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So I quit my job to focus on my startup... | karthikm: For starters, I'd recommend 'How to win friends and influence people' by Dale Caregie and 'How to talk to anyone' by Leil Lowndes.Freelancing to pay bills also turns out to be a big distraction. I'd recommend exploring other creative ways that don't take your focus off of your startup to pay (or avoid) your b... |
So I quit my job to focus on my startup... | thomaspaine: If you actually want to make your startup work, avoid freelancing. It's way too easy to get sucked into spending all of your time consulting, and it's pretty difficult to be fully mentally engaged in multiple projects. Also, the hardest part of freelancing is when you're just starting out. If you don't alr... |
So I quit my job to focus on my startup... | plinkplonk: "Who can recommend good books/articles on negotiation?"The best book on negotiation, bar none, is "Bargaining for Advantage : Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People" By Richard Shell.
http://www.amazon.com/Bargaining-Advantage-Negotiation-Strat...
(looks like it is out of print, but used copies seem ... |
Review my app: tweetrad.io | fjabre: I think TTS as a technology isn't quite there yet..The radio sounds and overall UI/UX are brilliant though. |
So I quit my job to focus on my startup... | shimon: If you are a techie, the best freelance/temp work will come from your persistently networking with people and companies that match your interest and expertise. Those may also lead to partnerships or investments or just plain old good advice for your startup.Of course there can be a lot of difficult balancing re... |
So I quit my job to focus on my startup... | maximumwage: Best of luck to you with your startup! Here are some good articles about negotiation: http://www.negotiatormagazine.com/subject_index.shtml |
So I quit my job to focus on my startup... | aditya: Congrats.Why are you looking for books on negotiation? I don't have any other than the ones mentioned, but the first rule of negotiation is to pretend like you don't give a shit about the favorable outcome, then proceed from that premise and everything will be fine.This is jacquesm's must read on consulting: ht... |
What are worthwhile extracurricular activities in college? | albertsun: Just go to everything at first and find what you're interested in. As time goes on you'll settle in to the activities you're most interested in and where you enjoy the company of your fellow participants most. |
So I quit my job to focus on my startup... | _pius: Fisher and Ury's "Getting to Yes" is the most authoritative text on negotiation and very accessible.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_to_YES |
So I quit my job to focus on my startup... | jakarta: Getting to Yes is a pretty classic negotiation book:http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Yes-Negotiating-Agreement-With... |
Integrated chat for your web app | bjclark: Inbelieve meebo offers a widget that does just what you want. |
So I quit my job to focus on my startup... | jarsj: I started doing that when I ran out of all my previous savings. If you are confident that you can always make money, wait and give all the time to your startup before it runs out. |
So I quit my job to focus on my startup... | wgj: Highly recommended, and no one has mentioned yet:Getting To Yes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_to_YESAnd anything by Cialdini:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini |
So I quit my job to focus on my startup... | bootload: "... Who can recommend good books/articles on negotiation? ..."Negotiation is as much about non-verbal as it is verbal. So what's a good way to learn negotiation aside from watching "Lie to me" ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_to_Me or "Hustle" ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustle_(TV_series) ? What about ... |
So I quit my job to focus on my startup... | jmtame: why are you jumping right into negotiation skills? do you have a product yet? has someone approached you and said "we want to buy your company!"?i know zackattack's comment got downvoted pretty badly, maybe because he was a bit too facetious in how he phrased it. but you do have some money saved up to last a... |
What are worthwhile extracurricular activities in college? | hyung: Depends on your major. If you're a business major, and are thinking of being an entrepreneur in the software industry, pick extracurriculars that are CS-related. And vice-versa.With any luck, you'll be able to meet potential business partners with skill sets that complement yours. |
So I quit my job to focus on my startup... | alex3t: Agree with thomaspaine. I'm freelancer and working on others projects takes most of my time |
Integrated chat for your web app | aymeric: Not really a chat as it is a shoutbox, but I use http://www.shoutmix.com/ in my facebook apps. Really easy to integrate.If you want a chat between you and your users, I know that MixPanel (http://www.mixpanel.com) is using http://www.olark.com/ |
So I quit my job to focus on my startup... | btilly: I once asked a very good negotiator for the best book he could recommend on negotiation, and he directed me to Start With No. (URL: http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2...)I've read it, it made sense to me, I've noticed a number of good negotiators doing things it suggests and my (admittedly fe... |
What are worthwhile extracurricular activities in college? | alexh: Debate. Hands down.If you want public speaking skills, you will get them at debate. When I started, I could hardly keep my sentences going the whole time. Very recently I got into the finals of a tournament where we were judged primarily on speaking style.If you want to be able to structure arguments, as you ... |
Review my app: tweetrad.io | dkokelley: Bugs/quirks:* tried to check out the about section of your site, but the feed kept moving the footer down. Maybe lock the footer in place or put that info to the side of the feed.* A few repeated/stuttered sections. I heard this a few times during reads, but there didn't seem to be any specific thing that ca... |
Review my app: tweetrad.io | tcarnell: cool! but please immediately implement a 'mute' button! :-) |
So I quit my job to focus on my startup... | andrewstuart: Negotiation is about getting a good deal that both sides feel is of value to them. |
Review my app: tweetrad.io | fauigerzigerk: Funny. You should make the embedded swf visible in some fashion or it won't work with Flashblock enabled. |
Recommendations for a light-weight issue tracking system | davidw: redmine is ok, so is trac. |
Recommendations for a light-weight issue tracking system | bdfh42: FogBugz - use the hosted version or run it on your own server.http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBUGZ/You can try it for free to check out the features. |
So I quit my job to focus on my startup... | Mz: I had a class called "Negotiation and Conflict Management". The two required texts for it were "Getting to Yes" and "The Mind and Heart of the Negotiator". My recollection is that these are the only two books on the topic (or were at the time) that are based on research. "Getting to Yes" is short and an easy rea... |
Review my app: tweetrad.io | tdoggette: I just opened about 20 tabs, and ONE OF THEM STARTED MAKING OBNOXIOUS FUCKING NOISE.Not acceptable. |
Review my app: tweetrad.io | DotSauce: I like it. Love the transition audio, reminds me of Bioshock. Listening as I type this comment and it's pretty cool. Not sure how often I would use it or if I would use it regularly at all. Does it push live updates?Agree with the suggestions mentioned already (mute, remove extra commentary).Well done overall... |
the road to learning useful math | k0n2ad: Look at any good book about, or take a class in discrete math, probability and linear algebra. Those are the subjects that stand out for me. Discrete math is the most fundamental for computer science. That Concrete Mathematics book looks promising - plus it's got some information about algorithm analysis and ot... |
the road to learning useful math | mistertim: I'm in a similar situation - My last academic exposure to maths was at GCSE level (age 16 for non-UK people), and I've recently attempted to rectify that. I've just begun a degree in mathematics through http://www.open.ac.uk - The first module has been useful for me but maybe less so if you've done an A-lev... |
Ask HN:What are the lessons of the Demonoid downtime? | Recontemplation: I second that friend! I thought these p2p sites made money from adds so whats the deal? Pirate Bay is like a diseased ghetto in comparison to Demonoid. |
the road to learning useful math | prabodh: Numerical Recipes is must read |
Review my app: tweetrad.io | vital101: Great idea! It looks great too! I second (third, fourth, whatever) the calls for a mute button. I'd also like to see the ability to change the voice being used. I noticed that between channels it's different, any way to choose between those voices? |
the road to learning useful math | benm: Gilbert Strang's Linear algebra book was great for me after taking A-level as a mature student, linear algebra comes in everywhere (I think there are videos of Strang floating around as well). Make sure to work through as many exercises as you can if you're studying independently.An approach that might work for ... |
the road to learning useful math | bhrgunatha: MIT's OpenCourseWare site provides a lot of course material - http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htmMathematics for Computer Science is perhaps tailor made for your needs - http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute... |
the road to learning useful math | Tichy: Not sure if reading a maths book will really be easier than reading those papers. In both cases, you kind of have to grind through it.Wikipedia often helps with the notations.I think learning useful maths is best done by reading up on the stuff you presently need. I have several maths books that I never read bec... |
the road to learning useful math | euroclydon: It can be difficult to stay awake when trying to learn Math or especially Stats in the abstract.Are you reading these stats-heavy comp-sci papers for a particular reason beyond mere curiosity, like for a project or for work? If so, then you will have what I consider the most crucial element needed for learn... |
the road to learning useful math | silentbicycle: I've found Project Euler (http://projecteuler.net/) tremendously helpful for this sort of thing - some of the puzzles I couldn't figure out the mathematical trick to do it efficiently, but after I solved it I read through the forum posts and made sure I could rewrite the full solution in the languages I'... |
the road to learning useful math | ionfish: A while ago, I collected some references and recommendations for books and online material covering discrete mathematics. They were mainly sourced from previous discussions on Hacker News. The file's up on GitHub.http://github.com/ionfish/notes/blob/master/discrete-maths.m...The formatting is a little unreadab... |
the road to learning useful math | ananthrk: Some suggestions (from HN over various threads)Practical Foundations of Mathematics http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~pt/Practical_Foundations/index.htmlLinear Algebra - Gilbert Strang (Book & Videos)Linear Algebra and Applications http://www.math.unl.edu/~tshores1/linalgtext.htmlP.S. There was another Introduction to... |
the road to learning useful math | caffeine: Could you be more specific about what kind of math you've been seeing in the papers that you'd like to understand (and/or link some of the papers)? What you need to know is on this list http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/teaching/courses/ml1-2009/cribsh... for the most part. Because math is layered, once you've g... |
the road to learning useful math | zackattack: This thread comes up at least once a month. We really need an HN FAQ or Wiki. |
the road to learning useful math | hyperbovine: Go back to school. I'm not sure how this works in UK, but here in the US your local state school usually offers part time masters degrees for people who are working. I started my masters in math a year ago and the change has been profound. It's like night and day, what I knew about math a year ago vs what ... |
the road to learning useful math | johnmyleswhite: It sounds like you're interested in statistics from the words "a few interesting stats-heavy compsci papers". The MacKay book, "Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms," already referenced by benm is quite good, but I'd suggest on top of it Larry Wasserman's amazing book, "All of Statistic... |
the road to learning useful math | tokenadult: Statistics is a very interesting subject, and it is a distinct subject from mathematics proper. Here (in what is becoming a FAQ post for HN) are two favorite recommendations for free Web-based resources on what statistics is as a discipline, both of which recommend good textbooks for follow-up study:"Advice... |
Review my app: tweetrad.io | mewalker: Love it--this is hilarious! |
the road to learning useful math | RiderOfGiraffes: We might be able to help each other. I'm working on a project to help people like you, so you can help me design that, and I can help you with your specific concerns. Check my profile. |
Support ticketing system | jaddison: The only major one that I've had passing experience with is Kayako SupportSuite (http://www.kayako.com/solutions/supportsuite/). I don't know how it stacks up against competitive products.I believe it is PHP-based as well, if that matters.The price is pretty good though - ~$500 for an 'owned' license (http:/... |
the road to learning useful math | Ixiaus: In the course of my self-education I've come across a number of interesting books for mathematics. My two favorites:- Practical Mathematics by C. I. Palmer
- Mathematics for the Nonmathematician by Morris KlinePractical Mathematics is an old book, first published in the early nineteen hundreds. It covers every... |
So I quit my job to focus on my startup... | firefoxman1: Against All Odds by James Dyson and Pouring Your Heart Into it (starbucks) are on my list |
Support ticketing system | joeythibault: I've used Basecamp, Trac and Bugzilla. All are easy to use (and we've had some very non-technical users on them). My favorite though was trac, very easy to use, easy to set roadmaps and milestones. The bonus with bugzilla is that its more flexible (we're managing several development initiatives simulta... |
Support ticketing system | mrduncan: I've never personally used it, but I've heard really good things about ZenDesk (http://www.zendesk.com/). |
Support ticketing system | tortilla: I've heard good things about TenderApp - http://tenderapp.com/ |
Why is Wordpress getting slower and slower with each version | dryicerx: That's like asking, why is my car slow when I am near one of the fastest highways...Most likely reason is where you are hosting the wordpress app or the DB is slow and overloaded (guessing shared hosting?) |
Support ticketing system | ezmobius: Tender or zendesk are both great products, and they each have different use cases. We use both of them for our support ticketing for engineyard. We use tender for our community support/forum/faq type of stuff d we use zendesk for our paid 24/7 support needs.Both of these platforms have great API's and good em... |
Review my app: tweetrad.io | alttab: I'm impressed with the coordination and technology that went into this.Kinda says something about America though when not only are we too lazy to write full blogs, read full blogs, but now we don't even want to read our tweets. This of course is not a serious comment on your project as more as it is commentary ... |
Support ticketing system | merrick33: We just integrated zendesk into django using an app called django_zendesk, so far so good. |
Support ticketing system | pmikal: http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/ |
Support ticketing system | makecheck: Trac is the best I've used so far. It is extensible, and yet the out-of-the-box setup is very useful on its own.If there is one I would absolutely stay away from, it would be Remedy (from BMC software). Remedy, even after all these versions, has one of the worst interfaces I have ever used, and has a lot o... |
Technologies created by (evil) hackers | sakebomb: Could you consider the creation of clustering created by blackhats? They did start out with botnets which started the foundation for clustering and cluster management. |
I want to implement a network fuzzer in a VNC server. Is it possible? | yan: I'm not clear on what you want to do. Do you want to fuzz a VNC server?There are some ways you can do that. Try to find docs online that detail the protocol or read the source of open-source VNC servers to infer the protocol. You can then use some existing tools to generate some traffic (peach or scapy, among many... |
Technologies created by (evil) hackers | J_McQuade: Depends on the definition of 'evil' - I used DeCSS for a while and, according to the MPAA, the guys who made that were basically Satan with a modem. |
Technologies created by (evil) hackers | HomeySan: I'm thinking l0phtcrack.The original SATAN scanner from Dan Farmer; the concept, though. Bad guys had a bag of tricks that they'd use to get in. He compiled a list and built an automated tester of those tricks.Some of the concepts that evil hax0rz/crackers used to obfuscate code in viruses have migrated into ... |
Support ticketing system | mrchucho: We have been using Zendesk for over a year and absolutely love it. Highly configurable, very easy to use and fantastic email integration. Highly recommended. |
Technologies created by (evil) hackers | ax0n: The technology used to help attackers find wireless networks is now used in many corporate wireless network platforms, to detect and block rogue access points.There's an entire litany of examples where initially subversive technology became useful for defending against the same. The first vulnerability scanners w... |
Why is Wordpress getting slower and slower with each version | ionfish: On my (self-hosted) WordPress installation, loading the 'Add New Post' page takes under 1.5 seconds. When static files are cached, it takes well under a second.Something is clearly wrong with either your connection to the server, or their server configuration (the former seems more likely). |
Technologies created by (evil) hackers | cruise02: Probably not exactly what you're looking for, but anyone who worked on cryptography back in the 1970s (and who wasn't working for their government) was being fairly subversive. Steven Levy wrote a great book about the people involved called Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in th... |
wrist pain | thalur: Clickable link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=JQn_2fz7zs_2ff7Dkdcp_2... |
Why is Wordpress getting slower and slower with each version | jlk: This post had so much promise. I thought maybe we'd talk about database optimization or PHP modifications. Instead, I wager the OP is using IE7 on a Celeron-based laptop with 2GB of shared RAM, with a Yahoo toolbar and Norton. |
wrist pain | raintrees: I switched to a Logitech trackball for awhile, which helped. I am now happily back to a regular Logitech optical mouse (more precise control than the trackball for me). |
Technologies created by (evil) hackers | hmac: Most of the Win32 assessment s/w I used in the good/bad old days of NT (take your pick) was straight-up blackhat tools - because that's what was availble. Blackhats are also responsible for a lot of proof of concept work that results in changes in core protocols - if not new protocols. I think you should reframe ... |
Technologies created by (evil) hackers | mbrubeck: The Apple computer?(It wasn't created for cracking/phreaking, but it was created by phreaks. Woz and Jobs' first venture was selling blue boxes.) |
Support ticketing system | modoc: Jira works for this pretty well. It's not free, but it's got good integration points, and easily customizable workflows. |
wrist pain | timf: All my (transient) hand and wrist pains have gone away since I started doing pushups, crawling, pullups, etc. I think they were just weak, not an RSI problem. |
wrist pain | bastian: Get a pair of $3 sport wristbands to keep your wrist joints warm and flexible. |
Technologies created by (evil) hackers | stuartjmoore: Some [evil] hackers go on to start security companies (Kevin Mitnick, Frank Abagnale Jr.), so any of the company's techniques could work (though not mainstream or probably even known). |
wrist pain | bensummers: Bizarrely, the flat Apple keyboards are the nicest and least RSI-inducing keyboards I've ever used. |
Why is Wordpress getting slower and slower with each version | babyboy808: Have been using Wordpress for a good while now and it's still as fast as ever |
Video as a background? Are you mad | movix: I quite like it - my iPhone really hates it though. |
wrist pain | jz: About 4 years ago, I was 22 at the time, I started experiencing pain in my right wrist and forearm. Once the pain became unbearable, I started using the mouse with my left hand. Almost immediately I experienced pain in my left wrist and forearm. Initially I thought it was Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. I went to physical ... |
Support ticketing system | johnnyg: We run redmine for issue and code tracking. I like it but the support community working on it is fairly small and releases are not too frequent.http://www.redmine.org/ |
Review our new feature - Most Popular iPhone Apps on Twitter | cpr: Hmm, more like "iPhone apps with obnoxious auto-Twitter self-promotion features". ;-) |
wrist pain | mbrubeck: My "other" answers were:Switched mouse to left (sub-dominant) hand.Keyboard with "trackpoint" pointing device.Dvorak keyboard layout, with caps-lock as an additional control key.Prefer keyboard-driven software (bash shell, tiling window manager, vim text editor, QuickSilver and Gnome Do launchers, etc.). |
Support ticketing system | andrewl: We've had good results with FogBugz. We are a group of eight developers and user support staff in a company of 300, and it's the right size for us. We have a bit under 15,000 cases in the system, going back to June 2006, so I can't say we're stressing the system. I don't know how it would scale.I used Trac bri... |
wrist pain | cinkler: In 2003 I started experiencing wrist pain when using mouse. As it became unbearable, this is what I did:
- Went to see a doctor, without any results
- Switched mouse from right to left hand. It took around 10 days to come to speed with left hand.
- Right wrist continued to be painful as soon as I get a mouse w... |
Technologies created by (evil) hackers | peterwwillis: Mostly security and forensics tools which aren't mainstream. There aren't many practical, mainstream uses for "evil" hacker tools. Metasploit, Nmap, Nessus, Netstumbler, l0phtcrack, Aircrack, SATAN, Snort, Honeypot/Honeynet, John The Ripper, p0f, Ethereal/Wireshark, Hping2, Netcat, Dsniff. Like others hav... |
Refocusing our Family-focused Startup for Business Users? | markbao: Clickable: http://staging.ramamia.com |
Video as a background? Are you mad | ggchappell: Being "drawn" to something is not the same as finding it useful or helpful. Certainly having the video as background is "captivating", but that means the foreground is basically useless: it's difficult to see, difficult to pay attention to, and difficult to use. The background gives you an idea of what the ... |
Marketing/Advertising information? | yan: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+%22... |
wrist pain | iterationx: make sure you don't bend your wrist when typing and you have proper keyboard form |
Refocusing our Family-focused Startup for Business Users? | mrshoe: Obligatory response to this (and most) web startups: why won't Wave kill this? |
Refocusing our Family-focused Startup for Business Users? | keltecp11: If you stick with families, you should position towards an individual niche like military families, grand parents, or someone along those lines. Marketing it would be pretty easy - take the military example; there are dozens of magazines that hit that demographic and you could very easily change your layout... |
wrist pain | thinksketch: I too developed really bad wrist pain - mine was from too much autocad and solidworks.My secrets were to:
1. Use a good chair and keyboard tray. always.
2. train my left hand to mouse and switch off
3. use an upright mouse. http://www.evoluent.com/ It's a little expensive, but it's a good product. I n... |
Why is Wordpress getting slower and slower with each version | vsync: When you say you have a fast INTERNET connection do you mean it has high BANDWIDTH or low LATENCY? |
Support ticketing system | pospischil: No one has mentioned it, but sifter looks like a great app (www.sifterapp.com). I tried it for a project I was working on, mostly because I was curious about the interface. It was much more than we needed, but could be a great option for you. |
So I quit my job to focus on my startup... | azolotov: I am taking a negotiation class right now and we are using the three books listed below. The professor is really great, and the books are not boring college textbooks - they're really engaging and I'd read them on my own if I wasn't taking the course, too."Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive"... |
Technologies created by (evil) hackers | dugsong: I'm guessing you mean non-security technologies? How about consumer P2P?See Joseph Menn's book on Napster for the backstory behind MP3 file sharing (many of us w00w00 folks were involved, including guys like "minus", who stole the Winamp source code off my friend Ian Rogers' laptop).Other example I can think o... |
Support ticketing system | JeffL: We've been using Hesk and I'm perfectly happy with it. |
Refocusing our Family-focused Startup for Business Users? | prabodh: Just Curious..How you arrived at that name ramamia |
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