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Rate my Product : QueryCell | kincy12: Great product. Hard to find doing Google search though. Need to get it to show up when typing "Excel sql", "Excel query", "sql in excel", etc. etc. I think if you do your sales will rocket. Good luck and thanks for a great product |
Data storage question | vyrotek: Windows Azure Table Storage supports schema-less data. You can give it any sort of entity and store them in something similar to a table but without schema restrictions. I use it for one of my projects and love it.http://www.microsoft.com/azureedit - Thought I would also point out you can whatever language you... |
I need to ask a Google employee a question? | iphpdonthitme: I once emailed Peter Norvig about about one of his Amazon book reviews. Surprisingly, he replied back within a day. |
Review my webapp - Goalbot | weaksauce: Not to be nitpicky, but in startups every little bit helps, you should change loose weight to lose weight in the "start a business" goal. Loose refers to the opposite of tight. Lose refers to the act of removing something.Other than the dialog boxes that pop up like crazy the site is interesting. One thing y... |
Data storage question | johnm: This sounds perfect for a native XML "database". Check out e.g., MarkLogic Server. That's what we built http://markmail.org/ on top of. |
Data storage question | nostrademons: Read in the file, then issue the appropriate CREATE TABLE commands through your database connection to dynamically create the appropriate columns. Keep a table with metadata on the tables you've created (you really only need the table names, you can issue a DESCRIBE to get everything else, but there may ... |
Check out my side project | pkulak: I've been working on this for a couple months in my spare time, and I think it's turned out pretty well. It's a meal planning site. It's really simple, but it really helps when you want to eat at home more instead of going out. Check it out and let me know what you think. If you want to register, use this link ... |
Data storage question | acangiano: You could use DB2 Express-C (which is free); you can then store the data as XML and query it at will. |
Data storage question | matthodan: Thanks for all of the great comments. I'll need to do a little reading to get up to speed on these ideas. |
Check out my side project | slig: One thing that I noticed:- Maybe move the "add X" to inside the box, on the bottom right corner.I really liked the "create shopping list" feature. The way you do the items aggregation is very useful. |
Do I have the wrong university or the wrong attitude? | srveit: I live in St. Louis, although I did not attend WUSTL. I did some web development for two graduates from there. You may be interested in these two local groups of which I am a member: St. Louis Ruby Users Group (http://groups.google.com/group/stlruby) and Lambda Lounge (http://lambdalounge.org/). Also Alex Mille... |
Check out my side project | jackowayed: You really need a real home page. Having a guest account they can play with is awesome ... but it's not a good way to start it off.When I come to the site for the first time, the first thing I see is an unexplained empty calendar. That's very confusing. You need a "this is what mealfire is and why it's cool... |
Check out my side project | panic: This is a really good idea, and a nice implementation. Like jackowayed said, a better presentation would help with first impressions. Some kind of recipe sharing would be cool, too. |
Check out my side project | Lammy: I've been working on something almost exactly like this in my spare time. That's an odd feeling. |
Check out my side project | steadicat: I think it's a bad idea to punish people who register by locking them out unless they pay $5. At least warn them of what's going to happen...I liked the idea so I thought I would register right away. Now I'm prevented from trying it out. Why would I shell out $5 now? |
Check out my side project | thaumaturgy: Allow users to purchase recipes from the site for a small fee (99 cents?).Allow other users to sell recipes on the site.Take a cut between the two. |
Check out my side project | Jacoblk: First of all, this seems like a great app; it has a very nice usability in its current form. That said, it seems like there are just a few ideas that could really improve the app:1. A real homepage. For example, notice how the homepage on www.freshbooks.com shows a decently sized screen shot, followed by a lis... |
alternative to slicehost/linode? (need FreeBSD) | hibiscus4: rackspace "cloud"? |
Check out my side project | kbrower: Awesome! I always get excited when I see other food related apps on hn.A bug:
All of the blue buttons in the content area(ie Create Shopping List) do not work for me because the ul with id header links is covering them.I signed up and then wanted to get the bookmarklet, and I had to log out to find it. When I ... |
Concentrate on work when you have personal problems.. | adaptives: I will share something which worked for me...Take life one hour at a time... or one short goal at a time. So before leaving from home for work, I would have one goal - "I need to get to work in 45 mins", that's it, no more thought about anything else.Once at work, I would have this short goal "I need to chec... |
Stockholm Startups? | JohanLange: HI - freelancers/entrepreneurs meet at www.2lance.net - online and meetings, there's and Internation community, an entrepreneur community at ning.com and a few more...Niclas Carlsson runs "founders alliance" with an amazing bunch of startups.Just to start the seach - welcome to Shining Stockholm!Johan Lange |
Ask Hn: How to create an iPhone App demo video? | dangrover: I wrote a freebie app that gives you a simulated finger:
http://www.wonderwarp.com/phonefinger/ |
Ask Hn: How to create an iPhone App demo video? | lucasvo: Check this out: http://github.com/atebits/SimFingerI have used SimFinger and SnapzPro to record the screencast. I didn't have access to Adobe Premiere, so I used Keynote to add the titles. I created a slideshow the way I wanted it and then recorded it with Keynote's built in recorder.Unfortunately I can't show... |
Does a startup always need a new idea | james85: I don't see any serious need of having a brand new idea for a startup. But yeah surely it is the implementation of the idea that finally matters much. |
Ask Hn: How to create an iPhone App demo video? | hboon: ScreenFlow. Awesome. |
What is the difference between Software Engg. & Senior Software Engg.? | cperciva: The title "Senior Software Engineer" means "we're worried about you leaving, but we don't want to pay you more, so we're going to give you a title which sounds better in order to make you feel appreciated". |
What is the difference between Software Engg. & Senior Software Engg.? | yan: To me, "software engineer" means you can come to a large, existing project, look at their open tickets and begin to attempt to fix the issues. "Senior software engineer" means you can design such a project, push the first commit and supervise it as it grows.But what does it mean realistically? Probably exactly wha... |
Image recognition books and resources | yan: Image recognition in what domain? Do you want to be able to look at a photo and determine what objects are represented, or do you want to be able to do OCR or do you want to filter biometric data or something else entirely? |
What is the difference between Software Engg. & Senior Software Engg.? | gruseom: There are no differences in work responsibilities. The term is an artifact of HR and organizational structures that have little to do with making software. |
Image recognition books and resources | monk_the_dog: Here's my list:For a general introduction:* "Digital Image Processing" by Gonzalez and Woods* "Image Processing, Analysis, and Machine Vision" by Sonka, Hlavac, and BoyleAfter you learn the basics, some more advanced and specialized books I'd recommend:* "Morphological Image Analysis" by Soille.* "Insight... |
Everybody can tell you how to do it, but they never did it. | javery: I always try to read up on the authors background to frame what they are saying.I do think it is useful to hear from people as they are going through the process, meaning I don't require that they have "made it" to trust their advice.I think there are four levels I group most people into:1) Never done it and no... |
How do you pick colors | diiq: I use color theory. http://www.worqx.com/color/index.htm |
How do you pick colors | charliepark: http://kuler.adobe.com/ is a really good resource for this. You can name a general description of a color you want ("dirt" or "angry" or "light blue" or "cloudy"), and you'll get a ton of color combos, with a ton of complimentary colors thrown in for free. |
How do you pick colors | yannis: I 'lift' them from paintings :) |
SEO today, what's it all about? | ddemchuk: of course it's worth it...if you're interested in proactive SEO, you need to focus on building relevant, targeted one way links to your site for the keywords you're looking to rank for. Start with long tail keywords (like 2004 nissan altima 5 speed vs. nissan altima) so there is less competition to worry abou... |
How do you pick colors | jakarta: http://zabadab.eu/colorwhore/
http://www.knorrpage.de/colormatch.html |
SEO today, what's it all about? | yannis: (a) Content (and attach a blog)(b) Be the community.Answer questions on forum(s) related to your niche. Help people solve those problems via Twitter and other social sites. Write in turn about those experiences. Rinse & Repeat.It's cheaper to cause awesomeness than to buy it.(c) Adhere to basics, good titles, v... |
UK Colleges - Oxford or Cambridge? | RiderOfGiraffes: I studied at Cambridge, only visiting Oxford to visit friends and to speak (seminars and public events).I think there is little to choose between them. You will find people of like mind almost whereever you go, provided you seek them out.It's true the Cambridge has the science Park, and I know of seve... |
How do you pick colors | qhoxie: I've used http://www.colourlovers.com/ for years. Great site. |
Image recognition books and resources | aho: There is a draft of Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications by Richard Szeliski available for free online http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/szeliski/Book/. It's good overall, but some sections are still incomplete (missing diagrams, for example). |
How do you pick colors | dejv: http://colorschemedesigner.com/ is also nice, it also include emulator for different eye diseases |
How do you pick colors | DanielStraight: I look for nice colors that aren't blue. Too many things use blue.I also use the previously mentioned colourlovers and colorschemedesigner. |
How do you pick colors | colbyolson: I use Color Scheme Designer, it's so easy to find complementary colors and its a beautiful UI.http://colorschemedesigner.com/ |
How do you pick colors | lkozma: I pick a nice photo of nature and use a
"color palette generator" (search for this, etc.) |
How do you pick colors | cgherb911: I see alot of posts from the design perspective but what is your brand trying to convey? Who are your customers? The sure fire way is to generate lets say 20 schemes, get friends, family, and biz partners to vote on their top 5. Get a collection of top 3-10 color schemes and show them to possible customer... |
UK Colleges - Oxford or Cambridge? | barry-cotter: In your situation I would go for Oxford. I'm biased since I've got an uncle teaching there in Economics. Cambridge is better in Sci/Eng Oxford in Arts/Social Science. But if you wanted to do Ec you'd be better off at LSE. The faculty access at Oxbridge is incomparably better than anywhere else worldwide, ... |
What is the difference between Software Engg. & Senior Software Engg.? | cmars232: At least a 10% raise, I'd hope! |
UK Colleges - Oxford or Cambridge? | sharpn: I didn't go to either so I don't know. But in a previous job I hired programer grads from both & found them all excellent (& much better than Harvard - but nb. tiny sample size). I strongly recommend you make some connections in London whilst at either, and take advantage of the cheap flights/train to Barcelona... |
How do you pick colors | bbest86: http://aviary.com has a great color picker called Toucan. It allows you to pick colours spaced out around the colour wheel based on a few parameters. Also does the colour-blindness emulator. You can check out colour palettes that others have created as well and modify them to become your own as you see fit. |
How do you pick colors | davidw: Completely randomly, and it shows:-/ |
How do you pick colors | NathanKP: I usually consider the psychology of the colors I use, especially from the point of view of whether or not I am designing a commercial site. In addition it is important to consider the age group of your website visitors.I've written an article about my take on color psychology in web pages:http://experimentg... |
SEO today, what's it all about? | byrneseyeview: A little SEO is worth it, whether or not you know what you're doing. You can read the free stuff on SEOMoz to get a good idea of best practices.Essentially, SEO is a way to showcase your content so it's more obvious to search engines that your site is about whatever it's about. That means:* Fresh content... |
Image recognition books and resources | yaroslavvb: I was in your boat several months ago when I had to learn image processing from scratch to implement a requested feature"Digital Image Processing Using MATLAB" ended up the most useful, along with some basic Matlab tutorialshere's what I ended up with
http://yaroslavvb.blogspot.com/2009/08/robust-ocr-in-vi... |
How do you pick colors | petercooper: I use a lot of the sites mentioned elsewhere on this page, but other than that, one thing I also do is find pictures with color combinations in them that "jump out" at me and then sample those colors into a palette. This is how to get the most interesting combinations in my experience. |
How do you pick colors | n-named: http://colorusage.arc.nasa.gov/ColorTool_appletMac.html |
How do you pick colors | silvio: In the same way that I wouldn't ask an artist to design a software library, I don't expect myself to choose colors, layout, or design correctly. When shown choices from designers, I can tell which ones I like, and which ones work, and so on, but hacking graphic aesthetics is something that takes years to get go... |
How do you pick colors | jamesbritt: Sometimes I semi-arbitrarily pick two colors that feel right with each other (on a white background), and start there.I makes adjustments over time, the more I look at something while I work on it.Often I poke around with assorted tools to see what pops up.http://delicious.com/jamesbritt/colorpicker |
How do you pick colors | maxer: I wear very vibrant colors in life- lots of yellows, oranges and sky bluesThis carries through in my designs-So usually start with a color and may see a site with a scheme and alter it or use one of the color scheme choosers in google |
Monitoring historical server resource usage on linux? | jws: I keep munin, http://munin.projects.linpro.no/ installed on all my servers. When things begin to look unwell, it lets you look back to see what resource, temperature, voltage, or activity might have changed.It is alleged to be easy to add your own data points to it as well. |
Monitoring historical server resource usage on linux? | ApolloRising: You can try Munin, MRTG, or CACTI |
Monitoring historical server resource usage on linux? | maelstrom: rrdtool |
Monitoring historical server resource usage on linux? | ezmobius: Collectd, I swear by it, running it on thousands of hosts without issues. |
Monitoring historical server resource usage on linux? | josephruscio: Are you looking only at free solutions? Or is proprietary software an option? |
Monitoring historical server resource usage on linux? | lg: You probably know about sar, but a lot of people may not; it can get advanced with all the options, but for simple cpu spot checks: sar -u X Y
prints Y lines of utilization info, one every X seconds. |
How do you pick colors | bootload: "... observing nature is far more interesting than just trying to think about things ..."Nature.I discovered this back in 2007 playing around with images I'd taken out my kitchen window ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157603995704881... I also keep a hand colour set on flickr for reference ~ h... |
Monitoring historical server resource usage on linux? | brianr: Cacti. |
Monitoring historical server resource usage on linux? | duskwuff: Ganglia is pretty good, although it's oriented more towards detecting problems than diagnosing them post-mortem. |
Monitoring historical server resource usage on linux? | jbellis: There's a ton of projects, none of which is truly easy to deploy, all of which kinda suck, and all of which store data as RRDs (which is the worst possible solution except for all the others, as the saying goes).This is an area that could use some new blood, but apparently the existing solutions work barely we... |
Awesome/neat/favourite Eclipse techniques? | abalashov: I've got a question: Is it possible to make Eclipse SVN-aware even when SVN-over-SSH (SVN over SSH remote command transport, aka svn+svn://user@host/path/to/repository URI scheme) is being used? |
How do you pick colors | slavingia: http://colorstreamapp.com/ |
Monitoring historical server resource usage on linux? | rv77ax: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/Dim_STAT<quote>
All STAT data are collected from standard Solaris or Linux programs (vmstat, iostat, etc.) or some special (like psSTAT for users/processes activity) and saved in MySQL database. Collected data are accessed via Web interface and can be presented in ... |
Awesome/neat/favourite Eclipse techniques? | axod: >> "especially the ones that were most convicted about how futile it is to write Java without Eclipse (or at least, one of the big three IDEs) - convinced me to give it another go."I've been writing java for about 10 years and have tried an IDE once or twice. Horrible experiences.Most of my code has been written ... |
Awesome/neat/favourite Eclipse techniques? | stanley: My personal favorite are the Templates in Preferences > Java > Editor > TemplatesEx: type in sysout hit CTRL + Space and it will convert sysout into System.out.println();In regards to shortcuts, the ones I use most are: CTRL + ALT + UP/DOWN to duplicate a selected block of code and paste it above/below
C... |
Awesome/neat/favourite Eclipse techniques? | weak: I don't know if these are techniques rather then hotkeys, but I actively use the following (Note: I'm not really a big fan of IDEs, but use them professionally to conform to my work environment and Eclipse, while somewhat bloated, is very pleasant and gets better with every milestone).Debugging:Learn the hotkeys ... |
Legality of hosting a subtitles site | DarkShikari: Disclaimer: IANAL.Answer: Of course it's probably illegal. A fair use argument could theoretically be made, but I don't think there's been an actual court case over it, so I would put any such argument in the "dubious" category.But in practice, most publishing companies don't care; in some cases they will... |
Awesome/neat/favourite Eclipse techniques? | mullr: I'm just hitting eclipse after a long stint in Visual Studio. Favorite feature so far: hit ctrl+3 to give you a quicksilver-like command line full of useful stuff. The completion is a little finicky, but it's good enough to be useful. Also, Ctrl+Shift+R, I think, lets you open a file by typing in its prefix. |
Browsers Crashed When Streaming from Netflix | alina24: Try this : http://www.opera.com/ |
How do you pick colors | RobEdwards: http://www.colourlovers.com/ is a great place to start. Loads of color pallets and textures. |
Legality of hosting a subtitles site | michael_dorfman: If your question is about the legality of something, for god's sake, ASK A LAWYER.Seriously.And, by the way, if you have a medical condition, don't ask random strangers about that, either-- ask a doctor. |
Legality of hosting a subtitles site | kierank: A lot of subtitles are extracted from DVDs and Blu-rays in theory content owners could claim copyright. |
Legality of hosting a subtitles site | eli: It doesn't really matter if it's legal (thought it probably isn't) if it's going to piss off the copyright holders, they'll come after you anyway. |
Monitoring historical server resource usage on linux? | carl_: I use zabbix over ~<1000 physical and virtual hosts for historical resource usage and alerting.Cacti for network traffic monitoring (and alerting using thold plugin).Smokeping for network latency and availability monitoring and alerting. |
Does MySql/Postgresql + Ruby/Python/Groovy solve 80% of IT problems? | jacquesm: By the time you run out of steam on a fair sized server with a few slave nodes thrown in you're ticking over at 1M uniques daily, with some work you can stretch that quite a bit further (sharding).Of course this depends on how much of a load your average user generates.The database is a bottleneck, sure. But ... |
Does MySql/Postgresql + Ruby/Python/Groovy solve 80% of IT problems? | chipsy: No, because these things are not "solutions." They are technologies. You apply the right technology to the right situation. It is true that there are technology fads, but the fad technologies are often linked to growing awareness within the industry about the concepts they employ.For example:C++ -> Class-based ... |
Legality of hosting a subtitles site | cduan: Here is a little copyright intro for you. This is not legal advice; if you are in need of particular answers for your situation, please consult an attorney directly, as other commenters have indicated.Copyright protects original creative expression. This is in contrast to general ideas, which cannot be protected... |
How do you pick colors | petervandijck: And moving beyond the visual to branding: if there is an entrenched competitor in your space that uses a certain color (lets say blue), pick an opposite color (say red or green). If you color your logo/colorscheme the same as them, you are just confirming visually that your brand is a copy of them, and n... |
How do you pick colors | known: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_color_tryit.asp?hex=ffffff |
How many of you are actually using Lisp in your startup/projects? | wglb: Using SBCL, emacs. No web stuff here, save for a few internal reports. It is working very nicely. (ex c++, C, Python, Bliss, asm programmer) |
Where do you go for adhoc/freelance design resource? | bdmac97: I used 99designs. |
Where do you go for adhoc/freelance design resource? | replicatorblog: http://coroflot.com can be a great resource. Also, if you are near an art school you can find a lot of great/affordable talent there. |
Where do you go for adhoc/freelance design resource? | fjabre: For icons just do a search on google for icon libraries. Some are free and some others are cheap for what you get.Do not pay for custom icon design unless you absolutely need to.For site design your best bet is to look at CSS galleries. Tons of designers put their portfolios up there.Also check out deviantart.c... |
iPhone optimized HN site? | dc2k08: http://www.icombinator.net/ |
Awesome/neat/favourite Eclipse techniques? | djbigjust: Emacs key-bindings saved my life |
Where do you go for adhoc/freelance design resource? | donw: Talk to the people in the art/graphics design department at your local university. There's a big pool of talent there that is (a) affordable, and (b) starting out, just like you. So you'll be helping somebody else with their career, and may find someone who you can bring in-house as a designer once they graduat... |
iPhone optimized HN site? | chaosprophet: Maybe this should be added to the FAQ. There have been a lot of posts recently about this. |
Where do you go for adhoc/freelance design resource? | danspodcast: I use odesk.com. Its especially useful if you have a lot of smaller tasks since you can develop relationships with freelancers via the project mgmt tool that tracks their time and manages payment. |
Where do you go for adhoc/freelance design resource? | Kollner: I used http://www.crowdspring.com/ with success. |
Where do you go for adhoc/freelance design resource? | georgekv: CrowdSpring is another nice option in my experience.http://www.crowdspring.com/ |
How much of your personal life did you have to give up for your startup? | keefe: I don't believe that this should ever go to zero. I think the heart of this question is : how do you maximize long term productivity? For me, if I work more than 70-77 hours a week for an extended period, my productivity drops. I can flirt with 90 hours in a pinch, but once I break 70 hours I start to make mista... |
Tips on starting a tiny business? | matthodan: Congrats on taking the road less traveled. I too started a business while I was in college to pay the bills-- turned out to be one of the best experiences of my life. Looking back, the most important thing I had going for me was a great co-founder that complimented my interests and skill set.When we were s... |
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