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Where should I sell my good short (5-char) domains? | stone2020: Namepros, DnForum, Moniker, Greatdomains, Namedrive, Ebay, Sitepoint |
Inheritance? | brl: You should almost never use implementation inheritance. In fact, until you have mastered designing with composition, the 'extends' keyword should be banned from your vocabulary. |
What's the best IRC client for a Mac? | icey: I used to use emacs and XChat, but now I just prefer to use Mibbit. |
Please review Utilium.com – a web app for sharing learning materials | proee: I recommend adding a screencast to explain the product. |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | dunk010: I've used source safe, which is pretty much the most brain damaged way to do source control ever invented. "Could you unlock that file please?"... Thank god for svn and git. |
Please review my Minimum Viable Product - Yuffizi | ABrandt-2: Clickable link: http://yuffizi.co.cc(MVP = cheap as possible = free domain/hosting) I will run it on something meatier when necessary. |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | prpon: I interned for a health care company where the lady in charge of my work had a Microsoft Access database with a single table.
That table had something like 500 columns.
I spent a week or so understanding and created a decent normalized relational database model.
I was not allowed to make any changes. The reason ... |
Please review Utilium.com – a web app for sharing learning materials | psranga: I'm not sure I understand. Is it free or not?==== from the FAQ ========How much does Utilium cost?The Utilium platform is free for instructors and students.If you adopt and deliver a ready-made Study Pack to your students, there is a cost for your students to access these Utilium materials. Please note that st... |
How much do you sleep at night? | rscott: Five or six hours nightly during the week, generally some more on the weekends. Pretty typical for 22 years old I'd assume. |
Please review Utilium.com – a web app for sharing learning materials | mdolon: In my opinion, the 37signals style of displaying a product works so well is because of amount of information readily available with such little effort. Your design looks pretty attractive already and is in a similar sales letter type layout - consider adding a tour with large screenshots. It may also benefit ... |
What Web apps increase your productivity? | mdolon: http://www.grooveshark.com/ and/or http://www.pandora.com/ |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | zackola: I'm sorry I have to extend this to hardware/environment issues. Four tech people in company (including a web designer). One guy managing the network remotely from some other office location. Only access to production servers off-site was through VPN, common enough right? Fine, but instead of figuring out how V... |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | dustmop: A company I was at created huge arrays of data structures, many of which contained nested arrays of data structures, which were eventually serialized and rpc'd to another server. Since this was written in C, and they felt malloc was too hard to do correctly, every structure was stack allocated, using a MAX_SIZ... |
Please review my Minimum Viable Product - Yuffizi | dxjones: oops, as of Thu June 4 8pm EDT,
the main page displays the same content twicedid you duplicate your HTML or PHP?I am using Firefox, Mac OSX, ... if it matters. |
How much do you sleep at night? | nickfox: Who sleeps at night? |
Please review my Minimum Viable Product - Yuffizi | dxjones: I think there needs to be more on the site to draw interest.Tell a story: Liz is an executive with a new office. She's in the market for an abstract acrylic for that blank wall.Jake is a digital artist whose colourful and intricate work is visually engaging.When this site connects Liz and Jake, Art Happens. |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | chaostheory: About ten years ago, a telecom company (which no longer exists since it was purchased by a larger company) I worked for refused to allow us to use anything open source. |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | spatulon: It seems to be a common problem that, although the will is there to improve practices, persuading higher-ups is almost impossible.Although many of like to think that cold, hard logic is the only suitable method of reasoning with somebody, the reality is that even programmers are somewhat human. We're all prou... |
What Web apps increase your productivity? | adammichaelc: SugarSync |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | gchpaco: I'm apparently too opinionated to survive long in insane environments,
but I did intern for a company that, in Java, did a couple of really
disturbing things:1. Every Java exception that can possibly be thrown from a method must
be caught, logged, appended to a new Java exception, and re-thrown.
Fully 2/3rds o... |
Is Bing running on a non-MS stack? | CyberFonic: MS bought Powerset in order to bring Bing to market (just like they bought QDOS to sell to IBM as MSDOS).PowerSet uses:Natural language parser from Xerox Parc http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9940887-80.htmlApache http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-core-user/20...Puppet server farm admin tools... |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | mwerty: I was barred from using recursion because it would confuse people. My response was we should fire these people. Authority won. |
Digital Globe of the World | wglb: Have you checked http://edc.usgs.gov/? Seems like they have quite a bit of varied data.But this is likely not very low resolution.Another source might be: http://serc.carleton.edu/research_education/geopad/topograph... |
Please review my Minimum Viable Product - Yuffizi | gojomo: Hate to be 'that guy' who cites chapter and verse of PG, but before Viaweb there was Artix, which is now the leading example in an essay entitled, "Why Smart People Have Dumb Ideas":http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.htmlTimes changes, and certainly with each year more categories could make sense for web sales...... |
What Web apps increase your productivity? | wenbert: I'm curious why no one posted Etherpad. :-/ |
What's the name of that site? | rscott: This is a shot in the dark but were you talking about this project on HN a couple days ago? http://almost.at/ |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | bayareaguy: Where I once worked, the -> operator was forbidden to appear in the C code we wrote. In place of w->x or f->title you had to write stuff like WIN(w,x) or FRM(f,title). WIN, FRM and the like were just C preprocessor macros. This was all to allow for some kind of weird future structure compatibility manag... |
What's the best IRC client for a Mac? | quellhorst: I have switched to the beta version of adimu. It has decent IRC support. I have used colloquy and irssi/bitchx in the past |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | goodgoblin: We cannot download a single piece of software that is not approved by the 'Open Source Council' - a group of reactive retards who if they ever did their job would already have a tool ready for all the situations they have nothing but bemused confusion to offer for the advice they are purported to give to us... |
What's the name of that site? | albahk: Perhaps http://www.newscred.com/ although I don't see a light glaring out of a hole. |
What Web apps increase your productivity? | embeddedradical: webnotes.net (found out about it here, been using it since), google reader, vitalist, a personal IT wiki (using screwturn wiki), and the gtdish setup i got going on on my usb drive (truecrypted w/ backup script that creates a backup whenever im plugged in at home, maintains last 7 backups [each unique ... |
What's the name of that site? | ycjobseeker: Thanks for the posts -- but neither are it. almost.at is beautiful, though.The background is black. I believe it's news{something}.com. |
What's the name of that site? | rms: http://popurls.com/ ? |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | va_coder: In a Java environment, in late 2007, we began work on a new application. I was told not to use Spring and that the application should be developed in Struts 1.Thank god I left after a year.Going forward, when you interview, you should ask about development environment, version control, testing practices, etc... |
Please review Utilium.com – a web app for sharing learning materials | modelic: You should add latex capability to text entry. Most scientists can not live without it especially when it comes to writing stuff that has any remote connection to mathematics. |
What makes you adopt an API? | hboon: Depends on the right combination of usefulness and simplicity.I'm assuming this is web-based. Here's something practical at the implementation level:1. It doesn't have to be true REST-ful. But it should be as easy as forming a GET URL string, or if appropriate, POST with simple, string payloads unless it is bina... |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | known: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000072.html |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | jbm: I was working for an airline website - which was weird, because I had been promised I would be working on something else. I bit my tongue and agreed to it, since it sounded like fun.Then the Chairman of the company, a fellow who supposedly had a law & math degree, told me that he would be doing the design with me... |
What's the best IRC client for a Mac? | defied: I'm using LimeChat (http://limechat.net/mac/). It's a pretty good client. Supports multiple irc servers, highlighting, ... everything you want :) |
Please review our startup: gpsAssassin | pclark: Why does the blackberry download link take me to the Apple Store? |
Please review our startup: gpsAssassin | pclark: oh and:
Sign up to be notifiedWe will be launching in April.Enter your email address and we will let you know when it is ready. |
How do you read HN? | ErrantX: First thing in the morning and some tiem in the afternoon I check out the links on the main page to see what I missed overnight.Then I have the HN-links chatterous room open in Gtalk which posts new additions to the main page - so popular stuff comes to my attention.Then I dip into the "new" page once an hr or... |
How do you read HN? | brk: I check the "new" page about once an hour, and the News page 4 or 5x/day.Sort of depends on what else I have going on though. Was traveling M-W this week, so didn't check HN at all during that time. |
do you write book? | jgrahamc: I recently wrote The Geek Atlas (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596523206/). The main tool I used was XMLMind XML Editor since the book was marked up using DocBook XML. Before I started doing the XML work I was writing using emacs.Once the writing was done I submitted it to the publisher via SVN (each book ... |
Does Vista sucks with everyone or just with me ? | jcapote: Vista does suck. It's at least twice as slow as XP on the same hardware. Nowadays, the latest Ubuntu provides a better experience overall. |
Does Vista sucks with everyone or just with me ? | quoderat: You should be able to install Ubuntu with no problem.I am not sure why Vista is so terrible, but it certainly is. I loved XP and like Windows 7, but it was about time that Microsoft release another Windows ME, I guess.I used Vista for a year, and hated it the whole while. I am a masochist is the only explanat... |
How much do you sleep at night? | leonroy: The way I figure it is, some days you work harder and need more sleep, some days you need less. So I try to be like a machine: I'll wake up at 7am and go to sleep when I'm tired.This results in me getting about 6-8 hours sleep a night - and no sleeping in on weekends! It throws my pattern completely out of wha... |
What is PG like in real life? | antirez: In case you are interested I sell original relics of PG for a reasonable price. |
What is PG like in real life? | j2d2: I think this challenges the honesty of Paul's essays. Or perhaps it demonstrates the independent drawing powers of HN.If it's the latter, I recommend checking :: http://paulgraham.com/articles.htmlIt is my belief that an essay collection found on Paul's site requires nothing less than full and honest commitment t... |
What is PG like in real life? | jjs: I know only what the high priests have spake after consulting the Stone Tablets of Ancient Prophecy, but by all accounts, pg is twenty feet tall, with fiery glowing eyes and fiercely flaring nostrils. His golden halo is shaped like a matched pair of parentheses, and his arrival is heralded by heavenly trumpets an... |
What is PG like in real life? | kirubakaran: http://danhau.posterous.com/our-fearless-investor-paul-gra |
What is PG like in real life? | jgrahamc: I've met him a few times (at the MIT Spam Conference) and one time while passing through Boston when I had brunch with him. He's an ordinary looking bloke, perhaps something like a friendly teddy-bear hacker. |
What is PG like in real life? | icey: He is 7 foot 1 and made of nothing but muscle and gold teeth.His hair is flowing, long and luxurious and it smells like roses and babies.He once punched a man in the nose and sent him into space. That man was named Neil Armstrong.When he walks into a room, women swoon and men cower in fear. Also: dogs love him an... |
Review my site - Wunbar (one bar to search across the web) | makecheck: It's a neat idea; but I have to say, I wouldn't use it because I can already set up these kinds of short-cuts in my web browser (OmniWeb) with more flexibility.To give an example of what OmniWeb can do:- Define any shortcut pattern with any name.- Map that to a URL, where the string can be substituted in at ... |
How would you reinvent telematics systems for cars? | soc: What is really needed is to have all vehicles, roads, lights, and stop signs linked together.For example, a car should refuse to let the driver proceed thru a light/stop sign unless it's clear. Imagine all the money that would be saved from property/medical damages. |
How would you reinvent telematics systems for cars? | yan: Don't know how useful or practical this will be, but I noticed anything sitting on my dash is clearly reflected on my windshield. Placing a HUD screen on top of the dash, close to the windshield defroster vents pointing up, flipped horizontally, and focused on infinity can get your current speed/fuel/etc without t... |
Joomla or Rails? | spooneybarger: Here is the question I have for you, are you versed in php?
If you need to add functionality etc to Joomla, how long is that going to take you to ramp up? Balance that against the time savings you get from ready made components. Also, if you have never used Joomla or anything else that offers 'snap toget... |
Joomla or Rails? | jarrodtaylor: A CMS will probably get something up faster, but writing your own code will definitely be better for later customization. Maintenance really depends on what you build. How much do you want to fine tune and customize? |
Joomla or Rails? | mahmud: Joomla is a toy compared to Rails. |
Joomla or Rails? | flooha: Most experienced admins who have used all of the various php based CMSs would probably recommend Drupal over Joomla. Drupal is considered better when it comes to security and customization. Joomla addons have a stigma of being generally insecure.As others have said, you'll get up and running faster with an op... |
How would you reinvent telematics systems for cars? | HeyLaughingBoy: Traffic situation. I live out in the sticks so I don't know about recent construction in the city & 'burbs. The result is that often when I go into the city, I get stuck in traffic that I would have known to avoid if I were still living there.GPS that would display streets with level of congestion would... |
Joomla or Rails? | aarongough: Unfortunately I cannot come close to recommending Joomla. Looking through the core code of the system is an exercise in frustration at best. While the code is not necessarily all super-bad the documentation is lacking in the extreme.I would recommend starting from scratch in Rails. That way you'll have cont... |
PHP vs Rails vs obj C vs scala | yan: What are your goals? |
Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for | apinecone: At an internship I had back in university, I worked for a tiny startup where the CEO imposed the following restrictions:* No STL ("too slow", and other reasons) -- had to roll our own giant, buggy core library* No member variables ("compilation too slow") -- had to put everything in a predeclared struct, hav... |
Inheritance? | PaulMorgan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is-a versus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Has-a. Usually the "perfect" tree isn't really all that perfect. |
Review my project: SitesInCommon | pedalpete: I can't say that this is the site that I've been looking for, but you might be on to something.However, you have a bit of a catch-22 with respect to the sign-up vs. experience this without signing up.I didn't sign-up, and therefore, you can't show me anything.
You also don't describe anything on your home p... |
Review my project: SitesInCommon | notaddicted: I like the idea.Maybe you could:- Display the website that is the referrer- Use ip -> geo database to do quick matches with no signup-- i.e. just say: "4 news.ycombinator.com readers visited today"I am creating an account now, but maybe my suggestions could give you a more compelling frontpage. |
Review my project: SitesInCommon | jsonscripter: As someone who cannot access any private email accounts at work, I cannot view or review your site. Perhaps it should be more open. |
Review my project: SitesInCommon | natrius: For the people who don't want to make an account, you can start exploring from here: http://alpha.sitesincommon.com/metros/24702816For now, getting you to sign up is kind of the idea. We need data. |
PHP vs Rails vs obj C vs scala | evdawg: Hey, if you think Objective C is fun, go for Objective C. If you're not enjoying learning a new language and adding it to your skillset, you're doing it wrong. Do you want do pursue jobs in a language you don't enjoy coding?Scala / Ruby are viewed as "fun" languages as well. You might as well try everything... ... |
Does Vista sucks with everyone or just with me ? | pedalpete: Of course you can install Ubuntu, but it sounds very strange that your laptop is THAT poor at running Vista.I ran Vista for about 8 months before upgrading to Windows 7, and though Vista definately did some ridiculously stupid things, I never had issues with 'performance' (I'm running 64 bit version for mysq... |
Review my project: SitesInCommon | ScottWhigham: Down for me - 404 not found |
Review my project: SitesInCommon | erikwiffin: The very first thing I did when I landed on your site was click the big blue link. That took me to Gizmodo. You've already lost me as a user, because Gizmodo is interesting, so I'm not inclined to hit the back button.
Maybe what you should do instead is have it link to a page inside your site about Gizmodo.... |
Does Vista sucks with everyone or just with me ? | jibiki: > Can I install Ubuntu on my made for Vista Laptop?That's what I did. There was some trouble with drivers, but nothing too bad. |
Review my project: SitesInCommon | timothychung: Please let us know what to expect in the front page.It is kind of scary not knowing what to expect but need to sign up for your service. |
PHP vs Rails vs obj C vs scala | TallGuyShort: If you've done a good amount of C/C++ in the past, you'll find very little trouble picking up objC and PHP if you need them for a particular project. If you want to expand your skills, I would learn scala. MAYBE Rails. |
PHP vs Rails vs obj C vs scala | spooneybarger: If you want to add to your skill set, I would think you have a couple possible motivations...motivation a- expand the mind.If that is the case and you know c/c++, I would say, go with scala as it is the farthest afield from what you already know.motivation b- develop a marketable skill.If that is the cas... |
Review my project: SitesInCommon | edw519: Anyone here from Pittsburgh?(If anyone here answers me, then I probably don't need your site. OTOH, if no one responds, then maybe you're on to something.) |
Review my project: SitesInCommon | omouse: Don't make the link clickable. You want the focus to be drawn towards the slogan/question you have underneath and you want the user to sign up or login. You could also display a few more sites-in-common underneath the sign up and login buttons just to show that the thing actually works. |
Bug in Hacker News ResponseStatusLine | pg: Sounds like you have a very picky feed reader. Which one is it? And what specifically is it complaining about?Does anyone know if the http protocol actually mandates more header lines than we're supplying? |
Review my project: SitesInCommon | crowbar: An interesting idea, though I have the problem of being in a rural area in Western NC. Thus, my experience with the site is going to be limited. However, the next county over is Asheville, which would have a greater chance of meeting up with people who have similar interest. I know you can search by metro area... |
Review my project: SitesInCommon | rudyfink: Better feedback seems to be something that is needed. After or as you input sites there should be feedback from the site. Right now I just feel like this was a way to give you data on sites that I like. I'd like to feel that there is more going on. |
Please review Utilium.com – a web app for sharing learning materials | mjfern: Thank you everyone for your thoughtful comments! Very helpful feedback. It's clear we still need to work on the positioning of our product and in turn the communication of this positioning to the user (a screencast, some examples, a tour, etc.) |
What if Web 2.0 contributions were mandatory (like jury duty)? | sarvesh: An Orwellian society? No thanks. |
How Important is HN cred? | noodle: i'll give people one free pass on creating a new account and then submitting their own stuff. but after that, i expect participation and/or non-self-serving submissions. multiple submissions without contribution is where i start to criticize. |
What if Web 2.0 contributions were mandatory (like jury duty)? | jmonegro: All would contribute to the big ones, and all the others would still fail. |
How Important is HN cred? | jmonegro: If the article was good, I don't mind. Now, if he continues to only post links to his stuff, that's another story. |
Review my project: SitesInCommon | Tichy: Why is signing up required? |
Does PHP drives you crazy? | noodle: re: driving me crazy -- nope.re: documentation -- a little annoying, but i've seen worse.re: debugger -- http://xdebug.org/re: higher level programming -- are you using a framework? |
How Important is HN cred? | DanielBMarkham: I was looking at a user account just this morning. Only 30 days or so old, and everything he submitted was from the same commercial site. There were a dozen or so submissions, and no comments from him at all.Something funny about that.I'd rather have people post their own stuff than having people peddle... |
PHP vs Rails vs obj C vs scala | alanthonyc: For your consideration: Django / Python.Not sure why they're not on your list, but I was pretty much in your shoes a few months ago and am having a lot of fun with these at the moment. |
Joomla or Rails? | aaroneous: Joomla is a mess and I wouldn't recommend it for a dev.It's much more of a CMS for designers, than any sort of framework for developers. |
Review my project: SitesInCommon | qeorge: I've installed the userscript and I like it, but your homepage made me think it was a different product. I thought it would scan my bookmarks or social profiles for sites I visit, and match me up to other users that way (maybe it does and I don't see it?).Also, it would be nice to get more information before be... |
Does PHP drives you crazy? | jawngee: I think if PHP is driving you crazy, you're doing it wrong.Get a good framework (Recess is the most promising, CodeIgniter is fairly sane). |
PHP vs Rails vs obj C vs scala | smwhreyebelong: The other thing was availability of good projects to work on for the languages.For objC, I can think of a few iPhone apps I could work on to learn the platform. For things like PHP, Rails, Scala (where you'll need a good amount of traffic to really excel at them and get real world experience beyond some... |
Review my project: SitesInCommon | phugoid: I don't like being lied to.What's going on in my mind, within two seconds of the page load, is that you've used a stock image on your front page, and you've generated "These people both read Hacker News." using my HTTP referrer. So in fact these two people don't read Hacker News.I get the cleverness of the pa... |
Does PHP drives you crazy? | jrockway: Yes, PHP is bad. I ranted about this in the past:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=579250(To make a long story short, PHP makes all of the same mistakes as Java with respect to OO, but doesn't have the workarounds that Java does.) |
PHP vs Rails vs obj C vs scala | compay: PHP is easy to pick up but will likely teach you bad programming habits. This is coming from someone who got their start with PHP. :-)If you want to do web stuff I think Ruby and Python would be better choices. If you want to avoid the learning curve of Rails, you can start off doing stuff with Sinatra instead,... |
Review my project: SitesInCommon | icey: Before I sign up, how do you store passwords?Can you make email optional? |
What if Web 2.0 contributions were mandatory (like jury duty)? | timmaah: It would fill the web with even more noise. |
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