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what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | mildavw: I recently abandoned a gift registry related app that accommodated custom subdomains ala basecamp:giftofile.compresentsfor.usknotlist.comgiftquake.comregistrylist.infoshowerlist.comwishalistic.commyregistryspace.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | poutine: geekmail.com linkedlife.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | IsaacSchlueter: internetcultureawesome.com This was intended to be a place where I could share things that are awesome on the internet that my less technical people could follow. But I never got around to doing anything with it, and it's been 8 months now.jsvampires.com Its cousin, jsvampire.com (without the s), is ... |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | tricky: menfacingdivorce.commenseekingdivorce.comwomenfacingdivorce.comwomenseekingdivorce.com(We were going to call our cheesy 90's cover band "men facing divorce" I got a little register-happy.) |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | adatta02: beerstobone.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | thorax: If you're really bored with a domain and don't want to squat it, you could turn one of your short domains into a URL shrinker, we just opened up hosting for that yesterday:http://tinyarro.ws/info/custom/ |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | jneal: I have a had many domains over the years that I decided to just let go of by not renewing, and then watched someone take them and do nothing with it. It's aggravating because now I have the ability to make these sites and can't because someone has had the domain for 6 years and never once updated it!Currently, t... |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | Harkins: kcombinator.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | chops: Very awesome idea. It's super cool seeing so many folks trading, selling, and even giving away domains to other hackers looking to start a project.Myself, I've only ever owned domains for intended projects and when it became clear that a project wasn't getting developed ever, I'd simply let the domain die for s... |
where to learn best practices beyond algorithms? | sundeep: I find that stackoverflow.com generally has very good answers about stuff like best practices. |
Where to get a ML for my open-source project? | jcsalterego: Just wanted to say I love GitX. |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | tarmac: rylor(dot)comtobeg(dot)comdyles(dot)com5 letter domain names are hard to come by nowadays... |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | jorgem: Now you know why 78 million COM names are taken. A few here, and a few there. Most doing nothing. I posted an analysis with list of available one-word domains that are left recently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=480858 |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | bbsabelli: shitcode.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | ericwaller: seebulletin.com
stealyourradio.com
stolenradio.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | sahaj: savethedot{dot}com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | tonetheman: youapedia.com - with the thought that it would be nice to have a wiki entry on yourself. everyone loves to talk about themself. :) |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | huwshimi: If you have a domain with something to do with giving recommendations (sharing/favourites/popular), even loosely related (or even so far removed it works) then let me know. I've been struggling with this one. |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | RickFromSA: ElkHider.com (say that out loud)
MoreInterviews.com
BlueTu.be
BlogTu.be
BitsOfHope.com
MessageRecord.com
ModernError.com
Overclass.org
AreaMates.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | spencerfry: uncover(dot)com (Yes, there's a website there, but I've recently been trying to sell the domain.) |
Comparing QNX and Plan 9 for system development? | russell: I did a port of a word processor to QNX 25 years ago, so that makes it old as the hills and the system calls must have been Unix compliant. Other than that I dont remember much. Plan 9 is of similar vintage. Even Linux is newer. |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | jgilliam: climatecancer.*
yesweare.org/us
question4.org & questionfor.org |
Please review my app | caffeine: Hi Schapirama,I love the idea. But I have a visual problem with the page (other than the massive loading times, which you've already promised to fix):Way too many fonts on that page.The logo on the top left, the "Album of letters" script, and the "TOUR" button are all different fonts, and it's ... less than ... |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | kentf: wetally.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | zackola: ajarr.com
eatingmaps.com
icanhasrock.com
lifeninja.com
regfx.com
shitonfire.com
verymeta.com
sudobangbang.com |
Please review my app | greengirl512: I really like the concept...how neat! In addition to the design issues, I just wanted to second the idea of allowing the person who ordered the album to purchase it and have it sent to the person it's for. I could see using this for older relatives who don't really do computers if it had that option, or e... |
Comparing QNX and Plan 9 for system development? | stonemetal: QNX is going to have better hardware support, plan 9 seems more interesting from a distributed system point of view. Why not the plan 9 follow on, Inferno? It comes with a VM for other oses so you could get linux or windows contributors. |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | jbyers: whereim.comGeo-located IM service? |
Losing potential customers | mpf62: Maybe people think they're done when they see the mid-way confirmation page?
If it looks like a receipt - it must be one.
This happened to me when my bank introduced a new online banking system. In the very beginning I just did not notice that there was a new "Yes, I'm still sure I want to do this" button. I did... |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | Titanous: diskoverflow.com
fxwsw.com
hackedipod.com *
hackediphone.com ** Was planning on developing these into some sort of information portal. |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | timae: shreddedtweet.commiddlemaps.commynance.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | aneesh: perfectlygoodideas.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | reech: visualpolls.comworkdout.comvegancuisines.comambyant.combustedhype.comcitizensagainstgovernment.com (haha don't ask) |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | joshsharp: cliiq.combloggergigs.comcoursebuild.comtweetask.comtimesharp.net |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | sanswork: basicsofmoney.comcodetutorials.comfromlastnight.comrentify.comthesitemart.combfmv.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | brent: 1.0e100.com |
Where to get a ML for my open-source project? | paulbaumgart: All of the free open-source project hosts that I've come across do Mailman (if anything). Could you elaborate on why you don't like it? Sure, it doesn't have the slickest interface, but it's certainly functional enough.http://dadamailproject.com/ is a little nicer looking and pretty usable (I like the int... |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | dazzla: spamlies.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | zzzmarcus: tumblelogs.comdebatist.cominfluencetree.comlistlearn.comskatetrends.comvacationite.comweshould.comI also have tumblelog.com which could definitely be put to better use. |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | TTDaVeTT: chattero.us |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | robertk: biggestjerkever.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | paraschopra: agribizconsulting.com
supplylifeline.com
precimark.com
predictivewebanalytics.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | 4ensic: Idork.comYourGodIsDead.comBinaryShit.comReordertone.comWorldwideshit.comNSATT.netShiTv.comYou can probably tell that my weekend projects may involve alcohol. |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | prawn: Most of mine are .com.au or .net.au (e.g., body.net.au, industry.net.au, rating.com.au, lends.com.au, knows.com.au, etc), but I have three .coms I have never got around to using:twitcorps.com
Plan was for a register of businesses using Twitter, categorised by how they were using it and how well they were using i... |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | hrabago: I've been holding on to irtue.com/irtue.net. It's supposed to mean "I refuse to use Evite". |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | willb: shadowgovernment.org |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | vitovito: Good idea, I've been letting domains expire all year long.amateurhour.org just expired, but I could renew it if someone wanted it.trrd.org, trrrd.com/org, nichekitsch.com, enoughnow.org and w9gfo/0.org are the only ones left, I think. |
How to promote my FreeLance Works Site? | paulbaumgart: Please add more details, like: * What kind of freelance work?
* What have you tried already?
* How well have those things worked?
* What differentiates your site from sites like elance.com or guru.com?
Also, give us a link. :-) |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | TeHCrAzY: smoulderinghotgoats.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | hellweaver666: adz4.comrealityinvasion.comrentacal.com (had an idea I never finished)iwearyourtshirt.com (blatent cybersquatting)stolenfocus.com (ex photoblog)weightmonkey.com (half arsed attempt)swearalot.com (stupid site)fuelsaving-guide.com (ebook?)droitwich.me (my local town) |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | gscott: userlinks.com
askshare.com
gallery508.com
sharedlist.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | thejefe711: shopperfeed.com |
When to cut your losses and rewrite with a framework? | lrm242: I think the fundamental question is: "will having your own game engine give you a decided advantage by making your game unique in some way?"Will your game be more memorable, enjoyable, etc because of your engine? I'd doubt it, since that will most likely come from your game itself (the rules, balance, game play... |
When to cut your losses and rewrite with a framework? | TallGuyShort: Here's some thoughts. I can't say yes or no for you, but I hope these questions help you focus the issue more.1) Does your engine offer something over these other frameworks that other people might find useful if you finish it? If so, I think you should finish it. But more importantly...2) Are you more in... |
When to cut your losses and rewrite with a framework? | gruseom: There is research suggesting that when there is 80% or more overlap in requirements it makes sense to use a library and when there is 20% or more divergence it makes sense to write your own code. Obviously there's no precise way to measure such divergence, but I'd say that rule of thumb sounds about right intu... |
any doc format with built-in ads feature? | mbrubeck: Adobe also experimented with ads in PDF files, but shut down the beta program after just a few months. Are there some unsolved problems preventing anyone from doing this successfully?http://hansakoch.com/cancelled-yahoo-ads-for-adobe-pdf-beta-...Perhaps it's too obvious, but there's always the HTML format, p... |
What formation should I use for my business | jaddison: I'm no expert, but I'll chime in with my thoughts. I'd look into doing something like the following, which is largely what you've already thought of:- umbrella corp-- project corp #1-- project corp #2I'd be working on new ideas (incubating, so to speak) within "umbrella corp" itself, and then spin off a "pro... |
How and when to pitch an angel? | Arun2009: I recently left my full time job to concentrate on developing a prototype application for my idea. What I intend to do is to complete a kick ass prototype and website, run it by a few potential customers, and THEN scout for angels if there's a need for it. My principle is that if you're a half-decent programm... |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | ironkeith: stupidsiteforjerks.com: I thought it would be funny if you could upload pictures of people and let them know you think they're a jerk. It would also be funny (to me...) to sell merchandise from "The Jerk Store".That this is the best start-up idea I've ever had would explain my current day job... |
Laptop recommendation? | icey: If you don't like macs, the Lenovo Thinkpad T series are great. Dells are also fine.Otherwise:
http://searchyc.com/submissions/what+laptop+to+buy |
Laptop recommendation? | mtm: You can get the 17" MacBook Pro (which is a 14x9 screen) with a matte finish (extra $50). If you don't mind a 2.66ghz proc (vs. 2.8) and a 320gb HD (vs. a 500) you can get one of the previous gen 17" pros for $2300 |
Digital Image Stabilization Techniques | brk: Is the camera in motion or steady?It's somewhat easy to do if it's steady (pick a couple of reference points). Harder to do in-motion if you did not capture accelerometer data with the video feed. |
Laptop recommendation? | ScottWhigham: I bought an HP dv9000 about 18 months ago and, aside from a few problems, the laptop itself is pure awesome. What I like most is the dual hard drives. |
Laptop recommendation? | rcoder: I suspect you'll get the same answers that usually come up when laptop recommendations are discussed here:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=249579
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=268438
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=159153
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=197182(etc., etc.)To summarize: the MacBo... |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | phoghawk: studystud.com |
Laptop recommendation? | russell: When I bought my laptop a couple of years ago one of the primary considerations was disk drive speed. 7200rpm is zippy, 5400 is molasses, flash should be even better. I bought a Dell and have been happy with it. My adult kids all have Macs and are happy with them. |
Laptop recommendation? | bitwize: About three years ago was the summer of 2006. This was about the time the first Intel-based MacBooks dropped. Everyone in the office bought one, it seems. Within a month they were all in the shop.I bought a Compaq Presario v3000 with dual-core AMD Turion. It was my primary machine for three years. Not a single... |
Laptop recommendation? | gregking: The MacBook Pro line is solid, especially with the unibody construction. You also have the choice of running Windows and/or OSX. I converted after the Intel switch and haven't looked back. |
Review my students start-up | s_baar: I put in House of the Dead and it gave me bird houses. Does it even use Amazon at all? Plus, it needs to search cafepress/zazzle. |
Review my students start-up | kyro: What about your service compels me to use it over something like Amazon or Google product search? |
Review my students start-up | kynikos: I searched for "juice" and got one related result (juicer) and the rest were Leatherman-type of tools that have a brand name of "juice."The results should be better. Or, if they can't be, there should be some sort of incentive for me to purchase from this site. Do I get a discount? Free shipping? If I already... |
Review my students start-up | TrevorJ: I like the simplicity, but the logo needs to be toned down a bit. |
Review my students start-up | danohuiginn: 'external hard drive' doesn't seem like a difficult query. Results? a bunch of hard hats. |
Review my students start-up | trimber: I was searching for "laptop" and the first result page did not contain one single laptop. The categories "Electronics" and "Computer" do not contain any laptops either. So, considering that your slogan is "Find the product you are looking for" I have to say I doesnt really seem to work. Also I think the logo h... |
Review my students start-up | quizbiz: We are being harsh. I apologize for this:
As far as the branding goes, people have a hard time trusting online shopping as it is. Childish colors and a monkey does not help. |
Review my students start-up | thamer: Is this based on cuil? I am going to buy a washing machine soon. Your website gave me a "Lobster Hybrid Tennis Ball Machine with Pneumatic Propulsion" in first position, and many irrelevant links. "Individual Token for Slot Machine", really?Only one link (a steel connector for washing machines) is getting close... |
Review my students start-up | mquander: I don't know about you, but I find it impossible to read that URL without reading "BoingBoing" instead of "BongoBing." |
Review my students start-up | rmason: I typed in Ferrari Testarossa and I got cologne. I tried Ferrari Testarossa sports car and got a sports slide.On the other hand it is fast ;<) |
Review my students start-up | dc2k08: Maybe s/he should just focus on one particular market - say computer hardware or video games etc - and excel at bringing in results for that market, best current deals etc. Otherwise it's no different than a froogle.com or something similar and would have difficulty competing. |
Review my students start-up | RiderOfGiraffes: As others have said, the presentation -even if you like it - doesn't save it from the fact that it produces no useful results.I'm not inclined, therefore, to explore why it has a "login" prompt at the top right. One search, zero relevant results, back to Google or Bing or Yahoo or anything else.My imp... |
Review my students start-up | zitterbewegung: You have to work on the quality of the search results. I did a simple search for ipod, and laptop and got items related to laptops or ipod's but no results returned the actual product. Also there seems to be no way to organize the search results by price either which might be helpful. |
Review my students start-up | dmarques1: Thank you for the great feedback, the students definitely appreciate it, the search results lack relevancy at the moment due to the fact that they are adding a large number of products in the coming weeks so it will improve over time, the feedback on UI/Logo/etc. is very useful. |
Would forcing everyone to know their IQ reduce overall ignorance? | sundeep: IQ in unequivocal terms ... Thats your problem right there ... |
Would forcing everyone to know their IQ reduce overall ignorance? | mixmax: IQ only says something about a persons ability to solve a subset of the problems encountered in life. For a scientist, mathematician, programmer and statistician IQ is important. For a politician, leader, teacher and psychologist things like social ability is much more important.I know high IQ people that are e... |
Would forcing everyone to know their IQ reduce overall ignorance? | Hates_: They don't believe the proof that evolution is true, so why would they believe the proof that their IQ test was true.There are probably plenty of people who don't believe in evolution that have a high IQ. If you are indoctrinated at a young age into your religion, would your high IQ still mean you would be able... |
Review my students start-up | mynameishere: It's obviously doing an "or" search which is a horrible mistake. |
Would forcing everyone to know their IQ reduce overall ignorance? | mediaman: I'll ignore the question of IQ as it relates to its relevance to anything.Humans suffer from a phenomenon called cognitive dissonance. It means that if facts contradict what they believe to be true, they will invent reasons why the facts do not matter. In this case, people would claim that IQ is irrelevant, o... |
Would forcing everyone to know their IQ reduce overall ignorance? | tokenadult: Okay, let me try to explain why this interesting proposal wouldn't help much with the problem that you mention.1) First of all, it is very possible for high-IQ persons to have irrational ideas. It happens all the time. Most high-IQ people don't notice when they are being irrational.http://www.project-syndic... |
Review my students start-up | int2e: Every* web developer should be familiar with cross-site scripting (XSS) and how to prevent it. http://www.google.com/search?q=xss* If you don't have a login system or any sensitive data, it might not matter much. |
Would forcing everyone to know their IQ reduce overall ignorance? | johnnybgoode: This would increase overall ignorance by forcibly assigning more importance to IQ than it deserves.(This is not to say IQ doesn't mean something.) |
Would forcing everyone to know their IQ reduce overall ignorance? | Tangurena: I disagree. People would learn very quickly that IQ has almost no correlation with wealth, happiness, and any other measure of success. Making IQ a public measurement like height, weight or skull bumps would show IQ to be useless as a measure of anything. |
Would forcing everyone to know their IQ reduce overall ignorance? | dsil: "The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart." -Kurt Vonnegut |
I need a new OS for my Thinkpad T40. Can you help? | mdweezer: You could run Ubuntu's netbook edition (Remix) or do an install of Arch Linux and only install what you need if you think Ubuntu carries too much.You could also give xPud a shot, it boots in a ridiculously 5-10 seconds: http://www.xpud.org/ |
Would forcing everyone to know their IQ reduce overall ignorance? | branden: This might result in a caste system with numbers. |
Would forcing everyone to know their IQ reduce overall ignorance? | amayne: The MENSA newsletter used to have a section on Astrology. What more needs to be said about the imperfect correlation of IQ and understanding how the real world works? |
Would forcing everyone to know their IQ reduce overall ignorance? | quizbiz: I couldn't care less about my IQ number and I don't see why anyone else would. |
I need a new OS for my Thinkpad T40. Can you help? | ktharavaad: IMO good os is a terrible version of Ubuntu, its better to just install ubuntu remix as it is.how about finding a copy of OSX leopard and install it on the T40 to make it a hackintosh? |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | grandalf: you mean employees of startups / non-founders? Or founders of startups for which marketing is irrelevant? |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | PieSquared: I would enjoy an HN-like site with a greater focus on algorithms and other more complex material.HN sometimes gets these posts on things like closures, functional programming, monads, y combinators, etc. A lot of these are just posts from Wikipedia or such, but they're interesting and generate a lot of disc... |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | johnnybgoode: I don't actually know for sure, but isn't this what reddit programming is for? |
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