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Is Silicon Valley really the best place for a startup? | csomar: There are both advantages and drawbacks. As you said, in term of cost it's very expensive.In my opinion, I don't think it's a good place to START. It's good only for successful startup that want to grow bigger.I read an article few months ago on NY times, that the best country to make startup is Signapore, it has lower taxes and governement encourages small companies. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | nostrademons: E-ink. Sunlight-readable displays that consume no power could open up a whole bunch of new markets. The Kindle is just the beginning - could you imagine replacing road signs with E-ink? They could change to reflect traffic conditions, automatically routing traffic around jams without requiring that drivers glance down at their cell phones. If only they were available in color...If someone ever invents a worthwhile holographic display, that would be huge as well. The limiting factors on most portable electronic devices are the display and keyboard: if you could have a full-sized, immersive 3D display and an accelerometer-based pointer, you could do so much more with your phone. |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | spitfire: 1. Girls are just as horny as you are.
2. Those business guys are even dumber than you think they are. (doubly so for the current crop of dotcom guys)
3. What's new is not necessarily better. Do not ignore the lessons (and successes) of the past. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | plinkplonk: Robotics - There's a ton of work happening on robotics (e.g Anybots) and robots with greater and greater degree of autonomy are being deployed. Robots in warfare is a topic of particular interest to me. think warfare is going to get an order of magnitude more horrendous (hard as it may be to imagine that) |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | DenisM: Stem-cell grown teeth.Imagine your future dentist visit: a really big dude punches you in the teeth the moment you walk into the dentist office, then you spit out your old teeth and they plant you a new set. In 6 month you have perfect teeth - good for next 10 years of abuse.I can hardly wait. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | rivo: E-Readers. Improved resolution, better usability, a sleek design, and an SDK could make it the iPod for text. Combine this with an iTunes-like model for newspaper articles, PDFs, feeds, and books of independent authors and you may even have a business model. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | danteembermage: Super Capacitors: instantly chargeable batteries would be really handy in about a million things, electric cars being most notableAugmented Reality: If we get it right, it will obsolete/improve a whole bunch of stuff (laptops, books, phones, movie theaters come to mind)Cloud computing: I don't mean avoiding the pain of buying servers, I mean the final ultimate realization of dumb terminal and central processing hub (combined with augmented reality and you've got an always-on computational extension of self with zero bulky hardware)growing things with algae: Oil, steak, ears (likely in that order)3D printers: I just want to have an infinite cheap supply of standard rectangular Lego blocks.Further out:Fusion, hopefully cold: water in, power out (and I suppose whatever elements we're short on at the moment) my physics gets a little shaky here but I think fusion up to Fe is energy positive so an unlimited supply of iron could turn into some interesting things.Hole diggers: Bullet train from New York to Paris that falls to its destination (and of course climbs to decelerate the second half of the trip) |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | sown: One thing I wish I could have more experience or training with is office politics, at the very least to defend myself with. There are a ton of dirty tricks that unscrupulous co-workers can and have tried, to pull on me and I wish I had more of an idea of what goes on. |
Sales book recommendation? | thehickmans: I'll second a few that have been mentioned already:* http://blog.startwithalead.com/weblog/ (Brian Carroll's blog)
* http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Get-Real-Not-Play/dp/1883219507you can read more from Mahan Khalsa at:
http://www.ninetyfive5.com/default.aspxI found both of these very helpful in building my understanding of the sales process and for the tools they provide you with. The biggest shift in thinking they provided for me was that selling is about asking questions, finding a connection between what you're offering and what your customer is looking for and then asking for the business. They also showed me that selling is about focusing your activities on the right things to meet your goals, not just spending time "busy" selling. |
Sales book recommendation? | rivo: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
http://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Busine...The Definitive Book of Body Language
http://www.amazon.com/Definitive-Book-Body-Language/dp/05538...+1 to How to Win Friends & Influence People |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | sid: what you have said is true. I mean im from oz and when we were all at uni there wasnt really much talk of startups and starting our own businesses, not in my circle anyway.It was all about getting the best grades to kick butt at the interview. Because that was my circle thats all i knew at the time. Now after doing the grades and doing the 9-5 i know NOW what i would have told my younger self. I would have told my younger self that there is a better way.The funny thing is ! i know that my younger self would just tell my current self to buzz off cuz a stable job is the way to go, its tried and tested.I guess the lesson learnt is there are alot of things the computer science/engineering degrees dont teach because its not possible to teach these things unless someone has gone through the motions and their own experiences click in.Comp Sci/Eng degrees can give ideas and direction but sometimes at the time you dont see them as ideas, you just see them as a waste of time cause you want to go to the next programming, algorithms or electronics class, not this stupid, project management or business for engineers class ... |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | mg1313: Try Tikiwiki. Quite powerful. Reviewed on MyTestBox.com. |
Is Silicon Valley really the best place for a startup? | mg1313: That's why the salaries are higher there and startup costs could higher. |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | carterschonwald: More generally what they don't teach enough about in university is knowing when to make time for certain people and knowing when to stop making time for certain people. This is a skill that I think is really key, and no program of intense academic learning will naturally lead to you knowing such. |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | kineticac: are you just putting a wiki page together? pbwiki is pretty cool =) |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | noaharc: Brain-computer interface. Once we get that, everything else (except power generation) is irrelevant.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-computer_interfacehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | 10ren: The main thing is to be aware that there is a whole reality out there that you don't know and nobody else does either. If you can crack it, you can have great success.Cracking it takes alertness and endurance more than raw intelligence, because inspiration comes from new data - not from solving a pedagogically designed problem. New data is, by definition, not known beforehand. You get new data (that no one else has) by looking, by being there and doing the work, and noticing interesting opportunities.In a way, marketing is more aware of this unknown that science, because it changes more quickly for marketing (and no one believes a marketing success represents the fundamental underlying truth of reality). That is, marketing says "what do people want?" I think it's this, you think it's that. Let's ask some people - but they don't know either until they see it. OK, so let's invent the future, and see if anyone likes it once they see it. But underlying is the conviction that we don't know. For a Science, computer science is full of dogma and religion (it even has "religious" wars). Oh well, paradigms are inevitable I guess.I like paul graham's definition of business, "build something people want" = new product development + marketing.A tech degree teaches you some theory about "build something" (and not the practice of source control, testing, deployment, usability etc); but it teaches nothing about "people want", which is basically looking from the user's point of view.I don't think there's any silver bullet that would help my younger self overcome the vampires (to maintain the metaphor). I believe that marketing is the key skill, which I define as making something that is potentially useful to people, and then bringing about the state of affairs where it is actually being useful to many people each day.There are all kinds of entrepreneurial ventures; mainstream ones are popular at the moment, which Y-Com advocates (or appears to); but there are also highly technical ventures in the general category. For me, a deeper grasp of discrete mathematics might have been useful (but it's never been intuitive for me, and I note that the people for whom it is intuitive seem to lose their connection with what is usable for ordinary people - I welcome counter-examples to this point). I'd also like a deeper grasp of parsing theory (but much of parsing theory seems inappropriate for the way I want to use it - so maybe it's best to appreciate the state-of-the-art, without drinking its koolaid).For me (very personally), it's crucial to (a) be able to build something; (b) to notice that a problem can be solved fundamentally better (and see how to solve it); (c) to be able to communicate the solution in terms of what some people need.Disclaimer: As you'll have sensed, this is a personal philosophy rather than ordinary business practice. Many, many successful businesses have no need of this focus on the unknown. But this is the basis of many huge, cool, revolutionary, "disruptive" businesses.The one thing I wish I'd learnt (it's more an attitude than a skill):
avoid premature optimization including usability. Usability is extremely important; it's second only to understanding what you are doing. Keep things simple, even at the expense of usability. Don't add special cases that make it easier to use (not yet). If you let it get complex, you might still just understand it in isolation, but as it combines with other complexities, sooner or later you won't. This goes for a business as a whole, as well as for a computer system. |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | DenisM: I'm using wikidot for my help & suport site:http://help.memengo.com/Loving it - simple to use and has built-in forums. Two birds with one stone. |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | haseman: Your QA guy (if you're lucky enough to have one) is you best friend in whole wide world. When he/she finds bugs in your code...hug them and buy them beer, because your users/clients could have found them instead. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | twism: clojure |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | davidw: I think if we ever get widespread, flat rate mobile data connections, that there will be lots of innovation in that space. |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | lastkarrde: Moin Moin. Python powered. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | manvsmachine: GPGPU Processing - I find it amazing that you can essentially build yourself a personal supercomputer with cheap hardware that you can pick up at a Best Buy. This has the potential to do for research what the Web did for software startups.+1 for Robotics and Augmented Reality. Met a prof last month that researches in AR, showed us some things he did with ARToolkit; it completely blew my mind. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | alex_c: Affordable, reliable, universal wireless Internet access. The iPhone is a great start, but it's still far from truly universal Internet access being the status quo. Of course, this has a lot more to do with infrastructure and business interests than it does with pure technological advancement.And I still want to have my own 3D printer. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | jamespitts: Simulating physics and chemistry to overcome limits of the Von Neumann architecture.Specifically, using IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer to simulate neurons and synapses."Performance measurements show good scaling behavior on the Blue Gene/L supercomputer up to 8,192 processors. Several key phenomena seen in the living brain appear as emergent phenomena in the simulations.": http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1375994Also,
"Massively parallel simulation of brain-scale neuronal network models": http://www.bgconsortium.org/Past%20Results/kth%20bgwreport06... |
Is Silicon Valley really the best place for a startup? | david927: Where you are right now is the best place to start. |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | csomar: In school or universities, generally they teach only the thoerical part. The real world scenario is another important part, that everyone discover it himself. It's later called "Experience" and "Career".If you want just to be an ordinary guy, just take a job. Most luckily, you won't need to know much about finance, business... you'll just do what they want you to do.However if you want to build your startup yourself or start a company and be the leader, then you need knowledge. You don't really need deep knowledge on Marketing, but just small ideas to get you started. |
Best Info for Running own C Corporation | davidw: nolo.com has some books on that sort of subject. Since they have a lot of them, the best thing to do is go to your library, look through a bunch, and see which one is best for you, and then consider buying it. |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | csomar: I also vote for Wikidot, it's simpler than other Wikis |
Best Info for Running own C Corporation | andrewljohnson: All you need to know is get a lawyer. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | michaelkeenan: Robot cars.Car accidents cost over a million lives worldwide every year - 45,000 in the USA - and injure about 40 times that number. They are the leading cause of death for people aged 18-34. In the USA, the total cost of accidents is about $230 billion (1.7% of American GDP according to my calculations).Robot cars will reduce car accidents, probably by a lot (human errors make up 93% of the causes of car accidents; 80% of accidents are due to human inattention). They'll make parking vastly more efficient (the car can drop you off and go and park in some optimal place). 50 billion person-hours are spent driving every year. In productive hours, that's worth a trillion dollars. Even if the hours aren't productive (watching TV or whatever), it's still worth a lot. Congestion would be reduced because robot cars don't need the follow space between cars that human reflexes require. It's like quadrupling the capacity of existing roads for free. Since the crash rate might be so low, cars might be ultralight rather than made of armor, so they'll use less energy and less metal.I first became excited about robot cars from reading this essay:
http://ideas.4brad.com/robocars-are-future |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | asjo: I really like the simplicity and chosen featureset of Hatta - it is version control based (Mercurial) and works really well. The author is very responsive.http://hatta.sheep.art.pl/"Snazzy" is quite subjective - I like the default design not to scream "I am a wiki with a gazillion fancy features you'll never use", but your milage may vary :-) |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | ippisl: technologies for construction , and technologies for energy.
while the cost of most other things is going down (at least in the long term), the cost(and technology of) housing and energy are basicly the same.
also housing and energy are probably the biggest expenses per family , so any technological improvement there would have huge effects. |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | known: Original wiki http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseModWiki/Download |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | rufius: I like DokuWiki and MoinMoin. |
Why would anyone POST anything in AJAX? | jim_lawless: GET parameters can ( and often do ) show up in web-server logs. Transmitting sensitive data via a GET ( even over SSL ) may ultimately cause security / privacy concerns. |
cloud computing options? | rarestnews: Are you sure you REQUIRE a cloud? Phrase "Amazon is too expensive" suggests that it might be not the solution you're looking for.Maybe you could be a little more clear on what you need, because it's hard to imagine what are your requirements that fall in-between of "Google App engine is too limited" and "Amazon is too expensive"?Also the phrase "I'm not much of an admin" makes it all sound really confusing... Rarely the cloud is the solution for one person's needs. Typically something like dedicated server or vps should be the answer. VPSes can be 6$/m including server's control panel so that you dont have to be "an admin". |
cloud computing options? | pierrefar: Broadly speaking, there are two sets of questions you want to answer:1. The "really?" set of questions: Is the cloud what you really need? If so, can you architect your system to exploit the advantages of the cloud?2. The "how?" set of questions: do you outsource the cloud to AWS et al or do you build your own? The details of this are probably worth half a book, but there are many databases to choose from (CouchDB, MemcacheDB, Tokyo Products and LightCloud, thrudb, Project Voldemort, redis, and others) and build-or-manage-your-own cloud computing datacenter (EUCALYPTUS, AppScale, Enomaly, ELASTRA, 3tera, etc).The answer to these questions starts with "what are you trying to do?" In many cases, the cheapest and fastest way to get going is to provision some virtual servers from Linode or Slicehost and have a go. If you grow too much, 1. congratulations and 2. look at the cloud options. |
cloud computing options? | tzury: AWS is not expensive, not at all. However, you can combine GAE and AWS where serving all HTTP from GAE and doing the "rest" on Amazon - that will make it some cheaper |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | daniel71l: I've used TikiWiki for an internal Wiki here in my company.a small reason can be read here:http://design-to-last.com/Technical/intranet-wiki-searching-...Daniel |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | taylan: Try http://www.wikimatrix.org/ if you'd like to compare available wiki engines side by side. |
cloud computing options? | st3fan: Explain what you are doing. The cloud is very much over-hyped and can mean many different things. Are you looking for storage? For hosting? For dynamic hosting?Explain a bit what your app is and we can give your architecture advice. |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | cruise02: Here's a list from a few months back. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/258548/what-is-the-most-i... |
cloud computing options? | jensv: If you're just looking for storage and have access to extra machines then Tahoe allows you to store your files reliably for little to no cost.You can learn more here: http://allmydata.org/~warner/pycon-tahoe.html
You can download it here: http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoeEDIT: How do I create proper hyperlinks? |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | ScottWhigham: Two things that hasn't been mentioned here yet:#1 - is that you need to develop a filter for the advice you'll get. You need to learn when to ignore advice, how to make it so that you don't piss people off when you ignore their advice, and how to handle it when you do ignore their advice yet they were actually right. You also need to develop self confidence in your own independent decision making ability#2 - is that, just because someone has "been there, done that, been successful" doesn't mean that their advice/approach will work for you. Many startups hire on big, powerful people who have had exits/successes yet they don't work out. There can be any myriad of reasons but just remember: "past success != future success". |
Best Info for Running own C Corporation | drhowarddrfine: A C corporation, involving one person, probably doesn't make sense. You probably want a S corp or LLC. In any case, a lawyer is good but I've always gotten my advice from my accountant. The lawyer knows the rules. The accountant knows how the rules affect your money. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | cool-RR: Google Native Client. So many programmers are wasting their time trying to make web apps that will work on all browsers... |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | garyrichardson: I've become a fan of Confluence. It looks decent has a wysiwyg editor.It loses points for being written in Java (requires a fat vm to run a small instance). |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | trapper: Write something that solves a pain. Then drown yourself in that pain and see if your solution really solves it. Few people take step 2. |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | njrc: Check out TiddlyWiki. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | jodrellblank: - LED and OLED lighting. When prices fall enough, classic bulbs, fluorescent bulbs, CFLs will be out the window. Lighting, and therefore atmosphere, will completely change. Can you imagine an office without strip lighting? With varying warm, friendly colours and intensities of low power OLED panels dotted around? Computer controlled lighting features will become common because they will be cheap and easy. Homes without a kilowatt of halogen uplighters?- The next iPhone. Even after owning one for a year, which was a year old when I got it so it was being designed three years ago or more, I still turn it over and marvel at it, at what it does, how well it does it and how good it looks and feels while doing so. It's the biggest consumer success of HCI in a long time, and that's really pleasing. They're addressing the lag when opening the SMS app, adding MMS, adding better bluetooth support, an autofocus camera, enabling and encouraging an accessory market, and twisting the arms of the mobile carriers like other handset makers haven't been. It's exciting.- Small, LED driven, no-moving-part "pocket" projectors. See: Microsoft surface and Epson's coffee table and similar. One day they wont be driven by a big expensive noisy projector hidden a few feet beneath or behind. It need not be a massive screen itself, but an improvement of today's pocket projectors - when they can do 1280x1024 at better brightness, look out basic office CRTs and LCDs. |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | banned_man: How to read code, use version control, write code in a professional environment, find libraries that can help you, and keep abreast of current technology. I think that CS grads should be expected to be contributing to open source projects by senior year.The marketing, business, and work/life balance problems are important, too, but they don't really belong in a CS course, and CS professors are not experts on these topics anyway. |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | tsally: How to program well. |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | jimfl: The more people in middle management (i.e. people who are not officers and people who are not leaf nodes) the more difficult it will be for the organization to make rational decisions, and the more compromises will be made to the quality of the product in lieu of other considerations (schedule, metrics based on invalid assumptions, etc.) In general, these people will find that they have no actual way to contribute to the product, so they will attempt to contribute to the organization instead, which bogs everyone else down.On the technical front, CS will not teach you anything relevant to the practice of software development. You will not learn things like how to correctly factor code for automated testing, or good strategies for source code control branching and build pipelining. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | mechanical_fish: The lifelog.Short explanation: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6287126.stmLong explanation:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/05/shaping_... |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | slackerIII: Just use a hash table. |
cloud computing options? | bayareaguy: If all you want is VPS that is cheaper than AWS then Slicehost may be the thing for you - http://www.slicehost.comEDIT: I forgot about Linode since I haven't used them myself. Here's a comparison between the two from last November: http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linode |
Is there an archive, dataset or RSS feed of all HN posts? | Anon84: There have been several releases of the dataset. This is the most recent one I've been able to find: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=296919An updated version would be great, though. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | obxerve: I will add my vote to OLED and e-ink.Additionally, transformation of everyday electronic devices into low-power consuming devices, and for this, I think nanotechnology will help us get there. |
What do you think of my Recipe Search Engine? | obxerve: I searched by "ingredients" and got a selection of recipes, but when I used the exact same search term on "keyword" search, I got nada.I understand the difference, but you know the gold standard. I suggest to "emulate" Google: one search box only please.As a cook myself, I like the idea, but honestly, I don't see how the pay model will be popular. I can do exactly the same thing in Google if I enter the exact search term as for your web site, and then add the word "recipe" to the search term. And other recipe sites will do as well. So I am not sure how you can get away from ad-supported revenue model. Good luck nonetheless.BTW, I agree about the logo comment. Maybe you can try to change the web site name or create a cute story about why use the "puppy". |
Open-source project as startup? | cool-RR: If anyone is wondering what the project is about, it is a framework for writing simulations in Python. It could take any kind of simulation: Physics, game theory, epidemic spread, electronics, whatever.(Yes, I know of SimPy, it's something different.) |
Open-source project as startup? | mahmud: In terms of profitability, a simulation software would be hard to monetize as "software as service"; anybody technically inclined to want to do simulations will probably have a lab unix flavors, parallel libraries and other goodies to just download your tarball and run it themselves.Simulation is not exactly sales automation, data capture, billing or inventory.Your best bet is to reach out to federal safety and security agency, and sell them a heavily customized version of the tool (usually the problem du jour; few years ago was terrorism, now it's home foreclosure, job loses, etc.) you will be prepared to have a few PhDs on board to sell it to the governments and you might need to reach out to your local governments and municipalities. |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | elai: 1. Business school people are more entrepeureally minded and tend to have more of a personality (no duh...)2. You can take school courses that would help you later in your career, like several business courses. I would take the more concrete ones, like business law or introductory accounting, otherwise the value can be questionable. With business law, those contracts you sign suddenly make ALOT more sense. (And what implied statues would be put in your business activities). With accounting, you know how all the financial statements work. I've found 1st level marketing classes tend to be a bit stupid although. Too abstracted from real applications. |
Best Info for Running own C Corporation | gtani: disclaimer: dated materials, tax code changes every year, I don't know anything about you or your business, IANAL, yadda yaddahttp://www.mbbp.com/resources/business/entity.htmlhttp://www.themoneyalert.com/Corp-Entity-Table.htmlhttp://www.themoneyalert.com/incorporating.htmlhttp://www.themoneyalert.com/businesstypesofownership.html |
Open-source project as startup? | delano: I can't speak in regards to whether it makes sense to apply to YC, but from a general perspective, a company that produces open sources software is no different than any other business: you need to clearly understand how you will generate a profit.The answer may be consulting but that's a difficult route b/c anyone can generate a profit from consulting. It's not unique. You need to figure out how to provide something that's better than everyone else. As Warren Buffet would say, you need a moat. |
cloud computing options? | delano: Paying for machines by the hour opens new opportunities (ad-hoc staging environments, for example). We can do things now that we could never do before.You may not be ready to move production to the cloud but there is an opportunity for you to improve your development process. |
Open-source project as startup? | huhtenberg: How are you planning to make money ? |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | csbartus: the next metasystem transformation.uploading & sharing myself on the internet, having my multiple identities living a complete life, chat with myselves and learn from them.cloning me in into the digital, no life expansion but more parallel lives |
Sales book recommendation? | csbartus: The Richest Man in Babylon:http://www.amazon.com/Richest-Man-Babylon-George-Clason/dp/1... |
Open-source project as startup? | tptacek: Wasn't Webmin an open source project? |
Open-source project as startup? | mixmax: The major problem is that you don't really have a competitive advantage. What will stop your potential competitors from simply downloading the open-source software and start using it themselves?When you do a startup you want to find a good niche that makes good money, and where competition won't start pouring in once you've proven that there is a market. So you need some kind of barrier, with YC startups it seems to be technology. |
Open-source project as startup? | teej: The Phusion guys tried doing it and have had a really hard time making it work. And these are guys who have essentially turned the Rails world upside down with their OSS. |
Open-source project as startup? | russell: The crux of the matter is how are you going to make money? After all investors want a payback. The best advice I've seen here is to find a consulting niche in security. See if DARPA has something on their wish list or apply directly. I suggest you do some serious networking in your city/state. Maybe team up with someone who needs your platform to leverage their expertise.Tell us where you are. Maybe someone might have a lead. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | tremendo: Whatever happened to last next big thing, the memristor? |
Open-source project as startup? | tdoggette: My advice: You've given up a lot of copyright protections on your code. Register trademarks, and defend them. Your code is freely distributable, but you can still protect yourself against people using your name for their own profit. Look at what Mozilla does, for example. |
6-char Gmail account flooded by "legit" bot signup spam. Can I retake control? | barredo: There must be a pattern to filter (typical words in 'welcome to XYZ' and 'Sign in XYZ' emails) all those emails and delete them as they hit the inbox. |
Moving to Silicon Valley? | russell: You need to do your research in person. There are very expensive neighborhoods within a mile or two of places that aren't safe to walk the streets. It's best to have a friend help you scout out places. Also note SV is not transit friendly except for commuting into downtown SF or Oakland and to a lesser degree San Jose. |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | rms: Thanks for the recommendations everyone, we're going to go with Moin Moin. |
6-char Gmail account flooded by "legit" bot signup spam. Can I retake control? | dchest: Why your 6-char account on a free email service is so important? Get another account and stop thinking (and asking) about this. |
6-char Gmail account flooded by "legit" bot signup spam. Can I retake control? | mahmud: Gmail allows you to connect via IMAP and send via POP3; setup a postfix server and filter the crap out of it. |
6-char Gmail account flooded by "legit" bot signup spam. Can I retake control? | sidmitra: I don't think you can do much except use filters + aggressive labelling as spam for a while. Hopefully after a while when you've got down the filters to an art form, unwanted things should stop hitting your inbox. |
6-char Gmail account flooded by "legit" bot signup spam. Can I retake control? | kbhangui: Your best bet is to use Gmail's filtering feature for stuff you know is spam for sure. Make sure to make the filter mark it as spam. |
6-char Gmail account flooded by "legit" bot signup spam. Can I retake control? | kqr2: Create a whitelist using gmail's filters. |
Best Info for Running own C Corporation | DenisM: I suggest this book as a background on different corp types and in general the corporate goverance: http://www.amazon.com/Corporations-Examples-Explanations/dp/...you don't have to read the whole book - a few first chapters will suffice. |
6-char Gmail account flooded by "legit" bot signup spam. Can I retake control? | geuis: Honestly, don't over think it. Just start marking every single email you know is spam as spam. Occasionally check the spam box and un-spam anything legit. The filters on gmail are really, really good and they learn quickly what to filter and what not. Don't do anything weird or complicated, just hit the spam button. |
Legitimate speed reading method? | boundlessdreamz: I read faster than almost anyone I know and the only difference I know is that I don't think aloud the words when I'm reading silently. I'm reading phrases rather than words. I hope you got the idea because I don't know how to convey it. This technique is natural to me and I was surprised initially that a lot of people read silently, the way they read aloud ie word by word. |
Moving to Silicon Valley? | ochiba: Have you tried:
http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive#t...
and http://searchyc.com |
6-char Gmail account flooded by "legit" bot signup spam. Can I retake control? | BobbyH: Try activating the IMAP/POP settings on gmail, then suck in your gmail emails into a desktop client that supports bouncing to spam accounts, c.f. http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/10/23/bounce-email-... |
What do you think of the Kindle? | sundeep: I have a kindle2.I find it amazing for a linear reading experience. It's not quite as good for reading something that requires you to flip back and forth. |
Legitimate speed reading method? | Spyckie: I think its different for every person. You should find out what your tradeoff level is for comprehension/wpm, and how many phrases you can skip while still understanding the main points of the section.I think everyone can pick up reading by phrases to a certain extent. Scanning full pages or even paragraphs is probably a innate skill that isn't learnable. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | Titanous: Health nanorobots.I can't wait until we can inject single-purpose nanorobots to heal and augment our bodies. Imagine a injection that would completely eradicate cancer from your body. Or improve your eyesight.It may be a long way off, but it will be amazing when science reaches that point |
6-char Gmail account flooded by "legit" bot signup spam. Can I retake control? | tumult: I have a 6-char Gmail account that's also an English dictionary word, which was made the day Gmail launched as invite-only. It gets a TON of spam, but I never notice it. The spam filter is well-trained. If you don't use any of the mailing lists you're on, one thing you can do is filter by the word "unsubscribe" or the phrase "remove yourself" :) |
6-char Gmail account flooded by "legit" bot signup spam. Can I retake control? | fatbat: haha, I can relate, I got a 2-char hotmail address! The amount of spam on that is ridiculous but I still use it. Obviously not my primary anymore. |
Do I need a captcha on my web apps sign up form? | izak30: My forms typically go only a few days before they start getting form submission spam.There are lots of captchas to implement in a couple of hours, and people are used to filling them out. It seems like a no-brainer to me. |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | mahmud: i dribble a soccer ball in the backyard every time i go out for a smoke, plus the occasional skateboard (yeah, i picked up skating when i was 27!) |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | bkudria: Uh, zero, none, and, uh, N/A.But I should do more! |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | lowe: with exercise i've found benefit as a function of time to be crazy non-linear. there's a much bigger difference between 0 minutes and 20 minutes spent exercising than between 20 and 40 or 40 and 60. so when i'm busy, i do what i can, keep it short, but never cut it out. i try to do something every other day at least. it clears my head and resets my stress.i like to run. simple. no gym membership. no complicated/expensive gear -- only necessary investment is a pair of running shoes (runs around $90). best of all, you can exhaust yourself quickly: if you don't have much time to spare, just run faster* for less time.* i wouldn't recommend taking this to an extreme. i knew a guy in college who'd max out the treadmill for a few minutes, sweat like crazy and call it a day. odds are that's terrible for you. (he also had an anger management problem...related?) |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | fairramone: I usually exercise 3 times a week -- about 45 minutes of running/jogging each time. |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | gaoshan: I walk from the sofa to the microwave and back to retrieve my hotpocket. Some days I go out to the mailbox to collect the pile of mail that has built up from the days I didn't quite make it out (but the sun hurts my eyes and burns my pasty skin so I quickly retreat indoors to bask in the glow of my monitor).On those days that I manage to taste the fresh air I occasionally get the feeling, way in the back of my head, that I should get out and do something. Someday. |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | Brushfire: p90x. But I dont strictly follow their schedule, I usually do it 3-4 times a week. You can do half of their workouts anywhere, and the other half with a pullup bar and some free weights. |
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