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ASK HN: How to deal with journalists? | VonGuard: As a reporter, myself, most of these people are looking for two to three sentences from you, max. Some might print more, but basically, they're looking for sound bites.The shorter and sweeter you can condense your message, the more you can control it when you recite it.Also: make sure you get to meet Rick Ast... |
Is git/svn right for me? | jacobscott: version control is almost always a good idea. If you're the only developer, then I would recommend svn. git is distributed version control -- its used e.g. for Linux Kernel development, when hundreds of developers are doing independent work on the same codebase. |
ASK HN: How to deal with journalists? | timcederman: Not sure why you're asking how to deal with the media when you already have? It's okay to just be blatant that you really want to relish your success. It obviously created a bit of a stir. |
Is git/svn right for me? | silentbicycle: Yes. Try git or mercurial (AKA "hg": http://selenic.com/mercurial/) rather than svn; both are much easier to set up and try out. When it only takes a second to set them up, you'll be more likely to experiment with them and discover what they're good at. SVN really doesn't have any real advantage over the... |
ASK HN: How to deal with journalists? | josefresco: Think of snappy, quotable 1 liners and carry yourself very well/polished. |
Can you truly get behind an idea that's not your own? | timcederman: Absolutely. I was sold on the tech behind my old startup and was given the opportunity to contribute my own ideas to improving it, giving me a sense of ownership. This was key to my devotion to the company. |
Can you truly get behind an idea that's not your own? | fallentimes: Yes.As long as you enjoy working on it why not? Besides, once you start working, the idea changes anyway. Very few ideas stay true to form the whole way through. I think the problems arrive when the people "behind" the idea are completely unwilling to change it at all. |
Can you truly get behind an idea that's not your own? | JacobAldridge: Yes, you can get behind an idea that's not your own as long as you have a consistent vision or intent with the person who generated the idea.As an extreme example, if I were passionately committed to solving world hunger and the guy running the start-up I worked for found a solution, commitment to that i... |
Can you truly get behind an idea that's not your own? | SwellJoe: Of course, and I emphatically reject the premise of the question. It'd be impossible for any great company to exist without this possibility. Besides that, the best businesses are usually actually many ideas from many people that result in a great series of products. Read Built to Last. The whole point of... |
Can you truly get behind an idea that's not your own? | vaksel: yes provided the person has an actual interest in the niche that you are trying to get into. |
Can you truly get behind an idea that's not your own? | donniefitz2: I personally tried to do this very thing and could not. I had a great opportunity to work with a friend on a startup. I did it for a while, but the fire was just not there. I eventually parted ways (on good terms) and pursued my own idea. I am much more on fire for my own idea. Selfish? Maybe. |
Can you truly get behind an idea that's not your own? | metaguri: I agree with what's been said. You need a "..."Can you truly get behind an idea that's not your own... if you have another reason for being there?Yes.I want to start my own company (based on my own idea) some day, but I'm learning hell of a lot (and saving up cash) working at another company, on someone else'... |
Can you truly get behind an idea that's not your own? | bkbleikamp: As long is the idea is something you believe in and you can make meaningful contributions and help shape the product/service, then yes, I think anyone can get behind something they believe in.Look at how many religious people they are - they all emphatically support an idea that was not their own. |
Can you truly get behind an idea that's not your own? | mynameishere: You think Gates invented OSes or interpreters, or that Brin/Page invented search,.or Jobs invented the Walkman, or that Ford invented Automobiles, etc etc etc etc ad nauseum. Get real. |
Can you truly get behind an idea that's not your own? | jacobscott: I think the answer to this is obviously yes. Do you use email? Sorting algorithms? Automobiles? Can you not get behind the Internet?Would anyone really say no? Maybe you meant to ask a more specific question? |
Can you truly get behind an idea that's not your own? | arien: Good ideas can inspire you even if they are not your own, in any case, you probably end wishing you had thought about it before :)
Although it probably also depends on the person who explains you the idea (their ability to let you see the point, their enthusiasm...). |
Can you truly get behind an idea that's not your own? | DanielBMarkham: I've found that true love for the idea comes after you jump in and start owning/developing it. Fake or surface enthusiasm happens when you're just speculating or supposing. In a lot of ways, this is like the difference between seeing a pretty girl in a magazine or something and actually meeting and gett... |
Can you truly get behind an idea that's not your own? | ram1024: If people couldn't support an idea that wasn't their own, we'd never see any startups funded... |
Can you truly get behind an idea that's not your own? | profgubler: I think you can. The task of the entrepreneur is getting everyone else passionate about the idea. Give them ownership in the idea, let them help you create something great and not just build it. America and the constitution were founded because a lot of people were passionate about the idea of freedom. The ... |
Can you truly get behind an idea that's not your own? | albertcardona: Is that what a PhD thesis is? Someone internalizing the advisor's/funding provider's ideas (and building them up)? |
Can you truly get behind an idea that's not your own? | lacker: If you believe in it, the idea belongs to you too. |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | tr4nslator: Before kicking off work together on a startup, my cofounder and I have built two test projects to make sure that we have a good technical fit.If there are any Japanese typers out there, we'd love you to check out our first project: typd.in. It's an unobtrusive bookmarklet that enables Japanese input on any ... |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | ram1024: i can't type japanese, but i think this is a great ... thing you have here ^_^seems to fill a needed role |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | LogicHoleFlaw: いいですね。このこんぴゅたあは日本語のIMEがありませんが今私はTYPD。INでしますよ。すごいよでも私は少し日本語をできません。一年ぐらい大学に日本語を勉強しましたけど五年前でした。 |
Suppose I wanted to develop a mobile GUI application... | noodle: ubiquitous? web app. you won't write something for blackberry that runs on the iphone. |
Suppose I wanted to develop a mobile GUI application... | qhoxie: There are a number of different avenues you could take on this:iPhone - Obj C. and xcode makes for a great development environment. Problem is, xcode makes for the only development environment. You will have to distribute it through the App Store, unless of course it is for jailbroken phones.Symbian - Common... |
Deploying scripts and tools to production | qhoxie: I have two tools that I am extremely happy with and use regularly to deal with these sorts of scenarios:Capistrano - http://www.capify.orgPuppet - http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppetThey may not be completely fitting depending on what you are doing, and they both require some understanding of Ruby. In general... |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | riobard: Hey the idea is cool! I recalled a similar tool for Chinese. It's actually a Firefox extension, allowing ones without a native IME to input Chinese chars in text fields. However, both typd.in and that plugin share a similar limitation: it's unusable OUTSIDE the browser :|Plus, what's your target audience? Anyo... |
Suppose I wanted to develop a mobile GUI application... | mr_excellent: You could write apps to run on the [Openmoko](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko) [Neo FreeRunner](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner). The [Rasterman](http://www.rasterman.com/) used to work for them (some info is on his site about related work he's doing now).Some more info about the platfor... |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | ucdaz: I like how the UI is very clean and straight forward. Not sure if this technology will be used by the masses in the US.
It would be a lot cooler if you allowed your users to type in special symbols like copyright or emoticons. |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | jimbokun: I'm pretty sure I'll find a use for this at some point.Thanks! |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | sfamiliar: this is pretty fantastic. のほんごああかりません、いごねがいします。that it can be turned on and off with the same click is great. double-plus good. |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | sfamiliar: you should license this to Rosetta Stone immediately. not kidding. |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | ryanspahn: I never wanted to type Japanese but if I ever needed to... now there is a handy web service - good idea and work!How about adding Chinese too? |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | siong1987: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/10/yamli-makes-it-easy-to-...If you come out with this web application first, then, you may be featured on Techcrunch before Yamli.Yamli enables you to type arabic on the net. |
What Makes A Great Admin Interface? | qhoxie: I will throw in one that I like.RadiantCMS - http://radiantcms.org/It is clean, quick, and simple. The design is really basic with only the items needed and nothing more. This simplicity does not come at the sacrifice of functionality; it still does everything you need it to. |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | sc: Love it! My only suggestion is to check the hoverstate style for the bookmarklet. A normally resized browser window completely hides the arrow. |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | ken: This is pretty cool. I can even see using it on Linux, because I still haven't figured out how to get the Japanese input method to work there decently.My one issue is that selection is a bit odd. If you type a word, the whole word looks selected, even though it doesn't act that way. If you hold down the delete ... |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | jrockway: Very cute idea, but it's way too slow. Nobody wants to wait several seconds for the server to return a composition.I guess this might be nice if you are a Japanese person at a kiosk in the US (etc.), but you probably can't install a bookmarklet in that case anyway. |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | unalone: That's pretty excellent. I was in a Japanese class and wondered why the systems for typing were so app-centric. This seems like it could work anywhere (though, out of curiosity, does it work on IE6?). Well done. |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | whacked_new: Pretty damn cool.I only used it for about 30 seconds, but two things stood out. One, when I press space (I assume it's henkan like usual), I assume it's doing a dictionary search. The wait is pretty significant for something that needs to be near-instant. Second, triggering the henkan seems to prevent any ... |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | markbao: This would be amazing as a Chinese IME. |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | rgrieselhuber: This is brilliant. I _hate_ switching my OS IME when I need to type in Japanese.I don't know how you'll monetize this particular implementation but you've come with a fantastic technology. I'm sure you'll do very well. Congrats. |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | petercooper: I don't really know much about Japanese, but this is awesome! I know there's a song called "Kaze Wo Atsumete" that I like, so I just typed that in and the various symbols came up.. I copied and pasted it, and bam.. I was finding music videos on YouTube I wouldn't have seen otherwise - and it was the right ... |
What Makes A Great Admin Interface? | unalone: Drupal's - drupal.org - for being incredibly logical and for accommodating more features in one CMS than I've seen in any other app. The admin panel is superb and user-friendly.Symphony - http://demo.symphony21.com/symphony/ - which does less, but does it beautifully. |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | huhtenberg: A bug report. Bookmarklet doesn't work correctly in a textarea with a vertical scroll bar.Just fill a textarea with lots of text and click on bookmarklet. First, the indicator will be hidden by the scroll bar. Second, try adding anything at the bottom of the text and you'll see the problem.You may want to h... |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | SapphireSun: Awesome idea! One criticism: You should provide a button that allows people to select hiragana they already typed and have it processed into kanji. You might want to include a pure text mode and allow a non-realtime "compilation" |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | Raphael: Perhaps you could use HTML5 client-side storage to speed up the conversion to kanji. Cache the most common right off the bat and every one after that. |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | orib: Why is this better than me right-clicking in any GTK text widget and selecting the appropriate input method from the drop down menu? (note that Firefox doesn't have that because it's not an actual GTK app -- it's only pretending. I'd say it's a better idea to fix Firefox though...) |
What would you do if you had access to a supercomputer for a week? | qhoxie: I would secure access for longer than a week:./john /etc/shadow |
What would you do if you had access to a supercomputer for a week? | ram1024: de-pixelate censored images?...what, no? |
What would you do if you had access to a supercomputer for a week? | umangjaipuria: Run my map-reduce as a single task. :) |
What would you do if you had access to a supercomputer for a week? | gaius: Or, say in 1988 you were told you could have a 2008 PC for a week... That's a bigger jump in power for most people than what you're suggesting. |
What would you do if you had access to a supercomputer for a week? | decadentcactus: Rent it out to other programmers ;) |
best development / bus meetups in London? | andyn: There's a roughly monthly Python user meetup:http://announce.londonpython.org.uk/They're a friendly bunch who get together for informal talks on Python and usually go down to the pub afterwards. |
Review our app, typd.in (a web-based Japanese IME) | takeshi: 日本語ユーザーです。
変換のするときにIMEみたいに変換候補が出てこないのが不思議ですが、それを除けば使い勝手はとても良いと思います。
頑張ってください。応援しています! |
What would you do if you had access to a supercomputer for a week? | lacker: Heck, I've had access to a supercomputer for years and I still don't know what to do with it "to help mankind". |
E-mail providers and mail servers | qhoxie: Depending on your requirements, Google Apps have been a pleasure to work with for a number of my projects. |
E-mail providers and mail servers | modoc: Personally, I run postfix and uw-imap (although there are many good imap options out there) on a dedicated server. It's easy, very solid, and I can do all kinds of neat tricks with it as needed. Plus if ever goes down, I can go in and fix it myself. |
E-mail providers and mail servers | martian: One option would be to buy cheap shared hosting plans (I've seen as low as $6/mo) and use them only for email. Not always perfect, and things like SSL might be messier, but cheap and easy and these days you'll get as much if not more storage as Google Apps. One drawback to a shared plan is that you might be on... |
Cost of servers & bandwidth | brk: Committed bandwidth can be had in many datacenters these days for around $50/Mbs ($50 for every 1Mbps of committed bandwidth). Or you can do 95th percentile burstable bandwidth as well (or combine the two ($100/mo for 2Mbs plus ~$100 for every 1Mbs over 2Mbps, billed 95th percentile)).About $400/mo for a half ca... |
Cost of servers & bandwidth | staunch: If you mean serving audio files 100k times (once per "user") then it's not expensive unless the files are especially large. If you're serving over HTTP then use high performance web server (like nginx or lighttpd) and a dedicated server.I highly recommend ServerBeach myself -- especially if you're going to use... |
Cost of servers & bandwidth | paul9290: Thanks ....What about using Amazon S3 to store/stream users uploaded files, but the site being hosted elsewhere - a dedicated box at home for instance?They click to play a file and it starts streaming it from S3. Is this doable? Looks to be cheap this way? |
Cost of servers & bandwidth | scumola: I go through http://serverpronto.com for my hosted machine. It's a real machine (not virtual or shared) and I've got real root access to it. It comes with Fedora 3 or 4 and I upgraded it to Fedora 6 remotely, but I'm a little intimidated to upgrade beyond that without having physical access to the machine. ... |
Cost of servers & bandwidth | fallentimes: I wonder what Justin.TV uses? |
Cost of servers & bandwidth | comforteagle: youtube scaled on serverbeach. 'nuff said frankly.I however would do AWS without question. (already on AWS, was on serverbeach - loved them though) |
Cost of servers & bandwidth | ashleyw: S3 based on 100k members uploading on average 5x5MB audio files each, and a growth (new uploads) of around 10%/month: Storage: 1500GB
Transfer in: 150GB
Transfer out: 30000GB
PUT requests: 50000
GET requests: 10000000
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Total cost: $4,560.10
Not too bad if you ask me! (btw its late ... |
Cost of servers & bandwidth | alecco: http://www.simplecdn.com/savings (On-Demand Flash Streaming part)Don't know them yet, but there are some good reviews. Perhaps it can be a starting point even if it doesn't deliver completely. I am planning to use them in the near future on top of AWS and Google App Engine, but not for streaming. |
Cost of servers & bandwidth | jsn: http://www.gandi.net/hosting/proposal/price/it's pretty much an elastic cloud. i didn't try it myself yet, though. unmetered bandwidth in 5mbps increments, plenty of other resources, and very attractive pricing. i think it's as good as it gets for home-made small cdns and whatnot. |
Cost of servers & bandwidth | patrickg-zill: Go to webhostingtalk.com and look on the colo hosting offers section. That will give you your lower-end pricing for colo space and bandwidth pricing.Then add some kind of servers, I am partial to the Sun servers that have LOM (lights out management) or the HP ones that have iLO (same idea). This lets yo... |
Any hacker meetups near Philadelphia? | andrewl: The Philly On Rails group is a good place to start:http://www.phillyonrails.org/ |
What would you do if you had access to a supercomputer for a week? | vparihar: Assuming I have protein strains data for Alzheimer’s patients along with their ancestors data and assuming I know the protein which if in excess causes this disease, I can attempt to find out what can be a possible cause of this disease. Supercomputer will be really helpful to these kind of pattern matching s... |
Review our app, textpanda (web-based input shortcuts for the lazy) | tr4nslator: After getting such useful feedback on HN for typd.in this week (special thanks to huhtenberg/LogicHoleFlaw/ken), I thought I'd put our next project out there to get some more ideas.textpanda is a simple bookmarklet that lets you define shortcuts for any text input on the web (think really simple emacs bindi... |
Anyone know how to un-hijack my friend's Clickpass account? | apgwoz: I would think the place to ask would be their contact form: http://www.clickpass.com/docs/contact |
Creating a "Hackers Society" | mechanical_fish: Yep, that's a good idea with a long tradition.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_Computer_Clubhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_grouphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCampGo for it. |
Cost of servers & bandwidth | niels_olson: does user=visit for small user sets? We get about 15k visits/mo but only 300 users. |
Anyone know how to un-hijack my friend's Clickpass account? | immad: Hi MicahWedemeyer, Sorry for the trouble. I will be in touch via email to help fix this.Thanks,
Immad (Clickpass co-founder) |
Review our app, textpanda (web-based input shortcuts for the lazy) | brm: I'd pay you and you're not charging me...Simple doesn't have to be free, I'd gladly pay 5 bucks a month to have this, so why not start charging? |
Review our app, textpanda (web-based input shortcuts for the lazy) | jollyjerry: I like the idea and interface a lot. It'd be nice if there was browser extensions to turn this on by default rather than to have to click a bookmarklet to have it enabled. |
free-personal/paid-commercial licensing model | noodle: as a licensee, i would suggest that you not bother. too many people are dishonest about it, and too many things blur the lines between personal and commercial usage.looking back at it, i've installed something intended for personal use, but later on used it for commercial use, totally forgetting about the lice... |
free-personal/paid-commercial licensing model | emmett: 30 or 60 day free trial, and after that an infinite-use key available for $X. That's what convinced me to buy TextMate and many other software products that I use. |
Review our app, textpanda (web-based input shortcuts for the lazy) | jcapote: Excellent execution. It's earned a place on my toolbar. +1 User |
How many lines of code do you deliver every day? | cperciva: It varies from day to day. Most days it is somewhere between -500 and 500.The shortest time interval over which I produce remotely consistent results is a month: Most months I produce -- that is, design, write, and debug -- between 1000 and 1500 lines of code. |
Review our app, textpanda (web-based input shortcuts for the lazy) | kirpekar: no lol? |
How many lines of code do you deliver every day? | jcapote: I heard somewhere the industry average was around 10 to 15 lines a day... |
How many lines of code do you deliver every day? | nostrademons: It's really hard to use a daily LOC measure. Some days I'll just be cranking out boring stuff, in which case it could easily be 300 lines a day (my record was about 1200 lines in the 24 hours before my OS design final project was due). Other times, I'll remove 90% of those 300 lines because I found a mo... |
How many lines of code do you deliver every day? | makecheck: Please don't ever ask about "lines of code". This measurement means absolutely nothing, and I've been programming for over 20 years. Any responses would be misleading at best.There are huge programs that should be tiny. And there are small programs that are so clever that they're unmaintainable, and shoul... |
Review our app, textpanda (web-based input shortcuts for the lazy) | dmr83457: Very cool. Will be using this regularly.Only problem I see is that the panda attaches to the very bottom right of text areas and can be oscured by scrollbars |
Review our app, textpanda (web-based input shortcuts for the lazy) | rksprst: When you type an abbreviation, if you type a comma right after that, the expanded text is doubled. I'm assuming this is a bug? |
How many lines of code do you deliver every day? | jlouis: Optimize for lines of code not written! Good programmers can optimize this metric by quite a lot -- hence LOC count means absolutely nothing.It is better to think for a long time about a problem and then only write the 20 lines that solves it rather than throwing 300 lines at the problem and still sit with a fl... |
How many lines of code do you deliver every day? | maxklein: Somewhere between 100 and 150. 10 fricking lines? Who produces just 10 lines? Are you just looking at your monitor and day dreaming or what? I just wrote 5 lines of text right now in like 2 minutes. |
How many lines of code do you deliver every day? | axod: The best and most productive days are when you remove hundreds of lines of code. |
How many lines of code do you deliver every day? | ryanwaggoner: Just want to respectfully request everyone to calm just a tad...I'm well aware of how bad a metric "lines of code" is, but I was still curious :-) |
Review our app, textpanda (web-based input shortcuts for the lazy) | babyshake: This is almost as cool as typd.in! I wonder if there's a good way for the two to work together... |
Where are the Midwestern startup jobs listed? | qhoxie: http://startuply.comhttp://dice.com |
How many lines of code do you deliver every day? | imasr: If you where about to meassure out your... Size.
You'd do it in inches. Though it will tell you nothing about performance, it'll still be a form of meassurment.
Let the man be proud of his size! |
How many lines of code do you deliver every day? | jdavid: i think IDE has a big role in this,with Visual Studio i feel so much more productive, but it also puts so much information at my finger tips, and programing in C# or VB.net were really pattern based.programing raw javascript and dealing with DHTML with support for IE6/7, Safari, Opera, and FF can really cut you... |
Where are the Midwestern startup jobs listed? | sfamiliar: also midwestern, and have also historically had problems finding edgish work there. they like their .NET and their java. also, work rates are terrible. i can generally expect to take a $30K pay cut working locally in central ky/southern ohio/northern tn as opposed to working remotely.even if there were so... |
Who designed the graphics for your web app, and where did you find them? | vaksel: Some simple stuff I do myself. For the more complicated stuff I started out with using digital point...but then I switched to http://99designs.com/ and haven't looked back. You get way more submissions so you have a much higher chance of getting something truly good. |
Who designed the graphics for your web app, and where did you find them? | satyajit: Probably getting a designer from eLance/Craigslist may be relatively easier, but finding a guy to do overall UX design may be hard to find. I am looking for one myself, without any luck. |
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