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What does your room look like? | jrockway: My desk looks like this:http://disk.jrock.us/bingo/public/random/desk.jpgBasically monitor + model m + tea == happiness. |
Secret military technology as groundbreaking as the tank and airplane were | gaius: Facial recognition by satellite is probably impossible. The Rayleigh formula states : angular resolution = (1.22 * wavelength) / diameter of lens.
Now I don't know what altitude a spy satellite is at, so let's say 100 miles == 160,000 metres. Let's also say that you need a resolution of 1cm in order to reco... |
What does your room look like? | pavelludiq: I basically have dishes and soda bottles all around me. Thats why there's tomato sauce on my keyboard. But my room is pretty clean, no junk on the floor, just some dishes at my desk and some clothes on my bed. I like my floor to be clean and i like to have a lot of open space in my room, so all my stuff is ... |
Secret military technology as groundbreaking as the tank and airplane were | noonespecial: FTA:
"I'd love to go through the details, but I'm not going to," Woodward replied.
The details, Woodward says, would compromise the program. This clearly indicates that it is not like the airplane and tank. The difference is that with the airplane and tank, even when you know the enemy has them, you're st... |
Secret military technology as groundbreaking as the tank and airplane were | DanielBMarkham: Let's not. |
Secret military technology as groundbreaking as the tank and airplane were | hopeless: Actually, it's probably more along the lines of the Future Soldier initiative -- maybe a viable exoskeleton or an advance in materials towards that end. |
Recommend a server co in Europe | wlievens: hosteurope.de is very cheap and has excellent VPS deals. |
What does your room look like? | mattmichielsen: http://twitpic.com/5rom |
What does your room look like? | LogicHoleFlaw: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/830/820/1024/IMG_0381.jpgThat's a bit outdated, but it gets the idea across. Though, currently the desk is covered in mail which needs to be sorted and filed. |
Secret military technology as groundbreaking as the tank and airplane were | utnick: Large scale satellite video recording of the major parts of Iraq?So lets say a car bomb blows up at somewhere, you can then rewind and track the driver of said car bomb over the past couple of months. |
Secret military technology as groundbreaking as the tank and airplane were | delackner: We can only hope it is not space-based, as China, Russia, and the US are already dangerously close to a new arms race into orbit. |
Secret military technology as groundbreaking as the tank and airplane were | hs: Despite these military improvements, the largest empire ever was built on bow+arrow ... and such barbaric nation lasted for centuries |
ASK HN: Can we run a Mac OS as a VMware appliance ? | st3fan: a Mac Mini is probably cheaper than a VMWare + OS X license :-) |
Making money on Facebook with ads? | furiouslol: Most of the really profitable FB apps incorporate some form of virtual currency system. Fluff friends is one. |
Making money on Facebook with ads? | sfamiliar: i listened to quite a few presentations from fb game developers at w2e a few months ago. they are largely ad-revenue driven. powerchallenge is making $8m. friends for sale makes around $1m. yeah, ad revenue is viable. |
ASK HN: Can we run a Mac OS as a VMware appliance ? | wmf: There is a "Hackintosh" VMware image, but you didn't hear that from me. Just buy a Mac mini.(Mac zealots, cue complaints about "iPhone carpetbaggers".) |
ASK HN: Can we run a Mac OS as a VMware appliance ? | thomasswift: You have a device right? |
Any NW Ohio Hackers? | pius: I spend a fair amount of time in NE Ohio and Western PA (probably 10-30% of the year). |
Any NW Ohio Hackers? | brentr: Drop me an email. The address is in my profile. |
Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job | bdfh42: First read your contract of employment - you might find that you do not "own" your ideas while employed (this might be location dependent). Does not stop you thinking and working of course but will require some effort to ensure that any "inventions" are deniable. |
Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job | maxklein: The best way to do it is to make a modular design and hire people to work on it. Every day, you review the code they wrote for an hour. Otherwise you will hardly have the time for work, startup AND wife. Plan carefully, use the money from your job to create your idea and then launch small. |
Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job | dazzawazza: I've done this before (and it wasn't successful btw but ymmv)* dedicate x hours a day for a specific time period (say 8pm-12pm) every day.* Let friends and family know that they can help by
leaving you alone during this time* make sure you still get enough sleep.* use your lunch period at work to plan your... |
Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job | puzzle-out: Give up the day job. |
Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job | vaksel: just don't launch while still employed like that mob wars guy |
Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job | ojbyrne: Find a place other than work or home to work on the side job. School library, coffee shop, something like that. |
Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job | truebosko: Great question. I'm currently "struggling" with this exact issue. I have a great day job which I put a lot of focus into but after hours I really want to focus on my other projects (and still have a life).I agree with a lot of what dazzawazza said, but here's some more- Along with dedicating x hours of time ... |
Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job | shafqat: I worked on NewsCred for 6 months while keeping my day job. I'm glad I did that - we weren't obsessed with time to market. If you are or have a product that is dependent on getting out there immediately because of 100s of competitors, then you probably should give up your day job (and find a new idea?!). But m... |
Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job | mishmax: I've been in this situation for six months or so and it worked well for me.My best advice is to surround yourself with people who are excited about your product and can give you feedback.In my case, I had a customer who was very excited about the product, technical peers who I would bounce ideas off of, and a ... |
Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job | iamelgringo: * Pay off your bills so you don't have so many financial pressures. I've spent the last few years paying off debt and getting ready to start my business. That way the barrier for me to quit my main job and work at my own company is a lot lower.* Talk with your employer to see if you can flex your time. ... |
Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job | fallentimes: This is really hard to do. Quitting my job and working on http://ticketstumbler.com full-time essentially pushed us a year ahead of schedule. Kudos if you can pull it off; I could not. |
Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job | timae: I'm doing this right now. I don't believe there to be any secrets. Just do it. |
Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job | maryrosecook: I'd say forget all the rules/guidelines people have proposed. The only thing that matters is whether your startup idea compels you to work on it. Having to force yourself to work on it guarantees failure.Or, to put it another way, the only way to work two jobs for an extended period is for one of those ... |
Would you be inclined to share that moment of genius | mechanical_fish: I'm not a god of hacking by any means, so perhaps I've just rarely experienced true code-block Nirvana. But, in my experience, the beauty of software doesn't often arise from isolated, context-free blocks of code, just as it's hard to appreciate a great novel by cutting-and-pasting individual sentences... |
Any NW Ohio Hackers? | _bn: I'm from NE ohio. I just have a site for playing around but you can see some of my (current) projects at krenz.tastyspleen.net |
What code should I be looking at? | mechanical_fish: I got into PHP by way of Drupal. I tend to think of myself not as a PHP programmer, but as a Drupal programmer who is therefore stuck with PHP. I don't work with any other PHP frameworks; If I wanted something that wasn't Drupal I'd be using Ruby.Now that my biases are clear: You should take up Drupal.... |
Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job | pxlpshr: I agree with being out of debt... it's been very critical in maintaining relative sanity when pushing through the tough times of a startup. Use credit cards to float a month's worth of expense, but always pay in full.Here's what I've been doing recently, but I'm at a slight advantage since I'm self employed.Wh... |
Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job | edw519: Find things to do at work that will teach you things you need to learn for your startup.For example, you need to choose between two ways of doing something on a screen and aren't sure which way users would like more. Instead of deciding yourself (we all know how well that often turns out), find a way to implem... |
Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job | donniefitz2: I have been doing it now for about 8 months straight. Here's what I've been laboring on: http://clovercontent.com- Use every spare moment you can find to work on your startup.- If you're married, don't neglect your wife/husband. Make time for what's truly important.- Stay up late, but don't forgo sleep.- ... |
Would you be inclined to share that moment of genius | khangtoh: Hoping to hear from everyone about this idea. |
Apple's "Let's Rock" Event. Where are watching it from? What are you expecting? | run4yourlives: I'm not going to watch it, I'm going to work. The continual obsession with new releases is generally unhealthy.When everyone is out buying brand new versions that will break, I'll pick up the stable release from the last announcement. :-) |
Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job | webwright: I think the biggest risk is "death by fizzling out". Startups are fun... at first. Eventually, they hit a point where they (hopefully only briefly) aren't remotely fun and are instead hard freakin' work that you'd love to avoid. So spend some time engineering a "system" where you can't slack off (have a c... |
Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job | brlewis: I just posted some tips here: http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/2008-09-09 o Assess yourself
o Assess your market
o Assess your day job
o Use Lisp
o Prioritize continually |
What code should I be looking at? | jncraton: I actually learned a lot about coding good PHP by learning Rails. I'm not an expert by any means, but it forces tons of good programming practice on you which can carry over to other languages and frameworks. |
Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job | voidfiles: I have done this a couple of times. None have been success so for. Some will never be, and some are still in the works.http://www.tastesatlkr.com
* I wrote by myself, finsished it mostly and then it fizzeled. No intrest.http://www.qwertykitchen.com
* Equal partnership, still working on it and it works. We ju... |
What code should I be looking at? | jmtulloss: First, I really don't want to start a flame war. That being said, my opinion is that PHP as a language is not well structured or well written. You might want to check out Python or Ruby, both of which have great web frameworks that encourage structure. |
Secret military technology as groundbreaking as the tank and airplane were | justthinking: Small Micro sized remote controlled devices (air & ground based) that can provide both video and audio surveillance. The video and audio can be collected, stored and processed. A single voice can be isolated in a crowd; a single face in group; Multiple targets tracked. The technology already exists to th... |
What code should I be looking at? | Dobbs: Hate to hijack the thread but can anyone offer some examples of good Python and/or C code to look through/read? |
What code should I be looking at? | neovive: I would highly-recommend reviewing the source code of the KohanaPHP framework. It is very clean, elegant and well-structured OOP code written by some very talented developers.http://www.kohanaphp.com |
What code should I be looking at? | Maascamp: Browse through the Zend Framework. I don't know why more people don't recommend it as a well written large size PHP code base. It's a little exception happy but that's more of a style issue. |
Good books on mathematics for somebody who's only taken high school math? | mechanical_fish: A snapshot of my bookshelf's "math" section, which really hasn't changed much since I was in high school and hadn't taken calculus:W.W. Sawyer, What is Calculus About? and Mathematician's DelightCourant and Robbins, What is Mathematics?Hogben, Mathematics for the MillionSteinhaus, Mathematical Snapshot... |
Multi-Monitor w/ Laptop? | LogicHoleFlaw: I've got a standard Dell docking station with both an external monitor and the laptop's LCD panel working together. It was pretty straightforward. The only tricky bit for me (on Ubuntu) is not being able to directly undock and have it intelligently deal with the disappearance of the external display. I s... |
Good books on mathematics for somebody who's only taken high school math? | newton: Check out Mind Tools by Rudy Rucker. He is a math professor and novelist, and this book is a tour of advanced math concepts. Super fun and interesting.
http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Tools-Levels-Mathematical-Reality... |
Good books on mathematics for somebody who's only taken high school math? | ibsulon: As an aside, does anyone know of a mathematical dictionary? I've been trying to follow some books and I just get lost in the terminology -- as I scour the net for the pieces I need, I can get the context, but that seems entirely inefficient. Along the same lines, I'm having trouble making the leap from underst... |
Good books on mathematics for somebody who's only taken high school math? | newton: If you like to be instructed by trippy 1970s cartoon characters, Prof. E. McSquared's Calculus Primer is good.
http://www.amazon.com/Prof-McSquareds-Calculus-Primer-Interg... |
Good books on mathematics for somebody who's only taken high school math? | dfarm: Based on what you wrote you would hate Courant and Robbins What is Mathematics?, too rigorous. I think you would enjoy Mathematics from the Birth of Numbers by Jan Gullberg and Calculus Made Easy by Sylvanus Thompson.You might also find Unknown Quantity interesting. I think Gullberg would be my #1 req for you. |
Good books on mathematics for somebody who's only taken high school math? | mhartl: Take a look at Journey through Genius by William Dunham. I read it after high school and ended up spending much of the summer with a straightedge and compass making geometric constructions. It's not all geometry, though; there's plenty of other good stuff, including some gems from Euler and Cantor's incredibl... |
Good books on mathematics for somebody who's only taken high school math? | gojomo: On another thread, there was a recommendation for Roger Penrose's 'The Road to Reality'. Haven't read it, but it purports to build from basic math through to advanced concepts and physics, step by step. |
Good books on mathematics for somebody who's only taken high school math? | abstractbill: One of my favorites:http://www.amazon.com/History-Mathematics-Carl-B-Boyer/dp/04... |
Good books on mathematics for somebody who's only taken high school math? | soho: Hmm. No math book suggestions but I recommend reading anything by Milan Kundera. |
Good books on mathematics for somebody who's only taken high school math? | mwerty: Men of mathematics (E T Bell) and A mathematician's apology (G H Hardy). |
Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job | tlrobinson: Whatever you do, make 100% sure you own your project if you work on it while still employed by another company. IP agreements sometimes cover things you work on even when you're at home, etc (though these are supposedly unenforceable in CA and probably some other states). |
Good books on mathematics for somebody who's only taken high school math? | emacdona: I read this little gem over the summer:
Godel's Proof (http://www.amazon.com/Godels-Proof-Ernest-Nagel/dp/081475837...)At 160 pages, it's the ideal size to carry with you everywhere you go. All summer long, any time I had an extra half an hour, I would take it out and read/re-read a chapter. |
What code should I be looking at? | taw: I learned two things from reading code:Unless you have something specific in mind, like fixing a particular bug, or trying to reverse engineer undocumented behaviour, just staring at code is most likely going to be too unfocused to bring you any value.Most of the Open Source code is crap. Most of the closed source... |
Which entrepreneur(s) do you admire the most? | alaskamiller: Anyone who's failed multiple times. |
Which entrepreneur(s) do you admire the most? | cperciva: Jeff Bezos. Not only did he build something people wanted (a better bookstore), but he leveraged that to push forward with other ideas -- computing as a utility (Amazon Web Services), electronic books (kindle), commercial manned space flight (Blue Origin) -- which people have dreamed about for decades. |
Which entrepreneur(s) do you admire the most? | inovica: Both Brits: Felix Dennis and Richard Branson. Felix Dennis because of his no bullshit attitude (his book is great) and Richard Branson for being a serial entrepreneur with a sense of humour. Both are probably very ruthless in business also, but thats one reason they are where they are |
Which entrepreneur(s) do you admire the most? | sharp: James Dyson. Count his setbacks, then count his sucesses - the guy doesn't quit. |
Which entrepreneur(s) do you admire the most? | byrneseyeview: Peter Thiel. Able to found two companies meant to change the world, both of which have turned out well; able to fund lots of Big Ideas, some of which have been similarly lucrative. I don't think there's anyone else who spends so much time thinking about big ideas (his investment strategy is partly based ... |
Review our startup Iterend.com (Private beta launch) | maxklein: Do you offer an API that will return me all blog discussions on certain keywords? |
Review our startup Iterend.com (Private beta launch) | rksprst: I like it and would actually use it to search blogs (though the url is hard to remember). One small caveat, I would make the pagination bigger and easier to click on (look at google). |
Review our startup Iterend.com (Private beta launch) | vaksel: I'd look for a better name, honestly I have no idea what iterend means...or what it hints at. + even now I tried to type it out as iTrend subconsciously. |
Good books on mathematics for somebody who's only taken high school math? | phllip: Steinhaus, Mathematical Snapshots
Polya, Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning
Pappas, The Joy of Mathematics
Gardner, The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems
Winkler, Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection
Andrews, Number Theory (Dover Books on Advanced Mathematics)- The last book is not really... |
Review our startup Iterend.com (Private beta launch) | axod: The other blog search engines return hundreds of results for my app name, this one returns 1 result.Not a good start :/ |
Which entrepreneur(s) do you admire the most? | rrival: Cuban? Really? |
Review our startup Iterend.com (Private beta launch) | fizx: I liked the simplicity of the invite experience. Your home page times out. :( |
Review our startup Iterend.com (Private beta launch) | sc: Sorry. I don't want to review your startup badly enough to deal with this overhead. |
Can anyone share their experience with logo shootout sites like logosauce? | qhoxie: http://99designs.com/I have seen quite a lot of quality work done on these sites. |
Can anyone share their experience with logo shootout sites like logosauce? | michael_dorfman: I had a great experience with 99designs-- but I have mixed feelings about the subject, since I'm not sure that it is healthy for the design industry.... |
Can anyone share their experience with logo shootout sites like logosauce? | pedalpete: I used crowdspring for web design and had an amazing experience.
They have sections for logo design as well as other design services. |
Can anyone share their experience with logo shootout sites like logosauce? | lux: We used 99designs.com for our logo (www.dojolearning.com) as well as the new logo and product box for www.sitellite.org with great results. Our design was done by a separate designer though (he did 3 different styles that we offer in a handful of colours so customers can choose).The key was to provide good and pr... |
Can anyone share their experience with logo shootout sites like logosauce? | cscotta: Spec work is evil:
http://andrewhyde.net/spec-work-is-evil-why-i-hate-crowdspri... |
What's the newly hyped Secret Weapon in Iraq | schtog: How does a person think that builds weapons for a living? |
Can anyone share their experience with logo shootout sites like logosauce? | vaksel: I love it, you get sooooo many choices from uber creative people. Just don't be a cheapass. Better to spend $500 and get hundreds of submissions, instead of spending $100 and getting only 10. |
Is the Windows development experience getting worse? | floozyspeak: How long will it be before Google debuts its own Tonchidot augmented reality slice'o'experience on Android- this year, next? |
Review our startup Iterend.com (Private beta launch) | paul9290: I would suggest condensing Iterend's description down to two sentences.Give me the benefit and then describe it - all in 30 words or less! Users have almost zero attention span ... capturing it is key! |
What was that Elaborate Prank by Scott Adams? | comatose_kid: http://web.mit.edu/jcb/humor/scott-adams-mgmt-consultantI just googled forscott adams 'management consultant'and it came up as the top hit. |
What was that Elaborate Prank by Scott Adams? | MaysonL: It's amazing the amount of deference we pay to "authority". |
Why doesn't Dilbert quit? | brk: Because he shags Alice every day around lunch time in an unused conference room, and he found a loophole in the billing subroutine for their e-commerce site that allows him to route $1.00 from every transaction to his personal account. |
Why doesn't Dilbert quit? | Hates_: Because he's not like the rest of us who make up less then 1% of the IT industry. |
Why doesn't Dilbert quit? | denglish: The thing I've come to realise recently is that most people in IT are resigned to the fact that they work for money and live life outside work. Even the thought of starting a company never enters their minds. I quit recently to start up a company and almost everyone from my old employer that found out I was l... |
Why doesn't Dilbert quit? | wallflower: Dilbert doesn't quit because almost all of the mini-storylines contributed are from real workers (to Scott Adams) and he acts as silent mouthpiece for us anonymous workers |
Why doesn't Dilbert quit? | roberto: Because then the comic wouldn't be funny. |
Why doesn't Dilbert quit? | mechanical_fish: Here's John Hess, creator of the classic TV soap opera Love of Life (1951-1980) and later a writer for MASH:"The basic notion of writing a soap opera is all so-and-so has to say is such-and-such and the story is over, but they don't ever say it because then you would have nothing to write about it. 'Wh... |
Why doesn't Dilbert quit? | mooders: For the same reason that so very few people start businesses - the FUD of the unknown.Predictability is a great comforter for many risk-averse types, a category to which the great majority of engineer-types I have known belong. |
Why doesn't Dilbert quit? | vaksel: because it'll be exactly the same no matter where he goes. Except at the new company he'd be the new guy, and will lose all his seniority perks. |
Why doesn't Dilbert quit? | bayleo: Because he only needs a few more months before he's vested. |
Why doesn't Dilbert quit? | sabat: Because Dilbert lives in The Worse of All Possible Worlds, where there are no other jobs to be had. He's trapped. |
Why doesn't Dilbert quit? | perdurabo: 1. Maybe Dilbert has a family to support.2. Maybe Dilbert thinks about quitting but lacks imagination and ideas after having such skills beat down into nothingness after working years in IT.3. Maybe Dilbert doesn't know where to start.4. Maybe Dilbert can start, but doesn't know where to go from there. |
Why doesn't Dilbert quit? | mrjbq7: Reminds me of that old adage:"It's never as bad as you think, and it's never as good as you think." |
Why doesn't Dilbert quit? | tsbardella: he is a co-dependent. obviously |
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