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Back in time to 100 BC, what knowledge would you impart to the people? | Banzai10: I would teatch them to learn from different cultures, I think it was a waste of time destroy everything they found in each civilization they conquered like Incas, Mayans and other civilizations in europe. Probably there were a lot a writing documents that would be very useful to our society today. |
Comments on and help on improving our recommendation engine for news | physcab: First, I think just based on your description you are indeed asking a lot of the user. For our service, we simply ask the user to vote up or down a piece of content and our dataset is pretty sparse. Users like to consume-they don't have any interest in helping you tune your algorithm.With that said, now let's ... |
Feedback on my startup (iPhone related) | aren: Clickable link: http://www.apptizr.com/invite/vip code 'HackerNews' |
Is RAII sufficient for memory management? | mbrubeck: RAII doesn't provide an obvious, simple way to release memory in the presence of cyclic references. You may be able to use weak references to fix this, but that requires the programmer to notice the problem and explicitly specify the solution. Automatic GC takes the burden off the programmer in this case. ... |
How observant are you? | fburnaby: I'm told by an (admittedly pretty crappy-looking) online test (http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jTypes2.asp) that I'm an INTJ, with strong NT, but only weak I and J components. I don't know anything about the Meyers-Briggs scale beyond what's stated about it in the wikipedia entry, but the result isn't sur... |
Feedback on my startup (iPhone related) | jiggity: clean interface! I think one thing that might be nice is to do in-line taste matching.I didn't bother to really answer the tastes section. When it says OPTIONAL for sign-up sheets, my motivation for filling them out drops to zero. This is a concern, because the user experience is directly proportional to ho... |
Feedback on my startup (iPhone related) | aik: Looks nice so far, but why do you need my name on initial signup? |
Please review our NFL stats app, Playerfilter.com | playerfilter: Clickable link: http://www.playerfilter.com |
How observant are you? | iterationx: My friend is an air traffic controller and worked at O'Hare for a while but is now in Grand Forks. He described his work situation, when he first arrived it was chaos, then he slowly learned all the acronyms, he learned the layout of the airport and mapped it to the acronyms. Then later he said that it wa... |
How would you describe yourself/your achievements in two sentences? | nfnaaron: What have you done? What are you going to do? |
Back in time to 100 BC, what knowledge would you impart to the people? | cmars232: I'd hasten the spread of coffee cultivation, production & distribution. Productivity boost! |
How would you describe yourself/your achievements in two sentences? | iterationx: Write a big paragraph, then reduce it. |
Feedback About Newly Launched Supercool School | iterationx: I looked at take a tour, but I still have some questions. Maybe you could provide a demo class? Or at least a video.The tour has many items I consider unnecessary for example: "1 Give the School your branding - add your own logo"It's quite obvious that there will be a button for logo, so this is actually ... |
How observant are you? | huherto: I'm very absent minded and this kind of thing happens to me all the time. It happens even more when I am working on an interesting problem. So usually the more absent minded I am the more productive I am. Sadly, some people don't understand and you can get in trouble. It recently happened to me at work.I make ... |
Back in time to 100 BC, what knowledge would you impart to the people? | BobNeumann: "In about a hundred years, there'll be a kid named Jesus born in Nazareth. Listen to him, he really knows his stuff. Do what he says, and you'll have the greatest society in history. |
Please review our NFL stats app, Playerfilter.com | turtle4: Are live stats available during games, or only after Monday?Any way to have information about the TD plays? ie: B. Roethlisberger QB 398 PaYd, 3 PaTD (8,10,8), 4 RuYd
Its a nice start. I'll have to play around with it later. I've often wanted a service that I could pull stats from for some drafting and/or s... |
how to generate recommendations on the fly? | earle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_value_decompositionhttp://www.igvita.com/2007/01/15/svd-recommendation-system-i...Should get you started. |
how to generate recommendations on the fly? | notaddicted: Directed edge has a few links on their website: http://www.directededge.com/tech.htmlAlso take a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_prize |
What to do about our latest App store rejection? | anigbrowl: f) use different pictures...I dunno, kittens with ribbons or clowns or something.I'm not fundamentally opposed to a game involving bikini-clad girls, and it's true enough there are other apps out there with more overtly sexual themes. And I get that it's basically a simple game you're trying to spice up with... |
Back in time to 100 BC, what knowledge would you impart to the people? | Travis: I would tell them the benefits of standardization and assemblage. Making things to specification is a little appreciated, but very useful, concept.E.g., a component of America's success in many wars (although I've read the disparity between her forces and the enemies were greatest during the Revolutionary War)... |
What would you do with almost free bandwidth? | wmf: I thought about creating a redneck CDN using some unmetered servers for the base load and 10TB servers for peak load. You might call it arbitraging the arbitrageurs. |
how to access scientific papers? | dasht: Academic libraries work, although you need to actually go or be affiliated in a way that gives you their online access. The paywalls (ACM, IEEE) are what they are.Sometimes, not always, if you find a paper behind a paywall but look at the personal or academic home page of the authors you will find pre-print PDF... |
how to access scientific papers? | weaksauce: If your school has a ssh account for you that you can access from the outside you can forward the web traffic via ssh. If all the sites are looking for is the IP block of a school that is paying for the subscriptions then you should be good to go. |
how to access scientific papers? | eggoa: Where I live you can access JSTOR for free, logging in through the public library's website. This only covers a lot a of liberal arts material as well as journals for some of the "softer" sciences (and it's licensed for personal, educational use only).
Maybe not quite what you're looking for, but a great resour... |
How observant are you? | Mz: I'm an ENxP. (It's been hotly debated whether I'm a Feeler or a Thinker. I seem to drive both categories nuts and Feelers accuse me of being a Thinker and vice versa.) I'm acutely observant of some types of things but I can also be really oblivious to some other types of things. I tend to pick up on social patt... |
how to access scientific papers? | mixmax: Google Scholar might be what you're looking for.http://scholar.google.com/ |
how to access scientific papers? | haliax: You can get a lot of things on CiteSeer |
Where do you prefer to get work done? | tjr: I live about a twenty minute drive from where I went to college; I still find the campus to be a good place to focus. |
how to access scientific papers? | keefe: ACM's site has tons and tons of papers, highly recommend joining - it's cheap too |
Where do you prefer to get work done? | jacquesm: It's not so much 'where' as much as 'when' for me.Home is fine, it's the disturbances that get me (cell phones, tv's, neighbours, other people and so on). I work best at night because of that. |
Back in time to 100 BC, what knowledge would you impart to the people? | anactofgod: This -- "0" -- is the number "zero". Here is how you use it... |
how to access scientific papers? | jacquesm: I have a friend who is a student, anything I want to read I can usually get like that.Publicly funded research should be available without charge to the public. |
Where do you prefer to get work done? | mbrubeck: The bus is a terrible place to work. Usually I prefer to read or listen to music/podcasts. But when I'm obsessed enough with a project to work on it during my commute, I often get quite a bit done just because I have no internet to distract me. And when I know I'll be working on the bus, I make sure I have... |
Where do you prefer to get work done? | dnsworks: When I briefly lived in Seattle, I loved to work in the coffee shops there. They were idea with lots of tables, great wifi, and tons of power ports. They came in two varieties:So quiet that you can hear yourself think
So loud that everything turns into white noiseSince moving home to San Francisco, I've found... |
how to access scientific papers? | teeja: arXiv.org might be the place to search, depending on the subject area. Only been around since 1991 though. |
Where do you prefer to get work done? | samaparicio: Have you tried dropping by a coworking space? |
Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring | gmac: I really like the idea here, but I've encountered a problem using it.I think all emails from the service must be getting spam-filtered before they reach me. Because (a) I've never had an email with a settings link, like the one discussed on this thread, and (b) I've not been notified when my site has been down (w... |
Help a webcomics player developer by having a comic strip made for you.. | MrMatt: Clickable link: http://bou.me/bespoke-comics-for-your-website/ |
do you think I should do this? | bhousel: Only if you know people at those other companies who would be willing to buy what you're trying to do. It's a good idea, engineering-wise, but there may not be a market for it. |
What is your policy on IE6 development? | chaosprophet: For my in-the-works site, I'm going with displaying a notification to IE6 users notifying them that the site may not work as intended on their browser and asking them to upgrade to Firefox/Chrome/Safari/IE8. |
What is your policy on IE6 development? | charlesmarshall: For me it just depends upon the type of site I'm working on.In these competitive times you need to support as close to 100% of the sites user base as possible. If the site drops 10-12% to a rival because it lacks ie6 support thats not going to go down well at all.I do like the car analogy, but if you h... |
What is your policy on IE6 development? | jarsj: I am deprecating it quite aggressively now. |
What is your policy on IE6 development? | ldh: My policy for IE6 is: don't. |
What is your policy on IE6 development? | imp: I think I'm in the minority, but I will fully support IE6 until it's less than about 5% of traffic to a website I'm working on. Once you know IE6's quirks, it's not that hard to work around them. I think the benefit of an additional 10% or 15% or web traffic outweighs a few extra hours of development. Again, it... |
What is your policy on IE6 development? | maxdemarzi: If your website will have a tilt to "Enterprise Customers" (worker bees in Fortune 500s) in any way then you must support IE 6. You have no option.Otherwise forget it for now. "Early adopters" are on the cutting edge (browser wise) anyway. You can always accommodate IE 6 bugs later on if the site "makes ... |
What is your policy on IE6 development? | keltex: I think that you have to look at the client's visitor profile before you make this decision. If a client's site sees 10%+ IE 6 visitors (and many of mine do), you can't simply say we're not going to support this technology.Often I tell them that we will review the site in IE 6 and make sure that it's "functiona... |
What is your policy on IE6 development? | eswat: I simply don't cater for IE6 anymore. Not for contract work or my own sites (IE6 use for my sites hovers around 3% and it wasn't until it hit 10% where I decided to not care for the browser). Hell, even my corporate dayjob is deprecating IE6 development (we're in the health insurance industry).If I'm doing contr... |
What is your policy on IE6 development? | motters: DO NOT WANT! |
What is your policy on IE6 development? | mattdennewitz: every advertiser i've worked with requires IE6 compatibility. so, theres that to keep in mind. |
What is your policy on IE6 development? | jlk: I agree that without a very frank up-front discussion about IE6 limitations, you'll find yourself redoing PNGs as GIFs and writing some conditional CSS hacks the night of launch when the client's sister boots up her Compaq to check out the cool new site. |
What is your policy on IE6 development? | stan_rogers: NN 4.x stayed around forever BECAUSE we supported it, and IE6 will do the same. We have met the enemy, and they are us. |
What is your policy on IE6 development? | pistoriusp: I generally just make sure that the website is functional in IE6. If an element is bumped/ aligned or distorted in some way (and is still usable) it doesn't get fixed. |
Please review our Start-Up: Twitalbums.com | faborito: Clickable http://www.twitalbums.com |
What is your policy on IE6 development? | tcarnell: The solution is very simple. Pricing.Give your client two prices: one with IE6 support, the other without. Give honest prices based on the genuine overhead of working with IE 6.If the client is willing to pay for IE6 support, fine, do the work you are being paid for. Let the cash decide the future of IE6...bu... |
What is your policy on IE6 development? | smithjchris: Our IE6 support policy was tell all our paid up clients 6 months before 1st Jan 2010 that we'll be dropping IE6 support. We have a 6 month lead on changes.The only complaints we have are from people with heavy Citrix on Win2k investments as IE7+ isn't supported on Win2k and some people who are so poorly i... |
Story Points or Time Estimates | fugue88: To use story points, you would have a linear model of some sort so that you could calculate how long, on average, a story point would take to complete.If you know how to do that (the model), you could apply the exact same technique to the "estimated time" numbers to get a more realistic "expected time."Changin... |
What is your policy on IE6 development? | nkohari: We're a product company, so it's a slightly different stance. However, we made a conscious decision early on not to support IE6 for the following reasons:1. Our app is very interactive, and we didn't want to have to deal with incompatibilities.2. Our target market is (primarily) software developers working for... |
What is your policy on IE6 development? | julio_the_squid: We're down to 37% IE these days. Only 8% are IE6, for a total of under 5% IE6 usage.I don't really know what the difference is between our site and the sites that say they have 65% IE still... it's not at all oriented towards techy type people. We have 45% FF and 15% Safari.It's a significant enough nu... |
What is your policy on IE6 development? | oneplusone: Guestlist (http://www.guestlistapp.com) does not support IE6 even in the slightest (except for the public page where you buy tickets, that works in IE6). We support IE7 and higher, and that will probably stay that way for the foreseeable future.As for contract work, I do whatever the client asks. I do let t... |
What is your policy on IE6 development? | gte910h: Let your competitors eat the cost of IE6 dev thenAlways charge as LEAST as much as is required to make you either not care or actively want the client to buy a featureSo if IE6 makes the site 2x as difficult, charge them for the site using modern browsers, and line item (basic IE6 testing for at least limited ... |
What is your policy on IE6 development? | christefano: Well, #1 and #2 aren't mutually exclusive.In our experience, IE6 users are simply unwilling -- or more to the point, unable -- to upgrade. The people who come to mind are parents whose kids have moved away, office workers, unfortunate souls in school systems or other non-profits that don't have a decent IT... |
Please review our Start-Up: Twitalbums.com | AndrewWarner: Great idea. I could use a site like this, but I'm having some issues with it.1. I created my first album on the homepage, but after I logged in using my Twitter credentials, the album I created disappeared.2. Since I have new pages show up in in tabs instead of popups, the upload pop was confusing.3. The ... |
What is your policy on IE6 development? | nathanh: I operate an English language learning site, and we have one demographic that has a staggering amount of IE6 usage: 66% of our Chinese user base is using IE6. Needless to say, we continue to support IE6. |
What is your policy on IE6 development? | Freebytes: I will create a site that is designed for newer browsers. I am not going to forbid IE6 usage like I have seen other sites do. "Your browser is not welcome here, please upgrade." Instead, if IE6 works, it works. If not, I am not going to worry about it. |
HN for mainstream news? | LucaDuval: Not an HN type but I like the Economist daily news.
http://www.economist.com/daily/news/ |
Please review our Start-Up: Twitalbums.com | faborito: Hi Andrew!Regarding your 3 points:1. This is a bug and we are looking into it.2. The reasoning behind the new tabs and the pop-up up-loader is this:Albums open in new tabs: we'll introduce support for music. You might want to listen to some music while looking at some pictures or working on another album.Up-l... |
Is there a service for micro-endorsements on the web? | tdoggette: Interesting. If it could be integrated easily with discussion platforms, I can see it catching on in contexts like HN where discussion quality is valued. |
Is there a service for micro-endorsements on the web? | jacquesm: That is a really really good idea amichail.I've been playing around with applying pagerank to people to figure out if there is a way to really use it, I think you have really nailed it with that idea.You'll have to somehow make it 'multi-valued' so someone can be endorsed in multiple topics.Now you need to fo... |
Which Firefox add-ons do you use? | JayNeely: Firebug: http://getfirebug.com/ - The single best add-on for Firefox I have installed. |
Help me find the right font | SlyShy: I don't personally use this at a large size, but I have found that it looks pretty nice even when large. http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-cod...I hope you find something that suits you. Best of luck. |
Help me find the right font | oneplusone: Inconsolata is amazing. It looks amazing at larger sizes. Also it is free.http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html |
Which Firefox add-ons do you use? | steerpike: FirebugWeb developer toolbarSeleniumColourzillaMeasureitDelicious bookmarksDiigo bookmarksAccessibility ExtensionHTML validatorPencilFangsAdblockerInline Code FinderChatzillaScreengrab |
Help me find the right font | njn: Neep bold might be what you're looking for, but it could be too pixellated.
http://www.jmknoble.net/fonts/Here's an screenshot:
http://grace.evergreen.edu/~nybnik10/files/neep_big.gif
(I'm not sure if that's exactly 14pt, since it's not my pic). |
Which Firefox add-ons do you use? | chwolfe: View Cookies Tab |
Is there a service for micro-endorsements on the web? | MattJ100: You mean something like http://jyte.com/ ?That also uses OpenID, to help strongly verify their identity. |
Help me find the right font | DanielStraight: I use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono at 12pt. It looks great.Here it is at 14pt: http://i50.tinypic.com/2z7fmgn.png |
Which Firefox add-ons do you use? | DanielStraight: I have several add-ons installed but the only one I actually care about is TagSifter. It isn't available for 3.5 yet, but it's the only way of managing bookmarks I've found that makes any sense to me. It combines the ideas of folders and tags in a very nice way. |
Help me find the right font | TheThomas: I'm particularly fond of Monaco, the default font for Textmate (OS X). That being said, Textmate also supports anti-aliasing which might help solve this problem for you too.What editor do you use?Screen shot: http://img.skitch.com/20091125-riekchctmj7u1j812xdb6dqi28.pn...Download: http://www.webdevkungfu.com... |
Help me find the right font | whalesalad: Aside from the font you chooce, make sure to have ClearType on with Windows or Anti-aliasing on with OS X :) |
Which Firefox add-ons do you use? | cfinke: AutoAuth, DOM Inspector, Feed Sidebar, Firebug, FireFound, Links Like This, OPML Support, ScribeFire, Tab History, TubeStop, TwitterBar, URL Fixer, and YouTube Comment Snob.Of course, I'm biased towards most of these, because I'm the author of all but DOM Inspector, Firebug, and Tab History. |
Does social shopping work? | jasonlbaptiste: Aardvark applied to shopping would be pure brilliance. Few companies have the potential to be 10 figures big, but that could be one of them. |
Which Firefox add-ons do you use? | hellotoby: Abduction - Screenshot Utility
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3408Adblock Plus
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865ColorZilla - Color picker
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/271Coral IE Tab - View IEs rendering engine in FF
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox... |
Does social shopping work? | vaksel: I just launched a site that kinda covers this for the style niche(clothes/shoes/accessories), one of the things I focus on is the discovery/recommendations angle.(http://styleguidance.com)A problem I'm seeing with recommendations, is the lack of answers after the first couple get posted. I think people just don... |
Help me find the right font | lg: I'm a big fan of dejavu sans mono. I often use it for demos in Terminal.app at huge sizes and it looks great.http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/index.php?title=Download |
Help me find the right font | wowus: Consalas. |
Help me find the right font | kellishaver: Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions! You've helped me find some great fonts. I really appreciate it.For those asking, I use TextMate on the macbook and I've been using Sublime in Windows. |
Help me find the right font | iigs: I know it's not what you asked, and I'm sure, given your situation, that you've already investigated your options, but you might take another pass at elevating your monitor.My eyesight happens to be OK, but I overwork my eyes in a similiar manner - I crank the size down until I have a hard time reading it. I've f... |
Can you suggest any good tech blogs for my new site? | coderholic: Here's a link to the site: http://www.bloggregator.net |
Does social shopping work? | dannyr: Plurchase is in the same category. Not sure what kind of traction they have. |
Help me find the right font | idan: Anonymous Pro is a lovely, free, monospaced font. http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.html |
Rate my site. | jfarmer: This was Chegg's original business model, and they hit on the right solution, IMO: textbook rentals. |
Does social shopping work? | RahulPandhe: Yes. It will work but not in the limited sense of shopping.
We just launched http://www.DoTogether.com.
Try out the facebook app, bit geeky but you will like the direction we are going. |
Does social shopping work? | harryliu111: For me, these things will get my attention on social shopping site:
1. what my friend bought recently. human being has curiosity.
2. what is running hot in my local area.
3. I want to buy something, but, instead of doing intensive research online by myself, I'd like to see what people say about it. I will ... |
Review my application (2nd try). | rokhayakebe: clickable http://www.doxela.com |
Review my application (2nd try). | dasht: I can't tell what your app promises to do for me from any of the information on the front page. I can't tell what problem it tries to solve. I can't tell what would actually happen if I uploaded a file. All I know is that you want me to give you some file and it has something to do with sharing. Only, you'r... |
Review my application (2nd try). | cmelbye: Yikes, first of all: get a designer.Secondly, I'm not sure what the point of this is. Doesn't Google provide sharing with Google Docs? And they even throw in a full featured word processor, presentation, and spreadsheet suite. |
What is your policy on IE6 development? | InclinedPlane: The most professional option, in my opinion, is to make sure your designs are at least basically functional in IE6, but put making IE6 a design priority as a separate line item with it's own cost. Doing extra work deserves extra billing, and you owe it to your clients to give them a choice. |
Review my application (2nd try). | rajasaur: First impressions:1. Please use a mechanism for tracking all files I have uploaded (whether custom registration, openid whatever). Without that, this looks like it can be used only once unless you are capable of remembering those ids that appear in the URL (http://www.doxela.com/manage/777656602.php).2. Provi... |
Review my application (2nd try). | cubicle67: Please tell me you haven't used the default wallpaper from OSX Tiger as your background :| |
Which Firefox add-ons do you use? | ScottWhigham: Pearl Crescent Page SaverHTML ValidatorAdblockWeb Developer ToolbarFirebugFlashblockNoscriptGreasemonkeyFirecookiePDF Download |
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