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What are you working on? | ivenkys: Developing a generic price arbitrage engine making it easier for sellers to track price movements of their products vis-a-vis their competitors. The first release will target sellers selling on Amazon.I should have a private beta by the end of the month. |
What are you working on? | rjurney: I'm doing website user-session/click flow analysis, developing a graph/network visualization library in processing suitable for these purposes. Crunch data in Hadoop, output to interactive graph visualization web app. One step, 'just works.'Hoping to open source this work later this year. |
What are you working on? | tsiki: Working on an general game playing artificial intelligence. Nothing grand, I just have a few ideas I'd like to test in real life. It can theoretically play any game, but it's interesting to see if it's actually feasible, since it's turning out to be quite a resource hog. |
What are you working on? | rksprst: Working on my startup SocialBlaze - it helps companies do social media marketing / brand monitoring, http://www.socialblazeapp.comIn private beta now; looking to launch a public beta in the next few weeks. Some good feedback from beta testers so I'm excited :) |
What are you working on? | tel: I'm working on a graphical model MCMC sampler for doing Bayesian statistics in Haskell.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_modelhttp://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs/ |
What are you working on? | chrischen: I'm working on Flixa.tv, a digital distribution platform for independent filmmakers as well as other indie video content.There's a bit more information and a long interrogation of the idea here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1028673Still looking for a co-founder, so contact me at chris.chen@flixa.tv if you're interested! |
What are you working on? | officiallyrad: Working on a simple, private, short-term mobile group communication tool called Fast Society.It automatically connects friends who are going to a concert, on vacation, or just out for a night of drinking over SMS and has a ton of cool functions to communicate during and share content after the event.Launching soon at http://www.fastsociety.com/ (still waiting on carrier approval) |
What are you working on? | hockeybias: I am working on HockeyBiashttp://hockeybias.comIt is a site that covers hockey news using a simple layout a la the drudgereport and protoblogger. It is a startup I unveiled in late November and it is attracting more visitors almost every day! |
What are you working on? | gridspy: I'm creating an online power monitoring system so you can see how your home or office uses power. A web platform is great for this because we can centralise the processing / graph generation and analysis and then put simple, cheap devices into people's buildings to do the actual measurement.See: http://www.gridspy.co.nz/We offer live data (updated every second while you watch) and multiple channels, all at a price that is cheap for a solution like ours. |
What are you working on? | bemmu: I'm making a phone party line similar to Omegle/ChatRoulette using Twilio. |
What are you working on? | schmidp: http://invoiceapp.comsmall web app we built over the last few days to generate nice invoices and track if they are overdue or paid.(not finished yet, but open signup and core functionality working) |
What are you working on? | brm: I'm a front end guy who's turning to physical products.Building the world's coolest kitchen outfitter... Sign up here if you like: http://gastronautics.com |
What are you working on? | koningrobot: I'm working on a realtime strategy game in the browser using "full-duplex" AJAX. I started working on it about a year ago but I had to take a considerable timeout after burning out at my former boring job. It's slowly getting somewhere, though.So why in the browser? Because that makes it instantly hackable! No more bad pathfinding or shitty interfaces to put up with! |
What are you working on? | clistctrl: I'm making a Home Kitchen Inventory Manager complete with recipe suggestions.still in dev, but just for you: http://fridgereport.com (its hosted on a server in my closet... sorry if it is slow)It is made with ASP.NET MVC Framework and C# |
What are you working on? | carterschonwald: I'm working on some mathematical models of the flirting signaling process and some other social phenomena. I'm hoping to get some interesting / nontrivial existence and/or impossibility results with cool qualitative interpretations out of it |
What are you working on? | julsonl: Programming a library for interfacing GWT and MongoDB |
What are you working on? | ddemchuk: Launching a digital marketing startup. I've had the opportunity to fully immerse myself in the CodeIgniter framework and I love it. I have used it to build a custom CRM and also an internal tool that will allow us to launch new micro sites in 60 seconds, including buying the domain name, parking them on the server, and spinning the content and publishing everything. Very fun.Have learned a lot about linkbuilding and SEO as well. It's interesting to play with different linkbuilding techniques and watch the results happen in just a few days because of how low the competition is in our niches. Am planning on developing a fully automated linkbuilding tool that will require me to wear my gray hat while I work ;-) |
Guitar tabs online | k0ban: Clickable link http://chords.fm/online/web/ |
What are you working on? | jamii: Working through 'The elements of computing systems'. Just finished testing the cpu and moving on to writing an assembler. |
Guitar tabs online | jacquesm: Wow, that's some impressive signal processing you've got going there.How accurate is it ?Possible other output channel (if you got this far) would be automated mp3 to midi transcription. |
What are you working on? | paulreiners: Twisted Life, a video game written in Flex that uses cellular automata:http://www.automatous-monk.com/twistedlife/ |
What are you working on? | Caligula: Working on web based speech recognition. Have a demo at http://www.speechle.com but its buggy. I learned a lot making it but it gets frustrating at times. Decoding is done using Sphinx. |
What are you working on? | dkuchar: http://www.lendfriend.net - friends and family lending site built in ASP.NET MVC & jquery. I wasn't the first one to come up with this, but I got the idea after I funded my first startup on credit cards, had some friends with money, but didn't want to complicate things with a DIY loan.We're launched, but we have a lot of work ahead of us. If anyone has any ideas/suggestions/criticisms please let me know. |
What are you working on? | jsm386: http://www.tellmycell.com - A simple, affordable, do it your self SMS marketing platform targeted at small businesses |
What are you working on? | RevRal: A novel about what it means to be a novel. |
What are you working on? | SeanOC: I'm working on http://wtales.com/. Think collaboratively authored choose your own adventure books. So far wtales is just a side project and is just getting off the ground. To kick things off, I am running a kick start program where people can earn amazon gift cards for posting stories (more info on that at http://wtales.com/kick-start-landing/). |
What are you working on? | PStamatiou: http://skribit.com - helping bloggers cure writer's block and find things to write about.
@wycats (rails core, etc) recently started using us: http://skribit.com/blogs/katz-got-your-tongueand continually working on what pays the bills, http://paulstamatiou.com |
What are you working on? | bengebre: http://www.deptofnumbers.com/nyc/home-sales/new-york-city/ - An analysis of New York's property sales records by borough and neighborhood.I'm trying to build a openly defined price index for residential sales across the city. |
What are you working on? | aneesh: I'm working on my cricket blog Against the Spin (http://againstthespin.com), trying to apply sabermetric-style analyses to cricket. |
What are you working on? | vlucas: http://www.invoicemore.com - online billing and invoicing system (bootstrapped startup)At $15/month for unlimited invoicing, it's currently one of the cheapest on the market. |
What are you working on? | swolchok: Started yesterday: Lark, a toy Arc-like language implemented on top of Python instead of Scheme. (http://www.github.com/swolchok/lark) I've never implemented a Lisp or used it for anything serious, and I've been trying to figure out for myself whether there really is anything to macros or if they're just fancy compiler hacks, so I decided to write Lark as a way of learning what precisely pg is so excited about. It's a direct, lazy translation of ac.scm, except that I've written an evaluator instead of compiling to Python ASTs or bytecode. I'll probably compile to Python ASTs after I have a baseline.I did cheat a bit and steal pieces from PyScheme and Lython as well as someone else's S-expression parser, but it's capable of evaling ((fn (a) a) 1) as well as Arc's "if" currently. I'm not certain whether it's Turing complete right now, but I suspect that it is because I can create and call functions, branch, and bind values to names. (IIRC, just being able to create and call lambdas is enough because you can count, branch, etc. Is that right? I haven't taken PL.)Big problems right now are:1) Proper lexical scoping. The current model is broken (it might be dynamic scoping), and Python 2.x's closures are broken so I can't just use Python functions to punt the problem to Python.2) The shortcuts for quote, quasiquote, complement, compose, etc. The S-expression parser I stole doesn't have them. I don't want to use a parser generator because that seems to defeat the point of Lisp's lack of syntax (i.e., being easy to parse).This is a toy that has nothing to do with my research interests (security), so it's not going to be actively maintained or developed. pg will probably make some breaking changes to Arc and kill the project. |
Guitar tabs online | monk_the_dog: Hmmm, it's taking longer than I'd like to get a confirmation email, so I'll have to try later.I'd love it if you added bass tabs. I don't expect the market is large enough to justify it, but I thought I'd ask. |
Guitar tabs online | it0ny: this seems like a great idea, I am going to try it when I get home. :)
Another thing that interests me, is the composing of the chords completely automated? |
Guitar tabs online | rwk: http error when submitting? |
What are you working on? | wensing: Working on an update to http://stormpulse.com that will give us city-level maps and general/severe weather forecasts. |
What are you working on? | bradbeattie: A stateless election web service for more complicated aggregate methods (like Schulze STV): http://vote.cognitivesandbox.comA simple illustration of a possible use for the service: http://www.modernballots.com |
Guitar tabs online | CWuestefeld: The link on the referenced page (http://chords.fm/online/web/) to "Chords! for WinAMP" yields an error:We can't find page you have requested. |
What are you working on? | abyssknight: Working on the house I just bought with my wife. It's the grandest hack I've ever had to do. From crazy 22ft walls of glass that need replaced, a kitchen from the 50's that needs a remodel to the shoddy wiring throughout the house. There's tons to do, and little time to do it in.This year I start a new position at the company I work for. Hopefully it'll bring more visibility and access to the people who make decisions. There's so much that needs fixing here, and with a little elbow grease I think I can fix it all. |
What are you working on? | Vindexus: http://www.snapproofing.com
Proof reading service for college students.Also working on my BreezyFAQ app for plugging in searchable Frequently Asked Questions to your site.Site is not live but it works fairly well at http://www.snapproofing.com/faq |
What are you working on? | jay_kyburz: http://np.ironhelmet.com"Neptune's Pride is a multiplayer game of Strategy, Intrigue and Galactic
Conquest!Neptunes Pride is real-time, but games are played over several weeks. Players log
in at any time of the day to check the progress of their fleets, view the
results of battles and issue new orders.Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate.It's the game you know and love with a twist. A 4x Strategy game with it's
complexity striped away to reveal a sophisticated game strategic command and
diplomacy.How will you conquer the Galaxy?" |
What are you working on? | mgrouchy: currently working on SWIX
http://www.swixhq.comWe are a social media metrics company and we just entered public beta. |
What are you working on? | Kilimanjaro: A wave killer using node.js, xmpp and websockets |
What are you working on? | leftnode: Some great projects in here, I'd love to see a thread like this more often.I'm working on a new eCommerce shopping cart - IONCart. Check everything out at GitHub - http://github.com/leftnode/ION-Cart or on my blog - http://leftnode.com/category/ioncart/I want to release the minimum viable product as soon as possible, which will be open source, or you can pay for it and get all future commercial releases for free. |
What are you working on? | Nycto: A PHP library built from the ground up for PHP 5.3:http://www.RoundEights.com |
Most applicable functional language to learn? | jacquesm: I'm planning to invest some serious time in Clojure this year because I think it is currently the 'best of breed' functional language when it comes to writing web applications (which is why I'm interested in it). |
What are you working on? | Mongoose: I'm working as an undergrad research assistant for a distributed systems ploject within UW's CSE department.https://seattle.cs.washington.edu/ |
What are you working on? | wooster: http://tweeteorites.com/ - builds timelines of what your friends are favoriting on Twitterhttp://amid.st/ - social placemarking app |
Most applicable functional language to learn? | hga: Scheme is great since it's so breathtakingly simple, but the static functional languages like Haskell have pushed FP far beyond basic Scheme (then again, you can roll your own whatever with Scheme, although if you like static typing that would be a pain (to add)).You should look at Clojure (http://clojure.org/), which pushes the FP aspect of Lisp hard, especially so that you can do interesting concurrency things. It's "secret sauce" is a data structure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_array_mapped_trie) that pretty neatly solves the trivial update problem (changes are O(n) where n is no greater than 32 and more likely 5-6).Upon this foundation of practical immutable data several methods for dealing with concurrency are provided, e.g. actor like "agents" (not actors since they share the same address space, but that's safe) and an MVCC STM.And of course it's a Lisp, which might be nice if you're tired of static typing and/or complex syntax (albeit more complex than earlier Lisps since vectors, hashes and sets are first class citizens and quite a bit of normal syntax uses vectors). The Clojure community is also nice, friendly and helpful, and doing interesting things like monads which have been adopted into the official contributed library. |
Most applicable functional language to learn? | yuan: Sounds like you'd enjoy "Practical Common Lisp":
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ |
Guitar tabs online | noname123: I know you guys probably won't reveal any proprietary information - but I'm so damn curious how this works. So I'm going to go out on a limb and try to guess how this works, and maybe extract some more specific information.1) Recognizing the musical notes. From here (http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~elec301/Projects02/realTime/301P...): "Fourier analysis allows us to decompose any such pressure function into a sum of
sinusoids. Therefore, any sound can be represented as a sum of sinusoids. If the sound has a pressure function that is aperiodic with respect to time, decomposition into sinusoids is quite complicated. However, if the sound is periodic with respect to time, it can be easily decomposed and transferred to the frequency domain using a computer and the Fast Fourier Transform." And since each note has a unique frequency/octave associated with it, it could be easily identified via a frequency to note database.2) Recognizing the time-measure of the song (i.e., whether the song is 4/4 or 3/5), since this is required to do straight-forward Fourier transform and also perhaps to mark chord changes. I'm guessing this is either done by simple analysis of any periodic and consistent rises in the sound frequency of the song. Or perhaps, this is done via the same Fourier transform analysis of the sound waves and mapping out where the peaks fall.3) Recognizing the chords; once you have figured out the notes and beat measure. The rest follows pretty easily, you have a chord database of all of the note-triads to chords and map out the chords accordingly. But the challenge there is, what if you have a rhythm guitar going at the same time while there's a solo? How do you map which notes to which guitar. Perhaps, the instruments are recorded onto different channels and you group on notes according on the degree to which they pan to the left, to the right, etc.4) Separating out the instruments from one another; Maybe grouping notes via panning is not enough. Perhaps, you need to do some timbre analysis to group the notes that sound like a guitar vs. notes that sound like a bass guitar. Since each instrument has a distinct harmonics and overtone. You guys have some type of classification algorithm that classifies what portion of the sound belongs to what timbre of the instrument.Any comments/response is appreciated. |
Most applicable functional language to learn? | fiaz: Erlang |
Guitar tabs online | transmit101: Here's an older HN link covering the same product: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=638053There's some further information as to how it's achieved in the comments, as well as link to the academic paper the product is based on. |
What are you working on? | mtrichardson: Just sold Bac'n ( http://blog.bacn.com/2010/01/bacn-acquired-by-baconfreak-com... ).Focusing 100% on Urban Airship ( http://urbanairship.com/ ) now, which is fantastic fun. |
What are you working on? | silentbicycle: I'm working on a distributed / fault tolerant network filesystem inspired by plan9's Venti. Several of its internals (code for chunking data with rolling hashes, a purely functional ADT for non-redundant storing of large strings, and a coroutining / non-blocking server framework for Lua, somewhat like Python's Twisted and Ruby's EventMachine) have been broken out into their own libraries. I'm almost done with the first two and am working on the third, but its design is being driven by the filesystem. They'll all be released at once when they're done, no time frame yet though. Probably MIT license.I've also been working an a utility to locate repeated groups of data (particularly geared towards scanning for likely copy-and-pasted code), but that's been put on the back burner due to the above project and lack of free time. |
Most applicable functional language to learn? | misterbwong: If you're a .NET guy by trade like myself, you might want to consider F#. |
Guitar tabs online | k0ban: We are overloaded. Queue right now is 8 - 12 hours. |
What are you working on? | blhack: http://www.gibsonandlily.comIt is a place for me to play with python :). |
What are you working on? | michael_nielsen: A book called "Reinventing Discovery", about how collective intelligence is transforming science. The manuscript is due to the publisher (Princeton University Press) in a couple of months. |
What are you working on? | whatusername: For fun? --> http://www.wotsummary.com a full summary of the Wheel of Time Series. (I'm working on a couple of design updates (and the summary for TGS) this week) |
What are you working on? | UncleOxidant: Writing a genetic programming system in OCaml to evolve minimal boolean logic circuits. |
What are you working on? | rabidgnat: http://www.vocabdojo.com : A website used to study vocabulary for the SATs, GREs, etc. I made a Django app to do this after I discovered that making 900+ flashcards is a huge pain in the neck, and then decided to turn it into something that everyone can use (after switching to Tornado, of course :D) |
What are you working on? | pavelludiq: Im thinking of building a few simple games using clojure. Im also building some simple tools to help me learn calculus and linear algebra. Man, university sucks, not enough time to hack, and they make you use C++ :D Still better than high school though. |
What are you working on? | jdrock: http://www.80legs.com - web-scale web-crawling for everyone. Launched in September and growing revenue now. We've solved a lot of big data store issues in our back-end. Challenges have shifted from technical to business :)Extractiv - web-listening and content-extraction that combines semantic analysis and web-scale reach for a complete picture of what information is on the web and what the web is discussing. The core technology is working, currently turning it into a real product. |
What are you working on? | ErrantX: Still tinkering with http://www.startupwiki.co.ukAnd on a server admin tool http://hg.errant.me.uk/eventscripts-xaCant find another "big" project to engage me :( Perhaps gonna have a go at reinvigorating my blogging platform project. |
What are you working on? | kungfooey: Working on an ultra-light mashup to help track books that I've read. It's my first Rails project, hosted on heroku, mashes up Amazon+Facebook Connect.http://readit.me/ |
What are you working on? | adw: http://timetric.com/We're building real-time data services. If you've got interesting data, we want to talk to you ASAP. andrew at timetric dot com.We're based in Clerkenwell, London. |
What are you working on? | fuelfive: http://frogmetrics.com/ - YC summer 2008.In my spare time, researching how to catalyze mass behavior change to improve society. |
What are you working on? | jreposa: Still working on http://www.MyBankTracker.com/ and loving it. Released our iPhone app a couple weeks ago, which runs on MongoDB. |
What are you working on? | RiderOfGiraffes: I seem to have invented a new datastructure, so I'm analysing it to check its performance before writing it up and announcing it. I've also invented a variant of an existing data structure that has some nice features. That will accompany it.In the meantime I'm starting a re-write of my alpha 0.1 web service to help connect people with friends and friends of friends. The existing one still exists, and I'm still collecting comments, so if you'd like to know more, drop me an email.And I've got a full time day job, and 8 talks/presentations in the next four weeks. |
What are you working on? | spokey: I'm starting to think my project seems mundane compared to some on this thread, but I'm bootstrapping a cycling reference site at http://brightspoke.com/. Our mission is to put more people on bikes by creating informed consumers.We're not quite ready for a "Rate my Statup" post, but you can be sure we'll have one. In fact, I've just been working on a milestone plan for 2010 and that's one of the milestones. |
What are you working on? | rubyrescue: http://www.buenacarta.com - Yelp for South America, in English and Spanish (ruby on rails, alpha quality, and running on a slow slicehost instance) |
What are you working on? | spencerfry: http://www.carbonmade.com - The easiest way to display and manage your portfolio online. |
Most applicable functional language to learn? | keefe: I'll just throw this out there because it's not in the mainstream, but Mathematica is well worth considering if you are still @ uni and can get it for cheap. The advantage is that mathematica is a very powerful language for doing "mathy" stuff and you can get some nice results very easily - for example, fractals. http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ |
What are you working on? | matthew-wegner: Off-Road Velociraptor Safari HD, an up-scaled version of our most popular game from Blurst.com. |
What are you working on? | thibaut_barrere: http://www.learnivore.com - (programming screencasts aggregator) is my main side project currently. I'm learning a lot (audience building, iphone web app programming) in the process of running it.This year I plan to bootstrap 2 or 3 similarly-sized sites with my wife (including one brick-and-mortar business with a site most likely), and work on a largish project for the pharmaceutical industry in association with one of my customers. |
Guitar tabs online | nsrivast: Can you figure out a way to port to guitar hero and keep things enjoyable? That would be excellent. |
What are you working on? | newy: http://www.optask.com - outsourcing (research and admin assistance) at the drop of an email. We're working to open up the world of task-based work, just helped some customers with file conversion and compiling a spreadsheet of apartments on the Upper East Side. Just linked up with our first socially-responsible BPO. Really sweet that we can create fair-paying digital work for folks around the world.Currently also interested in live video streaming (how will this space be impacted by the iSlate? Is there room to innovate beyond Justin?), mobile surveys, eBook readers (Kindle's way too expensive. I want a cheaper, more open product).Will be @ CES, let's link up if you're around. |
What are you working on? | samuraicatpizza: I'm working on a website with my Mom! - http://www.wordsonthefly.comThe aim of the site is to provide tools and tips for communication and writing. She's a veteran in marketing and publishing and I've been in the software field for a couple of years now so we decided to collaborate. The site's pretty basic at the moment, a blog and a tool for templating short pieces of writing, but I am looking forward to upgrading to a VPS and possibly producing some more interactive features. |
What are you working on? | lefstathiou: GroupieAn app that allows you to create join and manage social groups on the iPhone. Every group has a message board, live chat room, gps-enabled map and member directory.Thus far we have over 70 groups and 300 users. Many thanks to members of HN that helped make it possible. You know who you are.Url: www.groupie.mobi
Video: www.groupie.mobi/whatisgroupie
App Download: http://www.groupie.mobi/images/Apple_BTN.png |
What are you working on? | WalterGR: The Online Slang Dictionary - http://onlineslangdictionary.com |
What are you working on? | bliss: I'm working on my dream requirements management tool, it's basically just a big graph visualisation tool http://blissapp.wordpress.com/Back to the data warehousing day job tomorrow though, so lets hope that the development of Bliss doesn't slide another year...Also, trying to get my head around the ycombinator concept, wondering if the recursive magic that i've seen might be useful for fast graph traversals. |
What are you working on? | cdibona: I work at Google running open source compliance, code release, outreach and on public sector engineering management. Management, meaning, I don't code much anymore, although I added a totally trivial constant (1729, Hardy Ramanujan's number) to the calculator recently :-) |
What are you working on? | patrickmclaren: Developing an online platform for independent/unsigned musicians. Functioning as a radio/library, store and ticket application.Looks like some great projects on this page. |
What are you working on? | camccann: I'm working (slowly) on an interpreter for a minimal, non-strict, pure untyped lambda calculus. Bonus features include syntactic whitespace, some basic optimizations, simple tracing/debugging features, and support for "compiling" multiple source files into a single program.No, it's not supposed to be useful. |
What are you working on? | yellowbkpk: Trying to find ways to attract more US-based mappers to OpenStreetMap.First stop: support my buddy Lars' map rendering to get this beautiful map http://toposm.com/ma/ to cover the entire United States. Anyone out there have some spare CPU cycles and/or memory to donate for the next couple weeks? |
Most applicable functional language to learn? | gtani: Here's a micro reading list on FP(cut/pasted from another thread). The Cesarini/Thompson Erlang and Halloway clojure books are really excellent, tho it should be noted that clojure's a fast moving target and lots has happened in release 1.1 that promote new coding techniques.-- Cesarini/Thompson, Erlang ; Logan, Merritt, Carlsson, OTP in action-- Halloway, Clojure (supposedly, besides the Manning MEAP PDF book, another Manning and a Apress book are in preparation)-- Scala: (all 3 books out look pretty good, tho I haven't spent a lot of time digging in, and haven't decided if scala's language syntax is denser than clojure's; The Odersky/Spoon / Venners is the largest and not an easy book to get thru, but probably authoritative. The Payne/Wampler text freely available onlinehttp://programming-scala.labs.oreilly.com/-- haskell: Real World. content freely available online.http://book.realworldhaskell.org/ |
What are you working on? | barmstrong: http://www.UniversityTutor.com Online tutor directoryhttp://BuyersVote.com StackOverflow for product reviewshttp://FeedmailPro.com Email newsletters for your blogAnd my personal blog, http://www.StartBreakingFree.comYes, I have too many projects :) |
What are you working on? | YuriNiyazov: http://www.playfirstlife.com
http://www.badvideojoke.com |
What are you working on? | thesystemis: I just finished editing documentation of this outdoor projection / interaction project we did in new zealand:http://vimeo.com/8525186I'm working on an open source eye tracker:http://eyewriter.organd a c++ toolkit for creative coding:http://openframeworks.cc |
What are you working on? | intellectronica: https://launchpad.net/ |
What are you working on? | csytan: http://www.caterpi.com -- Crowdsourcing freelance translation |
Great books you read in 2009? | ALee: I made a google spreadsheet for those who didn't want to sort through the list:http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tmL5TmhKKDQahw1tPQcrk... |
What lead developers look for | hga: Speaking from harsh experience, if you're not starting out with any lead developers (in most startups I've been in one is included, even if you're going to outsource, because otherwise how can you judge the quality of that outsourced work?), you really need to concentrate on finding two unless you can find the relatively rare type who's willing to sign on by himself.Most people are a lot more productive if they have someone to work with, to bounce ideas off of, get reality checks, etc.I suppose one aspect to emphasize is finding initial people who others will want to work with. You're building a team here, and you need to focus on the special aspects of that in this field. Run---do not walk---and buy a copy of Peopleware by Demarco and Lister (buy it directly from them if not particularly available otherwise). Be sure to read the bits on teamicide, although of course that's merely things to not do.Probably my bottom line is: find someone you absolutely trust. He's going to tell you "we need to do X, which will cost Y" and you're not going the like the Y. But if you've picked the right person, you'll need to bite the Y bullet anyway. Otherwise your future will be filled will pain and attracting and keeping good people will be hard to impossible. (Many examples upon request.)Good luck! |
Intro to SharePoint/SharePoint Designer books | ScottWhigham: I'll do a self-plug here - we have SharePoint 2007 admin training online @ http://www.learnitfirst.com/Course/225/SharePoint-2007.aspx. We have a relatively smaller number of user-based videos though so it may not be what you need. Hit me offline and I can give you a free subscription for one user. |
What lead developers look for | adatta02: There is no contact info in your profile - shoot me an email. I might have an idea for you. |
What was that programming language based on creating new grammar rules? | Zev: Prolog? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1023192 was recently posted. You create relations between terms with clauses and query them to create programs in Prolog.Though, I'd be (happily) surprised if Alain Colmerauer read HN. |
Office share in SOMA? | ciscoriordan: Interesting that this comes up the same day as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1032394.Recessions are bad for big companies and good for agile startups. |
Recommendation for book related to ethics and hacking/computers? | tjpick: Stallman biography? |
Recommendation for book related to ethics and hacking/computers? | wmf: The Hacker Crackdown? |
Recommendation for book related to ethics and hacking/computers? | jacquesm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_%28book%29 |
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