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Best code editor? | hamidp: Visual Studio + viemu for vi keybindings. The sum of the two is far greater. |
How do I sell my expensive niche software w/ no sales background? | mahmud: You're standing on a good industry podium, least you could do is have an email address in your profile. You never know who might be able to sell your software for you on a commission.Don't hesitate to shoot me an email :-) |
What accelerated your understanding of how the world works? | iterationx: Introducing NLP - Joseph O'Connor, John Seymour,
Propaganda - Edward Bernays,
Tragedy & Hope - Quigley,
Evolution of Civilizations - Quigley,
911: The Road to Tyranny - Alex Jones,
New Order of Barbarians,
AA-1025 |
smallest sensible (micro-)payment? | cperciva: It's not exactly the same thing, but tarsnap works on a pre-pay model with a minimum payment of $5 (and then bills people for their backup usage in attodollars).Given that some people make larger payments than the minimum amount, this keeps the payment processing costs down to a reasonable level (slightly und... |
How to get a job in a tough market? | byoung2: I suppose that like approaching a VC firm, it usually helps to have a personal introduction. If you have a friend at a tech company, have him pass along your resume to the recruiter. If you were in LA, I could hand your resume to a recruiter at my company on Monday and you could start next week. If you emai... |
Best code editor? | merrick33: Coda love it, used to use textmate |
smallest sensible (micro-)payment? | byoung2: The credits system is a good way to go, because you can get people to spend more when it doesn't feel like real money (a la Microsoft Points). Amazon Payments provides an easy way to do it too: https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business?sn=devfps/agg... |
How do I sell my expensive niche software w/ no sales background? | njl: My partner and I built a product, and we're currently selling to higher ed. He's been selling to higher ed for seven or eight years now, and I've been peripherally involved in selling to higher ed for four or five. I'd love a chance to chat about it, and my email is in my profile.Without knowing more details, your... |
Best code editor? | joe_bleau: Codewright. Very satisfied (since '01!). Too bad Borland killed it.Ultraedit isn't bad, but it's not in quite the same class as Codewright. |
How to get a job in a tough market? | paul9290: Thanks!I started looking beginning of this month. After a week or two of sending resume into what felt like a black hole, I thought to use Facebook to find employees who listed they worked there; companies Fan page is best place to look. From there I looked for mutual friends we may have in common. This s... |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | jsares: I've used both on Windows before and also use Cygwin. |
How to get a job in a tough market? | teej: Is it really a tough market? I worked for a marketing & web-design firm in Baltimore, and they were readily hiring and growing when I left.You can try this "hack" that my friend tried to land a job a few years ago. He scraped craigslist job listings in his area, plugged them into a script that took the job requ... |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | pwmanagerdied: Could someone explain the interest/value of this post to me? I'm not familiar with anything that would significantly distinguish them. |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | mhansen: Putty, with a cygwin patch. Works fine, only gripe with it is I can't press Windows+Left and have it take up the left half of the screen. It just refuses to resize.The windows terminal is just horrible.I tried Console2 but it was buggy as hell, froze all the time, and the transparency made it lag. |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | makecheck: On the Mac, I use MacTelnet, even as a local terminal. It has an almost ridiculous number of features (compared to Terminal.app or iTerm, anyway), and is very configurable. The main problems are that it is mainly vt100/partial-xterm, and is a beta.On Linux or Solaris, I use "aterm". It works as well as xt... |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | jcromartie: Terminal.app as of OS X 10.5 is my favorite terminal. I like to use rxvt under Cygwin. |
13" laptop for gaming under $1k? | daphoenix: i'm sure we'll see decent 13" gaming laptops under 1k when nvidia releases ION 2 at the end of this fiscal year. |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | graywh: Xterm. |
How to get a job in a tough market? | mahmud: Instead of sending your resume to strangers, look at your current mobile phone and any other cellphones you have used in the last 5 years; go through the address books and call everyone you find there to "catch up". Invite as many of them as you can for a brunch, coffee or drinks and tell everyone you're lookin... |
Best code editor? | icey: My guilty pleasure is editpad pro on xp.I should be using other editors, but I always end up using it whenever I'm on a windows box. |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | DanHulton: Yakuake. Man, I <3 that so much. Being able to Meta+~ and just have a terminal window right freaking there? Heaven.Plus, I set up a few hotkeys SHIFT+LEFT/RIGHT to move between sessions. SHIFT+DOWN/UP for create/close session. Makes it very easy to do things. |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | shadytrees: rxvt-unicode with its Perl API [1] and rather amazing list of Perl extensions [2] on Linux OSes, puttycyg on Cygwin. (I recommend puttycyg if you've been using rxvt on Cygwin. Being able to type Unicode characters is an amazingly exhilarating experience, especially if you're lonely.)[1]: http://pod.tst.eu/h... |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | slig: iTerm, on tiger. |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | sielskr: Gnome Terminal because of its text smoothing (and because it adheres to a set of human interface guidelines). |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | mickt: Guake, which provides a Quake like terminal and quick and easy access to a terminal using the F12 key. Plus, it supports anti-aliased fonts and multiple tabs.
http://trac.guake-terminal.org/On my Mac at work I use Visor.
http://docs.blacktree.com/visor/visor |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | warp: I prefer Terminal.app, mostly because it uses the OS native keys for copy/paste (cmd-c, cmd-v). On windows I use putty which has keyboard paste on Shift-Insert. On linux I use gnome-terminal which has keyboard copy/paste on Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V. (I should stop using all three of these operating system... |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | bdwalter: xterm |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | tdziuba: Terminator. Fuck yeah. |
How do I sell my expensive niche software w/ no sales background? | tdziuba: You don't. Accept your failure, go out and get a job. |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | barrkel: Rxvt, normally on Cygwin. If I had more use for Unicode in practice, I'd use urxvt on non-Cygwin.Also, when ssh into remote boxes, I often use screen, which effectively ends up being a pretty crappy terminal - major failure mode is loss of scrollback buffer, Ctrl-A ESC notwithstanding. |
Best code editor? | synnik: Butterflies. |
Best code editor? | JimmyL: Depends on what I'm doing, and in what language. For Java/Python projects, Eclipse (with appropriate plugins). For Ruby, jedit. For one-file shots, Notepad++. For live editing of remote files - which I shouldn't be doing - E or WinSCP.Ultimately, I don't think IDEs are something for which we can determine a "be... |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | blasdel: On Windows I use MinTTY -- it is basically perfect on that platform. It's bizarre how ridiculously terrible every other windows tty is: simple shit like text selection, copy-paste, window resizing, fonts, etc. is universally missing.I only discovered it due to my boss' "install everything" cygwin policy, as it... |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | bwhite: Emulator? Oh, you must be using one of those newfangled windowing subsystems. Hm. It's a fad I tell you, just a passing fad.(Actual answer: aterm for the transparency feature.) |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | apu: konsole. It's so much better than the gnome-terminal (monitor for silence/activity rules!).Actually, in recent years, it seems like gnome has gotten harder and harder to use for an expert in all aspects...I occasionally have to work on a gnome machine and it's pure hell trying to figure out how to get simple stuff... |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | sykora: I used to use konsole, because it was default with KDE. After some time I made a conscious effort and switched to rxvt-unicode, or urxvt. It's a great terminal emulator, once you've got it configured, but that process can be tough. The documentation for the really cool stuff has also been a tad incomplete for m... |
How do I sell my expensive niche software w/ no sales background? | jonah: It sounds like you've been benefiting from referrals already. Don't give that up. Academics talk to each other you know. They also go to conferences. You might consider attending.I do a lot of work for clients in the apparel industry and it's all been referral. I also try to go to the bit seasonal shows in Las V... |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | Xichekolas: I use http://www.xfce.org/projects/terminal/ because it's simple and it works. |
Best code editor? | lbolognini: Sublime Text Editor |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | fix3r: xterm bundled with Leopard.It supports 256 colors and is very fast. Terminal.app only for quick sessions. If only X11 fullscreen feature worked properly... (should probably try the latest build of XQuartz) |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | yangyang: What's next then?What OS do you use? What Linux dist? What web browser?! |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | nailer: Poderosa. Tabbed terminal for Windows. Has some bugs, but much more reliable than PuttyCM (the tabbed Putty wrapper). |
Rate my Product : QueryCell | samh: Clickable Linkshttp://www.querycell.com/welcome.htmlhttp://www.querycell.com |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | christefano: iTerm for OS X is fantastic. I like the custom keyboard profiles, full screen mode and appearance niceties (like tab styles and being able to hide the scrollbar). An especially great feature is the multiple tab input mode. Not too long ago I ssh'd into 3 new servers for three separate clients and did essen... |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | yu: Putty mostly. Dated? though TeraTerm has/had good out of the box DEC, HP, IBM terminal emulation; customer engagements. |
Rate my Product : QueryCell | spooneybarger: I don't use windows or excel but if i did, i would be getting interested in QueryCell. I am going to pass the url along to people I know who do.Does QueryCell work when excel is being run on a non-windows OS via wine? ( I assume not, but if it does, I know more people who might be interested ).--Also, th... |
Rate my Product : QueryCell | smicallef: Brilliant idea. There have been so many times where I've been in Excel thinking "if only I could run SQL on this."Only thing to concern yourself with now is how long before Microsoft implements this in Excel?P.S. Great to hear an Aussie accent in a demo video! |
Rate my Product : QueryCell | tzury: Nice,
However, a question raised in my mind.
Are you targeting Excel's power users, such as analysts and accountants or software developers?Since "standard" users are not going to learn SQL your market is narrowed to developers only.You may add a GUI based Query-Builder such as can be found in MS Acess and MSSq... |
Rate my Product : QueryCell | samh: Thanks for the feedback all.@smicallefYes the idea of Microsoft proving a similar functionality is scary, but I feel a little bit like "if they were going to do it they would have done it", also they have access to protect. But maybe I am in for an unpleasant suprise, certainly a risk.@tzuryYes there is an inter... |
Rate my Product : QueryCell | acangiano: You have a million dollar idea in your hands. If you get the promotion and customer care right, you'll be very successful. Especially if you incorporate tzury's idea. There are countless departmental "applications" that use Excel, and being able to query data directly solves a problem that many encounter at ... |
Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles | asmega: depends on your field. eg IEEE, ACM for computer science. If you're at uni use the library resources |
Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles | ftse: I find a good app helps... Papers for OS X is an excellent interface to repositories such as ArXiv, PubMed etc. There is also an iPhone version which will download articles direct over the air. |
Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles | bedris: Papers is a great application for searching multiple article repositories and organizing your collection of journal papers.http://mekentosj.com/papers/ |
Upgrade to FF 3.5 or will I regret it? | Jem: My biggest bugbear with 3.5 is that it can't seem to handle multiple username/password combinations on one site, even if the cookie info differs. That is, if I use the username "Jem" twice on one site with different passwords for each, one will always try to overwrite the other.I also have issues with it automatic... |
Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles | peoplerock: I've noticed some of same issues with http://scholar.google.com ...It seems great if i'm trying to locate a specific article or ref by title or author ...and has in fact helped me at least get the exact citation for very obscure dissertations, conference papers, etc. But it's proved so helpful for search ... |
Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles | Maro: http://arxiv.orgGoogle with site:arxiv.org |
Upgrade to FF 3.5 or will I regret it? | nopassrecover: Do you have a monitor that requires a custom colour profile? If so, then you may be unhappier with 3.5.Otherwise, totally worth it. |
Rate my Product : QueryCell | nfriedly: It looks like a really great product, I might personally find some use for it.When you're generating the table names, I think naming the table after the sheet it's on might be more intuitive than a single letter, especially when there's only one data range per sheet. |
Rate my Product : QueryCell | sfphotoarts: "87 rows in 3 seconds" - performance could be a problem. Last time i used Excel I thought that you can already run sql on the data and if you need to really do that sort of thing you'd just export to sqlserver and do it there. I think this idea is the wrong market. Those that know sql will use sql against ... |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | ertug: rxvt-unicode along with urxvt daemon (or urxvtd). No smoothing or transparency.A good companion to xmonad. |
Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles | sidmitra: For arranging your personal collection of papers, you might look at Mendeley.For searching papers, look at CiteULike |
Rate my Product : QueryCell | christofd: Seconded - this is a million dollar idea! Well defined niche, great product, very useful, very catchy name and branding (totally straight forward) - can't get any better than this.Not sure how hard it is to create a Mac OS X version as well, but that would probably not be the initial target audience. |
Upgrade to FF 3.5 or will I regret it? | mogston: Are you on Mac or PC?My decision to move was largely based on FireBug and ColorZilla supporting 3.5. The fact that they both do made this a no-brainer for me. The increase in speed and stability is well worth it.If you still can't make up your mind, why don't you install both versions on the same computer? |
Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles | simon_kun: Basically, you need 2 things.1) A better search interface and reference manager. If you are on OSX, Papers by Mekentosj is a fantastic option.
2) A citation search engine aggregator specific to your field. Something like Web of Science/knowledge is one of the best for my field, but I need to go via a Uni/lar... |
Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles | MattF: I've always used CiteSeer for my computer vision research:http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/I don't know how it rates for other fields though. |
Rate my Product : QueryCell | 3pt14159: I'm going to try it at work on Monday. If I like it, I'll buy it. You don't know how many times I've had to export a csv to do some sql on it, then import it back into excel. |
Rate my Product : QueryCell | caffeine: Feature Idea: Compile to "Vlookup" or compile to VBA.In other words: I build a spreadsheet with QueryCell, but I want people who don't have QueryCell to be able to use it.So I hit "Compile", and the program generates standard formulas using hlookup/vlookup and/or VBA so that the spreadsheet works for those wh... |
Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles | craigs: Two alternatives you could check out:
http://www.scitopia.org/scitopia/
http://scirus.com/srsapp/ |
Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles | caffeine: To be honest, part of it is the knack of finding the right keywords. Some ideas I use:- Hit up Google Books / Amazon for SIP (Statistically improbable phrases) related to your topic. These are useful.- Add a bunch of +[Author name] keywords into scholar in order to get papers that cite certain people. Even... |
Review http://browserpop.com | brk: I like the concept, have wanted to do something myself for quite some time (my process only went as far as registering a URL).I don't like the idea of this as a list that is basically just a webpage though. It needs to be more "integrated", at least as a separate window that can popup to open links in the main br... |
Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles | p47: For medicine/biology http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.During studies I used EBSCO www.search.ebscohost.com , there is almost every field, from Astronautics to Zoology :-), but access to some resources is limited. |
Upgrade to FF 3.5 or will I regret it? | firefoxman1: I'm somewhat disappointed with firefox 3.5. Does anyone else have the bug where it times out randomly when trying to load a page? I looked it up and a lot of people with Netgear routers have the same problem. |
Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles | Estragon: What's your field? Google scholar works great for me. (Mostly genetics and bioinformatics.) |
Review http://browserpop.com | adityakothadiya: Clickable - http://browserpop.com |
Rate my Product : QueryCell | maxklein: What I would need would be a simple way to auto-update some cells based off an SQL query on the rest of the data. Can your tool do this? |
Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles | yarapavan: www.citeulike.org - one more alternative |
Rate my Product : QueryCell | paul9290: Good idea.You might want to get a professional PSD designer to sharpen the overall look. It has a template like look for design, though for this concept design might not be as important as selling it's functionality.Good luck! |
Startups in DC? | jaddison: I can't help you re: your DC startup search, but I'll vote for you because of your OT comment. Well done. ;) |
Startups in DC? | astine: Hmm, I'm from the DC area, but I don't personally know of any startups that are highering at the moment.There was a group of HN readers that meet a couple of times, but I don't know what's happend to that.You can find some tech events: http://www.dctechevents.com/ and I'm sure that there is more.There is a lot ... |
Review http://browserpop.com | PStamatiou: So is it like a page you can create with your favorite links and such? (i'm not sure, havent made an account). Have you seen http://start.io/ - sounds like the same space |
Startups in DC? | gms: Do you have to move to DC? Because it's very much the wrong place for what you're looking for. |
Startups in DC? | bscofield: LaunchBox Digital is a DC-area incubator along the lines of YC and TechStars - you could try connecting with them to see if they know of any startups looking for devs. If that fails, I could also connect you with my CEO (I work for Viget Labs, which is headquartered near DC); he knows most of the people in t... |
What terminal emulator do you use ? | iterationx: eterm is kinda fun
http://www.enlightenment.org/ |
How do I sell my expensive niche software w/ no sales background? | NoBSWebDesign: I am in a very similar situation as you are. We have a very niche product that we sell to higher-ed. We sell it as a subscription model, which we allow them to pay X years upfront with a contract so that it more closely resembles a fixed-cost product to better fit their budgets.As far as cold-calling goe... |
Rate my Product : QueryCell | sr3d: This is awesome! Love the idea and the implementation looks really slick too. I had to work on a huge excel file before (like 400,000 rows) and I so wished to have an add-on to run a simple SELECT query.Congrats on the bold move. I am in the same boat -- just quit my job last Friday and will be working on my s... |
How to get a job in a tough market? | NoBSWebDesign: This really isn't a tough market to get into, as long as you have the experience and portfolio to back up your skills. As many people as are in it right now, the market is still booming. I do a lot of sub-contracting (I'm better at B2B sales than B2C), and one of the biggest problems I see isn't getting ... |
Rate my Product : QueryCell | NoBSWebDesign: This looks really cool, I would definitely be one of your target market if I still worked at my job (which I quit half a year ago to focus on my own startup). I now use Apple iWork 09 almost exclusively, so as soon as you come out with a Numbers version, please let us know! |
Upgrade to FF 3.5 or will I regret it? | pasbesoin: I've been wondering about the status (posed here, I guess I mean generally speaking) of extension support. |
Startups in DC? | nolanbrown23: My company was part of LaunchBox Digital '09 class and I can say there is definitely a startup scene in DC but it's in the early stages. There are some great events like TechCocktail that highlight companies in the area that you can look to hook up with. As for a job, you should be able to find one with r... |
Startups in DC? | luigi: There's Social Matchbox, which recently held an event:http://www.socialmatchbox.com/Some good links on their site.There's also the Startup Rockstars:http://startuprockstars.com/Which holds the next event on Sept. 9. |
Review http://browserpop.com | hedgehog: Also scratching a browser-related itch: http://pagestackandroid.appspot.com/Bookmarklets that make it easy to bounce pages between devices (similar to Instapaper but with an Android client & a more streamlined UI). |
Review http://browserpop.com | sheriff: My first instinct is that I can get 80% of the way there with a tag in my Delicious account. The other 20% would be in a UI that was really geared towards being a home page. As a result, it'd be great if folks could try out the interface without having to sign up first. No reason you can't let people add a ... |
Review http://browserpop.com | lkozma: I made something like this a few years ago, although much simpler and with public links. Batch opening of links sounds like a good idea.http://www.lkozma.net/links |
Startups in DC? | eli: Net2DC (http://www.net2dc.com/) focuses on non-profits, but they're affiliated with http://affinitylab.com/ which is home to several very early-stage startups.In the past, I've also seen several Dupont-area startups hiring on Craigslist. I assume you've already looked there?And maybe it would help to narrow your s... |
Upgrade to FF 3.5 or will I regret it? | pedalpete: I've had consistent issues with 3.5 crashing. I attributed it to firebug, but am not sure.
Have you seen this from TechCrunch?
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/08/i-want-to-love-firefox-... |
Startups in DC? | daveambrose: I went to school in DC for four years and moved to Manhattan with my roommate (now co-founder) to start our company. At the time, the tech scene wasn't really alive and well (this was 2006-2007), but I've seen more of my friends enter the field with more consumer-facing companies - rather than those startu... |
Startups in DC? | icey: DC is a tough town for startups. You may be able to dig through In-Q-Tel's investment list for some options though:http://www.iqt.org/technology-portfolio/index-alphabetical.h... |
Startups in DC? | drcode: I'm a DCer and there are a few startups (My startup isn't hiring anyone in the DC area right now though)I recommend attending a techcocktail event http://techcocktail.com/home/2009/01/30/tech-cocktail-dc-4/or keeping up with Gary's Guide DC http://dc.garysguide.org/ |
How do you get things done in hourlong intervals? | kirubakaran: http://smacklet.com/ |
Startups in DC? | Perceval: When I was in college, I interned for a DARPA spinoff out in Reston, VA. I assume you're not looking solely for startups physically in DC. If you are, I'm not sure you're going to find much. Most of the tech community is out in Northern Virginia, in and around Reston. Look there. |
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