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What do you use for personal, offsite backup? | cperciva: I use tarsnap. (Also, I wrote tarsnap.)I feel bad about advertising my product here, so I'll stop there and let other HN readers tell you how fantastic tarsnap is. :-) |
How much? | SwellJoe: Not sure why you consider this such a touchy subject that you had to do it anonymously. Charging money for your services and skills is not a bad thing.I've rarely done software development contracting, but I spent several years as an IT contractor (with a lot of scripting, and simple web-based UI work to mak... |
What do you use for personal, offsite backup? | njharman: S3 |
Can you spot the difference? | fretlessjazz: Looks like they fixed it. Anybody got a mirror? |
What do you use for personal, offsite backup? | byoung2: MozySad but true story: I worked for a company that backed up email by printing them. They finally upgraded after a year of pleading...to a hard drive in a safe-deposit box at a bank down the street. And this was 2008! |
What do you use for personal, offsite backup? | spitfire: dotmac backup daily. (easy access)
rsync to a remote system daily. (long term archival)
An incremental DVD once a week, with monthly home folder backup. Copies stay here at my home and at an offsite.Only the physical backups actually take any effort from me. |
What do you use for personal, offsite backup? | esad: I don't know if they allow that, but I was thinking of getting one of the advertised-as-unlimited-storage dreamhost account and using rsync to do my backups. Anyone using this already? |
Can you spot the difference? | tvon: In case anyone is confused, this is what it looked like a few hours ago:http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/18264/mspoland.jpg |
Can you spot the difference? | dkokelley: The copyright dates are different! |
What do you use for personal, offsite backup? | yanowitz: crashplan. they just revamped their pricing too to have unlimited. way nicer client/more reliable for me than carbonite or mozy. but, of course, ymmv. we use them for production servers too. |
Can you spot the difference? | dkokelley: TC has the original images: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/25/marketing-decapitation-... |
What do you use for personal, offsite backup? | ja27: I wish I had a good solution. I try to upload all photos to a Flickr pro account but that's not a true backup.I periodically mirror files from home to a portable drive that I take to the office and dump onto a (Truecrypt encrypted) drive on a machine at work. That's my main backup system right now.I also use a fr... |
Can you spot the difference? | ratsbane: Does anyone else think it's odd that Microsoft's 404 page now redirects to Bing, using the path members as search terms? And if they were going to do that, why didn't they filter obvious stop words like "mspx"
http://www.microsoft.com/france/businessproductivity/default...
This discussion may be Reddit-worth... |
How much? | antidaily: I used to throw out numbers and almost always underbid. These days I ask for the budget, figure out how many hours that comes out to, and tell them what they get. I never give a number before the potential client tells me what they can spend. They know what they can afford so why play games? |
What do you use for personal, offsite backup? | timcederman: I left a Thecus box sitting attached to a net connection at my parents' place which tells dyndns.org where it is. Once a day my Mac Mini rsyncs to it. Inexpensive and hacker-simple. |
What do you use for personal, offsite backup? | bunni: Backblaze |
Can you spot the difference? | mshafrir: Microsoft apologizes for race-swap photo incidenthttp://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10317763-56.html |
What do you use for personal, offsite backup? | rarrrrrr: I founded SpiderOak in 2006: Zero-knowledge encrypted offsite backup and sync.It does intensive deduplication across your full data set, keeps historical versions and deleted files for as long as you like and supports all major platforms. You can use the GUI or cmdline/cron/launchd.2GB free, $10 per 100 GBs... |
What do you use for personal, offsite backup? | cdr: Tarsnap is probably the most "hackerish", but I use jungledisk and have been quite happy with it. |
PHP as your secret sauce? | planck: The language a website is written in is insignificant to its success. Outside of AND and OR, it's all syntax anyway. |
What do you use for personal, offsite backup? | moe: If the command line doesn't scare you then http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ may be worth a look. It uses PGP and supports incremental backup to S3.I'm personally a bit wary about the mass market backup providers like crashplan and such. Sure they all say their binary client will encrypt my data before sending it to th... |
What do you use for personal, offsite backup? | nolanbrown23: Jungle Disk. http://www.jungledisk.com/
It's great because it backups to S3 and it's cheap. |
Can you spot the difference? | flipper: I've been to Poland twice (Lodz) and didn't see any asian or black people at all, so I can only speculate that the asian man survived the 'cut' but the African-American did not because he would place the ad as being American.Here in Australia we often get commercials on television that are made in the US then ... |
What do you use for personal, offsite backup? | NoBSWebDesign: Backblaze. Very easy and well integrated into Mac OSX system preferences. |
Anyone using Compass CSS framework? | DanielStraight: Not yet, but it certainly looks compelling. |
Can you spot the difference? | qeorge: MS has acknowledged it and given a cookie cutter apology:http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10317763-56.htmlI'd imagine some design firm is getting a nasty call right about now... |
How many hackers are also fighters? | iterationx: I've done karate and shaolin kung fu and wushu. |
Can you spot the difference? | reticular: Just another reminder of the devastating disease that is vitiligo. |
Who is applying to YC Winter 2010? | zck: I applied to this past summer, but won't be applying this winter. I (and the people I applied with) graduated, and got jobs. Well, they did. For some reason, my resume must be screaming "don't hire". So no co-founder. Also, I can't seem to be happy with an idea, and "find a problem and ask if it can be fixed" does... |
What do you use for personal, offsite backup? | z8000: TimeMachine to an external USB drive (a WD Passport).Offsite? I put it in my bag with me when I leave. :) |
Who is applying to YC Winter 2010? | lukenstein: I have ideas/ I hope to be able to hammer then down to something that first I can fully envision not to mention others/ I, like zck, am not sure that my brain can come up with the needed 0/1's to make it work but also i hate the current position I am in and hope to make one of my ideas into something someda... |
Review my webapp (LeadNuke.com) | NoBSWebDesign: This is definitely a first. Is 0 comments a good thing or bad? Usually this site is great for its constructive criticism. |
How to determine temperature of text? | manch: Thank you all for your wonderful comments. I now have some concrete directions to look. I must say it is much harder than I initially thought.Are there companies employing any of these techniques to provide some service? This seems to be the next step up from keyword-based search. I remember seeing some startups... |
Who is applying to YC Winter 2010? | rrikhy: I'll be applying this winter. Have not applied yet, because I'm still racing out the MVP. |
What do you use for personal, offsite backup? | appl3star: Dropbox. Well, it´s an online and offline solution for me and my most valuable files no a Macbook Pro - since I get online access via getdropbox.com and I got an old PC (yes, a Windows XP PC) as a sync client for Dropbox on a second location. So if both machines fail: Online copy. And if Dropbox fails, I sti... |
Review my Startup -- MyPlenaryIndulgence.com | JohannTetzel: My Plenary Indulgence: http://www.myplenaryindulgence.com/ |
How much? | herrherr: In my 3 years of freelancing I have done quite a few websites (40+), but I never reached prices that were this high.Here are my rates. Btw I see no reason to post this anonymously. It's ok to charge money =)- HTML Website $1500+ (without design)- CMS $2200 - $12000 (without design)Normally I'm using fixed pri... |
What do you use for personal, offsite backup? | jpcx01: I initially tried Backblaze however it didnt play nice with Mac OSX forks and special files. I ended up using the somewhat overpriced "Twin" on mac. The cool thing about it is it can just upload to S3 (as well as sftp, external drive, etc). |
Review my Startup -- MyPlenaryIndulgence.com | JohannTetzel: I have expected more technical advice, but I understand your concern - the main question is how to make visitors actually take out their wallets and spend the money.I am not sure about lowering prices since that would make indulgences less exclusive.What do you think about annual subscription?
Or some kin... |
What do you use for personal, offsite backup? | vdibart: I've been using rsync.net (http://rsync.net/) for years. With your requirement to be able to encrypt, you can use a number of means since they are very flexible. One I've used is to have some/all of my files encrypted with TrueCrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/). This won't work for large data sets though, so... |
Review my app: http://moogroups.com - Instant mailing groups | growt: That concept is somewhere in my personal idea list. Now I can cross it out. Well done :) |
What do you use for personal, offsite backup? | skwiddor: I copy the data arenas to another machine and when they are full (500mb per arena) I burn them to cd.I us this script to copy the arenashttp://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/maht/rc/vbackupIt's slightly sloppy in that I could just append the unwritten bytes but for < 500mb who cares, its a 1gbe after all... |
Portrait vs. Landscape monitor setup. | ScottWhigham: Not I but I have seen folks who successfully use a mix of the two - their "main" being landscape and the monitor on the right or left (or both) being a portrait set up. |
Portrait vs. Landscape monitor setup. | mmt: Whenever I can, ever since I was spoiled by getting readable 80x60 on a "portrait" Ann Arbor Ambassador (which, being a hoarder, I still have) as a child.Nowadays, though, it's more about vertical resolution rather than aspect ratio, so a 2560x1600 isn't worth the effort to rotate, Given the choice, however, I'd r... |
Which language is better for fast web developping? | asimjalis: Why are you not happy with PHP? What dissatisfies you about it? |
Which language is better for fast web developping? | noodle: why don't you use a php framework? |
Which language is better for fast web developping? | biohacker42: For little web apps? Webpy. Or are your apps not so little? Then I've hard good things about pylons, but I'm not sure how fast to develop it is. Fast compared to learn, use, fast how? |
Which language is better for fast web developping? | peterhi: Given that you know and are happy with PHP then I would stick with it. There is no 'one size fits all' answer to this, I develop in Rails and Perl so I find them faster to use than PHP and Java (which I am also familier with).Other people find Java easier to use, it comes down to what you know.Just a point of ... |
Portrait vs. Landscape monitor setup. | nailer: Perhaps the popularity of landscape screens come from television, where there is usually more to be seen horizontally than vertically.Economies of scale would have made the CRTs cheap for use in computers, even though computers are usually used for documents rather than scenes. |
Steal my Ideas (or help me) | noodle: i like the golf course concept. drop me an email, i'd be willing to give it a shot |
Please Review my iPhone App (Use an External Keyboard to Send SMS) | adrinavarro: Clickable link: http://www.notap.it/ |
Please Review my iPhone App (Use an External Keyboard to Send SMS) | adrinavarro: IMHO, I find it useless. Maybe for long messages (splitted, >500chars) in East-European languages it's a good idea, but not for any Western European language (English, French, Spanish... yeah, it's maybe a little bit slower to write but not a pain, at all).Anyway, the whole process (open the app, write in ... |
Portrait vs. Landscape monitor setup. | adamtj: Unfortunately, turning a normal LCD on its side means you can't do sub-pixel anti-aliasing of fonts (at least in the horizontal direction, which is what you want.) |
What are the best developer/hacker focused blogs? | zkz: The best blogs for me, are those that are not for the great hacker public, but for smaller audiences. Blogs about mathematics, data mining, computer vision, and so on. Coding Horror, Spolsky and the alike only talk about generalities and aren't really useful to me. |
Steal my Ideas (or help me) | clistctrl: real time shopping is interesting |
What are the best developer/hacker focused blogs? | biotech: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ |
What are the best developer/hacker focused blogs? | bretthoerner: > I am sure we all read Coding Horror, Spolsky, Zed and HanselmanNot so much. |
What are the best developer/hacker focused blogs? | juliusdavies: I like Steve Yegge's archive, especially the original "internal amazon blog" (2004-2005): http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/blog-rantsPlanet Apache can be interesting (an aggregator of apache committers). Extreme variation in quality, but James Duncan Davidson and Sam Ruby and a few others make it all w... |
What are the best developer/hacker focused blogs? | g_: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=99426 |
What are the best developer/hacker focused blogs? | tsally: I don't have any specific blogs for you at the moment, but go with someone who is smart but unknown. Unknowns have to produce good content to stay afloat. At this point Coding Horror and Spolsky can get away with just about anything because of their success. It's too easy to assume that the big names are cor... |
Steal my Ideas (or help me) | johns: The golf one sounds easy, but most of those web sites are directly integrated with POS systems. A lot of courses buy it all together as a package. Plus the biggest golf course management software vendor in my area aggregates all the golf courses they serve into a single web site, so you only have one account.Als... |
What are the best developer/hacker focused blogs? | cruise02: Currently in my RSS reader:* Coding the Wheel - http://www.codingthewheel.com/* Good Math, Bad Math - http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/* Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP - http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/* Polymath Programmer - http://polymathprogrammer.com/* The Endeavor - http://www.johndcook.com/blog/* Programmi... |
What are the best developer/hacker focused blogs? | peterbraden: What I do is use sites like Hacker news to discover other sites - if I like a story, I'll check the rest of the site to see if the author writes consistently good stuff, and if so subscribe.I've found a lot of cool stuff that way. |
Steal my Ideas (or help me) | dminor: The shopping thing seems ripe for fraud. Put in a fake order, get a discount. |
What are the best developer/hacker focused blogs? | atlei: Misc daily links:- http://www.arjansworld.com- http://jasonhaley.com/blog/default.aspx |
Steal my Ideas (or help me) | DanHulton: Problem you'll run into with scanning bar codes displayed on mobile phones - it won't work. In general, barcode scanners can't scan digital screens for barcodes. |
Steal my Ideas (or help me) | tierack: I used to work for a online golf tee time company, and you're absolutely correct in saying that building a better online reservation system wouldn't be that hard (the bar is pretty low). I'm not sure about what smaller providers give the course, or how they charge, but the bigger ones also:1) Provide a 24-hou... |
hosted time tracking tools for distributed teams? | eatenbyagrue: We use TickSpot.com with a team of 50. Nice UI, good basecamp integration is a plus for us, and has an API for custom stuff. |
What are the best developer/hacker focused blogs? | tgittos: Two I have in my reader:Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP - http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/Igvata - http://www.igvita.com/ (Ruby based, sometimes too terse) |
Steal my Ideas (or help me) | Cantdog: One More Idea: A super simple dating mobile app. Your profile consists of a picture of yourself and the question , "Ask me about....?", filled in. There would be a list of bars organized by cities and people could choose to share which bar they were at. Potential suitors could browse all the singles at a bar a... |
What are the best developer/hacker focused blogs? | GeneralMaximus: I enjoy DadHacker a lot, partly because I enjoy anecdotes, but mostly because Landon writes extremely well and seems like a nice guy without an agenda (unlike Joel and friends). I also used to read _why's blog from time to time before he vanished.Mostly I just follow HN and proggit. I'm not very big on ... |
Steal my Ideas (or help me) | icey: We've been seeing a lot of these idea threads lately. Maybe someone should make an "I have an idea" site :DIt would be nice to have a page per idea, plus commenting, and maybe some sections for research (other competitors in the area, probable market sizes, etc).If I had unlimited funds, I always thought it would... |
Client Risk Assessment on Startups | ScottWhigham: Interesting - may I ask what line of business you are in? |
What are the best developer/hacker focused blogs? | jodrellblank: Raymond Chen's very Windows focused The Old New Thing - http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/ |
Steal my Ideas (or help me) | jamesbritt: Some years back I was occasionally involved with the OTA (Open Travel alliance), and ended up attending a meeting to discuss specs. Along with a largely enterprisey view of XML, I was amazed by the amount of attention given to defining markup to handle golf tee times.I'd worked in hotels for many years by ... |
What are the best developer/hacker focused blogs? | judofyr: http://hackety.org/…Oh, damn :( |
Who is applying to YC Winter 2010? | stuntmouse: interested in applying. need to find co-founders. know c, c++, c#. familiar with lisp, scheme, java. currently living in la. |
Steal my Ideas (or help me) | mseebach: I have an idea that's related to (4) - actual last minute flight deals.You go to the airport you want to travel from, and go to a "last minute" lounge, preferably behind security. Then, every time a flight is about to leave that has empty seats, the seats appear in an auction (available on smartphone devices ... |
Offsite backup, BUT without local copy of the data (with catalog)? | wmf: I don't quite understand the use case. Do you want to backup data and then delete the local copy? I think that's more like archiving than backup, and it's not clear to me what "incremental" even means in that case. Or do you intend to keep your 1 TB of live data, but you don't want the backup tool to use any addit... |
What are the best developer/hacker focused blogs? | arthurk: Information Aesthetics - http://infosthetics.com/The Frontal Cortex - http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/ |
What are the best developer/hacker focused blogs? | keyist: Sites I like from my feeds, aiming for variety:* Joseph Miklojcik (emacs, lisp, languages) http://jfm3-repl.blogspot.com/* Mauricio Fernández (functional, with ocaml focus) http://eigenclass.org/R2/* Colin Percival (tarsnap, freebsd security) http://www.daemonology.net/blog/* Matthew Garrett (mobile linux, powe... |
Rate this startup | hajrice: It took me 1 second to leave the website. The design is just horrible(with all due respect :D). I suggest you make the website with a simple statement, I want to know what the hell this website does without having to read all the text.My suggestion is that you grab yourself a neat "Coming Soon page" from a tem... |
What are the best developer/hacker focused blogs? | brianto2010: pkrumins has an especially enriching bloghttp://catonmat.net |
Steal my Ideas (or help me) | jdoe: Idea time!Another one: A mobile geo-aware "hot-or-not" site/app for fashionistas:1. go to shop x
2. grab the prettiest/craziest/sexiest clothes you can find
3. get into a booth
4. take a phonecam pic of self thru the mirror
5. upload and show to online crowd
6. let the voting commence
7. instant feedback fo... |
hosted time tracking tools for distributed teams? | generalk: We're using Harvest. I don't handle the administrative end, but from a usability standpoint it's pretty awesome:http://www.getharvest.com |
Steal my Ideas (or help me) | loganfrederick: Idea #2 is definitely already being explored. I know of a couple CS students at Ohio State who are trying to build similar features for the university online and on mobile phones. |
Can you Recommend a good Recommendation Engine? | yan: http://www.directededge.com |
Portrait vs. Landscape monitor setup. | l0nwlf: Landscape - Movies, Surfing
Portrait - Coding
However I have 1 22'' monitor which I use parallely with my MBP as a landscape view. However if I could hack to to use portrait view, i would be more than happy. Any tips ? |
Can you Recommend a good Recommendation Engine? | keefe: This project seems shockingly ambitious. I think anything that you get, you will have to write quite a bit of manual stuff for your specific use cases. I think quite a lot of work has gone into the Netflix Prize and the discussion of this has a lot of useful points. Also, did you check academic research on cites... |
What are the best developer/hacker focused blogs? | icey: I can't believe raganwald's homoiconic hasn't been mentioned yet:http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/tree/master |
Can you Recommend a good Recommendation Engine? | rw: This is a blatant "hey can I crowdsource my duties?" kind of question. If they suggested something and you've never heard of it, you could look it up. |
Rate this startup | pedalpete: I completely agree with the comments on design, but ignoring that for now.I'm not completely sure you've done the best job explaining what you are doing.'So you don't have to mess with your browser in the heat of a conversation', my first thought is 'So instead, i have to mess with this other application, do... |
Portrait vs. Landscape monitor setup. | hkuo: Went portrait about a year ago and I ain't looking back. http://www.flickr.com/photos/10026788@N00/3478203761/in/phot...
Landscape is for video. Portrait is for data. And 99.9% of my day is looking at data (aka web pages, word documents, spreadsheets, tweetdeck, email) |
Diskless or Diskful | dryicerx: Diskless is great if your base OS image is constantly being modified/tweaked like crazy, and you wouldn't be able to accomplish the same thing by running a shell script at boot that was pulled remotely (each node having a standard shell).The downside of going diskless is you are trading off valuable memory fo... |
Can you Recommend a good Recommendation Engine? | sidmitra: >"they get all the data related to being a cheif including how to take care of burns, fires, or things like that that don't necessarily have the word cook in it"This seems almost impossible to pull off, unless you can tap into some dataset that already links cooking to burns etc. |
State of the art in simulated browsing? | gtani: http://developer.spikesource.com/wiki/index.php/Projects:Tes...http://wtr.rubyforge.org/http://seleniumhq.org/http://ssscripting.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/dont-be-afraid-t...http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-aj-doh/inde... |
Steal my Ideas (or help me) | karanbhangui: I'm working on idea #2 along with other location aware services for mobile browsers. The domain I've picked up so far is http://this.st (standing for This Street); figured it'd be easy to type on a phone. One of the services is going to cater to schools, starting with mine (University of Waterloo). MIT ha... |
Rate my idea | zaidf: Just do it! |
Rate my idea | dryicerx: I think it's a brilliant idea.The technology is definitely there using flash it self to stream the video down, and flash does support capturing video well so pushing it upstream is also there, but the technical challenge that's making it hard is the latency issue and the bandwidth requirement server side (you... |
Diskless or Diskful | CyberFonic: I have several disk-less clusters. They work very well for multiple test environments. I have a bunch of older boxen with only 100Mbit eNet and the file servers use gigE. My configuration uses bootp & PxE. For even better performance you may want to look at iSCSI, FCoE or ATA over Ethernet (AoE) I prefer... |
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