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Startup on the side | pg: In practice the sticking point tends to be code. Someone at some point will ask you whether any of your code was written while at your prev employer, and you have to be able to say no. No one seems to ask about ideas, because that's so much vaguer.If you get an explicit carve-out for your side project, you're ok. ... |
Hackers With Disabilities | YuriNiyazov: This is a very dear topic to me. I have dealt with chronic pain for the last 5 years. While not a disability in the "Americans with Disabilities Act" sense, it is something that has impeded me. I've tried using reliefinsite.com, which I found so clunky that I am now trying to get a web-service off the grou... |
Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice? | tzury: Tell them make the 250 250K and I will consider. |
Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice? | anigbrowl: IANAL...but fuck that. I assume your previous communication about the 'unofficial version' was in writing, at least by email. So legally, they don't have a leg to stand on because they've already folded and accepted your right to supplement their service with your little app. I(f they had strenuously objecte... |
What's the best way to incorporate a startup? | khandekars: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/06/482413_for_lega/comments... |
What's the best way to incorporate a startup? | teej: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive#t... |
Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice? | noor420: I would set a price of USD $75000 for your website/business. |
Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice? | numair: Change your brand name NOW and contact the media everywhere explaining what has happened.1. You get tons of traffic.
2. Lots of people know about you.
3. Zillow's competitors are now interested in acquiring you as well.
4. Zillow is now in a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation - exactly where you wa... |
Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice? | drewmeyers: Drew from zillow. I've been in contact with Mr Bunson about this issue. I don’t think that it’s appropriate to discuss our conversation in public, however, I will say that what is described here is not a complete representation of the conversation. He’s welcome to continue to use the API as long as he doesn... |
Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice? | sutro: Just be sure to bcc TechCrunch on all negotiation emails. |
What's the best way to incorporate a startup? | psyklic: well im sure few would argue that the "best" and "optimal" way is to get a lawyer ... |
Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice? | JohnCook: Very interesting discussion, so I followed up and asked Zillow for their thoughts on the matter.Here's what their spokeswoman just told me:"He misused our trademark and we had to follow up. He's welcome to continue using our API as long as he doesn't infringe upon our trademarks and use the brand name Zillow.... |
Hackers With Disabilities | hnreader: I have ADD. While I've tried a lot of tools, I wouldn't pick out anything specifically as being crucial. None are very helpful if used alone.Medication can be helpful, and organizational lists are definitely useful. Also things like sleep, diet, and exercise can play a big role.I don't exactly know how ADD wi... |
Startup on the side | tezza: I found this from a previous HN story::Your Specific Question :: http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2009/01/08/what-do-you-n...Overview :: http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2007/04/26/whats-on-this... |
Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice? | axod: How much are you making from it? Maybe $250 is a really good offer.Regardless, you're using their brand, and they should be able to take the domain easily enough if they want to. |
Hackers With Disabilities | Jem: My partner, who's not a member here but is very much a 'hacker' of all things electronic, car and computer, has a page about his disabilities here: http://sirbendy.jemjabella.co.uk/patient-information/my-disa...He uses a Microsoft natural keyboard at home, but apart from that doesn't have any specific requirements... |
how to manage golden handcuffs when changing jobs? | NonEUCitizen: Is the company you are presently at public, and for which there is an options market? If you'll get an extra 6 months' vesting with the cliff, ask the new company to pay you an extra signing bonus NOW, with which you can buy N shares of call options at a strike price of S; N being the number of shares yo... |
Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice? | robk: You've done a good job building ranking but frankly the site is primarly just a hook into their data and they can do as they please with it. In essence, you're value is selling the SEO and traffic, which they would have arguably have built themselves anyways. They do likely have a solid ICANN action against you... |
Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice? | josefresco: Make a huge stink (email every top tech blogger), and use the publicity to launch your new app (you do have something waiting in the wings don't you?) and shame Zillow into spending more money to 'acquire' you. |
Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice? | brown9: I think you were really asking for trouble by registering/using a domain name with their company's name in it. |
Clickable Prototypes | xrportet: You can take a look to Justinmind Prototyper v2.5. it's a new tool to simulate and prototype. |
Clickable Prototypes | rman666: I blogged a bit about this:* http://www.clintonsecurity.com/2009/01/gui-mockup-tools.html* http://www.clintonsecurity.com/2009/01/more-on-gui-developme... |
Clickable Prototypes | ieatpaste: Adobe Catalyst will be the next big thing in prototyping. |
What's the best way to incorporate a startup? | lrm242: Only you can make this decision. Using LegalZoom trades money for risk. Using a lawyer does the opposite. The amount of risk is directly proportional to your starting point within the spectrum of complication. For example, if it were only you then LegalZoom carries with it less risk than if you have three co-fo... |
Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice? | seejay: Sounds like they are trying the cheapest way to get something they really need. Don't even think about just handing it over to them without a fight.
And yes, selling it for "a couple hundred bucks" is worse than just handing it over to them :P |
Clickable Prototypes | mikecuesta: I've used Fireworks and it works like a charm. CS4 especially has some new features that make prototyping a cinch. |
Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice? | wehriam: If the domain is infringing on a trademark and the app is thus violating the API's TOS, being able to walk away in a new pair of shoes might be a good deal.They aren't being heavy-handed, you just have no leverage. |
Clickable Prototypes | BobbyH: Balsamiq Mockups (http://www.balsamiq.com) is an awesome way to make mockups. They also recently introduced a way so one mockup can "link" to another mockup (http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/?p=1181).You can use this for usability testing on Macs or PCs (it uses Adobe AIR). I bought the license for the desktop vers... |
Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice? | qeorge: Don't take it, $250 is peanuts. You're providing a valuable service for them, and clearly they were aware of and encouraged it. I doubt they'd take you to court, but I doubt they'd win anyways. There's no reason you can't own a domain with their trademark in it, as long as there's no confusion that you represen... |
Apple TV or Mac Mini? | brk: I have several of each running for the same application.I'd recommend the Mini. It does everything the ATV does, and much more, for not a lot of extra $$$.The ATV is a nice little device, but you're fairly limited in what you can really do with it (no Netflix streaming, for example). One nice this about the ATV ... |
Clickable Prototypes | vollmond: You can knock out a basic interface in Flex pretty quickly, just hardcoding the data (I've done fairly complex interfaces in a few hours this way). |
Clickable Prototypes | mixmax: I use good old fashioned HTML. It has several advantages:- You can easily change it, even when in front of a customer/user- You can get actual interaction. Flow and what happens when you click different links, how pages are linked, etc. is an important part of an interface.- You can use it as a starting point f... |
Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead? | woid: I'm building tools for myself and other web developers at www.binaryage.com: FirePython - realtime logging from Python into Firebug
Visor - Quake-like terminal.app - took Visor by Blacktree and pushed it further
FireRainbow - javascript syntax highlighting for Firebug
xRefresh - browser refresh auto... |
Clickable Prototypes | start_something: http://www.iplotz.com is a sweet hosted solution with some basic collaboration tools as well. Works very well for us. |
Clickable Prototypes | larrywright: I've been doing just standard HTML mockups, often with some sort of generic stylesheet, so that I don't have to spend much time fiddling with CSS. The things I mock up are typically applications for internal use, this wouldn't work well for client work I would guess.This works well for a generic stylesheet... |
Which CSS grid system do you prefer? | bestes: YUI (reset-fonts-grids) http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/ |
Clickable Prototypes | four: This is a perennial question amoungst UX/IxD/UI folks. I haven't used Axure and confess to be suspicious of its hype.
My secret weapon is still: paper. I know you said digital, but in my experience all digital prototypes have the inherent weakness of needing a nontrivial investment of time and brainpower JUST TO ... |
Are there any startups founded by Indonesians (esp. in Bay Area)? | NonEUCitizen: Marvell was founded by Indonesians: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvell_Technology_Group
I think a brother of the husband or wife might have been a founder too. |
Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice? | davidg: Hi, it's David G from Zillow.com,Auston,I hope to speak with you about this later today but please update this post and correct the facts here. You have misrepresented your communications with Zillow. I have the e-mail on this; you asked for $250 for the domain. That was not Zillow's offer, it was yours! When Z... |
Clickable Prototypes | Barnabas: I just used Protoshare (http://www.protoshare.com) on a recent project, and it's a very good web-based tool for making clickable prototypes. It has good discussion features and there's an entire workflow for doing both wireframes and design comps as you get further along in the project. |
Which CSS grid system do you prefer? | Jem: 960.gs - but I've only used it on personal sites/projects, not any of my work sites yet. |
Which CSS grid system do you prefer? | ropiku: I use Blueprint because it's easy and simple. |
Which CSS grid system do you prefer? | fortybillion: Blueprint. You can clean up all the extraneous "span-x" classes with the semantic_classes property in the generator if you're worried about semantic class naming.It does trend towards div-itis, but I find that most complex layouts do over the long run anyway.Looking forward to using CSS3 layouts in about ... |
Ad Networks you have had success with as an advertiser. | keltecp11: 1) For online space, I really like FaceBooks platform... being able to specifically target is awesome. I actually have seen a higher response from FaceBook thn I have from using Google.2) For traditional print you can always use: www.tapinko.com |
Which CSS grid system do you prefer? | ihumanable: I also use Blueprint, I find it to be easy to pick up, simple to use and makes doing page layout a breeze.I would also suggest looking into jQuery UI's built in CSS / Theme Roller stuff.I've worked on projects using blueprint to lay things out and jQueryUI to style widgets and it has worked out really well. |
Clickable Prototypes | mattknox: <shameless self promotion> I use goaloc ( http://github.com/mattknox/goaloc ) for rapid prototyping-it allows me to blow smart scaffolds out into rails code, which I then style. Usually, this gives me about the level of functionality I need for clickable prototypes. That said, I often prototype on paper, to... |
Which CSS grid system do you prefer? | csbartus: I use Blueprint too. They have a very good support. I integrate with Compass/Haml/Sass and all my frontend coding suddenly becomes like backend coding |
Please Try Out My Reddit-Like Map | andrewljohnson: If you know a good webpage about a park, trail, or other outdoor place, please attach it to that place(s) on the map.First, you select stuff on the map.Last, you can add a link, Reddit-style, or write a report using our site.I would really appreciate any feedback!All these pages get indexed to the Trail... |
Please Try Out My Reddit-Like Map | ableal: You should really grab someone off the street and seat them in front of your app, with a notebook or recorder in your hand.You seem to have done a good deal of work, and have some neat stuff. However, after a couple of minutes digging, I can only surmise it's about hiking trips, and it should somehow be possibl... |
Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice? | checkwit: Zillow does not need to go through the courts. They can just file a UDRP complaint for $2000, and there is a very good chance that they will win. After that they can just take your domain away. |
Anyone Use Affiliate Networks to Acquire Customers? | il: I can comment on this from the perspective of an affiliate promoting products on networks like CJ. Affiliate programs can be a very profitable way to gain customers, but there are lots of issues that come up. In particular:-Before your product is listed on an affiliate network, you need to put down a significant in... |
Anyone Use Affiliate Networks to Acquire Customers? | gotrythis: CJ is a high-end network. There are much cheaper options, like clickbank, which is often used for webapps. Depends on your market to an extent.One of the potentially false appeals of an affiliate network is easy access to affiliates. You still need to get their attention somehow, prove your sales conversi... |
What are your must-have apps? | mahmud: Nearly all of my "must have" apps run on either the Mozilla or the Emacs platforms. If you give me a java runtime, I know where to get a ssh applet and from there I will find my way home, including a remote emacs session running under `screen` :-)Mozilla effectively functions as my desktop; I use firebug, scrap... |
What are your must-have apps? | makecheck: 1. A text editor that is powerful, stable, and basically good for programming. I rely on "vim" almost always, but Xcode is a nice fallback.2. A powerful terminal. On Linux, "aterm" is the best I have ever found. On Mac, I prefer MacTelnet but Apple's Terminal is pretty good.3. A suite of infrastructure to... |
What are your must-have apps? | travisjeffery: Emacs, Safari, iTunes, VLC and Terminal.app. |
What are your must-have apps? | JoelPM: 1) Fluid. The ability to launch work GMail in one window, personal GMail in another window, and Lala.com in a third window and have them all running in separate processes that can't bring each other down has been a great help.2) Eclipse. It's an 800lb gorilla but I've been using it for years (shortly after it w... |
What are your must-have apps? | brianto2010: My top 5 are:* Firefox* Office Suite* PDF Viewer* Vim* Winsplit RevolutionMy other favorites (not "must-haves") are:* Media Player Classic/MPlayer* GNU Octave/Maxima* Midnight Commander |
What are your must-have apps? | mstefff: desktop only right?1) firefox2) music player (itunes, rhythmbox, songbird, etc)3) geany (or some other great code editor)4) terminal (linux shell equivalent - does that even count?)5) ssh/sftp client (ubuntu built-in works fine)6) torrent client (ktorrent is great, miro for rss) |
What are your must-have apps? | justlearning: i believe you mean desktop apps?
does browser count as app? if so, then all I need is chrome. I have several desktop apps created from chrome for various web apps.
other than that,skype,intellij/netbeans/eclipse(one of them running)notepad++ (anything and everything -editor)sumatrapdfdropboxtiddlywikiflas... |
What are your must-have apps? | biotech: - Putty/OpenSSH- RealVNC- VMWare ServerI love being able to sit at one [desktop] computer and control 6 others. Some run embedded software, some are servers, some are virtual. |
What are your must-have apps? | cvboss: 1. FAR manager (this one tops them all, can do also SSH/FTP stuff, text editing, archiving etc)2. Notepad++3. Firefox4. skype5. eclipse6. the bat7. adobe photoshop |
What are your must-have apps? | christefano: Quicksilver
The quick application launching and various file and text manipulation actions are great, but it's the multiple clipboards that I find invaluable. Being able to save and search through 500 clipboards makes Quicksilver the one greatest productivity tool I have. iTerm
Multiple profiles, full s... |
Switching my site's SMS capabilities over to Twitter. Good or bad idea? | sachmanb: this is quite an easy problem. it takes a short time to integrate twitter as an option, and then you can promote the idea on your site, and see if people switch, and how many people use them in conjunction. then if time doesn't tell you on it's own, if considerable number of people are using both, figure out... |
Switching my site's SMS capabilities over to Twitter. Good or bad idea? | aitoehigie: If you are not concerned about the geographical restrictions of twitters sms notifications then i guess little to worry about. You will be saving cost. |
Switching my site's SMS capabilities over to Twitter. Good or bad idea? | ctingom: Do your users pay to use your service? If they do, then there may be an assumption that that's your main feature and that's why people pay for it.But if it's a free service I'd say go for it. In fact, I'd probably say go for it either way. |
What are your must-have apps? | warfangle: Believe it or not? After attempting interface development on all three platforms, as much as I hate it and all of its idiosyncrasies, I fall back to windows on the operating system standpoint. Everything I need is there, and in some cases nowhere else (without running a VM).- Visual Studio 2008 Express. has ... |
What are your must-have apps? | kirubakaran: 1. e2. m3. a4. c5. s |
What are your must-have apps? | GeneralMaximus: I'm guessing you mean apps that allow me to be productive. Not considering Twitter and IM clients, here's my list:* Terminal.app* The Python interpreter (I use Python for things like automating tasks, renaming and reorganizing files and even as a simple calculator)* TextMate* A nice little todo app call... |
What are your must-have apps? | grah: Quicksilver, Firefox, TextMate, Terminal & Adium. |
What are your must-have apps? | lleger: These are my top 10 in no particular order. They're basically what reside in my dock. I think you can really tell a lot about a person based on what apps they keep near.1. Textmate
2. Transmit
3. Espresso
4. Adium
5. Tweetie
6. The Hit List
7. NewsFire
8. Safari/WebKit
9. Terminal + VIM
10. Pages |
Switching my site's SMS capabilities over to Twitter. Good or bad idea? | tracy: Twitter is a bit of a niche app for this. I think more of your potential users would use facebook than twitter. |
What are your must-have apps? | JesseAldridge: 1) Dropbox2) Firefox (with StumbleUpon and AdBlock Plus)3) Scite4) Leo (http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html)5) My own tools |
What are your must-have apps? | bcx: 1. terminal / putty
2. textmate / vim
3. quicksilver
4. firefox + firebugWhenever I use any computer, I find myself installing all of these programs, in order to get anything done. |
Switching my site's SMS capabilities over to Twitter. Good or bad idea? | oconnor0: I've found that Twitter SMSs don't always get to my phone. Anecdotally, I'd guess it's probably around a 5% drop rate. |
What are your must-have apps? | ashleyw: 1) Webkit (Safari)2) Ruby3) Terminal4) Textmate5) Photoshop6) VMware (Windows Vista image running on 256MB RAM)7) Spotify (used to be iTunes, but who needs that when you have practically every song you may want for free?) |
What are your must-have apps? | intranation: 1. Firefox w/FirebugI hate Firefox as a browser on the Mac, but as a professional front-end developer it's the most valuable piece of kit I have.2. OmniFocusIt's pretty expensive but it's also really really good, and has industrial strength data integrity. Allows me to stay on top of everything at all time... |
What are your must-have apps? | ftse: TextmateTransmitSequel ProOmniFocus or OmniOutliner for GTDI'm finding I use Nambu more and more for reading Tweets |
What are your must-have apps? | noahlt: 1. emacs (incl. shell, irc, personal wiki)
2. firefox (incl. email, blog)
3. wmii (tiling window manager) |
Multiple Browsers to manage multiple sites | ivanstojic: Something like this: http://fluidapp.com/ maybe? |
What are your must-have apps? | jpcx01: 1. Launchbar / 2. Fluid / 3. Firefox & Firebug / 4. Querious / 5. Photoshop |
Multiple Browsers to manage multiple sites | vamsee: Does this work for you? http://onlinedev.blogspot.com/2008/01/run-multiple-versions-... |
Multiple Browsers to manage multiple sites | rms: This may work? http://broker20.com/ |
What are your must-have apps? | yason: Emacs, Firefox, Python, Clojure, Totem. |
What are your must-have apps? | fsilva: For linux users, a very useful app: BasKet Note Pads.
It's an organization tool, you write pages with notes, format text in those notes, dragndrop files into the page, and the killer feature: at any time you can capture a part of the screen and it goes directly to that page. (e.g. you can be writing notes abou... |
Multiple Browsers to manage multiple sites | rumpelstiltskin: Found it!
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/09/use-multiple-google... |
Multiple Browsers to manage multiple sites | thumbfinger: Use incognito mode in Chrome |
What are your must-have apps? | mping: ClipX - ClipX allows for mulit copy/paste functionality. |
What are your must-have apps? | wyclif: vim + screen + urxvt |
Multiple Browsers to manage multiple sites | csomar: is the problem only with gmail (google services) or you want to access any sites??
Why not create different versions of browsers (then you should go to FireFox) and every browser uses it's own cookies.Simply, you need to know how to hack FireFox |
What are your must-have apps? | windsurfer: 1. gnu coreutilsIt's a little more than 5, but they're all required :) |
Switching my site's SMS capabilities over to Twitter. Good or bad idea? | nir: Did you consider Textmarks? http://www.textmarks.com/ |
What are your must-have apps? | hboon: 1. OmniFocus
2. Safari
3. Xcode |
Feedback on a project | weaksauce: That is an interesting idea. I like to see what's going on nearby. I think you might want to geolocate based on the IP and filter only the stuff that is nearby me. ~90% of the people are only interested in the stuff that is happening nearby. For instance I only looked at the San Diego and Los Angeles stuff. ... |
Feedback on a project | RossM: Like weaksauce suggested, some sort of auto-detection (although build an override too) would be a good start. A simple addition would be to make links clickable.You could look into overlaying tweets onto a Google/Live Earth map (although this would only be useful for those tweeted from a phone with geolocational... |
Are internships mainly for college grads? | thegoleffect: What kinds of things would you like to work on instead of storage? |
Are internships mainly for college grads? | noaharc: Why don't you want to live off savings? Taking 2 months to make something impressive seems like money well spent, to me. |
Are internships mainly for college grads? | gmazzola: Internships are generally for University students, but it's not a completely strict rule. I worked with a going-on-thirty intern, a graduate student with a wife and a kid! You'll definitely get some odd looks as a non-student, but there's nothing stopping you.However, given that, I would shy away from the int... |
Tomato or DD-WRT for my router? | ivanstojic: I've been running DD for as long as I can remember, and I'm very, very happy with it. Absolutely no problems with installation, configuration or day-to-day operations. YMMV. |
Tomato or DD-WRT for my router? | 3dFlatLander: I've ran both, and I really prefer Tomato. DD-WRT is very nice though, but I ended up not using most of the features it offered. Tomato is very lightweight, and fits all my needs perfectly.My router is also a little buggy (really need to buy a new one) and Tomato runs with fewer dropped connections than D... |
Tomato or DD-WRT for my router? | rbxbx: I love DD-WRT, but tomato offers most of the functionality, and is much lighter/has a nicer ui, imo. |
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