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Does PHP drives you crazy? | trickjarrett: Joy of joys, another language rant. |
Why not have one daily site/app update submission for all HN members? | jmonegro: I do not understand what you're proposing. |
What if Web 2.0 contributions were mandatory (like jury duty)? | mahmud: amichail:The questions are getting too numerous and very odd. I hope you're researching for sci-fi novel or a video game. |
Ad networks which allow multiple destination URLs in the ads | mahmud: Use a URL redirector. |
Why not have one daily site/app update submission for all HN members? | keltecp11: You should make your own YC if this is what you want... I don't come here to check on other startups... I come here for Hacker News. |
Review my project: SitesInCommon | wglb: It only is letting me add one site. |
Review our startup: Tonido | yan: The site is beautiful, but even after reading the blurb, I'm not sure what Tonido is. Is it for users or developers? |
Review our startup: Tonido | Zarathu: Yeah, I'm still clueless in regards to what its actual functionality is. |
Does PHP drives you crazy? | raganwald: What do I think? Honestly?? Meta-answer: The choice to conduct a poll to ask what HN members think of PHP is not the best wayto move forward.Is this actionable? Why are you asking whether PHP drives us crazy, as opposed to a question like "Which language/framework should I use for building a Webapp in my spa... |
Review our startup: Tonido | rw: Your pitch is good enough that I was really annoyed when I realized that it is closed-source. I do not expect the crypto/privacy aficionados to help you out with this product. |
Does PHP drives you crazy? | mixmax: Well it seems to be very fashionable to bash PHP these days, but you know what? It works, and it works well. It scales well, some of the webs largest sites are programmed in PHP, it's free, it has loads of libraries, it's mature, you can always find help and free code on the net, and PHP.net has the best docume... |
Review our startup: Tonido | michaelawill: I'm not sure I expected the site to look that amazing. Awesome job!I really like the idea behind the software to. I can't wait to hear about you in the news down the road :) |
Review our startup: Tonido | codemechanic: should the key message target functionality or underlying philosophy of the product? |
Review my project: SitesInCommon | TheSOB88: Awesome idea. Lame that nobody's really signed up yet, though. Here are some suggestions:First, get a new name. It should be something short/clever. SitesInCommon is a bit cumbersome to say, probably because of the fact that it's three words. Words usually imply stops between them, making it verbally funky.Yo... |
Review our startup: Tonido | stuff4ben: It took a while for the page to load, look into YSlow or that new Google PageSpeed to optimize it. Also took a couple minutes to grok what it does. Once I did, I immediately wanted to get it but was hesitant about how much it cost. I didn't see any mention of price anywhere. If it's free, be sure to ment... |
Review my project: SitesInCommon | anigbrowl: It's OK for me, but you want a fair bit of personal information. Do you need to know my age? No. Add a privacy policy. |
Review our startup: Tonido | anigbrowl: Giant graphic obscures your info. I didn't really want to scroll down to find out what. Otherwise home page is good.I'm not sure what it is you're offering that I can't do with, say, OpenOffice. What makes your apps different from/better than existing desktop software? |
Review our startup: Tonido | icey: Has anything changed since the last time you posted this?http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=537576 |
Review our startup: Tonido | huhtenberg: Who's your target userbase and how do you plan to make money (assuming this is a business venture and not a non-profit) ?In other words, are you being realistic by hoping to sell "no server dependency" to an average Joe, the Flickr user ? |
Review our startup: Tonido | aik: Great idea, beautiful site, and the software looks great (haven't tried it yet). What's your business model if you don't mind me asking? |
Review our startup: Tonido | tonetheman: looks nice but i dont know what it does. i read pretty much the entire front page and i cannot tell exactly what it is. looks like a professional site though! |
Why not have one daily site/app update submission for all HN members? | ram1024: oh dear god help me if you turn HN into twitter i will smite you so hard... |
Review our startup: Tonido | GotToStartup: looks very nice. Who designed the site? Graphics? Logo? |
Which tool(s) do you use to install/upgrade your app on production? | sowbug: Puppet with RPMs in yum repositories. Python scripts push individual RPMs to the development repository, then to staging, and finally to production.Also a few custom tweaks to restart the Puppet daemons when they die, which they do frequently. |
How many of you have used or even heard of a Lisp Machine? | ableal: That c.l.lisp post was from 1999. You might want to invite Kent (or anyone with the experience) to give his opinion on a modern IDE vs. the mythical LispM. I don't think that something like C# on Visual Studio (or equivalent) is very far.I don't care much, personally. I gave up fiddling Emacs many moons ago, an... |
Why not have one daily site/app update submission for all HN members? | falsestprophet: On a somewhat related note: I accidentally up-voted this post. Is there a way to undo such a mistake? |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | joeblubaugh: Threaded conversations & multiple labeling. This just destroys the folder metaphor other apps use. |
Review my project: SitesInCommon | quizbiz: I want a way to find and contact everyone (those that want to be contacted) that comes to Hacker News on a regular basis in Atlanta.That being said your site is very slow loading. Our fault? |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | xsc: Filters + Archive.Keeps my life in check. |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | jmonegro: e-mail :DBut seriously, a good, no, great spam filter. |
Why not have one daily site/app update submission for all HN members? | xsc: I personally like all of the submission, whether it is 10 a day or 1. The point is, if they're asking, and you're looking to help, you'll connect here. |
Developing for WinMobile vs Symbian vs iPhone | jmonegro: In the iPhone, you can only use Objective-C, so unless you're willing to use it, cross it out. But mind that making apps for iPhone is a gamble. |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | geuis: Search. Absolutely the most important feature I use. |
Review our startup: Tonido | tptacek: http://www.tonido.com/how.htmlYou forgot the "Systems Analyst". |
Review our startup: Tonido | tptacek: Sketchiness quotient increasing:http://www.tonido.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=44It doesn't look like you mean the same thing that everyone else means when you say "open source". You want to update this? |
Review our startup: Tonido | paul9290: Nice graphics but when I load the page the graphics take up my viewer (1280 by 800) and there is no copy to tell me what it is? I have to scroll down. I would suggest integrate short description into nice design right at the top so when page loads ppl get it right away! |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | jtuyen: I have to say it's the lab features. With all the cool addon features you can enable on the fly. Canned responses and Undo features is the top 2 I can't live without. |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | vaksel: ability to use it on my own domain. |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | mlinsey: Search, threaded conversations, the excellent spam filter, and excellent integration with Google Calendar. |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | manticor: Searchable archive. I don't know how many times this has saved me, and how many times I was screwed by Yahoo! |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | bingaman: 'Send and Archive' from the labs. Once I've replied to an email, 9 times out of 10 having an email sitting in my inbox is pointless. |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | solutionyogi: 1. Speed (I think it's faster than Outlook in almost all operations)
2. VIM like keyboard shortcuts1 and 2 combined makes it a winner for me. :) |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | enomar: Mute |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | yan: Keyboard shortcuts, and auto-filtering to different labels. I'm actually quite obsessive with my filters. |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | jerryji: 1. label 2. spam filter 3. search 4. thread 5. archive |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | zecg: Spam filter, IMAP, threads, importing from other accounts (for those in which I can't just set .forward). Search. Mailbox size. |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | andrewl-hn: I use Yahoo! Mail for historical reasons. I receive about 12-20 emails per day. Besides writing and reading emails I use Search - that's the only thing I really need. I also started using folders this year: the folder names are 2005, 2006, ... 2008 :) Current year emails are stored in inbox.
On average day ... |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | ruchi: Pop and forwarding. |
How many of you have used or even heard of a Lisp Machine? | wglb: There are a few hanging out on #lisp that have the machines (operational).If one does not care about lisp, then one would likely not care about lisp machines.And there is memory left in the community--just not everywhere. I don't recall Ted Nelson's stuff saying that we are doing anything right, but I could be m... |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | da5e: The "send to" feature using Gmail is my favorite. Combined with the ability to turn the email into a Google document it lets me research, write and format articles or web pages without ever leaving "the cloud". |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | rokhayakebe: Shortcuts On. I almost never use my mouse with Gmail. |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | tralfam: Spam filter. Gmail has blocked 2000 spam in the last 30 days. Spam almost never makes it past that filter.Second is the ability to easily manipulate large amounts of email. I mean, easily archive, make read, etc. any amount of email through search. I like to see when people follow me on twitter via email. I ge... |
Review my project: SitesInCommon | diN0bot: Small comment:"These people all read Hacker News.
But they don't know that. Yet."I parsed this as "each of these people don't know that he or she reads--as in will read--Hacker News." It sounded like an endorsement for Hacker News, rather than explaining that these people don't know that the people around them... |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | Hexstream: Rule-based action system (filters). I wish such intuitive and user-friendly programmability was part of more services. |
How many of you have used or even heard of a Lisp Machine? | rplevy: I predict the Lisp Machine will return, with Android OS Clojure hacking as its embryonic beginning of life. |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | zackola: - keyboard shortcuts
- best spam filter on planet (although it seems a few obvious ones have slipped through recently)
- search |
How many of you have used or even heard of a Lisp Machine? | Tangurena: I've heard about them. Way back when, I tried to get the card for the Mac 2. However a Mac2 + lisp engine card had a price tag of a luxury car.They were as much a dead end as JavaStations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaStation |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | mimmo: In no particular order: labels, filters, spam filter and the ability to search everything. |
What online sound repositories do you use? | gasull: Is this what you are looking for?http://www.freesound.org/ |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | pg: Being able to archive stuff and find it again by searching, instead of having to organize old email into folders. I never realized this till Gmail, but folders were just a clumsy, manual precomputed search result. (So are most book indexes.) |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | alanthonyc: I'm addicted to the temporary passwords on yahoo mail. I use them all the time when signing up on random sites.Has anyone else made the switch from this to gmail? |
Does Vista sucks with everyone or just with me ? | CyberFonic: I have had similar experiences with a Compaq Presario C700. Got it cheap. Even after a memory upgrade to 1.5G it ran erratically and the security screens and automated updates drove me to distraction. Sometimes it would take 45 minutes after power up before I could actually get some work done.Have install... |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | ujjwalg: interface of gmail on iPhone.. I just love it.. |
How would you reinvent telematics systems for cars? | bayareaguy: How about just opening up the documentation necessary to service or modify the mechanical and microprocessor-based systems in my car and then putting that into a kindle-like device? I'd much rather have something that would help me diagnose, maintain and modify my vehicle then something like a GPS. I'd al... |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | bayareaguy: I use http://www.fastmail.fm/mail/familyplans.html because it allows me to trivially manage everything related to email for my entire family. |
Review my project: SitesInCommon | known: Interesting idea. I subscribed. |
Does religion have a future | amit_pradhan: This is very interesting observation. Over last few centuries we have seen many religions evolving drastically, I guess the far future will have religions but they will evolve in such a way that I and you may not be able to find resemblance between them and todays religion |
S-Corp/C-Corp/LLC | jasonlbaptiste: Pretty sure you can convert S Corp into C Corp at a later date and declare the multiple classes of stock needed to raise money. I believe if you convert into a C Corp from the S Corp, you have to wait a period of time (5 years?) to convert back into an S corp if you so wished. LLC is a different beast... |
S-Corp/C-Corp/LLC | garply: I've got both an LLP and an S-corp.For the income pass-through reasons, you're right that a S-corp or LLP is the way to go. If I recall correctly, the tax difference between the 2 boils down to how much you're going to make - that is if you make over $X per year you want one solution and if you make under $X y... |
Does religion have a future | oldgregg: Belief in a higher power has been around since the dawn of time. There are as many religious people in the world as ever. Decrease in the west? Yes. Increase in the east? Yes. Faith has survived thousands of years of innovation, so it's a bit of generational arrogance (possibly coming from your particular wes... |
Developing for WinMobile vs Symbian vs iPhone | medianama: It might be a good idea to decide based on your target market.. |
Does religion have a future | gaius: That simply isn't true tho'. The biggest and most famous franchise of all, Star Wars, is heavily religious, the very first film states it openly. So is the best recent sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica. A main character of Firefly is a preacher.Even in Star Trek the Vulcans spend an awful lot of time contemplat... |
Does religion have a future | ErrantX: Christianity is a very young religion (taking one example). I am certain it wont exist 100's of years in the future (mostly because certain elements wont stand the test of science). But will there be replacements? Religions born out of existing ones or created anew (a bad example: scientology). I imagine there... |
Does immense pain and sowrrows lead man to the ultimate truth? | amit_pradhan: its that people remember god only when they are in trouble. When it comes to Christian missionaries, they catch people in sorrow and try to preach them their religion as they are soft targets. |
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Review my startup | trapper: Can you explain it in one sentence? |
Review my startup | henryl: I'm sure I have ADD or something but I can't bring myself to read so much text. |
Review my startup | mitko: Hm, you have to register, and then go looking for the small NewIdea button. I wish it was easier. |
Does religion have a future | y0ghur7_xxx: There is a believe in some form of a God in Star Trek, for example Picard believes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNwzawXu4v8
that the afterlife is run by someone/something, just not by Q. |
S-Corp/C-Corp/LLC | Hoff: Ask for referrals and talk to a (good) local lawyer.There are trade-offs. There are options. There are costs. There are details.More importantly, there are various (good) discussions and (key) decisions to be had among all of the (potential) partners (with the assistance of your lawyer), to ensure that all are... |
Review my startup | dejan: It's innovation/ideas crowdsourcing for companies, based on students' input. It aims at involving students in practical tasks of companies eg: marketing campaigns, new products, product improvements, business conducts, new markets etc.I agree it's a lot of text. In fact, it's all stripped out, bare bones. It'll ... |
S-Corp/C-Corp/LLC | jakestein: I often hear people (including Brad Feld in the relevant article on the front page of HN right now) saying that a corporation is the right choice if you plan on seeking funding, because venture investors don't want the pass through income that an LLC can create. VC's generally don't want to create Unrelate... |
Review my startup | Tichy: It says something about challenges, but then when you read the FAQ it says something about ideas. Which one is it?Searching for challenges produces 0 results, so it doesn't help with understanding what it is all about eiter. |
Review my startup | ckinnan: It is a very cool idea. The tough part is getting the balance right to where quality students will want to contribute (you may need to offer cash rewards) and businesses get value without risking their own IP (what if we have the same idea internally as someone offers on the site?). I do think there is a mar... |
Review my startup | joel_feather: You're about to give up. What faces you in the next 6 months will be toughest period you will face in this enterprise, because you have a chicken and egg problem. The easy part is over, and now the very difficult part will come, and this is where you have a 90% chance of giving up.Also, your focus is wron... |
Review my startup | sho: Ooh! I like the font. Helvetica Neue, very daring. And moz-border-radius! Love the layout and typography, although there's maybe a little too much bold text, starts to feel patronising.Not sure about the whole "ideas from young people" thing; I have learnt over time that the experience of actually trying to implem... |
Review my startup | fauigerzigerk: I like the challenges part because many "scratch your own itch" startup ideas are narrowly focused on very few social or entertainment areas that younger startup founders are familiar with. Startups often lack real problems to solve in my view.You should try to get companies to sign up and describe the r... |
Review my startup | huhtenberg: WhaT is uP wITh the exceSSIvE TEXt dEcoraTiON? It is virtUally uNReaDable. Ease oFf on NLP. |
S-Corp/C-Corp/LLC | mdasen: This isn't going to be the answer that you want, but it doesn't matter what corporate form you take. What matters is what you build. LLCs are going to be the least work. You won't sacrifice things down the road - worst case, you and your partners create a new Corp and sell the LLC to that corp.Most likely, y... |
Review my startup | jasonkester: You've got 5 seconds to get your point across before your user clicks the back button. If you're lucky, after that 5 second scan, that user might click on the first handy link to see if it leads to any information. I gave your site the benefit of the doubt and scanned for 30 seconds and clicked 3 links. ... |
What online sound repositories do you use? | ScottWhigham: I use sounds in our videos at http://www.learnitfirst.com/ and I found it was worth it, money-wise, to go ahead and buy at a reasonable price. I've bought from stockmusic.net as well as shockwave-sound.com. I think their sites save me time. |
I'm working on some tests for Amazon EBS volumes. What do you think? | delano: Here's an active link:http://gist.github.com/123400 |
I'm working on some tests for Amazon EBS volumes. What do you think? | gruseom: We're using EBS, so I'm interested.You might consider posting your results in phases. People will probably have good suggestions about what to test next. |
Do you think IPv6 will improve the geolocation results? | halo: I think it's more likely that browsers implement the W3C geolocation API before IPv6 becomes mainstream, which will cover use-cases where accurate geolocation is important, but will require the permission by the user. I don't think we'll ever reach a point where IP geolocation is something you can rely on. |
Do you think IPv6 will improve the geolocation results? | wmf: I think it will be the same or worse than v4 (due to larger allocations). It will depend how accurate the whois data is. |
I'm working on some tests for Amazon EBS volumes. What do you think? | critke: I stopped using EBS after the EC2 instance just stopped responding - twice - each time after a few weeks. I was using an EBS volume for MySQL data storage. I am not satisfied that this problem has been fixed. I suggest you look at this thread before using EBS for production: http://developer.amazonwebservices.c... |
Simplest email setup for slicehost-ed domain? | timf: Google Apps is free and fast to set up for mail@yourdomain.comhttp://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html |
Simplest email setup for slicehost-ed domain? | mahmud: Google apps had email for free when I signed up, but not it's $50/year.http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.htmlIdeally, you wanna look for hosted mail services; all you would have to do is update your DNS records and set the MX records to their servers. You would then point your mail reader to the... |
Black bar? | cmos: My hunch is that it's like the black armband worn on professional sports teams when they suffer a loss of a loved one. (I'm sure this extends beyond sports, but that's the only place I've seen it) |
Black bar? | mahmud: It's for mourning Dr. Motwani's passing. |
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