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What magazines do you subscribe to? | ilamont: Don't subscribe to any magazines anymore. No time to read them.But Wired still sends me free copies, which usually sit unread next to the couch until I take a flight somewhere and need reading material. I also get two alumni magazines which serve the same purpose.Used to subscribe to Archaeology, Fine Cooking, Scientific American, Discover. |
Thoughts on non technical co-founders? | BobN: It's a crap shoot. Just like starting a business is. I was the technical-guy (CTO)/co-founder with a "business" partner (CEO) many years ago. All went well for the first few years, but as we grew he was unable to move from the entrepreneurial role and let the organization grow. His micromanagement doomed an attempted expansion into a larger market and the company floundered because of it.Getting a company off the ground takes very different skills than what is necessary for growing a management team and developing real business strategies. It’s kind of a catch-22 - you need the entrepreneur to get started, but once you get there he or she may not be the right person to get you to the next level. |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | wallflower: eWeek / Had to lie about my corporate title but its been covering business and technology well for decades http://eweek.comDesign News / the best engineering magazine I read - mechanical, product engineering focus / http://designnews.com (free, I qualified)Technology Review / let my subscription lapse but excellent MIT-written periodical on technology in the labs |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | projectileboy: * The Economist - Editorialized news for adults* The New Yorker - Amusing and often interesting* Make - Fantastic projects; worth every penny* History of Invention and Technology - Really entertaining maker stories, from the recent and distant past |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | nishantmodak: None. I get all I need from blogs.At times, just read them while travelling - but after having the iPhone - that also has stopped. |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | sgoraya: Harvard Business Review - Worth every penny; Great articles and case studies from a large variety of business types. There are always a few take away nuggets from each issue.Scientific American - Been subscribing for years; Although the content seems to have diluted a bit over time, I still enjoy it, especially the armchair astrophysicist in me ;-)Game Developer Magazine - No longer in the field but its one of my favorite magazines ever - the project postmortems and technical articles are wonderful.My subscription to the Economist recently expired - did not renew since I had a lot of back issues piling up. |
Better duplicate identification | swolchok: Hmm. What evil could you wreak with a service for making the HN server connect to whatever website you want? |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | Tawheed: INC Magazine |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | vorobei: The New Yorker |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | JimmyL: * Harpers and The Atlantic - great plane reading* Defence Technology International - interesting to see what is new in defence technology, subscription is free* Bloomberg Markets - semi-technical stuff on finance, as well as solid general-interest news (I pick it up for free now and then from the local Bloomberg office) |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | viggity: I'm a gigantic fan of Forbes |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | andrewcooke: only one - csie (computing in science + engineering). it's a great, if obscure, little magazine that focuses exactly on the kind of work i do (random scientific consulting).http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cise |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | cmelbye: - Technology Review for its coverage of the cutting edge in scientific and technological advancements.
- WIRED for the gadget lover in me, and they have really interesting articles about anything from vaccines to psychology.
- Mac|life for the Apple fanboy in me ;-) |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | mooders: The Economist - required reading for global economic news and opinion.Prospect - Excellent array of current affairs articles, all of which are thought-provoking.Private Eye - Long-standing satirical magazine aimed squarely at the UK establishment.Wired - Seemed a good idea at the time, not sure how much value I get from it. Probably won't renew next year.New Scientist - interesting read for an armchair science geek, but even I'm wondering if it is dumbing-down ever so slightly these days. 50/50 chance of renewing next year.I also get regular access to Harvard Business Review as a business school alumnus, which is always worth a read, even if it is just a reminder as to why I took my MBA and said goodbye to corporate life :) |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | jbrun: Lapham's Quarterly - A collection of essays from across the ages on issues (religion, money, war, medecine...). Really helps you gain perspective.http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/ |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | siculars: national geographic adventuretriathletebicyclingtime out new yorkthe economistthe new yorker |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | antpicnic: Fine HomebuildingWoodenBoatI like to keep the back issues.Everything else I either read online or get from the library. |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | joe_bleau: Circuit Cellar Ink. Strongly recommended. |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | joshfinnie: The New Yorker (One of the only magazines I find that has to be read in person and not online)Should subscribe to The Economist too, but being a student 1) I can't afford it and 2) there is too much to read in a weekly magizine of that status! The Economist is one of the most real news sources out there. I highly recommend getting a subscription if you can afford it.And interesting note: my subscription to Wired just expired after something like 10 years (since I was 16). I just couldn't stand it any more! |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | Daemmerung: Yet another Economist subscriber here, for international affairs.American Scientist, for science written for generalists. Bimonthly, so I'm not drowning in unread back issues (ever tried staying abreast of Nature?). To my eye, less sensational than New Scientist, and less editorializing than Scientific American. Worth it for the columns by Henry Petroski and Brian Rice even if you read nothing else.Reason, for American libertarian political trash talk. I maintain the subscription only because my not-exactly-libertarian wife enjoys it. Domestic front propaganda, if you will.If all three were taken from me, I would miss American Scientist very much. Highly recommended. |
Better duplicate identification | joshfinnie: I think if you make it an initiative for the submitters to submit the lowest common demoninator, we would rid ourselves of the duplications. I have to believe everyone on Hacker News knows how URLs work and can see that something like this: ?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+startup%2Flessons%2Flearned+%28Lessons+Learned%29
is not needed as part of the submission URL.And to cover all basis, if you don't know if it is needed try it before you submit it to HN. Delete the above portion of the URL, hit enter and if you still get the same webpage you have done your due diligence. Finding a correct algorithim for this might be tough, but if we put the pressure on the submitters themselves we might get something done. |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | spooneybarger: economist+ my acm membership comes with their magazine.everything else i get online. |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | HeyLaughingBoy: These are pretty much all trade rags, so recommendation is based on if you are into the field or not. As an EE/software guy I have a wide range of technical interests.Electronic Design: new developments in electronic components and circuits. Been a subscriber for 15+ years.Machine Design: new tech & tutorials on older mechanical engineering technology. I think it's better than Design News :-)Embedded Systems Design: the once-thick canon gone skinny. Good, but the website is better.Communications of the ACM: automatically get it as an ACM member.The above I've subscribed to for 10+ years!IVD Technology: Covers In-Vitro Diagnostic medical instruments: my industry. The only trade journal in this specific field I know of, so I guess I have to recommend it.Military Embedded Systems: it's a fun read sometimes, but mostly just a PR vehicle for various manufacturers.LED Journal: the latest in LED & lighting technology. Good for keeping up to date on the field.We used to get Smithsonian and probably should renew. Of all the magazines I've subscribed to over the years, that was probably the best. |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | apgwoz: GOOD (http://good.is) is the only one currently. It's bi-monthly so it's easier to get a chance to read it. It's pretty good, but I bet just reading their website daily would be better. |
angel groups versus individual investors | ScottWhigham: I've had the same experience here in Texas. I think that is normal - the more people you go through, the more formal the process tends to be. |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | tokenadult: The Economist,http://www.economist.com/because it has the best international news reporting in an English-language weekly. I recommend it to everyone. When I get each new issue, the first thing I read is the obituary at the very back of the editorial content. That is always amazingly well written, and frequently about very interesting people I have never heard of.Skeptic,http://www.skeptic.com/to learn more about a skeptical approach to life. The included Junior Skeptic section is very good for children to read, and the magazine has very interesting book reviews (and, for that matter, advertisements for books), so I recommend Skeptic also.Skeptical Inquirer,http://www.csicop.org/si/as another interesting magazine about a skeptical approach to life. I find Skeptic more informative and entertaining, on the whole, but I think Skeptical Inquirer has some editorial points of view that are more warranted than some of the points of view of the Skeptic editorial board.After edit: I also very much like the Atlantic, but the call of the question is what I subscribe to, and the Atlantic and the Wall Street Journal and the New Yorker and other worthwhile periodicals are available at the public library that I walk to almost daily. I read those there. |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | paulreiners: The New Yorker: Has very interesting articles and criticism. I recommend it.Chess Life: Am a USCF member, so I get it automatically.Computer Music: The best articles on creating electronic music. I highly recommend it. |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | warp: Edge Magazine, one of very few videogame magazines worth reading.Zone 5300, dutch magazine consisting of small-press comics and loosely related articles.(oh, I don't actually subscribe to Edge, I just consistently buy it every month) |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | cloudkj: I don't subscribe to any, but the ones I read (either in online or print form via other subscribers) are The Economist (global news, finance, business), Technology Review (published by MIT; awesome tech insight), and Wired (just for fun). |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | aaronbrethorst: Just like everyone else, I subscribe to The Economist for all of the reasons elucidated in far greater detail elsewhere.Unlike everyone else on the thread so far, I also subscribe to GQ because a) the articles are periodically interesting and have nothing to do with technology, b) just because I write software for a living doesn't mean I can't wear Diesel or Marc Jacobs (and GQ helps me stay on top of such things).I used to subscribe to JPG Magazine, but never re-renewed after they stopped publishing for a few months. |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | rwhitman: "Magazines"? What's that? |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | gamerates: Well, the key is to order all of your magazines online so that they cost next to nothing.New Yorker: Have for years, love the urban feel and the mix of arts & politics and 10,000+ word articles on very strange things. Most importantly, great writing and a great fact checking department.The Economist: To the point, global, compact, and great writing and reporting. Plus the student rate isn't that expensive. It combines well with my Washington Post and WSJ daily subs.City Journal: It's Quarterly, but is sort of like a more conservative free market New Yorker. Great articles with a different slant.Atlantic Monthly: I read a lot of the articles online, and read a lot of Andrew Sullivan, so decided to support the magazine and pick it up in print as well (got 2 years for under $10 online)GQ: For the pictures and ads, although British GQ is better it's just too expensive in the states. Personal interest in style/fashion/design.Forbes: I let expire after they wrote an article titled "Love Global Warming" (http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1225/038.html) written by the head of what is more or less an ExxonMobile thinktank. It was just too much for me.Wired: Because it was freeUsed to subscribe to Maximum PC (great magazine) when I use to tinker with computers more.Magazines I'm looking at subscribing to:HBS: For upcoming mgmt consulting jobUrban Land Institute: Due to a growing interest in commercial development, architecture, and urban planingProbably a magazine on design/architecture... haven't decided what yet. |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | dnsworks: The Economist, because I find their content fascinating, editorial integrity to be second to no other mainstream magazine. They even admitted their mistake for backing Bush over Gore. Plus it's fun to read all of those stodgy old Economists' write-in letters. Better than daytime television! |
Is AWS down for you? | cperciva: I can't load http://status.aws.amazon.com right now, but everything else is working fine for me.(Where "everything" == my EC2 instance, S3, and SDB in the US-East region.) |
Is AWS down for you? | dnsworks: It's actually UltraDNS that went down. Many, many sites are unavailable right now. |
Is there an easy way to post to Facebook as you can to twitter? | Shamiq: Bookmarklet for Sharing on Facebook (I guess that one is FF specific): javascript:var%20d=document,f='http://www.facebook.com/share,l=d.location,e=encodeURIComponent,p=.php?src=bm&v=4&i=1255717032&u=+e(l.href)+&t=+e(d.title);1;try{if%20(!/^(.*\.)?facebook\.[^.]*$/.test(l.host))throw(0);share_internal_bookmarklet(p)}catch(z)%20{a=function()%20{if%20(!window.open(f+'r'+p,'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,resizable=1,width=626,height=436'))l.href=f+p};if%20(/Firefox/.test(navigator.userAgent))setTimeout(a,0);else{a()}}void(0) |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | johnl: Economist
Businessweek
Fortune
Wired
Business 2.0
Inc
Fast Company
Scientific American
SFO
Golf magazine
Golf Digest
Technology ReviewRanked in no order. |
What programming font do you use and why? | r11t: I recently started using Inconsolata which looks fantastic at both large and small sizes http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html and also made the "Top 10 Programming Fonts" list here : http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts |
Review my site, CureCRM.com | jrockway: Too noisy. The circle-with-slash is tacky, as are all the logos.JMHO, however, as I am not in this sort of market. |
Review my site, CureCRM.com | brandon272: Your homepage tells me I can "access my sales conversations anywhere" but doesn't tell me what you're selling. |
Review my site, CureCRM.com | bugs: To be honest I would leave very quickly because I can't see what you want me to buy. (In other words you need to tell people what you are selling them, even if it is just a bulleted list). |
Review my site, CureCRM.com | dmix: I'm not trying to be harsh generic SAAS salesforce clones are a dime a dozen these days.It's not about the software, it's your customers/network + your ability to sell it that will make or break this type of product. |
Review my site, CureCRM.com | shrike: Maybe I'm dense, but what is it? A service, a product, a what? Does it replace Salesforce? |
Review my site, CureCRM.com | wanderingmango: Regarding the home page:Good: (i) Sign up for a free trial button obvious; (ii) Your logo at the top looks good; (iii) the one-minute tour is a good idea (but I couldn't get it working in Safari, so I couldn't watch it).Needs improvement: (i) there is too much going on, (ii) it looks cluttered, so I'm not sure where to focus my attention; (ii) you might have your 4-picture header scroll automatically (I like 2 and 3, 1 looks way too busy, and 4 looks way too sparse); (iii) under "Customer Testimonials" (plural) you have only one testimonial - rather than announcing that there are testimonials, reduce cognitive load by having a bit quotation mark or something instead; (iv) I like the "the world best sell with CRM", but perhaps have it closer to the bottom; (v) perhaps have one "download now" button instead of several links (for the sake of appearing cleaner); (vi) I really don't like the "supports mobile e-mail" banner at the bottom: I know it's the sun, but it looks like a nuclear explosion, and apart from my own personal feelings about it, the colour scheme looks misplaced compared to the rest of the page.If I had to sum up: make it simpler. A few (2 or 3) bullet points, a download button, a big "sign up" button. A testimonial. |
Review my site, CureCRM.com | timdorr: "Start for free" neon green on light yellow/orange is bad, even with the text shadow. I'd dark it up for more contrast.The 1->2->3->4 thingy should move a little bit faster.The sidebar under the Learn More section bolds the text when you hover over it. This pushes the subsequent items down a pixel or two, causing the whole thing to wiggle when you hover over it. Not an easy fix, but it's the kind of thing that bugs me :)The video pop up should play immediately when I click on it. I should have to pop it up and then hit play again. I bet you'll get more views on that video that way. Actually, it shouldn't even pop up at all. It should just be set to play right in place. That way I don't have to feel like I'm navigating away from the content to this other place to watch a video. That way if the video bores me at any point, I can still see the rest of the site and be sold to.On a larger scale, the landing page needs some work. I would have something that points out that you can access the system via your existing email clients or via your web interface. That seems to be the power in it, so make it super-clear. |
Review my site, CureCRM.com | weaksauce: The images load on your site pretty slow for me on a fast connection. If this is systemic you can seriously influence the bounce rate by upgrading your bandwidth or using cdn's. I don't have the study in front of me but I recall reading the average amount of time a person will wait for a page to load before hitting the back button incredibly short. Think about offloading that to s3 or a cdn. |
Review my site, CureCRM.com | johnnyg: After ten seconds on the website, and reading 1-4 on your banner, I'm not sure what you do or how to buy it.I think I can track sales leads and data over multiple platforms (salesforce, gmail, etc).I also don't understand why I'd need an assistant after I loaded calendar events into gmail. I already get reminders.I'm not trying to be a wise guy, just giving you my experiences without filter. |
Review my site, CureCRM.com | zaidf: EDIT: Just saw the video! I think you should delete 90% of the text you have. Make the video demo the focus. And go from there. Way you have it right now, I almost didn't see the video even after spending a minute or two on the site!--1. Great play on salesforce no-software mantra! As someone who has had a few people intern for sales in past months, I was immediately taken in by "no sales rep headache" pitch. Resonates well, at least with me! Now, can you meet my expectations?2. From there on, unfortunately, your pitch goes downhill. Too much text. I'd start from scratch. Use your no-sales-rep pitch to grab attention. Then have 4-5 bullet points, each explaining a problem your app fixes. And later in the page, the finer details for the people still unsure/have questions about your app. |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | dantheman: * Reason* Make |
Review my site, CureCRM.com | azanar: I'll cover initial impression first, and then go from there into specific things I notice.First impression: way too much pimping, way too little describing. The front page seems more focussed on who uses it and how awesome they think it is than on what it is. I have a vague idea from your bulleted list, but no idea what differentiates this from all the other CRM systems. The companies you list might, but that is of no use to me. I'm not about to waste my time and contact them to tell me what you should have told me. The video might tell me, but I'm not compelled to watch the video. That combined with the odd and elongated layout would have the average customer uninterested in learning any more about the product.Specific things:
* Please, please remove the scrolling images part of the way down. They are distracting and get annoying after more than a few seconds.
* Your page goes on below the fold on a 1024x768 monitor, and you have marketing content below that fold. This is very bad. I would honestly take the box of specific features and shove that near the top. In fact, that and a 2-3 sentence description of what the product does is all I could imagine being necessary on the front page. The client list and press hits could either sit at the bottom, or go on another page.
* The page flow is very odd. I'm having a hard time figuring out where my eyes ought to be going. There is that weird block of white space right below the press icons, and on either side of that irritated scrolling thing, which make it hard for me to keep track of where I am on the page. I get the sense that you could solve the page flow problem the need for scrolling at the same time, just by taking advantage of the space you haven't used yet.I should add the disclaimer that I am not a professional designer, and so some of the things that bother me might be considered good practice by people in the know.Hope this helps. |
Plans for 2010 | cperciva: I plan to end 2010 with 10x as many customers as I start it with. |
Plans for 2010 | iuguy: Spend more time with my wife. |
Plans for 2010 | brlewis: Go full-time. |
Plans for 2010 | dejv: Stop slacking. |
Plans for 2010 | akl: Develop a non-work life, if only for balance. I'd like to expand my ruby skills, too. |
Plans for 2010 | kwamenum86: Eat healthier and become more active. I spend way too much time sitting on my ass. |
Plans for 2010 | asnyder: For the year 2010 I plan to finally release a constant stream of documentation, both text and videos, along with numerous screencasts.There's no point in having cool technology if it's not easily accessible, easy to learn, and demonstrable. There's only so many times you can have one on one conversations to get the wow across.I just wish writing documentation didn't take so long, and video shoots didn't eat up whole days. It's so much nicer to work on a new feature than to re-shoot a section of a code demonstration what often seems like 100 times. |
Plans for 2010 | jacoblyles: My "plan" for 2010 is to make a lot of ambitious goals, fail on most of them, but accomplish some good regardless.Also, I am pretty sure that I will have my first amateur Muay Thai fight. I'm excited about that. |
Plans for 2010 | alexgartrell: 1. Write an academic paper (getting one published would be cool, but let's start with things within my control).2. Get my research project up to where I want it.3. Sweet Internship in a sweet city ** sweet city matters because I'm going to be 21. Work hard, play hard :) |
Review my site, CureCRM.com | Tichy: Triggers an immediate back button reflex. Maybe it looks too much like very unfun business stuff. No idea what it is about either - I suppose you only understand it if you are in the business? |
Review my site, CureCRM.com | rlpb: Redo the audio on your video with a decent microphone! It sounds bad and the echo is distracting and makes it harder to listen to.Edit: also, it sounds like you're shouting at me. |
Plans for 2010 | jason_tko: My most important goal for 2010 is to create a partnership with a co-founder who is fun to work with, and who has the skills I lack, and begin working together. |
Review my site, CureCRM.com | motters: An email I received this morning:"Hope all is well. Would you guys mind upvoting this? This is my new company:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1013389Best,
- Emil Gilliam"Surely begging emails like this are an improper use if the voting system. |
Plans for 2010 | vishaldpatel: Existing things:
MobileFolk - my current project / startup.
Swim, run, workout. Keep learning Spanish and practicing guitar. Read books.New things:
Learn basic Romanian.
Meet more iPhone (and Android) developers in the Bay Area and in / around Toronto / GTAA - always looking to grab a beer or lunch :).
Learn more about market research (you can never learn enough). |
Plans for 2010 | sree_nair: 7. try to find inner peace and purpose. - SHOULDN'T THAT BE NO:1, and probably the only one ?. Just joking :) |
Plans for 2010 | jpv: 1. Improve my piano, harmonica, and musical ear. 2. Release my social networking app that I've been slacking on for a year. 3. Quit smoking. 4. Finish college (not graduate, finish). |
Plans for 2010 | btilly: Go to work for Google. Learn at least one new computer language. (These plans are pretty concrete at this point.) |
Plans for 2010 | JustJ: Graduate from College, Make money and Achieve. |
Plans for 2010 | gommm: grow my company from 1 to 6 employees and have 10 times more profit. |
Plans for 2010 | mantas: Try again and again to launch something that would be useful and popular. Failed twice this year... |
Plans for 2010 | bbb: "Complete" my key research goals and write a draft of my dissertation. |
Plans for 2010 | zppx: Being very close to graduate in the end of the year, run a half-marathon, try to not be a complete slacker and play with my recently purchased VPS. |
Plans for 2010 | jacquesm: You can begin to learn to play the violin in a year, but it is a dedication of a lifetime to really learn to play the violin.Noble causes though, I wish you much good luck! |
Plans for 2010 | Quarrelsome: Hell yes, I finish my contract this year so I am going to regain my mind, catch up with .NET, sleep a lot, finish reading my LISP booky and I must code one thing this year that I would naturally be uncomfortable with, be it LISP, C or Ruby/Python.Maybe start a business (if certain conditions evaluate to true)! :) |
Plans for 2010 | klaut: i have just one, the same i set for 2009 but failed to do so: to live here and now, in the moment. without past or future worries. i hope i make it this time. |
Review my site, CureCRM.com | lawn: My knee jerk reaction was - fight or flee? As others have pointed out if I don't see what the page is about almost immediately I just close it. When skimming through the site the only thing I see is boring business talk which quite frankly bores the hell out of me.Another thing I noticed on my second visit was how absolutely crammed it was. There are links everywhere, which is fine, but they're screaming 'Hey Look at Me!' and the next 'No Look at Me!' and so on. A clean page goes a long way for me but yours went the other way I'm afraid. |
Plans for 2010 | ErrantX: 1. Try and actually write my fiction book (finally)2. Sell a company3. Work less and spend more time doing "fun" :) |
Plans for 2010 | jarsj: Launch my startup no matter what. |
Plans for 2010 | cubicle67: Well, they say confession is good for the soul...I've got four great kids. They're bright, curious, fun and I love 'em to bits. Thing is, I absolutely suck at being a Dad. I'm lazy, vague, inconsistent, moody and I find it all to easy to go hide in the study and respond to interruptions with "Go and play. Can't you see I'm busy".I don't want to be like this, not one little bit, so my one goal for this year is - no excuses, work at becoming a better Dad. |
Plans for 2010 | yan: - move back to NY or bay area- climb regular northwest face of half dome (currently planned for august)- finish my data visualization project/start a new one depending on feed back- implement an idea i've been carrying for over two years- decide what makes me happy. |
Review my site, CureCRM.com | PebblesRox: I'd reword that "sales scheduling, email to crm syncing, customer followups" like this:Schedule sales
Sync email to CRM
Follow up with customersI think bullets would be good too, because I thought it was "sales scheduling email to CRM, syncing customer followups" or something like that. It was confusing. |
Review my site, CureCRM.com | cubicle67: Just had another look after first looking at it a few hours ago. Wow! what a difference.Changes I noticed:
* Looks far less cluttered
* Video now works for me (didn't work previously)
* minor text/layout changesAll in all looks much improved. The video explains things much better then the page itself, I think, although I'm not exactly target audience.Good luck :) |
Plans for 2010 | SandB0x: Start eating a proper breakfast. |
Plans for 2010 | ra: Close some of the prospects we have; lock-in our angel round (we've been talking to them for months) and get well down the path towards series a.Now that would be a good year. |
Plans for 2010 | andrewcooke: i doubt anyone's that interested in my personal plans, but this is perhaps a useful exercise anyway :o)- improve lepl: simplify configuration; better logging showing how values are bound; possibly automate tokenisation; possibly improve speed.- return to an idea i worked on years ago to generate synthetic rhythms. at the time i didn't have enough cpu power; now i think i can use a gpu.- long shot: develop a small language that targets the llvm and opencl (gpus) in a simple way.- improve my web site (already 90% done). motivated by people laughing at it on reddit a couple of days ago :o(looks like i will be spending 4 months in the usa, on a tourist visa (partner has a sabbatical), so i should have time for some of this. i also plan to visit icfp for the first time. |
Plans for 2010 | jyothi: Get married. (the most ignored part while hacking away with work & startup alone) |
Plans for 2010 | aitoehigie: 8. I plan on being happy as much as I can and maintain a positive demeanor. |
What programming font do you use and why? | hga: Since 1993 it's been Lucida Sans Typewriter or Lucida Console; I've not found anything better to my eyes, although I'll check out this discussion.The only issues I've found with this font family are that the differences between l and 1 and . and , can be subtle. |
Plans for 2010 | Tawheed: Stop "waiting" and start "living." Help people have meaningful online conversations with Ask My BrainTrust (http://AskMyBrainTrust.com) |
Plans for 2010 | SingAlong: My new year begins with one month of semester holidays.Plan:Release one app every 15 days and spend 1hr a day iterating the app I created in the previous 15-day session. That'll make 2 apps in one month of holidays. while the rest of the year I release one app every month to manage college and freelance work (to support the side projects).At the end of the year I should have close to 10 apps (or maybe only 5 if i take regular breaks). And atleast one of them I hope succeeds. I took this lesson from the 2D BOY studio guys who developed World of Goo. They prototyped a new idea every week until they found a nice prototyped idea. |
Plans for 2010 | tptacek: Let's see. 356 days ago here, I said "The math behind signal processing; curing and drying ham and salami.".This year, let's call it "The math behind signal processing; write a book." |
Plans for 2010 | sjs382: I plan to launch a project related to URL shorteners early in the year and continue work on my startup into the first quarter.My resolution though is to ship/launch more code. "Real artists ship" :) |
Plans for 2010 | omnipath: My goals so far for the year 2010:1) Relearn how to eat. Do not eat just to eat, but eat for a reason.2) Actually write a useful application.3) Perhaps most importantly, be a creator and not just be a consumer. |
Plans for 2010 | tokenadult: Build a spin-off line of business from my existing business that is SCALABLE, so that I move from the sole-proprietorship personal service business world into the true start-up world. |
Plans for 2010 | aitoehigie: 9. Finally launch 2 projects that I have been working on.
10. Chronicle each day of the year 2010 on my blog. |
Plans for 2010 | jodrellblank: Anyone want to read through these replies and place some bets on how many goals will have markedly progressed by this time next year?http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/08/how-to-set-goals-yo..."work at becoming a better Dad" - Unspecific. Should being a better dad have the same negative connotations as work?"Release one app every 15 days and spend 1hr a day..." - Specific, determined. I'd bet on this."Stop slacking" - Vague, phrased in the negative, no chance."Launch my startup no matter what" - Also vague, low chance."I plan to end 2010 with 10x as many customers as I start it with." - Great. I bet he will progress this."Go full-time", "Eat healthier and become more active", no and no, bet against these."Start eating a proper breakfast" - What, when will you prepare it, how will you stick to it? |
Plans for 2010 | spencerfry: Plans: (1) Add a few more members to the team. (2) Lease our own office instead of sublease. (3) Release the new version of our app. (4) Expand two more verticals. (5) Get more mainstream press. (6) Finish moving our core team to New York City. We're currently 2 of 4 in NYC. (7) Start our newsletter. (8) Do more charity work. (9) Start a meetup. (10) Get involved in local NYC art/design scene more than I already am. |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | michaelaiello: * The economist: Technology quarterly, weekly news update page, analysis instead of opinion |
Plans for 2010 | huangm: Graduate school and start working on startup fulltime. |
Plans for 2010 | GeneralMaximus: Last year, my goals were: (1) learn to program Mac OS X (2) get better at maths, basic data structures and algorithms (3) write more stuff on my blog.I accomplished: (1) learned to program the Haiku OS (2) got better at C++ and OO design (3) met a bunch of awesome people in the FOSS community (4) learned version control (5) gained enough confidence to start a small FOSS project with some friends.I still suck at programming Mac OS X (even though I've made some progress), still suck at maths and my blog is updated about once a month. I learned a little something about data structures and algorithms, but only because I took that class at college.Moral of the story: you usually end up accomplishing something completely different from what you initially plan. The trick is to just go with it and let good stuff happen.That said, I still have some plans for 2010: (1) learn Haskell and x86_64 assembly (2) release the FOSS project I've been working on (3) contribute more code to Haiku (4) get better at socializing (5) write a lot of stuff on my blog (for real this time).I know I'll end up accomplishing a completely different set of goals, but it's still nice to have a roadmap :) |
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