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Marriage | krschultz: My plan was to start a startup at 22 or 23 and cash out at 30 and then find that perfect woman and marry her then and not have to work much because I made my money and blah blah blah.Guess what, I found the perfect girl a year before I started the startup life and she totally supports it. I'm not sure if I c... |
Marriage | chollida1: I think the biggest problem is that both a marriage and a successful company require a lot of work. And when push comes to shove you sometimes have to let one suffer inorder to help the other.The guys you mention above all fit into the work is their life mold where they throw themselves into what ever they ... |
Review our startup's relaunch, Browseology.com | davidbnewquist: I signed up to become an expert using my twitter account: nice seemless integration.Next I added some profile info and hit the save button. The save registered, but I was left on the edit profile page. It felt like I was left hanging: what do I do now? You should funnel the user back (or at least... |
Marriage | blender: Wives are like startups. You fail at the first one.I speak from personal experience on both counts.;-) |
Marriage | xenophanes: Don't marry.http://curi.us/blog/post/1168-monogamy |
Video conferencing solutions for startups? | noodle: ichat :) |
Marriage | gits_tokyo: First question you should be asking yourself...Why do I want to be married? |
Marriage | yummyfajitas: Don't marry if you are a guy. At present, marriage is a contract with no upside for you. You gain nothing from marriage that you can't get from a committed non-marital relationship, and stand to lose a lot. |
Marriage | furburger: if you play your cards right, you could end up being married for fifty yearson the other hand, you will likely be "done" with playing mr. web startup guy within ten. you're not going to be forty three going to geeknrolla and y-combinator meets.so what i find puzzling is why you would give up a fifty year gig... |
Video conferencing solutions for startups? | kuvkir: you might want to take a look at oovoo.com, don't know if it's capable of video recording though... |
Marriage | seanc: Lots of good comments here, many of them all true at the same time.A marriage is a such a big commitment (10 times bigger if there are kids), that if there is something in your life more important than your marriage, it (probably) won't last.Some people seem to make this kind of thing work, but I think it's quit... |
Marriage | frossie: Well thanks for the laugh, I needed that today.Folks, finding the person you want to spend the rest of your life with - you know, the person that is going to stick around to wipe your... okay I'll say drool... when you are 80 and have Alzheimers - that is a much more unpredictable proposition than what you cho... |
If Google is a monopoly, should we be doing anything about it? | dantheman: No - Antitrust law is fundamentally immoral. There is no way for you to know whether or not you're in violation of it. It is merely a way for those who are not successful to drag others down. |
How do you learn a web framework? | davidw: > what are the best frameworks to get a prototype as fast as possible.Rails is good for that. Worry about 'bloat' later.> Second, how does one learn enough to hack something quickly together in the framework you suggest?Start hacking on it, keeping in mind that you may throw it away and redo it. |
Marriage | JoelPM: I used to believe that you could pick any two of the following three items:1) A job you like and are good at
2) A body you like and take care of
3) A marriage & family you invest in and enjoyI've found that you can have all three, but it requires a lot of flexibility, discipline, and willingness to say no to ev... |
How do you learn a web framework? | mshafrir: I highly recommend going with Google App Engine + Django for getting something up and running and learning a web framework at the same time. You get a lot of features for free right out of the box, namely data store. |
Marriage | Kaizyn: When you look at the entire human population, you will see very different statistics for marriage and divorce. Now many people who marry young will get divorced (at least in the United States), but then so will many who wait until later in life to marry. Your sample there is too small to draw any meaningful c... |
Marriage | granular: If you're in the USA, and you're male, don't do it. In the US, she can leave you at any time and by default get the kids, house, child support, and alimony. For a variety of reasons, the deck is obscenely stacked against you.Regarding the kids, you have no idea how much you'll love your kids when you have the... |
Marriage | rsheridan6: If you get married, there's a good chance that your wife will want you to quit and get a stable job with reasonable hours. Even if she doesn't now, that's likely to change if you have children. It's also likely that her patience will wear thin eventually, especially if your first startup fails and you wan... |
Marriage | pj: Marriage increases your responsibilities and, consequently, reduces your risk tolerance. Maybe it wasn't a choice, just so happened that it was because of the higher risk tolerance that those unmarried individuals could be so risky. |
Marriage | prawn: Whatever you do, when it comes to marriage, don't rush into it. Don't do it because it seems like the next logical step, don't do it because it brings a partner health benefits, don't do it because either family is pushing you.You can take your time, give the r'ship loads of time to be tested (by travel, financi... |
Marriage | bokonist: I cannot find the statistic, but I am sure I read once that statistically marriages started between 23-27 have the lowest rates of divorce (if you only count first marriages, then I think the lowest rates come at a bit older age). Anyway, it's marrying before 23 that has the much, much higher rates of divorce... |
What Netbook Should I Buy? | noodle: i love my eepc 1000he |
Web testing is killing us - best practice? | mtrichardson: Definitely an automated test bed, ideally runnable by just one command and by every developer, and then again by Buildbot when you check in code (we pushed a lot of our Selenium tests onto just Buildbot since we didn't have a lot of js and they took much longer than anything else to run).If you don't need... |
Idea for a mashup - now, to make it happen... | kiwidrew: Unfortunately, you're probably going to need to take elevation and topography into account to get anything useful. As far as I know, none of the web mapping APIs really expose that data right now. (Google Earth may, I don't have much experience with it.)Here in Wellington (NZ), the local terrain is quite hi... |
Web testing is killing us - best practice? | nostrademons: Pull as much code as you can into self-contained, testable libraries that don't interact with the outside world except through defined APIs, then test the hell out of them with xUnit.For everything else, there's Selenium. |
Fake it till you make it - Do you use it? What did you do? | CyberFonic: My painful experience is the flashy office, biz cards, etc actually don't work. The only faking that's worked for me is to say I can do it, when I haven't yet. BUT knowing that I can quickly learn and have talked up the complexity so that I have enough time to raise the bunny to be a rabbit before pulling... |
What Netbook Should I Buy? | GvS: MSI Wind is pretty good. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSI_Wind_Netbook) |
Web testing is killing us - best practice? | lucumo: Do you really need to be that thorough in your testing? What are the costs when a bug gets into production and needs fixing? What are the costs of testing and fixing it before it goes into production? Balance it.We're only doing developer ad hoc testing. We just click through a few things when we develop a feat... |
Marriage | ahoyhere: OK, putting aside that this is clearly not the best place to ask for marriage advice...Have you compared the "statistics" you gathered about (male) (hugely rich) founders marriage success ages to the general pool of marriages?I'm pretty sure I read that more marriages <25 end up in divorce than >25. |
Do "Lite" versions "work"? | peterhi: I have download lite versions of iPhone apps and then later upgraded to the full version. In fact I have never just bought an app just to see if it is any good.YMMV |
Do "Lite" versions "work"? | pclark: Yes.http://www.iphonesavior.com/2009/01/iphone-developer-quits-d...namely:
"iShoot Lite" went live on January 3, 2009. Less than ten days later on January 11, the original iShoot rocketed out of obscurity as the number one Top Paid App in the iTunes App Store with 16,972 downloads in one day. It virtually blas... |
How do you define "real-time" | ScottWhigham: Are you suggesting that someone in a marketing department somewhere is twisting reality so that they can sell more products? No way!Okay - seriously: why ask? I don't get the point of the question so I'm not really interesting in answering. We all know what "real time" means in reality so asking us what i... |
Best way to rearrange elements in an existing RSS feed? | ScottWhigham: How vague........ I don't think you've gotten any responses b/c people don't know what you're asking. That question could mean several different things. It might be best to re-formulate and re-post. |
Do "Lite" versions "work"? | mtinkerhess: I released a Lite version of my first app. The download rate of Lite to Paid was about 50 to 1 -- no more sales than I had been doing before.The goal with a Lite version is to provide enough functionality so that the user sees how great your app is and at the same time enough restrictions so the user feels... |
Idea for a mashup - now, to make it happen... | jonp: Wolfram Alpha lets you get the position. eg http://wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sun+at+9am+in+London |
Personality Assessments in the Workplace? | tokenadult: Both of us having been raised in the households of psychologists are inclined to believe that personality inventories such as this are pseudoscientific. We're well acquainted with the Forer (or Barnum) Effect [2] and are not very willing to trust anything based entirely on self-evaluation of 45 or so questi... |
Do "Lite" versions "work"? | AdamGibbins: I believe they do yes, I've brought the full version on multiple apps after being satisfied but restricted with the Lite version. |
best programming language for a programming book? | TallGuyShort: >> I am almost tempted to pick JavaScriptI can't phrase that any better - I have this feeling that using JavaScript for such a project would be evil, but when I stop and think about it - I think JavaScript might have become the "duct tape" of the internet (yes - I know perl already claims to be soo).I int... |
best programming language for a programming book? | spooneybarger: Do you wanted the largest target audience?Pick a 'scripting language'? Then eliminate based on issues...I would come down to python or ruby being the easiest for most people to look at and quickly gronk. python being the easiest i would suspect. and i say this as someone who does 0 programming in python ... |
best programming language for a programming book? | davidw: Javascript might be a little bit confusing for the casual book-picker-upper: "wait, is this bit on the server or in the client?" |
Do "Lite" versions "work"? | jcl: Most anecdotes I have read online indicate that they work, sometimes as a short-term boost to sales, sometimes longer-term:http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/02/shoot-is-iphone/http://candycaneapps.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/the-insouts-of...http://www.streamingcolour.com/blog/2009/04/27/the-numbers-p...http://148a... |
Personality Assessments in the Workplace? | HeyLaughingBoy: Unless they're planning on training on how to use these assessments, I see loads of fun ahead for all involved!!! NOTI have taken personality assessments at work both as part of a management course and for another course in persuasion & influence. In both cases only I saw the results The point of the as... |
Bank suggestions. | noodle: i use HSBC direct and have been happy with it. i've heard ING direct is probably a little better, but its rates are typically a little lower. |
Bank suggestions. | joepestro: ING direct for savings.I'm in California too, and use Mechanics Bank (http://www.mechbank.com) for checking. They have great service, and they pay your ATM fees no matter which bank's ATM you use. |
Bank suggestions. | russell: I use Bank of America and have used Wells Fargo, mainly because they are all over the place. They have an international presence, whereas your small local bank probably doesnt.Also, if you qualify, consider a credit union. They usually have all the usual services, plus pay higher interest on deposits and cha... |
Please give feedback on simple weather site: weatherfinder.info | duarte: I love it!There were actually 3 comments for london, and I like that feature. Maybe it could be improved by asking something more specific ("is it really not raining right now? wow!").I needs something really good to beat the simplicity of just checking that beautiful dashboard widget..I also think the layout n... |
How to make smalltalk? | noodle: i think that this is a good rule of thumb, although its not exactly the universal solution:ask open-ended questions, and latch onto any information that comes back to you in order to ask more open-ended questions.its not exactly small-talk, but people tend to like to talk about themselves and will generally res... |
How to make smalltalk? | pookleblinky: I'm a hermit, similarly incapable of smalltalk.I long ago discovered that no one really likes small talk. It's the prelude to a real conversation; that's the only reason people engage in it (or to signal to each other's monkey brains that one is not a threat).The solution? Ramp it up into a real conversat... |
How to make smalltalk? | pg: I was about to capitalize the S because I thought this was going to be about how to write a Smalltalk implementation.As for your actual question, sometimes the conversation dies because the other person wants it to, and you'd seem pushy if you tried to force it to continue. But in borderline cases I recommend aski... |
How to make smalltalk? | stonemetal: There are basically three sources of small talk.
1. Things said previously in the conversation as in after asking what their major is a follow up where you actually know something about the topic. It helps to be well rounded.
2. Your personal interests(note: for a geek this usually turns out badly if t... |
How to make smalltalk? | pasbesoin: This may not be what you're looking for, and I don't generally favor medication. However, for a personal, anecdotal perspective. A number of years ago, when stress was particularly high, I started taking St. John's Wort. In addition to taking the edge off of my anxiety, I found myself communicating somewh... |
best programming language for a programming book? | roshambo: JavaScript, for several reasons:1) Dynamic typing. The user doesn't have to worry about data types and memory usage and what-not.2) Common syntax. It uses somewhat of a C-style syntax (with its conditionals, curly braces, and so forth) and therefore shares characteristics with many, many other languages (PHP,... |
Bank suggestions. | fundamentals: Citibank and HSBC have the largest international footprint. They're not going to like the fact that you really don't have any money though. |
How to make smalltalk? | jcapote: 'Hello World!' displayNl |
How to make smalltalk? | rcoder: Starting a conversation is much easier when you have a reason to think you have something to talk about with the other person. I too find it difficult (and generally, also fairly pointless) to engage random strangers on the street in conversation, but have found on the other hand that tech meetups, volunteer op... |
How to make smalltalk? | grandalf: What makes you think you're socially compatible with most people?I think the key is realizing that you will probably only click with a small number of people. In my case, I click amazingly well with highly educated, ambitious, often nerdy people, and horribly with people who are really into sports or drinkin... |
How to make smalltalk? | icey: Aren't you the guy who posted the Ask HN about getting married before doing a startup yesterday? I think maybe you have your order crossed up. |
best programming language for a programming book? | mbrubeck: Since you know Ruby, you might consider writing examples in Sinatra. Compared to e.g. Rails or Merb, it's less of a framework and more of a simple DSL for building web sites/services. It really gets out of the way and keeps the focus on the content and logic. But the newbie web developer who learns Sinatra... |
How to make smalltalk? | ErrantX: One thing I <s>dont</s> recommend you try is turning to a girl in a bar and going "jesus these prices are insane!" without realising she's a hardline christian who hates people using jesus as a "curse" word.Still "with" her 3 years later. And we still row when I forget and say jesus :PControversy tends to work... |
How to make smalltalk? | kyro: It's all about cockiness and really not giving a damn about possible outcomes. You also need to realize that many of the 'cool' people you talk to are caught up in a world of idiocy. Once you can pick up on the stupidity, you'll feel a lot more confidet and comfortable in approaching someone. I find that subtle s... |
How to make smalltalk? | eventhough: It seems to me like you are using a "situational opener" which basically means you open the conversation with something nearby or something you notice. (weather, clothing, event, etc.)Generally speaking these openers are not very good because after you talk about the situation the conversation is dead. Afte... |
How to make smalltalk? | raffi: Here, maybe this will help, and judging by the vocabulary aherm some folks are using to describe social situations here... they probably learned all this the same way I did:1. If you're going to make conversation with someone, commit to doing it. i.e. don't mumble or make a half peep attempt at saying hi. Look... |
How to make smalltalk? | ninjaa: pack up some small anecdotes that are a lot of fun and that also expose your interests. Make sure they're not super-geeky - most laypeeps will enjoy a story from fmylife.com or rickrolls or /b/ gaming Time Magazine or whatever but not about star wars or iphone apps or functional programming, Sounds obvious but ... |
How to make smalltalk? | bobocopy: Ask her questions about herself. Demonstrate to her that you are interested in what she has to say. The end. |
How to make smalltalk? | alain94040: Actually, I had just came up with an idea for an iPhone application (check out http://fairsoftware.net/public/project/634)I'd be interested in finding a developer and an English major to turn this into something real. I think this app has potential. |
How to make smalltalk? | psyklic: In my opinion, the goal of "smalltalk" is to find what you both have in common with each other. ("Are you a student? --Me too! Major? --Really ... I was going to go into that, but <insert joke here>") Assuming you do in fact have things in common, the rest should follow. |
What is wrong with this git workflow? | luigi: Why wait 2-3 months to merge everything back into master? Why not do it every day? Or better yet, do it whenever a good bit of functionality (a story) is completed, which can be several times a day?It's better to see where the dependencies are up front instead of waiting until the very end of the iteration.Here'... |
What is wrong with this git workflow? | mbrubeck: In a nutshell, merge more and rebase less.If you can avoid it, don't maintain long-lived actively-developed branches - especially several at once. You are certain to produce conflicts this way, and they will require some amount of manual resolution no matter what SCM you are using.So my main suggestion is fo... |
What is wrong with this git workflow? | dawie: Continuous integration should help to get rid of your merging headaches. I would merge way more often. The moment a developer has implemented and tested a bit of code -> Merge and resolve conflicts. 2-3 months are very long iterations. I think you should break your problems down into smaller parts. |
How to make smalltalk? | gabrielroth: (1) Good small talk is usually personal, in the sense that it's about the people talking. "I'm a morning person" is not inherently more interesting than "What a nice day!", but it creates a stronger bond between the people talking.(2) Think of the conversation as an exchange of information: you're telling ... |
How to make smalltalk? | dhouston: as a starting point, "how to win friends and influence people" by dale carnegie (less weird than it sounds) |
A new way of pricing financial software | noodle: you could price based on usage somehow, assuming the usage of financial software will increase when the size of the company increases. more details on a concept would probably help to produce a more detailed answer. |
A new way of pricing financial software | run4yourlives: http://www.clarityaccounting.comhttp://www.blinksale.comhttp://www.freshbooks.comNow, more importantly:The startup could sell the software to the company on the basis that they don't have to pay for it until the company can afford it. Dude WTF? Not trying to be harsh, but this is known as guaranteeing th... |
How to make smalltalk? | wallflower: I've learned a lot from www charismaarts comI highly recommend it. It may change your social life forever.It's more about conversation than pickup. Peruse the forums. It's not about technique, it's more about intent. It's not about seeking approval, it's about giving approval.I'm not going to rehash what th... |
A new way of pricing financial software | rrival: Doesn't freemium solve this problem? |
How to make smalltalk? | alexgartrell: All you need to do is look for the other persons interest to perk up at specific topics and ask questions in that direction. Keep them talking about things that interest them, tell them how cool what they like is, etc. Make sure to have your own insights and be able to BS about any topic, but the most i... |
How to make smalltalk? | larrywright: The thing you have to remember is that most people love to talk about themselves. This isn't a bad thing, it's just human nature. You can leverage this, however, for small talk. Ask the other person about themselves, and they will often talk for hours. You can keep it going by just asking follow up questio... |
How to make smalltalk? | chris_l: The awkwardness of your 10s silence is entirely in your head. They might have the same problem, but you wouldn't notice if they didn't. Familiarity is about being able to be in someones presence without it becoming awkward.A lot of attractive girls are boring because the guys always make the conversation, if y... |
How to make smalltalk? | HeyLaughingBoy: Just talk. Talk about anything and don't let your feelings get involved. Some of the best advice I ever heard was that shyness was just self-centeredness getting in the way. Focus on the other person and how they are responding to you. If you get "real" responses, keep talking. If you get "yeah," "nope,... |
How to make smalltalk? | edw519: Some things are made to hack and some things just aren't. You are wanting to hack something that just wasn't ever meant to be hacked.The solution to your problem is so simple it's actually rather elegant: Just care about the other person. If you genuinely care, you'll have no problem finding things to talk ab... |
How to make smalltalk? | Tritis: If you can't make smalltalk with a girl then you can't make smalltalk with a guy either. Why does that matter, right? Well it isn't just girls you have a problem talking to. Chances are you're boring in general. And you obviously want to find a girl and a good way to find a girl is through her friends (bot... |
How to make smalltalk? | whichdokta: wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-3.1.tar.gztar xzvf smalltalk-3.1.tar.gzcd smalltalk-3.1./configuremake |
A new way of pricing financial software | mahmud: You're entering an up-market, please don't cheapen it with "freemium". |
How to make smalltalk? | Anon84: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=619182 |
Free/cheap analytics package that does log processing (not JS tracker)? | Adrenalist: Log Parser 2.2 from Microsoft is pretty good.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=890...I've had some success with this for quick jobs, but you can get really creative and generate very in depth reports/graphs/etc. There are several GUI solutions if the command line isn't your thing. D... |
How to make smalltalk? | Kisil: Leil Lowndes' "How to Talk to Anyone" is an excellent primer. |
Free/cheap analytics package that does log processing (not JS tracker)? | davidw: antirez' visitors is pretty good:http://www.hping.org/visitors/It's still fairly basic, but you get the code and can hack it to produce whatever kind of reports you want. |
How to make smalltalk? | whacked_new: Does anybody else find it interesting that this question has generated so many responses here?Suppose you are standing in line for a drink, and some HN person is in front of you. How to make small talk? Ask them, "how to make small talk," and you'll make small talk in no time. |
Best way for a small (3 person) team to collaborate with source code? | catone: I'll just throw Codebase into the mix: http://www.codebasehq.com/It's my friend Adam's app (he's an admin at Rails Forum). I've never used it personally, but from what I have seen it is pretty nice and I know anything Adam is involved with must be solid. So, just presenting it as another option.It's sort of l... |
How to make smalltalk? | madh: It would be worthwhile to read Human Relations on Ask MetaFilter (http://ask.metafilter.com/human-relations). |
IEEE membership. Is it worth it? | tptacek: I've had IEEE/ACM memberships in the past, and while I liked getting printed journal articles, I never got any real value out of it; every paper I've ever wanted to read has been available online, and I generally wouldn't attend an academic conference unless I was presenting at it. So I'd be a "No" vote.Also b... |
IEEE membership. Is it worth it? | ieatpaste: I agree with the tptacek's "no". I had a brief membership during school, which allowed me to attend workshops and read research papers, but neither seem relevant now. There are networking events, but I've never been so I can't comment. |
IEEE membership. Is it worth it? | russell: I used to belong to ACM but dropped my membership, because it wasnt worth the $250 to get the journals I was interested in. |
IEEE membership. Is it worth it? | deutronium: I find that you can use 'Google Scholar' to download most papers that are on IEEE |
New car or used? | noodle: a 1 to 3 year old car is typically your best deal, as the first few years are where the greatest depreciation in value happens.too much older and you start to risk quality. |
Classifieds VS Realtor: Whats the best way to find a home? | brk: Use a realtor. They can go through listings for you to find what you are looking for. Make sure you get a buyers agent to represent you (it generally costs nothing or maybe 1%, depending on how the deal is structured with the listing agent).The other benefit is when it comes time to negotiate. A good buyers age... |
Recommendations for a good immigration lawyer in the Bay Area? | pg: Most YC startups use Chris Wright:http://www.thewrightlawfirm.com/WrightLaw/Default.aspxHe seems really good. |
New car or used? | SwellJoe: Used, obviously.But you should buy from an individual rather than a dealer. You pay a very large markup from a dealer on used cars, and most have a vested interest in keeping the price of used cars as high as possible (because they want to sell you a new car even more than a used car). The dealer also knows... |
New car or used? | vaksel: Depends on the car. If its assembled in Japan, there is nothing wrong with C. You can get a car with 150K miles and it'll run just fine for the next 50K miles. However, if it was assembled in USA/Canada, I'd be wary with it, and wouldn't get a car with more than 50K miles.The assembly point is very important. A... |
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