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Best word to describe this process? | paulgb: filtering? |
Best word to describe this process? | chaosmachine: highlightfilterselect |
Best word to describe this process? | timinman: pluck |
How to protect/copyright code/essays/papers published on my site? | Zev: I think that if you were to ask for attribution if anyone used or cited your work, most people would gladly do so. I have a feeling that the people that are likely to try and steal your work would do so, regardless of your copyright or license.But, both of those thoughts are nothing more then my own personal opini... |
What should we do? | alexk: Clickable link: http://www.ird.me/tour.htmlThe longer version is here: http://3words2years.blogspot.com/
it was already posted, but no one seemed to be interested. |
How to protect/copyright code/essays/papers published on my site? | gojomo: Ultimately your only 'protection' is your willingness to enforce your rights against unapproved uses -- which very generally includes lawsuits, legal threats, takedown notices, and public shaming campaigns.The paid registration is unlikely to deter anyone; it might be necessary if you have to sue someone, but e... |
Best word to describe this process? | saurabh: Cherrypick |
What should we do? | bigbang: Open source it you cant sell. |
Best word to describe this process? | 10ren: PrioritizingThere's also online thesauri. e.g.: http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/prioritize try starting with different words. |
What should we do? | terpua: What are you trying to build and who is your target customer? It looks like an online db but why a calendar?Read everything on http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.comThat will help you flush the product more clearly. |
What should we do? | fauigerzigerk: Why do you want to quit even before you have a signup form? It's going to be much easier to sell if you have customers.By the way, you should spell check the home page. easilly = easily |
Best word to describe this process? | bkovitz: "champeen" |
What should we do? | jacquesm: Interesting concept. It reminds me of a product from the mid-80's called "data ease". |
Best word to describe this process? | devin: refine, review, grab, point, target, track |
What should we do? | pavlov: The screenshots look good, but the terse homepage had me slightly confused about what the product actually does. (Admittedly I'm probably not part of the target market either.)The one-line description of the product -- "Online web database" -- seems to contain a tautology: if it's on the web, doesn't that imply... |
Best word to describe this process? | tel: Championing
Zooming
Nabbing
Being a connoisseur (commoisseuring?)
Sifting
Trying to hit some words that aren't just CS/Engineering oriented. |
What should we do? | ktharavaad: My suggestion is to chop it up and develop it piece by piece.Looking at your app, it seems to do a lot of different things such as:- Form Editor- Calendar- Permission based file access systemYou could build just one of these components and get it out of the door and see how the market responds to your produ... |
What should we do? | csomar: Your application is big; here's the point. What happened to you is exactly what happened to me 3 year ago when I made a barcode application.I carried on growing the application until it become so big that I can't control. The read problem is that you "don't know how to solve overweight issues".I got a solution,... |
What should we do? | fauigerzigerk: After reading the long version of your question I want to say that my own experience with generic application generators is very similar to yours. Users want functionality and wording that is very specific to particular tasks.Therefore any generic framework can only ever serve as a basis for you to creat... |
Best word to describe this process? | csomar: Tick!"tick the right answer" (in english exams)may be useful for you! |
What should we do? | oldgregg: You want out. That's really understandable. This was a really ambitious project that quite a few companies have failed at... Last year I worked on a startup by for about 6 months and just got fatigued and scrapped it. I know the pain of working on a project when the momentum starts to evaporate. But what real... |
Best word to describe this process? | asmithmd1: curate |
What should we do? | ErrantX: Give a shot at release early release often.Get some users on there using it, breaking it, enthusing about it - and you might feel a bit more attachment :) |
How to protect/copyright code/essays/papers published on my site? | gtani: read about DMCA takedowns:http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/feature/93FEDCEF6636CF9...http://www.freelanceswitch.com/freelancing-essentials/what-t... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | op: Wordoid.com is a webapp that helps you come up with a catchy name for your product, company or domain.It makes up new words that are unlikely to appear in a dictionary.
It knows how to create words in several languages: English, Spanish, French and Italian at the moment.
It is even able to create words in imaginary... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | scottjackson: (I know this kind of feature would probably be a pain to implement)On the front-page I see wordoid called "tradio" (it's number 15 for me, maybe it's different for others) -- I think it would be cool if the web app was able to recognise that wordoids like that end in a TLD (trad.io, in this case) and chec... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | davecardwell: I’d like the ability to filter the TLD(s) I am interested in; for example I may only want to buy a domain if it ends in .com, so all the available .net wordoids are of no use to me. |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | tome: Doesn't work in Konqueror 4. |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | akamaka: The checkbox and label "French" appear on different lines in my broswer, which is confusing.Try putting all the checkboxes on the next line, or putting each one in a CSS nowrap block. |
Best word to describe this process? | idlewords: Priorganizing! |
Mobile Broadband sateside | brk: You'll find sporadic spots of unsecured wifi. There are many restaurants and coffee shops that also have free wifi.If you can handle being online at unpredictable times, it won't be much of an issue.If you want to be able to go online at a moments notice, that will be a little tougher. You can get pay as you go ... |
How would you monetize a social media site? | pclark: what are the people? tell me about them. |
How would you monetize a social media site? | leftnode: Simply charge them for it. I don't understand why not. I haven't read the latest stats on how big Facebook is, but lets put it at 200 million real users. Let's say that Facebook says that it now costs $5 a month to use. You get all of the same features you have now, unlimited everything, just like now. If onl... |
How would you monetize a social media site? | jacquesm: Stuff you should do because it makes good business sense and won't piss off your userbase:- permission marketing- voluntary surveys- text link based advertising (if it's done subtle)Stuff you could do (but that may infuriate some of your users):- regular advertising- affiliate programs- text link advertising ... |
How would you monetize a social media site? | windsurfer: Totally depends on the client base. If it's high-end, you could charge a one-time fee to participate. If it's low-end, you could go with the freemium model. |
Risk of libyan .ly domain names? | nickf: One thing to check about - SSL certs. Should you want one, you may find yourself SoL. A lot of US companies can't do business with Libya (& Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Sudan etc. etc.) which can mean any cert requests for .ly are banned.I can't see that bit.ly have one, so you'd maybe have to handle SSL logins and other s... |
How would you monetize a social media site? | yannis: The value of a social media site is its user base and one should try and preserve that. Think of it as if you have created an 'economy'. Let the users 'trade' between them and charge a 'tax' like the government! |
Best word to describe this process? | yannis: Sieve? |
How would you monetize a social media site? | gehant: We obviously need more data, but for starters:Figure out what your users value on and off your site. Also, research competitive and complementary sites to get a quick and dirty list of potential options. There could be existing or future features that users would be willing to pay for.If your site doesn't disp... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | tsondermann: Well done app. Adding to my list of "what do we call this thing and is the domain available" list. Thanks. |
How would you monetize a social media site? | tortilla: My buddy runs a social networking site for a niche market and they run a freemium model along with ads. The one mistake they made was charging too little as the difference between charging $6/month and $15/month is not as great as they expected (they have 2 levels of paid subs). The bigger hurdle is just ge... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | fauigerzigerk: I like it very much. I wish it faster though. |
How would you monetize a social media site? | dirtyaura: If it's a more casual site where users hang around then satisfying self-expression needs by selling virtual goods around avatars, gifts etc. can be a possibility.It has been quite successfully used by several casual gaming sites and visually intensive social sites (Habbo, Playray, Stardoll ...) |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | kingkawn: I think it should advise that the process could take a little while. My initial inclination was to x out of the window after watching all those things spin for a bit with no response. |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | chaosmachine: All that help text is not really necessary. You could get rid of it. Nobody will read 3 paragraphs of small text to figure out how to use your site. Encourage people to just try it.Make the form the center of attention. Don't be afraid to bump up the font size a bit more. You could move the language check... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | sammcd: I'm a big fan. I am in the process of looking for a company name and this is really helping to give me some ideas.My suggestion is a "buy domain" button. I feel like this would allow you to convert this to money quicker. In the list I am given no suggestion that clicking on the domain will take me to godaddy,... |
Online backup without a computer? | uptown: Consider using Dropbox (A YC startup).https://www.getdropbox.com/You can get 2gb for free, or pay for more if you need it. If you need more than you're able to pay for, you could have a home PC syncing the stuff to another location and removing the original to free up the space. |
Why is the number of greatest magnitude on the left? | pseingatl: But it didn't "start" that way. It came to us not from the Hindus, but from the Arabs, through Al-Andalus and the cultural exchanges at Córdoba and Toledo. The Arabs read right to left, so the most significant digit is at the end, not the beginning of the number. At the time Arabic numbers were adopted in th... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | olefoo: I notice that if you select multiple languages and give it a startswith "word", it does not translate the given word and attempt the lingual variations.For instance I gave it the word "life" and was expecting variations of "vida" "vie" "vita" "life" but only got words generated from the last stem. |
Online backup without a computer? | jacquesm: I'm assuming that you are assuming (it gets tedious) that that computer you use to dump your data with to the HD will have network access.Have a look at this (I just took a peek at it this morning, it's built by another HN poster):https://beta.tarsnap.com/ |
Online backup without a computer? | gizmo: Why not just use FTP?Set up your camera to save the photos to in different folders based on date, then just get some web space, go to ftp://yoursite/ and drag&drop the photos.It's low tech, but it's almost guaranteed to work from anywhere, and you're less likely to get kicked out for "hacking" when you don't hav... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | vaksel: you need to add the ability to add a max length to the word |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | thisisnotmyname: Small thing - I think it should be "natural" instead if "naturally". |
How would you monetize a social media site? | CCs: I would go for other than paying to be member. Maybe it's OK to have some paying members (like LinkedIn) for vanity or extra (non essential) functionality.
Letting 195 million users to go away is suicide.Ads are OK, but it's really for Google type of business - a social site want people to stay.Collateral revenue... |
Can you Monetize Celebrity Gossip Sites? | jacquesm: Are they real page views or picture embeds ?How much of it is bot traffic ?Slap some google ads on them, $20 / month is < $1 / day, that shouldn't be too hard to do.Naked famous people is a lot better business model than some of the ones I read about, but at the same time it may involve a lawyer or two.Celebr... |
Can you Monetize Celebrity Gossip Sites? | jakewolf: Start by changing the anti aging ads on your blog to something your target readership would be interested in. |
Online backup without a computer? | ulysses: I've never set up Cygwin on a USB drive, and then tried to transport it between computers, but that's the first thing I'd try.Then you could write a simple script to do an rsync-over-ssh to your server, and just run it directly from the USB drive.It would probably be best to test it on at least both Vista and ... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | ivanyv: Amazing app. I've already found a few domains worth buying!You should partner with GoDaddy to send domain purchasers there. |
How to protect/copyright code/essays/papers published on my site? | etravers: I am not going to claim to know much about it, but have you considered a creative commons license?http://creativecommons.org/ |
Online backup without a computer? | callmeed: I would put them on S3 via any of the FTP clients that support it. Just keep the installers on the hard drive. |
Can you Monetize Celebrity Gossip Sites? | jsz0: Do you own the photographs? or the rights to reproduce them? If you do not I suspect monetizing your site will put you into some legal danger. |
Online backup without a computer? | jlees: If it's just photos, you could possibly use Flickr Pro? It might be tedious downloading them all later if you lose them, but it's a fairly obvious online home for photos, especially if you want the world to stumble across them. Just another option, really. |
A simple tcp monitor ? | DanielBMarkham: Sounds like a simple-enough prog to build: check the port regularly and shell out a command if conditions are met.The trick will be just limiting it to simple functionality. Easy for these types of apps to get out of hand.About ten years ago I wanted to write a windows app that allowed text to appear as... |
How would you monetize a social media site? | dpnewman: One option that I think hasn't been explored enough yet, and may be much more prevalent in the future, is micro-payment. Definitely the biggest initial barrier is the submission of payment info. But after that, I think that charging small amounts for certain special actions could be viable if those actions ar... |
A simple tcp monitor ? | moe: http://mmonit.com/monit/ |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | dpnewman: I would love to see all international suffixes included.And options for results weighting towards shorter names.Also - ajaxy - real-time search would be nice a la domai.nr.Nice work so far. |
Online backup without a computer? | psadauskas: FileZilla on the USB hard drive (http://filezilla-project.org/)It doesn't need to be installed, you can just run it from the drive, and it can transfer via FTP or SSH to a cheap slicehost or dreamhost. I even think it supports syncing directories, so you can just resume where you left off. |
Online backup without a computer? | DenisM: Just buy more SD cards. They are cheap and you can pack a lot of them into the space taken by HDD. And you won't have to look for a PC with internet. |
A simple tcp monitor ? | spudlyo: Grab the Nagios plugins tarball, build it on linux, and find the check_tcp program. Wrap a little shell program around check_tcp that will either do nothing, or fire off your script depending on the return code of check_tcp. Run this once a minute out of cron. Make sure these scripts won't stack up, by eith... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | superjared: Outstandical! |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | philfreo: The "Feedback" button is overlapping the most important UI element on the screen (the "Create" button) when my browser is at a width of anything less than 1036px. This isn't really acceptable... I shouldn't have to have a browser wider than 960px to not get scrollbars - much less to have something overlapping... |
A simple tcp monitor ? | henriklied: Have you looked at god [1]? If you're into Ruby, you'll love it.I use it in a medium to high volume production environment [2], and it has done a very good job at getting our lighttpd and nginx back up on the air whenever we experience peaks above the normal workload.[1] http://god.rubyforge.org/[2] http://... |
A simple tcp monitor ? | lunatech: One problem with any auto-fix script is what if it goes berserk? What if your mail server is dying because of overload and the auto-fix keep restarting it? The overload will never clear out. If you go with the auto-fix solution, remember to add a throttle to the number of times it restarts a service. |
Best word to describe this process? | AhmadH: single out |
Best word to describe this process? | RobGR: Look at the words used in algorithm books for selecting the maximum - "maximizing" and "gradient following" and etc. Maybe one of those is appropriate.Since all the english words are likely to be already taken as domain names, find out the Tibetan name for when the monks go around and find the baby that the Dal... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | bkovitz: I really like this concept. The execution is simple and straightforward. Despite the sophistication, anyone can understand it.One question, though: How is it even theoretically possible to make money from this? |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | Nate879: The text that should be to the right of domain names that aren't available is below them instead.Here is a screenshot: http://imgur.com/teHch.png |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | Maciek416: Wow, this is a hugely improved interface over the version you posted a while back. Congrats! |
A simple tcp monitor ? | benburkert: On a simmilar note, HAProxy can proxy http traffic or just tcp traffic, which you can use to cluster your service and provide a little redundancy.http://haproxy.1wt.eu/ |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | natrius: When I go to the next page of results, I see a loading graphic for the last ten results on the new page. However, you're loading 15 new results each time. The user should always see the first new result when loading a new page. Scroll me back up to the top of the results, or just add the new results to the exi... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | nuggien: How about the ability to limit results to only contain names that are of a certain length? Would be great if I was searching for a short domain name. |
A simple tcp monitor ? | huhtenberg: There you go :) #include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <netdb.h>
int main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
struct hostent * he;
struct sockaddr_in sa = { AF_INET };
unsigned int port;
int foo, sk;
if (argc != 3)
... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | roryokane: The back button is currently broken; searching for a new wordoid doesn't add anything to the history. When I visited the site, I first searched for wordoids containing something, and then I wanted to go back to the completely random wordoids. I clicked the back button, but I found it didn't work. A clear but... |
Online backup without a computer? | scumola: http://www.eye.fi/ and a flickr.com account. The card connects to any open wi-fi access point and just uploads everything to flickr.com or other online photo site. When you get back, go through all of your photos and delete the ones you don't need. Better than lugging around a USB harddrive. |
What do you hate using but are forced to use? | bayareaguy: Some of my clients use Windows Server 2008 on remote colocated blade servers. It sucks because it's difficult to manage, it constantly raises useless authorization dialogs and it's terribly inefficient at even the simplest operations like copying files. To make things worse many operations have to be done... |
What do you hate using but are forced to use? | jacquesm: Linux. It's arguably one of the best unix clones ever and it is extremely stable. Still, I feel that another clone of macro kernel unix was a missed opportunity. Plan 9 and it's ilk (and QnX) seem much more the direction to go in for many reasons, most of them having to do with modularization, upgrading your ... |
What do you hate using but are forced to use? | dmix: My mouse. I would love to control OSX entirely by keyboard. I tried the framing systems on linux but it just wasn't for me. |
What do you hate using but are forced to use? | SwellJoe: So, I wonder if you're thinking of starting a business based on one of these "I hate using" stories. If you are, I'd advise caution entering a market you don't actually understand personally. Yes, we all make software that eventually grows to do things we don't use ourselves (I use functionality that touche... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | lacker: It needs higher quality names. "depressurancs" cannot really be one of the best five names available. |
Review My App (Simple Group Chat) | nisi: www.xat.com/rinija |
What do you hate using but are forced to use? | olihb: I work in market research and have to use SPSS. It sucks because the old versions would crash for no good reason and the new versions are slow. The output is ugly as hell. I haven't switched to R, StatXP, Stata because I'm lazy, we have a huge number of old surveys in SPSS format and a whole lot of scripts and m... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | devin: I love it! I love it! I love it!I've used a lot of word generators, built some of my own, etc. -- but these are great names.The only thing I noticed that was slightly annoying to me off the bat was I had no idea what the little bar was until I moused over it and realized it was the number of hits it received o... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | devin: Oh and one more thing! You should have the ability to include domain hacks like del.icio.us, fabulo.us, etc. |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | devin: Okay one final comment for you:I think one of my chief issues with these sorts of apps is that after they are released to the public, the algorithms never change, and you see page after page of registered domains, which are completely unhelpful. I would suggest you continue to add other languages to the mix, an... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | DanielStraight: First thing I noticed was a UI bug. I thought I was forced to enter something in the "contain/start with/end with" box. I almost left the site before I realized that it was optional.Second, it is very slow. It makes no sense to me that the processing is done with AJAX. I'm already clicking a button to s... |
Book recommendations for Linux 2.6 tcp/ip | mahmud: Do you know there is "Understanding Linux Network Internals"? It's a fat beast but covers the subject in great detail. I had to write a device driver and needed to use a netlink socket for high speed chunked data transfer; for that particular purpose, I found ULNI to be too verbose and learned everything I need... |
Book recommendations for Linux 2.6 tcp/ip | blacky: The Linux Networking Architecture: Design and Implementation of Network Protocols in the Linux Kernel by Klaus Wehrle, Frank Pählke, Hartmut Ritter, Daniel Müller, Marc Bechler.Here's an excerpt from the preface:This book deals with the architecture of the network subsystem in the Linux kernel. The idea for thi... |
Ask Hn: Review needed for my Firefox chat extension | hinoglu: gah! timezone problems(gmt+2)! thanks for the visitors interested in my application, unfortunately i manage to be sleeping when anyone pings via the chatrooms :(by the way, for it's initial release, i'm still fixing the bugs. so any kind of feedback, bug reports or enhancement requests are more than welcome..t... |
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp | dan_the_welder: It's fun. I have played with it both times you have posted.
It looks good and works well. |
Best word to describe this process? | wlievens: paragonizer |
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