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Orange dot? | yters: One prob w/ lack of score: I misinterpret time as score. |
Orange dot? | mapleoin: Also, it should be topcolor, not orange... |
Orange dot? | antirez: To work hard is the only way to build great things. You can get rich by accident, but you can't build great things by accident. Only working hard.Still it is very important to realize that it's better to improve the quality of your work and work 6/8 hours a day and find the time to relax and enjoy the life. To... |
Link to a site designed using a CSS framework (Blueprint, 960,etc)? | jaddison: Our social photo sharing website Snapact (http://www.snapact.com/) uses Blueprint - but not to its full extent. We don't take particular advantage of typography and certain other benefits. |
what do you think of the "can't see points on replies" feature? | RiderOfGiraffes: Much discussion already at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=844979 |
Which usernames do you recognise? | Mz: Relatively new here. I don't really recognize a lot of names and tend to pay less attention to names here than in other environments. This is in part for reasons others have mentioned: There are no avatars and there are no signature blocks. The design here is more minimalist than anything else I have participat... |
Orange dot? | tel: In my usage, the orange dot is getting confused with the orange star of "this is my post". I like the consistent color scheme, but maybe there needs to be something else to make it more distinct.Other than that, I really like it. |
How do you deal with customer support requests? | jaxn: Thanks for these suggestions everyone! |
Link to a site designed using a CSS framework (Blueprint, 960,etc)? | bdmac97: My site uses 960.gs but not for EVERYTHING. Also not sure how creative the use is but here ya go - http://www.launchly.com |
Great Interview Answers? | ScottWhigham: Maybe it's just me but I don't remember any but I definitely remember the bad ones. |
What would use an automatic print-and-snailmail system for? | sharpn: I can't find it, but there was a guy doing the same thing (but with .doc as well as pdf) about a year ago on here. I think he had some sort of monthly subscription option as well as a 'per-use' fee. Try finding out how he got on.[edit] This is apparently going to extend into Sweden: http://www.freepostit.com/Ho... |
The ideal company for programmers, or giving freedom to your programmers | tjr: If you're looking for a company to work for, you might enjoy:http://www.codesourcery.com/...depending on your interests. |
What's your keyboard of choice? | gtani: 2 other points that are important for RSI/wrist care: keep your wrist in line when you're keyboarding: top of hand in line with top of forearm, and not cocked in towards thumb or out. This means (for me) rolling up a hand towel , put under heels of hands.Also mind your wrists when you're driving, riding bike, u... |
The ideal company for programmers, or giving freedom to your programmers | gasull: Why can't you build a great product working by your schedule? Working on a team doesn't mean being with the team at all times. You need both time alone and time together. |
The ideal company for programmers, or giving freedom to your programmers | makecheck: I feel the same way.It's funny you mentioned working-from-home companies, because that's exactly how I deal with this problem. :) And it's something everyone should ask about at an interview; these days, a company had better cough up a VPN to hire me.It's simple: I know that I'll think of something at midni... |
The ideal company for programmers, or giving freedom to your programmers | jeromec: I totally agree with your sentiment here:Why are we still stuck in the industrial age, where working during the day hours, being at a certain location, and hammering away for 8 hrs was equivalent to producing a certain amount of output?If you haven't seen the Ted talk below, it's a must watch:http://www.ted.co... |
The ideal company for programmers, or giving freedom to your programmers | ricardo: "I don't see myself taking the YC plunge because I am married and have a kid, so taking a risk is kinda hard at this point."
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"I'm leaning towards saving up and then taking 3-4 months off my job to work on my own product."Couldn't you do both? Seems like you could save up and go for YC while working on yo... |
What would use an automatic print-and-snailmail system for? | oldgregg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_letterhttp://www.mailaletter.com/http://www.netgram.com/http://www.flydoc.com/http://l-mail.com/http://www.ezgram.com/http://www.postful.com/http://www.postalmethods.com/ |
The ideal company for programmers, or giving freedom to your programmers | dmytton: What kind of product do you want to work on that you would feel passionate about? |
Any cool sites that do IP GeoLocation? | skermes: http://goingtorain.com, I think. |
The ideal company for programmers, or giving freedom to your programmers | old-gregg: Do you want to relocate to NYC and work on exciting product at the already profitable startup? We offer great salary, meaningful equity and I guarantee you the product will get you excited. See my profile. |
The ideal company for programmers, or giving freedom to your programmers | revorad: This resonates with my recent experience. I got bored of the 9 to 5. My job was alright, sometimes fun even. But last Wednesday I woke up and just couldn't do it. So I quit and started working on my own project.When it's repeated a thousand times, it starts sounding like a cliche, but it is true - life is shor... |
The ideal company for programmers, or giving freedom to your programmers | mkramlich: I'm doing freelance contracting and trying to build a development/consulting shop partly for the same reasons you gave: I like the freedom and I think it's more efficient and modern, and frankly more adult & unpatronizing. Lets me work when, where, how I want, and unlocks enough extra free time & energy that... |
Seeing points again? | pg: Users I talked to seemed divided (at best) about the desirability of hiding comment scores, so I brought them back.At least one good thing came of this experiment, though. There's now a new function for ranking comments, with a faster time decay. I should have done that before, but taking away points made the nee... |
How to turn self-employment into employment? | actionjackson: You do the same thing everybody else does, show them what you have done, and what you can do for them.
The fact that you were involved in startups and managed to stay afloat last 7 years is an asset to you, not a liability. |
Seeing points again? | fjabre: Issue as stated by PG: comments section was beginning to feel a little mob-ish.Solution 1: Remove scores on comments.Solution 2, 3, 4, n: ? |
How to turn self-employment into employment? | ApolloRising: From what I have seen in the recent market in california, if you are a coder you should be ok, if you are not then you need to network a lot. People tend to see big name companies and think they are a lot more worthy than people who have been working on their own startups. I don't agree, but it is what I ... |
How to turn self-employment into employment? | jamesbritt: Not sure if this will translate to your situation, but I eventually figured out that resumes need to show I created specific tangible benefits to whomever was my employer at the time. For example, rather than say "Have 5 years of Blub", I'd was better off saying, "Wrote code in Blub that reduced transactio... |
How to turn self-employment into employment? | tptacek: So, let me be the one to come out and say this:I've been in several interviews, both at startups and on more-established teams, where a record of no-traction startup failures was a real neg. It can have the appearance of someone who doesn't want to buckle down and work.There is no reason --- none at all --- th... |
Seeing points again? | lacker: It would be interesting to see the impact of the UI and scoring changes on stats like average # of threads read per session, likelihood of users commenting, stay time on a comment thread, etc. |
How to turn self-employment into employment? | tedshroyer: I had that same issue come up for me and I think the approach I've taken isn't terrible. I updated my resume and for years I was contracting, I wrote a seven word synopsis for each project I did during that time putting it all under a big heading of "Contracting". I sent my updated resume to some recruiter... |
Seeing points again? | ujjwalg: Thank you PG for bringing it back. However, the time decay is too fast IMO.Also an orange dot for comments with more than +2 vote difference from the previous comment, might be useful. |
Seeing points again? | hs: using chickenfoot in firefox://begin
include('~/jquery/jquery.js');
b=new Button('hide comment heads', function() {
$('.comhead').hide();
});
insert(after('add comment button'), b));
//endclick the new button injected to hide comments. can be automatically triggered whenever ff opens http://news.ycombinator.com/... |
what do you view? | byoung2: I'm constantly reading TechCrunch and Engadget online, and Entrepreneur and Fast Company in print. |
Seeing points again? | mkyc: We should use an orange dot, the opacity of which goes up based on the score, with alt text. This isn't a console. It was refreshing to be able to check scores with hardly a glance, even at the cost of seeing exactly how well it scored. |
Seeing points again? | mkyc: Turn both on. The dot will allow people to skim, the score will inform the overly curious. |
Please review our site: www.tempimages.com | niks: Clickable link: http://www.tempimages.com |
Please review our site: www.tempimages.com | tptacek: kijiji? Really? |
Please review our site: www.tempimages.com | qeorge: I like the graphic that suggests using it for kijiji/craigslist. Obvious idea that most people miss.A couple of things:1) Step 1 is cumbersome. Perhaps start with an autogenerated name or make this optional?2) UI made me expect the image to start uploading as soon as I selected it. Whether it should or not is a... |
Seeing points again? | fjabre: Is it heresy to suggest thinking about 2 columns instead of 1 for comments..? Looks like there is plenty of space to do this.I know I prefer to process information looking at a grid instead of a single column.. but maybe that's just me =) |
Please review our site: www.tempimages.com | mahmud: Couldn't you use an HTML file upload thinggie or at least one augmented with JavaScript? I just don't understand why flash is necessary in here. |
what do you view? | pizza: Reddit, oursignal.com, facebook. |
Please review our site: www.tempimages.com | Batsu: You need some disclaimers on there, and at least some sort of privacy policy. |
Please review our site: www.tempimages.com | pplante: Sorry I wasn't able to complete an upload to the site. I was uploading two images (2mb) and the progress bar failed at 24%.I use Safari 4.1 on OSX.6.5 with a slow internet connection (768kbps) currently. |
Please review my webapp - AwesomeVocab.com | paraschopra: Here is the clickable link - http://www.awesomevocab.com/ |
Please review my webapp - AwesomeVocab.com | pedalpete: can you give it a button to get another word without having to refresh the page (or just make it refresh the page for you)?You'd be surprised how many people won't know how to get another word. |
Please review our site: www.tempimages.com | pedalpete: We all may know what a slideshow is and looks like, but how about a demo of what YOUR slideshow looks like? Does it make sense to describe your product using your product (have a slideshow that guides me to how to use it)?Also, for a site that deals with slideshows and images, I would expect more care to be ... |
Reccomend an interesting and fun book to learn electronics. | mahmud: Horowitz and Hill's "The Art of Electronics" is the category killer. It's very in-depth and hands on, supplement it with "fun" stuff. |
How to turn self-employment into employment? | CyberFonic: Two extra things you could consider:1. Think of what you'd like to be doing and accentuate those achievements that reinforce your past success in the areas that will allow you to do more of what you want.2. In my experience, generalist experience often helps you in tricky situations once you have the job.... |
Please review my webapp - AwesomeVocab.com | rms: I'm unclear if this does spaced repetition like SuperMemo and Anki. If it does, you should make it clear. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition |
Please review my webapp - AwesomeVocab.com | gursikh: 1) I like the full screen format of the application. It really lends to memorizing words without distraction.2) I like the way you've implemented multiple choice rather that a "flash card" approach.that being said, i've seen several apps like this. the most prominent in my memory is http://quizlet.com which ha... |
Please review my webapp - AwesomeVocab.com | snarkyturtle: I like how everything is clean and polished, though the only gripe I have is that the formatting for the results page is a big awkward. Having four different elements in the corners of the screen was distracting and my eyes had to travel a lot to read everything. It would be a good idea to either make e... |
Please review my webapp - AwesomeVocab.com | setori88: please make it more difficult! the words are commonly used. |
Reccomend an interesting and fun book to learn electronics. | christianwright: I immediately thought of this book "The Manga Guide to Electricity by Kazuhiro Fujitaki, Matsuda, and Trend-pro Co, Ltd." published by No Starch Press (http://tinyurl.com/mwsw7k)- it's squarely in the "fun" category but it's a little more basic and not really hands on with electronics. |
Reccomend an interesting and fun book to learn electronics. | kqr2: Forrest Mims classic:http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Electronics-Forrest-
Mims/dp/0945053282/It's written in a very friendly notebook style. |
Reccomend an interesting and fun book to learn electronics. | prakash: Electronic Projects for Musicians http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Projects-Musicians-Craig-An... |
Please review my webapp - AwesomeVocab.com | mullr: 1. Not sure about the animation... when I'm in the mood for studying, I really want to pound through things. The animation should either be really fast or not there at all.
2. Not sure if it fits in this model, but I find example sentences to be very helpful when learning vocab. |
Reccomend an interesting and fun book to learn electronics. | plaes: Although this series is still a bit incomplete, it should get you started:
http://openbookproject.net//electricCircuits/PS. Don't forget to send feedback and suggestions to the authors. |
Please review my webapp - AwesomeVocab.com | a-priori: I think it's a great, simple application. I think my vocabulary is a bit extensive for it (did a dozen or so, got them all), but it would still be useful.My comments: a) The animation is distracting, b) I didn't know at first that I was supposed to click a definition (you should add a "click the right one" in... |
Reccomend an interesting and fun book to learn electronics. | grinich: Practical Electronics for Inventors is pretty good.http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Paul-S... |
Please review my webapp - AwesomeVocab.com | m_eiman: Very well done. If this was a game, I'd like to have the ability to select two answers: if one of them is right I'd get half a point instead of a full point. |
Reccomend an interesting and fun book to learn electronics. | coryrc: Buy the 200-in-1 Electronics kit sold (at least at one time) by Radioshack. The book is great (though aimed at a young crowd) and is the reason I am now an Electrical Engineer. |
Please review our site: www.tempimages.com | dbr: Put the www.tempimages.com/ outside the red box.Make it so when I select images it says something so I know it is responsive. I kept on selecting the same image, then thinking... well it still says 0/50 maybe it didn't work. So now there are 3 of the same image.Otherwise, I like it. |
Please review my webapp - AwesomeVocab.com | visitor4rmindia: Very nice interface. I tried it out and had the following problems:1) In 17 words, "arboretum" and "impetus" came up twice. 17 words is way too soon to start repeating.
2) The words appear to be of uniform difficulty. They aren't very hard and you don't progress as you go along. It may be better to sta... |
Please review our site: www.tempimages.com | visitor4rmindia: 1) Where is the legal stuff that says what happens to embarrassing photos of grandma?2) Asking users to select their own url may have some issues. What happens if two people go on a vacation to Hawaii? :-)3) I would really like to password-protect my slideshow. |
Link to a site designed using a CSS framework (Blueprint, 960,etc)? | ApolloRising: Try http://cssbeauty.com for some examples, you should find a few |
Reading more Ask HN posts | RiderOfGiraffes: Clickable:http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com...http://searchyc.com/%2522Ask+HN%2522http://searchyc.com/%2522Ask+HN%2522?sort=by_date |
Seeing points again? | pclark: I'd like to not see the score till I've voted. |
How to turn self-employment into employment? | sireat: I had an even more extreme situation: 15 years of self-employed bumming, startups, small-business and I did very little programming.How I got a full-time programming job:Find industry that I was interested in.Research company that I was interested in.Brush up on industry and company specific domain knowledge.Ta... |
Any European HNers want to get a (free) drink? | davidw: There is a standing offer for drinks for HN people in Padova, Italy, which is a great area in any case:http://padovachronicles.welton.it/2008/09/05/visiting-italy-... |
Please review my webapp - AwesomeVocab.com | mping: Hehe, I'd say it still needs some polish:misanthrope:option: ....
option: one who hates mankind; misanthropist
option: ... |
Any European HNers want to get a (free) drink? | Maro: If somebody is ever in Budapest and has a free evening:http://blog.scalien.com/ecard/mtrencseni/ |
Please review my webapp - AwesomeVocab.com | learnalist: * Its very simple.
* Animation is wasted on me, this is from somebody who at least writes like he has some experience in the field.
http://foolsworkshop.com/reviews/issues the very first issue is "The Flip Fixation Flaw". I have to agree with him, its just not something I want to see. Im here to learn.* I k... |
Any European HNers want to get a (free) drink? | dualogy: When you hit Berlin, we should get a decent group together. I know at least of @wheels and me, there should be more Berliners here... |
Any European HNers want to get a (free) drink? | gonvaled: If you ever come to Düsseldorf, drop an e-mail. gonvaled at gonvaled dot com. |
Any European HNers want to get a (free) drink? | ned: Sure, why not. I'm in Paris. ned ät baldessin döt fr. |
Any European HNers want to get a (free) drink? | ique: If you want to take a detour around Sweden you're welcome to stop by ;P |
Any European HNers want to get a (free) drink? | thomas11: Geneva, Switzerland might be on the way between France and Germany: tkappler, gmail.com. |
Any European HNers want to get a (free) drink? | wlievens: I'm in Belgium. Our beer rocks. |
Any European HNers want to get a (free) drink? | dejv: If somebody from HN stops at Brno, Czech Republic, drop me email and I can show you the city, have some drinks and so on. |
Any European HNers want to get a (free) drink? | jacquesm: If any HNers ever need a stop over in 'Limburg', the Netherlands, they're free to stay on my couch.(until last week it was a hammock, now we have a couch ;) ) |
Any European HNers want to get a (free) drink? | BSousa: Porto, Portugal. We have Port! |
Any European HNers want to get a (free) drink? | antirez: If you plan to go in Sicily, feel free to ask me what to visit and the best places to eat. antirez / gmail / com |
Any European HNers want to get a (free) drink? | rama_vadakattu: If any HNers ever come to Hyderabad India , drop an e-mail rama.vadakattu at gmail dot com |
Please review my webapp - AwesomeVocab.com | tobbez: Overall I like the app, and not being a native speaker there's quite a few words it could help me learn even with its current vocab.Found a minor issue, though: the links in the upper right are clickable, even when they aren't visible. |
Any European HNers want to get a (free) drink? | miracle: I'm in Luxembourg. So if you come by, let me know. |
Hiring Decisions | jacquesm: Hire B.Skills can be learned, it will take some time but if someone is a real team player he'll make the effort.Attitude is a lot harder to change than skill. |
Hiring Decisions | sos3: From experience: hire the team player.I hired several top programmers, they wrote good code but lived in another dimension or even universe. They were no fun to have around. |
Hiring Decisions | jgrahamc: Do not hire A. I don't care how good the a-hole programmer is it doesn't matter.I have worked with many and they are not worth the strain. |
Any European HNers want to get a (free) drink? | wynand: Live in Rotterdam & work in Delft. Let me know if you end up in the Netherlands. |
Hiring Decisions | ErrantX: Hire B. He might well have unplumbed depth's of creativity you didn't get to see in the interview process. Even if they don't they are at least good team people.On the other hand if your "problem" requires highly creative and "thoughtful" solutions then your going to have to risk A :)The position your filling ... |
Hiring Decisions | brk: Most suggestions would trend toward B. However, you have to take your short and long-term goals into consideration.This may seem harsh, but you are not making a life-long decision. You could hire A to meet some tactical short-term goal, and then actually fire them and hire B (or a parallel of B).I couldn't make ... |
Hiring Decisions | andrewf: If you really need to hire now, then you've got something that needs doing right away. Can Candidate B do it? |
Hiring Decisions | wlievens: Cat vs Dog? Is life really that black-and-white? |
Hiring Decisions | radu_floricica: My limited experience involved exactly this situation. The biggest problem with A (when he left) was that we ended up with a larger then necessary, very smart, un-maintenable app instead of the simple hack we actually needed. Because if was obviously smart we kept dragging it, when we should have scrap... |
Hiring Decisions | joechung: False dichotomy. Don't hire either. Keep looking. |
Hiring Decisions | zjj: Hire one A every n B. |
Hiring Decisions | edw519: Hire Candidate B. He's almost perfect. He has all the things going for him that are difficult or impossible to change in another person (reliable, loyal, happy, team player, accepts decision, enjoy). His biggest weaknesses are in exactly those areas (not the most creative, limited experience) that make him t... |
Hiring Decisions | stonemetal: Hire B he gets the job done and isn't creative. That means other people are going to be able to work on his code if and when he leaves or you just need to hire another developer. You really have to worry when people decide to get creative with your code base especially when a straight forward solution exi... |
Hiring Decisions | gcv: It depends. How much do you need the project done? How quickly?If you will be dead in the market if you don't ship in six weeks, hire A. Let him work the way you know will make him productive, because your product depends on it.If being fast does not matter, if you know that the candidate has to deal with external... |
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