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Who do you respect, and why? | qhoxie: Well-roundedness. Programmers who can write, designers who can code, and so on. |
Who do you respect, and why? | calambrac: I really respect people who know their own shortcomings, and work hard to overcome them. In an effort to live up to my own ideal, I acknowledge that I often fail in this regard, and often catch myself dismissing something I don't immediately understand.The converse of that is that it's always sad to me to m... |
Who do you respect, and why? | gstar: Collectively, HN posters and commenters seem to 90% get it. Unbelievable for a website like this.Reddit runs at about 50%Metafilter runs at about 40%Digg at 5% |
Who do you respect, and why? | swombat: I respect only one thing: competence.In fact, that breaks down into 3 things: competence, knowledge, and experience, but only because the last two are often indicators of the first, so it would be unwise to dismiss them.Achievements are a symptom of competence, so I do respect people who have achieved what I c... |
Who do you respect, and why? | 13ren: I try to respect everyone, because I've found my own happiness seems to vary directly in proportion with how well I do this. In both directions.I think you're also asking about who you admire, and what achievements you admire. Great questions, need some thought. |
effects of prefix notation on coding / thinking | eru: Have you tried coding in postfix aka Forth, yet? |
List your favourite social news sources | weaboo: http://peeklocal.com - Pakistani news |
List your favourite social news sources | lolorunner: http://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering |
Who do you respect, and why? | jnovek: Like everything else that we feel, I sense that we don't have a lot of control over who we feel great respect for... we only have the opportunity to justify it in hindsight.I think that the people that I respect the most are people that I feel are honest and trustworthy. I have no patience for those who play p... |
List your favourite social news sources | iuguy: Could I be terribly sneaky and promote my infosec news startup? - http://news.mandalorian.comApologies if you've all seen it before :) |
List your favourite social news sources | shafqat: I heard NewsCred.com is full of awesomeness. In all seriousness, we have thousands of visitors a day loving it, so something must be good about it.Personally, my day consists of Hacker News, NewsCred, some Google News, and a sprinkling of the Onion. |
Who do you respect, and why? | vaksel: I respect people who go above the call of duty. Sure you may be great at X, but if you only do whats assigned to you, it shows me that its just a job for you and not something you truly enjoy. |
Who do you respect, and why? | njharman: > What do you see people emphasizing about themselves over and over again, which actually signal they "just don't get it"?Hard to answer, "it" has many values...That the have the or all the answers. That they know and they have nothing to learn on a given topic.Hubris, ego.Also anyone who worships "personali... |
Who do you respect, and why? | maxklein: I think that what I respect is anyone who is unpretentiously humble. People who just do their thing, do it the best way they can, and do not constantly introspect about how good they are, or how they are in a better class that other people.The difference is that if a humble person who has a lot of experience ... |
Who do you respect, and why? | ericb: I respect people who can silence the the inner voice that fears embarrassment--people who can "dance like no one is watching." I've been working on this personally. I'm convinced it is one of life's great keys to success. |
effects of prefix notation on coding / thinking | parenthesis: Of course, infix is (always/usually?) only for some operators (e.g. arithmetic ones), with everything else prefix, just usually written foo(x, y) instead of (foo x y), but prefix nonetheless. |
Who do you respect, and why? | edw519: I respect demonstrated performance.Is is done? Does it work? Does it bring value to others?Anything less is just posing. |
Who do you respect, and why? | daniel-cussen: The guy who stood up to those tanks in Tiananmen Square. |
Who do you respect, and why? | DaniFong: More than anything, I respect awareness. I respect people who are self-aware, and cognizant of the world around them. I respect people who appreciate themselves and other people and the universe around them as the mystery they are, yet who still try to make inroads of understanding.Compared to awareness, crea... |
Who do you respect, and why? | Eliezer: I respect people who, on at least one occasion, have been right when I'm wrong and think I'm right. The only way to really get my attention is to defeat me. Other qualities like kindness and honesty earn my regard and I'll do things to help that person, but that's not the same as hesitating to disagree with ... |
Who do you respect, and why? | cglee: People who are diligent, intelligent and most importantly, compassionate. |
Who do you respect, and why? | froo: I think the people that I most respect are the people that inspire me to be better. So in no particular order:Steve "Woz" Wozniak, Sir James Dyson, Yuri Gagarin & Fred Hollows are the ones that I could name off the top of my head. |
Who do you respect, and why? | ricardo: I respect those that have found a job they truly enjoy doing. |
What do you think about this Entrepreneurship program? | mechanical_fish: It's a con game. Avoid, avoid, avoid.They're going to charge you hundreds of dollars per course for the service of rephrasing some business books and feeding them to you one piece at a time. And it's online only -- you don't even get a human teacher or a flesh-and-blood classmate, so the experience wil... |
Algorithm to identify the same events based on semantic similarity | haidut: OK, there is a pretty "simple" way to do it but I can't divulge all the details b/c we are using it for my semantic news startup. However, I can give you a hint on what you need to do. You need to find a way to reduce different words to their "base" semantics and then compute a similarity measure of sorts betwe... |
What do you think about this Entrepreneurship program? | bstadil: If you need to take a course to learn how to use a CRM program you are in real trouble.This is crock. |
Are there any Good Movies about StartUps? | amrithk: There's an interesting series on Hulu.com called Startup Junkies. It's about a startup called Earth Class mail. There are only about 7-8 episodes on it but I found it to be very interesting |
Are there any Good Movies about StartUps? | rms: Two feature length documentaries about Bubble-era startups:Startup.com (about GovWorks -- they had the contract to process parking tickets for NYC parking tickets but they of course blew it with their extravagant spending)E-Dreams (about Kozmo.com (RIP). haven't seen this, if anyone has it I would like to borrow/b... |
What traps to avoid when dealing with offshore partners? | bstadil: First off why do you think a US hacker would be more honest? In US the first line of defense is always legal measures as your comment clearly confirms. This is not the case in Europe. There is a stigma attached to having to resort to legal means and as such things gets settled most of the time amicably.If I... |
What traps to avoid when dealing with offshore partners? | michael_dorfman: I second the recommendation for a trip to Europe for a face-to-face-- if you're not willing to spare that expense, you're severely underbudgeted.With regard to the enforceability of agreements, etc., talk to your lawyer. Again, if you don't want to spend the money to talk to a lawyer now, you're defin... |
Are there any Good Movies about StartUps? | dmz: http://www.boondogglefilms.net/aardvarkd.php is something similar, though doesn't quite classify as a startup movie. Nevertheless it is interesting (features PG, Joel etc.) |
effects of prefix notation on coding / thinking | silentbicycle: Some languages allow an unambiguous mix of infix and prefix. OCaml & Haskell: 5 + 7 or (+) 5 7
Most non-alphanumeric operators are infix unless in parens. Haskell: map (\ x -> x + 1) [1, 2, 3]
or (\ x -> x + 1) `map` [1, 2, 3]
Two-argument, alphanumerically named functions can be m... |
Are there any Good Movies about StartUps? | paraschopra: Download: The True Story of Internet by Discovery Channel |
How can one deal with bad management? | kennyroo: In a big company, some problems can't be solved from the bottom up. Maybe you should find a better place to work. |
How can one deal with bad management? | noodle: you are not wrong, and there are many companies that operate like this. it sounds like you're in a service-oriented company, where the product is built to fit the requirements of the customers. there are many companies that operate like this. they're typically steady paychecks, but not engaging or challengin... |
How can one deal with bad management? | oldgregg: Aww man, you couldn't have described my situation any better. I came to the decision it wasn't worth my time to try to make a difference (they didn't really deserve the help anyway). I started working only hard enough to not get fired while living like a miser and working crazy hours on my own projects. It wa... |
How can one deal with bad management? | maxklein: Learn this lesson very quickly: Do not complain! You care about what you do, but think about your priorities. Really, think about them. You want to:1. Be happy
2. Make money
3. Be promotedIt's not a startup, so you are not trying to be ultra rich. Now, when you complain you are first and foremost making yours... |
How can one deal with bad management? | Harkins: Leave.The bullet points all sound like typical developer gripes, except being forbidden to talk to team members means one of two things:
1. Management is all messed up and is attacking 'troublemakers' instead of the problems.
2. Your coworkers have complained to management that you are a ball of negativity t... |
Building Credit | run4yourlives: >I didn't get approved because, well, my credit is too clean.Are you sure about this? I remember when I was just getting started, it wasn't the fact that my credit was clean but more the fact that I didn't have enough of a history of borrowing money that hurt me. (Why this is the case is completely mind ... |
Building Credit | Protophore: Your problem may also be dependent on the size of your allowable credit (credit limit on your card). If you have one major credit card, but your max credit line with that card is $5-10k you might have a problem. If you can get your credit card to raise your limit to 20k you might have an easier time with ... |
Building Credit | noodle: "too clean" typically means "you have the credit but you never used it". when people lend you money, they want to see that you, at least sometimes, will actually use that money to the end.if you're the type of person who pays off a loan immediately or ASAP, that is lost money for the lending party. the time t... |
How can one deal with bad management? | SwellJoe: Fire them.Life is short, and jobs exist elsewhere. If this one makes you unhappy, change it. If you have a family to support, you obviously have less flexibility, and will probably need to line something up before leaving the current position.Of course, you may be too inexperienced to recognize the wisdom o... |
How can one deal with bad management? | Protophore: I see a lot of bad behaviours on all sides here and have to agree with many of the posters below that it may be time to jump ship to a different company. Or if the company you work for is large enough you can transfer to a different department, just get away from where you are now.In regards to some of you... |
How can one deal with bad management? | iigs: Sorry to hear about your situation.I can't speak for the options available in your city / work pool, but it sounds like you've gone about as far as this job will take you.If you are perceived to have a bad attitude (regardless of your actual intent) it is going to make your progress at the company difficult. Forg... |
How can one deal with bad management? | tptacek: I have two comments:(1) Though you didn't say it, the comparison to startup life is always implied here, so let's just be clear: most of these problems do not go away at a startup. The pressure to "just get things done" instead of "doing it right" is greater when it's your own company on the line. GitHub, for ... |
Building Credit | anamax: (0) Did the "too clean" explanation come from the dealer or the folks who actually make the decision? If you were turned down for credit reasons in the US, you are entitled to a copy of your credit report and a written explanation. Your credit report will say something about why your score is what it is.
(1) ... |
Email website announcements - expected or spam? | noodle: opt-in.i'd delete emails like that without reading them, if they got by my filters. |
Are there any Good Movies about StartUps? | mnaganov: "Revolution OS" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_OS) --- is a great movie about Linux and FSF, and it also features a story about "Cygnus Solutions" startup. |
Concerned Citizen | noodle: why don't all the really good police officers get together to remove drugs from the country?...oh waitbut seriously, the idea is noble, but the fact is that child pornography is already widely controlled. if you actually want to obtain it, you have to be on the inside of the situation, just like drugs. you ca... |
Email website announcements - expected or spam? | lethain: Well, both Pownce and Twitter send these, and I pretty much ignore them. To the extent that they are expected, they are expected because we are used to being treated badly, not because they are a good thing.I'd try communicating via a blog and also via one-off messages sent to users the first time they log in ... |
Concerned Citizen | lethain: Well, I'm not sure if this a troll or not, but if it isn't, then it seems to hail back to the longstanding misunderstanding of what 'hacker' means. Hacker News is for people who want to a) build cool things, and b) make money. Not so much about vigilante justice. |
How can one deal with bad management? | ewoodh2o: Well I've got the viewpoint from the other side here. I work for a large company in the US that has set up an office abroad for outsourcing some of the engineering. (I'm actually planning to leave to start my own thing soon, but that's a different story.)I think points 1 through 7 you made are typical in an... |
Concerned Citizen | tdavis: Die. |
How can one deal with bad management? | known: 1. Buy shares of that company (ESOP ?).You will automatically become co-owner of the company.2. Leading, Managing, and Administering are 3 different aspects.
3. Change your priorities: People First, Processes Second, and Technologies ThirdYou will automatically align with your management. |
What are the disadvantages programming? | tdavis: This... isn't a coherent question. The disadvantage of programming for the past 10 years is you haven't been programming for the past 20? I have no idea what you're asking. |
Any chance of monetizing this webapp(solarpower, price)? | trapper: Not sure, what are the search volumes & keyword prices like? Are there any big competitors using those keywords? A few hours of digging on adwords will tell you a lot. |
Any chance of monetizing this webapp(solarpower, price)? | speek: Go for it. You never know what will happen until you try. |
Any chance of monetizing this webapp(solarpower, price)? | DabAsteroid: There isn't a killer green energy price comparisment service nor a solar only one.What about Solarbuzz?http://www.solarbuzz.com |
Any chance of monetizing this webapp(solarpower, price)? | DabAsteroid: It's not like solar energy is that big (yet)Why would solar energy get much bigger? |
Interested in news? Network bureau chief just described a service he wants... | andr: So what is the idea? |
Any chance of monetizing this webapp(solarpower, price)? | jacobscott: "Is X monetizeable", "can X generate enough traffic","does X have potential"imho, the answer to these questions will probably take equal effort to the technical/development aspect. There are plenty of price comparison engines around... so if a domain expert in solar thought of this idea and did all the mark... |
Any chance of monetizing this webapp(solarpower, price)? | bilbo0s: Make a website that you can order solar powered gear from. Not the stuff you need to assemble yourself, the stuff that is already complete. Start with solar generators like the SolarStik, or the one at KenSolar. Actually, both, be a reseller is my point.Solar is a useful technology being handled by less tha... |
Interested in news? Network bureau chief just described a service he wants... | mixmax: I love your very candid and honest way of explaining where you are and what you need.Good luck with finding partners - hope you succeed. |
Interested in news? Network bureau chief just described a service he wants... | maxklein: How about $1600 a month + 5% for 6 months instead? Sounds like that would be a better deal for both parties. |
Interested in news? Network bureau chief just described a service he wants... | noodle: i'd be potentially interested in talking/helping.most people get ridiculed when asking for co-founders because the tone of their requests are "hi, this is my startup and i need a developer to flesh it out for me". an actual co-founder is not simply a code money sitting down and banging out someone else's idea. |
Interested in news? Network bureau chief just described a service he wants... | luminousbit: This sounds really intriguing to me and I would love to get involved. Would you mind contacting me to talk more? My e-mail is drew -DOT- blas [AT] gmail |
Interested in news? Network bureau chief just described a service he wants... | steveplace: I'd like to hear about it. Email is in my profile. |
Interested in news? Network bureau chief just described a service he wants... | presty: why not just throw the idea out to the public instead of going through an email sharing process? |
Interested in news? Network bureau chief just described a service he wants... | nir: Curious to hear about it - email in profile. Cheers |
Interested in news? Network bureau chief just described a service he wants... | plaggypig: I'd certainly like to hear more about it - can you contact me? Email address is in my profile. |
How can one deal with bad management? | dannyr: I'm in the same situation but only until Friday!I gave my 2-week notice last week.My morale went down while working for the company. I have always been told no on pretty much everything.I'm unhappy. I told them about my situation but they never did anything.For the past year, I hoped for things to change. But s... |
Interested in news? Network bureau chief just described a service he wants... | btw0: Please email me, address in profile. |
Entering a saturated market full of low quality competition? | jaydub: See search circa 1997 |
Entering a saturated market full of low quality competition? | mrtron: I began writing this and its easier in pseduocode if you know how they are executing poorly
if you know how to execute better
you could kick ass
else how are you not going to end up doing the same?
else are you just being cynical? |
Entering a saturated market full of low quality competition? | abijlani: I don't really see how you stand out from the rest. That said, a t-shirt company in today's environment doesn't seem all that groundbreaking. What Threadless did was something groundbreaking other than that I have just seen your run of the mill t-shirts. |
Entering a saturated market full of low quality competition? | tstegart: Busted prints only on American Apparel, and Snorg prints some on American Apparel, so how is the quality different?Your question is somewhat rhetorical, since entrepreneurs usually are the ones who take on industries that are sloppy, poorly run and delivering inferior products. So yes, its been done before. Y... |
Entering a saturated market full of low quality competition? | timcederman: What, like Google did?http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/09/googles_first_s... |
Entering a saturated market full of low quality competition? | thorax: These companies are heavily advertised, too. (At least I know their names, and besides Threadless, I don't know many clothing companies.)I think it might be difficult to beat them without coming up with a way to get your brand out there better than they do.Another key thought: I worry that a lot of the t-shirt ... |
Entering a saturated market full of low quality competition? | evgen: The real question you should be asking yourself is this: how hard will it be for the competition to change direction or spin-off a new line to solve the same problems we have identified but which can leverage their existing market presence?If it is easy for your competition to copy any successful niche you ident... |
Entering a saturated market full of low quality competition? | unalone: How is Busted Tees low-quality? It churns out constantly-amusing shirts that manage to hit every trend that youth cares about. And they do a pretty good job at it, too.They print on American Apparel, so you're basically the exact same there.And you have competition from sites like Threadless, Veer, TurnNocturn... |
Entering a saturated market full of low quality competition? | halo: Being very successful in a saturated market is definitely possible, especially if you have a product that's much superior to your competitors. However, I don't believe that you do, especially as fashion is quite subjective and you'll struggle to have an empirically better product.The t-shirt space is very crowded... |
Entering a saturated market full of low quality competition? | edw519: 2 things: Know Your Market & Find Your Niche.My guess is that you haven't done either yet.The apparel industry in incredibly brutal and very often without logic. (Comfort is probably not enough of a competitive advantage in this marketplace.)You look like you have some cool stuff. Find your place and stay un... |
Interested in news? Network bureau chief just described a service he wants... | vikram: I'm curious. Could you email me? Email in profile. |
Interested in news? Network bureau chief just described a service he wants... | gnikides: As a former journalist I'd like to hear more. Please email me (profile). |
Entering a saturated market full of low quality competition? | maxklein: There is a chance, and you know what - there is a market! A huge market that just keeps growing! So why would it fail?Let me give you an example: There are restaurants everywhere. EVERYWHERE! So is the restaurant business saturated? No, it's just mature. Some come, some go. It's all a matter of financing and ... |
Interested in news? Network bureau chief just described a service he wants... | veritas: Curious, as always. My email is in my profile :) |
Interested in news? Network bureau chief just described a service he wants... | brandnewlow: Please send inquiries directly to me. My e-mail is in my profile. Thanks for all your interest. It sounds like it might even be possible to pull a few minds together to bash this out pretty quickly and see if it'll fly or not. |
Entering a saturated market full of low quality competition? | acro: Three basic competitive strategies: cost, differentiation, focus. All these seem identical to your competitors when looking at your site. |
Entering a saturated market full of low quality competition? | petercooper: we only print our shirts on American Apparel shirts (regarded as the most comfortable tees you'll ever get your hands on).Really? I thought they were so common just because they were giving printers a good deal or something - they feel average. They're certainly not up to the feel of, say, bamboo t-shirts. |
Entering a saturated market full of low quality competition? | lacker: There's plenty of opportunity there, but I think you're asking the wrong question. I'm concerned that you don't really understand your customers well enough. It's not obvious to me how Snorg Tees and BustedTees are "insultingly low-quality", and I am part of your target market since I buy the occasional t-shirt... |
Entering a saturated market full of low quality competition? | vaksel: You need some sort of gimmick to stand out from the rest of the competition. And no design itself won't work.As an example of a gimmick look at http://200nipples.com (the founder posts on here). His approach will get him the necessary exposure and get people talking about it, and once he gains traction he can p... |
What are those "other complex financial derivatives?" | noodle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateralized_debt_obligations |
What are those "other complex financial derivatives?" | tstegart: Can anyone explain this: "The market for credit derivatives is now so large, in many instances the amount of credit derivatives outstanding for an individual name are vastly greater than the bonds outstanding. For instance, company X may have $1 billion of outstanding debt and $10 billion of CDS contracts out... |
What are those "other complex financial derivatives?" | rms: Does anyone trade in second and third derivatives?For example, the value of the risk of a credit derivative. Or the risk of the risk of a credit derivative. |
Any chance of monetizing this webapp(solarpower, price)? | ld50: turn it into a social network! |
Building Credit | ld50: open up a few more credit cards with as big of a limit as they'll let you.. put $10-$20/month on them and pay them off when they're due. you'll boost your credit score in no time. |
Entering a saturated market full of low quality competition? | comatose_kid: I'd focus my energy on making a deal with a large bricks and mortar retailer for the top n shirts, possibly as a loss-leader just to advertise my site (on the clothing tag) to drive traffic there. Basically something different than what your competitors are doing (focusing on design and t-shirt quality). |
ASK HN: mobile phone start-ups | qhoxie: I would not say that 99% of the people here are excluding mobile phones. Platforms like Android and the iphone are pretty hot right now for applications. There is a lot of debate surrounding how stable they are as exclusive deployment platforms, but there have definitely been large scale successes. |
Entering a saturated market full of low quality competition? | wheels: Some questions to think about:- Are the customers genuinely frustrated with the low quality of the products currently on the market? How do you know? How can you convince them you're better?- Will you create new markets? If not, can you differentiate yourself enough that you're not competing purely on costs? ... |
ASK HN: mobile phone start-ups | meredydd: Mobile phones are definitely worth thinking about. There's quite a web-app skew round here, with associated bias towards the big shiny featureful platforms like Android and the iPhone, but don't discount the other 90% of phone users. There's a lot of life in ordinary J2ME, mobile web, and even SMS application... |
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