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Review my startup txtful - get stuff done on the web by sending a text | Jasber: Awesome idea. Two criticisms, however:You should get a privacy policy up asap. You're collecting and storing a lot of private information, so you should have a policy that dictates your stance.Also, not having SMS support yet is a deal-breaker. I realize you're working on this but without this I can't use your system. As someone that doesn't have a smart phone I was excited to try your service but when I realize it was e-mail only, immediately lost interest.Good luck with everything, and send and update to members when you have SMS support. |
Review my startup txtful - get stuff done on the web by sending a text | IsaacSchlueter: Did you reach the 100 yet? It said that it would email me a password, but I'm still waiting. |
Can you help me not confuse the Googlebot? | tower10: How about redirecting the first URL to the second? Updating the fragment part via JavaScript shouldn't hit the server so that wouldn't be affected by the redirect. If you did get into a situation where it inadvertantly redirects then you could just check the referrer to prevent that. |
Review my startup txtful - get stuff done on the web by sending a text | leohorie: Looks very interesting.I noticed that there are shortcuts for Paypal, but I don't see any copy about how secure those transactions are. I'd suggest adding at least some information on the matter, as some people tend to get paranoid about money transactions over wireless. |
Review my startup txtful - get stuff done on the web by sending a text | robertk: I just got you a customer. :D I got on the bus and some girl just barely made it on and was telling me how she just called her friend to check the cta site and that she's so glad she caught it. I told her she can check by txt using your service.Hint hint: first thing she responded was "how much does it cost?" and was surprised when I said free. |
Why is there no "execution" rule for patents? | anamax: > Are there subtle (or not subtle) arguments against a "to qualify for patent protection you actually need to build this" clause?What does "build" mean? Can I get an idea, file a patent application and then start building? Or, do I have to build before I file? What if it takes longer for me to build than it takes the patent to issue? (Or, I can't legally sell when the patent issues, as is often the case for drug companies.)If I make one instance and try to sell it, have I satisfied the "build" constraint? Or, do have to successfully sell stuff continuously? What if I can't legally sell because the thing that I'm building requires the use of IP that I can't get a license for? |
Why is there no "execution" rule for patents? | likpok: If you're willing to pay, you could try approaching they owners to see if they're willing to sell/license. |
Why is there no "execution" rule for patents? | fatdog789: Expense. What if the invention is very expensive to make but the inventor is a high school dropout living above his parent's garage?
This one requirement now completely invalidates his rights to the invention he created; this means less incentive for people to invent. It also applies against companies as well, b/c now they have to invest resources in researching an invention and in developing the production line to crank it out if it works.Timeline. You require them to build the product before it can be patented, which means a massive incentive before they even know if they'll get any protection.REDUNDANT. Patent law already has a "reduction to practice" requirement. This requirement usually requires the inventor to build a working copy (and this is the most common way that the RTP requirement is met) or to provide detailed enough instructions that any person in the same art could build a working copy of the invention. |
Best Micro Payment provider? | patio11: I think you're better off NOT taking micropayments, primarily because the cost of authorizing the transaction dominates the actual value of the transaction.What do I mean? Well, suppose you had asked me to pay a nickel to read this comment thread. I value my own time at about a hundred dollars an hour. I've already spent more than a nickel of time reading this thread, so clearly I should have been willing to pay a nickel to read it. But the mental decision point on whether to cross the penny gap or not, plus the amount of friction it would take for me to authorize this transaction (fish out credit card, type in digits, sign in, click "Are you sure you want to pay $.05 to this merchant?", yadda yadda), is worth far more than a nickel of frustration to me. That increases the cost of the content to me but it is revenue that you don't capture.Rather than selling things for micropayments, do what essentially everybody does in this space: sell a microcurrency in macro-units ($10, $20, etc), and then make authorizations to spend the microcurrency as friction free as possible. For getting over that penny gap on the first transaction, you probably want to give people a significant incentive to buy their first hit of microcurrency -- 100 dragon eggs for $5 instead of $10 like usual, whatever.Clarifying edit: for non-Americans reading this comment, it might be useful to know that a nickel is .05 USD and a penny is .01 USD. They're the common names for two of our low-value coins. |
Review my startup txtful - get stuff done on the web by sending a text | mattdennewitz: which star wars movie would be added to my queue? |
Review my startup txtful - get stuff done on the web by sending a text | someperson: What countries does this support? No mention in the FAQ.I tried adding my mobile number with country code (Australia), but never received confirmation.EDIT: Gah, I read your reply, "In terms of text messaging it's US only (right now), but if you're willing to use it from IM, email, or the mobile web site then you could definitely create shortcuts for sites anywhere in the world." You should add that to your FAQ. |
Review our (reviews) Startup | villageidiot: Might be a little too clever. So many options in the UI it's a little confusing to figure it out without signing up - which I am reluctant to do until I have figured out how it works.How will this site make money? |
Review my webapp EatMyCharts.com (Social Music Charts on Facebook Connect) | villageidiot: What does FC add to this besides saving a login step?Also, how will it make money? |
Review my startup txtful - get stuff done on the web by sending a text | zack: Not a fan of the ugly design and it's pretty much useless to me right now because I can't text, get a shortcode, seriously. Also, I would like a nice interface for getting CTA bus times. I would like to be able to text"55 bus red line" or "55 bus woodlawn"to your shortcode,and get the times of the next busses going east/west |
Why is there no "execution" rule for patents? | cdibona: Two thoughts:1) Never, ever, ever do patent investigations before coding. If you for some reason still build something and are sued, it's called willful infringement and awards triple.2) Successful patent litigation or settlements on non-executed (or submarined) patents are rarely if ever successful. It does happen, but it is very rare.3) Patent litigation happens, but rarely is it tried against small fry (read small fry as meaning unprofitable, less than say 20m in the bank, non-public and smallish, less than 100 employees,etc..) It just almost never happens. If your company is the one you link to, stop worrying about it. You are too small to bother with. Anyone threatening you will likely buy you or be themselves out of business before you can get anywhere near where you could make a court appearance.4) People will threaten. So what. It can take many (4 ->7) years for a patent case to get to trial, your lawyers on retainer can do all the wrong things and it will still take years and years. You can settle any moment before a ruling, so why do it immediately?Anyhow, I'm not a lawyer, but I've been in this space for a very very long time. Good luck. |
Review my startup txtful - get stuff done on the web by sending a text | zack: Oh, apparently you have SMS support? WTF? your UI sucks. no offense. it doesn't belong in the FAQ, it should be immediately evident. think Facebook. |
Review our (reviews) Startup | lawrence: Not much feedback to be had - I guess everyone's busy. |
Hackerspace run as a business, paid for by equity? | ctingom: No, because the alternative is that I can work out of my house. |
A startup that is not charging user and still profitable? | kyro: PlentyOfFish.com comes to mind because of recent buzz. |
A startup that is not charging user and still profitable? | patio11: See, I think this question isn't as actionable as you might think it is. It is like saying "Do you know of anyone who dropped out of high school to play professional basketball and made it to the NBA?"Yes, I do. I still really wouldn't suggest you try it. The countries' stoops and prisons are covered with was-a-sure-thing-to-go-pro. And the Internet has several million sites already hunting for that six figure AdSense check. (While boring little niche websites with subscriber numbers smaller than many people's Facebook friends list can be ramen profitable within weeks or months of launch.) |
A startup that is not charging user and still profitable? | ctingom: One that come to mind that might be making a profit: Mint.com |
A startup that is not charging user and still profitable? | dejb: Pretty much every web publishing company aims to make money from advertising and yes many do actually make a profit. Perhaps you have not framed your question as intended. |
Hackerspace run as a business, paid for by equity? | DenisM: You will have a freeloader problem - bunch of dudes hanging out and doing nothing. So then you will have to screen them somehow and have an eviction process. Slowly you will morph into a Y-combinator clone. :-)One great advantage of this idea is ability to bump into other like-minded people, which is the primary benefit of going a university. On this aspect the idea has potential. |
A startup that is not charging user and still profitable? | phil_KartMe: some businesses that might fit the criteria are LinkedIn, digg (profitable without growth investments), gawker media, and techcrunchthat said, i consider advertisers, investment professionals, and hr recruiters "users" |
Review my startup txtful - get stuff done on the web by sending a text | DenisM: What do you use for SMS gateway? |
A startup that is not charging user and still profitable? | bjclark: Hulu.com is making money hand over fist. |
Best Micro Payment provider? | seiji: A micropayment is less than $0.01 USD. Otherwise, it's just a "payment." |
A startup that is not charging user and still profitable? | DenisM: google
:-) |
A startup that is not charging user and still profitable? | FiReaNG3L: http://esciencenews.com is profitable 7 months after launch, with only some ads on the backend where most users dont see them, and i put the ads there a month ago. |
Hackerspace run as a business, paid for by equity? | prospero: In this scenario, the longer a company goes without succeeding, the more money they cost you. If the equity cost were recurring it might work, but if the company doesn't steadily grow you'll just consume it all until there's nothing left.At the end of it all, you'd be left with 100% of a worthless company, and out the cost of all those meals and games. I dunno if your potential successes would offset all that. |
Hackerspace run as a business, paid for by equity? | rms: It's called an incubator. There is definitely a market for it; lots of companies would like incubator space. Good luck turning a profit though, especially assuming you are in an area with brutal real estate costs. |
A startup that is not charging user and still profitable? | brianr: Yes! We (LOLapps) fall into this category. Lots of traffic + ads = $$$ |
Hackers Netbook? | shutter: Nah. Netbooks don't have enough CPU cycles or pixels to keep up.Granted, I haven't owned one, but I do more than browse the internet. Netbooks typically can't provide enough horsepower to run all of the programs I like to run at the same time. |
Hackers Netbook? | jamess: I have an eeepc, but you couldn't do any serious amount of work on it. I'm not so concerned about the horsepower (if your software is so bloated it doesn't run at speed on an eeepc, which is way faster than my main development machine was only 4-5 years ago, you're doing it wrong.)The main problem is the screen real estate and keyboard size. I just can't type at speed on the eee, I keep hitting all the wrong keys and it gets very frustrating. It's fine for the odd email, but no way could I crank out the code on it. The screen is also too small. My main laptop has a nice widescreen where I typically have 2/3rds IDE and 1/3rd documentation/consoles. Not possible on 7-8" screens. |
Hackerspace run as a business, paid for by equity? | lionheart: Maybe you could be paid in either cash or equity? Or a combination of both?I know I'd love to get out of the house and work in a place like this. |
Hackerspace run as a business, paid for by equity? | curiousgeorge: I don't know about anyone else, but speaking as a founder the issue would be having to give up equity. I have to pay for the time of my lawyer and accountant. So the free service here isn't free even if one viewed one's equity as worthless and the company as doomed. |
Hackerspace run as a business, paid for by equity? | alaskamiller: http://plugandplaytechcenter.com/ |
Review my startup txtful - get stuff done on the web by sending a text | arjunb: wow, the amazon buy shortcut is scary - is there a confirmation? |
What is the best way to understand Pointers and memory organization in C? | cperciva: Learn assembly language. |
What is the best way to understand Pointers and memory organization in C? | jamess: Read K&R, a large part of the book is given over to writing a simple allocator. There really isn't an awful lot to understand if you're treating the hardware as a black box. |
Review my site Skuttlefish - rate videos second by second | pclark: Hah. Cool.Few niggles:* The slider only rates when you "click" - as in, I assumed I could drag the slider up/down as the video played and it'd rate it in real time. That'd be cool.* Work on your homepage! Include: Search for YouTube Videos, Highest rated/Lowest rated videos. "Think of Skuttlefish as Dial Polls for online videos. " I don't know what this means, personally. I'd make the "What is Skuttlefish" text much larger and colourful, its a cool idea so make sure users know what they're doing the moment they look at the page.* Make a logo. Make a bookmarklet so I can rate YouTube videos from Youtube.com* When I explicitly click "Register" it takes me to the login window. Can you make it so you can login with your "name" or email? |
Review our (reviews) Startup | pclark: * no password confirmation box on register form? ballsy! :>I really like this, I tried to be clever and rate a mac app - but it pulled it out of Techcrunchs Crunchbase. Colour me impressed ;)Where do you get your data from? Really slick. Even got "Spaced" as a british sit com.I don't like the "please wait a moment" that seems to appear on every page, whenever I do anything. Especially when I click a rating star when writing a review.Always make sure the stars of ratings are clickable for users. If they're not logged in let them rate it, and push them to a register form."If you don't see your favorite McDonalds menu item, please make sure to add it by clicking on the lightbulb icon. " If you have to tell the user where to click - your UI is wrong :)How do I add photos? can I tag my photos on flickr with a rateitall tag and it'll be aggregated?I really don't get the quizes, how are they review related?How do I setup a news feed? great idea. |
Review my webapp EatMyCharts.com (Social Music Charts on Facebook Connect) | pclark: I don't rate songs, i rate artists and occasionally albums. I can't remmeber song names.
You need some form of "browser" that lets me select albums then choose a song to rate from that album. |
A startup that is not charging user and still profitable? | axod: Depends what you class as "startup".There are millions of websites, making millions from advertising, without charging users. |
AWS or dedicated server? | chris123: From the AWS blog: "CloudFront Management Tool Roundup": http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/01/cloudfront-management-too... |
Skills learned from participating in HN voting? | eru: 'or to strategically nudge my own comment higher in comparison.'I have an opposite urge, to upvote other comments. So that my comment seems to deserve more upvotes in comparison. |
Are Funny Code Comments Useful? | nickmolnar: I just found this. Apparently the Linux kernel is primarily written by sailors.http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/ |
Skills learned from participating in HN voting? | tokenadult: The culture is definitely important here. I learn how to downvote (to indicate a comment that doesn't contribute to the culture or to the discussion at hand) and when to downvote (when a problematic comment is first posted, rather than piling it on later) from other participants. Now that I've been acculturated, I wouldn't dream of downvoting to indicate disagreement. If I don't have an actual comment to write out to indicate my disagreement, I just let it go. There is good clash of ideas here in lots of threads.The other thing that keeps downvoting from being too frequent is the karma-dependent ability to flag questionable posts that may violate the guidelines."Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or egregiously offtopic, you can flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.htmlFlagging evidently does draw the attention of some "supermoderators" to the post, and they deal with it according to community standards they have agreed to. That's enough for me.In general, I say "Good job!" to the people who run this site, who are thinking carefully about how to get both the technical and cultural issues right. Inasmuch as they don't seem to desire to expand the scope of discussion here beyond HACKER news"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."it seems to me that some entrepreneurs could attempt to transfer some of the technology and some of the culture, with appropriate permissions and credit of course, to sites with discussion of other issues. That would be lighting a candle against the current darkness of much online discussion. |
Skills learned from participating in HN voting? | gravitycop: Why do other people refrain from negative votingDownvoting is automatically limited to the total number of upvotes a given user has made. If you have made 10 upvotes, and you try to make 11 downvotes, the 11th downvote will not stick. If you then make one more upvote, then a downvote after that would stick. |
Skills learned from participating in HN voting? | gravitycop: Another idea is the prisoner's dilemma. By upvoting more than downvoting, one helps spread a culture of karma generosity that might improve one's own karma score. |
Are Funny Code Comments Useful? | lbrandy: Of course they are. Humor is useful. We tracked down a bug in our code the other day to one of the hard-coded internal constants being too high... It had the comment "I sort of just made this up. Probably worth testing." If it had been commentless, we would have worried by moving it we'd fix our use-case but break some other use-case. |
Are Funny Code Comments Useful? | maryrosecook: I ocasionally find myself writing, "Warning: obscenely hackalicious hackety hack", or something similar. When I come across it later, it makes me laugh and makes me refactor. |
Best Micro Payment provider? | anthony_barker: We did the analysis about 2 years ago for a charity and went with paypal - I believe the reduced fees for smaller payments only applies if you open your account in the United States. |
Would you fund this show? | pclark: apply for YC! |
Would you fund this show? | shaunxcode: I would watch it that's for sure, I totally want to know what the deal with the grand canyon is. |
Software for running a school newspaper? | mechanical_fish: Drupal.http://drupal.org/nyobserver (though it doesn't have to be this elaborate) |
Would you fund this show? | speek: I would fund a show that shows only clips from Japanese game-shows in the US. |
Software for running a school newspaper? | asimjalis: http://collegepublisher.com will host your newspaper for you and even share revenue (through ads). I am not affiliated with them. Just thought it was a neat idea -- and business model. Plus it could help you go live pretty quickly. |
Software for running a school newspaper? | PENIS: Blogspot.com! Its really great 4 ur news. Frequent updates too! Good luck dude. |
Would you fund this show? | jfornear: I'm not sure if the creators of this show will read any HN comments, but this is HN so constructive criticism is expected...I liked the pilot, I thought the length was perfect for an online show. I think the cast is pretty good too, which shows overall potential.Things I would consider: The show's name (and the title typography) make you expect something like The Sopranos. Perhaps it should be changed to further differentiate itself from that show?Plot-wise, the show should distance itself from LOST by excluding characters like 'them' or 'the others'. I could see how a studio type could dismiss this show as a LOST ripoff which could affect opportunities to raise funding.Either way, I really like the idea of a show based on economic apocalypse (Peter Schiff callers asking about stocking guns and ammo is funny and ignites your imagination).The dialogue about the demand for Wii's was pretty cool to me, though I could see how the use of Wii's and Helvetica t-shirts could attract super trendy tech-types while turning off others.Also, words prone to pronunciation mess ups or confusions like 'edible' or 'eatable' throw the audience off (or maybe just me). |
how do you discover new music? | iloveyouocean: The Perceptron ( http://theperceptron.com )Search driven music recommendations. In my opinion, very high quality results. The Perceptron strives to make music recommendations based on the actual music rather than popularity/genre/etc. |
Change.gov has launched Citizen's Briefing Book. What do you think? | palish: Strangely, the site "feels" dead, even though it is actually quite active. I think it's because they don't show the scores of each submission on the frontpage, in addition to not allowing you to upvote/downvote them without clicking through. |
Would you fund this show? | jmackinn: John August's blog is part of my regular reading. He is a great screen writer. If you are at all interested in screen writing or the business of Hollywood in general then I would highly recommend his blog. |
Hire a Facebook Developer | gaius: Post on http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com. |
how do you discover new music? | mindviews: Pandora (http://www.pandora.com/)Create a station with a seed artist and then it suggests other music you might like. Rate each song played and pandora will refine the suggestions. |
how do you discover new music? | yan: I think The Hype Machine (http://hypem.com) is what you're looking for. I always keep it open. |
What is the equivalent K&R book for (insert any topic here)? | yan: * Algorithms has CLR (Introduction to Algorithms, by Cormen, Leiserson, Riverst and Stein)* Compilers has the dragon book (Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools)* Lisp has a few, as far as I know. There's pg's "ANSI Common Lisp" and "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming" by Norvig which I hear is fantastic from everyone that read it. |
Hire a Facebook Developer | noodle: jobs.freelanceswitch.comany of the job boards aggregated here: http://joblighted.com/ |
how do you discover new music? | JohnN: thesixtyone.com - yc alums! |
how do you discover new music? | bporterfield: If you use iTunes, check out Genius. I only tried for the first time yesterday, but was amazed at the degree of interesting new music that matched my tastes. |
how do you discover new music? | zupatol: I trust David Byrne.
http://www.davidbyrne.com/radio/For some reason I stopped listening to new music around 1990. Recently I tried to find new stuff on the internet. I made my favorite discoveries on David Byrne's playlist.He posts a new playlist only once a month, but it's not always new music. I don't know much about how music evolved after the eighties. I hope David Byrne has followed this better than me. We may be both merely listening to new oldfashioned music. |
how do you discover new music? | martythemaniak: allmusic.com and friends |
how do you discover new music? | volida: isn't that one of the killer apps of youtube? |
Would you fund this show? | vaksel: I think them hosting on Vimeo is the reason why sponsors aren't taking them seriously. I mean what does it tell the sponsors when they can see that only 149 people "liked" the episode.They should reupload to youtube, where they can avoid that "like" metric |
What is the equivalent K&R book for (insert any topic here)? | rjprins: I think many (if not most) topics don't have such an obvious single authorative source.Machine Learning: Tom M. Mitchell |
What is the equivalent K&R book for (insert any topic here)? | bayareaguy: Applied Cryptography, SchneierTransaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques, Gray and Reuter |
Beginning to Code on the Iphone? | comatose_kid: Seems reasonable - but you should also investigate Core Animation.Look at the Stanford course: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.phpAlthough there aren't any books I can recommend, I have heard that Beginning iPhone Development is good for newer developers.Good luck! |
how do you discover new music? | villageidiot: NPR Music http://www.npr.org/music/WNYC (New York Public Radio) http://www.wnyc.org/ |
how do you discover new music? | Tunecrew: I listen to online radio stations that play the genres I'm interested in- preferably ones that provide playlists or song titles.I find the various recommendation sites require work- with streaming radio i keep Stickies open, and just listen while I work- if I hear something I like I note it in Stickies then look for it later on. |
how do you discover new music? | chris11: Cherrypeel.com is decent. It's pretty much like a reddit for indie music. The music is submitted by the artists themselves, so unless you have heard a ton a of music, there will probably be something new there. I don't have an account, but I go there every now and then to hear some indie bands. |
how do you discover new music? | rms: Waffles -- nothing comes close. I have two invites available right now: first two emails to me get them, unless I get requests from people that have previously asked that I was unable to fill. I ask that you only request the invite if you intend to really use it, not if you're just curious to check Waffles out. |
how do you discover new music? | ddemchuk: I play my tunes through Winamp and have the Last.fm plugin installed so it uploads my track data for each song I listen to to the site...then the last.fm site recommends similar music based on what other stuff other people listen to who also listen to what I listen to...Works pretty well, but one day I would really like to do a mashup that better allows someone to start at a certain band and branch away to newer artists as they explore similar bands. Just not enough time in the day.... |
how do you discover new music? | rozim: Anyone remember Firefly from the late 90's?
I got some great suggestions that I'm still listening to - B-Tribe I believe.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_(website) |
Awstats or Google Analytics | nreece: Google Analytics + Awstate/Webalizer + Quantcast |
Awstats or Google Analytics | davidw: I use "visitors", but Google Analytics is getting better.( http://www.hping.org/visitors/ ) |
Awstats or Google Analytics | ErrantX: Both :)Also look into Woopra which is really good ;D |
Any tool for X-browser compliance test? | eru: There are online services that give you a screenshot of your page in browsers. You just submit an URL, or so. |
Any tool for X-browser compliance test? | Tangurena: Well, Browsershots can work if your dev environment is available to the outside world. But nothing beats having multiple computers around the office. Our company policy forbids shopping on ebay for older computers.http://browsershots.org/ |
Awstats or Google Analytics | trickjarrett: I use Google Analytics + a Wordpress stats package to track RSS pulls etc. |
ASK HN: (click on link to view question, duh!) Learn web development? | pclark: consider ruby on rails : http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/10/13/what_is_rails....read this : http://poignantguide.net/ruby/then buy these : http://peepcode.com/products/rails-from-scratch-part-i |
ASK HN: (click on link to view question, duh!) Learn web development? | pclark: PS - we're aware of how Ask HN topics work, might wanna put the brief subject in title :) |
ASK HN: (click on link to view question, duh!) Learn web development? | pclark: also, you could learn python (theres a 'famous' web project called django) -- reddit.com is a site very similar to this one, and its open source. Great way to learn code.http://code.reddit.com/ # download and hack away :) |
ASK HN: (click on link to view question, duh!) Learn web development? | agrinshtein: Hey Pclark, thanks!I recently purchased an upgrade to Leopard and I never got a cd with XCODE, I would love to download it however being from a country with capped internet it is a significant amount of bandwidth. I don't think I have it installed, is that a make it or break it for Ruby?Would PHP do the job as well?Thanks again,
Aron |
ASK HN: (click on link to view question, duh!) Learn web development? | mcxx: It is not just about learning a language and some framework, though it's a good start. I'd recommend Python + Django. As you go, learn about software design, HTTP (RFC 2616 http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html), Javascript (http://javascript.crockford.com/) and preferably also some JS library (jQuery being my favorite), web app security (https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Testing_Proje...) and more...
But most important, learn by doing. Start building something, no matter how unsignificant it may appear, right now. You will learn on the fly ;) |
ASK HN: (click on link to view question, duh!) Learn web development? | agrinshtein: pclark,I just figured out that XCODE is on the installer CD, it doesnt ship as a separate one. Woops, that should have been obvious.Again, thanks for pitching in to help a newbie to the programming world.Aron |
How do you handle NDA'd projects and VCs? | answerly: It might make sense to be open with the client about your motives and try to get them to help you determine what type of information related to the relationship they are comfortable with you sharing with potential investors. You run the risk that they tell you not to disclose anything at all, but knowing that upfront is probably better than disclosing too much without their knowledge/approval. |
Any goal setting sites? | iamdave: I use Google Docs Spreadsheet with a few custom formulas. |
What should I do if I suffer from 'pre-optimization syndrome'? | jwilliams: I know pre-optimization is the root of all evilDoesn't have to be - try turning it to your advantage.If you need some inspiration, have a read of (fiction): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discovery_of_Slowness |
Feedback on WindyCitizen.com - Social News for Chicago | ieatpaste: a couple comments:
- had a connection error the first time I tried connecting (worked on refresh)
- good job on community (toplist, latest comments, and prominent links to blogs work well)
- a submit story form should be on the first page
- registration should be optional to submit story (spam shouldn't be an issue since they'll be voted down by registered voters)
- not sure how you're algorithm works since a 6 vote was under a 3 vote
- hard to find information that interests me (hot tags list? articles divided into categories?)hope that helps. |
Any goal setting sites? | adityakothadiya: http://43things.com not sure about if you can measure the goals. |
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