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Do you workout? Review my startup | bgnm2000: http://www.excycle.com |
Do you workout? Review my startup | noodle: the concept is interesting and has some potential. however, basing reviews on the numbers that you have posted is dubiously representative at best. there are a lot of reasons why an individual will see gains/losses in performance across the time period that a supplement will last.i'd put more info on the root... |
What would you do with a Google Mini? | aitoehigie: do you have a macbook pro? I really need one, new or used |
Classifieds VS Realtor: Whats the best way to find a home? | SwellJoe: I will never use a realtor again.My girlfriend at the time and I dealt with two different realtors when looking for a home in Austin, and both of them encouraged really bad decisions. The first was pretty new to the job, and was a bit heavy-handed in his tactics and advice, and I saw right through it. The l... |
help my friend pay off his house | brk: Seriously, why? It's not even clear from his description why this is a worthwhile cause. Because he wants to feel better about his debt to equity ratio on the house?It seems everyone is looking for the magic bailout these days. |
What apps are essential for mac? | vansteen: I've got my Macbook pro 6 months ago. The best thing I ever buy. I'm programming and I use to use a Windows and a FreeBSD box before.
Here, some free and commercial softwares I use everyday:1. Terminal: Visor - Quake-style terminal http://visor.binaryage.com2. Uninstaller: AppTrap http://konstochvanligasaker... |
IEEE membership. Is it worth it? | pcc: For me its worth it even just for their "Financial Advantage Program" -- specifically the insurance plans:http://ieeeinsurance.comWe don't have access to all the plan types here in Canada, and I can't speak for price comparisons between the IEEE plans and those of other providers in other regions; but in Canada th... |
Help me make HN work well on the iPhone | jmonegro: Why don't you use Intersquash.com? |
Infrastructure for provisioning, billing & supporting webapps? Buy or build? | mstefff: Funny, in the same exact situation. Building a deployment app and deciding on a billing system. Was thinking about just writing a custom one or maybe writing something for Ubercart since it's drupal-based. |
Recommendations for a good immigration lawyer in the Bay Area? | ojbyrne: Good luck. From my experience (and I don't really mean to be snarky) you'll need it.My TN stay in the bay area was handled by this company: http://www.jewellfirm.com/ |
New car or used? | Femur: Have you considered the option of not getting another car? |
Do you workout? Review my startup | pedalpete: Well it doesn't look like you have much content.
The after looking around a bit, i found the 'shop' icon, but thought I was already in it, as it was highlighted. But clicking on the shop brought me to an alphabetical product list by brand.
Is this really the way people shop?
Particularly on a site which is... |
How to make smalltalk? | uuilly: The best conversations are those that aren't predictable. Get away from the mundane as fast as possible. You are a unique person, if you hide that uniqueness, you become boring and nobody will want to talk to you.eg:
You: "Crazy rain eh?"
Girl: "Yeah."
You: "I love the rain, it reminds me of Rangoon."
Girl: "... |
Where can I get cheap die cut business cards? | covercash: A friend of mine pointed me to this article when I was curious about die cut cards in the past:http://printedproof.com/printing/how-and-where-to-create-die...I never actually ordered them, but hopefully the article will help. |
How to calculate if a box will fit through a hallway with a 90 degree turn | tocomment: I hope this isn't too off topic, but it's like a life-hack, right? We all need to know if something will fit in our houses before we buy it. |
How to calculate if a box will fit through a hallway with a 90 degree turn | Raphael: I think if it can fit at a 45 degree angle in the corner then you're good. |
How to calculate if a box will fit through a hallway with a 90 degree turn | patio11: You're going to need a tape measure either way, so tape-measure out the longest edge of the box, then take the tape measure and see if you can put it through 90 degrees of motion within the bend without hitting a wall. If not, then I'm guessing you're in for some breakage. |
How to calculate if a box will fit through a hallway with a 90 degree turn | pg: If it fits in both corridors without reorientiation,
it follows that it fits through the corner, which
is part of both corridors. (Imagine sliding a square
on a chessboard.) Or are you asking something
more complicated? Is that ascii drawing supposed to be
to scale? |
How to calculate if a box will fit through a hallway with a 90 degree turn | jsz0: I don't know the proper way to calculate it geometrically but the most practical way might be to make a template with the same dimensions (WxL) out of a single sheet of cardboard and give it a try. |
How to calculate if a box will fit through a hallway with a 90 degree turn | quellhorst: If you gzip your ascii box, it will fit in your hallway. Or provide the measurements and someone here will do the math for you :) |
How to calculate if a box will fit through a hallway with a 90 degree turn | ander501: This may give you a place to starthttp://archives.math.utk.edu/visual.calculus/3/applications.... |
How to calculate if a box will fit through a hallway with a 90 degree turn | anigbrowl: Probably if you don't mind rotating it around. I spent a summer working as a mover once it's surprisingly easy to get a sofa round corners. So unless you have a very small hallway or a very large box, I'd guess yeah. It would help if you told us what was in the box, but I understand if you're under NDA :-p |
How to calculate if a box will fit through a hallway with a 90 degree turn | kduncklee: Here's a paper on finding the maximum size of the box:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/95mh987542674584/ |
How to calculate if a box will fit through a hallway with a 90 degree turn | noonespecial: You can find out with a piece of string. Make the string as long as the mid-point of the box on one edge to one of its corners on the other side. Hold the string at the inside corner of the hall. If you can sweep the arc without touching any walls it will fit.If you don't know the size of the box in advan... |
IEEE membership. Is it worth it? | CyberFonic: I've been an IEEE and ACM member for over 20 years. Although I've cut back on the number of publications I subscribe to, I still find reading them very informative. I can read them on the train/bus/beach. They provide a snapshot of the state-of-the-art.
Consider the subscriptions to be part of your on-g... |
Is a hacker by nature pre-disposed towards Objectivism? | fsckMS: Some parallels, Major differences. the Hacker mentality is something Ayn Rand would have never considered as incorruptible. Her view on white hats was never discussed even though she was around through it's birth and maturity. One of the great reinventions of the hacker community is 'you mess with me, me and my... |
Recommendations for a good immigration lawyer in the Bay Area? | jabrams: I am a fellow Canadian living in Silicon Valley and San Francisco for many years now. I highly recommend this small San Jose firm which helped me get my green card.http://www.schwerinandsumcadlaw.com/ |
How to calculate if a box will fit through a hallway with a 90 degree turn | stelund: sqrt(h^2 + h^2)*2 is the max length if your box is 0 is width. The max possible length decreases with sqrt(w^2 + w^2) as width expands.Assumed the hallways size is symetrical and your object cannot be tilted to achive a smaller length. For example, an object of little height in a high to ceiling room will be p... |
How to calculate if a box will fit through a hallway with a 90 degree turn | Raphael: Remember, you are working in 3 dimensions. It may be possible to squeeze something a bit wider than the 2D solution would suggest. |
How to calculate if a box will fit through a hallway with a 90 degree turn | Tichy: Don't have time to properly look into it, but here is a quick guess: I suppose the best you can do is rotate the box around the corner on one point on the "upper" side of the box (upper in 2d). If you pick one point on the upper side of the box (which will be the turning point), you can calculate the distance of... |
Mosso or EC2? | davidw: Linode's pretty good. I see EC2 as more the sort of place you want to go if you think you'll be adding/removing instances on a fairly regular basis, and have the money to do it. Otherwise, it's going to be more expensive to have one node up all the time than something like Linode would be. |
How do you use A/B testing? | patio11: I did ad hoc A/B testing for a while, switch to Google Website Optimizer, and am going to get around to releasing a homegrown Rails A/B framework one of these months...You can A/B test the heck out of everything, but the best ROI on time for me has been taking key interactions on the funnel and testing changes... |
PDF Signatures | patio11: The obvious choice is one of the various Adobe tools.If you're feeling in a not-spend-money mood, you can do it with ImageMagick.http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/annotating/Writing the command lines for it takes some getting used to, but after you do it you can do some VERY fun things with ImageMagick. I'm us... |
How to calculate if a box will fit through a hallway with a 90 degree turn | thexa4: Why turn it at all? If you just start moving it the other way you won't have the problem of turning.If you really want to turn the box, make sure the hallway is wider then 3/4 * sqrt(2) * lengthBox
If you turn the box 45 degrees, that's when the box will use the most space. The hallway will have to be 3/4 of th... |
How to calculate if a box will fit through a hallway with a 90 degree turn | stevejalim: What's in the box? Unless the contents are basically the size and shape of the carton, why not just take them out and carry them in a few trips if the box won't make it? |
How to calculate if a box will fit through a hallway with a 90 degree turn | niyazpk: Consider a box l x b x hlet x = width of one corridor.let y = width of the perpendicular corridor.We will disregard the height of the box here since I assume that you can find out the correct way to orient the box.The box will fit throught the hallway if:(sqrt(x^2+y^2) - l/2) >= bI will post the reasoning afte... |
I am bored. What programming language should I learn ? | davidw: Erlang would be 'different' than those. Java would not be too exciting or exotic, but practical for many things. If you're not wild about Java, try coding for J2ME or Android... there's less BS in those environments than the 'enterprisey' stuff. |
PDF Signatures | delano: You can save individual pages from a PDF as an image in Preview (scroll to the page, File -> Save As). This won't work if the PDF is protected but that would likely apply to other applications too.You can also create PDFs from images with Preview. Open an image and save it as a PDF. You can then drag images or ... |
I am bored. What programming language should I learn ? | RiderOfGiraffes: Haskell or OCaml |
I am bored. What programming language should I learn ? | felixmar: Haskell (e.g. http://learnyouahaskell.com). Learning Haskell is exciting (when the headaches subside ;)) and although becoming more popular Haskell can be considered exotic. The best part imo is that learning Haskell's functional concepts is useful for other languages as well. |
I am bored. What programming language should I learn ? | peterhi: What platforms or areas are you interested in?You know C, have you tried network programming or games programming or C on embedded systems?You can learn a lot by taking an existing language into a new area, it will sharpen up your skills better than learning a language without having a use for it.Experience is... |
I am bored. What programming language should I learn ? | tumult: Factor! |
How to calculate if a box will fit through a hallway with a 90 degree turn | tocomment: Thanks for all the answers. It's starting to make sense. I'm relieved to see it's not an easy problem.If it helps, it's an elliptical machine I was thinking of buying (I was using a rectangular box shape as an abstraction.)I'm not sure how easily it can be disassembled.The dimensions are 22" x 57" x 66" an... |
I am bored. What programming language should I learn ? | rincewind: squeak smalltalk |
I am bored. What programming language should I learn ? | leoc: How about Oz?http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.htmlWith 900 pages to get through you'll never be bored again. ;) |
New car or used? | CyberFonic: I have had several used and new cars. Based on my experiences to date, I would buy a "modest" new car which has been in production for a while and has a good reputation. In my experience Japanese cars are reliable, but I'm wary of the cheapest models. Then keep the car for at least 10 years.Shop around a... |
How to make smalltalk? | anonymous_5: In general:
Join Toastmasters, it will help with small talk and making speeches. Learn to tell jokes, a conversation is much easier if the other person is relaxed and laughing. Be well read and know how to argue in a non-confrontational manner. It is not always necessary to use the large blunt object to... |
I am bored. What programming language should I learn ? | cousin_it: Sounds like you're prepared. Try K/Q. Programming doesn't get much more exciting or exotic than that.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)For a taste of what it feels like, see http://kx.com/technical/contribs/eugene/kidioms.html . Most everyday programmers should find themselves intrigued at... |
I need a license for an open source project allowing commercial reuse | JeremyBanks: The MIT license (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License ) and similar ones are pretty common choices. They more or less allow anything as long as attribution is provided. |
I need a license for an open source project allowing commercial reuse | NonEUCitizen: APACHE / BSD / MIT |
I need a license for an open source project allowing commercial reuse | NonEUCitizen: also, can do like SQLite and just make it Public Domain. |
I need a license for an open source project allowing commercial reuse | xenoterracide: I'm not aware of any OSS license that doesn't allow others to copy the code and make money off it. even AGPLv3 (arguably the most restrictive license) allows it. |
PDF Signatures | foundart: As an alternative you could e-sign the document using a service like EchoSign. While most people use it to send out documents for e-signature, it also has a feature called approve that lets you e-sign documents people have sent you. |
I need a license for an open source project allowing commercial reuse | ivankirigin: I chose Apache. Thanks folks: http://github.com/ikirigin/tatatweet/blob/f310b2db75cfe0d507... |
I need a license for an open source project allowing commercial reuse | wheels: MPL is my personal favorite. Basically says you can use and modify the code in a whole bunch of ways, but if you release a version with changes you have to post the diff somewhere. |
I need a license for an open source project allowing commercial reuse | behe101: I believe the LGPL allows for commercial reuse. |
I am bored. What programming language should I learn ? | jpd: C: Procedural languagePython: (Batteries included) Scripting languageScheme: Functional/LISP languageLooks like you should learn either an OO language (Smalltalk, OCaml, Scala) or a Logic language (Prolog). |
I need a license for an open source project allowing commercial reuse | oomkiller: You could go with BSD, it seems to be the standard for allowing other people to take your source and distribute it in a closed source product.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses |
Describe Yourself using your Tools/Frameworks/Languages | dryicerx: To start offI am a back-end dwelling developer, a C and C++ FastCGI nut, a Pythonic Dinasour, Emacs is my Swiss army knife, I am obsessed about security, and I am huge on pushing for high performance low-level scalable back ends for web development, and hardly ever use frameworks. |
A new way of pricing financial software | dobes: It's seems contradictory to say that you are targeting the "enterprise" and yet they "can't afford it". Either you're going for thrifty startups, who are not enterprises, or enterprises for whom a few thousand dollars a year is chump change.I have seen at least one online accounting app that is "free for startu... |
Describe Yourself using your Tools/Frameworks/Languages | vorador: Are we really defined by the tools we use ? |
Any Bay Area Hackers into running, cycling, triathlon, etc? | krishna2: I just recently got into biking and am super excited about it that I wrote about it http://www.krishna2.com/blog/2009/05/eb2b-biking-from-east-b... |
Opportunity to earn a cut on every transaction. How big should my cut be? | dxjones: With Option C, do they own the IP? If so, what prevents them from cutting you out of transactions once they are convinced it is working, and they don't need you anymore?If you own the IP, then you should think of yourself as a partner. Take a big enough piece of the action to keep you motivated to work hard ... |
Opportunity to earn a cut on every transaction. How big should my cut be? | noodle: i would charge something that "should" recoup your "no strings attached" cost estimate within the 1 to 3 years range. and if that doesn't include maintenance, tack that in there too.might require you to get them to provide you some data and growth estimations. |
Opportunity to earn a cut on every transaction. How big should my cut be? | vaksel: It really depends on what their profit margin and volume on the product is. If they make $0 in sales, then you get screwed even if they give 100% |
Opportunity to earn a cut on every transaction. How big should my cut be? | MichaelApproved: Maybe a tiered payment approach would also be good. Keep it cheap for them to market the system initially then once they get more transactions you can increase the cut. |
Opportunity to earn a cut on every transaction. How big should my cut be? | run4yourlives: Factors to consider: (or, why nobody here can give you an answer)1. How much do you need?2. How much of a cut do you want?3. What is their established sales volume? (You can lower the percentage if sales volumes are high.)4. If none, what's their expected sales volume?5. What's their expected sales growt... |
I need a license for an open source project allowing commercial reuse | Janzert: I really do like the simplicity, brevity, and complete freedom of use of the MIT license.http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.phpJust replace <year> and <copyright holders> as appropriate. |
Opportunity to earn a cut on every transaction. How big should my cut be? | lrm242: A couple of thoughts:(1) as a business owner I would be very wary of a perpetual cut, so I would cap it.(2) since you're capping it you can demand a larger cut to ensure that you're repaid faster.I would propose something that would enable you to earn ~2-3x your initial proposal cost over a period of approximat... |
Opportunity to earn a cut on every transaction. How big should my cut be? | dxjones: If you give them ownership of the IP with Option C, then you should ask for a bigger piece of each transaction in your contract, ... keeping in mind they may choose not to renew with the same terms at the end of the contract term (1 year?).If the software is so integral to the success of the project, you might... |
Opportunity to earn a cut on every transaction. How big should my cut be? | jjs: Whatever you do, try and get a (small, depending on volume) percentage of the gross, not net, on each transaction. Maintaining their margins is their job, not yours. |
Opportunity to earn a cut on every transaction. How big should my cut be? | thebigjc: There's two ways to do it:1) Go simple - affiliate fees in ecommerce range from 4-8%. Pick a number you're comfortable with and use that.2) Do the math - estimate their revenue per year/month/week, do a Net Present Value calculation, using a discount rate based on the fact you're getting paid over time, and t... |
Opportunity to earn a cut on every transaction. How big should my cut be? | alrex021: Another question that now comes to mind is dollar vs percentage? Would it be more beneficial to put flat dollar figure or go with a percentage? Percentage seems a bit riskier if evaluated against net profit. They could potentially right off large portion of the income as a cost to company. Especially that the... |
Opportunity to earn a cut on every transaction. How big should my cut be? | spoiledtechie: Ask your self how much you want a year.Lets say 50k a year for your self = Z. So then ask your self how many sales are expected on the site within a given year = X.And Y is your amount you should charge per item.z/x = y. Shoot just a little low unless they are very happy with the idea. Tell them that ... |
Who is your role model for startups besides Paul Graham? | TallGuyShort: John Britten
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Britten |
Opportunity to earn a cut on every transaction. How big should my cut be? | jonnyw: Be careful. You should either be part of this company or get paid a set fee as a developer. Any other solution isn't stable. A company can't really survive with someone else owning its core IP (Option B), nor would they want to keep paying a perpetual cut for a product that you'll presumably complete/deliver... |
Favorite true story tech book? | paulgb: I'm still reading "What the Dormouse Said: How 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer", but I'm finding it quite good. Though I guess it's more about tech (counter)culture than tech itself. |
Favorite true story tech book? | wmf: The Cuckoo's Egg: a true crime hacker espionage thriller. |
Favorite true story tech book? | pg: Skunkworks |
Favorite true story tech book? | abstractbill: Artificial Life, by Steven Levy - I've lost count of how many times I've read it. |
Favorite true story tech book? | keenerd: "Underground" by Susan DreyfusIt is about the phreaking/BBS era, specifically the Australian scene.The deadtree version is impossible to find, but the author has released it as an ebook.Download here: http://www.underground-book.net/download.php3 |
Favorite true story tech book? | nomoresecrets: "A Computer Called LEO" - story of the first commercial computer, used to run Lyons teashops. Fascinating both in terms of computer history, and history in general, especially Lyons' attitude to perfectionism, to the extent of doing many things themselves, that these days would never survive an outsourc... |
Favorite true story tech book? | edw519: Founders at Work. Lots of good true stories. Encourages me to work on my own true story. |
Favorite true story tech book? | davidbnewquist: Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace by Michele SlatallaStory is circa 1990. |
Favorite true story tech book? | joe_bleau: Can't pick just one, but I enjoyed: Tuxedo Park, Soul Of a New Machine, and The Deadly Fuze. |
Favorite true story tech book? | pookleblinky: Not a novel, or a single book, but I love Richard Feynman's descriptions of Los Alamos. I can read his accounts of mental arithmetic battles with Bohr, safecracking, the programming of dozens of old-school human computers, all day long. |
Who is your role model for startups besides Paul Graham? | philwelch: Since childhood, Steve Jobs. For too many reasons to mention. |
Favorite true story tech book? | davidmathers: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_Heroes_of_the_Computer_... |
Favorite true story tech book? | jf: Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World, Jill JonnesAn extremely detailed and engaging book on how electricity was brought to the United States. |
Favorite true story tech book? | lackbeard: Masters of Doom |
Who is your role model for startups besides Paul Graham? | mannicken: Steve Pavlina. As much as I hate his idiotic articles, he slammed himself in deep levels of crap and then got out gloriously :) |
Favorite true story tech book? | tjr: The various accounts weaved into The Jargon File. Gave me, early on in my programming life, a pretty good flavor of what being a hacker was really like. |
Who is your role model for startups besides Paul Graham? | tjr: I've learned a lot from Philip Greenspun. |
Favorite true story tech book? | indiejade: The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. It's not actually a "tech book" but it is a true story about the highly technical science of how a deadly virus spread. |
Favorite true story tech book? | dbrush: Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age |
Favorite true story tech book? | rbitar: Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure by Jerry Kaplan. Recounts the true story of GO Corporation and the folks involved including John Doer and Bill Campbell. Been awhile since I picked this up but I remember it was a fun read. |
Favorite true story tech book? | neilc: "The New New Thing" by Michael Lewis is great: entertainingly written, and actually quite instructive about SV culture. "Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure" by Jerry Kaplan was also very good. |
Favorite true story tech book? | plinkplonk: "One Jump Ahead: Computer Perfection at Checkers" - How Dr. Schaeffer's team came up with Chinook, the program that became world champion at checkers. Later the team went on to solve checkers (like tic tac toe is a "solved" game).Some of the book is about researching new algorithms etc, but a large chunk is... |
How hard should engineers work? | obvioustroll: If the devs aren't hitting their targets, that's a problem. If they are hitting their targets, but you think they are capable of more then make the schedule more aggressive.However, I should point out that thinking for a living is a little different than many other modes of employment - just because they ... |
Favorite true story tech book? | sriramk: Showstopper. This influenced me to join Microsoft and work on the same team as Dave Cutler |
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