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Best way to learn C
emerose: "The C Programming Language", commonly referred to as just "K&R", is probably one of the best introductions to a programming language ever written. It's short, clear, and concise — even today, 31 years after its first publication, it should be your first stop: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_La...
How good are freelance programming sites?
ankeshk: From a buyer's point of view: odesk.com and elance.com are pretty good. All the others - not so much.As a service provider - you will always get paid a bit less though - because of the real time competitive bids. When 15 coders bid for the same project, no matter how skilled you are - you will have to make c...
How good are freelance programming sites?
gigl: I've used it for small web coding projects and had decent luck.I always lay out the items which need to be completed with excessive specificity. That's the stage where I've seen a lot of people get let down, disparity in the expectations due to assumptions from each party involved. Never had any issues with payme...
How good are freelance programming sites?
natch: I've had great luck with rentacoder, and have only good things to say about the site itself and the controls and mechanisms it has in place to help ensure the process goes smoothly (ratings, on-site communication so there's a paper trail, escrow, etc.).However, there are caveats:1) Best used with very small, ver...
Best way to learn C
saurabh: http://www.reddit.com/r/carlhprogramming/Carl is seriously awesome.
How good are freelance programming sites?
rajasaur: I have been using RentaCoder for about 2 years now and find it pretty good. Once you establish a reputation, its upto you to pick up projects that are interesting and there are many prototype projects. Gives you an opportunity to try out new technologies that you may never do otherwise.But as I get more exper...
How good are freelance programming sites?
lucasvo: It looks more like you're asking from a providers point of view... I'm usually a buyer so I'll tell you about my experiences as a buyer:I've been working with numerous freelancers for quite a while. It took me a long time to figure out how to choose my freelancers and I've had several failures along the way. T...
Getting a grip on economics
billswift: "Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell is the easiest to read, accurate introduction I have read."Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life" by David Friedman requires a little more work.Several previous commentors have recommended Hayek's "Road to Freedom", but I think his last book, "The Fatal Conceit" cove...
How good are freelance programming sites?
andrewbadera: Independent tech consultant here. I did a healthy five figures in part-time indie consulting in 2008. I went fulltime indie in June 2009, and in that last half-ish of the year, did more in Twitter-related work in '09 than all work in '08, and billed something like 200-250% total in '09 over '08.I've subsc...
Best way to learn C
percept: This might be of interest:http://publications.gbdirect.co.uk/c_book/
Where is the Tivo social network?
mikeryan: Comcast bought one (Plaxo) and BTW Comcast is the only company you've mentioned who owns content. Comcast is also active in pursuing a new recommendation and rating systems similar to your post - its going to be rolled into new versions of their guide and interactive tv strategies. The hard part about this i...
Seeking a cofounder
lfittl: Did you already talk to the guys from OpenIndie? http://openindie.com/They seem to be working on a similar idea, though focused more on screenings.Arin Crumley (one of the founders) did quite a nice job with the distribution of his film Four Eyed Monsters.
Seeking a cofounder
d4ft: So, I'll play the devils advocate. What exactly is the value proposition here? Are there people scouring the internet for certain indie movies? I like indie movies, and I like the idea of rewarding the people who are behind them, but it is hard for me to imagine what an itunes for indie movies with a marketing...
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
sunir: I'm working feverishly over the holidays to get my project, Bibdex, running on production legs. It's an online bibliography service meant for collecting and sharing references and notes.http://www.bibdex.comOne of my personal goals for the project is to spend absolutely no money on it except for servers, domains...
I have the domain hackerbrain - what would you like to see on it?
messel: I'd love to see a complete network of all modern web programming languages,and their advantages and disadvantages clearly compared.Might as well do the same for operating systems, and hardware.
Seeking a cofounder
chrischen: Clarification: > This includes a digital distribution platform Which let's end users keep their purchases in the cloud and let's producers sell their work online as downloads.People will be able to download DRM-free videos, and storing in the cloud is simply a backup to their purchases. There are several way...
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
csytan: I worked on http://www.webnodes.org/ - it's a proggit visualization.
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
mquander: I'm working on a piece in Inform 7 for this interactive fiction design comp:http://jayisgames.com/archives/2009/11/game_design_competiti...
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
cosmok: I had just finished on this: http://www.goopendb.org - Elastic Lists for movies. Back to work from today ;(
review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer
zaidf: Using it! Love it so far, for the few minutes I've used. Perhaps this will replace my need for tadalist which I resort to every now and then when I have too much on my plate.Would help to see numerical numbered list. I get a good kick personally knowing I have x things to get through.
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
woid: currently: http://totalfinder.binaryage.commore info on blog
review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer
nicpottier: I like the idea, but anything like this, at least for me, needs to be syncing to the web and have a web UI too. You don't necessarily need a mobile client, but a mobile optimized website for it is kind of a must have too.But I agree that there's a need, though it is a crowded market.
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
jacquesm: Busy trying to implement an automated image tagger.It's probably going to last me a bit longer than the weekend though :)Most fun I've had coding in a while.
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
leftnode: Working on my new shopping cart software. I've grown pretty disgusted with most shopping cart options out there, so its time to finally buckle down and finish mine.IONCartOn Github: http://github.com/leftnode/ION-CartMy blog: http://leftnode.com/progress-on-ioncart-basic-mockups-starte...
Seeking a cofounder
lkrubner: I should say, as a warning, that I've had 3 different clients approach me with roughly this idea, since 2007. There is a lot of interest in this area. There is a lot of investment going on. I do not doubt that eventually there will be a big hit in this area, but anyone who wants to get into this area has to b...
review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer
johnrob: It looks like you've already written the app. Most people won't install an app just to review it; however they will visit your site. You should have put the site together first and posted that. Then you'd have feedback before you started building it.
review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer
patrickryan: Logo design must be inspired by Hulu.
review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer
dagw: As such I like it and it seems to be exactly the sort of thing I've been looking for, however there needs to be sync feature and a way for me to view and update my todo list from a browser. Add that and I'm really interested.
Seeking a cofounder
wgj: What stops Netflix from coming out with a long tail model for self-publishing indie film producers?Right now, most of their cost is in the DVDs, but already many movies are offered with a streaming option. The next step would be to offer a streaming-only option for long tail content. They would appear to have no b...
review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer
caxap: I didn't like that I had to download Adobe AIR for downloading and installing your app. What speaks against making a .dmg file and allowing the user to copy your app wherever she/he likes?
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
thomasswift: A small web scraper to get my gears of war 2 multiplayer stats.
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
dangrover: Building the online store component to my sheet music reader for the iPhone: http://www.wonderwarp.com/opus
review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer
meaydinli: A couple of things I would like: - Mark todos as recurring - Reminders/Alarms - I would prefer if we could add more to todo. Add todo, give it a title, then fill in the body. - A "Done" button rather than a checkbox - Give todo items a due date in addition to today tomorrow someday.You say this is a minimali...
review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer
city41: todo list apps are incredibly hard to get right. I have found I don't like most of them, and I have resorted to using tadalist most of the time. So far I am liking yours though.It's really clean and simple, which is great. I also like that you used Air, even if others disagree.I wish I could see all tasks at on...
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
jberryman: working on a befunge-93 interpreter in haskell... that sounds epically useful, no?
review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer
jim-greer: This looks good, but I'm pretty happy with TaskPaper, which hits a very similar niche and doesn't require Air.
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
sammcd: I'm working on a Mac GUI to control Django and Rails local development servers. Hoping to really take log viewing to the next level.If you are interested: http://141312.comI hope to launch in March.
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
steveklabnik: I put in some documentation for Hackety Hack, and started a new Secret Project.Should be fun.
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
technomancy: Integrating package.el into the main Emacs codebase.
review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer
DXL: Maybe I'm dumb, but I can't quite figure out what the "Review" label means. What does it mean?
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
warfangle: My toy twitter app. Trying to teach myself Scala/Lift and collaborative filtering techniques at the same time. Good times :)
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
thaumaturgy: So far this weekend I've lapped in most of the valves for the new engine for my truck, worked on some parts for my model T speedster, done a little work in the garden, and worked on some advanced features for the $5/month unlimited domain mail hosting service that's getting turned on in a couple of days.
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
cmars232: Ported Mafia Wars autoplayer to Google Chrome. Doing Little Schemer in Clojure, converting to use tail-call recur. Mowing the laundry.
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
rodyancy: I'm building a photo subject generating/photo sharing app for the iPhone.
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
pclark: Writing an e-book on managing your social identity.Creating a twitter "I just had sex" bot.
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
kd5bjo: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1027418
review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer
andrewljohnson: Nice app, but I'm not switching from my current scheme of a .txt file for local todos and Google docs for stuff I need to share or get from afar.I wonder what it would take? I often have a list or two going, but .txt is just so convenient. Why leave emacs at all?
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
stevejohnson: Regular expression parser and compiler for a VM regex implementation similar to the one described in [1]. Part of a larger project, and the VM doesn't actually operate on a normal string data structure.[1] http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp2.html
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
thibaut_barrere: I've been working on http://www.learnivore.com (my ruby/rails/iphone screencasts aggregator) - more specifically:- an iphone specific version (using jQtouch)- better ways to share the site (using topsy + facebook widgets, instead of addthis and sharethis that proved uneffective here after a few weeks o...
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
savant: I'm working on a few things, both spanning at least two weekends.The first is my baby, a project management tool built in PHP. Tired of messing with slow trac installs on PHP or fugly-looking/complicated PHP tools (I'm watching you, bugzilla!). It is mainly targeted towards the types of projects I've seen were ...
review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer
IgorPartola: Offtopic: I thought that the market for to-do organizers is supersaturated at this points. Is it that there just aren't any good ones? What do you expect the marked for this thing to be?Personally, I use a white board for lists of projects that need to be accomplished, and my e-mail inbox for the list of t...
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
Klondike: Finishing up an Android app for Campfire, a web-based chat service. I did the app before they released an official API, and then rewrote it all. I think it'll end up on the Market this week. It's been a lot of fun.
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
nostrademons: Playing around with Haskell LLVM bindings for a compiler of a small experimental language.
review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer
lefstathiou: Good work man.One suggestion: I think it would be nice if you could tag when a task is "done". At first it doesnt mean much but I can imagine 3-4 weeks into using this id have hundreds of tasks completed. It would be helpful to be able to see when stuff was completed.
review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer
Sapient: Great for a minimalist app, but I have found a bug already. I created one todo for today, then created another and immediately clicked the Move to Someday button. The Today todos all vanished except for one I had created earlier. Clicking on New Todo restored the lost items.
Publish Startup Revenue Numbers?
patio11: What advantages and disadvantages do you see in publishing this information to your community and the world?It makes for good linkbait, gives you a quick cut-through-the-noise hook (utility of that declines sharply with exposure), and especially for solo entrepreneurs I think it sort of helps with the crushing...
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
dangrossman: I'm working on a fraud management tool for ecommerce sites that integrates the Twilio API to automatically call customers' phones to verify orders and record voice authorizations.
review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer
kingkawn: Instead of for minimalists, why not just say "...for You." The minimalists know who they are, and those who aren't sure yet may not be ready to jump into all of the associations.
Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?
tobtoh: I've been working on my own personal expense tracking software. Not just because it will have exactly the features I'm after, but also as an exercise to re-aquaint myself with php/mysql, then moving to make it iphone friendly (as a web app) and finally to produce a iphone app version.
Publish Startup Revenue Numbers?
blantonl: If you wonder what brought this on, see the following HN post:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1028418Thanks,
Too kool for school, but nowhere else to go
jacquesm: This is coming from a high-school dropout, so it's typical do as I say do not do as I do advice: Learn to finish at least something.After reading your story it sounds like you are very good at starting stuff but not very good at staying until the job is done, that could turn in to a real liability in the long...
Too kool for school, but nowhere else to go
olalonde: I pretty much in the same situation as you and have a similar background (currently studying software engineering). Actually I did quit school for one year and worked as a web developer. I liked it, good salary and all, but I chose to go back to school for a few reasons.1) School is a great place to make conn...
Too kool for school, but nowhere else to go
zaidf: I took two years off after my second year. I was doing terrible in school upto that point and prayed everyday that one of my ideas will kind of mature and give me a genuine reason to leave. I got that chance and left for two years.During the two year break, I learned a TONNE...about everything I didn't know. It ...
Distribute visualizations of code to increase sales?
chaosmachine: It might make an interesting blog post, but don't expect it to have much impact on sales, unless your app audience is other coders.
Tools for making writing markup less painful
SingAlong: HAML and LESS.But Sass has plugin support and a lot of plugins like FancyButtons. I use less coz it's minimalistic.I use Balsamiq for mockups and heard about lxEdit recently.
review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer
anigbrowl: Like it so far. Air doesn't bother me, I guess I'm an Adobe whore. In a weird way I prefer it for simple tools like this.
Any Internet retailers of physical goods here?
michael_c: (For what it's worth, I used to interact a lot with similar businesses when I was working for eBay plus I am currently running my own similar business).Here are some tips: 1. Keep your costs very low while you are figuring out if there is a market. If possible, use sites like shopify, eBay, Amazon, etc to fi...
Too kool for school, but nowhere else to go
alanthonyc: Advice you don't want to hear: finish school, pile up that debt, kick ass in those classes whose material you could "pick up on your own more easily."The best kind of debt is school debt. If you leave school, you'll be piling up debt anyway, but not that kind that is easily forgivable. And those connectio...
Review my holiday project
rick_2047: I would like to have you sync the time with users local time. I am in india, and my day does not change when its supposed to.
review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer
carterschonwald: one thing you might like to look into is having it talk with some of the todo websites out there, like remember the milk (one of the more popular ones)
review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer
zaph0d: I installed it on Ubuntu and the menu/tool bar was missing.
review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer
greyman: I use Evernote for todo management. For me, the essential feature is, that the todo application is the same as the knowledge management (or notetaking) application.For example, the todo might be "Fix the bug #1234". In Evernote, this will be the name of the note, and in the body of the note, I copy the bug des...
review my startup, a planning/analysis app for cyclists
davidw: Looks pretty cool and well done. I think that it's definitely something where, if you get enough people, it will also start to be really interesting seeing routes other people put in.
review my startup, a planning/analysis app for cyclists
buro9: Nice.Questions I have: 1) Is your home location or post code displayed to anyone else? If so could you by default "approximate" the location to others unless a user specifies that they want their precise home location shown. Reason: Bike theft. Don't tell someone precisely where your bikes are, especially when c...
Hacker News for electronics enthusiast?
brk: Have you tried the forums at http://www.nutsvolts.com/ ?
review my startup, a planning/analysis app for cyclists
prabodh: It is good if the default map loads based on my location..currently i have no idea where is it pointing to it..and there is no easy way to change that
review my startup, a planning/analysis app for cyclists
abraham: Look into importing My Tracks data: http://mytracks.appspot.com/
Hacker News for electronics enthusiast?
J3L2404: http://electronics.stackexchange.com/ is like StackOverflow for electronics.
review my startup, a planning/analysis app for cyclists
whalesalad: This is just the kind of site that I am looking for. I've had lots of GPX/KML data from my Android phone (with the My Tracks app) and no where to put it. I'm incredibly excited to start using this daily after every ride, to both share what I've done with my buddies and keep track of how far I go.I really wi...
Too kool for school, but nowhere else to go
mping: It seems to me that you are experience that "lostness" sensation every teenager feels. I reiterate zaidf's advice. Take a year off or so, travel the world, enjoy your life. Having 18 is a great time to travel or do other stuff that you probably won't have the guts to do again.In due time, you will probably feel ...
Too kool for school, but nowhere else to go
rms: Are your parents willing to pay for anything? If they aren't paying anything, my advice is to go to school somewhere where you don't have to rack up as much in student loans, unless it's a university that really has something special to offer (Stanford, MIT, etc.).If you want to work for a year or two or start a s...
review my startup, a planning/analysis app for cyclists
flog: Can you explain how you're getting elevation data? Last time I asked around this wasn't possible (at least according to Yahoo! maps team at FOWA)
review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer
lallysingh: Anyone else here use Org-Mode (ala emacs?) Getting a text file sync'd is an rsync matter (but it does require 1 box with a public DNS name/static ip).
review my startup, a planning/analysis app for cyclists
andrewbadera: It seems like you have a great UI and lots of features already covered, but in case you haven't looked at these guys, they're worth knowing about: http://www.walkjogrun.net/
review my startup, a planning/analysis app for cyclists
MicahWedemeyer: No specific criticisms of the app, but I did notice this on the about us page:We have put together some money and quit our jobs, with the intention of making Ride with GPS the best site of its kind on the internet.Having 3 full-timers working on a bootstrapped project (especially one with no current rev...
review my startup, a planning/analysis app for cyclists
justliving: nice app!Reminds me somewhat of http://www.mapmyrun.com/
review my startup, a planning/analysis app for cyclists
etherealG: one thing I'd recommend, try using google maps local search api for your search box. It has much more accurate results, and seems to use a completely different database for search results, especially in the UK. Here's a link to it, try using this instead of the search call in the google maps api. http://www....
review my startup, a planning/analysis app for cyclists
wensing: I just started biking again for the first time since childhood, and I bought the $4.99 Cyclometer app for the iPhone.So I came to your site as an excited novice and I'm sort of clueless. Hard to know where to go on the home screen. I assume I want to sign up, but I don't know your feature-benefits well enoug...
review my startup, a planning/analysis app for cyclists
Dmunro: As a developer and cyclist, I really like your idea and implementation. It's modern and intuitive, something a lot of cycling sites lack, unfortunately.One feature you can think about that I've often thought would be useful, would be to track road quality via a device that detects vibrations. Poorly maintained ...
review my startup, a planning/analysis app for cyclists
patio11: You list an awful lot of features on the home page. ("Plan, share, upload, analyze." are all features. Or take a look at all of your bullet points.)Benefits sell software, not features.Think of it this way -- you're a cyclist, right? Supposing you were trying to convert a family member into cycling, would y...
review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer
thinkbohemian: I like it, very clean and simple. The # tagging allows to make it flexible.
review my startup, a planning/analysis app for cyclists
Maciek416: Nice idea!You should let people drop in their RunKeeper user URL and scan their activities GPX data from there (it's all there).Quite a few people I know use RunKeeper for cycling now because it's one less device to buy/maintain/ride with (running on the iPhone and all). In addition, the RK guys are likely t...
Too kool for school, but nowhere else to go
semanticist: If you're still at Edinburgh, I'd recommend discussing this with your DoS, especially if they're an Informatics person. You might be able to find projects being run by AIAI (http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/) or other institutes inside Informatics that are interesting to you and you can contribute to. If nothing e...
What's a math major to do?
mbrubeck: No, don't lower your expectations. If you want to get into programming, you can. It's not clear how much you've done already, but what you don't know you can teach yourself. First, start some programming projects on your own or contribute to existing free software projects. That'll force you to learn most...
What's a math major to do?
hga: There are lots of companies that need people who can solve hard (but not always well defined) problems, and being a programmer is certainly a plus. E.g. check out companies that are famous for effectively applying both, e.g. Wal-Mart and Amazon.com (seriously, the latter poaches from the former); prior to the fin...
What's a math major to do?
lmkg: Not too long ago I, too, was a math major utterly unprepared for getting a career. My strategy was to look for job postings with the word "Analyst" in the title, and focus on small companies. Those are the positions where you'll be working on solving innovative problems, at varying levels of definedness. Small co...
review my startup, a planning/analysis app for cyclists
acj: Using Chromium nightly (build 35301) I can't update my profile settings. Clicking on "Save changes" gives no feedback and does not appear to save the changes. Other buttons in the app appear to work.Nice work!
Please criticize my idea =) OMyBills.com
DanielStraight: Are there still bills that can't be automatically paid?
Please criticize my idea =) OMyBills.com
billturner: 1) It's "What's the Big Idea?" and not "Whats the Big Idea?". And there are more spelling/grammar issues on the "About" page.2) The layout seems a bit off: http://i47.tinypic.com/jj7hpg.jpg3) Many banks now offer this sort of feature with their online banking. What makes yours better or different?
Please criticize my idea =) OMyBills.com
tdedecko: This problem has already been solved sufficiently. I use Google calendar and its reminder feature.