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what do you use for mailing list software? | zandorg: I have used Topica (defunct) and YahooGroups (aka Onelist) before. Not used Google Groups. YahooGroups is AFAIK most likely to last and archive another 10 years. Google Groups != trust. |
what do you use for mailing list software? | MrFantsyPants: For VillageToolbox.com, I needed a database driven mailing list with a highly customizable web interface, both for subscribe and list options, and for the list archives.I ended up writing my own mailet for Apache JAMES. It seems pretty robust so far, but hasn't seen heavy traffic yet. |
what do you use for mailing list software? | eisokant: I find PHPMailer a great class to use; there's also opensource mailing list code for it (http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmailer) but haven't used that one personally. |
what do you use for mailing list software? | brm: tough to go wrong with dada mail http://dadamailproject.com/ |
What resources did you use to learn PHP? | coolboy89: First of all: Programming is learned by practicing, get off HN, books and just do it.If you are a person who can master a practical subject (typing code) by just reading specifications, I'd recommend stop using PHP and maybe switch to a more thoretical language; LISP, prolog, mathematica why not?If you are a... |
Boston or Silicon Valley? | mooneater: Re: ponds. I would most definitely want to experience both scenarios. So I would pick the one I hadnt experienced before. |
CakePHP? CodeIgniter? Symfony? Other? | eisokant: I have only tried CodeIgniter so I can only speak for that but it is by far the best decision I have made to move to this MVC framework. It's holds a lot of libraries and helpers which will simplify most tasks and they are incredibly easy to extend. It's downside though is that you're not able to call functio... |
CakePHP? CodeIgniter? Symfony? Other? | dchest: CodeIgniter is OK, but the first question is -- do you really need any PHP framework? It's not hard to get MVC in a few lines of code without any framework. |
what do you use for mailing list software? | speek: We've used ConstantContact for some time. It's nothing special but it gets the job done. I'm not a big fan of the logo on their emails, but I don't really mind.I do use phpmailer to send off some stuff to me on my server, but nothing for mass mailings. |
Buying servers? | bbhoss-synsol: I like Sun servers, they can be expensive, but you can get some good deals if you are accepted into SSE (Sun Startup Essentials). For me one of the best things about them is the ILOM, which is badass as far as I'm concerned. Also, their N1 System manager lets you manage and provision a bunch of servers... |
CakePHP? CodeIgniter? Symfony? Other? | noodle: codeigniter is a good purely MVC framework that doesn't add much extra overhead to your project (by default -- you can pull in plenty of overhead with the external libraries and such). if you want the MVC separation but don't want to be weighted down by other things and like to hack around in php, its a good c... |
what do you use for mailing list software? | Jasber: I've heard great news about Aweber (http://www.aweber.com/). I plan to use them for my next few projects. |
what do you use for mailing list software? | DTrejo: www.MadMimi.com
A free online WYSIWIG editor that is very intuitive and yields some very pretty things.Highly recommended (much better than ConstantContact).They also have amazing customer service, even for those who don't pay. |
CakePHP? CodeIgniter? Symfony? Other? | qhoxie: Kohana is my favorite PHP framework by a long shot. The developers are very bright and they work hard to incorporate the wants and needs of the community, without diluting quality. It is PHP5 only, though.Use CodeIgniter if you need PHP4. The two are similarly flexible and light. |
what do you use for mailing list software? | mooneater: Meta tip for these kinds of queries: If you can find the product category in Google Directory, you get a nice list of products in page-rank order. http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Internet/Server... |
what do you use for mailing list software? | johnm: Customized version of http://ezmlm.org/ |
what do you use for mailing list software? | callmeed: I like campaign monitor. Have used it for a couple years. Great reports. |
CakePHP? CodeIgniter? Symfony? Other? | teej: Anything but Symfony. |
What besides Craigslist is a good way to find an apartment in the Bay Area? | dangrover: I want to know too -- I'm moving there in January.I've been looking on housingmaps.com and using earthify.org w/ Google Maps, trying to find a place that looks like it would be a feasible commute.I can't decided if I'd be content to just rent a room from someone with an apartment (like I've always done in Bo... |
what do you use for mailing list software? | sil3ntmac: phplist is what we recommend at work, since it's often easily installed through fantastico |
What besides Craigslist is a good way to find an apartment in the Bay Area? | mwinters58: Depending on the city, look for local management companies that own multiple complexes. I'm in Palo Alto and Vittoria Management has like 10 buildings (vrent.com). They will post them on their website before posting them on Craigslist. Things go so fast on CL that's it's not even worth it. |
What besides Craigslist is a good way to find an apartment in the Bay Area? | greg: I have an apartment in SF with a room opening up in January. Email is in my profile. |
What besides Craigslist is a good way to find an apartment in the Bay Area? | ericb: When I had to find a place, I wrote a script to alert me to new worthwhile postings. |
What besides Craigslist is a good way to find an apartment in the Bay Area? | gojomo: Walk around the neighborhoods you like, look for 'for rent' signs. |
What besides Craigslist is a good way to find an apartment in the Bay Area? | potatolicious: Slightly OT, but can we expand this question to the Seattle area as well? |
what do you use for mailing list software? | ROFISH: While it's not software, my company uses MailChimp for our newsletter/special offers emails. The statistics and guaranteed delivery is worth it. |
What besides Craigslist is a good way to find an apartment in the Bay Area? | zaius: Yeah, bay area apartment searching is a bitch. CL is by far the best tool though, you just have to learn how to do it right.The biggest tip is to post a 'room wanted' ad - most people will only post a room if they don't find a fit there. Make your post stand out - don't give the same boring life story that every... |
What besides Craigslist is a good way to find an apartment in the Bay Area? | marketer: I wrote a blog post about moving to the city a couple months back, it might be helpful to some people: http://is.gd/9sPS |
What besides Craigslist is a good way to find an apartment in the Bay Area? | umangjaipuria: I got a copy of the Apartments For Rent magazine from a friend (I believe you can get it from ForRent.com) and found a lot of places that weren't there on Craigslist or Rent.com. It's useful to just call up the apartments directly to find out if they have anything. |
What besides Craigslist is a good way to find an apartment in the Bay Area? | auston: I'm not living in the bay but HotPads.com seems like it would be useful anywhere. |
What besides Craigslist is a good way to find an apartment in the Bay Area? | timcederman: I used http://www.apartmentratings.com when I first moved here.And based on the reviews of the apartment complexes I decided to go with something private. The best way to find that was Craigslist. I live in a cottage behind someone's house in the middle of Mountain View. The rent is reasonable, I get al... |
A Karma API? | qhoxie: Interesting thought but I really prefer the isolation we have here. |
A Karma API? | ram1024: a universal "reputation" tied to your email account might be usefuluniversally |
Should I drop out or not? | ksvs: Do you feel like you're learning at lot in college? |
Should I drop out or not? | qhoxie: It sounds like you have a really solid background outside of academia. That said, I would not advise dropping out at this point. The reason being that you did not mention any concrete plans or anything pulling you directly away from school.Feeling that it does not have a purpose for you is valid and understan... |
Should I drop out or not? | jmtame: Which school do you go to?I find my own school to be pointless in terms of teaching me something I couldn't easily figure out on my own. I wish it were more of a "pick your own topic of study" type of thing. Only newer schools are beginning to do this. Olin College has a terrific engineering curriculum that ... |
Should I drop out or not? | aak: Patience, young jedi! You've got the rest of your life to work and experiment with startups, but it's harder to go back to school later in life. It's great that you're already well ahead academically, but try and enjoy college in other ways, be it through challenging yourself with non-hacker-related courses or mee... |
Should I drop out or not? | charlesju: I'm 1.5 weeks away from graduation and I know exactly how you are feeling. So perhaps I can provide some insight.School has crammed a bunch of useless information down my throat that I will never use again in my life. It has tested me in a format that in no way shape or form reflects how well I can contribut... |
A Karma API? | mdasen: I'm going to have to say no. One of the largest sources of anxiety in our society is this belief that we have a dossier following us around. And we do. New jobs won't hire us without references from our old jobs. We have to fill in empty spaces in some way. Schools won't let us in unless we have a good rec... |
What besides Craigslist is a good way to find an apartment in the Bay Area? | charlesju: Facebook Marketplace |
Should I drop out or not? | ryanwaggoner: Two things:1. As someone else already stated, it doesn't sound like you have any concrete plans or alternatives, so dropping out might not be the best option. When I was an undergrad, I was fascinated by the tales of so many extremely wealthy people who had dropped out of college and gotten rich through ... |
what do you use for mailing list software? | tdavis: I am a lifetime MailMan advocate. But you mention tasks that are mostly handled by an MTA (confirmation e-mails, alerts, special offers). Mailing lists are just that -- mailing lists. It's not a simple one-to-many delivery service like, say, sending a confirmation e-mail for account creation or sending out a... |
A Karma API? | rms: Let's start by allowing karma transfers between users here... |
Should I drop out or not? | prakash: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/12/graduating-college-... -- read this |
Should I drop out or not? | vlad: 1) College students don't ask how old you are, but what year. Take classes in the summer and winter to change that faster.2) Since you do care about learning, but want to pick your own classes and also learn more efficiently, talk to your advisors. They will let you take more fun, advanced classes in place of o... |
Should I drop out or not? | apu: If possible, I'd advise you to take more challenging and/or more interesting courses. I know there are probably several required courses that you cannot avoid (of which many are probably going to be worthless/boring), but for the ones where you can choose, pick ones that interest you. Often, more off-beat courses ... |
Should I drop out or not? | lionhearted: College does two things primarily:1. Learning.2. Credentialing.There's also the social aspect, but it's way overrated. There's way more fun/socializing to be had in the real world. So you've got:1. Learning: You're obviously able to self-teach. Not sure how familiar you are with college courses - it's much... |
Should I drop out or not? | humanlever: I was in the same boat as you not too long ago and while I haven't found my undergrad. experience to be a particularly enlightening one, it has had value.Also, a bachelor's of some sort is almost a universal prereq. for a decent job. While you may be able to convince a hiring manager your skills are solid ... |
A Karma API? | sahaj: isn't this what "open social" is all about? i mean you can't carry your karma (actually a pretty weird concept to me), but a person that chooses to associate with you, gets to see your profile, your friends, your pictures, and whatever other info you choose to share. i think this model closely follows how real... |
Should I drop out or not? | wyattpeak: Without any particular plans for what you want to do, I think the other commenters' concerns are valid. However I think the best solution would be come up with some plans, not to continue university.You've expressed your disinterest in spending your life in a company's employ, so I question the utility of ge... |
Should I drop out or not? | mindaugas: If you don't now the answer yet, then you should stay where you are until you know what you want to do next. |
Buying servers? | rmason: I can second the Supermicro solution. Worked for a hosting company in the past and we never had a Super Micro machine fail. They cost less and are built a lot beefier than comparable Dell's. |
What besides Craigslist is a good way to find an apartment in the Bay Area? | andymoe: Kind of old school but find a local real estate agent that lists rentals or manages properties. They can give you a list of apartments that fit you needs and you won't have to spend so much time dealing with flakes on CL. Worked for me. |
Should I drop out or not? | hs: don't confuse college 'experience' with freedom, they're not the samenothing gives better track record than startup (even failed ones) ... don't confuse it with the college-track-record ... they are not the samecollege rank is a gamed metric (engineering rank #1=100 pt, rank #2=90ish pt, rank 3-rest=60ish) ... don'... |
Should I drop out or not? | jamiequint: If you're not already a US citizen first you must worry about how you will legally stay in the US after you drop out (your visa will be terminated). It is very hard to get a US Visa without a degree. One of our co-founders split time with school and our startup just so he could get his degree and pursue a v... |
the most amazing python script you ever wrote ? | gaius: I don't know about the most amazing, but I am constantly impressed by how much work you can get done in so little Python. Last script I wrote 1) parses its command line 2) tries a list of servers to find the logfile it needs 3) retrieves and parses that logfile 4) fits a trigonometric polynomial using Fourier se... |
what do you use for mailing list software? | skmurphy: We have used iContact for more than a year and been very pleased. http://www.icontact.com/ |
A Karma API? | mixmax: What gives me karma here might not give me karma at other sites and vice versa.A "karma is hard - let's go shopping" comment would get a high rating on reddit and a negative rating here.So your karma is tied to the site, and tells very little about how "popular" you would be elsewhere on the net. |
A Karma API? | presty: tbh i see no use in this karma thing. |
A Karma API? | lst: Don't call it Karma.Call it with its real name: Democratic Dictatorship. |
Should I drop out or not? | simplegeek: I dropped out of my CS school to pursue a career of my own choice i.e. business of software. I've been quite successful so far. However, you've no idea how how much I want to go back to school but irony is that it's no more an easy choice. It's really hard to go back to school later in your life. I dropped ... |
Should I drop out or not? | mahipal: Another great opportunity that's unique to the college experience is the chance to do research and work closely with a professor. You mentioned you have a lot of experience in computer vision. If that's something that interests you further, I'm sure you could pretty easily land a job in a research lab working ... |
Should I drop out or not? | tempest67: If you drop out now, you're basically handicapping yourself for the rest of your life -- unless you get lucky. You say you "mastered several scripting languages" in the last two years -- any CS department worth its salt will demand significantly more from you than that. What about theory? You say you saw ... |
What besides Craigslist is a good way to find an apartment in the Bay Area? | rmaccloy: CL is pretty definitive, although walking around and looking for signs or working your network can yield results. If you have a smart HR department they're often helpful as well.Especially in San Francisco it's going to be brutal and pretty much a full-time job. Keep a rental resume (metrorent app, credit rep... |
Should I drop out or not? | wehriam: If you're not interested in your coursework, perhaps you're pursuing the wrong degree. If you already know how to program you may want to consider economics or business. |
Debian or Ubuntu for Web Servers? | tdavis: I use Debian for most of my servers and the only complaint I really have is that the repos are extremely outdated when compared to Ubuntu. Ubuntu's main strength, at least as I see it, is the fact that the packages are updated more frequently and there are more of them than for on Debian (even Backports). |
CakePHP? CodeIgniter? Symfony? Other? | mattdennewitz: phreeze is my pick when django isnt an option |
Buying servers? | carl_: Lots of great comments so not much add/kinda like others have said:When dealing direct with vendors (Dell, Sun and IBM from experience):1) Price you're given is not only based on current purchase, but future purchase. Telling your sales rep 'I need X servers now, but I expect to need a further X per quarter grow... |
Should I drop out or not? | mechanical_fish: I'll bet you're studying CS. That's your mistake.Change majors. Physics. Biology. Statistics. Graphic Arts. Take MechE and weld together some solar-powered cars. Take EE and learn to build your own microcircuits (it's fun!). If your major isn't hard or interesting enough find something that is.There ar... |
Should I drop out or not? | sachinag: It's a lot easier to learn social engineering, which is an important life skill, in college than any where else. |
List of Hacker Blogs? | alx: The ones collected in my rss reader after years, as hackers in the general sense, not just security:http://blawg.72dpiarmy.com/http://arduino.cc/blog/http://blog.makezine.com/archive/arduino/http://events.ccc.de/http://chaosradio.ccc.de/chaos_tv.htmlhttp://chaosradio.ccc.de/chaosradio_international.htmlhttp://char... |
List of Hacker Blogs? | raw--: Share! Would love to check your memetracker out! |
List of Hacker Blogs? | alx: here is the rss feed to my blog (french/english):http://alexgirard.com/rss.xml |
List of Hacker Blogs? | gtani: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/188991/which-programming-...http://stackoverflow.com/questions/195689/what-developer-blo...http://stackoverflow.com/questions/78955/what-are-the-best-p... |
List of Hacker Blogs? | PStamatiou: I'd love to plug my blog here - I've touched on coding a few times but it's generally tech with a dabbling of what's up with my startup here and there and problems we have/how i get around them.http://paulstamatiou.com |
Should I drop out or not? | mrtron: Dropping out to save money seems like such a waste to me.Money is such an imaginary good. The difference between having 10k debt and 100k debt is marginal. Both situations you have to make monthly payments and need a source of income.Ignore the financial part of the equation, and consider you only have X more... |
Should I drop out or not? | mooneater: I did a computer engineering undergrad, I dropped out half way through and only returned years later when I learned I was about to become a father. At that point I had a small business and mortgage, it was much harder to study with all that going on, but I was also much more motivated.Ultimately the most he... |
List of Hacker Blogs? | matt1: mattmazur.com, updated every now and then :) |
Debian or Ubuntu for Web Servers? | olefoo: The heuristic I use when choosing between them is: What is the server supporting?If it's legacy PHP apps (like SquirrelMail, or SugarCRM) that need specific versions of PHP and mysql to be happy; then debian.If it's more modern apps, or things that are currently in development Ubuntu. Ubuntu's python and postgr... |
List of Hacker Blogs? | ricardo: Steve Yegge's essays are a great read: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ |
List of Hacker Blogs? | cperciva: My blog (a combination of tarsnap, FreeBSD, and general computer security): http://www.daemonology.net/blog/ |
Debian or Ubuntu for Web Servers? | dmaclay: I favour ubuntu on servers mainly because it's what I use on my desktop, and it's handy to be able to write & test scripts on your desktop and deploy to the servers only once everything works. |
Your experience with Arch Linux on a production box. | qhoxie: I like Arch, but it seems not so geared toward server use as Ubuntu is. That is not to say that it could not be done properly, but Ubuntu Server would lend itself better out of the box.In terms of security, they will be about equal under proper administration practices.Canonical backing Ubuntu is probably an a... |
List of Hacker Blogs? | tlrobinson: Someone should scrape all the blog URLs from our news.yc profiles. |
rules of thumb for titling more difficult HN submissions? | qhoxie: You should title them here with what they are titled there. If a title doesn't exist, give them one that is objective and not sensational.There is no real way to get people interested in an article you think they should be. |
List of Hacker Blogs? | toby: I'll add mine here, I try not to participate in blog noise and only write about things I've actually, so it might not be so interesting for memetracking:http://blog.kiwitobes.com/ |
List of Hacker Blogs? | randomwalker: I wonder if you could generate this automatically. Let me explain where I'm coming from. I made the Theory of Computing Blog Aggregator (http://feedworld.net/toc), and part of the reason I didn't set up more aggregators with the software was that you need domain-knowledge to create the blogrolls.My idea w... |
List of Hacker Blogs? | anthonyrubin: A few I haven't seen mentioned:http://blog.plover.com/http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/ |
rules of thumb for titling more difficult HN submissions? | mechanical_fish: I took at look at your last two links.Let's be frank. Both of them are just too long. I went to physics grad school and am friends with some quantum cryptographers, and there's still no way I'm going to read the physics one -- not because it's uninteresting but because I have no time. (Indeed, I'm bein... |
Debian or Ubuntu for Web Servers? | kqr2: Also, Ubuntu has LTS (long term support) versions. The server versions are supported even longer. |
List of Hacker Blogs? | mapleoin: there are a lot of hackerblogs over at http://advogato.org |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | cschneid: Evaluate what you're good at and start a new company? You have run a successful company, only got screwed by the economy. You basically have 13 + 17 - 6 == 24k in debt. If you go bankrupt with the company, that drops to just 13k (assuming that it's not secured with your private finances).You say there are ... |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | randomwalker: Austin, huh. Nothing concrete to offer by way of advice, but a couple of friends who recently graduated from UT launched an advertising startup. Maybe I could put you in touch?Are you at conjunctured? I've been meaning to check out that space. I can swing by in a couple of hours if you're going to be ther... |
Should I drop out or not? | siong1987: liuliu, we are at the same age and almost in the same situation.I am 21 years old and now just started my college for almost half a year. And, I am in a public university too.Anyway, you should not drop out if you are a foreign student. It will be very hard for you to get a VISA to work here without any prop... |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | ksvs: Joel Spolsky was in a similar situation when the last bubble burst. Maybe his example would be useful to you.You must have had something that worked, if clients were paying you. Could you turn that into a product instead of a consulting operation? I.e. something larger numbers of lower-paying customers could u... |
Buying servers? | lsc: Hah. I know this one. Ok. first, are you willing to use a wrist strap, to buy an anti-static mat and verify you are grounded?http://prgmr.com/~lsc/luke_opterons.jpg (my setup)If you are not, stop right now and take someone else's advice about how to get a good deal out of dell and HP (me, I can't afford dell a... |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | mini_word: Use your talent and experience, and bend the rules http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy
... Or dunk for the next couple months waiting for the moment that will never pass... |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | jamess: There are things you should do right now to deal with the debt. First off, the rack space contract. You can almost certainly get out of it by phoning the company and explaining that the choice isn't between cancelling the contract now or getting paid for another two months, but rather cancelling the contract no... |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | hopeless: Ok, so this isn't the situation that you wanted to be in but, equally well, it hasn't all been for nothing. You have had a huge life experience that most people will never have. The trick here is to capitalise on that experience and to learn from it. You're also young enough that isn't the end of the road ... |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | Tichy: I don't know if this is the best advice, as I have no experience with being in debt. But I think I would just take on consulting jobs until I have a safety net again. That is assuming it is not too much of a problem to find contracts. |
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