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Just lost my year long placement because they have no work. Begging for advice | sachinag: It would be helpful if someone explained this placement thing to us Yankees. We have summer internships, but the notion of a placement strikes me as a fundamentally different beast. (Googling failed me.)The standard American response would be to work on open source projects and focus on getting good grades ... |
can I transfer a $6,000 Kindle book onto PC, DRM-free? | quoderat: No matter what, I don't do DRM. Won't do it. If that means in 20 years I'm alone in a cabin with a bunch of old books, so be it. |
project ideas for a noob | paraschopra: Actually, my first programming attempts started with extremely simple projects: BMI calculator, recipe generator, mathematics puzzles game, a simple assembly language implementation.If you want to start with web, start coding a blog or a url shortner. If you want to have something more complex, start with ... |
Just lost my year long placement because they have no work. Begging for advice | TomOfTTB: Honestly, and I don't mean to be rude here, but I think you're living in a dream world right now. The chances of getting funded at school age or finding the perfect job given the current economic climate are next to nil.If you can afford to finish school I'd do that. Otherwise I'd take what you can get job wi... |
project ideas for a noob | zubin71: after making a few API`s using java, after coding in c and cpp for about two years, i moved on to explore the capabilities of various other languages. i took me about 6 months; but it was well worth the time.
I suggest you try out networking projects; maybe a chat client coupled with a file transfer mechanis... |
project ideas for a noob | zubin71: the first two comments mentioned by mahmud are very interesting; real good advice for any programming beginner. |
Just lost my year long placement because they have no work. Begging for advice | iamcalledrob: I'm sure you can find a startup somewhere in London who will be more than happy to have an extra pair of hands around the place. Find startups and start calling.This is assuming you're not looking for a paid placement. Paid placements are going to be hard to come by, because companies want to minimise exp... |
Just lost my year long placement because they have no work. Begging for advice | amirnathoo: We're looking for a C++ developer to help us develop WebMynd for Internet Explorer. Especially interested if you've had any experience with browser helper objects. We can offer some salary, generous options and travel to San Francisco if things work out.If you're interested, get in touch using the email add... |
Just lost my year long placement because they have no work. Begging for advice | hexane: You have no money, no customers, no job, no experience and no degree.Finish school. |
Just lost my year long placement because they have no work. Begging for advice | lleger: Reading through the comments, it's clear that you've already gotten some good advice. Instead of answering your question, I thought that this quote might be helpful by providing insight into solving your problem."Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me mak... |
can I transfer a $6,000 Kindle book onto PC, DRM-free? | oomkiller: Foxit Software (my choice for PDF readers) is coming out with something called the eSlick which reads any kind of PDF you can throw at it. Check it out http://www.foxitsoftware.com/ebook/ |
Fictional books related to startups? | vlorch: microserfs |
Fictional books related to startups? | nanexcool: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.http://www.amazon.com/Cryptonomicon-Neal-Stephenson/dp/00605... |
Fictional books related to startups? | peter123: The First 20 Million Is Always the Hardest by Po Bronsonhttp://www.pobronson.com/index_first_20_million.htm |
Fictional books related to startups? | SwellJoe: Non-fiction, but the best tech startup story I know of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine |
Fictional books related to startups? | ciscoriordan: Options by Fake Steve Jobs (Dan Lyons): http://www.amazon.com/Options-Secret-Life-Steve-Parody/dp/03...Although all the parts in it that I liked were already on the blog: http://fakesteve.blogspot.com |
Fictional books related to startups? | greendestiny: If you want something a little different, "The Truth" and "Going Postal" by Terry Pratchett both capture a sense of startupness. |
Just lost my year long placement because they have no work. Begging for advice | bensummers: As you're here you're probably interested in startups. Have you started going to all the startup events in London and asking around? (most events are free - example: http://www.meetup.com/minibar/ )There are lots of startups around who need people to write code. Some might even be able to offer a position f... |
Fictional books related to startups? | trekker7: Posted at ~1 AM in the Valley... would love for this to be bumped up during the daytime here. Then again the kinds of people who would comment are probably wide awake right now.Nonfiction, but thought Fire in the Valley was worth mentioning. Pirates of the Silicon Valley is the movie based on it. Antitrust is... |
Fictional books related to startups? | Tichy: The Deadline by Tom DeMarcojPod (not sure, too long ago that I read it) |
Just lost my year long placement because they have no work. Begging for advice | sjf: I don't really see the value of a placement year. Whether you do a placement or not, in two years from now you'll still have the same result, a degree plus one years experience. Except if you worked after graduation you will be paid as a graduate, not an intern. Why delay graduation so you can get paid less to do ... |
Looking for comments on my new site release | sidmitra: Yup, i think you have design issues. All blue kind of hurts the eye. I think that should be your first priority for a site dealing with dating.I haven't checked it out by signing up. But usually sites like these turn out to be feature greedy and implement lots of things like twitter etc etc. I think it might ... |
Just lost my year long placement because they have no work. Begging for advice | v4us: I tihnk there are two options1) Go to grad school (or just become a Research assistant) and start to work with proff. If you love science and you may resist of depression, it will give you funding, intresting (but really hard) work, mentoring and etc.2) Continue work on your own enerpreneurial project. |
project ideas for a noob | zc: Stop procrastinating. Just make something. |
Just lost my year long placement because they have no work. Begging for advice | zc: Just make the decision yourself. You've probably already made it. If you really want us to make the decision for you, you should have made a poll. |
Just lost my year long placement because they have no work. Begging for advice | babo: Go straight into your final year at university. That's a right time for studies, get a degree or you will regret later. There is more then coding to be a good programmer. |
Fictional books related to startups? | thwarted: Hyperion Bay was an early WB program about a tech start up staring Mark-Paul Gosselaar. It wasn't very good though, only 17 episodes. I think I had watched only one episode all the way through. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166044/ |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | artificer: I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned the Amstrad CPC. I got one when I was 11. Here in Europe this machine had amazing market penetration those days (80's-early 90's), especially the 6128 model that featured a double-sided 360 Kb diskette (wow!)
Simply amazing. |
Just lost my year long placement because they have no work. Begging for advice | randomtask: First of all fair deuce. I wish I had the motivation you do when I was in your position.My suggestion is to take a year out anyway even if you don't find something and work a part time job while doing some open source development. This way you will get the experience of working on a large development projec... |
Fictional books related to startups? | wheels: There are thousands of them. They're usually called, "the business plan." |
project ideas for a noob | klahnako: IMHO, it is hard to find a domain that is challenging, useful, and small. But a couple of examples listed above are pretty good:
1) Write your own web server, blog software, etc: By leveraging existing libraries (or not!) you can get a lot of effect for very few lines
2) Script your daily chores: It does ... |
Fictional books related to startups? | CarolynM: Microserfs - they start as employees and create a startup. |
Just lost my year long placement because they have no work. Begging for advice | pclark: we work out of red gate softwares (cambridge, microsoft tools, red-gate.com) offices, if you're good (and I'll trust that you are) I'll happily attempt to forward your CV to someone relevant. email is in my profile. Can't hurt, right?oh and if you know ruby well, include that as we might be able to help you. |
Review my idea and free web app (for site monitoring) | fossguy: You say free, do you mean free software too? Any plans to release the code or just SAS? |
Looking for comments on my new site release | _pius: What differentiates this dating site from others? |
Good C++ Numerical Libraries | khandekars: http://www.research.att.com/~bs/C++.html#librariesAlso, __the__ templates books is very useful for several tricks for squeezing performance: http://www.josuttis.com/tmplbook/HTH |
Fictional books related to startups? | wallflower: Non-fiction but I love "Showstopper" about Dave Cutler and Windows NT 1.0.There's a great little story in there about a developer's months-long struggle to draw a Window onscreen for the first time from scratch. I loved the descriptions of how they coded up everything from bare metal. As you'll see, Dave Cu... |
Fictional books related to startups? | aytekin: The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt is pretty good. It is a business fiction book, so although it is not about startups, it applies well to start ups.
http://www.amazon.com/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/08...The book explains Theory of Constraints(TOC) in a novel. TOC is basically similar to profiling softwa... |
Good C++ Numerical Libraries | njoubert: I'm doing graphics research, and the numerical libraries is probably slightly different, but the ones I've found useful are:
http://math.nist.gov/tnt/
http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://www.cgal.org/Also, I can't recommend "Numerical Recipies in C++" enough. This is a great book if yo... |
Good C++ Numerical Libraries | TriinT: The best advice I can give you is: read Nuclear Phynance. It's a truly great forum for practitioners:http://www.nuclearphynance.comThere you can read a lot about implementing numerical software in the "real world". My perception is that C# is starting to take C++'s place. But, then, it's just a perception. More... |
Good C++ Numerical Libraries | scott_s: Boost.uBlas: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_39_0/libs/numeric/ublas/doc/...A good C++ library for high performance computing is going to be more than just C-style functions wrapped in a class. Read the paper on Expression Templates by Todd Veldhuizen: http://ubiety.uwaterloo.ca/~tveldhui/papers/Expression-Tem... |
Good C++ Numerical Libraries | wheels: It really depends on what sort of numerics you're talking about and how you're defining good (performance? api design?) |
Review my startup - findAlong.com | thorax: It took a little bit of looking through your tour before I really understood it's usefulness.To help get it across, it might be useful to have something that highlights the value a tad more concisely on the front page, maybe "it's the buddy system for researching online" or something like that.I have to run to ... |
Review my startup - findAlong.com | iamcalledrob: Your user experience really needs some fixing up. I won't talk too much about your UI, because you said you're working on that, and it has HUGE flaws right now (you sign up and the first page you reach is like a void).Your user should be guided through the experience of finding out about and beginning to ... |
Review my startup - findAlong.com | ianbishop: I haven't gotten a chance to play around yet, but so far it seems like a good idea. One thing that I would suggest is that the left hand side of the main page is a little 'overwhelming'. Compared to the other two ('Share', 'Collaborate'), it is very busy with many pictures kind of stacked on top of each othe... |
Review my startup - findAlong.com | JeremyChase: My first reaction to the site was "I have no clue what this is". Your tagline lets you know it has to do with search, but it isn't clear until you read everything on the page. I think the first page of the "Take a tour" explains it well in the first line.. If it were me I'd use something like this as your ... |
Just lost my year long placement because they have no work. Begging for advice | pclark: Sandwich years are really beneficial to students. You're far more likely to get a "real" job when you graduate.If you graduate.A really common problem (?) with sandwich years is that the student is so good, and enjoying actually working that he doesn't want to return to university to finish his degree. Doing a ... |
Good C++ Numerical Libraries | ComputerGuru: I gave up and used Matlab to generate C++ libraries. |
What Laptop Should I Buy? | lv_: thinkpad x60s is my weapon of choice |
Fictional books related to startups? | alain94040: Startup book turning into thriller with light dose of sci-fi and compelling characters: "Press Send" by John McLaren (http://www.amazon.com/Press-Send-John-McLaren/dp/0671015702)To me, "Press Send" run circles around "Microserfs".Good luck finding it in the US (It's a UK book for some reason). |
Fictional books related to startups? | daveambrose: Although not a book, I recommend watching "August" - a movie I discovered last summer on HN about the startup-scene in NYC during the boom. A fun watch for sure. |
Fictional books related to startups? | daveambrose: Although not a book, I recommend watching "August" - a movie I discovered last summer on HN about the startup-scene in NYC during the boom. An interesting story and journey for sure. |
Fictional books related to startups? | rg: "hackoff.com: an historic murder mystery set in the Internet bubble and rubble", by Tom Evslin (pub. 2007).Tom is a software hacker himself and a very well known serial startup entrepreneur, with successes in comm and graphics apps (both Mac and PC) and then a huge IPO for his company ITXC during the internet bubbl... |
Fictional books related to startups? | mh77: Thanks for all suggestions! Looking forward to some good reading this summer.I have read Microserfs and JPod. Really enjoyed both of them. Also, the TV version of JPod is not that bad. |
project ideas for a noob | mnemonicsloth: 99 Lisp Problems:http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~meidanis/courses/mc336/2006s2/func... |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | Kollner: 11. Commodore +4. |
Good C++ Numerical Libraries | miloshh: The Intel Math Kernel Library is decent, and very fast. It has disadvantages - not optimized for AMD processors, not free (but the student version is cheap, and the free trial does not really expire). |
Review my startup - findAlong.com | natch: I think this would be useful but I can count on one hand I've had to do something remotely approaching this. You might say: well, now that it's easier with this tool, maybe you'll do it more often. Well, maybe. It's true that there is a lot of pain associated with emailing documents and search results around. Bu... |
Review my startup - findAlong.com | raptrex: I would not have known this was a Firefox plugin until I took the tour, you should include this on the front page. Also change "New User" to "Register", and make it look more like a link, right now it just looks like text |
Good books on the nuts and bolts of starting up | lpolovets: Reality Check by Guy Kawasaki is excellent, and covers everything from PR to marketing to legal. Some parts are advice on how to approach various aspects of starting up while other parts are more "nuts and bolts." (on average, the book stays somewhere between those two slants)http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Ch... |
Fictional books related to startups? | zandorg: Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure: Jerry Kaplan (Jerry is such a nice guy that he answered my email).Another one, though this guy did NOT reply to my email, is about a publishing (not coding) startup, Burn Rate. |
Recommend any good business/hacker fiction? | rajah1337: Check out this film:WEST RUN (2007)Directed, Photographed, & Edited by Rajah Samaroo
Written by Rajah Samaroo and Andrew Harrar
Runtime: 43 mins
Genre: cyberpunk thrillerRetired hacker Roland West gets lured back into the game when the headhunter Sebastian find him living off the grid. The stakes has never b... |
Fictional books related to startups? | paulgb: Not fiction, but I'm enjoying "What the Dormouse Said: How 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer" |
Fictional books related to startups? | jpd: Discworld's Going Postal and Making Money by Terry Pratchett are worth checking out. They are sort-of about startups; the main character has to re-organize the Post Office and the Banking system. |
Legitimate speed reading method? | DavidSJ: Thank you for the information, everyone. I appreciate it. |
Good C++ Numerical Libraries | zandorg: Miracl is one. |
How do you do your health insurance in your startup? | aquaphile: Unless you have >10 employees that _will_ _participate_ in any group coverage plan, you only have one option: pay the employees a little extra to cover the premiums on their own personal health insurance plans. The other benefit of each employee buying their own plan is that the health insurance is no longe... |
Fictional books related to startups? | oscardelben: Dreaming in code is a book about the startup life of the Chandler project. |
What startup news stories should I talk about on Calacanis's show? | victorseo: Andrew, how about, Should all the cool kids, who have 100,000+ followers/readers (guy kawasaki, louis grey) randomly choose some relatively unknown start up and give them an exposure boost just for the hell of it? What do they have to lose if they promote an up and coming app or site with no expectation of b... |
A Local Media Company Wants to Use My Content, What Should I Charge Them? | redorb: It depends on how much you care about this project, is it your baby? or just something that happened? - if its your baby, you say - "You can link to my site from yours..I'll even design you a nice big banner ;)" and thats the best you can do.... - cause that gives little chance of losing it all - if it's just f... |
A Local Media Company Wants to Use My Content, What Should I Charge Them? | lsb: Most people do it by affiliations with ticket vendors, and you get a cut of their cut.It's tricky if you're doing it locally from small venues that only have at-the-door sales. But if you can branch out into recorded music and merchandise, those sell well too. |
A Local Media Company Wants to Use My Content, What Should I Charge Them? | olefoo: Is your site currently making money? Is theirs? Are the venues going to give you grief for scraping their sites?You are in a very good negotiating position since you don't need to sell to them, and they are approaching you.The numbers you need to know to negotiate effectively are how much it costs you to provid... |
What startup news stories should I talk about on Calacanis's show? | rythie: A lot of people who didn't and have never got mashable/techcrunch/rww mentions didn't get the coverage they deserved.For example I have been trying to tell people that we now support facebook stream API in FriendBinder and since this is only about a week since facebook released it, it should be semi-interesting... |
A Local Media Company Wants to Use My Content, What Should I Charge Them? | dbul: How much would it cost them to pay someone to research this information? Probably it would take up a few hours a week. So maybe something like 3hrs / week * $20 / hr * 4 weeks = ~$240/month.And don't hesitate to give them a widget linking to your site for "more information." |
Good C++ Numerical Libraries | vicaya: The best modern C++ numerical library I came across is Eigen: http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page |
Fictional books related to startups? | philelly: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/bubblecity1 |
Do anti-aliased fonts promote better eye health? | ScottWhigham: I don't know - I've not heard that before. I always turn off white backgrounds in my IDEs but I've not heard of using anti-aliased fonts. |
What startup news stories should I talk about on Calacanis's show? | irina_miami: Guys, guys.. You need a workshop on basic PR strategies... As a former VP of a tech PR firm, I would be glad to explain the basics:1) To get any serious media coverage you need to be newsworthy,2) What is newsworthy? Any person, company or event that fits into a large economical, social or political pictur... |
A Local Media Company Wants to Use My Content, What Should I Charge Them? | anigbrowl: Find out how much space they propose to fill with your content - half a page, say. Find something similar in around the same place in the paper (the advice column or whatever), check on the advertising section of the website(or have a friend call them) to see how much they are charging for the adverts surrou... |
Do anti-aliased fonts promote better eye health? | mattlyon: try Incosolata at 18pt, it's gorgeous, and you can read it from a full arms-length away (how far from the screen you're supposed to be) |
Do anti-aliased fonts promote better eye health? | johngunderman: I'm a big fan of Terminus; it proves easy to read and alleviated a lot of eye strain I had been getting. |
Simple service to save my stuff? | siong1987: Are you using Mac? Open a folder. Highlight the link or the text that you want to save. Drag them to the folder. If you want to search for it, use the search functionality in finder.Since you are not going to share those items with people, so, it is a bit overkilled to upload those things to the web unless y... |
Simple service to save my stuff? | jmonegro: Try snipt.net |
Simple service to save my stuff? | jmonegro: Or one of the YC Startups Snipd.com ^^ |
A Local Media Company Wants to Use My Content, What Should I Charge Them? | cn2: Your situation is interesting and complicated.Companies that publish traditional paper media such as newspapers and magazines are, in many cases, in the business of trying to get content in very cheap ways, and have tried over many years to to hone their cheapassness techniques. They might be willing to use a lot... |
Simple service to save my stuff? | dawie: GitHub |
legally start a Bay Area startup without being American? | dxjones: Why not be a Toronto-based startup, also doing busines in SF? |
legally start a Bay Area startup without being American? | brandon272: I think that unless you are investing a large sum to start this business and can indicate that it will benefit the local area (e.g. that it will employ a lot of people), your best bet would be to get a job and have your employer sponsor your immigration.On that note, it may just be (substantially) easier to... |
Free Monitoring tools other than Pingdom? | nickb: Give this a try: http://mon.itor.us/ |
legally start a Bay Area startup without being American? | petercooper: Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.As a Canadian you have some visa categories open to you that others do not. I don't know anything about those so cannot comment on them further.However, the US has the E-2 Treaty Investor visa for situations like this - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-2_visa and http://tra... |
legally start a Bay Area startup without being American? | aditya: Don't take this as legal immigration advice, but:1. Create product on the side while working for someone OR move back to Canada and work on it full-time2. Start an LLC (non-US citizens can do this, and C-corps)3. Raise money or become profitable (actual amount varies, some say $200k or more)4. Find a business c... |
Free Monitoring tools other than Pingdom? | nreece: Have a look at:HostTracker: http://host-tracker.comHyperspin: http://www.hyperspin.com |
legally start a Bay Area startup without being American? | turbod: Hi, I've been in the same shoes as you.As far as your options: having an American co-founder or business agent is a good start.However, regardless of what option you choose to pursue to enter the US as a Canadian, I would recommend if you are bootstrapping your own venture, that it would be best to get to profi... |
Free Monitoring tools other than Pingdom? | soundsop: http://www.montastic.com/Been using it for a few years for monitoring my personal website. |
Free Monitoring tools other than Pingdom? | ajju: Alertfox is great. I think their basic service is free. I got a free pro account via TechCrunch when they launched. |
Free Monitoring tools other than Pingdom? | luckyland: slap this on a host external to your monitored infrastructure: http://github.com/dustin/whatsup/tree/master |
Simple service to save my stuff? | ericwaller: I'm actually working on something a bit like this. It's a super early prototype, but it'd be cool to hear what you think.http://eric.drumsti.cc/It's designed to be public or private, with one or many users. No search yet, but it's definitely a major feature.EDIT: To answer your question more directly, googl... |
What startup news stories should I talk about on Calacanis's show? | rmason: Andrew,How about letting the people on here vote for what startup you should talk about each week?Collectively as a group this bunch is going to be way ahead of the mainstream press as to what's hot.Saw both shows this weekend and they were strangely compelling. |
Free Monitoring tools other than Pingdom? | tripngroove: If you happen to be using EC2 or Slicehost, cloudkick(.com) has easy, free monitoring. |
Free Monitoring tools other than Pingdom? | gaoshan: Siteuptime offers free monitoring for 1 site:
http://siteuptime.com/I've used it for 2 years and it has never failed me. Great for one, single site. |
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