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IP, employment contracts and side projects | ig1: By and large it doesn't matter what the contract says, if they don't like what you're doing they may just sue you anyway. What the contract says will affect the outcome of the court case, but that doesn't matter, in the large scheme of things once you're into the realm of your employer suing you you've lost alread... |
Feasible to access google maps DB | jacquesm: Essentially you're asking if it is possible to scrape google maps.I'd start with analyzing the javascript code that creates the map view, it has to have some way of retrieving the info layer given a map coordinate.After that you can try to see if you can access that information without going through the brows... |
cofounders as couples ? | jacquesm: It can work well or it can be that one day you wake up next to your business partner instead of your wife.The chances of that happening are larger as you get more successful.I've tried this in one of my '9 lives', I will not try it again. |
What application do you use to take/store notes? | soyelmango: Have you tried Google Notebook? It's no longer in development, but it does the job for me - it's fast, clean, shareable.
[However, I suspect that if you haven't used it before, Google doesn't let you start using it... I might be wrong]Good luck in your search, and let us know what you choose in the end! |
What application do you use to take/store notes? | santry: Notational Velocity http://notational.net/From the description on the site:The same area is used both for creating notes and searching. I.e., in the process of entering the title for a new note, related notes appear below, letting users file information there if they choose. Likewise, if a search reveals nothin... |
Books on human nature that changed your interactions | julius_geezer: Plato's "The Sophist".Saint-Simon's memoirs.Neither really for theories as such, the latter for reflections on the the behavior observed.Since wturner mentions "Blood Rite" let me throw in Vico's "New Science" |
Books on human nature that changed your interactions | hga: A friend of mine found this to be true for Sun Tzu's The Art of War.I found something akin, not so much "interactions" as in understanding the "why" about many human things, in reading Richard Dawkin's The Selfish Gene. |
Tax implications of selling a website? | michael_dorfman: Obviously, you should talk to your accountant.But: it seems to me that if the website was an asset of the LLC, then the sale of that asset would be viewed as income of the LLC on the corporate tax return, but since corporate taxes are on profits, that income may be offset (in whole or part) by various ... |
What application do you use to take/store notes? | jaxn: OmniOutliner on the Mac is awesome for note taking.Being able to take notes in an outline format allows me to order the information as it comes in. People often jump around and come back to a point or say they will speak more about something later, with an outliner I am able to keep topics organized better. |
Ideas for monetizing a website I am developing? | MykalMorton: I had to find your article, make it free to post to other users, but have two type of in-box, one for premium users and another for everybody else,how to make money, if you subscribe monthly you can post to anybody in box and they will receive it, along with 1000's of others, if you want to be notice you w... |
Ideas for monetizing a website I am developing? | MykalMorton: also like recommendations on linkedin, have people comment on a person, (like i dated her and she was a real * ), a feature,but don't charge people on sending info,for example i will not pay $1 to say hi, and if i do, i would just give my email address out to that person, and you only made $1; thus subscri... |
Ideas for monetizing a website I am developing? | MykalMorton: add a feature to sell things, a user, for instant a person wants to sell a watch a person can, need to make a hybrid of something else, cause dating is already done. |
Did you order an iPad? Why or why not? | Roridge: Nope, because I just ordered a Nexus One instead :) |
What application do you use to take/store notes? | rlpb: I use Tomboy. It has some sort of sync function, but I don't use it. |
Did you order an iPad? Why or why not? | protomyth: Ordered one for work and will order the 3G version myself (need a couple of weeks to build back up the personal budget). Looking at it, I will probably add the Dock and a wireless keyboard. I am not too keen on their case and will probably just by a third part sleeve to protect it in my bag.The big questio... |
Did you order an iPad? Why or why not? | jmarinez: At 8:48 AM I placed my order. I want to be able to tell others in the future, that I was one of the first to partake on the shift from laptops to tablets. There's no doubt that this or some other device like it, will replace laptops in the same way that the former replaced desktops.The vision for computing ... |
Did you order an iPad? Why or why not? | ScottWhigham: No, have an iPhone and no need/want of an ebook/reader/netbook thing |
Did you order an iPad? Why or why not? | dillon: There are plenty of reasons why people should or shouldn't grab an iPad. If you have come to rely on MobileMe, which means you probably have a MacBook, iMac, and iPhone. Then an iPad would be great. I for one am more of a Google fanboy. I own a Droid Eris, I don't use Microsoft Office or iWork, I use Google Doc... |
Did you order an iPad? Why or why not? | bazbamduck: I almost ordered one, and still really want one, but got cold feet when I failed to find evidence of a way to get my own (read: not through Apple's eBook store) eBooks on and off the thing without iTunes - I'm a Linux user.Unless someone on HN happens to know whether it's possible to use the iPad's WiFi to ... |
Did you order an iPad? Why or why not? | alanthonyc: I bought two - a fully loaded 3g one for myself and a wifi one "for my mom," which coincidentally, will not leave my possession until the 3g one arrives.In the meantime, I'll be working on an app for it. |
What application do you use to take/store notes? | alanthonyc: I just picked out some wiki software (I use DokuWiki) and start logging everything on there. |
Did you order an iPad? Why or why not? | jamesbritt: No. Have better uses for my money. Don't see what value it offers me. |
Did you order an iPad? Why or why not? | johng: I ordered one. For those of you who are interested in participating in an iPad Community, I have one here:http://www.ipadforums.net |
Tax implications of selling a website? | johng: Should be long term capital gains since you had it for more then a year. |
IP, employment contracts and side projects | zeusTheTrueGod: Just make it anonymous or use a fake person. May be you can register everything(domain name,trademark) on your wife or you cat. Also you can join an open source project.It's your life, by the way. It cann't belong to your company |
Did you order an iPad? Why or why not? | coryl: My electronics priorities are:1) new laptop2) smartphone3) iPad? The desire to own an iPad is a bit more of a luxury than a necessity at this moment. |
Please review ebay mashup | jonpaul: Wow! Very nice, I like it a lot! I think it's important for you to keep it simple. I think this could really take off if you do. |
Please review ebay mashup | adg: I sat on the homepage for a minute trying to think of something I wanted to buy. You should offer some suggestions.You're making me choose a category before I see the results? And also confusing me with text about getting spammed? I think some UI to allow people to narrow their search like "Show more items like th... |
Please review ebay mashup | BlueZeniX: Nice, but why do you only allow US zipcodes? |
Please review ebay mashup | andrewljohnson: Call me old-fashioned, but is pedo-bear a reasonable image for this site? You may regard it is a cool joke, but I regard it as a distraction. |
Rate my site | nfnaaron: Nicely done, plain and simple.You have what looks like the back-tick character sitting below your google ad box on every page.I would change your screen name to something else, like SiteAdministrator. Creator is a little too Old Testament. :) |
Rate my site | python123: Another one of these. And this one seems to be used by older people.The only one of these that's really good is mylifeisaverage |
Rate my site | epochwolf: First is impression is the share links overwhelm the design. If share was just a simple link I don't think I'd been as bothered. The issue is they stand out too much.(I personally don't care for share links so take my impressions on them lightly) |
Please review ebay mashup | nfnaaron: The item pics, pointing to map locations is cool. Sometimes the pic obscures the map location though. |
What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts | Zev: To me, its showing off how well you know a specific tool (or how quickly you could learn it), rather then a specific market.Nothing wrong with a bit of ego or wanting to show off something that you made. |
Rate my site | pedalpete: Just from the url, i was excited to check it out. Great name.
But then I get to the site and I'm like... peach or salmon color or whatever that is??? Really??The last thing that jumps out on the page is the content. The share links and ads are overwhelming.Your design doesn't fit your mood. You don't have t... |
Rate my site | andrewljohnson: I suggest you remove email verification and add it later once you have traction.You shouldn't fight spam until spam fights you... until then, you are just discouraging users. |
What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts | epochwolf: I don't understand this either. I'm currently doing "I made ___ in ___ months/years."This is because1. This idea has been done before and usually done poorly. (No, I'm not letting on with what I'm doing.)2. It's a side project. I have a reading list I want to make a dent in and I have school to finish.3. My ... |
Did you order an iPad? Why or why not? | martingordon: Originally ordered a 16GB 3G one but I pre-ordered a 16GB WiFi version in case I don't want to wait another couple of weeks for my first order to ship and I finally convince myself that I'll likely only use the 3G less than a handful of times over the year I have the iPad before I upgrade to the next one. |
Rate my site | adora: make the font of the content bigger :)also, a much smaller point: consider putting in ads later when traffic makes it legitimate to put an ad in. for now the zoosk ad that I see does not match in the spirit of the type of content you probably are trying to bring in. |
What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts | lotharbot: A) Inspirational value. If somebody else on HN can make a useful tool to solve their problem in 3 hours, I might be inspired to take a crack at solving a problem I've been putting off dealing with.B) Technical interest. HN isn't just about getting in to YC or proving you're a great entrepreneur; much of wh... |
What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts | jeromec: I don't think it's about gloating at all. I think it's more about showing something but with a warning of how much went into it so those that judge can have some context. I also think there certainly is a bit of pride involved, but it's completely understandable. This is a site by and for hackers for the most ... |
What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts | blackswan: I think one of the causes for the endless stream of "I built a reddit/twitter/[x] clone in [y] hours" stories that pop up regularly is that many people often incorrectly attribute the success of businesses to that which is immediately apparent. They see reddit list stories in a certain way and assume that th... |
What application do you use to take/store notes? | Raphael: a few options:notepad.exe with DropBoxGoogle DocsEtherpad |
What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts | emilam: Shipping a product is a hard thing to do. It takes a lot less work to make a copy of x in 23 hours. The actual "work" of a product often comes right before you release the product. The last 10% of the project is 90% of the work most of the time.It seems they are doing it because they don't have the willpower to... |
What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts | charliepark: Agreed. If someone's launching an MVP, I can completely understand their desire to put it out there and get feedback. Those types of posts (inviting critique) are fine in my book.The ones that grate are the ones that say "we built this startup in a weekend."By adding the "in a weekend" / "in 24 hours" bit,... |
What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts | avner: I really don't see why someone shouldn't showcase something they hacked together, regardless of the time it took to materialize. Granted that the "in X hours" part may reflect the hacker having some other agenda (as highlighted in your post); at the end of the day however, like you said, if whatever it is that t... |
Please review ebay mashup | thefool: Also, the site has a bug where if you don't type in a location nothing happens. Seeing as it wasn't immediately clear to me what the site was, that kinda a problem. |
Did you order an iPad? Why or why not? | Aron: Sometimes I think Apple's product sales numbers are being maintained by the people that bought AAPL stock in the last few years. |
What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts | thwarted: I find it annoying too, but I think it is somewhat of a response to "you say it could be done in a weekend, but you're wrong" positions that there have been an increase of.I also think it's a little bit of people trying to prove to themselves that they can do it, that some of the excuses they had before are j... |
What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts | araneae: They say that so when you tell them it's dumb, they can claim it's because they didn't spend any time on it.It's like how kids always brag how little they studied for a test, even before they take it. It's an excuse for failure. |
Please review ebay mashup | chime: 1. Get rid of the image on home page that others have complained about.2. Make the 'search radius' logarithmic.3. On the map, why are multi-item pins orange vs. green? It's unclear and confusing.4. Remember my location, search radius using cookies/session.5. When I click on a pin, highlight the corresponding ite... |
Rate my site | endlessvoid94: Welp.I submitted this several hours ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1189162I like your site, how have you been attracting users? |
Rate my site | pigbucket: I like the concept and the name--and second pulling the registration, the ads, and the Share rollover. The rollover is especially annoying at the bottom of the page (i.e., in the last item) because it can interfere with Next button, about which there is very little cursor-friendly space. You could move page ... |
Could HN be a dating bureau for entrepreneurs? | jacquesm: Sure, why not ? Just write up a nice description of what you are looking for in a co-founder and post it, I'm sure you'll either get some real respondents or you'll learn about what's wrong in the way you approach it.have a look here:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052950and do a google search forsite:ne... |
What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts | SkipHeadJr: I made slightly more than 42 quadrillion dollars* in less than a nanosecond. Doing nothing at all. Suddenly all those 'overnight millionaires' look like punks. Wait, they are punks.*Zimbabwe dollars (approximate value in U.S. dollars: 0.00001 |
What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts | jacquesm: I think some of the posts are clearly in jest, to propagate the meme but with a wink saying 'you don't really believe this do you'.Then there are those that want to promote a platform or a technology showing how rapid they could develop a toy website, basically a functioning prototype. Most of those would fal... |
What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts | DenisM: Maybe it's just the pure creative joy? I know that as a maker I get kicks when stuff I built works. |
Feasible to access google maps DB | vannevar: Google gets much of their data from Tele Atlas (now TomTom): www.teleatlas.com. The other big player in geo data is NavTeq: www.navteq.com. I think there are some crowd-sourced public geo databases as well. |
Did you order an iPad? Why or why not? | jacquesm: Not yet, maybe not ever. Until I come across a really compelling use case for one I probably won't buy one.I also think that with stuff like this it is much better to let other people find out that first releases of pieces of hardware can have all kinds of issues.If at all, then by the time the hype has worn ... |
Would you pre-order GridSpy power monitoring? | jacquesm: relatively high ? $950 ?? That's not relatively high, that's simply overpriced.and a recurring ???I would not pre-order that until the price came down to what consumer electronics with this much functionality should cost, probably around the $40 mark or so. And that recurring billing bit for a feature that yo... |
What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts | j_baker: I'll be honest. I stopped listening at "ADD society". It really took me from "listen to this guy give advice" mode into "grandpa's ranting again" mode. |
Did you order an iPad? Why or why not? | keefe: I debated it, but instead I'm going to use the same money to buy a sony ereader and get an iphone when my contract runs up in a little bit here. |
What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts | nathanh: I like to see how long it takes people to build things. (I do think everything the OP said is legitimate though) |
Rate my site | badave: I did a live version of this kind of site. Very simplistic and anonymous. Haven't done much with it because I've moved on to other projects. http://lovingthat.com and http://complainaboutthat.com |
What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts | petercooper: It's a headline technique. As well as including a solid number (always a good headline "trick"), it has the psychological effect of making people think.. "ooh, I gotta read this, because if he/she can do X in Y hours/days, maybe I could too!"I'm quite into studying headlines as a hobby (yeah, I know) and h... |
What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts | jdietrich: In 1977 the punk band The Desperate Bicycles released their debut single Smokescreen. The song featured the refrain "It was easy, it was cheap, go and do it!". The back cover broke down the costs of recording and manufacture, explaining that it cost them in total £153 to release 500 copies. The medium was th... |
What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts | dtran: Releasing something rough and unpolished can be scary, so everyone feels a need to qualify it with a statement like this. I find myself guilty of this as well... check out what I made... and immediately "I haven't had much time to polish it... I'm going to make it better soon!... it was something I hacked togeth... |
Rate my site | dtran: I like the generally idea of a positive FML-type site and I love the domain, but really, ads already? Sacrificing user experience for an extra $0.20 this early gives your users serious doubts about your intent in building a great destination site/community site. |
Rate my site | jacoblyles: Seems kind of like a trivial me-too site. |
What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts | indrax: Sprinting is a decent tactic to overcome procrastination.
Combine that with "Release early, release often." And it makes a fair bit of sense to spend a minimal amount of time creating a minimal product to show people. |
Best way to Market to Customer Leads | jacquesm: Whichever of those you choose to use it's going to be spam in some form or other if you don't have a prior existing relationship.How did you get this data in the first place ?Did you buy it ? Did they sign up with you for something else ?If the first then you're out of luck, you will have to use something bor... |
What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts | dnsworks: I find them just as annoying as the "How I Did Some Simple Task" posts that finally seem to have died down. |
What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts | barmstrong: I think they are just saying: I'm testing lots of ideas and it's cool how quickly it can be done now.That's all. You make a valid point though that these comments can rub some people the wrong way or be misinterpreted. |
Why doesn't "Uvote" Startup exist yet? | jacquesm: Because you didn't build it :)Go do it, it sounds like a good idea. There are poll sites that allow you to make polls on all kinds of subjects (a la HN polls but targeted towards a larger audience), but I think your idea would be a lot more useful. |
Did you order an iPad? Why or why not? | teeja: I'll wait to see if it turns out to be nothing more than a locked-down appliance, |
What application do you use to take/store notes? | thinker: We've been working on a productivity app for researchers (currently only have a web dashboard). We're finding it great to organize notes/links/files within our own startup as well. Would be awesome if you guys could give it a try and give us some feedback!Check it out here: http://thinkpanda.com |
Why doesn't "Uvote" Startup exist yet? | bpick: Call it swingvote and allow people to create profiles that then show you (rough) demographic information.It would be similar to those espn fangraphs(just more awesome). |
Did you order an iPad? Why or why not? | loupgarou21: haven't ordered one myself, but my boss stated that he ordered three of them. I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing that I'll be getting one of the ones he ordered so I can evaluate it for our clients. |
Anyone good with business plans? I could use some help. | mschaecher: line dropped |
Ideas to monetize my site? | webaddict: Hi there,I lurk here, but got an account just to reply :) I will be speaking
here wholly in the context of online flash games, as I can't and won't
comment on picture sharing, community websites or any of that
new-fangled social or "SpaceBook" aspect :)What you've got here, (and you probably know it already)... |
How do you fight procrastination? | jazzychad: I am my own boss, so there is no-one lording over me to make sure I am finishing things on-time, nor do I have "office hours"... I just work during the day until I feel that enough stuff got done. Sometimes that means I work for 6 hours, sometimes that means I work for 12 or more.I often fall victim to the d... |
How do you fight procrastination? | Rust: I keep a short list of programming problems handy - small use cases that interest me. When I feel like I'm slipping away into FB or Twitter or whatever, I break out one of the problems and solve it.The secret, though, is to solve it from scratch each time. If you're really having trouble concentrating, do it in a... |
How do you fight procrastination? | nearestneighbor: I tried many different things, too many to remember, including GTD type of things, "don't break the chain", and many others. I think what's working best for me (and what may work for you depends on your personality type and what you do) is setting (preferably) one goal for a day in the morning, writing... |
How do you fight procrastination? | froo: In the past I procrastinated a lot. The problem I found was that the sheer number of tasks to be done was immense and I would often be paralysed by the thought of it.So what I did was get a simple task management tool (I use RTM) and started off by just setting 2 tasks per day.It's only 2 tasks, anyone can accomp... |
What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts | bhiggins: I think "in X hours" is silly too, because that just means it's gunna be easy to copy. Not a good business plan. |
How do you fight procrastination? | timwiseman: I fail far too often, hence why I am posting here.Seriously, when I really need to concentrate, I try to place myself in environments where the temptations are minimized. Turn off the wifi if I don't actually need it and put on headphones with mild background music and focus on the work at hand. It is no ... |
How do you fight procrastination? | raghus: I'll tell you later |
How do you fight procrastination? | patio11: I believe in my bones that most large tasks are just arbitrarily long collections of small tasks which are measurable, and since I know I can keep going for years as long as I get frequent small packets of success, I structure things to look like that.This is the WoWification of life for me: the thing about dr... |
How do you fight procrastination? | RevRal: For me, it is all about tricking myself into getting the work done. Into creating systems to follow for various tasks.For example, the dishes. I hate doing them. And I don't mind a few days of accumulation of dirty dished. So, I don't beat myself up trying to wash them every day. It takes time to wash dishes. T... |
How do you fight procrastination? | adityakothadiya: This is what I follow -1. I create "Today's list". This is little different than "To-do" list. Today's list contains tasks that I want to finish today - with each task assigned some deadline. Tasks are quite detail tasks - which takes 1-2 hrs. Like breakdown to features, bugs, reading chapter, etc.2. I... |
How do you fight procrastination? | FreeRadical: I read somewhere the hardest part is starting tasks, so a combo of breaking tasks into bit size pieces and starting each piece is probably the best approach. |
How do you fight procrastination? | aaronbrethorst: I don't spend my spare time posting 'Ask HN' questions.No, seriously: I have more important things to do, like figuring out how to pay my rent (and hopefully make 6-7 figures) without having to take a soul-crushing job at a gigantic company, again.Maybe you need a better job. Maybe you need a better rea... |
How do you fight procrastination? | Mongoose: I find the best method is to just jump in. Once you make a solid effort to dive into something, your drive to complete the task at hand will snowball as you get more work done.YMMV, especially with really difficult or irritating tasks. It's all about overcoming the barrier of entry, be it due to a lack of exp... |
Did you order an iPad? Why or why not? | naner: No. I don't need one and I'm not going to develop for the platform.Same reason I didn't get an iPhone or Droid.I am pretty low-tech for a geek/programmer. Still, I'm nowhere near as low-tech as this dude: http://jason.rohrer.usesthis.com/
It is pretty impressive what he is able to accomplish. |
How do you fight procrastination? | kowen: I've found that pair programming for a bit can help me get past that initial resistance. It doesn't have to be anything special or official - just a shared screen with a friend over skype can be enough to get going. |
How do you fight procrastination? | thesnark: I think I got this idea from HN somewhere but I cannot remember: when you are running good, and the ideas are coming easily, stop before you get stuck. That way when you come back to something you know exactly what to do next and its easier to find the thread.Also, learning how to suffer through really pain... |
How do you fight procrastination? | bemmu: Only thing that works for me is to do stuff I actually want to be doing. Right now staring at my declining Google Analytics stats is enough to inspire me to hack the code to reverse the trend. |
How do you fight procrastination? | Eliezer: Recent related thread on LW, with reviews and aggregate scores for suggestions:http://lesswrong.com/lw/1sm/akrasia_tactics_review/ |
How do you fight procrastination? | stuntgoat: org-mode for emacs is great.Prioritize your list of things to do. That way you only have 1 thing to do next. It may seem daunting to have a pile, but if you line everything up in a neat row, you can only see 1 thing to do until it is finished.A good way to eliminate things from your immediate workload is to ... |
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