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What will you learn this year? | notaddicted: Technical:
1. Chalk up one more for SICP. I got started via the ebook. I'll probably shoot for 80% coverage of the exercises.
2. Also I'm hoping to get through the mathematical preliminaries section in TAOCP.
3. The "Great Algorithms" course that was posted here seems like particularly ripe fruit.Non-technical:
1. Set better goals. I'm am freaking awful at setting goals. Need to focus on and experiment with setting goals. |
What will you learn this year? | ericlavigne: I'm just starting to learn about web development with Clojure. Even though I'm barely beyond the "hello world" stage, I've put my app on Slicehost at http://ericlavigne.net and I'm documenting the learning process on my blog at http://ericlavigne.wordpress.com |
Predictions for 2009 | nreece: I predict that...1. Around 2009 Q3, the tech industry will be the first to recover from the downturn (before real-estate or auto).2. Twitter will show dramatic growth, and it will be acquired by Google3. Google Chrome will show growth, and scare the shit out of Firefox and IE4. A new product/service will be release by Sun or IBM, that will gain major traction among the hacker community5. Paris Hilton will get hitched |
What will you learn this year? | joubert: Violin. Started 3 weeks ago. |
What will you learn this year? | ktharavaad: 1, Get a solid foundation on statistical learning theory and machine learning. I'm currently working my way through the cs229 course online on the stanford site2, Learn how to network with people and start a company and apply to Ycombinator for the summer 09 cycle. |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | cabalamat: A startup is a small business that has recently started up (duh), especially in a technology sector, that is capable of scaling into something big. |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | noodle: the term startup tends to refer to growth-oriented new businesses. they can be small businesses, but they're small businesses actively trying to become not small. |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | pg: The difference between a shrub and a redwood seedling. A startup is a company that is just passing through small. |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | thesethings: I believe Paul Graham once defined the difference as: a startup wants to (but doesn't necessarily) have "a significant exit," it either goes public, or gets acquired for a large amount.
A new small business that aims to be sustainable, profitable, grow, etc, isn't a "startup," without the significant exit. Unfortunately I remember hearing this in a video or audio interview, so it's hard for me to search for this attribution. |
What will you learn this year? | zandorg: Back to On Lisp (printed out) this year. |
What will you learn this year? | joeyo: To read (at least phonetically) and write in Armenian. |
What will you learn this year? | brl: The main thing I want to learn more about is cryptology, and in particular cryptanalysis. I've been collecting papers that I want to read but I'm still missing a lot of the mathematical background that I need to understand them.I'm currently working through a new book called Applied Cryptanalysis - Breaking Ciphers in the Real World and plan to fill in the math as needed from other sources.Like many other people I also have SICP on my list and it will remain there until I have finished it including most of the exercises.I have also been learning Haskell over the last year and plan to continue using it as much as possible, especially for mathematical oriented projects such as implementing attacks from the cryptanalysis book. |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | tptacek: Startups grow for the sake of growing. |
Favorite Books or Articles about Economics? | vitaminj: I found out that I liked economics shortly after I graduated from engineering, before which I had a completely skewed and cynical view of economics and economists, informed mainly by writers of left-wing books (who generally aren't economists). Fancying myself as a bit of an auto-didact, I tried to self educate. I bought textbooks, read articles from the net, read blogs, etc.But if you're anything like me, then you will skip over all the boring fundamentals and read the more advanced, but interesting sections. Economic literature is written in such a way that the literate layman can be fooled into thinking he understands the material. There are specific terms used by economists (eg. economic profit) that has an entirely different definition than the common one (eg. economic profit takes into account opportunity costs). So I'd be reading these articles thinking that I'm getting it, but really I was missing 50-80% of what the guy was trying to get at, because I just had no idea or training in economic thought.I spent 5 years doing this. There was no watershed moment where I realised this was the wrong way to go about it. Ironically I actually became so interested in economics that I enrolled in a graduate diploma 2 years ago (which is essentially an undergraduate economics degree for people with a degree in something else).In my first semester, I had to correct a shitload of misconceptions that I'd harbored over the years. It was like doing double the work - challenging the material presented against my ill-informed positions, then fact checking and reasoning out which was correct. I was wrong most of the time, but there are positions that I still hold that university economics hasn't beaten out of me (like infant industry protection - for some reason uni economists are all staunchly pro-free trade, and they really only gloss over the alternatives).So 2 years on (and 1 year to go), I feel that I'm in a position to offer some advice about learning (mainstream) economics. If you go the self-learning route:1) Make sure you get a good grounding on the fundamentals of micro and macro. Any uni textbook is probably okay... that free Intro to Economic Analysis book is pretty good (I used it as a second textbook for my intermediate micro class). But the bottom line is read EVERYTHING and don't skip stuff because it's boring. They are often the most important parts...2) A decent book for a general audience is "Economics in One Lesson" by Hazlitt. If you don't know what opportunity cost is, then you'll never forget after he's drilled it into your head a thousand times.3) If you're serious about learning econs, I'd steer clear of popular books like Freakonomics and the Logic of Life. They're fun and enjoyable to read, but not particularly rigorous and occasionally quite dodgy. |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | sachinag: A startup is legitimately an investable opportunity for a professional investor. (Just because 37signals doesn't want money, doesn't mean that they're not a good candidate for a VC investment.) |
What will you learn this year? | paraschopra: I'm definitely going to learn more math this year. And maybe I would want to do something non web based but interesting. |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | yagibear: Some examples of small businesses that aren't startups might help clarify the issue. When I visited a local small business advisory centre (in the hope of learn something to help my startup, before I understood this difference) the other founders who I met were selling (purportedly) gourmet dog food and therapeutic massage. Most small businesses are like that: providing goods or services to localities. Tradesmen, delis etc are other examples. |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | sutro: The difference often manifests itself like this: startups make something people want; small businesses make something people want to pay for. |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | speby: I would argue startups are a specific subset of businesses that initially are "Small Businesses" with the defining quality being the capability to scale to something much larger, obviously when faced with a market opportunity that allows it do so (whether that market is existing or is completely new).Of course, the "term" startup is often used loosely but most often is used to define the usual: Tech-oriented, "innovative" businesses seeking to raise millions of dollars and eventually become companies that can make hundreds of millions of dollars (or billions) and can make the large exit (as PG pointed out above). |
What will you learn this year? | vidioradeo: Juggle and ride a unicycle at the same time, and be more creative when trying to sneak a tow up hills in traffic on my bike. |
Predictions for 2009 | rms: Steve Jobs steps down as CEO of Apple. |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | medianama: There is no differenceIf you think your startup isn't a (big or small) business - you are missing the point. |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | pchristensen: http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/hacker-vs-engineer... |
what do you think of my chat app? | th0ma5: sorry to interact with the service, use the bookmarklet on the main page while browsing any other page |
how to build a tech community | tokenadult: Screen out the troll posts and spam posts. So far Stack Overflow (and HN, for that matter) seems to be doing a good job of that. That's where to devote your management and technical expertise, methinks. It's easy to find lousy online communities but rather hard to find good ones. |
what do you think of my chat app? | jackowayed: It's pretty cool. I'm using it on this page right now.Your home site needs a little work. The links sometimes collide with the text.It also would be good to add some kind of description on the home page. Even just putting "Anonymous Chat for Any Page" right below the big "270rule" would be a step up.Also, it would be nice if it would highlight what I've posted (even if it's only temporary, going away after a refresh) so that I can quickly see which messages are "new" (as in came later than the last thing I've said).Also, I did eventually find the close link on my own, but it's not at all obvious. You can put "270 rule" somewhere else, but you really want to tell people that that link closes it.And if you can find a way not to allow people to open it several times on the same page (Try clicking the bookmarklet several times and see what happens.) that would be cool. |
what do you think of my chat app? | fadmmatt: Done: http://www.yaplet.com/ |
how to build a tech community | tnt100: yes, we have dedicated one editor to delete spams right away. We try to keep the site clean like HN. I think that is the most important thing to attract tech users. |
what do you think of my chat app? | jackowayed: Looks like you're having issues w/ the quotas already.I just got a 403 Over Quota. Refresh fixed, but still. |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | nickfox: A small business is making money... :o) |
what do you think of my chat app? | sanj: http://talkinator.com/ |
ASk HN: How to reset your HN password? | cperciva: Send pg an email. |
Selling online | 3KWA: ebay |
Selling online | matthewking: shopify.info seems pretty good, easy to get setup and lots of power for later on. |
Selling online | j0ncc: These two items sound like they fall into the http://www.etsy.com category. I've never used the service myself but it comes highly recommended from a few friends who have used it.Apart from that, there's always ebay. |
what do you think of my chat app? | tocomment: Whatever happened to circle of chat/conversation (I forget the exact name :-(That was a nice one. This one sounds cool too, I'll check it out later. |
Selling online | rishi: I started www.FlyingCart.com its good if you want to create your own online store. It is not a market place like ebay or etsy. We also don't take a cut of their sales. |
Selling online | ecommercematt: Assumptions:
They have limited funds. They lack the ability make a presentable site based on one of the many open source commerce platforms. Their lack of skill (and presumably cash, too) prevents them from gaining traction with Google Adwords and/or equivalent(s).This leaves public marketplaces such as eBay, Amazon, Overstock, Etsy, etc.eBay and Etsy sound like the best options. Etsy will be good because of its focus on small, handcrafty items. eBay will be good because of the sheer size of its user base. I don't have any experience with Etsy, but I'm assuming it is similar to eBay in many ways. The key to success with eBay is to not just pick what you want to sell and list it and hope for the best. Instead you need to spend time analyzing how other people are selling identical and similar items. What are they titling them? When are they scheduling the auctions? Are they bundling multiple items? How long are their auctions? Fixed price? eBay store?Analyze the hell out of your competition, and experiment. You can use one of the bulk listing and schedule management tools like Turbo Lister, but you'll likely want to record information in Excel (or equivalent) and start parsing what's going on. The improvement yielded by careful analysis and experimentation over simply listing what you want to sell is tremendous. The people who succeed on eBay by selling a lot of items have optimized their strategy based on detailed research. They don't simply use custom html templates for their auctions, and diligently respond to customer inquiries. They analyze everything to death and adjust their methods based on what they learn from their extensive analysis. |
Selling online | jackowayed: ah yes, selling Christmas ornaments in January. Business will be so hot it doesn't matter what website she uses.But seriously, I don't know much on the topic, but ebay will almost certainly get them the most views. A lot of people use just the buyitnow feature, so they get all of the traffic of ebay but are selling for a set price.Main drawback is that they probably take a bigger cut than other sites. |
Best HN threads in '08? | iloveyouocean: Ask HN: What is the best way to promote your new fancy web application? (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341138)Ask YC: What would you tell your younger self? (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=372573) |
what do you think of my chat app? | jonursenbach: Needs a lot of work, to say the least. |
Best HN threads in '08? | qhoxie: Who's Hiring? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=375410Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=250704How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=338286I'm out, baby http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=300960Start a side project, says GitHub founder http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=282158Balsamiq hits $100,000 in revenue http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=364254 |
Best HN threads in '08? | mlLK: Solve the halting problem, $300-$1000: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=376238I don't want to work very hard: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=394609 |
Selling online | aliasaria: Another option is Shopify (shopify.com) if they want to create more of their own store, but have their own brand. Etsy is pretty awesome, true. |
light mathematical/scientific reading with computer exercises? | tokenadult: Stan Wagon writes interesting books on experimentation with Mathematica.I'll look forward to hearing more comments about this. |
Selling online | AndrewWarner: Isn't it a bit late for Christmas ornaments? |
Best HN threads in '08? | jbenz: Sell Your Web App: Lessons I Learned From Selling DropSend http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=347381In the Basement of the Ivory Tower http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=246606How to go down with style http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=330689Hedge Fund Manager: Goodbye and Good Luck http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=335815Cities and Ambition http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=201373Looking Back on Selling Gravatar to Automattic http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=345531 |
Best HN threads in '08? | marvin: There are at least twice as many i could pick, but here are some of my favorites.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=219804 - Poor people consume more conspicuously than rich people, wealth measured relative to peer grouphttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=133282 - Story about SR-71 Blackbird crashhttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=303666 - The "Luke Arm" for amputeeshttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=318827 - How to bribe your way into expensive restaurants |
light mathematical/scientific reading with computer exercises? | gcheong: The Code Book by Simon Singh |
Selling online | mseebach: I've been playing with a business idea for a while, that I think would be appropriate for a situation like this:For ease, I'll call my product, "the processor" and my client "the seller". I define a microformat on top of HTML that defines a product. Name, price, maybe options/attributes, very simple. This can be added to a blog-post, myspace-page, anyone on the web with minimum HTML access. Place a link to my service on that page that says "put in basket". The processor examines the referrer, creates a session with a cookie, adds the product, and returns the visitor. On the seller-page, there's a bit of javascript that pulls the basket from the processor and displays it, along with "show basket" and "checkout" links. Checkout runs on the processor, on an unbranded page, maybe even with some "magic" pulling the layout of the seller-page, and integrates the sellers Paypal or Google Checkout or whatever payment service. Business model is to charge some fee or percentage on all orders above a certain threshold.Does it make sense? Could it work? Does it already exist? |
Best HN threads in '08? | bootload: How Porsche fleeced hedge funds and roiled the world’s financial markets ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=350332 |
SQLAlchemy for Java? | marketer: The best you'll find is hibernate -- http://www.hibernate.org/ . It's not exactly like SQLAlchemy because Java is statically typed, but it's better than using the Java db layer directly. |
Are Paid RSS Feeds Possible? | jmtulloss: You can use HTTP authentication for feeds, which will allow you to enforce some sort of payment scheme. However, not all readers support authenticated feeds. |
Are Paid RSS Feeds Possible? | noodle: there are feeds and sites that work like this and provide the functionality. i've subscribed to several pay-based podcasts that have done authentication in several ways and/or through services. |
Are Paid RSS Feeds Possible? | JayNeely: Daring Fireball does this. See:http://daringfireball.net/members/info |
Are Paid RSS Feeds Possible? | bootload: "... I am wondering if it is possible to offer paid rss feeds, where a user has to pay to subscribe to the feed. Not being a hacker myself, I am wondering if this is technically possible to manage? ..."Bend the idea slightly & use the feed as (everyone else does) to disseminate (title, summary & word count restriction) & restrict the access to the document at the server. Unless of course the feed is time sensitive? |
Selling online | espadagroup: I wrote some of my experiences here:http://espadatalk.wordpress.com/2008/12/26/producing-marketi... |
what do you think of my chat app? | safetytrick: I tried out the Hot right now link, should this show active yaplet chats across the web? I can't see myself checking pages to see if they have open chats (I'm sure the plan is to use a link rather than check each page) Maybe a browser plugin could alert me if other yaplet users are chatting or visiting pages I am browsing? |
Best HN threads in '08? | mad44: Thanks for sharing these links. I am commenting to visit this thread later. Is there another way to mark a thread to be visited later from my profile? |
Are Paid RSS Feeds Possible? | YuriNiyazov: I implemented a little prototype of this. This is very doable. The beauty is that it didn't use HTTP-Auth, which meant that a user can be using Google Reader or another third-party browser, and still get access to the paid content only if they authenticated correctly, but this still happens from within the feed reader, without clicking back to the website. |
Best HN threads in '08? | ynd: Evolution of Mona Lisa in JavaScript & Canvas http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392036 |
How/Where do you host your webapp? | noodle: slicehost is a wonderful place to stage your app and grow it until you need to break out, imo.i host around 10 apps and sites on a 256 slice. its plenty if you're not getting too much traffic and optimize correctly so that you don't see thrashing.if you don't like that, though, you can boot up a server on EC2. |
How/Where do you host your webapp? | jws: "Exactly how much is that?" Good question, no answer. I recommend you get some sort of a network byte counter, then go to a few sites that feel similar in size/scope to what you plan. Use their "bytes per visit" as a ballpark figure.For instance, I'm using Safari and turned on the "Show Network Timeline" then reloaded hacker news. 34kB. Then I went to slashdot.org: 643KB for a first visit, probably more like 74KB for subsequent front-page load (scripts are the bulk but they cache).If you use a VPS solution, you will be managing your machine which is nice, but if you aren't already skilled at that it will be a distraction from your webapplication that you might be better without.The big question with VPS solutions is "how fast is my machine today?" I have a tiny slice at VPSlink that used to be nicely snappy, but now is painfully slow. Something outside my visibility has changed on my server and there is nothing I can do. My slightly cheaper server at RapidXen is much faster.Slicehost guarantees CPU share based on your slice size, but I don't see the denominator, I assume since a nearly 16GB slice is available that is the denominator which would give you 1/64th of the machine, worst case. Disk IO is another thing entirely, 1/16th of a modern CPU is ok, 1/64th of a disk drive spindle is painful. I suspect that is why my VPSlink machine has become slow.Money can mitigate some of this, just buy a bigger slice. Mine are tiny because I am interested in how much I can do in a ~$7/mo server. |
Best HN threads in '08? | mlLK: Human Beautification Algorithm: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328377 |
what do you think of my chat app? | poops: here's another with dynamic room names http://yamr.net/hacker_news |
Best HN threads in '08? | captainobvious: Unfortunately my favourite one missed the '08 deadline:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=417782 |
How do big web sites roll out new versions? | test: tes |
How do big web sites roll out new versions? | test: asdfasdfasdfadsf |
SQLAlchemy for Java? | srnm: I can recommend carbonado, http://carbonado.sourceforge.net/ , if you don't want/need a full ORM, and prefer something similar to activerecord. It doesn't hide the relational model, and has just the right level of abstraction with a nice to use API.http://jdbi.org/ is an even lighter weight wrapper over JDBC.If you need a full-featured ORM then http://www.hibernate.org/, or another JPA implementation, perhaps http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/ or http://www.datanucleus.org/ are worth a look. |
Better Search For Wiki? | garyrichardson: For free or for pay?A Google Mini is about $3K (http://www.google.com/enterprise/mini/index.html). That's about as close to a private google custom search that you'll find. I used to admin one, I believe you could integrate it's authentication into LDAP or Active Directory. |
Better Search For Wiki? | RobGR: I run a few mediawiki's, and so far the search that comes with it has been adaquate.For other sites I have experimented with CLucene, htdig, and maybe some others. A decent search can be put together in the course of a couple of days of careful attention.Do you think that your current problem could be the basis of a paid-for service ? I.e., if you could pay a monthly or per-use fee, give credentials to a service that would then access the private data you wanted indexed, and then provide the search functionality in a way that only your server could fetch it (and then re-display it to the authenticated user), would you buy it ?I have also thought about using open source software to make a search appliance similar to google's, and selling them or selling an installer CD that would configure an old PC to be one. |
Best HN threads in '08? | mpk: "Ask HN : How do big websites roll out new versions?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=411282Lots of interesting replies to that one. |
light mathematical/scientific reading with computer exercises? | patternexon: One Two Three... Infinity by George Gamow |
How do I convince my boss that he should get me a Mac? | noodle: your best route is productivity. you're an OSX pro and the few hundred more it might cost will come back to the company via your increased productivity across your time working.also, for testing purposes. |
Better Search For Wiki? | wmorein: Solr (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/) is a web search engine built on top of Lucene. It should get you most of the way there. |
How do I convince my boss that he should get me a Mac? | BannedfromHN: Show him the numbers. Build a spreadsheet the makes the case for Mac.You say, "I dislike working in Windows as I feel...."Feelings are not persuasive to good businessmen. Numbers are persuasive. |
Better Search For Wiki? | elviejo: if you are using MySQL or PostgresSphinx Search Engine
http://www.sphinxsearch.com/it searches the database where you stored your documents.
It doesn't crawl your website.The quality of the search results is superior. |
How do I convince my boss that he should get me a Mac? | hoberion: show him quicksilver |
Did you work on a personal project over the holidays? | espadagroup: I am starting a Hip Hop ad network. I did all the back end work and website development over the break.MapJak.net |
Did you work on a personal project over the holidays? | ktharavaad: Interesting post, I wish you'd elaborate a little bit more about what your iphone app does. From your current description, it sounds like a glorified color-picker.And yes, I've been working on some interesting stuff which (coincidentally) also deals with image processing. I will show once I'm done with it. |
Did you work on a personal project over the holidays? | pavelludiq: I wrote a blog in Django(not gonna use it, im a happy blogger.com user, just wanted to learn Django). Most of the time i was just reading documentation, because i don't know the API, the actual code is really short, like 2 classes and a handful of functions for the entire site.Also, today my mouse died(good thing i had a spare), and i used its transparent case, its USB cable and a few LEDs i had laying around and made a desktop lamp to light my keyboard.Mostly toy projects, to amuse my self, nothing worth showing to people, hope to improve next year :D |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | ericb: Also, I have not played with compiz, and I'm wondering if people have found it to be straightforward and easy to live with? It looks fun, but if it makes my life harder. Thoughts? |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | jackowayed: Amarok--It's a KDE music player, and it's really good. It seems faster than rhythmbox, has good librarying, and even integrates with Last.fmI like konversation (another KDE program) as my IRC client, but I've only dabbled in the other ones briefly.(Note: your first few KDE programs take awhile to install because they have to install a lot of kde libraries and the like.)Opera--It's not in the package manager, but it's an easy install from http://opera.com, and it's faster and in some cases better than FF. For example, Firefox doesn't like being disconnected and won't let you get even to localhost when it's in "offline mode" without some tweaking.Your favorite editor, obviously (both emacs and vim are in the package manager).If you have a slower computer, I suggest looking into other windowing systems. Up until a month ago, my main computer was an ancient computer with 384MB of RAM and a 1.6GHz single-core processor. Awhile ago my productivity was being hurt so much that I looked into minimalist window managers. I chose icewm, but there are other good ones. It really did make a big difference. |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | ejs: Some of the apps I use frequentlyXVidCap - if you want to make screencastsKdenLive - for video editing(and unstripped codecs, I re-compiled ffmpeg)MySQL Administrator and Query Browser - for pokin around MySQLVirtualBox - for running other OSes |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | cperciva: I'd install my depenguinator. :-) |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | olefoo: pidgin -- multiprotocol IM clientinkscape -- Vector Drawinggobby -- collective editorpgadminIII -- PostgreSQL GUIEasyTAG -- mp3 taggingdia -- diagram editorGIMP -- photo editing (already installed most likely)phatch -- batch photo manipulationmercurial -- Distributed Version Control brings Meld which is a GUI merge programemacs22-nox -- because I like it that way.gnumeric -- because the numbers do matter.python-${handy} -- my work environment has a swollen dependency tree :PThat's my list, but I'm a boring person who doesn't really play video games. |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | nx: Htop for monitoring system resources in real time, VirtualBox for running different OSes, Wine for some Windows games and apps, Deluge as a BitTorrent client. Conky is a great productivity booster and nice on the eyes too.
Then get the packages needed for playing all media files, and I think that's about it.
Oh, I forgot, Pidgin rlz. |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | thomasmallen: I wouldn't install Amarok (avoid loading Qt in Gnome and vice versa). RhythmBox does not handle an iPod well if that matters for you, but Banshee does. Banshee relies on Mono.Zim is a little-known note-taking tool that relies on text files and uses a Wiki format.AbiWord and Gnumeric are good programs to have around when you don't want to start MS Office. Copy the .ttf and .otf font files from your Windows machine and install them in Linux if you want them available.Inkscape is good to have around for drawing.What else do you think you'll need? |
Did you work on a personal project over the holidays? | kleneway: I'm working on the finishing touches for the next phase of my "A Startup A Day" project. The goal is to bring together experienced entrepreneurs, high-potential hackers/designers, and (eventually) investors in a step-by-step process to build new companies.First, users can collaborate to identify major market opportunities (aka 10x problems that desparately need a 10x solution). Members can then brainstorm potential solutions and the corresponding business model. After getting feedback from the community, members who want to tackle the idea can get paired up with a compatible co-founder and kick out a prototype. Members provide feedback on the prototypes and work with the team to help promote the app once it's ready for prime time.Right now I'm keeping it invite-only for the alpha, but if you're a killer hacker with a keen sense of the big problems that everyday internet users are facing, drop me a line at kleneway@hotmail.com and I may be able to hook you up. |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | paulgb: If you use vim, vim-full is better than vim-tiny which comes installed.A nice panel applet can be found in the repos under the package name "timer-applet", which I find comes in very handy at times. |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | lbrandy: Well, here's exactly what I install on a fresh Ubuntu desktop machine (it's my script, copy/pasted).sudo apt-get install subversion git imagemagick oprofile ssh manpages-dev g++ gcc libtool autoconf automake emacs vim compizconfig-settings-manager valgrind inkscapeMight be something interesting in there for you with a little googling. |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | drinian: * To install: These should be in the repository; use synaptic for keyword search.GNOME Do: http://do.davebsd.com/ It's like Quicksilver for OS X, only more so.Glipper: Clipboard history manager. A pale imitation of the old Klipper for KDE 3.5.Banshee: Arguably a better music player than the default. Honestly, I was a big fan of the old Amarok, but KDE 4.0 in general has too many problems and lost functionality for me to use yet.* To UNinstall:Totem video player, or at least the Totem plugin for Firefox: It tends to be very crashy, at least for me. Replace the plugin with mplayerplug-in.* New repositories to add:Medibuntu: http://www.medibuntu.org/ has restricted and non-free software. Easiest way to get DVD playback, and I would recommend installing mplayer and win64codecs/win32codecs from here. Also, tools like Acrobat.Wine: http://www.winehq.org/download/deb These are usually much more up-to-date than Ubuntu's repository, if you need Wine. |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | ktharavaad: errr.. Wine? J/K =P |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | rms: Exaile is my media player of choice. |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | jrp: Don't install things until you're ready to use them; otherwise, you'll find yourself spending too long browsing packages. |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | CaptainMorgan: Unison - http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/Tellico - my favorite book managerVLC Movie PlayerVMWare(take your pick)XChatHPLIP Fax UtilityAzureusIDEs(KDevelop, Netbeans, DrScheme, Quanta, IDLE) |
Did you work on a personal project over the holidays? | secos: I put http://myholidayapp.com up right before t-day to give people a place to let others know about their apps.This holiday break, I worked on a charitable giving site, hopefully will have an initial release out by the end of the month. |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | aneesh: There's a nice list from a previous thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=132082 |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | ev0: Does anyone here use Guake? I have an addiction for Quake style dropdown console terminals. http://guake-terminal.org/ |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | hs: i prefer xubuntuinstalled:
vim-full
dwm
mercurial
lighttpd
mplayer
mpg123
xpdf
ImageMagick
qiv
vifm (there's a vim-like photo manager, but i forget its name)
wink
vnc (server and client)
ssh server
gftp (the ftp cli sucks big time, unlike one in openbsd ... and no axyftp)
opera
swiftweasel
java 6 jre (for ameritrade)
adobe flash (for google analytics)uninstall:
basically games, default bloated software, useless hypocrate softwares that only play free format, etc |
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