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Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | aarongough: Great work! I have been thinking about something similar to this for a while, but it's nice to see that now I probably won't have to go to the trouble!Demos run very smoothly for me on FF 3.0.15! |
What are the advantages of C-style synxtax? | cpr: You are scratching simultaneously on the doors of a huge semi-religious war (oops, block that metaphor!) and a seriously open set of questions.(I think this has been asked zillions of times. I don't know why I feel compelled to throw in my 2 pence...)It's hard to say "better" in a multi-dimensional question like this.The things that seem clear are:* Without the absolute simplicity of the prefix-style paren-delimited Lisp syntax, true macro power is almost impossibly hard/complex/messy.* For some reason, most people find the Lisp syntax hard to internalize. (Likely due to its prefix nature.)* Progress generally happens by evolution, not revolution. (Revolutions take about 20-30 years from idea to success in the market, if the latter ever happens.) C is the granddaddy of the "worse is better" philosophy that swept the computing world about 30 years ago, and, so C-style brackets are part of the "comfort zone" that most programmers inhabit. (C++, Java, Go, etc., all stay within that zone.)I'm not sure you can say anything more before the discussion breaks down into endless rounds of fruitless bickering... |
Flash websites? | icefox: doesn't work on many platforms including the iphone |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | cabalamat: I've had a look at your website and am not sure exactly what proposition you're offering. I also don't understand your EULA, which says:"The API consists of Javascript that allows You to use the Effect Game Engine on your website, subject to the limitations and conditions described below. The API is limited to allowing You to use the engine only, and does not provide You with the ability to access or modify the underlying code"This is incorrect terminology, because an API is just an interface; the code OTOH is a library. Given that JavaScript is distributed as source, how can I use your library without accessing the underlying code. Do you mean you've obfuscated the source?Furthermore if the Effect Game Engine is on my website, presumably the *.js files containing your libvrary are also hosted on my website, meaning I've copied them.Later on the EULA says: "Effect Games reserves the right to release subsequent versions of the API and to require You to obtain and use the most recent version."How do I "obtain" something without "accessing" it? |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | unohoo: great stuff ! what the biz model ? are you going to license the engine or direct to consumer paid games ? |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | zackattack: I am shocked and amazed. Well done. This is the future of in-browser gaming. |
Rate a StartUp Redanyway.com | rmason: They lost me at "insanely easy to join" ;<). |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | timb: The engine should load assets in the background. For example, in the mario game, when I descend into a pipe, it pauses while it loads the level. Likewise, the Crystal Galaxy game should load assets while I am on the menu screen, rather than waiting for me to press Start. |
Flash websites? | Saavedro: SEO is still quite valid. Accessibility is/was also an issue (screen readers, etc.)
In addition, today, more and more people have HUGE monitors, and I have -never- seen a good fluid width/height flash site. |
Flash websites? | tdoggette: The main reason is that almost all flash websites are a huge pain in the ass to use, you can't link within them, you (usually) can't copy text out of them, and they generally put whiz-bang visuals above the users' ability to, y'know, use them. |
Access alternatives? | davidw: OpenOffice has something similar, I think. |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | nym: I appreciate how polite your title is. |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | fnid: Doesn't work in Opera. The background image appears and the music starts playing, but that's it. In FF i noticed a loading progress bar and it proceeded to a welcome screen and I can play it as expected. |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | tectonic: Awesome work guys! |
Access alternatives? | ilovecheese: > She just needs a dead simple CRUD app, like rails on top of a simple sqlite scehmaNo she doesn't. She needs Access because her needs are exactly what it's designed for. |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | ElliotH: I was literally amazed by how well this played - everything was really well done even under the slower internet explorer javascript interpreter. What I really loved was that the smoothness difference between this and say a flash game is hardly noticeable. |
Flash websites? | metanoize: have you noticed how most flash sites make you wait to load, then put an intro,then when you go in, you have to wait for the site to load again. Then the whole page is about 800x600, and you have to keep clicking to see 10% of what you could normally see on a normal website. I think they also deliberately make all those flash page scrollers narrower than possible. |
Access alternatives? | csbrooks: Will Excel (or some other free spreadsheet) not suffice here? |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | pufuwozu: I really enjoyed the Box2D example:http://www.effectgames.com/effect/example.psp.html?rev=box2d |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | flipgimble: Wait, you say its a pure Javascript/DHTML engine, but it still using Flash for audio? I noticed your game is using http://www.effectgames.com/engine/audio.swfIs that because there is no browser support for playing audio? I have only a passing familiarity with current state of HTML5 browsers.Though overall those are the highest-quality mostly-JavaScript games I've seen yet. |
Access alternatives? | nixme: I've heard good things about Bento, but she'll need a Mac :)
http://www.filemaker.com/products/bento/features.html |
Access alternatives? | icey: I'd say Access or DabbleDB would be the right way to go. If she already knows how to use Access then it's a no-brainer. |
Rate a StartUp Zatista.com | davidcuddeback: Very interesting idea. I will probably even be a customer some day within the next year. I've seen several pieces that I like. The website gives me a feeling that I'm buying something unique (almost) directly from the artist. I like that feeling.My first impression of the site is that I see a big blank white space on your home page (next to the green holiday gift certificate). That feels like a glaring hole, especially above the fold on your front page. Perhaps you could use that space to emphasize the relatively small text above it: "Real art, from real artists. No prints, no reproductions."Speaking of the holiday gift card, the green banner says I can save $100 on a purchase over $500, then the product details page says, "Holiday Special: Get $50 off a $500 order."The "Zoom & Explore" feature isn't useful. The magnifier shows me a pixelated version of the regular image. I think I would prefer to just see a higher-resolution image with your watermark. Also, the first time I opened the "Zoom & Explore" feature, I couldn't move the magnification and magnifier size sliders.Going back to your site's strengths, I like that on the product details page, there is a picture of the artist with their name and location. It gives a nice personal touch.I hope you keep up the good work, and I wish for the best for you. |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | dannytatom: This is great! I've been toying around the idea of a game in my head for a while now, but every JS game engine I come across is terribly slow. This definitely seems like a leap in the right direction, congrats! |
advice on the customer conversion rate needed | gridspy: First step: Know your competition.
http://blog.mapawatt.com/2009/10/07/list-of-energy-monitorin...Count me in on your list of competitors with Gridspy:
http://www.gridspy.co.nz/I'd be thinking in terms of years to pay back the system. Talking to clients will give you an idea where they lie on the scale of 1 to 10 years. |
Access alternatives? | runjake: Just have her use Access and keep your evangelism to yourself, cripes!Are you seriously thinking a CRUD RoR app might be a better solution for her? |
Access alternatives? | jasonlbaptiste: I'm kind of amazed no one has knocked it out of the park with a web version of Access. Blist kinda tried, but they seemed to have gotten too bloated as a startup. Wasn't there a YC company working on something like this? |
Legal rights to University project? | CyberFonic: Why not just do something else that would meet the university's criteria for a good mark. Then after you leave, then you do the project as you envisage it. Free from any complications, etc. |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | midnightmonster: Crystal Galaxy was amazing. One of the best browser games I've played in any platform.FWIW, sound doesn't work at all here in FF 3 on Ubuntu 9.4.I know you're working on terms, and I haven't dug into it very much, but just FYI, if my games depend on your company's ongoing existence and good pleasure to run, I won't even start using your system, no matter how good it is. I would certainly consider paying for a license (and it could be a larger amount if there's some kind of provision for low-traffic/revenue use being free or cheap), but you'll probably have to just trust me to some extent, because (here I am repeating) if my games depend on you to run on an ongoing basis, I'm much more locked in with you than with Flash, and I just won't do it. |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | e1ven: It does seem to run on the iPhone 3gs, albeit it slowly.
One suggestion I might make is to detect iPhone/Android devices, and offer a popup control.Further, you can provide the right meta data so that it can be added as a web-application, right to the iPhone home screen. |
What should I learn next? Python or Ruby/Rails? | shippingcomps3: You should start with Perl.Then think about doing Python or Ruby. |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | vaksel: probably Jason Putorti from Mint is on the list, so impressive, he got a designer in residence gig at Bessemer VC |
What should I learn next? Python or Ruby/Rails? | boggles: When you were advised to consider Ruby over Python, what reason were you given?Also, you may not be aware but this is an almost daily question on StackOverflow so I would advise looking there also. |
What are the advantages of C-style synxtax? | CyberFonic: For many people reading and/or writing C-style is easier than s-expr (Lisp). On the other-hand it is far easier to parse Lisp than C-syntax. So really depends which perspective you are considering.As a programmer you delegate the heavy lifting to the compiler and choose the language (& framework) based upon what you wish to accomplish.Perhaps you could explain your motivation for asking the question. E.g. thinking about designing yet-another-new-language? |
What should I learn next? Python or Ruby/Rails? | Kliment: I find Python easier to get started with, because there is much less syntax to learn when coming from another language, particularly the ones you have been working with. Ruby does more out of the box for webapps, and does more with less characters, but only marginally, and it has a slight perl aftertaste that makes it a tad annoying at times when you're starting. In summary, I'd recommend you start with Python because you can learn essentially all of the language in very little time from the basis you already have. Ruby is definitely more hyped right now than Python, and it is awesome for web stuff, but starting with Python and then learning Ruby should be easier than the other way around. Or maybe it's just so for me. |
When is it time to create a company for your product? | Kliment: When you have no choice. If you are charging money, or needing legal advice, or having increased server costs, or considering hiring someone, you have no easy choice but to start a company. |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | nwjsmith: The work they do over at http://metalab.com/ is some of the best I've seen.Edit: Oops! He's right, http://metalabdesign.com/ |
From Ruby to Scala? | qhoxie: These are surely aspects that differ based on the coder, but here is my take on it. I have a strong Ruby background and the last few months I have been using Scala alongside Ruby.1. In short, yes. I think the key for me is using a mix of Scala and Ruby. For many tasks, I am not as efficient with Scala. I think that is 2/3 my inability to more effectively leverage the language and 1/3 the language itself. I find Scala to be incredibly clear; in many cases more so than Ruby. The type system and pattern matching can do amazing things for readability.2. The Artima book is helpful to have at hand, for sure. As for getting up to speed, both the O'Reilly book and the Pragmatic book are good. Just from my feel, the Pragmatic appeals more to those coming from a Java perspective, and the O'Reilly appeals to people with a Ruby/Python background.3. Never built more than a toy application with Lift, but there are definitely a fair number of people using it in production. |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | dschobel: Whoever designed the heroku site. |
What should I learn next? Python or Ruby/Rails? | andrewcooke: either is fine. they have much more in common than they are different. choose which ever makes most sense practically (for examples: if you know someone who would give you help + support, use the language they use; if you already use a certain host and they only support one of them, use the one they support) |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | taitems: I have found the vast majority of my favourites through twitter. And they're amazing for showing off WIPs and sharing freebies with you. One of the below (I can't remember who) disliked the Wave interface so much they re-mocked it themselves just for fun.Jonas Rask - http://twitter.com/JonasRaskJonathan Castro - http://twitter.com/DDrDarkMetaLab Design - http://twitter.com/metalabPhilipp Antoni - http://twitter.com/PhilippAntoni |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | richcollins: I think our designer (http://dekorte.com/) did an awesome job:http://shop.stylous.com/ |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | simplegeek: Douglas Bowman(stopdesign.com) and Dan Cederholm(simplebits.com)--IMHO. |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | bkbleikamp: A couple that come to mind:http://subtraction.com
http://cubancouncil.com
http://madebyelephant.com
http://jasonsantamaria.com
http://markboulton.co.uk
http://hicksdesign.co.uk |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | furtivefelon: Many designs on http://csszengarden.com/ is very nice, and it has designer contacts there as well. |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | alex_c: Might not be exactly what you were asking, but I like Envato.http://envato.com/Particularly, I like their themes site:http://themeforest.net/ |
What should I learn next? Python or Ruby/Rails? | sailormoon: As a fairly experienced Ruby on Rails developer I am receiving a couple of phone calls a week from recruitment companies (in Sydney). They are desperate for people.That should tell you all you need to know. Web is where it's at. Django has much less penetration. Rails is still fairly rare but it's gaining momentum in business (finally) and IMO it's a very good thing to know right now. Your PHP skills will be a big plus, too.That said, I have nothing against Python, it's a great language, so if you're not doing it for employability reasons, why not. It just seems to me that the Rails hype has made it a big deal for businesses currently. Get on that train and you'll be well-compensated. Python .. love it, but doesn't pay as well, simple as that. |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | jmulder: With all due respect to the aforementioned people, but personall I think the real rockstars are the leading designers behind sites like Yahoo, Amazon, CNN, BBC and digg's Daniel Burka. Designing for such a large audience while still keeping an eye on a company's goals and vision is what really is impressive. Making something look good is the easy part -- making it work flawlessly in an pre-existing environment with an incrediblyt large audience is the challenge. |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | tor: 30 top web designers on Twitter: http://twitter.com/tor/status/6525201103 |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | kingkilr: I'm a big fan of Nathan Borror's stuff: http://nathanborror.com/Also Wilson Miner: http://www.wilsonminer.com/work/And Greg Newman: http://carbon8.us/Keep in mind that I don't know many designers, so I've pretty much just listed all the ones I know. |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | ars: Top designers, or most famous designers? It's not the same. |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | davidw: Is there a way to measure it, other than subjective tastes? |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | thinklime: How has no one mentioned Nick La?http://www.ndesign-studio.com/Also, Dragon Interactive is pretty cool, although they can be mega douches at times.http://dragoninteractive.com/ |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | callmeed: I've always been a fan of MetaLab's workI also really like what Sofa does:
http://www.madebysofa.com/
(checkout the enstore demo, epic: http://www.enstore.com)Ryan Singer of 37signals was very impressive when I saw him speak at RailsConf this year. I definitely think he's up there.
http://twitter.com/rjs |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | lordmatty: http://www.thenobleunion.com - we work with them often. Excellent iPhone and web design. Think they are reworking their site. |
What should I learn next? Python or Ruby/Rails? | gexla: That depends on why you are looking to learn a new language.For most web development projects, PHP is fine. If you are looking to learn something totally new, why not go for something like Smalltalk, Erlang, Lisp or some other language that's quite different from Ruby, Python and PHP?.If you are looking to learn something that will help your web development skills, then make sure you are very strong with Javascript and a framework such as Jquery before looking to other languages. |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | teej: Haven't seen the Sofa guys on here yet. Minimalist, Apple-esque app design: http://www.madebysofa.com/My favorite interactive design agency: http://www.2advanced.com/ |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | elviejo: I can't believe no one has mentioned: Jon Tan
His taste is exquisite his websites are beautiful and functional.http://jontangerine.com/ |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | petercooper: I don't know if we're talking "top 10 in the world" but I want to recommend Amy Hoy - our own user ahoyhere - http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ahoyhere - http://slash7.com/about/ |
What should I learn next? Python or Ruby/Rails? | samdk: Both are good languages. I would suggest Python if you're going to be doing any scientific computing for its excellent library support (numpy/scipy/matplotlib especially), and Ruby if you want to being doing web application programming. |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | Jim_Neath: Not sure about top 10 but I really like Kyle Neath who now works at Github |
How can we protect our source code/IP? | warwick: Trust them. Presumably you checked references and did interviews before hiring these folks.[edited addendum] Any technical safeguards, like locking down their PCs in some insane manner, is just going to create an environment where nobody likes working for you. |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | steerpike: You're asking about UI designers and most people have provided links to Designers - two different beasts in my view.I think stackoverflow if one of the best examples of brilliant UI I've seen recently - certainly one of the best I've seen on the web - but it probably wouldn't make my top list for beautiful design. |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | wlievens: Can I do Isometric graphics, and will it outperform Canvas? |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | jot: Clearleft http://clearleft.comStuff they've done:http://silverbackapp.com/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/http://www.tourdust.com/http://www.scifi.co.uk/http://clearleft.com/made/wwf/http://clearleft.com/made/ratemyarea/ |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | richardburton: How about Ryan Singer at 37signals? Not only is he a great, functional designer but I think he's an awesome teacher, too.http://37signals.com/papers/introtopatterns//index |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | numair: Aaron Sittig - http://www.facebook.com |
How can we protect our source code/IP? | zv: The project is not just source code. I remember there even was article about that. |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | yannis: IMHO Top UI design http://thesixtyone.com, anyone knows the designer? |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | chunkyslink: Its impossible to accurately classify something subjective into a top X list. The lists will always be skewed into the tastes of the judges or list compiler.Take music charts for example. The top 20 could be renamed, the '20 records that teenagers like at the moment'.That said I would like to say that UI designers that work for one company who have one product, do not deserve the same amount of kudos as really skilled agency UI designers who work on upwards of 10 UI's a year. They solve 10 times more problems than those who work on one product. |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | huffer: surely off-topic and probably silly, but I was wondering where do all the designers get the pictures they use? is there a market going on for such thing?
(I assume they won't shoot the photos themselves -- division of labor and all :D) |
Access alternatives? | david927: From what you've described, she just needs Excel, but if it's more complex than it looks, Access is actually a fine alternative.I do think you're right, though, that there is a place for a competitor to Access. My startup intends to compete in that space. |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | unalone: Let me cast my vote for Shaun Inman, whose two web apps are brilliantly designed and brilliantly functional. His homepage is pretty dandy, too: http://shauninman.com |
How can we protect our source code/IP? | DanielStraight: Wouldn't giving the code to a friend violate non-disclosure? |
Free calorie count API? | DanielStraight: Not an API, but a public data set:http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=8964 |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | lexx12: My pick:
- Ryan Singer of 37signals
- HappyCog
- ClearLeft
- Unit Interactive
- Made by SofaAlso, I think UI design is different from Visual design. I found that some of the posts below are referring to visual specialists only. |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | mcrittenden: As much as I really don't like the guy, I think Mark Boulton would be up there. His UX work for Drupal (some of which is at http://d7ux.org) is really top knotch. |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | GBKS: What do you think of Fantasy Interactive (http://www.f-i.com)? Not trying to self-promote, just want to see what people think. We've done some big portals like http://ea.com, http://events.nationalgeographic.com/events, and http://atari.com, but also more experience-focused sites like http://panamera.comI'm a big fan of the HappyCog crew, Information Architects, and Huge, to limit it to three. |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | ubuwaits: Naz Hamid has done some wonderful work. I particularly like the work he did here on a CMS project: http://weightshift.com/design/aiga-cms-designI also think the work skinnyCorp does (http://www.skinnycorp.com/) on all their sites is fantastic. |
Free calorie count API? | yish: I haven't used it but had the Fat Secret site bookmarked for a while. They have an API here: http://platform.fatsecret.com/ Let us know how it looks once you try it. |
Terms of Service and Privacy Policy | DanielStraight: Model it after Tarsnap: http://www.tarsnap.com/legal.htmlTarsnap has the best legal pages I've ever seen. |
What do you use for issue tracking? | ErrantX: http://www.bitbucket.org (because I use mercurial as my SCM, and bitbucket is fast, cheap and solid) |
What do you use for issue tracking? | stuff4ben: I use Redmine (http://www.redmine.org/) on a VPS (RimuHosting). Pretty easy to setup even for a Java developer who's barely looked at Ruby or RoR (like me). |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | mikecuesta: I don't think it comes down solely to the designer, instead think of the company and team of professionals who make a great UI possible. A great UI design trapped inside of a photoshop file is useless. It takes the effort of multiple people to make it happen - I think a better question to ask is what companies are creating the best UI's that are actually being used today. |
Access alternatives? | turtle4: The closest competitor to Access is FileMaker Pro.But I don't see anything wrong with her using either excel or Access for the type of thing you are talking about. No need to overcomplicate. |
What do you use for issue tracking? | benedwards: FogBugz: http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/It's free for students and startups and has a lot of extras: wiki, discussions, etc... |
What do you use for issue tracking? | davidw: This question has been asked before: you might have a look at the archives. I use Redmine, github's thing, Google code... depending on the project. It doesn't matter all that much. If you want something in-house, Redmine or Trac are both ok. |
What do you use for issue tracking? | icono: JIRA (http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/) |
Icon in title bar broken? | zck: Not for me. Can you browse http://ycombinator.com/images/y18.gif ? |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | earle: Nobody has mentioned Khoi Vinh? Creative Director from the New York Times? |
Upcoming dev/startup meetups in Chicago? | ziadbc: Abi, how is the doejo?This is a good calendar for stuff http://calendars.techvenue.com/cgi-bin/techvenue.pl?Calendar...Also http://www.windybits.com/ |
Terms of Service and Privacy Policy | Eugene3v: Anyone else? To all the founders, how did you compile your privacy and tos ? Did everyone turn to lawyers for this? |
What do you use for issue tracking? | ivey: We use a combination of Tender for front-end support and Lighthouse for issue management. Lighthouse has nice integration with Tender and Github. |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | pantalones: i think the names of the top 5, 10, or 20 designers aren't public because they are busy working on uis instead of promoting themselves on the web. it's all a matter of opinion. a lot of the people mentioned below have 1-2 things under their belt, excepting some of the more seasoned folks like bowman, vinh, and miner. the reality is no one person is responsible for a great ui. it's a confluence of talent. the only reason you know about any of these products is because the talent of multiple individuals produced it. |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | jamesk2: One designer not mentioned on this list is Jason Fried of 37 Signals. Basecamp is very useful. Web App designers don't get the attention of flashy visual designers but after repeated usage of an application, you really get a sense of how well thought out it is. |
Fixing the recruiter industry | fnid: Bidding system? Hmm...Like if I put my resume on a site, someone has to bid to contact me? Perhaps as an applicant, you can set a base price and a frequency of contact. Maybe you only allow one recruiter to contact you per week or day. If you want to be that recruiter, it'll cost you minimum $1. If more than one recruiter wants to contact you, they bid up the price.Applicants could regulate the minimum price based on their current status. If they are employed happily, the price is $1000. If they are unemployed, perhaps it's zero with unlimited contacts until they get flooded and then the price goes up.The economics of such an idea is interesting. It assumes a shift in power from the employer to the applicant. The best of the best will rise to the top and a natural ranking of applicants will evolve based on the bid. Great applicants could sustain themselves on employer interest for a while until recruiters give up trying to gain their interest.Could something like this work? I suppose it depends on supply and demand of both applicants and jobs. |
Fixing the recruiter industry | vaksel: I think a service product is a much better option. What is recruiting after all? It's a) contacts and b) a filter.Programmers deal with recruiters because they have the "exclusives" and companies deal with recruiters because they can filter out the first interview stage.So create a service, that will let companies find out the quality of the programmer, without shelling out $20,000.I imagine it as a "testing company" you create a few thousand tests, programmers take them, get their rank, then they add it to their resumes.Employers see the ranking link, go to your site, find out about your testing methods, see aha, 90% percentile on this tough test, good guy to interview.Eventually offer programmers the ability to list their rates + languages, and let employers contact them for a small fee. i.e. Search for all programmers under $50/hr in California with Java rank of 90th percentile.Make one of the questionnaires the usual questions asked in the first interview, you know the script all recruiters follow to weed out people. |
Fixing the recruiter industry | jordibunster: I used to have a canned email that I used to reply to recruiters.It basically explained (in better words) that I needed the name, website and physical address of the company, because I was very picky about culture and location, and it would save us both a ton of time.It also said I had no incentive to screw them and go directly to the company, if I was indeed interested.Worked 50% of the time. Some people wanted me to call them first before telling me the info (I wonder why), and others plain told me "that's not how this works, I've been burned before", but even when it did work, it seems like it caused said recruiter to not send any more leads my way.So I went back to playing their game. Which I hate as much as you do. |
Reasonably priced video cameras for startups? | bjclark: The new iPhones and iPod Nano's are actually pretty good. So is a Flip. The flips can even do HD. |
Reasonably priced video cameras for startups? | brk: Do you want to film the video with the camera and then import into your Mac for post-processing (recommended). Or, do you want to hook a usb/firware camera to your Mac and record directly from that?For doing the sort of thing you're talking about, I recommend an external camera. The recording media (flash, hard-drive, tape, etc.) doesn't really matter because you're not going to be doing hours of continuous filming. You DO (IMO) want a camera with an external mic adapter. This is important because you'll likely want a wired or wireless lavalier mic in order to get good clear audio.Check your local craigslist. Lots of people are upgrading to newer HD cameras and selling older units. You don't need HD for what you're talking about. Just google "[camera model] + OS X" and you'll find reviews for most popular cameras of how well it does (or doesn't) work with OS X and iMovie or Final Cut.I've had good luck with Canon cameras (but there are some models out there that don't work very well) overall. |
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