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How do you deal with Big JavaScript files? | mbrubeck: I don't understand. WHY do you want to use one main function or class? Why not break things up into modules, classes, and functions similar to the way you do in C#?Look at the source code of any well-written JavaScript library or app and you will find quite a bit of modularity. Some examples, from small to... |
Who's Hiring? | wangwei: This is a post for entry level jobs.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1104493 |
What monitoring/management tools do you use? | scorchin: I work for a web development firm and we handle a lot of large intranets for big internationals. Most of the systems are built using combinations (pick two) of PHP, JSP, Ruby, Perl, MySQL and Oracle.The servers (total around 60) tend to be spread across different continents and it always helps to have as much... |
Is anybody solving really cool problems anymore? | Mz: Efficient weight loss technologyNot a technology, but I have lost several dress sizes as a side effect of working on my health issues, which are supposed to be unresolvable. And, yes, I feel I am solving Cool Problems`(or, more accurately, I think I am coming up with Cool Solutions). I have slimmed down without s... |
Who's Hiring? | mace: Mochi Media is looking for hackers. Work in SF.
Code in Python, Erlang and ActionScript(Flash).
Open Source contribution a plus.
See http://mochimedia.theresumator.com/ |
improving your design skills? | francoisdevlin: It's all CRAPContrast
Repetition
Alignment
Position |
Who's Hiring? Internship Edition | mrduncan: Maybe it's just me, but these "Who's hiring" threads seem to be getting a little out of hand. This is the 3rd internship thread in the past 5 days now.This one was posted 5 days ago and spent a good amount of time on the front page (take a look at this one, it's got plenty of comments and hopefully something... |
Who's Hiring? | kikibobo69: TomTom in Amsterdam is hiring. Looking for junion and senior Java/Javascript/Flex/Scala/Lucene/GridGain/Hadoop/Mahout folks to work on next-generation location services. Ping me at eric.bowman@tomtom.com. |
Who is hiring (entry level) | dnsworks: Why do they have to be recent graduates? |
Review our startup: Unbig.me | marilyn: You have a neat idea here. I am particularly fond of how unoffensive the advertisement delivery actually is. Best of luck to you! |
Should we reduce the restrictions on who can angel invest? | presty: offtopic:since when do "ask hn" topics link to a frakkin blogpost? |
Who's Hiring? | aschobel: Android / iPhone / Web / BackendWe speak scala, Obj-C, java, python, Thrift, whatever gets the job done.#1 productivity app on Android, and TechCrunch/MobileCrunch named us(3banana) one of the top ten apps on Android.Please shoot me an email at hn@snaptic.comLooking for folks to come hack with us in South Par... |
Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write | jdietrich: I understand that your product is a resume tool of some sort, but a) you demand that I hand over my personal information before showing me anything of the tool and b) you don't give me any compelling reason to sign up. No sale. |
What should Microsoft do to get its mojo back? | presty: my worthless suggestion:i don't think the "old-schoolers" will ever respect the "kids" (actually they don't seem to be that young) in the r&d labs until they get their own credit in the "street" (market) - so things like integrating with windows/office/etc will always be hard if the managers think the direction... |
Who's Hiring? | marshallp: do your own thing - why work for someone else?
With platform as a service like aws,appengine,heroku you can build your own salesforce/google/ebay from scratch with no money/hardware/scaling bs |
Who's Hiring? | stonemetal: Any one out in Tx? |
Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write | dustingetz: how are you going to make money? |
Suggest an attorney? (Google is after us) | letsgofast: Not sure if you found someone to help you. If not then I will suggest Rodenbaugh Law - http://www.rodenbaugh.com/ - Mike Rodenbaugh has extensive transactional and dispute resolution experience with respect to intellectual property, e-commerce and internet marketing. He has specialized in trademark and doma... |
Who is hiring Product Managers? | gyardley: The sweet spot is probably larger startups, with an already-established, multiple-person product management team. Small startups with limited product staff are unlikely to take a risk on someone with no experience. Public companies, on the other hand, are often too bureaucratic to hire someone without 'cred... |
Who's Hiring? | jnoller: Nasuni is hiring - Cloud Storage startup near Boston, MA (Natick). Python developer, Test/QA Engineer, Inside Sales Rep, Admin. Assistant.We're in stealth right now, please do contact us if at all interested!http://www.nasuni.com/sub/jobs/ |
improving your design skills? | jonny_noog: You may be interested in reading about the Golden Ratio[1] and more specifically the ways people apply it to web design[2]. Helped me a fair bit, especially when I'm at that point where I'm starting a new design and need a jumping off point.1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio2. http://webdesign.abo... |
A Business Guy Getting Hired at a Startup, Help Please | siculars: depending on where you live i would say 40-60 would be good for a new graduate. remember, at this point in your story you want experience over money. |
A Business Guy Getting Hired at a Startup, Help Please | njohnw: What did you do as an intern? If it was related to business development or sales, you should expect to make something in the 45K-60K range. |
A Business Guy Getting Hired at a Startup, Help Please | aaronbrethorst: Given the recent acquisition prices for 'hot music startups' (Lala, iMeem, etc.), I'd personally go for a higher salary. |
A Business Guy Getting Hired at a Startup, Help Please | Mark_B: What city is the company in? More metro = higher cost of living. |
Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write | jawn: I like this app. I was recently looking for a place to host a resume, and wish I had come across your site sooner.As everyone else has already said, your messaging and initial pitch need to be cleaned up. Personally, I would stress the sub-resume's idea as that seems to be your best feature.I'd also add an optio... |
A Business Guy Getting Hired at a Startup, Help Please | anamax: > They've also offered stock options though I'm not as interested in that and would rather take a higher salary.Why?Yes, cash is something that you can spend now, but stock costs them less, so you might be able to get more NPV by loading up on stock.Also, suppose that they brought in another intern (or two) wit... |
Do you need angel funding? | Brushfire: Please add a city/state or location column.Many angel investors around the country will only look at deals they are physically near, since the value is in mentoring and connections, not just $$. |
Who's Hiring? | wsiu: Storm8, the #1 Role Playing Game company on iPhone is looking for someone to hack with us. (http://www.storm8.com/2010/01/18/software-engineer-objective...) We are located in Redwood City, CA. |
A Business Guy Getting Hired at a Startup, Help Please | espadagroup: Thank you everyone for the suggestions, that gives me a solid range. I am not in sales so there is no commission. I do solely business development and marketing. |
Who's Hiring? | rmanocha: Anybody hiring in India/South East Asia??On a separate note - maybe we should start a thread for startups outside the US looking for devs. |
Who's Hiring? | georgecmu: NREC (CMU's Robotics Institute applied research arm) is generally looking for people with robotics background (perception, planning, positioning) and good C++/Linux development skills. We write software to automate anything from tanks to haul trucks. If you've worked with cameras, lidars, GPS receivers, iner... |
Does HN webserver follow HTTP 1.1 standard? | Daniel_Newby: You are right. OTOH, anything that breaks is not likely to survive contact with the rest of the web. |
Am I crazy to port my Rails app to PHP? | freebsd_dude: check out hostingrails.com |
Am I crazy to port my Rails app to PHP? | bgnm2000: http://www.heroku.com |
Am I crazy to port my Rails app to PHP? | learnalist: I have a shared plan on mediatemple. I am not a ruby man yet am 100% you can run rails. Then you can demonstrate both your ruby skills and your new found php skills. |
Am I crazy to port my Rails app to PHP? | thechangelog: About 18 months ago I came to the realization that Rails just wasn't required for the projects I was using.I jumped on the Rails band wagon early and loved all the syntatic sugar that comes from Ruby, and I'd never really developed with an MVC pattern.Like you, I gradually realized I was spending more tim... |
Am I crazy to port my Rails app to PHP? | timdorr: Shameless plug: http://www.asmallorange.com/hosting/shared/ We host Rails with mod_rails/Passenger, so it'll run with minimal fuss. Works really great so far.But honestly, it's whatever language works best for you. If you've got a good framework in front of it that's helping to keep you from making dumb mistak... |
Who's Hiring? | aamar: Ventana (in SF) is hiring coders, user experience experts, and other people excited about creating something to make healthcare simpler and better. http://www.ventana.com/corp/careersCoders should apply with a puzzle solution (comments, questions welcome). |
Am I crazy to port my Rails app to PHP? | zfx: First off, smart change! (see: http://www.canrailsscale.com).Second, there is surely alot of rails-hosters out there, keep looking if you want to build your app with pure ror.But the beatuy of php is what you already have seen; it just works! |
Am I crazy to port my Rails app to PHP? | jrgnsd: As some commentars said, choose the language/framework that suits the problem.That said, I have experienced and heard that the time made up by using Rails/Ruby, is much less than the time it takes to customize a Rails app to get it to do what you want. Especially when there's a lot of customization. What I like... |
Am I crazy to port my Rails app to PHP? | access_denied: > I don't want to play sysadmin in my spare time
collaborate with someone who does. |
Am I crazy to port my Rails app to PHP? | milestinsley: Definately try http://heroku.com. They have an excellent free plan that is perfect for smaller projects and development.Also, if you use git, it's really easy to deploy an app by just pushing up to Heroku. |
Why are you hiring? | humbledrone: For my company, we are hiring largely due to global expansion. We write software that communicates with various power measurement equipment, and the protocols used to do so vary by region. As we expand into new countries, it is often necessary to support new protocols, and thus we need more manpower. |
Am I crazy to port my Rails app to PHP? | fijter: You could try out webfaction.com;
It offers a control panel where you can add as much apps as you want (including Django, RoR, static PHP, Worpress, etc.). The only 'real' limitation you have is memory usage. I have about 15 different apps running on the smallest webfaction acocunt and it works great; comes che... |
Am I crazy to port my Rails app to PHP? | cpher: This doesn't address your original question, but when I visited your site, I immediately thought of my college years (early '90s) when my dormmates and I took up yo-yo-ing (sp?). We had a blast showing off our newly learned tricks. In fact, I hadn't thought much about that time until I saw your site.Now that I h... |
Am I crazy to port my Rails app to PHP? | petervandijck: If it's a hobby app, no, you're not crazy, you're fine :) |
improving your design skills? | SocialBootstrap: You don't need to learn "everything you can about graphic design."
Your audience is other hackers. They don't care that much about visual goofiness either- you want a clean, minimalist site, then that's what you should have.The one single thing you should do is make your site more READABLE.Right now, t... |
Is anybody solving really cool problems anymore? | mx2323: well,all of the things you are talking about requires hardware + software. which is more expensive, slower and more dangerous than building web 2.0 sites that are easily patchable.that's actually a very prohibitive point, as most startups we hear about nowadays use software because of its low bootstrap cost and... |
What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"? | capablanca: What became of Steve Yegge? |
What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"? | litewulf: I use it. I'm working on open sourcing it.I kind of worry that the timing for open sourcing it now isn't the greatest, since with the advent of all sorts of commonjs bits, people probably already have their own frameworks. Also, the implementation lags behind what Rails looks like now, so its a bit... weird. |
What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"? | tlrobinson: Note there's also ActiveJS: http://activerecordjs.org/I'm not sure if it's being actively maintained though. |
Why No Search? | RiderOfGiraffes: Bookmark it: http://searchyc.com/searchWorks brilliantly. For very rare exceptions,http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+s... |
Why No Search? | jacquesm: Feel free to ignore the 'hnsearch' link at the bottom of the page, the links RoG gave are much better. |
I want to host a HN Meetup... | sinzone: If you are in SF area, tell me if you need help!cheers! |
CSS/JS/SVG game IDE? | olalonde: If such an IDE was built, it would pretty much mean the end of Flash on the long term. So my guess is that there is a market for an open standards IDE. |
Am I crazy to port my Rails app to PHP? | sinzone: http://www.aptana.com/ |
Would you go to Iraq for a year and be paid $200k? | ximeng: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100206/tts-uk-iraq-usa-contrac...Be careful if you go... |
What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"? | kmt: And how about node.js on rails? Anyone working on it? Maybe with MongoDB backend? It looks like a convenient fit to me. |
Review my event directory/calendar (and clone/fork it) | callmeed: Link: http://pixelcal.com/Source: http://github.com/bigfolio/pixel-calendar |
Why No Search? | marshallp: It's costs server time to create a search index, as well as coding time, and even then you'll always do a worse job than google can when ranking. On a public site, adding a google custom search box is far easier and betterWhich is the real question - why no custom search box on hn?Just do site:news.ycombinat... |
Who's Hiring? | provy: Invite Media is hiring in Philadelphia and New York City.http://www.invitemedia.com/careers/open_positions.shtmlBig engineering problems, an amazing team, growing quickly, and free food/beer! |
Review my event directory/calendar (and clone/fork it) | romland: Just a quick note:Pixelcal.com feels like a parked-domain-with-links kinda thing. I guess it's the style under "Upcoming" and "Recently added". Just thought I'd let you know (didn't look further, but going back now) :) |
CSS/JS/SVG game IDE? | BasicObject: How about in the form of a browser plugin. Think Firebug. That would be completely amazing and it's definitely possible. |
Wait for the new I-phone or Nexus? (My Contract is up) | rms: Would you rather run the iPhone OS or Android?I myself would much rather run Android, and I think I'm going to wait 6 months for one with a keyboard with a faster processor than the Droid. |
Wait for the new I-phone or Nexus? (My Contract is up) | tocomment: Can you play mp3s on a Nexus? Is it as good as an iPhone? How do you transfer the songs to the phone? |
CSS/JS/SVG game IDE? | vitovito: Effect Games has something like this: http://www.effectgames.com/effect/It was posted to HN a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=986196 |
CSS/JS/SVG game IDE? | ThinkWriteMute: It both saddens and annoys me that programming for the web requires: A styling syntax, a markup syntax, an ugly programming language, and a xml based graphic format. |
You must build a backlink index of the web. How do you do it? | randfish: We did exactly this at SEOmoz - built an index that's primarily focused on link data. It's accessible through a free API - www.seomoz.org/api - up to 1 million calls a month free and more at fairly low rates. Our index isn't quite Google-sized. Our last crawl (updated once per month) was 65 billion URLs, whic... |
Actual chances of seeing the space shuttle from afar | jacquesm: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/ |
Actual chances of seeing the space shuttle from afar | waterlesscloud: Scrubbed for tonight, so...no. |
Cases where software patents have prevented progress? | Daniel_Mietchen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marching_cubes#Patent_issues |
Approaching day job's customers about startup? | swombat: Yes, it would be unethical. Simply put yourself in the shoes of your employer - what would you think if you were in their place? You've used the detailed business knowledge you gained through their business to develop a product that competes in the same space (it doesn't matter if it's not a direct competitor ... |
Approaching day job's customers about startup? | _delirium: What kind of customers are we talking about? I think it's more likely to run into trouble if the customers are themselves large companies. If the customers are small---individuals or mom-and-pop restaurants or something---it's probably easier to reuse the contacts. That's just a guess, though. The current co... |
Approaching day job's customers about startup? | hga: I think it really comes down to the degree in which your idea competes or potentially does so with the company you are currently work for.If it's completely unrelated ... to come up with something wild off the top of my head, say you've noticed something that could improve the landscaping you see as you go to the ... |
Approaching day job's customers about startup? | dkersten: As far as I know, many employment contracts specifically disallow the use of the employers clients regardless of if you compete or not - but I'd check your contract with your current employer. |
Is there an API for HN ? | jacquesm: Depending on the 'timeliness' you can scrape the google cache or you can ask Paul if it is ok to scrap HN directly. |
Is there an API for HN ? | Mark_B: Please don't think this a trollish answer but, why not just ask the people behind the various HN apps how they're getting their data. |
Hacking Android, what's out there? | nuclear_eclipse: The one thing to keep in mind here is that beyond the modified Linux kernel, there's not much if anything about Android that looks like a "traditional" Linux distro. Android has recreated a whole new userland toolchain on top of the kernel, centered around Dalvik (Androids' JVM). If you want a more t... |
Is there an API for HN ? | tpyo: http://news.ycombinator.com/rss ? |
Is there an API for HN ? | grinich: I built the HN iPhone app. (http://michaelgrinich.com/hackernews/)Right now, it's all done via web scraping. I think others have used BeautifulSoup.py and similar tools to quickly grab content. |
Do you feel a need for reviewmyidea.com? | jheriko: Sounds like a good idea in principle, but what would prevent it from becoming "stealmyidea.com"? |
Ethics of writing HN conversation digests on my blog? | skennedy: The site is public and indexed by Google within hours. What ethical dilemma is there in quoting or analyzing what is public information? As long as it is not slanderous. If you are still feeling guilty, post a comment to the HN conversation and link to your analysis. |
Is there an API for HN ? | zachbeane: You can download the Arc tarball and read news.arc to see what's available. It's not up-to-date with the current version of Hacker News, but it will give you the general idea.The direct answer to your question is "no". |
Appropriate levels of email contact? | skennedy: Nothing changes if you do not voice it. Have you tried contacting the co-founders directly to express your view of their business practice? Good businesses(especially startups) constantly re-evaluate their business practices and how their user base perceives them. |
Steady 4-5% on $5 million? | skennedy: Without realizing the dreams of a penthouse or private planes in the immediate future, I would suggest you act like a 20 year old making their initial 401k contributions. Invest aggressively. Investments regularly hit 10-15% annual return. The downside is your investments are almost entirely tied to the unpre... |
Steady 4-5% on $5 million? | joshkaufman: I'd use Harry Browne's "Permanent Portfolio" allocation - it performs as well or better than other passive portfolios while experiencing far less volatility. Here's a detailed analysis of historical returns: http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2008/12/22/permanent-portfolio-...It's also simple enough that you don... |
Steady 4-5% on $5 million? | pg: The returns you can get at a given risk are unfortunately not something you can dictate. E.g. I believe safe municipal bonds are now returning around 3% after tax. If you want to get more than that you have to buy bonds with a higher risk of default.But if you put all your assets in bonds, you risk getting burned... |
Please review my Business Briefing | azeemazhar2: Oh. The link is http://bit.ly/Viewsflowdaily |
Please review my Business Briefing | romland: a) No. I don't think it's too simple. I mean, look at Twitter? :)b) I imagine people may want to personalize it, but I don't think that is something you need to worry about just yet. Keep it lean and mean. But that's my personal opinion.c) Get them to flag individual items in the mail they get (I want more of ... |
Steady 4-5% on $5 million? | azeemazhar2: Rumpel
Wise thinking.I think you have a couple of issues you need to bear in mind.
The world is fundamentally broken. And most models you will read about were built for a different world.I suggested you read John Mauldin (a lot) his newsletter is at http://www.johnmauldin.com/outside_the_box.html
You need ... |
Steady 4-5% on $5 million? | reasonattlm: These are unusual and unstable times. There are no easy low risk strategies that require little thought any more. Even being in cash bears unknown risks nowadays. So talk to the usual sources advised by other people, and find the place to park your capital that makes you happy. For now.Then put aside $50k.... |
Steady 4-5% on $5 million? | Perceval: Take a look at goldbasis.org. It's a very simple way of taking advantage of overall economic growth, while alternatively protecting yourself against inflation and instability. Nothing fancy. |
Steady 4-5% on $5 million? | jakarta: I'm working as an analyst at a HF, here are some thoughts:1. First, be aware that most financial advisors make their money by charging you fees. These can come in a variety of ways, some will take a simple 1% off the top, others will try to persuade you to invest in CDs and other products like mutual funds -- ... |
Steady 4-5% on $5 million? | jacquesm: Definitely don't put it in the hands of third parties, keep an eye on people charging you for 'maintaining' your funds.Diversify.Be very careful, don't follow any advice, including any of this without triple checking.And remember that what 5 million today will buy you is a significant multiple of what it will... |
Steady 4-5% on $5 million? | deyan: Quite frankly I am surprised by the tone of some of the advice here. I see the point for informing yourself, but following it should undoubtedly teach you to never try to beat the market and "do it yourself" - unless you plan to make this your life.Instead, I would shift the advice slightly to: inform yourself, ... |
Steady 4-5% on $5 million? | steveeq1: Good quote from Warren Buffett:
> You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long
> as you don't do too many things wrong.I agree. You don't have to be too bright to be a good investor. In the long haul, you'll be ok if you don't do something stupid. So aim for loss MINIMIZATION rather than ... |
Steady 4-5% on $5 million? | exit: what risk does someone with $5m confront of not seeing 2% ($100,000) annual return (before tax, adjusting for inflation) for the next 40 years?i ask because i'm going to spend the next hour or so fantasizing about being in the ops position. |
Steady 4-5% on $5 million? | portman: With all due respect, I think you're asking the wrong question.(a) Think of investments like a function with two inputs: risk and return. You've picked a desired level of return but haven't identified a desired level of risk, so by definition nobody can recommend an investment strategy.(b) There's no such thi... |
Steady 4-5% on $5 million? | crawlingroad: I run the site listed below on the Permanent Portfolio approach and saw all the hits coming in from this page. First let me say that if you want 4-5% a year you need to earn probably 8-9% a year. That's because you'll lose 4% or so just to inflation and taxes.Next, with that much money you will have many ... |
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