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Augmented Reality: gimmick or next big thing? | envitar: Like 6th sense? I think it has potential! |
Augmented Reality: gimmick or next big thing? | haseman: I think it's a gimmic right now...as the sensors (3gs and Android devices) aren't fast enough to make it really use-able. The thing I wonder about is...is there enough movement to convince OEM's to put better sensors in their phones? |
What websites do you frequent? | nico: Streamy |
Augmented Reality: gimmick or next big thing? | noodle: yes, but only for very long definitions of "next" |
What websites do you frequent? | paulgb: I lurk at http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ |
What websites do you frequent? | babyboy808: Stack Overflow |
Augmented Reality: gimmick or next big thing? | tdoggette: There's a short story I quite like on the topic, not necessarily on its merits as fiction, but for having interesting ideas: http://everything2.com/title/Think+of+us+as+a+lost |
What websites do you frequent? | reg4c: Slashdot
Ars Technicaalthough I don't comment a lot, or at all but do read many articles |
What websites do you frequent? | blender: serverfault.com |
Where do you live? | reg4c: Ooooj, brate i ja sam iz Sarajeva
Sta se radi?Also: I am from Sarajevo as well but am currently in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
Where do you live? | muriithi: Nairobi, Kenya. |
Where do you live? | mariana: Caracas, Venezuela. Is there nobody else from here? |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | jdoliner: I contribute actively to BRLCAD. Although I do get paid to do it. |
Where do you live? | anovaskulk: Sevnica, Slovenia |
What websites do you frequent? | huhtenberg: http://typophile.comhttp://trendir.comhttp://cardobserver.comhttp://minimalsites.comand the usual bunch - slashdot, engadget, ars technica |
Where do you live? | auston: Miami, FL |
Augmented Reality: gimmick or next big thing? | jacquesm: I think it's real and there are plenty of applications I can think of. I've been following layar with great interest and I think they're going to make it big. |
What websites do you frequent? | winstonwiener: bigwieners.com |
Why don't operating systems gzip their startup files? | ZachPruckowski: When you're seeking to an idle disk, three things have an impact on speed: Seek time, file fragmentation, and file size. Given that your max throughput to any modern HDD is measured in megabytes per second, file size isn't the limiting factor. You've got to get the drive spinning, get the drive head ... |
Where do you live? | ewald: Blumenau, Brazil. |
Why don't operating systems gzip their startup files? | jacquesm: It's a given in the software world that if you give a programmer a faster machine they'll produce slower code.Developers should be using the oldest and least available memory machine they can lay their hands on.Want to see a zippy starting system ? Install Xenix 386 on your 2.8 GHz machine. Or windows 95+trum... |
What websites do you frequent? | blasdel: http://metafilter.com |
Augmented Reality: gimmick or next big thing? | DanielBMarkham: Along with Christmas Tree machines, I think synthetic vision is the next thing -- in the 20-40 year time frame. I don't think it's ready for prime-time in the 5-10 year time frame, but it could definitely enter the market in a big way earlier. (I just think the killer apps are still a ways off) |
Where do you live? | johnconroy: Galway, Ireland |
Where do you live? | alum: Sacramento, CA |
What websites do you frequent? | shorbaji: nytimes.com/technology
roughtype.com
gigaom.com |
What websites do you frequent? | bmelton: My favorites folder (which is a folder in Chrome that I 'open all in tabs' with each morning) includes the following URLS, which makes them at least daily reads:news.ycombinator.com
damninteresting.com (now that they're back especially)
kk.org/kk/ - Kevin Kelly's blog
federalwasteland.blogspot.com -- hasn't be... |
Many Ideas but No "Hacking" Skills | joeld42: I think you're on the right track. Start hanging out where programmers do. HN is a good start. Go to conferences for ruby/python/web-stuff and talk to people. Make friends, share your idea freely. Tinker. Try to build it yourself but don't expect that to actually happen without years of mistakes. Talk to other... |
What websites do you frequent? | mmc: another vote for lambda-the-ultimate.org
gpgpu.org
insideHPC.com |
What websites do you frequent? | jacquesm: guardian, bbc news, HN, /. (but mostly lurking these days), google news, nu.nl |
Unshortening links | commiebob: I saw this post and decided to throw something togetherhttp://slice.20oz.net/It will lengthen your URL and create a short url at tinyurl, bit.ly, and is.gd for you.So if you have some tr.im links to convert over you can just plug them into here. |
What websites do you frequent? | fossguy: Quite a few:http://slashdot.orghttp://serverfault.comhttp://securityfocus.comhttp://sucuri.nethttp://matasano.com/log (well, while it was up and I hope it comes back)..http://taosecurity.blogspot.comhttp://linux.com |
What websites do you frequent? | billswift: HN, OvercomingBias.com, LessWrong.com, Bruce Schneier's blog (schneier.com/blog/), Megan McArdles's blog (http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/), Steve Sailer (isteve.blogspot.com), and I probably spend as much time browsing Amazon and reading reviews there as any one of the others. I spend less time at (onl... |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | Locke1689: Yes. I have contributed patches to FFMpeg, was the OS X AzSMRC dev for a while, and I have a very large patch in progress for QEMU. |
Where do you live? | robodale: (puts pitchfork down and chases pigs and chickens away from computer)...Sioux Falls, SD!! |
Augmented Reality: gimmick or next big thing? | icey: I don't know if it will be the "next big thing", but I do think augmented reality has huge potential. I think it will be especially big in the social gaming scene. iPhones don't allow background applications today, but think about the old school college campus favorites like Assassin / Werewolf / Mafia - instead ... |
How to reduce sloppy mistakes? | bsaunder: Use shorter code/compile/run cycles. Use print statements instead of a debugger (much faster to scan input than step through a debugger). If something doesn't work, it's likely related to the change you just made. If you coded for a long time since last testing, it's much harder to mentally identify where ... |
Should links from popular blogs be excluded from karma pts? | shabda: My suggestion: Make Karma (and other points) COMPLETELY invisible in the system. Make them invisible in the UI, the system uses them behind the scenes to rank and order data, but never display them. |
Should links from popular blogs be excluded from karma pts? | greyman: I don't feel this karma issue decreases the overall quality of the frontpage. |
A site that tracks what technologies a startup uses? | rbanffy: I think it would be so useful startups would do whatever they could to stay off it.Nobody needs their secret sauce exposed like that ;-) |
Should links from popular blogs be excluded from karma pts? | jacquesm: It's only a race if you feel that you are losing it, simply don't assign too much weight to karma. Treat it like an odometer, it's more a function of how much time you spend on HN than anything else. |
Should links from popular blogs be excluded from karma pts? | FreeRadical: don't worry about it |
Should links from popular blogs be excluded from karma pts? | olefoo: If karma matters that much to someone let them have it.And not everything by techcrunch or mashable garners karma either; it has more to do with the currency and importance of the story.#adjusted for local definitions of what is important, obviously. |
Should links from popular blogs be excluded from karma pts? | icey: Karma is just a sign that someone spends too much time here. |
Should links from popular blogs be excluded from karma pts? | Banzai10: And how will you define popular blogs? By visits, by registered users?If they are popular its popularity comes from good content, that should be shared here in HN. Sorry, but I disagree with your idea. |
Widescreen or fullscreen monitors for programming? | yan: I prefer widescreen with multiple windows tiled horizontally.edit: Usually terminal+MacVim windows. Or sometimes, xcode windows, with left-most one being the project window. |
Should links from popular blogs be excluded from karma pts? | onreact-com: Yeah, this is a good idea, that's why Digg has become a main stream place where just a few well known URLs get submitted and front page all the time while the little guy gets no attention.We shouldn't penalize such submissions though, that's wrong as well. They should just count less. Like 50% or only the ... |
Widescreen or fullscreen monitors for programming? | bgnm2000: I prefer widescreen, with windows tiled horizontally as well on my mac. I use terminal with visor (google blacktree) which is sweet, and then a bunch of different spaces - coding w/ textmate for ROR dev. |
Widescreen or fullscreen monitors for programming? | mechanical_fish: The nice thing about the widescreen is that it fits multiple emacs windows side-by-side, so that you can view substantial portions of more than one buffer at once (or two substantial portions of the same buffer).That said, the first rule of screen space is to have more of it. Whether or not it's optima... |
Widescreen or fullscreen monitors for programming? | rscott: Why isn't this a poll question?Widescreen 22" + Macbook screen. Textmate for some things, but Xcode and its (many) requisite windows for iPhone stuffs. |
Widescreen or fullscreen monitors for programming? | socratees: I use a Dell S2209W 22" wide panel monitor. Its way comfortable than using smaller monitors and i don't think i can go back to using smaller ones. |
Widescreen or fullscreen monitors for programming? | TallGuyShort: For virtually any activity I would do while sitting down at a computer/workstation, I think wide screens have a much more natural fit to a person's eyesight. I think they're just more comfortable to look at.On the other hand, I can definitely see a reason for vertically oriented screens in eBook readers a... |
Should links from popular blogs be excluded from karma pts? | jpwagner: Whoa, this is possibly the first post complaining about opportunity-negative-karma, which, in my opinion, violates the guidelines by technically complaining about being down-voted. FLAG |
Should links from popular blogs be excluded from karma pts? | aichcon: It just doesn't matter. If it's bad enough it'll be flagged. Adding arbitrary and reactive rules to the system is only going to hurt it. |
Widescreen or fullscreen monitors for programming? | johngunderman: I prefer one widescreen next to one widescreen turned vertical. this way I can view plenty of code on the vertical monitor, and yet enjoy the benefits that the widescreen monitor brings. |
Where is my cloud addressbook? | jcapote: Get a google apps account for a domain, it has shared contacts. Bonus: If you have an android phone, it'll integrate seamlessly... |
Where is my cloud addressbook? | catch404: 2. A way of sharing items with family members (so only one spouse has to enter the number of the plumber)
Having more than one spouse must make it hard to keep track of things :) |
Widescreen or fullscreen monitors for programming? | noblethrasher: Widescreen, but I spend almost as much time in Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash as I do in Visual Studio and Notepad++. |
Widescreen or fullscreen monitors for programming? | Xichekolas: I have Dual Dell 2408WFP's... lets me see four apps at once with plenty of real estate.Screen 1: Browser (showing whatever I'm working on) and gVim (with my code).Screen 2: Browser (with whatever references/interweb material I'm looking up), multiple terminals (tail logs or for messing with git/whatever).I ... |
I can't find a job. Why? Should I go to grad school? | jhancock: I doubt your problem in finding a programming job is due to your lack of a CS degree. Your experience should be enough for entry to mid range jobs, its the market that is lacking at the moment. That is not to say you should not get a CS Master's if you are really into it. Just don't do it because you think... |
Best technical kindle books | suggullooks: The Pragmatic Bookshelf titles are available in mobi format. I'm reading Programming Clojure (http://www.pragprog.com/titles/shcloj/programming-clojure) and overall the experience is good, though the coding snippets don't scale with the rest of the test. |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | jamesotron: I contributed a lot of code to Caudium back in the early 00's even going to the Pike/Caudium conference in Paderborn, Germany in 2003 (which is quite an expensive proposition for someone from New Zealand).
My biggest open source project at the moment is a Pike library which reads in packets from libpcap and... |
My Y combinator dissertation and startup survey | loganfrederick: Graham himself doesn't exactly feel "startup incubator" is accurate because it already has a different meaning (Y Combinator itself doesn't really start the startups through idea generation and doesn't offer direct office space)."Seed Fund" is the closest term in my mind, but even that doesn't encompass... |
I can't find a job. Why? Should I go to grad school? | mofey: I'd assume that you're picky about the jobs you apply to given your skill set. Take a look at the positions that you've applied to and see, if you may be missing something that the employer wants. |
moving to US | chrisgo: You can try for an E5 Visa (investor) -- the companies here are not exactly high tech but you need $500khttp://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/smallbusiness/0907/galle... |
I can't find a job. Why? Should I go to grad school? | ctb9: My immediate advice is to include links to some of your best work in this thread or better yet in your HN profile. Where better to show off your skills than on the leading online community of entrepreneurs? Finding a job, especially one that doesn't suck, is a full-time job in and of itself.In the longer term, if... |
I can't find a job. Why? Should I go to grad school? | mechanical_fish: Whatever you do, don't pay tuition. Not so long as your money is better spent on ramen and a handful of textbooks. (If you haven't gone through SICP yet, I'd start there. And there's a lot of suggested-book threads to be found via SearchYC.)If you don't have a great idea for a project you can do while ... |
Where do you live? | lleger: Baton Rouge, Louisiana. |
Starting a drink business. | jlangenauer: The first thing you'll want to look at is HAACP, which is required by the US FDA for certain types of food (amongst them, juices, which your product may fall in to). There are likely other laws covering labelling - you may have to pay a laboratory to analyse the product for energy & fat content, sodium, su... |
Starting a drink business. | michael_dorfman: For god's sake, lawyer up.I don't even want to think about the liability you're walking into if you're not careful.Is there some reason you don't want to try to sell the recipe to established firms who already have the infrastructure in place? |
Best free web hosting? | liangzan: Google App Engine - Java, PythonHeroku - Railslocalhost with dyndnsvirtual machines |
Where do you live? | cellis: Grand Rapids, Michigan |
Best free web hosting? | SwellJoe: You need to know how to build a local development environment, anyway, so start with a virtual machine running Linux (I recommend CentOS or Debian or an Ubuntu LTS release; since they'll all work well on a real server later). VirtualBox is free and works fine.There are a number of projects and products out t... |
Review my non-IT business idea | alaskamiller: The most common term for this is coworking space. Major markets have these, such as Hat Factory, Citizen Space in SF, Blankspaces in LA. There's also niche ones, such as a place in NYC that caters specifically to just writers.It's a pretty nifty idea and I thought of getting this going with my business pa... |
Review my non-IT business idea | mahmud: Have you heard of 3G? I am on one, and I can get online anywhere throughout Sydney. When WiMax comes around you will be seeding torrents from your mobile phone. |
proposing improvements to existing web services - why startup? | michael_dorfman: I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by The problem is that I can not really afford to work as an employee. So I am practically forced to do a startup, to have the chance to get rich.Why can't you afford to be an employee? And what's stopping you from getting hired as a consultant with a gi... |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | michael_dorfman: What kind of math do you want to learn?There's a lot of great resources out there, but you need to be more specific.For example: I really enjoyed Gilbert Strang's course on Linear Algebra, available as a series of video lectures on MIT OCW (http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-06Spring-2005/Cours..... |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | mahmud: "An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning" by Peter J Eccels. Teaches the vocabulary of mathematics, just the basics you need to think like a mathematician, not a mathematics user like most science texts."How To Solve It" George Polya. Heurists and problem solving skills, by a great mathematician.Do a google s... |
Where is my cloud addressbook? | ganley: I've looked pretty hard into this, and the prevailing opinion seemed to be that the trouble isn't technical, it's social. Do you really want your friends putting your contact info in the cloud? In order for this to work, you really need a mechanism for people to approve sharing their info, control what gets exp... |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | ftse: 'Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea' by Charles Seif |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | ochiba: Have you seen this thread?http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=665029 |
Anyone moved outside of the US to bootstrap your business? | supaspoida: After visiting Costa Rica I decided this was something I wanted to do. I wrote up my idea on my blog hoping to find a team interested in the same thing.http://bit.ly/19Ot7aOver the weekend I found another team that is already doing something similar in Europe & was planning to relocate to South America. The... |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | unignorant: For proof based mathematics, I found "How to Prove It:A Structured Approach" helpful. |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | seanstickle: I heartily endorse reading the classic works of geometry as a way to both the subject as well as a way of thinking about math, proof, and argumentation.Start with Euclid's _Elements_, and then move onto Archimedes' short books on levers and floating bodies, Apollonius's wonderful treatise on conic sections... |
Where do you live? | hellweaver666: Worcester, England |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | suprgeek: For a "popular" treatment of mathematics that does go into some mathematical detail "Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics" by William Dunham is difficult to beat. It is by far one of the best "Math" books I have read that have kept me coming back to it. Also, try some of the books by John... |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | le_dominator: If you go back and learn Algebra, Trig, Geometry, then I fully recommend the Cliffs Study Solver series of textbooks because they are very cheap and very thorough plus each day you do a chapter, you'll make cumulative progress.You are introduced to a concept, given a set of practice problems to see the co... |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | jedi_stannis: I haven't picked it up yet, but I remember reading about "The Princeton Companion to Mathematics" on here a while ago. It looks like a pretty complete guide to all of modern mathematics and sounded like it was easy enough for a beginner to get through while still being able to teach math experts some new... |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | springcoil: I second the OCW reference.
Some of the Calculus for Dummies, type books are good.
Its good to remember that Calculus and Linear Algebra don't have to be that complicated.
I also recommend scan the books before you buy them, I wasted far too much money at college on txtbooks that I ended up despising |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | kingkawn: Honestly I think Schaum's is pretty good because it does a bit of explanation, but you primarily learn through doing two dozen pages of problems per chapter. |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | rickdangerous1: I'm in the similar situation as you (OP).
My high school education was interrupted quite badly and 13 years after graduating I lack confidence in my comp sci endeavors because my maths sucks so bad.
I'd be interested to hear of any hackers who have missed education milestones (like high school maths) b... |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | kenshi: I find the Khan Academy videos to be pretty helpful. They start with the absolute basics and go on up. http://www.khanacademy.org/ |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | brown9-2: I know this doesn't answer your question since you asked about math in general, but in case anyone ever starts a "Best Physics books for complete noobie?" thread I'd like to go ahead and suggest Brian Greene's "Fabric of the Cosmos": http://www.amazon.com/Fabric-Cosmos-Space-Texture-Reality/dp... |
Do people care about flags when selecting a site language? | jacquesm: If you have flags that might 'offend' then just add the other flag as well and use the same settings. |
Do people care about flags when selecting a site language? | mooism2: Flags don't mean languages. Don't use a flag to mean a language.You don't need to explicitly indicate what language the page is in, because the text on the page is in that language. What you do need to do is indicate --- without words --- that the drop down box is for selecting a different language. |
Do people care about flags when selecting a site language? | rdouble: I built this: translate.songbirdnest.comYou don't see flags on the site, but in the language package you download, there are flags. I can't remember if we used to display the flags on the site - it's been redesigned since I left.1. US citizens are not annoyed by the UK flag. As someone else pointed out, if som... |
Do people care about flags when selecting a site language? | gr366: While mooism2 is correct and flags don't mean languages, I think it's a common enough pattern on web sites that you can just choose one or the other (USA or UK) for English. But you should then be consistent with spelling.It depends on how you want the site to be perceived. As an American, if I see the British f... |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | WilliamLP: "What is Mathematics" by Courant and Robbins is quite good and respected, but it will challenge you: http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Elementary-Approach-Ideas-... It may be more advanced then what you're looking for though. |
Do people care about flags when selecting a site language? | jm4: Lose the flags. I'd venture to guess all of the languages you're supporting are used in multiple countries so it doesn't make much sense. Besides, it's confusing to users anyway. A Latin American user is going to be looking for Spanish- not the flag of Spain. You're better off displaying the options as text in the... |
Do people care about flags when selecting a site language? | shorbaji: I would say do not use flags unless you don't mind being dragged into world politics :-)I can give you the example of Arabic that is the national language across 22 countries. Which flag would you choose there?The thing is flags come loaded with nationalistic sentiment. You will be dragging yourself into the ... |
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