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cheap SMS service for application | voodootikigod: Anyone ever used: http://www.eztexting.com/ Considering it over clickatell if I can find a good reason.Thanks |
Programming on Mobile Phone. | davidw: I wrote Hecl, and think you should give it another look:-)The problem is that 'mainstream' languages are awfully big. The initial versions of Hecl ran on my Nokia 3100, which had a limit of 64K for applications. Also, most mainstream languages that run on top of Java run on 'regular' Java, not Java ME, which lacks things like reflection. This means that porting them to Java ME is not trivial. Android might be a better bet, but it's still tricky, and it's still an environment where you don't want to be wasteful with space. |
Programming on Mobile Phone. | Kliment: Why not Python? Maemo, Android and Nokia's s60 (at least) support it fairly well. Also, if you have a decent idea, have a look at http://ycombinator.com/rfs5.html |
cheap SMS service for application | 3ds: http://www.esendex.de/ in europe |
Programming on Mobile Phone. | pavlov: The Nokia N900 smartphone is currently the mobile programmer's paradise. Underneath its Maemo OS veneer is a fairly standard Linux. A terminal is part of the standard install, and there's no jailbreaking needed to install whatever you want.There are packages for Python, Perl, GCC... And of course you can run pretty much anything by building it from source. The ARM A8 Cortex CPU is fast enough that it actually makes sense to do this.If you want a more desktop-like programming environment, it's even possible to install Debian on the N900. |
cheap SMS service for application | matttah: We currently use http://www.mobilemarketing.net/ on a couple of projects. Their site looks terrible, but they are fairly cheap and have 'sticky' sessions. Their support is also very responsive.Textmarks http://www.textmarks.com/ is also good but they no longer support sticky sessions. They also have free messaging if you don't mind a "powered by textmarks" with a link back to their site at the bottom of your SMS. |
Programming on Mobile Phone. | alexandros: I find the Android Scripting Environment to be quite cool:
http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/And it offers quite a few languages to play with, including Python, JRuby and Javascript (via Rhino).Now if it would only have a better development environment... |
Statistics for Programmers | andrewcooke: http://www.amazon.com/Reduction-Error-Analysis-Physical-Scie...it's been around for years (i used to own a copy of the original - i see it's been updated) and i doubt the fortran / c++ code will be much use, but it's a simple, clear, introduction to basic statistics (which is why such a slim book costs so much...) |
Programming on Mobile Phone. | nuclear_eclipse: The T-Mobile G1 has an excellent, 5 row hardware keyboard, and I made use of it on many occasions to SSH into my server and make some modifications to code that I had ideas for, but didn't want to wait to get home to work on. Because the keyboard actually had multiple alt/shift and hardware keys, ConnectBot could remap them as tab, control and escape keys, so I could actually use Vim without any problems. Can you say that about your phone? :P |
Google Go | zeynel1: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.... |
Kindle v/s ipod touch | digamber_kamat: I finally got Lenovo Idea Pad a netbook that has 7 hours battery backup. i am happy. |
Programming on Mobile Phone. | csomar: Okay, testing, trying... something just to spend time and learn instead of playing games. But I doubt you can do any work on it (if you have a project with databases and that needs lot of programs to execute).As long as it's for fun then it can be! |
My nephew wants to learn programming. What should I recommend? | kochbeck: He's 11? By the time I was 11 I was pretty darn good in Z-80 Macro Assembler. If he wants to make games, it's much better to get comfortable learning the hard stuff first. At his age, learning to kick a sprite across the screen will seem pretty... childish.I've been reading the new edition of Jeff Duntemann's "Assembly Language Step by Step." While I don't particularly like how he teaches hex (which is terribly necessary to understanding Assembly), the rest of it made me think that it was the book I wish I had when I was a kid. |
Programming on Mobile Phone. | gsiener: I believe this is one of PG's requests for YC applications. |
Programming on Mobile Phone. | profquail: Well, if you want a challenge, there's Pocket APL, which offers a complete IDE for APL on Windows Mobile:http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-and-Shell/Developm... |
Programming on Mobile Phone. | rick_2047: all these options you people give are good but work on either s60 or windows mobile, anything for java? |
My nephew wants to learn programming. What should I recommend? | jlsonline2010: Teach him Java J2EE, Spring, Struts 2, Hibernate, PL/SQL, and cure him of this blight immediately. This is what I do daily and you don't want him to end up like me :-)I kid, of course. Probably the best thing to start with would be something like Perl, Python, or perhaps even Lua. In fact, Lua might be something he could even use in the gaming industry later. Whatever you do, don't introduce the poor kid to C# and DirectX :)edit - on second thought, follow the advice of others and teach him guitar |
Programming on Mobile Phone. | moconnor: You can run python on windows mobile; I even found some kind of IDLE version for it - there's a bunch of links here: http://www.awaretek.com/pymo.html#win
I thought it was pretty good, but typing symbols was a pain. I wrote some twitter data mining stuff with it while waiting for a plane with it once.If you want to do anything else with your phone, you don't really want a windows mobile, though :-( |
cheap SMS service for application | PanMan: Where are your destination numbers from?
For US numbers you can text for free by sending an email to a carrier specific email address (nr@something.carrier.com).Clickatell is a good option for international SMS, although they have had some issues in the past. There are a lot of similar services.
However I've never seen much cheaper than around 7 cents (when buying in bulk) for SMS to the Netherlands. |
My nephew wants to learn programming. What should I recommend? | extofer: Definitely start with Python. I found this great book http://www.manning.com/sande/ that is a good start regardless of age. In any defense, read this article (Section: "The Pitfalls of Java as a First Programming Language") to determine why learn with a language like Python rather than Java. http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/CrossTalk/2008/01/0801DewarSchon... |
Experience with netbooks | pplante: I bought the original netbook, ASUS eeepc 701 surf, and I hated it. The 7in screen was too small, and a keyboard at 92% normal size just wasn't working for me. However something around the 10in might be handy from time to time.I used ubuntu netbook remix and windows xp. Found both to work moderately well performance wise. |
Experience with netbooks | ryandvm: Netbooks are the Nintendo Wiis of the laptop world.I fell for the netbook hype and bought a Mini 9. What I wanted was a convenient way to quickly get on the web to get movie times or weather or check my email. What I got was a laptop that boots up slower than my Macbook, with a screen that is too small, a processor too slow, and a keyboard prone to typos. It's infinitely easier to just open the lid on the sleeping Macbook instead.At this point, the Mini 9 basically only sees use as a streaming media player for the kids. It's actually usable for that.That said, I hold out hope for Chromium OS netbooks. I played around Dell's build of Chromium OS on the Mini 9 and it shows great potential. It booted up and was ready to browse the web in about 15 seconds.So my advice - wait until Chromium OS netbooks start popping up this fall. |
Experience with netbooks | iamelgringo: I got an Acer Aspire One for $270. I upgraded the RAM and got a 9 cell battery. I installed Windows 7 Ultimate, and I haven't looked back. It's a little slow opening apps, and the sleep/suspend is a little wonky. But, I now have a laptop that lasts an entire day of traveling from San Francisco to Barcelona without being plugged in. |
Experience with netbooks | TrevorJ: I love my netbook for surfing the web. It's a low-fuss way to have some mobile computing power on the go or on the couch.I run Firefox and have it setup to launch in full screen mode so the screen real estate actually feels fairly decent for what it is.I tend to use it for watching itunes movies or netflix before bed as well. The only complaint I have is that the wifi is slow when you aren't plugged in to an AC outlet. |
Experience with netbooks | gtt: Sadly, Matlab (my main tool) is damn slow on my asus eee pc 901. I thought of buying another netbook but came to conclusion that none of netbooks currently available at the market has resources to run matlab smoothly enough. |
Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated) | railsbob: I always wondered when I saw 'Tweet This' button on popular blogs for sharing bookmarks and links. However there was no easy way to go back and search/manage the bookmarks tweeted by you. We have developed an application www.birdpie.com which stores all of the URLs (Web Links) you have entered on Twitter as bookmarks, so you can refer to them at a later date. The application takes care of minified urls to avoid duplication and pulls information from the url to auto-tag and assign a proper title. Some features are pending (like search bookmarks with keywords, etc) but they will be pushed soon.I'd love to have feedback on its features, appearance or improvements.Thanks! |
Experience with netbooks | bensummers: I got a Lenovo S10, and after replacing the stock Linux with Ubuntu, it worked. But it wasn't a nice computing experience, they hadn't even bothered to make the trackpad work sensibly.Eventually I gave up and got a discounted previous generation MacBook Air. Same weight, but a usable computer running the same OS as my desktop. Much better! |
Experience with netbooks | dogas: I bought a netbook (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002DYIXMS/ref=ox_ya_oh_pro...) for my wife and installed OSX on it. Had to replace the wifi card, but otherwise everything was completely compatible. It's pretty fast and gets the job done. Battery life is phenomenal.Could I use it for work? Probably not. The screen is too small, and the keyboard is uncomfortable to type on. It's great for just fooling around on the internet and playing the occasional game of nethack ;) |
Experience with netbooks | noodle: i've had an asus eeepc 1000HE for about 6 months now, and its great, mostly because it has been, so far, exactly what i expected. i bought it because it has a bigger screen (10-ish in), wider chicklet keyboard, and 9.5 hr battery.i use it pretty much exclusively as a web browser, accessing web apps, and as an ssh terminal to do web dev work on my slice. no high powered apps to make it seem sluggish. |
Usefull developer tools | tjr: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=507212 |
cheap SMS service for application | vlbeta: http://www.pennysms.com |
Experience with netbooks | aurynn: I bought an Aspire 1410 recently; it's more of an ultraportable than a netbook, though.I have to say I love it. Just the right size, capable, and decent Ubuntu support. |
Experience with netbooks | ramidarigaz: I bought an Eeepc 701sd on Ebay for $170. The screen and keyboard were hell to get used to, but it's actually one of the best purchases I've made in a long time. I'm currently travelling Asia with nothing but a small backpack, and if I had brought a larger laptop, I probably would have needed to buy a bigger backpack.I'm currently running Ubuntu Karmic, (normal, not UNR). The screen feels cramped at times (800x480), but it hasn't been a huge issue. One problem I had was dialog boxes' confirmation buttons running off the bottom of the screen, but then I found that alt+click&drag moves the window.The 701sd comes with a 8gb ssd, and an internal SD card reader. I got a 8gb SDHC card, but 16gb is still restrictive at times, so I have to run at absolute minimum and clean stuff up regularly.Webapps can be a bit slow, and flash is a bitch. I can watch most flash videos, but not in fullscreen. Non-flash videos work fine up to about 780p. Above that and the videos start to stutter.Battery life was nice when I bought it (3hrs+), but now I'm down to about 1.5 hrs on a full charge. Annoying but not crippling.The biggest issue I've had is with the charger. My Eeepc is about 6 months old, and the charger gave out yesterday. My friend's charger also gave out recently, and he bought his Eeepc about the same time as me.In summary, I miss the big screen and full-size keyboard of my old laptop, but this Eeepc is pretty much perfect for my needs right now.Edit: it helps that the girls think it's "cute" |
Experience with netbooks | warp: I have an Asus eeepc 901. It is my main development machine. It's fast enough for the stuff I'm doing on it (python web app development). I don't have any way to connect to the internet when I'm on the go, but that's actually a benefit; it forces me to just be working without distractions whenever I'm on a train trip which lasts more than 20 minutes.I never turn it off, I goes to sleep when I close it. It's a bit slower to wake up from standby compared to my macbook, but that's ok because I intend to be working on it for atleast 30 minutes. I use emacs inside a GNU Screen, so when I get home I can just ssh into it and continue working where I left off -- but with a proper screen+keyboard.The machine is horribly slow when using Windows XP, completely unusable. Don't get a budget machine like this unless you run linux with a light-weight window manager, etc..The keyboard is tiny, but good enough. And I love the form factor, the macbook I used before this was too big and heavy to carry around all the time, but this netbook is coming with me on almost every trip. |
Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated) | mikeryan: On first hit I had no idea what it was. I thought some sort of digg/reddit/hackernews dealio |
Experience with netbooks | steverb: I bought the Dell Mini-10 a year ago, and I love it.The keyboard on the Dell is laid out slightly better than the Eeepc (IMO), and it runs Windows 7 fast enough for the majority of what I do. I went with the 6 cell battery, so start up time isn't an issue (just put it to sleep).My only issues with it are that the screen resolution is too small to do any real coding on (but big enough in a pinch) and flash video can get a little choppy.No other issues, and I use it constantly, either by itself, or as a secondary machine when working on my desktop. |
Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated) | coffeemug: The first (and biggest) problem is that when I land on the home page I have no idea what the service is supposed to do. |
Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated) | mshafrir: The site uses jargon that isn't clear. What are bites? Slices? |
Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated) | warp: From the landing page I have no idea what the site is about, so I click 'About'... and I still have no idea. From the <title> tag I can see this isn't something for which I am the target audience. Seems odd to not have that somewhere on the page. |
My nephew wants to learn programming. What should I recommend? | kls: I cannot believe that someone has not mentioned a LEGO Mindstorm yet. My 3 year old is already learning formal Logic with this and as a side effect he is learning robotics. My 10 year old has already dropped the graphical language for a C style language for robotics. |
What should I teach freshmen about Web 2.0 (and maybe entrepreneurship)? | kls: REST and Javascript, at least a high level, they are the backbone. Also Amazon is a great case study of rethinking business as services. This eventually led to EC2 and S3. |
Would you pay to bookmark? | FreeRadical: I can't think of any such feature. With Google Chrome I can already organize and search my bookmarks easily. |
Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated) | natch: I dunno. What do you have against putting a blurb on your home page that tells what the site is for?[update: Oh, it's not the home page. But still, I can't tell what this is for, and I should be able to, even on a sub-page.'Slices' - what? I have been thinking about Slicehost lately, and the first link mentions Ruby, which I don't know. So when I land on this link you have me thinking that maybe the site is a way for Ruby users to manage their slices on Slicehost.The About page should definitely tell what the site is about. And the help pages are not loading for me.If you want to do a tweeted-link application, you should add a bit more value - maybe have thumbnails of the destination site, or expand bit.ly/etc. URLs (while keeping the bit.ly one too).If someone uses bit.ly to shorten every URL they tweet, bit.ly stores the URLs for them already, so...] |
Would you pay to bookmark? | anigbrowl: No. There might be some value in page discovery from cross-referencing with other people's bookmarks (eg 'if you like Wired, you might also like this site called HN') but that's what links and trackbacks are for. My experience is that I'm more likely to be presented with stuff that is 90% irrelevant.I honestly don't see any money in this...I think paid booksmarks are doomed to failure in the same fashion that link farming and web rings turned out to be dead ends. |
Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated) | megamark16: It doesn't show up very well in Chrome (at least, it looks a little fuzzy to me), but fine in Firefox. Seems like a pretty cool tool. |
Rate my startup keywordenvy.com | middus: http://www.keywordenvy.com/register.php"Get the leading SEO analytics suite"Really? Sounds like bold overstatement to me. |
Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated) | djb_hackernews: Startup? No. Webapp? Probably.Looks like more of an exercise in ui design than actual functionality, which isn't a bad thing. |
cheap SMS service for application | johnyzee: You could build it yourself using Kannel (open source SMS gateway - www.kannel.org) and an old mobile phone. |
Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated) | peteysd: I like the site design. Simple and clean. I agree with the other poster that commented that some of the jargon was misleading.Some of the information on the Help page should probably be made more prominent. |
Would you pay to bookmark? | Jlloyd: I pay for instapaper and I pay for pinboard. I like viewing stuff later at my conveniance and I just want to bookmark, easily, and not focus on the social side but then I may be in the minority. |
Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated) | axod: really good design, but I have no idea why it would be useful. |
Would you pay to bookmark? | doz: I would pay to be provided with a great service which combines many features which you currently get with multiple sites. Personally don't see the point of having local favourites in your browser if it can be done 'in the cloud', and I don't really care that chrome for example can synchronise bookmarks across multiple computers because I use multiple browsers. |
Would you pay to bookmark? | jayliew: I'm biased, but entrepreneur to entrepreneur, here's my honest personal opinion. I won't pay for bookmarking. It's too easy for me to cobble together my own solution, and besides, there is already a lot of bookmarking apps that are free.I think there are certain things in life that the market is not willing to pay for. Bookmarking may be one of them. On a related note, I'm looking around at all the all the micropayment solutions out there on the web. Supposedly the idea was that you can read a blog post, and if you like it so much, you can tip a penny if you want. I haven't heard too much success in that regard .. but I suspect that people aren't willing to pay. And as an entrepreneur, it's tough to change the market (impossible?)To be able to charge, your value proposition has to be not just incrementally, but way waaaay significantly "above the rest" such that it's just such a disadvantage for me _not_ to give you my money to use your product. Use Delicious as your baseline. Delicious is free. So anything you offer that is also offered by Delicious, you can't really charge for it. What do you offer on top of that that is worth people opening up their wallets?If so, I'd be interested to hear what you have. |
Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated) | johnrob: First thoughts: Looks like digg.com, calling votes 'bites' instead of 'diggs'. Oh, and there are 'slices' too...After reading the help menu, I understand that tweeted bookmarks are the things in the list (aka 'slice'?).I think the most important feedback I can give is to either include more help on the landing page (what are bites and slices?), or change the terms to be more obvious at first glance. |
Two 24" Monitors or One 30" Monitor | aditya: One 30" FTW with two displays you have to twist your neck more, also, if you're using video out from a laptop, it's easier to deal with one display. |
The best blogs I'm not reading | patio11: A lot of my favorites don't post very regularly but, hey, that's what the archives are for. (It seems a lot of my professional peers are too busy running their companies to blog about it. There might be a conclusion in there somewh... oh look a kitten!)http://www.alwinhoogerdijk.com/ <-- smallish European software companyhttp://thefloggingwillcontinue.com/ <-- CEO of Three Rings.http://www.lietcam.com/blog/ <-- metrics + MMORPGs = hotnesshttp://microisvcentral.com/ <-- autocollected meta-feed of a bunch of small software companies (disclaimer: I'm in it.)P.S. When I think "technically interesting" I think "useful for software businesses" not necessarily "related to producing computer code." If you're looking for Erlang tutorials and Audrino hacking skip this post. |
Two 24" Monitors or One 30" Monitor | anigbrowl: I'm not sure why you expect to spend so much. You can get two Dell 24"ers for $600 or so easy. If you're happy with a pair of smaller monitors I'd go for the pair of larger ones, rather than a single huge one. You'll get more resolution and you're already used to the dual-panel look.Some monitor models can swivel to a vertical (portrait) alignment for a small extra cost. You might find this better for code listings and so on than a super-wide desktop; I have a friend with 2 x 24" models of which one is portrait, off to the side for debugging etc., and one is landscape, in the middle; and although it looks weird, when I've actually sat down with it it's quite pleasant to work with. |
Two 24" Monitors or One 30" Monitor | gtani: viewsonic 23" LCD's are < $200, the Dell ultrasharp 24" i want is ~ $600. I can code on any decent monitor driven off a macbook, but for video, gaming, photoshop, you need better.I believe in costco sourcing to extent possible: you can run down and grab as many Princeton, Samsung, viewsonic or other leading mfr's 22-24" monitors as you need anytime. If you don't like them a month later (90 days, actually), return in original packaging. |
Rate my startup keywordenvy.com | peteysd: The design is unpolished, especially those big rectangle buttons.I also cannot easily find any information about your company anywhere on the site. I wouldn't sign up for service with a company that I know nothing about. |
Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated) | yosho: the site seems to have errors now... or is it just me? |
Rate my startup keywordenvy.com | 3pt14159: This site has awesome written in its future. Don't let the suggestions on formatting/copy get you down (but don't ignore them either). I'll definitely use this in my day to day! |
Predictions for Apple's event tomorrow | gphil: I predict that the OS will have far more features than people are expecting, and will perhaps be closer to Snow Leopard in terms of functionality than to the iPhone OS. I can't imagine Steve Jobs being "really proud of" a giant iPod touch--there's got to be something more to it than that. |
Rate my startup keywordenvy.com | teej: Just off the bat, $9.95 seems too low a price. SEPRs move the needle for businesses right? It seems like you should charge more.UI notes:- Ditch the "reset" button.- Only search Google US by default. Other options should be hidden away.- Lose the numbers next to the search terms. They don't add value, and I'm fully capable of counting to 5.- It needs overall polish. And I'm not referring to making your buttons glossy.- Nearly every major link has an icon next to it. Most of those can go, and in some cases can be replaced by a simple button & text. |
Two 24" Monitors or One 30" Monitor | jws: I like my 30" over my 24" for its greater height. It provides a little more context when coding.I haven't used multiple monitors for years though. I let my monitoring displays peek out around the edges of my windows and use virtual desktops for task switching. |
Rate my startup keywordenvy.com | mattmcegg: Site never loaded the results of my input. |
Two 24" Monitors or One 30" Monitor | icey: I have a PC with a 24" monitor right next to a Mac Pro with a 24" monitor; I share a keyboard and mouse using Synergy.I'm going to be moving to Mac only pretty soon and plan on upgrading to a single 30" monitor.2x24 is nice, but there ends up being a lot of side-to-side head motion which gets tiring after a few days; and the most premium screen real estate (straight in the middle) is taken up by the bezels of the monitors. |
Two 24" Monitors or One 30" Monitor | neilc: Personally I like one large monitor, because I find it fits my workflow better. If you're using two monitors and don't like needing to swivel your head back and forth, have you considering orienting them vertically? For writing code, the extra vertical space is often more valuable anyway. |
Two 24" Monitors or One 30" Monitor | copernicus: The 30" without question. You get 4 megapixels (2560x1600) on one screen instead of spread across two (2 x 1920x1080) - great for side by side columns of code (I can fit 3 on one of my screens). Its also very nice for gaming, although be prepared to experience some vertigo.Of course the real way to go is dual 30's =) |
Predictions for Apple's event tomorrow | fjabre: We see newton style graffiti as a serious alternative to qwerty. |
Two 24" Monitors or One 30" Monitor | sandGorgon: dude.. save the earth.Choose the config with the lesser power consumption. |
Two 24" Monitors or One 30" Monitor | justrudd: I've got two monitors. But take this with a grain of salt because I'm not a PC gamer. I use a console, but I do have the console hooked up via HDMI to one of my monitors.I've got a 24" Dell rotated 90 degrees to portrait. I have this one front and center so no moving of the of head. This is where I do all my coding. Lots and lots of vertical space (which is more important to me than horizontal). That's the only thing on that monitor.To the left, I have a 27" Dell that has my e-mail, Yammer, and a couple of other "all day" windows open. I've got the Windows arranged from right to left - most important to least important. E-Mail is on the far left as I get a lot of e-mail and most of it not important :)I scan that monitor maybe once or twice an hour. If I'm doing a lot of work on that monitor, I'll swivel my chair towards it and move the keyboard and mouse in front of it (both are wireless).It works for me because it allows me to compartmentalize my day. The setup cost me about 1300 at the time (900 for the 27" - no sale; 400 for the 24" - cheaper now). |
Would you pay to bookmark? | cmars232: No. In fact, lately I find its too much trouble even to bother logging into delicious. I'll either star it or share it in Google Reader, or else I'll let it go. If it really matters, I'll just search for it again. Guess I'm feeding Google "the Big Pig" with all my habits, but I'm too lazy to care.It'd be kind of interesting to more easily group links around some train of thought (stuff I need for a baseline XP install, links related to some startup idea, etc.) but I doubt I'd ever pay for it. I can use tags for this, but it's always been kind of a pain to actually do it in delicious. |
Experience with netbooks | sunkencity: I have an Acer Aspire One, the biggest problem for me is the small keyboard, I have big hands and is a touch typist. I've tried a couple of linux distros on it, but the by far best, and that I am running now is moblin. Boots really fast, looks nice, the hardware works well and most tools I need are installed by default.I have, however given it to my 3 year old to play with. It's better that she has a real computer instead of a play computer, perhaps she'll have a sense of ownership of something fully working (maybe future career as programmer father thinks :). I liked real tools when I was a kid. She likes to type letters on it, listen to music, videos and play with the interface. |
Two 24" Monitors or One 30" Monitor | evlapix: I read this a while ago:http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001076.htmlI still decided to go with the 2x24's. In the end though, it may have been a waste. Afterwards I introduced myself to Ubuntu and the virtual desktop features really separated my work well enough that I probably didn't need the extra monitor anymore.A couple months later and I'm now on a 17" Macbook Pro. With Spaces configured to my liking I don't miss the additional monitor at all. |
Two 24" Monitors or One 30" Monitor | nickFaraday: Wow, I'm really surprised by all the 30" -in favors-?I use 2 24" in monitors and love it. As for having to turn your head... that's a very minor concern if your keyboard and mouse are centered (or sightly off center) you can see both monitors fine.For me I use textmate on one monitor (main) and have web-browser, Adium, Skype open on the second monitor - organized so all three are "on top". Works like a charm.I have another box with a 30" monitor, but I use it mainly as a review station. Window organization is a bit of a pain on that large of a monitor on OSX.I would have to agree that that for media (games, movies, video editing) the single larger monitor is better. |
What should I learn next: Ruby or Python ? | alnayyir: I work professionally in Django. Django is nicer starting out, but it's starting to chafe. I'd rails, even if it is a "grass greener" type situation. |
What should I learn next: Ruby or Python ? | zephyrfalcon: Either one is fine. They are both dynamic and flexible languages, mature, have powerful web frameworks, and fairly large library repositories.The choice is more a matter of preference. Python generally encourages you to do "the right thing". Ruby offers more room for doing things the way you like them. |
What should I learn next: Ruby or Python ? | icey: Write some scripts in both. If you already know a few languages, it's pretty easy to pick up the basics.After that, pick the one you enjoyed more. They're essentially equivalent at this time. |
What should I learn next: Ruby or Python ? | blasdel: Whether you pick Python or Ruby, you should try to avoid diving right into Django or Rails.Work through Mark Pilgrim's "Dive Into Python" or _why's "Poignant Guide to Ruby".If you want to write a web app, start with Google AppEngine w/ it's webapp framework, or Heroku w/ Sinatra. |
What formula do you use for calculating subscriber churn? | peripatetic: I don't know the convention, but the most accurate would be the rate of decay on the installed base. |
What should I learn next: Ruby or Python ? | davidnelson: python for sure. you can use it with app engine, whereas ruby on the app engine jvm is less mature.take a look at some source code here to help you get started:http://developeradvocate.appspot.com/id/1005/AppEngineBlog-(...http://code.google.com/p/appengineblogsoftware/source/browse... |
What should I learn next: Ruby or Python ? | megaman821: It is one of those things were you take about 20 minutes with each language and see which one fits you better.Python's philosophy is there should only be one obvious way to express something.Ruby's philosophy is the language should be expressive enough that you can express something in a way that makes sense to you.The biggest advantage Python has over Ruby is its wealth of scientific libraries, but that may not matter to you much as a web developer. |
What should I learn next: Ruby or Python ? | CoryMathews: python. coming from almost the same background python was easier, ruby was just.. annoying, its all hype and IMO will soon crash.Also I really like the speed at which you can write up a python script to solve a problem. |
Who Buys Data? | loltrader: I'd see if I could come up with a profitable way to offer high frequency historical stock market data to retail/independent crowd. |
Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated) | bgriggs1: The golden rule of UI: never sacrifice usability. Those fonts might look interesting and add to the overall aesthetic, but the smaller versions are virtually unreadable on my machine. |
The best blogs I'm not reading | randolph_carter: I enjoy http://bit-player.org - it's a blog by Brian Hayes, who writes on computing science for American Scientist magazine (but is currently on sabbatical from the magazine, hopefully not from the blog). |
A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do? | Tichy: I discovered today that I have a similar problem, even though I don't even have an iPhone app: someone copied graphics from my web site for his iPhone app.So far I have contacted apple and the designer of the graphics to clarify the rights (designers provided the graphics but I don't know where they are from). Not thrilled, but I can't imagine just letting that person get away with it.Although what the other comment said certainly applies: the quality of the ripped off app seems rather low. He uses some of my icons, but the rest of it looks ugly.Anyway, would be curious to hear how your story unfolds. |
Best Host for Wordpress Blog | billturner: Perhaps telling us what you don't like about Media Temple will help you out a little.If it's a relatively low traffic weblog, there are cheap hosts like dreamhost.com. If you don't require a lot of customization (themes, plugins, etc) you can just set it up at wordpress.com and go with their options. If you want a little more power, and don't mind the sysadmin duties, pick a small VPS from linode.com or slicehost.com. |
Recommend me a CMS/blogging platform | billturner: I hear lots of good things about Expression Engine (http://www.expressionengine.com/) but I've never used it. It always seems to come up as the platform that fills the void between Wordpress and Drupal. But even Wordpress could most likely do what you want with the myriad of plugins and themes out there. |
Would you pay to bookmark? | theprodigy: I'd pay for a list of bookmarks from various opinion leaders. If george soros or andreesen bookmarked on a consistent basis content that they read or think is important to read I would be interested in that. What would be good is if they also included a short commentary of the importance.The value to me is I can get a feel for what some of the most influential people are interested in and what specific information they are using to shape their opinions on various topics.Twitter is some what like this, but there needs to be good consistent content. |
Rate my startup: beepl.com | jparicka: Thanks for the feedback folks. I will rethink few things on beepl. Cheers! |
Recommend me a CMS/blogging platform | curagea: From my somewhat limited experience with Wordpress, it's a bit tough to wrestle into a portfolio framework, but very easy to set up a blog with. Quite a few web designers have Expression Engine and rave about it (you'll have to pay for the full-featured version). Skip Joomla; it's not very well done, and support is lacking. You could, if you have the time and willpower, roll your own CMS for total control. |
What should I learn next: Ruby or Python ? | Soleone: Things I love about Ruby (I have not used Python yet):- everything is an object, so you can e.g. store code in a Proc to execute it later or add new methods to Numbers (e.g. 1.kilobyte => 1024)- very clean syntax and expressive method names means you don't need to document much, it's pretty obvious most of the time (e.g. 3.times do print "ho" * 3 end => "hohoho")- very flexible, allows nice DSLs that read a lot like english (e.g. Rails or RSpec)- interesting community with lots of free material (e.g. _why's poignant guide, railscasts.com, therubyshow.com, ...)I'm sure Python is pretty cool as well, but from all I've heard (I had the same question a while ago) Ruby seems to fit me better with its "more fun and freedom" philosophy. |
Two 24" Monitors or One 30" Monitor | frankus: For Windows, I like multiple monitors, since it allows you to maximize a window in each monitor.On a Mac, for the most part apps don't take over a whole monitor without a bit of effort, so one monitor is probably the winner.There's also a Windows shareware utility called SplitView that divides up one large monitor into a couple of virtual screens, so you can have the benefits of side-by-side maximized apps without giving up full-screen gaming. |
Experience with netbooks | jcmhn: Acer Aspire 1 with 2gig ram. Running XP Home SP3.My usual app mix:
firefox with 3-10 tabs and 1 or 2 windows
cygwin x server with 0-2 remote x apps
2-5 ssh terminals (local urxvt clients)
notepad++ with 1-4 tabs open
openoffice writer and calcThroughout the day I sometimes run: a native windows web server, a hosted virtual linux install, pdfs, torrent clients, rdp clients, cygwin or native java tools, and several oldish video games (diablo2, morrowind, warcraft3, galciv2, angband)My primary problem is the screen size, many games are unplayable without connecting to a desktop monitor since the max native resolution on the screen is something goofy like 1024x600. This also means that some web apps have layout issues - they can usually be worked around with some combination of browser and plugin configuration.The dual core 1.6ghz processor is surprisingly capable - opening spreadsheets and pdfs sometimes open in 2.5 seconds rather than 2 seconds, but I somehow manage to get by :D |
Software for Creating an Affiliate Program? | Mz: I don't have firsthand experience using this, but I happened to save the link. It sounds to me like it is what you are asking for:http://successnexus.com/ |
Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated) | Raphael: You need a denser UI. I can only see 4 bookmarks on the screen at a time. Raise that to at least 10.Categories and tags are redundant. Remove categories. I like the automatic tagging, but I may want to manually edit them sometimes.Link to Twitter.com's profiles and tweets. Re-tweet buttons would make sense. |
Two 24" Monitors or One 30" Monitor | dws: Your choice might depend on your eyes. If you're subject to presbyopia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyopia), either due to age or a bad draw in the gene pool, having two 24" monitors lets you angle them to minimize the need to refocus. |
Which bank would you recommend for a merchant account? | mogston: If you were based in the UK, i'd recommend Barclays - IMO, they're by far the most innovative when it comes to supporting online business. |
Recommend me a CMS/blogging platform | dem0o8: You might consider using FrogCMS (http://madebyfrog.com). Very simple, lightweight and customizable.I made a post about our switch from wordpress to frogcms... and why we use it. (http://www.pigmata.com/post/website-realign-switch-to-frogcm...) |
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