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How much equity for first employee? | grellas: First-employee equity grants are normally limited to the 1-2% range (at most), as opposed to getting 10% and higher grants made to founders, for the following reasons:1. First employees usually work for standard salary/benefits and therefore do not take anywhere near the level of risk taken by the founders.2.... |
Review my site - Rate Expectations | indiejade: Cool idea. The name is very clever; are there any plans to expand it beyond a simple "login w/Twitter or facebook" app? |
Review my site - Rate Expectations | mbrubeck: Nice name. |
Review my site - Rate Expectations | aik: Cool. The main thing I find confusing is the rating scheme. It's hard at first to know what constitutes "good".The site rates movies where the benchmark is the quality of the trailer. If a movie has a 58% "voters said the movie is better than the trailer" rating, that means 42% of people were disappointed by th... |
Examples of sites which start free and later switch to paid? | mbrubeck: MetaFilter introduced its lifetime $5 membership fee after initially being free. Existing accounts were grandfathered in, which does a lot to prevent backlash. (If I remember right, LiveJournal also grandfathered in existing members when they first introduced paid features.) |
What's the Big Deal With Google Wave? | jacquesm: I think that the fact that google is behind it is in fact that only thing that drives all this media attention, it means that if it is anywhere near successful that it is going to set the bar for collaborative systems, and set it considerably higher than it has been before.Cisco and a whole bunch of others ha... |
What are you sitting on/in? | p01nd3xt3r: Bean bag on the floor. |
What are you sitting on/in? | mathgenius: I use the hag capisco. Works well for keeping my energy "upwards": strong firm seat that rotates the hip forwards. I find the aeron too saggy. You can get it with or without a backrest. I don't use a backrest cause that forces me not to slouch. |
What are you sitting on/in? | axod: Big leather sofa. Reclining. Plenty Cushions. |
What are you sitting on/in? | Edinburger: Wooden "Captain's Chair" from an "antiques" place but really just junk from a bar. I sanded it to get rid of the nasty laquer and it looks decent now. Unfortunately it is absolutely uncomfortable and completely unsuitable for sitting here for any length of time. So, I am also looking for a new chair...I lik... |
What's the Big Deal With Google Wave? | justlearning: i got an invite yesterday and my bit of playing around in my own wave (no other contacts have wave) - was of no excitement (say compared to gmail when it came around)however I can imagine super productivity in communication/im for teams sitting across continents.A tiny advantage of wave is that you can wa... |
Review my site - Rate Expectations | synnik: I have the same complaint about almost every other new site I visit - I don't immediately know what the site is about.My screen is filled with "Movies Coming Soon."The actual point of the site is barely visible at the very top, and the very bottom. And massive displays of rich media are drawing my eye to the ce... |
Review my site - Rate Expectations | javery: Great design, clever idea. I would signup for this:http://www.fandango.com/affiliateprogramand add a nice big button for "buy a ticket to see this movie". Seems like that would deliver better than adsense. |
Review my site - Rate Expectations | jack7890: What's your endgame? Are you thinking of trying to sell data to movie studios/theaters/marketers? Might be helpful for them to know what trailers generate the most excitement. |
Review my site - Rate Expectations | lpolovets: Awesome name. I like the design, but I think it would be better if you had more movies that were already voted on in the first screen. My first impression was "okay, here are a bunch of things that I can vote on tomorrow... not sure what to do now."Also, I think the font for the 3 headings ("coming out this ... |
Ask HN:Could you give me some advice on how to get started in San Francisco? | DenverGuy: Thank you all very much for your replies. I hadn't even thought of networking at conferences. I'll definitely put that in the plans.Also, like idlewords said, I'll join a small open source project and see if I can contribute in some meaningful way. |
What are you sitting on/in? | jacquesm: Cheap office chair from staples/office centre. Works fine, but I did rip off the arm rests so it can get closer to my work table. |
What are you sitting on/in? | Mankhool: A Steelcase LEAPV2. Great chair. |
Review my site - Rate Expectations | mtholking: Interesting idea, it might help users form an opinion faster by making the rotten tomatoes score more prominent, and perhaps add it to the white space on the right of a title on the home page.It would be nice to integrate the trailers for the 'Coming out this week' by playing them when the user clicks the la... |
Review my site - Rate Expectations | hughprime: I dunno. I'd prefer it if I could:a) See trailers for movies coming out further in the future than this week, andb) Rate the trailers before the movie comes out (and more to the point, see what other people think of the trailer of as un-yet unreleased movie)You could have two forms of voting: until the movie... |
What are you sitting on/in? | parse_tree: I use a kneeling char (like Lisa Simpson has). It takes getting used to, but once your back, thighs, and stomach muscles have adjusted it feels really good. |
Who is using wave? | brk: I would be using it if I had an invite... |
What are you sitting on/in? | planck: A couch in my living room. |
What are you sitting on/in? | Scott_MacGregor: I use a standard Office Depot leather desk chair. I think it cost around $180. It looks good, and more importantly it fits me like a glove. I actually went down to Office Depot and sat in all of their chairs that I thought looked nice, and then just picked the one that felt most comfortable to me.I ca... |
Does a startup always need a new idea | coglethorpe: Not sure if I am an "expert" on this, but Reddit came out after Digg and sold. MySpace and Facebook came out after Friendster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#HistoryThere are plenty of players out there who come out after others do. I have a friend who ... |
Does a startup always need a new idea | ericwaller: Definitely not. Google is the canonical example of a startup entering a crowded market and just doing it better.If you're from India, you're probably familiar with http://www.smsgupshup.com/. I don't know too much about them, but my understanding is that they're very similar to twitter, but managed to grab ... |
Does a startup always need a new idea | davidw: The big example: Google & Altavista.Answer: it depends on the market and that market's dynamics. What are the switching costs? The network effects? In your case, the first is fairly low, but the second may be significant, amongst current users. New users may be easy to attract, if you can get blocks of frie... |
Review my site - Rate Expectations | sam_in_nyc: Very cool idea and concept. However, I'm not convinced of the utility of rating a movie compared to it's trailer. If the movie has a shitty trailer, but is actually an OK movie, it will get high ratings. If it has a great trailer, and is a great movie, it will get average ratings. Why should I care abou... |
Stockholm Startups? | appl3star: checkout jameslist.com - they are in stockholm ... |
Review my site - Rate Expectations | prpon: Nice site. I would use it to decide which movies to watch based on the ratings. And I would like the movies playing now to be at the top (not the one's coming soon).During the process of deciding, I might encounter a movie that I watched, I would vote for it.BTW, what is the incentive for people to vote other th... |
Does a startup always need a new idea | prabodh: thank you for the answers...other big problem is getting the funding in the initial stage..Our revenue model is location based advertising..but to get that running needs lot of money..but without userbase VC doesn't seem to be interested..So we are planning to launch our service before end of this year and get... |
What's the Big Deal With Google Wave? | ramanujan: Key idea: if N people sending emails to each other are all on Gmail, then Google can keep only one copy of the email discussion and show it to all N of them.This is why gmail-to-gmail emails arrive so quickly.More generally, rather than using point-to-point protocols to make N(N-1)/2 pairwise connections bet... |
Review my site - Rate Expectations | mitko: it is turbo addicting. I spent last couple of hours watching trailers |
Review our App feature: Twitter search/Analysis/Share | okeumeni: The Idea is to provide a platform where all your tweets can be data mined and regularly update for searching, trend analysis and sharing.Off course twitter have a search tool, the question is how do you get relevant information from the maze, how do you see what your buddies talked about today while you were ... |
Review my site - Rate Expectations | czcar: Cool site, cool name.
As mentioned by a few others I run into the same problem.
I enjoyed browsing and watching, good way to waste a little time, derive a little enjoyment. And I may use it as a way to evaluate my movie going options, but i'm not entirely sure that I would make a point of returning to review a ... |
Review my site - Rate Expectations | harpastum: I think there is great utility in the concept. The most accessible description of a movie is the trailer, and this site allows people to comment on how accurate this description is.The use-case I see is people looking for movies they're interested in and watching the trailer. They can then use their impressi... |
Does a startup always need a new idea | Scott_MacGregor: Having an entirely new idea is great, but in reality it comes down to a mix of fulfilling a demand and profitability. You can be as new fangled as you want but if you miss the boat on attracting customers/users or on generating sufficient revenues your startup will have a hard time in the marketplace. |
What's in your .emacs file? | johngunderman: http://github.com/johngunderman/emacs/blob/master/emacs-john...Mine's pretty minimal at the moment, but it does the job. |
Does a startup always need a new idea | Xichekolas: As I see it, you can do one of three things:1. Have a new idea (invent first search engine).2. Have a new approach to an existing idea (Google).3. Adapt an existing idea to a new market (Baidu).So no, a new idea isn't required. In fact, it's not so much the idea that matters as the implementation. No one ca... |
Review my site - Rate Expectations | Readmore: I love it, great idea. |
What's in your .emacs file? | grandalf: I use Phil Hagelberg's starter kit and have made a few minor customizations -- works great and minimal learning curve.http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit |
What's in your .emacs file? | lacker: Most important: ;; Don't mix tabs and spaces
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
;; Use "newline-and-indent" when you hit the Enter key so
;; you don't need to keep using TAB to align each line.
(global-set-key "\C-m" 'newline-and-indent)
;; Get rid of the <2> with duplicate file names
(requir... |
What are you sitting on/in? | superchink: Aeron at the office. My company is so 2000. |
What's the Big Deal With Google Wave? | hellotoby: Slightly off topic, but I'd be interested to see what 37signals have to say about Wave, since it seems to encroach on their core business with the added benefit of Wave being free. |
What's in your .vimrc file? | lanstein: perhaps of interest: " for vertical split, with the pipe dividers hidden
:hi clear vertsplit
:hi vertsplit ctermbg=Black ctermfg=Black
" quit quits all
:nmap :q :qa
:nmap :wq :wqa
" H/L go to beginning/end of line without moving fingers
:nmap H 0
:nmap L $
" turn off matching paren highl... |
What's in your .vimrc file? | rarrrrrr: "tab completion of words in insert mode
function InsertTabWrapper()
let col = col('.') - 1
if !col || getline('.')[col - 1] !~ '\k'
return "\<tab>"
else
return "\<c-p>"
endif
endfunction
inoremap <tab> <c-r>=InsertTabWrapper()<cr> |
What's in your .vimrc file? | txxxxd: Most of what I use was copied from this excellent site:
http://www.vi-improved.org/vimrc.php |
What's in your .vimrc file? | geocar: set vi |
What's in your .vimrc file? | cdmwebs: Lots: http://github.com/cdmwebs/dotfiles/raw/master/vimrcProbably time to clean it up a bit. |
What's in your .vimrc file? | aristoxenus: Some I like: " Keep cycled-away buffers open (preserving undo,
" allowing buffer switch without write)
set hidden
" Facilities for handling pasting into vim, preserving
" indentation of the pasted text.
" This will make <F4> start paste mode and <F5> stop paste mode.
" Note that typing <F5> ... |
What's in your .emacs file? | jws: 178 lines of crap accumulated over about 20 years. I think I only use an indent variable setting, one key binding, and a handful of language autoloads.delete-delete-delete save-buffer Much better. |
What's in your .vimrc file? | dtf: Map some "leader" commands for common operations, eg: let mapleader=','
let g:mapleader=','
nmap <leader>w :w!<cr>
nmap <leader>q :q<cr>
nmap <leader>f :find<cr>
map <leader>d :execute 'NERDTreeToggle ' . getcwd()<CR>
nmap <leader>m :make<cr>
" cut & paste
map <leader>c "+y
map <leader>x "+d
... |
What's in your .vimrc file? | paulgb: Mainly for python scripting, but works decently for most editing I do. syntax on " syntax highlighting
set tabstop=4 " PEP-8 uses 4 spaces per indentation level
set shiftwidth=4 " shifting (PEP-8)
set expandtab " spaces instead of tabs (PEP-8, and just bettter in general)
filetype on " file type detect... |
What's in your .vimrc file? | aliem: I just keep swap files and backup ones in my .vim/ directory set backupdir=~/.vim/backup
set backup
set directory=~/.vim/tmp
This to see line numbers on the left (i find it a bit more readable instead of watching at the bottom-right) set number
added a simple way to speedup my writing with (I know it's c... |
What's in your .vimrc file? | ktf: I do a lot of copying/pasting from my browser (and other random places), so these mappings make my life easier: " copy/paste with the system clipboard
map ^P "+gP
map ^C "+y
Also this, for dealing with DOS-style stuff: " map <ctrl>+s to remove ^M from the ends of lines
map ^S :%s\/^M\/\/g |
What's in your .emacs file? | jrockway: My .emacs: http://github.com/jrockway/dotfiles/blob/master/emacsSupporting files: http://github.com/jrockway/elisp/tree/master/_localPerhaps worth stealing: http://github.com/jrockway/elisp/blob/master/_local/term-ext...Total lines: 2396. (I am not averse to changing a few defaults.) |
What's in your .vimrc file? | amix: It's a little outdated, but I spent some time on tweaking it: http://amix.dk/vim/vimrc.htmlI specially like: map <space> /
map <c-space> ?
And the parenthesis/bracket expanding. |
What's in your .vimrc file? | jrockway: Emacs version here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=856108 |
What's in your .vimrc file? | brk: Nothing.I work on many different systems from time to time. I don't like to get too used to things that aren't universal. I have found out (the hard way) that relying on convenience can bite you in the ass when it's 3AM and you've been up for 67 consecutive hours and you execute some keystrokes from habit and th... |
What's in your .emacs file? | jacquesm: there already was:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=855963 |
What's in your .emacs file? | brodie: http://bitbucket.org/brodie/dotfiles/src/tip/.emacs
http://bitbucket.org/brodie/dotfiles/src/tip/.emacs.d/plugin...Probably my favorite bit of the config is that it uses flymake to run Pyflakes on my Python code as I'm writing it. I also have a little plugin that shows the error in the minibuffer area when the ... |
What's in your .vimrc file? | yan: Mine's not very advanced; .gvimrc for MacVim: set guifont=Pragmata:h14
set guioptions=egmrLt
set nohlsearch
set number
set ts=3
colors vividchalk
syntax on
Pragmata is a delicious, delicious font. |
What are you sitting on/in? | kd5bjo: I have a standing-height desk and no chair. |
What's in your .vimrc file? | donw: Characters. Lots of characters. |
What's in your .vimrc file? | kd5bjo: syntax on
set background=dark
set et
set ts=4
set ruler
set shiftwidth=4 |
What's in your .emacs file? | yummyfajitas: I have an emacs.d, which is a superior alternative to a .emacs.The basic init.el file loads my various language modes, and some other minor modes (e.g., tempbuf-mode). It also loads a bunch of files from the "emacs.d/my_lisp" directory which contains various overrides and new functionality attached to exi... |
What's in your .vimrc file? | bnmrrs: Most of my .vim folder and .vimrc came from andreiz and tomasr. I have it committed to github for easy download on any server I'm working on. http://github.com/bnmrrs/dotfies if anybody would like to check it out. map ,q :q!<CR>
map ,s :w<CR>
map ,w :x<CR>
nmap <silent> <F6> :set number!<CR>
and ctags... |
What's in your .vimrc file? | tsally: Do this to prevent yourself from learning the arrow keys while learning: map <down> <nop>
map <left> <nop>
map <right> <nop>
map <up> <nop>
imap <down> <nop>
imap <left> <nop>
imap <right> <nop>
imap <up> <nop>
(There's actually a recently reported bug that causes the up arrow to do some st... |
What's in your .vimrc file? | pyre: A good line to memorize: :set et sts=4 sw=4 ts=4
et = expandtab (spaces instead of tabs)
ts = tabstop (the number of spaces that a tab equates to)
sw = shiftwidth (the number of spaces to use when indenting
-- or de-indenting -- a line)
sts = softtabstop (the number of spaces to use when expa... |
What's in your .vimrc file? | there: http://github.com/jcs/dotfiles/blob/master/.vimrc |
What's in your .emacs file? | al3x: I only periodically experiment with Emacs as my day-to-day editor, but my configuration isn't too shabby: http://github.com/al3x/emacs |
What's in your .emacs file? | mikedouglas: Here is a one-liner that's quite useful: (add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook
(lambda ()
(font-lock-add-keywords nil
'(("\\<\\(FIXME\\|TODO\\|BUG\\):" 1 font-lock-warning-face t))))) |
What's in your .vimrc file? | enum: I think :set wildmenu is great, especially for relative newbies such as myself: command! CD cd %:p:h " change to current buffer's directory
set incsearch " Incremental search
set hlsearch " Highlight search
set guifont=Bitstream\ Vera\ Sans\ Mono\ 12
set nowritebackup " no stupid backup files
set noswa... |
What's in your .emacs file? | elq: http://github.com/elq/dot-emacs/ |
What's in your .emacs file? | apgwoz: Mine has two things: (require 'activator)
(activator-start)
Then it loads all of these: http://github.com/apgwoz/emacs-config |
What's in your .emacs file? | bmac: my emacs.d still needs a few tweaks but I'm convinced it always will.most useful parts:
replacing fundamental mode with text-mode as the default mode when a new buffer is open.(setq default-major-mode 'text-mode)turn auto fill (automatic line wraping) and flyspell (spellchecking) on by default(add-hook 'text-mode... |
What's in your .vimrc file? | machrider: This crap has accumulated over the years, so I'm not sure if any of it is obsolete or unneeded, but here's what I found in mine: set expandtab " Convert tabs to spaces
set tabstop=4 " <TAB> four spaces
set shiftwidth=4 " Shift width four spaces (for auto indent)
set noautoindent ... |
What's in your .emacs file? | mark_h: http://github.com/markhepburn/dotemacsLots of cruft (roughly 10 years worth), although I did recently start to refactor.Most notable: it's fairly portable and relocatable, thanks to a snippet I cooked up (probably not original, but I haven't seen it else-where):
http://everythingtastesbetterwithchilli.com/initi... |
What's in your .vimrc file? | ccollins: Sorry about how long this is!! This is the culmination of about 1.5 years using VIM as my exclusive text editor for web development. When I started I was using PHP and now I'm using Ruby on Rails. If you have any general questions about VIM, specific questions about my .vimrc, or anything related, ask in the ... |
What's in your .vimrc file? | latortuga: http://github.com/latortuga/personal/blob/master/_vimrcI've been messing with code folding lately, cool stuff. |
What's in your .emacs file? | kirubakaran: http://github.com/ki/my-dot-emacs/raw/master/dot-emacs.txt |
What's in your .emacs file? | scottw: You'll want to check out dotfiles.com also, btw. I considered putting this in a separate link, but thought that since you asked, it wouldn't be too terrible to post here. There are a few things I include in every .emacs file I have across multiple shell accounts, and this is more or less the entirety of it: ;;... |
What's in your .vimrc file? | SlyShy: set nocompatibleset backspace=indent,eol,startif has("vms")
set nobackup
else
set backup
endif
set history=50
set ruler
set showcmd
set incsearchmap Q gqinoremap <C-U> <C-G>u<C-U>if has('mouse')
set mouse=a
endifif &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running")
syntax on
set hlsearch
endifif has("autocmd")... |
What's in your .vimrc file? | csexton: Adopted from the mighty tpope's vimrc file, and somewhat dependent on some of the plugins (also in my dotfiles repo on github)http://github.com/csexton/dotfiles/blob/master/home/vimrc |
What's in your .vimrc file? | tvaughan: :set viminfo=""
:set modeline ai et si sw=8 ts=8
:syntax off |
What's in your .vimrc file? | omegazero: Reformat hex-dumps into 32-bit words, 8 words per line.nmap H :s/\v(\S{8})/\1 /g<CR>:s/\v((\S{8} ){8})/\1<C-V><CR>/g<CR>:nohl<CR> |
What's in your .vimrc file? | throw_away: someone mentioned listchars elsewhere, but I prefer these glyphs: set listchars=tab:»·,trail:·
set list
this makes it so all your tabs and trailing whitespace is visible. note, this will make you hate almost every other developer. |
Who is using wave? | tumult: Should we get some kind of HN group going to play around with it? I haven't played with the public one yet, so I don't know why kind of groups support there is. I think a decent number of us are in the sandbox, too, but we never organized. |
Rate my site iJiny.com - micro classifieds service in India | fname: I like it. Clean design and description of what the site is on the front page.Not sure about the name.. but it works for now.http://www.ijiny.com |
Rate my site iJiny.com - micro classifieds service in India | kyro: It seems like a nice idea, although I don't fully understand it. Where does the mobile part come in? Do I post ads from my phone, or do I receive replies via SMS. I think foreign markets are really under-served when it comes to services like these. My only concern would be having the numbers listed on the front p... |
What's in your .emacs file? | mahmud: I wrote a long article and at the last paragraph, I decided to edit a sentence, I selected the "region" and pressed C-w to remove it :-(For uninitiated, C-w is "yank text", i.e. cut it, and Firefox it is "close current tab without warning". |
How many of you are actually using Lisp in your startup/projects? | tumult: I use Scheme (Bigloo, PLT/mzscheme) all the time, even if the project isn't in Scheme itself. If I hit a point where I know I don't fully understand the problem, I'll usually break out my Scheme stuff play around until I have a better grasp, and then redo it in whatever language/platform the project is in (righ... |
What's in your .vimrc file? | bmj: Mine, though I've (mostly) moved to emacs these days: set nocompatible
source $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim
behave mswin
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set gfn=Consolas:h10:cANSI
set number
set cin!
colorscheme evening
map <silent><A-Right> :tabnext<CR>
map <s... |
How many of you are actually using Lisp in your startup/projects? | mahmud: I do. Common Lisp stack. |
What's in your .vimrc file? | patrocles: Put your vimrc under revision control. Watch it grow from 5 lines to over 500 in the span of a year.It seems like switching the developer bit in the brain for config files does wonders for environment personalization. |
What's in your .vimrc file? | mickeyben: I used almost everything from thoughtbot articles :http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/166073596/intro-rails-vimandhttp://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/159805668/2009-rubyists-gu... |
What's in your .emacs file? | coffeemug: http://sources.defmacro.org/emacs-conf/ |
How many of you are actually using Lisp in your startup/projects? | gruseom: Common Lisp and Parenscript. |
What's in your .vimrc file? | jyf1987: syntax oncolor zellnerset cursorlineset cursorcolumnset nuset autoindentset tabstop=4map <C-n> <ESC><ESC>:tabnew<CR>map <C-left> <ESC><ESC>:tabprev<CR>map <C-right> <ESC><ESC>:tabnext<CR>map <C-down> <ESC><ESC>:tabclose<CR |
What's in your .vimrc file? | nikhilpandit: I like autocomplete in my .vimrcfunction! InsertTabWrapper()
let col = col('.')-1
if !col || getline('.')[col-1]!~'\k'
return "\<tab>"
else
return "\<C-P>"
endif
endfunction
inoremap <tab> <C-R>=InsertTabWrapper()<CR> |
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