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Implementing referral codes for iPhone app. | gyardley: Clever. I'm a product guy at Flurry, so here's my thoughts:1) You could ask us for more granular access permissions - but that's probably not likely to happen soon, because the roadmap's pretty packed.2) You could just ask your affiliates to trust you and give them the numbers directly - that's actually how ... |
What's the best place to start? | moconnor: If you were my protege I'd tell you to learn Lisp.
If you were my friend, I'd recommend you learn Ruby on Rails. |
What's with the Spam recipes in Gmail´s spam folder? | frossie: Okay you need to be a bit more specific - since I, for one, do not have spam recipes in my Gmail spam folder (the spam musubi recipe definitely doesn't count as, err, spam). |
What's your problem? | knv: I need a web based wiki/concept-map hybrid. |
What's with the Spam recipes in Gmail´s spam folder? | tokenadult: I take it you are referring to the Google-style plain text ads for Spam (the meat product) recipes that appear if you look into your Gmail spam folder.I think Hormelhttp://www.hormel.com/simply has a sense of humor about Spam.http://www.spam.com/games/Museum/default.aspxI presume Hormel and Google have some... |
How to compete with a large web company for a gig? | JacobAldridge: Consistency and Availability.If he chooses you he knows that he can 1) reach you more readily, and 2) you will always be on top of his project. Using a big company means tasks get passed around and between teams, so even the best project manager will often be slower in knowing where things are at and the... |
Where are all the Python jobs? | evitelabs: We are hiring. If you are in LA/SoCal or willing to relocate apply at http://bit.ly/evitedev or email jobs@evite.com. |
HTML/JS Standards Question | jeff18: HTML is not necessarily case sensitive, you can use upper or lowercase tags in HTML 5, and perhaps others. With that in mind, the tags should be normalized when querying what an element is (hr == HR == hR == Hr). Uppercase was chosen:http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/..."These attrib... |
HTML/JS Standards Question | Daniel_Newby: .tagName evaluates to the name of the HTML 4 element, and names are written all-caps in the HTML 4 and older specifications. All-caps is convenient because you can write about, for example, the A element by just typing its name. The standards committees renamed them to lowercase for XHTML and HTML 5, be... |
If you were to learn a programming language for your first time | kanak: Scheme via How To Design Programs (www.htdp.org) |
What killer feature(s) are social bookmarking sites missing? | mrduncan: I'd really like to hear joshu's (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=joshu) take on this. |
What killer feature(s) are social bookmarking sites missing? | IsaacL: No.(Personally, I wouldn't try making yet another social bookmarking site. The only way I can see of competing with the existing players is to market it better so that you get users who've never heard of Digg/Reddit/SU/Delicious/etc. Hint: Facebook app, viral features. But I'm not sure how succesful at making m... |
What killer feature(s) are social bookmarking sites missing? | chaosprophet: The only issue I find is that the popularity of such sites seems to be inversely proportional to the amount of interesting content in there. IMHO, Pinboard (pinboard.in) solves this problem quite nicely. |
What killer feature(s) are social bookmarking sites missing? | pvg: The field is still so new you are better off actually implementing some features you think are missing rather than taking surveys about them. Nobody really thought anything was missing when del.icio.us started, either. |
What killer feature(s) are social bookmarking sites missing? | arnorhs: comments on links
rss feeds of my links |
What's the deal with Common Lisp? | hga: (Note, I myself started with Lisp prior to Common Lisp by a few years, but I used it near its inception and have vaguely followed it since then (I soon switched to Scheme and now am playing with Clojure).)"Have I just hit a bad corner of the Lisp world?"Yes, you have; for the things you want to do you should try e... |
What killer feature(s) are social bookmarking sites missing? | kez: * Universal (cross-platform, cross-browser) synchronisation.* Tracking my most-searched-then-clicked-on links, and showing them in a "Personal Top 10" stack for quick viewing, which in turn would be its' own bookmark folder. |
What killer feature(s) are social bookmarking sites missing? | edd: I think the answer is in why so many people are enjoying Instapaper. My problem with delicious is that it's too hard to get links in to the damn thing. |
What's the deal with Common Lisp? | wendroid: I don't know mcuh about LISP. But what I know about OSes means I know the advantage of Everything is a File.On Plan9 if you can open / read / write / close / remove you can do almost anything : networking, graphics, serial, debugging, mouse control, the list extends by design.We have a few Schemes ported for ... |
What's the deal with Common Lisp? | anonjon: "Have I just hit a bad corner of the Lisp world?"Sort of.The real problem is that it is difficult to know what the current 'best' implementations of different libraries are, and what versions of common lisp they are intended to build under (and operating system!)This is compounded by the fact that the higher l... |
What killer feature(s) are social bookmarking sites missing? | zzzmarcus: Diigo has about everything I want except a great iPhone app and higher popularity. |
What killer feature(s) are social bookmarking sites missing? | kordless: I just installed Read It Later (http://readitlaterlist.com) so I can bookmark links which are interesting tweets to my followers. They have an API, which could be used to automate some of the work needed to prepare the tweets. |
What's the deal with Common Lisp? | gruseom: I'd appreciate hearing from other people who came in, were similarly disgusted, but have come to understand the whole thing better.Ok. The larger CL world is terribly fragmented. There's a smaller world inside the larger world which is really good. The trick for the beginner is distinguishing between the two, ... |
What killer feature(s) are social bookmarking sites missing? | Jlloyd: We have tried to take on the social bookmaking world with out site www.favilous.com - we will take on board all these comments. Some people have said they want to read links later; you can do this using our site. We also introducing a Yammer type service for networks of people to bookmark and share their bookma... |
Please review my weekend side-project. | abstractbill: This is essentially an online version of the unix 'file' utility that I hacked together quickly over the weekend (it
actually uses 'file' on the backend).There are many obvious directions I could potentially take this - for example improving recognition accuracy,
suggesting more programs and websites for ... |
Please review my weekend side-project. | ShabbyDoo: Perhaps you could make money through affiliate marketing. Let's say someone asks what a svg file is. You could provide links to svg->pdf utilities. |
Please review my weekend side-project. | petervandijck: If it's gonna be aimed at techies, it'll have to be geekier, if it's gonna be aimed at regular humans, it's gonna have to be friendlier (ie. "It's a Visio Doc..." vs "It's a microsoft office OLE doc"). I guess that's the main choice to make as to direction right now. |
Experiencing delays and timeouts on HN responses? | brk: Yes, I think this has been a semi-frequent issue. I see it sporadically, other users claim to see it rather frequently.I think the table might need to be upgraded, or possibly the water glass needs to be optimized... It might also be related to the napkin holder ;) |
Please review my weekend side-project. | synnik: It needs to have a significant differentiator from just googling the file extension. |
Please review my weekend side-project. | aik: i'm not able to have it successfully recognize a file. i sent it a txt file and about 2 minutes later (finally) it returned with "Sorry, couldn't identify that file."
? |
Please review my weekend side-project. | jsm386: Have you considered adding a statement about privacy, ie what you do with the file once it has been uploaded? When/how it is discarded. |
Please review my weekend side-project. | jacktasia: I gave it a .js~ to see what would happen. And it said: "That file contains ASCII C++ program text"It should probably say it's a javascript file. Or maybe:"The extension of the file is javascript the content appears to have ASCII C-style syntax...so it probably is indeed javascript." Although worded better. ... |
Where are all the Python jobs? | frankwiles: Here are several places to check:www.djangogigs.comhttp://python.org/community/jobs/http://www.resumebucket.com/jobs/?x=0&y=0&keywords=p... |
Please review my weekend side-project. | awa: Was wondering: Why do you need to use flash for this? |
Please review my weekend side-project. | lmkg: If I give it an Office 2007 file, it identifies it as a zipped XML file. While this is technically correct, it's probably not the most useful answer. This can probably be corrected with just file extensions, but looking up XML namespaces would be an interesting idea. |
Please review my weekend side-project. | erikwiffin: I can't see a lot of use for this as a webapp.If I were going to use this, I'd want it where my unrecognized files are. If you could connect this to a right-click in my filesystem, or have it as a browser extension that intercepts downloaded files and tells me what they are (ie: built into firefox's downloa... |
Please review my weekend side-project. | d0m: Maybe something useful could be "Fix this 'corrupted' file". |
Please review my weekend side-project. | faramarz: hehe I like the commentary. very friendly and responsive.Whats next on the agenda? |
Review my website, TalkFest | SlyShy: What's the advantage of this over email, other than that anyone can look in on your conversation? |
The "Expert/Master At (Language)" Point | DanielStraight: You are a master of a programming language when you consistently write idiomatic code in that language which exploits the power of the language to solve difficult problems in an easy-to-explain way.Or in detail:You must consistently write code in the language. Knowledge without experience cannot make yo... |
What killer feature(s) are social bookmarking sites missing? | TrevorBurnham: Full-text search over the pages you've bookmarked. For me, the Firefox address bar (with its rapid search of your browser cache) has made sites like Delicious obsolete. The only webapp I'm aware of that lets you do this is Google Bookmarks (which is asocial).I'm still waiting for someone to bring the ple... |
The "Expert/Master At (Language)" Point | mbrubeck: The people I've worked with who were true masters of their languages (or other tools) understood what happened under the hood. They knew the techniques required to implement the language themselves, or to debug or optimize existing implementations. They understood any differences or gaps between the languag... |
The "Expert/Master At (Language)" Point | metamemetics: master: contributor to the development branch if open source or writing\maintaining actively used libraries.expert: biggish list of work\projects finished, know how to leverage the standard/popular libraries |
Comments or not (for a magazine website)? | jstraszheim: There is something self-referential about this post, but I can't quite figure out what. |
Comments or not (for a magazine website)? | steveklabnik: I personally took comments off of my blog. It seems like news aggregators are a better place for commenting. |
Comments or not (for a magazine website)? | anigbrowl: No, they are neither necessary nor worthwhile. I like Bloomberg's approach of including contact information for the editors/authors of a news piece, which provides readers with a channel for feedback without providing a platform for trolls or people who are too stupid to string a coherent sentence together.E... |
Please Review Our New Site | koenbok: Clickable links:http://www.madebysofa.com
http://www.madebysofa.com/blog/georgia-on-my-mind/ |
Comments or not (for a magazine website)? | GBKS: Completely depends on the content, audience and commenting system. Having conversation around your content is fantastic. If your audience prefers to discuss with their own social circles on Facebook, Twitter, etc then having a commenting system on your site may not do anything for you.On the other hand, if visito... |
Please Review Our New Site | dmarques1: Not very SEO friendly by having all the content on one page like this |
Please Review Our New Site | angelbob: I can't successfully click anything on the front page.I'm using Google Chrome on Linux. |
Please Review Our New Site | anigbrowl: I like it very much, good job. The only criticism I have is that the large icons feel more suited to display on a phone than on my desktop screen. I feel like I have to lean back to look at it, and I am scrolling a bit too much for my taste. |
Please Review Our New Site | GBKS: I'm really like your site and product so I'm more than happy to give some feedback to this update. Must have been a rough ride to design for 8 months.First Impression of home page
- Clean, simple, to the point
- Too monochromatic, a few subtle hints of color could add some intrigue
- Empty sofas that are toppled ... |
The "Expert/Master At (Language)" Point | pmiller2: Some necessary but not sufficient criteria for our intrepid programmer to consider himself a master of his language:* He's written a non-toy compiler for the language.* He knows how to choose between more or less semantically equivalent ways of writing the same code because he understands the tradeoffs involv... |
What's the deal with Common Lisp? | CyberFonic: I'm no expert in any of the Lisps, but find that the learning curve with CL is massive. Of course, the return on your investment in learning is huge as well.Depending on what your applications are, you might find something that really hangs together well, like newLISP a better fit. And it's very simple to... |
Please Review Our New Site | rodyancy: You have a Chrome problem on PC. I haven't checked on a Mac yet. Apparently, Chrome is up to 6% of browser share, so it is probably worth supporting.I opened it up in Safari and it looks amazing. Really, your work is fantastic.The navigation threw me off for a second. Considering your audience, and that you a... |
Comments or not (for a magazine website)? | Mz: One question I would ask: How closely can you monitor and moderate it so that trollish comments and other undesirable crap doesn't bring down the quality? If the answer is "Not very", then some other means to let users voice their opinions/interact with the site is probably better. Moderating is very time consum... |
Experiencing delays and timeouts on HN responses? | Mz: It's nice to know that it isn't solely my crappy internet service. I always assume they are at fault any time I run into these issues. So thanks for bringing this up. |
Interesting Statistics Books | subud: http://www.amazon.com/All-Statistics-Statistical-Inference-S... |
The "Expert/Master At (Language)" Point | tom_b: I'm trying to approach it from a slightly different angle (although pmiller2 alludes to it):When you know that a language is absolutely the wrong choice for a problem, you are probably there.When you can hold a problem in your head, use two different programming languages to shape a solution, and intuitively und... |
Looking for Upcoming Events Where I can meet Hackers | dzlobin: http://www.meetup.com/Hackers-and-Founders/
I haven't personally been but our NYC H&F meetups are always great. |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | proexploit: I think as long as money isn't your #1 priority, it's great to push for a fair wage. For me personally, making more money is better than not making more money, but there's plenty of things that come before that; doing something I love, happiniess, time commitment, morals, etc. You should decide how much you... |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | dzlobin: Sorry, your friend at google feels under-paid? No offense to your friend or you, but It's hard for me to really understand that because of several reasons.
First of all, he/she likely makes at least what..80k? 90k? I understand it's not a million dollars a year but that's not a bad salary.
Second of all, ther... |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | gaius: Absolutely. Remember, someone's getting paid for your work, for the value you create. If not you, then who? What're they creating? |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | sanswork: I wouldn't say the only one but there are certainly a lot that aren't like that.I personally given the option between Job A and Job B where Job B pays less but has more interesting problems/more freedoms I will take Job B every time. I can say that with confidence because I've done it twice already and in on... |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | staunch: No one is choosing between company A offering $60k, B offering $100k, and C offering $350k for the same work, and then choosing A or B. Most people get 1-5 offers all within a relatively small range. The fact that people choose the company with the best environment/project should not be surprising. |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | patio11: Am I the only engineer out here that wants to screamPerhaps a more constructive approach is to say "I'm glad your corporate culture is wonderful. I'm sure we can do business together if you can offer a salary competitive with my best options." |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | DenisM: You're on the right path. Keep going. |
Looking for Upcoming Events Where I can meet Hackers | chrischen: http://www.techstars.org/2010/01/14/techstars-founder-dating...Not in California, but they are opening a chatroom during the event. |
Looking for Upcoming Events Where I can meet Hackers | cgherb911: Thanks for the leads. Star hackers are hard to find.
-Chris
chris(at)phonehalo.com |
Looking for Upcoming Events Where I can meet Hackers | paulbaumgart: You're welcome to join us for http://cses.ucsd.edu/wiki/index.php/San_Diego_Hacker_News_Me...I can't promise any turnout numbers or particular qualifications, though. |
Looking for Upcoming Events Where I can meet Hackers | andrewhyde: http://founderdating.com/ is trying to fit this niche. Also check out Startup Weekends (was started to address this problem). |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | pg: The phenomenon isn't limited to engineers. People in all fields are willing to take less money for work they enjoy more. There are some kinds of work people like so much they'll do it for free: e.g. writing open source software. |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | JoachimSchipper: As a data point, I'm currently trying for a PhD instead of a "regular" job. That does involve trading immediate and lifetime earnings for more interesting work.I'm by no means unique. |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | fdenkens: Probably Maslow's hierarchy of needs is part of the explanation. Pay comes in pretty low, so when the base-needs are fullfilled, it becomes more personal as to what you consider important next. This might me more money, quality of life, growth within, etc. |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | anigbrowl: No, you're not - and kudos for articulating that feeling of frustration so exactly. Without criticizing any particular company o industry, this sort of thing is rampant nowadays. It's just as bad, if not worse, in my business (independent film), to the point where I'm now surprised when someone makes me a go... |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | jey: Is money the only goal? I'd rather take an enjoyable job with 20% less salary over the higher salary mediocre job in a crappy location. There's a lot more to life satisfaction than money -- as long as you have enough money for your lifestyle and future plans, why compromise on the rest?Anyway, salary negotiations ... |
Looking for Upcoming Events Where I can meet Hackers | amohr: http://thestartupdigest.com/
Lots of different types of events; delivered weekly; sorted by region. pretty cool. |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | ntoshev: Propaganda for salary manipulation, really? I'd hate if HN started to upvote conspiracy theories. |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | alanthonyc: The correct response is not to say "fuck you, pay me." It is "wow, that's awesome, pay me."Working at a good company, on a good team, on a cool project - those are true benefits, that's why people talk about them. But in this context, they're just a negotiation tactic. Therefore, don't feel like you have... |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | nostrademons: "Am I the only engineer out here that wants to scream, "fuck you, pay me" whenever somebody rambels on and on about how wonderful it is to drink the kool-aid at flickr, google, twitter, or zynga? (and for the record, all of my friends at these 4 companies feel very under-paid)."I'm one of those engineers ... |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | coffeemug: In the case of startups I think that there are two issues to be aware of. The first is that (in my experience) most early stage startups are severely underfunded. After the dot com bust (back then the startups were severely overfunded) the investors swung back to a different extreme. So don't jump to conclus... |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | rms: I don't think it is intentionally propaganda, though it may influence opinion because if you're forced to sell yourself into wage slavery it really does help to work on something fun for a company that has free catered meals.If money is so important to you, maybe you should start a startup. |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | blubb: I would guess that a lot of engineers DO care about money. In fact, i would think that MOST do, because most become engineers in order to make a living, and nothing more.The problem is, I think that in engineering and other skilled work, the ones that are interested in their area of work regardless of whether th... |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | ovi256: Stockholm syndrome and the entitlement effect also play a role here. The authors (rationally) know they have sacrificed salary, so they try to rationalize by explaining to their readers and to themselves what they have won. |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | motters: As an engineer I'm not particulartly concerned about money, provided that I get paid some "living wage" which allows me to not have to worry about paying bills, rent, etc. I'd rather spend my time working on interesting projects with some modest but liveable wage than do something boring (or of questionable e... |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | olalonde: Who cares? Start a company and profit. If it doesn't work, try again. I'd rather be poor and get a shot at the big bucks than have a nice & stable salary. |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | gyardley: In my personal hiring experience, developers - especially junior developers - rarely negotiate salary. This is too bad, because the people doing the hiring expect you to negotiate, and therefore intentionally offer you something lower than the actual amount they're willing to pay. When you buy the spiel and... |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | dabent: I guess I always imagined there was some sort of equity stake at the kind of companies offering lower salaries. If there isn't, I'm certainly not one to be sold on the propaganda. There are plenty of places that have great teams and better salaries out there. In fact, I don't believe the two are mutually exc... |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | j_baker: I know I'm going to get downvoted for this, but I agree with Joel on this one:"They don’t care about money, actually, unless you’re screwing up on the other things. If you start to hear complaints about salaries where you never heard them before, that’s usually a sign that people aren’t really loving their job... |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | Sukotto: Don't confuse the dollar amount of your salary with your total compensation. Salary is only one term in the overall equation.Consider, for example, a company that buys you lunch. Here in NY, lunch costs about $10 if you buy it yourself. If you're in the 25% tax bracket, that's worth $3,300+ in salary.Do they p... |
What do you think about this movie distribution model? | Kliment: Sounds amazing. NIN tried this recently and got some pretty amazing mixes out of it. You could consider starting a remix/fan/discussion forum and a featured work youtube channel. |
What do you think about this movie distribution model? | romland: Interesting. This might be that added value that opponents of the current digital distribution model is looking for.Since you want this to be as widely spread as possible with the underlying concept attached to it, you might want to get in touch with PirateBay (and similar). They seem to like this kind of stuf... |
Would you work for this company? | vijaydev: well, you can give the hyperlink in the comment, for one!
http://mthruf.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/takeone.jpg?w=500&... |
Would you work for this company? | DanielStraight: My guess is that it's their version of FizzBuzz. |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | c00p3r: There is always (emerging) market(s) with lots of smart people who want to work for much less salary because they enjoying of what they are doing. =) |
Propaganda for creative salary manipulation? | Maven911: Am I the only one suprised to hear about 150k-200k salaries as software developer ? Most people I know are in the 50-100k rangeThese only seem to be possible in Silicon Valley or NYC-Manhattan |
What do you think about this movie distribution model? | mos1: I'm mostly surprised that your 'bootleg edition' is cheaper than the regular edition.Sure, it doesn't have a box... but it has a lot of rights granted to it, and it has some cachet. |
Would you work for this company? | keefe: lol sure, if they paid me enough? I'm not exactly looking at numbers on scraps of papers for developer gigs though... |
What do you think about this movie distribution model? | romland: It's a shame this did not make it to the main page, I was hoping to read some input from the community.Did you have bad luck with the time you submitted the story, or so? During lunch hour? A lot of other submissions? I would genuinely have thought this would be of interest. |
Anyone hiring for non-technical positions? | sanj: You mean all that stuff that makes sites successful? |
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