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Awesome talks/video available online? | sjs382: Not exclusively tech-related, but this is one of my favorites: http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?bigi... |
Awesome talks/video available online? | tocomment: What are the best ones on TED? |
Awesome talks/video available online? | adldesigner: Very nice links, guys! Thanks! |
ASK HN: Slight Career Change | shutter: What are your skills? (What programming technologies do you know?) |
ASK HN: Slight Career Change | lacker: Make sure you can reverse a linked list in C++. |
ASK HN: Slight Career Change | sarvesh: Choose one of the web frameworks RoR, web.py or Cappuccino and write something cool on your own. Something small enough to show your future employers that you can write good software. It would help you to make the transition and also gives companies confidence that you are capable of making this career change. |
ASK HN: Slight Career Change | gaius: The way for a tester to move into development is to a) have a lot of experience writing automated tests and b) to have a reputation for writing bug reports that let developers quickly locate and fix problems. |
Awesome talks/video available online? | ricree: I may be a bit biased here, but University of Illinois's ACM chapter puts on a fairly good conference every year, and posts the videos online.http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2008/ |
I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku? | qhoxie: Am I panicking too much (I always panic too much)?If you are asking this all seriously, then yes, you are panicking too much. Calm down.Talk with a superior candidly about the situation. Taking breaks is not going to solve things if it is the project you don't like. Something about what you are working on/with is what needs to change. |
I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku? | sheriff: One sure-fire way to keep getting projects you don't like is to accept them, let them wear you down, and do nothing to improve your situation. |
volunteering/giving back? | d0mine: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=190467http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=57298 |
I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku? | bestes: It is important to get yourself out of this situation as soon as possible. It's depressing, you're not learning as much as you could, you're (probably) learning bad habits. Seppuku is not the right answer.How about a new project, a new job or find a way to make this project interesting (i.e. use a new approach, a new language, switch tasks with someone else working on the same project). Anything! |
I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku? | lacker: You have to get on a project that you do like. If you don't have enough "political pull" to make that happen right now, try to make it clear to your boss or other people in the organization that you'd really like to be doing something else. Taking long breaks is only a temporary solution. |
I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku? | iigs: Welcome to the morass of professional life.Is your career progressing? Have you accomplished anything in the last year that you'll put on your resume? Yes? Good, continue. No? Consider other options.Is the project proceeding? How does your manager feel about your work? Good? Maybe it's a perception problem on your part. Anxious? Perhaps you're not being applied well and should be moved to a different project within or without the company.Things checked out OK so far, but you're still not happy? Perhaps you should consider trying to flip your role in the company to something that would be more beneficial to both you and the company.My productivity plummets during certain phases of projects. If you're feeling that way perhaps you just need to get past a milestone onto a better or more interesting task.Don't panic about it! Some corporate structures can withstand an almost malicious amount of unproductive behavior; in fact, managing the spectrum of productivity is in large part what corporate management is about. That said, don't abuse it -- long term it will definitely hurt you more than them -- but think of it as productivity insurance while you figure out how you can succeed. |
I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku? | donniefitz2: Seriously, calm down. What's up with the assumption these days that everything done in our work is supposed to be fun? It's work. Sometimes it sucks, it's un-interesting, it's laborious, sometimes maddeningly menial. You're not always going to be learning at a fast pace. You could just quit and go somewhere else, get assigned a crappy project and find that the grass isn't any greener. Or you can suck it up and take the good with the bad. Put your head down and get through it and you'll learn how to deal with work that's not fun. |
volunteering/giving back? | mapleoin: I'm a second year student and all my programming experience has basically been volunteer work either for my LUG, or more recently as part of the http://fedoraproject.org
The latter has been especially rewarding both in terms of knowledge acquired and the fun involved in participating in a FOSS project. |
I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku? | tptacek: This happens to everybody. I think I've commented on it here before: a lot of nascent entrepreneurs here appear to be working under the delusion that they'll redline at their peak productivity levels throughout the lifetime of their startup.Here's what you need to remember: the difference between a professional and an amateur is that a professional comes and in and delivers work they'll stand behind all the time, whether it's fun or not. You are always going to work harder and faster when things are fun. Things are not always going to be fun. If you're a pro, you're going to keep going regardless.Obligatory essay (not that they've set the world on fire either, but the sentiment is good): http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html (Fire and Motion).Best of luck. |
I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku? | dpapathanasiou: I'll be a contrarian: if you really don't like what you're doing, find a way to transition to something else.That doesn't mean quitting immediately (and potentially jumping into another bad situation).Rather, start making inquiries (either internally, at other companies, or start your own) and see what else you could be working on.Just don't accept the idea that "work/life sucks, get used to it" as that's the surest way towards becoming a drone. |
I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku? | unalone: Heh. Nice user name.Don't commit seppuku. That's an overreaction. Suicide should never be an option until you have exhausted literally everything else, and "everything else" is such an immense field that really, suicide never makes sense.You have a choice. Either you keep what you're doing any try to find meaning in it, or you change your life and do something else. If you're not satisfied and have something better to move on to, then do that. |
I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku? | nostrademons: I was in a similar situation with my last employer - I absolutely loved my first project there, felt really productive, did a bang up job with it, and delivered something pretty slick. And then I got put on another project with a different toolset and absolutely hated it. I felt terribly unproductive, like I was wasting my time, and didn't believe I was learning anything professionally useful.If I were you, I'd look around for other jobs and see what else is out there. If there's another job that you really want to do, or you see a viable startup opportunity, jump ship. If not, buckle down and finish up the project. In my case, a friend from college IM'd me a couple months after I'd started feeling discontent, and said "We're starting a startup, and need a technical person. Wanna join?" I stayed long enough to get my current project into a sellable state, and then quit.Some reflections in hindsight:1.) My feeling of lower productivity was mostly a mirage. In LOC/day, I was almost as productive as I was in the previous project, it's just that more of those lines were boilerplate, and so I guess my productivity in function points/day was lower. Boss was relatively happy with my productivity, he just didn't like my complaining.2.) In terms of it being a dead-end professionally, I was absolutely right. Actually, both technology stacks (Swing/Netbeans for first project and JSF/Facelets/A4J/Hibernate for the second) were dead-ends; overall job markets for both seem to be declining, and anything new that I'd start now would need a modern web framework (Django or Rails) and/or C++ WinAPI experience.3.) 90% of products fail, whether they're done by a startup, a small company, or a big company. The only variable seems to be in how fast they fail, and how much resources they consume. So you should expect that your project is doomed and do it anyway; that's the only way to find out if it's one of the failures.4.) There was just as much grunt-work for my startup as for my job, but it didn't feel nearly as onerous. I think this was because I knew that even if the product didn't pan out, I was building skills that I'd want to use in the future. For me, it's okay to work on a project that'll fail as long as it leads to one that'll eventually be a success. At the last project at my employer, I felt that not only was the product doomed, all future projects using that skillset would also be doomed. (This feeling was not helped when we e-mailed some mailing lists on how to do simple things like integrate other AJAX libraries, and the response was "It's not possible. In fact, the engineers here have recommended to management that use of JSF be banned for all future projects.") |
I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku? | jimbokun: Get enough sleep and exercise. Starting to do these things have made a noticeable (to me) difference in my productivity level and outlook. |
When do you scrap a startup due to a well-entrenched player/competitor? | tjic: > When do you scrap a startup due to a well-entrenched player/competitor?When you decide that you can't win.Or, better: when your opportunity cost is such that you should really be doing THAT project and not this one.> When do say "don't enter this space because X already owns it"?That's a slightly different question. In the first scenario, you've already accomplished some things. In the second scenario, you're just starting. I'd saying NEVER in the second scenario. Not if you're truly going head-to-head. If you've got a niche that the big player can't go after (as, for example, my <a href="http://SmartFlix.com">SmartFlix</a> not really competing per-se with Netflix.). |
When do you scrap a startup due to a well-entrenched player/competitor? | aristus: If you identify a structural weakness that can be exploited without huge gobs of cash, go for it. The only thing big guys can consistently do is outspend you.Good weaknesses include new technology you can use faster than they, or a country/culture you understand better. If your competitor has good growth and features consider a fast-follow: matching them feature-for-feature but cheaper. Worst case you distract them and start a price war. Then you shift gears and start offering better features. If you don't think you can out-feature them, you are in the wrong business. |
When do you scrap a startup due to a well-entrenched player/competitor? | jacobscott: A couple of things that might be relevant:* How many people who want to do X but haven't yet would choose your site over established-X-player?* Would you expect people using established-X-player to switch to using your site? Why or why not?* Does X involve substantial lock-in or network effects that established-X-player can take advantage of?I've been seeing lots of articles (recent calacanis death spiral email, for one) saying that this economic climate will not be friendly to smaller clones (don't mean to imply that your idea is a clone). |
What data about users and how they use your website do you wish you could collect? | sidsavara: One thing that I can't get via Google Analytics (the only one I use) is how long a person stays on one page when they "bounce" immediately. I have often thought there should be an easy way to build a little javascript ajax call that polls every 5 seconds or something, and whenever they leave - it would stop polling and you'd know they were gone.There are so many details we already have (keywords, page of entry, etc) - but the bounces frustrate me a lot. If they are bouncing after 2 seconds, that's a problem. If they are bouncing from my info page after 60 seconds, that's a totally different problem: it means they liked what they read, but I somehow couldn't entice them to stay. |
What data about users and how they use your website do you wish you could collect? | netcan: Really depends on the site. But the list is endless.There are lots of things that would be useful to know.Here is an exampleSo, say you want to know how regular users of feature X, to get to it. There are lots of questions you might want answered.Say you find 5 - 10 'paths.'m (eg google search for 'site.com'>homepage>pagex>login') You might want to see the general pie graph of which paths get used. Google analytics can probably handle this. But what if you want to know about 'users' using this path. Do users migrate from path A to path B over time? Do users form their path in the first visit & stick to it? Are users erratic in their choice of path? Do users of the site that joined after redesign (sub segment) use a different path. Are users of more advanced features (sub segment) more likely to use path X. |
When do you scrap a startup due to a well-entrenched player/competitor? | pedalpete: In someways I think this could depend on the network effect.
If you are going against a Facebook/eBay/etc., you have to consider how you can grow a significant userbase overcoming the barriers to entry (notice I strangely used Facebook instead of MySpace? - Facebook had to have had the same thoughts you had at one point).If you are going after a google(search) or Amazon, there is very little network effect (people would argue that Amazon network is built on the reviews, but reviews are available on the web).Just my two sense. |
I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku? | lallysingh: Sounds like a terrible case of humanity. There is no cure. I'm sorry. |
I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku? | Prrometheus: I would venture to say that committing Seppuku is generally a bad idea, unless you have dishonored your family on the battlefield or something. |
I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku? | niels_olson: I had some really smart kids working for me over the summers at Canoe U. Marshall scholars, Rhodes scholars smart. I saved up miserable work for them all year and, come June, I'd give them one project each. I told they didn't have to come in, nothing. Just log their hours and send them to me every week. I'd make an estimate of how long each project should take, with a guess at what a standard dev might be. Invariably they went insane with boredom and frustration and asked for more projects.I'm not saying my management style was exceptional, but their insight into the nature of work was: if the project bores the crap out of you, ask for two or three more. By working on the more interesting projects, you can save up willpower to tackle the dull-as-rocks first project. You might actually get through the first one faster. |
What data about users and how they use your website do you wish you could collect? | showerst: <begin brain dump>
I've never really seen a good visualization of a site's link graph (with focus on link text & page rank), probably due to the sheer size of many sites.I'll second other posters that time on site for each page is a biggie.Anything you can do to expand on the 'funnel' model is solid. (Clicktracks treatment of this is especially good IMHO)Just to throw it out, I'd love to know more about if/how my users use other sites (so i could see if they've been on competitor.com or wherever recently =P), Although I can't possibly think of a way to do this that isn't a blatant privacy violation.I'd also like more clustering options by language or country, so i could see if US/English users use the site differently than UKers or German speakers, although I realize that for most sites that are international enough to care, they have multiple language sites, there's still visitor cross-over.This is a stupid one, but automatic FTP downloading of log files is something I seem to have to set up all the time, so a mechanism for aggregating logs would be nice =).All just random brain noise, hope it helps =). |
I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku? | Dilpil: Take comfort in the fact that you are still being 10x as productive as everyone else. |
What data about users and how they use your website do you wish you could collect? | vaksel: I wish you could get proper demographics of your visitors who decide to bounce. Right now you can figure out exactly who your users are, but there is no easy way to figure out what demographics don't get convinced by your message |
What data about users and how they use your website do you wish you could collect? | jdavid: i would like to know1. how many sites before mine they were at2. how happy i made the user3. how angry i made the user4. a full detail of their computer specs. so i can set my expectations on site performance |
I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku? | 131072: Ignore all the people giving advice along the lines of 'suck it up, work is not supposed to be fun'. That is the talk of people who hate the idea of anyone having a better life than them.You need to map your way out of this situation - demotivation (regardless of the cause) is bad for you and your employer. Persisting with it is unprofessional. If you try and 'suck it up' you will travel the path to burnout and damage to your health and career.Try and identify the cause before you take the appropriate action - it could be boring/unsuitable work, a medical problem like depression or even something like anemia, burnout, poor diet/exercise, or a lack of fulfilment from other areas of your life. |
Keep cash positions in different currencies? | lionhearted: I wonder if keeping the equivalent of $10k USD in something else might be a good "get the hell out of here and survive for three months elsewhere" hedge for people with a bit of cash who aren't too tied down to their local economy. You can use Elance, Odesk, etc to freelance from anywhere if you've got some in-demand skills. Doesn't take much to survive in Thailand, just getting out and having rent/food money for a while could be huge in a meltdown. I've been thinking over where/how it'd make sense to take a position - Seems like dollars, euro, and sterling might all be linked a bit. Chinese RMB? Yen? Some eccentric country that's still gold-based and can't debase their currency? |
I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku? | trickjarrett: At my last job, I found out that an intern was being paid more than me and my productivity plummeted. Any request I made about a raise was rejected and eventually I left the company.That being said, that was due to my not feeling appreciated and feeling that I was being taken advantage of.We all go through slumps. We're writers. Neil Gaiman just blogged about how he had to slog through parts of books and he would regularly call his agent and try to cancel the book so he could work on something else. He's not alone. We all do it.You think Gaiman would blaze through a novel about the mating cycle of the South American Gazebo? Hell no! Well maybe he would, I can't really say.Anyways...
In the first example, I tried to make it right. I spoke with my boss and my boss' boss to try and fix the situation. While mine did not end well, you first need to communicate with your boss. The squeaky wheel gets the oil.The second thing is to keep on plugging. So long as you're making progress it'll get done. It may suck and may not be your best code but it has to get done, it is your job.Be strong my friend, you're not alone as this thread has shown you. |
Keep cash positions in different currencies? | lionhearted: Also: I'm looking at Argentina as worst case here.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_economic_crisis"In July, 1989, Argentina's inflation reached 200% that month alone, topping 5,000% for the year.""In 2001, people fearing the worst began withdrawing large sums of money from their bank accounts, turning pesos into dollars and sending them abroad, causing a run on the banks. The government then enacted a set of measures (informally known as the corralito) that effectively froze all bank accounts for twelve months, allowing for only minor sums of cash to be withdrawn.""In addition to the corralito, the Ministry of Economy dictated the pesificación ("peso-ification"), by which all bank accounts denominated in dollars would be converted to pesos at official rate. This measure angered most savings holders and appeals were made by many citizens to declare it unconstitutional." |
Keep cash positions in different currencies? | gexla: Well, Gold is the refuge for the doom and gloom nutjobs. You could also invest in canned goods and guns. Actually, if you had your money in the pound a couple months back, traded for the dollar and buy back pounds today then you made some money. Personally, I'm just going to quit reading the news and get some work done. :P |
I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku? | TweedHeads: chantingSeppuku!Seppuku!Seppuku!Get it on video and sell it for $9.95 |
Keep cash positions in different currencies? | sfamiliar: jim cramer has said before that one shouldn't have a position you can't afford to spend an hour/week investigating. however you may feel about his financial wisdom otherwise, this point seems sound. in this case, that'd mean an hour/week for each currency, reading up on that country's economics. you might have that kind of time, i don't know. first world western countries' currencies are very stable, and change slowly over time, their values increasing and decreasing by slow degrees. if the dollar, euro, or pound suddenly went horribly south, the rest of the world would definitely feel it, and their currencies would also likely plummet. so there's no safe harbor abroad for currency.consider instead gold, silver, platinum, and jewelry. since we're talking about an 'escape scenario', they might be your best option. mr. wemmick in 'great expectations' had a not-terrible plan in terms of an unstable economy: he had gems and jewelry pinned under his lapel, and frequently touted the value of 'portable property'. this might be a better route to take than currency since it doesn't fix a destination, it's easily liquifiable, and very portable. |
Keep cash positions in different currencies? | delackner: I would love to hear more knowledgeable responses from someone familiar with historical currency devaluations, but it seems to me that:1. Regardless of the crisis, some currency remains (or becomes) a reserve currency.2. That country has for the past few hundred years always been an industrial power.3. The currencies that have effectively died seem always to be connected to countries that are highly indebted or politically unstable.4. Gold's price may look attractive now, but its price also has a habit of collapsing when people start to return to the market, making it more of a speculative gamble than a safe reserve (at least, talking about TRADING gold, not the physical stuff). If you live in a non-G7 country, maybe holding physical gold is a good idea if it seems like your economy might totally collapse, but in the G7, if your currency totally devalues, it means that the entire world economy has gone to hell and there are more important things to worry about than how much "savings" you have, like how much food and water you have.Given 3, even if you COULD buy RMB (it is illegal to take RMB outside China, so how exactly would you spend the money, unless you are willing to move to China?) their government is a group dictatorship one "unexpected" event away from collapse, despite everyone's hopes for continued calm running. Britain is too small to resume reserve currency standing, and most of the other US creditors are of questionable long term stability.Except for Japan. They have insane savings, have not gone to war since WW2, and have a government so focused on stability that Koizumi made huge waves with his "controversial" plan to privatize their postal banking system -- a plan that would not even take effect until several years after he left office. The Yen may not appreciate much, since no one likes to see it go much higher, but I would love to hear someone explain how it could possibly drop much either. |
I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku? | iamwil: Here's something from Aaron Swartz about the same topichttp://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/productivityI remember pg saying that if he had uninteresting programming work, he would try to make it interesting by making a language design problem.My dad's brother told him once that "Everything's interesting when you look hard enough." I've found that to be true so far.But even if you find your work interesting at large, I think everyone has their cycles. It helps to notice how you got out of the last one, and what you did to get out of it. Even the coolest job and most interesting work has its lame parts that you have to slosh through. |
What is the easiest way to host a Rails app? | qhoxie: This article gives a decent overview: http://www.aidanf.net/deploying-rails-on-a-clean-ubuntu-slic...Aside from that, you can search for tutorials related to blank slate hosts like Slicehost and Linode - they tend to cover rails well. |
Keep cash positions in different currencies? | oakmac: Fundamentally this is an investment question. Because currencies trade against each other on an open market moving your money from one currency to another is speculation.In the case of total economic collapse the only things of value will be things that cannot be bought: friendships, trust, favors, etc. Maybe you should make friends with a local farmer. |
What is the easiest way to host a Rails app? | ph0rque: have you tried heroku.com? |
What is the easiest way to host a Rails app? | smoody: http://blog.fiveruns.com/2008/10/20/automatic-production-rai... -- it's a no-fuss script for bringing up production Rails on slicehost. |
Keep cash positions in different currencies? | vabmit: One way that you can do this is through a retail stock broker, like TD Ameritrade, with CurrencyShares ETF's ( http://www.currencyshares.com/ ).I've done this with positions in the AUD and Swiss Franc. Those two currencies tend to move in opposite directions since the Swiss Franc is a safety currency due to Switzerland being a relatively insulated mature modern economy. AUD on the other hand, tends to be a growth play since Australia's economy is heavily based on the export of natural resources (think mining). The two currencies tend to move in opposite directions increasing the likely hood that your wealth will be protected in most cases. You can also use options to protect your positions on the ETF's.I keep 10% of my savings in foreign currency (via CurrencyShares) and 10% of my savings in precious metals (Gold & Platinum Coins (Philharmonics and Maple Leaves)). The rest I keep either in a targeted retirement fund or my local currency (USD).Obviously, this portfolio hasn't worked out very well for me, recently. :( |
What is the easiest way to host a Rails app? | utnick: setting up mod_rails on slicehost is pretty straightforward |
What is the easiest way to host a Rails app? | amr: Rails Machine(http://railsmachine.com) makes setting up and deploying rails apps very easy with their capistrano tasks(https://support.railsmachine.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id...). I've been with them for over a year and I highly recommend them. |
What is the easiest way to host a Rails app? | elai: You see rails apps saying 'hosted by engine yard' on gitnub.Try this list:
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/RailsWebHostsand 'rails hosting' on google. |
What is the easiest way to host a Rails app? | rnesh: I'm not sure if this fits your needs, but I would also take a look at WebFaction. http://www.webfaction.com/hosting/rails-hosting |
What is the easiest way to host a Rails app? | siong1987: Some slicehost articles that might be useful to you:Setting up a Ubuntu Hardy Heron with Rails:
http://articles.slicehost.com/ubuntu-hardy |
What is the easiest way to host a Rails app? | iamelgringo: Try searching for Rails EC2 AMI if you're interested in hosting on EC2: http://pauldowman.com/projects/ruby-on-rails-ec2/ |
What is the easiest way to host a Rails app? | shevertalov: I've had good luck with hosting Rails on Dreamhost. They have a good wiki page on how to set it up with capistrano (http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Capistrano) and you get shell access. |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | scottymac: I like the simplicity, but not sure how will monetize it? Maybe offer it as widget for other sites? Or perhaps create a FB app? Certainly lots of potential. And people really like clicking buttons. |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | brk: Unless I'm missing something, that's not a "startup" it's a webpage with a clickable button.What's the point? What's the business model? (seriously). |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | immad: I didn't click the button.I didn't want to. Too many people had done it already |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | run4yourlives: Well, your 15 minutes should be up any time now... |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | stevesmith155: Sorry, but :yawn: |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | ram1024: i admit it, i'm a clicker...it was just too much for me. i'm suing you for rehab therapy now to cure my aclicktion.they say you haven't succeeded as a business until you're sued. congratulations, give me your money now |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | jacobscott: There's a fine line between irony/parody and wasting everyone's time... |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | bigthboy: <grunt> bigthboy not amused... buttons make bigthboy angry! <roar>...but in all honesty, what is the true point behind this? I am aware of people's addiction to press buttons, but if you can convince someone to pay you in order to press a button then you've got something. Without that, I really just don't think this is anything more than a time-sink for those who are procrastinating, and most certainly not a start-up. =P |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | mstefff: why would anyone come back to this..what the hell..i dont get it |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | tortilla: Needs more cowbell. |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | aaroneous: "10087 clicks from you... Thank You" |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | ryan-allen: Sweet, all you need is some venture capital and you're on your way to the big time! |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | jbert: I realise it's a gag. But...Have the site sponsored by different people each day, and record the number of clicks on that day. Keep an archive, make it competitive.e.g. 30th October is Obama day (just an example - not partisan), click to show your support! Sponsor pays some rate per click (or just to hire the site for the day).As others have mentioned, your button would appear in many places (facebook widget, etc), so that would add some value to the potential sponsors.Of course, they could put up their own button, but that wouldn't get them into your archives or the kudos of having the one and only 'clickthatbutton.com' buzz.I don't think I'm being serious. But then, it's not that much crazier than the million-dollar homepage. |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | ph0rque: Hmmm... I think you should definitely go after the enterprise market. |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | tlrobinson: So, why are you sending the coordinates of each click back to the server?I'm sure it would make a nice looking heat map, but is there some other reason? |
What are some of the best Tutorials/Resources on How to Build an IPhone App? | rodmaz: I recommend you to enroll on the iPhone Developer Program (it's free if you plan initially to develop for the iPhone simulator only).
I recommend you then to download Apple's documents under 'Getting Started Documents', including memory management and play with the tutorials.
Apple has plenty of resources on their program, they did a good job supporting developers. Good luck! |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | tlrobinson: I cheated: while true; do curl -d submit.x=1 -d submit.y=1 -b clickthatbutton=10521 http://clickthatbutton.com/; echo; done
edit: and apparently you (or my ISP) throttle ;) |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | vecter: Thank you for finally emphasizing the fact that not every website is a startup. |
What are some of the best Tutorials/Resources on How to Build an IPhone App? | mdakin: Assuming you already know a bit of C and that you like learning by tutorial I'd recommend working through "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X" 3rd Ed. by Aaron Hillegass. You will get a good tutorial-based introduction to Objective C, Xcode/Interface Builder and the design patterns used to build both OSX and iPhone apps. (iPhone is not mentioned in the book at all but the general patterns are the same.)Be sure to understand the retain/release memory model as the garbage collector is not avail. on the iPhone.With the background you gain from Hillegass you'll find it very easy to pick up the differences between OSX development (which uses AppKit) and the iPhone development (which uses UIKit). There is a lot of good information found at the iPhone Dev. Program's website which bridges the gap.The tutorial approach is always a little frustrating to me personally as often details are glossed over and the topics are not covered systematically but if you supplement the tutorial with the information provided by Apple you can resolve all the little annoyances as they come up.Finally I recommend watching the videos Apple's prepared about iPhone development.Good luck and have fun! |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | thomasmallen: Upvote this if you feel like it. What do you think of my new startup? Got the idea at http://clickthatbutton.com/ |
What are some of the best Tutorials/Resources on How to Build an IPhone App? | adityakothadiya: Check this out - hope this helps -http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/iphone-application-and-webs...http://icodeblog.com/category/iphone-programming-tutorials/ |
What are some of the best Tutorials/Resources on How to Build an IPhone App? | rksprst: Get Erica Sudan's ebook. It's worth it and you'll learn a lot. Then just dive in and go for it. |
What are some of the best Tutorials/Resources on How to Build an IPhone App? | mjmoody383: A simple post from Flickr that I found here yesterday:http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/27/lessons-learned-while... |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | tptacek: Not sure about the colors, maybe invest in a designer and a copywriter, and did you know the button was SQL Injectable? You're off to a great start, but I worry about Facebook and Google turning this into a feature instead of a product. Consider the enterprise. |
Is personal bankruptcy a problem for founders? | lsc: probably depends on your position.I'd think twice before investing in a business person who declared bankruptcy. I mean, it would matter why, and it wouldn't be an immediate no any more than having a failed business would be an immediate no, but it's a black mark. The technical partner having that black mark? especially if the technical partner had a business partner who was responsible (and who would presumably be responsible for the money) well, that wouldn't bother me so much. |
What are some of the best Tutorials/Resources on How to Build an IPhone App? | geuis: This is a related post I put together earlier this month: http://www.trending.us/2008/10/08/11-places-to-get-started-w... |
Is personal bankruptcy a problem for founders? | trevelyan: build a company that makes you money and doesn't require investment. what is the problem? |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | symptic: Make an API or an app for Facebook/Myspace or a widget for Wordpress and watch it spread. ;) |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | forensic: I like it. I gave it around 180 clicks before I left the page. It was a good experience. |
What are some of the best Tutorials/Resources on How to Build an IPhone App? | ciscoriordan: Lecture notes from the iPhone App class at Stanford: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | railsjedi: shoulda entered this into railsrumble! |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | iuguy: Hi,I'd like to invest in your startup. Would you be willing to implement Social networking features, file sharing (with intelligent auto-removal of copyright infringing material) and live micro-macro-socio-splogging?Given that you spent 5 hours on this so far, I reckon you'll be able to implement these features in another 10. I'm willing to invest $5 for 40%. Interested? |
What are some of the best Tutorials/Resources on How to Build an IPhone App? | fgimenez: The website is not that exciting, but the tutorial videos are amazing. I suggest checking out the alpha slider tutorial.
http://www.iphonedevcentral.org/ |
What are some of the best Tutorials/Resources on How to Build an IPhone App? | abijlani: http://iphonedevcentral.org/home.phphttp://www.iphonesdkarticles.com/ |
What are some of the best Tutorials/Resources on How to Build an IPhone App? | petercooper: It's still early days, but myself and Dan Grigsby launched http://www.mobileorchard.com/ a couple of weeks ago.We already have an iPhone developers' podcast (first episode is an interview with Hampton Catlin, who's selling 1000 copies of his app each day) and are trying to link to interesting iPhone developer related stuff over time. It's getting better each week :) You can also follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/MobileOrchardAs an example of what we have, try: http://www.mobileorchard.com/9-places-to-publicize-your-ipho... - 9 places to publicize your iPhone app :) |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | andhapp: This is at the same level of madness as "I am rich" iPhone application except that application had a cost model to it unlike this one... |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | rrival: This is going straight to the front page of TechCrunch! |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | m_eiman: Hm, looks familiar. Mine has chat, though. http://click-a-billion.com/ |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | matt1: Thousands of visitors and it still says "1 clicks" -- doh. |
Is the for-profit open business an oxymoron? | bdfh42: The most "open" business model I can think of would be a cooperative. This might be owned by both it's employees and it's customers. It would have to err on the side of making a profit but that profit would normally be paid in turn to it's shareholders - the employees and customers. |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | mcu: Your button is bad and you should feel bad. Is this really what Hacker News has come to? |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | tjic: A+++++++++++++++++++++Would click again. |
What are some of the best Tutorials/Resources on How to Build an IPhone App? | jemmons: Learn Cocoa. Seriously. |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | djm: I assume this is a joke.Having said that, if you are creative you may well be able to cash in on this considering the attention that your site appears to be getting. I remember, a few years ago, some kid made a page that sold ads to people for $1 per pixel on the page. The page contained nothing other than these ads. The kid was trying to make $1m and he did it - enough people were willing to pay a dollar or few dollars to be a part of his idea even if they didn't really benefit from it.I'd look at adding advertising to the page - I'd love to watch you make a million from a page with a button on it! |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | aasarava: Anyone else remember "Button, Button" from the Twilight Zone, where a couple is offered $200K if they push a button on a box. The only catch is that if they push it, someone they don't know will die?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight_Zone)Creepy. |
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