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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 Astley and go to the MTV awards, yourself! It won't last, so get something out of it now! |
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 them these days.There is a function in git and hg (an extension) called "shelve" which does exactly what you want - you can temporarily set aside the new feature in progress, commit the bugfix, and then go back to working on the feature. (If you knew ahead of time you were going to need to do this, it would probably have made more sense to do the feature in a branch, of course.)People will argue back and forth whether git or hg is better, but in my experience they do the same things* , they just have different personalities. Pick one, get the hang of using it, and then experiment with the other - you'll be better able to make an informed decision. Both are significantly better than just about every other VC system.* The advanced features they don't have in common are probably not going to matter until you know all the base functionality, and any new features in either will probably get ported to the other by then. |
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 idea would be possible.Ideas are about Strategy - and Vision / Personal Intent are more powerful than Strategy. |
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 a company, rather than a sole proprietorship, is for many people to work together for common goals. |
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's idea. Getting behind that idea, even if I'm not necessarily passionate about it, is important, because that's the only way I'll do a good job and actually learn what it's like.So yeah. I think it's important to gain some experience before setting out on your own. It's a safer route if you don't have people to fall back on if your first (or second or third) attempt fails |
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 getting to know a pretty girl. In one case, you're just falling in love with your self-delusion about how something might turn out. In the other case, you're actually experiencing reality and developing a deep relationship.I love cool ideas. But I really love the cool ideas I'm executing. So execution counts more than initial infatuation, even though it doesn't always seem so before you get started. |
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 leaders got people behind the vision of what they could have. And that was a lot harder than getting people to get behind a start up, because people gave their lives for that idea. |
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 textarea/input on the web, even on platforms without a native input method editor.Any and all feedback appreciated! |
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 platform to many phones. C++ or Java with fairly good SDKs. No App Store equivalent could be a pro or a con.Android - Not many handhelds out yet. Java with solid SDK and tools. Central app repository for distribution.Blackberry - New central app repository. Variety of development environments including VS. Java for the most part. Well documented SDK.Barring some really bad code, you should not have performance issues with any of these platforms. Depending on the simplicity of your app, it could be worthwhile to deploy on a number of these. |
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, though, these tools have proved invaluable for me. |
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? Anyone serious enough to type Japanese should have some native IME installed, right? |
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 platform is in [this fsf blog post](http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/5-reasons-to-avoid-iphone...). |
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 key, it deletes one character and stops. It works really well if you already know what you're typing and make no mistakes, but slightly less well otherwise.I really like what the Mac does here: use underline to indicate "still working on this word", so selection still means selection. But that might not be feasible (portably) in an HTML textfield. |
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 further input.Minorly, my phrase didn't henkan: koreha, yamanotesendesuka. |
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 song! Big thumbs up. |
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 have a look at http://translit.ru for some ideas on how to overcome the scrolling issue. |
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 the same IP as some spammer and you might get blacklisted. SPF records are easy to set up and can really help with that.I used to manage an email server and it was not very pleasant for someone who just wanted to hack. :-) If you do end up running your own mail server(s) you'll want to be sure you have good spam/virus filtering or users will start complaining. I had really good luck installing Postini a couple years ago -- reduced spam by nearly 100%. |
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 cabinet and some power. You're in the neighborhood of probably $500-$900/mo.Why colocation instead of some shared or pseudo-dedicated server some place? Because (IMO and IME) you're better off with any site that is going to do streaming and potential sustained throughput in colo facility with fixed costs. Places like Rackspace just love when you go 10x over their pitiful limits and your $200 monthly plan is suddenly $4000. Kind of hard to budget for.Of course, I'm also biased, having an interest in a colo facility :) |
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 any significant amount of bandwidth. For $75/mo you can have a dedicated server and 1200 GB/mo transfer.http://www.serverbeach.com/catalog/cust_ref_landing_new.php?... ($100 off w/my referral code ($250 for me))http://www.serverbeach.com (no referral code :D) |
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. $30/mo, 200GB bandwidth @ 100Mbit, 30GB HD, 256M ram for starters. There are other options. I use S3 for storage of large data items. All-in-all not too bad for a good hosting setup. I host about 10 semi-active sites on that one machine. My S3 monthly charges are $1 for my personal backups of important data and $30 for website data.I know that there are plans out there for unmetered monthly data that's capped at a certain speed for a fixed low $$/mo (30-ish), but they tend to be virtual hosts. You could get a real host (for the site and good performance) with capped bandwidth and a second host with unmetered bandwidth for the storage and delivery of your streaming media. Best of both worlds kinda, but again S3 charges so little, that it may be better to just go through Amazon for the media. |
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 and I'm tired, so sorry if my figures are WAY off! :P) |
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 you connect to a service processor on the system, and lets you power-on/off/reboot it, control the BIOS, and even install the OS on it, remotely. You can get them used on eBay for $1000 to $2000 each. |
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 searches and run protein visualization tools. |
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 bindings). Since it's more of a quick proof of concept than anything, we're not quite sure what to add next (functions and other dynamic replacement? real user authentication? subscriptions to other users' macros?) and would love to hear what you guys think. |
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 license agreement. one product in particular, i can think of, i would've paid for if i would've remembered. but they went under. probably from the license that few paid for.instead, i would suggest you offer two version, a "lite" version for free and a fully-featured version for $$$. |
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 more efficient way to write it. Still other times will be pure design or research.That said, here're some long-term averages for projects I've worked on, with total code size divided by project duration. Except for FictionAlley and my OS design course, I've adjusted for working days when figuring out lines/day (so GameClay uses a 7 day/week schedule while projects for my employer figure on only 5 days/week).First professional job, startup, Java Swing, 1200 lines in 2 months. ~30 lines/day.FictionAlley.org, part-time nonprofit volunteer work during college, PHP, 8000 lines in 3 years. ~10 lines/day, but that includes many days when I didn't work on it at all.OS Design final project, college course, C++, 8000 lines in 4 months. ~67 lines/day, ostensibly part-time but this course ate my brain so much it might as well have been full-time. The result didn't really work, though.Scrutiny, college volunteer project done over vacation, PHP, 761 lines in 2.5 weeks. ~40 lines/day.Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 hours, part-time hobby project, Haskell, 400 lines in a month (not counting time to write up the tutorial). ~10 lines/daySecond job, startup, Java Netbeans plugin. 20,000 lines in 5 months. ~200 lines/day.Same employer, JSF trade-verification webapp. 40,000 lines in 12 months, but I had a partner. ~70 lines/day.Gameclay, my own startup, Python + JavaScript. 18,000 lines in 5 months, not counting false starts we threw away (that'd be another 3 months, +8 months part-time). ~120 lines/day.ArcLite, hobby project (but given my full attention), JavaScript. 1200 lines in 8 days. ~150 lines/day.Tetris, hobby project, JavaScript. 321 lines in 5 hours. ~500 lines/day.YC startup, 657 lines of JavaScript in 6 days, plus there was some Django and server setup that I didn't count. ~100 lines/day.Eve, hobby project, Haskell. 1773 lines in 2 months. ~60 lines/day.WhatShallIDoNow.net, hobby project/startup, Python & Django. 400 lines in 4 days. ~100 lines/day. |
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 should be bigger. There are many ways to show that lines of code won't tell you what's really important about a program or programmer. |
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 flaky solution. insert rant about test-driven-design-fanatism here.At the moment I am cranking negative lines of code count in the project I am working on. The code is not that good and can be abstracted quite much, so I am overall removing lines from the code via the rewrite.Interestingly, there is also the quality of said cranked lines. It isn't good when the lint tool finds problems or when the code produced just looks damn ugly. |
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 your productivity. Not only are you looking up everything on the web when something breaks, but there are just so many pieces to the puzzle that make good JavaScript hard. Thank you Douglas Crockford for part one of making JS better, and thank you John Resig for making the second part easier. Hopefully mozilla will be able to make a 3rd part easier with their new tools R&D lab.In PHP I generally felt really unproductive until I had zend and a debugable server set up.Closing that loop is hard, and I wish there was a better measure of productivity than LOC. |
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 some random startup, you still wouldn't be able to participate in the startup community you would in the bay, or boston, or chicago, or ny. there'd be no networking, no idea sharing across company lines, no post-work barcamps. part of the fun of a startup is the culture.good luck. as for me, i'm hoping YC comes through for us so i can move to the bay. |
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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