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Cloning basecamp | pclark: you realize you may make a bit of money, but everyone will know that you just 100% copied basecamp, you'll be known as the shady "guy that ripped off basecamp" and so on?why would I buy your, probably cheaper, software and not support the original, better designed [by definition] software? |
Cloning basecamp | byoung2: I wouldn't get hung up on the cloning part. If your goal is to create a simpler version of a project management suite, then do that. Find out what features you want in it and build it. If it turns out cheaper than basecamp with fewer features, or more expensive with more features, then market it accordingly... |
What do you do to make sense of your thoughts over time? | rw: I almost wrote you a detailed response but then I realized you didn't even proofread your post. :( |
Cloning basecamp | bdmac97: The main problem I can see is that, as with most copies, you are going to lack their insight into that domain which is what makes their product so compelling. You will always be several steps behind them in usefulness and will always be trying to play catch-up by copying their new features rather than innovat... |
What do you do to make sense of your thoughts over time? | ScottWhigham: I have re-do the whole thing - that helps me coagulate everything and throw out the redundancy and unnecessary. |
What do you do to make sense of your thoughts over time? | gizmo: I don't worry about that. It's the process of writing down ideas that matters to me. Writing it down forces you to think clearly; gives your idea structure. If the idea is still good when you read it to yourself: great. You'll be able to reconstruct the idea at a later time if you need it. If the idea doesn't so... |
What do you do to make sense of your thoughts over time? | matt1: Two things:1) I use an iPhone todo app (http://www.appigo.com/todo) to jot down ideas as I get them in a "Projects" category. This lets me quickly browse through them at a later time. You can add notes too if your ideas are elaborate and you want to jot them down too.2) Keep a journal. Write down what you're thi... |
What do you do to make sense of your thoughts over time? | thaumaturgy: I don't even bother trying. Hoarding "ideas" doesn't make any sense to me.I will always have ideas. The Halfbakery website is full of people's ideas. My mom has ideas. Everyone has ideas. Someone's probably had the very same idea already.Ideas are so cheap and common, they're almost worthless by themselves... |
What do you do to make sense of your thoughts over time? | edw519: It's really simple for me...1. I write everything down in an unlined spiral notebook with perforated detachable pages.2. I file every page into a labeled green file folder in a file cabinet.3. I keep all of it.I've been doing this for 30 years. I have everything I ever wrote. If fills 3 two drawer file cab... |
What do you do to make sense of your thoughts over time? | diiq: I wrote a little cl script called 'do'. It requests a name, description, and tag list for anything I think I might like to 'do' in the future. For instance: Name: Gideon Series
Do a series of new-primitivism photos, Goldsworthy
pieces, except environment is cheap motel room. Bible,
towels, bad art, curta... |
What do you do to make sense of your thoughts over time? | derefr: Right now, I'm using the "Someday" slot in Things to represent concepts, ideas, and other things that don't have an immediate "plan" attached. It works well enough for storage and search, but that "assembling together" process has brought up another idea for something that would work better: basically, a progra... |
Stock Quotes API/Feed | sharpn: http://code.google.com/apis/finance/
I expect yahoo has something similar. |
What do you do to make sense of your thoughts over time? | aibras: The process of collecting the ideas is super easy for me. I use the all-time-and-devises-compatible .txt file. I am attached to 5 different machines. My laptop (Linux) , office PC (WinXP), Home server (Linux), Pocket PC (Wm6) and the work UNIX servers (HP-UX x 4).
Whenever I have an idea I fire the minimalist ... |
Stock Quotes API/Feed | rwolf: The yahoo finance docs are non-existant, but poking around the source for http://www.goldb.org/ystockquote.html should give you an idea of how to use it. delay is 20 minutes. |
Stock Quotes API/Feed | ashleyw: http://finance.google.com/finance/info?q=GOOG,LON:TSCOhttp://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=GOOG&f=...:) |
How to communicate adaptability to employers? | davidw: Open source projects are a good way - in some circles, at least - of demonstrating that you know how to get stuff done. |
How to communicate adaptability to employers? | javery: Offer to come in for a day and work with the team. More and more agile teams are interviewing this way and it would be the best way to show that you can understand what they are doing and make helpful suggestions or even write some code on day one. (of course make sure that you think you can do this) |
How to communicate adaptability to employers? | boggles: Consider relocating for a time to a location where work is less scarce than wherever you currently live. That might not be easy at the moment however. |
How to communicate adaptability to employers? | gruseom: If I were you I might offer to work for free for a while: "I want a chance to prove myself. Give me a hard task that nobody on your team has time to do right now. I'll come in, sign an NDA, and show you what I can do. If you like my work we can take it from there."That's how I got my first commercial programmi... |
Flash game devs, why don't you cover other people's games? | fatdog789: B/c music covers are explicitly covered by licensing laws. Videogame covers are just unimaginative copies (which may also violate copyright laws covering derivative works).If you want to make a game, make it like the game you are copying, but make it unique. Change the graphics. Add new enemies. But don'... |
What's your favorite web application UI? | alexkearns: http://almost.at/ is very slickI tried to do a similarly pretty UI with my Ajax app - http://gambolio.com/#/library/ |
Flash game devs, why don't you cover other people's games? | alexkearns: I think some iPhone game developers are already doing that! |
What's your favorite web application UI? | nostrademons: Bittorrent and Google Search. Audiogalaxy was pretty cool too.I'm a fan of the UIs-that-don't-actually-exist paradigm, if you couldn't tell. |
What's your favorite web application UI? | pjonesdotca: since alex mentioned almost.at, i'm going to go with qooxdoo - which (codewise) is a whole lot more direct.http://qooxdoo.org/aboutStill waiting on Atlas to appear though. |
Podcasts? | wmwong: Radio Lab!!! |
Flash game devs, why don't you cover other people's games? | nailer: Game developers already do that - there's an xbox series that's a Grand Theft Auto Clone, and 1000 Bejeweled and Tetris-alikes. |
What's your favorite web application UI? | defied: my fav is hypem.com, they offer a good UI with some nice effects. |
Podcasts? | 3dFlatLander: Astronomy Cast is one of my favorites. Radio Lab, Floss Weekly amd Security Now are my only regulars.Not really a podcast, but I just started downloading free audio books from Librivox--the quality seems very good so far.Completed audio books at http://librivox.org/newcatalog/search.php?language=&stat... |
Remedy for sagging inspiration? | edw519: Everyone has low days. When I do, I just power down and do something else.I can't imagine letting a low day discourage me. My work is way too important for that.If you ever think "What's the point," "Is this going anywhere?" "Will anyone care?" or "Should I just give up?", that tells me that you're not sure a... |
Self-Study or Take a Class in Programming? | kunqiana: I was on the same route as you (in arts) however, recently I switched to Computer Science and math and took arts as extracurricular instead. If you really want to be good at programming it is probably best to take programming classes because it forces you to focus and learn faster. Hacking by yourself might b... |
Remedy for sagging inspiration? | jcw: Are you just burnt out? When you're low on inspiration, taking a day to do everything but work can do wonders. Get out the house, see some friends. |
Podcasts? | dangling: Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. |
What is in your vimrc? | dragonquest: I keep a very simple vimrc file with minimal customization. Note however that I'm a beginner with Vim, so my customizations end with what "just works" with minimum pain for me. set nobackup
set clipboard=unnamed
set number
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set expandtab
colorscheme oceandeep |
C or Haskell, which to learn next? | icey: They are different enough that you could just do both simultaneously. |
C or Haskell, which to learn next? | cperciva: Learn C. So far you've done lots of high level languages, but no low level languages at all. Understanding what things look like at the machine level will make you a much better developer regardless of what language you end up using -- and there's a reason why people refer to C as "portably assembly languag... |
Interesting programming languages for presentation | yannis: Fortran 2008, 51 years and going or how to simulate your weather! |
What is in your vimrc? | thristian: I've been using Vim for over ten years now, across several jobs and platforms and tasks, so my .vimrc and .gvimrc have gathered quite a bit of cruft. I keep them in a git repository along with my various other generically useful config files, and just check them out on each new machine I get an account on.Th... |
Interesting programming languages for presentation | RiderOfGiraffes: It depends on what your audience already knows about. If it's a programming languages course then they might know about any or all of these, but given that you should be aiming to learn something, perhaps your best idea is to pick something obscure that will improve your knowledge, then make the argum... |
Interesting programming languages for presentation | dkersten: My vote would go to Factor[1], a Lisp-like language with Forth syntax. Factor is interesting because its an extremely powerful language with many high-level features, concatenative syntax and powerful (smalltalk inspired) development tools. It supports the usual Forth constructs, as well as higher level ones ... |
Remedy for sagging inspiration? | rit: Tune out for awhile. I find shutting out everything I normally do (like watching TV, playing games, and especially anything work related) for a day or two, and reading a book helps a lot.If you need to, step away from your normal environment too. In general I find that breaking away from what I'd do "normally" re... |
Interesting programming languages for presentation | zv: Why not ruby? Pretty interesting, pretty much different from others. Or is it not mainstream anymore? |
C or Haskell, which to learn next? | zv: Go for C. C is here to stay. |
Interesting programming languages for presentation | macmac: Clojure - runs on the JVM, is a Lisp, strong concurrency support. |
Interesting programming languages for presentation | jdp: I came in expecting to suggest Io, but it looks like somebody picked it. Seems like the people in your course have a genuine interest in programming, the same can't be said about most of the people in my courses.Try something like K, a very terse APL descendant with no loops. KDB is built on top of it, and from wh... |
C or Haskell, which to learn next? | mTh: You can learn also Delphi.
Is covers all the ranges from very high-level till machine language. Also, it has a much cleaner syntax vs C, you can also have a real job with it (unlike Haskell), and is has a huge community from where to learn from.Drawbacks are: not so popular compared with C (but waaaay more popula... |
How to made a Windows-tied library cross-platform? | dchest: What will be cross-platform in Delphi? VCL? Then rewrite everything that uses WinAPI with VCL.Without specifics, there's no answer. |
What is in your vimrc? | elmindreda: Mine are entirely without comments, but on the off chance that they'll be useful:.vimrc: http://paste.ubuntu.com/270777/
.gvimrc: http://paste.ubuntu.com/270778/ |
Interesting programming languages for presentation | Gmo: I would go for Ada, used in the industry, but not so much known and have interesting concepts. |
C or Haskell, which to learn next? | Hipponax: You should use javascript to learn functional programming. |
Interesting programming languages for presentation | RiderOfGiraffes: Thinking again, I would give a complete implementation of Lisp. You can define EVAL and APPLY in about 4 slides. That lets you have a 1 minute intro, 3 mins per slide, 1 minute conclusion, and 1 minute for questions.If they've seen this before in class then you obviously can't do it, but it's historic... |
Interesting programming languages for presentation | cousin_it: I see jdp has beaten me to suggest K, trust me that one's good. The other suggestions (Erlang, Lua, Clojure, Ada...) strike me as pretty tame, not very interesting to talk about. Here's a heap of important far-out languages that nobody mentioned yet:- AspectJ (program modification by aspects)- SNOBOL (langua... |
Podcasts? | whimsy: escapepod.org |
How to made a Windows-tied library cross-platform? | mahmud: In the words of the great Walter Sobchak: "you're entering a world of pain".The best advice I can offer you is to wrap up your application's functionality into a clean library that could be made into remote services (RPC, SOAP, CORBA, COM, etc. or preferably JSON-RPC or XML-RPC) then make a a VMWare image (or s... |
Learn a programming language in a foreign language | RiderOfGiraffes: I've done this a lot, but specifically with novels, and more specifically, with action novels aimed at 14 year old boys.There's a reason for this. The hardest vocabulary to memorise are the small words. The longer words are less common, and often share a root with the English (this is less true for J... |
How to made a Windows-tied library cross-platform? | utku_karatas2: Depends highly on the project type but if we're talking about a typical Delphi GUI app you don't need to be worry much if you depend on the RTL/VCL more than WINAPI itself.I don't know about Emba.'s actual plans but what they refer to as cross-platform should be a proper port of runtime and VCL. They tri... |
Learn a programming language in a foreign language | idlewords: I don't think this works well with technical topics, unless you are a very advanced speaker looking to expand your vocabulary into a technical field. Technical instructional material uses a very narrow slice of a language's vocabulary and grammar.I worked in China for six months with an office full of guys ... |
review my tiny app - code to html converter | zv: Nice domain name.How about feature of automatically detect programming language? |
review my tiny app - code to html converter | maryrosecook: I use gist.github.com for this. Advantages:* Always editable in a clean text-area.
* Version controlled.
* Language detection and syntax highlighting. |
review my tiny app - code to html converter | bensummers: Nice! Just need a default "colour on black" version without fiddling with the CSS.I wish this had been around when I was doing my last blog post; would have saved a lot of messing around with TextMate's HTML generation.Bookmarked! |
review my tiny app - code to html converter | profquail: Cool little app. One little improvement I thought of though, is to move the inline styles into the header, even if you're just using class names like "code1", "code2", etc.It would just make it a bit easier to read the source code or change the code colors if you ever needed to. It should also give you a sma... |
review my tiny app - code to html converter | jeroen: Too many options. If I select [c#] it would be nice to have [vs] chosen by default. And [perldoc] doesn't need to be in that list.Also, it looks like you're looking for keywords. That doesn't work for class names. Pattern recognition will probably do a lot better. |
review my tiny app - code to html converter | Torn: Nice work.Quick suggestion though (for ease of copy-pasting by end-users):From the resulting rendered html with line numbers, the line numbers are also copied into the clipboard, which is undesirable. Suggest you put them in separate elements like dpaste does it, for easy selection without line numbers: http://dp... |
How to generate random terrain | jacquesm: Search for 'Mandelbrot' or 'Peitgen' and 'fractal landscape'. |
Is it necessary to backup S3? | jacquesm: How would you feel if one day that data was lost ?There are already documented cases of Amazon losing data in S3.The Amazon S3 SLA does not cover data loss at all, only service unavailable situations, which they will cover by crediting you.http://aws.amazon.com/s3-sla/http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archiv... |
Is it necessary to backup S3? | brk: You can put all the marketing spin on it that you want, but S3 is still just another webapp. Architected by humans, operated by humans.If you think the humans at Amazon are somehow above making mistakes or bad decisions, then there is no need to backup your data.If you don't fully trust the humans at Amazon, and ... |
Is it necessary to backup S3? | PanMan: Sofar I have never heard about S3 actually losing data (apart from users erasing it). They store everything 3 times. But I would have a look at the cost/MB. Documents are usually small and important (thus, worth to backup).
I have read that SmugMug, for example, stores it's files just on S3, with no backup. |
review my tiny app - code to html converter | nirmal: You should register an onChange handler for all of the form elements and update the preview automatically. Specifically, for the drop down box used to pick color themes. |
Is it necessary to backup S3? | quellhorst: If you are hacked, someone could get your S3 credentials and delete your content. You should backup. |
Interesting programming languages for presentation | yarapavan: programming languages: J, Scheme, Scala |
review my tiny app - code to html converter | tezza: I refer to this process as Pretty Printing ...if you can, could you please use this term in keywords somewhere for older coders like me. Then we can find it via searching on those termsExcellent app. |
Is it necessary to backup S3? | dagw: At the end of the day it's an economics question. How much might you lose in a worst case scenario if you failed to recover some vital data? How much extra will it cost to back up your data to a second place? If the answers to those questions are "everything" and "not a lot" then there is no reason not to back... |
Is it necessary to backup S3? | oscardelben: You can refer to this discussion for a tool for s3 backuphttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=577717 |
How to generate random terrain | jules: For waterways you could try to place random water sources and follow the gradient from there. |
Is it necessary to backup S3? | chaosmachine: It's necessary, because you never know when you'll accidentally corrupt all your data. Even if Amazon never fails, your application still can. |
How to generate random terrain | bendotc: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=terrain+generation&l=1Seriously, I'm all for discussion of particular techniques, but your question is way too broad right now. Go read some papers or even just online tutorials or descriptions of how other software does it, and then lets have a discussion. |
review my tiny app - code to html converter | alrex021: Just what I needed for my new clojure post on my blog. (My current syntax highlighter doesn't support clojure.) |
Is it necessary to backup S3? | byoung2: At $0.15/GB it's a no-brainer for the piece of mind. I once heard of a case (not with Amazon) where data was replicated in 3 locations, and data got corrupted in one location and was copied to the others, resulting in corrupted data in all 3. |
review my tiny app - code to html converter | chaosprophet: Though this is a pretty nice and useful piece of code, I will stick to using SyntaxHighlighter for my blog, because it offers me the ability to include a plaintext view function and a print function. The plaintext view removes the linenumbers and all other info apart from the actual code. |
How to generate random terrain | slmbrhrt: For generating roads or waterways, try coming up with rules similar to the way they're created in real life. For example, water flows downhill and pools when it finds a local minimum.
Roads, on the other hand, tend to avoid steep grades when they can, typically moving straight and branching at right angles at... |
C or Haskell, which to learn next? | cousin_it: Haskell offers a lot of brain candy, but IMO you've already gained >50% of its benefits by understanding Ruby blocks - they're actually the most useful part of functional programming, carefully distilled and packaged to be non-threatening. :-) Better go with C first to learn what your computer actually does.... |
review my tiny app - code to html converter | wicknicks: Sweet app! Much needed! Bookmarked your page :) |
How to generate random terrain | zeckalpha: Perchance recall the book? I'm semi-interested in retro approaches to the problem. |
review my tiny app - code to html converter | hyyypr: Useful app. But just an fyi, vim has a ':TOHtml' feature that generates an html files from your code (including color scheme). |
How to generate random terrain | jharsman: For waterways, just simulate rain and erosion. Let's say you model your terrain as a height field.1. Add rain in random locations
2. Have the rain absorb some of the soil from the square it starts in.
3. Let the water flow in the direction of the gradient.
4. Deposit som e of the picked up soil (maybe only wi... |
Is it necessary to backup S3? | windsurfer: Standard response from anyone: Backup everything, just in casehttp://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrazyPrepared |
Is it necessary to backup S3? | mgorsuch: You should certainly backup your data. While the engineers at Amazon are certainly among the smartest, they are not infallible. Things do fail from time to time.I lost 1TB of data several months ago due to some backend issues with EBS and S3. Fortunately for me, it was just a backup of a backup of a backup... |
How to generate random terrain | afiske: Here's an article on adding rivers to procedurally generated terrain - http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programming/features/random.... Searches for "procedurally generated [roads/rivers/waterways/etc] seemed to be the most promising. |
How to generate random terrain | wlievens: What kind of scale of terrain are you looking for? Continent maps or battlefield scale?I got some stuff I rolled here
http://flywheel.be/examples/All random generated. But probably not what you're looking for. |
Is it necessary to backup S3? | kierank: Yes, Sometimes the software tools you use can mess up. I lost many production EC2 images because of this unfixed bug in elasticfox:http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid...(basically if you have similarly named images, they'll all get deleted with the "Delete AMI parts and deregister" feature... |
How to generate random terrain | jwecker: google erosion simulation algorithms (or derivations)- some brilliant stuff mostly developed for geography simulations that would make absolutely amazing terrains. |
Is it necessary to backup S3? | aolnerd: keep multiple snapshots so that you can recover files after you delete them yourself.#!/bin/shAWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<>AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<>BUCKET=<>DIR=<>S3SYNC=/usr/bin/s3sync.rbDAYS_TO_KEEP_BACKUPS=30# colons in path confuse s3syncDATE=$(date +%F_%H-%M-%S)NEWEST=$(/bin/ls -r $DIR | grep -v current | head -1)#... |
review my tiny app - code to html converter | tjr: Very good! Any means of accepting more languages to work with? |
How to generate random terrain | bigsassy: Game development websites are a good place to look. Try these links:http://www.gamedev.net/reference/list.asp?categoryid=45#188
http://www.gamasutra.com/search/index.php?search_text=terrai... |
Interesting programming languages for presentation | kd5bjo: If you're willing to be a little creative with your interpretation of the requirements, here are a few options that haven't been mentioned:Intercal, one of the first joke programming languages.MS Excel macros, probably the most widely used programming languages today.VHDL or Verilog, the hardware description la... |
Is it necessary to backup S3? | lolido: fyi, you should take a look at cloudloop (www.cloudloop.com). it has a nice command line interface that lets you sync data across providers (s3, rackspace, nirvanix, azure, etc). |
How to generate random terrain | allenp: If you have a heightmap, the roads should be fairly easy. Pick start and end points (cities?) and use a pathfinding method like A* to plot the road. If you want something more stylized, you could select a handful of points from that method and then use beizer curves or something between them. |
review my tiny app - code to html converter | petercooper: Pretty good idea. I have something specially rigged for Ruby use (I basically use this for Ruby Inside): http://www.rubyinside.com/advent2006/7-coloring.htmlIn future, though, I'll probably move to a JavaScript solution as this hard coding just doesn't feel right anymore. |
review my tiny app - code to html converter | raju: Very nice app. Bookmarked. Quick suggestion, and it may not be something used by all users, but I attempted to type code in, and naturally hit a tab after the first line to indent the class declaration (I was trying out some Ruby code). Naturally the tab takes me elsewhere.Maybe capture a Ctrl-Tab (or similar key... |
How to generate random terrain | dovyski: You can take a look at my master thesis (Charack: Pseudo-infinite 3D virtual world generation). It's in a pre-alpha stage, but I think you can find something useful (besides the wide range of similar tools and works I found during my research).Project link: http://code.google.com/p/charack/ |
review my tiny app - code to html converter | trevorturk: I was thinking of making something similar, but just with an API that you could POST to. Perhaps you could consider adding an API? |
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