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Do you list startup experience on your resume for a `normal' job search? | RiderOfGiraffes: Well, what is your startup experience? Why not put your resume online and point us at it so we can offer suggestions.Most recruiters are simple folk and just have a check-list of things they're looking for. Think about the job you want, then list the things you need for that job. Now conflate it thr... |
Recommendation for Books on Startups? | Caligula: My personal favorite and one that I wish I read before I started:the four steps to the epiphany |
Recommendation for Books on Startups? | chaosmachine: You're probably already aware of it, but Founders at Work is worth a read.http://www.foundersatwork.com/ |
Recommendation for Books on Startups? | sutro: "Startup" by Jerry Kaplan. http://www.amazon.com/Startup-Silicon-Adventure-Jerry-Kaplan... |
Recommendation for Books on Startups? | hga: Walking the High-Tech High Wire: The Technical Entrepreneur's Guide to Running a Successful Enterprise by
David Adamson, http://www.amazon.com/Walking-High-Tech-High-Wire-Entreprene...The best tech startup book I've read, by a founder of a company that came up with a unique semiconductor device. They had to crea... |
Recommendation for Books on Startups? | csomar: I read http://www.foundersatwork.com and it was not really bad. However I prefer to read articles and discussions about startups; I think they are the best resource of information. |
LLC to c-corp? | Scott_MacGregor: Probably thousands. Most attorney things seem to always involve thousands. Why not just set it up as a corporation right off the bat. By the way, you will not set up as a C-Corp, only a corporation. The C vs. S thing is a tax treatment under IRS tax law that you can choose once the entity is formed.Sin... |
Why do you have to be an accredited investor? | Scott_MacGregor: United States individual state and also federal securities laws make a determination as to who is considered an accredited investor and who is not. (Federal Securities Laws and state Blue Sky Laws.)Accredited investors are deemed to need less protection under the law than un-accredited investors. Basic... |
Your favorite tiny feature? | davi: I really like that by default OS X has basic emacs navigation and kill/yank keybindings in all text fields. (Ctl-A, -E, -P, -N, -K, -Y) |
Your favorite tiny feature? | nuclear_eclipse: re 1: `set ignorecase` in your vimrc to have Vim behave the same way.edit: why am I being downmodded for sharing info about replicating the functionality in the biggest competitor to emacs? |
Your favorite tiny feature? | gkoberger: Windows 7 had a ton of these: - Dragging to the side/top of the screen
- Being able to drag a window away from the top of the screen without minimizing it first
- Preview of windows when running your mouse over the task bar
- Desktop slideshow
- Progress bar in task bar (http://rurl.org/28nt)
- Fu... |
Your favorite tiny feature? | savant: aliasWhen you can make a command and its arguments simple enough that your mother, who never uses a computer, can use it, then you've done well by the world. <3 alias |
Your favorite tiny feature? | bigbang: F12 in mac. and spaces. |
Your favorite tiny feature? | brm: Not a feature, but go to http://photojojo.com/store and add something to your cart. Always gets me. |
Recommendation for Books on Startups? | mfalcon: I think "Getting Real"(http://gettingreal.37signals.com/toc.php) is an excellent book.I can't remember another one, but as someone previously said, articles, posts and discussions are better resources of information about it. |
Your favorite tiny feature? | safetytrick: I love textmate's subtle and predictable completion. No abnoxious popup menu, it also forces you to learn and focus on the page to predict the popup.apt-get completion in ubuntufirebug's command history |
Your favorite tiny feature? | Feynman: The various ways of taking screenshots in OS X. Something I do nearly every day and am amazed at just how much thought and refinement went into the process. |
Your favorite tiny feature? | chaosprophet: Firefox 3.7 alpha builds: Hiding the menubar till I press the alt key. |
Your favorite tiny feature? | TeHCrAzY: Google Chromes feature, whereby you can drag a tab into its own window, and then drag it back (or to another). I use this every day, and it hurts that I can't do it in other apps. |
Service that negotiates and switches between companies on your behalf. | tonystubblebine: I like the idea. It's a non-stop negotiating service. It could be outsourced. And, unlike some outsourced personal assistants, it could be done passively by monitoring your credit card statements.I think the basic economics for a specialized negotiating call center work out easily with people making $1... |
Service that negotiates and switches between companies on your behalf. | answerly: It seems like a valuable service and has a built in revenue model in that users could pay a fee based on the actual savings that they realize. There are two questions/issues that come to mind:1) How wold the negotiations be facilitated? My guess is that this would have to be actual human-to-human contact, w... |
Service that negotiates and switches between companies on your behalf. | 1ts: Users would have to share their authentication details with the negotiator, which would be a security risk but would mean the negotiator would be indistinguishable from the user.The service providers certainly wouldn't like it but I'm not sure there's much they can do. |
A free "cell phone" for use within a few miles of home? | ab9rf: Assuming the US, you'll run into legal problems. None of the Part 15 (low-power unlicensed) bands would have the range you're looking for; the power levels are too low to give that much range. Part 97 (ham radio) wouldn't help; there are too many restrictions on content (no encryption, no profanity, no pecunia... |
Your favorite tiny feature? | vorobei: screen, a subtle feature of remote access. |
Your favorite tiny feature? | r11t: "Ctrl + r" for searching previously used commands in shell. |
What are various incentive models on the Web? | richardw: Best reference I've found:http://buildingreputation.com/doku.php |
What are various incentive models on the Web? | yannis: thesixtyone.com has a very well thought out system. |
Finding unwanted domains a good home? | ScottWhigham: I'm the same way - I have probably 20-40 that I would get rid of cheap if I could find an easy, non-managed way to offload them. I've tried a few of the services through the years (like sedo) but haven't had much luck. |
Finding unwanted domains a good home? | mediarosh: Think up ideas for them and launch some interesting websites. If you don't have the time, list them here and get the community to do it for you.I am a web designer and I can design the websites, if anyone's interested. |
Finding unwanted domains a good home? | dem0o8: You can try selling it at http://brandstack.com/. You'll never know... someone might be interested in your domain.best of luck! |
Finding unwanted domains a good home? | mediarosh: Anyone thinks its a good idea to launch a site, where people can contribute domain names. And the community can develop some cool sites, sort-of like open source web development. |
Recommendation for Books on Startups? | ScottWhigham: What are you looking for? That is, IMO, too broad of a question for me/us to give anything more than broad suggestions. Are you looking for inspirational stories? War stories? How to? Legal and "how to form a corporation"? There are great books in probably 20 different areas but you need the right ones at... |
Finding unwanted domains a good home? | neilb: Just parking it on Google will cover your domain registration costs. |
Finding unwanted domains a good home? | jacquesm: Auction them off through moniker. |
Finding unwanted domains a good home? | pierrefar: Try listing them on Sitepoint. You should easily get at least the reg costs. Who knows, maybe someone will see something in one of them and give you a really nice chunk of money.Don't expect to make zillions out of them. Maybe enough to take your better half for a nice meal. |
Finding unwanted domains a good home? | dtby: I'm reluctant to let them become a part of some domain squatter's portfolioIn what substantive way are they not, already? |
Finding unwanted domains a good home? | ohashi: I hate to rain on most of the parades around here, but chances are your domain is worthless. If you hand registered it and even you don't like it, the odds of it selling for anything above your registration fee is pretty unlikely. Domain names are some of the most illiquid assets in terms of web stuff. The o... |
What startups here are focusing on developing on top of .NET? | mrduncan: Not my startup, but I believe that Startuply (http://startuply.com/) was built using .NET. |
What startups here are focusing on developing on top of .NET? | DanielBMarkham: I'm using part of the .NET stack for my webapp.I really like .NET the language (the CLR, the libraries) and really could care less for all the overblown frameworks, like ASP.NET or WPF |
What startups here are focusing on developing on top of .NET? | nkohari: I was a .NET developer before launching our startup (http://agilezen.com/), so it was natural for us to use .NET.It's actually a very good technology stack if you lean on the available open source options instead of just using everything Microsoft suggests. C# is a good language, ASP.NET is very efficient and ... |
What startups here are focusing on developing on top of .NET? | jswinghammer: I'm using C# and .Net 4.0 at the moment. I'm using SQL Server 2008 Express for the fairly light database load I have (it's an installable product not a public web app). I'm using Linq to interact with it. It's been a great experience for me so far. The Linq integration with SQL Server has saved me a ton o... |
What startups here are focusing on developing on top of .NET? | johns: I'm building two startups on .NET. Mine is http://snapleague.com a freemium recreational sports league web site builder. For my day job I'm working on http://screenfeed.com which is all .NET on the backend (the main APIs are ASP.NET MVC). I've got another product in the works that's ASP.NET MVC as well.I ended u... |
What startups here are focusing on developing on top of .NET? | icey: I've written more C# than probably any other language, but I've never seriously considered it for anything outside of my day job. I like the language and the tools are nice, but for pure web applications I feel that there are far nicer options out there.Deploying applications on Windows is pretty easy, but there ... |
ASK HN: Green certification on HN | mschy: It should open you up to: http://www.co2stats.com/certpro.php?s=1138&ref=http://ne...It's a carbon offset program for websites.For what it's worth, my company is carbon-neutral, and primarily uses "green" power sources (wind, and nuclear). I do it for two reasons:1) Promotion. For my business, it's very cheap ... |
What startups here are focusing on developing on top of .NET? | kogir: The majority of Loopt's back-end runs in Windows Server 2003/2008, .Net 3.5 and SQL Server 2008. We have some Ubuntu, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Ruby, etc. as well.I really enjoy the tooling, the documentation, and the libraries. There is exactly one time we've run into an issue with the built in libraries: The docume... |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | onewland: I think the trick that almost everybody uses, even if they don't realize it, is to determine what the simplest (read: least time consuming) possible task to move their project forward is. Even if you spend time thinking about this and "not getting anything done", you're really getting planning done. When you'... |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | Zeleboba: I agree with onewland: split your big task into small ones and solve them one by one.My experience tells me that it works great, each completed task motivates me to next one and so on. |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | chasingsparks: I can't force it, but sometimes I can trick myself.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | slmbrhrt: I can't think straight without my headphones and some decent music or white noise.I use awesomewm, which, like ratpoison and ion, works hard to maximize every window and minimize distractions.It's also good to designate one part of your room as the spot where you get your work done, and sit there if and only ... |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | scottw: You might want to consider that your brain has limits:http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2009/12/willpower.phpI don't want to say "you can't do it" but I remember from my school days hitting the wall and there was nothing I could do about it until I'd had time to rest and recharge.Here are some interesting links ab... |
My app images are displayed for another app review. | jaddison: Clickable link: http://bit.ly/5h9nfZ |
Simple Explanation of Bayesian Logic | michael_dorfman: I think the best introduction remains http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes, by our own Eliezer. |
What startups here are focusing on developing on top of .NET? | csomar: My sister is building an E-commerce website with Asp.net and I should say it's really pain: A lot complicated and very slow (although her laptop is 1 year old).
+ Hosting are quite expensive, hosting prices for dot net are enough to make you choose PHP.If you are going for a small project, choose PHP, pyhton or... |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | csomar: I think none of the above understood your problem. I have the same problem and my solution was to keep in the university library and study with my peers. Today life is distracting (emails, facebook, TV...) so you won't resist it.Another solution is to sell your mobile, tv, laptop, xbox... you'll find your produ... |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | zaphar: I've found that there are no tricks. It's mostly just sit down and start working. It'll take about 5-10 minutes of steady concentration and suddenly I'll drop into the zone. There is no substitute for "just do it" as far as my personal makeup goes. I used to try all the various hack your mind stuff that comes o... |
What startups here are focusing on developing on top of .NET? | megamark16: The company I work for uses .NET for our hosted CRM solution (www.eSalesTrack.com), and before that I used .NET at the bank I worked for for our online banking application. I use Python/Django for all of my own personal projects, some of which I almost plugged here but since they don't have anything to do ... |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | thaumaturgy: Work in a public place (cafe, library).Alternatively, here's my trick: I have a "work" Pandora station. I turn it on when it's time to work, and I never turn it on unless I'm working. While it's on, it's time to work.When it pauses after an hour, I can choose either to take a short break -- with the music ... |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | gkoberger: I need to make a to-do list (on paper, preferably) of the specific things that I need to get doneThen, I do them in order. Doing them in order is important- otherwise, I'll waste time procrastinate by trying to figure out what I should do next. If I do them in order, disregarding importance or difficulty, ... |
What startups here are focusing on developing on top of .NET? | clistctrl: My own startup uses C# and the MVC framework. I also have a windows service (.net C# as well) for some data processing. My main reason for choosing it was development speed (it is what I know best) At my day job I work for a consulting firm that does sitecore CMS implementations for large sites. In addit... |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | KentBeck: Establishing a rhythm helps. Make a cup of tea every time you sit down to work. Light a candle. Turn on a certain style of music.Me I like juggling as a warm up. |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | angelbob: Something that often helps me: split into smaller tasks, but also prioritize. What is the most important thing I could do to get my work a step forward?And by "forward" I mean "more usable" or "more releasable" rather than "cooler". That's important :-) |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | clistctrl: 1.) reduce distractions - this includes a clean workspace etc2.) appropriate music - I cannot work without headphones, and appropriate music on, its more of a tool to drown out the rest of the world.3.) caffine, cold - at work i drink coffee... its just not as effective. I used to drink a lot of red bull, b... |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | access_denied: I am doing Getting Things Done (GTD). One part of it is the so-called "Processing" step. That means you gather all your notes, scraps of paper and so on and work it into your GTD-system. I do this at the beginning of the workday and it helps to focus my mind on what is going on in my world. Because I ... |
Finding unwanted domains a good home? | colbyolson: There used to be a HN thread of domains people were willing to giveaway/sell to interested parties. Perhaps it's time for another?edit: spelling |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | tungstenfurnace: If it seems that you can't get some task done and you aren't making any progress this means that either (a) it lies beyond your present abilities, and/or (b) your heart isn't in it.>I can work for 10 straight hours if I'm at schoolThis is part of the problem IMO. Schools are inherently coercive and thi... |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | saurabh: Do a ritual before you start working. |
What startups here are focusing on developing on top of .NET? | loganfrederick: The small-to-midsize companyI work for (http://callcopy.com) use .NET.Affordit.com, which received funding a few months ago from the Founders Fund, is also built on .NET. |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | maqr: Adderall. |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | tetha: One thing that works for me is thinking out aloud. I don't really understand why, and frequently, the spoken words turn into some foreign tongue no one really understands (especially if the train of thought goes faster), but somehow this helps with keeping the train of thought going against all kinds of obstacle... |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | wensing: Headphones and a clear schedule in front of me. A cup of tea or coffee can help.As far as music goes, have an album that you can put on infinite loop. |
What startups here are focusing on developing on top of .NET? | vyrotek: Current project is built on ASP.Net MVC, Azure and SQL Server 2008.
We are also in the BizSpark program and love it! |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | nostrademons: Are you trying to work for 1h on top of the 10h you've already worked in school? If so, that may be your problem.Almost nobody can work for 10h straight. I'd guess that you're taking breaks for lunch and between classes, and to hang out with friends. It could just be that you've run out of juice by the... |
Simple Explanation of Bayesian Logic | physcab: I always like to think of an application when learning new concepts. Bayesian theory is often used in machine learning, for example, where the "learning" is simply done by updating a bayesian equation. In ML you often have this:posterior probability = conditional probability * marginal probability.where,marg... |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | Scott_MacGregor: Use coffee and a special environment like Pavlov’s Dog to trigger you to work.Put together a customized workspace for yourself. It doesn’t have to be big, just outside the regular house living space somewhere. Somewhere like the garage or basement (even a big closet). Somewhere you can be alone and not... |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | city41: Explore and try things. I have found listening to my favorite music is a hindrance, for example. I instead have found that listening to drum'n'bass or jazz helps a lot. I normally wouldn't listen to them, but they are more nondescript and fill the background space nicely, allowing me to concentrate.I'm there to... |
Does Web Traffic Always Equal Income? | kilobugs: I think hight traffic means income certainly, if you have good blogs you can generate income through Affiliate marketing, advertising, and adsense as well, but you just require to familiarize yourself with those areas and you will make good income out of it, even be able to quit your job in the couple of mont... |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | jsz0: I like to complete one small task to break the ice and remind myself there is a little intellectual reward waiting at the end of every completed task. If you string together a few small successes you can build some momentum. It's important to be realistic about how much time you spend working in a day to avoid bu... |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | hyoogle: Check out the "pomodoro technique"- I've used it when I feel like I need to build up work momentum and after a while it gets me back in the groove... http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/ |
Your favorite tiny feature? | dnsworks: Auto-save on web forms. |
Hacker News Clone/Social News software? | cperciva: The code which runs HN is shipped with ARC. |
Private Domain Name Registration | kngspook: While I, personally, have no experience trying these thresholds, NearlyFreeSpeech.net seems to be committed to giving their customers the widest possible range of legal freedoms and playing everything by the book legally, including giving you and opportunity to respond to legal papers filed against you, etc. ... |
Hacker News Clone/Social News software? | alanthonyc: I'll be there if you set it up. |
What will be the bigggest technology story of 2010? | anigbrowl: Tablets, tablets everywhere. |
Where can you find hardware hackers in Houston? | joe_bleau: I know one...I'll point him at this topic. Are you looking for full-time help, or more of a consultant/part-timer? |
What will be the bigggest technology story of 2010? | DanielBMarkham: Real-time web starts being much more a part of the average user's browser experience. |
What will be the bigggest technology story of 2010? | gry: Cell networks as dumb pipes.EDIT: "becoming" to "as" |
What will be the bigggest technology story of 2010? | weaksauce: The Apple tablet revolutionizes modern medicine as a simple checklist app tailor made for doctors reduces hospital mistakes by 50%. |
Can you use twilio to create a tech support call center? | jaddison: I've heard that FreeSWITCH vastly outperforms Asterisk (sorry, no experience with it myself), although feature-wise it's a little bit lacking in comparison at the moment.http://www.freeswitch.org/ |
Simple Explanation of Bayesian Logic | raffi: Programming Collective Intelligence by Toby Segarin is a gentle introduction to many ML topics include Bayesian classifiers. |
What will be the bigggest technology story of 2010? | portman: The rebirth of the technology IPO. Two of the following five will IPO: Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, LinkedIn, Skype. |
How do you get in your "productive" mode? | known: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_syndrome |
What will be the bigggest technology story of 2010? | teuobk: I'm going to be a contrarian and predict that tablets fail to gain traction outside of a small niche market. The Apple tablet will be an amazing piece of technology, sure, but I don't think that people are going to want to carry around a device of that size without having a physical keyboard for input. |
What will be the bigggest technology story of 2010? | adam_feldman: A huge step forward towards real broadband ubiquitous Internet access (A larger clearwire wimax rollout perhaps?) |
Which Scheme book to read? | dragonquest: From my own personal experiences, try "How to Design Programs" (HTDP) by Felleisen et al as an introduction to Scheme. Its a great educational book which really prepares you for SICP.Also if you want to give Common Lisp a try, I'd highly recommend "Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation... |
Which Scheme book to read? | prakash: +1 for HtDP, after which the schemer series, followed by SICP.Also, read this: http://norvig.com/21-days.html |
Which Scheme book to read? | samdk: I have not read SICP, but I have read The Little Schemer. It's my favorite programming book.If does a very good job of getting you comfortable with thinking recursively. It not meant to impart immediate 'practical' knowledge, and it really uses Scheme as a vehicle for teaching recursion, not the other way around... |
Which Scheme book to read? | Kaizyn: I would recommend you start with The Little Schemer and follow up with The Seasoned Schemer (the sequel to the other book). These two will give you a good feel for some aspects of Scheme programming, but they will not go into the same depth about the fundamentals of computer science you'll get from SICP. Afte... |
Which Scheme book to read? | elbenshira: If you have little programming experience, I'd start with The Little Schemer. It's short and concise. Plus, I think you'll have more fun with The Little Schemer.Disclaimer: I've never read SICP. |
Which Scheme book to read? | Mathnerd314: I suggest Practical Common Lisp. (considering that it's both online and in book form) |
Which Scheme book to read? | garply: Just for an alternate opinion:I find programming books relatively valueless. Just start reading code and programming. Google when you don't understand a piece of code.Approximately how to get started on an Ubuntu system: $ sudo apt-get install mzscheme
$ mzscheme
> (print "hello world")
Then Google for i... |
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