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Rate my webapp, Tweet Link Monster | speek: You have no idea how happy I am to see that you used the word "webapp" instead of "startup." (read: very happy) |
Any Special Projects Over the Holidays? | mdolon: Going to wedding parties! Looks like all of my friends are getting married nowadays.Also beginning work on a new project that is essentially an online site editor like Weebly but for a very niche market. Still figuring out exactly how to do that though. |
Any Special Projects Over the Holidays? | drfloob: Studying graduate-level texts on computer vision... after re-learning 1st & 2nd year calculus... after re-learning trigonometry... after refreshing my memory on algebra & geometry |
Isn't it a little lame to submit your own work to HN? | bemmu: For me half the point of HN is discovering what other people are working on and trying to give them useful comments about their work. The other half is finding interesting articles to read. |
What's the best way to learn Java/J2ME to build mobile applications? | rmobin: I picked up Beginning J2ME (http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-J2ME-Novice-Professional-Thi...) earlier this year when working on a mobile application for BB and it was pretty handy. You should know that RIM provides additional apis on top of J2ME that let you create more native-feeling BB applications (and it's w... |
What's the best way to learn Java/J2ME to build mobile applications? | martythemaniak: First, what you really wanna do is learn the basics of Java itself - primitive types, flow structures, conditionals, classes, inheritance, basic data types (vectors, maps) etc. You'll find the syntax has much in common with php and perl, so it won't be alien, although you'll have to adjust to the static... |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | liangzan: http://frro.net/ from singapore |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | jwilliams: Amazon EC2 is available in Europe now, so that might suit.An EC2 pay-as-you-go model (opposed to a Slicehost one) might be a more economical option for testing as well. |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | nreece: Have a look at: http://vpschoice.com/ They have a list (page bottom). |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | matthall28: SuperBytes.net is in Canada and they are really good for VPS hosting |
What's the best way to learn Java/J2ME to build mobile applications? | Tichy: Learned it without any books, just looking at the documentation from Sun. Just get started with a simple project, I guess. |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | joao: http://gandi.net - totally recomended, located in France |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | arockwell: A better question is why doesn't everyone in the world speak Esparanto. |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | ardell: The problem with standardization is that you iron out all of the innovations. Certain language constructs are simply better for certain tasks. Lisp is built for recursion so it's great with lists. Object-oriented languages in theory are great for modularity and maintainability. Granted all these aspects hav... |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | mattmcknight: If they did have the same syntax, would they be different languages? |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | jbyers: http://www.gplhost.com / http://www.gplhost.co.ukSingapore, Australia, Israel, Spain, France, UK |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | pg: Because syntax is one of the features of a language. |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | agentcoops: Because people have different syntactic preferences? Because some people hate c-style brackets while others hate python-style white-space? While it would make life easier in the short-run for those trying to learn a language who have pre-existing knowledge of the standardized syntax, it's quite possible t... |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | jerf: This question can not be fully answered in prose. It can only be answered with a challenge: Learn four or five diverse languages reasonably well, then try to create the single syntax that works well for all of them. You'll understand when you're done... or perhaps rather, when you find you'll never be done.I will... |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | cperciva: If every language had its own syntax, how would we make jokes about LISP programs which end with a page of right parentheses? |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | astrec: I've been using RimuHosting (http://rimuhosting.com/) for years - they're in a few data centres around the world and the service is A1. |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | helveticaman: I think it is for the same reason that not all cars are shaped the same. Also, to crack wise about lisp. |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | nittwerp: Let's say (however unlikely) that all current languages agreed on standard, and the next release of all these languages used this standard. There would inevitably be a group of people who don't agree with the standard and so they go and write a new language that uses their preferred syntax. Now we are back ... |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | jonny_noog: Australia:http://www.netlogistics.com.au/http://www.crucial.com.au/ |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | qqq: It's because some people don't like s-expressions, so they've been making up a bunch of other stuff. |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | asimjalis: Yes. I think all languages should be written with s-expressions. |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | makecheck: In some important cases, languages already have common syntax (such as mathematical operators, regular expressions, and string interpolation such as "\n"). And in those cases, the simplest explanation seems to be: "there was no other sane way to do it".Some differences really are arbitrary, and could theore... |
How do you invoice - especially you freelancers out there? | justinkelly: Hi,i had the same problem so developed my own lamp based app Simple Invoices - http://www.simpleinvoices.orgits free/open-source - does PDF invoices blah blahdoesn't do time tracking thoughCheersJustin |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | dhess: I'm also looking for a UK-based virtual host for occasional proxy testing. Does anyone here have experience with http://flexiscale.com/ ?Alternatively, even a simple UK-based, non-root shell account with the ability to run Squid would probably suffice. I manage a few servers in a San Jose colo and would gladly p... |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | mikeyur: http://futurehosting.com/They're a US company but you can get a VPS in London through them. A basic VPS can be had for like $10/month if they have a sale on. |
What to read during the holidays? | Wesmax27: I am going to get through Warren Buffett's biography, The Snowball. |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | tlrobinson: It's certainly not the only reason, but the same syntax with different semantics could get very confusing.I think the different syntaxes help you (or at least me) switch contexts and remember what language I'm using. |
What's the best way to learn Java/J2ME to build mobile applications? | sama: The best way is not to, I assure you. |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | merrick33: hard to market something that is the same as everything else |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | bayareaguy: I can live with differences in language syntax since in many cases there are semantic reasons behind them. The thing that really gets on my nerves are minor differences in the representations of common data structures (lists, tables, dictionaries, etc). |
Cocoa Touch & iPhone Dev Step by Step Tutorials | oscardelben: Take a look at this: http://www.appsamuck.com/ |
What's the best way to learn Java/J2ME to build mobile applications? | pistoriusp: I saw this the other day: http://rhomobile.com/"Rhomobile's open source mobile application framework Rhodes lets you quickly build mobile interfaces to enterprise applications. These are true native device applications: they work against synced local data and take advantage of device capabilities such as GP... |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | SwellJoe: Why does PHP need to use crap like echo and all those dollar signs instead of something more universal?This strikes me as a bizarre statement. What's more universal than "echo" and "$", which are found in nearly every UNIX shell? UNIX has always been the backbone OS of the Internet, thus a language designed... |
NFAs and DFAs | jlouis: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html is a must read.Then you should probably listen to http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Talks/SwineBeforePe... by Shriram Krishnamurthi (I've met him - He is a really cool guy). At that point you have the ammunition and the gun loaded. You just have to fire it. |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | mstevens: I use http://clustered.net/ for a VPS. Pretty good, but not quite as automated as providers like slicehost.They're in the UK. |
What to read during the holidays? | zupatol: I discovered the fountainhead last year and I found it fascinating although it becomes more and more awkward as you progress. At the end it seemed to me like a journey into a sick mind, which makes it all the more interesting.I would recommend semi-autobiographic books by sick minds.Zen and the art of motorcyc... |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | shimonamit: Because then they would all have the same syntax. |
What to read during the holidays? | omarchowdhury: Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOne Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken KeseyNonfiction:Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders by Jack D. Schwager (1993)Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (history) |
Opening a company | swombat: Surely you can take international credit cards with a Brazilian merchant account? If authorize.net don't allow that, there are many other similar providers which can help.Setting up a merchant account is a major pain in the ass (and slow) even if you are based in the UK... I imagine it'd be even harder if you'... |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | ralph: http://www.bytemark.co.uk/ Sterling's cheap at the moment! "Darling, why don't we sell up in the UK, move to France, and buy a croissant."They've been doing virtual machines for years using User Mode Linux. |
Cocoa Touch & iPhone Dev Step by Step Tutorials | ObieJazz: Check out Aaron Hillegass's "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X". Not directly iPhone related, but a good start on XCode / Cocoa / obj-C. |
Opening a company | RiderOfGiraffes: The answer is probably yes, and you give no clues as to what you're doing (understandably) but do you need CCs?
Might it not be possible just to use PayPal? Since you hold the service, if someone doesn't pay you can email a reminder, give them 2 weeks' grace, then simply pull their plug.Credit card pa... |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | galactus: I use myself dedibox.fr (France). I certainly recommend it. |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | jgranby: Because the people who designed them didn't agree on what was the best solution for the problem. And the people who use the various languages don't agree, either. Do you really think that you could sit down with a Lisp fanatic and a Java fanatic and get them to decide on a single syntax that they'd each rather... |
Opening a company | epoweripi: Have you tried a local payment gateways that accept international Credit cards?That might be easier. From my experience in India - most payment gateways suck real bad and at some point you will need to contact them for support.It surely makes it easier to get support locally than overseas esp. with all the t... |
Review My Doohicky | gsmaverick: Neat analyzer! I think there is so much data that can be gathered from Twitter that we have no idea exists. |
Review My Doohicky | riklomas: Maybe try and reverse engineer the TinyURLs so that users can see where they link to? |
Review My Doohicky | nirmal: Would be good to expand the tinyurls or at least provide the domain they are pointing too. This may even help you consolidate tinyurls if multiple services are used for the same original url. In Python I sometimes do the following to get the finalurl (not fool-proof): finalUrl = urllib.urlopen("http://www.tiny... |
How do you pull all-nighter+dayers | Raphael: Have a snack every couple hours and drink lots of water. |
Review My Doohicky | braindead_in: view more information gives an warning.Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/.dodi/jamesgarrett/malicelabs.com/linkalyzer/get_urlstats3.php on line 7more warnings follow |
Review My Doohicky | nirmal: Also, every image in your TwitPic section appears once as a png and again as a jpg. Some of these are broken but they still link back to the same TwitPic page. |
Review My Doohicky | physcab: Nice project. It would be interesting to see maybe a "popularity tree". Like for example, it would be fun to see if Scoble or Kawasaki put out the link first and see how it was distributed. Or if someone unknown sent out the link and someone popular picked it up. Not sure if its possible to trace though.Al... |
Review My Doohicky | wesley: Nice little project, good for learning the API.You may want to check out http://twitturly.com/ if you haven't yet. |
Any Special Projects Over the Holidays? | physcab: Trying to do this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=406705 ...any ideas welcome! |
Review My Doohicky | jackowayed: Twitpic Hot 30 gives is missing about half of the images. There's spaces for them, but they just show the alt text. |
Anyone else want google.com et al to be broken down by host on HN? | johns: Personally, I think the domain displayed should be the entire domain and subdomains minus 'www.' |
Input keyword to calculation | physcab: I ended up finding this algorithm for use in .Net if anyone is interested. http://tomasp.net/articles/ahocorasick.aspx. |
Anyone else want google.com et al to be broken down by host on HN? | tokenadult: I think it would be helpful to see complete domains. |
Anyone else want google.com et al to be broken down by host on HN? | PStamatiou: i vote for i like it the way it is. less clutter and it's just a hover away if i really want to know the full url |
Anyone else want google.com et al to be broken down by host on HN? | wesley: What I really want is to read the descriptions within my RSS reader, but this 'll do too. |
How can I make PadMapper.com better? | PaddyTheMapper: And, to get a comment on the board:
Some of the features I'm planning on adding, once I figure out an unobtrusive and usable way to do them: a favorites list, neighborhood crime rate overlay, probably a more details page with a list of nearby businesses and some other things, and full text search filte... |
Where do you get your high quality stickers printed? | gaius: moo.com |
How can I make PadMapper.com better? | PaddyTheMapper: And a link: http://www.padmapper.com |
Where do you get your high quality stickers printed? | spydez: A friend of mine is a designer who started a business doing stickers, business cards, magnets, etc.I've had one of his stickers on my Dell laptop for... probably about 2-3 years. I did not treat that laptop daintily, and his sticker still looks nearly pristine; so he can certainly get you what you need.His emai... |
Where do you get your high quality stickers printed? | Mistone: we did an order from www.printingblue.com/ and where happy with the cost and quality, lead time was a bit long - 10 days - but overall satisfied. |
Where do you get your high quality stickers printed? | replicatorblog: These companies are all really good, just make sure to select vinyl printing inks and not paper based stickers otherwise you may get some of the same issues. These companies are all fairly small so you will get really good service if you ask any questions:http://contagiousgraphics.com/Stickers/stickers.... |
Anyone else want google.com et al to be broken down by host on HN? | derefr: Get as nit-picky on the domain as you like; sometimes, it's still not enough to determine which "site" you're going to. Think of /~user/ directories, for example, or hosted subsites. Not everything that's distinct from its owner has its own domain.The ideal split would actually require something like: <link ... |
1 week | pavelludiq: The next 10 days i will be locked in my room, learning lisp. I will bring coffee, snacks and some weights for exercising when learning gets tedious and i need to get rid of some of the stress. |
1 week | Allocator2008: 1) carton of camels
2) a few dozen energy drinks
3) iPod with my elton john and barabara streisand |
lighttpd and Rhino - Need some hacker help | dcminter: Rhino being Java based it's a lot easier to get it running under Tomcat. |
review my app | rokhayakebe: How does a first time visitor know what your site does? |
review my app | hotshothenry: Yah that's the next thing on the agenda, will have it done by tonight |
review my app | mattj: You might not want to have your e.g. (iphone) return no results. Makes it obvious you have very little content (which makes me very confused what your site does). |
review my app | tptacek: I don't understand why this is better than any of the other 40 sites that match developers with patrons. |
review my app | ryanwaggoner: 1. As mentioned, there's no way to tell what this is or what it does. Very confusing.2. Why should I register?3. The login link doesn't work from the register page.4. It let me register without providing a valid email address or either of the passwords. I registered with email address 'asdfasdf' and lef... |
review my app | bemmu: Unfortunately, this is one of those things where the content really matters all that much more than the UI. Not to be overly negative, it would be a nice simple way to discover devs if it had that content. If you want to really impress me, show which developers are online right now and willing to talk to me abou... |
review my app | evannyx: 1. Change "iPhone" to "iPhone developer"..would make much more sense2. Add live chat ability with devs (meebo style)3. Add more content..so far its empty. I realize it's a chicken / egg problem, but but you need to find a solution else nobody is going to post there.4. The green logo does not make sense5. As me... |
review my app | bprater: 3 sample data points and you want a realistic review? Really, seriously?This could have been hacked together in an hour. Should we all ask YC to check out our weekend hack sessions?Is it a real business model? What is it? Give us some details about WHY you want us to look at the site.This is the type of thing ... |
review my app | hotshothenry: thanks for the feedback so far guys, I still have a bunch of things to improve upon |
review my app | jackowayed: I second/third/24th the motion that you need to tell people what your site does. You can have the listings there too if you want, but higher and more prominent should be a few bullet points or something saying what you do and what makes you special.Also, your search box doesn't show up at all when I have yo... |
1 week | rtw: laptop, huge-normous battery for laptop, water |
1 week | siong1987: laptop with unlimited battery power, water, and food.I have basically everything that I need on the laptop. |
Anyone else want google.com et al to be broken down by host on HN? | petercooper: I'd like to see it show the host after redirect, too. Some people have posted links that are FeedBurner or Google feed proxy redirects to content on blogs, and you get "google.com" or "feedburner.com" showing up as the host on HN. |
1 week | PStamatiou: 1) a girl, 2) laptop with 3G card, 3) food |
review my app | satyajit: I spent 1min:30secs on the site, and few searches other than those given (iPhone, Facebook) didn't return any result (eg. Ruby). Or may be it was doing something in the bground (doesn't tell that if its doing something, like a spinning wheel or hourglass or something). And moreover site doesn't have an 'About... |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | dbc: I'm also interested in offshore VPS hosting, but I want the servers to be located in a country without police state laws surrounding Internet traffic and/or speech, so this excludes the US, UK, EU, Canada, and Australia. Switzerland, Norway, and Iceland would be acceptable, and I'm willing to consider other countr... |
review my app | paul9290: For me this was very easy to understand, but as you see others think there should be more text to explain.I suggest in the search box have the words, "Find a web or mobile developer for your project." |
review my app | pclark: always inform the user as to whats up - if there are no results, tell them.
I'm sure you read the story of Google having to add the copyright line at the bottom of the page because users thought some of the page simply wasn't loading.
I just did the same on your site - I typed "Ruby" and it went blank ....
NO... |
Any Special Projects Over the Holidays? | chomchom: Although I'm not really on holiday I seem to have taken on the reinvigoration of the customwars project. It's a java 2d tile war game like chess but with nice animations. It's over at customwars.com if anyone would liek to help out over their time off. |
1 week | lionhearted: Pleasant company, sustenance, and a good long book. I'm reading Musashi right now, so I'd say that, but I'm already half-done. Maybe Shantaram - that's probably next for fiction. |
review my app | immad: Name is good, idea is reasonable.You need to explain where the content comes from, does one have to register to be listed as a result? You should be scraping various sources to get content and saying at the top what the sources are. I feel like dev contractor search engines must exist already but I can't think o... |
review my app | tower10: I second the UI needing some user feedback. I was expecting a Google Suggest style dropdown and it took me a few seconds to realise I was filtering the results already in the page.It didn't take me long to figure out the purpose of the site but - then again, I shouldn't have to work it out / think. Check out... |
How do you deal with mental illness? | ram1024: the rest of us are fine, but thank you very much for asking |
How do you deal with mental illness? | dangrover: This is a topic worth discussion -- I bet a lot of people here have some of these issues.For your writing, I'd suggest continuing it, but putting it into some kind of "buffer" so that it doesn't get immediately posted to your blog. Then trim it down to the best, most polished entries, and pass it through som... |
Domain management? | tstegart: I use GoDaddy. And that's only because I couldn't think of anyone better. It seems like the domain registration space is filled with shady characters. GoDaddy's interface is clunky and confusing and every time I go there I wish someone would just take a giant digital red pen and cross off everything that's no... |
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