instruction stringlengths 4 105 | output stringlengths 8 56.7k |
|---|---|
List of Hacker Blogs? | abstractbill: Here's mine: http://abstractstuff.livejournal.com/ |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | teuobk: Is there a chance that you could sell the company? Perhaps the lead management system that you built would make the company attractive. Even if you could engineer a sale that covered only the debt, that would remove the burden of a bankruptcy. |
List of Hacker Blogs? | sh1mmer: So my blog is http://kid666.com/ which has a blogroll of a bunch of engineers who work(ed) for Yahoo in Europe.There is also the Yahoo blog directory which is probably hideously out of date. (http://kid666.com/yahoo-blogs-employee-bloggers-directory/) |
List of Hacker Blogs? | Hates_: http://blogs.thoughtworks.com - A great blog aggregation of Thoughtworks workers. |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | tsally: Not sure if it is an option, but see if you can go back to school. You get try to get some no interest student loans, and work to pay those off while you complete your degree. Given your experience, you should be able to make a fair bit of cash during slow semesters or over the summer. School is a great plac... |
Your experience with Arch Linux on a production box. | tsally: Having a large organization is helpful because you have the option of buying commercial support. I personally wouldn't go with Arch simply because there isn't a stable branch. Rather, everything is cutting edge. I know you can chose not to update your Arch install, but I'd still rather go with a distribution... |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | skmurphy: I would go forward from where you are. Look for additional contract work and look for additional business that can leverage your assets as they are. Tell everyone you know that you are looking for work and are available to start immediately. Go back to all of your old clients and see if there is any basis to ... |
List of Hacker Blogs? | kajecounterhack: Does http://blag.xkcd.com count as "hacker" haha |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | shawndrost: Get a job and pay off your credit cards. Debt is miserable. |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | gscott: I have had an idea of a "Lending Tree" type website for leads. Leads would be generated, evaluated, given a score of how good the lead is, then people would bid on the lead. I work for a company that has customers who buy leads internally through partnerships with lead vendors like Cutting Edge Media.Anyway, ... |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | CatDancer: Yes, I once had a failed startup, and ended up with $40K in credit card debt.I assume you are personally liable for the business credit card debt. (As you generally can't get a business credit card without personally guaranteeing it). So, just to be clear on your situation, you are 30K in debt. (Regardles... |
List of Hacker Blogs? | Twiin: Mine is at: http://restraint.org |
List of Hacker Blogs? | brandnewlow: Update: I'm now at 174 rss feeds to track. I've seen some really ugly blogs along the way.Also, here's a post that purports to list the top 100 dev blogs: http://www.noop.nl/2008/09/top-100-blogs-for-development-man...Keep 'em coming. |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | webwright: With no cash, you should do what will get you cash ASAP. That decidedly does not mean launching a product-- products take much longer to get off the ground and have some front-loaded cost. That leaves services-- i.e. consulting or lead-gen/marketing stuff like you were doing before. Hard to tell, but it l... |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | dotBen: Like others have said, I would contact the server company and do what you can to cease the contract. I personally think the advice given of 'turning up in person and begging for mercy' is a little odd and I wouldn't do that. I'd call up, ask to speak to someone about renegotiating the contract (ie someone who ... |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | mixmax: Been there, and it's tough.Based on my own experience I would recommend the following:- Make sure you're ok, it's hard emotionally taking a hit like that, but it happens to all of us. As ksvs said in one of the other comments even Joel Spolsky hit the wall during the last bust. Realise that it's not your fault,... |
Should I drop out or not? | bborud: Since you are just 21 I think you should try to motivate yourself to finish a degree. Because 5-10 years down the road it is going to be a lot harder to go back to school. If you think motivating yourself is hard now, it is nothing against what it is going to be like in 10 years.I can understand that you find... |
List of Hacker Blogs? | est: http://www.gnucitizen.org/ |
Which job to take? | vlad: Where are these positions located? Why do you care about "potentially less career advancement opportunity?" Do you want to do a startup, or do you want a career at a big company? We can't assume much from your post. Thanks! Also, what choice are you leaning towards, and why? |
Which job to take? | jamess: I'd go for the IBM position, regardless of which pays more. For one thing, the advantage of working at a large established company is they'll teach you how to write software. There are a truly vast number of things about writing software professionally that a CS degree doesn't prepare you for.You could do a lot... |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | robertdempsey: There is quite a bit of good advice here. I too was in a similar situation a number of years ago when my (as in I owned it) company was taken out by the post 911 meltdown. I closed out with more debt than you.My suggestions (as someone who is not an attorney or a CPA) are:1. Talk with the hosting company... |
APIs that nail it | SwellJoe: Both Perl and Python have web libraries that have always seemed close to perfect to me.As an example, a few days ago a friend of mine was trying to figure out how to tell people within her organization how to find the "canonical" URL from a request (the URL that the browser ended up at after possibly numerous... |
What are the best of public SOAP Web Services | jmtame: I second that |
List of Hacker Blogs? | KrisJordan: http://feeds.feedburner.com/KrisJordan - personal plug - programming, start-ups, php |
Which job to take? | brk: You will find that the greatest accomplishments in the world are often built upon solid foundations.It's perfectly possible to go from college into a startup (or to skip the college part), but in general you will do better (and contribute more) in a startup when you have some experience in a large company. You ma... |
What are the best of public SOAP Web Services | zacharydanger: I know Chase's Paymentech payment gateway has a SOAP interface. Good? Maybe. SOAP? Yep. |
List of Hacker Blogs? | pkrumins: I am on my way to becoming a hacker :)My blog: http://www.catonmat.net |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | quellhorst: In hindsight I would have used EC2 instead of buying servers. For servers I already have it pays to have clients using them and paying you more than your expenses on them.Get out of the Credit Card debt ASAP. Instead of trying to sell the lead management system, go radical and open source it on an account o... |
APIs that nail it | bd: QT is indeed really good. They also wrote an article about how to design APIs:Designing Qt-Style C++ APIshttp://doc.trolltech.com/qq/qq13-apis.html |
What are the best of public SOAP Web Services | wheels: MS Live Search has a SOAP API as well. |
Which job to take? | prospero: Do you know who you'll be working for at either job, and who you'll be working with? Are they personable? Are they knowledgeable? Will they be able to look at your work and tell you, in the simplest terms possible, how you fucked up?Your first job is going to be, in the best case scenario, extremely humbli... |
List of Hacker Blogs? | jrockway: Feel free to add my blog, http://blog.jrock.us, to your reading list. It is usually about Perl or Lisp, and I try to keep it instructional instead of "omg this is shiny" or "why I hate $programming_language_foo". Some of that creeps in from time to time, and I apologize in advance :) |
Which job to take? | ken: You're foolish to turn down a job only if it's a job you really want. No position is so awesome it's perfect for everybody.Most any job can have interesting problems. That's a function of the problem space, and the freedom you have to explore solutions in it, not the platform/architecture they use.I've worked at... |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | utnick: How did you find your clients and what kind of leads are these?Any chance you could find some more clients that would be interested in the same kind of leads? |
List of Hacker Blogs? | TobiasCassell: I will run the risk of annoying everyone as a master of the obvious but this should be included, yes?http://hackaday.com/ |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | mynameishere: Plenty of advice here already. Insolvency can only be dealt with by liquidation and retrenchment on one hand, and bankruptcy on the other. It's an uncomplicated choice, and there's not much to say.But, for the love of god, don't finance a business on credit cards. Bad idea. Really, if you can't find fri... |
List of Hacker Blogs? | aaronblohowiak: Why dont you ask for us to post opml? |
List of Hacker Blogs? | mlLK: I'm curious to know what tools OP is using to track memes. |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | cabalamat: The first thing I would do is talk to an expert about bankrupcy to see what my options are. |
What are the best of public SOAP Web Services | timcederman: Google does not currently have a publicly available SOAP web service, unless you already have a key. |
Your experience with Arch Linux on a production box. | vegai: Sometimes I have to spend a lot of time in RHEL or Solaris hunting down packages of software that I would find and install in Arch in a minute.I haven't had worse problems with Arch than with 'real production server operating systems' like the two above. I am developing my personal stuff on a VPS running Arch.ar... |
What are the best of public SOAP Web Services | xchecker: Just curious, does anyone still care about SOAP? It may be alive inside some companies' intranets but it seems to be dead on the public web.When I've developed APIs, people clamor for JSON, REST, and serialized PHP. Maybe I'm in some non-Microsoft, non-Java ghetto? |
What happened to thefeelgood.com? | nreece: Maybe in the middle of a server migration and/or IP propagation. |
Which job to take? | apu: I haven't faced this problem myself, but I have a few friends who've been in somewhat similar situations before. Most were more interested in the smaller company, but due to various reasons (rationalizations?), ended up picking the bigger company job (ibm/microsoft/amazon/google). Despite their stated intentions t... |
Should I drop out or not? | Ezra: You're mistaking the first term of university with the University™ that everyone else is talking about retrospectively.What they mean by University™ is usually "the last 2 years of university".Year one, if your experience is like mine was, is where you get the breadth part of your education in. My first year was... |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | lsc: talk to your tax personYou really want to pay off that debit out of pre-tax monies. (well, unless you are declaring bankruptcy, but your debit seems small for that.) Either way, a $100/hr tax dude seems expensive, but it's not as expensive as paying off that debit out of post-tax money. |
List of Hacker Blogs? | bosky101: related YC thread -> where are the indian hackershttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=54085 |
List of Hacker Blogs? | dawkins: Schneier on Security: http://www.schneier.com/blog/ |
LLC with International Founder | yokumtaku: You will need to engage someone to help file the LLCs taxes, so you should engage this person now and start asking your question before you incorporate.Among other things, consider the following:1. If this is the type of project that is intended to be VC-funded in the future, you should start with a corpora... |
Which job to take? | strlen: what do you mean "windows/java"? are they doing java in a windows vs. unix environment?would there be chance for you to transition into doing linux/python stuff over at ibm (they certainly do a great deal of linux/python work)? ask them that up front.also what matters a lot more than the tools/languages/systems... |
LLC with International Founder | jhancock: You should eventually speak to an expert. When? It depends on how quickly you expect to yield net revenues and need to distribute profits.If you expect to run in the red for a while and once you show some traction may bring in investors, then I would follow my "rule of lazy paperwork":1 - An outside investo... |
Which job to take? | strlen: couple more things: did you like the people who interviewed at either position? did you get to meet the team? in the end it's the people you work with that you learn from the most. there are office-space like environments in big companies and there are highly dynamic environments in big companies; there are sta... |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | level2: I'm currently an entrepreneur in waiting. By that I mean my last credit card funded gig tanked (don't ever depend on people not doing what is exactly NOT in their own best interest) and I'm waiting until this 30% APR debt is off my back. I'm doing this by working a full time job and freelancing on the side. I... |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | ahoyhere: There's lots of good advice here but I want to chip in my two cents, because I was once in a very similar situation and my advice is different enough than what's already here.Short backstory so you know I'm serious: In 02, I lost a client along with about $20k of unpaid work (long story), $15k in debt, NO mon... |
What are the best of public SOAP Web Services | dizz: Amazon EC2 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2.wsdl
S3 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/AmazonS3.wsdlAnd I'm sure there's others... in fact here's a dude that's listed all the amazon services exposed as wsdl http://www.ecocoma.com/amazon_wsdl.aspx |
LLC with International Founder | ahoyhere: It definitely increases the complexity of taxing. Sorry. I know how you feel - I'm an American partnered with (& married to) an Austrian (and we both live in Austria!).However, I'm fairly sure that the UK and US - like every other major country and the US - have an anti-double taxation treaty. Which probably ... |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | mikeyur: My best advice would (if you have okay credit) get a line of credit from your bank or a loan and pay off as much of your credit cards as you can. The interest rates from a line of credit are MUCH lower than the 10,20,30% interest your credit card company is charging.You'll still need to come up with a minimum ... |
What happened to thefeelgood.com? | trickjarrett: Site seems to be back up. |
Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? | iuguy: Hi,Sorry to hear it's not working out. I hope things start to get better for you. You've done the absolute right thing by cutting your cost base down as much as possible. CatDancer and co have offered some really good things to think about so I won't repeat what they've already said.The 600$/month till the end o... |
From where do you buy a domain ? | shutter: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=339823http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=186369I use NameCheap, myself. |
From where do you buy a domain ? | jyothi: godaddy.com |
From where do you buy a domain ? | Hates_: http://www.joker.com |
Which job to take? | crpatino: Why do you ask this? You already should know that, at IBM, you will be another brick in the wall. Do you need permission to do what you love? |
From where do you buy a domain ? | ComputerGuru: 1and1 - though I wouldn't ever buy hosting from them. |
APIs that nail it | jcapote: Hpricot |
What do you consider "making it"? | snprbob86: I think you've made it long before you are buying all those toys you promised yourself. That is, assuming you promised yourself any toys. Me? I just promised myself that I would be my own boss, have fun, and make just enough money to not have to argue over who pays the left over dollar after dinner. |
What do you consider "making it"? | fallentimes: Having the site/business pretty much run itself and grow slowly but surely. I don't care about the toys - if I could have 100k a year in passive income I'd be set. "Making it" for me has much more to do with disposable free time than disposable income.Edit: Issuing dividends to our investors would be great... |
What do you consider "making it"? | eisokant: For me it's about making something a success in the eyes of the users. Built something people love using. Then make it a business that maximizes it's profits. Then move on to the next venture. I don't want any toy's and I don't need any recognition but what I do want is the sense of achievement once you've bu... |
What do you consider "making it"? | ComputerGuru: At the point where the only thing to describe your feelings is "Content." |
What do you consider "making it"? | Angostura: I'm not a typical HN reader/user. I'm a one-man consultancy outfit, helping businesses sort out how best to use Internet technologies for internal and external collaboration. I also help untangle knotty workflow problems, you get the picture."Making it", as far as I am concerned is having a steady stream of ... |
What do you consider "making it"? | mmmurf: I think it's when you are doing it for the love, and it's also successful. The convergence of pleasure and productivity (in an economic sense).By this logic, as a founder you may realize you've created something successful and fun but it's time to bring in different people to do things that you are no longer e... |
What do you consider "making it"? | pedalpete: Short answer, never, particularly when you are still calling yourself a start-up. Once you've 'made-it', you aren't a start-up anymore, you're a big business, and big businesses still need lots of work to keep them successful.Long answer - when your piece of art is complete.
A great book, 'Finite and Infinit... |
From where do you buy a domain ? | satyajit: Straight from the src:
www.netsol.com
Everyone else is 2ndary, they try to force some hosting option on you. |
What do you consider "making it"? | DenisM: $15 milllion net worth after tax, or $1 million yearly income, whichever comes first. Today's dollars, adjusted for inflation. |
What do you consider "making it"? | Darmani: No matter where you are, "made it" is always one step above you. |
What do you consider "making it"? | markessien: Anybody who does work just so that he can one day not work, will find his contentment threshold pretty quickly. He will find a satisfactory job with enough free time and will stop dreaming. |
What do you consider "making it"? | kalvin: Having created something that's made life (offline, RL) better for a huge, broad swath of people. |
What do you consider "making it"? | unalone: Once you feel like you can do other things, any other things, without feeling that you're taking a risk in doing what you feel like. |
List of Hacker Blogs? | fortes: http://planet.intertwingly.net/ is a solid aggregation of various tech blogs, you can milk the blogroll there for some good links. |
What do you consider "making it"? | sharkfish: When I was no longer a FUCKING TWAT. LOL. |
List of Hacker Blogs? | grokcode: Here's mine: http://grok-code.com
RSS: http://grok-code.com/feed/ |
What do you consider "making it"? | incomethax: When I felt I've really changed the world for the better. |
List of Hacker Blogs? | brlewis: I'm a hacker and I have 3 blogs.http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/ is mostly about OurDoings but with content geared toward people interested in web startups.http://ourdoings.com/brlewis/ is more random.http://ourdoings/com/index.html is geared toward customers and potential customers of OurDoings, i.e. p... |
What's the best value hardware for virtualization? | wmf: All current laptops should have 64-bit processors with virtualization support, although you should probably stay away from Celerons, Pentiums, and Semprons which might be crippled. In your situation I would get 4-6GB of RAM, so factor that into your budget.Is there anything especially important to watch out for wh... |
What's the best value hardware for virtualization? | whatusername: anyone want to comment on the legal situation running OSX in a VM? Especially for a company/start-up and not just home user?I was under the impression that you were breaching the apple license at the minimum? |
What's the best value hardware for virtualization? | jwilliams: > We're looking to spend a max of $1600 on the hardware. I've already tried running vmware on my personal laptop for which my 32-bit processor is not suited for running a 64-bit OS.If your machine is IA32 it's probably also extremely old.> Is there anything especially important to watch out for while virtual... |
What do you consider "making it"? | rms: I see no reason to set the bar lower than National Sovereignty. There are just so many things you can't do without your own sovereign nation. |
What do you consider "making it"? | jamesbritt: Never having to wear pants again.Unless I really really want to. |
What's the best value hardware for virtualization? | gtani: you can do stripped down used macbooks, 1.8Ghz cpu, 1G Ram, for $800, (these go to 2G RAM, which is sort of barely adequate for VMWare) e.g.http://www.powermax.com/parts/code/PM_CU_MKhttp://www.smalldog.com/category/x/x/x/Applehttp://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/mac?mco=M...there'a a few other com... |
What do you consider "making it"? | espadagroup: I have no illusions with myself about wanting to live a comfortable life at $100,000. Making it would be this:Financially: $1,000,000/Year in passive income.Socially: The Espada brand being universally recognizable and associated with my name.Automotivally: Lotus Elise, Bentley, the biggest legal monster... |
What do you consider "making it"? | cabalamat: Net worth > $10 million |
Should I take the plunge? | CaptainMorgan: You certainly appear to have an abundance of education that should assist you tremendously...A born financial conservative, I say go with Option 1 - but note that I have completely no experience in these types of ventures.What I can offer is that in this time of economic turmoil, if you happen to be doin... |
What do you consider "making it"? | icky: "Making it" is a journey of several steps:1. Realizing you haven't been checking price tags on food or household items for a while now.2. Making money faster than you can find things worth spending it on.3. Being well-off without having to work full-time.4. Being well-off through actively-managed passive income.5... |
Marketing ideas for my book "The Geek Atlas" | pchristensen: It would be hard for me to give any meaningful advice since you had me halfway through the title. I even made a note in my calendar for April 2009 that your book was coming out and I need to buy it. (this was when it was on your blog last week).I would see if you can get on "geek" media: geek.tv, NPR's ... |
Marketing ideas for my book "The Geek Atlas" | abijlani: I think you can learn quite a bit from Tim Ferris (the author of the 4-hour work week). He started marketing his book way before it came out by way of:1. A website that complimented his book2. A blog that talk about things related to the book3. He reached out to bloggers and built a relationship (http://text.... |
Should I take the plunge? | mikeyur: I am going to have to say, go with Option 1. You could take the plunge today, but personally I'd rather be safe than sorry.Another option would be to slowly phase out your old job, cut from 40 hours a week to 35 and spend that extra time working on your new business. I'm not sure if this is possible in your cu... |
What do you consider "making it"? | mikeyur: Steadily growing business. Steady income that can provide me with the necessities and a few toys (about $50k/yr after taxes). Free time to deal start other projects and do what I want. |
Marketing ideas for my book "The Geek Atlas" | SingAlong: 128 places!!?? 128 is associated with computer science (like 1024). So you could use this number in a very innovative way.Whatever places everyone mentioned, poster, website, etc make an ad with '128' that you could put up anywhere. The first thing that comes to my mind is... "128 bytes and 128 places". Some... |
E-mail providers and mail servers | izak30: As a final note, we've ended up choosing FuseMail, if you have any questions about them, let me know. |
Should I take the plunge? | mccon104: how confident/comfortable are you with the idea of working on this company as your sole source of income? ... really, you need to honestly answer that question first.second, do you have a co-founder? though one isn't necessary it doesn't hurt to have one (or more).to go with option 2 (which is my knee-jerk re... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.