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Favorite true story tech book? | flpatriot92: <em>Dreaming in Code</em>Chandler Project. |
Favorite true story tech book? | dan_the_welder: The Car That Could: The Inside Story of GM's Revolutionary Electric Vehicle by Michael Shnayerson.If that gives you a taste for how crazy General Motors is, follow up with On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors by John Z. Delorian. Less about tech, more about management anti patterns! |
Favorite true story tech book? | bbg: Victorian Internet, Tom Standagehttp://www.amazon.com/Victorian-Internet-Remarkable-Nineteen... |
What % of friends on Facebook are friends? | yan: About 80-90% of the people that are my Facebook friends are what I'd consider real friends. As in, if I saw them on the street I'd come up to them and start a conversation without feeling awkward or mentioning when we last saw each other. Then again, I have ~180 friends, not like 500+ that some of my friends have. |
How should we seek a funding partner? | donna: What is the deal you are offering to an investor? How many customers? Do they pay a monthly subscription? |
Favorite true story tech book? | ngsayjoe: Snowball: The Business of Life |
To Intern or Not To Intern? Share your experiences. | wmf: I interned at BizRate when it was <10 people and at IBM; both were valuable for different reasons. In both cases I was doing "real work" which made it more fun. The differences between startups and bigcos are mostly what you'd expect; a startup has more camaraderie but startup people may not have as much time for ... |
Favorite true story tech book? | grosales: The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop. It's a very fun, easy, and interesting read of the origins of modern computing, the people who worked day and night to make their vision a reality, and the passion that carried their dreams to reality (... |
Favorite true story tech book? | xsmasher: In general, "Revolution in the Valley" about the making of the Macintosh. You cen feel the excitement of the team, and it goes into some fun technical details on how they created a GUI while everyone else outside research labs was still text-based.For game programmers, "Masters of Doom" and "Dungeons and Drea... |
Favorite true story tech book? | utnick: http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Deep-Blue-Building-Computer/dp/...The story behind the building of the Deep Blue chess playing computer.Great read. Inspirational. |
How hard should engineers work? | bkbleikamp: Don't micromanage the developers. Work with them to set goals, get explanation when goals aren't met, and celebrate when they are.In my experience, developers actually work way more than the 30-40 hours a week they're "in the office" - they are thinking about the problems they're trying to solve when they'... |
Favorite true story tech book? | ojbyrne: Not quite a book, but I recently read and enjoyed the first essay from Tom Wolfe's Hooking Up - the essay is called "Two Young Men Who Went West" and is about Robert Noyce and William Shockley and the founding of Fairchild Semiconductor.Tossing it out there because most people wouldn't buy that book looking fo... |
What % of friends on Facebook are friends? | omarchowdhury: Good God get a hold of your self man. |
What % of friends on Facebook are friends? | buugs: >But I'm not someone that you like 5 mins after meeting.Change your attitude and youll be a better friend, and rather than spending time on the computer pulling the woe is me story just go out and meet people, someones bound to like you as a friend. |
Favorite true story tech book? | earl: I can't recommend "High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars" by Charles Ferguson highly enough. He basically had the idea for the internet then, after Netscape launched just as he was creating a startup, morphed into making the first set of dev tools for the web -- Front... |
What % of friends on Facebook are friends? | makecheck: I'm not sure how good an indicator the overall count is. For one thing, you might not even find everyone you know on Facebook.I figure there are two ways to use these sites. One, you could connect with everyone you've ever known, regardless of how well you know them (and end up with 300 "friends", most of ... |
How hard should engineers work? | ismarc: Most difficult problems I've tackled, the most complex algorithms, the most elegant code, took less than 30 minutes to type. They took several weeks of working on other things, of pondering the ways to approach it, several false starts and then a spark of genius. Honestly, you can't measure development time i... |
Favorite true story tech book? | TomOfTTB: How the Web Was Won: How Bill Gates and His Internet Idealists Transformed the Microsoft EmpireIt portrays what I'd call "an idealized" version of events in that it's a fairly positive account of Microsoft's battle to beat Netscape. But it's a great story. What most people don't realize is there's a whole g... |
What % of friends on Facebook are friends? | adatta02: <disclaimer> I'm pretty drunk </disclaimer>
So what happens when you graduate? is it proper form to go through and un-friend everyone? Or do you just let the connections sit around stale?And then to add to the confusion my LinkedIn social graph is wildly disconnected from my Facebook social graph. When do I d... |
How do you get feedback from potential users? | systemtrigger: I look for places my target demographic congregates and ask the most thoughtful contributors to help me. |
To Intern or Not To Intern? Share your experiences. | JimmyL: I interned at a large company - there's a good chance you have one of their products in your pocket right now - a few summers ago, and a had a really great experience. I ended up being able to do much more than my initial position promised, and the other members of my team were all about mentoring and helping m... |
Favorite true story tech book? | JimmyL: Steve Squyres' Roving Mars (the book, not the movie) |
Favorite true story tech book? | phugoid: Free as in Freedom, a story about Stallman. I liked the unusual story of rms driving a car and freaking out as he had to follow someone taking the "scenic route".My least favorite was The Google Story - I couldn't stomach more than a chapter or two of it. It read like the sort of ass-kissing "He's a hero" cr... |
Favorite true story tech book? | markchristian: Fire in the Valley, hands-down. |
Favorite true story tech book? | ambulatorybird: The Official Book of Ultima. About how Richard Garriot started the Ultima series of computer role-playing games, and founded Origin Systems. Alas, it's sad when you consider the fate which befell both the game series and the company. |
What % of friends on Facebook are friends? | baguasquirrel: It's a mixed bag. I know plenty of folks in college who were good at mining connections. Everyone made "friends" with them because it was thought these kids would "succeed". These were the folks who could rack up 600 connections, but we all knew that they weren't friends with all those people.I person... |
Favorite true story tech book? | fgimenez: Fortune's Formula by William Poundstone. The story behind Claude Shannon and Ed Thorpe gambling (and then using those techniques on Wall Street). |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | op: Wordoid.com is a webapp that helps you come up with a catchy name for your product, company or domain.It makes up new words that are unlikely to appear in a dictionary.
It knows how to create words in several languages: English, Spanish, French and Italian at the moment.
It is even able to create words in imaginary... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | pierrefar: Good stuff. Had a quick play and definitely would use it to brainstorm ideas.One really horrible usability point: when I enter a custom pattern on the right, I can't click enter to submit the form, but instead I have to go across the screen, up, and click the small Go button. Either do it live with AJAX or j... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | markessien: It's nice. It reminds me of domain pigeon, but the words it creates seem a lot more natural. |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | teilo: I got way more interesting results by switching to "Almost Natural". |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | hellweaver666: I like it... combining English words with a foreign language seems to make for some really interesting combinations.Seems to be very quick as well which is great. Would be cool if it would check .com .net and .org variants as I wouldn't settle on a name unless all three were available (+ .co.uk as I'm in... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | mellis: Woah, my last name appeared on the second page of results.I found the distinction between "order" and "buy" unclear, although the color coding helps somewhat. Perhaps "backorder" (what Go Daddy uses) would be clearer? An option to only show available domains could be useful as well. Maybe an option to specif... |
What's up with Rapleaf ads *everywhere*? | seunosewa: you have been behaviour-tracked! |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | wmblaettler: Not to be a grammar/spelling nazi, but "scarse" should be spelled "scarce". (I suppose you could say it's just another wordoid though.)The results are nice. |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | thalur: I like it. It wasn't immediately obvious to me what some of the features did though - the search button and the unique/common graph next to it for example. I'm also a little disapointed it won't generate names in Klingon - after all, it offers to! :) |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | JunkDNA: Very nice, I've been looking for something like this that actually works and isn't trivial. I got some really nice results.First (nitpick point): You've got a misspelling in the page: scarse instead of "scarce" underneath the bars that show frequency.The UI on the right is a bit confusing and busy. I suggest r... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | rman666: This is a really nice naming app. I've looked at a lot of them and this has produced some of the best names I've ever seen. Congrats! |
To Intern or Not To Intern? Share your experiences. | bcx: I think it depends on what you want to do. If you want to work at a company there is no better way to get an in, then to do an internship that that company and show that you are really good and add value. This applies to both young startups and large companies.At the same time there are some nice advantages to i... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | silkodyssey: A feature I would like is to be able to filter out words according to whether they're scarce, rare, unique or common. |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | jcapote: Wow, it's like domain pigeon only way better. Awesome. |
Why do dead posts contribute to karma? | davidw: I think dead posts ought to be subtracted from karma:-) |
Why do dead posts contribute to karma? | brk: I think the whole thing would be hardly worth the effort to write something to manage the karma. |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | seunosewa: The interface is weird. The form fields are on the right and the submit button is at the top left, so you have to move your mouse across the screen for each query. |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | KWD: I'd examine relocating the buttons, or adding more to the top. I tended to just use the Go button over and over, instead of moving the cursor down to the Next button. |
Why do dead posts contribute to karma? | spoiledtechie: We are not a degrading culture of hackers. There is a reason why there is very minimal voting down of items. Its because if you see you have a bad article, don't submit it.If your article just died, then grow and learn from it. Don't demoralize your self over it. If we give you negative points, its de... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | antirez: Good results both in English and Italian |
Why do dead posts contribute to karma? | tokenadult: Isn't karma lazy-loaded anyway? Sometimes it is hard to spot instantaneous changes in karma even for forum activity that is documented to change karma. Obsessing that much about karma probably is counterproductive. Just look for something better to submit, and learn from the examples of the best submissions... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | Poleris: I like it but it wasn't immediately obvious how to use it. Perhaps have something pointing at the right bar? |
Why do dead posts contribute to karma? | icey: It's not a punitive measure when posts get killed. It may have been a fine submission, but off-topic for this site. (In this case, I think it's pretty obvious why it was killed.)I think for the most part things get killed before they gain much, or any karma. I'm pretty sure there are accounts out there that are p... |
Why do dead posts contribute to karma? | sidmitra: I love it how everyone here lives in fear of another september.I would rather keep the site simple as it is now. I don't want any silly karma :-p |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | yummyfajitas: Important point on monetization.I looked for a domain, found one I liked, and clicked "Buy". You sent me to godaddy, who I don't use. I opened up a new tab and bought it with namecheap.A suggestion: give me a price comparison between multiple registrars, and let me click through to any. That way you get t... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | mistermann: Interesting concept, terrible usability. |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | aik: This is seriously cool. Great idea. Interface is a bit odd and should use some tweaking, but it didn't take me long to figure out. The look is alright otherwise, and I like the name.One thing: The purpose of the site appears to be slightly confusing at first. Is this a site specifically for finding a domain n... |
Favorite true story tech book? | chanux: Art of intrusion - Kevin Mitnick |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | ericb: Useful site! I'd prefer if it generated more than 10 at a time by default. |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | aik: One more point: While it is trying to figure out if a result is unique/scarce/common/rare/..., it says "Searching..." underneath. Wouldn't something like "Analyzing..." be more relevant? |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | nwjsmith: The 'Pattern' option on the side of the page is confusing. When you type in a pattern, it isn't apparent that you should click the 'Go' button at the top left of the page. Furthermore, when you type in a pattern and click 'Go', the default is to produce random Wordoids, not Wordoids containing the pattern.The... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | matt1: Great idea! Few recommendations:Move the search box to a more prominent position, either to the top of right column or above the domain name list. Like someone else said, move the "Go" button next to the search box so there's a smooth transition.I'd remove the box from the main page that lets the user specify "... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | newy: This rocks - exactly what I've been looking for. |
Please review Useful Tools, a new blog about cool web apps | csbartus: very nice design ! |
Please review Useful Tools, a new blog about cool web apps | bkudria: Nice design and great typography! All your ratings seem high, though. You should review some bad apps to make the good ones seem even better. :) |
Why do dead posts contribute to karma? | pg: I think it's possible to abuse HN by submitting any crap, voting up with a few other accounts and earn karma this way.There's some software that would start to notice this. |
Please review Useful Tools, a new blog about cool web apps | aristus: How much did Weebly pay to appear in the middle of every page?edit: this appears to be a site produced by a web designer named Adam Boalt. There is no about/contact info on the site itself, and the submitter's account was created specifically to promote this site.So... not sure what the deal is. I'm curious no... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | fauigerzigerk: Brilliant, I love it!Would be interesting to hear whether you use a purely linguistic approach or some statistical information about "natural" frequencies as well. |
Please review Useful Tools, a new blog about cool web apps | rg: Very good layout and navigation, hope the ratings are real. One thing, though: the list of "highest rated" at the bottom of the page creates a THIRST for the ability to re-sort all apps in other orders, particularly in order by ratings, so I can review all the highest-rated apps in the format of the front page. (... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | sofal: Nice. Does this use a Markov-like algorithm for word generation? |
Who is your role model for startups besides Paul Graham? | hs: plentyoffish, balsamiq and other single founder guysof course, single-founder startup is romanticized only by fool, like me ^@^ |
Please review Useful Tools, a new blog about cool web apps | amjith: A way to sort by ratings would be a good addition, or atleast a link that lists that most popular candidate in each category will be useful. |
Please review Useful Tools, a new blog about cool web apps | aaronkaplan: You need a link to go to a site after reading about it! In the listings there's a "go to site" link for each site, but if I click on "Read more" to see the full review, there's no link from there to the reviewed site (or at least I haven't found one after skimming the page several times). |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | chrisduesing: It would be good if you could filter out already taken names. |
Please review LM, an experimental ajax framework | arthurk: Sure, but where is the download link? |
Please review LM, an experimental ajax framework | hymanroth: It's not stable enough to download at the moment, sorry. |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | michellegreer: Jorgem,NameCheap is working on an affiliate program. We will keep you posted for sure via Twitter, newsletters, and our website. |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | Morieris: I was highly amused by searching for wordoids containing 'fuck'.On a more serious note, I am trying to find a business name with a partner, and would have liked a link to a given page of results, so that I can share them. |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | papa: Nice work. This is a useful service and I'm bookmarking it since you've provided some neat naming ideas.Only gripe, mentioned by others, is that I was a little confused by (a) the custom settings on the side and enabling them properly and (b) I initially missed the pagination/next button at the bottom - probably ... |
Please review Useful Tools, a new blog about cool web apps | joepestro: Great design - a favicon.ico would be a nice touch and make your site easier to find with multiple tabs open.I submitted http://www.browseology.com and we'd love a review! |
Please review Useful Tools, a new blog about cool web apps | sucuri2: Good site, but too wide for my netbook. You could try reducing the width just a bit... |
Who is your role model for startups besides Paul Graham? | buggy_code: Jim Clark. Read "The New New Thing"BTW, the question implies PG is a role model for me. As awesome as he is, he's not. |
Please review Useful Tools, a new blog about cool web apps | ryanwaggoner: Umm...did you just rip the TechCrunch ads from their sidebar, or is there some 3rd-party ad network that you're both using? |
Please review Useful Tools, a new blog about cool web apps | pclark: Are you looking for any writers? Would love to be involved. |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | tripngroove: doesn't seem to work at all for me - Chrome 1.0.154.65 |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | ironkeith: I opened up the page and just clicked "go"... seemed like a good place to start. I waited a few seconds and nothing happened.Then I noticed the little clock at the bottom ticking away. "Okay", I thought, "it's working..." but 30 seconds later it still hadn't done anything (HN effect?). I'd disable the "go" b... |
Please review my webapp: This or That | mediaman: It would be nice to be able to vote without clicking on a specific category. |
What (do you think) Scribd / DocStoc uses to convert pdf/docs into swf? | buggy_code: edit: some variant of swftools ? others have more info? |
What (do you think) Scribd / DocStoc uses to convert pdf/docs into swf? | notaddicted: I found in a job posting:iPaper is an unusually complex Flash application with many highly technical components.http://www.scribd.com/jobs/7So it looks proprietary. |
Please review my webapp: This or That | 27182818284: Should be able to vote without going to a separate sub-page.Also, it is kinda boring and just too much of a word blur for my tastes.It kinda has also already been done in a way by sites like http://www.googlefight.com/ |
Please review my webapp: This or That | catone: I get an Internal Server error on any link I click.But to be honest, I probably wouldn't have even bothered trying to click if I hadn't visited the page with the specific intent of giving the app a try to review it for you. It's just way too much text, with no real rhyme or reason for why it's presented the wa... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | yellowbkpk: It doesn't seem to be working for me. I click on the "Go" and nothing happens.On second thought, I see the tiny little clock spinning ever so slowly in the corner. I suggest making that a whole lot bigger and more obvious if it routinely takes this long to generate any results.Must be something to do with m... |
Please review Useful Tools, a new blog about cool web apps | lliles: Leveraging Twitter on the review pages is a great idea. I don't think I've seen this feature on other review based sites, but it seems obvious now that I've seen it implemented. I am seeing some character encoding issues, but it might be my browser.Great overall design too. |
Please review my webapp: This or That | bombarolo: http://holywars.ru/ |
Tools for recording product ideas | redorb: One part of my idea tool kit is def balsamiq mockups :) / other than that - evernote is good ,drop box or base camp - but as far as one tool ... perhaps that should be your one idea. |
Please review my webapp: This or That | amalcon: 500 Internal Server Error when I try to vote either way on anything. It does not appear to count the vote.I am not accepting cookies (except from explicitly allowed sites); this might be related. If so, the resulting behavior should be something other than 500'ing. |
Tools for recording product ideas | grandalf: whiteboard + beer |
Tools for recording product ideas | mahmud: I use a firefox plugin called "Pencil" to make GUIs and design interactions. For more complex stuff I go back and forth between DIA and Paint.NET (a graphics editor.)The first is good for designing networks and servers, as you can draw lines between "nodes" and the lines snap into place. The second is good beca... |
Please review my webapp: This or That | mahmud: nice first web app. you will be contending with the myriad of "hot or not" type clones that largely cater to the unmonetizable idling office worker or bored-to-tears slacker.cheers! |
Tools for recording product ideas | nickcharlton: I personally use Things (http://culturedcode.com) with a simple "Projects" project created to dump them in. (at least, for directly recording)However, I also use a whiteboard to scribble stuff on and these can be a great solution for presenting ideas, especially if you can add to them as you present.I wou... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | jlees: Very nice, good for brainstorming if you have a word or concept in mind. Good job.(Second the 'went off and bought via my own registrar' though :P) |
Tools for recording product ideas | vaksel: Blank piece of paper and a pen. |
Tools for recording product ideas | sherb113: I use paper and a pen. But anything that I don't plan on using right away goes on http://folist.com -- It's simple, but works. |
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