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Help three founders mediate a dispute | bgnm2000: Charlie should get a pat on the back, and feel good he was able to help out his friends.He should be ashamed for feeling so greedy. |
QA testing for Agile teams | d0m: It's more of a constant testing mentality, from the clients, managers and developers. It's a bit like security.. you can't stop in the middle of the development and say: Hey, let's make that app. secure. It's a continual way of thinking. How you test it, however, is really application dependent.For sure, a thing that I find the most important in the agile way, is to let the client use the app as much as possible and as sooner as possible. This way, they practically test the application for you and help you focus on the right things. |
Non-CS/EE hackers? | imp: Mech E here also. Spent two years as a design engineer until I made the jump for web programming. I didn't leverage any domain knowledge though. Light bulb design doesn't have much to do with fantasy football :) |
When is a company no longer a startup? | kamme: This probably sounds strange, but for me it would be as from the moment the sandwiches aren't free anymore.Let me clarify: I don't think it's something measurable, it's when you start noticing small things like, for example, sandwiches aren't free anymore or drinks after work with the whole team are cancelled because the founders have to go to meetings with clients/investors for the 4th time in a row. It's just small things... |
Solving chicken and egg problem | mixmax: Check out Strategy Letter II: Chicken and Egg Problems by Joel Spolsky. It has some good thoughts on the problem.http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html |
Please review my node.js fun project: Selfdestructing email aliases. | weixiyen: next project for you -> make this a firefox / chrome / IE extension that auto-generates fake email aliases into any sign-up / login email field, and some way to track what's been done to with the fake emails you used. |
Are some sites rated lower than others? | stonemetal: A partial explanation for this phenomenon I have seen is that not all votes count. I haven't heard an exact reasoning on which votes do count or why votes might not be counted. |
Solving chicken and egg problem | maxdemarzi: You need to either:1. Tap into existing communities that would be a good fit for your product that are already using other processes for transactions...2. Provide some utility to the eggs (or the chickens) that doesn't require the other party.3. Spend money on advertising to both sides. |
Best place for business cards? | donna: Moo's great, quick, easy. |
Best place for business cards? | tbrooks: http://www.overnightprints.com/Cheap and fast. |
Joining a startup as an employee: How to decide? | timcederman: The key things for me in evaluating this would be...a) How much is the opportunity cost? You've got to balance the pay cut with how much experience you're going to get, because in 99% of cases, even if the startup does well, you're not going to get rich.b) What's the vibe of the team like? What's their pedigree and track record? Will you enjoy working with them for ridiculous hours? Will you learn from them?c) Do you believe in the product? Even if it's something unsexy, does it offer an interesting challenge? Some of the 'sexy' products are also very unfun to work on by the way.d) Are they approachable? Do they care about their employees? Are they being open an honest in how equity and salary will work? Do they offer the basic, but important, perks like half-decent health care, free soda, and company outings?A gut feeling is usually pretty good indicator of whether it will work for you or not. |
Best place for business cards? | rokhayakebe: http://bizcard.com/Free for select designs and no advertisement of the back. |
I could use a few more Erlang/Lisp/Scala/Node.js/Haskell articles please | zackattack: Especially node.js plz. |
Best place for business cards? | holdenk: vistaprint is also ok, but the prices listed are artificially low (there is a "processing" fee). |
I could use a few more Erlang/Lisp/Scala/Node.js/Haskell articles please | mbrubeck: I stay away from most of Reddit, but the Haskell subreddit is a really good source of interesting reading: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/top/?t=month |
Best place for business cards? | kyoji: http://www.uprinting.com/Can't recommend enough. Their offset printing is higher quality and only a bit more expensive than overnightprints (I've seen examples of both) and they deliver on time. They also offer more paper options, but don't do spot UV or die-cuts (at least for the prices ONP does) |
Best place to buy and sell sites & domains? | byoung2: My first Flippa auction is ending soon...I definitely won't use it again anytime soon. The fees are just too high, and I think fraud is rampant. It's $19 to list, but without any of the upgrades, my auction didn't get any traffic. The prices for the upgrades are $29 for a home page listing, $5-$15 for borders, screenshots, highlighting, or bold, $50 to tweet it to @Flippa followers. You could easily spend $150 just to list your site, in addition to a 5% success fee if it actually sells.I suspect that some of the sales on Flippa are the same people selling the same sites to each other to inflate the price. I've seen sever suspicious cases that look like accomplice 1 sells a site to accomplice 2 with accomplices 3-5 bidding up the auction. Accomplice 2 then does the same thing a few months later to sell to 3, and so on. The site (originally worthless), sells for $2000, $3000, $4000 among the scammers before being sold to a sucker for $5000.In a lot of cases, it looks like people are buying seasoned domains with high page rank and putting up a quickie site. These are likely to lose all of their page rank as soon as the domain is transfered, so be careful.Definitely do your homework before buying or selling on any of these domain/site flipping sites. |
I could use a few more Erlang/Lisp/Scala/Node.js/Haskell articles please | jokull: One could register canihazhackerfuzz.com |
Joining a startup as an employee: How to decide? | cmos: Are you a thrill seeker? Are you comfortable in a chaotic environment where your future paycheck is not a guaranteed thing?Working for a startup is possibly worse than actually starting your own company. You are there to watch and participate, and while your fate is unknown, much like the founders, at least they have more control of it. So you are catching a ride on their bus. It could go swimmingly well, or it could burn up in horrible flames in 1-X months.If an amazing and chaotic experience is enough to make up for the guaranteed setback in your personal life, then yes, this could be for you.Just don't complain when someone says 'we can't hit payroll' or 'we need to release no matter what'. You are voluntarily leaving a controlled environment and entering into a triage emergency room. If you don't release or ship, there is no income, and thus no company. This is a pressure cooker experience.Your entering into a daily battle where the victories and defeats are real time, in your face, and govern your mood, sleep, and appetite. For every 'we can't hit payroll' line there is an equal and opposite amazing moment, a moment that you can't get in a typical job, a moment that could best be described as an 'epic win'.If these moments of pure joy are missing from your current job, and you can hack the equal and opposite low moments, then yes, join the startup. Just know that your taking a gamble, and you will need to enjoy the experience no matter the outcome. All future jobs will seem trivial in comparison. |
In London? Looking for a startup idea? I have a MVP for you. | revorad: Hey Ben, that sounds like a really useful product. I'm based in London, but I have my hands full with my own startup. I really hope someone will pick this up and look forward to use it someday! |
I could use a few more Erlang/Lisp/Scala/Node.js/Haskell articles please | Locke1689: You could always take a look at http://lambda-the-ultimate.org. It's probably isnt exactly what you're looking for, but there are a lot of interesting articles. This is not to say I don't agree with you, but I also remember the erlang/Haskell wave six months ago. Personally, I'm always a big fan of learning new coding techniques and paradigms, like functional snippets but also cool design systems like event-based I/O. I'm sure there's more stuff out there that I don't know of yet. |
Best place to buy and sell sites & domains? | lenley: flippa.com, do your research on the site.
sedo.com (for domain buy-sell), buydomains (for domain buy), snapnames (for domain buy), |
I could use a few more Erlang/Lisp/Scala/Node.js/Haskell articles please | danudey: Am I the only one whose first thought was 'Look, someone else is sick of all the Erlang/Lisp/Scala/Node.js/Haskell articles on HN and has posted a sarcastic request for more of them'?My second thought, fwiw, was 'He forgot clojure.' |
I could use a few more Erlang/Lisp/Scala/Node.js/Haskell articles please | wwortiz: I agree I've lurked around here for a while but I remember there being a lot less hullabaloo about facebook, google, and apple when I first started browsing and a good amount more about startups, python (and other language) tricks and cool geeky things. I understand that facebook, google, and apple are interesting with how "evil" or "great" they are on a day to day basis but I prefer more geeky articles that wouldn't make it to the front page on reddit.Though people will just say I'm remembering wrong and saying that quality has dwindled is a figment of my imagination but just look what makes it to the front page on a day to day basis. |
Does comment editing on HN cause bad habits on the web? | jacquesm: Most other sites have a preview option instead. |
Does comment editing on HN cause bad habits on the web? | yalurker: Many sites allow editing, often a post is editable for a couple minutes or until someone has responded. Some forums allow editing even after that.I see nothing unusual about commenting conventions on Hacker News. |
Solving chicken and egg problem | jacquesm: One way to get past this (it worked for 'reddit') is to fake a bunch of accounts and stop sleeping for the first three months or so, until you have enough real 'eggs' and chickens to keep real ones interested.The way I got past it on ww.com is to launch the site from a mailing list that was already 'on topic' so a large number of people decided to try it out at once and found each other. |
Best place for business cards? | ryduh: I've have a lot of success with NextDayFlyers and so have my friends. They have great customer service as well. |
I could use a few more Erlang/Lisp/Scala/Node.js/Haskell articles please | mpk: I'd like that too, but if you're not finding them here, go to twitter. Save some searches tagged with #nodejs, #ruby, #lisp, etc and you'll find loads of links to new articles and developments related to your topic of interest.Here's a #nodejs search for you : http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23nodejs |
Best iPad annotation app/combo? | mikecane: I don't know if this helps. Don't have an iPad yet myself:http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/04/reviewing-papers-on-i... |
Can you recommend a tried and tested Python web server | sqrt17: nah. Use Apache and mod_wsgi.
(mod_wsgi runs the Python app in a separate process, which means that those Apache processes that just serve images will not be weighed down by a Python interpreter). |
Best place for business cards? | iaskwhy: From China: http://print100.com/ (free delivery worldwide) |
Can you recommend a tried and tested Python web server | madprogrammer: tornado |
Why is HTML so complicated? | aristus: HTML started out as a simple language for formatting research papers. It is a tree of text nodes and elements, ie section 1, table 3. It was not and is not intended to be a 2D anything.Over the last 20 years many people have layered on things for different reasons. The biggest, of course was the "style sheet" which came from the print world. Javascript poked its head in, which prompted an attempt to standardize the DOM without breaking backwards-compatibility. Then the Semantic folk tried to enforce a separation of "meaning" and "styling", which struggle continues to this day. |
Where the hell is all this recent hate on Gen Y'ers coming from? | jolan: "They should make a phone that you put on a wall so you always know where it is!" -- Gen Y |
Where the hell is all this recent hate on Gen Y'ers coming from? | rewind: More importantly, why do you care what he thinks? Just do your thing. |
Why is HTML so complicated? | th: It's complicated because it was created by physicists. :pI believe Alan Kay mentioned during a recent talk that he thought a WYSIWYG interface would have been a much more suitable design for the web. I think HTML is ill-suited for many online documents, but I wonder if a WYSIWYG would have actually worked any better. |
Non-CS/EE hackers? | toddc: A lot of people get the CS degree and stop learning or lose the drive to write or create anything interesting. Who knows, maybe they never had it:
It's easier to take a creative person and teach him engineering than it is to teach an engineer to be creative.Me: B.A. English and Classics. I'm getting a masters in CS--only because I already read/have read many of the graduate texts. I started programming at an early age, but I wasn't interested in CS because the universities were still insisting on Fortran and Assembly, and I'm sure Cobol was on the list of requirements too.
Lastly, deep domain knowledge is priceless--no fancy algorithm trick can beat it. Someone without specialized domain knowledge can't even envision what he doesn't know.Success in software and startups is largely determined by one's commitment to keep learning and trying to improve. |
Where the hell is all this recent hate on Gen Y'ers coming from? | _delirium: It seems to be an eternal truth that older generations think younger generations feel too entitled and don't respect their elders, the value of hard work, authority/hierarchy, or paying your dues. It was basically the complaint the WW2 generation had about the 60s/70s generation, the complaint the 60s/70s generation had about Gen-Xers, and now apparently the complaint Gen-Xers have about Gen Y. So I wouldn't worry too much about it. |
Language & web framework advice? | yourabi: use python and either django or pylons. Ruby will be familiar to you - rails might be a bit new.(coming from a perl background some (questionable) elements in ruby will please you like built-in regex operator ~ and backticks) |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | ugcblog: Ha people are probably dreaming about the good old days of myspace, when you could leave a website behind. |
Can you recommend a tried and tested Python web server | yourabi: take a look at a combination of nginx and unicorn or uWsgi.Avoid mod_python. |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | alexro: "food and shows"- that's what the masses want, unfortunately |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | marilyn: I'm definitely tempted to quit. I don't like the way Facebook is going for sure, nor do I like the idea of one company, a foreign one at that (I'm Canadian), having so much control and power over my digital identity. Though I fear I may be too addicted to quit. |
Why is HTML so complicated? | cpr: There were so many thousands of micro-decisions along the way, in all three areas of HTML, JS (language and DOM) and CSS, that the result looks more like a random walk than a set of well-thought-out standards at any given point.Still, they're what we have, and, like the gauge of railroad track in Europe based on the ruts originally made by Roman chariots (the width of two horses), we gotta build the trains to run on 'em.And, unlike the physical case, we can widen the rails every so often when most trains have adapted to the new widths. |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | cpr: I completely ignore all that social networking stuff; my brain sees them as ads and blocks them subconsciously. |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | brandonkm: I'm deleting my account after I relay to all the friends I want to keep in touch with where else they can reach me at. Its a personal decision and never before have I been so personally offended by any one company's vision of what the internet should be. I disagree with the notion of a "social by default" web so much that I can no longer entertain being part of Facebook.There's an educational component to this recent bit of news as well. People by and large don't care enough to really cause the critical mass exodus that would make Facebook backtrack on these announcements. I think this may largely be because people don't know anything about the origins of the internet or even how it works on a basic level. It makes me think that knowing these things should be taught in schools in some capacity. I would assert that if people knew more about the internet then they could form more of an opinion when a company tries to hijack it it and change the paradigm.No one company can or should ever be allowed to change what the "default" of the web is. |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | asnyder: Not only are they bad, they slow down the rendering speed of the pages they're on.http://twitter.com/SlexAxton/status/12663859611 |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | throwthisaway: It's the new "tweet this" -- a stupid trend people will wonder about in a few years. |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | tdmackey: Can't say I've noticed one yet. :( |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | Detrus: Poor digg, that was supposed to be their trick |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | PG-13: I'd like to know the ages of the people "quitting" Facebook and how much you actually used it in the first place. Most of Hacker News is too old to actually use Facebook the way young people use it. You're just there so you can feel as though you're in tune with tech trends or whatever. You have never really used Facebook, which is why almost all the comments on here about Facebook are so bad. You sound like old people screaming at kids to get off the yard. If you were a real Facebook user (hundreds of photos documenting years of your life), you wouldn't be able to just quit like that over something like this. I seriously don't understand why anybody over 30 even bothers to write things about Facebook, something that isn't meant for them, and something they clearly don't understand.Old wantrepreneurs on here are so bitter about Facebook's success. I remember someone giving career advice actually recommending Google over Facebook. You have to be completely out of touch to even think such a thing. Google is yesterday's news. They are a bloated company filled with talentless individuals, people who would kill for the chance to have the skills necessary to work for Facebook, but their brains just aren't good enoughIf you're over 30, please stop posting your "opinion" on Facebook. Your opinion on Facebook is about as insightful as an 80-yr-old's opinion about the internet. Instead, you guys should be begging the real users of Facebook, i.e. people who actually understand social media, to explain these things to you so that one day, with significant effort and training, you might be able to understand it. |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | Popcorn: I've already spotted one on a website I frequently visit. Do webmasters just assume they have to plaster this stuff on without any thought? |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | thecombjelly: I started using it as soon as it was opened to high schools. I deleted my account around a year ago. I quit because of privacy concerns but also because it was a time sink, at it had really lost it's focus. |
Language & web framework advice? | Scott_MacGregor: If you are interested in PHP you might want to give Zend Studio a look. You can use it to develop in the Zend Framework using MVC.You can definitely build some cool things with it, and PHP is marketable. |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | dfranke: I was one of Facebook's earlier adopters, back when it was still restricted to a handful of universities. I found it to be a useful tool for getting to know classmates. Then the feature creep started and it turned into a product that I have no use for, so I left. I never at any point gave a damn what their privacy policy was, because it would never have crossed my mind to post something there if I didn't want it to be public. |
Language & web framework advice? | donw: I spent a long time with Perl, and because of that, Ruby felt very, very comfortable. Like Steve Yegge put it, you get the Best of Perl, without the Rest of Perl. This isn't to say the language is without warts, but overall, it does a good job of getting out of your way.Rails isn't a bad thing to learn, if anything because it really does a good job of teaching MVC web application design. And it makes development of CRUD apps happen very, very fast. |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | pedalpete: I thought things were getting ridiculous with all the buzz, digg, sphere, reddit buttons already.
From what I can see, those are being replaced with a single option (though I admit, I haven't seen many of the facebook implementations yet).It is nice to have a 'standard' rather than voting for multiple items. At the same time, how much is liking something really doing for ya?I don't think it has the benefit of a community like HN, so Facebook doesn't have it all yet. |
I could use a few more Erlang/Lisp/Scala/Node.js/Haskell articles please | dons: If you like Haskell stuff, cross-post top articles from http://haskell.reddit.com |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | jambo: I'm just seeing a lot of broken iframes because I've now blocked facebook & their subdomains on my personal machine. |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | Amanjeev: I want to quit but then where and how else can I keep in touch with the contacts on FB? |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | duck: Can't you just disable it? Maybe I'm missing something though.
http://www.simplehelp.net/2010/04/22/how-to-reclaim-your-pri...I mainly use Facebook to keep updated on family and close friends, and don't use anything besides status updates and some photos/videos. I don't see myself changing how I use it based on these latest changes.Like Google, Facebook and privacy all depend on how you use it, not the tool itself. Also, like anything other 3rd party app, I don't rely on it and would be happy to walk away from it at any point if need be. I currently doing that with Google search using duck duck go. |
Would you use Coda for iPad | MaysonL: Clickable: http://judstephenson.com/2010/04/23/idea-coda-for-ipad/ |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | webwright: Er, nope. This doesn't concern or phase me in the least. Assuming I don't say/do anything stupid on Facebook, can someone explain to me why I should be worried about this? I just don't get the outrage. I'm happy to have the entire world know everything I post on Facebook. |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | groaner: Nope. I saw this coming on day one and never joined.How else could you have expected Facebook to make money? |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | seven: Privacy concerns where the reason why I never joined Facebook in the first place.
But still they do know me. As some people typed my email address into it, to request my friendship...I am part of one social network that is more about professional relationships. As I got many contracts through this network, I am a happy paying customer and the benefits outweight the privacy problems.Joining a social network that is mostly about private stuff is a no go for me. I just do not see a benefit in putting that kind of information into other peoples hands. I do not want my future customers to know that I am friend with 'Beer-Bong-Bob'. But as I just turned 30, I will listen to PG-13 and keep my mouth shut now. :) |
Why is HTML so complicated? | j-g-faustus: HTML is not complicated at all, that's why it became a success - pretty much anyone could learn to write a basic web page in a few weeks.Web pages became complex over the years as people wanted do things that HTML was never meant to do. Like page layouts: Early on, people would use invisible images for spacing, humongous nested tables to "hack" a page layout in a language that didn't support page layouts, and pictures of text rather than actual text for example for non-standard fonts or text shadows.The primary problem is that HTML was never designed for the kinds of things we use the web for today. See the Crockford Javascript presentation for a history of HTML and Javascript, I recommend Episode IV: http://yuiblog.com/crockford/Designing an "HTML killer" is no simple task, all attempts so far have failed - from Java applets to XML.But even today you can use applets or Flash to embed more complicated programs. The web protocols turned out to be eminently hackable, and with server-side page generation, forms, CSS, Javascript and now canvas it is "good enough" for more and more tasks, so I expect it is safe to say that HTML will be with us for quite a while longer. |
Joining a startup as an employee: How to decide? | dhokj: Thanks, the comments are very helpful. |
I could use a few more Erlang/Lisp/Scala/Node.js/Haskell articles please | silentbicycle: The other side of it is when interesting stuff gets posted, but it only gets two votes because it gets lost in noise about whatever Apple did lately.Lambda the Ultimate and citeseer haven't gone anywhere, though. |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | larsberg: I wish this topic had a Like button! |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | cmelbye: What do you mean by "less evil"? The whole point of the "Like" button is that it's universal. Something being mildly annoying is not "evil" by any stretch of the imagination. |
Would you use Coda for iPad | st3fan: I would totally use it. |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | kevinh: I haven't noticed this yet. Would someone kindly point me towards an example? |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | davidmurphy: Slightly half-considering it for the first time ever. |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | asdflkj: Is "Who else" a legitimate question that you can "ask HN" nowadays? I've been gone for a while. |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | si2: I also joined facebook when it was only universities like 6 years ago, and I was reluctant to join then, but friends convinced me too. I never really got into it, accumulated 200+friends from parties and now login only to post my website. So I hate facebook, I dont store photos or anything, but if I can get about 200 easy clicks to my website when i release a blog, i guess my facebook membership is useful. |
Spokeo + Reputation Defender: Different halves of a coin? | hobart: But aren't they two different companies? I believe anyone can request removal from Spokeo for free. RD seems to remove from more people databases than just Spokeo -- kind of a "premium" removal... |
Can you recommend a tried and tested Python web server | mattdennewitz: we're using apache+modwsgi to serve django, and tornado (by itself) behind nginx. both have been excellent. gunicorn looks to have a bright future, but i haven't played with it. |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | datums: Thinking about it. I don't want to have to manage my privacy setting every time FB decides that this small component of the app will be exposed to non friends on these sites. It starts becoming something you worry about and is a huge turn off. 2006 member |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | chaosmachine: "I hope a less evil alternative emerges shortly"http://www.openlike.org/ |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | adammichaelc: Clickable link to delete your account. Deleting is different from deactivating; deactivating keeps all your data there. Deletion is supposedly permanent. http://bit.ly/chsPFo |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | mdolon: A lot of people seem to share the same opinion about quitting Facebook but are hesitant because there aren't many better alternatives. Does this mean there's a market for a secure, more private social network? Maybe one where everything is completely private, unless you decide to make it public to other members.If people want/need something like that it sounds like a fun weekend (or two) project. |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | aneth: Privacy is dead, and I (and most people) have very little to hide. What I do have to hide can be under pseudonyms.Besides, I think Fb is doing a reasonable job allowing people to control their privacy settings. Most people don't mind being out in the sunlight. |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | bprater: Can we re-phrase the question in less of a reddit-style way?What's the discussion we want to have behind this? |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | braindead_in: I quit around one and half years ago. I wasn't really drawing any value out of it. |
What skills can a someone develop to become a great hacker? | seven: Being curious. |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | SkyMarshal: I tainted my Facebook data and bailed long ago. Facebook just ain't right. (http://www.freeinfidel.com/2007/12/08/taint-the-data-how-to-...)Trusting Facebook with the ability to track you across the entire Internet is like trusting a Wall Street investment bank with your money.In both cases, they're the G, you're the mark, no matter how sweet the sales pitch. They wouldn't be selling you if the deal wasn't better for them. |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | petercooper: Why do we need all these buttons to do things we already all have our own specific ways of doing?If you want to bookmark something, bookmark it in the way you know how (in browser, Delicious, etc). If you want to tweet about something, go tweet about it in the client of your choice. |
Would you use Coda for iPad | raimondious: There are a couple of discussions on the Coda Users list about this:http://groups.google.com/group/coda-users/browse_thread/thre...
http://groups.google.com/group/coda-users/browse_thread/thre...I have a feeling Panic is working on it. They have already been beaten to the punch somewhat by Gusto, however this app is not as full featured as Coda (e.g., no SFTP) http://horseandtherook.com/gusto/ |
Would you use Coda for iPad | cpr: This is the perfect app to port to the iPad. It's an all-in-one that seems a bit overkill on the Mac, since most of the pieces are available separately, but on the iPad, easy tabbing between functions without leaving the app would be ideal.I'm convinced that Panic is working on this. |
ASK HN:Good web design? | mdolon: The best advice I can give for someone wanting to learn good web design is get a feel for the aesthetics first - visit CSS and design galleries (cssremix.com, cssdrive.com, unmatchedstyle.com, drawar.com, etc.) and look through designs noting trends, styles and layouts. These designs are showcased because they are aesthetically pleasing, which in turn effects the presentation of your product.Then start visiting tutorial and resource sites (smashingmagazine.com, tutsplus.com, etc.) and learn as much as you can on techniques and even more on current trends. After you do that it's a matter of imitating bits and pieces of proven designs and following trends. Steal until you are capable and skilled, then unleash your creativity for your final product.Hope that makes sense. |
What skills can a someone develop to become a great hacker? | kloncks: Cheesy. But don't give up.Great coders will run into walls all the time. One of my favorite quotes is one by Randy Pausch (author of Last Lecture): "I believe brick walls are there for a reason. They're not there to keep us out. They are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something."Keep that in mind when you're hacking, as you are bound to run into problems. Just roll and keep persevering. |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | barredo: I actually like them.But someone could make a quick userscript to hide them :-)Edit: // ==UserScript==
// @name I-Dont-Like-The-New-Facebook-Like
// @namespace I-Dont-Like-The-New-Facebook-Like
// @description Hide all Facebook 'Like' buttons
// @include *
// ==/UserScript==
(function () {
var i = document.getElementsByTagName('iframe');
if(i) {
for(e in i) {
if(i[e].src.match(/http\:\/\/www.facebook.com\/widgets\/like.php/gi)) {
i[e].style.display = 'none';
i[e].style.visibility = 'hidden';
}
}
}
})(); |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | apphacker: I'm not going to quit, I'm connected to my family on there. I just don't post stuff there, except for some family pictures and videos, which I can do from iPhoto. I post everything to my tumblr blog which reposts it on Facebook and Twitter so I never have to log in to FB unless someone comments. Also I work on apps that I integrate into Facebook so I'll use it for that. |
server/computer naming schemes | dryicerx: As the post description, one of my favorites have been the chemical name system as you can also map the names to numbers. Hydrogen - 1 - 192.168.1.1
Helium - 2 - 192.168.1.2 etc
Another system I've been fond of is using the initial letter to be City names, but the leading letter corresponded to something (D - database, G - general purpose server, W - workstations, R - Routers). Not just cities, you can also extend this to car names, people names, or deities. Databases - Detroit, Dallas
General purpose - Gilroy, Giddings
W - Washington, Woodlands
And another has been food which works if you have different sub-groups. For example groups can take on vegetables, drinks, fruits, meats, etc... |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | pkulak: I'd like to, but everyone I know (almost literally) uses it. The feed really is a great feature. If I could get everyone I know to move over to Buzz or anything else with The Feed that isn't evil, that would be nice, but it's not going to happen. Facebook owns me. |
What skills can a someone develop to become a great hacker? | gexla: Persistant. Passionate about his/her chosen craft. |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | Raphael: Or any kind of sharing widgets, for that matter. If only web admins would trust visitors to have their own bookmarklets or extensions, so that pages wouldn't have all the cruft. |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | resdirector: I don't care for the unnormalized "number of diggs/tweets/karma" etc.I'd actually use the "like" buttons if they learned what I liked/disliked, rather than just being there to show off an unnormalized and somewhat meaningless figure. |
Language & web framework advice? | grayrest: RoR was the "it" thing four years ago. The "it" thing today is server side JS with NoSQL.That said, RoR sounds like a better choice for your goals. |
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