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Best approach for taking on well funded competitors ? | Travis: Remember to actually solve a problem, rather than implement your idea. I'm in the same situation, and we keep motivating ourselves by refocusing on the customer centric model proposed by Steve Blank. Small iterative cycles, actually talking to your customers -- that's your advantage. Be small, be nimble, and... |
What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google? | prakash: 1. Sites which are useless for everyone e.g.: splogs, etc.2. Some sites could be useful for a few, while being completely useless for the rest i.e. letting users remove certain sites from their results only3. Like the ad-block software, people could subscribe to well-defined popular lists to get started.4. I w... |
What are you working on? | iron_ball: If I tell anyone, I'll lose my motivation. Scientific fact! |
Any talented graphical designer want to join me? i'm a programmer | yan: I'm in a similar boat. I guess a follow up question to the OP, are there communities similar to this one focused on UI (not just Web)? |
Can anyone recommend a good CDN? | aaroneous: I had really obnoxious experiences with Akamai, Limelight and Panther Express. Technically - their services were fine, it was just all the other layers of people I had to deal with that was a pita.http://www.bitgravity.com was my fav. |
What are you working on? | NoBSWebDesign: I recently (about 4 months ago) quit my job as a Marketing Engineer, which I had taken when I graduated with Mechanical and Electrical Engineering degrees. I am now supporting myself full-time with my consultancy while I work on my startup (http://www.ratemystudentrental.com), which offers a Web-based ra... |
Coping with impending success? | jacquesm: Stay yourself, be genuine. Treat people that you believe are out of your league like you would treat anybody that you would afford respect, but not too much.I've met some pretty famous people and I think that that is the attitude that is most appreciated by the other side.Treat them like you would like to be ... |
What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google? | bhseo: I have been compiling a list of useless sites to share with the world. You will need CustomizeGoogle for Firefox or your own userscript in the browser of your choice. Come to think of it, I might even create some userscripts/plugins for other browsers to go with my useless website list.If you'd like to contribut... |
Coping with impending success? | icey: Start by learning how to accept congratulations.And after that you need to learn how to say no to friends and family.Other than that, just remember that when you get called up to the big leagues, you're still at the bottom of a big pile. Don't forget how to be a scrappy underdog. |
Coping with impending success? | vaksel: I think you need to read the Felix Dennis book "How to get rich". He talks a lot about what you are asking about. And its pretty short, so you can read it over a weekend |
Caliper Test | vijayr: I once did some appraisal software for a HR department. They had this test, for their potential sales team recruits. I was told that it only had 40 questions, some company in the UK had developed it and similar to what you are saying (only based on what I was told, I tried to take a peek at the test, but coul... |
Caliper Test | jacquesm: 3 seconds in google yielded this:http://www.personality-and-aptitude-career-tests.com/caliper...Personally I'm not a great fan of such tests and I would probably not want to work in a place that relied on them. |
Any talented graphical designer want to join me? i'm a programmer | KClough: Do graphic designers hang out @ Hacker News? I think developers would find more responses if they branched out to sites that graphic designers frequent. |
What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers? | bounce: As mentioned instructables.com I heard they were experimenting with a pay wall, but I haven't been on there in a while.
hack ikea
http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/
found some good stuff here:
http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page
Upcycling:
https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/tetani/upcycleart/htmls/proj...
kinda cheesy
... |
Any talented graphical designer want to join me? i'm a programmer | hajrice: Yo I want it dude! I'm a fantastic graphic designer and web developer. |
What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers? | bounce: Also,http://diy.alltop.com/And a compilation:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tutorial_sites.php |
Can anyone recommend a good CDN? | solomonjames: as long as its not streaming video or something, so far CloudFront/S3 from Amazon Web Services has been very fast and easy to use, and you pay for what you use. If you google for 37signals and AWS you can find their monthly bill, and it was seemly low for all the data they used. |
Best approach for taking on well funded competitors ? | transburgh: This could work out in your advantage. If you get some traction, they could buy you. |
What are you working on? | isharan: A course management system which is a lot more flexible than moodle and other software, but requires a lot more work from the school. |
Best approach for taking on well funded competitors ? | vabmit: My comment is tangential to the actual discussion. It doesn't so much apply to companies with $5MM in funding as larger competitors. But, I'll post it here anyway because it relates a scenario that a founder needs to be concerned about when taking on a competitor with more resources than they have.Beware of op... |
Good books on negotiation? | AndrewWarner: The Secret of Power Persuasion is an old favorite. |
What happens to your Facebook account when you die? | bgnm2000: just googled http://legacylocker.com which seems to handle it |
What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google? | jusob: All my competitors :-) |
review my web app, a wiki for code snippets | JeremyChase: I think this is generally useful, but I would prefer to see each version of the code. By making this a wiki you will end up with only one version, but if you could see each version you can see different approaches to the problem. The history attempts to address this, but it is difficult to use. |
What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers? | schindyguy: sorry if i am repeating, buthttp://lifehacker.com |
Good books on negotiation? | noodle: 'how to win friends and influence people' isn't specifically about negotiation, but its a classic and the principles found in there can easily be applied. |
Have you ever had one of your sites get hacked? | kngspook: Yeah, I had someone alter the HTML on a static webpage at some point to make it link out to some sites in China.It was a simple site, so I just scanned all the pages to ensure the rest weren't tampered with (it was just index.html).Then I switched webhosts (from iPowerWeb to NSFN+WebFaction) because iPowerWeb... |
Have you ever had one of your sites get hacked? | jacquesm: yes.I run a filedump as part of all the stuff we do, one day some smart alec figured out that I had forgotten that if somebody uploaded a .php file that it would execute instead of being downloaded... Very very stupid of me.The next step was to upload a nice little backdoor filemanager package written in php ... |
Have you ever had one of your sites get hacked? | modoc: Yes. Many years ago a server was gotten into by a brute force ssh script. The cracker then used a local exploit to gain root access and run all sorts of unpleasant software, downloaded my databases, etc...I ended up just getting a new server, as I couldn't track down all the things he'd done. I started learni... |
Have you ever had one of your sites get hacked? | dmix: When I was 17 at my first job developing web sites, I set up a PHPBB forum for a customer. Brazillian script kiddies used a security flaw to gain access to one of our entire servers and ruined a bunch of sites.Great beginners lesson. Keep your mainstream opensource apps up to date. |
Have you ever had one of your sites get hacked? | dannyr: Yes. Mine got a SQL Injection attack so the hacker was able to run scripts that changed the database. I thought I plugged the holes to prevent it but apparently, I missed one.I also did not make a fuss about it since the hacker likely wants some attention. I was backing up my db regularly so I just restored fro... |
Is success impossible for a part-time startup? | bruin4tw: part time startups are harder for people that have other commitments, like a family to feed, wife or gf, busy career. That is why most of the startups are started by young single men who don't have a family they are obiligated too, a gf or wife that needs attention that takes away time from working on your st... |
review my web app, a wiki for code snippets | k_and_r_s_bitch: I normally use sites like DZone snippets for code snippets but I'll check out this site too if I need any. Thanks for sharing.
I also like the design of your site better. |
Would a "truth" search engine be viable commercially? | alex_c: Whose truth would it return? |
Have you ever had one of your sites get hacked? | olihb: Only once.I had an asterisk server with polycom phones on a network not connected to the internet and because I'm lazy all the phones had 1234 as their SIP password. If you're inside the building, you don't need to hack the server, just use the phone in front of you...Fast forward a couple of years and now some ... |
review my web app, a wiki for code snippets | tdavis: Snipt.net is the one I use and it keeps me coming back because it allows me to have my own personal snippets (which can be either public or private). Perhaps you should let people register and do the same (or "flag this revision for me" if you want everything public?) |
review my web app, a wiki for code snippets | sinvertical: I really like the design and way that your site works, a lot of really nice elements in there. |
Have you ever had one of your sites get hacked? | eli: I set up a sendmail that was hacked to send Chinese spam. Lesson learned: don't set up a sendmail server unless you really know what you're doing. I think I nuked the whole server and started over.Edit: In fact, we ended up moving those domains over to an Exchange server to let the Microsoft guy run them :( |
Would a "truth" search engine be viable commercially? | eli: So humans have to review each page (and periodically re-review them)? No, that doesn't sound commercially viable at all. |
Have you ever had one of your sites get hacked? | bjw: Yes, due to the first OpenSSH remote exploit. With some many servers to manage one of them was forgotten and hacked.Our recovery was a bit complicated, because we didn't trust any of our boxes after that. So, we shut down the hacked box, mounted somewhere else, removed all the data and reinstalled. We reinstalled ... |
Have you ever had one of your sites get hacked? | dpifke: When I was a young sysadmin at an ISP in the mid-nineties, we had a shell server that would be exploited fairly regularly. This was in the days before automated updates, when the standard Sun delivery method for patches was a mailed CD-ROM. (Online patches were available, but you had to seek them out, and eve... |
Would a "truth" search engine be viable commercially? | gojomo: Maybe a knowledge base that helps clearly lay out all the competing factional 'truths' would be better? See for example the 'UberFact' proposal:http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/08/uberfac... |
Good books on negotiation? | maximumwage: I was interested in learning about negotiation a few months ago, so I bought all the best-reviewed books on Amazon. Here's the ones I especially liked: The Power of Nice (Shapiro), Bargaining for Advantage (Shell), 3D Negotiation (Lax), Negotiation Genius (Malhotra) |
Have you ever had one of your sites get hacked? | sho: Yes. I made the mistake of providing accounts for friends, and one of them had a common account name and an easily guessable password - it was bruteforced, the server rootkitted, and used as a 0-day ftp drop. I only noticed when bandwidth usage went through the roof.I didn't trust the server at all after that, of ... |
review my web app, a wiki for code snippets | sunir: I'm really quite enamoured with your work. Most wikis seem confusing or dead or forboding when you first load them. You've really brought the "visible pulse" of the site right up front and made it inviting for people to take an initial action. |
Have you ever had one of your sites get hacked? | RobGR: These are the ones that I know about.In 2001 I was running a redhat 6.1 server at my house, and the ftp had a known vulnerability in it, but I didn't use ftp so I ignored the update. Then someone was over at my place and trying to retrieve an ancient mail archive from an old account, and asked me to turn it on... |
What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google? | scumola: I have my own 'custom' search engine that filters out those annoying sites. You can use it here: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=015394218516616598090:kmqd... |
Have you ever had one of your sites get hacked? | ethanmullins: Once in 2007 when I was 14,I was running a RealVNC server on a computer with the default port forwarded. Around the same time, unknown to me, a buffer overflow exploit was released for the particular version of RealVNC that I had. Some kid eventually found it, and proceeded to do stupid things on my compu... |
justifying hosting costs for hobby sites | andreshb: To get at least a resume-building prototype going I don't see why you would need to pay $100/mo in hosting.Now, if you begin to grow such traffic that you need to shell out $100/mo in hosting, then maybe you have something interesting going that you can probably find a way to make some revenue from it (or at ... |
justifying hosting costs for hobby sites | Batsu: Any specific reasons why you think it would be $100/mo? |
Have you ever had one of your sites get hacked? | rs: Back in the day, I ran a Mandrake linux box from home on an old laptop (student days, wahey!) which used to host my site and emails. One fine day, I realised that it was getting a little sluggish in terms of performance.On a closer look, running "top" showed a process called "z" that was eating the process up. Yup,... |
justifying hosting costs for hobby sites | aneesh: "But, I see on HN a lot of people whipping up simple webapps and sometimes complex webapps with out any revenue being generated, and just running it for the fun of it"I really don't think most of the hobby projects are paying anywhere near $100/mo for hosting. Is there something specific about your project tha... |
What are you working on? | vivekamn: Doing feasibility on white label mobile social network. |
justifying hosting costs for hobby sites | chaosprophet: I think you are way off the mark with hosting fees. Look at this page from inmotion hostings business plans [http://www.inmotionhosting.com/hostingplans.html]Even the costliest is only $19/mo. |
Have you ever had one of your sites get hacked? | paraschopra: Yes, last year my blog got hacked by a script kiddo. The blog software I was using had just been found vulnerable and almost all blogs using that software got hacked that day.I had one old backup but lost a few months posts. Was terrible but got over it soon. |
Have you ever had one of your sites get hacked? | trafficlight: If you said no, you haven't been doing this long enough. |
justifying hosting costs for hobby sites | carbon8: appengine is free, and you can get a low end VPS for $6-$20/mo from prgmr, slicehost or linode, and you can use even a low end VPS for multiple low-traffic sites. It does not cost $100/mo for a hobby site. |
Is this a viable idea - white label MOBILE social network | jbox: This is a very crowded space. The involved players market themselves towards carriers rather than the end user so it's unlikely simple searching will turn them up.For example airG (http://corp.airg.com/) has deployed white label social networks on most North American carriers. They don't come up for "white label ... |
justifying hosting costs for hobby sites | ido: I pay about $20/month at SliceHost and never needed more than the cheapest slice. |
review my web app, a wiki for code snippets | cturner: Looks useful. If I invest time in it with my existing collection of snippets, what confidence can I have that it won't get zapped?Anyone can edit is tough. There are situations where people think they know what you mean and go in and mess with things but miss the subtlety of a situation. Or where it comes down... |
Have you ever had one of your sites get hacked? | pert: I got burned about 10 years ago by 'samba' not doing what I thought I'd told it to. I used the 'bind interfaces only' configuration directive, which I thought would prevent it from opening any ports on my Internet interface. I was wrong.Unfortunately I also had no idea about the concept of security patches and,... |
justifying hosting costs for hobby sites | lsc: you need more SysAdmin friends.seriously, almost every real SysAdmin has a server in a datacenter somewhere, roaring away and burning through power, often doing little more than personal email, spamfiltering, and personal website/filesharing. Usually they love giving friends free hosting for little personal proje... |
What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science? | ErrantX: Probably not what your looking for but I am in the middle of doing a postgraduate Masters (an MSC) with the Open University (www.open.ac.uk). They're distance learning - but are highly recommended (i.e. they are in no way the "poor mans" alternative).Alternatively I can recommend Leeds University, UK (where I ... |
What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science? | david927: Saarland University has an amazing reputation for programming language research. I'd like to do my Ph.D. there in the next few years.http://frweb.cs.uni-sb.deAnd ETH in Zurich is the rough equivalent of MIT in the States:
http://www.ethz.ch/index_EN |
What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science? | jacquesm: Well, it highly depends on what you want to study, computer science is pretty broad.Probably the best way to figure this out is to pick your chosen subfield, then find out who is prominent in that field and then where they lecture.For instance, Amsterdam has Tanenbaum, but if you're not into OS research then ... |
What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science? | pclark: Cambridge |
What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science? | tewks: Imperial |
What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science? | halo: Based on reputation, it's undoubtedly Cambridge and Imperial College London. |
What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science? | miiister: Clearly ETH Zurich http://www.inf.ethz.ch/ or www.ethz.ch |
Have you ever had one of your sites get hacked? | Jem: About 6 years ago I was running a "top list" script that was exploited. They planted a backdoor in an obscure folder, so that even after I removed the script they got in again twice. Took me a week to dig out every dodgy file they'd put in.Also had my very first PHP script exploited (2004ish). I was threatened by ... |
What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science? | tamberg: ETH Zürich (http://www.ethz.ch/) for Bertrand Meyer (Eiffel), Ueli Maurer, ...EPF Lausanne (http://www.epfl.ch/) for Martin Odersky (Scala), ... |
Have you ever had one of your sites get hacked? | DanielBMarkham: Yes. Many years ago I ran my own Windows Server network out of my home office -- Exchange, SQL Server, SMS, etc. It was all part of learning how to use the tools and staying on top of the technology. At the time I had a T-1 leased to the office, which gave me tremendous speed (relative to everybody else... |
What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science? | paulsb: If you want to compare UK universities then have a look at the league tables: http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/tol_gug/gooduniversityguide....Just type in the subject you're interested in. When I used it, I ordered the list by research quality. |
What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science? | bgimpert: Imperial and Cambridge, in that order. |
review my web app, a wiki for code snippets | kwamenum86: I am not a big fan of re-inventing the wheel but I am also not a big fan of copy-paste programming. Often times you unwittingly introduce errors, assumptions, or complexities into your program without realizing it. Having said that, it is a great way to get a general idea of how to solve problems if you'r... |
What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science? | shadchnev: Imperial College. In addition to a very strong Computing department (see other reviews, league tables or just believe me, I've got MSc Advanced Computing from there), it's situated in London, where many exciting IT companies are based. I would never have met so many great hackers/founders etc. if I chose not... |
What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science? | katamole: Imperial College or Cambridge University. Both have excellent CS departments and lots of interesting research going on.And if you end up going to Imperial, I'll see you in October! |
justifying hosting costs for hobby sites | bavcyc: Of the $20/month sites, any recommendations for RoR host? |
review my web app, a wiki for code snippets | robryan: I think it would be best if there was no editing on another persons code snippet. But instead of a fork have it as alternate code under the same title then have some kind of voting to decide the display order.So the main one would come up as it as as a slide down with a link down the bottom that would say some... |
Do you use LinkedIn's PRO features (InMail)? | ScottWhigham: Why don't you put a poll in here? You'll likely get more feedback. |
Twitter and Spam | ErrantX: Even worse are the ones that seem legit for a long time (like a month or more - I suspect regenerating other ppl's tweets, but I've never tested that) and then start to "spam" subtely. Bloody clever and I've clicked links w/o even slightly imagining they were spam.Im guessing it is down to Twitter being fairly... |
Twitter and Spam | yan: Well those followers don't generate any traffic, their sole act of spamming is just following you. I'd just ignore it. And I think you just got +1 actual follower. |
Twitter and Spam | brk: I block them, which I believe helps identify them as spammers faster.At the same time, deadbeat followers don't really cost YOU anything. Follow and follow-back people that seem interesting or valuable to you. |
Twitter and Spam | agotterer: Recently the spam followers have been increasing at a faster pace. I would say of the last 15 followers that added me at least 10 were spam. I'm also stating to notice more spam when doing a search for a trending topic. Hopefully twitter can get this under control. I'm not sure why they dont have a "spam" or... |
Twitter and Spam | Jem: You can report them to twitter by way of direct message to http://twitter.com/spam (although none of the spammers I've reported have been removed)You can also block them, but I don't think this achieves much.Alternatively, just ignore them (my preferred method). |
What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science? | zacharyvoase: The best university is the one you feel is right for you. You could go to the best university in the world, but if you don’t fit together, you’ll accomplish nothing. Conversely, you could end up going to a relatively ‘poor’ university and click with it; you’ll end up making so much more out of the experie... |
justifying hosting costs for hobby sites | djb_hackernews: I estimated $100 because it is sort of a niche filehost that also has an application that would be spidering small parts of the internet to find content. I can see my low traffic site burning through 500GB/mo in bandwidth which would be about $100 at slicehost. |
Twitter and Spam | tptacek: Don't pay attention to your followers. Don't reciprocate followers. Follow people who interest you, or who you've exchanged messages with. I've had zero problem with Twitter spam, but then, I just use Twitter. I don't fret about what my follower list looks like. |
Twitter and Spam | miracle: Every tweet is junk. |
What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science? | neuromanta: You ppl recommend only UK universities... this is sad, in my opinion. What I like about Europe is that it's the frontier of West and East. Thinking only about the west is narrow mindedness. The western learning philosophy is too "materialist" in my opinion, that's why there is no soul in western (american a... |
What's your monitor set up? | ScottWhigham: Dual 24s set up horizontally |
Adsense Fake Clicks | ScottWhigham: You can report the fraud but #### - Google is just not usually going to say, "You're right and we're wrong" in my experience. I've reported fraud many times and, although I can't be 100% certain due to years of advertising, but I don't recall Google ever once coming back in my favor. |
MP3 Crawler | ScottWhigham: How is this different from doing a google search for filetype:mp3? I don't remember... |
Twitter and Spam | felixmar: Keyword spam is another issue. Yesterday i was watching a Microsoft conference on digitalwpc.com and it shows tweets with the #wpc09 keyword. Initially it seemed nice to show tweets on the site, but spam (and sometimes stupid comments) made it annoying after a while. |
What's your monitor set up? | stuff4ben: At home, 15" laptop set to 1440x900 and external 22" set to 1920x1080.
At work, 15" laptop set to 1680x1050 and external 19" set to 1440x900.Obviously I use two different laptops, but I'd rather go with my home setup than my work setup. |
What's your monitor set up? | bgnm2000: I have a desktop w/ a 19" next to my pc laptop - 15", next to my macbookpro 13" with external 23" its a lot of monitors, but I like it a lot. |
Adsense Fake Clicks | makecheck: You might be able to obfuscate things a little on your end, if you can change the source code used to generate your ads.For example, the bot is probably searching the page for links matching specific URLs, but it might be fooled by selective use of URL encoding. Say, if you replaced the letter "o" with %6f ... |
Do you trust IE8 Compatibility View? | onreact-com: I don't trust anything containing the acronym IE unless it's from Ireland. IE = Internet Exploder.
I'd rather trust browsershots.org and the likes. |
Twitter and Spam | onreact-com: I largely ignore it but you can make your tweets private. That means people have to apply to follow your updates. |
MP3 Crawler | jm4: They probably use a better crawler than the one you've put together. Reliable crawling is not the easiest problem to solve. There are a lot of crappy sites out there. When you're Google you can tell them to screw off. When you're small and you need to crawl the content you have to figure out a way to make things w... |
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