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Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | kailoa: Absolutely. I'd even expect some cross-pollination as well. |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | lyaunzbe: Good idea...but its been done already by Academic Hacker News: http://www.cs.toronto.edu:40106/ |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | mynameishere: It seems to me that, with business, things are constantly changing, thus making it suitable for "news", whereas programming itself is a slow-moving craft. I mean, your text editors are from the 1970s. |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | GeneralMaximus: Yes, please!I crave programming news, and I find none. Proggit is full of Techcrunch-esque crap these days, and meme threads dominate the discussions. HN is food for thought, but it caters to a broader audience these days. If you can build and maintain a community with the same standards as HN, do it.Si... |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | andreyf: Ugh, this is such a web1.0 problem. Instead, why not write a greasemonkey plugin that cross-submits posts to Academic Hacker News when you upvote them, and only upvote academic articles? |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | geuis: Absolutely. Build it, and I will come. HN is awesome for its variety of startup/programming related news but I would love to see a site dedicated to nothing but programming, front-end(html/css/javascript), and science news. Would you even consider curating the content somewhat? Definitely have a voting system in... |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | pg: Which articles currently on the frontpage of HN would you not include? |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | markbao: You know, I actually feel the contrary: Hacker News has gone the way of more hacker than startups. shrug |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | gilesgoatboy: Dude, there's no point asking them. They don't know the answer. The only thing is to do it and see how it goes. |
What are the best data warehouse and BI resources in print and online? | pradocchia: Have your read Kimball's Data Warehouse Toolkit? I'm partial to the first edition (1996). It's mostly conceptual stuff: design rationale, OLTP vs OLAP, fact vs dimension, type II SCDs (very important), surrogate keys, aggregate navigation etc.Most code in a data warehouse is ETL code, and much of that is ob... |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | ewiethoff: May I suggest http://www.artima.com/, although not just anyone can post news there? |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | cdepillabout: I'm also working on something similar at http://swooshnews.org/. I'll post more info later when I have something to show. |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | Eliezer: No. I'll be first to say that I would not, in fact, visit it.Or so I expect. I could of course be proven wrong. |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | mariorz: I think that description fits with the content you find on http://programming.reddit.com |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | hooande: I bet you could build one in about 5 minutes and see what people think. http://slinkset.com/ |
I need a new OS for my Thinkpad T40. Can you help? | mbeihoffer: My T30 runs OpenBSD really well. It feels a lot more lightweight than most Linux distros I've tried, even with KDE & Firefox & what-have-you. |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | jhancock: I couldn't handle yet another site to check regularly. I sub-hn might be more appropriate. |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | lyime: No need.Every time I have wanted a to know about a specific topic on HN, I have used search (searchyc.com) and found plenty of success. I think HN/similar would become rather stale if it was ONLY about programing/CS concepts. I think a variety of discussion topics keeps this forum healthy and well balanced. |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | rms: Good luck; starting a social news site is hard. |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | 10ren: Great idea, but "tailrecursion.com" is biased towards functional programming. Not all hackers are lisp/fp-hackers.Of course, I understand that that's the domain you have, and your starting point is "what to do with it' - so you have to use it! And it's quite alright with me if your site is targeting lisp-hackers... |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | chanux: OK, If it's really good I'll make it the secondary home page. |
Would forcing everyone to know their IQ reduce overall ignorance? | nickfox: only if it was stamped on their foreheads... |
I need a new OS for my Thinkpad T40. Can you help? | jballanc: How about Xubuntu? Personally, I prefer Xfce to Gnome or KDE (though that's very much a matter of taste), and it's lightweight enough that I've had it running on P2s with 64MB of RAM.There's also Gentoo, which I've had running on just about everything (Sparcs and MIPS included), but it takes some dedication. |
I need a new OS for my Thinkpad T40. Can you help? | chaosprophet: Try gOS or the currently in alpha jolicloud. If you want a nice browsing and media playing experience go for Linux Mint. It has all codecs installed out of the box (including flash, divx etc.). |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | grinich: You need to write an experimental dialect of a functional programming language first. |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | stuntgoat: If I could subscribe to other HN members' posts and upmodded links, I could, in theory be able to preemptively sort the posts that I liked in common with those users. All it would take is a new menu item at the top of the page- called 'peers'. When a HN user posts a link I find most appropriate to my lifesty... |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | timothychung: I think we need a multi-view HN in which we can filter out all non-hacking related news.In that way, you cater both technical users as well as non-technical ones. |
What FaceBook 'ScreenNames' were you able to capture? | ErrantX: errant was protected apparently :(But I got errantx without any sweat at 10am GMT. |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | caffeine: Yes! Do it. I want to read gory articles from the hacking fronts.Better yet: write some nice content? |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | jyothi: Slightly off-topic. An alternate idea for tailrecursion.com: how about creating a service which would provide 'unlimited' tail keywords. - the 'unlimited' part is just for the pitch to go with recursion.This is of great interest/need to marketers and does involve recursion in a way that you use a seed to gener... |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | juliend2: I feel this need for purely hacker oriented news too. That's why i started a little feed aggregator for blogs by Montreal hackers : http://montrealhackers.com .That said, if you start a purely hacker-oriented version of HN i will watch it. :) |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | Zarathu: "I suggested it would be a cool name for an HN-like site that catered specifically to those who spend 8 hours a day behind an emacs or vi session (and no less!)"I like the idea, to be honest; even though I use TextMate. :D |
What FaceBook 'ScreenNames' were you able to capture? | swombat: The best: daniel.tenner |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | known: It depends on the definition of "hack". |
What FaceBook 'ScreenNames' were you able to capture? | mdolon: An honest question: Is there real value in these usernames other than convenience and ease of typing? It seems unlikely to me that Facebook would allow any kind of selling of the names in the future. On top of that, your username is permanently linked to your account so unless you're using a fake account regi... |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | almost: Go for it, it might work. I think there's a little more to creating a good site then just building and letting stuff happen. There needs to be something that binds the community and some way of keeping the focus. Otherwise it will just drift to the lowest common denominator.I for one will definitely give it a g... |
What web/desktop apps do you use to manage your startup? | pclark: Planning: Pivotal Tracker.Finance: Kashflow.Todos: Basecamp.SVN: Beanstalk.Tickets: Zendesk.Files [internal, collaboration & sharing]: Dropbox.Email: Google Docs. |
What web/desktop apps do you use to manage your startup? | Oompa: Github, Campfire & Basecamp, and Google Apps for Domains. |
What web/desktop apps do you use to manage your startup? | pxlpshr: PM: BasecampFinance: OSX NumbersBilling: iBizFiles/Hybrid SVN: DropboxExternal Com: OtherInbox.comInternal Com: GTalk, Skype, iChat, etc.Documents: OSX Pages and Google Docs |
What web/desktop apps do you use to manage your startup? | jseifer: As a freelancer:Misc: BackpackProject proposals: WriteboardInvoicing: FreshbooksSource control: GithubBugs: Redmine and Pivotal TrackerOther docs: Google DocsTo dos: ThingsFiles: Dropbox |
What web/desktop apps do you use to manage your startup? | twrensch: I'm not happy with my mix yet, and spend too much time trying out new things. Here's what I'm currently using:PM: Google notebook, Google calendar, "Stickies app" (Tomboy)Finance: sigh still lookingFiles: DropboxCommunications: GMail, Skype (NOT Twitter)Documents: Mix Google Docs & OpenOffice. I've started u... |
What web/desktop apps do you use to manage your startup? | ErrantX: In no particular order:Bitbucket (mercurial hosting), Gmail, Komodo Edit, Dropbox, Gtalk, Zoho DocsFor the record I know Komodo isnt really "management" but as it's the most crucial part of my workflow.... :) |
What web/desktop apps do you use to manage your startup? | niyazpk: I am a single programmer startup. Still working on my website.TortoiseSVN (source control) is the only thing I am using as of now.I have a to-do.txt in my desktop to remind me of what next. I use Gmail to communicate and StackOverflow to get help. Since I haven't completed building my application, I never need... |
What web/desktop apps do you use to manage your startup? | pyroman: This wiki was created to list what tools are used by which startups. http://startuptools.pbworks.com/ |
What web/desktop apps do you use to manage your startup? | chique: Pivitol Tracker, Harvest, Google Apps for Domain. |
What web/desktop apps do you use to manage your startup? | ComputerGuru: Jira & FishEye. |
Looking to furnish our new office in NYC. Any suggestions, inspirations? | pasbesoin: I just recently began setting up an inexpensive (cheap) workspace. Here are a couple of items and comments.I'm fussy about desk height particularly with regard to typing/mousing comfort. I wanted a desk having an adjustable height.At IKEA, I found this tabletop. It's large, has a nice writing surface, and... |
Looking to furnish our new office in NYC. Any suggestions, inspirations? | dc2k08: I like what these guys did with cardboard: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/march/step-into... |
What web/desktop apps do you use to manage your startup? | caffeine: Planning: VIM
Blogging: VIM
E-mail: VIM
Coding: VIM
Finances: VIM
VCS: Git .. with comments edited in VIM ;) |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | hs: i would not. i have a lot of interest outside typing.i prefer news site for 'creation' -- not showing often in hn: from bits (how to make buttons, logos, diet, health, pets, hobbies, etc) to physical (how to make soap, ink, fert, shoes, clothing, carpentry, masonry, housing, bomb, cooking, sport, etc)also news for... |
What web/desktop apps do you use to manage your startup? | entelarust: Project management: Trac
Versioning: SVN/Trac
Monitoring: Nagios, Pingdom
Support: Get Satisfaction
Newsletters: Campaign Monitor
Communication: Gtalk, Email |
What web/desktop apps do you use to manage your startup? | sidmitra: Just to mention, Microsoft office offers some pretty nifty services in this regard. Check out Office Live Small Business. You get a workspace with 5Gb of file storage. You can view docs, ppts right in the browser and with a plugin you can edit them right on your desktop MS office.There's also Live Mesh servic... |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | FreeRadical: twitterstores.com |
textbooks, references for crawl+ingestion architecture | babyshake: You might want to flesh out your description a bit more, since it's somewhat generic as is.Maybe Stackoverflow.com would be a good venue for this type of question. |
Review my students start-up | codeodor: What kind of products am I looking for?"We could not find any products to match your search :( "For "netbook". |
I need a new OS for my Thinkpad T40. Can you help? | FrankBlack: Try Linux Mint. It is based on Ubuntu and adds many of the inconveniently uninstalled apps (Java, Flash, etc.) For most people it just works perfectly right after the install. On my X41 Tablet my boot times are in half the time of XP and I have no issues. Add Wine to run those pesky Windows apps you can... |
What web/desktop apps do you use to manage your startup? | jlangenauer: Book-keeping: Saasu
Issue/Bug Tracking: Lighthouse
SVN hosting: Beanstalk
Backups: Amazon S3
Site Monitoring: PingdomAll of which I'd recommend - Saasu especially if you're based in Australia. |
Is there a SICP of biology? | mjtokelly: When I started out in a systems biology lab with a physics and CS background but no biology, they gave me this book:Molecular Biology of the Cell
http://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Biology-Cell-Alberts-Al/dp/0...The description of the DNA --> RNA --> protein pipeline was really satisfying to someone with my bac... |
Is there a SICP of biology? | caffeine: Same question: SICP of neuroscience? |
Is there a SICP of biology? | vinutheraj: Can there be a SICP of biology, considering the vastness of the field !! |
Is there a SICP of biology? | plaes: I would take one for Physics too (specially optics) as I have exam coming up on Friday... :P |
Is there a SICP of biology? | Dilpil: I would recommend 'Life: the Science of Biology' by Sadava Heller Orians Purves and Hillis. Absolutely massive book, starts with basic chemistry, goes on to biochemistry, then cell biology, and gradually works its way up in scale through ecology. http://bcs.whfreeman.com/thelifewire8e/default.asp has notes f... |
Is there a SICP of biology? | Agathos: This may not be a helpful answer, but the most SICP-like experience in my biology education was probably a paper-reading class. |
I need a new OS for my Thinkpad T40. Can you help? | hs: openbsdyesterday, i needed to install new os to my amd64 box. alas, my bro borrowed my dvd rom and i didn't feel like installing from floppies (mine are all dusty)i have 256mb flash disk lying around, then i googled how to boot openbsd from flashit turned out that the flash disk must be skipped by 32 sectors, have... |
~80% of this year's US uni grads are unemployed. How are you guys doing? | fburnaby: About half of my electrical engineering class is employed now. The ones who aren't don't have any leads and are now looking for anything at all. I had been planning to go to grad school before the economy sank anyways, so I'm "safe" thus far...Luckily for them, they're in Canada and can be eligible for EI. |
~80% of this year's US uni grads are unemployed. How are you guys doing? | ScottWhigham: What? I don't believe it without a citation and even then I'm quite skeptical. 10% - sure. |
Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? | drRoflol: Actually, I find HN to be the perfect mix of world news, economics, math papers and programming stuff, so no. And I don't fall into any of the "types" listed, I'm a CS-student (at least in one month I am), and don't have any serious plans of starting a company;) |
Best startup or business podcasts/interviews? | camcaine: I just listened to "Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires" ebook by Brian Tracy. You can find it on iTunes. Short and a fun listen. |
Best startup or business podcasts/interviews? | czcar: I just finished listening to 'how to get rich' by dennis felix, which is a good light, humorous book. Take everything with a pinch of salt, but mixergy.com has some good stuff.
Ecorner.stanford podcasts are all pretty damn good, harvardideacast and knowledge@wharton are interesting but not to the same level. Can... |
Best startup or business podcasts/interviews? | nir: Stanford's "Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders" podcast might interest you. The quality's uneven, my favorite is Steve Blank's (customer development) talk. Mitch Kapor and Shai Agassi were pretty interesting as well. |
Best startup or business podcasts/interviews? | jwt: Venture Voice is awesome, there some 50+ hour-long podcasts. http://www.venturevoice.com/ |
Is there a SICP of biology? | kunqiana: what about electronics? |
Best startup or business podcasts/interviews? | aditya: iinovate: http://iinnovate.blogspot.com/ |
What are your favorite management books? | Slzr: Shakespere + the art of war |
Best startup or business podcasts/interviews? | teej: I'll stick my head out and endorse Andrew Warner's stuff on http://mixergy.comHe has a mixed reputation on Hacker News (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=AndrewWarner) because of his "dubious" past business, but his interviews are good. I only listen to about 20% of what he puts out, but what I do consume I fi... |
Web2py vs Django? | spicyj: Since you're from a Rails background, it's worth mentioning that you can run JRuby on Rails on Google App Engine.http://olabini.com/blog/2009/04/jruby-on-rails-on-google-app... |
What are your favorite management books? | khandekars: "Founders at Work" by Jessica Livingston. Full of good stories."My years with General Motors" by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. How he built the organization is quite an interesting read. |
What are your favorite management books? | lionhearted: My favorite is Michael Gerber's "E-Myth Revisited". It lays down the foundation of a good business in a way most entrepreneurs connect with. Very well-written, simple, gets points across concisely, very valuable.http://www.amazon.com/E-Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-Abou...(no affiliate link there)Great b... |
What are your favorite management books? | dantheman: I'll throw this one out there, it's a little less well known, but I found it fascinating. "One From From Many, VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization" by Dee Hock. I can't recommend it more highly.http://www.amazon.com/One-Many-VISA-Chaordic-Organization/dp... |
What are your favorite management books? | liangzan: I really like the books from the personal mba reading listhttp://personalmba.com/best-business-books/Joel Spolsky's reading list is pretty good too. But the titles are old. Its not been updated with newer publicationshttp://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FogCreekMBACurriculum... |
What are your favorite management books? | digamber_kamat: "How the guys screw up things" by Monk Elvis Adam |
Web2py vs Django? | mdipierro: Both Rails and web2py follow "convention over configuration" while Django follows "configuration over convention". Each has pros and cons but coming from a Rails background you'll probably find web2py closer. |
How do I install Firefox when Windows 7 doesn't ship with IE8 ? | sidmitra: telnet on port 80. |
How do I install Firefox when Windows 7 doesn't ship with IE8 ? | chaosmachine: I suspect they will include some mechanism that makes it easy to get IE8 (a one-click-download icon on the desktop, for example). |
What are your favorite management books? | mkuhn: Images of Organizations by Gareth Morgan. (http://www.amazon.com/Images-Organization-Gareth-Morgan/dp/1...)It looks at organizations with the help of different perspectives. Definitely an enlightening experience to read it and very helpful later on. |
What are your favorite management books? | sarvesh: Wealth of Nations, although it won't teach you anything directly about management it is good introduction to economics which is essential in any management role. Best of all it is free! |
What are your favorite management books? | mooders: Three books that really show the good, bad and ugly about building businesses from scratch and scaling them to significance:1. How to Get Rich (http://bit.ly/xGdV8)2. Small Giants (http://bit.ly/WpvGa)3. The Knack (http://bit.ly/OcKa9)[no affiliate links]A warning though - many 'start-up to success' books are,... |
How do I install Firefox when Windows 7 doesn't ship with IE8 ? | thristian: I'm assuming Windows still ships with the command-line FTP client, and ftp.mozilla.org works just as well as it ever did... |
How do I install Firefox when Windows 7 doesn't ship with IE8 ? | novum: Download it somewhere else first, then you have many choices for transferring it over. USB drive, network share drive, dropbox, etc. |
How do I install Firefox when Windows 7 doesn't ship with IE8 ? | sarvesh: Use wget (http://pages.interlog.com/~tcharron/wgetwin.html) |
How do I install Firefox when Windows 7 doesn't ship with IE8 ? | lastkarrde: Software vendors (Acer, HP etc..) will most likely install an open source web browser in any shop bought computer. |
How do I install Firefox when Windows 7 doesn't ship with IE8 ? | bayareaguy: You'll probably be able to just use an http address in the windows explorer, or failing that you can use the built-in PowerShell. e.g. http://bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/2006/11/25/PowerShe... |
How do I install Firefox when Windows 7 doesn't ship with IE8 ? | Quiark: Maybe they should include IE6 so it's possible to download an actual browser with it:) |
How do I install Firefox when Windows 7 doesn't ship with IE8 ? | ideamonk: There is a nice API urldownloadtofile - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms775123(VS.85).aspxIf you have Visual Studio by any chance, you can try that...If there is Windows Scripting Host installed with Windows 7 by default, you can try exploring that too... maybe some createobject()s will helpThen why... |
How do I install Firefox when Windows 7 doesn't ship with IE8 ? | swombat: Wtf? Are you seriously suggesting that Windows 7 will ship without any browser? Do you really believe that that is possible? Really? |
How do I install Firefox when Windows 7 doesn't ship with IE8 ? | Clarkie: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1265933&cid=28303943 on how to use FTP in windows command line. |
How do I install Firefox when Windows 7 doesn't ship with IE8 ? | chanux: Haha this reminds me that funny "use case" of IE: "downloading Firefox"http://www.geekherocomic.com/2009/06/01/monopoly/ |
What are your favorite management books? | jbr: Let my people go surfing -- Yvon Chouinardhttp://amzn.com/1594200726The seven day weekend -- Ricardo Semlerhttp://amzn.com/1591840260Getting Realhttp://gettingreal.37signals.com/--Also, help flesh out the list of books for startups I just created for HN on my site:http://www.stormweight.com/lists/books-for-startup... |
What are your favorite management books? | wheels: The Mythical Man Month is an IT management classic that's worth its time, though I can't say that I've read a dearth of management books. |
How do you use the Safari Developer tools? | beamso: I use it for the Javascript debugging tools. I've found that the user-interface is nicer than Firebug. |
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