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What do you think of e-cigarettes? | bbuffone: Hack your brain?! For what?! is life to boring, too long, too sane. This is the kind of question I hope my kids never asks (or wants to) and if they do, I would get them a job, or a date.Want a new high? try running a marathon, benchpressing 315lbs, or screwing the hotest chick in your town. The two previous ... |
Review my startup, HipHopGoblin.com (Pandora + HypeM + Hip Hop) | p01nd3xt3r: This is dope dude... good work. |
Review my startup, HipHopGoblin.com (Pandora + HypeM + Hip Hop) | pj: very nice. volume selector would be nice. |
What do you listen to when you code? | gnosis: If the coding is routine, I sometimes listen to my favorite music (EBM or psy/goa trance) while coding. I especially like to listen to music while coding if I'm in a noisy environment (earplugs are good too).However, when I get to a really difficult problem, I prefer total silence without any distractions. Ag... |
What do you listen to when you code? | larrykubin: Lately:Rock (Tool, Porcupine Tree, Pink Floyd, Rage, Muse)
Post-Rock (Explosions in the Sky, Mono, Pelican, Mogwai)
Hip-Hop (A Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr, Outkast, Digable Planets, The Coup)The post-rock/instrumental stuff probably works the best since you aren't tempted to sing, and it helps to listen ... |
Please Review my app - TwitterBatcher.com | smokestack: I'd only suggest that your introductory text does a better job of explaining what the app actually does. I saw the website before I saw your description -- it obviously solves a problem, but I wasn't sure what the problem was until I read your description here. |
What do you listen to when you code? | neoclassical: Slayer.If that's not available, I love classical. |
What do you listen to when you code? | bayareaguy: I like the classical and chill selections at http://icebergradio.com |
What do you listen to when you code? | p01nd3xt3r: southern gangster rap |
What do you listen to when you code? | mburney: Bach. I find it perfect for coding because Bach is mathematically and algorithmically beautiful so it gets the mind working in those ways.I find IDM, electronica to work pretty well too. Autechre, for instance. |
What do you listen to when you code? | dbz: If I am at my house, then I like blasting the music as high as possible. Me sometimes getting up and dancing really isn't a problem because it only means that I'm in a good mood and the coding is easier. (Of course I sit back down and code vigorously to make up for lost time afterwards.) However, if I am in a publ... |
What do you listen to when you code? | mindhacker: http://www.simplynoise.com/http://www.simplynoise.com/download.html#soundscapes |
What do you listen to when you code? | sid: Anything really (rock to trance), but i will turn it off when i have a really difficult problem that i havnt solved before or if i am learning something new. |
What do you listen to when you code? | terpua: http://hypem.com |
Multiple Brands instead of Multiple Levels of Service | SwellJoe: Counterpoint:It took millions of dollars to launch the Lexus brand. Probably hundreds of millions.When you divide your brand awareness efforts into two distinct parts, you'll effectively cut your marketing budget in half. One of the biggest hurdles new companies face is getting people to know and trust a ne... |
What do you listen to when you code? | TriinT: Bach. Any other music causes me to lose focus. Total silence drives me slowly insane. Bach is just perfect. |
Multiple Brands instead of Multiple Levels of Service | bdmac97: Well for starters it would make conversions from free to paid that much more confusing and unlikely... I have to switch to a different website to get these other features???? What about all my friends on this website? Uh... wait, what? They're the same people? I'm confused! |
What do you listen to when you code? | netconnect: Cool links guys, I just discovered this site for some nice indie tunes along with some other stuff, all totally free of course http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Charts/ |
What do you listen to when you code? | weaksauce: I have to throw a shout out to Tarlton, mum(there is a back tick over the u but I am too lazy to find the letter), and Sanchez is Driven By Demons. They have gotten me through some tough coding sessions and they are all close enough to instrumental without being instrumental to make it work. If you needed to... |
What do you listen to when you code? | yread: Hell Im here just a short time but this is at least 3rd discussion of this since I registered:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=668087
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=716219 |
Multiple Brands instead of Multiple Levels of Service | patio11: I don't think it is a good choice for the generic web startup with 2~4 levels of activity. If you're pitching the different levels to totally different markets, I could see it. (Example: Heroku versus Big Freaking Enterprise-ku.)For startups that don't have that severe of a segmentation between the needs of ... |
What do you listen to when you code? | caudicus: This is sort of un-related, but for fans of coding to ambient music (or anyone for that matter) - if you haven't already, check out "9 Beet Stretch" - http://www.park.nl/park_cms/public/index.php?thisarticle=118 - Beethoven's 9th Symphony stretched out over a 24 hour period. I heard it first on the "Time" epi... |
What do you listen to when you code? | nuggien: vocal trance channel on http://www.di.fm Lots of other great channels on there too. Sometimes somafm.com as well. |
What do you listen to when you code? | j2d2: Lots of groove salad and drum n bass. post-rock is great too. |
What do you listen to when you code? | le_dominator: I listen to metal (Mastodon, Neurosis, Isis, Misery Speaks, Cult of Luna) in the day if I'm wired on coffee. Otherwise, I listen to a lot of ambient/IDM (Marconi Union, Signer,Arovane, etc).Generally if I'm drawing, daydreaming, designing, or what have you I listen to a lot of indie, downtempo, sexy/chill... |
How do you memorize? | bayareaguy: Incorporate your facts into a song."We the people..." |
What do you listen to when you code? | dejv: A lot of punk music, combined with blues and jazz during the coding routines, but turn music off while working on something hard. |
Multiple Brands instead of Multiple Levels of Service | JacobAldridge: The primary purpose behind different Brands is to serve different markets, which usually involves providing multiple levels of service.To skip from A to C, while trying to capture the same market, is largely a recipe for confusion, and extra unnecessary costs (particularly in marketing / positioning).To ... |
What do you listen to when you code? | charlesju: mugasha.com |
What do you listen to when you code? | csomar: Silence, I need lot of concentration. |
What do you listen to when you code? | DavidHogan: http://www.dubstep.fm It's fat and awesome, and rarely are there vocals to distract you. |
What do you listen to when you code? | glaze: Something without lyrics. Usually I listen to Juno Reactor. |
What do you listen to when you code? | mahmud: The same songs over and over. My girlfriend and her blues band rehearse at home. |
What do you listen to when you code? | scharan: I'd rather prefer silence. But in noisy environments, I prefer any instrumental music. Western classical mostly. |
What do you listen to when you code? | neuromanta: I listen to goa music (psytrance). Generally I like rock, but listening to electronic music while I code helps me to concentrate. |
How do you memorize? | brg: I associate names with peculiar features or habits. It is best not to ever vocalize these mnemonics to others.For the memorization of facts and figures, I find that alliteration or a short rhyme works best.If something does not readily avail itself in that direction, then a "connections" type story will stay with... |
Review my startup, HipHopGoblin.com (Pandora + HypeM + Hip Hop) | mahmud: Unreal! bookmarked, and sent it off in a blast to my old crew. Can you make it so that I can share playlists with people? I wanna play the same song to multiple people at the same time. |
What do you listen to when you code? | jaspervdj: Instrumental, or indie. Altough I have to say, after coding for about 20 minutes I don't notice the music anymore because I'm too concentrated on the code. |
Multiple Brands instead of Multiple Levels of Service | sgentle: The goal of freemium is the upsell - "hey you liked my x, try my y!" - which requires a tight association between your products. You upsell in the same market. You do brand differentiation in different markets.Basically, if you can imagine someone deciding to buy one product instead of another, they're in the ... |
Review my startup, HipHopGoblin.com (Pandora + HypeM + Hip Hop) | movix: It's great - how are you going to protect it? Any IP in there anywhere?
I can sense someone building www.classicrockgoblin.com as I type.Nice work. |
What do you listen to when you code? | mlok: Techno / electro. These often have the energy and rythm of machines, and it helps to keep a good pace.
I especially avoid any music with lyrics in a language I understand, so it does not steal my attention.
All in all, I want my surrounding to be an atmosphere of "going forward" and no distraction.
I also need to... |
What do you listen to when you code? | Nervetattoo: Depends on mood and problem I'm currently solving.
For trivial coding I can listen to anything and would probably go for something indie. (Currently the "trivial music" has been Florence+The Machine, Dirty Projectors, Crystal Castles and Grizzly Bear).When I'm stuck on a hard to solve bug/issue I like to g... |
What do you listen to when you code? | metachris: i find last.fm 'jazz+funk tag radio' quite nice for codinghttp://www.last.fm/listen/tag/funk*jazz |
What do you listen to when you code? | stuntgoat: Currently,Philip Glass: MishimaIt makes reading/typing anything seem more deeply important than it should be. |
Todo lists | jacquesm: I use 'taskfreak', installed on a local machine. It worked wonders for my productivity in all kinds of fields.http://www.taskfreak.com/ is where you can download it, it's written in PHP so it should be fairly easy to host it.Good enough for a 9 minute response time ;) ?Ask HN is one of the greatest features o... |
What do you listen to when you code? | uggedal: Now: the new Mew album: No More Stories/Are Told Today/I'm Sorry/They Washed Away//No More Stories/The World Is Grey/I'm Tired/Let's Wash Away |
What do you listen to when you code? | cyen: when i focus - soundtrack music. this means john williams (jaws, memoirs of a geisha, minority report, star wars), bear mcreary (bsg), hans zimmer (gladiator, last samurai, the dark knight), howard shore (LOTR soundtrack!), michael giacchino (ratatouille), klaus badelt (pirates), etc.it let me concentrate, by not... |
Todo lists | a-priori: I've recently just started using an org-mode document in Emacs to track the state of projects (among other things). Simple and effective. |
Todo lists | AndrewDucker: I like Tasks:
http://crowdfavorite.com/products/
I have a multi-user version installed on some hosted space and it works really well - I needed heirarchical to-do lists that could be shared with my girlfriend, and this gave me that. |
Todo lists | aaronblohowiak: "I've also used Todo.sh (http://ginatrapani.github.com/todo.txt-cli/) in the past, but what I'm looking for is something like that but with revision control." -- Why not use it with git or similar? |
Todo lists | tome: I keep my TODO list in a single text file. I have a key bound in my window manager to open it in an editor, and ask me whether to record changes to version control when I close the editor.The formal is very informal and ad hoc. You can see it here:http://pastebin.com/f53965a01I also have an hourly cron jobs tha... |
OPT vs H1B for developers | known: Play it safe. |
Where can I find people to review a web service? | known: Have you tried http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_per_action |
Where/how to start marketing once you've launched? | learnalist: I know its not quite marketing, being picky, I would like to see a tour ( video is best and quite easy to make these days ) of some of your features.That a side.You say you want to target musicians / small businesses.
Start with musicians.* Email owners of some of the smaller digital distribution sites. The... |
What do you think of e-cigarettes? | radu_floricica: Nicotine is way too addictive to be worth it. It may be socially accepted and not obviously harmful, but it's up there with heroine in terms of how hard it is to stop. |
Todo lists | mgunes: Check out Tracks.http://getontracks.org |
Why do you use framework X? | stonemetal: Documentation plain and simple. If someone can't be bothered to document it, then I can't be bothered to use it. If two libraries have good documentation then you read up on both and decide which fits your mental model better.I tried RoR before it had hit version 1 and the only documentation was the prag ... |
Why do you use framework X? | ErrantX: What was your decision-making process when evaluating frameworks?Accessibility, features, technology (i.e. is it up to date with the latest language features), development (looking for highly active development)Was your ultimate choice made simply because the framework was the defacto in your language of choic... |
Why do you use framework X? | jacquesm: clickable links:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=712975http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=750142I found myself in much the same position, so I read all those same links asked a bunch of questions and settled on Django (for now, we'll see how I feel in a couple of weeks).The decision making process consist... |
What do you listen to when you code? | kennu: I usually watch tv or movies on my iMac's secondary screen while coding in vim on the primary. Most of the time it's not distracting. If it is, I switch to techno or trance on iTunes to get into the flow.However, when reading books, I am unable to watch or listen to anything at the same time.. Silence required. |
Why do you use framework X? | warp: I'm not a fan of frameworks, if their particular philosophy fits with the way you think, they're probably great. For me, they just don't seem to fit and provide a lot of bloat.I prefer to start small, and add libraries as I need them.For example, for my current project I was at the point where I needed to add au... |
What do you listen to when you code? | woid: A music for the space traveler: http://www.bluemars.org/ |
Why do you use framework X? | gchucky: My company's big project right now is built in CodeIgniter. We picked a framework for a number of reasons, but mostly as a way of standardizing the code. Rather than everyone having some arbitrary way of doing something, we found it easier to use a set framework with its own conventions, at least in terms of n... |
Why do you use framework X? | ScottWhigham: What was your decision-making process when evaluating frameworks?I'm a Microsoft guy and have been for 12+ years. When .NET Framework came out, that's just what I went with.Was your ultimate choice made simply because the framework was the defacto in your language of choice?No, I chose it because it was g... |
What do you listen to when you code? | chanux: Grooveshark.com | Mugasha.comI like trance when studying. If I'm seriously in to the work, the music doesn't matter. I just want some music playing in the background.And of course there are times I need just plain silence. |
Why do you use framework X? | bad_user: For me I based my choice on modularity, available components and available documentation.I got tired of working on dozens of authentication/registration systems, or admin interfaces with sortable tables ... that's boilerplate that distracts you from the purpose of your project.I'm currently using Catalyst (Pe... |
How do you memorize? | tetha: I usually just think about things, adding lots and lots of associations, specializations and generalizations between the new things and my existing knowledge. Once this is done, I just know it once someone asks me for it.(And yes, I hate learning useless streams of numbers or words to know them exactly number by... |
Please review re-release of launchly | stijnm: Clickable link: http://www.launchly.comEDIT: Had a quick poke around. Note, I did not look at your previous iteration. This review reads more as a narrative because I am just flicking between tabs to add comments.It looks good. I must say my personal taste is a little more minimalist and so I find your site a l... |
How should we promote our web-based startup for as-free-as-possible. | javery: A link or description of your startup would be a good first step. :) |
What do you listen to when you code? | thismat: Four Tet or similar, or silence. |
How should we promote our web-based startup for as-free-as-possible. | Chirag: Well Thanks, @javerySite Url
http://www.indiameme.com/Short Description:
As a bloggers we are all passionate about the news and daily on goings in India, it is really hard to catch up with the best stuff in news and blog. I also faced simillar problem a while ago and decided to wrote a program to grab the best... |
Why do you use framework X? | itgoon: I look for a framework which satisfies 80% of my criteria. This saves me about 20% of the work. |
Please review re-release of launchly | dhimes: Interesting idea!The home page is neat and clean. One thing I noticed: "Launchly Blog" text in tab on mouseover becomes hard to read (dark font on dark tab). It renders differently than the other tabs, so perhaps it's an oversight."Iterative feedback & powerful analytics service for new websites" doesn't qui... |
Where/how to start marketing once you've launched? | zv: How about url for your project? |
How should we promote our web-based startup for as-free-as-possible. | pclark: why is your site so hard to find the news? when I go to your homepage I see no news. |
What should I ask companies during interviews? | ErrantX: One of the best questions (he is one of our project leads now :D) asked by an interviewee of ours was:If I get a really great idea how quickly and by what path does that get to someone who can make a decision on it? And can I do the pitch myself? |
Why do you use framework X? | thenduks: I generally decide on a framework project-by-project. I started off with Django because I was experienced with Python. The project went ok but I found, as most people seem to, that when the code started growing more organically (often called 'maintenance mode' :)) it got real ugly real fast. I went looking fo... |
What should I ask companies during interviews? | stonemetal: Mostly you should ask about what is important to you, if they haven't covered it already. I would add their stance on side projects, and power of developers(to say hold up a release because of show stoppers) to the list you have. |
Review my Startup -- wokhei.com | ErrantX: You can access our services only through a Google Account. Why? Because virtually everyone has a Google account and this way you don't have to remember yet another password. I see the logic in using OpenID for signin. But only google?Defi9nitely not everyone has a google account (though perhaps your target aud... |
Review my Startup -- wokhei.com | davidw: I'd be interested in a nice logo for www.hecl.org , but I would need a BSD open source license for it. I would be willing to link to you guys, but probably not shell out the full price for it, since it's an open source project. Let me know if you're interested. |
Why do you use framework X? | randallsquared: My top reason for using a framework for a new project is typically that I want to learn it. Since I worked for myself for most of my developer career so far (but don't any more, to be clear), that wasn't a problem.However, to continue using a framework, my top criteria are low (or no!) boilerplate and ... |
What should I ask companies during interviews? | Tangurena: Generally, you should ask questions to help YOU decide if the place is a good (or not) place to work at. Many people use the Joel Test as a guideline. As time goes by, you'll add your own questions to find things that went wrong/right at previous places.http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.ht... |
Why do you use framework X? | jhancock: * What was your decision-making process when evaluating frameworks?very clean internally framework code. not necessarily large user base. something where the original devs may likely still be using their creation within the next two years. lightweight. no magic!!!* Was your ultimate choice made simply bec... |
Review my Startup -- wokhei.com | javery: How is this different then all the other logo creation sites and services out there? How is it better than using 99designs, etc? |
Review my Startup -- wokhei.com | midnightmonster: I have advised people to use cheap logo services as a way of getting a decent first draft--something they can use temporarily or take to a more involved designer for improvement.If I pay for a logo (cheap, sure--but also with no opportunity for feedback) I expect to get (1) ownership, not a license and... |
Please review re-release of launchly | yannis: Please don't get offended. It is an excellent idea, but I think it needs a bit of work still. The front page especially. You need to place the screenshots higher and be more succinct with your message. What you want me to do first? Provide feedback? Pay to have some unknowns provide feedback for me? Earn karma?... |
Review my Startup -- wokhei.com | k0ban: I do represent your target audience, looking for a logo designer right now.Besides login issue, already mentioned here, i think the video is too long, you should fit into 30-40 seconds with real example. I am missing portfolio, so can't estimate quality of the service you are providing.Anyway I submitted request... |
Please review re-release of launchly | varikin: When clicking through to a site (I looked at Recipe Puppy), You have a Launchly bar at the top while loading the site in a frame. I don't want to get into the debate about loading pages like that, but you do have a broken back button with that bar. I clicked on several links on Recipe Puppy, and the back butto... |
How should we promote our web-based startup for as-free-as-possible. | patio11: First, your project needs to solve a problem for an identifiable group of people. Then, you build a relationship with the people that group of people trusts (e.g. by blogging, commenting on their blogs, etc). Then, you introduce your thing as something which will help their readers/colleagues/etc solve your ... |
What should I ask companies during interviews? | asimjalis: If a team does not have source control or an automated build system is that a deal breaker? Or is that an opportunity? I have noticed that the thing that makes some teams magical to work on is an undefinable quality that they have a kind of indescribable vibe. |
Review my Startup -- wokhei.com | erikwiffin: You need need need a portfolio.
So far all I can see is one logo (yours) and it's not really the branding I'm looking for.A portfolio would reassure me that you have a broader range, or that you excel at doing one kind of logo really well. |
Why do you use framework X? | matttah: I have been using Symfony for about 3-4 years now. I knew I wanted to use a PHP framework when I first started looking into frameworks because it was the language I was already very familiar with.In decision making there were a number of different aspects I considered first. The two largest were the communit... |
Why do you use framework X? | youngian: One of my biggest criteria when I was looking at frameworks was how much each one wanted you to "drink the kool-aid." I'm not saying it's a bad thing to have conventions built into the framework to make developers' lives easier, but some frameworks really demand total commitment to their system. Since I was l... |
What do you listen to when you code? | abyssknight: I usually hit Pandora at the start of the day and leave it on unless I'm in a meeting or working on a really difficult problem. |
Review my Startup -- wokhei.com | odvious: Hate to be a stickler, but: "He will prepare your logo in 24hrs!" should be "They will prepare your logo in 24hrs!" |
Why do you use framework X? | jonnyrotten: Because I wrote it. |
Review my Startup -- wokhei.com | ckinnan: I've used LogoWorks a few times with success. In every case some revision was required...most logos are a committee effort so users want to be able to revise them...it is also nice to get a couple different versions with the understanding that you can choose to have one polished into a final logo.Some site fe... |
Learning Industrial Design | icey: "The Design of Everyday Things" would probably be a good start: http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/d... |
What should I ask companies during interviews? | icey: I've done a lot of candidate interviews in the past, and your #3 question is killer - Almost nobody asks that question during interviews; the ones that have asked it have almost always gotten an offer. (In that they have almost always been the highest quality candidates anyways.)Beyond that, I like to ask about t... |
Review my Startup -- wokhei.com | symptic: Your video is long and boring. Make it quick and simple; to the point. |
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