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Good idea to save journalism? | steve_mobs: the problem with journalism is the disruptive technology of the internet to its old distribution system and how it changed the way we consume news. |
What software do you install on a clean windows install | hs: i have a 2gb image of win98 simply because win98 has generic kernel (you can swap the hard drive to any hardware and most of the time it won't BSOD).driver for samsung mfc was installed (never buy korean again, their hws are not friendly toward mac/unix), maybe gvim, putty and some other softwaresi didn't even inst... |
Does anyone know a site that let's you search for a co founder? | mojombo: Yeah, it's called the local user's group for the technology of your choice. |
Does anyone know a site that let's you search for a co founder? | dfranke: http://partnerup.com, but beware incessant customer retention spam. |
Does anyone know a site that let's you search for a co founder? | daveambrose: If you're in the NYC area next week, stop by Hackers & Founders: http://anyvite.com/events/home/vnq9pdylxo |
Does anyone know a site that let's you search for a co founder? | DTrejo: Hacker News: attend the meetups in your area, talk on #startups, be sociable, Ask HN. |
Does anyone know a site that let's you search for a co founder? | bkrausz: http://news.ycombinator.com ? |
Does anyone know a site that let's you search for a co founder? | mallipeddi: http://cofoundr.com |
Does anyone know a site that let's you search for a co founder? | invisible: This one seems decent (aside from collabfinder): http://programmermeetdesigner.com/Really, it's hard to make a commitment without doing some side projects with an individual or KNOWING them. There are a lot of ways to get scared. |
do you know of any commandline usability / improvement research? | mahmud: CLIM has input editing and output recording. Look at the McCLIM shell which freely mixes repl-type input with graphic output. |
Which bloggers are blatant plagiarists? | mahmud: Blogging is for the most part an echo chamber of regurgitated information. Period. |
Does anyone know a site that let's you search for a co founder? | mahmud: FWIW: Keep the "cofounders" to a minimum, my choice is ONE. This is not for greed but for focus and unity in vision. Feel free to offer people all the perks you want, but try to keep the steering-wheel in as few hands as possible.[Edit: I can understand why a VC might be interested in having multiple cofounders... |
Does anyone know a site that let's you search for a co founder? | jasonlbaptiste: I feel you can't force co-founders or look at it from a traditional standpoint. It just happens. No exact formula. Hacker News probably works best so far for this: whether it's a hacker or biz focused co-founder. |
How can the changing industrial manufacturing world be applied to hacking? | hs: In what ways do you think the internet will continue to disperse and converge?i think the internet helps refining the art by feedback loop. i learnt a lot reading success/fail experiments results posted in forums. needless to say, i won't be able to make fert without the internet -- so dissemination of idea goes ... |
How to use Amazon Mechanical Turk from Canada? | dxjones: Hmmm, this posting got 5 pts of karma (signifying interest, I presume), but nobody has posted a comment offering a solution. |
Does anyone use LXR? | cmars232: I used to a long time ago. It was OK, but now I'd just use the Eclipse CDT. CDT can probably cross-reference your code about as well as LXR if you tell it about your compiler & include paths. "Jump to declaration" (F3) and call hierarchy (Ctrl-Alt-H) are among my favorite shortcuts for tearing into a new c... |
The most fun and beautiful code you know of? | progLiker: /* fun only /
#const HellIsAHotAndFieryPlace=1
while (HellIsAHotAndFieryPlace)
printf("The end is near\n") ;/ yes it did make me laugh when I read it in Atari St user */ |
A site like Hacker News, but about art? | greengirl512: I couldn't find one. If there's not a site like that out there already, there really should be! |
A site like Hacker News, but about art? | pufuwozu: http://undrln.com/ is advertising, marketing and design. |
FAQ Pages useful? | kineticac: http://browseology.com |
FAQ Pages useful? | tokenadult: Do you guys think a FAQ is useful for a site?Yes, it is one of the first things I look for on a site introducing a new technology or new service. It is a clue I use to determine how committed the company is to user-friendliness. |
A site like Hacker News, but about art? | jtillery: Pretty cool idea.I would totally be interested in that. |
FAQ Pages useful? | ErrantX: I always look for a FAQ whenI visit a site that is not instantly obvious.Your right fixing issues that make a FAQ a necessity are important but you can never make it obvious for every single person. If you can describe whats going on in a few simple paragraphs thenOften, too, I benchmark a site by the FAQ - if... |
A site like Hacker News, but about art? | aseclear: Not really a community voting site, but http://woostercollective.com/ showcases some pretty interesting stuff from around the world. |
A site like Hacker News, but about art? | jay_kyburz: http://www.notcot.org/ |
FAQ Pages useful? | roam: Yes, a FAQ is certainly useful. But in the case of the Browseology FAQ and homepage, you have to take a step back and try to look at it through the eyes of a first time visitor.Above the first input box there's a link with the text "then join". To me that looks like I have to create an account. Rephrase it.But th... |
A site like Hacker News, but about art? | BjornW: What about rhizome.org? I'll admit that I only visit it perhaps once a month, but it if you like art perhaps rhizome is something to check out? Oh, as far as I know its more a blog than a community, so not exactly like HN. |
A site like Hacker News, but about art? | albion: http://ffffound.com/ is pretty good |
FAQ Pages useful? | lucumo: FAQs are great. I usually read them as one of the first things on a site. They breakdown the most important points in bite-sized chunks. They're also very useful because they're problem oriented (questions), which makes it more likely that you'll find what you're looking for. |
How to keep my data, apps, config movable between computers | lastkarrde: I've found dropbox (http://getdropbox.com) to be a great tool. It syncs files across Windows, Mac and Linux (GNOME/Nautilus currently) and allows you to access your files online.Just write a Python/insert lang here script that will copy your config files to their respective places on all operating systems (... |
A site like Hacker News, but about art? | zimbabwe: If you're looking for design, ilovetypography and SmashingMag.If you're looking for "general art", you're dealing with an incredibly tough subject, because each specific field of art requires just as much focus as the field of computer programming. There are few similarities in technique between composing and... |
Free Software in the Cloud? | SwellJoe: Perhaps you and I should talk. We're working on something in this direction at the moment, based in part on our existing systems and cloud management tools.But, because we don't see an immediate way for it to pay for itself (and the investors we've floated the idea vaguely before aren't too interested at thi... |
A site like Hacker News, but about art? | quizbiz: Start one at slinkset.com |
FAQ Pages useful? | stonemetal: An FAQ is documentation with a specific format. You don't have to wait for any questions to be asked before starting your FAQ, though it should highlight any questions you get asked regularly. |
A site like Hacker News, but about art? | kailoa: Dustin Curtis recommended me 3 sites on twitter the other day:http://www.alistapart.com/ Articles and referencehttp://creattica.com/ Social voting on CSS, logos, biz cards etc.http://typophile.com/ Mostly discussion as far as I can tell.Creattica is by far my favorite for just browsing. ALA is popular dest... |
Free Software in the Cloud? | wmf: Check out http://autonomo.us/ where there has been a lot of similar discussion. |
how to monetize email list? | russell: Don't see your lists to a third party. That breaks faith with your subscribers.I subscribe to email lists that have ads. The ads dont bother me much. |
How to keep my data, apps, config movable between computers | johngunderman: I haven't actually done this yet, but I'm planning to move my backup solution to a home server with a git repo of my /home directory, setting up a cron job on my main comp to push to the repo. It would be space and time efficient, and would make for easy retrieval over the internet if need be. Of course,... |
mass-manufacture plastic | cmars232: Maybe one of those online fabrication sites (don't know of any off the top of my head, but you could find some on fabbaloo.com)? Or are they still too expensive?Too bad you don't need more than 10-20, then you could probably use a factory in China. |
mass-manufacture plastic | ken: For that size order, something like emachineshop.com might be the ticket. |
Any users of SimpleCDN? | DanRayburn: Robyn,SimpleCDN has never exhibited at any Streaming Media West or East show, implying otherwise is simply a lie. Here is a link to all of the exhibitors at our shows over the past TEN years: http://www.streamingmedia.com/pastshows Point me to the show where SimpleCDN exhibited. You can't.I list over 40 CDN... |
how to monetize email list? | effektz: I'm not mail list expert but I have a couple decent sized lists, and I usually use them to promote products I'm selling, or cross-promote some of my other websites. I've tried putting affiliate links at the end of the emails but that hasn't been very successful so far. |
mass-manufacture plastic | kingkongrevenge: Look up "tool and die" in the yellow pages. |
how to monetize email list? | there: i know at least the sourceforge.net email lists have ads on every mail going out. hotmail did this and may still (does anyone still use hotmail?). it seems like it would be difficult for a 3rd party to provide an ad network like the many web advertisers do because the ad generation would have to be integrated ... |
mass-manufacture plastic | krschultz: Protomold.com is your best bet, ultimately you can make a larger run off the molds where as milling won't tell you anything about the viability of it as an injection molded product. Also injection molding is a bit more complicated than just drawing up a shape so you might need some expertise if you are going... |
mass-manufacture plastic | mah: stereolithography |
how to monetize email list? | thepanister: use Amazon referral program.
Just add links to items they might be interested in buying.You will earn 4% to 10% of every purchase they make on Amazon! |
Rate This Newspaper Advertisement Application Platform | keltecp11: Please tell me what you like and don't like about this application AdDesk... everything from UI to basic functionality. Probably goes without saying with you guys but, be brutally honest.Were you able to submit an advertisement? Was it hard/easy to navigate?-P |
mass-manufacture plastic | mhb: Depends on the surface finish you want, amount of post-fabrication hand work you want to do, price, strength, size...You could look at www.shapeways.com |
mass-manufacture plastic | cmos: I always try and find a way to make it out of metal in smaller quantities (and larger for that matter). |
Rate This Newspaper Advertisement Application Platform | vaksel: Is this meant to be viewed on a blackberry/iphone? |
FAQ Pages useful? | vivekamn: FAQ is not the first thing I look for in a site. To me, in context hints and help links are more useful. Personally, I would focus more on these. I do check the faq, if all else fails to explain. |
Do you think the whois rules need to be modified? | pantsd: I think the solution is to not allow the domainbyproxy services anymore [like some cctlds have done]. Having valid whois contact information (especially abuse) is can be very useful. e-mail often isn't always sufficient. |
FAQ Pages useful? | petervandijck: In your case, you don't need a FAQ, you need to improve your homepage and focus the product.I did a quick mockup of an improved homepage: http://poorbuthappy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/05...Equally important: you need to decide what the main interaction is, and focus on that, instead of making... |
mass-manufacture plastic | nkurz: I've been doing some home molding with High Impact Polystyrene (HIPS) and with clear PETG. The polystyrene is opaque, white, strong, and particularly easy to work with. It's also cheap (about $50 for a 1/8" 4'x8' sheet).Vacuum molding at home with an oven and a vacuum cleaner can produce surprisingly good resu... |
mass-manufacture plastic | madaerodog: consider this http://harkopen.com/projects/reprap |
Rate This Newspaper Advertisement Application Platform | alexkearns: I don't like to be too critical because it is always a commendable achievement to complete any web app. However, I think you really need to get yourself a designer. In terms of appearance, it is one of the worst sites I have ever seen. The text is so small as to be virtually unreadable, the header image is ... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | oskarpearson: Hi!Thanks for a useful resource.If you change your DNS lookup method, I think you'll have fewer false positives where you list domains as being available, when they actually aren't.For example: readia.com is not available, but the wordoid site says it is.If you do a DNS lookup at the .com core servers, ra... |
Outdoor jobs for geeks? | davidw: Interesting question. I love being outdoors, and find that it's necessary to get a fair amount of exercise to be physically and mentally healthy. Perhaps it's best not to combine that with work, though...My grandfather worked as a forest ranger, and he seemed happy enough, although I'm not sure it was much of... |
Outdoor jobs for geeks? | vorador: You could get involved in GeekCorps : http://www.geekcorps.org/ |
Outdoor jobs for geeks? | wyclif: Land surveying. Includes knowledge of civil engineering, trigonometry, cartography, hydrography, geology, law (boundary), and forestry.http://www.surveyingcareer.com/P.S. We need your help! |
Outdoor jobs for geeks? | MikeElkins: Underwater robots.
http://www.bluefinrobotics.comHave to love tech and boats. |
Outdoor jobs for geeks? | robg: I think farmers are the original hackers. |
Outdoor jobs for geeks? | TriinT: Astronaut!! Does extra-vehicular activity count as outdoors activity? ;-) |
Outdoor jobs for geeks? | berntb: A data point: An old friend burned out after a decade of being a consultant with a long commute. Now he has worked a few summers as a gardener.He is in shape, tanned and happy, so I have given up trying to make him go back to computers. ("Join the dark side... we can drink coffee throughout the day!")Personally... |
mass-manufacture plastic | rjprins: I've studied industrial design for a few years, here is what I can tell you:Plastics is a very large subject and there are a lot of criteria that can be involved. You criteria apparantly are: - Can be made in small series. (ie. no injection molding or extrusion)
- Holds electrical circuitry.
- Serves main... |
Outdoor jobs for geeks? | mtb72: Field engineer for a cellphone/mobile broadband company. You'll need to travel around to mast sites and customer sites to do QA, troubleshooting, test signal strength and do basic IP networking stuff.You need a head for heights. |
Outdoor jobs for geeks? | helium: Travel writer. Lots of hackers are also good writers. It can involve a lot of research into the history and culture of different places.OK, maybe I'm just using my dream job :) |
Outdoor jobs for geeks? | mannicken: Do you mean jobs that don't involve computers and are outside? Many geeky jobs will probably involve some sort of writing utensils, how is it different from computer?I work as a software development freelancer and often work outside with a laptop or just pencil and piece of paper. |
Outdoor jobs for geeks? | gregwebs: I am going to try to program while outside. |
Outdoor jobs for geeks? | J_McQuade: I've long been a fan of going out into the woods with minimal tools (decent belt knife, axe, tarp, blanket, billy can and a box of matches) - you'd be surprised at the hack value you can find out there. Finding the most elegant way to turn a couple of bits of tree into a chair can be far more rewarding than ... |
Outdoor jobs for geeks? | pragmatic: I've found that hacking on my house provides a lot of needed physical labor/activity.I do things like improve the lighting in my garage so I can work on various projects out there. I'm also thinking about taking up gardening.I too have really felt the urge to get up and do real physical stuff lately. I won... |
best languages to learn as a newcomer | ErrantX: C++If she has a sharp mind she will pick it up easy enough and that is where she wants to be with the ultimate aim.Alternatively Java might be an option: purely if she fancies looking at distributed apps. I hate Java like crazy but it has some good background in distributed computing. |
best languages to learn as a newcomer | swombat: For the easy learning curve and everyday scripting, Ruby/Python would do well.For the heavier stuff, C++, Erlang, Java... |
best languages to learn as a newcomer | gamache: With a background in physics and math, she might do well in a functional language, or in a language which supports functional development well. Python is a good choice due to its math libraries and ease of learning. I was also going to suggest Clojure but that basically requires knowing an amount of Java. |
best languages to learn as a newcomer | tomh-: Haskell will be a perfect fit for these math/physics kind of projects. Writing these programs in a functional language is very close to how the theory in math/physics is explained so that is a nice fit. |
Outdoor jobs for geeks? | wglb: Here is one kind of outdoor geek activity: http://mcsquaredholdings.com/Pictures.htm |
best languages to learn as a newcomer | aneesh: If you want to create industrial/scientific applications, libraries are going to be pretty important. For that reason, I'd recommend Python (see SciPy and NumPy).I'd also recommend learning R if you're at all interested in scientific data analysis. |
best languages to learn as a newcomer | mdasen: I personally think Python would be best. Python will allow her to understand conditionals, loops, variable assignment, etc. really simply and quickly.Once you have that down, it's a lot easier to start dealing with things like static types, memory management, pointers, null bytes, and so on.I learned the other... |
best languages to learn as a newcomer | rmaccloy: Somebody mentioned Clojure, which is a great language but has some baggage.If she's coming from a rigorous background, I highly suggest Scheme and the book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/.) For some people using a language with more batteries (and thus in... |
best languages to learn as a newcomer | RiderOfGiraffes: Python + SciPy (which uses NumPy)http://docs.scipy.org/doc/http://numpy.scipy.org/Many operations are fast, being implemented in C, an the facilities include all sorts of numerical operations, as well as graphing/plotting and other visual interactions. |
best languages to learn as a newcomer | keefe: Java is pretty prevalent and has an awfully large set of nice libraries. Once you write some utility classes to deal with reflection and some of the other annoyances - including tweaking eclipse to speed workflow - it's a great language to work in. |
best languages to learn as a newcomer | carbon8: Ruby or Python, leaning toward Python only because it's used more widely in physics applications and, as a result, has more developed libraries for scientific computation. |
Outsourced SQL Providers? | SwellJoe: Have you thought about the latency increase inherent in moving your database across the city or state or country? You may be surprised by how large an impact this can have on overall application performance.YC company FathomDB (http://fathomdb.com) set off on this path and have/had some interesting ideas abo... |
Outsourced SQL Providers? | there: what type of data are you storing and what type of application is retrieving it? i would imagine the latency between your network and the sql provider's would hurt performance badly.most web hosting providers can give you a sql database but in those instances it works well because your website is probably runni... |
best languages to learn as a newcomer | TomOfTTB: It depends what platform she wants to develop her solution for.If she's doing web based development I'd suggest Javascript. Javascript has a lot of superflous non-sense in it but if you learn it the right way it's a very powerfult language. More importantly if she wants to develop web applications that do a... |
best languages to learn as a newcomer | mnemonicsloth: she wants to use her maths/physics knowledge towards creating industrial/scientific applications.The functional programmer in me is really happy that so many people are saying "Haskell!" but based on my own experience in applied physics, it's a terrible idea.Programming in the sciences is all about numer... |
best languages to learn as a newcomer | progLiker: Thinks she have som objectives with programming.I'd download the java tutorials with full source, buy Core Java to her, Install a pretty minimal version of Eclipse nicely set up with the workspace for eclipse osculating the java tutorials source and Core Java source, give her a bookmark to javadocs, java tut... |
Which persistent in-memory database to use? | gaius: How many reads and writes? MySQL is adequate if it's 1 write and 1000 reads.Or you could look at Oracle Coherence/TimesTen or [kx] http://kx.com/. |
Outdoor jobs for geeks? | krupap: I was a Cave Specialist/Physical Science Tech for the National Park Service for several years. I built GIS models, led cave surveys, mapped surface hydrology, and hiked up high ridges at night with night vision gear and a computer to ID bat echolocation calls. I could spend a day skiing to a backcountry air res... |
best languages to learn as a newcomer | loch_ness_350: Clojure is a great, powerful language. I would start with that-- it's a Lisp that runs on the JVM, so it has access to all the Java libraries. It can become semi-fast if you drop down to Java, but by the time you care about performance down to orders of binary magnitude, you should probably switch to Oca... |
best languages to learn as a newcomer | megaduck: It depends. If her interests are highly focused, there's a few problem domains where niche languages (R, Matlab, Haskell, Fortran) really shine. However, if she wants more general purpose tools, I've got a few strong recommendations:Ruby - I'd start here. Ruby is an amazingly flexible language, with a gigan... |
Outsourced SQL Providers? | bayareaguy: Too bad you're not willing to consider PostgreSQL. I would have suggested http://www.commandprompt.com |
Which persistent in-memory database to use? | bsaunder: You threw me off with asking about a "persistent in-memory" database... kinda like an "invisible multi-color" car...I get what you are saying, seems like you want a write-through cache. Sure seems that you are in the right ball park for a solution, but may have to write a bit of application code layered to ... |
Which persistent in-memory database to use? | aditya: Have you looked at Project Voldemort? http://project-voldemort.com/Voldemort combines in memory caching with the storage system so that a separete caching tier is not required (instead the storage system itself is just fast.) |
Which persistent in-memory database to use? | deno: Why you don't like Redit? It's doing exactly what [I think] you want - in-memory cache with periodically background saving. |
best languages to learn as a newcomer | splat: Though it's probably not a good first language, if she is going to be writing code for any astrophysical applications she will have to learn IDL at some point. It's a language that's rarely used in any other field, but in astrophysics it's the language of choice. |
Proper way to report an error in a paper | ErrantX: Option b - and email the author too.It's your "discovery" so you can do what you like with it :) |
Outdoor jobs for geeks? | krschultz: Construction management |
best languages to learn as a newcomer | iigs: looking to get out of her current gig in journalism and into softwareIs this for commercial/employment purposes? If so I'd consider looking at the job market for desirable positions and selecting a tool set from there. Even if the idea is to build products for sale/use from scratch herself it's probably worth und... |
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