, though, the job itself needs to be interesting/engaging. |
Where should I buy an SSL certificate for my site? | plaes: cacert.org - And it is free :)And running multiple SSL/https domains from a single IP is also possible when using recent enough software (Apache with mod_ssl which has SNI support).
More info about the SNI here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication |
Review my side project: Sqrt(2) | shaunxcode: is it a bug or feature that I can keep just answering one puzzle over and over and build my "sickles"?Also it seems pretty that this could be hi-jacked by a cabal of users sharing answers to puzzles and "block voting" on stories. I like the general idea though and I am trying to think of a suggestion for how puzzles could not easily be manipulated like that.Maybe having a much larger pool of generated puzzles which when answered correctly are taken out of circulation permanently? At least this would make people looking for answers have to learn the general theories behind the puzzles and thus in a round-about way rehabilite the cheaters. haha!? |
Where should I buy an SSL certificate for my site? | sankara: I found trustico to be the cheapest so far. Their service is decent too. |
Where should I buy an SSL certificate for my site? | tylermenezes: I honestly don't think it matters too much. You can get certs from $15-$20, and, while most of them will try to upsell you to a more "secure" version to "give your visitors confidence", 90% of your visitors probably won't know who issued your certificate. As long as it's trusted in MSIE, Firefox, and Opera you'll be fine. |
Registration email confirmation, good or bad? | oldgregg: Keep the confirmation but go ahead and let them into the site... If they haven't clicked the link for a few days send a couple reminders... after a week just disable their account. |
Registration email confirmation, good or bad? | gstar: It depends. I have an industry website with a very narrow focus, and get about 80% verification rate.I'm considering dropping email verification, but I believe that 80% I get now is a very good rate.Biggest thing to consider is your MTA. You have to have SPF at a minimum and domainkeys is getting pretty important too. Outsource your email if you can. |
Registration email confirmation, good or bad? | oscardelben: If the user's email is not important for your application, then you could just insert a captcha to prevent spam and remove the email verification. |
how can Obama use a BlackBerry without going to Canada? | allenbrunson: ComputerWorld thinks it's a Sectera Edge. I submitted the article earlier:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=450680 |
Where should I buy an SSL certificate for my site? | nickf: If anyone needs a cert (including the OP if he hasn't purchased yet) and help setting it up on pretty much any server/device/platform - email me. My address is on my profile.
Mention HN and this thread, and I'll make sure you're looked after ;)[Disclosure: I work for a CA.] |
Registration email confirmation, good or bad? | ROFISH: It depends upon the application. I run a semi-popular forum, so I require email addresses to keep the ban evaders, trolls, and spambots out. If you think you're going to have problems with the former two, keep the email requirement. However, if you're not doing a community related thing where everybody has to play nice, like a service app like Basecamp, feel free to not require it. |
Employee benefits/perks as a recruitment tool | plinkplonk: option to "work from home" occasionally, at the developers discretion. But yeah (as Colin points out) the biggest "perk" is interesting work. |
Registration email confirmation, good or bad? | jwilliams: Are there any disadvantages to this approach?Only that it's the most common method of recovering or verifying an account if something goes wrong (e.g. forgotten password).Doesn't necessarily mean it has to be part of registration though.Have you considered using OpenID? You can get the user's email from that. |
Registration email confirmation, good or bad? | jacquesm: It depends. If you have a pre-existing relationship with your users (because of a large free portion of your site) and posting privileges require registration then you'll see a good conversion and people won't mind much. It also helps if you explain why you need their email address, in general I find that is one of the key elements in dealing with users, communicate clearly and frequently. |
Why does running a few instances of DIR /s in Command prompt load CPU heavily? | jacquesm: That's because you are the only user on the system and you're asking the filesystem to tell you everything it knows about all your files.Strictly speaking it is an io-bound operation, but with the number of files on your machine and some aggressive caching it will quickly turn into a memory-to-display translation (involving lots of font rendering and scrolling) and that is cpu-bound, not io-bound.Look at it this way, the 'idle' process also consumes lots of cpu power, but it does absolutely nothing. When you're alone on a machine you have the power to max it out with anything cpu bound, no matter how simple. A loop that counts from 0 to 1.000.000.000 (assuming it's not optimized out) will consume 100% cpu time unless you tell your system explicitly otherwise.The only way to not max out the cpu is to deliberately slow the process down by installing small sleep periods in between operations, but you really want your 'dir /s' to run as fast as it can. |
Registration email confirmation, good or bad? | andhapp: It should not be mandatory to click the like because I do not want to log on to my email and click the link to access the site. They should be allowed to browse the site as a guest and if should be reminded of the link every few days.oldgregg is bang on target...and I would second his notion. |
Employee benefits/perks as a recruitment tool | wenbert: + 1 on the "option to work from home"...
also, i would want to work for a company that has flextime. |
Setting up an LLC in America for a non-resident | yrashk: Organizing LLC is not a problem for non-residents at all — you can do it either yourself (could be tricky if you don't know what to do) or use some incorporation service (there are plenty of them available).Getting a bank account for it is way more tricky. First of all, you'll need a EIN for your LLC, which you can get with your own SSN or ITIN only. Since you're not a resident, you're not eligible for SSN, and getting ITIN is a little bit of "catch-22" problem.And even if you'll get ITIN and, respectively, EIN, you might have hard times opening a bank account. I personally was able to do that by e-mail/mail, but I was introduced to financial specialist by a friend of mine. |
Setting up an LLC in America for a non-resident | jacquesm: Spend the $10 on an international phone call with any laywer in the state of your choice.They'll be able to handle the whole process for you, all you'll probably need to do is have a few signatures witnessed in your country of origin. |
Setting up an LLC in America for a non-resident | mindaugas: I think this is relatedhttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=354508 |
What's Your Brand Strategy | JayNeely: It's hard enough to build one brand. As a startup, if you're trying to build product sub-brands while still promoting the company brand, you're frakking crazy. |
What's Your Brand Strategy | mattculbreth: Well I can tell you with our startup that we made a mistake--should have gone with the Master strategy around our product name. Should have renamed the company to be that product name actually. It's a cool name, precisely describes our offering, and I actually had people emailing me and asking if they could buy the domain. |
What's Your Brand Strategy | gstar: Being extremely consistent with applying your brand is half the battle won. So many startups, particularly the web2.0 variety pollute their brand.Also, your brand isn't just your logo - it's your entire look and feel.Those facebook business cards demonstrate that quite well. |
Employee benefits/perks as a recruitment tool | stonemetal: If you try to attract candidates with fluff perks you get candidates that want\expect fluff perks. Outside of good pay and benefits you need to show that you provide a good environment for that which you want to attract. Top candidates (I believe and could be entirely incorrect) want interesting work and the freedom to do a good job. Make your work environment explicit. Second it seems that wannabes talk about being rock stars, ninjas, or other BS so steer as far clear of that as possible. |
Setting up an LLC in America for a non-resident | anthony_barker: Make sure you consider the added expense vs just using other credit card clearing company in your country and eating the exchange rate costs.Officially with the LLC you will also have to submit taxes each year. LLC Taxes in the US are not low and are complex.Other processors include
Quickbook merchant account
Costco Nova Networks
Beanstream, PSiGate or InternetSecure.
Chase Paymentech
These are available from Canada - but most countries have clearing companies. Panama, Costa Rica etc with much better tax advantages then having a US Account. |
Hiring a Freelance Hacker/Finding a Co-Founder | mixmax: I think a great product guy and a great hacker would be a natural matchThis is how legendary companies are founded. Think Steve Job and Steve Wozniack.Good luck :-) |
Hiring a Freelance Hacker/Finding a Co-Founder | noodle: didn't you ask this same question, like, yesterday? |
Where should I buy an SSL certificate for my site? | blender: I recently researched this and I thought Digicert looked pretty good. Digicert includes Subject Alternative Name.Our CEO insisted on VeriSign so that's what we went with - way more expensive and to get both www.example.com and example.com you either have to buy another cert (for example.com) or go through their Sales team's Managed PKI to get a SAN - ridiculous!Cheers |
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Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | how_gauche: I'm an old hand in Emacs and new to the Macintosh, so I use Cocoa Emacs.app because it's closest to the "standard" distribution, and override the Mac keybindings. I avoid using the mouse (those things are very bad for the wrists), so my .emacs turns the toolbar, menubar, and scrollbars off -- just a plain white screen.I use a 25" widescreen LCD, and I like to jack up the font size until I get about 200 characters across; this lets me hold two 100x47 buffers side by side, which is how I prefer to work. Most of my interaction with the computer (besides web) goes through Emacs -- eshell, gnus, bbdb, calendar/diary, planner, etc. |
Hiring a Freelance Hacker/Finding a Co-Founder | rubing: You should just open a McDonalds, they're gonna do great in the coming depression. |
Hiring a Freelance Hacker/Finding a Co-Founder | pedalpete: You realize you can set-up a store on amazon and they can handle most of the technical stuff for you?
It give you a chance to play with your business model (as their isn't anything specifically technical about it) and try different avenues instead of building everything from scratch in the beginning.
If you decide later that it makes more sense to bring all the technical in house, there is nothing stopping you from doing it at that point. |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | larrywright: Here's mine: http://github.com/larrywright/emacs/It's mostly stuff borrowed from other people, but it gives you a good starting point with Ruby/Rails support, Twitter integration, snippets, etc. I use it at home and work (Mac and Windows respectively), and it works well for me. |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | fendale: I just have Aquamacs with all the default bindings. Then I installed ECB and all the rails goodies, of which I use very few actually! Flymake is the most useful as it highlights syntax errors without even compiling. |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | rickd: I use emacs in a terminal window for probably 75% of my editing, and textmate for the other 25- I have Aquamacs but couldn't get into the flow with it for some reason. I keep all the default keys for ctrl/etc, and it does help a bit that they newest macs have changed the enter key that used to be to the right of spacebar to alt.While it's not really emacs, I generally do most of my development in Eclipse- but I change the keybindings to Emacs mode (window\preferences\general\keys). Makes eclipse almost nice to use. |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | travisjeffery: I'm using the Cocoa Emacs.app cause it's most like the old Emacs, no new keybindings like Aquamacs has. |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | malkia: I'm emacs newbie, and I do use Aquamacs, with separately downloaded SLIME, and custom .emacs (borrowed from many people - mainly from comp.lang.lisp) |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | humanzee: Carbon Emacs : http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/carbo...+ Emacs Starter Kit: http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit/tree/master+ yasnippet: http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/+ paredit: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ParEdit+ Clojure mode: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Clojure_Programming/Getting_Sta...+ Re-mapped Ctrl to Caps. Carbon Emacs defaults Meta to the Command key, which I kept. |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | spydez: I use Cocoa Emacs.app. The only major keybinding change I've done so far (in 2 or 3 months of using Emacs on OS X) is Caps->Ctrl. Getting to alt/option is a thumb-contortion, so I'll probably try out Cmd->Meta soon. Only thing holding me back is the convenience of Cmd+C/X/V.Cocoa Emacs /does/ have Mac shortcuts on by default. Not sure if they're all there, but save, cut, copy, and paste are certainly bound to the proper OS X shortcut.As for Aquamacs, I tried it first, but had major issues trying to get it to accept my .emacs. It tries to save a ton of crap to custom-set-variables, including things I set via setq to keep my .emacs file logically laid out. It also tried to save my entire color-theme to custom-set-faces, which is an idiotic thing to do; the color-theme takes up 1111 lines in a nice elisp file off on it's own - why try to stuff it in custom-set-faces?Anyways, just a warning - you may have issues if you try to give Aquamacs a largish .emacs file you've built up over the years on other systems. But that's probably not a problem for you since you're coming from TextMate.I use the same .emacs at work (WinXP) as I do at home on my Mac and Linux machines, and Cocoa Emacs played well with it with minute adjustments, so I went with it. |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | ctp: Cocoa Emacs.app built from CVS - followed instructions from here: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForMacOSScroll down to section 'Build from source' - note the comment to build from the 'nextstep' directory. I just followed the instructions in 'nextstep/INSTALL')This is working for me, so far... a good way to get a 'vanilla' install. |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | tjweir: Here are two setup descriptions from Clojure guys:
http://paulbarry.com/articles/2008/07/02/getting-started-wit...http://bc.tech.coop/blog/081205.htmlThey are skewed to Clojure development, but you may be able to pick out a few tips. |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | kapitti: From Jim Weirich, of Rake fame:http://github.com/jimweirich/emacs-setup/tree/masterAlso, a starter emacs kit for rubyists:http://github.com/jimweirich/emacs-starter-kit/tree/master |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | bulanga: I use the native OSX emacs in the terminal with the fonts increased a fair bit. It loads really fast (~ 1 second) I tried Aquamacs but didn't like the fact that it was significantly slower when starting. I'm a new emacs user so I don't really see the need for all the bells and whistles the larger packages tend to offer. If I need anything I just install it from emacswiki.org. Also I found dotfiles.com quite useful for customising my setup. |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | mmc: I long used emacs in X11, but recently switched to Aquamacs out of sheer laziness - not wanting to recompile emacs+gtk for my new intel mac.
I've tried all the various ports, and Aquamacs is my favorite 'native' port, but I actually miss the X11+gtk build I used before. There's something to be said for an emacs that feels like emacs :)I agree that the option key is no good as Meta - Cmd is Meta in my setup.I absolutely override the Mac keybindings.
I like having M-Q as fill-paragraph, and I found that other useful commands were being hijacked by useless OS X Text Services (like M-> for end of buffer got stolen by OmniOutliner)I have a large 1920x1200 display that I tend to use with one emacs frame maximized, and some arrangement of windows inside that frame - most often I have a full height window on the left, and two half-height windows on the right. Sometimes I use three columns of windows, and other times four equal-sized windows makes sense.One of those windows is almost always running zsh inside ansi-term (M-x ansi-term). Some prefer shell-mode, but I think ansi-term and zsh are more useful. I don't think shell-mode and zsh cooperate too well.Most of my work is done in python, and I just started using pymacs and ropemacs, which seem useful. Notes on them are here: http://www.enigmacurry.com/2008/05/09/emacs-as-a-powerful-py... |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | cpr: I use Terminal-based Emacs exclusively. Couldn't stand all the "distractions" (bells and whistles) of Aquamacs. But, more importantly, with this mode I can use Emacs everywhere, including my servers over ssh, with exactly the same setup.I bind Option to Meta in Terminal.app and that works very well. |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | paddy_m: carbon-emacs. It's my first emacs ( I never used emacs on unix or NT). Carbon-Emacs seemed to keep more with emacs' UI guidelines compared to aquamacs. Note I think I'm running carbon emacs, I run the one with the purple logo.I have the option key (windows key on this keyboard) mapped to Hyper. I use Hyper to navigate around emacs.
H-(n|p|b|f) move up, down, left, or right one window in a frameH-(N|P|B|F) change the size of the current window height/widthother hyper bindings open apps that I use regularly (shell, anything, sql) |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | martenveldthuis: I use GNU Cocoa Emacs built from source. This port does the most common cmd-x,c,v,q etc, which helps me transition. I'm typing on an IBM Model M attached to my Mac, so I've mapped CAPS to Command to maintain that key. I'm fine with the placement of the ctrl and option keys.My config is at http://www.github.com/marten/emacs.d/ It contains a couple of useful fixes (such as Cocoa apps not getting the PATH var from the shell). It's got plenty comments. I should try turning more stuff into autoloads, I'm finding it on the slow side to start up right now. |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | tconfrey: One thing I find useful is the Its All Text! add-on for Firefox. It lets me use emacs as an external editor for any browser text area. Its ideal for blog entries, web mail or any filling in text in a small text entry area (like this one on HN!).In addition to giving me all the power of emacs editing, getting the text inside emacs means I can more easily use templates, save stuff off in text files etc.You need to start an emacs server in your .emacs: (server-start). I also (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'flyspell-mode) so that I get spell correction. With my setup I just control-e in any text area and it pops open a new buffer in my emacs session. |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | bretthoerner: Nightly from here: http://atomized.org/wp-content/cocoa-emacs-nightly/Config: http://github.com/bretthoerner/emacs-dotfiles/tree/masterI maintain a very OS X-y feel, among other things. |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | jimbokun: I seem to be the only one here who likes how Aquamacs uses both Mac and Emacs key bindings. I find myself using both. There is probably some reason I sometimes use the Emacs kill/yank/etc. vs. when I use Mac cut/copy/paste, but I'm not sure what it is.I also use Emacs in Windows and Unix at work, but I imagine it is sitting in front of my Mac that triggers the cmd key bindings in my head. Maybe it's just that, with Aquamacs, whatever key binding first pops into my head will probably work, so I don't have to worry about context switching so much.I also agree that Option is the right key to use for Meta. I don't think I would ever get used to pressing cmd and not having it activate the Mac key bindings. Probably because I have been using Macs in some capacity since 1987.The other "Mac-like" thing about Aquamacs is how it pre-bundles so many of the useful modes. Going out and loading each mode you want one at a time and tweaking it just so seems so Linux to me. I like how Aquamacs tries to give you something that Just Works for most of what you want it to do, instead of something more bare bones that you are expected to configure out the wazoo. I discovered both SBCL and Aquamacs when I wanted to learn Common Lisp, and Aquamacs coming with SLIME pre-installed made one less thing I had to fuss with. |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | jimm: Emacs.app GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.4.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0)All my init files are check in to a repository at https://github.com/jimm/elisp/treeSee http://www.io.com/~jimm/emacs_tips.html#my-dot-emacs for how I've set up the repository for different machines. |
Is outsourcing though Elance/Guru a reasonable way to get started | ahpeeyem: I haven't actually got anything done through any of these sites but I have some friends who have, and I think it can be hit and miss with regard to the quality of developers on the sites.An idea I'd like to try is a small guinea-pig project that you would use to find the better developers - get them to build it and see what the quality is like. It may cost a bit up-front but if you find good developers you could save yourself a lot of money and get a lot better results on a real project. |
Is outsourcing though Elance/Guru a reasonable way to get started | bisi: Elance is not a bad place to start ut you can look on Killerstartups.com and when you see a site you like email them and ask them for a referal . |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | access_denied: - Caps-lock == Ctrl
- plist hacked so the whole system (at least cocoa-apps) behave emacs-like (Apple is meta)
- carbon emacs, because (fullscreen, extensions work, like to have the default GNU set-up as a starting point, and there was 1 thing Cocoa Emacs did not right but I forgot what it was)
- I use color themes a lot, I plan to have each major mode auto-choosing one; most of my .emacs pets are not implemented yet, in a way the real work tends to be more fascinating
- org-mode as "productivity app" and backbone for DTP |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | ivey: I pull every now and then from git://repo.or.cz/emacs.git, and build my own with --with-ns. I was using CarbonEmacs, but multi-tty support is amazing. I have my main Emacs frames running, and if I need to pop into a quick session in a terminal, or SSHd in from another machine, it Just Works.(Except the theme I'm using has very light colored comments, and I can't see them in 8 color terminal. Anyone have a suggestion for a 256 color terminal app?)I don't use Mac copy-paste, etc, even though I was a Mac user long before I was an Emacs user. Using C-y and M-y reminds me of the kill ring everytime, where using C-v wouldn't. I do have the clipboard synced to the top of the kill ring though...not sure if that was a default.I use Command as Meta, and have Caps Lock for Control system-wide. |
Replacing Racially Insensitive Computer Terms With. . .? | brk: I can't tell if this is an attempt at humor/sarcasm or not.I don't think any of the terms you describe could even be remotely regarded as "racially sensitive" unless you were going out of your way to do so. |
Is outsourcing though Elance/Guru a reasonable way to get started | abdulqabiz: I think, there are really smart service providers. You have to just choose one from bids. |
Can you help me find a cofounder? | vaksel: You should probably be more specific in who you are looking for. Because right now, it looks like you are looking for someone with a pulse.At least point out some of the skills you are looking for or state if you are looking for someone who can code or someone who is a "business guy with an idea" |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | marcher: I started off with MacPorts' Emacs 22.3 package and just used it on the command line. Eventually I moved to a portfile that tracked Emacs CVS, and finally settled on Aquamacs.I've tried Cocoa Emacs from CVS, but it has one major problem that makes it unusable for me: no fullscreen support. The latest version of Aquamacs does this perfectly. I have an entire space dedicated to Aquamacs, and I send files to it from Terminal with emacsclient.I too have capslock bound to control. I don't have any other keyboard modifications. I'm used to option/alt working the same in Emacs and every other OS X application (try alt+left/right/backspace/delete in an input box).My ~/.emacs doesn't have a lot of OS X-specific settings. My favorite thing about my setup right now is having Pyflakes automatically highlight errors in my Python code as I write it. Flyspell in strings and comments is also great.If you're interested, my ~/.emacs is here: http://bitbucket.org/brodie/dotfiles/src/tip/.emacs |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | dilap: I'm new to OS X (from Windows, mostly, with MinGW), but old to emacs. In my brief investigations, I have found Carbon Emacs to be the most friendly -- mainly because it makes no attempts what-so-ever to fit in with the Mac keystrokes, which suits me fine. Like most other people, I bind caps-lock to control, which I recommend whatever your platform.Now a brief question of my own: is there any way to map command to meta in the apple terminal???I know about mapping option to meta, but it just ain't the same, especially when I hit command-W hoping to copy text and accidentally close my whole frickin' terminal. |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | msg: Just like you say, Carbon Emacs + Caps->Control + Cmd->Meta. I dislike using Option as Meta, as you say.This keyboard and setup is exactly the setup I have for Gnu Emacs on Solaris 8 that I have to use every day at work, and if I ever do serious work on Windows, I'll be able to remap Alt and Caps without trouble. The consistency of key placement is definitely helpful. |
Can you help me find a cofounder? | mrtron: Ask HN: Can you help me find a wife?Really - a cofounder is a tight relationship that is tough to find. I wouldn't jump into bed with a stranger :) |
Replacing Racially Insensitive Computer Terms With. . .? | stonemetal: >a master and a slaveThere have been white slaves and black masters historically so you will have to enlighten me as to why you believe there is anything "racially sensitive" in terms master and slave.As far as blacklist goes you could easily use drop list, ignore list, or filter list since that is what it is doing. |
Is outsourcing though Elance/Guru a reasonable way to get started | teej: Depends. I know a guy with no programming skill who had an idea. Take that flash helicopter game people like to play and put it on Facebook. He hired a Russian guy through elance to do the flash, and a brilliant guy in Virginia through IRC to do the PHP. His app got big and he sold it six months later for a significant chunk of cash. |
Is outsourcing though Elance/Guru a reasonable way to get started | snorkel: I've tried it. The code quality was OK but it took a lot of time just to document and explain the project to each coder over email, and time to do progress checks with each coder, answer their questions, and generally keep everyone coordinated with what others were working on. At some point I realized I was documenting the project in such detail and coordinating every step of it that it was faster to code it all myself. I would still outsource graphic design elements because I'm a better coder than artist. |
Is outsourcing though Elance/Guru a reasonable way to get started | vaksel: the problem with freelancers...is the programmers get overwhelmed. A crappy little app that would take someone decent 2 weeks to program, will end up taking 8-10 months. Because the guy is juggling your project with 20 other ones.But yeah, if you have no other option freelancing sites are the way to go. At least this way you can get the basic site up, and then have something to offer to get a decent programmer as a co-founder. |
Is outsourcing though Elance/Guru a reasonable way to get started | ejs: I would just pick one project and focus on it, learn and implement it... then the others will become easier and easier.Might want to do the one you are least interested in first, since the code quality will probably not be too good. |
Is outsourcing though Elance/Guru a reasonable way to get started | dsil: Slow down, take what spare time you have and learn django or ruby on rails. Go through some tutorials, struggling and learning as you go. By the time you graduate you'll be so much more powerful, and glad you did. |
Replacing Racially Insensitive Computer Terms With. . .? | jacquesm: I think that political correctness should only go so far, and to me any one of these is a waste of breath. I've never met anybody that figured master/slave is racially insensitive, since slavery has nothing whatsoever to do with race. Slave as used in this context comes according to the dictionary (merriam webster in this case) from this meaning "3 : a device (as the printer of a computer) that is directly responsive to another" , not from the one-human-dominates-another meaning.As for 'blacklisting', that's just too funny to even take serious. Obviously according to people that have a problem with the word 'black' in any context we should probably eradicate the word from all uses, it says more about those that are so sensitive than about the words.Either this is a very clever troll or an extreme case of oversensitivity to 'hidden meaning' in ordinary words.George Carlin said it best, there are no bad words, just bad intentions. |
What sucks about snow shovels? | transburgh: it is cold every time I use it ;) |
Do you look at who wrote a comment before you read it? | mixmax: I do quite a bit.Since I visit here every day I get to know the styles and personalities of other frequent posters, I have seen many comments by them, and seen a lot of their blogs.This adds to the conversation, since I can often tell why usernames I recognize argue in a certain way.I also often remember previous discussions I've had with certain users. This is a good thing, since I know the intellectual integrity of a user I recognize when a back-and-forth dicussion ensues. |
What sucks about snow shovels? | ilamont: This might be good for snow shovel news, but not Hacker News. |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | olegshaldybin: I use Cocoa Emacs.app. Here's my emacs config, carefully crafted for Rails development:http://github.com/olegshaldybin/emacs-config/tree/master |
What is your Lipson-Shiu type? | ewiethoff: I've filled out this test a few times in the past few years. Result: ICUE (Mad Scientist) or ICUG (Inventor) depending on what mood I'm in when I take it. |
What sucks about snow shovels? | HeyLaughingBoy: 1. They're not motorized. I have a >300' long driveway and live on top of a hill with wicked winds that drift snow. April snow is wet & heavy. There's a reason I have a snowplow on the lawn tractor!
2. The edges should be sharper to get under bits of ice.
3. Need varying widths: 2' wide for the path to front door; 3' wide to shovel the driveway. Gets annoying switching shovels.
4. Hard to find at night after a big storm. Should be fluorescent.Like I said, there's a reason I have a lawn tractor with a plow blade and another with a snowblowing attachment :-) |
What sucks about snow shovels? | mooism2: On the one week in 18 years that I need to use one, I will either not be able to find my show shovel, or not possess one in the first place. |
What sucks about snow shovels? | brk: There is usually a compromise made between being optimized for pushing, or optimized for lifting.Some sort of configuration that allowed you to lock the handle so the shovel part was tilted up for pushing, and then you could set the handle to be more upright to lift/throw. |
Can you help me find a cofounder? | larrykubin: You graduated from UT-Austin the same year I did, but I got my degree in Electrical Engineering. I'm still in Austin though and it sounds like you live in Seattle. |
Is outsourcing though Elance/Guru a reasonable way to get started | steveeq1: It can be, but like Paul Graham says it all depends on your ability of identifying a good programmer. I made the mistake of not interviewing the candidates well enough and wasted a month's worth of time and labor because of it. Most people on the site, from my experience, are 3rd world country programmers with the equivalent of a degree from Devry.My advice is just to learn the language and do it yourself. You will probably have to modify the site in the long run anyway. |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | icey: Kirubakaran has his emacs posted on github:http://github.com/ki/my-dot-emacs/blob/master/dot-emacs.txtIt looked quite good to me. |
Do you look at who wrote a comment before you read it? | sounddust: I rarely look at the names unless it's an extended conversation and I want to make sure I'm still talking to the same person.The usernames on this site are very small and inconspicuous. I take that as a sign that HN wants us to focus on the content of the message rather than the author. When I'm on sites which place more visual emphasis on the author (names in big fonts, avatars, etc), then I always notice who writes comments. |
Is outsourcing though Elance/Guru a reasonable way to get started | babul: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ojbyrne built Digg for $10 per hour (and a total cost of ~$200) and was hired through elance...http://digg.com/programming/Digg_com_created_for_only_200_00...so you can get your ideas implemented well at a low cost, but what you do with it then and how you progress is really the hard part. |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | mariorz: Aquamacs, fn key is meta, panic sans 10 font, <3 fullscreen-mode. |
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup? | 1gor: Don't worry too much about standard Mac keybindings.Emacs shortcuts will soon be wired into your fingertips and you will be efficient on any platform - windows, linux and mac. In fact, you will very soon forget about the platform and focus on your work at hand.That's the reason old hands prefer to stick with traditional emacs keyboard interface. Dumping some Mac idiosyncrasies is a small price to pay for the freedom and power. |
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