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Canadian Registrar? | r7000: I have always been a fan of easydns. (I believe this site is registered with them). |
how do you objectively prove what you have independantly learned | kaens: It seems to me that having an open-source pet project or two that uses the relevant technologies would suffice. |
How you implement GTD in you personal life | mingyeow: textmate. ;D |
How you implement GTD in you personal life | sidmitra: Microsoft OneNote + Moto-rokr E6(that's my phone)Here's my workflow, I have an "action" page which containing multiple bullet lists.
Whenever a task/thought occurs that requires action i put it into my action page under a heading it belongs to.. like <myresearch>, <myDayJob>,<MyHobby>, so i don't lose any tas... |
How you implement GTD in you personal life | roedog88: I've been using the hipster pda. http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-... for a few years. It works well for me. I find that maintenance takes very little effort any more. |
how do you objectively prove what you have independantly learned | dflock: Either certify or build something public using your skills, I guess. |
How you implement GTD in you personal life | weaksauce: I love Things for todo lists on the mac but I do not follow the GTD system.That being said, these people have had some success with using Things as a GTD tool:http://deadsilversky.blogspot.com/2009/01/gtd-with-things.ht...http://corfield.org/blog/index.cfm/do/blog.entry/entry/GTD__... |
Events in San Francisco in October? | icey: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=san+francisco+developer+events+october+... |
How you implement GTD in you personal life | mbrubeck: I use todo.sh:http://ginatrapani.github.com/todo.txt-cli/ |
Events in San Francisco in October? | bradlane: there's always the computer history museum in mountain view, if you're just in the area for a few days.also, when i was there, i found a lot of the typical "touristy" things fun and interesting - fisherman's wharf, street car stuff, Alcatraz, Golden Gate....even just walking through Chinatown.hell, if the wea... |
What do think of this idea? | Gibbon: There's already a service called Picky Domains at http://www.pickydomains.com/ where you pay a deposit in exchange for suggestions for names from their contributors.If you see a name you like, you register it yourself and the site pockets half the fee, with the other half going to the contributor. |
What tools do you use to manage contact with your users? | nopassrecover: Xobni + Outlook |
What tools do you use to manage contact with your users? | walesmd: Highrise + GMail for Domains + Google Calendar for Domains |
Review My Site - Studylance.com | ujjwalg: Neat concept. |
Review My Site - Studylance.com | pedalpete: I really like the well designed site.
Well laid out and easy to use.However, your paid model feels a lot like ExpertSexchange.com, a much loathed site, and it seems you are dealing in very small dollar amounts which means that managing the cost/payment process creates increased overhead and adds complexity ... |
How do you deal with domain squatters? | inerte: Spend at least some to get a real lawyer opinion. Should cost you a few hundred dollars for some hours of his time. Ask him to present you with several options, there's a whole spectre in the middle of lawsuit and doing nothing.For example, you've already contacted the company, so at least it seems you've made ... |
How do you deal with domain squatters? | BobbyH: I would send a certified letter to your competitor notifying them that you will be filing a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) complaint, unless they transfer the domain to you by a certain day:* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDRP* http://www.internic.net/faqs/udrp.htmlYou may won't hear back f... |
How do you deal with domain squatters? | emmett: You can almost always talk to lawyers for free, on an initial consultation. They're happy to talk to you in exchange for the opportunity to get your business. That will yield enough information to figure out whether it's worth proceeding. They should be able to tell you things like how much it will cost, and wh... |
How do you deal with domain squatters? | vaksel: send them a cease and desist letter, a lot of people will roll over right away |
How do you deal with domain squatters? | dc2k08: can I ask you if you had trademarked your name? I was recently asked a similar question by someone else. He had registered a domain through gandi and a minute later as he went to register the plural, he discovered it was taken in that instant. I imagined that there was little he could do legally if he had not t... |
How do you deal with domain squatters? | jerryji: Call up any lawyer in your area charging less than $200/hour, explain your situation in less than 15 minutes, say that you are willing to pay him/her $100 just to send that competitor a formal letter demanding them to stop the redirection or threaten further legal action.This sometimes works, i.e., assuming yo... |
How do you deal with domain squatters? | gabrielroth: To address one of your sub-questions: you can generally find a lawyer in any field who will work 'on contingency' (meaning they get paid a percentage of damages awarded), but they'll only take your case if there's a possibility of a substantial award, which seems unlikely in your case. |
How do you deal with domain squatters? | patio11: Somebody did this to me, too. I've never bothered to take action about it. Realistically, what harm is this doing your business? Customers who weren't getting to your website anyway aren't getting to your website. A microscopic number of customers, actually, since direct navigation is all but dead these da... |
How do you deal with domain squatters? | dangoldin: You can potentially try something more grass roots and start blogging/twittering about it.No idea what type of response you will get but people love rooting for the underdog. |
How do you deal with domain squatters? | noonespecial: If you trademarked the original, its like an automatic go card for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution. Send the UDRP folks your trademark papers and they'll yank the domain from the squatter and deliver it, silver platter style to your registrar of choice.You do trademark all of the domains you regist... |
How do you deal with domain squatters? | jay_kyburz: I would get over it and focus your attention on making a great product. Having a great domain name is not going to make your business a success. |
What's the best tutorial for iPhone development, sans Interface Builder? | amichail: What's wrong with Interface Builder? |
How are you handling functional testing in the browser? | arebop: I use http://seleniumhq.org/.The docs are a bit rough, but I'm reasonably happy with the framework. The core functionality is implemented in JavaScript, and I use it on my continuous integration server to test web UIs on Firefox, Safari, Opera, Google Chrome, and MSIE 6.I keep hoping to be able to involve non-t... |
Does cryptic string in URL affects SEO? | TallGuyShort: I can't think of any reason that having the UUID in the URL would hurt your SEO in any way. You still have the slug, so key words are in the URL. As far as I know, having unrecognizeable data in the URL doesn't decrease the importance placed on your page.One thing to consider is if using this method inste... |
Are successful entrepreneurs more sociable than unsuccessful ones? | mahmud: For chrissake! |
how do you objectively prove what you have independantly learned | bayareaguy: I'm more likely to believe specific things you've done over general things you claim to know particularly when it comes to specific technical systems. Don't tell me you "know" MySQL. Instead, tell me about the things you did to insure I can't take down your system by injecting a call to BENCHMARK() or abo... |
How you implement GTD in you personal life | mannicken: I used to use a bunch of todo.txts, but then I wrote a system that allows you to basically enter todo.txts online, parses and categorizes them, while keeping original text nearby. And it's available wherever you are. The original problem I had with all the other GTD systems was a lot of tabbing, I type aroun... |
Does cryptic string in URL affects SEO? | patio11: This is a good question. The answer is subtle: Google isn't going to penalize you, but users will.All things being equal, long URLs get clicked on in the SERPs less than short URLs. (Test if you don't believe me, which should go without saying.) Additionally, that bit of human-unreadable garbage suggests to... |
Are successful entrepreneurs more sociable than unsuccessful ones? | muhamm: I doubt whether there is any conclusive empirical data on this question. Feel free to guess. |
How to find startup jobs? | david927: startuply.com, craigslist.org |
How to find startup jobs? | satyajit: Start attending meetups on meetup.com, there is a lot of interesting things happening on there. You can get connected to a lot of like-minded people, and take it from there.
If you write your skillsets and interests in general, I know a few folks in my circle are looking for hackers to join their venture, so ... |
Please review. Are we making something that people want? | frossie: Well okay, you know what? I liked this more than I expected.I liked the look (I am sucker for bright colours). I liked the fact that I could try without signing up. I liked the fact that it is simple. I liked the popup offer of a super-brief tutorial.So the idea is that you can sms/twitter/email your entries t... |
Please review. Are we making something that people want? | vorador: The dialog boxes could be better, and for some unknown reason, the income/expense charts always overlaps them (I'm using ff3.07 on linux). |
Are successful entrepreneurs more sociable than unsuccessful ones? | saundby: I think it depends on the business model.I've seen a strong correlation in some areas, where the entrepreneur's business relied on lots of contacts and sales through contacts. But I've also seen success by what you would consider non-social types, the sort that go into a hole, work their tookus off, emerge wit... |
Please review. Are we making something that people want? | oscardelben: I really like the idea, what I don't like about other money management systems is that they connect with your bank account, but if you live outside the united states you can't use them. |
What is broken in the online travel industry? | hcho: A site that analyses flight price fluctuations would be awsome. Currently all the online travel sites work on the assumption that your days are fixed and gives you the prices around that date. A site that would tell me the cheapest time of the year to visit Paris from London would be a lot more useful.Slightly ta... |
Please review. Are we making something that people want? | ErrantX: I like it very neat and simple.One comment: please do expand the currencies you allow :) I liked the idea but wouldnt use it because Im in the UK(and yes I know I could use $ and mean £ but it doesnt feel as slick :)) |
Starting a new business venture in new markets and industries | fauigerzigerk: I think there are two pillars on which to base such a decision.1) What domain knowledge do you have and what do you like to do?2) What's changing in the world and in the markets.I'm convinced that personal knowledge of what's lacking in a particular business domain is invaluable. If you have that knowled... |
How to find startup jobs? | blackvine: google H1b |
What is broken in the online travel industry? | frossie: The best site I have ever found for planning air travel is this: http://matrix.itasoftware.com/cvg/dispatch/pregoI have been using them since before the web (seriously, you could telnet to their system on a vt100).Unfortunately you can't actually buy a ticket from them! But it will spit out the gobbledygook th... |
What is broken in the online travel industry? | gaius: With who?I must've been using Travelocity and Expedia for 10 years now (and easySABRE while it still existed) and I have to say this industry was notable for being ahead of the curve for high-value transactions on the Internet. |
consultancy, how to? | salvadors: The agreement you have should reflect how well you know the person, how well you trust them, and what the worst case scenario is. I'd suggest you almost certainly want lawyers involved in this part as they can give you a fairly boilerplate agreement that's tailored around the 4 or 5 key questions that you'll... |
consultancy, how to? | davidw: You might do some searching, as this topic has come up before... |
consultancy, how to? | mseebach: The easiest way to handle this when you don't have any investments, no professional liability or other complications, is simply that you set each your own individual sole proprietorship. Your friend, as he handles the administration, bills the client, and you bill him. Your agreement should likely be that you... |
consultancy, how to? | caseysoftware: 50/50 splits always make me nervous.When the site goes down at 2am, who gets called?Once the design is finished, will he be doing anything?Does this deal apply equally to clients that don't need design work?Does this deal apply to clients he doesn't refer?Does he get 50% of the deal or 50% of the company... |
good math books | michael_dorfman: Knuth's "Concrete Mathematics" is a lot of fun.Also, there are a lot of good courses at OCW over at MIT. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm#Math... |
good math books | sepa: Calculus by Tom Apostol |
good math books | ionfish: I rate Enderton's A Mathematical Introduction to Logic.http://www.math.ucla.edu/~hbe/amil/index.html |
good math books | rw: A few suggestions (if only we all had more time):Do ProjectEuler.net, as it provides a great mesh between algorithm design and mathematics; it might be within your expertise already, however. Look in to getting a good discrete math book or two. My circumstances led me to not use my discrete math book very much for ... |
good math books | ananthrk: (Given that you are also interested in NLP) "Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing" is a good bet. |
good math books | jefffoster: I'm trying to do a similar thing. I've purchased "The Princeton Companion to Mathematics" (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8350.html).I've not read a huge amount so far, but what I've read so far has been well-written and understandable. |
good math books | joubert: The Princeton Companion to Mathematics. |
good math books | J_McQuade: Well, if you're looking for an introduction to the basics of mathematics (which I would recommend for anyone looking to delve deeper into any specific area), you can't really beat 'How to Prove It' by Velleman. It covers the fundamental concepts of mathematical analysis and proof-writing (and, perhaps more i... |
good math books | lkozma: You could read Gilbert Strang's Linear Algebra books, there are also video lectures available...Gelman's Bayesian Data Analysis is a good statistical intro with a Bayesian bend,maybe Freedman's Statistical models,read some general machine learning intro book, such as Alpaydin or Bishop for a more probabilistic ... |
good math books | caffeine: Hi - I was in a similar situation a year ago (starting a Master's in ML, feeling crappy at math). What worked for me was:- Studying is doing problems. Reading is not studying. When studying, read the minimum amount necessary to complete the problem. Do all problems CLOSED-book: no notes or reading while d... |
How to find startup jobs? | blurry: hotstartupjobs.comtwitter.com/startuplyjobsauthenticjobs.comjobs.mashable.comcrunchboard.com/jobs/punctuative.com/vcdb/ |
consultancy, how to? | bhousel: I would definitely recommend that you pick someone up front to be a Project Manager. Your friend might be this, as you described his role as "finding clients" and "some admin etc", but it's really a bit more than that - you might want to bring in a third founder with experience in running projects.I'll echo w... |
good math books | euroclydon: I really like the book: Elementary Classical Analysis by Jerrold E. Marsden for Multivariate Calculus.http://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Classical-Analysis-Jerrold-... |
good math books | fogus: I personally liked "A Logical Approach to Discrete Math" by Gries and Schneider which can be had for a good price on Amazon. As for statustics, I liked "Statistics: A Gentle Introduction" by Coolidge and "Principles of Statistics" by Bullmer which can be had for a great price even new.Although only slightly rel... |
Does cryptic string in URL affects SEO? | skwiddor: We always worked on the idea that parent directories carry more weight, it takes longer for the crawler to go down than across and the PR was always higher for those first level directories. (I'm talking in the past tense because I don't do SEO any more, though we used to get $1000 a month from AdWords).Seems... |
good math books | mnp456: http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Methods-Physics-Engineeri... |
good math books | mnp456: Sorry, meant this one ...
http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Methods-Physics-Engineeri... |
How do you deal with domain squatters? | domainnamesco: To take action against a third party that has bought a domain name that you believe is in breach of your identity you need to satisfy 3 criteria;A) Name is identical or confusing to a trade or service mark.
B) The registrant has no claim to the name
C) The name is being used in bad faithIf you can prove ... |
good math books | yoshimo111: http://www.thatquiz.org/
for practice problems.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathomatic
an open source math solver, will also output answers to programming code, can solve polynomials, do calculus, trig...etc. You can use it to check your answers.http://www.math.com/
the website has a lot of topics.You don't... |
good math books | chollida1: I've seen a few people recommend The Princeton Companion to Mathematics(PCM) http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8350I own this book and while I do agree it's a great book for getting a 10000 foot view about topics in mathematics it's not really a book one read to learn the math that the poster is asking for.I... |
good math books | sanand: My recommendations:
Hardy, A Course of Pure Mathematics.
Knuth, Graham and Patashnik, Concrete Mathematics.
Hoffman and Kunze, Linear Algebra (there are several free online books on Linear Algebra and Vector Spaces, Strang, Axler, Lang Halmos and Shilov are also recommended).
Feller, An Introduction to Probabil... |
good math books | tjr: This may be below your level, but one of the most interesting and unique math books I've seen:http://www.math.sjsu.edu/~swann/mcsqrd.html |
good math books | menloparkbum: I want some recommendations on good math books on: calculus, discrete math, probabilities, statisticsCalculus Made Easy by Silvanius P. Thompson (Feynman taught himself calc with this book)Concrete Mathematics by Knuth, Graham, PatashnikFundamentals of Applied Probability Theory by Alvin DrakeYou probabl... |
good math books | dinkumthinkum: Calculus the Easy Way. It's old but good. |
good math books | jimbokun: I just happened to find this book browsing through my campus library a few days ago:Basic Training in MathematicsA Fitness Program for Science StudentsShankar, R.http://www.springer.com/physics/book/978-0-306-45036-5Meant as a review/primer for undergraduates in the physical sciences and engineering. Mainly ... |
good math books | AlleyRow: Check Out "Mathematical Tools for Physics" by James Nearing (available as a free download at http://www.physics.miami.edu/~nearing/mathmethods/). It covers a lot of great results and is one of the most easy to follow comprehensive summaries of an undergraduate math education that I've come across. |
Please review. Are we making something that people want? | weaksauce: Overall it is a good looking and fairly slick first pass at this. It would seem that you are on the right track for a simple account management system.That being said criticism is the best way to make a product better so here are things that I would change:1. Do not force the user to enter a dollar sign ever... |
good math books | hamilton: Everyone has given really great recommendations. I second caffeine's PROCESS. The way I learned most mathematics is from working through problems on a white board I bought. From there I got a great grasp of probability theory and linear algebra, which gave me the legs to study statistical learning.While I ... |
good math books | paulreiners: "Theory of Recursive Functions and Effective Computability" by Hartley Rogers is excellent. |
Starting a new business venture in new markets and industries | kynikos: Instead of trying to piggyback on to something that's just a new industry, see if you can find something that is a new niche within an industry you're already familiar with or are interested in working in.I'd also recommend against freelancing as a first step towards starting a company. Finding freelance work ... |
good math books | grosales: You could start with Mathematics: A very short introduction by Timothy Gowers. It's a quick read, and the way Gowers writes about important Mathematical topics is interesting and, for the most part, easy to understand. http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Short-Introduction-Timothy... |
How do I teach myself to be a salesman? | access_denied: What the heck is doleaf.com? "It is just budding at the moment, do some wierd geek stuff"Learn to speak the language of your customers.Also, what is doleaf? Something with plants I guess, what does it do for me? I couldn't figure this out (by glancing over the homepage). |
good math books | PebblesRox: I read this textbook (Statistics Through Applications) for fun last summer: http://bcs.whfreeman.com/sta/default.asp?s=&n=&i=...
Unlike most textbooks, it is actually well written. It would not take long to finish if you skip most of the exercises and I think it provides a good introduction to and explan... |
good math books | crocowhile: You may also be interested in knowing the American Math Society has a big collection of free textbooks downloadable as PDF.http://www.ams.org/online_bks/online_subject.html |
good math books | JimJinkins: W. W. SawyerMathematician's Delight
Prelude to MathematicsWhat is Calculus About?
This is best intro to calculus I ever saw. When I taught introductory calculus, I recommended it to all my students. |
Facebook Connect & Google Friend Connect as only way to register & login | pedalpete: I think it depends on what you are doing. If your site is something socially connected, where people are likely to want to share their activities with friends, then I think it makes sense.
If it is more of a stand-alone thing, I think it is disliked.
If you are doing anything in the enterprise realm, I wou... |
How do I teach myself to be a salesman? | tyohn: If I had to venture a guess - you don't seem to understand your marketplace. I don't mean you don't understand online sales - I mean you don't understand small growers (specialty nurseries).I grew up around small growers (Near Lancaster, PA). Most of the growers I know don't really use the web for sales (or mu... |
good math books | keefe: I think there are some interesting lectures here http://www.datawrangling.com/hidden-video-courses-in-math-sc... and I occasionally find something insightful here http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ but I'm in a similar position as you, unfortunately... |
Universal libraries? | makecheck: I believe that what you're looking for is Parrot: http://www.parrot.org/ |
Markets.com launches new investment site...but is it legal? | tkiley: Wow, that's pretty cool! Funny, though, the first thing I noticed: There are a TON of small issues in the website design that should be fixed (at least in FF3 on mac), and the poor attention to detail in the website makes me skeptical of the company as a whole. Does anyone here have firsthand experience with th... |
Markets.com launches new investment site...but is it legal? | jswinghammer: I can't help but believe that in that list of investors and execs that someone decided to call an attorney to sort that out. I think the rules for real estate investment are different than being equity in a corporation. I mean if timeshares are legal why not this? |
Universal libraries? | sofal: Imagine trying to write a Java bytecode interpreter in several different programming languages. This would be much easier than what you're thinking, because the libraries already exist and they didn't have to be written in straight up Java bytecode either. Also, you could skip all the languages that have already... |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | secos: usermob.com
twooty.com
carmindr.com
fixingstupid.com |
How do I teach myself to be a salesman? | beastman82: Pick up the phone and start calling. The questions they ask and ruminating over your experiences should highlight general ideas that you should "pitch." |
Markets.com launches new investment site...but is it legal? | ErrantX: The returns are suspiciously good ... I wouldnt invest in property on such an impersonal basis either - not in the current climate.But... seems people are doing ;) |
good math books | Alienz: All the Mathematics You Missed:http://www.amazon.com/All-Mathematics-You-Missed-Graduate/dp... |
Markets.com launches new investment site...but is it legal? | mynameishere: I love the 2-and-50 fee structure. Sign me up. |
Markets.com launches new investment site...but is it legal? | byrneseyeview: I can't want to invest in the "Fedex Office Bulding". |
How do I teach myself to be a salesman? | lacker: Just start calling! If they say no, ask why not. Ask if they could recommend to you any other people in the nursery business who might be interested. Offer to do something for someone completely for free if you can use them as a reference (a Mark Cuban recommendation for getting started in sales).Make 20 phone ... |
Universal libraries? | wmf: Why is this better than C + SWIG? |
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