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what collaboration tools are there for the early phase? | gtani: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=546444http://www.cybertechnews.org/?p=1422http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8bhy6/do_you_te... |
What are the new ideas of the last 10 (or 5) years? | ianbishop: I truly feel that 3D printers will change the way we live. Maybe not in the next 5-10 years though. |
What are the new ideas of the last 10 (or 5) years? | c00p3r: Open source web browsers will be next development platform.P2P networks will change the way of distribution of digital media.Linux-based systems will dominate server market.Linux become the supply of reusable software components for mobile devices.Mobile carriers will dominate internet-access market.OMG! I forg... |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | MrMatt: SCM integration - linking to commits and changing the states of tickets via commit messages. |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | MrMatt: Keyboard Shortcuts - I use GMail's shortcuts, and prefer to avoid having to reach for the mouse when possible. |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | Edinburger: I want an integrated solution where I can manage bugs, feature requests and the prioritized backlog (containing both bugs and feature requests). Bonus points if it can manage incidents as well and help me to create bugs or feature requests from them. Oh, and I don't want to have to wait around for whole pag... |
Graduate early? | peterbraden: Do it. Go travel for a year. Then when you go to college you'll have a lot more life experience and self confidence that any classes would have given you. |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | mullr: Optimize the basic cases for speed. Not needing to touch the mouse (as MrMatt points out) is a good start. If you make it dead simple and lightning fast to open, close, and forward defects, you'll win a lot of fans. |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | wlievens: The ability to rapidly enter new tickets, from a single page. This could work if you want to import a crude todo list (from a meeting or brainstorm session) into the issue tracker.Also make your issue tracker for more than bugs. Make it usable for features too. |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | mseebach: Organising issues in a reciprocal "depends on"/"blocks" relation. It makes it easier to identify bottlenecks. BugZilla does it, but I havn't found any lightweight system that does it. |
Good looking news/social media sites? | blender: nowpublic.com |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | peterhi: When it comes to things with levels such as severity or priority keep the option list short, 3 to 5 items. Preferably with user configurable text.Allow bugs to be grouped into meta bugs. Bugzilla had a feature that showed a tree of bugs that was very nice (almost the only good thing about it).No admin interfac... |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | halo: This is a bit left-field, but I would love the ability to be able to edit tickets and comments for up to 10 minutes before they're made final and sent via e-mail. |
What are the new ideas of the last 10 (or 5) years? | 10ren: I like 15 years, because that's 10 doublings by Moore's Law... 1024.What becomes trivial with an iPhone that's 1,000 times faster?If instead of Crysis fps of 20, you have 20,000. If instead of 2GB RAM, you had 2TB RAM; instead of 1TB HDD, 1PB. Instead of 2 MB/sec broadband, 2 GB/sec. That's just the standard, av... |
what collaboration tools are there for the early phase? | chaosprophet: You might want to check out Mozilla's Bespin. It's very useful if your working on your startup part-time and your developers are separated by large distances physically. |
Graduate early? | bavcyc: Next year will mark my 25th year out of high school. My college career included two different times through my alma mater. The first time I supported my endeavors by working in the dorms, which included helping freshman adjust to college life while the second time I was the non-traditional student who had wor... |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | dirtyaura: 1) Easy input, minimum number of mandatory fields (2 is quite optimal: "subject", "steps to produce")2) Fast as hell. It's one of the most used dev tools. (Trac fails in this)3) Hassle-free way to add screenshots, log files, etc. And it should show screenshots inline. (E.g. Trac fails in this) |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | aurumaeus: As a coder, I want a bug tracking system to work as a task list for me, and a repository for others. This is a hard dichotomy, but the ideal system would support it.It's needs a command line interface or at least an open API, integration with Git, easy tagging & querying on tags, batch action tools that are... |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | FreeRadical: visual beauty |
What are the new ideas of the last 10 (or 5) years? | didip: "different mode of revenue for web software"Ads was and is obvious now, but there's a limit to how much ads budget the world have.A number of startups are now experimenting with various freemium or one time fee or granular pay-as-you-use.I'm expecting this trend to go up. And maybe there will be companies that m... |
How does your site income break down? | jacquesm: 90% subscriptions (monthly renewals, $19.95)10% advertising (adsense)The sample you provide leaves a rather large hole to be explained. |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | MrMatt: An API would be good. Callbacks to external services would be useful too for notifying custom 3rd party apps of changes. |
HN on the iPhone? | mrduncan: http://www.icombinator.net/Disclaimer - I don't have an iPhone so I've never actually used it though. |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | makecheck: Have you spent significant time looking at plug-in schemes, such as those of Trac? I think you'd be better off writing simple extensions to well-established systems, than making an entire replacement system. This has two benefits:- People using the established system are more likely to try your add-ons for... |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | smiler: - Ability to forward an e-mail to an e-mail address and create a ticket (bonus points if it can extract attachments and add them as attachments to the ticket)- System tray app which I can quickly log tickets with - in-built screenshot util a must, even better if it could do screen capture video and convert it t... |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | didip: As what some already said,1 "the new ticket form" should render fast and easy to figure out. It would be great If there's bookmarklet or simple browser plugin or mobile app that's just render this form.2 Live twitter-like feed on top level features/stories would be handy for me. |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | yankeeracer73: A css-able widget to put on our site so there can be easy direct customer input I can keep track of as tickets along with the other stuff we track internally. |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | dotandimet: Localization. We recently set-up a bug tracking tool for someone who was sending bug reports to an external developer as Word documents, and we picked Mantis because it supported Hebrew (as well as being free and relatively straightforward to install). |
How does your site income break down? | dejb: 1. Sponsorships2. Direct advertising3. Adsense1 + 2 are sometimes blurred2 + 3 are sometimes reversed...as the other guy said your own numbers don't add up. And furthermore they are out of order....and we try not to just break even |
How does your site income break down? | kiba: Income breakdown:100% projectwonderful. Advertising space.However, my site is not a web application or anything. It is just an encyclopedia on purely all things open source gaming, and the only one in the universe. As a result, I doubt there are many ways to monentize the traffic.It gave me nice money to booststr... |
How does your site income break down? | patio11: 100%: Selling things to people for money. |
How does your site income break down? | hikari17: We're the platform provider in a two-sided genealogy market (genealogy document clients on one side, genealogy lookup providers on the other.) We take a commission from providers (15% of their selling price) and a processing charge from clients (10% of the provider's selling price.)So our income breaks down a... |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | arohner: Warning: my last corporate job was very heavyweight on the bug trackingThings that are required at places I've worked:Configurable workflows. An admin should be able to specify the allowed states in a bug, and the allowed transitions between states. If you do this, allow the set of required fields to change ba... |
How does your site income break down? | justinchen: A few different sites w/ diff models: Consumer facing listings site
90% advertising (prem ad partners + adsense)
10% affiliate
Consumer facing subscription
98% subscriptions
1% advertising
1% affiliate
Consumer facing pay per use
100% customer payments |
Graduate early? | NoBSWebDesign: I was in your exact same boat, though I stopped just shy of multivariate calculus in High School, and after the first 2 calc classes, took statistics and whatnot.Anyway, I would suggest staying in high school and enjoying it. I ended up only going to school for half the day my senior year along with a bu... |
Is is correct to judge a developer's performance this way? | lrm242: Quantitative metrics typically fail. For example, the number of bugs would be expected to increase as the developer writes more code, so while one developer might have more bugs assigned to him, that doesn't mean he writes worse code than another developer.The best answer is: you judge the performance of a deve... |
Is is correct to judge a developer's performance this way? | jacquesm: The fairest way to judge a developer - any developer - is long term stable contribution to your project, in other words if they bring you value for the money you spend.If someone is a perfectionist takes a year to complete a small item then it may be perfect, but by the time it is done (0 bugs to fix) the com... |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | tomjen2: A command line interface.Now this is not to sound stupid, nor because I have an unhealthy relationship with Bash. What I mean is something like google: most people just enter their queries directly into the bar, and it just works - your software should too.Then there are a few power users, who take the time to... |
Is is correct to judge a developer's performance this way? | makecheck: Number of bugs definitely not, especially if he's maintaining a large or well-established code base. It is common for someone to be bogged down with problems rooted in someone else's past design. Also, if you're going to give bug reports any weight, you have to read them fully; a single bug report could po... |
HN on the iPhone? | mseebach: Slightly related, except not -- I use HN on an Android device, and while I don't particularly mind the layout, I can't seem to login. I can enter my username/password, but it doesn't go anywhere. If I use a wrong password, I get an error message.Anyone know what's wrong? |
Is is correct to judge a developer's performance this way? | michael_dorfman: There's only one metric that counts: (perceived) value delivered to the customer. Everything else is just a proxy. |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | adw: Offline mode. My SCM works in a train tunnel, but my bug tracker doesn't. Total pain in the backside. |
How does your site income break down? | boggles: 100% Adsense: $1.50 Adsense revenue from 10,000 unique visitors so far. |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | StrawberryFrog: What I want is not another one, there are plenty of them already. |
How does your site income break down? | axod: adsense: 90%+ |
What are the new ideas of the last 10 (or 5) years? | jamesbritt: Ubiquitous recording. Capturing damn near everything on video, and storing it in some endless cloud.Not quite there yet, but headed that way. |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | buro9: Email driven everything ala posterous. |
How does your site income break down? | callmeed: Ours breaks down something like this:One-time fees: 30%
Subscriptions: 60%
Transaction fees: 8%
Service/consulting: 2% |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | radu_floricica: A generated auto-login link where clients can easily fill in bugs. |
HN on the iPhone? | warp: I regularly read HN on a Nokia e71 (using the default browser shipped by Nokia) and on a PSP. I only have two issues:1) comments nested 5+ levels deep get a really narrow column for the text.2) the 'mouse' cursor positioning on the e71 is just a little too coarse making impossible to click on some of the upvote ... |
Is is correct to judge a developer's performance this way? | gruseom: Is is fair to judge a developer's performance based on the number of bugs filed against his name?Don't do this! You will get disastrous results. For example, some programmers have more bugs assigned to them because they care more about fixing things. People know this, so when they want something fixed they wil... |
Is is correct to judge a developer's performance this way? | wlievens: Any quantitative metric carries perverse incentives.My co-workers have a legend that backs this up, from the time before I joined. They had a quarterly bonus system that would be adjusted for defect rate. If you had defects against your code, you'd lose on the bonus.Needless to say that this resulted in a "bl... |
Is is correct to judge a developer's performance this way? | digamber_kamat: We have a consensus here :) Thanks all of you ! |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | abecedarius: I want the bugtracker to become invisible in my usual workflow: I read and edit to-do lists and code in Emacs, and any bugtrackery things happen implicitly. |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | vegai: Command-line interface and/or API for making such. |
What are your productivity hacks? | ankeshk: 1.Prioritization. Spending 10 minutes every end-of-day planning the next day.2.Scheduling chaos time. Leave spare time every day and every week which is like extra time to get the tasks done. So there is no backlog.3.Using leechblock firefox plugin to make sure I don't read google reader, HN etc before lunc... |
How does your site income break down? | spencerfry: 100% premium subscriptions (monthly) |
HN on the iPhone? | jeremyw: I posted some very simple amendments made to HN HTML that would make life much happier for iPhone users, as a quick (if temporary) remedy. But I think the train got lost after that discussion.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=470863 |
What are your productivity hacks? | kristiandupont: I run pomodoros: http://www.bestbrains.dk/Blog/2009/02/21/CanATomatoChangeYou... |
What are your productivity hacks? | byoung2: 1. Outsourcing tasks that don't require my specific involvement to my offshore team.
2. Dining out instead of cooking. It is not much more expensive to dine out, but it saves me time (grocery shopping, cooking time, cleaning time).
3. Roomba. I will never vacuum again. Ever. |
What are your productivity hacks? | mburney: I batch my tasks for greater efficiency. If I have to do 3 meetings in a week, I try my best to schedule them all in the same day. I check email only once a day. Check and go through regular mail only once a week. Do all my shopping, groceries, errands all in the same day once a week. Also I try to never do an... |
What are your productivity hacks? | erlanger: 1. Vim2. Efficient shell usage3. Alternating coffee and ganjaI think only the last one's a hack but it's a damn good one. |
What are your productivity hacks? | patio11: Once a week, take something you're doing ad hoc and systematize it, or take something you've systemized and measure it, or take something you've measured and improve it, or take something you've improved and automate it.Note that the above suggestion is self-referential. |
What do you think of GitX? | ericwaller: GitX is awesome software, I use it everyday. For the most part I'm comfortable with git on the commandline, but I still need a gui for looking at complicated branching situations and I can build commits much more quickly with a point and click interface. And as I'm sure you know, gitk/gitgui are terrible on... |
How does your site income break down? | aw3c2: 100% no income, I run my site because I love to (no linky). |
Is is correct to judge a developer's performance this way? | BobCat: Let me assume you are said developer:"Is is fair to judge a developer's performance based on the number of bugs filed against his name?"Is it fair to judge your performance by how many bugs you submitted?The only answer is yes. |
HN on the iPhone? | jamesbritt: I've been reading HN on my G1, and it's pretty much fine for reading, but I cannot get my sign-in to stick.I can enter my name and password, and it kinda sorta acts as though I've been signed in, but it never shows my user name or allows me to post of vote. But it never tells me there was a problem signin... |
HN on the iPhone? | aerique: I use iCab Mobile as my default browser on the iPhone since it supports loading pages in background tabs and that has been sufficient for me. |
What are your productivity hacks? | dpcan: My best productivity hack has to be the "million dollar idea list" that is SEPARATE from my daily to-do list.Every time I have an idea now, I force myself to put it on that list, and if I'm still thinking about it in 2-5 days, then I'll allow myself some time to explore it further.It has saved me hours a week. ... |
what collaboration tools are there for the early phase? | aaroneous: One project I'm on uses clockingit.com - it's a free hosted collab tool and it's also OSS in case you want to migrate from the free hosted version and host it yourself down the road.It's pretty straight-forward and easy to get non-techy people to use (which may or may not be a critical attribute, depending o... |
HN on the iPhone? | jsz0: The default site works fine for me on the iPhone. The text is a bit small on comments but it's readable. |
How does your site income break down? | dpcan: 100% Monthly subscriptions. |
What are your productivity hacks? | edw519: I like to keep it simple. My list has 1 item on it. I work on that until either it's done (often) or I struggle so much with it that I decide to change plans (rarely).For the last 2 days, I've been writing a model configurator that explodes input parameters into individual objects. I probably have 8 or 9 thi... |
What are your productivity hacks? | teuobk: 1. Focus on one task at a time, and make a clean break when switching to another task. No multitasking.2. Make lots of tea in the morning and put it in a thermos. The tea stays hot all day, and I don't have to go through the entire brewing process every time I want another cup.3. Use software that tracks time ... |
HN on the iPhone? | DrJokepu: On the G1 (Android) which is pretty much the same as the iPhone in this respect, my main annoyance is the combination of small vote icons and the inability to undo votes. I have accidentally downvotes comments on a number of occasions from my phone in the past (sorry for that to everyone involved) |
What are your productivity hacks? | terrellm: My wife and I own two small software companies (similar product, different niches) and have a small cattle ranch. We work from our house and also have a 14 month old son. Being productive is essential for us to manage our work/life balance.A few things that have worked for us:1) Hire someone to be on the "f... |
What are your productivity hacks? | jwecker: In addition to other suggestions, I would suggest the pomodoro technique if you're in an environment where you deal with reactive/disruptive work mixed in with focused work. http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/Depending also on the variance of your work- if there is work that requires lots of contexts (phone-work... |
What are your productivity hacks? | simanyay: How (7) is a productivity hack? |
Is is correct to judge a developer's performance this way? | Confusion: I have found that it is impossible for me to write code without bugs. However, I can write code with such bugs that I know within a few minutes where to find the bug and how to fix it. Not all bugs are created equal and I pride myself on creating shallow bugs, that are easy to fix. |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | falsestprophet: An unpretentious proprietor |
What are your productivity hacks? | dejv: I wrote some kind of todo/task list management sw for myself: it is just task prioritized by some factor, one task displayed one time, with some browsing functionality.It works for me, I am using this system for more then one year and love it. |
What do you think of GitX? | texel: GitX is awesome... but for some reason it won't open one copy of my (particularly large) repository. It works on a fresh clone though so it's probably my fault. |
What do you think of GitX? | dmose: I love gitX ..I use it daily. Sometimes I find it hangs if you are switching branches via the command line though. |
What are your productivity hacks? | kiba: Mine is pure-ironcald discipline. That, and you love to do the things that you're doing.Everything else, work only in short term. Plus you don't need discipline to do what you love to do.So, just make something a daily task and stick to it for at least 30 days. |
What are your productivity hacks? | djm: I've tried every productivity trick under the sun but very few things ever work for me, or at least not for very long.The system that has worked best when I can bring myself to stick to it is:1) Write a small paper list before going to bed of what I want to do tomorrow.2) Tidy my room and get any work materials th... |
What do you think of GitX? | jperras: I've used GitX on and off, but I have yet to find a feature compelling enough to use the graphical interface over the command line.The search feature is probably the most useful, but there's not much there that can't be hacked together in a five-line script.Now, don't get me wrong. The work that has been put i... |
What are your productivity hacks? | mmc: 1. set noprocrast on HN2. use a separate browser for Gmail3. don't check emails automatically. Only if I think of it.4. only read online news once during the day, at lunch, and use instapaper.com to defer articles that might take more than a few minutes to read.5. the null default browser page is a great idea - bu... |
HN on the iPhone? | geuis: I am currently working on a native iPhone reader for HN. The biggest pain point is the lack of data api's, so much of the work has been around building a service layer to provide interactions with all HN features. I will be supporting all HN features, so it's not just an rss reader. When I get it to a point for ... |
What are your productivity hacks? | rokhayakebe: Power Naps.EDIT: And if you can, cook only twice a week, making enough for a few days. Setup coffee machine before going to sleep. |
What are your productivity hacks? | spaghetti: Positive thinking. Every hour of every day. My productivity increases greatly when I take a break and imagine beautiful things, funny things, myself and others enjoying success etc rather than reading news online or playing negative video games (for example). |
What do you think of GitX? | FooBarWidget: GitX is great, but I miss one important feature:
there seems to be no way to view the history of only a subdirectory, a specific file or a specific commit range, like gitk can:gitk README.txtgitk src/mycomponentgitk experimental..stable-2-0 |
What are your productivity hacks? | maxklein: A friend of mine was working in a lab, writing his thesis with 4 people who were either professors or doctors in electronics. He asked once - what is the most important thing you did for your success.They all discussed it and agreed on this rule:If you have 10 things to do, and you do them all in parallel, yo... |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | sammyo: Find the right level of simplicity and lock it frack'n down, someone thought of about 30 super-important fields to add to bugzilla, maybe one is used, but probably shouldn't be... just makes navigating dense, annoying and slow. |
Is is correct to judge a developer's performance this way? | cschneid: I'm going to slightly disagree with people here.Using quantitative measurements to track developers is great. But not when done stupidly. Using only one measurement is dumb (ie, # of bugs alone, or lines of code, or number of checkins). And removing human participation is dumb too. You're a manager, not a spr... |
What are your productivity hacks? | defied: When writing code, think about the best solution for the problem while not sitting behind a computer. Then start coding without testing/refreshing your browser after every single line of code you've written. Once you feel confident the code should be ok, then start testing. You'll definitely be more productive ... |
What are your productivity hacks? | swombat: When working at home, where other people (e.g. your parents) live:A closed door. |
What do you think of GitX? | qaexl: Main thing I'd like to see in gitx:Three-panel merging, a la Meld. |
What do you think of GitX? | bbb: First of all, thanks a lot for GitX! I use it pretty much daily and like it a lot.One thing that I'd like to see improved would be its support for bundles. I use GitX to manage (among other things) Latex documents that include vector graphics created with OmniGraffle. I keep both the exported PDF and also the .gra... |
What are your productivity hacks? | __david__: My number one rule is to reduce the code, compile, test iteration cycle.If your compiles are too slow then get a faster computer.Writing a hardware driver or developing embedded code? Make sure your test hardware is sitting on your desk. You can have it somewhere else if it's ssh-able and has a remote reboot... |
What do you think of GitX? | babyshake: The GUI should have fetch functionality. Why doesn't it?I think that GitX is a really good complement to Github. Maybe there's a way to pull in issues and other things from Github? |
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