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Does your lawyer attend your Board meetings? | jacquesm: I find that having people present that are not in any capacity directly involved with the day-to-day goings on tends to drag meetings out. I prefer to have them short and sweet, it's hard enough to have a meeting with more than 3 people present having a person there asking questions without the required background. People will start weighing their words in the presence of a lawyer.When I need a lawyer I'll select one specifically based on their track record in that particular field.Even if he's doing it 'for free' if there is legal work to flow out from that (and everybody will defer to the lawyer because of his great expertise) then you'll end up paying for it anyway. Smart marketing on their part.You need a lawyer when:- you're incorporating- you make a major move (investment, layoffs, policy changes, exits, buyouts)- when suing or being suedOutside of that they're like a 5th wheel on a car.Also, when I go to see a lawyer I make sure that I'm completely prepared, have a basic brief + all supporting documents. This will help a lot in keeping their hours down (and it really adds up, a simple out-of-court settlement will still cost you between 5 and 10 thousand bucks, going to court can easily go in to the 10's of thousands, especially when there are appeals). |
What languages used to write computer languages? | fadmmatt: For implementing languages, I highly recommend Scheme, Haskell and Scala.These languages are hell-on-wheels for tearing apart and transforming syntax trees.I teach a compilers class, and I encourage my students to use a mixture of Scala and Scheme. If you're thinking about implementing a language, you might want to look at some of the blog posts I wrote for my students:* A Scheme interpreter in Scala: http://matt.might.net/articles/denotational-interpreter-for-...* A meta-circular Scheme interpreter: http://matt.might.net/articles/metacircular-evaluation-and-f...* Compiling Scheme to C: http://matt.might.net/articles/compiling-scheme-to-c/* Compiling Scheme to Java: http://matt.might.net/articles/compiling-to-java/* Architectures for interpreters: http://matt.might.net/articles/writing-an-interpreter-substi... |
What languages used to write computer languages? | arebop: GHC, the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, is implemented in Haskell. |
What languages used to write computer languages? | hga: PreScheme has been used in some Scheme implementations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PreSchemeI've been looking into Lisp language implementation recently and it seems to have been somewhat influential, I've seen several references to "this is like PreScheme", most recently in Cola which jcdreads brought to our attention. |
What languages used to write computer languages? | stan_rogers: It would have been difficult to have written APL in C originally, what with the lack of time machines and all (APL was created in '57 as an abstract notational concept and first implemented in '64 and released in '65; C was created in '72). The interpreter was probably written in S/360 assembler -- just a guess based on the fact that similar but simpler list/vector operations implemented 15 years later in the Lotus Notes macro (formula) language required write-only C wizardry on a truly heroic scope. Somehow I don't see anyone doing it in FORTRAN or COBOL without periodic psychiatric intervention. |
What languages used to write computer languages? | JadeNB: A related question was explored on LtU recently: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3754. |
What languages used to write computer languages? | cabalamat: I'm implementing a language of my own design in Python right now. I chose Python because I'm familiar with it and I can piggyback on Python's strings, hash tables, and garbage collection. |
Are we too lenient on Google and Apple? | eplanit: Back in the 1990s, I remember a phrase that circulated. It's memorable because at the time it rang so incredibly true. It was a remark about how the market and industry regarded the Titan Microsoft, and went: "Whenever Bill Gates throws a dart at a wall, everyone races to the wall to paint a target around that dart". Yes, M$ had gained such stature, and Bill such celebrity, that many a blind eye was turned toward their technology, marketing practices, and other less-than-wonderful aspects.Today, Google (peer'd by Apple) is the new Microsoft (IBM is the new General Motors, but that's a different topic). And yes, everyone again seems to be racing to draw targets around the arrows they've shot.It's not amazing (though bitterly disappointing) to see consumers accept limits from vendors: changes in rules of 'ownership', accepting lock-in with cell carriers, etc....but it _is_ amazing to me how developers accept (and even embrace) Apple's re-definition of software development and platform control. Maybe it's a generational thing -- but, a _vendor_ decides if you get to write/sell software?!!? |
What languages used to write computer languages? | jrockway: You are forgetting the self-hosting language implementations, all of which are quite speedy:* SBCL: SBCL* GHC: GHC* PyPy: PythonThere are a lot of languages written in C because when those languages were written, that's all there was.Language implementations can be faster than the language they are written in because that language is not used for the codegen. LLVM's C with JIT is "faster than C", for example. |
What languages used to write computer languages? | petercooper: Java's mentioned a few times in this list, but what's Java written in..? Well.. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/410320/what-is-java-writt... |
What languages used to write computer languages? | aidenn0: I'm used to compilers that are self-hosting. More recently there have been a swath that were written in C or C++, but this is mainly because to work on *nix, you will need to call out to a C library at some point, and writing it in C make implementing the FFI fairly trivial. |
What languages used to write computer languages? | joe_the_user: A lot of languages weren't written in pure c but involved a combination of c (or java) and a parser-generator like Yacc or Bison.The process of implementing a language isn't really about breaking out an editor and a compiler and coding. Rather, language implementing about specifying a virtual machine, a grammar and various other meta-programming constructs. Thus "written in c" can a deceptive description.Even a recursive-descent parser involves a process of transforming a syntax specification into a series of recursive function calls. |
What languages used to write computer languages? | tsally: Can't believe OMeta hasn't been mentioned yet: http://tinlizzie.org/ometa/. It's definitely the wrong choice for performance, but if you are experimenting with language implementation I don't think you can do much better.OMeta's general-purpose pattern matching facilities provide a natural and convenient way for programmers to implement tokenizers, parsers, visitors, and tree transformers, all of which can be extended in interesting ways using familiar object-oriented mechanisms.Here's a document detailing an OMeta program that translates textual representations of abstract syntax trees into assembly for the Intel 386: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2009011_chns_mng.pdf. In plain language, you've got is a mini Lisp like language that you can extend in an object orientated way. |
What languages used to write computer languages? | baguasquirrel: I remember at my last full-time job how we'd look at the python source whenever we couldn't figure out what the expected behavior ought to be (yay for python documentation... =P). Seeing this list, it makes one wonder about all those "Java schools" that don't teach C anymore. |
What languages used to write computer languages? | gnosis: OCaml. See:One-Day Compilers or How I learned to stop worrying and love metaprogramminghttp://www.venge.net/graydon/talks/mkc/html/mgp00001.html |
What languages used to write computer languages? | xtho: For describing a language, I'd use English if you want to reach an international audience.I don't think a language can claim to be faster than C. But a specific interpreter/compiler can claim to be faster than a specific C compiler. |
Does your lawyer attend your Board meetings? | erickherring: At my last startup, our counsel was also the corporate secretary. It worked out well and let us get all board-related legal work done for a set fee. |
What languages used to write computer languages? | Locke1689: Scheme is often used in prototype interpreters. I just wrote a very simple language grammar in Haskell, so I guess really "anything" can be an answer.If you're asking about compilers , then it tends to be C (although LLVM is coming along nicely). |
Does your lawyer attend your Board meetings? | vicaya: This is a common practice for corporations, where you need to keep the meeting minutes as part of legal requirements of being a corp (c or s). You (as a Secretary of the corporation) can do it yourself or you can let them do it for you for free. Most people would choose latter. |
Are we too lenient on Google and Apple? | Semiapies: Weird: I see a lot of complaining about - and outright accusations toward - Google on HN. Every ad-scammer's complaint about Google not directing half the internet to look at eir site (much less booting them off of AdSense) gets taken remarkably seriously and sympathetically here. Every conspiracy theory gets lot of attention. |
What languages used to write computer languages? | ThinkWriteMute: Ruby is in C, C++, Ruby, and Objective-C. |
What languages used to write computer languages? | rick_2047: I think Smalltalk was self compiling? |
Any reason dead links can still be flagged? | jacquesm: Not too many people look at the site with 'showdead' on and I would hope that the flag link even when clicked would not lead to someone having to look at the item again.It is an imperfection though, but by far not the largest.My favorite gripe is that when your vote won't be counted you can still vote. |
Which tools you use to develop your webapp? | vorador: Emacs and firebug. |
Is there a A/B- or multivariate testing solution for Google Adwords ads? | terrellm: If you create multiple ads, Adwords will rotate the ads. You can choose which ad is most effective based on click thru % or even better conversion rate if you have conversion tracking setup.Also, make sure you set "Ad rotation" to "Rotate: Show ads more evenly" under the campaign's settings so that your ads are shown evenly. |
Which tools you use to develop your webapp? | billturner: Textmate, Firebug, Chrome & Safari's web inspector, Sequel Pro (for MySQL), Gitx, github.com, and Terminal. |
Which tools you use to develop your webapp? | csuper: Currently while developing a Rails app I'm using Notepad++ on my provided XP machine. And normally Pico when SSH'd in, making quick updates. |
Clojure best practice for web applications? | sunkencity: Use compojure and clojure commons. You might want to use leiningen too. It is definately worth really checking out the clojure commons thoroughly before you start looking for other software packages, you'll have something to judge them against. For my own purpouses I've found the database bindings in commons good enough, and there's tons of cool stuf in commons that I would like to play with. |
Clojure best practice for web applications? | Rantenki: Two hours old (albeit on a Sunday), and the only thing in this post is the sound of crickets chirping.I have been learning Clojure, and the lack of responses is a bit of a surprise.Perhaps #clojure on freenode will get more responses? |
Clojure best practice for web applications? | tcrayford: Compojure is a good bet for clojure web applications.To get you started, have a look at the source for clojars and briancarpers cow-blog.http://github.com/ato/clojars-web
http://github.com/briancarper/cow-blogBrian Carper has a load of information about using compojure on his site (http://briancarper.net). In particular interest are:compojure to the rescue: http://briancarper.net/blog/clojure-and-compojure-to-the-res...deploying clojure sites
http://briancarper.net/blog/deploying-clojure-websites |
Clojure best practice for web applications? | Quiark: I wrote a website on Google App Engine using Clojure. I used compojure and some Java library for OpenID. My database was (naturally) Google Datastore for which I had a custom wrapper based on http://github.com/duelinmarkers/appengine-clj/tree/master. I'm not giving the link, because it's all in Czech, so it would be no use for you :)It was a nice experience, functional programming fits well to website programming (the response is a function of the request and data in the database).For debugging/development purposes I strongy recommend to reload the code on each request using load-file. Restarting the server every time a change is made is unbearable. |
Why didn't Ubuntu come up with the AppStore? | lsc: what is the key difference, for you, between a repository accessible with a tool like aptitude, apt or yum, and the apple appstore? just commercial apps? Because there are other reasons why commercial apps on Linux is a fairly small market. |
Desktop + Laptop, or just Laptop? | lsc: if you work for long hours on a laptop without an external monitor and keyboard, you are asking for ergonomic trouble.But buying an external keyboard and monitor, and making sure both are an appropriate height solves that problem.To answer your question, I personally prefer a separate desktop system. It's marginally faster to set up, and more importantly, it means that I've got a backup when my laptop is out of commission. |
Desktop + Laptop, or just Laptop? | chipsy: I've been working with three different laptops for the last few months, and my conclusion is that it really depends on what you're doing. If you have a lot of license keys to juggle or finicky software that wants a very specific install environment, it's just plain easier to use one computer. And if you have tons of media sitting on Dropbox, it can take ages to do the initial sync after a reinstall, even if you're only using the 2GB free account. And my EEE 900's flash drive doesn't play well with Dropbox and turns the whole desktop into a nightmarish stop-start experience...so it's been relegated to being almost purely a web machine.But apart from those things, my cross-computer experience has been pretty good. |
Clojure best practice for web applications? | jacquesm: thank you all! More reading to do :) |
Why didn't Ubuntu come up with the AppStore? | ZeroGravitas: Lindows had this and later on they offered it for Ubuntu. It was called click'n'run.Looks like it still exists in some form at http://www.cnr.com |
Why didn't Ubuntu come up with the AppStore? | j_lagof: I think the main reason is that Linux users are most likely not willing to pay for something like that, while Mac users are used to pay for everything.. |
Should one buy the N1 ? | francoisdevlin: I originally read the title as "Should someone by H1N1". Oops. |
Should one buy the N1 ? | there: i've had every iphone, the google adp1 (g1), mytouch 3g, nexus one, nokia e71, blackberry curve, blackberry bold, blah blah blah. i hate all of them. i use whichever one i hate the least, until a new one comes out. i try it, find things that bother me, sell it, and repeat.my only advice is to try the phones yourself (preferably without having to buy them) and see how you like each one. go to a store, find a friend with one, whatever. but try them yourself without having someone standing there trying to "sell" it to you (literally or just trying to get you to get what they have).these modern smartphones are so complex and powerful that asking for someone's opinion is like asking "what kind of car should i buy?" there are things you may like about a particular phone that others hate. there are things that will matter more to you than to others. you may require some functionality that someone else doesn't, and vice versa. |
Should one buy the N1 ? | kbob: Does T-Mobile provide good service where you live, work, drive, and play? If not, don't get a Nexus One. (assuming you're in the US.)Android vs. iPhone is a religious debate, and it's unlikely you'll receive enlightenment from flames. Android 2.X (N1, Droid) is a big improvement over Android 1.X (everything else). |
Should one buy the N1 ? | andrewljohnson: The N1 is going to be crappy, just like the original iPhone was crappy. If you want to support the Droid movement, buy the Nexus. If you are willing to wait a while for your phone not to suck, buy the Nexus. If you are blown away by speech to text, buy the Nexus.If you want the best current smartphone (and AT&T works in your area), buy an iPhone. |
Should one buy the N1 ? | nostrademons: I've been using it since mid-December and really like it. It's sleek, it's fun, and it has some nifty features. I love the voice recognition, I love that they fixed the Webkit bug that prevented me from browsing HN while logged in, and I like that "unlock screen" is now a slide-right gesture instead of a button, which virtually eliminates pocket-calls and embarassing MP3 plays.Battery life could probably be better - it seems to be about on par with the G1, maybe a little better. I get about 4-5 hours of heavy game playing or navigation/GPS use, 2-3ish days on standby. |
Should one buy the N1 ? | sandofsky: I've had my Nexus One for four days now.The hardware itself is outstanding. The screen is gorgeous, I like the haptic feedback, and there are lots of nice touches like the trackball that lights up.The software has a few great points too. The voice recognition is incredible. I like having the choice to run background apps.This is also my first Android phone. After hearing early complaints about the OS, I thought I'd put it off until it's fully baked. The fact 2.1 was touted as a great OS update gave me the feeling it's time to try it out.Well, I can say there are a lot of annoyances that are piling up.Scrolling, especially flick scrolling, is inferior to iPhone 1.0. It's jerky and fickle.The onscreen keyboard feel less accurate. I don't mean the predictive typing, I mean the prediction of what keys I'm trying to hit.Navigating text fields is bad. When the voice recognition gets one word wrong, it's a pain to go back and fix it.No multitouch. This is a pain in maps or zooming in on a web page. I know there are patent concerns, but as an end user, I don't care.In general, I feel like the OS is half done. Someone cranked out a feature and performed zero refinement. I have to load a submenu to stop loading a web page? I would sacrifice wizz-bang features like voice recognition to fix all these little annoyances.I'm going to give the phone a few more days. If I still haven't adjusted, I'm selling it. |
Should one buy the N1 ? | Tichy: Are you asking if you need mobile internet?Would be interested in answers to that, too. I haven't joined the fun yet, but I wonder if there really is anything life changing about it (yet)? |
Should one buy the N1 ? | GavinB: I don't think you can go wrong with any of these three, but I went with the Droid. Reasons:- Better screen than iPhone- Physical keyboard- Verizon service (I guess this doesn't apply as you aren't in the US)There's no question that the iPhone OS is slicker and easier to use, but the Droid lets you do more at once.I'm not sure why you'd want to go with a Nexus One right now. Droid is about the same price, gets better network coverage (clearly that will change when the Verizon N1 comes out), and has a keyboard.My only real complaint with the droid is that I wish the microphone was a little better. It's possible that the Nexus One has that advantage with their two-mic noise control system.Edit: iPhone's biggest advantage imo is the app store. Android Market just isn't there yet. |
Should one buy the N1 ? | crux_: I moved from a crappy old phone to the Droid, and am quite happy with it.No matter what you end up with, I'd say that the differences by upgrading far outweigh which particular 'cutting edge' phone you end up going with.I didn't think much about the transition -- just aiming to phone and portable web browser. In less than a month, though, it turns out I've got:- a suprisingly decent point-and-shoot camera, as long as it's not dark- a hiking/biking/skiing GPS- a car-nav GPS- a guitar tuner- barcode scanner & product nutrition database- portable music/video library- and more! ;)Really, it's a general purpose computer that happens to be bristling with both sensors and telephony capabilities, and an almost always-on connection to the internet. Regardless of whether it's 95% as slick as it could be and more 'open' (Android) or 98% slickness level and less 'open' (iPhone), they're still pretty much equally revolutionary.(N.b. as a developer it was very nice to be able to write software for my phone from day one, without having to jump through a ton of hoops.)(Edit for bullet points.) |
How important is university ranking to CS PhD graduate opportunities? | cperciva: In other words, would a Stanford (1st) or MIT (1st) grad be selected over a Northeastern (61st) or George Mason (65th) grad based on university affiliation alone?Based on university affiliation alone? Probably not.But university affiliation opens a lot of doors for PhD students. When I was doing my doctorate I found that I was much more successful in getting people to reply to my questions about their research when I started emails with "Hi, I'm a doctoral student at Oxford University...".Similarly, if you're at a major institution, you're more likely to make useful contacts, both in terms of local faculty members and visitors. I doubt I'd have my research cited in TAOCP if I hadn't met Knuth -- and if I had been at the Polytechnic of East Anglia, I probably wouldn't have had the opportunity to meet him.Overall, though, I'd say that you're probably approaching this the wrong way. Most students are better advised to look for a supervisor first, not to find an institution and then look for a supervisor later. |
Should one buy the N1 ? | csomar: What do you want to do with your phone? This is the important question. If you are just using it to call people, send messages, browse the net... so you don't need an expensive one.Precise what you need and then decide each one to choose |
Should one buy the N1 ? | whalesalad: I've had a Nexus One for a few days now as well (ordered on launch day) and I can say that it's a fantastic device. The aura of excitement I had with the experience on my first day owning it was akin to the one I had after coming out of the IMAX 3D theater after seeing Avatar. It's just cool. Let me elaborate.I'm a Mac nerd. I hack on my mac, I worked at an Apple store for a couple of months for fun, and I really believe that they have their shit together and produce magnificent products. I never owned an original iPhone, but had a 3G the day they were released (see a pattern, like many of you I am a gadget freak).I eventually just got bored with it. It's a great device, but like I said I'm a gadget freak so I needed a new fix. Android was an attractive platform because of it's tight integration with Google (I'm an apps user), and T-Mobile offered much cheaper plans. My girlfriend is also on T-Mo, so the path was clear. I bought my first Android device in October of 09, a T-Mobile MyTouch 3G. It took a lot of getting used to. I figured that since the iPhone was the gold standard for smart phones, a lot of the Android experience would be a copy and therefore I'd learn it quickly. Sort of... but no. Unlike the iPhone, there are many devices running Android and most of them have a lot more external buttons. The UI depends on it. The back button for example, and the menu button, are critical on Android. Being a UI guy I learned things quickly, and after hacking and tweaking the phone with Cyanogen's mod, I came to like it. I missed my iPhone though, and longed for a better android experience; especially after the Droid came out, running Android 2.0. Unfortunately I had unlocked my iPhone and given it to my girlfriend, so I wasn't about to take it back.Enter Nexus One. I had known about the physical device for a long time. Most people referred to it in the HTC community as the Passion. I was pretty damn excited when the Nexus materials started to leak. The device was gorgeous, and the specs were fantastic. I quickly sold my MyTouch on Ebay and bought the Nexus as soon as I could.Best $530 I have ever spent, by far. The new OS is an amazing improvement on the old. The experience has almost done a 180. Everything is smoother and quicker. Things are more convenient and not as convoluted as they once were. I'm sure the 512MB of ram and 1GHz processor have a great deal to do with that, but I'm not complaining. The hardware is gorgeous too. It feels great in your hand (much like an iPhone) and like many say the screen is beautiful.I've never owned a Droid but I've played around with one. I don't like the hardware keyboard and the device is slow. It doesn't have the OS that the Nexus has (2.0 compared to 2.1) and there's a big difference. The snapdragon processor is amazing. This thing screams compared to a Droid! Unfortunately... if you're on Verizon you have to wait a while for the CMDA version... but it's worth it! The Droid was a great effort, but it's not as nice as the Nexus.tl;dr - I went from iPhone to Android (with a MyTouch 3G) and was unimpressed. I'm a UI guy so I'm real picky. I just got myself a Nexus One, and I'm finally able to say that the Android experience is on equal playing field with the iPhone. No other Android device can say that, except the Nexus One. |
Review my new learning website: Crunch Course | imp: Clickable: http://www.crunchcourse.com/http://www.crunchcourse.com/class/structure-and-interpretati... |
Should one buy the N1 ? | greyman: I would recommend neither of the three phones mentioned, but HTC HD2...in my subjective opinion, having the 4.3" screen, with other things being similar, could make it a best option. If you are from USA, I suggest you wait for it. |
Where to go to find good Django devs? | tomh-: http://djangogigs.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=50788 |
Desktop + Laptop, or just Laptop? | savant: As has been pointed out, a single machine works best. You'll have trouble synchronizing software and data between the machines at times, and you'll occasionally forget that crucial file for a presentation or meeting on your desktop. If you really need a desktop, get a second monitor, a nice mouse/keyboard combination, and a docking station if you think that is appropriate.PS.
Stop messing around and get a Macbook. Unless you need the enterprise warranty provided by Lenovo, you really have no reason other than "it's what I am familiar with" to stick with a Windows machine. |
Where to go to find good Django devs? | mgrouchy: If you are looking to oursource, these guys do django as well http://itteco.com/ |
Review my new learning website: Crunch Course | wgj: Anything "Crunch____" for a website might put you in a trademark dispute. Or it might not. |
Review my new learning website: Crunch Course | czcar: One of the first things I would think about is charging.I am sure there is a definition for it - but the act of paying some money - whether it is incentivised by returning a percentage of the money dependent on commitment/progress etc, or is taken as a running cost, has the effect of increasing dedication/loyalty and filtering out the people who like the idea of learning it but aren't willing to actually learn (or so i hypothesize...)If you haven't - have a look at Clayton Christensen's "Disrupting Class", "The Online Learning Idea Book" - Patti Shank and "New Designs for Early Education" - by IDEO (its aimed at early childhood but some of the ideas revolving around increasing user involvement are really interesting). They delve into some extremely interesting ideas, not all relevant but theres some gold in them.And I have not done nearly enough research into it, but I believe an understanding of Game Mechanics and how effective Social Interactions work on web would probably paramount to the effectiveness of this web app (theres a tonne of this info out there - think zynga/gowalla for learning).Just my 2cents |
Should one buy the N1 ? | jsz0: I have both an Android handset and an iPhone 3G. Both are good enough for e-mail, browsing, texting, calendar and all the fundamental stuff you'd expect from a modern SmartPhone. So whatever choice you make I don't think you'll be disappointed.My personal preference is still the iPhone for a variety of reasons. The biggest one is the UI is entirely touchscreen driven. Android phones have 4 or more physical buttons so as you're using the phone you have to switch between the touchscreen and buttons. It may not seem like a big deal but I find it makes most applications less obvious to use since they don't have to represent all their features on the touchscreen where my attention is focused. Sometimes I have to remind myself there are 6 buttons on my Android phone and explore what each one does in each different application. Lots of functionality is revealed when you use the Menu button so I frequently have to stop using the touchscreen, hit the menu button, and go back to using the touchscreen again. It's not hard to find and press the menu button, it's right there, but it interrupts the flow of what I'm doing and I don't like that. |
How and when to do referral marketing for your startup? | DarrenMills: I don't have any sources to cite, but with my graphic design business I give discounts or cash for referrals. Although just telling people doesn't really seem to do the trick. Instead, get them something in their hand that reminds them about it. I like to use something that is akin to a coupon, but really well designed and on heavy card stock. Perhaps even embossed or foil stamped... all depends on what your marketing dollar looks like.Probably not the end-all solution you're looking for, but a small hint from my experience.Goodluck! |
Review my new learning website: Crunch Course | wisty: I was planning on doing something similar (but go waylaid). Have you considered Amazon affiliate links? |
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trustful VPN proxy provider? | keefe: one possible avenue for your search would be for offshore servers rather than specific proxies - apache and mod_proxy may be sufficient depending on your particular needs. I think the challenge is to find some place that offers proxy services that china has not already blocked... |
trustful VPN proxy provider? | there: rent a linux or bsd-based virtual machine at any web hosting company and install openvpn on it. |
The Widget Economy Discussion | smcnally: tough to quantify answers without more data. if we're talking an iphone app,it's simpler to answer 1) once we know the expense to build it and the per-download charge.@ 2), I actively use a dozen apps; 3 are paid for. 3) not sure; 4) where the need can be best met with what you've built. |
The Widget Economy Discussion | patio11: You seem to be very interested in grouping software by distinctions which do not matter to your users. I would suggest not grouping software by distinctions which do not matter for your users.Your users do not have a point at which their demand for software is saturated, any more than they have a point at which their demand for products is saturated. Your software solves a need or a want for them. Needs or wants are essentially infinite. (We live lives of ridiculous abundance compared to 99.999% of all humans who ever lived, and yet we still don't have enough. Whether that is just a statement of fact or indictment of consumerist society is up to you.)Nobody looking for bingo cards for mom's birthday party says "Hold on, wait a minute -- do I need a widget for this, or a suite?" Nor does playing the software taxonomy game help me sell a single copy to any customer anywhere.As to the question of how many paying customers you need to make a go of things, that question actually matters, but forget about the impact of widgets. I'm going full time with about 1,000 sales a year, which puts me more than ramen profitable at my price point ($30) and cost structure. That is not a one-size-fits-all answer: if you have multiple founders to support, have a wife and kids in San Fransisco, etc, you might need more. If on the other hand, you're billing customers $20 a month, you need rather less. |
The Widget Economy Discussion | roundsquare: I think you need to distinguish between active and passive widgets.E.g. An app that lets you find good coffee is an active widget. An app that blocks SMSs from people you don't like is passive.People can probably deal with many more passive widgets than active ones. |
Should one buy the N1 ? | jonny_noog: Well I had you beat in terms of crappy old phone ownership. I just upgraded from my good old Sony Ericsson w800i (had it for ~3 years) to an iPhone 3GS. I thought long and hard about this move, I've seriously pondering upgrading my phone for about 3 - 4 months now. I finally went with an iPhone mainly for two reasons:1. I bought myself a Mac desktop last year and I love it. I felt the iPhone would compliment nicely.2. They've had a couple of iterations to sort out the kinks in the iPhone now and IMHO it shows.The 3GS feels very polished to me and I don't regret my decision. I've only had my iPhone for about 10 days and I already have Google Sync set up for email/calendar syncing, I've used it as a Skype VoIP handset (in conjunction with my home Wi-Fi), I've got games on my phone that are actually worth playing, mobile Internet access that's actually practical to use and I've got an awesome remote for use with the VLC media player.I've even made a few phone calls.I really thought about getting one of the slightly less mainstream phones that might give me more "geek cred" or something. But in the end, I just want as good a user experience as possible and I felt I would get that from the iPhone. YMMV.Granted, upgrading from a SE w800i I probably would be more than happy with any of the current generation of phones and I can't directly comment on the N1. But all my research led me to the conclusion that if you're looking for polished, go with the iPhone. If you're wanting a little more bleeding edge and experimental, go for one of the other options. |
trustful VPN proxy provider? | oomkiller: Just set one up yourself, you can get a rackspace cloud 256MB instance for 12 bucks a month, that should handle you for a while. You can always upgrade if you need to scale. |
Review my new learning website: Crunch Course | roundsquare: Neat idea. I've been meaning to learn economics, maybe I'll use this. |
Review my new learning website: Crunch Course | roundsquare: One thought I just thought about. You say you should "self grade" your homework. It makes sense, but this means someone needs an answer key.What if I decide to use a textbook to structure my class. E.g. each week we go through a chapter and do the exercises. We may not have the answers. Is there any way to add some "social" grading? I realize this may be tough with trick/tough questions in textbooks, but still, I think requiring an answer key will make this tough. |
Who is the best Freelance Rails Developer you know? | thegoleffect: http://seanhussey.com/ |
If i'm meeting someone at a cafe, what should I order | rudin: If we take this as a question about how to interact with people in a cafe environment and not a banal question about the best kind of coffee then just order what you want. I once had a meeting with a boss who ordered a milkshake while wearing a suit. |
Producing a physical product (3D printing?) | jacquesm: hey there Whalesalad,3D printing is a process that is best used to create prototypes, the kind of thing you are looking for would typically be made with injection moulding.That's a fairly expensive process though, under 10,000 units it isn't feasible.A midway is to use epoxy-resin based casting, you make a rubber mould which you can re-use a few thousand times, and you cast your units one-by-one.The mould eventually wears though, usually because of imperfect releases (for instance when the mould wasn't properly coated with release agent).How you make your blank is not critical, anything goes, it is the negative mould made from the blank (or 'plug' in the jargon) that you will do majority of the work with.If you lose it you can always make another one.Beware of playing with this stuff, these are dangerous chemicals and plenty of the reactions are exothermal and can go runaway on you with little to no warning. Never mix more than you will use and use a very well ventilated workspace.Keep your stock containers away from the place where your casting set so that if stuff goes out of control you don't have an extra fire hazard.Enjoy, you'll learn plenty, and please let me know if you use any of this.greetings,Jacques |
Producing a physical product (3D printing?) | niyazpk: Check out this video from CES: http://www.wired.com/video/open-source-3d-printer-turns-desi... |
Producing a physical product (3D printing?) | jamii: It looks like your design can be made from flat pieces of material slotted together. If this is the case laser cutting is ideal for this kind of production scale. Most big cities will have laser cutters you can rent time on. You can also upload a design to sites like www.ponoko.com which handle manufacturing and distribution and give you a portion of each sale. |
Desktop + Laptop, or just Laptop? | amatheus: I have a desktop and a notebook. I put my personal projects on Dropbox, plus some other things, use imap with Mail, rss with NetNewswire, so everything syncs and it works really well - I get the mobility when I need but use the desktop at home (I don't think I could stand using a notebook at home).
I think you could have problems if you use applications you can't sync between the too, or projects with really large files that are hard to sync.
My only gripe with my setup is browsing; I'm working (well, sort of, when I have time) at some utility to save snapshots of my tabs and send them between the computers, so I can close the notebook with tabs open and get the same tabs on the desktop. |
Free DNS hosting? | chaosmachine: http://www.dollardns.net/Despite the name, it's actually free. I use it for a bunch of my projects.There's also http://www.zoneedit.com/ .. But I haven't tried them. |
Kindle or Nook? | semmons: I would pick the Kindle. It hits all four of your points and will have the greatest battery life, especially if you don't use the wireless connectivity. |
Kindle or Nook? | bjgger: I use my Kindle DX (best for PDFs) outside the US all the time. The new DX will also have international access (which can be disbaled). Plug it into a USB, and drag and drop your files. |
Kindle or Nook? | kgopal: Assuming I did want all those features (wifi, access to web, physical keyboard and wide selection at the bookstore) would it change to the nook? |
Kindle or Nook? | vinodlive: I have a Kindle 2. Though I like everything about it, it has the following issues:-1) In India, free internet on Kindle does not work. But Wikipedia do work.2) All the Magazine, Blog subscriptions will be stripped off the Graphics. Amazon is 'Saving' on the bandwidth costs they pay to the country specific Mobile Operators! |
Free DNS hosting? | chanux: Why DyDNS buying EveryDNS is a problem for you to use EveryDNS? (I too have a domain hosted on EveryDNS and like to know) |
Kindle or Nook? | jpulakka: How about Sony PRS-600? I'm in the same situation as you (thinking about buying an ebook reader in a non-US country), and the Sony seems to be one of the few valid alternatives to Kindle. It doesn't have that ugly keyboard and unnecessary wifi/3g connections. Regardless, with Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/) even blog reading should be possible. |
Kindle or Nook? | jtyost2: I would say also try to play with both of them at some point. The Nook can be played with in most stores - and playing with it sold me on the Kindle.The Nook was quite slow in switching pages, extremely difficult to scroll down, and the goofy color/touch screen at the bottom was more of a nuisance than anything else. |
Free DNS hosting? | newy: Afraid.org - freedns. |
Kindle or Nook? | crocowhile: If you want one to be used mainly for PDF you need to go for a larger screen, so neither the small kindle nor the nook. I think price tag starts at about 500 and non of them has internet access or keyboard anyway. |
Kindle or Nook? | jlk: Skiff. |
Kindle or Nook? | jlk: Can you wait for the Skiff? Looks pretty amazing. And bendy. |
Kindle or Nook? | rufius: I like (and own) the Kindle 2, I don't like the Nook. Its thicker and heavier. It felt like it might fatigue your wrist after reading a while.Skiff looks cool, but I'm a fairly loyal Amazon customer at this point :). |
Kindle or Nook? | gordyt: I would go with the Kindle as well. I've used both and the Nook seems much slower when doing things that you do a lot with an e-book reader, like turning pages. |
Ask HN:How to automatically fill in craigslist post form from another website? | blasdel: The least assholish method would be to src the Craigslist posting page in an <iframe>, and pre-fill the form via javascript from the containing page. |
Resources for Mentoring a Coder? | Travis: I found this today and am going to take the course as a refresher. It's a crunchcourse for SICP, all free. And since other folks will be doing the same thing, it seems like it may have an active community paced along with it.I work with another guy who has an EE MS, but is going to code for our startup (he's a cofounder). So we're going to do this course together, so that I can help bring him up to speed. Essentially, I'll be his more experienced study buddy, but there will still be a forum I can go to when I have questions.URL: http://www.crunchcourse.com/class/structure-and-interpretati... |
buying your own time. | yan: Do you have savings you can live off of? Normally, people would save up what they need to live off of or just contract or freelance on the side.edit: i (and i'm sure many others here) have similar aspirations. |
buying your own time. | thafman: Use mint.com... kidding. Get an extra job freelancing, night shift, whatever - trade your free time now for your 'side projects' time later. |
buying your own time. | TheSOB88: Decrease your spending, then save the difference. The more you can decrease your spending, the more you save and the more time you can survive on the saved money. |
What are you working on? | kylebragger: http://done.io/ and a new thing called Forrst. |
Monetizing a mailing list | csomar: Do you know CPA? This should convert well for you. |
buying your own time. | csomar: What are you doing right now? A job? if so, work and save until you make that $24K and then buy your own time. |
Kindle or Nook? | truebosko: I own the Kindle and I've played with the Nook.Nook felt odd, the touch screen wasn't very responsive and I had to press twice a few times. It felt a bit heavier too.In regards to the features you want: Kindle boot-up is instant with a flickr (~2 seconds max) if coming from standby, which it goes into when you just leave it there after reading (or manually place it). Battery life is ok, but not the 3 weeks it's advertised as. Dictionary is a snap, just point the cursor to the word you need to know about and a little blurb shows up on the bottom of the screen; Simply beautiful and you can expand it to view more of the definition. Variety of book types are ok. PDF support is available, but I haven't used it yet because Kindle for Mac isn't out yet.My girlfriend has been using the Kindle a lot as well for reading novels, myself mostly the paper and we both are in love with it. There's a lot of small, neat things that it does a good job at, while being awesome at being a reading device that you can forget about and focus on your material. |
buying your own time. | sganesh: One option is moving to another country for those six months. Costa Rica, Chile, Argentina if you want stay in the Americas. Thailand, Philipines, India, China if you want to go to Asia. If you don't own a house, this is a good option. Sell your car & you'll have the money. |
buying your own time. | cmos: Move somewhere cheap, like detroit and get a dumpy apartment. |
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