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Why does nobody want to talk about Zeitgeist? | nostrademons: I haven't seen Zeitgeist, but from your description and the comments on the original submission, I assume it's one of those conspiracy-theory films about the power elite and economic exploitation?I think you might be surprised by how much of the middle class is aware that they're being fucked over by elit... |
What are your thoughts on "unofficial" programming languages in companies? | davidw: > But after reading "Developing Erlang at Yahoo!" and how the new Delicious is written in ErlangDidn't you read the bit about it not being written in Erlang ?http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=323116One route would be simply to go work somewhere where you can learn new languages, rather than try and get around... |
What are your thoughts on "unofficial" programming languages in companies? | iigs: Fighting that front and center will make you that hoarding programmer that doesn't cooperate or share, writes horribly obfuscated code and tries to ensure job security by not just doing things the "right" way. You'll be perceived that way whether or not you're the Mother Teresa of code, so don't do that.An arguab... |
ASK HN: What do you think of mind.some.head ? (social network connecting minds and ideas) | alaskamiller: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=headEdit: okay, this is just a ning setup. |
ASK HN: What do you think of mind.some.head ? (social network connecting minds and ideas) | run4yourlives: Um, what is it? |
Demotivated Founder With Lost Passion Seeking Advice | carlio: Bail. You're not happy, and you're putting in more effort than you should / want to. If you carry on it'll make you more and more bitter and that won't help the business. If you have another opportunity, go for it - the novelty will rejuvinate you I'll bet. |
Demotivated Founder With Lost Passion Seeking Advice | noodle: i'd say, no matter what you do, wait until you launch and pull in some customers. if your cofounder isn't tech savvy, i would hope that he's the business/marketer type person who's going to be doing the selling of the product. hopefully he'll be the one donating huge time chunks post-launch in order to make i... |
Demotivated Founder With Lost Passion Seeking Advice | bestes: It sounds like you are ready to launch. I can't imagine walking away after your site is ready and before it even launches!a) See it through the launch. Send your post to your co-founder. Try an forget about "effort" and "sacrifice". Is he adding value at all? Is he going to once you launch (i.e. sales or someth... |
Demotivated Founder With Lost Passion Seeking Advice | maxklein: Don't bail when the going gets tough. Launch and give it everything you got for the next 3-6 months. If NOTHING comes back, give up. If it starts trickling in and you see potential, continue pushing. Otherwise, give up. |
Demotivated Founder With Lost Passion Seeking Advice | alexandros: You are prepared to bail. This is an excellent bargaining position. Put your problems plainly to your cofounder, including your intention to bail if things dont improve on his side. If you dont see the reaction you want, do what you were prepared to do and know that you tried as much as you could. |
Have you ever been a one man Geek Squad? (Of course you have) | run4yourlives: My own two cents:I wouldn't do this because your customers are cheap idiots who don't realize they're cheap idiots.I personally don't think the small amount of money you make is worth the headaches you will face. I think you'll have better luck targeting small businesses as "outsourced IT" help than targ... |
Demotivated Founder With Lost Passion Seeking Advice | amrithk: If you can, try taking some time off. Travel somewhere. Do not think about your work for a week or two. That gives you really good perspective. |
Have you ever been a one man Geek Squad? (Of course you have) | noodle: i've actually considered doing this.something to consider is nerds on site, which is basically an international group of contract workers doing what you're doing, but they provide a network of support for the process.something worth considering is providing the service of at least attempting to diagnose problem... |
Have you ever been a one man Geek Squad? (Of course you have) | SwellJoe: This is not a startup...it's a small business. Nothing wrong with that, of course. A small business is awesome, and generally better for your finances and emotional well-being than working for someone else. But, it doesn't have the same end result as a startup, and the way you build one successfully is ver... |
Demotivated Founder With Lost Passion Seeking Advice | donniefitz2: You're almost there. Why stop now? It's not all that bad and you've come so far. It's like giving up on a marathon when the finish line is just coming into vision. Suck it up. Put your head down and focus on finishing. |
Demotivated Founder With Lost Passion Seeking Advice | symptic: You've put in the time, and you haven't seen the rewards yet, so you're naturally discouraged. Tim Ferris covers it well on his blog (link below). Mostly everyone goes through phases where they are unmotivated or feel like they can't win at what they are doing. It's part of life. The important thing is not to ... |
Can I survive the rest of my life only knowing Java? | ram1024: Learn how to utilize your java skills in making Android Apps!just a thought... :D |
Demotivated Founder With Lost Passion Seeking Advice | jwilliams: (b) Bring in a 3rd Party.Importantly - Someone you both agree on - Not because they agree with you individually, but because you both recognise they can add value. Someone complimentary to your skills - maybe totally different skills - maybe a customer, or someone who's been in the business for years and can... |
Have you ever been a one man Geek Squad? (Of course you have) | scumola: I used to love a small business in my local town that used to do this. He sold cheap, korean PC hardware and charged by the hour to fix problems for people. He had a real store front and was in business for at least 5 years before Best Buy moved into town and took his business away. I think that small compa... |
Can I survive the rest of my life only knowing Java? | pmorici: "Where should I go to learn them? Are conventions worth the travel/admission cost?"The Internet and no.edit: If your employer is willing to pay for you to travel to some great location to attend a conference I wouldn't turn it down. Not a wise use of your personal funds though. |
Can I survive the rest of my life only knowing Java? | dusklight: Well there are still people making a living writing FORTRAN.Can you survive? Yeah probably. Will you be happy? Are you happy now?Conventions can be cool for social purposes, but if you want to learn something new that is substantial, that's not going to happen in a week. There is only one way to learn code, ... |
Can I survive the rest of my life only knowing Java? | noodle: you'll always be able to survive on one language. especially such a huge language that will leave a giant legacy footprint if another language becomes more popular. the question is, will you, personally and financially, prosper. you want to do more than survive.it won't be easy, but its possible. check out ... |
Is there a state-by-state guide to IP assignment issues that affect startups? | noodle: talk to the corporate lawyer for the company that the one person with the tight contract works. or, at least, request to do so.at my company, we had a terrible contract, and the employees brought it up and got it changed. bring it up, see if you can get an exemption clause drafted and signed. |
Demotivated Founder With Lost Passion Seeking Advice | webwright: How much do your users/customers love what you have? If there is a glimmer of user joy, that's not worth tossing aside lightly... It's rarer than you think, and having something that customers like enough to pay for is a GREAT thing to have in this market.In, short... Are you onto something? If not, certai... |
Have you ever been a one man Geek Squad? (Of course you have) | jharrison: It sounds like you haven't ever actually done what you propose to do. I think you'd be better off getting a job with one of the outfits you intend to mimic, first.Like SwellJoe, I've also been contracting for a number of years.Early on I went to the homes of computer users and fixed their problems. Let me ... |
Have you ever been a one man Geek Squad? (Of course you have) | DanielBMarkham: Quick Version:1) Charge at least 45/hour. Yes you can charge less, but no it doesn't scale. I might even go higher. You have to make enough so you can pay all the fun taxes and insurance premiums you need -- even if you decide to skip out of them for a while.2) Have a minimum hour block. Back in the dar... |
Demotivated Founder With Lost Passion Seeking Advice | villanovalaw: Smile. Breathe. Think.Life's Good. Enjoy it.oh.... LAUNCH THE PRODUCT AS IT IS!!!!-P |
Can I survive the rest of my life only knowing Java? | arockwell: You can make a living writing j2ee apps for the rest of your life, but I'm not sure you'd want to... Here's a couple of things that have recently helped me broaden my programming horizons:Learning lisp from http://gigamonkeys.com/book/. I still completely suck at lisp, but my eyes are opened to what you can ... |
Demotivated Founder With Lost Passion Seeking Advice | siong1987: Launch... Get feedbacks... Iterate... Launch again... This is a never ending process for a startup with VC-backed.But, if your company is not VC-backed, then, you have to use this method:Lauch... Get feedbacks... Iterate.. Bootstrap... Launch again... Get more feedbacks... Iterate more... Bootstrap more... A... |
what's going on with HN? | nazgulnarsil: us hackers wouldn't get paid much if computers always behaved themselves. |
Demotivated Founder With Lost Passion Seeking Advice | adilsaleem: Try to involve someone with authority. Some angel investor, another co-founder, mentor, advisor...anyone who can hold (both of) you accountable for your efforts and actions (or lack of it).You should talk to your co-founder about your concerns. You ll need all your efforts after the launch for product impro... |
what's going on with HN? | alaskamiller: You should ask for you money back. |
what's going on with HN? | amvp: Welcome back. I missed you. |
Can I survive the rest of my life only knowing Java? | geuis: You need to learn something else. Java in particular is horrible about getting otherwise competent developers stuck in one kind of mindset about how to do software development. There may be some good practices that you've picked up but you are also being limited by lack of exposure to other ways of developing. |
what's going on with HN? | pg: The server got wedged: it couldn't write to the log file because there were too many files open. Still not sure why there were so many files open. I've never seen that error before. But the program that notices when the server is wedged and kills it didn't catch it in this case, because instead of not responding... |
what's going on with HN? | delackner: In other news, productivity across the globe spiked today... |
Demotivated Founder With Lost Passion Seeking Advice | abijlani: Ask yourself a very simple question. If you were currently making sufficient income from your product and were on your way to growing the company would you still harbor the same feelings towards your cofounder? |
Demotivated Founder With Lost Passion Seeking Advice | trevelyan: >> Bad part is, we don't have any money
>>left for new development. I've handled
>>a good portion of the tech issues, except
>>for the core programming of the app:
>>interface design, database design, sys admin
>> config, some bug fixing,etc. Think of it
>> more as a CTO role, than a lead dev role.
... |
Demotivated Founder With Lost Passion Seeking Advice | known: If you constantly talk to your users you will bootstrap. |
Demotivated Founder With Lost Passion Seeking Advice | saint: move out and do not do that again. this is not beer drinking. if you are making sacrifices, why do you think other needs to do it also?
you have to overcome this (personal) issue.
the co-founder is not there for no reason - talk to him about your feelings and see if you see reality in the same way. |
Demotivated Founder With Lost Passion Seeking Advice | santacruz: reboot |
Demotivated Founder With Lost Passion Seeking Advice | adityakothadiya: Don't bailout. There are always lows and highs in this journey. This is a "low" phase. Try to get over of it. Even if you are thinking about a new idea, there will be a phase with that idea where you will feel "low". It's very frustrating to see afterwards that you left the journey half-way. Let your u... |
Demotivated Founder With Lost Passion Seeking Advice | sonink: Two things:1. Just launch. You are about to quit anyways - so why not just launch, it obviously couldnt be worse.2. Co-founder - I think two highly motivated founders is definitely ideal - but whatever little I have seen I think more often that not one founder is a lot more motivated than the other. This also s... |
what's going on with HN? | brandnewlow: Had the same exact problem about 10 days ago, as well. |
Demotivated Founder With Lost Passion Seeking Advice | gojomo: Maybe you need to hook up with this other founder disillusioned with his cofounder: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=325923 |
My host has me over a barrel. I've placed myself in a pickle. How to handle? | davidw: 1) You need to understand this stuff yourself. You need to learn about Apache and Drupal and the other technical bits - maybe not to the point of becoming an expert, but enough to work with them a bit.2) Go elsewhere. Slicehost (or linode) has better VPS deals, and Layered Tech used to have some pretty good d... |
My host has me over a barrel. I've placed myself in a pickle. How to handle? | speek: linode.com asap |
My host has me over a barrel. I've placed myself in a pickle. How to handle? | FiReaNG3L: 384 MB of RAM is really low for a site (apache + db i assume). I host my Drupal site ( http://esciencenews.com ) at ServInt on a 90$/month package with 784 MB of RAM. Dont know how I would do it with 384, looks impossible to me. Higher traffic daily than your spike. |
My host has me over a barrel. I've placed myself in a pickle. How to handle? | alex_c: Their plans seem a bit expensive. Depending on how much bandwidth you use, slicehost.com might be a better option - you get 1GB of RAM for the same price. |
My host has me over a barrel. I've placed myself in a pickle. How to handle? | patrickg-zill: Well the first you can do, is to configure apache to restart an httpd process after serving some number of clients. Under Apache 2.x this is called MaxRequestsPerChild and the default is 10000 requests. Since you are not bumping into CPU problems, try reducing this number to say 500 requests. After a ... |
My host has me over a barrel. I've placed myself in a pickle. How to handle? | lethain: If you're willing to handle the stuff yourself, and it isn't that bad, SliceHost is a charm. I've hosted my django based blog (600-1000 uniques per day, ~6000 some peak days) on a 512 megabyte vps (Apache2 with mod_python, nginx for static files and proxying other requests to the Apache2, memcached instances w... |
My host has me over a barrel. I've placed myself in a pickle. How to handle? | matthewking: How about EC2? 1.7GB on their lowest virtual server - Works out at about $72~ per month I think? |
My host has me over a barrel. I've placed myself in a pickle. How to handle? | noodle: tweak your apache configuration to see if that will fix your swapping problems. there are tons of articles on what you need to do to do this available online. sounds like you're just spawning a lot of children that are sticking around to fill up memory and swap space.i had similar problems with a default confi... |
My host has me over a barrel. I've placed myself in a pickle. How to handle? | midnightmonster: You're paying quite a lot for a very weak VPS--compare at slicehost or linode. So your first step might should be to spend less for a more powerful server at one of the other VPS providers. OTOH, I'm not sure linode or slicehost even offer the kind of support package that you have paid for with midphas... |
My host has me over a barrel. I've placed myself in a pickle. How to handle? | brandnewlow: Ok. I'm going to call the folks at ServInt and Linode and talk to them. I am concerned about migrating from one host to another as I've never done that before but I can figure it out.I'm also going to look more into improving my site's performance. I have enabled Drupal's page caching, but I guess it's ... |
My host has me over a barrel. I've placed myself in a pickle. How to handle? | durana: I'd ask them to clarify what they mean by a crash. Is it a system crash or is it Apache going out to lunch or is it something else? A "crash" can mean so many different things because it is somewhat vague. I've seen plenty of cases where if you press someone for a root cause of a "crash", they can't give it ... |
My host has me over a barrel. I've placed myself in a pickle. How to handle? | blender: Couple quick things for Drupal:Do you have Optimize CSS files (CSS file aggregation) enabled?Do you have Caching mode (Normal) enabled?Cheers |
My host has me over a barrel. I've placed myself in a pickle. How to handle? | theantidote: I agree with most of the above. Move to a more cost effective host, optimize your Apache server, and use page caching in Drupal. I think it's as simple as a checkbox in the settings somewhere, but it's been a few months since I've worked with Drupal.http://drupal.org/getting-started/6/admin/settings
The ma... |
My host has me over a barrel. I've placed myself in a pickle. How to handle? | jbyers: From what you've said, I doubt host swapping is a good idea - yet. First you need to get a good understanding of what's causing the system to run out of memory. One way to do this is to watch vmstat and top when the system is failing, or to install one of many system monitoring packages.From what you've state... |
My host has me over a barrel. I've placed myself in a pickle. How to handle? | pistoriusp: Move your static files to a different subdomain / host or vhost. (AWS?)Turn Keep-Alive Off. (If you're site doesn't have tightly packed multiple requests). The default is 15 seconds, I saw a 50% speed increase when I disabled this.
Set MaxRequestsPerChild to 500, in case your code is leaking. |
My host has me over a barrel. I've placed myself in a pickle. How to handle? | rcoder: First, you should know that many types of caching will increase your memory usage, not decrease it. The whole point of a cache is to use fast storage (RAM) to keep a local copy of data that would be slower to retrieve from its persistent source (filesystem or DB).Second, 384 MB just isn't much memory for a medi... |
My host has me over a barrel. I've placed myself in a pickle. How to handle? | adatta02: check out http://novanix.com/I realize the website looks shady as all hell. But we use them for EVERYTHING and we've never had a problem. Their support is also top notch. Usually answers+fixes <30 mins. |
My host has me over a barrel. I've placed myself in a pickle. How to handle? | DanielBMarkham: I had the same problem four years ago. It killed my startup. The volume numbers weren't there for a dedicated box and the VM-type hosting was continuously (and randomly) rebooting. |
My host has me over a barrel. I've placed myself in a pickle. How to handle? | staunch: For another $10-$20 you could have a physical dedicated server with 1GB memory on ServerBeach. I highly recommend them. You can get $100 off if you use my referral code 7XYHDMBU8A but even if you don't use my code I still recommend it!http://www.serverbeach.com/catalog/cust_ref_landing_new.php?... |
My host has me over a barrel. I've placed myself in a pickle. How to handle? | rms: Before slicehost I was on Mediatemple's gridserver... the latency was terrible and there was more downtime than I would have liked, but it was ok. I suspect their service has improved somewhat in the interim and they provide more bandwidth than any other shared, managed hosting provider for the price. If you reall... |
My host has me over a barrel. I've placed myself in a pickle. How to handle? | niels_olson: I know HN discourages superfluousness, but I'd just like share my moment of zen as I contemplate how this is exactly the kind of post that keeps me coming to HN. |
Can I survive the rest of my life only knowing Java? | lacker: Ruby and particularly Ruby on Rails seem to be particularly exciting for people who have just escaped the world of Java. Plus, web apps are the sort of thing where you can make a simple one and entertain yourself quickly. Just find a neat one day project and dive in.The best way to learn is just to promise a co... |
My host has me over a barrel. I've placed myself in a pickle. How to handle? | lsc: you have 2 options.1. buy a much more powerful server/VPS.for seventy some odd dollars a month you can just leave your amazon ec2 image up all the time, and that's something like 1.7Gb ram. if you are willing to use a small provider (like me) you can do even better- I'll give you 2GB ram for $64/month. Havin... |
Any users of SimpleCDN? | kospeslgurness: jbyers... i just switched to simplecdn from cachefly because simplecdn does https and allows you to do gzip and cache-control. I second mediaman453, dont know what article is talking about, great expereincecc soo far great service emails you back at all hours of the night is crazy |
My host has me over a barrel. I've placed myself in a pickle. How to handle? | bstadil: Host if on Amazon Web services. Will cost you $72 / month and you can scale up from there at peak times if you need.
You get 1.7GB of memory and roughtly a 2.5GHz processor.
If you need help setting this up use Scalr.net or we (cloudincode.com can help you for free)
Drop a line if you are interested... |
Does Buzzup.com have a chance to compete against Yahoo Buzz up | qhoxie: I don't personally see anything unique about how the site operates. It seems to be more or less a clone. In its current state, my answer would be 'no.'Please correct me if I am wrong on this. |
Does Buzzup.com have a chance to compete against Yahoo Buzz up | johntech: Maybe or maybe not. Yahoo buzz has the scale but it lacks many social network features such as: comments, friends, etc.. The article below proves my point:http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/has_yahoo_buzz_lived_up...However, buzzup.com is just a another clone of digg. It all depends on how good users feel... |
A/B Testing in Ruby on Rails? | furiouslol: There's a free A/B testing app offered by Googlehttp://www.google.com/websiteoptimizer/ |
Does Buzzup.com have a chance to compete against Yahoo Buzz up | alaskamiller: 1. i'm confused about the branding
2. did yahoo register buzz? is this why you're changing the brand?
3. the color doesn't have enough contrast. i'm squinting on my monitor to read the text.
4. what's the distinction. your little paragraph is horribly written and didn't explain it. |
Door-to-Door Selling Stock to Fund your Company? | ScottWhigham: they had a large funder which they rejected because the guy was just too hands-offHuh? Doesn't seem logical to me. Too hands-on, maybe, but turning down money b/c some investor trusts the people he invests in just doesn't make any sense.As for your query, of course there are huge, huge legal worries here.... |
iPhone app for reading YC Hacker News? | auston: there used to be one at http://buxfer.com/yc/ |
Door-to-Door Selling Stock to Fund your Company? | aasarava: It's not necessarily illegal to sell shares in a private company, but you're right that the manner in which you do it is highly regulated. See "Rule 502", in particular clause C.
http://www.law.uc.edu/CCL/33ActRls/rule502.htmlThis summary addresses your question directly (albeit in a footnote):
http://www.ic... |
Does anyone WANT to build client software anymore? | davidw: I have a number of years experience working with Tcl, and also a bit of Tk, which fits the bill nicely for that kind of thing.However... yeah, doing client apps is not "where it's at" compared to web apps. I never thought I would say that. Web apps were, once upon a time, sort of ugly and boring compared to a... |
Does anyone WANT to build client software anymore? | oldgregg: I think YC tends to attract people who want to innovate... but who associates desktop software with innovation anymore? That's so 1983. Younger guys have never "wasted" the time to develop the requisite skill-set and older guys haven't bothered to keep up their chops.Besides, anybody who actually goes to MSDN... |
Does anyone WANT to build client software anymore? | scumola: I still write C code and GUIs for stuff, but doing it in PHP,SQL,Perl is just so much quicker and easier for things that my C programming is not as frequent as it used to be and my C skills are getting stale. I'm not in need of a client-side app as much anymore nowadays, the browsers are so capable that it's ... |
Does anyone WANT to build client software anymore? | jncraton: I personally don't mind writing client software. I'm still in school, and I honestly don't have a huge amount of experience, but efficiency is really appealing to me. Web programming is fun when using Django or Rails. The code is beautiful, and it provides a great way to innovate. However, when I sit back and... |
Does anyone WANT to build client software anymore? | bayareaguy: The idea often appeals to me but I quickly get turned off by the practical realities involved, particularly when getting the app to both look reasonable and work on several platforms.That said, I've been thinking about XUL/Firefox addons for some simple configuration things. |
Does anyone WANT to build client software anymore? | jgrahamc: I think you're suffering from a virtuous circle or Catch-22 depending on your viewpoint. This site (and others) have made out that everything is going to be a web app, so lots of people want to work on web apps and then if all the smart are working on web apps then web apps look like the place to be. |
Does anyone WANT to build client software anymore? | noodle: i've done both (although my client-based experience is now a little old-ish). i've worked on client-based stuff (c++ mostly) and done your standard web app dev work (rails, php, java, etc.).the turning point for me, where i decided that i wanted to focus more on web dev type things, was in a UI and software en... |
Does anyone WANT to build client software anymore? | AlexTheFounder: webwright, haven't seen your job ad, but I guess its not that challenging for a real "client" hacker to become attracted. Personally, I wouldn't bother applying because I see no future for myself as a "desktop" fanatic at your company - don't take it seriously, I do and love web apps too! |
Does anyone WANT to build client software anymore? | comatose_kid: I'd like it as long as it was Mac.To elaborate, the pool of people willing to pay for Linux client software isn't large enough. The pool of people willing to pay for Windows software is large enough, but I don't enjoy writing C#/.NET or MFC. And as importantly, it is hard to stick out as an indie in tha... |
Does anyone WANT to build client software anymore? | pmjordan: I got into programming via the games route, and until pretty recently, that meant to-the-metal C, C++ and the libraries close to the system. (and when I started to teach myself to program, I hadn't heard of the internet) I've always tried to stay on top with other tech as well though, including the web, and n... |
Does anyone WANT to build client software anymore? | tlrobinson: Compiled, non cross platform, download-only, "client software"... no.Cross platform, deployable on the web or any OS desktop, or mobile phones (with new generation browsers)... yes.But we had to write an entire framework first ;) |
Does anyone WANT to build client software anymore? | kapitti: I wrote one for AT&T that got deployed to ~1M PCs and lost my luster for client apps when Microsoft released Vista & XP SP2, both of which resulted in months of patch work just to get things working again before we could focus on newness again.I'm sure some day I'll love Client Apps again, maybe when Microsoft... |
Does anyone WANT to build client software anymore? | rcoder: The problem with finding really great hackers who want to do client-side coding is that a huge percentage of the work required to implement such apps is boring crap: compatibility testing, look-and-feel review, installer authoring, and collection of client configurations from issue reports. You can implement mo... |
Does anyone WANT to build client software anymore? | jamesbritt: My company, Happy Camper Studios, builds cross-platform client apps using JRuby, Swing, and Monkeybars. We like it. :) |
What's a good startup PBX system? | yan: Did you look into Asterix? |
What's a good startup PBX system? | qhoxie: I recommend rolling your own. Grab FreeSwitch and you can get things going for pretty cheap. |
Does anyone WANT to build client software anymore? | kingkongrevenge: If you want to write to MFC, which I'm sure would make the most sense, then that's probably your problem. |
Does anyone WANT to build client software anymore? | umjames: Are you looking for one person to do the Mac, PC, and Linux desktop clients? That would explain why you haven't found anyone yet. People tend to become good at developing for only one of those platforms.I can (and do) both web and Mac programming, but don't live near Seattle. Of the 2, I prefer Mac programm... |
Does anyone WANT to build client software anymore? | jcromartie: I currently work on a project that has some similar technical goals to RescueTime. The OS-level work is what sucks. I don't mind working on GUIs, especially when it means applying the polish that really makes an app shine for users. That sort of stuff I can get into...As a matter of fact, I fixed the Sta... |
Does anyone WANT to build client software anymore? | maxklein: Personally, I love client stuff way more than web stuff. Web stuff is just so limited in what can be done, and client stuff totally gives you freedom...But that's not the truth. I've been doing desktop stuff for years so it comes naturally to me, whereas web stuff is new. The people you are meeting here grew ... |
Does anyone WANT to build client software anymore? | rodmaz: I think client software is seeing a revival with mobile platforms like the iPhone OSX and Android. Right now the best experience in those devices is delivered by native client apps. Script languages like Flash and a browser with a larger screen enables rich web applications and thus reduces the need to write a ... |
Determining Site Valuation (Bankaholic = $15M?) | mstefff: Actually, I think I might have been completely wrong about the 8K uniques monthly - think it was daily. Still though - doesn't seem that high. |
Does anyone WANT to build client software anymore? | 131072: I'd rather code web-apps than Win-API apps. I'd rather code OSX apps than web apps. But mostly, I'd rather live in a tent than become a multi platform installer/GUI porting expert. There are enough more interesting (or less painful) jobs around for the people who are good enough to do a good job of that. But yo... |
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