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Best Web Language to Learn | qhoxie: This has been discussed fairly exhaustively, but here is a quick summary:You cannot really go wrong with python or ruby. Both have a number of solid frameworks for you to try (rails, django, pylons, sinatra, etc). Try a number of them and build some trivial app in a few of them.I also recommend getting famili... |
Best Web Language to Learn | catch404: I've you're not sure, IMO, install Django and follow their tutorial. Pythons a great language, Djangos a great framework, projects can be hosted for free on Google app engine and the Django documentation is excellent. |
Best Web Language to Learn | Ixiaus: Within your constraints, I would vote for Python too. It is an excellent general purpose programming/scripting language with libraries for every imaginable task, object-oriented programming patterns, and some basic functional programming features.The separation of application code from web server is also a nice... |
Best Web Language to Learn | JoelPM: It sounds more like you want to learn a web framework than a new language. Picking a framework depends on what your goals are - do you want to develop REST based services, write rich-internet-applications, or do more traditional web-apps?Cappuccino looks interesting for developing RIAs (or whatever the current ... |
Best Web Language to Learn | chrischen: Seeing as how you already know PHP, I would say Javascript is the next big thing, especially if you're into cool looking web apps. It's also something you'd need no matter what your server side is. |
Best Web Language to Learn | dkberktas: since your background is with Java, I suggest you to look Grails which has similiar features with Ruby on Rails and Django. |
Are Google driving directions worse now that they cut Tele-Atlas? | bdr: I hadn't heard about Tele-Atlas, but this weekend I got wrong directions for the first time. It had me turning left where that would have been illegal. |
Pragmatic Studio Courses? | icey: In case it's useful, these are the courses I'm talking about: http://pragmaticstudio.com/ |
Are these personal projects worth open-sourcing? | jacquesm: hey Edwin,(1) Absolutely!(2) I don't know puppet, so no comment(3) samePlease post about the nginx configurator if you decide to do it. |
Pragmatic Studio Courses? | runevault: I haven't been to one, but considering the guy who wrote the first clojure book and the language's creator are the two teaching it, hard to find a much better chance to gain mastery of the language here... |
How do I get a hardware idea made? (by someone else..) | vabmit: There is a start-up here in Cambridge, MA that was founded by a couple of MIT Grad Students called Course Zero Automation:http://www.coursezero.com/I've talked with them about their rates for working on physical device start-ups with me before. And, they were very reasonable. I know both of the founders and t... |
Good websites about UI design | makecheck: A couple of usability sites, which are a big part of design:- http://www.useit.com/ (Jakob Nielsen)
- http://asktog.com/ (Bruce Tognazzini)Bruce publishes rarely and seems to be more interesting. Jakob has some great posts, but also a lot that feel more like "please buy my book" than "this is helpful". |
Google official blogs don't have a user comments section. Why? | warp: For every place where user-generated content exists, you need people to police things. If you have a community, this can be crowd-sourced to some extent, but on a blog it is usually the blogger him/herself taking up that task. This is not a very fun way to spend your time, it's not particularly productive. The... |
What do you do if someone has your startup's twitter name? | Rabidgremlin: Just an update. Got no response from twitter, so we went with @split_the_bill |
Good websites about UI design | sganesh: http://sixrevisions.com/usabilityaccessibility/20-websites-t... |
Help me become a hacker | billclerico: I would just build and release something. You'll learn quickly what code is good and what is bad from experience. |
Best coffee shops/daytime hacker hangouts in San Francisco? | omakase: There are a bunch of coworking spaces in the city. I think all have monthly fees, but you can drop in and check them out:http://citizenspace.us/
http://www.parisoma.com/
http://www.sandboxsuites.com/Panera in SOMA is right beside the caltrain and has lots of outlets. |
Help me become a hacker | mixmax: Here is my take at the questions you pose:- The hardest and most boring part of a startup is all the stuff that businesses have to do, but that you don't personally find interesting. I hate accounting and taxes, but I have to do it. Some people don't like marketing, some don't like support, etc. But it has to b... |
Please suggest a name for my Django app | zeynel1: live link to slides: http://www.slideshare.net/zeynel1/swimswith-demo |
Help me become a hacker | noodle: > On a whole, what are the hardest/most boring parts of building web based software? What are the easiest/most enjoyable parts?in general, for me, the best part is the problem solving and building out the thing you created in your mind's eye. the hardest and most boring parts are everything else.> How importan... |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | fjabre: Went looking on elance for some help on a project.2 years later we're founding a company together. |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | jim-greer: My mom brought her home from the hospital when I was 3. |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | adityakothadiya: Startup conference event. But we met 2-3 times in different conferences, recognized each other every time, updated our progress about what we did from last conference, and eventually decided to meet for coffee.After 3-4 coffee meetings, we decided to join the hands.And I'm very happy with the results. ... |
Technologies created by (evil) hackers | presty: how about "remote desktop software" that became popular after the attacks from trojans like back orifice? |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | lucumo: In university. We worked together on paired work and group work, and I rented a room in his house. |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | pplante: I met mine via a previous job. We worked well together and decided to go create our own startup. |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | emmett: Grew up in the same neighborhood and went to elementary school and college together. |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | ryanwaggoner: Sophomore year...of high school. Now ten years later and we're doing a startup together. |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | lfittl: Originally met each other at a local hackerspace http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/MetalabSpent lots of time together and got friends, then he decided to go after a product idea and I joined him.For the valley folks this probably means hanging out at the Hacker Dojo http://hackerdojo.pbworks.com/ |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | andrewljohnson: On a date. |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | swombat: I lived in the same boarding house for two years with my first cofounder (Steve), who I started my first business with 7 years later. I was working for Accenture, and looking for a way out of the corporate world, and in fact was actively looking to start my own business, and Steve called me up and asked if I'd... |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | lleger: At high school, in our dorm room; he was a junior, I a senior. I met our third cofounder years ago on the internet in a blogging network called Random Shapes. |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | snprbob86: As interns at Google. We shared a workspace there, but it turned out that we attended the same university. |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | Oompa: 1) Sophomore Year in HS
2) IRC |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | monological: Through a bay area car enthusiast club. We realized we both had a passion for startups. |
Are these personal projects worth open-sourcing? | BjornW: Maybe a stupid question, but what would be the altternative?Recently I started to think along these lines: code not being used and/or worked on is slowly decaying (due to bitrot :) ). Personally i would opt to share even if it's not perfect. Practice makes perfect and that's what you can do by making your work ... |
Help me become a hacker | SandB0x: For spaghetti code problems the classic book is Refactoring. He has a whole chapter on "Code Smells" and most of the book is basically an extensive catalogue of techniques you can use to eliminate these.More modern languages like Ruby will allow even cleaner ways of doing things than described in Refactoring (... |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | adw: One of my cofounders, we met because we were at the same college (I was an undergrad; he was a grad student.)We met again years later as part of the same research group; by this point he was a postdoc and I was doing a PhD. Finished that, moved departments, and that's how I met my other cofounder: we were part of ... |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | wheels: He was one of my good friend's boyfriend's roommates. We met at a party on my good friend's boyfriend's best friend's birthday.All clear now? |
Review my introduction to SQL for Excel users Tutorial | samh: Hi,I've got an add-in for excel product that allows the use of SQL in Excel, so I have created a basic introduction to SQL tutorial.I would appreciate any feedback you have.It aims to be practical and doesn't worry too much about relational theory or the more intricate aspects of databases/sql.Although I'm planni... |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | dkasper: My freshman year of college my cofounder and I were arch enemies in the web programming course at school. There was a competition around the final project and we were on opposing teams. I think it was mostly because we were jealous of each other's skills. That summer we both worked on research projects at scho... |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | gsaines: My cofounders were my best friends from uni. I met Scott during freshman year. At Oberlin, students have 5 weeks off in the middle of winter when we're expected to cook for ourselves. I probably would have eaten ramen all 35 days for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but we banded together and became expert hash br... |
Does it really make sense to contact bloggers a week before launch? | holdenk: It doesn't hurt to get in touch with them and let them know you are about to launch to give them some time before hand to prepare (if they are even interested in covering you). You can always follow up on launch day (unless they explicitly ask you not to). That being said, don't ask for a press embargo, they m... |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | qeorge: Grew up together, fell out of touch, reconnected during college (NCSU) and became good friends again.Later, after we'd both dropped out and were working shitty jobs (read: retail), we both decided that this wasn't going to be the way our stories played out, and decided to start a web design company. I quit my j... |
Help me become a hacker | kingly: Thanks for the comments :) |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | jasonlbaptiste: Mark and I for Ramamia (side project)- Met on hacker news!Me + Cofounder of unannounced startup- Worked together at first startup + met through mutual friend from college. |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | diN0bot: haha. my cofounder and i are married. we met playing ultimate frisbee. we "adventured" more so than "dated," and were soon engaged. the startups came soon after. it was lucky that although we were so much in synch in spirit, our professional skills are complementary. |
Review my introduction to SQL for Excel users Tutorial | zeynel1: I like the format but I wish to see more. |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | jlm382: Meeting my co-founder was love at first sight - we were the only freshman in our discrete math class at Berkeley, so the GSI paired us up to be homework buddies. It was our first week in college.What started as doing problem sets together ultimately turned into building a company together. As they say, "you'll... |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | stgarrity: Clara & I met socially in college, partnered up for a compilers course (CS143), then did a fellowship together during our masters. Went our separate ways for 4 years after college (me to Seattle, she stayed in SF) but stayed close friends & traveled together, both for work & play.We both quit our jobs this y... |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | jordanbrown: We met through craigslist but didnt work together initially. As time went on we were then connected to every social site out there. I hit him up on facebook to do lunch about an idea I was had and the rest is history. |
Review my introduction to SQL for Excel users Tutorial | jonp: It's good. I would have found this helpful a few years ago.How about putting the tables into normal form? ie where you currently have the company name as a string in the Person table, instead have an ID which references the Company table. It's not necessary for understanding the example shown, but it can't hurt t... |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | DaniFong: My cofounder Steve tried to hire me for a videogame startup. I ended up hiring him for my compressed air energy storage startup. He brought on Ed, a partner he worked with more than two decades ago; they created a startup, Cubicomp, that produced the first ever 3D graphics software running on a PC. It ran on... |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | newy: College buddies - now working on Optask (http://www.optask.com) |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | kobs: We were sitting next to each other during our Intro CS lab when groups were being assigned; I asked if he wanted to be my partner. We've been partners for pretty much everything ever since. |
Review my introduction to SQL for Excel users Tutorial | gsiener: I spent a lot of time in a previous life making huge queries in SQL and then dumping the un-normalized data into Excel to use its amazing Pivot functionality. I like the idea of this plugin, wish it worked the other way around! |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | ig0rskee: First day of University |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | rishi: college and TECH cocktail |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | marram: Freshman year in college. Ten years ago. At a math class. |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | jaddison: I'm involved in a couple of ventures and I've met each of my co-founders through past employment (all of us working at the same employer(s)). |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | PStamatiou: At the first Atlanta Startup Weekend. It was only after continued meets, coding and planning things out over coffee on saturdays, and so on, that it became apparent we were both interested in working together. 2 years later, still kicking it on Skribit.com and it's a good fit. We're both technical, he's a b... |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | hikari17: I first came across Justin when he blogged from the FamilySearch development conference back in March of 2008. My wife and I had been looking for months for a technical co-founder with a strong interest in family history. Justin's blog posts were noticed/quoted by a genealogy blogger I followed and that quick... |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | ivankirigin: We were literally married. We met in an honors algorithms class at nyu. |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | nkohari: We were introduced by a mutual friend when we were in high school. We dated through college, and then got married. :) (Yes, my co-founder is also my wife.)I'd always wanted to start my own business since as long as I could remember, but was biding my time in the corporate world until I felt I was "ready". She'... |
Confession - I use fake staff names to make my company look larger | makecheck: I don't recommend starting out on a deceptive foot. This will probably be discovered eventually, and may lead people to wonder what else you've been deceiving them about.It's okay to have virtual E-mail addresses like "support@yourcompany.com", etc. for each category. But don't make them actual staff names... |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | callmeed: Highschool baseball team ... best friends since |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | apinstein: Tennis match in a singles league... still kinda surprises me to this day that we're business partners now! |
Good websites about UI design | hellotoby: http://www.konigi.com/http://www.patterntap.com/ |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | Dramatico: At a sausage fest like most hackers. |
How would you license your software? | makecheck: As far as access rights: as an engineer I don't want hoops to jump through; not because I'm going to steal your tech tomorrow, but because simple terms make debugging easier and keep the lawyers away (frankly).Ideally, start with an existing license that your client's lawyers have probably seen already, so t... |
Good recruiter/job agency in NYC? | bioweek: How about the DC/MD area too? |
Best way to guess gender based on persons name | apu: http://amp.ece.cmu.edu/people/Andy/projectpage_names.html"Estimating Age, Gender, and Identity using First Name Priors"Although the paper looks at this in the context of computer vision -- matching faces in an image with names in the caption -- it should provide some information (and references) on your problem. |
Best way to guess gender based on persons name | whatusername: Mechanical Turk job.Perform a Google search of the name, bring up all the pics that return and get the Turker to identify if the photos are male or female. |
Best way to guess gender based on persons name | quant18: It's hard to give an answer without knowing more about your input data and what you intend to do with the output.On general principle, "math plus syntax" seems like a highly error-prone approach, especially if you need to process anything that's not a standard English name, or if you have lots of users named P... |
Best way to guess gender based on persons name | Scott_MacGregor: 1. Start with a database of popular names, like might be found in a baby name book.2. Ask the user to input the name to be guessed.3. Lookup the name in the database. If the name supplied by the user is not in the database, add the name to the database.4. After the name lookup or insertion in the datab... |
Great intro books for web design/graphic design? | brandonkm: I recommend checking out 'universal principles of design' and o'reillys 'designing web navigation'. These two will give you a good overview of different aspects of design while helping you understand how design works on the web. I think that in starting to learn about all of this, it would be advantageous ... |
Where did HN's sense of humor go? | rms: It's never had much of a sense of humor. Jokes are usually mercilessly downmodded unless they are really, really funny. |
Great intro books for web design/graphic design? | weaksauce: I don't think it's the SICP of Design but the non-designers design book is a good terse book of design for us CS folk. Though for strict design and not aesthetics the "universal principals of design" should serve well. |
Where did HN's sense of humor go? | envitar: Let's Go! Put a Python on Rails and C what happens! |
How did you and your cofounder meet? | JangoSteve: We were in an entrepreneurship club together at our university (well techinically we had met a few times before in various classes and parties). |
My CTO just left me 2 angry voicemails... | phugoid: Anyone who would fire you for this is not worth working for. |
My CTO just left me 2 angry voicemails... | charlesmarshall: Startups that have recently launched and are dependent on a single product for income are going to be very intense around deadlines. If you're currently the sole / lead dev I doubt you have much to worry about. You are worth more to them than running a few hours late.Let your cto cool off and theres no... |
My CTO just left me 2 angry voicemails... | SwellJoe: No, startups are not "ALWAYS" anything; there is a wide variety of people involved in startups. Startup founders, often very successful ones, can be polite and generous people. Most people do have flaws of some sort, and sometimes there will be people who have flaws that are distinctly incompatible with you... |
My CTO just left me 2 angry voicemails... | ErrantX: Your post reads to me like your trying to convince yourself to quit.I wouldnt want to say either way; except to point out that if your working that hard for a company (startup or not) it's got to be one you really connect with. As soon as it starts to become a chore it's pointless.So you screwed up: if the CTO... |
Why do you want to be an entrepreneur? | jacquesm: Originally, simply to get food on the table.Now after having done this for 20+ years simply because I can't imagine living life without this freedom.It's addictive. There were years when I probably could have made more money by taking the jobs that were offered, but none of them was ever even close to temptin... |
Confession - I use fake staff names to make my company look larger | mpf62: Stop using fake names immediately and start responding with your own name in all cases. Many customers will probably think: “there seems to have taken place a reorganization; cool, now I have a single contact person for all my concerns”. They probably won’t even bother to ask where the other guys are. And if the... |
My CTO just left me 2 angry voicemails... | jacquesm: Is your stock solid ? In other words has it vested ?If it is walk. If it isn't you'll have to wonder if they don't fire you whether or not the chances of you sitting it out until your stock does vest are > 50%.It sounds like your CTO is not made of start-up material, and ought to be replaced, but then again w... |
My CTO just left me 2 angry voicemails... | zedshaw: I was in the Army for four years, and when I finally got out I promised myself three things:1) I would never run again unless I was being chased by something that could kill me.2) I would never again train to kill another person.3) No man would ever, ever, yell at me. Ever.To this day, #3 has been the best th... |
Why do you want to be an entrepreneur? | Mz: I suck at being a cog in the machine and I don't have any ambition to stop sucking at it.Where I have had responsibility for something and some freedom for how I handle it, the rubrics I use get generally better results than most of what I see around me. Having had very positive experiences with that, it's hard to... |
My CTO just left me 2 angry voicemails... | michael_dorfman: Sorry, I hate to be that guy, but....wtf?Today, I screwed up and left my phone at home while I went out for dinner. We had some work that needed to be done, but I thought it wasn't due until the morning (miscommunication on my part). When I got home, I had a couple of missed calls and two really angry ... |
My CTO just left me 2 angry voicemails... | pclark: whats the big deal? you messed up and the CTO was pissed. we all make mistakes. |
My CTO just left me 2 angry voicemails... | spokey: It's hard to get a complete picture of the situation from this little vignette, but your wife might be on to something.There's a difference between "intense" and "toxic". Firing 2 people in 3 months may be a sign of a toxic environment. Leaving _two_ yelling, swearing voice-mails may be another. It's OK to be... |
Review my introduction to SQL for Excel users Tutorial | roundsquare: A few thoughts.1) I like the visualization. Its a key part of understanding SQL.2) However, I don't see this as taking advantage of a user's excel knowledge. Why not make an analogy they will understand? Join is similar to vlookup! Try to do something in excel first and then do it SQL. That will be to... |
What tool makes you most productitive? | va_coder: REPL |
Why aren't any of the new datastores written in Scala or Clojure? | jacquesm: It helps if you write your code in something that has large scale adoption if you want to tap the pool of existing talent.It also makes it easier to get others to adopt your technology because they will have one less thing to explain to their bosses. |
What tool makes you most productitive? | ekarisor: Vim and SlickRun (sorry Windows specific but certainly worth mentioning) |
What tool makes you most productitive? | mquander: Habitually using Compiz workspace switching to get more working area on my laptop, instead of trying to arrange windows carefully on a single desktop and bring them forward with the taskbar. |
What tool makes you most productitive? | aerique: A bit of a cliché but: Emacs.
(Or alternatively vi since that can be plugged into most things as well.)As a software developer on *nix I spend a lot of my time manipulating text: code, e-mail, news, forums, documentation, etc.I can do all this from Emacs which is its greatest strength for me. It might not have... |
What tool makes you most productitive? | ludwig: Vim and Emacs (yes, I'm schizophrenic). |
What tool makes you most productitive? | Anon84: My brain.It's amazing how much time you can save if you analyze the problem a bit more deeply. It's much easier to use the correct algorithm/implementation if you truly understand the problem. |
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