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I have a FaceBook Group with 100,000 People In It...now what? | javery: Write an ebook on how to create a facebook group and get it up to 100,000 people. |
I have a FaceBook Group with 100,000 People In It...now what? | netcan: The domain (Shotgun.com) would be more valuable then the group, wouldn't it?In any case, throw up an online shop on it, posters, pamphlets, coffee table book, bumper stickers. See if any of it sells. |
Single person working on a web app. What platform to use? | RobGR2: I have been doing my pet projects in Drupal. I don't have much experience in the other options you mention, however.One thing I consider, is that side projects tend to die from lack of interest. If there is a person who might also work on it as a side project with you, using what they are willing to learn or ... |
Gadget Question (A device that has email, google reader, twitter) | wmf: Forget about the device; I don't think there is any 3G data plan for $20/month. |
Other careers for a hacker? | mattm: Have you tried reducing your hours? I find it difficult to concentrate after 7 hours. If you can reduce to 35 hours a week, you might notice drastic improvements. |
Other careers for a hacker? | thaumaturgy: I have no idea what'll work for you.For me, I started in I.T. at 16, did the corporate thing by 19, and at 24 became a climbing instructor.It was great. The pay was crap, but I learned a lot about people and group management and all kinds of other things that I just don't think most hackers ever have to de... |
Other careers for a hacker? | TheSOB88: How about taking a break at work? Or four? |
Other careers for a hacker? | dnsworks: Have you considered Dragon Naturally Speaking? Ask @benjyfeen about it, he works in SRE at Google. My understanding is his carpal tunnel got so bad that he had to stop typing 4 or 5 years ago, and went through some intensive training with Dragon Naturally Speaking. Now he's able to do all of his work without ... |
I have a FaceBook Group with 100,000 People In It...now what? | netcan: Found this site: shotgunrules.comIt uses the same text & sells a pocketbook. |
Other careers for a hacker? | access_denied: there are some sites marketing paid video tutorials, maybe you could team up there? |
Other careers for a hacker? | formerO: Purely anecdotal, but I had fairly severe wrist Tendonitus on and off. I starting taking vitamin B-6 (and occasionally B-12), haven't had trouble since. |
Is there RSS/newsreader software that groups related stories together? | amandle: I have been building a site which does this for news, with plans to allow arbitrary feeds.http://www.newsdive.net |
Other careers for a hacker? | blhack: I know that this wasn't your question, but I was having this same problem for a while... My wrists and arms hurt like hell while I was at work, it was really awful.I get made fun of for it now, but what I did was take two keyboards, and use one for each hand. Spreading my arms apart so that my wrists weren't ... |
Lala Land Grab? | johns: I think a more likely scenario is they shut it down, give everyone iTunes store credit for the amount they spent on streaming-only songs and if you bought MP3s, you're OK since they don't have DRM. Sounds like a much cheaper solution than trying to run the service. They bought it for the talent, why would they w... |
Other careers for a hacker? | Mz: Nevermind. Not relevant. Thanks for the clarification. |
Is black-hat hacking harder now than it was 20 years ago? | dnsworks: Absolutely. 20 years ago telcos didn't bother adding password protection to digital "switches" because they didn't even consider war dialers or the proliferation of internal documentation through bulletin boards. Unix vendors like Microsoft (Xenix), SCO, and Sun left password-less accounts (like Root, Operato... |
Other careers for a hacker? | kabdib: A cow-orker of mine (now at Google) moved to Dragon Naturally Speaking, and also became a product manager. He changed from writing code to writing specs and emails.It seemed to work out, though he was a good writer of prose to begin with. |
Maximum length of time to respond to an email? | blasdel: I struggle with this kind of stuff too, I'll have drafts sitting around forever while I ruminate on my writing. Asynchronous communication provides the opportunity for perfectionism, and I have trouble resisting the urge to over-edit.The best trick is to parlay it into another medium, or at least send a brief ... |
Rate a StartUp Zatista.com | icey: Is this your startup? It looks really well polished. |
Other careers for a hacker? | jrockway: The syadmin stuff, the HTML, and the PHP/ColdFusion tend to be pretty hard on your hands. Lots of typing to not say very much. Maybe you'd like a concise language with a good IDE, like Common Lisp, instead?I find that most annoyance while programming comes from things like switching from the editor to the t... |
Rate a StartUp Zatista.com | amohr: I LOVE the art explorer - it's like Pandora for art. |
Rate a StartUp Zatista.com | markbao: This is awesome. I always liked Zappos's drill-down search, and I'm really happy that it works well here too http://www.zatista.com/search . See in a virtual room is an awesome way to gauge placement and the size of the piece.This is a great way for individual artists to get paid for their work. The only thing... |
Maximum length of time to respond to an email? | icey: Don't make them wait. If you want to answer the question but need time to make sure the answer is the correct one, I'd send them an email that basically says "I want to give you the best answer I can to your inquiry, but it's going to take me a little time to answer adequately. I'm working on it now, and I should... |
Rate a StartUp Zatista.com | andrewljohnson: Your website is extremely fast! That in of itself is a very good place to start.Your site is also easy to navigate and clear in what it provides.Keep talking to your users... you seem to be on the right track. |
Other careers for a hacker? | roundsquare: Hmmm... no idea if this will work, but can you find a place that does pair programming? Maybe you could spend most of your time being the person not at the keyboard. |
Rate a StartUp Zatista.com | sheena: Extremely well executed. My only quibble is the name, which makes me think of Batista or Zapatistas. I could be the only one, though. |
Rate a StartUp Zatista.com | waterlesscloud: Very nice. Search is well done, though it's not immediately obvious there are more categories than shown.Explorer didn't seem to really show me things I liked, I think that's going to be really tough with art, as each piece is unique and things that may seem similar evoke quite different reactions.Stil... |
Gadget Question (A device that has email, google reader, twitter) | cpr: iPhone 3Gs is around $70/mo, not $100. |
Rate a StartUp Zatista.com | cubicle67: Looks very good. I'm supposed to be working, but I've just spent far too long looking through the artI notice if I choose a large picture, and then view it in a virtual room the picture overlaps the furniture instead of hanging behind it. |
Is black-hat hacking harder now than it was 20 years ago? | jodrellblank: I have been fascinated with stories of really clever hacks into systems. I've also been told to setup a scheduled database backup and when I opened the first backup to check it was going to work, found unencrypted credit card and billing details (only a year or two ago). Only a few weeks ago I found a sma... |
Rate a StartUp Zatista.com | samdk: Immediately bookmarked. Others have mostly covered the things I like (in short: the idea is great, the implementation is very good).A few notes:It would be nice to have the AJAX search stuff change the URL so searches can be linked to.(I have a lot of minor design quibbles. If you'd like I can go through more of... |
Rate a StartUp Zatista.com | pkc: Its awesome, extremely polished. Very well done. Though I am not interested in much in art it has the drive to make me buy something. Very good work. |
Other careers for a hacker? | mahmud: Sales and marketing. There is no rush like the rush of money, real, serious money.Everyone you see programming is like a medieval craftsman, good at one thing and one thing only. As a salesman, you're the top dog, you have an eye for who is good and who is bad, you can choose whose products to sell, who to make... |
Rate a StartUp Zatista.com | silverpen: Great looking site.On my screen (1680 x 1050) the "live chat" graphic overlaps the "My Account" link & text in top header.Because, you're selling high ticket priced items, I would recommend you place a seal or two in the footer. Possibly near the "add to cart" & checkout buttons as well. I know it may sound ... |
Rate a StartUp Zatista.com | vaksel: I think for your art explorer instead of just giving a 3 tier cost image, you should say the actual price. |
I have a FaceBook Group with 100,000 People In It...now what? | covercash: Check out this interview on Mixergy: http://mixergy.com/jeff-widman-brandglue/The founder of BrandGlue talks about groups vs fan pages and how to effectively market to your followers on facebook. Some interesting tips about how to get your group mentions into other people's news feeds. |
Rate a StartUp Zatista.com | hpvic03: I'm seeing a text overlap in the "Modify Results" area of the search.I'm on Firefox 3.5.5.Here's a screenshot:
http://i45.tinypic.com/awywcw.pngOther than that great site. |
Rate a StartUp Zatista.com | quickpost: Nicely done. Clicking on your website instantly reminded me of this note in a PG essay:---Viaweb wasn't the first startup Robert Morris and I started. In January 1995, we and a couple friends started a company called Artix. The plan was to put art galleries on the Web. In retrospect, I wonder how we could h... |
Single person working on a web app. What platform to use? | savant: I agree with this sentiment completely. 12 months ago, I can safely say that my experience with PHP had been a simple modification of an ExtJS application and me screwing around with my Delicious bookmarks and the Yahoo BOSS API (both of these took more than a day to complete and I was very upset with life).I d... |
Rate a StartUp Zatista.com | roundsquare: Very dangerous. The kind of "I might lose my job for spending too long on your site" dangerous.I'm curious, how did you market to artists? You seem to have a lot of variety on your site so I'd like to know how you got so many artists to agree.Edit: I like the Art 101 section as well. Especially this:
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Is black-hat hacking harder now than it was 20 years ago? | roundsquare: Interesting question. I'll add one more to it if you don't mind. Even if getting into the pentagon might be harder, do you think there is more data that is a) easy to get via hacking and b) useful? If so, this is an important way in which hacking is easier than it was before.I might think there is more ... |
Rate a StartUp Zatista.com | fauigerzigerk: It's impressive what you have built, however I wonder about the market you are in.My perception was that the art market has two main categories:a) Original art (no prints or reproductions), which is sometimes bought as an investment or by people who think they are art experts and can buy something unique... |
Other careers for a hacker? | liquidcool: The pair programming idea got me thinking - what about hiring someone for half days doing your typing for you? This seems economical, esp. in this economy. Maybe a local CS student who would see this as an internship, or at least know the syntax well enough to make your dictation efficient. Since you have y... |
Rate a StartUp Zatista.com | aw3c2: Blog and Newsletter buttons look out of place. I'd put those links into the big "our blog is here" space. Might run into a human brain adblocking problem though so be careful with the design.Some \n\n in http://www.zatista.com/product/details/4155/sequence-10I'd horizontally mirror the "why buy art here" bubble,... |
Is black-hat hacking harder now than it was 20 years ago? | mock: I'd say no it isn't in the aggregate harder. There are a few of forces at play that I think lead to this.First of all you can now buy pretty good hacking tools in a can (CANVAS, Core Impact) that come complete with non public exploits. If you don't have the money, metasploit is pretty good as well. This drasti... |
Rate a StartUp Redanyway.com | Kliment: I'm not really interested in the service but I did look through the FAQ. The link to Gravatar is broken, looks like an autogenerated link, so you might want to check all other external links too. Back button is broken on the FAQ page. Also, why not have the answers on the same page as the questions and have a ... |
Resources for learning to write wrappers to C libraries | Kliment: With Python, there is a well-defined and well-documented C API, as well as support for ctypes. Ctypes allows you to call into C-interfaced libs with very little code. The Python C API allows you to write modules in C that behave like modules in Python. With Scheme, there are multiple implementations and no sta... |
Rate a StartUp Redanyway.com | clistctrl: One thing I absolutely hate is not being able to use something without signing in/up for it. |
Rate a StartUp Zatista.com | 3pt14159: Overall, I like it. It would be nice if there was less clutter, and larger pictures to draw me in.Being a data guy myself, it would be nice if you could build in some light algorithms to hide all the art that I find distasteful, but I guess that is a task for another day!Good amount of pieces, btw. How did yo... |
Other careers for a hacker? | wglb: I had severe finger pain two years ago and went to a chiropractor but none of that helped. I got a Kinesis keyboard and a good chair and the pain slowly subsided and is now gone. I find that the worst thing is the mouse, so I have a kensington trackball and switch hands. It really could be just a keyboard/mous... |
Legal rights to University project? | mechanical_fish: Now that is an interesting question.This advice may be so ill-informed that I'll put the disclaimer up front: I'm not a lawyer, let alone an IP lawyer. That said, if the university isn't paying you, and you don't use any university resources, and you don't assign them any rights, I don't see how they c... |
Legal rights to University project? | patio11: When I turned a university project into an internship with them, we made it very explicit to everyone concerned exactly when the project started becoming "something other than class work" and what consequences that had for all parties involved.I tend to think that 999 out of 1,000 legal worries people have are... |
I have a FaceBook Group with 100,000 People In It...now what? | iterationx: Get suggestions from them then make an book that can be sold at urban outfitters |
Legal rights to University project? | pg: Most universities have some kind of IP policy. E.g. Harvard says that software you write using their money or facilities belongs to them:http://otd.harvard.edu/resources/policies/IP/In practice I've never known IP to be an issue for undergrads. So I wouldn't annoy your professors by bugging them a lot about this.Y... |
Legal rights to University project? | chwahoo: This isn't legal advice, but software written by undergrads and not funded by the University is usually owned by the student. |
Legal rights to University project? | pmjordan: When I enrolled at York, it was required that I sign a contract which laid out the IP situation. IIRC, this was fairly lenient in my favour, although this was for an undergraduate degree. I gather that the situation was different for PhD programmes. You have probably signed something like that too when you si... |
Legal rights to University project? | patrickgzill: If the issue is "copyright" the author retains all interest in the copyrighted work unless a specific form is signed; there is no other way to assign copyright.You should be easily able to ask for and receive copies of anything you signed when you first came to University.Personally I would not worry abou... |
Rate a StartUp Zatista.com | tsestrich: Really well done. I love the idea too, and if I hadn't already started on another project this was essentially going to be my next :)Glad someone beat me to it though, since maybe now I can find an easy avenue to sell some paintings on if I ever get back into it.I agree with others about how awesome the spee... |
Legal rights to University project? | tsestrich: For those curious, the response from my department head (who I worked with to set up the independent study):"
This is a complicated question.Effectively, the University owns everything (all IP) that we do while we are here, faculty, staff, and students alike. However, they have very limited capability to
ef... |
Other careers for a hacker? | abyssknight: I guess to approach this from another angle, I just had a chat with one of the senior tech leads at the corporation I work for (140k+ employees). He said that several of the developers he worked with moved on to do completely different things in the years following a project built about a decade ago.One we... |
Legal rights to University project? | dctoedt: I'm an IP lawyer, but I'm not YOUR lawyer and so don't take this as legal advice about your particular situation; if you do consult a lawyer, this might give you some background info for use as a head start in your discussion.1. U.S. patent law says patents belong to the inventor(s), absent either (i) an agree... |
Legal rights to University project? | pierrefar: Depends on the university as many have noted. Some universities have a technology transfer office or a commercialization director or something similar. I'd double check with them BEFORE you do anything for your project. |
How do you manage your codebase once it gets large? | Kliment: Segmentation, interfaces, documentation.You want to make changes that do as little damage as possible. By structuring your project so that independent functions are really independent, you can think about them independently. Providing interfaces to your own code also helps there, you can ignore one part of the... |
How do you manage your codebase once it gets large? | kylebragger: what scm system are you using? |
How do you manage your codebase once it gets large? | patio11: This is one of my periodic pain points with Rails, as compared to Java. At the day job I work with multiple code bases with more than X00,000 lines of code each. My Rails site has 5k lines as reported by rake stats, and due to a combination of poor IDE support compared to Java and the toss-it-all-in-one-fold... |
How do you manage your codebase once it gets large? | kvs: I maintain a codebase that is about 300KLOC C++ and about 900KLOC Java. Abstractions become important at this scale.We follow a simple MVC principle, C++ side is model, JNI-glue is control, and Java is view. Then, individual pieces are broken into functional modules and there is documentation on slides (flowcharts... |
How do you manage your codebase once it gets large? | peterhi: Well I've had a look at some of the project that are sitting on my hard disk (all are current by the way) and here is the Code LOC values for them: 50, 225, 261, 346, 402, 572, 857, 980, 1099, 1213, 1475, 1677, 1841, 2002, 2123, 2242, 2887, 3138, 3338, 3421, 3421, 7812, 7812, 46757, 57495The most used projects... |
How do you manage your codebase once it gets large? | rufius: If you can help refactoring into sub-folders, thats a small change that helps a lot. When I can, I break down components of my application as much as possible. In Java thats natural with the packages idiom. In C++ or C I just force it upon myself to do it.For example with the language/VM I've got built for doin... |
How do you manage your codebase once it gets large? | jsankey: First: you need good test coverage, so that you can refactor and restructure with confidence.Then, I would look into dividing up the code base a bit. Usually once you get to a certain size you'll be able to identify useful bits and pieces that could be extracted as standalone libraries. This will also render... |
Legal rights to University project? | gregparadee: That University wouldn't happen to start with a D would it? I know my university definitly says that anything you do while working on your Senior Project is technically theirs and makes you sign a waiver agreeing to it. However, you situation seems to be a little different if your saying you have some sort... |
Rate a StartUp Redanyway.com | sync: Typography on the homepage could be better... large font Arial just doesn't look good.Too many obvious photoshop bevels, especially on this page: http://www.redanyway.com/register.phpAll of the pages look different from each other. You need to get one consistent look and feel.Lose the registration process. Make s... |
Rate a StartUp Redanyway.com | bemmu: I don't really get it. So I can use the site to post my blog posts to it. Then what happens?... 5 minutes pass ...Okay, signed up. Now I get it. Pretty clever, actually. This allows you to follow people like on Twitter, except posting is done by just posting to your blog, which is polled by Redanyway. |
How do you manage your codebase once it gets large? | known: I think your project's automated testing scripts are not keeping up with the development. |
Who else is attending the LeWeb conference? | bemmu: Might have, except had no idea this was taking place right now. Hmm... I wonder if there would be some way to subscribe to a list of events that someone or something thinks might interest me. |
Legal rights to University project? | Mankhool: I used to be a Manager at UNLV. I thought that Nevada was the only state that allowed IP to be retained by the individual instead of one's employer or school. In fact one of my staff created and patented 2 devices while working there. |
Legal rights to University project? | metachris: > and whatever I signed when I committed to coming to the University four years ago.I think this "education contract" could state that the university has the rights to use your generated IP. |
How do you manage your codebase once it gets large? | TallGuyShort: As your codebase gets large, modularity becomes more important - so it might be time you refactor your code with greater size in mind.Another crucial aspect is unit tests - as long as you know the project well, you can go in and make a change relatively easily, as long as you know that a system of unit te... |
Rate a StartUp Zatista.com | jmm: Agreed - pretty good implementation.But I wonder how sales in the higher price range (> $500 or so) are going. Historically, fine art pricing (especially as prices move out of the range of the casual shopper) has been very much tied to the identity of the artist. Am I going to pay $2000 for a painting from an ar... |
Who else is attending the LeWeb conference? | chris100: Try this link: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/138148/(I'll let you figure out on your own why that particular link works so well) |
Simplest tool to build a web app | ErrantX: How long is a piece of string?Seriously though I would say PHP plus MySQL and Memcache for scaling. With a reasonably modern framework like Kohana PHP you can build stuff pretty quickly on dirt cheap, no brainer hardware. :)As to XSS/DOS etc. that is down to your code and to the server setup - somewhat difficu... |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | ErrantX: clicky link :)
http://www.effectgames.com |
Legal rights to University project? | jrockway: The University probably gets the copyright to your code.There are several ways around that. One is to link to a GPL'd project. Now they own the copyright, but they have to keep the source code available for others to use for any purpose. Including your business. (If in doubt, you can always do something l... |
Simplest tool to build a web app | digamber_kamat: You can try Kohana. |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | narendranag: It looks very interesting! |
Simplest tool to build a web app | narendranag: I've been using Codeigniter - a PHP framework. It's very very well documented -- you have to read the documentation to see how good it is. And the input class is very good at handling most XSS/SQL Injection type attacks. |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | peakpg: Looks interesting. Is this taking advantage (or do you plan to) of HTML 5? |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | truebosko: Do you plan to eventually use Canvas/SVG or do you find this way works better for the long term and overall? |
How do you manage your codebase once it gets large? | intellectronica: One important thing to notice as a codebase gets large is that it's going to slow you down. Accept that, and pay more attention to maintaining a high quality codebase. Invest in reviews of new merges, refactoring of stale code and documentation. Automate as much as you can - make sure you can create go... |
How do you manage your codebase once it gets large? | audionerd: This video was pretty good -- "Living with legacy software": David from 37signals talks about how they refactored the Basecamp code as it grew:http://railsconfeurope.blip.tv/file/1555560/Breaking pieces out into modules (and even further into plugins) can help keep it manageable. |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | DanHulton: Huh. Very neat. I was actually kind of planning on messing about with Node.js and a javascript-only client to make a multiplayer game... |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | thechangelog: I tried Crystal Galaxy and it was amazingly smooth and felt native. Nice work. |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | e1ven: This is really wonderful! The games play quickly on Chrome, how well do they preform on IE?The Mario demo was great, and the Platformer demo really expanded on that to show it supports modern techniques.Just FYI, in Chrome, http://www.effectgames.com/effect/games/crystalgalaxy/ shows alert boxes complainigna bo... |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | simplify: Looks great! absOrb is the only demo that doesn't load for me, os x / safari webkit nightly. Here's the console error: TypeError: Result of expression 'this.yH.gk' [null] is not an object.
engine-0.12b.js:52 |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | lpolovets: Looks awesome!Without necessarily being negative about Flash-based games, I think your homepage should clearly mention that users only need Javascript enabled. Seems like a very strong selling/marketing point for developers. |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | yannis: It worked very well for me in Chrome v 3.0.195.25. Impressed! Just a short observation, down the line you may wish that your pages are indexed by the search engines, by generating in js they will not. |
Rate a StartUp Zatista.com | Pete512: Thanks so much for the great feedback! Keep it coming (any and all honest feedback is welcomed).Pete Borowsky
Founder/CEO, Zatista |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | ericd: Awesome, I was thinking of doing a custom engine, since JS performance is reaching the point where it can compete with flash, and I have no desire to learn ActionScript. Big kudos for doing this and sharing it with everyone.Crystal Galaxy performs very well on Mac Chrome, and feels more responsive than any flash... |
Rate a StartUp Redanyway.com | vabmit: How will you make money with this site? I don't think using it is enough of a value add for people that you'll ever see the tremendous amount of traffic necessary these days to earn even a small amount of money from advertising. |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | jokergd: great system!we need to get rid of flash already and replace it with something that does not destroy resourceshow about the multiplayer aspects of games? have you any ideas about developing this?I am very interested in competitive games where we can play versus others in the same js style environment. |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | leej: congrats. one thing, though, license and usage pricing should be communicated clearly. |
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