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How many programming languages/development frameworks are you currently using? | damovisa: C#, VB6 (maintenance), and PHP.
My big stumbling block is foreach loops:foreach (int i in myInts) { ... }For Each i As Integer In myInts ... Nextforeach ($myInts as $i) { ... } |
Making money during college? | jjguy: I got a job with the hospital on campus, doing custom win32 app development. Nothing huge, just business process facilitation with some windows-native glue apps.Under market consulting rates, above typical college rates, I walked to the office and set my own hours. Everyone wins. It was hard to beat. |
Side projects: How do you find people to work with? | propane: 10 years of pain working in the trenches of the software industry. |
Making money during college? | seanharper: Supervise a computer lab, that was the best gig ever, i made $12 / hour (8 years ago) and could do homework and write code while I was working. It was a lot of fun too. |
Equivalent of CodeIgniter, but in Perl? | tapostrophemo: Update: the Mojolicious docs are pretty thin at the moment, but a series of blog posts (one is http://www.simplicate.ca/blog/2008/12/using-mojolicious-with...) will give me enough tips to get going. |
How many programming languages/development frameworks are you currently using? | TJensen: Java and ActionScript 3 (Flex) at work. Right now, Objective C, Python and JavaScript (jQuery) at home.Yes, I do occasionally run into idiomatic problems as I switch languages, but it is better than coming home and doing Java. :) |
Side projects: How do you find people to work with? | arfrank: I am also obviously looking to collaborate. So feel free to contact me at my username @ gmail dot com |
Merchant account and payment gateway for subscription-based web apps? | rksprst: TrustCommerce got some good recommendations on the 37 signals blog. |
Side projects: How do you find people to work with? | derwiki: If you're in the Bay Area, come to iamelgringo's Hackers and Founders meetup (http://www.meetup.com/Hackers-and-Founders/) |
What services are available for sending/receiving SMS/MMS messages? | damovisa: www.clickatell.comThis is the service we decided on at my old job. Our only difficulties were that we're based in Australia. The messages were sometimes slightly delayed (not by more than 30 seconds or so though) |
Side projects: How do you find people to work with? | integermonkey: Who says you need collaborators just to start a side project? Start the project yourself, drum up some interest in it, and see who comes to you. |
How many programming languages/development frameworks are you currently using? | marram: At Sponty: Python + Google App Engine + prototype.js
at consulting gig: Flex, Java, PHP and some Django. |
Side projects: How do you find people to work with? | csomar: contribute on forums or communities like HN, you'll notice good hackers that have free time, you can then ask them |
Merchant account and payment gateway for subscription-based web apps? | Automatt-2: We decided to forego the merchant account and instead have been using Amazon Simple Payments with success. They've been excellent at closing transactions. |
Is Monster Energy Drinks trying to abuse DMCA? | anigbrowl: IANAL, but it appears their argument is that you are exploiting their mark as part of the commercial service your website offers. It seems legally sloppy and you're correct about it not really being DMCA material, but I'm not so I'd go so far as abuse.It is a given in trademark law that if a mark is not aggr... |
Resource on Business Model for Web Startup | mjfern: A few resources you might find useful on business/revenue models:http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2009/03/terrific-surve...http://digitalenterprise.org/models/models.htmlhttp://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/2009/01/three-free... |
Merchant account and payment gateway for subscription-based web apps? | swombat: SecureTrading, in the UK, has second-to-none customer service. |
Why is there a disproportionate amount of interesting text vs. spoken content? | GeneralMaximus: There is more than one reason.* Many Internet users surf the web from their workplace or from public computers. Listening to audio in these settings, even with headphones on, is very difficult. This drives down the demand for audio. Heck, most people never even bother listening to audio when it is avail... |
please review a new product InvisibleHand | zitterbewegung: Edit the title so it says HN instead of NH sort of glaring typo. |
Why is there a disproportionate amount of interesting text vs. spoken content? | davidw: The only thing I can really stand to listen too much is the audio version of The Economist.Mostly, though, I think long walks (or better, bike rides!) are better for listening to what's going through my own head. I'm bombarded by enough information as it is. Other than that, "GeneralMaximus" sums things up ni... |
please review a new product InvisibleHand | jrockway: Seems like one step away from being Evil. Imagine a similar extension that would redirect your buy.com order to amazon.com with your affiliate ID attached. |
How many programming languages/development frameworks are you currently using? | wlievens: C++ at the day job, Java for hobby projects, and sometimes PHP for freelance projects. |
please review a new product InvisibleHand | soundsop: I suggest adding some price-comparison functionality to your website. You can let people try out your site and build trust to help convince them to download and install a plugin. |
Why is there a disproportionate amount of interesting text vs. spoken content? | kesava: Marti Hearst of Berkeley has written on this topic for Edge. |
Back problems | abijlani: One word - Yoga |
Why is there a disproportionate amount of interesting text vs. spoken content? | Hast: IT conversations (http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/) has quite a lot of good content.If you just want something other than reading there are quite a few video presentations available on Google Video (http://research.google.com/video.html). And naturally TED talks (http://www.ted.com/index.php). |
Why is there a disproportionate amount of interesting text vs. spoken content? | shalmanese: If you're restricting yourself to audio only, you're missing out on a bunch of interesting videotaped lectures that you can listen too without missing out on much. Check out the entire @Google series on Youtube or a bunch of interesting documentaries or TED talks.I've written about how to run video in the b... |
Why is there a disproportionate amount of interesting text vs. spoken content? | theblackbox: I'd recommend the "Off the Hook" podcast by Emmanuel Goldstein and the HOPE recordings available for download via the 2600 websitedon't really do podcasts much myself, though. But these did keep me mildly entertained/informed a while back (esp. the HOPE conference about coupon hacking) |
Gmail down? [Temporary Error (500)] | lastkarrde: Fine for me.. but a friend tweeted it was down. |
Gmail down? [Temporary Error (500)] | helium: Same here - Temporary Error (500) |
Gmail down? [Temporary Error (500)] | paraschopra: It is back online now.. I wonder how much productivity gets affected even with 5 secs of downtime |
Gmail down? [Temporary Error (500)] | amix: This is when real-time search is really useful:
http://www.plurk.com/psearch#q=gmail and
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=gmailIt's down and it's down all over the world. |
Gmail down? [Temporary Error (500)] | gnuchu: Down for me briefly, a few minutes ago. |
Gmail down? [Temporary Error (500)] | comster: not scheduled? |
Gmail down? [Temporary Error (500)] | eLod: it is down - http://www.google.com/appsstatus |
Why is there a disproportionate amount of interesting text vs. spoken content? | J_McQuade: I think it's just a lot easier to 'iterate and improve' on a piece of text - to do the same for a podcast would basically reduce it down to reading from a dry script, leaving it likely even more boring, regardless of how interesting the subject matter is.Of course, the easiest way to make a programming podca... |
Why is there a disproportionate amount of interesting text vs. spoken content? | Hexstream: Audio: Sequential access, list.Hypertext: Random access, graph.This has huge implications. |
Why is there a disproportionate amount of interesting text vs. spoken content? | jwr: Producing audio shows is not easy -- it seems everyone can do it, but the really good ones are made by people who formerly worked for radio and TV stations.You might want to try the TWIT podcasts (http://twit.tv/). I'd call them easy-listening tech shows. |
Gmail down? [Temporary Error (500)] | duarte: up for me on IMAP the whole past hour |
Gmail down? [Temporary Error (500)] | silentbicycle: Well, it is a free service. (Working for me now, fwiw.) |
Gmail down? [Temporary Error (500)] | kenver: You have to expect these things from a beta service :p |
Gmail down? [Temporary Error (500)] | trezor: Not to sound negative or anything, but are we going to have a story anytime a popular service like gmail, MSN, twitter or whatever goes down?Also, aren't you guys supposed to work at this hour? ;) |
please review a new product InvisibleHand | slance: Very nice... I like how it's not too intrusive. |
What are your favorite non-mainstream or as yet unpopular sites that you visit? | adrianwaj: -- personally, I use a Twitter client that I built but won't promote so shamelessly here.-- I also use a slinkset site aggregating many feeds of new website releases. |
How Much Equity to Offer First Employee? | SriniCenthala: Hi ,First find out your company's worth not just by the investment,
1. go by your time & Effort & convert that into your investment amount,
2. if you market it successfully assume it is successful. Identify the worth in terms of moneyAs you have mentioned that 20% for employees , that's good at least y... |
What questions should I ask a startup before joining? | tokenadult: Extending this interesting question, what research process should a person engage in to independently check the answers that the start-up company gives to the questions? |
Recruiters who request SSN over the phone | aristus: Hey, recruiters lie.An SSN is required when you hire for a W2 position... that's that a W2 is: a report of income indexed by SSN. But unless they are saying "you're hired, start Monday, and bring proof of citizenship for the I9", this sounds very shady. I've never been asked for this pre-hire and I can't imagi... |
Recruiters who request SSN over the phone | icey: It sounds fishy. Is a background or credit check part of your pre-hire approval? If not, there is no reason for them to ask for this information without you being there to fill out a W2, as aristus mentioned.If they can't tell you specifically why they need this information in very concrete details, do not give i... |
Recruiters who request SSN over the phone | vonsydov: The ssn is I think eventually required for background checks, but for me, that happened after I accepted the job offer.Did you call the company's board line to reach the recruiter ?I normally don't give out my ssn in any situation. |
Should FaceBook Delete Groups That Deny The Holocaust? | keltecp11: Jewish or not... This is 2009... FaceBook, set a standard, don't feed the fire here and give ammo to this BS arsenal. |
Recruiters who request SSN over the phone | geuis: No, you never-ever-never-ever give your SSN to a recruiter(nor anyone else). There is absolutely no reason form them to need it. |
How many programming languages/development frameworks are you currently using? | jefurii: Work: Python, PHP, Javascript, CSS, HTML, SQL; Django, Drupal, jQuery, CleverCSSPlay: LISP, SuperCollider, Max/MSP, Processing |
Recruiters who request SSN over the phone | roc: If someone can't convincingly articulate why they need a piece of my personal information, I tell them to get bent.To me, the most suspicious part is that they couldn't give you a straight answer.I've had to deal with a handful of job searches in the last decade and I know why they -might- legitimately want it (ba... |
Recruiters who request SSN over the phone | TallGuyShort: Next thing you know they'll be asking for your email password so they can hire all your contacts, too. |
Recruiters who request SSN over the phone | vorador: What's particular about the ssn ? Why is it used so widely ? (I'm European) |
Recruiters who request SSN over the phone | keefe: As far as I understand it (my dad worked for the labor union for decades) it's absolutely illegal to use SSN for anything other than taxes - a law that is regularly broken in this country. If some recruiter asked me for my SSN over the phone I'd laugh at him and if he pushed the issue, I'd walk away or try to ge... |
Examples of Excellent Python Code? | yan: http://www.djangoproject.com/edit:
http://twistedmatrix.com |
What questions should I ask a startup before joining? | trickjarrett: Make sure you understand the business plan, as much as they're willing to explain to you. Don't get sold on the "in the future" make sure you're sold on the here and now because at a startup the future may not come. |
Examples of Excellent Python Code? | icey: All the code on http://norvig.com/ is a pleasure to read.This is one of my favorites: http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html |
What are your favorite non-mainstream or as yet unpopular sites that you visit? | 0x47: I recently discovered etherpad: http://etherpad.com/Which has been helpful in collaborative grocery list creation among other things. |
What questions should I ask a startup before joining? | hackworth: how do they plan on growing your team? do they have a management strategy? may seem mundane, but it will end up affecting your job directly, and if they don't know what they are going to do, you may end up having to deal with a lot of the fallout of disorganization. |
Examples of Excellent Python Code? | lastkarrde: Source code of Mercurial:http://selenic.com/repo/index.cgi/hg-stable/file/ |
open-source version of Drobo's BeyondRaid? | cujo: I'm in the market too. In my searching I've not found anything that looks as appealing in the easy-of-use department as the drobo solution. |
How to detect if app is pirated? | mcav: Don't worry about it.The iPhone app store has enough DRM to move piracy below your radar. Casual users won't pirate your app; the few who might go to that effort aren't worth your time. If your app was available via direct download, an anti-piracy scheme might be useful, but for app store applications you needn't... |
How to detect if app is pirated? | jlefo7p6: Hand the software out for free and charge for user accounts on the server.This turns the problem into one of "How do I prevent account piracy?", which is hopefully not dependent on characteristics of the iPhone.edit: I'm not sure what sort of kickback Apple would like in this case. Be sure to check that out f... |
How to detect if app is pirated? | nolanbrown23: We check for pirated apps in our iphone analytics library (we haven't released yet) and provide some tools to combat it. One of the ways we do it is using this code: NSDictionary *info = [bundle infoDictionary];
if ([info objectForKey: @"SignerIdentity"] != nil)
{
//app is pirated
} |
How to detect if app is pirated? | amitm: I would agree with the don't worry about it comment. I make a MMORPG for the iPhone called Epic Pet Wars. Our paid versions are getting pirated at a rate of about 2:1, but I strongly believe that these users would not pay for the app anyway.We are making enough money with the pirates and we have other ways to ... |
Legal Packages for Startups | trapper: Sounds like a great idea for a startup. I know I would have used it. |
What web server do you use? | ropiku: Nginx and Passenger (for running Ruby apps) |
What web server do you use? | jdp: I've used a bunch, but right now it's all about Nginx, and sometimes Lighttpd |
please review a new product InvisibleHand | fossb: ++ for your app |
Is is possible to sync two atomic clocks via the Internet? | kqr2: Check out NTP and the stratum clocking levels:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_ProtocolBasically, the atomic clocks themselves are considered Stratum 0 and the computers attached to them Stratum 1. |
What web server do you use? | spooneybarger: nginx. love it. no plans to switch. we have a crazy tricked out setup.apache for running mod perl but that is being replaced within a year. |
Review my idea and free web app (for site monitoring) | fossb: Idea is good, very original... I registered and am still waiting for the activation email (being more than 10min). |
What web server do you use? | thesethings: I'm especially interested in how/if you use one tool for load-balancing/proxy/reverse proxy, and another for more traditional page serving. |
How do you do your health insurance in your startup? | grinich: I'd be very interested in hearing about things like this as well. Anybody know of a handbook-style resource for hackers doing startups? pg's essays are pretty close, but I'm looking for something more concrete. |
How do you do your health insurance in your startup? | oldgregg: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=560169 |
What web server do you use? | raffi: I wrote my own. I built on top of NanoHTTPD and added the stuff to properly support caching and other features I needed. |
open-source version of Drobo's BeyondRaid? | jdm: OpenSolaris/ZFS? |
How do you do your health insurance in your startup? | tptacek: Rehash of my answer from that thread:* Get high-deductable, low-premium insurance --- make sure it's a plan that qualifies for an HSA. You want to be paying low hundred(s) every month, but also essentially paying out of pocket for your doctor's visits.* If you have a bunch of people on your team, get group cov... |
What web server do you use? | vyrotek: IIS - .Net all the way! |
How do you do your health insurance in your startup? | BigCanOfTuna: As a Canadian, health insurance isn't an issue. However, it doesn't cover prescription drugs or permanent/long term disability....the latter being the most important. Also, make sure the insurance covers your current occupation appropriately. "Works with computers" might mean your claim is denied because ... |
What web server do you use? | tdupree: For most of my career I have used Apache. Just recently I choose to run Nginx for a new project and I cant see myself going back to Apache. Just today I came across the Cherokee web server and that looked pretty slick. Does anyone have any experience with Cherokee? |
How do you do your health insurance in your startup? | dwynings: HN Archive of Health Insurance Topics http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive#t... |
Making money during college? | il: Check out affiliate marketing, if you're any good at coding, you can make a lot of money(4-5 figures a month) doing affiliate marketing PPC/SEO part time. |
What web server do you use? | sherl0ck: Nginx, with apache as backend with mod_wsgi.
still learning how to tweak nginx |
What web server do you use? | lacker: For personal projects I use Apache, not because of its performance characteristics, but because it's the most common and thus when I want to do something crazy I am most likely to find that someone else who uses it has already written up an explanation of how to do it. For development I also use the Django defa... |
What web server do you use? | oldgregg: nginx passenger |
Please review my iPhone app AppCreator Database Manager | chrisjl: Your app has the same features as HanDbase. It is a better price, but there is no website to check out nor documentation. It would be nice to see both before I spend five dollars. |
Review my idea and free web app (for site monitoring) | esonica: I like the idea too, but thought I would offer some comments about the design. Just thinking out loud, so don't take anything personally ;)I am not sold on the logo, firstly the icon that looks kinda like a lint ball (is it meant to be the 'cloud'?) and the wording for sucuri, my brain insists it starts with S... |
How do you do your health insurance in your startup? | biotech: It's probably a good idea to start with the individual/high deductible plans while the company is still young, especially if you're both healthy. As you expand and take on a few more employees, you'll probably want to start looking at group coverage. |
Competitor Snooping and Stealing Our Designs. What Should I Do | cottsak: Never experienced it myself (with my site/business) but i have observed it a little.My (humble) suggestion: Your product/service/business is likely to thrive (you've already said your T&C has 'evolved' since their copy) and given the ever-changing properties of this tech sphere - change rapidly! Design/aesthet... |
What web server do you use? | mooism2: At work: custom web server hiding behind a lighttpd reverse proxy. I'm not entirely happy with either part of this, although it's more the fault of the back end and all its legacy c++ issues. I'd consider switching to nginx on the front end if I could be sure it wasn't going to interfere with our e-mail setu... |
The Hacker News effect | luckystrike: In my opinion, the best thing about HN is the community.The insights in to the thought process of some of the smartest people around, and sharing of experience and knowledge, helps in overall intellectual growth. Hopefully, this would help in having a net positive impact in some ways in the respective sp... |
The Hacker News effect | hvs: I hope it doesn't. I never liked Slashdot's "personality" with the constant bickering, fanboys, and general surliness of most of the comments. HN is filled with intelligent, thoughtful people and the noise it kept to a minimum. This would be hard to maintain in a community the size of Slashdot. The future is u... |
The Hacker News effect | swombat: A full-on hn'ing is about 5k visitors. Not enough to trouble any decent server.However, most of that traffic is high quality, and provides insightful comments.If I have to choose between a Slashdotting (100k+ visitors of extremely variable quality) and an HN'ing, I'll generally choose the latter - although bei... |
The Hacker News effect | Alex3917: As a rule of thumb, every 10 votes a submission has is worth about 1,000 pageviews on the linked-to site. There are a bunch of mediating variables though. |
Competitor Snooping and Stealing Our Designs. What Should I Do | medianama: There isn't much you can do to stop others from copying your work. The only thing that you can do however is to execute better than them... Stay focused and execute better. |
The Hacker News effect | tomjen: Properly not - servers are so much faster now than they where back when /. ruled. It is unlikely that we will ever see the slashdot effect again unless somebody submit a geocites page. |
Good books on the nuts and bolts of starting up | ericb: Blog suggestions on these topics would be handy, too... Also sales, marketing, accounting for topics... |
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