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What start up would you invest in ? | auston: I agree with mahmud - Twilio has a great offering (& from I know, it's only going to get better!)Other than that, I am really liking Yext, a lot!After that, the company I used to work for seems like they're positioned to make some money (leadlogsys.com) |
Worlds Best Checkout experiences / pages? | davidw: Amazon's isn't that bad for such a big organization, and it's definitely something they have studied in minute detail. |
Screencast software for demos? | nedwin: I just made one using Screenium for the video, audacity for audio and iMovie for editing on the mac. Went pretty well, would recommend. |
Screencast software for demos? | poronski: Anyone has any experience using professional screencast production services ? More specifically, with professional narrators or voice artists. |
PHP or ROR. | regularfry: I'm a PHP fugitive, so take this with a pinch of salt. 3 years ago I thought Rails was worth the pain of working with Ruby on Windows compared to the problems I was facing keeping myself enthusiastic in PHP. Now you've got the option of developing Rails sites in JRuby, that pain is much, much reduced. Hones... |
What start up would you invest in ? | prakash: The ones I use on a daily basis and love using since it solves a problem/need/pain for me. |
What start up would you invest in ? | jacquesm: layar. |
What start up would you invest in ? | BvS: Dropbox (if they still count as small). |
What start up would you invest in ? | andrewtj: My geo/social situation means I'm not likely to hear about a startup before it's beyond my investment capability; which leaves my own startup, which doesn't really count. |
What start up would you invest in ? | malte: Any startup that is working on an easy mobile payment solution. I'm excited for Jack Dorsey's new project and would definitely put some money in if I could. |
How did you get started? | scorpioxy: I am not sure if i qualify as an entrepreneur, but I like to call myself that.It started by accident. I started freelancing, mostly for start-ups and other entrepreneurs. And along the way, I started picking up ideas and people offered me partnerships.I'm more into starting lasting businesses than into flipp... |
Introduction to Ruby/Rails book(s)? | hiimamac: Suggestions for any good JRuby books would be greatly appreciated too! |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | nedwin: Ratatat
Kelley Polar
Bon Iver
The Knife |
Screencast software for demos? | matthewcford: http://screenr.com/ |
Screencast software for demos? | pkc: http://www.jingproject.com/ - Works like a charm. |
Screencast software for demos? | chipmunkninja: I did a DVD training series for PHPTR and we used Snapz Pro X. Works really well, and supports a lot of crap that perfeshunnal video people seem to understand (I just did what I was told).http://ambrosiasw.com |
Please review my website | apgwoz: This would have been great for my wife who was a math teacher that had a horrible time creating original worksheets. |
Ask HN:Should google include tweets and retweets as part of pagerank? | jacquesm: The spam on twitter is bad enough as it is, as soon as this happens you can expect it to go right through the roof. |
Please review my website | DanielStraight: I think forcing a PDF download in order to have any idea what you're getting is a mistake. Some sort of HTML preview would be really nice.I find the configuration of the worksheets somewhat confusing. What do minimum and maximum value mean for reducing fractions? That is completely unclear until generat... |
What start up would you invest in ? | Banzai10: Dropbox, awesome product! Probably a nice future! |
Ask HN:Should google include tweets and retweets as part of pagerank? | bombs: Do you mean basing a PageRank not based on Twitter's PageRank, but on the users' popularity or influence? |
Worlds Best Checkout experiences / pages? | BearOfNH: One principle to bear in mind: give customers multiple payment opportunities, even if it's just a money-order alternative.Sometimes for PayPal-based payment there seems to be no way to pay without first signing up for PayPal. Not always -- many times I can give PayPal a credit card and say "No thanks" to a si... |
What start up would you invest in ? | iamelgringo: For me, it's not a questing of what startups I'd invest in. I run across a lot of people at the hackers and founders meetups that I host, and it's fairly often that I come across someone that I'd love to bet on. The question of what particular company they are working on at present is rather immaterial. |
Screencast software for demos? | haonanzhang: http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Encoder_Overvie...Expression Encoder.Free for BizSpark and DreamSpark users. |
Please review my website | mailarchis: The Home Page needs to be simplified. Try using less text and the ones that actually say what your site about like "A simple free site to generate maths worksheets". You can ask users to spread the word post worksheet generation. (Thats just a suggestion that might help making the home page less text heavy,... |
Please review my website | tcrayford: The register and login links shouldn't be visible on every page. Instead ask users to login when they actually need to log in (e.g. creating sheets). Contact us shouldn't be a big tab, instead something in the footer.Your "Follow Us"
"On Twitter" part should be all one line, and perhaps be reworded to "You s... |
Screencast software for demos? | figured: previous post: good comments
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=443542 |
Ask HN:Should google include tweets and retweets as part of pagerank? | justanotherbody: If this happened google bombing would become that much easier.I shudder to think of what 4chan would do with such power |
Please review my website | transmit101: Very quick feedback: it was immediately obvious to me what the site did, and it only took a couple of clicks to make it do something useful. This is exactly the way that things should be. The site solves a clear problem and it does it well. Good stuff.I didn't see any monetization in my (admittedly brief) ... |
AGPL software for services - licensing questions | rbanffy: IANAL, but, if I read the AGPL correctly, you are not required to AGPL your application unless it is derived from MongoDB.Make sure the drivers you use to connect to the database are compatible with whatever license you are using, or roll out your own.And, if you are serious about using it, ask a lawyer to rev... |
Please review my website | ugh: Show me what I can do right at the start. I know it's hard with this specific type of service, but some kind of screenshot or visualisation of the what you can do would be helpful. I don't know if it would work, but one idea I find quite intriguing would be some sort of reduced live demo right at the start page. I... |
Introduction to Ruby/Rails book(s)? | billturner: Rails is such a fast moving target that keeping totally updated books on the shelves is probably just as frustrating for the book publishers as for those wanting up-to-date books.That said, the Pragmatic Programmer's book Agile Development with Rails is a pretty good intro: http://pragprog.com/titles/rails3... |
Please review my website | ramidarigaz: Great website! I actually will probably take advantage of this.As far as design goes, the site looks pretty good. It's not super flashy, but I think that's generally a good thing.A few minor nitpicks.1) I think you should put a few images on the homepage, and possibly elsewhere. Text is nice, but I find I ... |
How do you manage employee IT skills? | timwiseman: Having worked mostly for small companies I have never done this personally in a real world environment, but this seems almost like a textbook case for a normalized SQL database. The database diagram is easy to set up and then depending on what development resources you do have available (I know you said it... |
Please review my website | justlearning: I downloaded a worksheet and got a file without extension(named:download); I renamed the file to .pdf and opens fine. Would be better if I get a file name of worksheet-type.pdfI also want to add - it would be nice to see the target age of kids based on the selections or select worksheets based on age, nar... |
What do you use for tracking your users? | eburcat: greps & cuts on the access logs. |
Please review my website | nfnaaron: Knowing whether I could generate anything more advanced than what was shown on the available worksheets stopped me from bothering to register. In other words, having to register in order to discover if "this is it or there's more" was an impediment to registering.For example, my son is studying basic graphs a... |
Please review my website | rksprst: I'm curious what framework you use to generate the pdfs? |
Suggestions for ecommerce portal in Ruby? | vital101: http://spreecommerce.com/features seems like a good fit for what you're looking for. |
Please review my website | kalendae: first of all the idea is great, and when my son is older I will definitely use this. What would be really nice is some sort of guidance system by age. For instance, which worksheets are appropriate for which age, maybe as a wide range. and the parameters within the worksheets could use a recommendation as ... |
Screencast software for demos? | Gormo: It's not a well-known feature, but you can actually use VLC (http://www.videolan.org) for screencasting.Go to Media > Open Capture Device > Capture Device, and select Desktop. This will open your desktop as a video source.Then you can either use VLC's streaming feature (Media > Streaming) or record the desktop t... |
How to be more critical of your work before getting feedback? | bdr: Imagine that it was someone you really dislike who made what you made. You'll be newly motivated to find flaws in it. This works uncomfortably well. |
Domain registration by proxy. | icey: Namecheap offers whois protection for free. Domainsbyproxy is GoDaddy, AFAIK. |
How do you say it? | cperciva: I usually say "su-doe", not "su-doo"; "reg-ex", not "re-jex"; bin, not "bine"; and "lib", not "libe". I also say "lin-ux", not "lie-nux"; and "s-crypt", not "script". |
Can everyone be an Entrepreneur? | avk: Neat question. I don't think it'd be the need for labor as much as the need for ear plugs. Imagine if everyone around you was an entrepreneur trying to constantly solve every last problem in your work and personal life. How many pitches would you get a day? If all of them were even half as driven as a founder in a... |
Can everyone be an Entrepreneur? | jacquesm: There are ways to work together as independents replacing traditional labour relations, this is called 'stakeholdership'.Like that you are not an employee, but an entrepreneur in your own right and your 'output' is rewarded entirely in shares in the profits (or turnover, dependent on the arrangement).So, with... |
Best Time to Submit to HN? | brk: When I submit articles, I tend to submit them as a I find them.Really truly valuable "news" tends to end up on dozens of channels,so there is little danger of an "important" topic being missed because I submitted it at 6AM instead of 11:30.It also depends which version of "best" you are trying to optimize for... "... |
What start up would you invest in ? | MaysonL: http://www.fluidinfo.com/ |
I am running AdWords to promote my iPhone App. How do I... | cpr: The first question I'd ask is whether people ever use Google to search for iPhone apps? My take is, Not really.Perhaps it's different in the GPS world. |
I am running AdWords to promote my iPhone App. How do I... | sharpshoot: appsto.re |
What do you use for tracking your users? | AdamGibbins: I roll my own, these JS solutions miss so much what with NoScript being so popular nowadays. |
I am running AdWords to promote my iPhone App. How do I... | prbuckley: Hi I am am one of the founders at http://appsto.re and we have a way for you to track google ad word campaigns from our analytics dashboard. The service is 100% free and we would love for you to give it a try.Give me a call if you have any questions, 917 nine seven four 6317 |
How do you say it? | marssaxman: I doubt there is any such thing as "convention". Some words are pronounced phonetically and some as fragments of the words they were abbreviated or concatenated from; who's to say which is correct? People don't even apply their own pronunciation patterns consistently. |
Alternatives to New Mogul? | agatoff: there is a new mogul twitter page. not sure if it's the same but here it is: http://twitter.com/newmogul |
MBA or Masters in Computer Science? | Tangurena: Generally, to get a promotion past first-level-supervisor requires some business degree, and this is usually (an unspoken) policy at most larger corporations. It is my belief that far too many folks have gone for MBA degrees and that they no longer really work for sifting employees. Anecdotally, there are se... |
MBA or Masters in Computer Science? | barry-cotter: For the love of God, take your time.Under no circumstances do an MBA with less than two years of work experience. You won't get into a top ranked programme and if your programme isn't top ranked you'd be better off doing it by distance education while working. If you were going to do a second entry degre... |
Best Time to Submit to HN? | rick888: Most likely, the best time to submit is between the hours of 9am and 5pm. Most people are at work surfing the Internet. Usually after 5, traffic slowly starts tapering off. |
MBA or Masters in Computer Science? | b-man: Have you ever consider creating your own way, as in, researching a path for yourself, away from formal education?Won't earn you a degree, but it is a path that perhaps would be more enjoyable. It certainly was/is for me. |
Web Service for Local Business Directory | snand: If you are looking for specific service I think you can give redbeacon a try. fyi - They won techcrunch 50 this year. http://www.redbeacon.com/ |
How to find a short term programmer? | eam: You can always try odesk.com. |
How to find a short term programmer? | darkxanthos: Ooh that sounds like interesting work.. I'm not looking but I'd be interested in learning how to do this.Any suggestions? |
How do Internet businesses get around foreign registration? | grellas: Every state has a requirement that an out-of-state entity that is "doing business" within its borders register with it as a foreign corporation (or LLC) as a pre-condition to transacting such business.While the requirements vary from state-to-state, there is always some minimum threshhold that must be met, whe... |
How do Internet businesses get around foreign registration? | nkurz: While I can't confirm your interpretation of this particular law, I'm certain that no internet businesses register themselves in every jurisdiction in which they potentially offer their goods for sale. I'm uncertain whether this is a matter of interpretation or enforcement, but practically speaking I wouldn't w... |
What do you use for tracking your users? | mikedarnell: I like ewebcounter.com and userfly.com - both have free versions which suit me just fine.ewebcounter is my google analytics "sanity check" and real time resource, while userfly lets me view recordings of actual user interaction - VERY useful...Cheers,
Mike
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What trails does a missing person leave behind? | jacquesm: With a cell phone you can track someone within a few hundred meters in a city cell, in a rural cell within a kilometer or two.As for 'trails', try the past, if the person used a computer and you have access to it (legally) you could try to figure out what they were doing before they went off.Browser histories... |
What do founders spend their time on, after their product launch? | rs: promote, feedback, build, (rinse,) repeat.. always repeat. |
What trails does a missing person leave behind? | makecheck: If you know any web forums that he would log into, there will often be a date of last activity (e.g. in his user profile). Forums often have their own message systems, too. |
What trails does a missing person leave behind? | ErrantX: If it's a planned disappearance then his computer might well yield some information. Use a tool to extract web history from deleted file space (and live space) and have a go through it - if you have access.If he visits forums, blogs etc. ask for their help in obtaining the last IP address they have for him - t... |
Relationship Product Manager - Developers | nir: I think you do need to explain this to the developer. I doubt you'll find some magic solution here, and talking to the developers is basically what being PM is all about. Communicating with people is as central to a PM as code is to a developer.If after explaining he keeps repeating the same mistake, perhaps the p... |
Does anyone have recommendations for a web based kb/help docs system? | ScottWhigham: That looks really nice - I like it. I've used Cerberus Help Desk in the past and it was nice. ZenDesk, Kayako, Helpspot, and more fill this gap. Check out this past link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=404963 |
Does anyone have recommendations for a web based kb/help docs system? | jacquesm: I've just started using Trac after some hints here (I wanted a self-hosted solution), and it comes with a built in wiki. |
Does anyone have recommendations for a web based kb/help docs system? | GrumpusWumpus: There's phpmyfaq which looks more like the specific tihng you have in mind, but I really think a wiki is a better idea.Mediawiki is the best choice if you don't need to do funny stuff like setting up closed groups.But like jacuesm said, the trac wiki is also nice but only if you intend to use the other t... |
Does anyone have recommendations for a web based kb/help docs system? | d-ash: We have used http://kbpublisher.com/
It's pretty clean and powerful. |
Speedreading - myth vs reality? your thoughts. | Krismadden: I was a slow reader for a long time, and after going through several disappointing "Speed Reading" programs, I decided to research the topic more academically.Here is some clips from Alice Krumian's 2000 dissertation and related research books:"Professor Javal, a French physician and psychologist at the Uni... |
How to sell a private version of my web application to clients? | noodle: could set up something in the private version that pings home to find out if there's a new version available, and if there is, provides the download link or similar. |
How to sell a private version of my web application to clients? | run4yourlives: Why don't you do the opposite: Create a hosted version that gives them the security they desire.There's been plenty written on the disadvantages of hosting remotely - mostly around the inevitable support that comes with it.Like Ford said: I've I asked people what they wanted they would have said faster h... |
Working on a Project to Learn | sidmitra: You don't mention what type of applications you're interested in, Web apps or something else.The most fun programming i ever did was for my Digital Image Processing class, mainly because the output was so visual. You might try something visual, graphics(a game perhaps), image processing(non photo realistic re... |
Does anyone have recommendations for a web based kb/help docs system? | makecheck: A wiki is really good for this, such as MediaWiki or Trac. |
What trails does a missing person leave behind? | iterationx: did you put his picture on reddit and ask for help to find him? |
How to sell a private version of my web application to clients? | jsean: One thing to consider.
If you decide to host remotely, be prepared to give support.
If you don't mind it though you will have a nice (depending on your view) source of extra income.A better alternative might then be the opposite; create a hosted environment in which you provide them with the security they desire... |
Working on a Project to Learn | Freebytes: My email address is in my profile if you want to email me. What languages do you know? Are you interested in web based projects? What other projects have you been doing? What other experience (besides programming) do you have? |
If Django's admin is so awesome, why hasn't it been ported to Rails? | game2studios: I think that it has a lot to do with what each system was designed for. Both are great and can accomplish nearly the same things, the difference is that django was built for newspaper websites originally, so the focus on a standard admin CMS makes a whole lot of sense, especially when you are going to be ... |
If Django's admin is so awesome, why hasn't it been ported to Rails? | icey: Isn't this kind of like asking "If Lisp is so great, why hasn't SLIME been ported to Java?"?The admin in Django is great, but it's not the only way to do things. |
Refund cost of iPhone app for user x if you sell 2x? | bdfh42: If the app is any good it should sell through personal recommendation. Why add a "tacky" promotion that (to my mind) says "dump this app on two acquaintances and you get you money refunded" - message feels entirely negative to me. |
How do I get a hardware idea made? (by someone else..) | chaosprophet: Hey this is a relatively simple hack. If you're not looking for finesse and would go with anything that works, this could be done in a couple of hours.Also, rather than looking for sounds or temperature (which can easily produce a lot of false positives), you could simply make your tap into a switch and u... |
Refund cost of iPhone app for user x if you sell 2x? | conanite: You mean the nth user gets a refund when the (2n)th user buys? As n approaches +inf.0, the incentive approaches zero. So it's likely to encourage early adopters, and not latecomers. But usually (I believe) the early adopters need no extra motivation. So the question is whether (sales/2) in this scenario is gr... |
Working on a Project to Learn | icey: I would suggest finding an open source project you like and contributing to it. |
Working on a Project to Learn | stefano: Write an interpreter/compiler for your own little language. With your own garbage collector. |
How do I get a hardware idea made? (by someone else..) | bioweek: I just keep an oven timer in the bathroom for showers, e.g., something like this: http://littlebabylump.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/oven-timer... |
Share your resume | Mongoose: My current resume: http://evanmeagher.net/resume.pdfBear in mind that I'm a student and it's targeted toward internship opportunities. |
How do I get a hardware idea made? (by someone else..) | replicatorblog: http://www.quirky.com/ is a place that takes ideas for physical products and tries to fund their production by getting people to pre-order. The products seem a little silly, but it is a great looking site and an interesting way to approach funding. |
Drupal or Wordpress for a mostly brochure site? (Details inside) | Travis: If you want to turn it into an app, ever, go with drupal. You're more familiar with WP, so use that as the default unless the "friend" can give you a list of concrete reasons to go with drupal.When it all comes down to brass tacks, use what you know (especially since getting it rapidly deployed is probably mor... |
How to sell a private version of my web application to clients? | bhousel: If you go down this route of letting your clients install the software on their own servers, you are essentially selling enterprise software.That's not necessarily a bad thing.. For one, you can charge quite a bit more for the software, support, configuration, etc. Just understand that it's a very different k... |
Drupal or Wordpress for a mostly brochure site? (Details inside) | gexla: If I were to build a simple brochure site for someone I would try as much as possible to get away with just building a static site, especially if the client isn't willing to pay for someone to upgrade the site regularly and won't need to update content much. Lack of maintenance will eventually lead to the site ... |
If Django's admin is so awesome, why hasn't it been ported to Rails? | gr366: Isn't that what Streamlined was trying to do? It looks like it was EOL'd a few months ago. Their site now mentions looking at ActiveScaffold as an alternative http://activescaffold.com/Not to say they are trying to replicate Django's admin, but rather to present a semi-automated way of surfacing CRUD actions on ... |
Please give your opinion on why no traction in child safety technology? | callmeed: As a parent of 4 (ages 1 to 15), here's what springs to mind:- Privacy. Just the thought of a service knowing my child's whereabouts at all times or their historical data being in "the cloud" will probably give some people pause.- Having a locked bracelet/anklet on anyone immediately makes me think of house a... |
Are Google driving directions worse now that they cut Tele-Atlas? | tokenadult: Yes, the directions are definitely worse than they used to be. |
Please give your opinion on why no traction in child safety technology? | webghost: Hi jdileo,Get out of the valley and start hitting the south: Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina.There you will find your target market, specially if your focus is abduction.Kidnapping rates are soaring high and there is need for something like this.I'm currently working on somethi... |
Share your resume | cfinke: My resume: http://cfinke.emurse.com/(Disclaimer: I work for Emurse, but I didn't when I first started using their service to host my resume 3 years ago. I am obviously a fan.)As I've had more jobs and read more resumes for incoming applicants, I've found that the Education and Skills sections become less releva... |
If Django's admin is so awesome, why hasn't it been ported to Rails? | xgamerx: Also not to say that this is equivalent to the admin panel in Django, but I do enjoy using this cool rails plugin:http://github.com/neerajdotname/admin_dataI am not the developer but I do use it for most of my projects. Basically just presents an easy way to view and modify the data in your tables using a slic... |
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