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How to allow users to add Adsense code without security risks | ohashi: The old adsense code simply required publisher id. Not sure how to get around that for new ones. |
Dedicated advertising? | dkasper: Think of getting direct advertising like any other business sale you will make. You are selling the advertiser on the idea that getting their ads in front of your traffic will be valuable to them. This involves either you contacting them or if you are high profile enough them contacting you. There are lots of blog posts out their with more detail on how to do this. After doing this a lot you will probably start to see the value in a good ad network in a new way :-)The amount you will get can vary widely but CPMs can be very high $5-$10 is a pretty good baseline, but it varies depending on a number of factors such as how much traffic you get, how targeted and engaged the audience is, etc. |
Dedicated advertising? | apowell: The fact that Comedy Central is your first example of an ideal advertiser means that you're probably not in a high-CPM niche. That's okay, but it means you probably ought to be running a couple million impressions each month to make direct sales realistic.At lower volume (say, a 500k/mo+ impressions) you can investigate banner networks like Valueclick, Casale, etc. If you go this route, hopefully you're not turned off by flashing punch-the-monkey ads. It's not high-brow advertising.Also look into augmenting your income with the contextual link networks -- Infolinks, Kontera. It's decent supplemental income.For a general-interest entertainment-type site without a high page churn (that is, not a forum or social network), I'd aim for $2.50 overall page CPM. This might require lots of ad units and creativity, but you can make that happen without direct sales.(Apologies if I've totally misread your niche -- in that case, hopefully all this is useful to someone else.) |
Review my Facebook app: Freeciv.net | roschdal: I would really like some feedback from the Hacker News community again, on my http://www.freeciv.net/ project. I have previously received feedback from HN, and now done a lot of improvements according to that feedback.What are the next steps which can be taken with this project? Which opportunities do you see for the project? |
Review my project: Using unicode to break Twitter's 140 char limit | proexploit: I really like your idea and the simple effectiveness of your design. I personally am very put-off by Twitter's character limit (not that I use it anyways). I hope it gets some users, maybe try to contact a popular platform or create an API to integrate with other existing services? I guess that depends on if you're just trying to fix a problem and get your name out or generate revenue. |
Please review our startup | chegra84: It might have legs, but here are my sticking points:
1)The instructions arent clear. "3. have a snack"? I get that it might be a joke, but I dont get it. So, try to make that clear.2)The value of this is lost unless you are familiar with its competitors. I am left thinking how is this useful to me? That is a problem; I don't want to be thinking. One possible way of solving this is to give examples of people using your site and the value they gain. For instance, a rotating banners with testimonials with stuff like "Took a lead from jukaroo and this cake is great"(but not so corny as me) |
Dedicated advertising? | proexploit: If your site generate a relevant amount of traffic, you shouldn't have any trouble finding advertisers (example: if you run a televisions comparison website with a healthy readership, Samsung should come to you).As far as payment, it's going to depend whether they're paying by the amount of views their ad receives, the amount of clicks there ad gets, or the amount of sales they receive (you could start affiliate advertising for large companies today depending on the niche). The more info you can provide on your users, and the more targeted they are, the more they are worth. |
How many of you founders are girls ? | lutorm: Is that "mera iphone" as in Swedish "more iphone"? |
How many of you founders are girls ? | smokey_the_bear: I'm in a start up of three, I'm the only girl. None of my friends in other start ups are girls. |
How many of you founders are girls ? | seltzered: just curious, do you live in India? I wonder this because I'm curious how the process is in making iphone apps from there. Do you get the same profit as us developers from apple? Is it easier to make a living off of iphone development due to lower cost of living there? |
What do you do if your startup idea involves hardware? | noonespecial: We do embedded work with arm and geode mostly in the networking and remote telemetry realm. I might have some advice to give. What sort of device were you looking to build? |
what do you think is the best UI for setting up recurrence? | mmelin: Examples of the classic form:http://www.taskcoach.org/screenshots/0.71.2-Windows_XP-Task_...http://crowdfavorite.com/images/screenshots/tasks/2.7/recur_... |
what do you think is the best UI for setting up recurrence? | jaymon: A lot of what is "best" has to do with how specific you want to be. Appending "every" to a date is great if you want something to occur every N. But what if you want it to occur every other N? Or the first N of every M? There's a reason why things like Crontab or iCalendar's RRULE are so specific and verbose.In order to decide what is "best" I would first decide how specific I needed to be and then start to narrow my input options based on my defined need. |
What do you do if your startup idea involves hardware? | brk: I'm in Boston too and my experience is 99% with hardware based startups (from big networking switches to little embedded security cameras).If you want to get together for a coffee (days are better for me) sometime I'd be happy to share with you what I know or can help with. |
How many of you founders are girls ? | mbrubeck: My friend Seema is CEO of a robotics/toy startup in Pittsburgh, which she co-founded with other students from her grad program at CMU:http://www.interbots.com/ |
What is the best way to get an unavailable but unused twitter name? | Mark_F: Thanks for the feedback. I will keep researching it and post my findings. |
What do you do if your startup idea involves hardware? | michaelisaok: It would be a device that plugs into your car's onboard computer. There are dozens of devices out there that do things on the hardware side that are very similar to what I'm looking for, but just not exactly. I don't think I'm going to get very far asking them to change their products either, since the changes I'd be asking for are too specific to what I want to do.Does that help you point me in the right direction? It doesn't seem like an overwhelming project for anyone, but none the less, someone would need to dedicate themselves to getting it built, and I just don't know how to find that person.I also have the chicken/egg scenario here where I'd love to get funding for it, but need to partner up with someone on the hardware side to at least get it to the prototype stage. |
What do you do if your startup idea involves hardware? | beagle3: Go to your nearest hackerspace - http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces - 4 are listed in Boston.MakerBot, the maker of affordable, open source, 3D printers, grew out of Resistor in NYC. |
What do you do if your startup idea involves hardware? | ewams: Here is a pretty good list. Also, including some information in your profile can't hurt either.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052950 |
How many of you founders are girls ? | saurabh: Seems like you are located in Mumbai! I am the cofounder of
stareable.com based in Lamington Road.Very cool to see a Mumbaikar doing cool stuff like this. Would love to have a chat with you sometime. |
What do you do if your startup idea involves hardware? | michaelisaok: brk - That would be great, thanks for the offer.Send an email over to michaelisaok@mailinator.com so we can connect. |
A site where devs can exchange back-end skills for design skills? | timmorgan: Wow. What an idea. I've always wanted to meet someone I could personally exchange work with like this, but never considered an app to hook me up with a designer.Please someone post a link. |
help me think of a domain name | david927: rumblesale.com |
Review my project: Using unicode to break Twitter's 140 char limit | shiro: Haha, it's clever. Did you limit the list of compressable characters by frequency? Since there seem more of them; U+3370-33DF range (from which you took 'ms', 'ns', 'cc' etc) also has 'da', 'bar', 'in', 'log', 'mil', 'mol', 'ha', 'gal' etc. Also U+32CD 'erg'
U+2480-249B and U+1F101-1F10A has digit(s) + punctuation (i.e. '1.' ... '20.' and '0,' ... '9,')I wonder how these play with searches, though. |
help me think of a domain name | kadavy: Sorry to get all MBA, but do you have a value proposition in mind? That could help with branding. |
What do you do if your startup idea involves hardware? | djb_hackernews: an OBD ii interface isn't that complicated. I bet you could find an upper level EE student or grad student willing to partner up pretty easily. Put a decent bounty on it and they could use it for a class project or self study credit.I don't think you need to go to a boutique engineering firm. |
Please review our startup | EGF: Seems very similar to our basic design and usability at Eat.ly, but I think I understand the use case. Would love to connect if you are interested in speaking further - couldn't find your contact info via profile, so throwing this out there publicly. |
A site where devs can exchange back-end skills for design skills? | og1: This is one I remember seeing, never used though.http://programmermeetdesigner.com/ |
help me think of a domain name | billpg: not-ebay.com? |
help me think of a domain name | timf: Check out nameboy.com and sedo.com. Enter keywords and see what's available. I find that helps with generating ideas.And a lot of times someone might just want ~$100 for a domain which should be easily justified if it's the right name.On nameboy.com you can quickly see domains that just have a .com taken, those are probably easier to get under your control.Recently I got a domain name I wanted by emailing the owner and making a proposition because I noticed that it was just some default GoDaddy page. Turns out he was indeed just a random web developer squatting on the name and was happy to get a few bucks, not some nefarious domain squatter. |
The value of ideas | mikecane: Ideas are useless in the sense that at any one time, many people could have the exact same idea. Ideas do "get in the air." So in that respect, ideas can be seen as commodities. It's getting the idea out there as something people can buy/use that matters. All writers understand this. It's not the story that was never written or never published that matters -- it's the story people can read or buy. |
How many of you founders are girls ? | JangoSteve: Congrats. I'm not a girl, but my co-founder for my startup was (I say "was" because I've since bought her out). |
The value of ideas | coryl: Ideas matter, but not that much. We'd all rather have good ideas than bad ideas, which proves theres some value in the idea itself.But GREAT ideas usually come from some form of execution and iteration. Great ideas just don't come from sitting and brainstorming what to build your startup into. Using your comparison of Google's pagerank, PageRank wasn't drummed up and perfected as an idea before it was executed. Sergey and Larry probably had a concept (born from their research and creativity) and executed it. What evolved is what we now and call PageRank. So great ideas are really only recognized after the fact. |
How many of you founders are girls ? | anitgram: just promise you wont resort to stripping when it does work out, k? |
help me think of a domain name | newobj: rocktion.com |
The value of ideas | mikecane: Let me try another tack. You're out with a friend and your friend remarks on a great service.product he/she just bought that's brand new. Yet you had the idea for that product too. You tell your friend this. Do you really expect your friend's honest reaction to be anything other than, "So what?" See, your idea never got anywhere -- while it was in your hands. The idea became great when someone brought it to market. |
The value of ideas | DanielBMarkham: A lot of this is about definitions.An idea is useless.A piece of execution is useless.Execution means taking an idea, any idea, trying it out and then coming up with new ideas at the same or lower level and trying them out.A good high-level idea by itself? Totally worthless. A team that can take a bad high-level idea, morph it into a mediocre one, then, through trial and error pound out the thousands of little ideas that make a business hum? Awesome. |
help me think of a domain name | kadavy: You also may want to check out http://brandstack.com I haven't used it (I have a friend who has), but apparently you can buy pre-made logos and domains. Might find something you like. |
What technologies still impress you most today? | mixmax: Cars. Making a box that will carry 4 people around at 80 mph is a pretty neat accomplishment. Doing it comfortably, safely, and at a a competitive price is an amazing feat of engineering and optimization. |
What technologies still impress you most today? | melling: Would it be wrong to say we're ending the first decade of the 21st century and I was really hoping for a lot more tech. Most of us grew up on sci-fi. I'd say we're a little behind schedule. "Sorry Dave, I can't do that." is a pretty old movie quote. |
The value of ideas | Travis: Let's play a thought experiment:I'm Paul Graham, and I've got a fantastic, knock-your-socks-off idea for a business. How much will you pay me for it?ORI'm Travis. I've got a mediocre idea, but have spent a lot of time learning about my customers and market. I've built a kickass piece of software that solves the pain. But, again, my idea isn't that great (think Craigslist: the idea of online classifieds isn't exactly a great one, or a novel/clever one...) Will you pay me more for this? |
What technologies still impress you most today? | grayrest: I think it's amazing that the Internet works.Topical video (Everything's amazing and nobody's happy):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk |
The value of ideas | Mz: Is the "ideas are useless" meme being put out there just because so many newbies to the startup culture are too enamored with their ideas and think that the idea is all that matters, and so they have to be hit hard with the "ideas are useless" to snap them out of that thinking and start valuing execution?I wouldn't exactly phrase it that way, but I think that does sum it up fairly well. I have spent a lot of time around the "gifted" community and I think an awful lot of extremely intelligent people are fundamentally lazy because, compared to most folks, they tend to skate through life and don't really have to work that hard.When I was in 11th grade and a member of a college level math honor society, I tutored a mentally retarded 10th grade girl who had gotten herself into algebra. No one else in the honor society doing tutoring wanted to tutor her because it was too hard to teach her. So I always ended up working with her. She worked harder for her C's and D's than I ever did for my A's and B's. She never got in a snit over not understanding something. I learned to explain math concepts at least 3 ways without breaking a sweat and up to 12 ways if that was what it took. It was one of the most valuable experiences I ever had.After something is built and makes a billion dollars or so, the world calls the founders/originators "geniuses". People who have the subjective experience of routinely being smarter than everyone else in the room often have trouble with certain realities and are often overconfident in their abilities in some ways -- for example, they tend to think if you disagree with them or have some criticism, you simply are too dumb to understand and can't possibly have a real point. They tend to think this because repeated experience in the real world has taught them this is typically true. So I think a lot of very smart people kind of identify themselves with the after-the-fact pronouncement of "genius" and gloss over what it took to accomplish the stuff that ultimately convinced the world this label was appropriate. And I think that is why you see this mantra that ideas aren't worth dirt, you actually have to roll up your sleeves and do the work to have anything of value. |
The value of ideas | jorkos: If you have the ability to execute on your idea to test it's validity, then it's worth a lot! Think Chatroulette...hotmail....youtube...etc. Conversely, if you can't execute on the idea then it's worth far less and you should share it widely, get feedback, and work towards building a team around the idea that can execute upon it....I think the meme has gotten popular because it's mostly oriented to people that can't execute on their ideas....and thus it holds some truth. |
The value of ideas | mixmax: If you take a look at successful companies you'll find that the ideas behind them are in no way unique, and more often than not they're not based on an idea but on a market. Here are the ten most profitable companies in the Forbes 1000 list and what they do:ExxonMobil - Oil & Gas OperationsGazprom Russia - Oil & Gas OperationsRoyal Dutch Shell - Oil & Gas OperationsChevron - Oil & Gas OperationsBP - Oil & Gas OperationsPetroChina - Oil & Gas OperationsGeneral Electric - ConglomeratesMicrosoft - Software & ServicesToyota Motor - Consumer DurablesNestlé - Food, Drink & TobaccoOnly General Electric and Microsoft seem to be based on an idea, the others adress a market and create a product to fit that market. And it can be argued whether these are successes because of the idea - Edison tried thousands of different configurations before he actually invented the lightbulb, and Microsoft bought their first hit-product DOS from Tim Paterson and became successful by selling it, not inventing it. Execution apperas to have been paramount in their success.These examples aren't unique. Even Google, often touted as the canonical "idea" company couldn't sell their technology, even though they tried. They only created Google after futile attempts at selling the idea to among others Yahoo. |
What technologies still impress you most today? | anigbrowl: Transistors. The sheer complexity and speed of what can be achieved by stacking together a large number of electrically activated switches never ceases to amaze me. |
How many of you founders are girls ? | angelhaze218: the start up girl scene is nonexistent, which is why it's awesome, it gives me the advantage ( and the confidence) to talk to any venture capitalist, and know am definitely making more of an impression than the next techie guy |
What technologies still impress you most today? | MaysonL: The scientific method. It works on just about any problem you're able to apply it to. |
How do you keep your energy? | wgj: Your instinct might be not to do some of these things because they take more time, but in my experience (of doing it right and wrong) these habits work.* Anything to reduce stress. That's a whole topic in itself, but stress saps your energy more than anything.* Small consistent meals throughout the day. Just enough so that you're hungry again in a couple hours. Large amounts of food throw off your metabolism.* Plenty of water throughout the day.* B-complex vitamins. These help reduce stress.* 15 minute breaks. Fresh air. Sun, if you can get it.* Exercise every day. This will increase your overall energy level, metabolism, and stamina. It also helps reduce stress.* Learn techniques to keep a positive mental state. This is also a big topic, but pessimism, negativity, and depression will definitely slow you down. Find ways to see the glass half full.Edit: Almost forgot: Plenty of sleep. |
What technologies still impress you most today? | mrlyc: I still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. |
How do you keep your energy? | adrianwaj: Power nap in afternoon. Be warm, lie on your back, breath, and drift off. Have an alarm go off after an hour in case you fall asleep. Will improve mental clarity and energy.Also, fresh dates, water, and walnuts for long programming sessions. |
How many of you founders are girls ? | fburnaby: Wouldn't it make more sense if your tagline was "hot masala applications?" |
The value of ideas | apsurd: The problem is ideas do not exist. It is only when they morph into a tangible reality that they can be tested, verified, iterated on, and developed.Put another way, an idea can be as great and fantastic and beautiful and groundbreaking as you dream it up to be - but none of that matters if it exists in your head only. Only when the idea enters a tangible reality can you really verify these claims. Does it work? how the hell do you know if it does not exist?PageRank was verified to be a good idea only after they built a tangible search engine to test it with. And I'd argue their initial idea was iterated upon so much through the course of these real-life tests, that you can no longer give overwhelming credit to some spark of genius that bolted into sergey's head one fine day. It's about testing and iteration in real life not about mystical ideas seemingly sent down from the stars - that to me is why ideas are worthless. |
I/O Ventures? | bragiel: Hey... this is Paul from the i/o team. We're still getting through all the applications. :) We shooting for mid april to have people in the door. So please hang in there. |
How do you keep your energy? | jacquesm: The size of your 'battery' may simply be 60 hours per week, pushing yourself beyond what you can naturally do should be done slowly and with your finger on the pulse looking for signs of trouble.If you want to suffer what people call a 'burn-out' then try pushing yourself harder and longer than your body can normally sustain, the results are not pleasant, it can take years to recover from something like that.Your body giving your a warning sign - tiredness - is a pretty good reason to slow down a bit.One thing that comes to mind is that you may have an iron deficiency or something like that, that's easily checked. |
How do you keep your energy? | keefe: Regular exercise, a proper diet and a pretty strict schedule have helped me maximize productivity. It's very easy to skip working out or push yourself to just 7 hours or 6 hours of sleep, but really it catches up to you as another poster says. |
How do you keep your energy? | Mz: A) Work on taking better care of yourself so you have more stamina, mental focus, etc (eat right, exercise, stay hydrated, take your vitamins, etc)B) Streamline your life in terms of material things that need upkeep and the like. If you have less housework and what not to do when you aren't "working", you will have more time, energy and mental focus for side projects. |
How do you keep your energy? | patio11: 60 hours? Slacker. ;) Sorry, Japanese salaryman humor.I honestly was trying to write a blog post about this last night and just couldn't sustain the mental effort required to make a good job of it. So I stopped and will take a run on it another day. That is, ironically, one of my tips.Design your business to have smaller batch sizes. If, for example, you typically ship software every 2 work-weeks (~80 hours), you might take two months of work on your current schedule between shipping events. That can feel like staring out to the horizon and still not seeing the finish line -- it is depressing. Instead, if you were making visible progress every single night you sat down, then you'd be happier and might find that you have much larger reserves of energy.Relatedly: cut scope, cut scope, cut scope. The less you need to write, the less you need to test and the less you need to maintain. Every line of code you write is an implicit claim on your time every day from here to eternity, ensuring that that code doesn't break. Try to write as few time-debts into your life as possible.Process and systems: time invested in making yourself more efficient is some of the best time you'll ever spend. Systems which work without your personal intervention -- for example, any sort of self-help option for customers that resolves a common support issue, or automation of recurring tasks like backups, etc -- are worth their weight in gold. Formalized processes which turn "Sit down at the computer for an hour and bang out something that might or might not work" into "Follow the freaking checklist and have something which absolutely will not break in 27 minutes" save you time and sanity. (If you think you're tired now, wait until the system goes down at 3 AM and you have work in 4 hours.)Mix tasks which require your personal attention with those which require calendar time, so that you can fire one of the longer tasks off, go away for a week (Saturday through Saturday), and then come back and see what happened. A/B tests work great for this. So does certain flavors working with freelancers, if you're working with the right ones and have a habit of giving them sufficient direction in advance. (Hold on to anybody who can work without constant direction -- they're worth their weight in gold.)I have found that exercise, church, and social activities are all net-positives in terms of the amount of work I can get done, simply because feeling like I'm actually living tends to improve my physical and mental energy levels. By comparison, TV/games are generally a net negative. Adjust appropriately for things which matter to you.If you want to work, and you feel like you can't work, try doing another flavor of task. Planning on programming but can't? Go work on e.g. marketing or drafting the newsletter or what have you. If you still can't work, clock out. There is no profit in throwing good time after bad, and your systems will still be around tomorrow. |
I/O Ventures? | benologist: I was lucky enough to meet with one of I/Os mentors this last week ... I have to say there is a really cool bunch of guys on their mentor list.Although I was a little disappointed I/O didn't get back to me after he emailed on my behalf. :( |
What technologies still impress you most today? | nfnaaron: Having been to the moon. |
Ethics and the "hacking system" Q from YC application | jacquesm: I think your examples are pretty 'light', and not in any way detrimental, but I could be wrong.To me it is as simple as 'whitehat/blackhat' hacking.And what you did when you were a kid should be taken with a grain of salt, there is a reason we keep childrens criminal records sealed. |
What technologies still impress you most today? | jason_tko: The fact I can sit in a cafe, wirelessly connect to the internet, then connect to the office through my VPN, and then log into a virtual machine that doesn't even physically exist. |
Ethics and the "hacking system" Q from YC application | patio11: Beating the system doesn't require dishonesty -- it just requires approaching the problem in a way the system did not anticipate.For example, we all know what "the system" looks like for getting hired, right? Send in your resume, which looks like every other resume. We'll have an HR drone read it. You may be called back for an interview. Don't call us, we'll call you.One way to hack this system is to create a website designed to interact with, specifically, the decisionmaker in charge of hiring you. Maybe you pull in Google Analytics, an A/B test, sixteen different web services/Twitter integrations/whatever, and then after a few minutes hit him with a AJAX popup asking for what time is best for you to call him about hiring you. On the call, you demonstrate uncanny attention to what he needs by the simple expedient of talking about the topics he evidenced the most interest in by interacting with on your resume. (He read seven blog posts and didn't touch your educational achievements once? That tells you something.)That isn't dishonest in the slightest: you're using your professional skills to effectively demonstrate that you and the company would be a mutually beneficial pairing. You're just presenting yourself in a more engaging, effective, forceful way than the overdone resume format would present you in. |
Ethics and the "hacking system" Q from YC application | Rust: One way to "hack the system" is to do what you said - employ some type of deception or misdirection in order to gain something you shouldn't.Another way is to re-purpose something to do what it wasn't designed to do. For example, any contraption that would be called a "Rube Goldberg Machine" would qualify as (non-computer) hacking. MAKE Magazine is full of hacks of this nature as well. The Burning Man Festival is a great place to see things hacked together.Another way might be to fix a perceived flaw through unorthodox means. For example, I put new pickups in my guitar, and they were too hot (too loud, bad distortion). Instead of replacing them (they sounded awesome at lower volumes), I routed the pickup holes to be slightly deeper, then wired in a bypass switch, letting me choose to have a normal tone or naturally overdriven (good distortion) tone. Drummers who put tape over part of a drum skin are hacking their system. Guitarists with old Stratocasters often file their nuts and lower the bridge for better tone.So I respectfully disagree - one can definitely be a (non-computer) hacker and be ethical at the same time. |
Ethics and the "hacking system" Q from YC application | JacobAldridge: "Naturally, beating the system requires some form of deception (some degrees of lieing, cheating, dishonesty)"I think that's a flawed premise. Remove the assumption (as others have done) that "beating the system" means any of those things, and the argument fails. |
What technologies still impress you most today? | jacquesm: Technology will only really amaze you when you have to do without it for a week. Or even just an hour. Even the most basic stuff is so far beyond what you personally would be able to re-create starting from scratch, even with all your knowledge that it might as well all be science fiction.We're standing on top of a nearly endless layercake of invention, unable to even conceive any more of what it would be like to stand on the plate the cake rests on.We'd probably last for about 15 minutes. But since the heart of the question is 'recently', I'd have to pick abs, without it I wouldn't be writing this. |
Ethics and the "hacking system" Q from YC application | cperciva: On one hand, PG wants people who beat the system. On the other hand, someone told me PG is high on ethics.I think this question serves two purposes: First, to see how creative people have been in hacking systems; and second, to see how people interpret the question. |
Why is this clojure example so slow? | itistoday: Wouldn't this be better asked on the Clojure google group?http://groups.google.com/group/clojure |
A site where devs can exchange back-end skills for design skills? | jsidhu: agreed, this would be good. |
Ethics and the "hacking system" Q from YC application | pg: On one hand, PG wants people who beat the system. On the other hand, someone told me PG is high on ethics. These seem to contradict one another.They don't when the system is evil. |
Why is this clojure example so slow? | swannodette: I'm curious as to what you mean by slow? Maybe you would see this on JVM cold run, but after that it should be pretty darn fast. |
Is anyone doing any significant work with the play framework? | newobj: never heard of it before. the demo seems to leave itself open to CSRF though. shrug. |
What personal metrics do you track? | davidcuddeback: If you're interested in this for the sake of software development, you might be interested in the Personal Software Process (PSP). It's an attempt to turn CMMI into a process that an individual software engineer can follow, and it comes from the same people that invented CMMI (Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Software_Process |
GPL copyleft applies to ports? | _delirium: Yes. Any work that counts as a "derived work" of GPL'd software must be licensed under the GPL. I would think a direct port is almost certainly a derived work. |
GPL copyleft applies to ports? | CoreDumpling: IANAL answer: if you want to release under a different license, you are urged to do a "clean room" implementation that could not possibly have derived anything from the original. If it's a mere translation from one language to another, your version of the library almost certainly falls under the "derivative work" category and needs to be GPL.If your library implements a well-known algorithm, try to track down a text description of that algorithm (say, a research paper) and redo the code based on that original source. Looking at GPL code can contaminate your final product. |
A site where devs can exchange back-end skills for design skills? | dnsworks: In the past when I've been involved with or observed schemes that involved bartering software development services for other services, it has ended poorly. The main problem is that software development never really ends. There are always bugs to fix, new features to add, etc. When you're trading a service like that for something that's more finite like design work or office space, it's rather easy for the balance to slip into a rather inequitable realm for the software developer, and eventually ruin relationships. |
What personal metrics do you track? | jarsj: I track number of lines of code I write every month. I use statcvs which generates nice graphs over my CVS repository. |
Experience earning side income with elance, oDesk, RentACoder, etc? | seymores: So what I learn from all this are:1. Differentiate on Quality, Never on Price2. Find a niche, fill the niche3. Avoid cheapskates4. It works, be persistent |
how do you backup your servers? | oomkiller: Rsync.net, simple, cheap reliable, and helpful. If you call their telephone # you get a real person, that knows WTF is going on, not some L1 support tech. |
How many of you founders are girls ? | paraschopra: Congratulations, are you based out of India? |
Is anyone doing any significant work with the play framework? | SI1233: It's perfect, I think, unique in Java world. |
What technologies still impress you most today? | zbyszek: A relative of mine recently had heart surgery of a type that is fairly routine nowadays. But when I think of the fact that you can pull apart someone's rib-cage, stick knives into their heart and then put it all back together again such that the person is walking about not long after, I am still impressed. |
(Yet Another) HN Comment Quality Going Down? | ableal: Two suggestions: make votes cost (e.g. 1/10 point); put a threshold also on upvoting (e.g. 10 or 20 points).Eroding over time (e.g. 1 pt/day) probably would also be beneficial. |
Internet timer for specific website? Urgent | duarte: I know there is a program that tracks how much time you spend on each website, application, etc.. I tried googling but can't find it now, I'm sure someone will remember if you think it's helpful?You install it (mac and win) and then could log into a control panel with all that info, updated to the minute! |
What personal metrics do you track? | go37pi: Kevin Kelly has a blog dedicated to "self quantification" and has a bunch of interesting resources and thoughts on the process. For example, one interesting study he did was on the efficacy of caffeine on his daily productivity. The blog is worth a look:
http://www.kk.org/quantifiedself/ |
how do you backup your servers? | forkqueue: duplicity is great for off-site backups - full encryption, supports a wide variety of destinations (amazon s3, FTP etc) |
Review my mockup tool: WireframeSketcher | wlievens: I was looking for this just minutes ago! Will certainly check it out. |
Review my mockup tool: WireframeSketcher | nathan82: The tour pages are really well put together content wise; When trying to decide if a program is worth a downloading, I usually scan the screenshots page and make a quick decision based on first impressions. Comes across as easy to use but with some nice power features.The landing page screenshot has been poorly resized however. I'd make that a bit bigger and prettier, and you could even go so far as adding slick little javascript tooltips to explain different tools. Could help your conversion rates maybe? Also perhaps consider using the same shiny green 'Try It Now' button on the bottom of the tour pages, instead of switching to a text link. Small grammar nitpick, 'How it works' is not a question. |
Review my mockup tool: WireframeSketcher | duck: What makes your tool better than Balsamiq Mockups?http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups |
A site where devs can exchange back-end skills for design skills? | ost: http://builditwith.me/ |
How many of you founders are girls ? | silverlake: I thought chicks prefer to be called women. |
Review my mockup tool: WireframeSketcher | pierrefar: Looks good. I couldn't see anything about exporting as (say) HTML? That's one thing I really really really would pay for: I sketch, and the tool exports a basic HTML & CSS template. Probably best used for what you call "Masters". |
Is anyone doing any significant work with the play framework? | bigclumsyoaf: I don't have any systems deployed to production yet, but am in the process of creating an internal app using Play and am liking what I see so far.There are a few minor problems with the framework being quite immature, and I don't always think the creators have a clear roadmap of where they are going. However in a way this is good for me, because the early adopters can help drive things, but with the core team trying to keep the framework as light as possible.Coming from a j2ee type background, running each instance as a standalone process, not inside an appserver was a little strange at first. But the process separation has turned out to be a good thing for me, just takes a little more management. But because things are structured in a REST/share nothing architecture, the ability to use a proxy with failover configuration and doing hot deploys via this is nice.The team are very responsive with help on the google group, and bugs are fixed very quickly, you just have to be prepared to run with nightly builds to keep up to date.One worry I do have is how the team/community will continue to handle if things do become more popular. I am worried about an influx of new developers clogging the current direct channel to the developers and feel the community will have to split into newbies/users/developers to handle things more efficiently. But they are doing a great job so far so long may it continue. |
(Yet Another) HN Comment Quality Going Down? | jacquesm: edw519 already noted once that it is cyclic, and that the cycles have their 'lows' when YC has their application round, we're in the midst of that. |
Review my mockup tool: WireframeSketcher | dugmartin: I think the Eclipse integration is a very interesting way to differentiate.One nit: I'd put a space around the "&" in the page title for SEO. |
Review my project: Using unicode to break Twitter's 140 char limit | csomar: Clever idea，however the compression ratio doesn't seem to be enough to make a real difference; try㏌g it a few times，this will only save you few characters.(Saved 4 char in this comment) |
(Yet Another) HN Comment Quality Going Down? | benwalther: It's my fault and people like me.Reddit's quality has been dipping significantly lately (there's been 3-5 front page self posts on "are you smart but too lazy to do anything with it?") and so people like me are subscribing to HN again to get that 'old reddit' feel.Keep the focus on immediate actionable steps rather than armchair pontificating and you'll drive off the non-constructive layabouts. |
Review my mockup tool: WireframeSketcher | adamhowell: Man, there are a lot of these "Balsamiq-esque" apps lately.I've started wondering if it has anything to do with Peldi's financial transparency. People saw what a cash cow it was and decided they wanted a piece. |
How should I approach buying my ideal domain name? | slater: Isn't it pretty much automated with domain squatters? Eg, they have a "buy domain" or "request price" button, and see what you get back? |
How should I approach buying my ideal domain name? | jorkos: Ask for the price from an anonymous email as a starting point....fairly easy. |
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