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Is it worth buying misspellings around your domain name? | ThomPete: Unless you are in the business of trying to hijack traffic then no.People reach you through google or through links, the name doesn't really matter anymore. Flickr is a great success yet it could be considered a misspelling. Actually "mispellings" are company names these days. |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | pclark: come work for me. |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | FreeRadical: Join a YC company |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | matthewking: You're making other people rich because you're not taking risks. The people at the top are there because at some point, they quit their job and risked everything they own for some crazy idea. Everyone told them they were stupid and that they should get a "real" job and to stop dreaming, the idea didn't go ... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | profulla: Don't feel bad by thinking how much other people make money from your work. Think it positively, think in terms of what you learned from the experience. I believe now you gain some experience of the product developement, and gained strong confidence that you can also build some product which will give u $1m. ... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | ivenkys: You are in your twenties and you are working for others !!Reality check : if you are really as good as you think you are, work for yourself. Work for someone else and they will take advantage of you, it doesn't matter which "employee" friendly company you work for. |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | andrewparker: Do you respect the people for whom you work? Working for and with smart people is far more rewarding than a 25% boost in salary. Surround yourself with people you respect and really want to work with, and I think that money concerns will be less important to you. You'll feel more motivated to go to work ... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | petervandijck: Work less and learn to enjoy your social life, or do projects you find meaningful. You'll have to learn that making lots of money won't make you ANY happier than you already are, you're shooting for the wrong kind of reward here. |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | edw519: Wow! You have had what seems like an ideal first three years after college and all you see are negatives. Have you learned anything in that time? From what you've described, I would think plenty.The last 3 years was a process you had to go through to get to where you eventually want to be. A very efficient ... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | DavidMcLaughlin: Classic workaholic. You probably think your utopia is to have so much money that you don't feel the need to work so hard and don't feel so guilty about spending some cash, but even if you make a million you'll find another way to challenge yourself and leave yourself wanting more. Maybe your next chall... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | icono: I know what you’re talking about. For my first two jobs I worked for the first company that said yes. The first experience turned out to be okay because I had a very good manager. The second job was a complete mess and the company couldn’t retain a person for more than two days. I stayed at the job for six m... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | petervandijck: The name for your feelings is 'entitlement'. You need to learn to deal with these (scary yc alert) feelings, not just to improve your job situation, but especially for your personal relationships. Mo' money won't help, nor will becoming a founder (although it can be fun). Research feelings of entitlement... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | c00p3r: The charismatic people who know how to exploit eager young workers can be your teachers. Learn from them and keep practicing. Practice is the best teacher.I also like this sentence - "The more I practiced, the luckier I got". |
What tool makes you most productitive? | mightybyte: GNU screen, vim, git, and Haskell |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | bgray: My advice is if you're working for someone else, work as much as you're paid. In your spare time start a project to make money for yourself. And always remember, there is more to life than work and you'll never get time back so no regrets (just learning experiences). |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | johnaspden: The slacker view:http://johnlawrenceaspden.blogspot.com/2009/11/horror-of-pro...I wrote this article after people had a go at me for teaching kids to program. The first half doesn't sound like you, so skim it, but the second half might be relevant. Start at the bit where it says "A well paid job that you do... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | japherwocky: I'm surprised nobody has linked to the Gervais principle. You fit nicely into his model:"The losers are not social losers (as in the opposite of “cool”), but people who have struck bad bargains economically – giving up capitalist striving for steady paychecks."http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-ger... |
What tool makes you most productitive? | vlisivka: 1) bash/perl(regexps)/other command line tools;2) trackers, task focusing software: GTD-free, Trac, Mylyn, pyroom, etc.;3) blind typing (to type fast), workrave (to stop typing);4) somebody else, which will review my work. |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | rick888: This is the story of everyone that works for a living. I think your problem is that you have unrealistic expectations.When you work for someone, you have to expect that you may be making them $1,000,000.. and you will only make the salary in your contract.You mention that your product helped bring in 6 millio... |
Any ActionScript Programmers in Attendance? | chaosprophet: If you're familiar with Javascript, AS3 would be quite easy to grasp. Even without prior knowledge of any ECMAScript-compliant language, AS3 is quite easy to learn. If you are planning to make games using AS3, then you might want to look at this: http://www.brighthub.com/internet/web-development/articles/... |
What tool makes you most productitive? | mistermann: LLBLGen Pro (ORM) |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | iamelgringo: I dream about the rewards of hard work--I want to travel, to live the good life--but then I look at my life and see my twenties beginning to slip away, with a high likelihood of nothing but memories of hard work and my morning coffee to replace them.It sounds like you have two separate problems. The first... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | kp812: I can't answer your question until you answer one yourself: are you okay working for someone else until you retire? If that's fine then I think you just need to find a company which fits you better - one that gives you decent salary, hours, other perks etc. I do think you are being taken advantage of as an engin... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | ulysses: 3 years is a short time.
2 months is almost nothing.You're already making close to 100k, by that account -- that's your hard work paying off after only one year.The time to get a bump in salary is when you switch to a new job -- it probably isn't in your best interests to ask after only two months. After a ye... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | trevelyan: > When I told them I was quitting, they offered me a giant (>25%) raise, but I couldn't stomach the thought of staying after accepting another offerYou got offended and walked instead of actually negotiating at the point it seemed they recognized your value. Why the conflict avoidance? You should have asked ... |
Should we adopt an Offtopic: naming convention? | icey: There are enough on-topic things to talk about here; off-topic things should be taken to a different site. |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | EinhornIsFinkle: Unlike most posts, I don't think you should be a founder at this point unless you're prepared to do a bit of growing up and dealing with many issues that don't involve building cool stuff.Find a way to observe a business from the CEO spot and reconcile that POV with an employee's situation. How will y... |
Where can I buy 10-100 iPhone 3GS | TimMontague: Are you going to offer some kind of rental service? That would be an interesting business model... |
Re-review my startup - ProspectVista.com | leftnode: Clickable links:http://www.prospectvista.comhttp://www.prospectvista.com/profile/view/4http://www.prospectvista.com/profile/view/87 |
Introduction to NoSQL? | bjclark: There's lots of types of NoSQL dbs, where would you like to start? Are you looking for a DocumentDB or a Key/Value store or a Graph DB or a column oriented db?Do you have a preference on what language an example app or tutorial is in? |
Introduction to NoSQL? | Tichy: CouchDB the definitive guide - a work in progress, but it's free and amusing to read: http://books.couchdb.org/relax/ |
Re-review my startup - ProspectVista.com | DanielStraight: I reviewed before, and I'm afraid I can't say much different now. My review before was that I thought the profiles were not at all compelling, so I signed in with the business account to see if I could do better. I can't. There isn't enough flexibility, and there's way too much focus on stuff no one car... |
Introduction to NoSQL? | thomaspaine: I think Redis is one of the easier NoSQL databases to pickup, because it's easy to install and is mainly just a key-value database with some bonus features. Your entire DB is stored in memory and persistence is done by asynchronous writes to disk, so it is possible that you could lose data if something wer... |
Open Source apps with lots of database tables? | jerf: "big enterprise applications with 150 database tables"Did you drop a zero or two? I hit 250-ish once on a relatively minor project by enterprise standards. (Built a small business on this table, so it wasn't a dinky thing either.) If you're normalizing anything like correctly, the table count grows fast. (Not to ... |
Where can I buy 10-100 iPhone 3GS | sganesh: http://www.buy.com/prod/apple-iphone-3gs-32gb-never-locked-l... |
What order to do customer signup in? | christiancoomer: I have my users sign up before they can add any content, but I'm going to be implementing "lazy registration" soon, so that they can add their content, see how they like it, and then sign up if they'd like to. It's less of a barrier of entry and I think it will help drive more content being added.See #... |
Open Source apps with lots of database tables? | sprsquish: OpenMRS is pretty big. I don't know the exact number of tables, but it's up there. http://openmrs.org/wiki/Data_Model |
Introduction to NoSQL? | figured: Here are a few resources for Couchdb:* an intro: http://aimee.mychores.co.uk/2008/09/07/post/320* a use case: http://kore-nordmann.de/blog/couchdb_a_use_case.html* CouchDB Implementation: http://horicky.blogspot.com/2008/10/couchdb-implementation.h...* joins in couchdb: http://www.cmlenz.net/archives/2007/10/c... |
Introduction to NoSQL? | drhowarddrfine: Chapter 5 of The Art of Unix Programming by esr, "Textuality". That's the reason I haven't used databases for simpler things in years. |
What are the top technology aggregation sites? | mg1313: Techmeme.com ... |
Open Source apps with lots of database tables? | sunkencity: If you want to look at enterprise style LAMP you can look at Magentos database. <shudder>. It's 250? tables of pure dba geekery:http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/_detail/doc/magento---sa... |
Open Source apps with lots of database tables? | SwellJoe: Drupal and Joomla both have about 150 tables, and most modules add a few tables, so a working installation with reasonable functionality usually hits about 200 tables. |
What are the top technology aggregation sites? | Adrenalist: http://popurls.com/ - There's a Technology section at the bottom with lots of different tech news sites. Some may fit what you are looking for.http://alltop.com/ is surprisingly good. Again, not positive if it will fit exactly what you are looking for, but I found http://python.alltop.com/ to be useful. |
Re-review my startup - ProspectVista.com | hkuo: Honestly, I really really feel for you. It's very clear you've put a ton of hard work into this. I think it's great that DanielStraight spent a lot of time to provide feedback. I honestly don't have as much time to give you the proper technical or user experience type of feedback that you need. I will, however, g... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | sid: Feeling like what you have is the first step in your evolution ! I felt exactly the same way. Now your at a crossroads where you decide next what you want to do. First of all do what is more important. If you have the $$$ to do it, take a break, do whatever you need to do with your GF, with family so things are ba... |
Re-review my startup - ProspectVista.com | hkuo: One extra note, not a good idea to use the word "vista" in your product, as it recalls the obvious Windows Vista which everyone pretty much ties to "failure". |
Open Source apps with lots of database tables? | jakecarpenter: Here at my day job we have a at least 5 dbs/apps with more than 500, and a few with north of 1000. |
Is it worth buying misspellings around your domain name? | sahaj: no. just let google fix the spelling mistakes for you. |
Introduction to NoSQL? | emileifrem: For the Neo4j graph database, check out:* the 10 minute code-level getting started guide: http://wiki.neo4j.org/content/Getting_Started_Guide* a full-blown reference example, including diagrams, graph layout screen shots, code walk through etc: http://wiki.neo4j.org/content/IMDB_Example* the domain modeling... |
Open Source apps with lots of database tables? | JoeH: Take a look at Compiere ERP (http://www.compiere.com), they have an open source community edition. It has been many years (6+?) since I last looked at it, but it easily had over 500 tables.In fact a quick search shows 531 Tables and 108 Views: http://www.knowledgesuccess.com/local/doc/schemaCompiere253b |
What are some use cases for my web service? | there: hookers can use it on craigslist to avoid giving out their email address to potential law enforcement, i suppose |
What are some use cases for my web service? | joshu: subpoena magnet? |
What are some use cases for my web service? | scrame: You might look into the uses, history, and eventual demise of anon.penet.fi:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anon.penet.fi |
What are some use cases for my web service? | levirosol: how exactly do you do this?"If you want to email someone, have them send an email to your maskur.com address, so their maskur.com address will appear in the "From" field, or ask them to mask their email on this page."at that point, haven't you already communicated with them? either by phone / in person, or v... |
Got a crazy idea you want to share for Startup Weekend? | dzenanr: Start Startup News where only submissions are software development proposals. Members comment and vote on proposals. Each quarter, the top three proposals are recommended to venture capitalists. The proposer and the top five members are invited to participate in the development. |
What are some use cases for my web service? | mehere: this is exactly what Match.com started as... |
What are the top technology aggregation sites? | DanielBMarkham: This post has been up over two hours and nobody has come up with any alternatives?Wow |
Who wants to do this experiment with me ? | aw3c2: wikihow did this a while ago (a year or two), you could ask them about their experiences: http://www.wikihow.com/wikiHow:Why-Hide-Ads |
How much of the Mythical Man Month still applies? | spokey: This strikes me as a strange question. What aspects of the Mythical Man Month do you feel no longer apply?(That is, it has been a while since I last read it, but I can't think of anything specific about TMMM that seems out of date as long as you take into account the historical context. Maybe the "surgical team... |
What are some use cases for my web service? | robotrout: I like this idea. It serves some sort of need, I'm sure.I don't see how to monetize it, but if your goal is just to provide a needed service, I think it's pretty cool. It's arguably more convenient than setting up another yahoo or google account.As to who would use it, one would first assume it would be mo... |
how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of? | sdh: "I feel like I'm just making other people rich."Then why are you working for other people? If you can create the kind of value you claim ($700k daily revenue), then your next choice seems obvious.start your own company.don't "do a startup" because those are mostly filled with people afraid of corporate jobs, clut... |
What are some use cases for my web service? | krisneuharth: You could possibly create an API for this service and see how people use it. In my current project I have a need for something like this but having to send an email complicates my use case some. |
What are some use cases for my web service? | sebastian: Pretty similar to mailinator.com witch I have been using for a while. |
Ideas man vs Practical Man | dasil003: Assuming you want to find a technical co-founder you will need to bring valuable skills to the table. If you have truly amazing ideas this could be maybe 50% of what you bring to the table, but more likely your ideas will be 5-10% of your contribution, because once you get going on an idea you are going to n... |
Re-review my startup - ProspectVista.com | solidlaw: This is a good website. It appears that this service does what redbeacon does, in matching requests to businesses, except your website is also a social network in addition to free advertisements for companies. I think the value propisition is good and if you can get enough people to upload a commercial it co... |
Open Source apps with lots of database tables? | cmelbye: I was about to suggest MediaWiki before I even opened the link ;-)Going in depth in their database schema and code might be a good idea, it's got a lot of really cool optimizations (which makes sense, considering it powers a top 10 site on the internet). |
What are some use cases for my web service? | makmanalp: Normally you'd come up with use cases before you actually implement the idea :) You could encourage people to use it with any sort of online trade (craigslist / ebay etc) but I don't think it'd take long for them to duplicate the behavior should this ever become very popular. |
Favorite Project Management Solutions? | bayareaguy: I think it all depends on your feature requirements and employee skill set.My former company got along pretty well with our own mix of Trac/SVN for code and engineering issues, Request Tracker for trouble tickets, ScrumWorks for iteration management and MediaWiki for all other stuff. |
What are some use cases for my web service? | arihelgason: Emailing people you meet on http://omegle.com |
What are some use cases for my web service? | callmeed: Whistle-blowers and others who want to leak info to journalists/investigators without revealing their identity right away.You should include a form that allows a user to notify a person of their maskur address via SMS ..."I have important info regarding insider trading at YAHOOGLE, please email me at yahoogle... |
Favorite Project Management Solutions? | shaddi: There was a great article about this very topic two weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=912141 |
Busy hacker would like to pay less busy hacker to build website | durbin: http://odesk.com |
What are some use cases for my web service? | bayareaguy: This sounds like a good way for people who use online services and games to collaborate without the downsides of exposing "real" email addresses (which seemingly inevitably find their way to spammers, search engines, etc).It could be particularly useful for celebrities, public figures, political protesters,... |
Developer workstation setup to promote startup culture? | bayareaguy: At the last place I worked at with this sort of environment, I found the thing which increased my productivity the most turned out to be the several open wireless access points which were purposely setup outside the company's internal network. |
Busy hacker would like to pay less busy hacker to build website | jjguy: really?http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/hunter_becomes_the_prey/ |
How do you decide where to direct your charitable giving? | Shana: I believe there are sites that reiew overhead. That's a first big one...I donate to things are non-denomniational, but of my religious background. That's a personal choice. They tend to be a top on my list.Assoicated with children is anohter big one. However it really had to make an impact.Also I tend to wan... |
Developer workstation setup to promote startup culture? | anonjon: Right now I have a laptop hooked up to a 24" monitor.
It is sweet.The nice thing about having it as a laptop is if you have to go collaborate you can go to a meeting room and both sit down with your laptops. As opposed to, i don't know, really...At my current work I often save a lot of time (and save myself fr... |
Developer workstation setup to promote startup culture? | mrshoe: As much as I love Macs, I think I can be more productive writing code on a linux box. I'm going to assume that applies to everyone else :-), and say you should save some money on desktops by getting everyone a linux box with 2 Dell monitors.Spend that money (and more) on getting everyone a MacBook Pro as well. ... |
Developer workstation setup to promote startup culture? | ablerman: The startup culture around here is typically that of flexibility. We work long hours, we don't keep track of vacation time and I don't care if you sit at your desk.Currently, my favorite spot is the office couch. Maybe next week it'll be the conference room table.I encourage people at startups to integrate wo... |
Developer workstation setup to promote startup culture? | petercooper: Do what you like (of course!) but it would drive me nuts to have a "work computer" and a "personal computer." I love the iMac, but I love my portable too, and I can work and do personal stuff on both. Personally, I'd suggest not enforcing anything too tightly (especially that 90 degree screen thing - not e... |
Developer workstation setup to promote startup culture? | petervandijck: Mmmm...It feels like you're treating your developers somewhat condesceningly. Go with laptops dude, and extra screens (2 large ones each) at the office. That's what developers like. |
Developer workstation setup to promote startup culture? | rudd: Why do you want to keep the use of a work computer and a personal computer separate? I suppose I can understand wanting to keep personal data on your own computer, but people aren't going to be happy being forced to drag a laptop to and from work just to check personal stuff during the day. They won't see it as y... |
Who wants to do this experiment with me ? | apinstein: Do you think you'd have any interest in trying a different ad network that would offer higher CPMs? I am actually pitching an idea at Atlanta Startup Weekend tonight and you'd be a perfect first customer :)LMK so I can announce a first customer in my pitch (which is in a few minutes!!!) |
Developer workstation setup to promote startup culture? | BigCanOfTuna: Give each developer a hardware budget equal to the value of a top of the line MacBook Pro 17"....but each developer 'chooses' the 'laptop' he wants to buy (be it OS X, Windows, or Linux).- the developer gets the hardware he wants to work with- the developer feels a sense of 'ownership'- the developer resp... |
Developer workstation setup to promote startup culture? | wglb: I think promoting the startup mentality is not really about the smaller details about the hardware. It is about giving people challenges and a good collaborative place to work. The hardware won't do that on its own.The two screens sounds like it would help the immediate task, but I personally would not buy del... |
Developer workstation setup to promote startup culture? | samstokes: You don't really say what specific startup mentality you want to promote, but it seems to me a good generic startup mentality would include creativity and flexibility. That suggests the strategy: let each developer pick her own work rig. Give them a budget and maybe some suggestions, and let them spec and co... |
Developer workstation setup to promote startup culture? | kbob: "Welcome to StartupCo. Here, take my old laptop. You can use this until you get your own system. Your budget is $2,000 and that includes any software licenses you'll need this quarter. Go online and order your new system and after that I'll introduce you to Ben who knows all about the code you're picking up. ... |
Developer workstation setup to promote startup culture? | Scott_MacGregor: I like the dual screen setup, but I would say no laptops because backing up a take-home laptop won’t happen on a set schedule with the rest of the workstations overnight. Plus if someone takes one of the laptops to Starbucks and gets a virus online, when the machine comes back on your LAN it can create... |
Developer workstation setup to promote startup culture? | nzmsv: This sounds like a pretty terrible culture you want to create. Why control what people do with your machines at all? (on separating email from development) It's a completely arbitrary rule that makes no sense. Hackers tend to question those :)If you really want to make developers happy, give them a budget and le... |
Favorite Project Management Solutions? | projectileboy: I recommend Redmine. |
How do you decide where to direct your charitable giving? | toisanji: I am actually working on a startup to help people decide where to direct their charitable givings to. In the US alone there are over 1 million registered charities. It is very tough for someone to figure out which charity is in line with their beliefs/hopes/aspirations. And on the other side, charities wan... |
How do you prioritize your features? | Zev: For launch, I personally try to decide whats essential to the application at hand - if this feature isn't in the application, is it still the same application?Example: If you're making a todo list, you need to be able to add entries and mark them completed. Thats it. Reminders are nice, but not essential. Same wit... |
How do you prioritize your features? | aichcon: You should have a vision for your product that is your north star, but for less 'big picture' features, let your users do your prioritization for you. Proactively communicate with them and keep track of feature requests. The frequent requests will bubble up - focus on those. |
Favorite Project Management Solutions? | btakita: Pivotal Tracker http://www.pivotaltracker.com/ and You Track http://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/. |
Should I return back to studies or continue to work? | jrp: You might be able to choose the third option of studying part-time while staying with your comfortable job. |
Introduction to NoSQL? | dageroth: NoSQL is not really one specific database type, quite a lot of very different apporaches fall under the label. Starting from Key/Value Stores like redis, over documentbased structures like couchdb and Column-oriented approaches like Google's BigTable and Apaches HBase to graph-Databases like neo4j. And these ... |
How Can One Correctly Assess Their Own Ability? | jacquesm: Competence is not a constant. Even if today you may not be as skilled as your potential indicates you could be there is a simple way to change that:Do stuff! And learn while you're doing it. Spend time reading and really absorbing and integrating the stuff you read until it makes sense, then apply that knowle... |
Should I return back to studies or continue to work? | jacquesm: One thing is for sure, if you don't go back to studying now chances are you never will.And whether or not it will be useful to you is very much depending on your future career path, if you are looking forward to continued employment in that field than an extra degree certainly won't hurt, if you plan on going... |
I'm looking for a technical co-founder/partner. | jason_tko: Long time listener, first time caller. Seems like my copy and paste from Google Docs generated an interesting horizontal scroll. For a slightly easier to read version, please check :http://blog.webnet-it.co.jp/2009/11/14/im-looking-for-a-tech... |
I'm looking for a technical co-founder/partner. | jacquesm: Funny how it is always "business guy looking for a coder" but never "coder looking for a business guy".Probably your post will become much more readable if you drop the two leading spaces on your bullet points, that way they become inlined instead of in a scrolling div.Another thing you could do is limit the ... |
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