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What source code is worth studying? | projectileboy: I highly recommend both Paul Graham's source code for Arc (http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc3.tar), as well as the source code for Quake and Quake II (http://www.idsoftware.com/business/techdownloads/). |
what are the two best technical decisions you made for your startup? | idlewords: For context I run pinboard.in, a bookmarking site.1. Using PHP rather than Rails or Django. It meant having to hand-code simple things like form handling, but resulted in a peppy site that can handle sudden spikes in traffic. The initial investment in writing boilerplate and laying out the code has really ... |
What source code is worth studying? | lpolovets: This is half answer/half tangent, but I like http://www.google.com/codesearch a lot for browsing and reading code. A fun thing to do is to look at how others implement something you want to implement, or use some library you want to use. You end up finding a lot of different ways of doing the same thing, and... |
What source code is worth studying? | scott_s: The Linux kernel: http://miller.cs.wm.edu/ |
What source code is worth studying? | jsyedidia: I highly recommend the Stanford GraphBase, written by Donald Knuth. It's C code written by Knuth using the literate programming tool CWEB. If you don't know about CWEB, it's not hard to learn how to use, and probably is already installed on your system if you have TeX. The Stanford GraphBase is available for... |
What source code is worth studying? | shabda: Django's code is well written, and very well documented. |
Guide/Tutorial for designing a WebUI from scratch? | natemartin: Well, do you know the basics? HTML and CSS? Pretty much all the custom buttons, menus, etc you see are just clever HTML and CSS, with some well placed images.Are you asking how to design a button in, say, a graphics program? Or are you asking how to turn an anchor into a fancy looking button using CSS? |
What source code is worth studying? | known: http://httpd.apache.org and http://jboss.org and http://lxr.linux.no |
Guide/Tutorial for designing a WebUI from scratch? | mahmud: It's all done with html, css and javascript. Web UI development is all bag of tricks; the big frameworks try to unify these disparate tools and techniques under one API .. but it's not always clean.Worse than UI is data management. Data model, layout, access, searchability, performance, distribution of the unde... |
Guide/Tutorial for designing a WebUI from scratch? | gstar: This doesn't exactly answer your question, but you could take the contrarian approach and spend time learning Cappuccino, which abstracts a lot of the archaic and difficult web UI principles away.Web UI is difficult to define (there is no standard, but there are a bunch of competing standards) - and from a RAD p... |
Guide/Tutorial for designing a WebUI from scratch? | towndrunk: May I suggest looking at dojo http://www.dojotoolkit.org/.It provides prestyled controls with some themeing built in. You will still need to know some html and css but you can get calendars, dialogs, tabs, accordions etc very easily. |
Context-switching | bkovitz: Here's another idea: Instead of getting good at context-switching, are there ways to set up your life so you get to stay focused (and still pay the rent)? |
What source code is worth studying? | kyenneti: Any recommendations for php? I wrote a php/mysql web application for SaaS customers. I am looking at ways to improve performance/cache/error handling or simply write a better code. |
What source code is worth studying? | mmc: For systems programming, I've learned a lot from reading the source for open solaris: http://src.opensolaris.org/source/And the LLVM compiler is far more understandable than gcc sources: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/ |
What source code is worth studying? | mahmud: Your compiler's source code. That should shake your confidence in the world. |
What source code is worth studying? | nixme: I haven't perused it myself, but every time I see this question posed, someone always mentions Lua: http://www.lua.org/ftp/Similar previous discussions:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=225577http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26dyh/ask_reddi... |
What source code is worth studying? | amichail: TeXmacshttp://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/download/sources.en.html |
Do you buy related domains early on (.net, .org, similar spellings)? | jacquesm: Yes, absolutely. It's a lot cheaper than buying them from some guy riding on your coattails a couple of years later.If 16 bucks decides the go/no go on something like that you are probably looking at a hobby project, not a business.One way around this problem is to have a bunch of generic domains that you do ... |
Guide/Tutorial for designing a WebUI from scratch? | larryfreeman: I think the best tutorial/framework book for building a web app from scratch is Agile Development with Rails by David Heinemeier Hansson.If you have a Java background, you should also look into Lift/Scala. The Lift web site is found here:
http://liftweb.net/There's an O'Reilly book on Scala which looks l... |
What source code is worth studying? | wallflower: "Code reading requires its own set of skills, and the ability to determine which technique to use when is crucial. In this indispensable book, Diomidis Spinellis uses more than 600 real-world examples to show you how to identify good (and bad) code: how to read it, what to look for, and how to use this know... |
Do you buy related domains early on (.net, .org, similar spellings)? | ErrantX: not always. I usualy grab .com, .co.uk and .net. I get .org if I thikn in the future it might work for a organisation / charity but I dont redirect to the related site.I dont buy misspellings usually....What I do do though is if I think of an idea and find a good domain for it I grab the domain; I think I have... |
What source code is worth studying? | misterbwong: Any recommendations for good C# code? Much of the web is open source oriented so I don't hear too much about great C# code. |
Do you buy related domains early on (.net, .org, similar spellings)? | dschobel: equally important these days, register the relevant twitter account |
Do you buy related domains early on (.net, .org, similar spellings)? | MicahWedemeyer: I'd actually wait a couple months, and then buy in stages.If you're still working on it after 6 months, get the .net/.org/etc Consider it a present to yourself for crossing that milestone.I personally don't buy misspellings, but I will get ones that have a phonetic similarity (for instance, we have bot... |
What source code is worth studying? | dtf: One project I found fascinating reading a while back when I was working on graphics, is AGG. It's a vector graphics toolkit, a bit like Cairo, Quartz 2D or Java 2D. It uses a particular style of C++ - a mixture of template programming together with regular polymorphism - to build up a collection of rendering compo... |
What source code is worth studying? | revetkn: If you're an iPhone developer, Joe Hewitt's three20 is the best open-source codebase I know of: http://github.com/joehewitt/three20 |
Would you go to a workshop by the beach? | marcamillion: bump Any takers? |
What source code is worth studying? | staticshock: I hear good things about the webkit source code |
What source code is worth studying? | subbu: Any recommendations for Ruby/Rails projects? |
Do you buy related domains early on (.net, .org, similar spellings)? | axod: I'd always buy .com+.net+.org+.co.uk The rest aren't that big a deal. |
What source code is worth studying? | sgoraya: Quake source code: www.idsoftware.com/business/techdownloads/From a graphics and game engine perspective, it was very informative to go through pieces of of the source - I was mainly interested in the client/server and collision detection areas of the code. |
What source code is worth studying? | keefe: For Java, all of Apache's stuff is good - particularly Jakarta. http://jakarta.apache.org/ This covers a wide range of topics and is designed to have a public API. http://code.google.com/p/google-collections/ and http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/ and http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/ are interesting... |
What source code is worth studying? | ori_b: Plan 9's source (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/)The Lua VM's source (http://www.lua.org/source/5.1/) |
What source code is worth studying? | geocar: Qmail: http://cr.yp.to/qmail.htmlIt feels well organized almost throughout, and it's a joy to experience the clarity of thought that went into it. In fact, most of djb's code has a similar feeling to it.Arthur Whitney's code: http://www.nsl.com/papers/origins.htmBeing able to read this (and not merely decode it... |
Do you buy related domains early on (.net, .org, similar spellings)? | patio11: When I started out I owned just the .com, for years.These days I would seriously buy the big three for so much as a good turn of phrase in a blog post. (If you're going to coin the next "Long Tail", own the domain and you'll own the idea by default.) Registering the big three for two years costs far less tha... |
Health Effects of Night Owl | pasbesoin: Without going into the larger picture, if you do continue this I'd suggest taking good size doses of Vitamin D. In the last few years, research has been emphasizing the benefits on numerous fronts, including for mood and sense of well being. If your schedule is shifted this much and most of your time is sp... |
What source code is worth studying? | statictype: I learned about sockets and networking by looking at the source for wget.That's also where I saw calloc.c - A portable implementation of calloc. I distinctly remember it being one of the cleverest hacks I've seen. |
Do you buy related domains early on (.net, .org, similar spellings)? | matt1: Earlier this year I worked on a domain name finding site called Domain Pigeon. When I was telling people about it over email or AIM, people kept spelling it "pidgeon" like you would spell "fridge". I bought the domain name domainpidgeon.com and directed it to the actual site.Kind of ironic, given the site was fo... |
Do you buy related domains early on (.net, .org, similar spellings)? | cbz: I'd buy all at once, i won't pay extra for something i'm getting at lowest price. |
What source code is worth studying? | subbu: Any good event-driven JavaScript (jQuery/Prototype is also fine) projects out there? |
What source code is worth studying? | c00p3r: openssh |
Best tool to book "office hours"? | bahless: Could you possibly use Google Calendar for this for now? You'd just have to set it up once with recurring weekly/daily events (like mornings for code) and set specific slots for office hours. People you invite can see which office hours slots you have open and type in their nameIt's probably the fastest cheape... |
Guide/Tutorial for designing a WebUI from scratch? | bhousel: Check http://www.smashingmagazine.com for all things design related. They have a lot of articles, tools, and tutorials for this sort of thing.. |
What source code is worth studying? | DanielStraight: One way I've found to start reading code (something that I do not find easy at all) is to read code you use. Lately, I've been reading pyparsing and the Python markdown module. As an added bonus, I also discovered features in those libraries that I never knew existed. |
Do you buy related domains early on (.net, .org, similar spellings)? | petesalty: I used to buy all of them but these days I usually go .com, .net and .org. I'll also do any spellings that I think are useful. For example, I have a Twitter app that uses a bot under the username glu. I was originally going to call the app gluenote but I thought people might have an easier time with the name... |
Best tool to book "office hours"? | xg: I've met with people that use an app called TimeDriver. It's alright, but maybe not ideal (I found the experience both useful and cold at the same time). Perhaps you could warm it up by having goofy confirmation messages. It goes for $30 / year for a subscription. |
Do you buy related domains early on (.net, .org, similar spellings)? | covercash: Don't forget the WWWDOMAIN.COM typo... I think TechCrunch recently had a story about that.edit: Yah, it was TC that had the story... just visit http://wwwtwitter.com to check it out. |
What source code is worth studying? | rev_null: memcachedIt's short and clearly written. And it demonstrates some neat things, like memory management. |
What source code is worth studying? | sriramk: I'm going to get downvoted for picking a non-open source option but...The NT kernel is the most beautiful piece of code I've seen. Dave Cutler and team wrote some very, very elegant code that anyone (even if you're not a kernel hacker) can understand. If I need 'code inspiration', I spend some time looking thr... |
What source code is worth studying? | biohacker42: DVD John's DeDRMS written in C#. It was beautiful, but I can't seem to find the source code right now. If anyone can please share.--EDIT---Found it: http://web.archive.org/web/20050315135351/http://nanocrew.ne... |
What source code is worth studying? | plinkplonk: One way to find code worth reading is to select inspiring developers and look at their code. Most of the developers in "Coders At Work" for example, have Open Source code we can look at learn from.The best code I've seen: -Common Lisp - "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming" by Peter Norvig and ... |
Do you buy related domains early on (.net, .org, similar spellings)? | liranbaron: It's pretty cheap to buy domain names so if you have the $20-$30 to buy the domains do it. Why not.Much better than to have somebody see you, recognize potential and buy your other domains and then demand some $15M for it.
Of course the odds of this happening are quite low, but nevertheless, in the event th... |
What source code is worth studying? | davepeck: The FreeType 2 font rasterizer is beautiful code. Geometric computation meets performance optimization meets just-well-written-and-commented C.http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree... |
Tell me why a room-and-board-and-bandwidth incubator is a stupid idea | bhseo: If anyone is interested in experimenting with something like this in Europe, please drop me a line.I would like to setup something between a co-op, coworking space, hacker space and incubator, preferably in a small city.Some things that would be provided:- Good location, somewhere not too urban- Separated work ... |
Best tool to book "office hours"? | nateaune: Hey Angus - just saw you speak at the Startup Bootcamp yesterday. Great talk! http://startupbootcamp.mit.eduFor letting people schedule meeting with you, you might try Tungle.me. See my page here for an example: http://tungle.me/natea |
What source code is worth studying? | josephruscio: Diomidis Spinellis has written two books (Code Reading and Code Quality) on this subject that take you through annotated examples of industrial strength systems code (mostly from BSD IIRC): http://www.spinellis.gr/codereading/ |
What source code is worth studying? | alexitosrv: Anyone can point to a good javascript code? |
What source code is worth studying? | bd: I learned a lot from Qt:http://qt.nokia.com/And it's not just their code, everything they do is exemplary. It's one extremely well run software project.See for example their documentation:http://doc.trolltech.com/http://doc.trolltech.com/qq/qq13-apis.html |
Impossible to successfully make big software? | makecheck: You should develop a large system by building many small parts that are bound together (probably by scripts). The "big monolithic program" approach is insane: it invariably leads to reinventing wheels (e.g. there is no good reason for an office suite to have its own scripting language).Small parts can be wr... |
50/50 CoFounder Split | p01nd3xt3r: I think that it depends on what phase of the project you are in when you start working together.If you start working on a protytype / v1 together then 50/50 makes sense but if you have already started / are close to being done w/ a prototype when you start working together then 50/50 would not make much sen... |
Startup Critique Request for Qwanz.com - polling site with a twist | byrneseyeview: Hi HN,I'm working with the founder and dev team of Qwanz.com, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on the site. Qwanz is a polling site, with one key feature: once you've answered a poll, it gives you some next steps you can take -- including political / media / business figures who can actually use the in... |
50/50 CoFounder Split | grellas: A theoretical case is always made against the risk of deadlock, and it is a very real risk that I have seen lead to disastrous results at times.With small-business type clients, where buy-sell agreements are the norm, you would normally want to have some special provisions for breaking deadlocks as well.With s... |
Startup Critique Request for Qwanz.com - polling site with a twist | biohacker42: I'm guessing you're going to get bit of traffic from people who meant to go to QwanTz.com |
What source code is worth studying? | djnym: I've heard this book was good http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Code-Leading-Programmers-Pra....
It asks 30 different developers for pieces of beautiful code. I read an excerpt or two back when it was released and put it on my to read list. Unfortunately haven't gotten to it yet, but still plan too. |
Impossible to successfully make big software? | stonemetal: The Unix philosophy is the only one I have ever seen work. If you can't componentize it enough that you can pretend that the rest of the system doesn't exist\ is magic then you can't focus on a smaller human sized chunk to make that work properly. The second you have to break the black box complexity has ... |
Effective use of Twitter? | Travis: My startup has used twitter really effectively the past few months to do a few things. 1) Drive traffic to our blog, 2) drive people with a need for our service, to our serviceOf course, we're a b2b targeted at engineers / sales guys, so we have a strong early adopter / seeker basis for our guys. But yeah, we... |
What source code is worth studying? | kokofoo: The Lions book. http://www.amazon.com/Lions-Commentary-Unix-John/dp/15739801... |
Startup Critique Request for Qwanz.com - polling site with a twist | chriseppstein: I prefer http://gopollgo.com/ It has a super clean UI and tons of real-time features that kick ass. |
Advice on picking up the phone and selling my product. | answerly: Its sounds like you already have a list of prospects, which is great. I'd take a day or two to determine if you can secure warm introductions from friends, acquaintances, advisors, etc into any of these target companies (LinkedIn is a stelar resource for finding these types of intros). If you can, then you ... |
Advice on picking up the phone and selling my product. | shorbaji: Easier? Well, just do it and get over the first few rejections. Things I kept in mind to make me feel better when I started in sales engineering are:-
a) every "no" gets you closer to your next "yes"
b) some customers are out there waiting for someone to come along and solve the problem you application solves... |
What source code is worth studying? | natemartin: Any recommendations for good objective-C code? |
User/lead acquisition for young singles? | sarosh: Have you tried www.seattlechamber.com/ypn ?
Think about NGOs, clubs, and public/private college mailing lists... |
Startup Critique Request for Qwanz.com - polling site with a twist | maukdaddy: Sounds a lot like Kwanzaa =)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa |
What source code is worth studying? | spokey: Ward's Wiki (The Portland Pattern Repository) has a short list of "Programs to Read" at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ProgramsToRead. |
Advice on picking up the phone and selling my product. | cmos: I found that by telling people outright that your the CTO and sole developer let's you off the hook from having to actually try to sell them anything. Often they will relax and actually have a real discussion with you about your product.Only salespeople should do a 'sales' pitch. Technical people are best off w... |
Context-switching | redtwizlers: Gallatin program at NYU - highly individualized doctoral programs.Streamline reporting to "outsource" the crap normally required by you in the manager role - use work pipelines with highly detailed drop down representations of work status/problem status. Have your mentees/workers complete so that you can r... |
Startup Critique Request for Qwanz.com - polling site with a twist | Tichy: On the hp I don't see what makes it special.The name sounds awful to me and combined with the design it inspires associations with unpleasant business products. |
Advice on picking up the phone and selling my product. | browser411: If possible, meet your prospects in person. Go to industry events, shows, etc. Have a 20 sec pitch NAILED. Practice it incessantly on friends and family--anyone should be able to "get it" no matter how technical the product. Tailor it to their needs, not features. Make your goal to get an actual meeting wit... |
Impossible to successfully make big software? | DanielStraight: You're doing the exact thing Steve Yegge and Ola Bini warn against. You're assuming that you need a "massive technology infrastructure" and then deciding how to go about building one. Well of course it's going to be massive; you're planning to make it massive. Let's try another thought experiment. Assum... |
Why do web frameworks always use database? | ismarc: Disk I/O is a huge limiting factor in a filesystem based approach to data persistence. Using a database for the persistence of data allows the db to schedule flushing the state to disk, independent of the actual requests. The situation you're specifically talking about, where there's nothing but static pages,... |
Startup Critique Request for Qwanz.com - polling site with a twist | spokey: One nit: you are missing a question mark following the first bullet under "Why Qwanz?", so "Feel powerless to influence matters that are of interest to you" reads like a benefit statement instead of a question. (I.e.: "It can make me feel powerless? Sign me up.") I assume you meant "Do you feel powerless...?".A... |
What source code is worth studying? | mdakin: That of a metacircular evaluator such as the one described in SICP. |
Startup Critique Request for Qwanz.com - polling site with a twist | nym: Make the twist more obvious. |
Startup Critique Request for Qwanz.com - polling site with a twist | apsurd: "Ever wanted your opinion to actually matter?
Qwanz groups your opinion with other passionate people and lets you take action, together."I am a big fan of blatant one line descriptions of what a site does. You can follow this with your "why qwanz" graphic. I'm not saying this is the best line ever, but you have... |
How do you motivate yourself to do un-motivating work? | gcheong: Have a look at the book "Procrastination - Why you do it, what to do about it now" by Jane Burka and Lenora Yuen. |
Why do web frameworks always use database? | yu: Taking 'information heavy' to mean large data size/ volume. File system can be seen as a basic database. When data access paths are not pre-defined e.g. URL, slug, tag, etc., a systematic way to organize and query is required. Three examples: (a) not knowing what user may query, text indexing today almost index e... |
Why do web frameworks always use database? | byoung2: I'm designing an information-heavy web site (static content, no user content), and have been wondering the best way to do it. Look into Movable Type (http://movabletype.com/). It is written in Perl and it writes static html files.
I did the redesign of http://www.steves-digicams.com/ in Movable Type 4.23 an... |
What source code is worth studying? | newsdog: I've been led to understand that the OpenBSD source code is of amazing quality. |
Advice on picking up the phone and selling my product. | anamax: > The CEO is away for two weeks during which time the marketing manager had a telesales person come in for two days last week.If they're not taking care of this sort of thing, what are they doing?> I'd let them go if I could, but the long story is they are a friend of the CEO who doesn't have the heart to just ... |
What source code is worth studying? | tolmasky: I don't know if this is good advice today, but back in the day I learned a lot both from STL and the Boost libraries, specifically Spirit, which I still think is an amazing feat: http://spirit.sourceforge.net/ |
Startup Critique Request for Qwanz.com - polling site with a twist | adityakothadiya: Nice UI and features, but I have basic problem - what does Qwanz mean? I'm not able to correlate to its idea. Its very hard to remember...so very unlikely to come back... Just my $0.02! |
User/lead acquisition for young singles? | joez: Young singles is a really broad demographic. Are you talking about college? Post-college? High School? Thinking of my single friends: There are those that like to go out and those that like to stay in (gamers, otaku). Social networkers and hard workers. Foodies, etc.Segment your market and then try targeting them... |
Advice on picking up the phone and selling my product. | joez: I agree with most of the things that have been said on the thread so far. Especially listening. Here's a little more of classic salesman strategy and something to practice. Give them two choices that work for you.Example: When they say now is not a good time. Instead of asking, "Would next week be a good time to ... |
What source code is worth studying? | wallflower: Flex: FlexLib (mostly by Doug McCune)http://code.google.com/p/flexlib/ |
Review my Startup, Thumbtack | kyro: Nice clean design. How does your site compare to Yext and compete with what they're doing? Also, how did you obtain that domain?http://www.thumbtack.com |
Review my Startup, Thumbtack | cgherb911: I'm not familiar with the space. But let's say I want to outsource an iphone app development, Would I use your service? Is there another service your competing against for these kind of requests?As someone constantly on the look out for development people to outsource parts of projects to, this could be ve... |
What source code is worth studying? | thesnark: LAPACKhttp://www.netlib.org/lapack/ |
Review my Startup, Thumbtack | qhoxie: A quick UX note: I think it would be a good idea to use a more appropriate cursor style on the mileage slider.Otherwise, nice clean design. |
Interesting Ideas You're Too Lazy To Persue | anilgupte: Ideas are a dime a dozen. What separates boys from businessmen is acting upon one idea and executing to the finish. |
Interesting Ideas You're Too Lazy To Persue | tjr: I sometimes end up with a number of Visa gift cards. Maybe I use a $50 card to order a $47 book, and a $25 card to buy a $23.50 dinner.So I have a bunch of Visa gift cards with a few dollars (or cents) on them. I would like to be able to create a new account "alias", such that I can go to an online store, enter m... |
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