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please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | pierrefar: How is it different from the freely available ab and httperf?Refs:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/ab.htmlhttp://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/httperf/ |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | jrockway: Very nice. Are you guys using any off-the-shelf tools for the load testing, or is it all custom? (and if so, what language? Erlang?)Also, is there a way to simulate more than 5000 users? |
Hackers And Founders In Boston | mangoleaf: Why doesn't YC make a Hackerbook (HB) to facilitate nerd networking? I read HN cuz I can't stand digg et al. I might use HB cuz I can't stand FaceClutter...uh...Book. |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | modoc: I really like both the idea and the site.One feature request that would have me signup in an instant is if you could provide web service load testing as well.I'd also like to know more about the session recorder and if I can feed parameterized data into the scripts. |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | jasonkester: Nice effort! After a few weeks of mediocre "review my site" submissions here, it's nice to see something come through that I would actually use!You did a good job of making the reports and graphs pretty while still keeping a clean feel to the whole site. There seems to be a good amount of polish and attention to detail there too. I don't feel scared to click anything while the test is running for fear of breaking something or redirecting me to a FAQ page and canceling the test.I look forward to seeing how this pans out. |
Hackers House in Dallas, TX? | ram1024: sounds like a sweet plan. i'm currently starting up an android project and would love being able to visit your place and connect with "geeks" :D |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | ErrantX: Your approach depends on a lot of things really.I often thing, personallly, that whilst reading books/articles is good it doesn't help instill a lot into a young hacker.First I would buy him Kevin Mitnicks books. I recommend them to every new hacker because:
a) some of the stories are unbelievably inspiring!
b) it's all real life stuff
c) he manages to tell the stories of these great hacks without glamourising the illegality. It does a lot to prove hacking can be great fun within legal bounds.The next thing I would do is encourage him to get involved with a programming community. Get him to learn a language and start ot play with it. :)in terms of cracking (as opposed to hacking) sometimes pushing the boundaries happens (either for personal reasons or professional). I would teach your cousin that breaking the law is wrong. Breaking into the schools system is (speaking technically) as bad as breaking into a microsoft server. But the impact of the 2 activities (assuming it was simply to look both times) is very different. Try to show him that experimenting with something like the school system is fairly harmless but still wrong and he should take it no further unless he has permission :) (offer the school a pen test :D)Finally a lot of people are saying "teach him not to get caught" (essentially). This is a most important lesson. I crack for a living (White Hat I hasten to add) and one of the things that makes me good at that is paying attention to covering my actions :) |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | jey: I tried to test my site (NSFW: http://fapseek.com) and got the message "This configuration contains addresses that has been tested too many times the last 24 hours." I assumed someone else had tested the site and that I would be able to test after logging in and verifying ownership of the domain. Even after creating an account, logging in, and creating the loadimpact.txt file, I'm still getting the same error message about my address having already been tested too many times. |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | jusob: How does it compare to http://litmusapp.com/ ? |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | raamdev: Here's the test on Google.com:http://loadimpact.com/result/google.com-398c66a059f3ab3c096b... |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | omarish: Nice site, but how is this different from siege?http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2007/12/06/siege-an-httphttps-stre... |
Hackers And Founders In Boston | JayNeely: OpenCoffee (weekly, Wednesday mornings): Startup discussion - http://www.meetup.com/OpenCoffee-Cambridge-Meetup/BarCampBoston4 (April 25th & 26th): Geek unconference - http://www.barcampboston.org/Information Superhighway(monthly): Geek party - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1502742/ / http://twitter.com/infosuperhiwayRefresh Boston(monthly?): New media designers / developers - http://refreshboston.org/For everything else, check out http://marksguide.com/ |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | d13hard: no, i'm sorry. the whole point of load testing is that i am (for example) looking at my vmstat output etc DURING the test...thats a whole lot easier if i just fire up siege or httperf or ab at my console. i'm sorry hackers, you need to know how to do this yourself. just hearing someone tell you your site is slow is useless unless you know WHY. knowing WHY means looking at your system in detail as well as your site design and achitecture. there is no "for dummies" route here. just giving me pretty graphs saying my site is slow is pointless.its so trivial to run siege...why would you pay someone to do this? is their load tool even as good as siege? how can they possibly match the pummeling i can deliver on the LAN. load testing is best done locally. i won't be downmodded by anyone who does load testing as part of their actual job |
Hackers House in Dallas, TX? | RobGR: I'm in Austin and could not participate directly, but I think it is a good idea and you should try to do it.My advice would be to not spend money on servers and computers. Hackers can find their own computers, and set up a cast-off as a server, etc. Internet, electricity, and space will be enough.There are a lot of potential drawbacks to this, and you should be aware of them so that you can handle them appropriately. It can be a distraction from your main, more important money-making activities. People you don't know can start wandering in and out at all hours and stuff might start to disappear. People with unpleasant personalities can start camping there and drive all the good apples away.Be on the lookout for things like that. Maybe have a paid membership with laminated cards to give them a sense of ownership and have them keep up the environment; there could be a free "candidate" level, because high school students won't have much money.A lot of projects such as this are awesome for a time while one core person, or maybe two or three people, are fanatical about it and they are also doing all the work. At some point the person who does 90 percent of the effort burns out, and the project collapses. Perhaps you should guard against this by making a strict time-and-money budget of what you will put into it, and accept the fact that it might not be as big and as cool as it could be, but be sure to preserve your own effort for a longer time. |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | huhtenberg: Welcome to my IP blacklist.But, seriously, this should be strictly an opt-in service. Only if there is a loadimpact.txt on the server, you run your tests. Otherwise - refuse and explain that the server admin has not consented to the stress testing using your service.I'm sure you have some DoS provisions in place, but in the end it really boils down to the fact that if you screw up, then it's my server that gets DoS'd. |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | lazyant: I see a potential legal problem with the way the stress test is "authorized". The thing is that web server access (putting the "loadimpact.txt" file in the server) is not exactly the same as web site ownership.My paranoid mind can think of an scenario like this (INAL so I maybe be off): a web master asks for the load test, this is done and the site goes down for a while, incurring a monetary loss (loss in sales for example). The owner sues the testing company for a 'DoS' and the testing company has no way to prove that it was authorized (what text file, there's none!).I personally wouldn't do a stress test on a server without written authorization of the owner. The way I would implement this on an online service is by asking the target web site and the email address, where this address has to be in the public whois information. Then I'd send a special message to that email address and by replying the owner gives authorization (this way I'd have something from the official email address). This is not a 'written authorization' but comes as close as it can and the whois email address is used for domain transactions etc so it has the same level of protection/legal procedure behind. |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | simplegeek: I'm interested in giving it a shot but site isn't opening. Is it just me? |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | leftnode: I'm interested in how many paid registrations posting here on HN resulted in. It seems like a pretty positive response here and a great tool! Great work! |
Good app to rip html of (my own) website. | yan: You want something that goes beyond 'view source'? I have no idea what you're asking for. |
Good app to rip html of (my own) website. | davidw: wget |
Good app to rip html of (my own) website. | timf: http://www.httrack.com/Note this will rewrite links to be local -- matters what you're trying to do. |
Good app to rip html of (my own) website. | anthonyrubin: wget? |
Good app to rip html of (my own) website. | timf: wget -r:-\ |
Quick wins for your business? | izak30: Read non-important news once a week.Check your e-mail when you're not working..not all day. |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | asnyder: This is a good start, though not as comprehensive as we're used to. Currently we use WAPT which is significantly more comprehensive while still maintaining the ease of use that most other comprehensive tools lack.That said, it would be great to incorporate some of their features such as different scenarios, load patterns, particular series of pages, random, etc. It would be great to not have to have a dedicated resource to run the stress tests, it's also tricky to know if the local bandwidth can properly emulate x number of machines. |
Please review, contribute to, fork, or sell my open source Rails Help Desk app | luminousbit: Looks extremely awesome and I'm excited to play with it! Definitely fills a need. |
Please review, contribute to, fork, or sell my open source Rails Help Desk app | markup: I gave a look at the screencast and it looks pretty nice, I don't have much to suggest on that side.However I went to github to give a peek at the code and I notice there's no LICENSE file (and I couldn't find any reference to the license anywhere obvious), so may I suggest picking one up? Technically you can't define your code Open Source unless you apply a proper license to it -- actually, I don't think anyone could legally use your code as of now, because even if you wanted it to be under the public domain, you should state it clearly (I could be wrong on this last statement, if so someone please correct me). |
Please review, contribute to, fork, or sell my open source Rails Help Desk app | jrockway: Very cool. I wish more people would submit "look at my open source project" articles; I like them a lot more than "review my half-baked startup".Plus, if there's something I don't like, I can fix it instead of complaining about it. Much better for everyone ;) |
Please review, contribute to, fork, or sell my open source Rails Help Desk app | swombat: I would suggest you start the screencast by showing how a real helpdesk staff would use it to solve a ticket more quickly with your system than with just email or their brain. That would help sell it, imho. |
Hackers And Founders In Boston | the_dude: Hey guys, thanks for the great suggestions, this is definitely the kind of stuff I'm looking for. I checked out most of the links so far and BarCamp (definitely plan to attend), Betahouse, and Open Coffee look cool, I'll have to try those out. Any good presentations/events are also of interest, I'll keep on top of those and check as many as I can.Also, as many pointed out, my e-mail was indeed not visible in my profile (it was in the e-mail field instead). It's now in the profile.I'd also second the idea of the "hacker network" within/in place of the profile section. Fields for geography, interests, programming experience/language preferences would be great, though I'd still like to see it left to each person to provide as much/little of that info as they'd like. Also, in the geography area, people could post links to fun/interesting events so others in that area would have a quick way of finding out about them while reading HN. |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | sh1mmer: You are testing from Europe somewhere by the look of it. Many people have scattered servers now. It would be good to be able to test from non-European locations. |
We're moving into a new office, suggested resources? | kqr2: Maybe Joel's "Bionic Office" will give you some inspiration:http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BionicOffice.html |
Please review, contribute to, fork, or sell my open source Rails Help Desk app | callmeed: Here's a demo of the app as-is:
http://helpdemo.bigfolio4.com/
USER: helper
PASS: secret
(login link for staff is in the footer)I'm working on a good list of bugs/features right now (emailing ticket alerts/updates is not in yet), so please be gentle :)Also, I should probably fork/branch a version that doesn't have the fields/links specific to our company. I'm still wrapping my head around github though. |
Please review my web-app - Shopialize.com | jamesbritt: People who surf with NoScript will see a remarkably fugly site. Unusable.Avoid gratuitous scripting; use it to improve a good experience, not as a requirement for any experience at all. |
White Papers, are they worth it (as a promotional tool)? | diN0bot: good question. i've wondered this before, too. no idea. it's hard to know the answer unless you collect a lot of anecdotes. |
Where to get a good subscription and service contract for managed e-commerce? | vaksel: Just find a site that more or less does the same thing as you and copy paste theirs. Just make sure to read the actual thing yourself, and not just use replace |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | paraschopra: I get this message on my personal domain: "This configuration contains addresses that has been tested too many times the last 24 hours"Does this mean somebody is DOSsing my site through your service? |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | melvinram: I'd tell him to set himself up for success. His activity was innocent this time but by creating situations where he has the opportunity to do so not-so-innocent things, he'll give in to the temptation someday. It's like working at McDonalds or KFC: there is a big chance that you'll gain 2-3 lbs ever month you work there because sooner or later, you'll eat there. He shouldn't put himself into such situations where he can screw up. Bad decisions snow-ball. |
White Papers, are they worth it (as a promotional tool)? | subpixel: FWIW, I'm a small business owner and have downloaded quite a few whitepapers and signed up for quite a few "webinars" that I thought might provide valuable info. Quality varies, but tends to hover well below "wow".In each of these cases, my contact info was captured. So that part of it works.The object, however, is not to get a prospect's number, but to get them to call you.Nothing will light a fire under a potential customer's ass like seeing your product/service in use:* use customer testimonials/case studies/videos (see mathematica's customer testimonials - http://is.gd/kk8B / Highrise customer interviews / etc.)* make a great, simple video explanation - see http://commoncraft.com* show off the website, twitter stream, etc. of a make-believe lawyer who represents your ideal happy customer (e.g. "let us help you be this awesome."At the end of the day, I think a whitepaper is too much like a TPS report. You want something that can be shared 'over the shoulder', when someone at a company finds your service and shows it off to his partner or colleague. |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | vladimir: Of course you should permit to run such tests only if you are sure you are dealing with site owners or their representatives. You can use the system that is used in Google webmasters tools - users can confirm their ownership by adding specific document or meta-tag. Also - registration system's usability is not perfect. But the idea is great - I would use this service. |
We're moving into a new office, suggested resources? | RobGR: Get cheap ass folding cafeteria style tables, chairs out of dumpsters, and make shelves from wood and cinderblocks.Pay someone to design your space ? Are you kidding ?One trick, is to get everyone to commit to once every three weeks, completely re-arranging the space. Have everyone stay late one day, do it, and then go to dinner together. It will keep things feeling new for longer, and if people arrange things in a way that sucks, you only have to put up with it for three weeks. |
What's the best way to graph stuff on web sites? | gaius: I assume by a graph of the best trend you mean fitting a curve. NumPy/Matplotlib is probably the easiest, look at the polyfit function. |
Any users of SimpleCDN? | igorschlum: We are using simpleCDN for a week now and we are happy. I still not have to much Giga of download, but I want to be ready for the future. The are reactive with online chat. The transfered price is low, but the setup fee depends of the amount of space we use and it's normal as the files are stored in Ram for very fast delivery. |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | brandinfection: Cool service! I tried it out and might get an account for testing with more users. |
Please review, contribute to, fork, or sell my open source Rails Help Desk app | JayHa: Awesome, Good job man, keep this up i like it when people put up projects like this on HN. |
Please review, contribute to, fork, or sell my open source Rails Help Desk app | JayHa: BTW, callmeed do you have contact info like email for yourself? |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | rubentopo: Works well, i did like it, however i have two comments:
-Please be able to get http://www.mywebsite.com , www.mywebsite.com , mywebsite.com , http://mywebsite.com and lastly the good case http://www.mywebsite.com-I believe that you'd have much more success if you charged on a test basis, your monthly billing might scare people away. |
Know of any good server uptime monitoring tools? | rantfoil: We use munin, monit and god for our monitoring. All great pieces of open source. |
Know of any good server uptime monitoring tools? | indiejade: Network discovery and monitoring tools:http://www.zentu.net/oss/?q=forum/584 |
Know of any good server uptime monitoring tools? | jjguy: 293 days ago: "Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server/site uptime?"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=180951Lots of good suggestions there. |
Know of any good server uptime monitoring tools? | rarrrrrr: We use Nagios for sending/escalating alerts, and Ganglia for graphing quantifiable systems trends. It's indispensable for explaining odd performance phenomena.Ganglia Demo: http://monitor.millennium.berkeley.edu/We also wrote some daemons/libs to make it easy to add our own metrics into the Ganglia graphs, so we can see connected users, requests per second, revenue, etc. along side CPU, memory usage, disk space, bandwidth.https://spideroak.com/code |
What's the best way to graph stuff on web sites? | makecheck: I think the gnuplot port (uses HTML 5 canvas) is impressive:
http://skuld.bmsc.washington.edu/~merritt/gnuplot/canvas_dem...Of course, it's a question of how widespread HTML 5 canvas support will be, in the timeframe that you need. |
any suggestion for DNS providers? (need to outsource my bind setup) | brk: Enom is reliable and they have APIs, which would likely have some value in your situation.Not sure if you can edit zone files directly though.I run my own nameservers in addition to using enom for registration and some basic domains. I never really considered the cost of maintaining a DNS server to be all that significant. |
any suggestion for DNS providers? (need to outsource my bind setup) | jacquesm: I fail to see the connection between moving your friends' stuff and the DNS hosting.Hosting DNS costs next to nothing, it is hardly any bandwidth, and any old server will do. A $9 / month shared host would do the job.As for hosted DNS, almost every big registrar offers this service, it is fine as long as your requirements are simple.Enom, godaddy, moniker, netsol they all do this, with some of them it is free if they are the party used to register the domain. |
any suggestion for DNS providers? (need to outsource my bind setup) | jws: In Gandi's expert mode you can deal with the RRs directly, but as with any DNS provider you will have to move the names there. |
any suggestion for DNS providers? (need to outsource my bind setup) | davidw: I use everydns. The guy who created it is, amongst other things, an occasional HN user:http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=davidu |
any suggestion for DNS providers? (need to outsource my bind setup) | zacharypinter: I use slicehost for their VPS, but they have a nice restful API for their DNS servers in addition to a web interface. Their cheapest VPS is $20/month, so with that you could get your DNS. |
any suggestion for DNS providers? (need to outsource my bind setup) | moe: dd24.net |
any suggestion for DNS providers? (need to outsource my bind setup) | bayareaguy: I use FastMail to manage DNS for my family domains. In addition to email, they provide an easy to use DNS interface as part of their business/family package. They don't really promote this aspect of their service but it works well.http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/faqparts/VirtualDomains.htm |
any suggestion for DNS providers? (need to outsource my bind setup) | cmer: dnsmadeeasy is AWESOME. Been using them in production for 2 years, zero downtime, always super fast, and dirt cheap. You can't go wrong with them. |
any suggestion for DNS providers? (need to outsource my bind setup) | grandalf: I love dyndns.org But using it for multiple domains gets a bit expensive. |
any suggestion for DNS providers? (need to outsource my bind setup) | khangtoh: Check out zerigo, a startup DNS service provided by a friend of mine.http://zerigo.com |
any suggestion for DNS providers? (need to outsource my bind setup) | kareemm: we used dnsmadeeasy at my last startup and had absolutely no problems. it was set-and-forget, which is why i'd recommend them now. |
Ask HN:What is your daily web routine? | johngunderman: Gmail, HN, QC, XKCD, sometimes Digg.My web routine == far too much lost time :)Sometimes I just have to turn off the internet while I work. Unfortunately, I often need the internet to complete my work. Enter procrastination... |
Ask HN:What is your daily web routine? | thomasswift: Email, HN, RubyFlow and my own site to see what people added, then I get back to work. |
Ask HN:What is your daily web routine? | pg: I try to start by doing something not online, like walking somewhere to get breakfast and/or working on an essay. When I do sit down in front of a computer, I check HN first, then Gmail. (I'd probably check Gmail first if I weren't the one who had to fix HN if the site was wedged.)HN and Gmail are the only sites I use regularly. I check the frontpage of Reddit about once every three days, usually when I'm watching HN restart after I've changed something. |
Ask HN:What is your daily web routine? | jalammar: iGoogle (contains Gmail, HN, Slashdot, Edge Online, Google tech news) then reddit. Rinse and repeat. |
I miss Business 2.0. Is there now any other magazine like it? | indiejade: It was indeed a sad, sad day Business 2.0 got sucked into Fortune, relinquishing its fresh, independent vibe to corporate bureaucracy. There are a few webzines that are almost comparable. But in the printed sphere, I think maybe. . . Entrepreneur might be a semi-comparable alternative:http://www.entrepreneur.com/interstitial/default.html |
Ask HN:What is your daily web routine? | espadagroup: Google Hosted Domain email, NPR 5 Min Podcast, The Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Google Reader, Hacker News |
Ask HN:What is your daily web routine? | shrughes: I check reddit, then check HN, then check reddit again, then realize I meant to check proggit.At this point in time, i forget that I've visited HN, so I check HN again. But then maybe somebody posted something interesting that I missed, so I refresh HN and look at how it changed. I do this a few more times.Then I ponder, trying to remember what other forums I regularly visit. Ahhh, the Cavern of COBOL. So I check that. And then I think of a few more places. To refresh my programming, I see what's on the Drudge Report. By this time, there might have been a new post on HN, so I go back to HN.Then I go to work, and check HN and Proggit. Then I check HN throughout the day. Usually while compiling. The build process has gotten quicker lately, so maybe I should get a few more antivirus programs. Then I get home and do anything but get on the computer. God, what was I thinking? Then I get on the computer anyway and check HN and Proggit, and realize that proggit is too low-quality and go back to HN, but then realize that HN is getting really repetitive and it's full of people who are just full of themselves, which I don't like because it reminds me of myself. Then I try to rip myself from the screen and if successful go have a life or something. |
Ask HN:What is your daily web routine? | rickharrison: Email, Wall Street Journal, HN, RSS Reader, Digg(once a week maybe), Work |
Ask HN:What is your daily web routine? | staunch: Gmail, HN, iGoogle (one huge page with all my RSS feeds), Reddit, BBC, CNN. |
Ask HN:What is your daily web routine? | fuzzmeister: My home page is iGoogle, but instead of reading the stories in the built-in RSS, I always click through to the various sites (Digg, TC, HN, CNN, BBC, etc). No idea why. |
Ask HN:What is your daily web routine? | simonb: Most of the web content I consume goes through my RSS reader (this includes stuff like HN, proggit, xkcd, Delicious subscriptions,...). The only exceptions are Gmail and forums without decent RSS support. |
any suggestion for DNS providers? (need to outsource my bind setup) | johns: Namecheap is now offering free DNS hosting, even if you don't register your domains there: http://www.namecheap.com/freedns/free-manage-dns.aspx |
Ask HN:What is your daily web routine? | mikeyur: After logging in I open up twitter and search.twitter to see if anyone has been talking to/about me. Then Gmail, HN. After that I get to work or open up NewsFire (RSS Reader). |
Ask HN:What is your daily web routine? | rsayers: First thing is Google reader, everything I read on a daily basis I get through rss, then I ssh into my server and open mutt, after that I'll check twitter. |
I miss Business 2.0. Is there now any other magazine like it? | mikeyur: I don't know of anything comparable other than Entrepreneur and Inc/Fast Company. |
any suggestion for DNS providers? (need to outsource my bind setup) | bdwalter: www.xname.org is good. |
Pair programming for web development? | markup: Never used it myself |
Pair programming for web development? | tmilewski: Me neither.
I can't see this as a very efficient method.
Isn't this what code reviews are for?With regards to pair programming, I think it should be two people working closely together (physical distance) on a related code so that they can easily collaborate. I feel that this way you can kill two birds with one stone. You both should fully understand the code while still being able to cover more ground. |
Know of any good server uptime monitoring tools? | csbartus: munin, monit are free and easy to setup, low footprint.
god is free but eats memory. |
Pair programming for web development? | thaumaturgy: I proposed doing this with a graphics person for a from-scratch project that had a very short release timeline. Project got scratched though so I don't know how it would've worked out. But, it seemed logical for me to be coding up in HTML/CSS/JavaScript the various elements that they were mocking up, as they created them. |
Ask HN:What is your daily web routine? | lacker: Every day: Work email, Gmail, Google Reader, HN, and FriendFeed. If I have spare time: Reddit, Friendfeed, Techmeme, Twitter.I also subscribe to a lot of mailing lists that I have a filter set up to automatically label and skip inbox on, that generates a couple thousand extra emails a day that I skim through and read 1% of. |
Pair programming for web development? | qohen: The link to "I Love Pair Programming", a post on the nomachetejuggling.com blog, was posted on HN yesterday. The post describes in detail the advantages perceived by the author to using pair-programming.And, it got many comments here on HN, so, if you didn't see it, you might want to check both the post and the comments about it:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=490173 |
Who's got good Javascript? | nostrademons: Google, but they compress everything, so good luck understanding their code.I'd actually check out the source to some of the major JS libraries: JQuery, Prototype, OpenLayers, etc. Most sites build off them, but the sites that know what they're doing will be packing/minifying their JavaScript, making it a bit hard to read. |
Who's got good Javascript? | wenbert: i suggest that you go to chatrooms. #jquery #javascript in freenode are good places. i'm sure that there are guys out there who can help realtime |
When to approach the press for coverage? | wenbert: What is holding you from the press coverage? I personally think that it wouldn't hurt if you go through it. If you already have 100 users, what is the difference with the 1000 users? So, I say go ^__^ and good luck! |
When to approach the press for coverage? | dkokelley: I would go to the press as soon as you feel you're ready for public exposure (which you are, since you have around 100 users). That means now. Tell people about your service soon and often. I have a college textbook website that had membership triple from a press release to a local paper when I was just getting started.Don't be afraid to 'waste' your coverage now. Use it as soon as you get it. If you need more publicity, it's relatively easy to find another reason for the paper to cover you.My $0.02 |
When to approach the press for coverage? | sachinag: The longer you take, the less she'll remember you. Go get press. |
When to approach the press for coverage? | alain94040: Use all the contacts you have. But also think more strategically and plan what your press contacts should be and go out and get them.Forget about press releases. Establish direct connections with the press now, before you know them. If you say one day "oh, let's get press coverage" and expect it to happen instantly, you don't know how it works.Also, question the usefulness of getting press coverage. We were on TechCrunch. It sends shockwaves all over the blogosphere for a week, which is nice. But you need to make your users happy. We also were on the front page of smaller, but still national media: got 100 visitors that day (barely measurable and completely insignificant).I guess my point is that the days where the press would make or break a company are over. Media is too fragmented, too many people get their news from "alternative" media, you can't expect to kill all your birds with one shot. |
Who's got good Javascript? | jgfoot: Look at the things John Resig has been doing. In addition to founding jQuery, he has written a lot of other good JavaScript code. Also, his blog, ejohn.org, discusses other JavaScript code he admires. |
When to approach the press for coverage? | SingAlong: Thank you for your words.But if I go for local press coverage now (which is my only target since my service is local too), what data should I provide them with apart from about the service which is already displayed on the website?Should I tell them about the current SMS traffic with my service and the number of users or any other info?Also I was thinking if I could also give her a hint that we could collaborate with them for SMS announcements and stuff like that for contests or polls their newspaper conducts. Should I mention such stuff in the first mail itself or should I go slow with the press. I haven't dealt with the media anytime, but have heard some say that the press guys are really in a hurry always since they have a lot of data to wade thru for interesting news. |
When to approach the press for coverage? | chiffonade: Load test your service first. If you go to press and your service fails, you're doomed. |
Who's got good Javascript? | thaumaturgy: Not sure what qualifies as "good" JS, but there's a halfway decent photo gallery in JS at http://davidmckayphotography.com/The code hasn't been obfuscated or compressed, and most of it is fairly straightforward and readable, except for the parts where the deadline started creeping up on the project. There the code gets a little ugly/hacky. AFAIK, IE 6, Safari, Firefox 2/3, etc. etc. all like it fine.I wrote it, and I'm not particularly proud of it, but I've received enough (local) requests for it that a version 1 is in the works. |
I just bought a Mac, where do I go to learn Cocoa? | makecheck: Here's a pretty good tutorial amongst their developer documentation:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Co... |
I just bought a Mac, where do I go to learn Cocoa? | nixme: Aaron Hillegass's "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X" is pretty much the standard.Also see:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=388538http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=431967http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=346967http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=401744 |
any suggestion for DNS providers? (need to outsource my bind setup) | dbc: SecuritySpace is good and cheap, with POPs all over the US and in Europe.
http://www.securityspace.com/dns/index.html |
any suggestion for DNS providers? (need to outsource my bind setup) | bmatheny: If you can afford it, UltraDns (Neustar) is the best. This is the service that Amazon uses, as well as a number of other very large sites. They have a 100% uptime SLA and a latency one as well. We haven't had an outage with them in almost two years. They also have an API which is nice. Oh, and they can do geo-distribution of requests, as well as a variety of other more advanced functions. |
Who's got good Javascript? | dantheman: This is the place to go, Douglas Crockford really knows javascript and passes on valuable experience. http://javascript.crockford.com/This is a valuable resource
http://javascript.crockford.com/code.htmlHere are some really good presentations: http://www.metafilter.com/61049/Douglas-Crockford-Teaches-Ja... |
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