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Good books on the nuts and bolts of starting up | hwijaya: I think things like options and any other legal is a very delicate stuffs and better be done with experts (lawyer, accountant etc).For resources, here are few that i have in the arsenal:Marketing:
http://startup-marketing.com/
http://andrewchenblog.com/Legal:
http://www.thestartuplawyer.com/General:
http://sta... |
Hacker News Digest? | bgnm2000: That would largely defeat the purpose of hacker news, if I'm not mistaken (only because I feel like it could easily become popular).If you never see new unranked stories, how can you vote them up? |
Good books on the nuts and bolts of starting up | kwamenum86: "Engineering Your Startup" is a GREAT guide to all of the nuts and bolts. From analyzing markets, to corporate structure and dynamics, to accounting- it covers pretty much everything. |
Good books on the nuts and bolts of starting up | emilam: "Term Sheets & Valuations - A Line by Line Look at the Intricacies of Venture Capital Term Sheets & Valuations"
and
"Deal Terms - The Finer Points of Venture Capital Deal Structures, Valuations, Term Sheets, Stock Options and Getting VC Deals Done (Inside the Minds)"Both are great books. I would read Term Sheet... |
Competitor Snooping and Stealing Our Designs. What Should I Do | Daniel_Newby: Ignore it. You might have a modest case for copyright violation for duplication of pages. However, prosecuting it would waste money and man-hours that are best spent elsewhere, and also possibly frighten them into aggressive improvement. "Winning" would likely be a net loss.Your best strategy is to let ... |
Good books on the nuts and bolts of starting up | ig1: Guy Kawaski's Art of the Start is more practical than FaW but I'm not sure it's practical enough for you. |
Hacker News Digest? | mcav: Check out http://news.ycombinator.com/best(via http://news.ycombinator.com/lists ) |
can I transfer a $6,000 Kindle book onto PC, DRM-free? | nick007: anything you buy on your kindle remains in your amazon.com account, and you can redownload it anytime (e.g. if you get a new kindle). http://qzip.in/n9i don't think you can put it on a PC unless you hack it. |
can I transfer a $6,000 Kindle book onto PC, DRM-free? | pclark: why do you think Amazon will ditch the kindle? |
What programming language should I teach my little brother? | Yjjj: System Shut Down Hac3d By : Sn1p3r Hac3d By : Sn1p3r Hac3d By : Sn1p3r Hac3d By : Sn1p3r Hac3d By : Sn1p3r Hac3d By : Sn1p3r Hac3d By : Sn1p3r Hac3d By : Sn1p3r Hac3d By : Sn1p3r Hac3d By : Sn1p3r Hac3d By : Sn1p3r Hac3d By : Sn1p3r Hac3d By : Sn1p3r Hac3d By : Sn1p3r Hac3d By : Sn1p3r Hac3d By : Sn1p3r Hac3d B... |
Good books on the nuts and bolts of starting up | ScottWhigham: I liked The Entrepreneur's Bible since it provided a great foundation of all the topics. From there, then you can pick and choose. I like Art of the Start, Founders at Work as well for various reasons. |
Good books on the nuts and bolts of starting up | jlees: As a followup anything UK specific would be interesting to hear about. I've seen the various 'small business guides' which are good for some topics but not so great on others. |
can I transfer a $6,000 Kindle book onto PC, DRM-free? | marcusbooster: Can't the new Kindles read pdf? I'm sure there are conversion tools out there. |
Good books on the nuts and bolts of starting up | kyro: To be quite honest with you, most of these books written by people like Guy Kawasaki, Jessica Livingston, Buffet, etc., are all great, but are pretty much compilations of stories or opinions. I know what you're after, because I was after the same thing not too long ago. I just went to Borders and picked up some t... |
Good books on the nuts and bolts of starting up | deyan: The Four Steps to Epiphany by Steven Blank - a great manual for creating a successful, data-driven, hypothesis-based, and iterative-heavy startup. |
can I transfer a $6,000 Kindle book onto PC, DRM-free? | jrockway: The files are in a standard format (mobipocket with the extension changed to azw). They do have Amazon DRM on them, but you can still back them up over the USB connection.You can of course also break the DRM; the program to do that is here: http://www.mininova.org/tor/1412688. |
Good books on the nuts and bolts of starting up | tokenadult: Not books, but useful online articles, are the articles listed in the Hacker News Library:http://ycombinator.com/lib.html |
Good books on the nuts and bolts of starting up | timothychung: Stanford's entrepreneurship corner: book list:
http://ecorner.stanford.edu/search.html?keywords=book&x=...MIT Entrepreneurship center: book list:
http://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/booklist.php"Must have resources for startups?" at StackOverflow.com
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/120272/must-have-resourc... |
can I transfer a $6,000 Kindle book onto PC, DRM-free? | spkthed: It's really simple. Amazon may make things convenient, but, they're also holding you to their beck and whim with these devices. Hold out until you can can own drm-free software and products so you can actually own things. If you don't, you're leasing something from Amazon and stealing it if you break the DR... |
can I transfer a $6,000 Kindle book onto PC, DRM-free? | erlanger: Hm, wonder why that book has no reviews... |
Good books on the nuts and bolts of starting up | imp: The Business of Software by Eric Sink is pretty good.
http://www.amazon.com/Eric-Business-Software-Experts-Voice/d... |
can I transfer a $6,000 Kindle book onto PC, DRM-free? | mcantelon: I'm pretty amazed that noone has released a cheap, open e-reader with an e-paper screen. Seems like such a beast would be an easy sell. |
Good books on the nuts and bolts of starting up | ochiba: Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur is probably the most useful book I've yet read when it comes to startups. Topics covered: Financing maps; Cash flow and risk of early stage ventures; how much capital raise and what to spend it on; getting behind how VCs think (really informative), business p... |
can I transfer a $6,000 Kindle book onto PC, DRM-free? | TweedHeads: HTML is the answer, it is future proof, it is 100% portable.Now we need a solution to move all ebook formats to html. |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | mcav: Our family had a DOS PC when I was very young, but the one I remember was an old Compaq running Windows 3.1 and TabWorks. |
can I transfer a $6,000 Kindle book onto PC, DRM-free? | gojomo: Your concern is legitimate, but I think you can count on one (and probably both) of two things happening to protect you:(1) Amazon or others will sell replacement devices or software that support the same DRM'd formats, so you will have continuity of access. (For example, since iPhones can also read Kindle book... |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | digispaghetti: I think I was about 7 or 8 and I got a 48k ZX Spectrum. Was my first experience of coding - oh how I miss the old tape loading noise. |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | makecheck: I think I was 10, an Apple II+. It wasn't the first thing I used to program (I'd dabbled in LOGO and BASIC before), but it was a surprisingly complete computer. I used it to learn about a lot of different things, such as input from peripherals like a joystick, as well as memory management -- from that damn... |
Selling software to local government? | vaksel: Start donating a ton of money to local politicians. |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | RiderOfGiraffes: I was 17 1/2. It was 1979, it was a TRS-80 with a whole 16KB of memory and a Z80 running at 1.77 MHz.After two months I got fed up with how slow it was and wrote a compiler. It was written in BASIC and compiled itself. In the 16KB I fitted the BASIC source, two copies of the compiled version, and the... |
can I transfer a $6,000 Kindle book onto PC, DRM-free? | miles: In my opinion, the Kindle is not as useful as an eBook reader (due to DRM, etc), as it is a text-based web browser with free Internet access:http://tinyapps.org/weblog/misc/200904300700_kindle_free_web... |
Good books on the nuts and bolts of starting up | JustAGeek: "Growing a Business" by Paul Hawken - hands down one of the best books on starting a business I have read.
Don't let yourself be scared away by the release date 1988, the advice in there is timeless.
Lots of the author's advice can still be found in other books on that topic.
http://www.amazon.com/Growing-Bu... |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | bgnm2000: I was 4, dos pc. Space invaders for life. |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | gills: We had an Atari 800 as early as I can remember. Eventually we got the fancy-pants external cassette tape drive.LOGO rocks :) |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | pierrefar: I was 7 or 8, it was a Sharp machine that had a tape (as in cassette) drive and no screen (they were expensive). Using the manual, we used to boot up the machine from the tape, type commands on the keyboard in something like BASIC, and get a roll printer to print out-into two colors, black and red!- a car.Th... |
can I transfer a $6,000 Kindle book onto PC, DRM-free? | chaostheory: you may be interested in this: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/ebook/ |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | Luc: A VIC-20 when I was 11. A box of wonders it was! |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | aschobel: TI99/4A , probably one of the only ones on Cayman Islands in those days. |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | Beanblabber: Once my mother was working on a big project for her work in word. So, she was pretty much done when she hit Ctrl-A + spacebar. She panicked. All that work wasted. My 4 year old self heard her yelling in the other room and I came in. She explained what happened and I just pressed Ctrl-Z. Everything was back... |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | sanjayparekh: I was 7 and got a TI-99/4A. I rocked it out by saving and restoring programs to cassette tape. You read that right, cassette tape. |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | fcoury: I was 6 and it was a Brazilian MSX: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotbit. Man, those were the days, using MS-BASIC and drowning on GOSUBs and SPRITEs ;)It was a time where the knowledge was a lot harder to be obtained, you had to buy books and magazines to know the new programming tips. Hard times :P |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | munrpa: 13 years old my ZX Spectrum, bloody marvellous it was too |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | ScottWhigham: Probably 8 or 9 - had a ZX80 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80) and bought a book on BASIC so I could learn to write games. I learned GOTO and thought it was just the absolute sickest thing EVAR! |
can I transfer a $6,000 Kindle book onto PC, DRM-free? | ramchip: Amusingly:
Selected Nuclear Materials and Engineering Systems (Part 4) (Kindle Edition)What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?20% buy The Holy Bible English Standard Version (ESV) 3.6 out of 5 stars (24) |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | omarchowdhury: 8 years old, Windows 98 on an IBM PC with a CRT.1998. |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | rms: Macintosh LC III. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_LC#.22Pizza_boxes.22 It was snappy enough with 36MB of RAM but the 80MB of HD was kind of killer. I was probably 7 years old when we got it and 10 when we maxed the RAM and bought a modem. I'm surprised that no one else had a Mac but my mother was a school t... |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | Tichy: 12, ZX Spectrum. |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | ivanstojic: About 5 or 6, ZX Spectrum 48K. |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | Raplh: I didn't have my first personal computer until I was 30. It was a Sun 3 "dickless" workstation on my desk, POS. I gave it to my grad student and got a Mac II the next year.I read a Fortran (66?) programming lesson book when I was 15, and wrote some programs on paper, but had no machine to try them on.I wrote B... |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | endtime: 13 - a Dell I believe. I want to say it had a Pentium 1, 133 Mhz. |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | Zak: My parents bought an Apple IIe when I was 8 or 9. When I was 11, I got a computer of my own - a Powerbook 140. A laptop with 4M RAM, 40M disk, a 16 MHz 68030 and a built-in trackball was quite impressive in 1992. |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | anigbrowl: 14. It was a Vic-20. Cassete tape storage, 3.5k of memory. It did have a wicked fast centipede game, though in Ireland I wasn't able to find any decent books on writing machine code instead of BASIC. And Gridrunner. Oh yeah. |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | swombat: I was 9, it was a Commodore 128D. Windows 95? You must still be a child! |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | meqif: I was 6 and got my uncle's old 486DX2 when he bought a new computer. |
can I transfer a $6,000 Kindle book onto PC, DRM-free? | tptacek: As my friend Adam points out, at $6,400, they should just throw the Kindle in for free. |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | Calamitous: 7. Commodore Vic20. |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | marcocampos: Around 1991/2 so I was around 8. 386SX 33MHz beige box running DOS. Learned programming by altering the source of Gorillaz and Nibbles. |
Selling software to local government? | radu_floricica: I'm in a far away country and culture, but still I can tell you, you just can't. I spent years fantasizing how various offices would work faster with some software. After a long time I realized it's not a software problem, it's all about management. If you have a proper manager, then for him to decide a... |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | utku_karatas: A broader answer here.. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/327973/how-old-are-you-an...I suppose the user profile on HN and SO is more or less comparable. |
Review my idea and free web app (for site monitoring) | stuntmouse: 1) 5th bullet point should read:
Notifications available via email and Twitter!2) Re: Sucuri Network-based Integrity Monitoring.
This header should not end with a period. Also, do you mean to say the following? Sucuri: Network-based Integrity Monitoring3) Your explanation below the site field needs polis... |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | SamAtt: I was 4 when my family got a computer. All I really remember was that the storage media was a cassette tape.My Dad worked for weeks to get the Cheers theme to play on it (using some DOS midi program I assume) and I remember wondering why his crappy sounding version took a whole tape to store on the computer wh... |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | Gibbon: I remember my neighbour had an Apple II+ that he let me use all the time, so I would have been 4 then.The guy that lived in the basement apartment had a zx-81 and later a Commodore 64 and I programmed a couple of skiing games on the zx-81 before getting my first computer, a Tandy TDP-100, which is the same as t... |
Competitor Snooping and Stealing Our Designs. What Should I Do | DJN: Thanks medianama, cottsak and Daniel_Newby.You echo my thoughts. Good customer service trumps everything else. They can't execute better than us if all they do is copy our ideas. It's like an iPhone clone being better than the iPhone. Without the original vision, it'll always be second best.We'll focus on providin... |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | zcrar70: About 7 or 8, it was an Apple II GS :-) |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | kenver: I think I was about 10 and it was an Atari STE, I really wanted a Falcon though! I used to buy ST format and mess about with the programming listings that they put in there. I even managed to hook it up to a BBS a few times when my parents were out!Eventually I managed to persuade my parents to get me a PC, ... |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | jancona: KIM-1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIM-1) in 1979. I was 23. |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | silencio: I was 7, it was one of the very first sony vaios...and only because i had installed linux on my parents' computer. :) |
What Laptop Should I Buy? | SwellJoe: I just did a bunch of shopping two weeks ago, and ended up with a Dell Latitude E6500. Maybe a bit bigger than you want (15.4" widescreen), but very light for its size (5.x lbs depending on configuration). I got it for under $1300, very well equipped: 2.4GHz Core Duo, 4GB, 250GB 7200 RPM, LED-backed upgrade... |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | nileshk: I was around 8 or 9 when my family got an IBM PCjr. We got it for only $400 because we had a friend who worked for IBM and got discounts and it was already an older machine at that point (around 86 or 87). We never upgraded past the 128K of RAM it came with which limited what apps and games I could run on it... |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | Gertm: 9, It was a Philips MSX. Programmed LOGO on it. :) so much fun making the turtle move around. |
What Laptop Should I Buy? | windsurfer: I don't know what you mean by "fast" or "powerful" but...I own and use an inspiron 640m. It's about 340 dollars with shipping on eBay right now. It's a core duo, runs 3D apps pretty well, runs pretty fast once you put 2 gigs of ram in it.Some of you might be thinking how slow it must be... but for text edit... |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | Pandafox: About 8 years old. 'twas a windows 95 desktop computer. I feel like I missed out on a lot of great old hardware though. |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | froo: My dad used to tell me stories about how I used to load up various programs on our vic-20 at the age of 2 (there was a spelling one with a black bird/raven, I don't remember the name of it)My first earliest memories of computer usage was loading up Ghosts n' Goblins on my Commodore 64 at around the age of 6/7, I ... |
project ideas for a noob | amichail: If you have no ideas, then maybe just try a small unoriginal project to improve your skills for now. For example, try building something for the Google App Engine in python. |
project ideas for a noob | mahmud: My first real programming project was a DOS TSR keylogger. When you start your programming journey in the computer underground: 1) you have no idea the magnitude of the problems being thrown around by your peers, everything is trivialized and you're expected to know a great deal of info about the inner workings... |
Is there any good open source IM project (based on C++/Windows) | schan: Here are a couple that I've found, don't know if anybody has experience using them.http://thecoccinella.org/
http://www.miranda-im.org/
http://www.pidgin.im/ |
project ideas for a noob | grinich: Find something that has a limited scope. ie: something that you /know/ you can do from start to end. A lot of things seem "too simple" but often, there are interesting ways to solve the problem which involve more complex thinking. |
project ideas for a noob | dbul: Be more observant in your daily routine. Analyze everything your friends and family say and don't overlook any problem they may have, because it could become your idea and something people want. Just ask questions and listen and something is bound to become salient. |
project ideas for a noob | pookleblinky: Try livecoding with Snd or CLM or Impromptu (or extending them). You'll get a sense for code structures and tweaking your dev environment, and produce really interesting things. |
project ideas for a noob | showerst: A few standard 'toy' learning projects come to mind:Try building a client/server chat program, using TCP/IP,
a mass-file Renamer, or mp3 tagger, including a GUI for your OS of choice.In python, try building something using either google app engine, or implementing a full blog using django (with packages for ... |
project ideas for a noob | andrewljohnson: You should make a blog. It was my first project, and to this day i write my own blog software.I just launched the latest incarnation as a Google App Engine blog using Django/Python: http://andrewljohnson.appspot.com |
project ideas for a noob | SwellJoe: I'd recommend spending some time with other peoples code. Open Source provides mountains of great (and bad) examples. The only way you'll really learn to grok the difference is to spend time enhancing other peoples code. You get exposure to a lot more code that way, since you can't possibly write hundreds ... |
project ideas for a noob | buugs: If you like math or math problems or complicated problems that require some thought you should check out http://projecteuler.net/ the first 30 problems don't really require a large amount of math knowledge and can be very interesting.Edit: I saw you were going for projects maybe something using pythons cgi libra... |
project ideas for a noob | chaosmachine: Write your own URL shortener ;) |
project ideas for a noob | shizcakes: Strongly recommending project euler.http://projecteuler.net/Start from problem 1 and work your way up - they get gradually harder to solve as complete more. They are simple yet require flexing your algorithm-development muscles, which also help you to think about coding in an "efficient enough" manner: some ... |
Profit Sharing vs Equity | jeremyw: I've been thinking about profit sharing, not in the context of investors per se (who probably _should_ get equity), but the teams around various projects in my nascent company. I want to put things together quickly and formalize rewards with a barrier to ownership, investment and selling the company. The str... |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | rsayers: I was 12, and it was an Apple II+. Now this was 91 or so, so it was really old even then. |
project ideas for a noob | sown: Are you familar with MUD/Mushes?Try writing one. You'll learn about concurrency, networking, parsing (some mushes have a built-in scripting language) and you will end up writing a lot of code. |
project ideas for a noob | silentbicycle: What are your interests?When I was learning to program as a kid (not counting Basic), I was really into text adventure games like this (http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/). I wrote an interpreter for text game worlds. It wasn't that great (I was 12 and it was in C++), but I learned quite a bit, and it g... |
project ideas for a noob | swolchok: Wasn't this done over and over on Proggit? |
What Laptop Should I Buy? | si2: Get the new macbook. 2.4ghz. Put Windows on it. Its a great machine. |
Looking for comments on my new site release | SwellJoe: Not the nicest design I've ever seen. But, I guess Plenty of Fish does very well on similarly ugly design. Maybe a case of worse is better. |
can I transfer a $6,000 Kindle book onto PC, DRM-free? | jemmons: I'll likely get downmodded for this, but someone has to speak truth to poster:There's no way to read Amazon-protected content without using an Amazon-approved device (Kindle, Kinde for iPhone) or cracking the DRM. Cracking the DRM is illegal. I don't care how justified you think you are in doing it, ethically ... |
project ideas for a noob | kunqiana: Thank you all for the great comments |
project ideas for a noob | knowtheory: Sadly i don't have time to write a fuller post on this, to my regret.But i definitely agree with Paul Graham on this subject: http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.htmlIf one pays attention carefully there are many opportunities for projects that present themselves weekly. Some of your ideas will be bad, some of... |
Looking for comments on my new site release | dmix: The design is a step below PlentyofFish (ASP as well - a pattern?), but just because its bad doesn't make it effective.I'd at least have featured members who happen to be good looking - yet still normal - on the front instead of just new members. |
Charging for an application | aristus: "The second problem is that it will likely reduce the penetration of the application. Remember, one of my goals is to help patients get better health care. I'd hate for a couple of dollars to stand in the way."The phone costs 300 dollars and the minimum plan is, what 80 bucks a month? And this is a health app ... |
Profit Sharing vs Equity | hexane: I'm having trouble picturing any savvy investor going for something like this. |
project ideas for a noob | johngunderman: My first 'major' project was writing a Lisp interpreter from scratch. Looking back on it, my implementation was horrible, the design atrocious, and the extensibility null. However, I remember how AWESOME it was at the time to be able to run my code on my own interpreter. What mattered most about that pro... |
Just lost my year long placement because they have no work. Begging for advice | Allocator2008: Given the options listed above, provided option 1 is financially viable for you, I might suggest going with that. I know that may be disappointing, just going on to the final year of university, but that might be the safe bet.Also, QA is a good "entry point" for aspiring developers. People transfer to an... |
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