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Review my startup | thomasmallen: To me, it's on the boring side...doesn't have much on a webforum. |
Review my startup | Brushfire: Looks like a cool project.What's your business model? Ads? |
Review my startup | adamdoupe: The featured five on the homepage moves way too fast. It switched when I was still reading.Beyond that, interesting site. Good luck! |
Web Frameworks for Perl | dandv: Sites using Catalyst:
http://www.catalystsites.org/sites/all
and
http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki/SitesRunningCatalyst |
Review my startup | Dilpil: Looks like a fun social site, seems more like a possible facebook application than its own site though. |
Review my startup | tptacek: What problem does this thing solve that I would pay money to have solved? |
Review my startup | ohxten: Bill O'Reilly is the 3rd most evil American?Heh heh heh... |
Review my startup | pclark: - that pink flicking slideshow makes me feel rather sick |
Who's Hiring? | isumbras: I have been looking for good jobs in the Houston area. I'd appreciate suggestions. |
Who's Hiring? | khangtoh: Looking for a contract developer to work on a firefox extension. Interested? Email me at khang.toh _at_ gmail _dot_ com |
Review my startup | eli_s: Isn't every other submission to reddit or digg a top 5/10/20 list already?From what I can see people visit the list and discuss on reddit/digg. |
Review my startup | apsurd: If you haven't researched this company already ....
http://www.rateitall.com/Had a friend interning there this summer. The business model is essentially exactly what you guys are going after. I think it's a pretty smart model actually, but you'll have to work out how your product stands out from theirs.On a sid... |
Review my startup | petergroverman: I like the concept... kinda reminds me of PhrazIt.com |
Review my startup | ruddzw: Top N lists get submitted to digg and reddit all the time. The comments for those are always filled with people hating on top N lists, but they wouldn't get to the front page without people enjoying them. I think a site like this could go far in terms of popularity. But the lists I always found MOST interest... |
How do you block Persistent Identification Elements? | olefoo: Well, you can go into the flash settings (right click on a flash object) and turn them off...For those who don't know what he's talking about this site http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/pie.htm has a fairly straight forward writeup.And although they are a bit obscure, they are basically cookies. Turning of... |
Review my startup | byrneseyeview: http://www.5ives.com/ for the masses. |
Review my startup | myoung8: i don't think you can call this a "startup." |
Who's Hiring? | danyalanik: We are looking for RoR hackers and/or software engineering generalists at EMI Music. Read more about our job descriptions here: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg3h36zx_23c4ck9bc9 |
Who's Hiring? | DaniFong: I am told by my friend Tristan that Apture.com is looking for top notch javascript hackers. |
Review my startup | asmosoinio: Not working for me. I am trying to access it from the Philippines so it can be just me though. Other websites working fine at the moment. |
Implementing Auto-Copy | kaens: Auto-Copy as in the firefox extension? Or what?I think you're going to need to be a bit more specific here. |
Does solving math problems make you a good programmer? | nostrademons: It makes you a better programmer. It does not, in itself, make you a great programmer, and probably does not make you as good a programmer as if you'd written lots of code in problems that stretch yourself.Similarly, if you test for math ability in interviews, you will get better candidates, on average, ... |
Does solving math problems make you a good programmer? | kaens: No, it shows that you're good at a particular type of problem-solving, which can be indicative of you being a good "programmer" all-around, as designing and implementing anything "larger" tends to involve the same type of mental processes used when you solve math problems like the ones you mention (at least from... |
Implementing Auto-Copy | ivank: You would have to somehow get the user to click on the Flash object. I wouldn't rely on Flash for the user experience, though. What YouTube does is probably best (an input box that selects all on click). People are probably most familiar with that method.Even better would be to figure out a workflow where the us... |
Who's Hiring? | tomh: The startup that I work for, Akaza Research, is hiring: http://akazaresearch.com/about_akaza/careers.htmlMostly Java/J2EE, based in Cambridge MA. We deliver an open-source product to the life sciences, OpenClinica (http://openclinica.org/). Contact me through my profile (Linkedin, blog, etc) if you have questions... |
Who's Hiring? | ews: Ok, I was thinking whether to post this here or not for a couple of days, we are not a fancy startup (quite the opposite) and our requirements are far from common, but since it seems there are quite some people looking for jobs, there it goesWe are also hiring on Craigslist and actively looking for developers (ak... |
Does solving math problems make you a good programmer? | cabalamat: It doesn't prove you're a good programmer. But there is a correlation: if you take 100 programmers and give them a (non-programming) problem that 50 can solve, the ones who can solve it will on average be better than ther ones who can't. |
How to donate $$$ to Ruby? | jamesbritt: "I must admit I'm out of my depth when it comes to the brass tacks of starting foundations, but it seems to me that Ruby is ripe for one"Have you looked at Ruby Central? http://rubycentral.org/(There's also a similar org in Japan; I cannot recall the name).I believe RubyCentral helped coordinate the fund ra... |
Does solving math problems make you a good programmer? | makecheck: It's not realistic in my opinion for interviewers to throw complex problems at people and expect to draw useful conclusions. For one thing, truly challenging problems are generally solved in teams. And there are plenty of differences between pure math and how computers do it (think of an entire course on n... |
Is there a HN for music? | delackner: I would think part of the spirit of HN would manifest in a music site as a focus on music that in some way feels like it brings something new to the art. Almost all the music that becomes popular today, even within specific genres, is not that inventive.Yet there are some artists that, at specific times, tr... |
Does solving math problems make you a good programmer? | hs: math scales programmingcompare j=n*(n+1)/2 to for i in range(n+1): j+=ithe former being math and the latter programming for solving summation from 0 to n |
Implementing Auto-Copy | pclark: I like the idea of a popup box and making the cursor ideally select all the text. |
Implementing Auto-Copy | pclark: oh and could you make your bookmarklet popup in a new window? never got why people didnt do that. |
Implementing Auto-Copy | hopeless: http://url.ie (another url shortening service -- do we need yet more???!) does exactly what you want. I believe it's just javascript but you can check the page source for yourself |
How to exit as a co-founder? | noodle: why not try and ride out this campaign to see where things go. whats another 2ish months?then if the direction doesn't change, tell them that you can't keep going and want to quit. if you explain politely that you feel you should be compensated for your work, they'll hopefully understand.if not, let them know... |
How to exit as a co-founder? | brk: How are your shares granted/allocated? Do you have a vesting schedule? Are they "yours" or the "companies"?It seems that there is a legal answer here, as well as a philosophical answer.Figure out who really owns the shares and what you are legally entitled to, and then process your decision. |
Who's Hiring? | ComputerGuru: Google is still hiring, got an email from them today. |
Help me find a good databases textbook | mwbrooks: Here is a vote for "Database Management Systems" by Ramakrishnan and GehrkeI learned from this book. I also know a few graduate students who studied databases (or some varient) and they continued to use this book throughout their studies.(I know nothing of the other book though, so this is a one-sided view) |
Does solving math problems make you a good programmer? | alphamule: I think that most people miss the point of these sorts of questions. I don't ask them just to figure out if the person can answer it or not. a scantron with all the answers filled in would be useless to me. I ask them to watch how the person approaches problems, how they think, how well they communicate a... |
Review my startup | cschneid: I landed on the page and got lost. Its fine if you haven't setup your sign up yet, but there's not even marketing copy telling me why I'm there, and what I'm supposed to do.What is unique about this photo sharing? Why would I use this over flickr, or any of the dozens of other photo sharing tools? |
Help me find a good databases textbook | neilc: Are you more interested in relational theory, or in implementation techniques for database systems? If the latter, the Ramakrishnan and Gehrke book (the "cow book") is really good: fairly broad coverage, but very well-written and precise. I haven't read the Date book. |
Review my startup | noodle: needs more information on purpose/benefits/features/signup/etc..i understand what its for and what it does, and so will most hackers, but this isn't really an app for hackers. you have to let the people know, on that first page, exactly whats happening, or they'll pass it by. |
Review my startup | dhpmx: It's a new site, so it's still very much in development. However that being said, I agree that I need to make the frontpage a little more inviting... Why would you use my site vs. flickr or picasa etc...
1. You keep 100% ownership of YOUR media, you don't have to sell you soul in exchange for a free service. Th... |
How to exit as a co-founder? | tjic: This makes no sense to me:> I cannot leave without their consent eitherWhat does that mean? Have you signed something saying that you can not quit?Regardless, the correct framework to think about this is BATNAhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiate...If you can't get the deal you want, and y... |
Ideal startup office environment? | noodle: look, lets not get too fancy here. these are the basics, in my opinion: * good chairs
* big monitors, multiple monitors if necessary, and computers powerful enough to do your work smoothly
* windows, greenery and open spaces
* aesthetically interesting offices that are well designed and laid out
* a f... |
Help me find a good databases textbook | jeeringmole: In addition to whatever textbook you decide on you should read Bill Kent's "Data and Reality" to widen your awareness of the profound difficulties involved in stuffing messy reality into a collection of bits. See http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=... and http://www.bkent.net/Doc/... |
Ideal startup office environment? | pedalpete: I personally disagree with a bunch of the stuff you are recommending.
I work from home, so take this with a grain of salt, but two IT companies I worked for had fooseball tables, and i always hated those things.
Work isn't getting done/discussed over ping-pong. Ideas aren't getting shared while reading or ... |
Help me find a good databases textbook | Maro: Some hardcore / research-level books are:The "red book": Readings in Database Systems, which is a collection of basic papers from the field. This is used by DB programs in top schools (eg. Berkeley).The "Jim Gray book": Transaction Processing. Look up Jim Gray to see why this may be worth looking into. |
Ideal startup office environment? | gtani: chk SO:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/96501/perks-for-new-progr...http://stackoverflow.com/questions/306708/must-haves-for-dev... |
Ideal startup office environment? | run4yourlives: Outside of the whiteboard walls, which can be functional, most "start-up style" stuff is fluff. A nap room? Seriously? Are you employing pre-schoolers?I'm quite a big fan of the Spolsky approach myself, especially for programmers. That is:* everyone gets an office.* high quality chairs (they don't have t... |
Review my startup | vorador: the french link doesn't work |
Review my startup | bjtitus: Needs more user friendly / readable URLs. Like easyfreeimages.com/{username} and the domain name is quite long. Could it be shortened to something like efi.com (probably not, but it would be a better option for quick typing and pasting urls in emails). |
Ideal startup office environment? | kamme: I always said that if I would start up a company I would paint every wall with chalkboard, especially the bathroom walls. I would also make a ball pit and have 'flexible' desks. That means everyone gets a desk and a laptop but are free to move as they want. Meetings should not be held in some room, but in the op... |
Buying a new laptop, any suggestions? | tkho: You'll need a friend at UCLA, but I just had a buddy pick up a previous gen Macbook Pro for me this morning for $1099+tax. It's definitely better bang for the buck than the current MBP.http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/880148Anyway, there should also be good deals coming up for Black Friday. |
Buying a new laptop, any suggestions? | pedalpete: try not to laugh, but I got a gateway a few months ago, and i'm crazy impressed with the specs for the price.
I got the t-series, which doesn't output to the built in screen at the resolution you want on the 14", though i'm pretty sure it will bump up to that on an external monitor. but I think the 15" m se... |
Buying a new laptop, any suggestions? | qhoxie: I have been a content Dell Latitude user for about a year now. I have the D630 and it is fantastically rugged (on par with a thinkpad) and has great battery life. The new E series expands on these qualities.Thinkpad quality has diminished slightly, but they are still good laptops. |
Buying a new laptop, any suggestions? | whatusername: I've got a post-Lenovo Thinkpad (T60) - and it's been pretty solid for me. (At least as solid as my T30 / T43) |
Buying a new laptop, any suggestions? | kalvin: A brand new, sealed, warrantied Macbook Pro (the previous version) can be had on eBay for $1200 shipped if you're willing to do the following and use both ebay and paypal:a) sign up for a Live.com cashback account, do a search for "wii" or whatever the term is today (google for live.com cashback) on Live.com, a... |
How do you experiment to determine the right model w/o alienating users? | kaens: This is a great question, and something I've been thinking about lately. I assume it's pretty much exactly what you're doing combined with hopefully having people around that already know some reliable methods (that were probably learned through trial-and-error), if such things exist. |
How do you experiment to determine the right model w/o alienating users? | andrewf: People will always react angrily to pricing increases. About the only way to alleviate it is to weight yourself down with support for users on grandfathered/legacy schemes, and announce changes with enough notice to people to buy up at the current price before things change.Pricing decreases you're just doomed... |
Buying a new laptop, any suggestions? | quellhorst: I would get new Macbook Pro or ThinkPad X301 if I wasn't using OS X. Both have 1440x900 resolution. For the amount of time I use my laptop I budget more $ then use it for ~2 years. |
Ideal startup office environment? | ErrantX: We're building a big new office at the moment and this is the ideas we like so far.* go for the BEST chairs you can. Buy them first and buy plenty (I'd say the number you want plus 10% more :)).* lots and lots and lots of desk space. encourage people to move about (laptops and plenty of desktops).* white board... |
Email Software for the Enterprise | run4yourlives: I think your idea is doomed, even if you achieve technical nirvana in email delivery. Here's why:1. You will not beat MS in the exchange market. "Everyone" uses office, therefore everyone has the outlook client, it's a short hop to installing Exchange, and it can scale right up to enterprise size adequat... |
Help me find a good databases textbook | parenthesis: Thanks very much to everyone for their input. |
Boston or Silicon Valley? | gruseom: I don't have anything new to say about Boston vs. SV, but about this:would you rather be at an important team in a lesser-known company, or a less-important team in a well-known company... that's a no-brainer for me. I'd much rather be on an important team in a lesser-known company. By "important" I mean strat... |
Boston or Silicon Valley? | kqr2: With regards to Boston Pros, pt # 3 vs. Silicon Valley, you can always live in San Francisco even if you work in Mountain View. You can commute via Caltrain. |
Who's Hiring? | aaronsw: watchdog.net is looking for good people:http://transparencyjobs.com/jobs/49/ |
Boston or Silicon Valley? | mattmaroon: I kinda hated Cambridge. It was dirty and expensive, and the weather was brutal in the summer and I hear even worse in winter. Weather has a much bigger effect on our moods than most of us realize, and SV ranks up there with San Diego and Hawaii on that score.Food was decent though, especially for a college... |
Boston or Silicon Valley? | SwellJoe: "Is Boston significantly cheaper than SV (I'd probably be in the Mountain View area)? It's hard to find comparable areas for cost of apartments and such."Mountain View is very nearly the same price as San Francisco. Because of Google it is among the most expensive places in the valley. I've lived here since... |
Boston or Silicon Valley? | mechanical_fish: I've lived in Boston, then moved to SV, then moved back to Boston, where I live now (modulo a few miles).IMHO, you're right on all counts about the pros and cons. I don't have recent data, but my impression is that Boston rents are not significantly cheaper (as they would be in, say, Alabama); savings ... |
Boston or Silicon Valley? | iigs: You'll find good jobs in either place. Do consider also the cultures of the two locations. I know granola west coasters that would not be able to hang with the east coast hustle, and I know east coasters that would be driven bananas by the happy go lucky California lifestyle. Which stereotype do you dislike less?... |
Boston or Silicon Valley? | anon120: I had offers in both SV and Boston and it was a tough choice. I'm still not sure I made the right one.While Boston is cheaper, it's not that much cheaper. I think you'll probably do slightly better off depending on the offer you get. (I currently live and work in Mountain View)Startup-wise Boston seemed pret... |
Boston or Silicon Valley? | danielrhodes: In terms of locations:I lived in Boston for quite awhile and experienced a bit of the startup scene there. Bay Area beats it hands down. Boston/Cambridge isn't a bad place to be, but my experience has been that the diversity doesn't give you any benefit. Most of the time I was there and doing startups, I ... |
Boston or Silicon Valley? | tdavis: After living and working in Boston since June, here's my take, in the form of completely random thoughts:- It's generally hot as balls in summer and has already gotten quite cold. Neither of these particularly bother me, assuming A/Cs and heaters are available.- It's cheap as hell to live here, as long as you l... |
What resources did you use to learn PHP? | woodsier: I'm also interested in what your views are with learning inside a framework such as CakePHP?I ask this because I can see the upsides (learning in an environment which fosters really good habits and quality code, however I can also see the downside insofar that you are for the most part 1-step-removed from a l... |
What resources did you use to learn PHP? | smoody: As with all languages, I think it requires being goal driven -- have something you want to build -- and look up answers as required.If you have the time, I recommend building a framework complete with a simple ORM. Nothing will give you a quicker broad overview of any language's strengths and weaknesses.Also, m... |
What resources did you use to learn PHP? | Fuca: Just asked the same thing...Thanks everybody for the help |
37 signals loathing mixed content - A possible solution? | jamess: Ever hear the term "computationally expensive"? Here's a hint, modular exponentiation of very big numbers is an extremely expensive operation. Encrypting a block of plaintext with a bulk cipher is a very cheap operation. Thanks to the marvels of HTTP keep-alive and TLS session resumption, serving the content ov... |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | stuartcw: #space when there is a shuttle launch or other interesting live NASA TV coverage |
Is Gmail crashing your browsers too? | cabalamat: Nope. I run Firefox 3 on Ubuntu and have no problems with gmail. |
Is Gmail crashing your browsers too? | bdfh42: Nope - FF3 and Chrome both OK |
Boston or Silicon Valley? | sethg: I'll repeat something I said here a while ago: the startups I've encountered in Boston (including my own employer, MetaCarta) tend to do B2B or government-contracting work, often bootstrapped with consulting or SBIR money. The Valley startups I've read about seem more focused on consumer-facing applications. S... |
Is Gmail crashing your browsers too? | olefoo: could you have a corrupted shared library. |
Boston or Silicon Valley? | iamelgringo: So, my wife and I lived in Providence, RI for 3 years.My wife worked as an admin in a startup for 2-3 weeks in Cambridge, and hated the job, hated the commute, hated the culture so much, she quit her job and went back to school to finish her video production degree. She had hoped it was like her job worki... |
Boston or Silicon Valley? | nostrademons: I've lived in Boston my whole life. Don't have much experience with the Bay Area (beyond knowing a couple friends there and visiting once), so I'll stick mostly to the Boston side of the equation.Boston is cheaper, but I'm not sure I'd say significantly cheaper. 1BRs start at about $1200/month here - I'... |
What resources did you use to learn PHP? | zandorg: At University. They gave us handout sheets. The coursework used SQL and PHP to have an online register of school employees (eg, teachers). |
Boston or Silicon Valley? | mhidalgo: I know the post is whether to choose from Boston or SV, but I see your from NY. I been around the NYC startup scene for while and there a bunch of activity here and it only has increased since Wall St. decided to die. Brooklyn and Manhattan have a bunch of startup opportunities, even some startups from Ycomb... |
What resources did you use to learn PHP? | adityakothadiya: When I started learning PHP, after basic tutorials of PHP, I jumped on MVC framework called Symfony (http://symfony-project.org/). It's a great framework and the documentation is really extensive with some basic examples as well. You might wonder isn't starting with MVC was more extensive, but here are... |
Buying servers? | vaksel: go on eBay, lots of refurbished stuff there, a guy I know buys all his stuff from one user.Me personally, I prefer to just lease them |
Buying servers? | brk: Yes, you will get better deals by talking to a sales person, ESPECIALLY in about 2 weeks (as the quarter and year are coming to a close and people are trying to make their numbers).Make it clear that you know the value of what you are after and are ready to make a purchase as soon as you find the right deal. |
Buying servers? | johnm: (A) Lease vs. Buy: If you can swing it, lease them instead - tax benefits, etc.(B) Do you really need 8 cores per box? I.e., you can get used dual-dual machines a lot cheaper than 50% of the price of the dual-quad machines.(C) If you know what you want and are buying new then going with a white box builder is s... |
Buying servers? | iigs: We have a smattering of 100-150 HP DL380s and BL460c blades. We've seen approximately a 5% infant mortality rate (DOA or issues in the first 90 days). Depending on the channel HP's custom configurations come as a base and add on accessories -- if you order a dual 5160 DL380 with 32G of ram and 4x146g SAS you migh... |
Buying servers? | volida: You may consider 8anet.com. You can customize the server according to your needs. They also setup for you the server for 20 or 50 dollars. I don't remember exactl |
Buying servers? | brianm: So, some lessons learned...1. lights out management matters2. ensure your OS is happy on the hardware ahead of time3. if you are expecting to make regular purchases, with growth for example, tell the vendor that4. always negotiate5. dell actually makes good servers now6. look hard at the power density you get w... |
Buying servers? | blender: For whitebox vendor you might want to look at SupermicroCheers |
Buying servers? | kvogt: We've tried several vendors at Justin.tv, but we always end up circling back to Dell. Pricing is great, spare parts are readily available on Ebay, and they're quality machines. Definitely get in touch will their sales guys and plan your purchase for the end of the month, or better yet, end of the quarter.You'r... |
Buying servers? | wehriam: Amazon EC2 has a large VM if you don't want to purchase or lease hardware yet:"Extra Large Instance 15 GB of memory, 8 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each), 1690 GB of instance storage, 64-bit platform"$0.80/hour - about $730/month. |
Buying servers? | merrick33: I used to do IT Consulting and was responsible for procuring hardware from dell at a few companies including now my own.What I learned - End of Quarter yields huge savings at Dell. If you are going to buy 10 servers for sure, create an account, spec out one server and call in to the small business division. ... |
Buying servers? | mmmurf: You can save a lot of money by going with the sales guy. Just be sure he knows that you are growing and you'll be placing a big order every few months.First go to the Dell website and price out the equipment. Then when you're speaking to the sales guy, tell him you priced it out on the website and it came out... |
Buying servers? | ezmobius: Supermicro servers have served me very well. All of our clusters at engineyard.com are built on supermicro 1u's with 32gig ram and 8cores. Highly recommended. |
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