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Critic as Artist | jgranby: Perhaps. Although there is, I would suggest, an element of problem solving with programming that doesn't seem to apply with poetry. Most projects I start are chosen because I feel that that particular app needs making, that the problem in question needs solving. I enjoy programming by itself, but whenever I do... |
Best keyboard for programmers? | csbartus: art lebedev's optimus maximushttp://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/ |
Best keyboard for programmers? | joe_bleau: No longer made? Unicomp (http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/) bought the rights and the tooling. I love mine. (And no, it doesn't have the windows key!) |
Recommend any good business/hacker fiction? | pcm: I fully recommend you read Infoquake and Multireal (the first two books of the Jump 225 trilogy) by David Louis Edelman.
It has everything you're looking for. |
Recommend any good business/hacker fiction? | ideamonk: Founders at Work,Stealing the Network Series (1st two are great :) ),Startup.com - the documentary |
What would be your ideal API for news content? | jodrellblank: def getNews():
return _("Sorry, nothing has happened yet today, why not try %s while you're waiting?" % todo.next)
;) |
Recommend any good business/hacker fiction? | bemmu: Why business fiction when there are so many nice stories of real businesses around? |
Do you like reading about startups more than doing one? | strider24: I'm 17 and hoping that I don't make the mistakes that others did and reinvent the wheel. So, currently, reading lots. |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | vyrotek: Asp.net MVC |
Review a simple URL un-shortening service. | lunarhalo: For those who want to the original url before clicking a tiny url, you can use Untiny (http://untiny.me ) Firefox addon (UntinyFox) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10181(or check in http://untiny.me/extra/ ) |
Review a simple URL un-shortening service. | lunarhalo: I developed http://untiny.me for one reason, some tiny services (e.g. http://tinyurl.com ) is blocked in my country for no reason ... and may some others are blocked in others countries too... |
Do you like reading about startups more than doing one? | gits_tokyo: Expose oneself to varying degrees of ideas, problems, and solutions. Read to question. Mistakes are important for progress, all the planning in world isn't going to help. Get your hands dirty, work on a project that matters to self no matter how small or unimportant it may be to the outside world. |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | RossM: I don't know whether you'd need shell access for Python (I'm only just starting to learn it myself) but that could be an idea to consider. |
What is your customer acquisition cost? | patio11: It depends.I get the majority of my customers through organic SEO. The marginal cost of a customer from organic SEO is zero. The amortized cost is almost impossible to calculate -- I SEO well because I spent years learning the technical/marketing aspects and, e.g., blogging (which has a side effect of gettin... |
2 karma minimum to lock out spam bots | rythie: There is an article on slate.com about CAPTCHAs http://www.slate.com/id/2216837/
(submitted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=579051 ) |
What would be your ideal API for news content? | babyshake: Let me send a URL and retrieve the unique news story that it's a part of, or perhaps multiple news stories with confidence intervals.I don't know of a single API that currently does this. |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | pkeane: Python + Google App Engine |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | mannicken: Is Ruby hosting that expensive? I've seen hosters that do it under five bucks a month (like http://www.hostingrails.com/ ). |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | radu_floricica: I don't think you should dismiss a language so fast for hosting reasons. Yes, they are a thing to consider, but "The Thing"?We offer all our clients hosting on our slicehost server, for at least a year free (so far we haven't bothered to ask after a year either). It's clean, fast, cheap, and lets you do... |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | Zak: You might want to have a look at haXe - a language that compiles to multiple backends including PHP, Javascript and Flash. It's not my favorite language by a long shot, but it's not PHP. |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | juliusdavies: Dreamhost is cheap and has shell, perl, ruby, and php. |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | j_baker: Look for webfaction as a hosting provider. It's cheap and you have lots more options than just PHP. Plus you get shell access. You can even set up your own apache instance.Other than that, don't worry too much about the language. Find something you like and stick to it. Just remember to always learn new t... |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | pmikal: perl:You do not need shell access to install modules locally. Anything you can do from the shell, you can do from Perl with system(), backticks, or piped open(), but really... no shell access?You want hosting that is reliable, supports shell access, rails, and 100% uptime, but your not willing to pay more than ... |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | edw519: "What do you do when you can't stand PHP anymore?"Reevaluate what's really important to you.I love to program, but it's NEVER about the language. I know many of them, and AFAIC they all have their pros and cons. I suppose that if I was a "language-snob", I'd be "immensely bored" too, no matter which language ... |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | keefe: Java! I may be in the distinct minority here and particularly prejudiced since I started with Java in 98.... Java has the best IDE (eclipse), a slew of open source libraries, Groovy if you have it up for dynamic language syntax and with JIT etc. innovations it's pretty much as fast as C++. I think Java is the pe... |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | wooby: If you're comfortable with Linux, an option for you is running a Linode or Slicehost ($20/month) and hosting your clients on it. This will give you total control of the hosting environment, and a residual income. You'll have plenty of horsepower for Rails or whatever else you want to use, and as you grow, you ... |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | octane: Become a real solutions provider and lease a colocated server and move your clients to it by offering them competitive pricing. You might even make a profit. |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | ropiku: http://heroku.com isn't that expensive and it's easy to scale as needed. |
Inexpensive 800 number solutions like Twilio? | fjcatwo: In this page you can find Toll free numbers from $2.oo / month and $2.oo setup fee http://www.toll-free800.com |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | tracy: Learn python. It's an excellent all-round language, you can also create desktop stuff later. Hosts like webfaction just cost $10 a month, surely your clients can afford that. |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | warhammerkid: What framework are you using for your PHP work? If you aren't using a framework (because your work doesn't need one), then switching languages probably isn't going to change much, but if you are, there are several good, fun PHP frameworks out there. The best PHP framework I've used is Symfony (http://www.... |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | skwiddor: CGI, then use what you like. A few of my friends are building http://werc.cat-v.org/ but it's teaching me CGI still has a lot to offer. |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | hs: i use newlisp for my web apps |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | mtarnovan: Prices for hosting Ruby should fall once mod_rails sees more widespread usage. |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | kajecounterhack: Python and Django! |
Where to find good free fonts? | ZeroGravitas: Beware! Most "free" fonts are not licensed for use within a web page via @font-face.This is a new technology which most font designers probably haven't heard of and taken account of in their licencing. Crucially it involves putting the actual font on a public web server for users to download.I followed a ... |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | SwellJoe: Unfortunately, the reality is that PHP is dramatically easier to ship out to crappy shared hosting providers than any other language. Perl, Python, and Ruby are easy if you just use CGI...but they are increasing degrees of slow (with Perl generally being the fastest of the lot and Ruby being the slowest, whe... |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | zealog: Heroku is great (and free) for building and trying Ruby on Rails apps. |
What criteria do you evaluate cloud platforms options on? | lsc: Speaking as both a provider and someone who has managed many servers for other people, I would argue that you are best off if you base your system on something that is commodity... that is, don't buy something from someone else unless you can get the same product from two vendors. Locking yourself in to one vend... |
What is the best EC2 database solution? | dmaclay: Mount elastic blocks to hold your db directories and take regular incremental snapshots. |
What is the best EC2 database solution? | lsc: have you looked at the ndb backend for MySQL cluster? it seems like it would do what you need (that is, you can add nodes, in pairs to scale, and it can handle single-node failures)another option, I guess, is to get a large dedicated server elsewhere, and use that as the db server; of course, you have latency is... |
Inexpensive 800 number solutions like Twilio? | _pius: Twilio is sweet. Very easy to use, great documentation, and most importantly a well-designed API. |
What is the name for this pattern? | senko: I don't know if the pattern has a name, but equivalent of this in GTK+ (and QT, IIRC) desktop world would be called an idle callback (function scheduled to be run at the next iteration of the event loop).More info here: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/sec-mainloop.html#Z63 |
Is there "server" software for a Windows Server? | weaksauce: I think the common answer to questions of server administration on HN is to send people over to http://www.stackoverflow.comThey handle the more nuts and bolts aspects of setting up servers and programming.The reason that Microsoft calls it a "server" os is because on the XP/vista they limit the number of co... |
Do you like reading about startups more than doing one? | Femur: I am generally not interested in startups. I come to hacker news for the interesting articles and the high quality of the comments generated by the intelligent and diverse community here. |
Inexpensive 800 number solutions like Twilio? | fjcatwo: I do, have 2 toll free numbers there |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | wenbert: Why not setup your own hosting for your clients? Problems always arise when you give the client options on the server. They do not know these things. Usually they always opt to have the cheaper plan -- they are not technical people.I have been using PHP for years now - no problems so far. Especially when Zend ... |
UCLA or UCSD for Computer Science? | ddemchuk: My girlfriend is a Bio Engineering major at UCSD, I go to SDSU. There's definitely much more of a social life at UCLA than at UCSD. She's in a Sorority at UCSD and always says that without that, it would be very hard to socialize at that school. Academically I think they're relatively equal, UCSD might even b... |
UCLA or UCSD for Computer Science? | carterschonwald: UCSD has much better theoretical computer science folks, on the other hand, UCLA has awesome applied math and math.I'd say figure out what style of socialization is best for you, where you'd find that, and also where in the blend of engineering, theory and math you're intellectual style is, and go with... |
UCLA or UCSD for Computer Science? | Tacomanator: I'm a computer science undergrad at UCLA nearing graduation. Although it may not be much help to you for deciding, but I must say you will probably be happy with either choice from an academic standpoint. I think the UC system has done a fabulous job gathering talent and creating an excellent and competiti... |
What is the name for this pattern? | astrodust: That's essentially re-queuing a repeating task, and the task is to process blocks of work incrementally until completion. This is not unlike what happens in an operating system that uses cooperative multitasking.You might consider a refinement of the pattern where doSomeWork() returns true if the work queue ... |
UCLA or UCSD for Computer Science? | iamelgringo: I lived in LA for 2 years, and attended meetings for the LA chapter of ACM Siggraph. They really have some kick ass presentations in graphics. When I was there, pretty much every month, there were VFX supervisors talking about the effects done on a movie that was just released.It's a great resource if yo... |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | santacruz: With such approach you will hate your next lang in no time. |
UCLA or UCSD for Computer Science? | mkinsella: I had to make this exact same decision (among others) five years ago.Background: I was born and raised in Los Angeles, living less than 20 minutes from UCLA. My mother attended UCLA and my father works at UCLA as an accountant. As you can see, we were very tied to UCLA and LA.I chose UCSD and am very happy I... |
UCLA or UCSD for Computer Science? | stames: I was a double major in CS and Mathematics at UCLA, finishing in 2004. The campus is fantastic, Westwood is awesome, but the school of engineering administration left me with a nasty taste in my mouth. They were the most bitter, unhelpful academic counselors I have ever encountered. It started when I attempt... |
UCLA or UCSD for Computer Science? | jacoblyles: UCSD has a nice 5 year master's program.I get the feeling that the social life is a little lacking for undergrads. The campus is in La Jolla, a rich suburb removed from San Diego proper. It is not a college town.San Diego does have some cool places, but you will want to have a car to get to them.The hacker ... |
UCLA or UCSD for Computer Science? | kyro: I went to UCSD for my first two years, majoring in biology, and transferred to UCI, not because it was tough, but because I HATED the school.Please, please, please consider campus and social life. I held the belief prior to entering college, one probably inherited from my traditional familial roots, that social l... |
UCLA or UCSD for Computer Science? | hiteshiitk: In computer system/networks field, nothing good at UCLA these days, apart from LA itself. |
UCLA or UCSD for Computer Science? | charlesju: I just finished my CS degree from UCLA a few months ago, and I have to say that it's a much better choice.College is not all about the academics, it's about the complete package. UCLA has a crazy sports history with lots of school pride, there are a bunch of activities to do everywhere, and LA is much more f... |
UCLA or UCSD for Computer Science? | a5huynh: I'm currently a UCSD comp sci undergrad, and overall my experience here has been great.Academically, our curriculum is one of the best (although, IMHO it is getting a bit dumbed down, focusing more on Java than C/C++ as it did when I was a freshmen). We're in fact one of the few schools that requires you to ta... |
UCLA or UCSD for Computer Science? | hbien: I'm a recent graduate from UCSD CS program. You'll hear a lot that the UCSD campus isn't very social, it's true. This has to do with the focus on "academics" so we don't offer any scholarships to athletes and we don't have frat houses on campus (no parties on campus). On weekends, the campus is pretty much de... |
I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose? | abalashov: Java? |
UCLA or UCSD for Computer Science? | octane: I went to UCSD and did a shitload of drugs and lost my sexual innocence and had a great time for 4 years.Just remember there are no campus parties at UCSD, but plenty of house parties thrown by campus orgs. You probably won't go to any until 2nd or 3rd year. In the mean time, steal liquor from the 24 hour Ral... |
Is there "server" software for a Windows Server? | pietro: You're trying to make Windows into a Unix, but it's not. Most of your questions make no sense in a Windows context. It's very, very different.It would be so much easier to buy a book than to browse the web. That's how people learn the basics in the Windows community. Web sites are for news, documentation, etc.,... |
What do you think of my new site? | mannicken: Looks like a placeholder for domain. Especially the right two columns. Just an impression of ad-filled web-site. |
What do you think of my new site? | slig: Please don't use checks to emulate options buttons behavior. |
What do you think of my new site? | rnernento: Design - I like all the blues and the layout, the yellows and the ipod seem a bit dark to me.Functionality seems perfect to me but I would need more time with it.As far as the concept I'm not sure - polls don't seem that exciting to me but maybe you know something I don't. |
What do you think of my new site? | ashleyw: The pricing could soon get out of hand — a 20 question survey by 500 people would cost $200; who'd pay that? |
What do you think of my new site? | brfox: In my head, a survey has more than one question, while a single question is a poll. So, the name of the site made it seem like you'd be competing with surveymonkey, which would be a good thing. |
What do you think of my new site? | mkuhn: Just a note on design. I have an unnecessary Scrollbar with Firefox on Linux (Ubuntu 9.04). Oh yeah and I would suggest you create a Favicon, the green check comes to mind first. |
What do you think of my new site? | hwijaya: I like it. It's clean and minimum-usable.Hmm..as of using it, maybe if you can make it like a widget where i can link it to my site, that will be more usable (at least for me) in terms of setting up polling system. |
What do you think of my new site? | tomerico: Some feedback.Remove the categories pane completely.
Replace checkboxes with buttons - clicking on them will cast the vote.
Use the common categories from Digg / Stackoverflow and others (Top surveys, Controversial, Upcoming) |
What do you think of my new site? | huhtenberg: Overall - quite nice, but needs simplifying and tidying up.Get rid of "win iPhone" insert. It takes away more from the site than it actually adds to it. Also the "Tags" column solves the problem that I'm not sure exists. But it sure does clutter the page. I'd get rid of it too until you are certain that the... |
What do you think of my new site? | Zarathu: I quite like it. Of course, it's still a "new" site, so you have a lot of work to do.Nice design. |
What do you think of my new site? | kbrower: 1 bug: When I click sign up it says log in as the title of the box.1 annoyance: the results page took ~10seconds to render. Mostly because you are using many copies of a fixed size image to render the bars. Why not resize a single image or just make it a html element? |
What do you think of my new site? | roryokane: I think you should move the "flag as spam" flag icon away from next to the category name; the current position made me think the flag was either a property of the category or a button that would let me flag it like in email, that is, save it for later. |
Best Python graphing and reporting libraries for web app | cloug: Google Chart is a good choice : various graph types & facility of use. You may want to use a wrapper like pygooglechart |
Best Python graphing and reporting libraries for web app | almost: For creating graphs you might want to look into SciPy's Matplotlib. It's a graphing library based on Matlab's stuff. Pretty good if you want those sort of graphs.See: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/screenshots.htmlHere are instructions on hooking it into Django: http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib... |
What do you think of my new site? | csomar: I have voted on a survey and this referred me to google.com is that normal? |
What do you think of my new site? | gommm: Why do I get redirected to google after filing a survey? |
Best Python graphing and reporting libraries for web app | xeno42: Flot is great for generating graphs directly in the browser, saving the roundtrip for the image and allowing some interactivity: http://code.google.com/p/flot/You can also generate simple Sparklines client-side too: http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/ |
Best Python graphing and reporting libraries for web app | gourneau: I am a fan of the Open Flash Chart 2 project:
http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart-2/As the name implies, they are flash charts, what except JSON data. There is a wonderful Python lib that makes it very easy to use OFC in a Pythonic way:
http://btbytes.github.com/pyofc2/ |
What do you think of my new site? | ks: You should use the <label> element so that you can select the option by clicking the text. |
What do you think of my new site? | chris24: Why do you have such a large space dedicated to categories when most don't have any surveys in them (yet)? It'd be more useful if there were either less categories or a count beside each category link displaying the number of surveys within each given category. |
Best Python graphing and reporting libraries for web app | mace: Pycha (PYthon CHArts) is pretty good. It use the Cairo vector graphics library.http://www.lorenzogil.com/projects/pycha/ |
What do you think of my new site? | thatguycheese: When clicking on "private" and then canceling out of the box that pops up, "log in" changes to "og in." A minor issue, but an issue none-the-less. |
Learning C | makecheck: K&R
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language_(boo... |
Learning C | Zarathu: Sure! Knowing C can definitely help with your overall understanding of how things work. It's especially helpful when learning new languages.I uploaded a copy of K&R ANSI C for you. In my opinion, it's probably the best way to learn it.http://whitepaperclip.com/files/ansi_c.pdfHave fun! |
Best Python graphing and reporting libraries for web app | simonw: The Cairo-powered http://www.aeracode.org/projects/graphication/ is well worth a look - unfortunately the only documentation is examples at the moment. |
Learning C | tumult: C isn't hard, don't worry! It's actually a fairly simple language. But it's medium/low-level and there is a lot of power within its simplicity. Fast to learn, but a long time to master, as one might say.I don't know what people are using to learn C these days, but the standard has always been the white book htt... |
sound - electricity? | ars: Wind essentially IS sound - but with a very low frequency.Sound is air moving, wind is air moving.You can use a turbine that spins forward and back I suppose. You'll have a hard time with this - you'll need to match your turbine to the frequency of the sound. Using a microphone works, but only for frequencies in h... |
Learning C | rsheridan6: Just about everybody who answers this will say that K&R is good, and I agree, but in addition to this I found that learning the basics of assembly was helpful. You can really see what's going on with the stack, what a pointer really is (pointers are really the only tough part about learning C, everything e... |
Learning C | neilc: You should absolutely learn C. A good knowledge of C is a very valuable asset for all sorts of work, especially on Unix.Thankfully, C is straightforward to learn. The major concept you need to understand is pointers; once you've done that, there are some syntactic oddities to absorb (typedefs, function pointer s... |
Learning C | cschep: A great resource I have enjoyed while brushing up my C skills has been CS107 at Stanford University on the web.http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs107/You can find the lectures on academicearth.org, or on iTunesU if you prefer to download them that way.Jerry Cain is a great lecturer. I wish they'd post the assignme... |
UCLA or UCSD for Computer Science? | s_baar: Thanks everyone. I'm going to UCSD. |
Learning C | antirez: You should learn C. It is a small language but to master it requires a lot of work for a reason: you need to get good at design. When all you have in your hands are structures and pointers you absolutely need to develop the ability to design well organized programs in different layers of abstractions, otherwis... |
sound - electricity? | J_McQuade: When it comes to power from sound, be warned that results are likely to be rather disappointing - there's a reason microphones and guitar pickups benefit from such highly sensitive pre-amps! If you're just looking to do it out of intellectual curiosity, though, then piezos will at least get you somewhere - l... |
Learning C | radu_floricica: Chances are you already know C, but don't realize it. Java and PHP have mostly C syntax. All you have to do is substract objects and add pointers.Like rsheridan6 said, assembly helps. It's not necessary though, as long as you realize a pointer is actually a memory address and not something abstract like... |
Learning C | mlLK: Some helpful reminders for learning any programming language, http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LearningProgrammingLanguages. |
Learning C | wooby: 1. K&R - an absolute essential. I found myself in your shoes about two years ago, picked this up, and worked through it.2. "The Unix Programming Environment" (http://www.amazon.com/Unix-Programming-Environment-Prentice-...) This is a recent find, but covers more application. It's almost a Part 2 of K&R and co... |
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