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Best Ad Network for Tech Blog? | billpg: I have no idea, but I'm interested in answers because when my blog used adsense, I'd always worry about mentioning viruses because of the ads that would show. |
Functional Programming Differences | loup-vaillant: "Treat functions as first class citizens"Actually, Object oriented programmers already do this. If they use "class polymorphism", "mixins", or any mechanism where an object's method could be determined at runtime, they use first class functions. They just don't know it yet. So, take an example where the... |
Should I be told a startup's present valuation when given stock options? | chrisbennet: If they expect you to work harder because you have equity, then yes, you definately have a right to know what you are getting in return for your extra work.In reality:
(A) The chances of your company ever having a "liquidity event" are slim.
(B) Even if it did, your share of the windfall would probably be ... |
ad server recommendation? | kloncks: Back when I was in the need for an ad server, I remember using phpAdsNew, now called OpenX I believe.It's not for everyone, so I recommend you give it a spin before deciding anything, but it does offer a lot of configurability and analytical tools. |
Using Cassandra instead of MySQL from the start? | z8000: You should probably ask this on stackoverflow.com. |
ad server recommendation? | kev097: In addition to OpenX, check out Google Ad Manager/DFP. I tested both a couple years ago: found OpenX to be more robust and customizable, but Google had a much better UI. Both products have evolved since then. Either could fit your needs.http://openx.org/ad-server/hosted-packages
http://www.google.com/admanager/ |
Best Ad Network for Tech Blog? | ig1: If you've got a reasonably sized readership I'd try Federate Media.I'm actually working on something in this space at the moment as a side project (smarter ads for tech & programming related content), but I'm not going to be ready to test with users for a couple of months. Feel free to drop me an email though if y... |
Anyone interested to work on a project basis as a graphic artist? | thaddeus: I've always thought if I could spend money on a graphic artist/illustrator I would hire David Brasgalla. He's most definitely my favorite. Probably expensive too.http://www.pixelhuset.se/pixelhuset.html |
Best Ad Network for Tech Blog? | PStamatiou: Without knowing your traffic #'s, I can't say for sure but the big networks require a lot of pageviews/month. Among the lower is Tribal Fusion, which requires around 5,000 uniques per day. My blog is just about at this level, except for lower traffic on weekends, so I am considering applying soon.Otherwise ... |
ad server recommendation? | jcdreads: AOL (I mean, Aol; actually the former AdTech) has a pretty good self-service solution. It has a pretty dashboard, good management interface, and getting campaigns up and down is fast. Not sure on price.http://www.adtechus.com/Home |
MixcloudAds, if we white-label it would you use it? | sstrudeau: This sounds like something that would go high up on our evaluation list for the company I work for -- for us, there's a big space between our bread-and-butter high end advertisers and the remnant networks filled with advertisers that would like to make sub $5k buys but take as much or more effort than advert... |
ad server recommendation? | cheald: Google Ad Manager is pretty dead simple to use. OpenX if you want a native solution. |
Want to move to San Francisco/Silicon Valley - how would I do it? | keefe: dice.com and craigslist.org are two major job sources for SF bay area |
Competing with Google while running on Google App Engine | keefe: run run run away? seriously... think it through. app engine is relatively equivalent to ec2. why not just eliminate this variable and switch unless it is cost prohibitive? |
How Can Ads Not Suck? | sfgfdhgfdshdhhd: Ditch automated ads, ads that try to steal our focus away from the content, and ads that hog up our bandwidth, screen space, CPU time, etc. They're annoying, usually irrelevant, and serve no good.When you write, include in your writing very brief endorsements for products related to your subject. Don't... |
Do you sneak workouts in at work? | keefe: I workout every morning, first thing. |
Want to move to San Francisco/Silicon Valley - how would I do it? | neilk: As an H1-B holder in a similar situation, I advise you not to do this. It's not as simple as Europe.The USA makes it very hard to get a visa. Also, even if you do get a job, working on your startup part-time is yet harder. Valley jobs typically take much more than full-time hours and have little time off. Welcom... |
Have ideas, not the skill (Yet) | keefe: You should do neither. If you present good ideas to people that can execute them when you can't, why wouldn't they just take them? You should just be patient, take a passive note for some additional months. Write out your ideas on paper. Write down your skills. Depending on your age, consider going to university... |
ad server recommendation? | mattew: I have two clients using OpenX, and they are both quite pleased. One started out with the free, hosted version, and recently migrated to our own install of OpenX due to poor performance on the hosted version. Our local install performs quite well, though.OpenX is pretty easy to install and keep running, it do... |
Accounting software for startups? | ropergroup: QuickBooks has a basic program called Simple Start that is an easy to use program for new businesses. It will give you more functionality than Excel. For a discount, go to our website and click on any Intuit icon: http://www.ropergroup.com. With Simple Start you can create invoices, track payments, pay bill... |
Can we help each other? | graupel: Speaking from experience - if you are indeed a news personality at a TV station, you're going to have a tough time monetizing yourself without running into a conflict with your own stations web goals, etc.If you think that you have the right to monetize yourself while using the station as a promotional platfor... |
Variable Declaration Location | jaydub: Maybe its just an old C (C90 I think?) habit where declarations and code could not be mixed. |
Variable Declaration Location | sparky: It is a bit anal retentive, but there is sound reasoning behind declaring your variables in the narrowest scope possible. Google's C++ style guide ( http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.x... ) captures some of them. Another is cache locality of your stack, if you are in a language or pro... |
Variable Declaration Location | allenbrunson: pet peeve alert!I also prefer declaring all variables at the start of a function. My rationale is that, if all functions are written that way, it's less cognitive load when reading them. All variables used are known at the beginning, and once I've digested that, I can think about the code that will be wor... |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | sebastianavina: sell drugs on ebay |
Functional Programming Differences | ananthrk: OT: I fit the profile of your target audience. So, if you don't mind, please post your slides after your talk. Thanks. |
Variable Declaration Location | gills: Narrowest scope seems to be pretty standard practice, as long as that jibes with the language (ex. javascript's function scope).But...there are probably more important battles to choose to fight during your project. |
recordable video chat API services? | DanBlake: We can do it at tinychat.com and give you raw access to the FLV's. Send me a ping and I will set you up with our private API. |
Best Material to Learn Search Engine Optimisation ?. | Roridge: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/ is a good place to start. |
Please review my new website | wildsalmon: http://www.opinbot.com/reviews/show/agdvcGluYm90chwLEhVyZXZp... |
Cofounder vesting schedule for young startup | aditya: 4 year vesting with 1 year cliff for all employees (including co-founders) is pretty standard. As is acceleration upon exit. |
Cofounder vesting schedule for young startup | alain94040: No cliff for founders. Reverse vesting (you own your shares upfront). Presumably, you have been vesting already for a few months, so you are ahead. I would also recommend at most 51/59 split, not 50/50. You need a way to resolve deadlocks.By the way, consider using my online cofounders agreement before you ... |
Functional Programming Differences | Xichekolas: I would stress composability (which fits in with that whole DRY fad).Also, the ability to reason about your code is a big selling point of side-effect free code. When you don't have to keep track of a bunch of state in your head, it's much easier to reason about what code does, and find any bugs or unexpect... |
Can we help each other? | alanrudolph: I think it helps to have a platform or idea that you stand for, because marketing yourself generically probably won't generate too much interest. For example, a local news personality where I live is well known in the gay community, and his name pops up on its own in that context. What are you into? Food, ... |
Can I sell my early stage startup? | coryl: You can try listing it for sale on Flippa. Although if its not making money, I'm not sure you'll get much for it.If the business is promising I'm sure it'll get picked up. |
Can I sell my early stage startup? | noodle: options:1) shut it down.2) sell it. yes, you can sell it, although it will be difficult and/or won't sell for nearly as much as it would if it were fully established with paying customers.3) find a partner and offer them a majority stake to take it over completely. you retain some reasonable stake in the comp... |
Can I sell my early stage startup? | dawie: Can you send me more info? davidsmit at google's email service. I might be interested. |
Can I sell my early stage startup? | dirtbox: Firstly, sorry to hear about your health.I'd approach similar, established companies that would be interested in acquiring your tech, or could use it in some form. As a last resort you could also consider splitting it up and selling it off in parts, assuming it's modular enough to do so.You should go some way ... |
Does any company want to hire me? | RiderOfGiraffes: Clickable: http://MichaelPlaterII.comOK, question: why didn't you put in this comment to make your site clickable? If I were looking to hire, I'd want someone with impressive credientials, and who showed some initiative. You've made it harder than it needed to be for me to look at your CV. What does... |
Does any company want to hire me? | RiderOfGiraffes: Context: I employ people. I have 22 employees, and the last three hires were because I saw someone that impressed me and put them on, even though neither of us knew what they would do. I knew they would be of value.I'm not hiring at the moment, but here are some thoughts about your resume:When I read ... |
"Basic SEO"? | andrewljohnson: 0. The zeroth rule of SEO is get your site listed for a search for your site. If your site is bobsfishingtips.com, make sure if someone searches for Bob's Fishing Tips, you get found. This means simply getting at least one real site to link the name of your site to you, or maybe a couple sites if you ha... |
"Basic SEO"? | rokhayakebe: Ask yourself this question:
"If I was looking for X and landed on this page, what would I want to see (information, layout)?" X being what you want to rank for.
Edit: Then get people online to talk about X and link to your page. |
"Basic SEO"? | imp: 1. Pick your target keywords (https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal)2. Make sure those keywords are on your page and maybe urls also.3. Get links. More the better. Not from spammers. |
"Basic SEO"? | mseebach: Basic "white hat" SEO is two things:1: Making sure your site is visible to search engines. Make sure there are meta-tags, that navigation, headers and text is text, not images or flash. Have a sitemap. Make sure links to pages contain a good description of what's on the page.2: Making sure someone's linking t... |
How Can Ads Not Suck? | sojourner: My concern with asking "How can ads not suck?" is the limitation of the answer. If I take one step back from the question, my view of the problem shifts and the potential solutions grow. Your concern isn't about ads and ad-blockers, it's about generating revenue from a site. You think that ad-blockers are af... |
"Basic SEO"? | Timmy_C: I also like to tell people what basic SEO is not:1. SEO is not keyword frequency. Although the page you are optimizing needs to contain the search term you are trying to rank for it shouldn't be saturated with that term. The first four words of the <title> tag, the <h1> tag and maybe an <img> alt attribute are... |
"Basic SEO"? | lmkg: SEO has two basic components: making your site seem good and worthwhile, and associating it with particular search terms. Making it good and worthwhile and not-spammy mostly has to do with incoming links, and having fresh content. Reach out to blogs and other sites in your domain to try and collect back-links.In ... |
How much is a link to my app worth? | Travis: I'd recommend against it, although I don't have experience.1) if they're reputable, they will just review you (not charge a fee). Also recall that the FCC requires bloggers to include financial disclosures now, so that will lessen the impact.
2) if it's not a reputable blog/site, then you're not going to get m... |
"Basic SEO"? | qeorge: Here's the basics:- Research your keywords, make a list, especially paying attention to which ones are the most popular. The results may surprise you.https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal- Optimize your title tags (different on each page, mention your keywords, first 4 words of the title count t... |
"Basic SEO"? | brown9-2: Google publishes a pretty clear and simple "Webmaster guidelines" checklist to follow: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en... |
"Basic SEO"? | akrymski: I also see ads that say "mom working from home earns $500 a day online!". If it was so easy to make "instant $50/month" then I'd just sit there and set up a new site every day for a year, and then retire. Truth is - there's no get-rick-quick scheme that runs on auto-pilot. A site isn't just a domain, you h... |
"Basic SEO"? | csomar: Black Hat Seo0. Find a new, non discovered niche. This niche should be gold, this mean the Adsense Pay Per Click is high. Register a related domain.1. Purchase unrelated domain names, any domains really, get ".info" domains since they are cheap.2. Buy a SPAM tool like Xrumer and SPAM related/unrelated blogs wit... |
"Basic SEO"? | rubyrescue: Build Links. Here are my 5 steps to get started from nothing, with 5 free bonus steps. Do one of these per week, in a little over a month you'll have a foundation. Remember SEO is like farming, you reap what sow and it takes a long time to reap the harvest of all the hard work.1. Leverage your competition, ... |
"Basic SEO"? | epi0Bauqu: Really basic: http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimiza...My tips (once you understand the really basic): http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2009/04/search-engine-op...HN comments on my tips: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=553613 |
"Basic SEO"? | steveklabnik: It's probably something like this:http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/adsense/42980-how-...Which was discussed on HN here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=511935 |
How much is a link to my app worth? | stevenloi: I'd second not buying links this way. There's a ton of free ways you can personally market your app already. Since you mentioned the sites that solicited have relatively low page rank, it's not worth the time/risk/money. |
"Basic SEO"? | sscheper: My advice:1. Content is king, obviously, but get inbound links through guest posts2. The rest is detailsThe details:
1. Use alt img text to describe images2. Use hyperlinks with solid naming conventions: http://www.localseoguide.com/yelp-seo-analysis-part-one/and nothttp://www.localseoguide.com/p=1882703. Use... |
"Basic SEO"? | bradrydzewski: SEO can be expensive and time consuming, and a single update to Google's algorithm can send you back to the drawing board.My advice: take all of the time and money and, instead of SEO, focus on making your product great or creating great site content.If you have a site worth visiting, the quality linking... |
Can I sell my early stage startup? | sganesh: I am interested. And would like more information. My email is in my profile. |
"Basic SEO"? | noodle: here's the basic set of rules i adhere to:1) only pick a few keywords.2) make sure you have those keywords in the title tags, in an h1 that either copies or restates the title, and in an h2 that is basically a site summary sentence/paragraph. you can use css to hide or image replace the h1/h2.3) get some other... |
"Basic SEO"? | sidsavara: http://www.sensational-seo.com/ Free firefox plugin for basic SEO ;) |
"Basic SEO"? | hfz: I believe this article by Derek Powazek is worth reading: http://powazek.com/posts/2101 |
choosing Web framework, again | benedwards: Saying Django is not appropriate for complex sites is just plain wrong. For whatever reason Django was just not a good fit for that author, but I think there's thousands of Djangonauts developing complex sites that would completely disagree with him.Definitely don't pass on Django because of one guy's opin... |
choosing Web framework, again | tobyhede: I think the best advice is just to pick something and stop worrying. Analysis can be a form of procrastination.That said, I use and recommend Rails. Rails 3 is nearly ready for prime-time and introduces a suite of changes that make it faster, more flexible, and infinitely configurable. The part I have always ... |
How to recruit great hackers in a remote location? | jarsj: Being flexible might help. Hire part-time. Have them stay over for few months and also allow working remotely. Make them visit once in a while. That's the mode I engage with companies who have good problems to solve and it works. |
How complex is image resizing? | Qz: There are a few standard algorithms, like Bicubic, trilinear, and others. Photoshop generally lets you choose. Different algorithms work better for different types of images, and also depend on whether you're shrinking or enlarging. Photoshop has the most common ones and probably works for 95% of common cases. |
What are typical eCPM for Google Mobile Ads? | johng: This is from a cell phone forum and the "mobile skin". This value is all of last months traffic:Impressions: 426,784
eCPM: $1.39
Revenue: $592.15Won't say which site, hope it helps. |
How complex is image resizing? | mbrubeck: It's not that complex, but it's complex enough that even Adobe Photoshop gets it partly wrong:http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.htmlhttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1141971 |
How complex is image resizing? | wmf: Consider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanczos_resampling -- inventing this stuff required Serious Math Skills, but implementing it is probably not that difficult (provided you know the right keywords to Google).Related discussion about how all software does it wrong: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1141971 |
What are typical eCPM for Google Mobile Ads? | stevenloi: Thanks john! any information on CTR as well? |
How to recruit great hackers in a remote location? | Mz: If I were in your shoes, I would try to find out what gets people to go live in Antarctica. Here is a super short article about life as a "Polie":
http://www.worldhum.com/travel-blog/item/life_as_a_polie_at_...And I would do some web surfing about The Mojave Desert and Barstow California. I lived on NTC for a wh... |
"Basic SEO"? | joshklein: Search engine optimization is about (1) some basic technical steps that most standards-complaint developers understand, and (2) making your website worth caring about so people WANT to link to it. At least, that's the non-sleazy kind of search engine optimization.The magic spell you're referring to is just t... |
How much is a link to my app worth? | tbgvi: Agree with the others, buying links isn't worth it. Google will eventually catch on and devalue it, so it's a waste in the end.Focus on sites/bloggers where your potential users are. The most useful links are the one's that actually drive traffic directly to your site that end up converting.I listen to/trust Ran... |
"Basic SEO"? | eurokc98: I am surprised no one has mentioned this yet: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/googles-s...Google recently published an internal SEO audit. The report is more or less a blueprint of what you should follow on an on-site level with your own site and I would have to imagine that was the intent. |
How to recruit great hackers in a remote location? | setori88: I would love to move out there as long as there is a powerful internet connection and easy access to vegetarian food. Though I'm out in Hong Kong ;) How about simply telecommuting - if it is software development. |
HELP suggest how to empower poor village kids with CS/IT | pook: Have you read about the Hole In the Wall project? http://www.greenstar.org/butterflies/Hole-in-the-Wall.htmI'd suggest a similar model for education. If this is to be within a school you don't need such an emphasis on durability, so you have much more options for UI(the original lacked a keyboard). Definitely inc... |
"Basic SEO"? | javahava: There a few automated tools that can help you analyze your site for potential SEO mistakes - this is one I've made which can hopefully help:http://www.seositecheckup.com |
How to recruit great hackers in a remote location? | algorias: Getting to know more of the world and working in a remote location close to nature are actually huge pluses for a lot of people (myself included). You just need to find those people and keep the hassle level as low as possible. Relocation assistance is important.Damn, you're making me seriously consider submi... |
How do HN comments get negative point values? | dood: From the FAQ: Why don't I see down arrows?
There are no down arrows on submissions.
They only appear on comments after users reach a certain karma threshold. |
Who are the best icon designers? | Chirag: Please have a look at http://www.iconarchive.com icon designer put there work on this site you'll be able to contact the authors via the site. |
How complex is image resizing? | nzmsv: For a project in first year uni, I implemented nearest neighbour, bilinear, bicubic, and sinc. I remember sinc looking marginally better than bicubic, but not significantly so for most images (which is probably why Photoshop didn't implement it at the time - I don't know if it does now).How hard it is depends on... |
How much is a link to my app worth? | coryl: Paying for backlinks is garbage, just keep pumping out your product. When you're at a stage where you can write something interesting, whip together a press release and mail a bunch of tech blogs. If you get coverage from even 1 of the big guys, theres a trickle down effect where tons of blogs will write and lin... |
Who are the best icon designers? | taitems: Just a short list of icon designers I follow on twitter, I plan to collate this into a blog post eventually:- Sofa: http://www.madebysofa.com/- Pinvoke: http://twitter.com/pinvoke_com + http://www.pinvoke.com- ByLine Break, Midtone Design: http://www.midtonedesign.com/ + http://twitter.com/DDrDark + http://twi... |
HELP suggest how to empower poor village kids with CS/IT | jamram82: As someone familiar with Indian IT ecosystem, please bear in mind Indian IT system is different bit and lags behind SV. Indian IT system is pro-Microsoft rather than Linux based. Indian CS/IT education concentrates on MS Windows from lower grades itself.There are two sections of people you might face - those ... |
"Basic SEO"? | joel_hughes: "Basic SEO" to me would be doing a good job of understanding the client's products & services during the design process and making sure these come across well in the build - especially with good URLs (eg http://www.mycompany/weoffer/service-name/ etc) plus making sure that key page website copy is written ... |
Who are the best icon designers? | az: www.iconfinder.net has collections of icons and should lead you to some designers |
For the prototype.js users -- is it worth it? | patio11: We use it at both the day job and in my business. It is clearly better than nothing. If I were starting from zero today, I'd take a very close look at JQuery, as I think the web development community is rapidly standardizing on JQuery, which means pre-made things that I want to incorporate are disproportiona... |
For the prototype.js users -- is it worth it? | bkrausz: We use both jQuery and Prototype together in our app. I love jQuery and would love to use it exclusively, but our architecture was build around Prototype's class extension capabilities, which I have to say are pretty damn convenient. Beyond the ability to make JS much more easily handle inheritance, I haven'... |
For the prototype.js users -- is it worth it? | scotty79: I think over last years jQuery won popularity contest with prototype.js and other libs. It's very handy and consistent. Lots of plugins exist that provide additional functions. |
Who are the best icon designers? | cromulent: Jon Hicks work always impresses.http://hicksdesign.co.uk/ |
Who are the best icon designers? | iconfinder: I run Iconfinder (www.iconfinder.net) and have hired many good icon designers. Please send me a mail if you would like to have a talk: martin.leblanc [at] iconfinder [dot] net |
For the prototype.js users -- is it worth it? | jmathai: If you haven't committed to a Javascript library then I'd take a look at jQuery. Every library has it's pros and cons but you'll likely find more support for jQuery than any of the others.I used to use prototype.js and once I used jQuery I never looked back.Props to prototype.js though as it was one of the fi... |
Can I sell my early stage startup? | ig1: What's the business domain ? |
For the prototype.js users -- is it worth it? | Plugawy: Depends on what are you going to do - I created quite big apps in both jQuery and Prototype.Whatever you want to do - you can do in both - it all depends on the size. I find Prototype better for big projects where you can use it's class system. It feels like Ruby as well.jQuery on the other hand is small and g... |
For the prototype.js users -- is it worth it? | grayrest: Do not write your own library from scratch. It sounds a whole lot easier than it is since most of the work in writing the library isn't the actual code writing but rather getting it tested and debugged in all the variants of all the browsers. Use a library.As for which library, they provide mostly the same fu... |
"Basic SEO"? | stef25: "Put up a site about a profitable niche, do some basic SEO, and bam! presto! Instant $50/month!" I've done this but the 10 page site brings it a little less, about 30 - 40USD / month. No adwords, wrote the content myself, only one or two incoming links. If your niche / keywords are specific enough you'll rank i... |
Who are the best icon designers? | gte910h: http://www.virtuallnk.com/ did nice icons for a client of mine |
Review my website soundkey.com | Roridge: I often just use Google dictionary which spells the word phonetically or just plays the word to me.However, I like your idea that you can embed the sound key into something else, and have sounds which are more like audio semiotics. (audiootics?)They layout could be more compact, specifically on the browse-soun... |
"Basic SEO"? | rogermugs: why is it even called SEO anymore? Shouldn't it just be GO? Google Optimization? |
Review my website soundkey.com | jrnkntl: clickable: http://soundkey.comI like the idea, you should provide an API so that websites that teach languages can hook up with that.Bug: your last sample ends too early |
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