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Is it "dirty" to have an "Import from [competitor]" feature? | egl: I second the support for "export from your app". This signals that you're confident that customers will stay with you because they like your product, not because they are locked in. It may not be easy, but it's a way to reduce the risk of entry. |
What's your least favorite tech word? Mine's "non-trivial". | moe: Turnkey Solution(My brain always translates to turkey inducing...) |
Creating a Twitter "@" Bot? | siong1987: Try the streaming API from Twitter.http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation |
Effective data visualization operating on source code | windsurfer: Almost all large software shops have some sort of cheesy "dashboard" for upper management. Some of these analyze source code for line numbers, progress filling in templates, test results, etc.http://ohloh.net/ analyzes source code of open source projects and reports on them, such as commenting ratio (it war... |
What is your purpose in life? | p01nd3xt3r: I find purpose in the products that I make and how they impact the people / world around me. |
The best development environment you've ever used | DanielStraight: If I could combine the simplicity of Visual Studio, the flexibility and power of emacs, and the refactoring support of Eclipse, that would be the best development environment ever.As it stands, I would probably put Visual Studio in the lead.I have a major beef with Eclipse for how projects are structure... |
What is your purpose in life? | DanielStraight: Being better than I was yesterday. |
How do I find out whether something was submitted? | mbrubeck: It's not perfect, but you can go to http://searchyc.com/ and (on the results page) choose "submissions". Sometimes a domain-only search is good (if the topic you're looking for has a unique domain), other times you'll need to come up with some combination of domain and title keywords.Or you can do a Google s... |
The best development environment you've ever used | dryicerx: emacsBecause you can easily flex and modify any aspect of it, for any need you might have. |
The best development environment you've ever used | dannyr: Visual Studio.It auto-indents your code making it readable. Excellent Intellisense. Find/Replace within project and solution. Integrated debugger is full-featured. |
What is your purpose in life? | Ras_: To build communities. Creating or contributing to something to be shared with others.I've noticed that I am happiest when I can do something for the common good (=give). More than I could ever be by just concentrating on myself. Giving away some of the excess of anything creates more value than keeping it all to ... |
What is your purpose in life? | rasyadi: Life is an investment for the purpose of life after death. |
What is your purpose in life? | kirubakaran: Love^. Adventure. Creation~. Childish silliness.^ Includes friendship affection etc too~ Art, Work etc |
your thoughts - .net domains o.k. or unprofessional? | bgnm2000: in my opinion yes - solely for the fact that people will almost always try .com first.however, devver.net (from the techstars incubator) has a .net, so thats not to say it isnt done. |
your thoughts - .net domains o.k. or unprofessional? | clemesha: Recently I overheard some "non-techie" people discussing a university website, I looked over one of their shoulders, and they had written down ".edu.com". Point is, people are very familiar with the .com tld.That said, it probably depends on your audience - if you have a great site or cater to a more tech-mi... |
your thoughts - .net domains o.k. or unprofessional? | mikeryan: Its not second class but it's likely bad from a marketing perspective.When you tell someone the name of your company they're going to go to .com first - and if you don't own that its going to look strange.The real exception are sites which make creative use of country code domains like bit.ly or del.icio.us |
your thoughts - .net domains o.k. or unprofessional? | redorb: .net is 2nd rate unless you are a 'network' or ISP .. other than that - go for a .com |
The best development environment you've ever used | sarvesh: Vi on Unix and Visual Studio on Windows (with Vim bindings). Vi and Visual Studio have one thing in common that makes them great, the customization. Developers are very picky when it comes to the tools they want to use. We like it to work in a certain way. Every good developer I know has his own customizations... |
The best development environment you've ever used | pavelludiq: Unix/Linux. |
What is your purpose in life? | sdave: this is the ultimate question my friend !
what is anybody's reason for living (purpose of life) ?i read an interesting book on the same theme: siddhartha(herman hesse)"I long ago gave up trying to find external purpose in life."
this is golden . thanks. |
The best development environment you've ever used | yan: Environment? Xcode. Editor? Vim. |
your thoughts - .net domains o.k. or unprofessional? | satyajit: When you have .net, you need to market your site with .net on it, else all the traffic meant for you is going to go to .com.
Perfect example is Box.net - they have made .net as part of the branding. |
The best development environment you've ever used | dragonquest: Slickedit by far, if you dabble in more than one language. I don't use it currently because of its expensive license ~300$, but it wins in sheer power and features as a beefed up text editor. |
The best development environment you've ever used | mahmud: Borland Turbo C++ version 4.5. I used it without prejudice; I was too inexperienced as a programmer to form opinions about programming tools, so I used all I had with great pleasure and made things.It was good to be able to just start impossible to code projects without realizing their difficulty. Then, I felt ... |
What is your purpose in life? | rjprins: There is no purpose in life obviously, so you have to make something up:I chose enjoying life (hedonistic) and being successful in my field (AI).Strangely I don't feel like helping others, even though I know I should. May be it's because I'm having enough trouble helping myself.. |
your thoughts - .net domains o.k. or unprofessional? | andhapp: I would personally not buy .net for the reasons mentioned in this thread already. Similarly, I would not have hyphens or any funny spellings in the address either. Just keep it simple, if your company is called Yahoo then yahoo.com should be where people can find about you. |
What is your purpose in life? | ianso: Two purposes, one wide and less important, and one narrow and highly important.Wide/A: networks create communication creates understanding creates empathy, respect and love, hence why I want to work on Internet stuff.Wide/B: faster, more disruptive change happens by empowering smaller (leaner/more agile) groups ... |
your thoughts - .net domains o.k. or unprofessional? | movix: Personally I rate domain hacks, especially perfect ones like last.fm. I think think the dominance of the .com should be challenged, partly because how many .coms are genuine businesses, i.e. do they make any cash, or do they just lose it hand over fist - shouldn't there be a .fail TLD ?I know there's lot's of i... |
What is your purpose in life? | mannicken: We can only talk about tool's purpose or at least a purpose of something that has end. So by that, purpose of human life is death, and there is no greater purpose other than beauty, everlasting dance of matter and energy.So live in the moment, that's all you ever get and don't worry about stuff you can't con... |
The best development environment you've ever used | ganley: Borland Turbo Pascal, circa 1984. |
What is your purpose in life? | kloc: I once read..."The ultimate purpose of life which is to keep alive is impossibe" ... so why bother?? |
The best development environment you've ever used | ilyak: I guess it's Factor UI.It's nicely integrated (the words you've just added show up in help) and it does really suggest interactive development (for example, by auto-importing vocabularies for you).I miss the built-in editor, tho... |
What is your purpose in life? | bhousel: My purpose is to leave things in better shape than when I arrived at them. By "things", I mean anything: a job, a person, the world, etc. |
how to deal with revisionism? | RyanMcGreal: If you think it's an important issue, read up on it. Read arguments from people on as many different sides of the issue as you can, and be sure to read up on the responses to those arguments from different sides of the issue.Pay attention to peer-reviewed studies and meta-studies - look for data that you c... |
how to deal with revisionism? | tjic: The proper approach to these debates is either (a) rational ignorance [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_ignorance ], (b) study up on both sides.I dislike the word "revisionism" as a slur against the standard position. Revision is good. When more data comes to light, one should reevaluate what one things o... |
how to deal with revisionism? | tokenadult: The Holocaust deniers are definitely wrong too, just as are the people who don't credit the evidence for biological evolution. And anyone who thinks that medically administered vaccines are more dangerous than measles, pertussis, or seasonal flu is crazy. The harder case is vaccination against chicken pox, ... |
How about having 'lost password' feature in HN?. | profquail: Post this in the feature requests thread (link at the bottom of the page).On a side note...you can probably recover the deleted password file from Firefox if it hasn't been too long. If you're on Windows, there's a program called GetDataBack that is very good for recovering deleted files. On Linux/Mac, you'l... |
how to deal with revisionism? | cousin_it: Evaluating a big controversial issue is hard for reasons analogous to the "curse of dimensionality" when numerically computing multidimensional integrals: a grid with step 1/k in N-dimensional space has ~k^N points, way too many to sample them all. People solve this problem in practice by the Monte Carlo met... |
how to deal with revisionism? | mhb: It seems like you are mixing up revisionism with coming to a conclusion about a debatable topic. The holocaust and global warming are not differences of scale - they are differences of kind.If you question whether the holocaust occurred, you should also be questioning any other events which you didn't personally o... |
how to deal with revisionism? | reedlaw: Whenever there are rational proponents on both sides of a controversial issue I tend to view the "official" position with at least some degree of suspicion, especially when there are politics involved (e.g. global warming, vaccinations). |
How about having 'lost password' feature in HN?. | rdj: You could assume PG would be too busy to respond to a password reset, much like you could assume a password reset function is a basic necessity of a web site. However, I personally, have proven at-least one of these assumptions wrong. |
How about having 'lost password' feature in HN?. | dgallagher: I'd also love to see:- Search functionality- Bookmarking of favorite stories to your user account |
how to deal with revisionism? | wlievens: In many of these cases, the sides are not proportional at all. One side will consist of consensus by a large group of various kinds of experts and scientist, whereas the other might consist of a much smaller group of religious lunatics.That's not "debate". That's just random lunacy. |
how to deal with revisionism? | biohacker42: You answered your own question. Learn enough to convince yourself. |
Rate my Start-up webticketing.net | danw: Would love a link to an event .ical file, like eventbrite etc do. |
how to deal with revisionism? | frig: Welcome to the modern condition; this will only get worse for the foreseeable future.The easiest heuristic is always to first ask qui bono, and then heavily discount information whose content if true would advance the interests of the information supplier.Thus: if Pepsi runs an ad on TV saying Pepsi is the schizz... |
What is your purpose in life? | iterationx: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justification_(theology) |
how to deal with revisionism? | sethg: Let's say that in 10% of controversies of this nature, The Scientific Consensus is wrong and the revisionists are actually correct. I personally don't have time to review every controversy in enough depth to decide which ones belong to that 10%. For issues that I care about I may read enough critical work to f... |
Ask HN:How to focus on the best idea? | bgnm2000: I know exactly what you mean.If I start a project however, I will focus only on it, until its finished (thats not to say it then receives no attention). Only then can I start looking at the other projects I want to do - and decide which to begin next.Otherwise nothing would ever be accomplished. |
Ask HN:How to focus on the best idea? | zeynel1: create a spreadsheet with columns:startup costtime to build a mock upbusiness modelestimated revenue in a yearpassion indexcompetitioncommentsthen you'll know |
how to deal with revisionism? | sethg: For the specific issue of the Holocaust, I believe the go-to anti-revisionist site on the Internet is the Nizkor Project:http://www.nizkor.org/ |
how to deal with revisionism? | mattchew: The only one I where I can confidently say the deniers are wrong is evolution theory . . . I can even run experiments . . .Maybe you have an excessive need for certainty. Most people who enjoy thinking about these sorts of issues at all are willing to come to a conclusion without running their own personal ... |
how to deal with revisionism? | hughprime: I suggest reading R. A. Lyttleton on the nature of knowledge:http://amasci.com/freenrg/bead.txtThe scientific attitude to adopt in regard to any hypothesis in my view
(and we are talking of subjective things,) can be represented schemat-
ically by means of a simple model of a bead that can be moved on a shor... |
how to deal with revisionism? | edgeztv: (Edited)To me the Holocaust is even more certain than evolution because I grew up with the stories of it from my grandparents. But if you don't have those stories in your family, you can also look at books, museums, photographs, eyewitness accounts. The sources for facts are endless.Being concerned about rev... |
Review my Startup -- MyPlenaryIndulgence.com | icey: 90 bucks for one of these things? I don't think so. |
Review my Startup -- MyPlenaryIndulgence.com | DanielStraight: LOfreakingL. |
What health insurance company do you use? | icey: It's in your best interest to contact a broker. They can advise you as to the best way to go and it doesn't cost you anything extra to use them. |
Review my webapp (LeadNuke.com) | nsrivast: http://www.leadnuke.com |
Review my Startup -- MyPlenaryIndulgence.com | andhapp: Sorry...I do not understand this really. What is this for? Why would I pay for it? I am missing somehting... |
Ask HN:How to focus on the best idea? | allenp: Personally I feel that hard work and determination are probably two of the most important things needed to really be successful. With that said...Sometimes you have to scratch the itch in order to focus. It might cost you a day or two, but if it helps you get back on track it is probably worth it rather than we... |
What's a Non-Programmer to do? | jonsteinberg: I'd point you to two posts, the first is about a role I call "Everything But Code"
http://jonsteinberg.com/post/67043520/everything-but-codeThe second is an extension of the idea, which I call Hackable Business Development.
http://jonsteinberg.com/post/170568831/hackable-business-dev...You can also handle... |
Review my Startup -- MyPlenaryIndulgence.com | chinmi: At first I thought it was a joke, and I found it pretty funny.But you're not joking, so now I'm just disturbed. |
Review my Startup -- MyPlenaryIndulgence.com | Derrek: Huh? What's the point? And what exactly would I receive in return for my $20? A PDF certificate stating some crap that I won't read.No thanks. I'll just create my own PDF docs using Old English font or whatever that was.And this might have actually been kind of funny if it was actually intended to be a joke... |
Is it "dirty" to have an "Import from [competitor]" feature? | timcederman: Gmail are a very obvious example of a large-scale product doing this. |
How much? | noodle: assuming that your .net and RoR app took less than a year to finish and you're not killing yourself with the hours (around 40/wk), it sounds like you're doing fine. |
How much? | ujjwalg: I think it will be easier to answer your questions if rather than providing the total amount, you provide $/hour in those time periods. |
Review my app: http://moogroups.com - Instant mailing groups | m0digital: URL: http://moogroups.com |
Can you spot the difference? | icey: Much ado about nothing. The demographics in Poland are not the same as the demographics in the US.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Poland#Ethnic_g... |
Recommend a Boston Area Technology Lawyer? | pg: Goodwin Procter. But they are not cheap. |
How much? | nailer: I billed at AUD 75/hour as a Windows admin when 17.Now GBP 550/day at 28 as a Linux architect and infrastructure software developer. |
How much? | Laurentvw: Just for the sake of giving us more information, would you be willing to compare your RoR app with a website I made a while ago.I got paid $500 to make http://www.solafcars.com (works in multiple languages, includes an admin panel, everything on the site is editable). I would assume your RoR app was much big... |
Can you spot the difference? | bgnm2000: This is hysterical. They forgot to photoshop his hand. |
Can you spot the difference? | pudo: Is that a MacBook in front of the man with the many faces(tm)? |
Can you spot the difference? | frossie: Clickable links:http://www.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/default.mspxhttp://www.microsoft.com/poland/businessproductivity/default... |
Review my app: http://moogroups.com - Instant mailing groups | icey: I think it looks pretty cool. I don't have a group I need to set up right now, so it makes it a little tough to really give it a run through.I'll definitely bookmark to check out later though. |
Can you spot the difference? | doki_pen: I think it's really funny that his hands are still brown. |
What's your least favorite tech word? Mine's "non-trivial". | bddbbdb: Tech/business jargon: "leverage" (when used as a verb)
anywhere: "utilize" (when used as a word) |
Ask HN:How to focus on the best idea? | joshu: Work on what you feel yourself drawn to the most. |
How much? | pmjordan: I've been trying to work this out for some months now, so apologies for piggy-backing onto this question:How do you actually achieve market prices?I'm aware that there are massive differences in how much you can charge based on location, but I still feel I'm hitting more resistance to my asking prices than I ... |
Can you spot the difference? | rokhayakebe: The guy in the middle is white then black. |
PHP as your secret sauce? | vdibart: Ooo, this is total flame war bait.....You're making a lot of assumptions about what a "modern" language is here, but I wont' dwell on that : ) Suffice it to say you should give PHP another look, particularly in the context of some of the PHP frameworks that are popular these days (e.g. CodeIgniter, Zend, Cake... |
How much? | larrykubin: Over the past few years, I've worked on quite a few PHP/MySQL/jQuery/Oracle webapps for clients. I've never worked on a plain HTML site or a Flash site, so I can't provide any stats there.Here are some of my stats - most projects I have worked on cost around 10-20k, average around 75-100 an hour, and take a... |
Computer Science Fundamentals | edu: Algorithms, complexity and data structures. Depending on the job, review some hw/networks things (I've been asked to fill a table with the OSI model). |
How to determine temperature of text? | mbrubeck: The usual approach for these problems is to admit that you don't know what the rules are, and instead train a statistical classifier based on some sample data:http://crm114.sourceforge.net/Depending on how hard your problem is, the accuracy of the classifier may not be very good. You can try to come up with ... |
Review my app: http://moogroups.com - Instant mailing groups | jaddison: Sounds like some aspects of Google Wave. Interesting idea - make it big before Google Wave is released and takes off, or you might have trouble gaining traction. ;)Good luck! |
Can you spot the difference? | tvon: They removed the Native American from both ads. |
Computer Science Fundamentals | mbrubeck: Some concrete things you can do to learn, just based on what I've found enjoyable and worthwhile:Solve some Project Euler problems, then read other solutions in the forums and try to implement some of the algorithms and optimizations you find there. This will force you to learn some basic algorithms and some... |
How much? | ujjwalg: Somehow I feel that this post was more about being boastful than anything else. |
How to determine temperature of text? | gdp: Well outside my field, but I believe this is a reasonably well-established problem in text processing/NLP, known as "Sentiment Analysis" -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysisMy very brief google scholar search on that key phrase turned up a whole lot of results that look like they may provide fairly con... |
Can you spot the difference? | jasonlbaptiste: There's no ninja in the second ad. He's there in the first, but we all know that you can't see ninjas. |
How much? | weirdwes: This has often been a hesitation of mine when being asked to do freelance projects. Before I took a web programming job, I had no formal training or experience so I always felt like I couldn't ask for high hourly rates because I wasn't confident enough in my work. After landing a job and doing it for a living... |
Can you spot the difference? | dtf: In the second one the chick's about to go fetch some coffees. |
Can you spot the difference? | nick007: microsoft sucks at photoshop |
How to determine temperature of text? | keefe: As other posters have said, it's a genuinely hard problem that touches on natural language quantification. You can find an excellent resource on the relationship between english words here http://wordnet.princeton.edu/. You could manually rank a set of adjectives and then use wordnet to find synonyms and generat... |
Computer Science Fundamentals | keefe: http://academicearth.org/subjects/computer-science These videos may be of use |
Can you spot the difference? | mkramlich: funny, but extremely not HN-worthy. let's just merge with Reddit/Digg and get it over with. :) |
Can you spot the difference? | blhack: From the reddit thread about the same thing: http://microlove.ytmnd.com/It is quite hilarious... |
How much? | z8000: Boy am I in the wrong business if these kids can knock out CRUD apps for $100K. |
How much? | utsmokingaces: damn I need to charge my clients more. |
How much? | tptacek: Here's a useful outside perspective:http://www.cartalk.com/content/columns/Archive/1999/October/... |
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