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Customer acquisition for online stores | mahmud: This is the site:http://www.excycle.com/index.htmlFront page gives me three options, all of equal "weight". A bad thing for an online store. Front page should dump me in a product catalog, and the "labs" and "forum" links should be in the menu-bar above, along with "About Us", "Blog", "News" and the rest of the... |
Please review my webapp: This or That | jack7890: It currently lets you choose between "turd" and "poo". Might want to add something to flag submissions. |
Tools for recording product ideas | bbuffone: Hacker News? Seems like you are using it for that now. |
Please review my webapp: This or That | lr: Slap tipjoy on it, i'll give it a tip! |
Please review my webapp: This or That | jcromartie: I am addicted already! Great simple concept. Others' ideas about the plainness and being able to vote without going to the sub-page are spot-on though. |
Please review my webapp: This or That | mynameishere: Can anyone explain the point of this? |
Please review my webapp: This or That | ruchi: There is a typo. Separated is spelled wrong next to "Add Categories" button. |
What (do you think) Scribd / DocStoc uses to convert pdf/docs into swf? | mindhacker: Looks like they started with something like http://www.swftools.org/ and developed a custom viewer for the swf files.For doc and other formats, one can use openoffice commandline tools to convert them all to pdf.edit: Some history - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9874527-2.html Scribd initially used th... |
Please review my webapp: This or That | aristus: Randomize the left and rightness of the choices, and make the "or" centered (make it a 3-column table). Otherwise you will have heavy right-hand bias in the voting. |
Tools for recording product ideas | krishna2: vim ~/ideas.txt |
Tools for recording product ideas | catone: I usually just use a text file (Textmate is my editor of choice) to create a spec sheet describing what my idea is and how it works. From there I share that planning doc with my partner and we start making mockups together (or more likely, she does, since my Photoshop skills suck). If I need to make a mockup f... |
Tools for recording product ideas | sidmitra: I use Microsoft OneNote for jotting down my ideas. I found it pretty fuctional and free flowing for my use. I can also just output a project notebook as a PDF and send it over.I am proud of whoever at MS made that piece of app.... for some reason it feels different than any of their other stuff. |
Flag spammers accounts ? | brk: I turned showdead OFF a long time ago.The moderation system seems to be working, as the spam posts don't last very long.pg is a relatively bright guy, at least according to what I've read, so I imagine that if there were some benefit or requirement for flagging accounts instead of submissions it would be implement... |
Please review my webapp: This or That | deutronium: It seems to me to be a little difficult to see whether 'a' or 'b' is winning, with the vote number in grey. Maybe the text size could increase with votes. |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | willcodeforfoo: Anxious to try this out. I just get a blank list of numbers in Safari, Firefox, and Chrome on Mac. Firebug tells me you're making an Ajax request once a second, seems... odd?Clicking Go! seems to do nothing. |
Please review my webapp: This or That | intregus: This reminds me a bit of http://you-vs-me.com |
Most successful startups launched during tech conferences? | pedalpete: I think all you need to do is go back to look at the conferences in the past and see who launched.
Here's TC50 from 2007
http://www.techcrunch50.com/2007/
You'll recognize a few names who are doing very well now,
However compare that to last year
http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/
and I don't recognize a si... |
Tools for recording product ideas | systemtrigger: I like to explore my ideas verbally and wish I had a better way to refer back to those audio brainstorms which I sometimes record. One problem is that the audio file is rarely "tight" in terms of signal-to-noise, which makes review tedious. It would be nice if I could cheaply outsource that work to a sec... |
check out our upcoming web stats dashboard app - MightyReach.com | ryanwaggoner: Clickable link: http://MightyReach.com |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | wvl: For some reason, the redirect links are broken for me in Safari. I get the message:Safari can’t open the page “http://wordoid.com/RegistrarRedirect.aspx?registrar=godaddy&... because it’s an invalid address.For some reason (doesn't make sense to me) it seems that Safari doesn't like the keyword 'domain' in the que... |
Please review my webapp: This or That | johns: Don't show vote totals before people vote if you want honest votes. |
Tools for recording product ideas | keefe: I like Omnisio , nothing beats a screencast of a prototype |
check out our upcoming web stats dashboard app - MightyReach.com | CalmQuiet: Well, I'm a noob around here (and in web dev), but I do like the look & sound of what you're assembling there.This is a rather self-serving suggestion, but would you consider any kind of sliding scale pricing: based on some ranges of traffic... so that a tiny little site just starting could test-drive it an... |
check out our upcoming web stats dashboard app - MightyReach.com | jfarmer: It looks nice, but I see a big panel of metrics I'd never use.http://20bits.com/articles/8-tips-for-crafting-metrics-that-...Taking the Twitter followers graph, will your system let me track the referral traffic from Twitter and break down what they do on with my product? Can I A/B test to see how it impacts ... |
check out our upcoming web stats dashboard app - MightyReach.com | jgilliam: There's definitely a huge need for this.You should include delicious links too. |
Customer acquisition for online stores | bgnm2000: Thanks for the comments guys, its definitely stuff I'm going to look into.I agree about the enter page - the entire splash needs a make over |
How can the changing industrial manufacturing world be applied to hacking? | systemtrigger: I look at this problem in terms of automated systems. I think it's interesting how you can architect large groups of people to efficiently deliver a service. If you can conceive of and design systems you can as you put it "converge" nodes of the internet to produce wealth. There is a lot of opportunity a... |
check out our upcoming web stats dashboard app - MightyReach.com | run4yourlives: I would never use this however if I've learned anything in this life it is that there is no upper bound on appeasing the ego.You should be a runaway success... add some website karma monitoring and it'll really take off. Even better, give the user an overall average rating and let them compete with their... |
check out our upcoming web stats dashboard app - MightyReach.com | mtw: 1. yes
2. feedback from twitter (search)
3. not really, there's already more elaborate apps like scout labs |
check out our upcoming web stats dashboard app - MightyReach.com | anigbrowl: 1. yes.
2/4. multiple YT stats, time per page.
3. $19.95/mo., I'd want a 1-3 month trial (give me time to sell it to my boss). |
What software do you install on a clean windows install | davidw: This stuff:http://www.welton.it/articles/windows_for_linux_users |
check out our upcoming web stats dashboard app - MightyReach.com | thorax: I love your front page. One of the common criticisms on HN is that it's hard for us to tell what startups do. You make it quite clear (to me) from first glance what you offer.We use/pay Clicky for stats, and I have to say they do a good job in displaying the metrics I care about.It's hard to say whether I would... |
Do you know of any time travel combinatorial puzzles? | pookleblinky: This is not quite what you want, but there are quite a few 4D puzzles.iirc, Scott Kim, who did many of the illustrations for Douglas Hofstadter, wrote a paper presenting an optical illusion only perceivable in 4 spatial dimensions ("The Impossible Skew Quadrilateral: A Four-Dimensional Optical Illusion").... |
Who is your role model for startups besides Paul Graham? | Poiesis: Lots, but for I'd go for Patrick McKenzie for someone I could realistically emulate. Because 1) He hasn't achieved the oh-my-god millions and millions kind of success, but something more realistic and reachable, 2) He's constantly trying to help everyone else to do it, too, and 3) He is continuing to build up... |
What software do you install on a clean windows install | SwellJoe: Usually just vim, putty and Cygwin. But I never do any real work under Windows (putty means I don't have to), so I'm probably missing some things.When I worked with Python I installed the Enthought Python distribution (which I also happened to be the maintainer of, at the time): http://www.enthought.com/prod... |
check out our upcoming web stats dashboard app - MightyReach.com | udfalkso: - I'd use this if it were free.
- Show me a list of my newest non-search referrers |
check out our upcoming web stats dashboard app - MightyReach.com | mr_cheese: It looks nice, and dashboards are cool, but I'd be hesitant to give you any passwords. So hopefully all these services have some sort of API key/oauth/other authentication mechanism.I'd pay $3/mo. |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | Dilpil: Doesn't work for me. I click go and nothing happens. |
check out our upcoming web stats dashboard app - MightyReach.com | avibryant: I'll be watching this with interest. We're working on something with similar goals, although a very different approach - more info at http://dshbrd.com/about . |
Please review my webapp: This or That | jerryji: And mine -- http://collectivesys.comIt might not be instantly obvious that comparison can be done, so here's one example -- http://collectivesys.com/item/compare/KSrJ1hb2c9wx%3BvLgQgEe... |
What software do you install on a clean windows install | mahmud: Zonealarm. First and foremost. Then firefox.after that, just the usual comfort foods; mingw, dev-cpp, emacs, and a few lisp dialects. |
Good idea to save journalism? | vaksel: The problem that journalism is facing is that their market is over saturated. You can get the same news from thousands of sources |
Good idea to save journalism? | Zev: A journalist could go do the research and compile an article that answers my question.I think the position you're looking for is "librarian" |
Good idea to save journalism? | brm: http://spot.us is trying something interesting but I simply dont know if their scope is large enough |
Good idea to save journalism? | TomOfTTB: You aren't talking about Journalism you're talking about research and you can already hire a researcher.Journalism isn't about finding answers it's about finding truth. Despite what people think of him now Richard Nixon was a tremendously popular President (the electoral vote count in '72 was 570 to 17) so m... |
Good idea to save journalism? | dkokelley: Niche journalism. I like it.I'm not an expert on journalism, but I think this is happening to some degree already. Major TV stations have industry analysts covering their industries. I suspect that any more drilling down would result in journalists not having enough 'good' stories to be economical for them. ... |
What software do you install on a clean windows install | viggity: taskbar shuffle (http://www.freewebs.com/nerdcave/) lets you reorder taskbar applications via drag and drop. Windows 7 has the feature, but XP and Vista don't. |
Good idea to save journalism? | aurumaeus: Why save journalism at all? It's not in any danger. Some big companies that used to have monopolies on journalism are in danger, that's all. |
The most fun and beautiful code you know of? | Jeremysr: My own code...(Not because it's perfect and beautiful, but just because I wrote it and understand it.) |
The most fun and beautiful code you know of? | spitfire: The art of computer programming.Not because it's direct computer code, but because when I'm reading it past code i've written starts swirling in my head.
Sort of one of those "ahhh fantastic" moments. |
Good idea to save journalism? | Flemlord: I think journalists should be treated like most other professions and have certificications and standards that must be maintained. I'm sick of turning on Fox News (or CNN, for that matter) and watching their anchors spew out factually inaccurate commentary that gets passed off as "news". I think that if journ... |
The most fun and beautiful code you know of? | aristus: Very few people will get this reference, but when I had access I used to read the genweb3 code. It's like a whodunnit because there are no comments. :) |
The most fun and beautiful code you know of? | dfranke: Usually I find API documentation more inspiring than actual code. It's higher-bandwidth. That said:- Some bits of On Lisp- Haskell's SYB and Parsec libraries- MINIX (2; have yet to play with 3) |
The most fun and beautiful code you know of? | Xichekolas: Funny seeing this, because I was at my local Borders earlier and decided to give that Beautiful Code book a shot. I've seen it on the shelf for quite a while, but those books don't tend to turn my crank, so to speak, so I had never before really considered it.I only read the first and the third essay, but I... |
Good idea to save journalism? | anamax: IMHO, the way to "save journalism", for journalists to make money, is for journalists to actually do good, unique, and valuable. (Yup, all three. If they can't do all three, then the last two.) You know, the stuff that chin-tuggers always talk about but rarely do.I recommend www.buzzmachine.com for discussio... |
The most fun and beautiful code you know of? | jmonegro: Shakespeare. It exists. Seriously. It's as beautiful as Shakespeare, but not very fun, sadly.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_(programming_langua... |
The most fun and beautiful code you know of? | kmavm: The UNIX v6 kernel (Lions book). Every page brims with the excellent, hard tradeoffs required to shoehorn what we'd recognize as a modern system onto a 128K 16-bit machine. |
The most fun and beautiful code you know of? | keefe: pseudocode all throughout cormen... I appreciate industrial code the same way I appreciate a ferrari - without looking at the engine |
The most fun and beautiful code you know of? | vivekamn: Solutions in Programming Pearls. Each solution is iteratively improved with the proper reasoning.http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Pearls-2nd-ACM-Press/dp/02... |
Favorite true story tech book? | jamesbritt: Soul of a New Machine.Made me want to go to school for real, and study EE.I ended up switching to CS (software == opinionated reality; way more fun!) but that book really inspired me.Especially the ad for Data General employees, described early in the book: "Have fun and make money."Seems like the correct ... |
The most fun and beautiful code you know of? | voisine: UTF-8 encoding in 6 lines, from ezxml: if (c < 0x80) *(s++) = c; // US-ASCII subset
else { // multi-byte UTF-8 sequence
for (b = 0, d = c; d; d /= 2) b++; // number of bits in c
b = (b - 2) / 5; // number of bytes in payload
*(s++) = (0xFF << (7 - b)) | (c >> (6 * b)); // head
... |
The most fun and beautiful code you know of? | sauce71: Duff's device. It opened up my eyes for the beauty of C and insanity of compilers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duffs_device |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | epoweripi: Great tool. I heart it.Will be nice to see more languages thrown into the mix. Sometimes you want to get out of english to explore more options. Will definitely use it more. |
Good idea to save journalism? | grandalf: I'd define journalism (not cynically at all) as having the objective of filtering through all the stuff that is going on and telling us what is important AND what is not important.In essence it's not what was not in the paper at all but what was in the 2" article on D4 that makes the strongest statement about... |
The most fun and beautiful code you know of? | nailer: Anything that:* Doesn't repeat itself. This includes languages which involve marking out blocks of code once for the interpreter and the second time for humans.* Is short, because it doesn't reinvent common modules, and modularizes out general logic.* Uses descriptive names, including using dictionary keys rath... |
The most fun and beautiful code you know of? | known: http://lxr.linux.no |
The most fun and beautiful code you know of? | maurycy: OpenBSD, Django and code written by Niels Provos. |
What software do you install on a clean windows install | visakhcr: 1. AVG
2. Firefox(Chrome from now onwards)
3. VLC player
4. uTorrent
5. Nova PDF printer
6. Open Office
7. Free Download Manager
8. WinRar |
What software do you install on a clean windows install | costan: I use Windows to build Ruby gems, for a smart-card simulator, and to see my sites in IE.Therefore I install the following: disable anti-virus warning, disable firewall + warnings, all updates, Firefox, Safari (also gets me Bonjour), One-click Ruby, Eclipse, Aptana Studio, Git (the msys port), Visual Studio 6 SP... |
check out our upcoming web stats dashboard app - MightyReach.com | Mdrips: Payment should be centered on how engaged one is across the spectrum of metrics that you offer. I'd offer a "light" first one for free and then require payment beyond that first metric. |
Testing the market before manufacturing the product? | swombat: I think there was a post on Mixergy about this recently. Let me dig it out for you...Here you go:http://blog.mixergy.com/direct-marketing-techniques-launch/I didn't actually watch it, but it appears to be a step-by-step guide to what you're asking. |
Testing the market before manufacturing the product? | deyan: Eric Ries at startup lessons learned has also written on this topic. |
Testing the market before manufacturing the product? | russell: Tim Ferris goes into this, along with a lot of other interesting ideas, in his book "The 4-hour Work Week": http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/ The book is entertaining, but be sure to have your reality-check filter turned on. |
do you know of any commandline usability / improvement research? | bbuffone: If you look at the links on this wikipedia page you should find useful information. Aza Raskin has been working with command line interfaces and has done some interesting things with them.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aza_Raskin |
do you know of any commandline usability / improvement research? | jyothi: I don't know any to precisely point to. But one area where commandline usability is of key interest is in mobile phone services operating on USSD.I used to consult for a startup in India where number of users on USSD outnumber WAP. We used to constantly make a lot of tuning on the screens of the application and... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | bravura: Great! Let me filter is by part-of-speech. Just do a rough guess.For example, I may only want VERB wordoids.Also, you should measure how easy and unambiguous the SPELLING is. |
Which bloggers are blatant plagiarists? | iamdave: Lots of bloggers I find do this, and it's highly annoying in my book. Sometimes getting filler information is good, if the blogger can intelligently pull out key points from another article when they're trying to drive a central point home. But, for the most part it's a practice I get frustrated with when I'... |
do you know of any commandline usability / improvement research? | drinian: Microsoft apparently has done a number of studies on Powershell usability, but I don't think they've published the results:http://www.google.com/search?q=powershell+usability+study |
Which bloggers are blatant plagiarists? | russell: I don't think that is so much of an issue here as submitting a fluff summary instead of going another click and submitting the link to the original article. I find that, for most part, summary articles link to the original. The only reason that I might submit the summary is if the comments are particularly g... |
do you know of any commandline usability / improvement research? | x37llnoise: ehm, quicksilver? |
check out our upcoming web stats dashboard app - MightyReach.com | mstefff: doesn't seem like something people would spend money on...all of this info seems readily and easily accessible already.the name seems a bit childish. |
Please (re)review my new social learning site | RiderOfGiraffes: Clickable:
http://www.cafecourses.com |
Please (re)review my new social learning site | kailoa: I'd like to suggest supporting OpenID instead of making me create another user/pass. |
do you know of any commandline usability / improvement research? | toisanji: I dont know about research, but the command autojump has changed the way I use the command line significantly and made my life much easier. Check it out on github |
Please (re)review my new social learning site | bdmac97: Thanks for the clickable link. I plan on supporting a variety of OpenIDs via RPXNow in a future release. Thanks for the suggestion kailoa. |
do you know of any commandline usability / improvement research? | kailoa: Friendly shell has gotten some attention over the past few seasons.http://fishshell.org/index.phphttp://fishshell.org/user_doc/design.html |
Please (re)review my new social learning site | kailoa: One more. I'd also like to see "sample course" that I can take that _doesn't_ require me to log in. A lesser alternative would be a video screencast of an actual course. |
do you know of any commandline usability / improvement research? | erlanger: You may find these interesting:http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Command_002dLine...http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/winpsh/...This looks very good, but too lazy to sign up:http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=800045.801577Some user testing for Ubiquity seems relevant:https://wi... |
Do you know of any time travel combinatorial puzzles? | weaksauce: I don't know if it is exactly what you are looking for but here is a game that came up a while ago on HN where you need to go back in time and have your robots do things to allow the other robots to make it to the door:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=244594Pretty fun game for a little diversion though i... |
do you know of any commandline usability / improvement research? | losethos: http://www.losethos.com variation of C/C++ language syntax at the command line. |
Who are the famous contributors to Hacker News? | vaksel: you mean like the reddit guys? |
Who are the famous contributors to Hacker News? | johns: Previous similar discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=224739 |
Who are the famous contributors to Hacker News? | bdr: Why do you care? |
Does anyone know a site that let's you search for a co founder? | vaksel: http://collabfinder.com/ |
Who are the famous contributors to Hacker News? | bjclark: I'm famous on Twitter. |
Does anyone know a site that let's you search for a co founder? | arfrank: I think the best way might be to post here looking for someone with free time and an interest.Anyway, I happen to meet that description and have been looking for something new to start. I have a few ideas floating around in my head, shoot me an email if your interested. |
Who are the famous contributors to Hacker News? | jrockway: Does being an author automatically make you famous? For me, it's just a job. (Not that I don't enjoy it, of course, but I've found people to be WAY too excited to meet people who write books. ;) |
Does anyone know a site that let's you search for a co founder? | bkudria: Try http://younoodle.com |
do you know of any commandline usability / improvement research? | gojomo: You may want to look at Inky -- it's not traditional console/text, but rather taking some of that feel into a "command-line for the web with rich visual feedback:Inky: A Sloppy Command Line for the Webhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1llZnsye0M |
Who are the famous contributors to Hacker News? | gojomo: If you point and stare, they'll leave. So ixnay on the arfucking-stay, mm-kay? |
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