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Please Review our App: Weatherbike.com | jdg: Where are you getting your data from? |
What kind of CPMs are you getting for your ad-supported site? | ridertech: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=581085 |
Any programmers here that are able to make a living selling their own programs? | bemmu: Before I was making my living from a Facebook app, which I sold for a sum which combined with my savings from the ad revenue is enough to support me for about 5 years. I figured it might take some time until I find the next thing, but just a few weeks after it my MySpace app Coolest Friends started to catch on a... |
please review Wordics, a word cloud widget | paul7986: Too many words on a white background floated left. Due to lack of design I did not stay on site and try to understand it's concept.I suggest working on your design and offering a sentence or two description of your concept.good luck! |
What kind of CPMs are you getting for your ad-supported site? | ilamont: I am not sure what kind of sites you are interested in (social/media/verticals/etc.) but CPMs for online news/commentary and some online communities have been really hurt by an excess supply, and the fact that many companies have pulled back on marketing. That's one of the reasons that house ads, AdSense, and ... |
Any programmers here that are able to make a living selling their own programs? | harpastum: I just released Tranquil Checkers (http://www.tranquilapps.com), last thursday. I've only got three sales so far, but the first wave of 7-day trial expirations is coming up this thursday.I'm only a college student, and I'm excited to join the fray. |
Please Review our App: Weatherbike.com | mannicken: That's a pretty sweet idea but here is a better idea: a site that automatically determines your ZIP (and lets you change it). So basically NOTHING on a page except of:98023 | 97F | 36 C | "Refresh" buttonand maybe an ad or so.I'm sorry but your design is bad. It has many elements that shouldn't be fucking be... |
What kind of CPMs are you getting for your ad-supported site? | proee: We had a hard time making sense of our ads. We're only pulling in $1.50 cpm. It hurts! |
Any programmers here that are able to make a living selling their own programs? | adinobro: My Dad has been selling his software for almost 8 years now and I know a number of people that have sold there own software. I will eventually do the same but I'm too busy at the moment. That being said there are a couple of things that you might want to think about.1. Most products have a short self life. Th... |
Presenting a company at TechCrunch50. Virtue/Vice? | JacobAldridge: (2) VC - When my firm began, one of our commercial goals was that a specific market leader would want to buy us. We would never, ever sell to them - we just wanted them to want to buy us. Maybe you should treat VC in the same way - have VC firms wanting to invest in you, even if you don't need or want it... |
Presenting a company at TechCrunch50. Virtue/Vice? | vaksel: 1) Forget about it, chances are you suck at doing diligence and there is a startup doing EXACTLY what you are doing. If not, there are a dozen other startups doing the same exact thing. If not, the second you go live someone will start copying you anyways.2) Publicity, you think you just throw up a page and you... |
How much % for the Idea/Concepts behind a Startup | bravura: On Noam Wasserman's blog, http://founderresearch.blogspot.com/, he finds that the idea guy typically gets about 5-10% for the idea. IIRC. I cannot find the URL right now.You should really negotiate with the rest of the team members based upon a) how replaceable they are and b) how much effort they are putting ... |
Getting a CS job in a country other than the US | gexla: One way to do this is to create your own job. For instance, I'm a web developer living in the Philippines. One of the advantages of a place like the Philippines is that you need just a small fraction of income to get by as opposed to someone doing the same thing in New York City. I can even get a maid to cook... |
Presenting a company at TechCrunch50. Virtue/Vice? | paul7986: For us as semi-finalist (Tc40) it helped get the ball rolling; press, other public opportunities and people talking about our product, as well landing seed money!You have nothing to lose and if selected or invited you should go without much hesitation, especially if such will be your first experience dealing ... |
Getting a CS job in a country other than the US | intregus: Get a few years of real experience before trying to find work abroad. CS degrees are irrelevant for most of the good jobs. |
Getting a CS job in a country other than the US | longint: Are you a US Citizen? You could look for US Government jobs that have the work done in field locations. |
Any programmers here that are able to make a living selling their own programs? | patio11: I make about a starting programmer's salary (for this neck of the woods) with Bingo Card Creator.90% of the value is not created in the IDE. If you really understand that, you'll do fine. |
Getting a CS job in a country other than the US | patio11: I encourage folks to consider the global market for their talents -- that's how I ended up behind a desk in Nagoya. That being said, I have previously found that people who self-describe as "pretty proficient at a lot of languages" are inclined to describe "I can comfortably order a meal and ask directions to... |
Getting a CS job in a country other than the US | vaksel: Join CIA |
What software do you use for real time remote collaboration? | kingnothing: Thanks to everyone for all of the answers. I'll take a look at all of it! |
Best practices for ASPs handling Enterprise customer data? | kubrick: owasp.org, the top ten most common vulnerabilities in particular.Separation-of-duties among your employees.If your ASP involves a webapp, consider a web application gateway/firewall that 'knows' your app and what the valid input should be.If your webapp runs apache, run, do not walk, to mod_security and mod_ev... |
Best practices for ASPs handling Enterprise customer data? | frossie: Why don't you look into ISO 17799 and its accompanying certification (ISO/IEC 27002)? I don't know about the certification, but I did read the equivalent UK standard (BS 27002) a while back and found it quite reasonable. It will surely help you with client reassurance and also clarify your thinking. |
Any programmers here that are able to make a living selling their own programs? | brc: Yes you can make a lving, and it can be a good one. I make a fulltime living selling my own software. I have no boss and set my own hours, which are either insane or lazy-to-the-bone, depending on how I feel.The thing you have to remember is that the 80/20 powerlaw distribution seems to be welded to this area. ... |
Getting a CS job in a country other than the US | medianama: Join a start-up in Bangalore, India.It'll be a good experience for you. Since everybody speaks/understands English, you'll not feel out of place. |
Getting a CS job in a country other than the US | hwijaya: Come to Australia. =) From my experience (before recession & before my startups), it's not hard to find an IT job as long as you know your stuff. Most employers are willing to support you for permanent residency. |
Getting a CS job in a country other than the US | david927: Rule out the EU & Switzerland if you have US citizenship. It's nearly impossible to get something in Europe if you're not an EU citizen.I would say, depending on your finances, travel and look. Find the country/culture that matches your personality best and start asking around there. |
Any programmers here that are able to make a living selling their own programs? | braindead_in: http://callgraph.bizHave been working on this for the past year, it pays my bills right now. :) |
How much % for the Idea/Concepts behind a Startup | jgamman: one would think (100 - equity needed to incentivise other workers)... sarcasm aside, that's the only thing that counts - you have to make a deal and the only thing you have to buy their time is equity in your idea. 1% of a x-million dollar company or 100% of a not-million dollar company. |
Review a webpage to Kindle conversion app | jakewolf: I've never used OpenID so it's a turnoff that I can't see more. Also not likely to read long web pages on my kindle.I'd love to have a conversion service where I could paste a URL for a pdf, have it converted and emailed to my kindle. I'd pay for that. |
Learning C | FiveFiftyOne: Well, copies of K&R and C Puzzle Book are on their way, with CII and Advanced Programming In The Unix Environment (2ed) wishlisted for later. Can't find a copy of Deep C Secrets on our local Amazon equivalent, but I'll keep searching. |
Learning C | rubentopo: Stanford's CS Ed library (particularly Nick Parlante's linked list and binary tree problem sets) is a fantastic resource for understanding the C language, it is the way i learned it.http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/ |
Twitter applications | wmblaettler: http://www.squidoo.com/twitterapps seems to be a pretty good list |
Review my new single service website | lennysan: One thing I'm finding that I didn't plan for is that I'm getting a lot of visitors from outside the US. Any advice on internationalizing the site? |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | pclark: what do you want us to tell you?drop out? startup? sucker up and go to college? do as your parents say?just do whatever makes you happy, and fuck the rest. |
Review my new single service website | pclark: You should make the cursor snap to the first text box upon loading of the pageCan you make it not autocomplete text in the text field? Eg, type UK and it fills in UKraine ... nicer if it only auto completes when I click a result / select with arrows and press enter/tab.Make the error page (select 1 country and ... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | spoiledtechie: Stay in school and wait it out. Don't drop out... If you must, find a way to program in school. Go to teachers and request that you can go off by your self because your making A's in their classes. Most will listen and understand.Go to a computer room when you can and build something great. Even tho... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | YuriNiyazov: Code as much as you can. |
Review my new single service website | JeremyChase: You could also think about using geolocation to pre-populate the first box. They have a free database and API that would work for this application: http://www.maxmind.com/app/support |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | mannicken: I'm a high school student myself (senior). I skipped massively (like 50% of the time I wasn't in class) in 10th grade, and after 10th just went to do Running Start. It's a form of dual enrollment and I'm going to community college now; I haven't set foot in HS (except to get authorization forms) in two years... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | spooneybarger: if i hadn't dropped out of high school and gone to an "early college", i'm not really sure where my life would have ended up at. something to look into:http://www.simons-rock.edu/
http://www.earlycolleges.org/ |
Review my new single service website | Jakob: One important point is missing: If I want to phone to Germany, I have to omit the first zero of the area code. Phoning to Italy I mustn’t omit it.Make the result inline javascript. One page load less.Additionally, wouldn’t it make sense to add some "dial this number now with Skype" or some related service?Good s... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | wallflower: It sounds like you expect yourself to have everything figured out. Life is simple but not easy. Believe me, most everyone I know does not have life figured out in the mid-twenties and early-thirties. Life is not a puzzle, it's life. You think, you have it figured out and then another challenge/curveball com... |
Review my new single service website | jlees: On this Mac laptop, screen at full brightness in daylight, I can hardly see the grey text.Although it says 'country' I can see a lot of people typing in cities. Any way to resolve those as well?Also: trim whitespace. I typed in UK, hit space to remove Ukraine as a match, and it said no matches for "UK ". |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | peter-nthcode: I went to college when I was 16 at http://www.tams.unt.edu/Most states have these now.Look into it. |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | scott_s: Two of my friends spent six years in Denmark, and had real difficulty adjusting to American high school. So they enrolled in the local community college to finish up their diploma. You might find that model easier to deal with. |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | staunch: What's your aversion to home schooling? You could get a job (part-time maybe) as a programmer and do your school work at the same time. |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | krschultz: Take every AP exam available, that will knock off all the easy classes in college that will equally waste your time and you can get out of some high school classes now and do it as independent study. I took 5 or 6 in my junior and aced them all - including two for subjects I had never even had class in. Just... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | socialtistics: Try contacting Jessica Mah (http://jessicamah.com). She has a similar story as yours and probably could give you better advice/guidance. |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | numbchuckskills: 1. You aren't interested in school because you're not making your time at school interesting.2. You are naive. Highschool is a mechanism to socialize you and a filter for colleges. Nothing that goes on there is a waste of time.3. Start acting like a Gr. 10 student. |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | lpgauth: Let's face it, the academic part of high school is not challenging enough for you, but what about the other parts? Are you on one of your school's sport team? Are you part of any clubs? Did you try to take on some kind of leadership position at your school? How big is your friend circle? |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | mhp: Like the other posters said, look into taking classes at your local college. If your grades are good enough in HS, it won't be a problem.Take something like econ 101 (not programming) or physics. Depending on the school you can take classes at, I think you'll find you'll be getting your a kicked by the informati... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | dtap: Your life will change more than you can ever know in the next 5-10 years. The best reason to do well in high school is to get into a great college. You will meet people who share your interests in college. But in order to get there you need to do well in high school. You can find your way into an awesome job with... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | felixc: Stick with it, for now. It's not so much that it's a very valuable experience, it's that without it you will be locked out of so many other things that really are worthwhile. I know that two more years feels like an eternity right now, but trust me, it's not.Try to find things to keep you enthused while you sti... |
Review my new single service website | teej: Clickable link: http://www.simplecountrycodes.com/ |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | Ardit20: Dude you have plenty of time, how about getting some friends and enjoying yourself a bit. |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | si2: High school is rough, especially for those intelligent enough to be reading hackernews. Its pretty far from a reality of the world and I would say appreciate the lack of responsibility expected of you and learn a programming language as well as a musical instrument. And even start learning a foreign language as we... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | antdaddy: It would be helpful if you could provide more information:
1. how are your grades? define 'decent'...
2. do you have friends at school? |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | tjic: You sound like a smart kid.I hated most of school up to college as well, because 95% of it was just a pure time waste.What are your Ruby skills like?Do you want a job? ;-)(Only 50% joking...) |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | thisisnotmyname: Make it a game. See how high you can get your GPA, or how little work you can do and still keep a 3.7.Also, try a sport or other extra-curricular. (tennis and track were good for skinny guys like me). Do more with your classmates than just go to class. |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | mattchew: Sounds like you are aware of the options. You can get a GED or try to get into college early. You can homeschool or maybe find a school like the Sudbury Valley model. You can keep attending school and try to push the boundaries of what you can get away with or otherwise game the system.But you can't make y... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | dfield: I'm a high school senior right now and attribute my success in high school to a dual enrollment program I've been taking advantage of. Basically, I worked it out so that for the past three years my education is supplemented by college math classes. I've also been interning over the past year at a well known c... |
Review my new single service website | mshafrir: Allow a user to specify a country's name by its common abbreviation. For example, UAE for United Arab Emirates. |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | abyssknight: Check into the International Baccalaureate programs in your area. If they have one, apply. Its likely the most stressful, intense learning experience you can get out of the public school system. You don't have to be a genius to get in, but you will definitely have to try harder. Much harder, and that shoul... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | sachinag: I can't really help you since I feel like there aren't enough details here, but I would highly recommend that you do something nice for your parents. Not saying you don't, but even the most loving husband does something special for Valentine's Day. Make them something really nice, just because you recognize... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | gabrielroth: You might have an easier time getting something valuable out of your 'fluffier' classes, such as English, than out of the math or science classes. I'm guessing you don't learn much in math or science, because you learn that stuff at a faster pace than your peers. But in English, even if the classroom discu... |
Review my new single service website | chanux: Simple enough! |
Twitter applications | vladocar: This is great list: http://twitter.pbworks.com/Apps |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | unexpected: If you find school really boring, that's okay 99% of the rest of your high school population does too.What you should not do:1) Dropout.
2) Make bad grades.
3) Skip classes.If you find school boring, at the very least make sure you dominate it. You're at an age where you have infinite possibilities before y... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | tricky: Not sure if you realize this, but a lot of kids really hate school. Its just that most of them drink themselves silly or start smoking the crack. You're lucky in that you have enough self control not to lose it.You want advice? Graduate, bang hotties, and hack the systems until they work for you. If you can't s... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | DavidSJ: I think you're too self-effacing. The problem is certainly not you.I dropped out of school in 10th grade, and consider it the best decision I ever made. If you are going to do it, it's a decision you want to execute very carefully to avoid major confrontations with the people who still have a lot of power ov... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | tc7: I can't directly relate -- I was homeschooled from grade 1 up, started college classes (at community college) at 15, transferred at 17 and finished my bachelor's at 19.But as far as I recall, once I started doing College classes, I didn't really do any more 'high school' classwork. I took the GED to be eligible fo... |
Review my new single service website | amjith: You can take it one step further and add the area codes to your database.So I can choose to call munich from US, and it'll autofill the area code and the country code. |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | xxxfff: start doing drugs... really - it's a good time for it. |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | CatDancer: I recommend taking a look at a book called The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education by Grace Llewellyn. (http://www.amazon.com/Teenage-Liberation-Handbook-School-Edu...)The assumption of school is that you don't want to learn and so you need to be forced to. For... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | naikrovek: Why do teenagers think they have it all figured out? I certainly did, and I was certainly wrong.Don't think of the monotony. Think of the things that differ from day to day. You find something that interests you that isn't related to monotony and you focus on that. For me, it was girls; not to get laid, ... |
Review my new single service website | sachmanb: Like it, bookmarked it. You could try and make it simpler (be careful....) but it does exactly what it's supposed to really well. I like the combobox usage as opposed to a dropdown. |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | mcotton: Don't drop out. I "finished early" but in all practicality it was the same thing. It seems like a good idea but I promise that my GED isn't worth anything.I have been able to get good programming jobs based on my ability to get projects done. I wish I would have finished high school because now I'm taking o... |
Review my new single service website | tracy: Bad gray and make the info text disappear when one clicks in the field. |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | sethg: Go back to the teachers who inspired you earlier and ask their advice on how to "work within the system" to make high school less of a pointless burden for you. You might be able to get an "independent study" credit to replace some of your classes, for example. The teachers would know more than anyone else how... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | sachmanb: Chances are that you just very intelligent, and public education such as high schools are designed to intentionally destroy your creativity, no exaggeration, you can look into this -- the goal is to make you a good worker, and if you make it through , maybe white collar (university) with real education being ... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | csomar: Ok, this is not a good choice.Me my self studying in a third world school I had never thought of dropping and continued my study and will graduate in 25 days!!In fact you are lucky, what about if you was here? You don't know the schools here, private or public, teacher are sometimes more stupid that pupils. I c... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | tracy: My comment will get lost in the noise, but I'll give you an insight here that you will likely hardly hear again: You want a thrill of success. At the age you are in, your brain is hardwired to search for success. Programming gives you success, because when a piece of code compiles, you get that feeling of succes... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | charlesju: When I was in High School I used to pass the time by programming on my graphing calculator. I'm sure these days you can get by with reading a book in class or maybe even a small netbook. If none of those things are possible, just start a project and doodle your algorithms while you're in class and code them ... |
Review my new single service website | resdirector: Perhaps include current time in the from-country and to-country? Perhaps, also let the user set when they plan to call, e.g., 5pm to-country time, and it gives the from-country time...and vice versa. |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | 10ren: Suggestion: have a chat with those few good teachers you had (even if you are not at their school/s anymore).They may know more about high-school education than us; they certainly know more about you and what would suit you - they may be able to assist in a solution, in a practical sense. |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | DougWebb: I was a lot like you. My advice would be to do what I wish I had done:1. Use your intelligence and self-teaching skills to make sure you get the best grades possible; this will help you get financial aid for college. Otherwise, you'll be limited to cheap schools, saddled with debt, or unable to go at all.2. W... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | jfarmer: I was exactly the same way. I studied for AP tests on my own time, started a company, learned how to program, etc. School was boring. It was easy. I resented the fact that my peers took it like a joke an weren't serious about learning -- some of the teachers did, too.All that was cool, but here's the thing... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | poppysan: There are many options for you.You can go part time to college and see that learning, when forced is monotonous everywhere.You can start college full time now, face the same issues, yet be out soonerYou can spin high school into a pleasurable social experiment. I noticed there was nothing said about you soci... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | jsonmiller: So the goal is to reduce your boredom in class, which is probably easiest to do by giving you something else to do while you're there and/or reduce the amount of time you're there because public schools are a disaster for smart kids (ref http://sex-death-and.com/blog/?p=17). Okay.First of all, unless somet... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | jneal: I can tell you that I had a very similar experience in high school. I am currently 24 years old and working in a career/job that I absolute love. But high school was a bit different. I wasn't a straight A student, but that's simply because most of the topics we discussed were completely uninteresting to me. And ... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | timdellinger: Lesson 1: The world is not designed for people like you. You will find this to be a recurring theme throughout your life. Sometimes you can find a way to modify things be more to your liking. Other times you can't.Lesson 2: Not all parts of your life will be ideal at all times.Lesson 3: Any complex sys... |
Review my new single service website | mattmcknight: Are single service websites the same as single serving websites? |
Review my new single service website | tezza: Hi there lennysan. Nice idea.My (minor) comment is:Work on the keystrokes when the type ahead box appears.For instance GR selectsGreece
...
Great Britain.In this mode the UP arrow should select Great Britain.
Currently it is not bound.Just my usability 2p. |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | ibsulon: Even at good jobs, entry level workers end of doing many things that are wastes of time, both apparent and real. Learning the focus to power through those is half the battle.Further, a 3.5 is not "decent enough grades" anymore -- they're average. Grade inflation has led us to lose perspective.Finally, the best... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | jkent: The short - if you are absolutely set on being an entrepreneur, are properly depressed, or don't care about high incomes, then drop out. If you hate school that is.Not completing high school does narrow your options in life. Most people say that isn't a good thing. It may be right for you though.I finished high ... |
Review my new single service website | tezza: Another comment.Looking at Great Britain -> Australia, you say ::... 00 + 61 + area code + phone numberThere are only 7 such area codes. These correspond to an Australian State.
Probably it would be worth listing some _example_ phone numbers in each State, with a label to each State. Often I have a local ... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | xenophanes: You might enjoy reading this site:http://www.takingchildrenseriously.com/It has philosophy of education/parenting ideas. For example, you seem to think that you are selfish for wanting a life that isn't boring. I think that is a very reasonable desire. This is a site that will actually take your side on iss... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | psyklic: I made a computer program or computer game for almost every project they'd let me make one for. I also started a video game development club! |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | screwperman: Just to put my advice in perspective: I'm an Indian who will possibly be attending (a pretty good) public university this year. I'm the typical HN/reddit geek: started programming when I was 9, know around 9 programming languages, quite some bit of theory, etc. etc. In school in India, I was bored all the ... |
I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? | gilesgoatboy: I had this exact same experience. You're basically fucked. The whole world is like that and it takes effort and balls to get anything interesting to happen. My advice: ignore school completely, and work on learning the skills you want to learn, and learn them really well and inside out. Also learn busines... |
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