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Founders, what title do you use in email? | lucumo: Just my name and my company's name. We're dealing mostly with consumer's though. |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | byrneseyeview: He carried two business cards: a plain one with just his name and another that read "I'm CEO...Bitch."http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/21129674/the_battle_f... |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | winstonwiener: Chief Wiener |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | erlanger: Casual: First nameIntroduction: Full nameSales email: Full name + "\nOwner, {{ company }}" |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | p01nd3xt3r: I use the title of "Product Manager" because that is what role I play. |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | jasonlbaptiste: Sincerely,Paul BlartMall Cop |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | tdavis: Janitor |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | sho: Vice President for Special Projects |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | zach: All my business cards I've chosen when working for other companies say only "Programmer." I like that.But when you're a founder or such, you have to cop to it. You don't want it to look like you're evading responsibility or jerking people's chain.So it's "CTO and Co-Founder" on my business cards and (when appro... |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | andrewljohnson: It depends... when speaking with people I want to make deals with, I use my title. If I'm dealing with users/customers, I just ID myself as co-founder. |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | leviathant: Chief Nerd |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | brk: You should use whatever you think your actual title is at this point in time. "President" or "Founder" would probably work well. For a small shop "CEO" and "VP" titles can be a little over the top. 90% of the time, this isn't an issue, but in some cases people will honestly have more of an impression of "Oh, is... |
Bad habits | Mz: I suppose this would be the perfect place for the following joke:
Most of my bad habits have had gray hair and foreign names. I don't have any at the moment, so I guess that makes me perfect (for now).On a more serious note: My sense of humor is a bad habit that gets me into hot water. (Thus I imagine this post ... |
Which MMORPG do you play? | tsally: Don't. :-p You could learn entire languages (programming or otherwise) with the time you spend on those. |
Which MMORPG do you play? | seanstickle: Programming is my MMORPG.I often take on quests into GitHub, Savannah, or SourceForge.I belong to several guilds like #rubyonrails and #mysql.And best of all, my MMORPG pays me. |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | effektz: Make something up, make yourself the "Senior Sale Maker" |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | zandorg: I put my degree BSc (Hons) even though a friend says it's irrelevant.I earned those letters dammit! |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | bdmac97: I've just been using Founder... especially since it's jut me here. |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | hwijaya: Optimist Prime at Blindoptimists |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | rokhayakebe: Depends on who I am emailing.Creative Director, Business Development manager, Creatively Directing Product Development. |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | ScottWhigham: I don't use a title.Scott WhighamLearnItFirst<phone><fax>http://www.learnitfirst.com |
Rate my site | brk: Well, with only 3 posts (one of which appears to be a placeholder...) it's hard to give much of an opinion.It's a neat idea, not sure if new rantworthy content would be "released" frequently enough to keep the site fresh and compelling. |
Rate my site | poppysan: No offense, but you can't be serious? This is just a standard install of drupal. No design, no dev. Hard to rate at all. |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | yef: Call yourself what you are, don't be too cute, keep yourself out of Valleywag. |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | warwick: Generally I sign emails to customers with my title as "Developer". When you're responding to a support email or a pre-sale email, a lot of customers think it's very cool that they can contact the guy who built the product, not some random support person. |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | Mz: The best college professors I have had were working professionals who taught on the side or people who otherwise still had some hands-on experience with the subject they were teaching. There's a reason we have the cynical expression "It's academic" as a means to dismiss something as irrelevant to the real world. ... |
Any ideas for a MS thesis in networking? | olefoo: SCTP, where one or more endpoints are mobile and occasionally disconnected. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2960.txtOr protocols for personal area networks; for instance the suite of protocols that would be needed for a personal soundtrack to follow you from your home to your vehicle to your office w/ multiple endpo... |
Which MMORPG do you play? | wmblaettler: I do not play MMORPGs, I have played many games in the past, mostly FPS and C&C style games, but gameplaying has seriously declined as freetime becomes more sparse and increasingly valuable for other endeavors. |
Why do Internet dating sites charge the same amount for men and women? | run4yourlives: Last time I checked (10 years ago) they didn't. |
infrastructure in a box for distributed team | grandalf: google apps / github / slicehostWhat more do you need? |
Why do Internet dating sites charge the same amount for men and women? | Frocer: Good question. May be they could get sued for gender discrimination? Although I'd like to see two things before making any assumptions:1. Do men really out number women drastically on dating sites (this is only assumed, but is it really true?)
2. Are there any services that charges differently by gender (I ca... |
Why do Internet dating sites charge the same amount for men and women? | Tangurena: There are a number of people who make a living sueing newspapers for running "ladies night" advertisements. So it would not surprise me that there are a similar bunch of people sueing dating sites claiming that any sort of pricing differential would be discriminatory.>Last September, after losing a Denver Co... |
Has Anyone Tried Kava Extract? | rms: Sure, email me and I'll send you some. It works and the FDA grants it Generally Recognized as Safe status. The effects don't last very long, maybe 2-3 hours. It is not physically addictive. You can buy it at Whole Foods but it is about 25% the cost online.I also sell another substance, mitragyna speciosa, that may... |
Has Anyone Tried Kava Extract? | netweirdo: It's the only "intoxicant" I will use.I import it from here http://www.realkava.com/It's the good ShAnd instead of filtering it.. I take a heaping tablespoon, mix it with some water and shot it.. then eat something immediately after as chaser to kill the taste.If you do anymore shots other than one every 3 ... |
Has Anyone Tried Kava Extract? | plinkplonk: Ask HN: Has anyone tried {any of a wide variety of drugs}? I was told that {any of a wide variety of drugs} has the following effects...
I am sick of people selling/advertising drugs on HN.EDIT: Removed the "flagged" bit. Explicitly mentioning it here as an acknowledgement that it was a violation of the g... |
Which MMORPG do you play? | newsdog: I used to play World of Kung Fu but quit at level 26.These things are amazing time sinks and life-eaters. |
Is PLR/MRR/RR "rebranded" marketing content bad for UGC sites? | hachiya: UGC = ? |
Has Anyone Tried Kava Extract? | shimi: Tried it while touring Fiji, sitting with the locals having a laugh.Its really mild, no big effect, good for socializing... |
I want to build/learn something this weekend - suggestions? | YuriNiyazov: Read "restful web services" and "programming collective intelligence" |
I want to build/learn something this weekend - suggestions? | gruseom: If you want a total change of pace, check out J. It's one of the two main successors to APL, meaning the primitives are arrays and you write programs by composing very general operators. I recommend it for two reasons: 1. it will open your mind and perhaps blow it altogether; 2. the software comes with a bunch... |
I want to build/learn something this weekend - suggestions? | chops: Erlang is fun and a weekend read. I recommend "Programming Erlang" by Joe Armstrong. |
I want to build/learn something this weekend - suggestions? | sown: http://www.overthewire.org/wargames/vortex/It's a race against time and terror!Hurry, CommieBob, Before there's still time!! |
I want to build/learn something this weekend - suggestions? | erlanger: I'm doing the Python challenge because my Python's getting rusty. So far it's been pretty enjoyable.Edit: Don't waste your time. I stopped because you end up spending most of your time figuring out little well-concealed clues that have nothing to do with programming at all (after you get past the easier ones.... |
I want to build/learn something this weekend - suggestions? | DocSavage: Try building a program on Google App Engine. I personally like python, but you could go with any JVM-targeted language. The particularly new part for you is the datastore:http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/No joins (except for "self joins"), entity groups, sharded counters, and the mind... |
I want to build/learn something this weekend - suggestions? | pizza: Python! |
Do textbooks help? | plinkplonk: Textbooks are about the only way to learn deep comp sci for someone (like me) who is self taught .I don't know about the Levitin book, but the Cormen book is likely to be a little tough for someone just starting out. I would suggest Tardos and Kleinberg or Skiena's book (and once you are finished with those... |
I want to build/learn something this weekend - suggestions? | JMiao: a processing.js visualization. |
Do textbooks help? | sarvesh: Yes textbooks do help. The Levitin book is good start. I would recommend reading Cormen et al after that. If you want to get serious about designing algorithms you should refer Donald Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, at least Volume 1. |
I want to build/learn something this weekend - suggestions? | 321abc: Take a look at this MetaFilter thread about simple, useful skills that can be learned quickly:http://ask.metafilter.com/125874/Simple-useful-skills |
I want to build/learn something this weekend - suggestions? | csbartus: Take a look at multitouch systems.The rise of a new hardware platform is a rare occasion compared to the many fresh software products coming out on a regular basis. |
Do textbooks help? | phugoid: I use Amazon.Find a dozen books on a given topic, read the descriptions, reviews and ratings. Pick the one that fits your tastes, and read it. All.Reading a textbook always helps. With experience, you'll get "luckier" at picking the right book. |
I want to build/learn something this weekend - suggestions? | jmtame: hndir.com built in codeigniter - will let you build some stuff on top of it if interested. the project really has potential, I'm just too tied up with graffitiGeo.com atm |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | abalashov: I take after Mobutu, myself: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobutu_Sese_Seko)"In 1972, Mobutu renamed himself Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga ("The all-powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and inflexible will to win, goes from conquest to conquest, leaving fire in his wake."), Mobutu Sese... |
Is Drupal a good choice for apllication that wants to reli on AJAX? | jacquesm: hi Rajesh,I've got about 1500 drupal sites running right now on a free hosting site.Not sure if that qualifies me to make this statement:stay the hell away from drupal.Drupal is a great concept executed poorly. There is no upgrade path between major versions and the 'modular' approach is taken to such an extr... |
Do textbooks help? | rw: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=665069 |
I want to build/learn something this weekend - suggestions? | Steve0: You can virtually attend the Hacking At Random festival.
https://wiki.har2009.org/page/Streaming
https://har2009.org/program/Educational and fun. |
New research topics in networking ? | jacquesm: I like the concept of 'MANET's, they offer some great potential. |
New research topics in networking ? | plinkplonk: What topics did your advisor suggest? |
I want to build/learn something this weekend - suggestions? | known: Alternative algorithm to PageRank. |
I want to build/learn something this weekend - suggestions? | gosub: http://papersincomputerscience.org/ |
Do textbooks help? | yannis: Textbooks are the best source for CS. The web is actually very shallow when it comes to getting a real series of 'graded tutorials' and subject matter.I try to buy my books from book stores. There is nothing like flipping through a book to assess it and is an ideal way to spend a couple of hours in a lazy after... |
Is Drupal a good choice for apllication that wants to reli on AJAX? | yannis: I thought everyone here on HN, somewhere, somehow, has written his own CMS!I have used Drupal and went through the pain to understand it (took about twenty days to become proficient). It can do what you want, but got a lot of other limitations. If PHP is your way, I would go with a framework, either Kohana, Cod... |
Level of spam / sock puppet activity? | jacquesm: Often enough that the code has provisions against it. Usually a big red flag is when a submission is only minutes old, is of low quality and has 3 or 4 votes on it.I think the main reason for this is that if you manage to get a submission on the front page in the first couple of minutes that it exists momentu... |
I want to build/learn something this weekend - suggestions? | rman666: Work on you. Go to the gym. Eat healthy. Catch up sleep. Organize for next week. Drink water. Meditate. Journal. |
I want to build/learn something this weekend - suggestions? | mechanical_fish: jQuery, and/or "Javascript: The Good Parts".Alternatively: Pick a power editor (I recommend emacs) and practice with that. |
I want to build/learn something this weekend - suggestions? | learnalist: Something not computer related? Read a book? Plant something?
If computer related... Play with html 5 canvas, its so en vogue at the moment. |
Confronting impossible people (In life and business) | DrJokepu: Smile. Be kind and polite. Remember that he probably thinks the same of you or even worse. Try to figure out his motivations. Be friendly, talk to him about things he's interested in. Try to see the world through his eyes. Once you managed to hit a common voice with him, it's much easier to find solutions for... |
Are you a founder? | vivekamn: Co-founder Founder of www.radaptive.com an Asset Management and Ticketing solution(running in Ebay/paypal/danger-now Microsoft! and ask.com. Role: I handle all things technical. |
Confronting impossible people (In life and business) | amanfredi: I don't know the best way to deal with this situation, but fighting passive-aggressiveness with itself will not solve anything.The fact that you waited for him shows you're not afraid of a little confrontation, but I think you may have wasted a good opportunity by getting frustrated and leaving instead of te... |
I want to build/learn something this weekend - suggestions? | kcy: Read HN all day looking at all the interesting ideas people are posting! C'mon you know this is what you're going to do anyway. Just kidding. But, hopefully we don't see you back here till Monday w/ some more wisdom and knowledge to drop on us all.Just to add to the mix. How about TED Lectures, youtube around ... |
Confronting impossible people (In life and business) | kitcar: I found the contents of "Getting Past Now" by William Ury helpful when negotiating with difficult people.
http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Past-No-William-Ury/dp/0553371... |
Confronting impossible people (In life and business) | HeyLaughingBoy: My initial reaction on hearing that would probably have been to scream "are you fucking stupid?" at him. But I have a very low tolerance for that kind of behavior and luckily have learned to suppress that type of response :-)Besides, if people really are leaving the door open in the morning, that won't ... |
Confronting impossible people (In life and business) | californiaguy: The only way to deal with people like that is to move out. Why are you structuring your happiness in life around his actions? |
Confronting impossible people (In life and business) | mattchew: Some people you just can't reason with.I see other people advising sitting down and talking. It's probably worth trying. One episode of nutsy behavior isn't enough to write someone off.But there's a sizable fraction of people out there that are 100% asshole. Talking to them won't produce any lasting result... |
Level of spam / sock puppet activity? | rbanffy: I think one good reason is that HN is ugly: it scares away the people I would want scared away if I were HN. It's also not very user friendly - a couple very clever friends of mine find the UI somewhat confusing. They see bug, I see feature.But I must confess a tiny little bit of shady conduct: I tried to engi... |
Confronting impossible people (In life and business) | rokhayakebe: With this kind of guy your best bet is to get on their good side. Psychos will not stop at anything. |
Confronting impossible people (In life and business) | edw519: You mention nothing about the other 4 roommates. You're probably better off trying to solve this problem with them than trying to alone. It'll probably be 5 against 1. 5 against him or 5 against you. Doesn't matter. Either way, you'll know what to do. |
Confronting impossible people (In life and business) | bgnm2000: I would tell him I was fine with it, but that he is responsible for paying the extra heating bill as well as replacing anything which may be damaged or stolen by leaving the door open.If he agrees to it, then great - turn up the heat. |
Confronting impossible people (In life and business) | gte910h: My response:Okay bob, I understand you have a problem with them. But here is what's going to happen here: You're going to stop doing this tonight. And we're going to talk it over tomorrow with the people you think you have a conflict over.Now there will be further steps I will take if I find you are doing this... |
Confronting impossible people (In life and business) | rabidgnat: My mother's old trick for situations like these is to be on their side without saying anything bad about anyone else in the house. Instead of "Whatever, I'm freezing my ass off", try something like "I can't believe they'd do that to you! That's awful, man. It's effing cold when this door is left open. ::clos... |
Confronting impossible people (In life and business) | mhb: Why don't you ask him if he'll stop propping the door open if the other people stop leaving the door open in the morning and then ask them if they can do that?Or get up in the morning and close the door after them. |
Confronting impossible people (In life and business) | physcab: I've done quite a bit of conflict resolution in my day. I once worked as a resident assistant (RA) in the dorm and had to deal with very similar problems.Here is my textbook answer. You want to meet with the person on their terms. Go to his/her office/room on a day when the issue is not prevalent, because ne... |
Confronting impossible people (In life and business) | sharpn: Try to talk to him about it another time, when you are both relaxed. He's likely got himself worked up into anger over the 'other housemates' (which to him could include you) before doing something that childish.
It will be much harder for him to behave like that once you have discussed it calmly - although if ... |
Confronting impossible people (In life and business) | jawngee: Punch him in the throat. |
Confronting impossible people (In life and business) | DanielBMarkham: This is actually very simple, although the execution seems to trip a lot of folks up.There are several stages. If you go through all of them, things work themselves out.1) He hears you. He is able to repeat what you said back to you and not screw it up.2) He empathizes with you. He honestly understands ... |
Confronting impossible people (In life and business) | ryanwaggoner: Aside from the immediate issue that you're dealing with, which it sounds like others have given some good advice for, here's something for the future:Read How to Win Friends and Influence People. I used to think it was just a treatise on how to manipulate people for selfish gain, but after reading it, I ... |
how would you A/B test iPhone apps? | bdmac97: I know very little about iPhone programming so forgive me if this is ludicrous but just thinking out loud...We had an app launch on launchly awhile back that was basically trying to be the iPhone version of GetSatisfaction or UserVoice. You could plug in their code into your app and it would handle feedback a... |
Confronting impossible people (In life and business) | apinstein: You can't negotiate with terrorists (ie irrational people).Seriously, if there's one thing I've learned dealing with d-bags and a-holes over the last decade is that they are what they are. They might eventually change, but it's unlikely that you can get them to.The trick is figuring out if this guy is irrati... |
Anyone else having problems with Google Analytics? | onreact-com: I've seen it for a while but assumed it's my fault, a reload problem or something. |
How to choose the right language | gdp: There are probably two dimensions to this:1) Whether the features and capabilities of the language match the task2) Your familiarity with using a given language for a type of task.There might be a third, somewhat less tangible concept of "elegance" mixed in there too, insofar as that some languages might lend them... |
Anyone else having problems with Google Analytics? | jacquesm: worked for me.JavaScript blocker active ?flash working ? |
How to choose the right language | jacquesm: For a very simple language start with HTML, then add some javascript and then go for a server side scripting language.That way you can sort of ease in to the concepts of syntax (and debugging) in a familiar environment.Adding some js will give you some client side functionality, from there it is a (relatively... |
How to choose the right language | edw519: If you're planning to write for the web (who isn't), then I prefer javascript for 2 simple reasons:1. Unless you use Flash, you'll probably have to use some javascript anyway if you want any logic on your client.2. You can click View:Source on any web page to see the javascript running that page. You'll have... |
How to choose the right language | Hexstream: In my opinion there's too much emphasis on general-purpose languages over domain-specific ones. There's lots of low-hanging fruit in the domain-specific space.While designing or implementing a worthwhile Turing-complete, general-purpose programming language with a correct and efficient implementation is a hu... |
How to choose the right language | tommia: You don't choose a language in such case as you don't build with Ruby nor with Python. You build with the language and a web framework such rails or django.There are many things to consider. And most of the issues ar non-technical- will there be support for the frameworks, language etc long enough?- are the cod... |
How to choose the right language | russell: Consider expressiveness. The number of lines of code that a programmer can write in a month tends to be a constant independent of language. A program in Java takes 2 to 5 times as many lines of code as in Python. In Java you will get a lot less accomplished.Take a look at the standard libraries and third pa... |
how would you A/B test iPhone apps? | DougBTX: Guess:- Do fake A/B testing for your AppStore product page, toggle once a week and compare sales.- For the product itself, try usability testing face-to-face with potential users, using ad-hoc distribution. |
How to choose the right language | intellectronica: The most important thing when choosing a first language is to choose a language that will allow you to get stuff done as quickly as possible. The only way to learn how to program is to build stuff, and if you optimize for that, the minor differences between two languages are actually a pretty marginal ... |
How to choose the right language | makecheck: Speed of execution and expressiveness are common factors, and this depends on what you're doing. For instance, regular expressions. If you're doing a program that is primarily not dealing with text, but occasionally needs a regex, then Python regexes would be fine. If the program does a lot of text proces... |
How to choose the right language | silentbicycle: You probably won't have enough experience to decide which language is a better fit for a project until you know at least one of them quite thoroughly. At that point, the differences that will actually matter to you should be much clearer.While people can argue about the relative merits of Ruby and Python... |
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