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Review My App - TwitBet | andyjdavis: I picked all the teams then logged into twitter using the sign into twitter button. The submit your bracket button never disabled. What am I missing? |
How do down votes work? | dwwoelfel: I think that your avg also has to be positive. Mine was negative, but my karma was at 205 and I wasn't able to downvote. |
How would you invest $50,000? | DilipJ: I would advise against anything like angel investing. You're not in a position where liquidity concerns wouldn't pop up, so having access to your money (should you need it) is important. Angel investing means tying down your cash for years...I personally suggest you follow Nassim Taleb's advice (he of Black Swa... |
Cheap color copies for flyers? | patio11: Ask Kinko's how many flyers you need to print to qualify for bulk pricing. |
How to deal with unwanted coworker requests? | meunierc: Keep in mind, you might very well be facing somebody who feels the need to prove himself. If this is the case, then the issue is marginally technical; his need to be right is his prime motivation.Your first response was perfect IMO.In situations like this you need to manage a person, not software nor a proje... |
Best resource for collaboratively analyzing startup ideas? | newobj: I agree that this'd be great to have. I'm not sure if people would take kindly to every HN article turning into "Review my Startup" (or, maybe they would?) I'm not aware of such a forum though yet. |
How do down votes work? | restruct: After I got downvoting power, I found that the downvotes I checked had no effect. Was it because I downvoted too many in a row? |
Cheap color copies for flyers? | petercooper: Getting Kinkos to run 1000s of color copies is like getting Pizza Hut to cater for a wedding. They can do it, but their limited capacity and selection can make it expensive and limited in scope.Instead, find a regular printing company. They won't always be as easy to deal with as Kinkos (they might demand ... |
Review My App - TwitBet | weichi: 1. Where will you get the $5k? Your own pocket? Are you charging people $1? But it says free ...2. Are sure you aren't going to get into legal trouble? IANAL, and I know nothing at all about the relevant laws, but still ...3. Contest Rules and Terms don't mention the required tweet anywhere. |
Review My App - TwitBet | JimEngland: Cool idea, except the tweet sent out only includes a link to http://twitbet.com/. Instead, you should link to my personal bracket that I just filled out, so that my friends can see how badly I am at picking winners in college basketball. |
Cheap color copies for flyers? | kochbeck: Search your area for a press company that does gang run printing. Might not be a good choice depending on your media size and layout, but it's often the cheapest thing going. In SF, I know a number of folks who use these guys: http://www.clubcardprinting.com/ |
How would you invest $50,000? | nessence: Don't ever buy a variable annuity.1. Some forms of oil and real estate investments, in some states, can be a significant tax deduction. Otherwise consider saving this money for future tax benefits or new opportunities.2. Get involved in the community where you want to work with angels. It looks like you've al... |
How would you invest $50,000? | alphabetaprune: Thanks for the responses. I appreciate the feedback. The discussion here gave me a few ideas.Perhaps if anyone is interested, I'll do a blog post within the next few months explaining what opportunities I chose to pursue and why. |
How to deal with unwanted coworker requests? | amazonfx: I must say I sympathize. We have a pretty stringent code review system where I work and people are always coming up with nitpicky type of things.Whenever I get technical comments from people that seems to me like they put alot of thought into, I always approach them for a quick chat, ask some questions even i... |
What do you use to wish people a happy birthday? | jasonlbaptiste: i use facebook.poll people on amazon mturk. shouldnt cost much either. |
What do you use to wish people a happy birthday? | thegoleffect: Gramify.com does personalized audio greetings by phone or email in cool voices. MIT startup. |
Best resource for collaboratively analyzing startup ideas? | dacort: This isn't a generic solution, but we (my co-founder and I) actually put something together specifically for us. http://untitledstartup.com/backstage/ - right now it suffers from an abundance of Twitter ideas, primarily because I'm fairly active in that space and ideas in the system beget similar ideas.The poss... |
How would you invest $50,000? | lsc: Invest in something you know. For me, that meant becoming an ISP, buying servers, virtualizing them and renting 'em out.Knowing what you invest in is a huge advantage, one that you will certainly need if you only have $50K to invest. |
How would you invest $50,000? | known: Invest in India via http://money.rediff.com/mutual-funds/high-risk |
Experience earning side income with elance, oDesk, RentACoder, etc? | proexploit: Sure if that's your goal. I use oDesk. You probably make a little less than elance or guru, but it's a piece of cake to beat out any of the outsourced providers who can't communicate in English for a job (nothing wrong with people speaking their native tongue, it's just very easy to stand out as someone wit... |
What do you use to wish people a happy birthday? | proexploit: The only people I have time to wish a happy birthday to, I care enough to call or say it in person. |
Does College Choice Matter (And What Choice Would Be Best) | msencenb: I am a current sophomore at Stanford University so my comment is going to be biased :pSo far I love the Stanford atmosphere (I am a CS student). Is it competitive? Yes, but I have found that CS isn't as competitive as pre-med. I only have ok grades (3.0 GPA at the moment) but the classes themselves I am learn... |
Experience earning side income with elance, oDesk, RentACoder, etc? | zandorg: I've used Elance twice as a buyer of services (not a provider). What it did was get me past mental barriers preventing me sitting down and learning. The expert I'd ask would clear the cobwebs and then I could do the rest. I also pay them as if my time were valuable and they're saving it... |
Experience earning side income with elance, oDesk, RentACoder, etc? | fnid2: I used elance years ago. Bid on 10 projects, of those only one of them was awarded and we got it. I felt it was a lot of work to find projects. Seemed many people just posted projects to get bids, but didn't follow through after that. I didn't bid on any weekend projects. Most were quite detailed and would e... |
Best resource for collaboratively analyzing startup ideas? | apsurd: Edit: Let's just call it investing in customer development rather than idea development.Ask your target market. I used to brush this same advice off each of the millionth times I read it, but do this at your own peril.Nobody is going to give you better advice than your customers, especially if they speak with t... |
Experience earning side income with elance, oDesk, RentACoder, etc? | gexla: Sure, but it depends on what you are applying for. The more niche, the less competition and higher pay. Some people just aren't willing to pay much for anything, so avoid them.The best way to land jobs is to be the best person for the job. Some buyers are able to cut through the fluff and identify the quality... |
Experience earning side income with elance, oDesk, RentACoder, etc? | rwhitman: I've used a few of these sites as a Buyer, and I have to say I actually really like oDesk. Yes, there's plenty of questionable offshore code factories on there, but occasionally I find some really talented, professional folks, and they rise to the top (and get booked) really quick.If you take as many tests as... |
Best resource for collaboratively analyzing startup ideas? | mattblalock: About a year ago I twittered about building something like this and tons of people freaked. They couldn't believe I would consider sharing my ideas with them and more importantly would expect people to share their ideas.I was simply knocked over and gave up.I'd be very much down for working on a project th... |
What do you use to wish people a happy birthday? | mattblalock: I'll text, call, facebook or send them an old fashioned card. |
Does College Choice Matter (And What Choice Would Be Best) | gexla: I had a little college but never graduated. Everything I do as a developer has been self taught. I would do the school thing to get the grades but spend as much time as possible outside of school.Work on projects which will get people to take notice of what you are doing. Participate in open source projects. ... |
HN Email Subscription? | apsurd: In my mind, HN is intentionally built to be minimally social. It is also what makes this site consistently have higher quality content. This may be of some debate but I feel HN is slanted toward doers. HN is almost featureless but one of those features is "noprocrast" - a function that actually promotes NOT com... |
Experience earning side income with elance, oDesk, RentACoder, etc? | wenbert: I have been doing side jobs since college - around 2003/2004 until now. All of my clients are not from Elance/Rent-a-coder/etc. Most of them however sent me an email from a "local" community site of web developers.I always tell me clients that I have a 8/9-hour day job. I update the client every few days throu... |
Experience earning side income with elance, oDesk, RentACoder, etc? | scorpioxy: It certainly does. But I'd recommend you finding a niche and not go after "php developer needed" type of bids because then you'd be competing on price.For 2 years, I used it as one source of income for my freelancing business. But like I said, I didn't compete on price and only bid for the interesting projec... |
What do you use to wish people a happy birthday? | Roridge: A card |
What domain knowledge should I learn? | lsc: Look around for mentors. If you can get a good mentor, you will be significantly better than you would be otherwise. It's impossible to say what will be 'hot' five years from now, so you might as well go for what you can become good at.(I'm assuming you are talking about deep knowledge that takes a while to obt... |
What domain knowledge should I learn? | Mc_Big_G: If I were starting over right now, I would definitely get in on the bioengineering/genetics stuff. The barriers to entry are now very low compared to the last 20 years and they keep getting lower every day.Imagine if you could hack a new cure or bacteria that changes the world. This field will make the info... |
Experience earning side income with elance, oDesk, RentACoder, etc? | gnosis: Previously:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1028327 |
Experience earning side income with elance, oDesk, RentACoder, etc? | mootothemax: I've been moderately successful on RentACoder but at times it's been a bit of a slog. I started in November last year, and have been earning more and more with every month.Everybody says this and it's true: to get started you have to make a couple of bids at sweatshop rates in order to build reputation. I ... |
What domain knowledge should I learn? | michael_dorfman: PS: Please, no cliche like "learn whatever you are passionate about" - I've heard it all before. What I'm looking for right now is to step out of my comfort zone (SE).Sorry, but that's about the only responsible answer to a question this broad. It's a bit like asking "What book should I read?"If you ca... |
Experience earning side income with elance, oDesk, RentACoder, etc? | linuszen: If you're looking for a "stable" buyer and you aren't located in western part of the world i might be your man
get in touch
paolo-at-paolomaffei-dot-it |
What domain knowledge should I learn? | mahmud: Expertise that's in demand now wont necessarily be as hot by the time your learn their ins and outs.Just a hunch: enterprise software design. Someone has got to navigate all those XML specs.Also, it's always a good idea to learn whatever programmers hate. |
Review My App - TwitBet | Mc_Big_G: Quick note: On the last page there is a typo:If you do not complete the first page of the survey survey... |
Experience earning side income with elance, oDesk, RentACoder, etc? | rmanocha: I keep hearing people to build a niche skill. I'm a Python/Django/AppEngine developer - is this "niche" enough?? :) |
Where to run away to crank out my web app? | adora: Assuming you have no car and are stuck wherever you go, why not just move to the South Bay, e.g. Mountain View.It meets all your requirements, plus there's no scenery to stare at to even get the slightest bit distracted. AND, there's entrepreneurial activity going on 24/7 to keep you motivated.As a side note, I ... |
Experience earning side income with elance, oDesk, RentACoder, etc? | jasonkester: I got a lot of work off Guru when I was first ramping up the consulting work. I have only one piece of advice:Differentiate on Quality, Never on PriceI would write proposals by hand, in literate English, after reading and considering the project description. That alone would differentiate me from 90% of ... |
techniques for basic graphics design (for programmers)? | 1331: Practice is essential in becoming proficient in design. A technique that I particularly recommend for beginners is recreating designs that you like, from scratch. Start with something easy and work up!The majority of my design "training" was done in a professional environment, using Illustrator and Photoshop. ... |
Mandatory use of 3rd Party IDs (Facebook Connect, etc)? | ScottWhigham: I think that I would be extremely hesitant to sign up; there would have to be a major value proposition for me to give that info up to them. |
Experience earning side income with elance, oDesk, RentACoder, etc? | jyu: Here's some advice from a top earner fom RentACoder: http://www.reddit.com/r/iama/comments/a2485 |
Experience earning side income with elance, oDesk, RentACoder, etc? | mark_ellul: I have earned a decent income for my company using odesk.com Basically, you just need to make sure your profile is up to date, and prove that even though are more expensive, than $10 an hour coders, you are worth it. |
Where to run away to crank out my web app? | imp: Come to Cleveland! It's cheap, and no beaches or sun will guarantee that you'll be indoors coding all day :) |
Are you a single founder ? | cvinson: 1: Since 20042: No, didn't apply.(Sidenote: we're #29 in "Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund" http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html)3: No, bootstrapped.4: http://www.sitezoogle.com |
What domain knowledge should I learn? | imp: Baby boomers are starting to retire. That's a large demographic that isn't good with computers. Maybe find an industry that caters to them where technology can help. It doesn't sound like fun to me, but where there's muck there's brass.Also, you may not have to be "passionate" about the domain, but you've got t... |
how do you backup your servers? | brk: Generally rsync to a mirror-image hardware box in the same location. Everything is backed up so any fault/failure on the primary machine can be recovered (in theory) via the hot-standby machine.Critical user data, databases, etc. are dump'd/tar'd/gzip'd to a remote location once a day, generally held as long as s... |
how do you backup your servers? | bryanh: We do tar'ed directories/databases onto S3 and this script: http://simonwillison.net/static/2008/backup_to_s3.py.txtRight now its only done weekly, as we're not experiencing high growth. We also store downloads, so the tars can get very big, but it works well. |
Tips for Building Customer Survey Forms? | coryl: Quantifiable data is the best, so where applicable, make your answer choices a scale of 1 to 5 (ie. Very bad to Very good, unlikely to likely, never vs all the time) |
how do you backup your servers? | lrm242: tarsnap + bash script! http://www.tarsnap.com/Tar-like interface, data deduplication, awesome support, fair pricing. What more could you ask for? |
how do you backup your servers? | jbyers: No whole-system backups. Offsite (across the country) replicated MySQL database with daily full snapshots and periodic encrypted dumps to S3. Real-time encrypted mogilefs backups to S3 on a per-file basis. S3 MFA + versioning is a huge win in both cases. rsync for a small number of exceptions: IMAP data, de... |
how do you backup your servers? | hga: I divide my backups into three types: Bare metal.
Frequently changing data.
Occasionally changing data.
Everything is weighted by how automated I can make it (e.g. everything but some day to day monitoring), what worse case recoveries are possible (no one cares about backups, only recovery) and time to rec... |
how do you backup your servers? | DanBlake: r1soft |
how do you backup your servers? | ErrantX: Considering the work we do (corporate and criminal computer forensics) backup strategies are about our second most important thing :D So naturally it gets neglected...Gold Images: of the various OS configurations and requisite software so you can redeploy a server fairly quicklyDiff Backups taken nightly of ou... |
Please review our startup | spokey: I don't think I understand Jukaroo. (I'm not familiar with whrrl or eat.ly, so maybe that hurts.)Is this like imgur or twitpic except by posting an image I'm saying I recommend the thing in the image?I see it in your list at the bottom, but browsing the site I don't see how "tell everyone why you recommend it"... |
Please review our startup | needadvice: The concept has some value to it -- although I would suggest focusing on a niche first. Then, evolving from there. |
how do you backup your servers? | Mc_Big_G: Cron + S3 + s3cmd + small custom script for DB dumpsCron + snapshots + small custom script for EBS on EC2.Basically, I store all non code files on EBS and redundantly backup to S3, which amounts to living or dying by Amazon's hand.Recovery consists of firing up a new EC2 instance, attaching a snaphot and runn... |
What domain knowledge should I learn? | pclark: product marketing! |
how do you backup your servers? | redman: We use MogileFS for redundancy (bandwidth costs from our host are still less than Amazon). However, we use cron/S3 for BACKUPS. Every time a file is added we back up to Amazon. |
how do you backup your servers? | scottw: I backup entire disks using a towers of hanoi algorithm with (wait for it...) good old dump(8) to a second local hard drive. This method keeps 7 full days of backups (using an incremental diff, so it's fairly space efficient). I've used this method for almost 15 years and have used it dozens of times to recover... |
how do you backup your servers? | dunhamda: We've been using Bacula: weekly fulls and daily incrementals to disk, and weekly fulls to tape for offsite storage. As our data size grows, tapes are going to run out of steam. I've recently began experimenting with http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity to do encrypted backups to S3. So far it has been working g... |
how do you backup your servers? | sogrady: We use ZRM to automate the backup and versioning of our MySQL databases.Then we use cron and s3sync to mirror the relevant portions of the filesystem to S3.For those interested, the process is documented here:http://monk.ly/bFBd7w |
how do you backup your servers? | buro9: Cron + rsync.net and their geo-replicated package. |
how do you backup your servers? | brandon272: Daily rsync to BQBackup, with once weekly offline backup. |
how do you backup your servers? | BlueZeniX: ZFS auto snapshots, backup-server running incremental ssh "zfs send" |zfs recv. |
how do you backup your servers? | petervandijck: The data lives separate from the code: the code is backed up in Subversion, the data lives in AmazonS3 (no other backup) for images, and a database in an Amazon snapshot with daily backups automated. |
how do you backup your servers? | njl: I have scripts (I use fabric, keep meaning to explore chef) that bring a fresh OS install up to a production server automatically, doing all installation and configuration. This is all in a DVCS system, so I have a local copy of my repository as well as a hosted copy of my repository on bitbucket/github. That take... |
how do you backup your servers? | avar: I'm just a mortal developer so I don't have to admin anything serious, but here's how I do backups of my personal files & server. Mainly using Git:Any code / changes to Debian's default /etc setup go into Git and are at least on both the relevant machine (laptop or server) and GitHub. See http://github.com/avar a... |
Awesome Mailing Lists? | ax0n: Look into the public-facing (non-membership) mailing lists used by some of the hackerspaces. They all have their own passions and politics, so the ones I like won't likely be the ones you like. CCCKC has an information-security specific list that's just starting to get good. The main list may be too eclectic for ... |
How many of you founders are girls ? | jacquesm: I made a loosely related poll a while ago:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=749617 |
how do you backup your servers? | fnid2: I backup code to flash once a day in case of hardware failure. Once a week I swap flash drives into a safety deposit box. I also backup any local databases to flash once a day. Use a scheduled task and a .cmd for that, which automatically stops SQL Server, 7z compresses and encrypts the database files and sourc... |
Awesome Mailing Lists? | runevault: If you like the PLT list, I've been a huge fan of the clojure google group. Little to no spam gets through thanks to moderation, and the people are friendly and helpful while talking about all the different topics related to clojure and using it on interesting problems. |
Is there an app to view savings account bank statements? | djb_hackernews: would mint.com fit? |
how do you backup your servers? | gibsonf1: EC2 AMI image -> S3 at milestones, mysql dbase backup to S3 every few minutes, all files stored directly on S3, so only cached on server. |
how do you backup your servers? | there: an openbsd vm in a... secret location... runs rsnapshot (rsync over ssh) to all of my servers every few hours and keeps separate hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly "full" backups. they are stored on a usb hard drive encrypted with openbsd's softraid.when the server boots up, i have to enter in the softr... |
How many of you founders are girls ? | DanielBMarkham: Love the landing page. |
How many of you founders are girls ? | jgrahamc: Good luck!What does 'masala' mean in the context of an application? |
How to Deal with Startup Stress? | awt: Exercise. I force myself to take a half-hour walk with a lot of climbing 3 days a week. It gets your mind off your problems, which is key. |
How many of you founders are girls ? | zackham: clickable link http://www.meraiphone.com |
Tips for Building Customer Survey Forms? | alanthonyc: Thank you.I was afraid my question was going to disappear.The Likert scale sounds like a good place to start studying. |
Awesome Mailing Lists? | abalashov: NANOG. |
Great examples of web app Video tours | barry-cotter: Anki, an online spaced repitition flashcard based learning app
http://ichi2.net/anki/screencast1.html |
How many of you founders are girls ? | jeromec: The founder of Oneforty Laura Fitton was an individual female founder. I particularly enjoyed that interview on Mixergy. http://mixergy.com/oneforty-laura-fitton/ |
How many of you founders are girls ? | iamwil: Congrats on quitting your job! |
how do you backup your servers? | mark_l_watson: I do a lot of simple things. Servers: use cron, zip, and s3cmd tools to backup to S3; on EC2, use snapshots. Development laptops: use git repos hosted on a rented VPS and I have a cron script to ZIP these repos and back them up to S3. |
How to Deal with Startup Stress? | jarsj: <steve-jobs>
May be its time to change some things. You being constantly stressed out, while doing what you love, is a good enough signal. Listen to your heart.
</steve-jobs> |
How to Deal with Startup Stress? | soyelmango: Here's an edited version of an as yet unpublished blog post I've written...* Get up, stretch - a bit of stretching from head to toe. It’s amazing what a few minutes of stretching does for waking you up.* Shower, breakfast - this sounds obvious, but it was all too easy for me to get down to work, and skip th... |
How to Deal with Startup Stress? | coryl: Get a physical hobby. Running, bicycling, weight lifting, martial arts. Make room for an hour a day for it. |
How many of you founders are girls ? | Towle_: Maybe it's just me, but I'd be more concerned with kicking ass than how many other girls there are doing what you do. |
Review my project: Using unicode to break Twitter's 140 char limit | chaosmachine: Link: http://tweetcompressor.com/ |
how do you backup your servers? | cullenking: I don't bother backing up the full system, just the user generated data. I am storing lots of data as flatfiles rather than shoving them into the database, so rsync helps there.I like having a complete copy of all user-data on my home machine for development purposes as well as backup. So, I rsync all user... |
How many of you founders are girls ? | romland: Call me silly, but self-proclaimed hotness (your sig*) might work very well in WoW, but I imagine less so here.If I were you I'd change it.(sig: Hot + Geek = me) |
Review my project: Using unicode to break Twitter's 140 char limit | nfnaaron: Very clever．Nicely done. |
How to Deal with Startup Stress? | jacquesm: You're well out of the 'easy' part of it, most people associate the first year of a start-up with stress, but that's because they never get to the part where you're successful.One major source of stress is family stuff, I don't know anything about your family situation, but keep your spouse, if you have one, ... |
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