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What other HN-like sites do you read? | johns: <shameless_self_promo> managedassembly.com </shameless_self_promo> |
When to use MySQL vs PgSQL? | aditya: MySQLPros:* Easier to replicate (and hence to scale for some people)* Easier to find DBA's for* More popular (twitter, sixapart, etc. use them)Cons:* MyISAM is slow as hell* InnoDB is better but may have licensing issues* Oracle owns them now, unclear whether it is for better or for worsePgSQL:* Better performa... |
2 karma minimum to lock out spam bots | seejay: Hope HN won't introduce anything similar to the burying system on digg which the powerful users on the site use for their advantage. |
When to use MySQL vs PgSQL? | jasonkester: I've never used PostgreSQL, but have spent my fair share of time programming against MySQL. It never fails to amaze me how far behind the curve MySQL is, that it still has table corrupting bugs happening frequently in the wild, and how unconcerned its developer pool is about this state.So from that backgr... |
Slicehost vs Mosso Cloud Server? | reconbot: Bandwidth is not included in Mosso's Cloud. I think if you were to max out on bandwidth slicehost is still a better offer. |
Social placemarking to share places with your friends. Ideas to Tagcrumbs.com? | inperspektive: There are already many services who claim to provide social placemarking? What are the key points for this kind of location-based service?Mobile, easy mapping interface, visualizations, search, filtering, community? |
Slicehost vs Mosso Cloud Server? | jm4: The $10.95 Mosso plan doesn't include transfer and the $20 Slicehost includes a total of 100GB. If you use the calculator on the Mosso site to estimate the cost of the $10.95 server and 100GB of transfer (50GB in, 50GB out) it comes out to $25.95. It's not so cannibalistic anymore.This also doesn't appear to be an... |
What question would tell you where someone's heart is? | josh_nyc: "What do you love?"Seems to work in all kinds of situations. Occam's Razor, anyone? |
When to use MySQL vs PgSQL? | bradgessler: If you're a Rails Developer; MySQL does NOT support transactional migrations, which means if something screws up during a deployment your database might be left in an inconsistent state.If a migration screws up and you're running Postgres, the schema (and data) will just roll-back. |
What question would tell you where someone's heart is? | vaksel: Star Wars or Star Trek? |
What question would tell you where someone's heart is? | pj: If you could change one thing about humanity, what would it be? |
What question would tell you where someone's heart is? | edw519: "Is there a single question..."No. And there shouldn't be.Instead of spending time and energy trying to determine the perfect quesiton, why don't you just spend that same time and energy actually talking to people.Talk about anything. Listen as much as you talk. "Engage" them. After 5 minutes of sincere (th... |
Slicehost vs Mosso Cloud Server? | mdasen: Slicehost's included transfer makes a huge difference.Take the 4GB level: Slicehost w/1600GB transfer == $250
Mosso w/1600GB transfer (assuming 75% out which is likely an under-estimate) == $470
Mosso w/1600GB transfer (100% in) == $303
So, it depends on how your application will work. Mosso has a lot of... |
What question would tell you where someone's heart is? | octane: People lie out their ass in interviews. They're also likely to jump ship at any time in the future for a wide variety of reasons. Maybe they just don't like the leftovers you bring to work because it stinks up the office. Who knows. It's called risk, it's real, and if you're an entrepreneur or businessman y... |
What question would tell you where someone's heart is? | pierrefar: Whether you get along with that person or not depends on what's important to you.There is a great book about body language called What Every Body is Saying by an ex-FBI agent. Excellent read and be forewarned that you'll start seeing other people in a very different light. Heck, it will make you think twice ... |
What question would tell you where someone's heart is? | bdr: If there's one question that tells you where someone's heart is, it'll be one they ask, not you. |
When does taking risk = stupidity? | coglethorpe: Questions and free advice:What does "recently lost" mean? Be sure you aren't doing this based soley on emotion.What's an average size round to you?What do you bring to the table as a non-tech?Is there a business you want to build, or are you looking for pitches?It's stupid if your wife and family aren't i... |
Slicehost vs Mosso Cloud Server? | megaman821: It depends, I would pick Mosso to use as a staging or dev server, or to serve up a personal blog.If I was doing a site that got more traffic I would use a Slice instead. |
When does taking risk = stupidity? | alain94040: This is a wife problem, not a technical problem that HN can help you resolve. Does your wife approve? Really approve? Really? |
What question would tell you where someone's heart is? | donw: "Are you the Doctor?" |
When does taking risk = stupidity? | fiaz: Each individual success is mutually exclusive. The only thing that you can count on is that each individual experience changes you in certain ways...That said, what's your urgency in having to make a life altering decision that impacts five people (including yourself)? |
What question would tell you where someone's heart is? | ericb: Judge them by their actions.In an interview, ask them if they have any side projects. If they code when they don't have to, you know where their heart is. In a dating situation... if they don't call, or stand you up, that is more telling than what they say. People don't know themselves that well, and have troubl... |
What question would tell you where someone's heart is? | JoelPM: Vi or Emacs? |
When to use MySQL vs PgSQL? | jcoby: PostgreSQL gets a lot of flack for not having replication. It's been my experience that it just doesn't matter in practice. Let me explain.MySQL's performance sucks. It's great lightly loaded and with little concurrency. Add load and it noses over. (I've read that this is mostly because of the malloc they u... |
How hard do you work? | swolchok: I'm a first-year Ph.D. student. I attempt to "work" a 40-hour week, but I count classes and classwork as part of that 40 hours and try not to count unproductive hours. Toward this end, instead of taking a full weekend off, I often take Thursday through Sunday "half off". I'm not sure whether this results in m... |
sites for getting alpha testers | dxjones: Amazon's Mechanical Turk (mturk.com) would be one place for you to look. |
When does taking risk = stupidity? | edw519: "When does taking risk = stupidity?"When it becomes selfish.In order words, the moment your wife and children have to make sacrifices to accomodate your dreams.You may love the thrill of the endeavor, but they probably don't, even if they say they do. All they really want is you.If you have enough runway to av... |
What question would tell you where someone's heart is? | jdileo: Hiring the right person is never easy, and your question "where their heart is" makes it even harder.I want to give you a question that has served me well for nearly a decade, and gets as close as possible to your question.Ask the candidate what they would do if they won the lottery tomorrow.This question will ... |
What question would tell you where someone's heart is? | slackerIII: "What is your username on HN?" |
sites for getting alpha testers | Everest: Interesting...I assumed that since Mechanical Turk is pitched as a cheap solution for baseline intelligent labor, the quality of people who are part of the network is very low. As a bit of context, we need users who are willing to write reviews of online authors and bloggers. Do you think the people at Mechan... |
When does taking risk = stupidity? | russell: My advice would be to team up with others in the VC/angel community. You may be the type that VC's like to put in as the CEO of a heavily technical group. If you don't have the technical savvy yourself, you may be putting your nest egg at serious risk.In the past month there was a thread about becoming an ang... |
Delaware LLCs living in California - where is your bank account? | alain94040: By virtue of living of California and conducting any kind of business in CA, you'll have to pay the franchise tax. Establishing a bank account is such a case, but frankly, unless you only work for that LLC when you are traveling outside California, you'll get hit. You can hide, but that's a different questi... |
When to use MySQL vs PgSQL? | alanthonyc: I'm glad you brought this up because I'm struggling with the same question. Since I'm developing in Django, I am currently abstracting out the db layer while I do the programming. However, I will eventually want to make a selection for when I launch the app and have been trying to decide between these two... |
sites for getting alpha testers | csomar: depending on your website kind, forums (like digital points) can be a good place to find cheap testers (if your site is a non-brain application) |
sites for getting alpha testers | barnaby: We're preparing to launch our private alpha in a week and a half at a local conference. Starting with friends and collegues is a good idea, we strongly believe. At least we're thinking this way because we're in an incubator, and launching at a conference for innovators and entrepreneurs. |
sites for getting alpha testers | mrduncan: Why not post a link here on Hacker News? |
When does taking risk = stupidity? | unohoo: The answer in my opinion lies with you. I'd try to answer these questions:What are your priorities ?
What is most important to you ?
What if you fail, especially considering you have 3 kids and a wife to support - do you have enough savings to support the family if things dont work out ?There's nothing stupid ... |
When does taking risk = stupidity? | octane: Rule #1 of risk taking: be prepared to lose what's at risk.Are you prepared to lose your wife and kids?This situation is not any more complicated than that. Any thinking beyond this simple yes/no is your emotions getting in the way of your logic. |
Delaware LLCs living in California - where is your bank account? | quellhorst: Incorporate in your home state, otherwise you need to register as a foreign corp in whatever state you will be doing business in. |
Recommend any good business/hacker fiction? | FiveFiftyOne: Stephenson is in a league of his own when it comes to this kind of story. Snow Crash was a terrific piece of work, where the main protagonist :) was a hacker deeply lacking in entrepreneurial skills. Cryptonomicon had a ton of stuff in it, even down to Bobby Shaftoe getting cracked over the ear with an oa... |
Recommend any good business/hacker fiction? | tedshroyer: I remember enjoying Neuromancer by William Gibson |
Recommend any good business/hacker fiction? | ctkrohn: I'm sure you'll get plenty of comments on hacker fiction, so here's some "business" fiction:* "The Bonfire of the Vanities" by Tom Wolfe. The classic novel of 80s Wall Street at its peak.* "American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis. A pretty terrifying picture of greed and excess, again on 80s Wall Street. If y... |
Recommend any good business/hacker fiction? | kiba: I read the Diamond Age, but I didn't finish it(Mostly because I read it in store). Someday, I'll finish it. What is really interesting to me because it feature an anarcho-capitalism model of society. |
Recommend any good business/hacker fiction? | streblo: I liked Cryptonomicon, but more for the WWII side of the story. If you liked that part, check out Colossus by Jack Copeland. The Randy Waterhouse side of the story actually reminded me a lot of Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. Say what you will about Dan Brown, but I thought Digital Fortress was great. |
Please include your Twitter ID in your profile so we can follow you. | cperciva: You'll probably be correct quite often if you just assume that people have the same username on twitter as they have here. :-) |
Recommend any good business/hacker fiction? | davi: The Man Who Sold the Moon, by Robert Heinleinhttp://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Sold-Moon/dp/0671578634(spoilers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_Moon)Then, for fun, go on to The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, wherein a great acronym TANSTAAFL is introduced. |
Recommend any good business/hacker fiction? | mike463: The adolescence of p-1, Thomas Ryan
The soul of a new machine, by tracy kidder
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson |
Recommend any good business/hacker fiction? | sanswork: I read The first billion by Christopher Reich(ISBN: 0440234697) about a year ago. It's about tech companies, finance and international crime. Pretty fun read. |
When to use MySQL vs PgSQL? | madkangas: This question is 11 hrs old, and nobody has mentioned Postgres' need for periodic "VACUUM" operations? Seriously?If you are running a system with significant data churn (think: a Reuters news feed expiring at N days), Postgres is at a massive disadvantage if you're concerned with system throughput. Postgres ... |
What question would tell you where someone's heart is? | vamsee: I know this is crazy, but I'm going to try to answer that - "If you don't have to work for money, what would you do?". You'll mostly get untrue answers for that, but somebody might look at you straight in the eye and actually say something other than the job you're offering. If it fits your profile, hire them. ... |
Please include your Twitter ID in your profile so we can follow you. | quellhorst: Just added my twitter accounts to my profile, good idea. I am still wondering if its better to have one account, or a personal + company twitter account. |
Recommend any good business/hacker fiction? | jseliger: * If you've already read Cryptonomicon (see more here: http://jseliger.com/2006/11/29/cryptonomicon ), you're going in the right direction, but you should skip the Baroque cycle and Anathem.* David Leavitt's The Indian Clerk deals extensively with math (http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/the-indian-cler... |
Please include your Twitter ID in your profile so we can follow you. | josefresco: Not correct for me, my Twitter alias is my 'real name' and my username here is my online alias.I added mine to my profile. |
Recommend any good business/hacker fiction? | mdakin: You might like The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner. Not the greatest book but it's about a hacker trying to change things for sure. And some of the details and concepts are exceptional.Best black-hat hacker short story goes to "Burning Chrome" by William Gibson (last story in the anthology of the same name). |
Recommend any good business/hacker fiction? | jlc: JR by William Gaddishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_R |
Recommend any good business/hacker fiction? | cjbos: Daemon by Daniel Suarez, it really reminded me of Stevenson's work, highly recommend it! http://thedaemon.com/Also loved Microserfs and JPod by Douglas Coupland. |
Ask HN:Plausibly deniable email | dxjones: Your deniability will not be "plausible" if the two-message feature you described is in the software documentation.At least with disk encryption, you could claim the rest of the disk is "unused". With email, your encrypted message would be twice as big as necessary for sending your "phoney" message, ... makin... |
Recommend any good business/hacker fiction? | jonny2112: I recently read Microserfs by Douglas Coupland. It tracks the story of of a few people through there time in the entry level jobs at Microsoft to there experiences in a Silicon Valley start up predotcom bubble. A very fun read. |
Ask HN:Plausibly deniable email | zain: Look into the protocol for OTR:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_MessagingIt is used for plausible deniability in a secure IM conversation, but I don't see any reason it couldn't be applied to email. |
Where to find good free fonts? | dot: I tend to use Dafont.com. It's free, fast and works really well. |
Where to find good free fonts? | mstefff: check smashingmagazine.com for entries |
Where to find good free fonts? | critke: Whatever you do, be careful. You can catch some nasty viruses looking for free fonts if you're not careful. |
Recommend any good business/hacker fiction? | Eliezer: Vernor Vinge: True Names (short story), A Deepness in the Sky, Rainbow's EndGreg Egan: Permutation City, Quarantine(More programmer's fiction than startup fiction.) |
Recommend any good business/hacker fiction? | rsheridan6: >A book about a hacker/entrepreneur who sets out to change the world and comes across all sorts of wacky scenarios?Charles Stross's Accelerando fits the bill perfectly, but it's way out there with singularity stuff, unlike Cryptonomicon, which may not be what you want. His Halting State is set in the near ... |
Recommend any good business/hacker fiction? | jwb119: "The New New Thing" is not fiction, but it reads like it is.. Basically a bio snapshot of Jim Clark written by Michael Lewis (author of Liar's Poker, another good business book about Wall Street) |
The best hardware for bedtime reading? | Zak: I think the Crunchpad was made for you. I don't think it's available yet though. |
Recommend any good business/hacker fiction? | frossie: I'd like to recommend Melissa Scott's The Jazz. It is out of print but available on the Kindle. It's a light, fun read, (not Stephenson style, that is for sure) but quite perceptive in how one can use the net to spin misinformation. A few of the stories on HN have reminded me of that book - most recently the t... |
The best hardware for bedtime reading? | reddiar: Its been a month since I purchased kindle 2.0 , and have been pleasantly surprised by its form-factor and reading experience. It’s so much easier on eyes compared to my earlier iPhone reading sessions(> 20 minutes).
There is indeed paucity of technical books from amazon for kindle. Publishers like Oreilly & ... |
Where to find good free fonts? | tptacek: Be careful; there's been some confusion about which fonts are actually free in the past. For instance, people were salivating over Olsen's "Union", which was indeed published "for free" on a Danish government website --- but was only licensed for use by the Danish government. (I think you can buy it from FontF... |
Does anyone else get strange looks from people who see you reading "Hacker News"? | mat3: Yes, my wife just gave me a strange look! |
Where to find good free fonts? | GVRV: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/04/24/30-sites-for-fanta... |
The best hardware for bedtime reading? | vorador: What about reading a good old book ?
It's probably better suited and distractions are important too... |
Where to find good free fonts? | callahad: Exljbris: http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/Make sure you read the licenses; most just require an attribution link if embedded. |
Where to find good free fonts? | mindhacker: http://www.urbanfonts.com/free-fonts.htm |
Best keyboard for programmers? | gaika: http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/ - current manufacturerOld Model-M keyboards are still sold at http://www.clickykeyboards.com/ - or ebay. |
Best keyboard for programmers? | lastkarrde: Creamy/White Microsoft Ergonomic/Split keyboard.does the trick, comfortable as well. |
Best keyboard for programmers? | gtani: I like matias keyboards from Ontario, they're a little clicky clackyhttp://matias.ca/products/index.phpalso see (some long threads)http://searchyc.com/keyboard |
Best keyboard for programmers? | quellhorst: I am a huge fan of the full size Apple keyboard. I use dvorak and don't look at the keys but the feel is great.http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB110LL/A?fnode=MTY1NDA1Mg... |
Do you like reading about startups more than doing one? | dannyr: I was like that and now, I don't read as much anymore. A lot of them are pretty much the same anyway.I'm working on my startup but been very scared of putting it out to the public. (Well, I hope that is going to change soon.)That's another obstacle to hurdle. You work on it but releasing it is a different thing... |
Do you like reading about startups more than doing one? | wooster: I started my startup. It's more fun than reading about them, although reading about them is fun too. |
Learning to tune a database | wooster: Sure. Make an app that stores a very large amount of data. A good example would be spidering web data (unstructured), parsing some structure from it, and storing it in a database. Then, do some analysis on it, expose it to the web, etc.The important thing is either to:a) Have a lot of data.orb) Have a lot of t... |
Do you like reading about startups more than doing one? | charlesju: I am in the middle of a pretty product intensive startup right now, and I truly miss the glory days in college where I'd dream with my friends about all the great ideas that we could do.Reading about startups brings back a lot of those feelings.So to answer your question. I have started my startup, but I sti... |
Do you like reading about startups more than doing one? | codeodor: For my own situation, I've not started one. It's still a dream, but one I've kept on the wayside by working for startups as opposed to having my own. |
Learning to tune a database | codeodor: I think you want more than a lot of data.That's a good start, but you also want it to be structured in a way that requires some thought (or just in 3+ normal form). Have someone ask for a report out of it (or come up with as many reports as you can).I wish I had a suggestion for such a data set. Microsoft's f... |
Do you like reading about startups more than doing one? | dennykmiu: Reading -> Starting -> WritingReading about startups was very important when I was in the learning mode. Then once I started, I stopped reading. Now that I have sold my business, I started writing, hoping that someone else would be reading.http://StartupForLess.org |
Do you like reading about startups more than doing one? | quellhorst: Its hard for me to work on mine. Too busy helping build other people's startups. Fortunately it looks like this year maybe the last year I do contracting and switch to full-time startup mode. |
Do you like reading about startups more than doing one? | alanthonyc: I've started. I've already been self employed for a couple of years. But since it's been as someone selling hours of work for pay, it doesn't countThe past couple of months, I've been working on an actual product. That's my startup. (I hope to have a minimal feature set version ready for launch this sum... |
Best keyboard for programmers? | warfangle: I could never get used to the split Microsoft keyboards - or the chicklet Apple keyboards.My current favorite is the Logitech Wave... before that, I used a Das Keyboard -- which was fantastic, but the space bar became detached after about a year and a half. |
Do you like reading about startups more than doing one? | zackattack: In some capacity, yes, because I spend most of my time reading and researching instead of getting down with the nitty-gritty. On the other hand, I don't have an idea I want to implement.I currently have a Bulgarian programmer making me a Flash game. But I'd rather have something I could devote myself to for... |
Best keyboard for programmers? | catch404: I use a basic Lenovo keyboard, I love IBM hardware :) Whats everyones opinion on the happy hacker keyboard - I hear they are expensive. |
Do you like reading about startups more than doing one? | sid: I actually started first and then began to read, kind of counter intuitive but it wasnt on purpose.Reason is in my circle of friends when i was at uni we didnt talk much of startups. Actually it was unheard of, stable job was the way to go. I had ideas back then but never implemented them cause it was all about th... |
The best hardware for bedtime reading? | silencio: I wish I could follow in Randall Munroe's footsteps and get a Kindle and bend some wires to read in bed easily...but the Kindle has no backlight. I hate leaving the lights on while reading, cause usually I just fall asleep in the middle of reading. So it's a huge dealbreaker for me. (I have a lightwedge I cou... |
Do you like reading about startups more than doing one? | andrewtj: I like reading about startups but I like building things more. I started my first serious attempt a week or so back and aim to get a scrappy release in peoples hands within the next 2~3 weeks. It'll lack a lot, but hopefully it'll give me a foothold to build other things. |
Best keyboard for programmers? | bemmu: I like the tiny Apple wireless keyboard, because it leaves more space for written notes on my desk. People obsess about about monitor size to get space on their virtual desktops, but what about the space on your real desktop? |
What criteria do you evaluate cloud platforms options on? | nreece: If you are considering cloud computing, then I guess you have worked out the reach of your application. If you haven't (i.e. you don't know what's the user growth rate), then you don't need cloud computing (yet). Just get a VPS with Slicehost or Linode to start with. |
Do you like reading about startups more than doing one? | csomar: Before you build an application, you need to learn how to build it.Starting a startup requires much knowledge, not very much, but reading a lot, can help you avoid mistakes other had made when they started their startup.Reading intensively can be unuseful, because you'll forget what you have read.So make a plan... |
Best keyboard for programmers? | hs: i use apple pro keyboard (the one which has 2 usb slots) on ubuntui dropped it like maybe 100 times for the past 3 years or so, it breaks but none of the button breaks. it's easy to reattach loose button to keyboard (yes, even the space-bar)it's always wise to invest on keyboard, you are practically married to it ... |
Where to find good free fonts? | bendtheblock: Check my delicious bookmarks, I have a few stored for precisely this:
http://delicious.com/search?context=userposts&p=fonts...IMHO the best in that list is probably: http://sixrevisions.com/graphics-design/45-beautiful-free-fo... |
Do you like reading about startups more than doing one? | alexkearns: It's Saturday morning here in the UK. I can barely see because my eyes are suffering the ill effects of a hard day of coding on my start-up yesterday. I should be in bed. Or I should be outside enjoying the sun. Or giving my wife some attention. Instead, I am damaging my eyes even more, by being here. Yes, ... |
Moldable plastic for products? | trapper: Go lowtech and use shapelock or plasticene for prototyping. It's amazing how much you can do with plasticene, playdoh and other similar products. Some of the top design firms start out this way (ideo & frog from memory).Make some things and see how they "feel" with your product. At this stage you need to forge... |
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