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How to avoid sore wrists | wglb: I had a friend who was an actor and playwright. He used a laptop sitting in his lap to churn out lots of plays, but he ended up with carpal tunnel and wrist braces. Be sure that the laptop is at the correct height. This is when the tops of your hands are level with the tops of your arms. And there are many ot... |
Feature-level feedback on my Android Apps Search Engine | ig1: Not really feature-level, but first impression is it looks like an auto-generated spam site. Also it's not really self-explanatory where the links go. |
How to avoid sore wrists | njl: Don't screw around. Carpal tunnel surgery seriously sucks. I got both of my wrists fixed a couple of days before my 21st birthday.Things that have helped me... Make yourself aware of your posture and wrist location. Don't type with your wrist bent at funny angles. Run something like workrave or xwrits and force yo... |
How to avoid sore wrists | izak30: I had the same problem. I bought a wrist brace ($17 @ target), and I have a larger desk that my arms can rest on. Once I fixed my wrist issues with the wrist brace, my shoulder started hurting from keeping my arm/wrist in the same spot hovered over my keyboard all the time. The two together have largely gotte... |
Feature-level feedback on my Android Apps Search Engine | skip: The content (search results) mimic too closely the ad results.Using whitespace to separate them (or a thin blue line, like the google sidebar ads) may help. Icons would brighten the design too.It's difficult to scan the list and look at prices because they are not aligned.I would suggest and icon in a column on ... |
Why youtube explicitly doesn't allow downloading videos? | thafman: YouTube does have a download option for specific channels (e.g The White House http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P21yLeBFKHY). My guess is that we will also see paid-downloads through Amazon (or equivalent) for things like music videos. But I can't see YouTube offering the download option for dog-on-a-skateboard ... |
How to avoid sore wrists | UrLicht: I owe my lack of wrist problems to playing piano. I learned to keep my wrists straight and NOT rest on the desk or the keyboard. And I second the comments about getting an external keyboard for that reason - laptop keyboards pretty much force you to bend your wrist downward to rest on the laptop. I also have m... |
Why youtube explicitly doesn't allow downloading videos? | ZeroGravitas: The adverts aren't in the video, they're on Youtube. |
Feature-level feedback on my Android Apps Search Engine | drtse4: The function you want to provide is quite simple, implementing an "app for x" search engine, so i guess you should focus on that and try to provide something really user friendly.
I suggest a few things:-Improve graphics a lot: Nice theme, Icons, highlighted prices and why not a small preview screenshot directl... |
How to avoid sore wrists | mutex: Guys... www.softflex.com is a life saver. No fancy keyboards just pads that you wear like gloves to cushion your wrist. |
Showing off customer feedback useful to you? (new from YC 07) | robfitz: Hey guys, we've been working with London's agencies for the last few months to develop Habit Stream, which help find the nice things people are saying about your business and then re-broadcast the best bits (customer tweets, press coverage, Amazon reviews, etc) through more scalable channels (like widgets & ad... |
Feature-level feedback on my Android Apps Search Engine | jsz0: What's the relationship between this site and androlib.com? It's just weird to click on a link and be sent to a different but very similar site. Makes it feel like a bit spammy. |
Showing off customer feedback useful to you? (new from YC 07) | SlyShy: It's weird to me that you aren't using your own product on your website. Or if you are, I looked around for it for a long time and didn't find it.You don't think it would be a natural fit for your own start-up? ;-) You could display all the positive comments you are getting on your website, and updated in real ... |
How to avoid sore wrists | jeffvroom: Fifteen years ago I had numbness in my fingers from lots of hacking. I ended up talking to the dr who invented the "pilosplint": http://www.painreliever.com/IMAK_IMAKPilo.html who suggested the problem may be in how my wrists are positioned when I sleep. You need 6 hours a day in a neutral "at rest" positi... |
Showing off customer feedback useful to you? (new from YC 07) | wheels: Design nitpick:Don't use fixed size containers and variable sized fonts:http://skitch.com/scotchi/ns2be/habit-stream-curate-broadcas... |
Showing off customer feedback useful to you? (new from YC 07) | revorad: Hey that looks neat. How did you make that video? |
Showing off customer feedback useful to you? (new from YC 07) | jasonlbaptiste: this is really really smart and a potentially big market. any smart site (ecommerce or whatever) has testimonials. the problem is, they're fairly static and people see them as possibly unsubstantiated. if i tweet "I <3 my iPhone" and its linked on your site, you cant ignore that. throw in the other ... |
Review my startup, Tweetc.com | Roridge: Am I missing something? Surely almost all the blogging sites offer this already? |
How do you configure your Linode Disk Images? | dangrossman: I only use Linode nodes for front end web servers, and the websites already sit on Subversion repositories, so I have no need to backup any data on the Linodes.What I do is start a fresh Linode from one of their base images, usually CentOS 5. I strip away all the services I don't need, lock down those that... |
Showing off customer feedback useful to you? (new from YC 07) | thinkbohemian: Widgets, ad units, and stream API: should be clickable links IMHO, they look like buttons, and are what i was interested in immediately |
How to avoid sore wrists | gte910h: Wear wrist splints for awhile, learn to move your arm instead of bending your wrist. I got used to it by doing an ergo keyboard.Additionally, be careful how you support your weight during sex and pushups, it also is a potentially damaging instance. |
help alpha test our new dating site (it's based on books) | mwsherman: Right now, we can only add profiles for US locations, sorry about that. International is a top request and is coming soon! |
help alpha test our new dating site (it's based on books) | Slashed: it's based on books means one lists book titles to describe his/her character? Interesting to see how some people would abuse this to become popular. |
How to predict startup viability? | RiderOfGiraffes: It took several read-throughs to work out what you are saying, but I think you're asking this:I want to purchase services from a small company - a start-up - but in doing so I run the risk that they won't prove to be viable in the long-run. Choosing them is a risk. How can I assess that risk so I can... |
help alpha test our new dating site (it's based on books) | javery: How quickly will Moby Dick be the most read book on this site.... |
help alpha test our new dating site (it's based on books) | mwsherman: One more caveat, there only a small number of profiles on there right now, so search results will probably not be very interesting just yet.We are most interested in feedback about usability, technical issues, and whether we are generally on the right track. |
help alpha test our new dating site (it's based on books) | iamwil: The first thing I wanted to do was SEE who else was on there. Dating sites need to have people to attract others. You don't make it very apparent how to see or search who else is on there.I didn't even read the popup because it GOT IN MY WAY of seeing who else was on there. And then the 'find people' form wa... |
help alpha test our new dating site (it's based on books) | javery: [bug] - search for books with nothing in search field. |
help alpha test our new dating site (it's based on books) | jrmurad: I thought this was a good idea. One of my own particular favorite authors is usually mentioned on social sites but in the form of "I hate people who like <This Author>."Alpha testing: I searched for "Thomas Paine" and got one result. The one profile result didn't seem to match the query at all.I tried searchin... |
help alpha test our new dating site (it's based on books) | snowbird122: This is an awesome idea. I wish I had thought of it. Best of luck to you. |
help alpha test our new dating site (it's based on books) | jolie: Coming soon? |
help alpha test our new dating site (it's based on books) | axod: Seems like a really small niche. Wouldn't movies be a better thing to match on, or music? |
help alpha test our new dating site (it's based on books) | henrikschroder: Are you really going to market this as a dating site? Because you will be steamrolled by actual dating sites that provide substantially more.. flesh.. Dating sites make money because people are willing to pay money to get laid.Doing dating through book taste doesn't exactly signal hookups, so why even l... |
help alpha test our new dating site (it's based on books) | aw3c2: http://alpha.alikewise.com/Profile/danalotus was the featured profile for me and it scared me. The eyes have eerie glowing spots in them from sharpening. I would recommend either asking that girl for another photo or not featuring her. :( |
Review my debt tracking app, Piggy Back | avand: Piggy Back was built to solve the problem of constantly owing or being owed by friends and family. It simply keeps a running balance of the debts between people.The plans are to make it easier and easier to create these debts by leveraging email and Twitter.Let me know what you think! |
help alpha test our new dating site (it's based on books) | Mc_Big_G: hmmmmmmmm My wife is definitely not into the same genre of books as I am and frankly I'm happy with that. Is there some real correlation between compatibility and the books you read or are you just assuming that? |
Review my debt tracking app, Piggy Back | javery: The site looks nice and I get the idea, I think the only problem is that I would see this as way to formal with my friends and family. If I pick up dinner with friends, or if I pay his part of the cab fare.. he just buys me dinner or a beer later. This seems too cold and formal for most uses.Now for something l... |
help alpha test our new dating site (it's based on books) | ambiate: "q=Nietzsche, q=Sartre, q=Camus
Hmm, none yet. Try adjusting your search criteria."where are all the a1=18&a2=23 philosophy chicks?edit: q=Paul+Graham, success. We can be hopeless and poor together. |
Review my debt tracking app, Piggy Back | genieyclo: I'm wondering why you have a Twitter login instead of a Facebook connect button, since most friends and family are probably going to be on Facebook, not Twitter. |
Showing off customer feedback useful to you? (new from YC 07) | jasonkester: Cool, but I suspect we're not your audience.It would be hard to imagine your API being simultaneously simple enough to be less work using Twitter's API manually, and customizable enough to dump out exactly what I want easier than massaging the data and presenting it myself.But then if I was a guy in a band... |
Review my debt tracking app, Piggy Back | ryanhuff: Here are a few ideas. The debit/credit terminology is too formal. Use something like "I owe" and "I am owed".I can see myself using this if it was more closely focused on helping me track who I owe money. The confirmation system you have is too formal.How about this. I can record who I owe money, or recor... |
Showing off customer feedback useful to you? (new from YC 07) | jeff18: I gave this an honest try because the video looked awesome, but sadly it is not useful to me.I basically just got a list of thousands of retweets for blog posts and a bunch of Disqus comments. Despite combing through many pages, I seriously could not find a single appropriate testimonial.Maybe you could add Go... |
Review my debt tracking app, Piggy Back | mishmax: Have you seen billmonk.com? This is what I use currently to keep track of tabs with roommates. BillMonk was bought by OgoPay in 2007 though and since then they haven't changed a thing on the site. |
How do you configure your Linode Disk Images? | buro9: I use rsync.net for backup and just use the Linode for web servers. The web servers all get their docroot from subversion. |
How to avoid sore wrists | nemoniac: Don't use arrow keys or pgup/pgdown. They're totally unthematic with the emacs way. Anything that requires you to stretch your hands from the standard rest position is bad.Unfortunately some emacs modes, most notably orgmode, use keychords such as shifted or ctrled arrows. This is very unemacs and needs to... |
Review my debt tracking app, Piggy Back | ashishbharthi: Back in my roommates days we used shared google spreadsheet with few formulas setup. It worked perfectly for us. |
help alpha test our new dating site (it's based on books) | lsemel: I tried it out and thought it was a fun site. It will be even more so when there are more people on it. |
Review my debt tracking app, Piggy Back | mattwdelong: There is an even simpler remedy to this: Don't give or lend money if you can't afford to lose it. Similarly, don't borrow money if you can't pay it back.I just buy friends/family a beer, or food/items with the likely event that it will be reciprocated down the road. Even if it doesn't balance, they're not ... |
Anyone from Iowa? | markbnine: if you build it, they will come. . . |
help alpha test our new dating site (it's based on books) | lsemel: You need to put in some hooks to help spread the word about the site. How come you're not encouraging people tweet or post to Facebook right when they sign up? |
help alpha test our new dating site (it's based on books) | philh: If I do a search and then click back, the button still says 'searching...' and I can't do another search. If I then click refresh it goes back to 'find people' but doesn't work. I need to click in the title bar and press enter to do another search. Firefox 3.6 linux. |
help alpha test our new dating site (it's based on books) | cabalamat: Quite a few of my friends are bi. Why can people on your site only be seeking men or women, but not both? |
What is your favorite event management software? | seven: You might want to take a look at:http://www.pentabarf.org/I am not a user, but visited several events managed by with help of this software.http://www.pentabarf.org/Conferences_planned_with_Pentabarf |
How to predict startup viability? | aamar: If the startup is VC- or angel-funded, figure out what their runway is. You may just want to ask them what they think it is, the revenue assumptions they've used to understand that, and what kind access to funding they have beyond what's in the bank (don't count on this too much, however).With this information ... |
What should I do? I work at a tech company who sucks at tech. | brk: You clearly don't have any respect for the organization.(Which may or may not be warranted. It's not that I doubt your assessment, but it IS only 1 person's one-sided opinion. No offense)If the organization is as large as your post implies, and you are working at the individual contributor level, then it's unrea... |
What should I do? I work at a tech company who sucks at tech. | noonespecial: That all sounds pretty par for the course when it comes to large companies, technical or otherwise. The sharp edge of the blade (the technical stuff done for customers) may be far from the daily operations in your department. The rest is just an ordinary BigCo.You've discovered why many people don't like ... |
I've been collecting Webform-spam for a year - what could I use it for? | yannis: Machine learning students can use it to train anti-spam filter designs. However, you will need to add more details for example how did you collect them did you use a filter? If you did perhaps more valuable would have been the spam that got away! |
Can I surf your couch? (Seattle YC meetup) | callmeed: I might be driving up from Oregon Thursday. I would invite you to crash my hotel but I prefer Rails and I'm not big on personal hygiene :)Ok, seriously ... is your contact info in your profile? I'll get in touch if I'm going. |
What should I do? I work at a tech company who sucks at tech. | pedalpete: I think it depends on how you feel about the company. Why did you take the job originally? was it because the company was a global multi-billion dollar brand? or was it because you thought you could make a difference.Clearly there is opportunity for improvement. If you are capable of making those improvement... |
What should I do? I work at a tech company who sucks at tech. | michaelneale: Q: does the company make its income via billable time of staff? if so, it is a services company (or a tech services company), not a tech company. The difference is subtle to some but makes all the difference in how things work. |
Should I hire a company or build a team from scratch? | CyberFonic: You may wish to think about the ownership of intellectual property and managing of technical team. If you hire a firm, you will need to negotiate the IP and you will probably pay more than if you hire. But of course, you could be up and running faster if you choose the "right firm". If you are thinking o... |
Is Lockerz.com legit? | mdolon: Lockerz is what made a lot of users on my site (pikagame.com) fanatics about free stuff. They do send out prizes however the process is somewhat shady, as they have a limited quantity and the prizes are only available at a certain time/day (kind of like Woot).It might get you something but honestly it's probab... |
Anyone from Iowa? | startupcomment: Check out Silicon Prairie. Maybe there are some pertinent meet up groups in your general vicinity. Given that you are in Iowa City, you should explore the CS Department, Engineering School, and Business School of the University of Iowa. They may have various formal or informal outreach initiatives re... |
Make makes nginx so fast ? | davidw: It's an "event based" server written in C, meaning that it uses select or poll or some other 'event based' mechanism to do its work.Erlang might be an interesting choice for your network service, as it allows you to write this sort of code very naturally. It depends on what you're doing, though... Python has ... |
Review my debt tracking app, Piggy Back | erikb85: very nice idea and good looking page. but I don't like to register somewhere for that feature. Make it a facebook app and I will use it! |
Make makes nginx so fast ? | zepolen: Yes, being event based helps a lot, but the reason nginx is faster than other event based webservers is that it tries very very hard to add as little overhead as possible; For example not copying memory around unless absolutely neccessary. |
jQuery sites down? | gexla: They were for me yesterday, but seem to be fine now. |
Books about running a software development contracting / consulting biz? | rguzman: We've been doing that in parallel to our startup for the last year or so. I don't know of any books on the subject, though. Any particular topic you'd like to discuss? |
Whoa - why did Google bork us? | cpg: Well, we found the issue!I started to look at the WMT crawl info and there were a bunch of network unreachable errors.Here is what happened: our site being PR6/7, we started getting a lot of scans for exploits. Some of them over and over. A few months ago I wrote a rule-based procedure to automatically block these... |
A watch that doesn't suck when typing? | rogermugs: sad i missed these comments until just now.
excellent advice (one of you) |
Is Lockerz.com legit? | thinkbohemian: Why not sign up using a disposable email such as http://whyspam.me (disclosure:developer) and get a P.O. box and try it out. Then you can let us know.WhySpam also tracks spammers and not-legit sites, so you can check to see if someone reported on it already. |
Books about running a software development contracting / consulting biz? | sganesh: Secrets of Consulting & More Secrets of Consulting - Gerald Weinberg.Getting Started in Consulting - Alan WeissYour Marketing Sucks - Mark StevensListen First, Sell Later - Bob PooleE-Myth Revisited - Mark Gerber |
Decent ads for a technical audience? | JayNeely: The problem is "technical audience" is still too broad to guarantee relevance.Relevance is the most important thing when placing ads.If you're really set on using an ad network (rather than managing advertisement yourself) use something that will let you approve and reject specific ads for your site, like htt... |
Decent ads for a technical audience? | kloncks: check www.buysellads.coma lot of the top blogs use that to sell their own ads |
Decent ads for a technical audience? | lsc: I think I can speak to this, as evidenced to the amount of time my 'out of space' sign has been up.First, technical people really don't like feeling like you are manipulating them on an emotional level, so make sure there is some compelling and objective reason your product is better that you can highlight. (for ... |
text editor based on Chrome | shaunxcode: Have you seen bespin? Obviously not directly for chrome but I think that is the direction of the next generation code/text editor. |
How should I pursue my passion? | maxklein: Well, if you're interested in programming 2d running games like Mario or Canabalt with cocos2d, I'd be interested in a partnership. I have a powerful cross-promotion network to push any game. Also have some funds for purchasing graphics, and have hands for manual labour.I think the side-scroller market is a g... |
How should I pursue my passion? | nzmsv: There might also be the option of going to graduate school and working on graphics. A language for geometry/scene graphs sounds like a plausible research project. |
How should I pursue my passion? | tjic: IMO, your passion is far too broad. You like graphics, programming language design, research, and three other things.To be brutal, it sounds like what you're in love with is noodling around, with no particular deliverable.As Jobs said "real artists ship".My two pieces of advice:1) keep honing your ideas until yo... |
How should I pursue my passion? | diiq: As an artist, I can offer a third option: don't try to make money doing what you love.I laid out a budget that would keep me alive --- food, shelter, etc. Essentially, what it would take to be personally ramen-profitable.Then I made a budget of what it would take, minimally, to keep me doing what I think is impor... |
How should I pursue my passion? | csomar: Having passion is not enough, you should work something.I love philosophy and wants to do some free mind thinking, but I couldn't do it all the time. I just take few hours each month, I like playing with Dog, it takes few other hours also.So do whatever thing you like, there's no problem with it. If you don't w... |
Good (computer) networking books? | rmk: Computer Networking, A systems approach.A great book. Highly recommended.http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Networks-Third-Approach-Netwo...Of course, one of the classics is this one:Internetworking with TCP/IP vol. 1.http://www.amazon.com/Internetworking-TCP-Vol-1-Principles-A...Edit:
If you are considering Linux, th... |
How should I pursue my passion? | jeromec: I'm a big believer that passion can translate into making money on the Internet. Passionately working on something is inherently valuable - that is, it's at least valuable to the designer and others possibly as well. The trick is merging passion with something either highly valuable, or having value to many pe... |
Review my dispoable email & spam tracking app | thinkbohemian: WhySpam.Me is my latest entry in to the disposable email field. For free we provide many common features that other competitors charge for. Our goal is to be the authority on website legitimacy. We hope by providing an outlet to vent about corporations treatment of their customers email inbox, we can rai... |
How should I pursue my passion? | prospero: It sounds like we have similar interests; I've been working on a library for Clojure which wraps OpenGL and allows for shader programming in an idiomatic DSL. It's been a lot of fun to develop, and I agree that graphics programming has a tremendous amount of incidental complexity. Trimming away the fat is a... |
How should I pursue my passion? | andrewcooke: random probably impractical suggestion, but if you like scheme, maybe you'd like smalltalk (they're both "purist" languages). and, if so, maybe research at wherever alan kay is these days. at one point that's what he was doing (interactive 3d worlds etc).[edit: ps, also, if you don't have kids and are ex... |
Does "Think And Grow Rich" really apply to the Software industry? | thinkbohemian: I certainly hope so. Though Napoleon's recommendations are a very high level theory of what happens in reality. It is therefore necessary to have low level knowledge about both your own software, and the market you are trying to enter.As most of HN will agree, there is no substitute for experience. |
Review my dispoable email & spam tracking app | thinkbohemian: Any comments, or thoughts? From UI, to usability, to economics. I'm interested in what you have to say... |
Review my dispoable email & spam tracking app | lambdom: It sounds interesting and I like the idea. However, in your videos, you talk a lot about spam, but with gmail, I really don't have that much.I could use the app when a site ask for my personnal email and I don't want to give it, but then, I already have "trashes" email serving that purpose.As I said, I like th... |
How should I pursue my passion? | vital101: I was lucky enough to find a job doing something that I love. Have you given much thought to finding a full-time job where you could do 2D/3D real time graphics? At the very least, you could be satisfied with the work you're doing AND have money to live on. You could even go to grad school part-time and ge... |
How should I pursue my passion? | messel: I'd keep shaving at the one thing that draws your interest the most with every spare moment until it's super sharp. Whether it's redesigning a graphics engine with Scheme or otherwise.In the meantime, work with a friendly startup and start building up your skills/network, or consult to pay the bills. I'd avoid ... |
Access to PG? | JayNeely: I'd suggest 3 methods that might get you a good result:1) E-mail pg@ycombinator.com, taking note of his advice from http://paulgraham.com/info.htmlSince you're in Boston, ask if he'll be here anytime in the next couple of months, and if you could buy him a coffee before / after whatever he's doing. Or, since ... |
Access to PG? | bhousel: There are a ton of startup incubator programs and investor lists and VC blogs and tech meetups out there that could connect you with mentors and advisors.If you think a 5 minute conversation with PG is going to dramatically affect the success or failure of your venture, I think you might want to broaden your s... |
When did the Internet get so slimey? | olefoo: Weird, I remember 1994-1999 as being full of people selling sketchy get-rich-quick schemes that used the "information superhighway". The spam wars, the invention of domain squatting, and the rise of online porn as a mega-industry happened during that time too.The internet is a tool of great power, but it magnif... |
When did the Internet get so slimey? | bilbo0s: Let me preface this by saying that I do agree with your assertion that a large number of 'internet' or 'web 2.0' companies today get a large amount of their money via less than honorable business models.Having mentioned that, I am now going to engage in some 'what aboutery' even though I know that it is frowne... |
When did the Internet get so slimey? | DanielBMarkham: I recently placed a Jeep on Craigslist for sale.Within hours my inbox had an email from another "CL'er""Hey man, you still got that for sale?""yes"Within seconds, the reply came: "You're asking too little for that. Check out this website XXX to see what I mean"This was cute the first time, but after a d... |
Should I choose a managed or unmanaged VPS? | xist: IMHO, if you need to ask, then managed is the way to go ;)In all seriousness, I would agree that your time might be better spent elsewhere. There's only so many hours in a day and if you're using it to generate income, your time is better spent elsewhere than playing around with things.Security aspects are the m... |
Access to PG? | gane5h: I mostly wanted to meet the YC folks in person to see what it's all about.So, I applied to Startup School last year and got in. I went to the YC offices afterwards to hang out. I had read almost all of his essays and also Founders@Work, so I didn't have to bore them with the same old questions. My questions wer... |
Review my new e-commerce model: self-serve group discounts | compumike: 2-minute video demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4vVhaUj8r0Our live website:
http://www.nerdkits.com/buckits/Plus this morning's press release with more details:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/02/prweb3632034.htm |
Review my new e-commerce model: self-serve group discounts | yuanthelottery: Yeah, I get it. Personally, I am an avid skier, and I'd love to use this product to get together with fellow skiers/snowboarders and take advantage of existing steep discounts in group lift tickets. |
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