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What would you build an email-heavy webapp on? | jaddison: I think you'll likely get a lot of biased answers in here, and here's mine: Django.I've had great success with nginx (load balancing, static serving) -> apache/wsgi/django (dynamic). Have a local postfix email server that handles the email sending requests rather than sending to a remote SMTP host - it will ... |
What would you build an email-heavy webapp on? | yummyfajitas: I'd suggest Django for the web and Lamson for email. |
Please review a Craigslist mashup [alpha] | seasoup: Pictures. We shop craigslist via listings with pictures. We want the pictures up front and easy to find. The map roll over would be good, or as a thumbnail on the listings. Other then that, it looks great and is a site I would use. |
How much do you flash game devs make? | Vindexus: I'm not sure how much you'll make but one thing to consider is to build a flash game with persistent accounts and virtual goods that can be purchased by your players. This is more profitable than building flash games that you will sell to game portals. An acquaintance said they made about $2000 for building a... |
How much do you flash game devs make? | messel: I believe your best opportunity lies in the social space. Consider Farmville, a Zynga social game. It's wildly successful and derivative works could make incredible revenue.I'm sorry I don't have specific numbers, but you can probably get them if Zynga goes public. |
Dreamhost VPS | matthall28: Blatant Self Promotion: I'm one of the founders of SuperBytes.net we are obviously much smaller then Linode and Slicehost etc. but we strive to have a high level of customer service.
Would be happy to give some HN peeps a discount, just shoot me an email
matt@kerplunc.com |
Please review a Craigslist mashup [alpha] | guiseppecalzone: loads super fast, which is a plus. nice design. i like the radius option too. |
Why is Dreamhost so bad? | minsight: I love Dreamhost, and find that they are fantastic value for the money. There are many people who believe that their sites should be up AT ALL TIMES. Unfortunately, they don't realize that the uptime percentage for Dreamhost at that price point is better than its competitors. And they don't realize that the... |
Why is Dreamhost so bad? | thegoleffect: Lack of control for one, unless you go with a VPS, which, by the way, should be a good thing. I don't want to always worry about security or scalability. But its not great in this case. The machine my personal domains were on got hacked and everyone else on that machine also got screwed. I had to clea... |
Best web or Mac/Unix alternative to Excel? | cpr: What's wrong with Numbers? I find it a credible alternative to Excel, unless you're doing serious crunching. It's also a heck of a lot more attractive out of the box. |
Best web or Mac/Unix alternative to Excel? | si2: Numbers is awesome!!!The entire iWork package is phenomenal and definitely a lot better than any alternatives on the Mac. |
Why is Dreamhost so bad? | dotBen: For me it's a price point game. I have a dreamhouse account I only paid $20 for an entire year (I think it's the same $119/year account - it was a promo). What a great dealBut the question is are you paying a false economy. No point buying my friends' 900mhz laptop for $100... yeah it's cheap but I can't do ... |
Why is Dreamhost so bad? | bradshaw1965: I think Dreamhost is fine as long as your comfortable with their limitations. Limitations like their backup server being down for over a month.http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2009/10/30/hanjin-backup-serv... |
Best web or Mac/Unix alternative to Excel? | jsz0: If you have a high tolerance for pain you could try Office for the Mac. Not really an alternative but if you're happy with Excel it's something to consider. I use Numbers but a lot of Excel people tell me it's too limited. If you don't live inside a spreadsheet 8 hours a day it's probably good enough. |
Why is Dreamhost so bad? | dnsworks: Because people with good business sense avoid business models that feel like ponzi schemes. |
Why is Dreamhost so bad? | gexla: Dreamhost sucks because shared hosting sucks. When someone detonates a bomb on your server, everyone on that server is affected. This isn't Dreamhost's fault though, that's a problem with most shared hosting providers. Otherwise, you get what you pay for, you can bitch about it, but it's not necessarily Dream... |
Why is Dreamhost so bad? | unperson: Not to pick nits, but could you elaborate on how you manage 20 unix servers with a managed host? |
Any startups looking for a free marketing guy? | sammcd: I'm not really interested, but I think other people will have the same question I do, so I'll ask.As a someone planning on launching a product very soon. What can you do for me? |
Any startups looking for a free marketing guy? | ericb: I'd be interested in hearing more about what you're looking for, and offering. On gmail, I'm ebeland. |
Any startups looking for a free marketing guy? | lsternlicht: shoot me an email - lsternlicht@gmail.com |
Any startups looking for a free marketing guy? | kapauldo: send me an email at gmail (kapauldo), i'd love to talk. |
Any startups looking for a free marketing guy? | raghus: Can you email me at raghu.srinivasan@gmail.com |
Any startups looking for a free marketing guy? | paraschopra: You can email me at paras@wingify.com, if marketing online advertising technology (web analytics, split testing, etc.) interests you. |
Any startups looking for a free marketing guy? | rcfox: Unlikely, as you've done a rather poor job of marketing yourself.1) The title for this doesn't make sense. Obviously, we can tell that two ideas conflicted, but a second read-over would have caught this.2) You list no qualifications, abilities, interests. sammcd put it nicely: "What can you do for me?" You shoul... |
Any startups looking for a free marketing guy? | dstorrs: dstorrs@lifethunder.com -- drop me a line and let's talk. |
Any startups looking for a free marketing guy? | zackham: shoot me an email if you'd like to chat about http://ridewithgps.com - zackham@gmail.com |
Any startups looking for a free marketing guy? | zaidf: I get the feeling that you are either vastly undervaluing yourself or you don't have much to offer. Either is fine--but you should know which of the two applies best to you. You might still get an internship, but I'd argue if you give it some thought, you could get more bang for your buck(time and skills)!1. Pre... |
Any startups looking for a free marketing guy? | losethos: I have a start-up and need a marketing guy. See http://www.losethos.com"Free marketing" not bad :-) |
Dreamhost VPS | simo2409: qubovps.com |
why aren't my comment votes registering? | ScottWhigham: I haven't seen that - I just upvoted this and it showed up immediately. Do you have some new Greasemonkey script installed that messes with it, or perhaps NoScript? |
why aren't my comment votes registering? | rms: I've noticed it. Just saw it happen here, when I upvoted Scott. For some reason it seems to take about 3 seconds for an upvote to register now, sometimes. Try refreshing again. |
Why to ground Space Shuttles on Earth if they could 'retire' in space? | alt219: Cost. Well, besides the need to maintain something that was never designed to be in space for a long duration, I would guess it would be because launching a Space Shuttle mission costs roughly 1.5 billion dollars (according to Wikipedia). And while there would be costs associated with decommissioning a shuttl... |
Why to ground Space Shuttles on Earth if they could 'retire' in space? | tumult: Docking them on the ISS uses the dock. Launching the shuttles for a goodbye costs millions of dollars for sentimental purposes.Most important: Retiring them on earth lets us put them in museums for people to see. |
why aren't my comment votes registering? | tumult: I think it's just that voting does an asynchronous request to the server, and a lot of requests to HN have been timing out lately. I usually open comments that I want to vote on in another tab, vote, and then refresh the tab later on to see if it took. |
Why is Dreamhost so bad? | timinman: I'm happy with Dreamhost. It's a great value. |
GRE Subject Test Math | araneae: Yes. It's super easy- a 780 is 90th percentile, and an 800 is 94th percentile.The best thing you really can do are practice tests. Just to warn you though, the Kaplan etc. pre-tests are actually much more difficult than their regular practice tests, and the regular practice tests are more difficult than the ... |
GRE Subject Test Math | gms: Brush up on your calc. |
Back in time to 100 BC, what knowledge would you impart to the people? | herval: I'd make some gunpowder (charcoal, bovine poo and a couple of other easily found ingredients) and become a self-proclaimed god (with special effects and stuff). Then I'd teach my minions Klingon and we'd all be using a single language (with less than 6k words) today. |
GRE Subject Test Math | ramanujan: The main thing that you might not have at your fingertips is basic abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields). I'm assuming you know ODE, PDE, linear algebra and other things from an engineering centric education. |
Dreamhost VPS | shedd: I used a DreamHost private server for a while. The first thing to be aware of is that it's not as easy to configure from the group up as a true VPS. Their private server systems give you the ability to customize the setup, but not as extensively as as SliceHost or Linode. Also, DreamHost's private server offe... |
Tips on domain registration and website setup | mariana: gandi.net offers all you need. I use that for all my domains. |
Who do you follow on twitter? | rmason: @timoreilly, @betsyweber,@tstoliker and @bradfeldI am @Rick_Mason |
Is it acceptable not to pay interns? | jacquesm: I would not accept unpaid labour but I have had unpaid interns, they simply were only allowed to learn. As soon as someone did something remotely productive we would compensate them for it. |
How do you choose your projects? | makecheck: I've found it easiest to focus on things that I would personally use a lot. |
Is it acceptable not to pay interns? | jamesbritt: It's unacceptable to lie to potential interns about what they can expect, but if someone thinks they're getting some acceptable non-monetary value for their time and effort and wants to so the work, I don't see a moral problem.Whether having unpaid people help with your work is good or bad is something else... |
Is it acceptable not to pay interns? | Mz: FWIW: I read somewhere that for some industries, unpaid internships are becoming The Norm for getting your foot in the door for certain types of things and it is becoming difficult to make it into some of the more powerful jobs (in certain industries) without having this on your resume. The piece I read criticize... |
Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not? | earl: Programmer.It doesn't excite me in the least because, since I can't afford to alienate big chunks of my audience, it might have enough penetration to use in, oh, 3-5 years? Meh. |
Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not? | Semiapies: Both.I haven't seen anything exciting about it. It doesn't let me do anything significant that I couldn't with existing technology. It's just the New Style. |
Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not? | decadentcactus: Mostly a programmer, and not really. To be honest I would be much happier with better CSS capabilities (better syntax, variables) than video tags and whatnot. I'm not against it obviously, but probably won't be rushing out to learn all the new features. |
How did you generate income during college? | tjr: I was too clueless about such things during college to do my own business. Most of my income during college came from working at a grocery store, and as a computer tape librarian. |
Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not? | mquiche: programmer. offline storage, sql storage, canvas, and web workers are very interesting. |
Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not? | bugs: Both; and no it doesn't excite me in the least because of such a slow adoption rate of new browsers. |
Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not? | boucher: Almost all of the HTML features in HTML5 are boring and barely useful. The rest, basically, <video> and <audio> are crippled.The useful parts of HTML5 are the new JavaScript APIs (which arguably don't really belong). Unfortunately many important ones are missing, and of the ones which are present many are inco... |
Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not? | walesmd: Both.Nope. It just bloats what we already have in xHTML 1.1. Sure, I can throw a header or section tag around a block, but I still have to use divs. It's just another level I need to indent at this point in time. |
How did you generate income during college? | joe_bleau: Bought and resold used textbooks, undercutting the campus bookstore. Bought electronics parts and test gear at hamfests, dead freight sales, and from profs; resold what I didn't need to local surplus dealers (really have to know what stuff will sell). Had a total blast as an experimental subject (economics... |
Is it acceptable not to pay interns? | niels_olson: Something to think about: sometimes free labor means you're populating your future industry with kids who can afford to not get paid, and this may lead to aristocracy trumping meritocracy.It was long the practice in medicine that not only did you serve your internship for free, indeed you paid for the priv... |
Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not? | enomar: Programmer. I'm excited about async scripts and cross document messaging for sure... |
Is it acceptable not to pay interns? | zb: It certainly wouldn't be considered socially acceptable here in New Zealand, even ignoring the fact that you'd almost certainly be prosecuted if you tried it.For some reason it appears to be tolerated in the U.S. despite it apparently being illegal in many cases. Mark Cuban was whining about this recently:
http://b... |
Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not? | joshsharp: Programmer. I think it's great that we're extending the semantics of what we have now, but we're going in the wrong direction. I agree really strongly with John Allsopp that we shouldn't be extending the number of elements available - we should be creating a framework for extensible semantics (using attribut... |
Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not? | cmelbye: Programmer. OMG, WEBSOCKET! |
Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not? | sixpoint8: Front End developer and graphic designer (xHTML/CSS/Design)
HTML5 makes me cry inside, part of me died when HTML5 gained browser support. To me, HTML5 is all about GIT'R'DONE; it's an evolution, an odd growth on the body of HTML4, rather than setting a newer, better foundation. :( |
Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not? | farmerwu: When I first started thinking about it and studying it, I found it downright exciting. So much potential. But as with most thing the devil is in the details. And we just don't have enough details yet. So much could change between now and when it actually gets implemented that it may turn out to be a big disap... |
why aren't my comment votes registering? | allenbrunson: looks like nobody got the real answer, so i'll have to do it.this question has been asked several times over the past couple of months. one of those times, pg piped up and said that he was experimenting with an algorithm that decides which votes count and which don't. he didn't elaborate, but it sounds li... |
How did you generate income during college? | ja27: I worked a tech support job on campus, which eventually paid enough that I nearly dropped out of school. Many of my coworkers did.I did put out three pieces of shareware, but never saw a dime from them.The biggest move I saw were my Pakistani roommates. They and all their friends brought back one duty-free "praye... |
Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not? | protomyth: Programmer - No
The idea that we are stuck with javascript instead of a VM is sad. |
Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not? | Andys: Programmer here. Canvas tag excites me because for years the desktop programmer in me has wanted simple pixel addressing so that I could implement my own full-featured input/form controls, such as a grid control. |
Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not? | fefiuoqeiu9: blackhat. web sockets and cross-document messaging thrill me like midget porn never could. |
Good free eBook recommendations for travel? | RevRal: Two things I've recently read:Not free (10$): Chris Langan's (aka the smartest man on planet earth) The Art Of Knowing | Expositions On Freewill and Selected Essays is a good read. I won't link to his site since there's been a breach of security there, but I'm sure you can sleuth and find the ebook.Free: When T... |
How did you generate income during college? | mmphosis: I was employed as a monitor helping people with the computers in the lab and keeping the line printer running smoothly. On the side, I sold 5 inch floppy disks for $4 each which was a dollar less than the college store. On summer break, I made money coding Apple II software on contract. |
Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not? | simonw: As a client- and server-side developer I'm extremely excited about HTML5. For the first time in a decade, browsers are getting new capabilities! HTML 5 is much more than just new tags - we're talking offline support, concurrency with web workers, canvas, geolocation, native audio and video, WebSockets, a suppor... |
Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not? | aw3c2: I was excited about standards on the audio and video formats. Since that has been cancelled HTML5 has no advantages over my current love XHTML. Both programmer and designer but both are just hobbies and my sites are mostly static (and I hate Javascript). |
Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not? | tlrobinson: I'm excited... but it's not enough. What we should really have is a standardized low-level byte code interpreter, allowing a variety of languages and great performance. Basically what Java promised but didn't really deliver. |
Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not? | elliottkember: Developer here - it definitely excites me. But I'd much rather see full, compatible CSS2.1 support first - and then CSS3!I just can't help but think that this will fragment things a little bit further. I hope it won't, but I don't know whether we can expect all browsers to implement HTML5 at the same tim... |
Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not? | fauigerzigerk: I'm excited about many of the new features. However, the move away from XML syntax is a disastrous and utterly pointless decision.Also, I wish they had taken the opportunity to rid the world of the massive failure that is CSS and replace it with a layout system that makes simple things simple. |
Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not? | prodigal_erik: Programmer here. HTML 5 is dominated by scripting, which I think we will regret. Marked up data is easily manipulated and repurposed, but arbitrary code has very few uses other than executing it, which is mostly why script-heavy documents tend to be trainwrecks in accessibility and search.And I desperate... |
Good free eBook recommendations for travel? | J3L2404: "Eastern Standard Tribe" by Cory Doctorow, well written and free. Also free as an audiobook. Funny and smart near future prognostications. I loved the part about industrial sabotage through plausible sounding bad advice. Have a good trip. |
Will you be my Advisor? | cperciva: What is your startup? If you're doing something which I find technically interesting, I'd be happy to advise; if you're writing software for printing bingo cards, it would be a waste of both your time and mine.(No offense intended to patio11 -- bingo cards was just the first example which came to mind of a s... |
How did you generate income during college? | mattlanger: None to speak of personally (I quit my campus job writing C++ for the college's scheduling system at $10/hr to go wait tables at a fine dining restaurant for $50/hr), but if you're looking for a classic story there's always Josh and Ricky and Zach, the guys behind College Humor and Busted Tees (profiled at ... |
Will you be my Advisor? | yan: I will be glad to help, but I'm not sure if my area of expertise is interesting or useful to you. |
Will you be my Advisor? | gelar: will you be my advisor? |
Will you be my Advisor? | cgherb911: I suggest you bring your search for an adviser to real life. The advisers you initially have at your start up don't need to be gurus. Yes, they should be more experienced, more knowledgeable, and more connected than you are. But they should be someone who's opinion you trust and rely on. If probably know... |
Will you be my Advisor? | david927: Looking for an advisor too. |
Will you be my Advisor? | jhancock: I recommend you adjust your first job step: emailing each day. You should email when you have something to say and not be bound by the rotation of the earth.Other than that, I'd be happy to provide feedback if I'm able. |
Which are some of the most expensive off-the-shelf sw products? | Shooter: You won't find it at Best Buy, obviously, but we sell a software product that starts at US$1.4 million, not including any support or customization. (It's a super-small niche product and saves our customers tens of millions each year, so we have no trouble getting our price. In fact, we've been told we should... |
Will you be my Advisor? | mnemonicsloth: Sure. I'm in a very similar situation, so we might be able to give each other a heads-up. |
How to consistently generate traffic and new customers for Ramamia? | vaksel: do you guys really have 3,000 users? Or is that a marketing number? If yes, then you guys should just focus on building a viral loop |
How to consistently generate traffic and new customers for Ramamia? | dmix: If you really believe your offering value, then my vote is for premium right away. Freemium isn't really a marketing tool, its more of a business model.A 30-60 day free trials or 30% off for a year might help grab early adopters. Of course it will always come down to trial and error. I'd launch it asap and see wh... |
How to consistently generate traffic and new customers for Ramamia? | jmonegro: you might find http://www.startups.com useful for these types of questions. |
How to consistently generate traffic and new customers for Ramamia? | dwynings: I've always liked the idea of a freemium system.I think one way that could really help it spread is to incorporate some kind of affiliate program. For every paying user that the person brings in, they get X% off for a premium account that month. Referrals are likely to be huge in your market. |
How to consistently generate traffic and new customers for Ramamia? | gridspy: You have a changing feature area on your front page. Please either add next/prev buttons and an easy way to navigate it or break it out into normal HTML. It currently changes faster than I can comfortably read.Edit: Oh, you have navigation - but it is visually detached from the feature area (looks attached to ... |
How to consistently generate traffic and new customers for Ramamia? | mattmaroon: First off I'd change the name. It makes no sense, and is hard to pronounce at a glance. Getting people back to your app is step #1 in both engagement and virality, and your name is harmful there. You seem to be about sharing stuff with family (which is inherently viral) so make your name reflect that. You c... |
How to consistently generate traffic and new customers for Ramamia? | drp: Do something that is pressworthy outside of just 'x startup has launched.' Playing off current events is always great, but an even better way to gain mindshare among normal people is to get reporters to cite your company any time they talk about related issues.The hard work is figuring out what reporters need tha... |
Will you be my Advisor? | nixme: Totally in the same boat. I started work on my own idea this past week and it would be great to discuss ideas and the usual startup issues. I'd be happy to help out. |
Things you wish you'd learned about programming in college? | PStamatiou: My biggest nitpick about Georgia Tech was the lack of web-geared CS courses. The most "advanced" web-geared class was an 8-person class taught by a grad student about basic MySQL/PHP/Ajax. Of course I had the regular C, SmallTalk, Java, Matlab et cetera courses, but none of that interested me like LAMP, RoR... |
Things you wish you'd learned about programming in college? | warwick: I used to be quite concerned that all my major programming projects were for my own business, and as a result I figured that I had to be missing some sort of 'process' step that would mean I was developing software the right way.Being walked through a few different development lifecycle models would have helpe... |
Things you wish you'd learned about programming in college? | dlsspy: Everything useful I learned about programming came either before college, after college, or when I got home from classes.I'm obviously from the pro-dropout sector, but I can tell you that the one thing I've learned about learning is that for anyone successful (by pretty much any definition) I've met, most learn... |
Any startups looking for a free marketing guy? | codedusk: Please contact jobs@codedusk.com |
Things you wish you'd learned about programming in college? | spuz: Source control, continuous integration, automatic testing. All of those things you might learn on a software engineering course but for some reason were conspicuously absent on my CS course. |
Things you wish you'd learned about programming in college? | sjs382: I went through a "Information Science and Technology" program rather than a "Computer Science" program but the one thing I really felt like I missed out on was gaining experience using svn/git/etc in teams. |
How to consistently generate traffic and new customers for Ramamia? | edw519: I have been a Ramamia user for several months and I hate to say it, but I think your execution may be holding you back. It's not flawless and it needs to be. In order to become viral you need raving fans and based upon the experience with my family you don't have that (yet).I described my family's needs and g... |
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