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If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be? | asciilifeform: Computing. |
Javascript for desktop apps? | compay: I love Javascript, but I think people who want to develop server-side or desktop apps with it might be better served by Lua. Lua has functions as first-class values like Javascript does, which allows you to approach problems similarly in both languages.Lua has also already been in use as a server-side and deskt... |
Exists Open Source FPGA Tool Chain? | sybreon: Writing a synthesis tool is like writing a high-level language compiler, fairly difficult. On top of that, synthesis (by definition) targets a specific technology. This is like targeting different CPU architectures and platforms with said compiler except that the targets are not publicly documented.Even with s... |
Javascript for desktop apps? | polos: You could use the LGPL Qt4.5 (cross-platform), which includes an ECMAScript scripting engine (with debugger). |
Cash-flow muses | ja27: I have a small one that looks like it'll bring in about enough to buy a new laptop this year. It's taking maybe 60 hours so the rate sucks but those are mostly otherwise wasted hours where I'm already watching TV or other crap.This is a direct result of doing Ed Dale's 30 Day Challenge last year. That's a free on... |
How to make the area "around" a site clickable? | flooha: This practice seriously pisses me off. I really hope it doesn't catch on... |
Critique my startup - swagapalooza | Alex3917: About the site: I realize that it's not immediately obvious what makes this a startup as opposed to a conference, but ignoring the business model I'd like some feedback on the copy and design of the site. Is it clear what the event is all about? Does the site make you want to come?My emacs is open so if I get... |
what do you think of these flash cards I made for young kids? | epi0Bauqu: Works best full screen (F11 on Win).My son (4mo) and his cousin (14mo) really like these. However, I'd love to get some feedback from a wider audience before I start making a bunch more. |
Any experience with linutop 3? | beeker: http://www.linutop.com/linutop2/linutop3.en.html |
what do you think of these flash cards I made for young kids? | nico: They look really nice, good job!Maybe it's my connection, but the cards are going by a little fast, it skips to the next card before the image has finished loading. You could add a speed option and/or a pause button. |
what do you think of these flash cards I made for young kids? | tokenadult: What is the rationale for making flash cards at all? (This is a serious question; I've never seen a need for flash cards, in my youth or in my children's youth.) |
Cash-flow muses | jlees: I'm glad to read that people have actually set up decent, wholesome businesses that fulfil the criteria of cash-flow muses. My reaction when reading the book and even now is just to think 'set up one of those dodgy affiliate sites, ebook sites or drop shipping resellers', none of these being something I ever wan... |
Would anyone be interested in "Hacking Games"? | abyssknight: Personally, I'd love to see these sorts of things set up locally. To say you'll disallow things or implement rules is just silly. Now, if you're on a localized network with no outside lines, all bets can be off and everyone can have a safe, fun time blowing each others machines to bits. |
what do you think of these flash cards I made for young kids? | rawr: Things kids are forced to do (flashcards) they will hate.Things kids are allowed to do (watch National Geographic) they will enjoy.Do you really want your kids to hate nature? |
what do you think of these flash cards I made for young kids? | markcmyers: Very nice. I'm guessing little kids will love it. I found some of the labels hard to read because there was too little contrast with the pic. To me the robin didn't look like a robin. |
If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be? | coconutrandom: Computer logic. Having trits instead of bits specifically.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun |
what do you think of these flash cards I made for young kids? | Adrenalist: I have a 3 kids between the ages of 2 years and 11 years. My youngest would definitely enjoy these and I think it's a good start.It's a very simple idea, so I think you'll need to add some features (pause button, music, more card sets, etc.) to encourage parents to visit often.Also, I love the domain name a... |
what do you think of these flash cards I made for young kids? | m_eiman: Tiny tips for a better user experience: load the pictures in the background and display a spinner while they're loading; load the next/prev images while the user is looking at an image to minimize waiting. |
what do you think of these flash cards I made for young kids? | PostOnce: The images don't need to be that big, I think. Or you could possibly have a resolution option (small/med/large). Depending on your monitor, 30" flash cards? |
Do you aggregate your social networks/what do you use? | abyssknight: I stopped using MySpace except for IM on my phone. Twitter posts to Facebook, and I only use 3rd party twitter apps. If I have to use Facebook to reply to a message, I use the iPhone app. So I guess I use my iPhone to aggregate them all. |
what do you think of these flash cards I made for young kids? | alex_c: Should be "caterpillar"? Don't want to teach kids the wrong spelling ;) |
Why Somalia has become a safe heaven for pirate? | tokenadult: When I was younger, the waters of Southeast Asia were very dangerous for piracy. It seems to me that piracy arises whenever the governments of countries with strong navies are not united in dealing with it. |
Where can I find awesome web designers? | tirrellp: You may want to reach out to Allan and Steve at less everything. http://www.lesseverything.com |
Why Somalia has become a safe heaven for pirate? | TallGuyShort: Honestly, I think it has a lot to do with financial issues. This articles was posted earlier today that you may find interesting:http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-07/ff_som...I don't think it's entirely true that private security contractors are actually trying to prolong the problem in a... |
What countries allow foreigners to work immediately upon arrival? | sharpn: If you are an EU citizen you can work anywhere in the EU (with some temporary restrictions in Austria & Germany if I recall correctly).
So for example a Latvian citizen can fly to the UK or Spain & apply for any job without additional paperwork. |
What software should I include on my budget request for next year? | michael_dorfman: NDepend and TestDriven.NET come to mind, as do Resharper and/or CodeRush. |
Anyone heading out to Defcon or Blackhat this week? | khafra: Tptacek is presenting at Blackhat; I'd had ironclad plans to finally attend Defcon until my boss said I couldn't take vacation that week. Sadly, I don't think the resentment will last long enough to fuel a successful startup. |
Anyone heading out to Defcon or Blackhat this week? | qhoxie: I'll be there. We should consider organizing an HN meetup if attendance is good. |
Where can I find awesome web designers? | dpnewman: i don't know if you're just thinking of the landing page, or the cohesive, clean, overall UI that makes these services feel accessible.consider looking at people who have user experience expertise as well as design - some of what is making these sites so appealing is how the functionality is organized in simp... |
what do you think of these flash cards I made for young kids? | ujjwalg: I think if you can add colors, numbers, alphabets with spoken versions will be great. You should check out the apps on iPhone for kids. Some of them are just off the hook. |
Critique my startup - swagapalooza | startupcomment: This is probably not what you're looking for - but I would suggest that you rethink the name of your site. It's too much of a mouthful -- too many syllables. |
Cash-flow muses | jsterce: I fell into one of these with one of my hobbies--nature photography.A couple of years ago I setup JS Nature Photos (http://photos.jstechs.com) basically how it is now as a branch of another site at the time. Soon traffic to JS Nature Photos dwarfed traffic to the main site. The other site was fizzling anyway.... |
Where can I find awesome web designers? | pierattt: It's a good question. In my experience as a designer, I can't say I've seen a ton of quality shops that specialize in the web-entrepreneur market. I'm sure this is due to my own ignorance, but I'd say that the general lack of responses in this thread is telling. That said, as for comprehensive resources, I do... |
Where can I find awesome web designers? | pierattt: TRNSFR did a nice job with Bandize.
http://trnsfr.com/
http://bandize.com/ |
Why Somalia has become a safe heaven for pirate? | msie: Some history on the Somalia situation:http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1892376,00.htm... |
Where can I find awesome web designers? | alanthonyc: Have you tried http://www.99designs.com ?I used the site to have a logo created, and am very happy with the results. You can have websites designed there as well. |
Please review my startup Ventoria.com | cmos: I accidentally put in a date before today.. and it came up with results! |
Is learning algorithms and datastructures really important? | yannis: One of the most obvious answers is that the most well known and most successful web businesses have actually based their business on algorithms. For example Google and Wolfram.Although one does not have to be an Architect to build a house, you will need to be one to build a 50 story high building. The question ... |
Is learning algorithms and datastructures really important? | cperciva: Learning algorithms and data structures is important because:1. Knowing the standard algorithms and data structures will allow you to figure out which one you should be using, even if you're just doing that via an external library.2. Knowing the standard algorithms and data structures will help you in cases w... |
Is learning algorithms and datastructures really important? | Xichekolas: If she wants to sit in a cubicle churning out CRUD apps for businesses, then yeah, deep understanding of algorithms and data structures will rarely be called for.If she wants to work on anything cool (the kind of problem that keeps you up at night), she almost certainly will run into a situation that involv... |
Is learning algorithms and datastructures really important? | yan: Understand algorithms, data structures, and "theoretical" topics adds tools to your toolbox. If you are working on anything interesting, chances are you will end up re-inventing half a dozen wheels, taking much longer and coming up with a far less elegant and workable solution. The reason complicated topics exist ... |
Is learning algorithms and datastructures really important? | stormrider: "Knowing the standard algorithms and data structures will help you in cases where you want something which is almost but not quite standard. For example, I recently wrote a no-inserts hash table, because for my particular application I wanted to start with a populated table and then gradually remove entries... |
How do you hire a freelancer without fear they'll steal your idea? | TallGuyShort: >> once lawyers get involved, nobody ever really wins except the lawyers.Once you can't trust the people you're hiring, you can't win anyway.My recommendation would still be the legal agreement, although I do agree with you that only the lawyers win. At the very least it should act as a deterrent - at lea... |
Is learning algorithms and datastructures really important? | keefe: If she is looking to be mediocre and use writing software as a ramp into being a nearly-technically-competent manager, then no, algorithms and data structures are not important. If she wants to have any deep understanding of this field? Well, 90% of it is data structures and algorithms. If you are so adverse to ... |
Please review my startup Ventoria.com | pedalpete: Well, it seems you have a great service for Chamonix, and that's a good start.
I live in Whistler, and have been somewhat affiliated with this market in the past.From a usability perspective, your homepage didn't really make me want to click on anything. It didn't make me want to enter a search.
You've got... |
Issue with Startup Valuation | michael_dorfman: I'm confused. Surely the "8 large business customers" would be providing enough revenue to make 50K irrelevant in terms of scaling the business up.If I were you, I'd be going about it the opposite way: put together a good, detailed business plan, and figure out your most effective growth path. Then, ... |
Issue with Startup Valuation | jacquesm: Without further information (such as the size of your average sale, the potential market for the product ('killer' is not enough), the time invested and so on) it is very hard to put any kind of value on what you have there.My suggestion would be that you approach a professional in the field (for instance a f... |
Hypothetically reverse-engineer programming solutions from the brain? | jacquesm: Theoretically the brain çomputes, therefore 'hypothetically' it should be possible to isolate some of the functions a brain performs and reverse engineer them.There has been some success with reverse engineering the spatial imaging happening in a monkey brain while it makes a maneuvre to reach some object. Th... |
Issue with Startup Valuation | themichael: Thanks for your comments.@jacquesm Average sale varies from 1k per month to 15.Time:8 months. The potential market is in the trillions. "Make sure that you do not end up paying Mr. X his own investment back as a salary, otherwise he's just an equity-for-work employee, not an investor per-se." -Good point.@m... |
Anyone heading out to Defcon or Blackhat this week? | HalcyonMuse: I went last year, and I'll probably be there next year, but I won't be there this year, sadly. |
Rate my project: (moreofit.com) | RiderOfGiraffes: Clickable: http://www.moreofit.com/ |
Is learning algorithms and datastructures really important? | stevecooperorg: She's right that if all you need to do is glue stuff together, then she doesn't need to study it. Trivial problems are trivially solved. By very low-paid people. Who are very bored.But what I've noticed is that there are only so many non-trivial problems, and the formal pieces are the little pieces of d... |
Hypothetically reverse-engineer programming solutions from the brain? | theschwa: The Blue Brain Project is attempting to recreate the brain in a super computer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_brainAnd Jeff Hawkin's (the founder of Palm Computing) has already put forth a fairly comprehensive theory on how the brain works in his book On Intelligence, and his group Numenta http://www.nume... |
What do you drink? | sound2man: Iced peppermint Tea. The most refreshing drink in the galaxy. Much easier on the head than the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster too. |
What do you drink? | mrduncan: My usual daily routine consists the following: 1-2 cups of coffee in the morning and lots of water and orange juice the rest of the day. I quit drinking soda years ago for the most part (still drink it occasionally but rarely) in college when it was just a lot cheaper to drink water instead and have never r... |
What do you drink? | Femur: My daily fluid intake:1-2 cups of coffee in the morning.2-3 cups of Lipton green tea throughout the day.1 litre of bottled carbonated mineral water at home in the evening.1 glass of red wine with supper.I also drink the odd cup/glass of tap water here and there.Edit: I also never drink soda. |
What do you drink? | splat: Just water throughout the day. I'll have a beer or a cocktail in the evening. On rare occasions, if I'm feeling particularly tired and need to be alert I'll have a soda or coffee. |
What do you drink? | DanielBMarkham: I mostly go with water throughout the day.With meals I usually have a Isopure zero carb drink, which tastes great and lets me load up on protein without all the fat or carbs.I had stopped caffeine completely, but now that I'm off the caffeine wagon again, once a week (usually Friday) I'll load up on 2 o... |
What do you drink? | omarchowdhury: Water. |
What do you drink? | sgoraya: Ten Ren Green Tea Powder.Its good, healthy and easy. A small spoon of it in my water bottle, a good shake and its done. Its good hot too.As an aside, my wife noticed how my fingernails started growing faster after my green tea habit - really! ;)
It prompted a google search several months back and indeed, i... |
What do you drink? | SwellJoe: 3-4 cups of Yamamoto jasmine green tea during the early part of the day (waking until 6 or so hours before sleeping).Water the rest of the time.I occasionally drink orange juice, when eating chocolate or when having a hot breakfast like grits and eggs.About once every two or three weeks, I'll have a Pepsi whe... |
What do you drink? | anulman: I used to rarely drink soda (only when I went out), but now that they give it to me at the office, it's a bit tougher to avoid.What I've found helps me avoid the temptation is really good green tea -- I keep a tin of it on my desk at all times. It's ultra-natural, both in how it feels/tastes and in reality; it... |
What do you drink? | agotterer: I drink 90% water. At work I get up at least once every hour to refill the glass. Gives me a reason to take a break and stretch my legs. I will occasionally have a soda with lunch. I have never had a cup of coffee before and I stopped drinking energy drinks. |
What do you drink? | brooksbp: 3-4 cups green tea a day (good to mix creatine with). You're drinking water and sometimes good anti-oxidants (great for cleansing your body after exercising, or during hangovers).I try to stay away from coffee; it doesn't take me long to acquire a tolerance for caffeine. I just don't see the benefits of cof... |
What do you drink? | lucumo: When I'm at home (where I work most of the time) I drink water, sometimes mixed with (orange) cordial. I found a light version of it, making me feel less guilty about drinking it. :-) |
What do you drink? | vaksel: water or orange juice |
What do you drink? | Zak: It depends on what sort of coding I'm doing. It's usually water or herbal tea. If I need extra energy, black tea, but I try not to do that more than a couple times a week since I broke my addiction to caffeine.When I have to deal with new and interesting bugs that only occur with Internet Explorer, I drink whiskey... |
What do you drink? | ashleyw: On the average day:• 2x extra strong coffees with sugar (still dislike it really, too sour, but it wakes me up.)• ~1-2 litres of Coke and/or other fizzy drinks (my addiction)• 1-2 Hot chocolate (at night)• ~4x litres of water, sometimes with flavouring |
What do you drink? | michaelfairley: V8 Fusion. Absolutely delicious, and (according to the marketing on the label) contains a full serving of fruit and vegetables in every 8oz.That, and water. |
What do you drink? | thunk: Lots of tea (camellia sinensis: green, Earl Grey, Oolong, Lipton, whatever). Water. No soda. |
Ethics of Offering Promotion for Users who Dump Competitor | cwan: How is this unethical? A friend of mine who happens to also be a lawyer pointed out that it's impossible to "steal" a client. Clients act on their own accord and in their interests. Seeking to take market share by directly targeting competitors often just makes good business sense. I suspect it's extraordinar... |
What do you drink? | dtf: I've got quite into Rooibos tea over the last few months. Very drinkable with a pleasant aroma and no caffeine. I still love coffee, but save it for the weekends. |
What do you drink? | lallysingh: Always double-fist with ice water. Most of the time we're drinking b/c we want water. Expect to pee a lot.On most days, regular coffee is fine. Stage 2 is a tall americano (you know from where). Stage 3 is a chai with two shots of espresso. Stage 4 need not be named, but it gives me wings. I usually s... |
What do you drink? | rms: I'll agree with the consensus: water is the best, but if you want caffeine, freshly brewed tea is by far the healthiest source of caffeine. The theanine is also a nice bonus. |
Ethics of Offering Promotion for Users who Dump Competitor | joez: Depends on your market. I was recently at a talk from a Philip Morris executive who said the only way for the cigarette business to gain market share in its declining market was to win over consumers from competitors.Doesn't sound unethical but are you ready for any backlash? Can you win a price war? |
What do you drink? | clemesha: Monsters, mountain dew, iced coffee. Anything with caffeine when hacking. Not a healthful response, but an honest one. |
What do you drink? | nanexcool: I drink mate 2 or 3 times a day.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(beverage) |
What do you drink? | teeja: Black tea, in mass quantities. |
What do you drink? | zzzmarcus: I recently found Viso Vigor which is pretty good for a quick, intense (300mg) dose of caffeine. It also has tons of vitamin B (6, 12 etc.), and feels less to me like drinking death than Red Bull and the other canned energy drinks do. I don't drink it often, but if I need a boost that tastes good and isn't so... |
What do you drink? | pmichaud: No soda! Yuck!I drink water mostly, but I also drink some Twinnings Breakfast tea in the afternoon usually. |
What do you drink? | J_McQuade: Buying a tea infuser is one of the best things I've ever done - real leaf tea by the cup! Moroccan mint is my favourite at the moment, but I like to experiment, and can't help but think that in tea I've just found one more thing to be geeky about.I also find that the regular ritual of making tea helps to sto... |
What do you drink? | lyime: Ice Tea (16 - 32oz daily) and waterI find that ice tea keeps my hydrated and keeps me focused. It's perfect for coding and it's also healthy.My recipe- Leaf Tea (not the boxed kind) usually fruity ones. (peach and cinnamon rooibos is my favorite)- Boil 2-3 cups of water- 2 spoons of tea in a container and pour w... |
What do you drink? | philwelch: Mostly water, though a fruit smoothie in the morning makes breakfast compatible with working, and a 7UP every so often adds some of the soda flavor without being too sickeningly sweet (like Sprite), caffeinated (Coke), or having a heavy, sticky aftertaste (Coke again). Mix in some orange juice to perk you up... |
What do you drink? | mmphosis: One cup of espresso in the morning.Freshly ground, tamped, and run through a home espresso machine. Add a bit of cream. The beans are: Café Awasa direct fair trade organic Ethiopian |
What do you drink? | herval: Water or green tea!Beware the Coke Zero, its sweeteners are quite harmful, according to some physicists I consulted (and to what happened to myself: got very strong stomach pain for months, and the reason was that I got a reaction to Coke Zero! Switched to Coke Light and it's all gone...) |
What do you drink? | CaptainMorgan: Upon waking up I have 1-2 cups of coffee, minus the sugar.Throughout the day I have close to a gallon of water. Also, I drink Weight Watchers soda: contains no sodium, no sugar, no calories, etc... Coke zeros contain sodium, no? If a drink contains sodium I always thought it defeated the purpose of drink... |
What do you drink? | Leon: Tea, Earl Grey, Hot |
What do you drink? | jsz0: When I was in Europe a few years ago I picked up a seltzer habit. Nothing is as refreshing as an ice cold seltzer. To me it rivals the effects of a coffee in the morning. It's a good alternative if you like fizzy drinks. You can mix some fruit juice in if you want something sweeter. Besides that I drink lots of ... |
What do you drink? | mannicken: Coffee (French pressed, buy pre-grinded) with splenda.Tea (black mostly like Red Rose, Earl Grey, English Breakfast with honey/sugar).Water (after a run and before).Perrier bubbly water.Buttermilk.Milk.Diet coke, sprite zero, and other junk less often.Sugarfree red bull. |
What do you drink? | Devils-Avacado: Coffee from 9AM to 6PM.Beer from 6PM until 2AM. |
What do you drink? | zackola: water. iced coffee |
What do you drink? | jamesbritt: Water, mostly.Black coffer (French pressed for creamy goodness) in the morning, and sometimes late afternoon.Iced tea with lunch, unless I'm eating raw veggies, then only water seems to taste good.Black tea with fruit, or muffins if we've made some, in the afternoon.Some caffeine-free diet Pepsi with dinner... |
What do you drink? | JeremyChase: I have a small bottle that I refill several times a day with water. If I am drinking soda I prefer Pepsi Max (similar to Coke Zero) |
What do you drink? | chaosmachine: Mill Street Coffee Porter after dinner, and Rockstar™ for late night coding. |
What do you drink? | jlees: Water usually, occasionally with Berocca tablets (not sure I've noticed any energy benefits, but they taste nice).A nice hot cup of tea with milk and sweetener at around 3 or 4pm every day - and no caffeine any later.Diet Coke or Dr Pepper zero when I need to get some serious work done.Starbucks skinny caramel m... |
What do you drink? | sherl0ck: 2 big glass of iced coffee, and the rest is water. |
What do you drink? | safetytrick: Zip Fizz and Mountain Dew |
Is learning algorithms and datastructures really important? | cullenking: It is important if you ever plan on writing software that works well. For example, I am working on an application that draws routes on Google Maps. There are points that comprise the route, and the points have data associated with them. I wanted to be able to mouse over the map and have the nearest point... |
Ethics of Offering Promotion for Users who Dump Competitor | RobGR: I don't think it is unethical. If they came back and offered all the customer's who switched 2 years free to switch back, after you were out of pocket for serving them for a year free, would you feel unfairly treated ?Inducing people to break a contract seems to me to be going a step further, but even then I wo... |
What do you drink? | sutro: Bum wines. Usually Cisco RED. http://www.bumwine.com/ |
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