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What are you working on tonight? | odajay: Working on the new financial reporting requirements and preparing my financial courses startup. |
How did you learn programming? How long did getting good take? | Kliment: I first played around with DOS on an 8088 back at school. I'd edit batch files and make it print out amusing things. Made a text adventure, self-replicating files etc. I then tried editing an exe file to change it, and realized it wasn't quite that simple. Later on, I found QBASIC and used it to write "real" p... |
What do you use for search on your app/site? | andyjdavis: Assuming you just want search for your users and you're not concerned about how it works Google may well do the job well enough. As long as everything you want to be searchable is public (not password protected) it works pretty well and only takes a few minutes to set up and embed in your site/app.imo, go d... |
What are you working on tonight? | lindelof: A building thermal performance model written in Octave/MATLAB. |
Selling intangible goods (website) using Escrow, is it safe? | dangrossman: Escrow, along with a good contract, is a great way to transfer a website. The buyer has to send the money to the escrow service. You know that they have the money to buy your site, and that it's been transferred to the escrow service, before you have to turn over the website. You transfer the domain to the... |
What do you use for your site's FAQ? | dimarco: We are in a transition between a Joomla plugin and rolling our own.
We all really hate the Joomla plugin. |
What are you working on tonight? | s3b: playing around with android |
What are you working on tonight? | natep: This thread looks pretty crowded already, but I'll throw this in anyways.I'm adding a few screenshots to my part of my team's presentation. We have a program review tomorrow (today).My project: http://cusat.cornell.edu/violet/ |
What do you use for your site's FAQ? | cperciva: I have a webpage where I put questions (and their answers) if I notice people asking them a lot.Sometimes the dumb solution works just fine. :-) |
What are you working on tonight? | siculars: building riak on a couple ubuntu 9.10 virtual servers. checking mem usage n 32bit vs 64bit for a new project. riak > node.js > jquery. |
What are you working on tonight? | dawson: Preparing for admissions interview. |
What are you working on tonight? | dacort: Backing out the latest changes we spent the week building because it "wasn't right". |
What are you working on tonight? | ashleyw: Building a barebones game framework for HTML5 Canvas. Or at least, decoupling the reusable pieces of code from a game I've been building. |
How was the Seattle YC meetup? | dmnd: It was very worthwhile for me. The feedback I got on startup ideas was motivating.It'd be great if others that attended could post here as well, if only to help me remember all the names! |
What are you working on tonight? | jdoliner: A raytracer as part of a class project. |
How was the Seattle YC meetup? | dacort: From Tony Wright, a YC alum:"Probably over 100 people came to the YC meetup in Seattle. Crazy success. Note to self: Hackers suck at RSVP'ing."
http://twitter.com/webwright/status/9666575618I couldn't make it, unfortunately. |
What are you working on tonight? | menomnon: As part of writing my first Thunderbird addon, started in the way I usually do by doing a demo. Setting up the parallel dev profile was a little tedious and is not explained in the documentation. I wanted to get actual messages into the dev version (because I'll need them) and ended up flying blind (but cor... |
What are you working on tonight? | david927: A better database. |
What are you working on tonight? | zefhous: Just made a little jQuery plugin:http://github.com/zef/jquery_form_toggleIt makes it easy to show and hide elements based on the state of a checkbox, radio button, or select menu.Demo: http://madebykiwi.com/files/jquery_form_toggle/I'd be surprised if there isn't something like this out there already, but I co... |
What are you working on tonight? | snikolov: Signals and Systems problem set http://mit.edu/6.003/S10/www/handouts/hw3.pdf |
What are you working on tonight? | Lazlo_Nibble: Coverscans, coverscans, coverscans. |
What are you working on tonight? | iamwil: Working on getting data to be more easily imported for http://graphbug.com |
How did you learn programming? How long did getting good take? | c1sc0: I learned programming in BASIC at age 10 when a computer-science-teacher uncle of mine explained how Super Mario worked. It was all a bit over my head but after about a week I was drawing some Mario-inspired shapes on the screen. The next big push came when I taught myself to do early CGI-based stuff: it was jus... |
What are you working on tonight? | kogir: Real C# support for Thrift, consisting of WCF metadata providers and channels. |
What are you working on tonight? | X-Istence: Working on my Google AppEngine based website. I hope to launch by the end of this month. |
How did you learn programming? How long did getting good take? | rdj: I learned just before leaving the military. A contractor said, "Learn Perl and you'll have no problem finding a job". So, I grabbed the "Learning Perl" book and forced my way through it. I was horrible (a Linux 'man' page wrapper; or basically system()). I do remember the day, while working on a project, that it a... |
What are you working on tonight? | pmjordan: I was sleeping when this was posted, but now I'm working on a consulting project (embedding an existing game into OpenSocial and Facebook apps). Once I finish with that for the week, I'll carry on building the prototype for our SSD-based I/O caching driver. I'm hoping we can finally make that do something use... |
What are you working on tonight? | mcxx: A web interface for MongoDB. |
Location Poll | niyazpk: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=752262 |
What are you working on tonight? | Gertm: Trying to get the hang of the Furnace webframework. |
What are you working on tonight? | jparicka: Looking into memcache http://bit.ly/ceIa49
Beepl's (django) eating up 400MB of mem/apache process. :-( |
What are you working on tonight? | cosmok: Adding more polls into my photo poll page @ http://i-am-bored.in/polls/ |
What are you working on tonight? | cookiecaper: The baby my wife had on Tuesday, I guess. We just got home. |
language choice for dynamic website given our skills | nmp0906: If you want to leverage your existing collective talent, choosing java is an easy choice. If your co-founder wishes to learn something new & different or you have a specific use case where python-based frameworks make more sense, then you choose this route. Both languages have their pluses and minuses. With... |
What are you working on tonight? | splat: Writing a lab report for my lab class. I'm using electron diffraction to measure the Planck constant. |
What are you working on tonight? | tcarnell: NOW: Working to pay rentTONIGHT: Adding graphical reporting into Femtoo.com (to view graphs of change history of trackers)...and then getting drunk. |
What are you working on tonight? | epi0Bauqu: Editing a new interview I did earlier in the evening with Steve Welch on getting traction. Hoping to upload and post it today. |
I just don't care anymore. Any advice? | kentuckyfried: Even if you're bored and feeling unchallenged, you should stay in college and perhaps take the initiative to self-study on more advanced topics, or better yet, broaden your skill set with other things that you're interested in.For example, I can tell you that it's very rare to find somebody who has stron... |
How did you learn programming? How long did getting good take? | regularfry: Learned Sinclair BASIC when I was 10ish. Graduated to the C64 and a BBC Micro through school, ended up doing C and a load of ARM assembler by 16. Picked up PHP, Delphi and Java at college, got PHP and Java work after then. Got into Python 5 years ago, then Ruby 4 years ago, and dabbled in C# in the interim.... |
I just don't care anymore. Any advice? | kentuckyfried: Another area is 3-d animation + coding...if you're already a good artist, you can rule if you have a robust set of programming skills (so I am told). |
Location Poll | epi0Bauqu: Valley Forge, PA. Our Philly meetup group: http://www.groupomatic.com/haqsm3vj |
What are you working on tonight? | chronomex: I'm setting up a development environment to work on writing a FTP search engine tomorrow afternoon. It's a new laptop (new to me, Thinkpad T30), so it's not all perl'd up yet. |
How did you learn programming? How long did getting good take? | hga: '77-78 school year: Punched card FORTRAN IV (really more like a II) on the IBM 1130. Prompted me to start and never stop studying software engineering ("structured programming" et. al. was the rage back then).Summer '78: most everything but C and the like on a rich UNIX V6 system. Focus then besides exploration ... |
What are you working on tonight? | egor83: Working on my word-learning application.
Partly to learn Dutch (though the program can be reused for any pair of languages, with some features (irregular verb forms) making it more suitable for Germanic languages - Dutch, English, German etc), partly to get experience with C#. |
What are you working on tonight? | Tichy: Finishing touches on porting my chinese checkers game to Android. It is mostly an exercise in writing a HTML 5 app for Android, as I don't expect many people to be interested in chinese checkers. Then, start working on the next Android app. |
What are you working on tonight? | Mc_Big_G: Working on a quickie startup using a domain name I've had since '03 which is foreverlist.com. It's a paid classified ads site where, for $5, you can list an ad with unlimited images that never expires and which you can change to anything at any time.So, as an example, you have a classic car which just sits i... |
What are you working on tonight? | thenduks: Been working on a new bug/ticket tracker for a while... Continuing to do so :) |
What are you working on tonight? | kylebragger: I'm working on Forrst. |
language choice for dynamic website given our skills | patio11: Java was my first "real" programming language. I went to a Java school. I did primarily Java programming at my first job. I've done almost exclusively Java programming at my current job. I made a business selling downloadable Java software half just to show people it could be done.I say this so that when I... |
What are you working on tonight? | vault_: Working on an experiment for my psychology class. It's fun because I made it a web application, and it's been a good chance to mess with Couchdb. (project is here(http://github.com/vault/Word-Superiority-Effect), it's pretty crappy currently) |
Location Poll | vorador: By the way, I'm parisian. Maybe we should create a meet-up thread ? |
What are you working on tonight? | abyssknight: This Friday night, I'll be working on getting the Orlando Defcon Group together at Stardust Coffee and Video @ 7pm.This will be the first time the group has convened since it was marked inactive in 2006. |
What are you working on tonight? | wglb: Working through pickaxe ruby, tinkering with lisp program to decode pcap files and explain packets/protocols, keeping an eye on the Cluster, figuring out xen. |
We got an invite to TechStars for a day, should we go? | andrewhyde: (I'm with TS)Keep in mind that attendance at TechStars For A Day is not required in order to receive an invitation to participate in the program. It can obviously help, but there are plenty of examples of companies that didn't attend and were still invited to the program subsequently.It is also a really fun... |
Any good stories you have about writing? | RyanMcGreal: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1120356http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=778108(P.S. thanks, searchyc!) |
Any good stories you have about writing? | krevels: George Orwell - Why I Writehttp://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/english/e_wiw |
We got an invite to TechStars for a day, should we go? | henryci: Reasons to go:
- Meet new entrepreneurs in your physical location or technology space.
- Get free advice from great mentors.
- Be involved in the community.
- Increase your chances if you apply next year by learning about TechStars.
- 5% is significantly more likely than life happening, and yet here we are.Rea... |
We got an invite to TechStars for a day, should we go? | quigebo: with an attitude like that, you wont get very far with your business. Figure your startup has an even smaller chance of being successful but you still want to pursue it, correct? Have faith in yourself because no one else will. |
Any good stories you have about writing? | raffi: I used to work as a scientist for the Air Force and part of my job was writing reports and proposals. My community expected clear and concise technical writing. At the time I had a lot of trouble with passive voice and complex expressions. I was intimidated by our style guidelines and it really made it hard for ... |
We got an invite to TechStars for a day, should we go? | hiroprot: Come out, we'll have a beer :) |
Template for Software License agreement | Roridge: what kind of licence? Like The GNU Licence, MIT licence, Apache Licence? or a Proprietary licence? |
What are you working on tonight? | rmanocha: Learning Clojure (by reading Programming Clojure) - oh and trying to setup VimClojure and failing miserably (file detection is working, but everything else including syntax highlighting & indentation isn't). |
Is doing a PhD from Oxford a better option than a Research based Job? | cperciva: a three year doctoral programYou do know that's a myth, right? When I turned up OUCL for my DPhil, one of the first things the department head told us was "in the history of OUCL, only one student has ever done the DPhil in 3 years".I'm not sure if that's true or if he was exaggerating slightly; but the norm... |
inspirational startup sites | nathanh: Have a look at http://www.abtests.comThey have great landing page examples. |
Any good stories you have about writing? | tankman: Maybe you will be as surprised as I was to hear the name Stephen King mentioned in the context of writing advice, but 896 Amazon reviewers can't be wrong:Stephen King - On Writing:https://www.amazon.com/dp/0743455967?tag=0596800673-20&c...;This is what Roger Ebert said about the book:"A lot of people were outr... |
Is there an open-source shared task list app? | pasbesoin: ToDoList is open source. Unfortunately, it is Windows based. On the other hand, I've heard it runs fine under Wine.The developer, Dan, is a good guy.http://www.codeproject.com/KB/applications/todolist2.aspx |
Open source Stack Overflow equivalent? | billpg: I'll build one this weekend. |
Open source Stack Overflow equivalent? | OmniLarry: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5558/am-i-allowed-to... |
Open source Stack Overflow equivalent? | pragmatic: http://discovermagazine.com/2007/dec/long-live-closed-source... |
Open source Stack Overflow equivalent? | hcm: Django implementation: http://github.com/rickross/osqa/Rails/MongoMapper implementation: http://gitorious.org/shapado |
Rate our Start Up Image Terrain | rmk: Do you support Chrome? |
Any good stories you have about writing? | pmichaud: I wrote this a while back. Writing is Thinking:http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/the-secret-about-writing-... |
Rate our Start Up Image Terrain | pedalpete: I didn't quite get it until watching a bit of the video.
Might be nicer if on the main page you had a 'we turned this image into these images'. kind of thing.
It looks like it could be an image library, rather than a product which creates images. |
What are you working on tonight? | Semiapies: A designer friend and I will likely play with a redesign of some mutual friends' university club's website.EDIT: And then I notice that this was posted yesterday. :) |
Everyone-Must-Follow Blogs? | mbrubeck: I posted some links in this recent thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1134392 |
Where is Steve Yegge? | pook: He and _Why are obviously forming an underwater hacker's paradise. |
What are you working on tonight? | headShrinker: There is a merge lane right out my window in NY. Horns honk all day, due to narrowly missed disasters, and occationally theres some contact. Soooooo, I pointed a webcam out my window and created the http://WorstMergeLaneEver.com |
Where is Steve Yegge? | amarcy: When he was on the Stack Overflow podcast a while back he said that he was going to be finished blogging shortly thereafter. That was about a year ago. |
Location Poll | shrnky: About an hour and half outside of New Orleans, LA. |
What are you working on tonight? | ElllisD: Searching my email / Paypal accounts for orphaned / unlogged receipts. |
Anonymously register a C Corporation? | startupcomment: If you are an incorporator, director, or officer, the jurisdiction where you incorporate or are required to qualify to conduct business may require disclosure of all such parties. Your involvement could be more concealed if you were merely a stockholder or if the state where your business incorporates ... |
Anonymously register a C Corporation? | pseingatl: An attorney can incorporate and keep your identity secret. As long as the corportion isn't public disclosure requirements are trivial. The problem is with respect to banking business; banks will insist on knowing who the real customer is. It is almost impossible to conduct banking business though third parti... |
What are you working on tonight? | wendroid: Working on our backup path. I run some Limbo[1] code using Windows Scheduled Tasks. This copies the contents of My Documents and Desktop (or wherever) to a Venti[2] server running on Linux on the LAN. The storage arenas of that server are extracted in 500Mb chunks and encrypted, along with the scores for acce... |
Rate our Start Up Image Terrain | joshmeth30: pedalpete we were trying to hint at that by our slogan "one image endless possibilities and we do support chrome. If anyone is interested in a free trial or promotional rates contact me atimageterrainjm@gmail.com |
Still using thesixtyone? | timmorgan: I had never used thesixtyone until the redesign made waves here. That discussion made me finally try the site. Now I use it a lot.Not sure if that helps answer your question, though. |
Still using thesixtyone? | bjplink: I was a semi-regular user before the redesign, didn't particularly like the new look and have pretty much stopped using the site. |
Still using thesixtyone? | yannis: Somehow, the social element is gone now and the interface lost its appeal for me. As for the game is gone! From daily logins I am now to about once/twice a week. I only login to listen to my favorite artists. I hate the redesign, I like to look at lists and choose, scrolling is so 90's. (Karma 28000 Lvl 14). H... |
Still using thesixtyone? | mschaecher: I was never really a frequent user. I have some friends that didn't know of the site pre-redesign, but have since discovered it and love it. |
Still using thesixtyone? | maxtilford: I used it a lot before and I use it a lot now. It took a bit of getting used to, but I rather like the new design. I've found that I'm listening to a lot more new music, where before the redesign I just kept listening to the same stuff over and over. |
What are you working on tonight? | jasonkester: The Plan: Finish documenting the little i18n library for .NET that I built last week and release it open source.The Reality: It's 95 degrees here in Cartagena and my fingers are sweating onto the keyboard. Cuba Libres sound like a much more viable option. |
Still using thesixtyone? | inmygarage: I used the site both before the re-design and after.love the re-design.Lots of reasons:-the core of thesixtyone is about discovery and the problem with many discovery sites is they are too bogged down with choices. the browsabilty of the new design is commendable.-all of the stuff they are clearly doing aro... |
Try my Jeopardy game | jsomers: I built this game using the data made freely available by j-archive.com (a wonderful site). It's "multiplayer"---so you'll get the most fun out of it if you've got some chums around. But there is also a single-player "study mode" at /blast.I'm worried that the site (made using Ruby on Rails) won't stand up to ... |
Still using thesixtyone? | jgilliam: Compete shows traffic shot up in January.http://siteanalytics.compete.com/thesixtyone.com/ |
Still using thesixtyone? | niels_olson: I was on t61 fairly early but never used the site much. I use it much more after the redesign. Now it's on par with Pandora as my go-to music source. Pandora is more reliable; thesixtyone is experimental.OTOH: last.fm has lost me. It's like facebook for musical tastes, except none of my frinds use it. Many... |
Looking for interns / entry level? | vide0star: We're looking for either marketing or engineering interns to join Smarkets in London for a minimum of three months. Our front-end is Django and back-end Erlang with a nifty RESTful API.http://smarkets.comSmarkets is a simple and social place to bet online. Our tech team is top notch and we recently launche... |
Still using thesixtyone? | jmathai: I used it for a few days after the redesign but have since resorted back to pandora. I've got a few stations that I've been listening to for a while and I've provided a great deal of feedback for which songs I like/dislike. A few of my stations really nail it for me at this point. |
How to get into SEO consulting? | brk: At 17, I'd suggest you probably just bypass this altogether.SEO is not magic or difficult, it is what HTML was in the 90's.I remember when a person who did little more than a webpage layout could charge $3,000+ for what was basically a set of static page templates because most people thought that HTML was a "langu... |
How to get into SEO consulting? | jaxc: If you wanted to learn about SEO then you could always jump in the deep end and setup a small website or blog with a dot.com domain name with some original content around a niche (topic) something small that you know a lot about and try play the Google/bing/yahoo(?) game and aim to get your site ranked well. It w... |
What % of YC companies were "pro" | pg: You mean which have some kind of post-school work experience? Certainly the majority. Maybe 80%. Though interestingly some of the biggest successes (e.g. Loopt, Dropbox) were started by people straight out of school.Young founders have more variance. They often flame out, but when they don't they often do reall... |
How to get into SEO consulting? | jfi: One person you might want to Google is Mike Mothner - he's a Dartmouth College graduate and started a business from his dorm room when he was a senior (I believe). He turned it into a company called wPromote, which specializes in site optimization (which, I agree, will pretty much fall into the category of "writin... |
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