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Sources to determine "reasonable compensation?" for web CEO's | trevelyan: Don't incorporate in the United States? Does the law still apply? |
New Years Resolution(s)? | Hexstream: Read HN only on Saturdays (or some other fixed day of the week). I can easily waste 2 or 3 hours a day to "keep up" with the news, this is ridiculous.Trying to learn something truly worthwhile by reading the news is a bit like trying to learn by watching TV or trying to get rich by buying lottery tickets: sometimes it works, usually it doesn't, and even if you succeed it's not quite as edifying as doing it the right way (ex: learning useful knowledge by reading books or getting rich by starting a company).I'd be interested to know if there's some day of the week where the stories are usually the most relevant. |
New Years Resolution(s)? | DanielBMarkham: I don't do New Year's resolutions, but I have made a decision recently.If I'm going to continue consulting instead of working on a startup next year, on the side I'm going to work on something technical and fun, like an automated .NET Ocaml-to-YUI Data Access Layer. Something where I can learn and create a framework to use in a startup later on. |
New Years Resolution(s)? | niels: I have decided to focus on personal growth. I made this list some days ago.Personal qualitiesGoals:- Non needy- Non pleasing- Give value- Accept other peoples valueMethod:- Be faithful to own values- Base in own self recognition, not others opinion.- Accept the importance of signal values- Don't do or say things that undermines my own status.Excercise:Goals- running, cycling, swimming, workout.Method- Sign up for several amateur races (running, cycling, triathlon)Professional:Goals- improve self promotionMethod- Blog, NetworkStartup:Goal- Launch my projectMethod:- Keep on working? (I've rewritten it two and a half time)- Freelancing pays the billsFriends:Goal- Keep old friends, but focus on making new friends.Method- Actively engage in other people lives, don't need "invitation".Dating:Goal- Date more girls, or meet potential long term girlfriendMethod- Dating sites, Social activities, BarsSailing:Goal- Participate in as many regattas as possible (I bought a sailing boat last year)Method
?Happy new year! |
New Years Resolution(s)? | simplegeek: - Quit smoking
- Learn UI (CSS and Photoshop)
- Excercise daily
- Release my two side projects and turn them into profitable products.
- Learn a new programming language (not sure on this one)
- Publish some pending drafts to ACM
- Publish some articles , long due, to selected magazines
- Asking this girl out |
Sources to determine "reasonable compensation?" for web CEO's | clintavo: Thanks for all the feedback. OK further clarification: I am incorporating as an S-Corp. Income taxes on S-corps flow through to the tax returns of the owners. No taxes are paid at the corporate level.The IRS doesn't care about the $1 salaries of public CEOs (yes I know apostrophe S isn't plural, it was a typo) because those are C-Corps. C Corps DO pay taxes at the corporate level so the IRS doesn't care what your compensation is on a C-Corp - they've already collected taxes.I'm sorry I wasn't clear in my first post, I was NOT thinking of a $1 salary or anything like that to avoid taxes. I'm thinking in the $75K - $150K range but that's just a gut feeling that I'm looking to confirm with some kind of data source in case I have to justify it to IRS. My CPA is helpful, but he can't give me a total answer because he's not in the internet/web business...I am, hence the reason I posed the question on Hacker News.I do however want to minimize my salary to a REASONABLE level as I don't want to overpay FICA (which caps out at 102K, but several CPAs I've spoken with feel Obama will eliminate that cap), plus I don't want to pay Medicare (3.9%) on ALL of the income the corporation generates - only on the portion reasonably attributable to my salary.I was hoping some of the early stage YC companies or other CEOS/Developers who frequent Hacker News would have some guidance and/or a source for some general ranges of salaries for CEOs of web companies.Thanks again for all your help. |
Sources to determine "reasonable compensation?" for web CEO's | sokoloff: As a matter of practicality, any number in the $80K+ range will be fine, though you may feel better about paying yourself $100K given that the spread in taxes is under $1K/year (from 80->100). You can go below "normal"; you just can't go below "reasonable". I'd also set the comparable position as "web developer", not "CEO", as you can make a strong case that your primary function day-to-day is more akin to web-dev than to captain-of-industry.Another important thing to keep in mind, depending on your forecast need for credit: you may find it easier to qualify for a mortgage, to refinance, etc, if you have a higher base salary. Any amount by which you can get more favorable terms on a mortgage will likely BURY that $1K/yr in taxes. Sure you can substantiate with 2 years of tax returns, etc, etc, but that's going to invite human scrutiny, and in the current credit situation, I'd want to have the skids as greased as possible to have my application "look normal". |
Sources to determine "reasonable compensation?" for web CEO's | delano: Shouldn't you be asking your CPA and your lawyer what "reasonable" means in this case? |
Slicehost vs. Linode | qhoxie: This has been discussed here a number of times.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=374998http://searchyc.com/slicehost+linode |
Do YC Startups Lack Spine? | sokoloff: In what way(s) do you think YC isn't open to older entrepreneurs?If anything, I suspect older entrepreneurs aren't as open to YC than the other way around. In my own case, if I wanted $20K in expenses for a startup, I'd login to e*trade and transfer it, or I'd write a check for it. Doesn't seem worth giving up 6% for the cash, though if I were intent on striking out on my own, I'd almost certainly talk to YC, to see if a "3% for $1 and advice/contacts" deal could be worked out. |
New Years Resolution(s)? | burnout1540: 1. Get my on-the-side business up and running and decide whether or not it is worth investing more time in.
2. Add 20k+ to my savings.
3. Improve my BASH knowledge.
4. Travel more.
5. Waste less time (TV and web) |
rate/review my LAST startup | noodle: allow me to be the first to say that, if this is a serious post, don't do this. |
rate/review my LAST startup | ram1024: do it!that way when you start over it will truly be from scratch.and if you win the lotto i can be all "yea, i believed in his dream."legendaryand really. thirty is young. there are older people who haven't even started doing anything yet... |
rate/review my LAST startup | sokoloff: At least wait until one of those mega-lotteries gets to an EV of a unit wager is over 1.0. (Yes, I'm willing to let slip the NPV discounting, and buy tickets when the "advertised amount" makes it a +EV wager.) |
rate/review my LAST startup | undertoad: Well, if you've really made up your mind then it would be damn cool to see a post Wednesday night about your big win!Regardless of the outcome, I hope you'll be okay with yourself (actually I hope that for everybody). There are other things in life besides payoffs. |
I just found out someone signed up with a stolen credit card. What do I do now? | pedalpete: Contact the credit card company and ask to speak to the fraud department. they should be able to advise you on how to proceed. |
Year in Review | baguasquirrel: I was working on a CAD program in OCaml a year ago. It was an interesting exercise on what exactly is state, and what needs state and what state isn't (I'll post the program once I salvage my svn repo off the old HDD).In short, I found that the most useful definition of state is a set of data that is interrelated or correlated in some way, shape or form, but in actual usage, those pieces of data interact weakly.In terms of graph theory, if you were to say that we live in a purely functional world, and all functions are bipartite graphs from one set of points to another set of points, then "state" could be defined as those points where the functions involved are sparse. Sparse can be defined as:-most of the vertices involved are untouched in any given function
-all of the vertices are involved in one function or another
-all of the vertices are related in that you can reach one vertex from another by following the edges of the graph.Using that definition of state, I found that it was easy to program everything in a purely functional, no-side-effects paradigm, in OCaml, without using the object system.Furthermore, I found that the stateful bits tended to grow in an annoyingly stateful manner, that is that they added edges to the graph at random (i.e. it was hard to tell ahead of time what depended on what).The difficulty in using named tuples to store state as such is that then all the bits that need to modify state need to pass it around continuation style, and it can be hard to know ahead of time when you want to be in the stateful context or not.Haskell beginners (like me) will understand this to be the "do I need to be in the IO monad" problem. Indeed, the problem seems to manifest itself differently in Haskell, but I am not sure of this yet because I'm still learning Haskell.Some hunches:
- I concluded that statefulness seems to be a function of what you are building for. UI is stateful, but the backend work that supports it is not.-> Since the web's architecture enforces a client-server model, I argue that the whole statefulness debate is going to become moot for the backend supporting those services. Hybrid languages will be nice, but not really necessary.- Cellphones, with their need for a self-contained platform that can operate somewhat independently of whether the connection is operating or not, may benefit from hybrid languages. |
rate/review my LAST startup | matt1: karma: 2Maybe if you had posted more on HN you would have had a more successful business career ;) Also, if this is serious and you are going to give up and play the lottery, this irrational decision making may be why you never found your success.Regardless, success isn't measured in dollars. Once you see that, you'll likely make more money and be more successful. |
I just found out someone signed up with a stolen credit card. What do I do now? | matt1: How did you find out? |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | potatolicious: I doubt this is possible with current technology - so many people share the same or similar writing style that, even with a skilled human analyzing, you probably can't do much better than attribute it to a large bucket of perhaps thousands or tens of thousands of individuals. |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | qqq: I want my privacy :( |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | aristus: You can imitate someone's writing style with a travesty generator but that doesn't mean everyone has a "writing fingerprint". Very few people have a distinct enough writing style to weed out false positives, and since it's so easy to imitate you'll never really know your precision.I have a few writing ticks (parens, the '--', certain words like 'certain') but it's much easier to just search on "aristus" to start exposing my shame.I played with this a few years ago with a project called unmaskr. Heuristics can help precision a lot but does not help with recall. People generally: * use similar usernames, or a "constellation" of usernames
* have semi-regular posting times
* post in one place at one time
* use similar place names, nicknames for things
* write fluently in one language
* link to a "constellation" of domains |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | vaksel: Doubtful, its not something you can automate to be reliable, and w/o reliability whats the point? |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | robg: All of the methods require a decent amount of text. So unless someone is writing hundreds of words in each sample, they're unlikely to be distinguishable from the crowd. That, to me, rules out typical comments on threads. Lots of little samples seem to be just too noisy with too much overlap among authors to allow for unique information-based fingerprints.However, if the data is sufficiently large - in number and length (say, lots of essay-type blog posts) I'd expect some classifier-based machine learning techniques could match authors. That is, take a sample of 100 bloggers, split their data in half, train the classifiers on one half then test to match up the other half of the data. Under those conditions you could probably get 90-95% accuracy.The question, I think, is how small you could push the training set in terms of the fewest words and the fewest posts. |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | eyeraw: Search for "text fingerprinting" - there's a lot of info. |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | michael_nielsen: Donald Foster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Foster_(professor) ) is sometimes known as a "forensic linguist" for his use of computers to analyse texts. Famously, he figured out the (formerly anonymous) author of the bestselling novel "Primary Colors" using computer analysis. If you're interested in this kind of thing, I highly recommend starting with the Wikipedia article, which describes a lot of Foster's work. |
review my app coded in one month | slashgeez: Wow, you totally ripped off Apple, it seems like ripping off apple's UI is becoming a trend in the web 2.0 business. |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | jbester: It is no doubt possible. I've done something similar to this on a single forum 3 or so years ago and had reasonably interesting results.Basically, I scraped the site, removed formatting/spacing/dead-words, stemmed (using a modified porter), constructed a matrix of word-frequencies per post. After which I did several various analytical techniques (statical, geometric, etc). The net result from using a blended method was able to identify several most aliases of board posters However, the issue google would no doubt have is sampling size. In a small enough sampling size quirks work as identifying characteristics, in a larger dataset you would no doubt see clusters of people who have similar backgrounds (e.g. education). |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | patio11: I did really simple analysis in an AI class with several thousand posts of a forum I post frequently at, tagged "me" and "not me" (I figured that way it would be minimally invasive to people not participating -- plus, hey, easy naive Bayesian). Got fairly decent results with pretty trivial sample inputs. Numbers elude me, it has been years.Everyone thinks "Aha, you have some catchphrases" (I do) or "Aha, you were one of the only Republicans and thus someone saying 'death tax' was more likely you" (true) or "You cited nationalreview.com more than the rest of the forum together" (true), but it turns out the distribution of really stupid stuff (stopwords, essentially) works better.This is ironically the same they've discovered for making female/male authorship decisions, although I never went the next step and said "So what relationship does my distribution have with the average guy distribution?"Incidentally, here's the reason you'll never have to worry about this in the context of "Google the Internet for everything Patrick McKenzie has ever written": imagine I have a 99.9% effective filter for you, and I dragnet an Internet filled with 5 billion documents of which you've written 1,000. I then identify 5 million documents as written by you... but you only wrote 1,000 of them.This sort of "don't search the haystack unless you're bloody sure it is packed full of needles" thing is why you never want to test a population not known to be at risk for the disease, etc. (Or why you retest in the event of a positive using a different test.) |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | randomwalker: I believe I can offer some help because this is in the rough area of my Ph.D thesis (see http://33bits.org/ for more on that.)Everyone does have a writing fingerprint, contrary to what another person claimed. However, it is an open question whether it can be efficiently extracted.The basic idea for constructing a fingerprint is this. Consider two words that are nearly interchangeable, say 'since' and 'because'. Different people use the two words in a differing proportion. By comparing the relative frequency of the two words, you get a little bit of information about a person, typically under 1 bit. But by putting together enough of these 'markers', you can construct a profile.The beginning of modern, rigorous research in this field was by Mosteller in Wallace in 1964: they identified the author of the disputed Federalist papers, almost 200 years after they were written (note that there were only three possible candidates!). They got on the cover of TIME, apparently. Other "coups" for writing-style de-anonymization are the identification of the author of Primary Colors, as well as the unabomber (his brother recognized his style, it wasn't done by statistical/computational means).The current state of the art is summarized here. http://www.stat.rutgers.edu/~madigan/AUTHORID/bibliography.h... If you're going to do any work on this, you should read as many of those papers as you can. Or else you'll invent something feindishly clever only to find that some academic already wrote about it 20 years ago and showed why it doesn't work.Now, that list stops at 2005, but I'm assuming there haven't been earth shattering changes since then. I'm familiar with the results from those papers; the curious thing is that they stop at corpuses of a couple hundred authors or so -- i.e, identifying one anonymous poster out of say 200, rather than a million. This is probably because they had different applications in mind, such as identification within a company, instead of Internet-scale de-anonymization. Note that the amount of information you need is always logarithmic in the potential number of authors, and so if you can do 200 authors you can almost definitely push it to a few tens of thousands of authors.The other interesting thing is that the papers are fixated with 'topic-free' identification, where the texts aren't about a particular topic, making the problem harder. The good news is that when you're doing this Internet-scale, nobody is stopping you from using topic information, making it a lot easier.So my educated guess is that Internet-scale writing style de-anonymization is possible. However, you'd need fairly long texts, perhaps a page or two. It's doubtful that anything can be done with a single average-length email.Another potential de-anonymization strategy is to use typing pattern fingerprinting. The timing between our keystrokes fingerprints each of us (yes, this works even for non-touch typists.). This is already used in commercial products as an additional factor in password authentication. However, the implications for de-anonymization have not been explored, and I think it's very, very feasible. i.e, If google were to insert javascript into gmail to fingerprint you when you were logged in, they could use the same javascript to identify you on any web page where you type in text even if you don't identify yourself. Now think about the de-anonymization possibilities you can get by combining analysis of writing style and keystroke dynamics...By the way, make no mistake: the malicious uses of this far overwhelm the benevolent uses. Once this technology becomes available, it will be very hard to post anonymously at all. Think of the consequences for political dissent or whistleblowers. The great firewall of China could simply insert a piece of javascript into every web page, and poof, there goes the anonymity of everyone in China.As for who's doing this? Google would be the least likely candidate, IMO. The PR consequences of such experiments, were it ever to come out, blow up in proportion to the size of the company. Not a good idea. On the other hand, I do know a guy who was trying to start an 1-person company based on similar ideas when I last heard from him. Well, de-anonymization of web sessions, although writing style was not involved. That's the closest I can think of.I am myself very, very interested in looking into this. My main interest is to write a paper and possibly build tools to take a chunk of writing and try to remove your fingerprint from it, i.e, protect anonymity, but if in the process of collaboration someone else were to build a de-anonymization tool, I have no problem with that. I've built (if I can say so), some of the current best de-anonymiztion tools/techniques (check my website), so if you're interested feel free to drop me a line. |
review My 120k flex app done in one month | yan: I'd be very interested to see the source |
Is there an easy way to work with web services for iPhone dev? | makecheck: I'm not quite sure I understand the question...If this is a coding question, look for the XML parser in the Core Foundation framework (I believe there are also examples for it):
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/CoreFoundation/Conc...If you are asking specifically about Xcode (the IDE), I know it parses XML because it syntax-colors XML files that I open, and its code-folding brackets support hierarchies of open/close tags. |
review My 120k flex app done in one month | siong1987: It doesn't work with my camera. I am using macbook pro. |
Is there an easy way to work with web services for iPhone dev? | aranganath: Do you control the web service? If so, throw XML out the window. The open source JSON Framework on Google Code kicks ass. My iPhone app, Graffitio (http://graffit.io), uses Rails on the server side spitting out JSON to the iPhone app. Its awesome. |
What editor do you use? | nreece: Notepad2 (http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html) and Visual Studio .NET 2008 |
review My 120k flex app done in one month | tharavaad: Right click -> Settings -> in the camera tab -> select the correct camera from the dropdown, on my macbook pro, its the "USB Video Class Video". |
What editor do you use? | shutter: Currently, TextMate. Started learning Emacs, though, and hope to get proficient in that soon (via O'Reilly's "Learning GNU Emacs"). TextMate's showing its age, for me at least, and I'm hopeful that Emacs will be more powerful and faster. |
Is there an easy way to work with web services for iPhone dev? | jjburka: If its a restful web service you could try http://github.com/yfactorial/objectiveresource/tree/master . It's basically a port of Active Resource to Obj C. You can use it if its not a restful service you just have to override some functions. |
What editor do you use? | gaius: Komodo (www.activestate.com) |
What editor do you use? | qhoxie: vim and gedit. gedit has come a long way with its plugins, definitely worth checking out.scribes is another one worth looking, but lack of tab support keeps me with gedit. |
What editor do you use? | dhotson: I use Vim & jEdit.I use Vim for editing stuff from a shell.. mostly small to medium size editing tasks. It's really good once you've got it set up properly.
You can get all the usual stuff you get in IDE's such as syntax highlighting, split windows and tabs, autocompletion, source control integration.. the mouse works great too.
Actually learning how to use Vim effectively takes some practise, but it's totally worth it.For more heavyweight editing/programming tasks I use jEdit.. it's a really good editor for nearly any language. You'll probably want to get some plugins for it though, the vanilla install is a bit basic. |
What editor do you use? | GrandMasterBirt: I tried the Netbeans Ruby editor... and wow the difference between that and anything for eclipse is major. Code completion is useful. It can figure out what class I am referring to pretty well. Ctrl+click works nicely to see the definition of a method (no matter where it is declared, and it finds them quite well, shows list of choices if it is unclear).Definitely worth a try for ruby. |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | villageidiot: In conjunction with ISPs, the (US) government or a large private company like Google or Microsoft could aggregate posts based on IP address. In fact, according to a report by Frontline ("Spying On The Homefront"), Homeland Security started implementing such a system for monitoring all phone and Internet communications after the passage of the Patriot Act. I was going to say that it would probably be political suicide for a private company to participate but I just remembered Homeland Security actually contracted a private company to do this work for them. I can't remember the name of the company but you can watch the whole show online:http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/Using writing style seems a little far fetched given the limited scope of variations in language relative to the large number of people using language. Otherwise it would not have taken so long for effective speech recognition software to appear - even the current incarnations are more fragile than one would expect relative to how long the best minds have been looking at the problem and relative to the high economic value of an effective solution. |
What editor do you use? | rickharrison: I live and die via Coda (www.panic.com) Best editor I could ask for. |
What editor do you use? | mdolon: Notepad++ on Windows, gedit on Linux |
What editor do you use? | tolmasky: subethaedit http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/ |
What editor do you use? | hs: vim, for everythinged, when i really have to |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | Tichy: I always wanted to run that experiment on the Hacker News data... |
What editor do you use? | SwellJoe: vim or emacs: pick one and get back to work. Editing text is a solved problem. |
What editor do you use? | walesmd: I use Intype for all of them - used to use Notepad++. |
What editor do you use? | graemep: Kate and Geany, depending on whether I want the better editor, or need an IDE, and Quanta for HTML. Kate is very configurable and (like any KDE app) can open files over sftp which can be very handy. |
What editor do you use? | basil: You've listed scripting languages there which arguably means you don't necessarily need an IDE. By this I mean, there is no code-compile-test cycle and you don't need an IDE to take care of your builds.Possibly the most efficient way of coding would be in a shell with your choice of Vim or Emacs. You have quick access to your choice of VCS, you can tail log files, you can use your language's REPL and you can grep for things across your whole project. As well you will have minimised your usage of the mouse which is a great speed and flow inhibitor.Take the time to learn either of the 2 great editors. The investment will most certainly pay off. |
What editor do you use? | vorador: Which editor we use doesn't matter, pick an editor an know it _well_Btw, emacs has an excellent mode for editing python and I couldn't live without its auto-indent feature |
review My 120k flex app done in one month | thwarted: From your blog:"Users will have to download them, or use Flickr or Facebook to store these photos. This decision was made because I’m poor and don’t have the money for the massive bandwidth for server side photo hosting."Don't apologize for this, it's the right option.- Leverage the tools people already use and are used to.- Save the users some work. The way photos are shared today is through sites like flickr, allowing the output to uploaded directly saves the user the step of doing it themselves.- Uploading to popular services serves to increase awareness of your app. Including a plea to get people to "spread the word about where they generated the image" can help this too.- Not making it easy to send the output directly to popular services potentially creates a walled-garden effect, and may make your tool more a single-shot gee-wiz-isn't-this-neat visit, rather than something that encourages people to come back because it's so easy to do what they would have anyway.- By allowing people to save the images to their local drive and send to other services, you communicate that you are not trying to lock them in. This is one of the worst sins, if not the worst, you can commit in this post-web-2.0 world of integrated and aggregated services and user generated content. I hate sites that try to drive traffic back to themselves for no obvious user benefit (evite, and "greeting card" sites come to mind). |
What editor do you use? | merrick33: Coda now, used to use textmate but found textwrangler had better grep features and memory management when opening large files |
Best way to see who's linking to a URL? | pmorici: You mean like Google?Use the syntax "link:http://www.someurl.com/" |
What editor do you use? | andrewljohnson: Eclipse, and I mostly hack in Python and Javascript. Why, why you say?I guess just three main reasons:1) I am a very visual person, and like to see the project hierarchy. I like to click the file I want, instead of just using my keyboard. I know this flies in the face of the purist Emacs and Vim users, but I'm only about half hacker, and I like my clickey click.2) I like the tabs at the top (as opposed to buffers that you can't see). I like to see the group of files I'm currently working with.3) I like the Aptana plug-in, which does nice mark-up of HTML, Javascript, etc. It makes Eclipse a fairly nice web coding editor. I also like Pydev. So Eclipse supports all my favorite languages.I do wish Eclipse were faster and stripped of many of its components. Also, I do use the command line for things like SVN and running commands in the terminal like "python manage.py runserver." But I like Eclipse as an editor.Maybe it's just because Eclipse is what I'm used to. I suspect that is the root of all preference. |
review My 120k flex app done in one month | tharavaad: Thanks for the feedback. You are right about many of these things. From the technical side, I also think that the decision to make it a completely self-contained application will make it easier when I decide to package it up into an AIR application. |
What editor do you use? | rantfoil: Textmate is absolutely essential for Ruby on Rails / Ruby development. What I realize now is that it's a scriptable text editor that integrates super well with everything you want to do with Rails. Basically anything you'd like to do with Rails, someone's written a bundle for it.This is particularly useful for testing using RSpec/Cucumber or your favorite testing libs. |
What editor do you use? | dmpayton: On my machine I use Komodo Edit; when I'm editing a file server-side I usually use nano. ducks |
What editor do you use? | hbien: Vim, TextMate, and XCode.XCode for Objective-C/Cocoa, I've tried using TextMate but XCode is just so damn easy to use for Cocoa projects.Vim for lightweight stuff, like piping diffs into it for color or quick edits on servers.TextMate for web development with Python/HTML/CSS/JS.During college, I read PragProg and thought I should just stick to Vim for EVERYTHING, including command line key bindings. That changed real quick after doing work outside of classes. |
What editor do you use? | epicurus: As I'm only half a hacker and hate learning arbitrary stuff, I use nano.I think the next leap forward with text-editors is when we get some sort of interface with our eyes, or more importantly, our brain and the computer. There was an link on HN a few weeks or so ago showing they could distinguish letters from brain patterns. Surely this will make learning those vim/emacs commands obsolete. I will just bide my time. |
What editor do you use? | macco: I use gedit with a lot of plugins for all of my programming. I mainly programm in Python. Only exception is when I play around with lisp, then I use Able. Other interesting editors for linux that I know are Scribes (very well planed and writen, with a unique concept, but only one developer, so development is slow) and Komodo-Edit. |
Best way to see who's linking to a URL? | dmaclay: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com |
Best way to see who's linking to a URL? | brandnewlow: Sorry. I think I totally botched this post.I'm looking for a way to automatically look up any sites linking to a given URL.I'm building a memetracker and while I've got the related stories and clumping of them in hand, tracking down the discussion links in the way that Techmeme does it is proving much harder to do.I was wondering if there was a way to do it other than Cosmos. And if not, what would be involved in creating something that does that? Building a web spider? |
What editor do you use? | kzar: Emacs here, just watch some of the screencasts that are floating about if you want to see what it can do. |
What editor do you use? | talleyrand: I use Geany which is very nice indeed. I use it for PHP and javascript. When I switched to Linux, I spent a long time looking for a replacement for my beloved PSPad and this was it. It has solid support for gvfs, good syntax highlighting, and a host of other features. |
What editor do you use? | iamelgringo: e text editor on XP. For a decent command line, I use Powershell inside of Console2 and iPython.If someone wanted to make a lot of money, they'd create a better wrapper for cmd.exe or Powershell. |
What editor do you use? | olifante: Currently using TextMate and enjoying it. Used many editors, but the ones I used the most were vi, vim, jEdit and emacs (ordered chronologically) |
What editor do you use? | rsayers: EmacsI do PHP professionally, mainly Ruby with my own projects, but I dabble with lots of languages.It's very powerful and any feature it doesn't have, I can add myself. Yesterday I was prototyping something for work, I had my main php file open along with the js and css files all in their own split window. More than one co worker stopped in to see what editor I was using after noticing my screen.The learning curve is very high, but print out a cheat sheet and keep it near you, in less than a week I had the basic functions memorized and now rarely need to look up a command (generally an obscure one). Once you get the hang of it though, every other editor feels crippled, that's my experience at least. |
Is there an easy way to work with web services for iPhone dev? | mhp: I stole your karma on stackoverflow :P
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/400299/is-there-an-easy-w... |
What editor do you use? | randallsquared: Smultron (on OS X) for GUI editing, where I typically want a bunch of files open and their names visible at all times, and vim on the command line. On the Mac, one nice thing is that most editors and (S)FTP clients support the ODB Editor Suite, which means that such an editor and transfer agent can work together seamlessly as though they're part of an IDE. |
What editor do you use? | kirubakaran: emacs http://github.com/ki/my-dot-emacs/tree/master/dot-emacs.txtvim when necessary |
review My 120k flex app done in one month | deathbob: It works for me, pretty cool. Suggest you find some way to let one person be the photographer and the other the subject. Let the person with the webcam just sit there and the other person click when to take the picture and add effects. Maybe add basic paint functionality so they can add horns / moustache. Then share. Have to make it web 2.0 after all ;-) |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | midnightmonster: When I was packing up my college dorm room at the end of senior year, I found a typed short story and started reading. It was the most peculiar sensation, because it read like I had written it, but I didn't remember writing it. Then I realized (i.e., noticed the heading and saw) that it was my brother's story. Three years apart, we'd picked the same kind of IB senior English project and attempted to write in the style of the same author, and our writing (though in very different stories) was very, very similar. |
What editor do you use? | quellhorst: I recently switched to emacs from textmate/vim. I still use vim for small configuration files.There is a recent peepcode on emacs and rails. http://peepcode.com |
What would you be doing if you weren't a hacker? | noodle: professional martial artist. it was my first job. |
What editor do you use? | jamesbritt: gvim |
What would you be doing if you weren't a hacker? | cperciva: I would be a university professor, either in mathematics or computer science. Odds are that I'm going to end up there eventually -- just a few years later than if I hadn't taken this detour into industry. |
What editor do you use? | drhowarddrfine: An IDE is not an editor. Don't be confused. |
What would you be doing if you weren't a hacker? | ram1024: astrophysicistor swashbuckler... |
What would you be doing if you weren't a hacker? | hs: ninja / pirate |
How do you find the local nerd community? | noodle: http://nyc.startupdrinks.com/http://barcamp.org/BarCampNYC4http://coworking.pbwiki.com/CoworkingNewYorkCityi'm sure there are others, too, i'm just not from NY so i can't comment in depth |
Do I need T&C for side projects | Mystalic: For your protection, you should always have one - liability can be a bitch.As for a template? Scribd is always a good place to look. |
Do I need T&C for side projects | zacharydanger: WordPress released theirs under creative commons and encourages others to use it. I'd recommend borrowing theirs. |
Do I need T&C for side projects | ram1024: i doubt you need one for a non-business venture. just like you don't need one to run a website with forums or something.but if you decide to host any user generated content or something it might be a good idea to throw some kinda disclaimer up |
Do I need T&C for side projects | fendale: I have been thinking about this very problem myself recently.To add to this question, would it make sense to setup a limited liability company to release a side project under? If something really goes wrong, and some big company or rich individual decides to sue you (for whatever reason), you probably don't want your personal assets to be up for grabs. As I understand it, if you are operating as a limited liability company, someone can sue your company out of existence and basically shut you down, but at least they cannot have your house or personal savings! |
Do I need T&C for side projects | vaksel: I would do it, it'll take you like 5 extra minutes to copy paste something, and you'll avoid a lot of troubles.I would still release it under a LLC you own, just to protect yourself. But if not, at least spend a few bucks to hide your whois info. |
What would you be doing if you weren't a hacker? | Allocator2008: I have thought chemical engineering would be interesting. I know there is some cross-pollination between the chemical engineering and software industries (chemical engineers becoming programmers or testers and vice-versa). I love science for one thing, and also seems like the sort of "engineering mindset" - eye for quality and processes, and just sort of logical thinking skills in general, that one needs in software one could also apply to chemical engineering. Doubt I'd ever make this move, unless the bottom just totally fell out in the software industry, but I think it is an area I could probably pick up quickly if push came to shove. |
What would you be doing if you weren't a hacker? | known: politician |
What would you be doing if you weren't a hacker? | mian2zi3: I quit programming and went back to school for a PhD in math. I plan to become a professor/research mathematician. |
Do I need T&C for side projects | dazzawazza: I've used this from the UK government:http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?r.l1=1073... |
What would you be doing if you weren't a hacker? | nailer: Architect. As in buildings.Or a creative for an Ad Agency. |
What editor do you use? | r11t: I am suprised no one mentioned IPython? (http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/)
IPython + vim is a nice combo for Python programming. |
Where are you spending your New Years Eve? | arockwell: Good friends of mine are getting married downtown in a victorian/steampunk themed wedding. A lot of the guests will be dressed in costume and we'll doing a massive pub crawl afterward. |
How do you find the local nerd community? | bootload: "... I'd like to meet up with a group of people that are technology-oriented ... recent transplant to New York ..."Might be worth checking out http://www.nycresistor.com it provides a private workspace (something like $30/month) and project groups, accessing smart locals on Saturdays & Sundays. The events are here http://www.eventbrite.com/org/52408308?s=1 and you can read an NYT article ~ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/nyregion/thecity/28tink.ht... There is also HN thread somewhere (I killed 'SearchYC.com' looking for it). |
What editor do you use? | sm13: Eclipse for PHP projects.PSPad (a very nice and free editor) for Python PHP and general quick and dirty editing.FlashDevelop for ActionScript. This last one was truly a happy find, with all the VS look and feel and a very comprehensive toolset, again for free. |
Do I need T&C for side projects | voidfiles: any one know if there is legal a precedent. I mean isn't the internet just resoundingly unreliable. Why do we have to tell people things might not work like they thing they should? |
Where are you spending your New Years Eve? | cheez80: making prime rib. but if i weren't making prime rib, i'd be working. deadline for launch is coming up soooon! |
news.yc without refreshing? | scotth: why don't you do it? |
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