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What email client do you use? | scottw: fetchmail/procmail/mutt. All of my addresses forward to a single imap account (some via gmail for spam filtering). |
What email client do you use? | zacharypinter: I use Gnus.I've got it setup so all my incoming mail lands in Gmail. Then, Gnus checks that account via POP3. Gnus only checks mail when prompted, so anything that Gnus hasn't fetched yet shows up as unread when viewed on the web or via iPhone/IMAP. Gnus is setup to select the correct SMTP server based o... |
What email client do you use? | 321abc: clawshttp://www.claws-mail.org |
What email client do you use? | shoesfullofdust: GyazMail: http://gyazsquare.com/gyazmail/I've been using this Mac OS X client for quite some time. It's everything I want in a desktop client. It has become rock soid and is slowly but steadily improving and adding features. |
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? | travisjeffery: I'm pretty at Mathematics and doing that takes a lot of work. And the Mathematics books for noobs are no good.The better approach is to get a theoretical book, something like Spivak's Calculus or Linear Algebra by Friedberg, Insel and Spence. And then from there whenever you have difficulty with the mate... |
Python vs. PHP | cianchette: Thanks everyone for your comments. I really appreciate the feedback. |
What email client do you use? | sielskr: VM, which (like gnus) is built on top of Emacs. I use a very old version (version 5) because I did not like the direction the project took after that. Heavily modified by me. |
What email client do you use? | zandorg: Thunderbird for Windows over SSL POP3. |
What is something impressive you have built or achieved? | mahmud: I got my father $80k to pay the IRS within 48 hours. At the time, I was 21 years old, making $6/hr working full time at starbucks, and was in a bachelor house with other college kids. He called me and said I could go to the office and take the fridge, TV and whatever else I liked, because there will be nothing ... |
What email client do you use? | ramy_d: i switched from thunderbird to evolution and have been very pleased. |
What email client do you use? | mgrouchy: Outlook at Work.
Gmail and Google Apps gmail for my domain accounts.Also use gmail on my blackberry through the regular blackberry email client. |
Do people care about flags when selecting a site language? | nfnaaron: I agree, a specific flag does not necessarily mean a specific language, and it's unnecessarily provocative.However, flags in general are associated with the idea of language.To show that a dropdown means "choose a language" you could put a cluster of neutral, solid-colored flags, a different color for each fl... |
What email client do you use? | tjmc: Outlook with Xobni at work. I've now become the guy that can find "that email". |
What is something impressive you have built or achieved? | tobych: A small proportion of data from four spaceships send data that is decompressed by my code. Oh, and I found a bug in code in the the same spaceships.Wrote an spreadsheet, and interactive disassembler, in BBC BASIC and 6502 assembler when I was sixteen. Still seems the most impressive thing I ever did... but perh... |
What email client do you use? | vaporstun: I have RoundCube [http://roundcube.net/] installed on my server and all of my other accounts forward to it.I constantly hack it to add functionality where needed. |
What email client do you use? | GrandMasterBirt: gmail + thunderbird at work.1 gmail account for all span (even if it looks like it might possibly have a slight chance of being span i use this email). Not forwarded.
1 gmail account (old) forwarded to main gmail account
1 gmail account main
1 work accountI use thunderbird at work to view work related ... |
What is something impressive you have built or achieved? | javanix: It wasn't really overly special - but I built and debugged a full web app from the ground up including MySQL backend, (simple) scripting language, and design/logic in about a month on deadline earlier this summer. |
What is something impressive you have built or achieved? | pingswept: I converted a Porsche 914 to electric power. http://www.evalbum.com/573.html |
A tool to share bookmarks with only my company? | joel_liu: Diigo have a group bookmark feature which may fit your needs. |
What email client do you use? | zitterbewegung: Gmail on my desktop with the gears extension. Sometimes I use my blackberry message client to read emails. |
Software pricing criteria for startups/freelancers? | aditya: Pricing is mostly a dark art / finger in the air analysis, here's what I think you should do:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=677396 |
Advice for freshmen entering college | JimmyL: Having just got out, some things that I wish I had known when I started up:Take Risks. Lots of them. College is one of the few times in your life when you're old enough to do cool risky things, but in a position where short of killing someone, everything is fixable. Most things that you do wrong (aside from pla... |
Tips on how to drive a blog | Banzai10: Thank you guys, got your point |
What is something impressive you have built or achieved? | kvs: "invented" something small but useful in CS. Won some reserach competition, got invited to the Turing Award ceremoney, got an award on the same stage right after Vincent Cerf and Rob Khan got thier Turing Award. Goose bumps :-) |
What is something impressive you have built or achieved? | jubos: got ie6 and ie7 running on the same windows install. |
Do AJAX enabled User Registration pages increase conversions? | p01nd3xt3r: The question should not be "How do I increase conversions". The question should be "How do I provide the best user experience possible".Keeping that it mind I find its best to not make a user submit a form to determine that there are errors.http://www.position-absolute.com/articles/jquery-form-valida...The... |
What is something impressive you have built or achieved? | terpua: Was temporarily paralyzed from neck down (it seemed permanent at the time) from a major car accident but managed to crack jokes with the paramedics on the way to ICU.Ended up with fractured C3 to C5 and ripped ligaments and had 2 major operations and a halo device. I was 15 yo. |
What is something impressive you have built or achieved? | mkramlich: Hard to compete with some of the great things accomplished by others here (spaceships, businesses, businesses that process logs from spaceships while cycling around the country in spaceships while making your mother laugh about a nuclear power plant you helped build that hopefully does not run Windows, etc.)... |
Do AJAX enabled User Registration pages increase conversions? | mahmud: Instant signup bloated my user database. Note to self: remember to create user records in the database after the email is verified; mean while save user records temporarily by their session key.I have a chunk of 100 or so users whom I am not sure will ever come back. I have a MOTD message waiting for them the n... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | JimmyL: Version control - use it for everythingEven things not software-related. If it's done on a computer, it should be in VCS. Ideally on a repo hosted by your school, if that's not possible, then one on a third-party machine that's run by as large a company as you can find. If you roll with DVCS, then make sure you... |
My site's popular. How would YOU monetise it? | TimH: Hey guys, the server bill's getting pretty big now. I'd like to start setting up some paid accounts pretty soon. Apart from crawling people more often, can you see any creative ways to give extra benefits to paid members? Any suggestions appreciated. :-) |
My site's popular. How would YOU monetise it? | naz: Adsense would be a good place to start |
My site's popular. How would YOU monetise it? | larryfreeman: I would say register with a site like Quantcast.com so you can publicly quantify popularity of your site. This gives bloggers and businesses easy access to your numbers. People like to talk with popular sites.You might want to check out Chris Anderson's book on Free: the Future of a Radical Price as a g... |
My site's popular. How would YOU monetise it? | vulpes: I don't think you'd be able to get people to pay for premium features...what would they be anyways?
I do have 1 idea:
Sponsored tweet placement. Companies are probably willing to pay extra money for certain tweets to get special placement.Besides that you should get retweets/replies working, i wanted to RT ... |
My site's popular. How would YOU monetise it? | mahmud: Virtual goods. Go super edgy, forget flowers.gif and hugs.png: vices sell, introduce liquor, hookers and hard drugs. Maybe even go deep on the cultural references, even be a little harsh and xenophobic. Virtual gifts have a general positive connotation because they're usually given to friends, on facebook and o... |
Becoming a programmer again | seasoup: Well, you could grab a book and work through it. Or, alternatively and even better, find a personal project to do and do it. |
Becoming a programmer again | mahmud: Pick up clojure and scratch small itches with it. Clojure is still fairly obscure and it doesn't have that many libraries; this will force you to write your own. Tool-making is the most fun kind of programming, and fun will keep you going. |
My site's popular. How would YOU monetise it? | jbr: Maybe deck network (http://decknetwork.net/) or fusion ads (http://fusionads.net/)? |
My site's popular. How would YOU monetise it? | unohoo: I really didnt see why some of the tweets were being favorited. Based on their content, i'd agree with vulpes above - it'd be pretty difficult to get ppl to pay $$. Sponsored placement sounds like a good idea.Another suggestion, although not monetization related - provide a widget of say the top favorited / top... |
Do we (HN members) need a HN social network? | vicaya: I think Twitter's model (following and followers) is appropriate for HN. The traditional friend model (friendster, myspace, facebook etc.) is ugh. |
My site's popular. How would YOU monetise it? | sobriquet: nice work, it's fun to get some of the best stuff out there that doesn't seem to be made up like tfln or fml1) Add tipjoy functionality, encouraging users to tip the best/funniest/helpful tweets.2) charge referral fee to users who you scrape. Each new follower they get from favstar.fm costs $0.10 (seems like... |
My site's popular. How would YOU monetise it? | drusenko: What's your definition of popular? I can't find any stats on your site that show any reasonable levels of traffic that would allow it to be either ad or freemium supported. |
What is something impressive you have built or achieved? | thomanil: Found my Better Half. Fathered my daughter. Built v.1 of http://thoughtmuse.com singlehandedly on nights and weekends, in under five months (as estimated). |
Do you actively contribute to open source projects? | vicaya: Core developer of Hypertable (http://hypertable.org/). Had patches accepted in Git, Reviewboard, Thrift, etc. |
What is something impressive you have built or achieved? | swolchok: Found remotely-exploitable security vulnerabilities in China's no-longer-mandated Green Dam censorware, resulting in my first Slashdotting: http://www.cse.umich.edu/~jhalderm/pub/gdHN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=654107 |
My site's popular. How would YOU monetise it? | dustyreagan: Might I suggest http://FeaturedUsers.com? It's a Twitter application ad network for users who want to promote their Twitter account. It integrates into your site w/ 1 line of Javascript. Full disclosure, it's my project. :) |
My site's popular. How would YOU monetise it? | grass123: I found a small problem on your site (for me at least). For reference, I am running Firefox 3.5 on Gentoo.On a page like this, http://favstar.fm/users/asshuku, the Japanese kanji is being rendered like Chinese kanji. It's still readable, but it's just a little off-putting. I'm not native Japanese (I can re... |
What is something impressive you have built or achieved? | wlievens: Built a webgame that has had a small (400 users) but very dedicated following for over four years. |
What email client do you use? | waseem: I use Inbox2 (www.inbox2.com), but then again I am building that myself :-) |
What is something impressive you have built or achieved? | kvogt: cracked a safe with a robot http://web.mit.edu/kvogt/www/safecracker.html |
What is something impressive you have built or achieved? | richardw: Once designed and created a system to manage very complex ethnobotanical information, so we could define rules like "X company reserves all samples taken from Q parts of plants that might be related to people speaking Y language from Z area using words that hint at it helping their stomach."Another system - "... |
Becoming a programmer again | shorbaji: I have been thru the same a few months ago. Let me tell you what worked for me.Start by picking a language. Which one you choose will depend on why you want to be a programmer. My goal is to develop a web app for a startup so I looked at popular languages with popular frameworks. I chose Django/Python over Ru... |
Becoming a programmer again | yannis: Programming is like riding a bicycle, you never really forget it, but you need to warm-up a bit if you haven't used one for a long time. There are some good suggestions above. I would go with Ruby on Rails. |
What email client do you use? | neuromanta: You can solve the problem using only one gmail account. Just forward mails from the other accounts, and configure a filter to put different tags on them. You can send from different email addresses using only one gmail account, too. |
What is something impressive you have built or achieved? | fsniper: filmed our friend for his proposal to his girl friend and merged in a Hollywood movie. The interesting part is making him - who does not know any English - read English. He could not manage to read and look into the camera at the same time so I cut a hole in the paper and put the paper around the camera. :) |
What email client do you use? | jacquesm: Behind my main machine thunderbird, outside Horde.Interface 'dynamic' is quite amazing. |
What email client do you use? | budman: TheBat for 10 years now. |
What is something impressive you have built or achieved? | geuis: Hacked the Google VPN client that was released a few years ago to work with non google pptp networks. Did that within a couple days of it being released. Not the most impressive but it was fun. |
What Data would you like to see integrated into a web analytics tool? | ErrantX: That's a really interesting idea!In terms of weather data how do you collate all the information: because your users could be from all over the world with all sorts of weather variations.The only general downside I see is that some of the factors will be very website specific. Stuff like local riots, for examp... |
My site's popular. How would YOU monetise it? | niyazpk: I would love to suggest a good business model, but I am afraid I will have to tell you that even twitter is not able to monetize its huge traffic.Forget monetization for now. Try to get acquired by somebody who think they can make use of your traffic. |
Please review my concept | gdp: I like the idea. I have a horrible signature. I'm not sure I would part with real money for a better one, but I like the idea.What I don't like is the front page of the site. The text there basically conveys nothing. I had to re-read the first paragraph several times to make sure I hadn't mis-read it. It just ... |
What email client do you use? | sankara: Outlook on my windows laptop. Thunderbird on my linux desktoip. Managing multiple emails with these clients have never been a problem.
My personal gmail account alone is web only. |
What Data would you like to see integrated into a web analytics tool? | aw3c2: time of day per visitor |
Please review my concept | jacquesm: Nice idea, maybe I'm not your target audience though :)Questions:1) what's the point ?(this is probably proof that I'm not your target audience...)2) how do you expect to get people to use your product ?in other words, are they expected to 'practice' your signatures ?3) what are the legal issues surrounding c... |
Please review my concept | brk: I love the idea. The site needs more to it though, it feels kind of "shallow". I know that is not very good feedback, but it kind of comes off like "different/odd" instead of designer.But all of that is not what causes me to hesitate...My current signature is basically a big stylized "B". It works, it's kind of... |
What is something impressive you have built or achieved? | stewiecat: Took 2.5 hours of my Ironman triathlon time. Went from a 15 hour race to a 12.5 hour race, which I managed to repeat last year. |
My site's popular. How would YOU monetise it? | JshWright: Why not a simple "Buy this on a t-shirt" link next to popular tweets? Given how easy it is to print stuff on shirts now, I'm sure someone has an API for resellers looking to put words on a t shirt. |
What Data would you like to see integrated into a web analytics tool? | onreact-com: Weather is not the only outside factor: Holidays are, national events like the Superbowl, even popular TV shows end up influencing traffic. |
My site's popular. How would YOU monetise it? | clistctrl: use your traffic numbers as a proof of popularity and sell the idea to Twitter, then let them worry about it. |
Please review my concept | yummyfajitas: I don't understand the product. Am I seriously supposed to watch videos to learn how to write my signature in a new way? Or am I wildly misunderstanding this? |
Please review my concept | michael_dorfman: I wanted to like this, really I did, but you lost me about here: It is a proven fact that handwriting and signatures are the best tools to understand a personality. |
My site's popular. How would YOU monetise it? | davidw: Sell it on to a 'greater fool'?:-) |
Please review my concept | Ahri: I frequently open a bunch of tabs in firefox and then go through them one by one. I got to the tab with your site and was genuinely confused;I had the general idea that you were selling something, but wasn't sure what.I didn't know why you only used a tiny amount of my pretty normally sized screen (no content?)It... |
Please review my concept | alrex021: I still have no idea what this site offers. :) It certainly needs to be a lot more clearer at a glance, I lost interest very quickly. |
Please review my concept | nbhat: Product explanation needs to improve, a collage or a slide show of the signatures might help people to understand the product. |
Please review my concept | xelfer: Just from a first view of the site, I'd check the kerning on your business name. It can easily come across as 'Sig n in St yle'. |
Please review my concept | JonAtkinson: I think your idea is ridiculous. I'm not sure how you plan on overcoming years of muscle memory in order to provide... what? Some kind of extension of my personal brand?I really don't care what my signature looks like. I can't even remember the last time I signed for something, and I'm not bothered about w... |
What Data would you like to see integrated into a web analytics tool? | mrduncan: In addition to time of day - holidays based on visitor's location. Also, any big news stories based on the visitor's location as well as worldwide. |
What is something impressive you have built or achieved? | dcminter: Learnt to dance.Ok, I'm still learning (and always will be) but I went from absolutely hating dancing to being a competent social swing dancer in a year - just coming up to the anniversary of my first lesson in fact. |
Please review my concept | ErrantX: Rule 101: please dont send me my password in an email, in plain text. :) |
Advice for freshmen entering college | justin_vanw: Go to class. Go to class regularly. Go to bed at 10PM or earlier. Don't drink or eat things like caffeine in the evening that will give you an excuse to get up and dick around. Don't own any game systems or a television. Don't spend hours and hours on the computer messing around. Don't take more clas... |
What's important to you in a co-founder/team member | jacquesm: I'd want someone that I could face a crisis with and know blindly that they'd hold up their end.It's only in times of trouble that you really find out what your co-founders are like.Skills are important but can be improved, attitude is a given (in most people), if there is any trend here then it is that with ... |
Please review my concept | diiq: What follows is not physical truth, but emotional truth --- alas, that is what counts when you want to market a product like this.I find your concept alarming. On paper or digitally, my signature is a symbol whose only referent is me. Not Sam, or diiq --- Sam points to a thousand thousand different individuals. ... |
My site's popular. How would YOU monetise it? | onedognight: After tweets have proved themselves, remove them from the site and hawk them to comedians. You'd just need one motivated buyer willing to spend a lot. Or better yet, use them yourself like William Shatner used Sarah Palin (giving back some to the original tweeters for an extra bonus). |
Please review my concept | costan: You should replace the colored water images on the left of each page with actual signatures. The colored water images are overly generic, and that's really disappointing coming from a business that claims to do visual design.Having signatures may also help people understand the difference between your 2 product... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | ganley: Get good at time management. College undergrads have an enormous amount of free time, few responsibilities, and a lot of flexibility. The main cause (for me, at least) for not doing most anything you want is poor time management. Start here: http://www.alice.org/Randy/timetalk.htm |
Please review my concept | dablya: Are there any security issues with this?
I mean, if I used this, I would be adopting a signature that has been perfected by someone else...I also agree with working the gallery into the front page somehow. The gallery is what explains it best i think. |
Are you a founder? | abyssknight: I guess technically I am, but I tend to be more of the hired-help role. ;)Things I've founded alone:http://fragtweet.com
A simple Twitter & OAuth app in rails. Proof of concept and left dormant for now. It appears a competitor has been born that does everything I planned on doing, and does it well. Who am ... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | cschmidt: I live in Needham, just down the street from where you'll be (Hi Neighbor ;-). If you can get a parking spot on campus, I'd be sure to have a car. Boston is a much more interesting town than Needham, and you'll want to be able to explore. (If not, you'll be taking the commuter rail.)Secondly, why don't you ... |
Advice for freshmen entering college | balding_n_tired: 1. Easy on the alcohol. You can waste great quantities of time that way.2. Learn at least one foreign language well. |
What is something impressive you have built or achieved? | NoBSWebDesign: I built a predictive model for finding the maximum temperatures of the core components of heavy-duty alternators, which cut the alternator testing cycle for the biggest Tier 1 automotive supplier in the world down from 3 months to about a day and a half. Two PhD's had been trying for 2 years before me to... |
What is something impressive you have built or achieved? | happymonkey00: Helped build a cardiovascular diagramming system that converts diagnostic(textual) reports of kids with congenital heart defects to "circuit diagrams" of the heart annotated with various cardiovascular measurements. |
What is something impressive you have built or achieved? | ssanders82: After months and months of late-night coding sessions, created http://www.howmucharestamps.com:) |
Your opinion. | TallGuyShort: >> Mudoo is a place for people to download music submitted by the artistsIs it a place for amateur musicians to submit their own music? Or is this more for commercial, big-record-company music? In any case, there's already a lot of alternatives that don't have ads that are that noticeable, so it will real... |
Your opinion. | run4yourlives: You're right it's not about the idea.Is it completely off the wall an infeasible? No. Then again, if you had told me facebook's idea, or twitter, I would have laughed.Evaluate all the other, more important aspects of partnering with these people (after all, that's what you are doing). |
Your opinion. | Stasyan: I think if it is your first time joining a startup, then go for it. The experience that you'll get is extremely valuable.
And if it is not the first time, then most likely you already know what to do... |
Your opinion. | p01nd3xt3r: Would you use it? If the answer is no then I would pass. |
Your opinion. | sharpn: My 2c: Ask an amateur musician what they think of the site (ideally ask several). If they all say 'wow', then consider it. If they all shrug & say 'I can do this on [say myspace] easier' then don't. |
Your opinion. | jacquesm: > Mudoo is a place for people to download music submitted by the artists.If you're invited to be a founder that's what you'd like it to be :) Mudoo.com seems taken though, is that your working title or really what it will be launched under ?If you're going with this drop me a line, we run two fair sized music... |
What analytics service do you use? | aberman: I hear really good things about Mixpanel |
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