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Which school do you attend? | GrandMasterBirt: Brooklyn College -- Brooklyn, NY |
Which school do you attend? | gommm: INSA of Rennes in France (National Institute of Applied Science), graduated 2005
+ Rochester Institute of Technology for 6 month as an exchange studentThe courses between both were pretty different and kind of complementary... |
Which school do you attend? | peregrine: Milwaukee School of Engineering |
Which school do you attend? | twak: Glasgow |
Which school do you attend? | elviejo: ITESM Campus Zacatecas (Mexico) |
Which school do you attend? | Javache: Ghent University |
Which school do you attend? | davekell: Georgia Tech alum |
Which school do you attend? | furyg3: University of Amsterdam |
Which school do you attend? | unalone: The College of New Jersey.Not too impressive after some of the names listed here. :-/ |
Which school do you attend? | yesimahuman: Wisconsin |
Which school do you attend? | almost: University of Sussex, UK |
Which school do you attend? | frisco: Duke, BSE Biomedical Engineering (Exp. 2011) |
Which school do you attend? | boorad: Cornell University |
Which school do you attend? | incomethax: University of Wisconsin - Madison |
Which school do you attend? | anoved: Hard Knocks. |
Which school do you attend? | baddox: Missouri State University (previously Southwest Missouri State) |
Which school do you attend? | harpastum: Marquette University |
Which school do you attend? | sidmitra: Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.Hmm, no one here from IITs i guess. |
Has Facebook Connect helped your user growth? | ryuio: check out meetupdiary.com on alexa - the spike is due to connect. |
Which school do you attend? | jgranby: Durham |
Which school do you attend? | apgwoz: Graduated from Temple University, and am currently auditing classes at the University of Pennsylvania. |
Which school do you attend? | ddemchuk: San Diego State |
Are you still planning to make big money? | jaytee_clone: I don't plan to make big money. (How much is big? A billion dollar?.)However, I do plan to have a tribe of smart, fun, and motivated friends.Have a billion, you can do a lot.Have a tribe, you can do anything (including making a billion.) |
Which school do you attend? | manny: State University of New York at Stony Brook |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | jws: Interruptions = BugsI wonder if you might be more productive by changing your habits. Get up and hack for two hours before going to a job that does not require creativity, then perhaps hack a bit more in the evening as life permits. The advantage here is that you will have plenty of thinking time between execution... |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | pg: Trevor has always said that his dream job was to be a projectionist in a movie theater. |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | wicknicks: I used to work in a video store. Not many people used to turn up, so had a lot of time to myself. You might want to just jump into the store next door. Would be a good bet. |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | enomar: In college, I worked 2nd and 3rd shift doing tier 2 tech support at an ISP. I spent most of my time doing my CS homework. The guys working 1st shift didn't have that luxury.Not sure you'd find the same thing...just another data point. |
Which school do you attend? | callmeed: Cal Poly SLO ... CS (left after jr. year in '00) |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | zackola: Librarian +1 |
Which school do you attend? | ensignavenger: Ozarks Technical Community College |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | brl: Night security at some office building sounds like a dream job to me. I would do it for free and maybe I would even pay to do it since I would get more (computer) work done there than working out of my apartment. |
Are you still planning to make big money? | nostrademons: Eventually, yeah. But not right now. I'm working for Google for now, and will see what things are like in a few years.I think I explained why in another thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=426341) - basically, I didn't know what to do next. So I figured doing something is better than doing noth... |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | hotpockets: I've sometimes thought about how I could get paid 2x, 3x, or more. As a graduate student RA it wouldn't be that hard to get 2x. Just do my computer research at a nightshift security job. But how about:
RA+security+baby sitting+baking in my portable easy bake oven! |
Which school do you attend? | bmac: Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | sabat: Actually I've had that situation several times in technology jobs. It's not so much the job itself as it is the company. I had a great gig at a company in Marin County (read: north of the Golden Gate, laid-back, hippies) where I was able to learn Perl, the WWW, and Unix. Find a non-critical role in a company tha... |
Which school do you attend? | ttam: ISEL (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa) - Portugal |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | joshuarr: Dog-sitter? |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | SwellJoe: When I was in college I worked the night shift at a television station in the tape room, and spent most of my time, four to five hours each eight hour shift, learning UNIX system administration, shell and Perl programming, or writing songs. However, last I heard, stations had started automating away most tap... |
promoting an open source product? | russell: One of the most basic things to do is tell people who you are. HN readers can give lots of useful advice, but hiding yourself as $productname is a definite turn off. |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | ramchip: I sold tickets on the phone for a small-medium ticket company. Some nights were busy, but usually I had plenty of free time. |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | myelin: Or, you could pick up a part time job doing what you're good at (hacking), earn as much money as a full time "mostly idle" type job, and use your actual free time for your projects.The jobs you mention can't pay much more than $1500/month, which is 30 hours at $50/hour (or much less if you bill higher). One fr... |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | fallentimes: I worked at the University library and it was a dream. In a given 4 hour period I probably did 20 minutes of work. |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | pclark: why not a sys admin? its fairly easy work 95% of the time ... |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | callmeed: Front desk at a small hotel.My wife had this job when we first got married. When she was pregnant, the hotel actually let me cover some shifts for her. It was awesome. I'd bring my laptop and once the check-in rush was over (6pm-ish), it was real quiet and I could hack away. |
Working with Apache/PHP on OSX | smoody: Definitely start with MAMP, in my opinion. As it doesn't build/install anything itself, it keeps your system ultra clean. If you need to move beyond it, just drop it in the trash and you're done. A few hints:- By default, the apache doc directory is mapped to an os directory inside of the MAMP folder. Change th... |
Which school do you attend? | dandelany: University of Colorado at Boulder |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | c1sc0: Well if you're in Europe, what about: 'unemployed'? 80% of your current paycheck for the first 6 months, then you really should start looking for something that resembles a job. I know people who travelled the world on 'unemployment'. If you're looking for quiet time, why don't you just skip the social obligatio... |
Which school do you attend? | r11t: Louisiana Tech University.Anyone else attending school in Louisiana? |
What's the state of the web in your (non-English) language? | rjprins: I'm from the Netherlands and I'd say the Dutch web is very healthy and developed.
There are only about 16 million Dutch, but you can pretty much get all you need without visiting an English website.www.tweakers.net - A big IT-focussed news site with a great community and even better features (e.g. complete pri... |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | davidw: Incidentally, this is RMS' (Stallman, of course, not our own 'rms') suggestion for those who are unable to find a day job doing free software: do something unrelated to software (with the idea being the avoidance of contributing to proprietary software) that gives you free time. Hearing that in person from RMS... |
How do you start something? | davidw: C-x C-f |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | jraines: I sell lift tickets at a ski resort. Some of our ticket windows are not at the main resort & get about 5 customers on a slow day.Last week I built this: www.feedstomper.comI also get to ski for free at 3 of the top resorts in the U.S. Pretty awesome so far. |
Why aren't there any business-related Q&A sites? | anthonyrubin: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | tlrobinson: Whatever it is, make sure it doesn't require an IP agreement. The ones you mentioned obviously wouldn't. |
How do you start something? | pg: Make something you yourself want to use. To get started, pick a subset small enough that you can implement it in a couple hours max. |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | johnrob: Finding a job that pays the bills while allowing you to hack is an interesting way to become 'ramen profitable'. That might be the ultimate way to hack the funding process... |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | hbien: As a student, I worked as technical support at our libraries to help other students with computer stuff.For every 4 hour shift, there was maybe 30 minutes of work.During "work" was when I discovered/experimented with Ruby on Rails, got interested in start ups, read a lot of PG essays, starting hacking on side pr... |
How do you start something? | kirubakaran: "... one man army ... will be better than ... multi million dollar corporations?"This one is easy. No bullshit bureaucracy that sucks the soul out of you. |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | jwilliams: Behind the desk at an Internet Cafe? |
Has Facebook Connect helped your user growth? | travism: I just finished an FC implementation on a site I'm working on. The site still has local accounts, but users can now connect their local accounts to their facebook account Facebook or just login through Facebook (which actually creates a local account).Beware: integrating with FC turned out to be a surprisingly... |
How do you actually get paid the money? | russell: I do consulting and I get a written agreement giving rates, total amount, and other terms. Usually the company issues a purchase order and I invoice against the purchase order, usually net 30 days, 15 if I can get away with it. They send me the checks. I dont give discounts. I havent worked with mom and pop... |
promoting an open source product? | cdibona: I'd get a handle on how to understand those users. The smaller shops need a fair amount of help dealing with almost every aspect of codecs on their devices. From patent clearing to implementation, deploying these systems are ridiculously complicated if you want to do so legally and in compliance with the gpl, ... |
How do you actually get paid the money? | RobGR: I am not the best person to give advice on this, because I have had only a few customers that were big companies.However, the standard for payment is still a check via US Mail. If you anticipate slow payment, bill early and include some standard text on the invoice about net terms of 30 or 90 days, whatever is ... |
How do you start something? | cchooper: Do what this guy did: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=438646I'm always most successful at getting something done when I: choose the smallest useful thing I can think of, choose something even smaller instead (which can be expanded later), develop a schedule for getting it done (e.g. 1 hour per day), keep ... |
Which school do you attend? | steffanwilliams: Exeter University, UK. |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | RobGR: I'm surprised no one threw out some crap about the Four Hour Work Week.I have at various times applied for work at movie theaters, Kinko's, video rental places, etc. I have not yet ended up working a side job, but I have done contracting work (programming and sys admin) that I ordinarily would not take (windows... |
How do you start something? | stonemetal: First off drop the "next 'killer app'" idea. I have as of yet never been killed by a computer application. It is marketing speak for over promise under deliver. Look at your OSS heros how many of them ever had a "killer app". As far as problems beyond your skills, how do you think you get better skills? ... |
Hackers Netbook? | loglaunch: I have a dell mini 9, its great for college and checking email. Also good for light web browsing. Its not great for programming because the keyboard is a bit to small.It works great with the new "cloud" web apps like dropbox and google docs offline. |
Choosing a industry/field | frisco: I'm finding (not that this is a unique observation at all, though) that there are two kinds of founders: engineers who are accidental entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurs who are founders. If you need to think hard to find even a sector to found a startup in, you're probably doing it wrong. Not that you can't be ... |
What unlocks with karma, and when? | brandonkm: At 250 apparently you can change the color of the bar on the top.6 more points to go!*Thanks to everyone who voted this up. I can now confirm that this is indeed legit. On your settings page you can enter a six digit hexadecimal number that will change the color of the top bar. I'm going to try some of th... |
What unlocks with karma, and when? | rms: You've won everything you're going to get. Congratulations. |
Choosing a industry/field | vaksel: just build something that you yourself need for day to day life or your hobby |
What unlocks with karma, and when? | walterk: I have downvote arrows on comments, but at some point they ceased to affect the score. Which is to say, I click on the downvote, and the points go down by one, but upon reloading the page, the score is the same as before.(And yes, it's happened enough times that I know it isn't just someone voting the comment ... |
What unlocks with karma, and when? | CalmQuiet: My question would be: why the secrecy? HN worried that transparency about the processes of ratings & their "rewards" (which (plus + $5.00) will buy you a cappuccino) would lead to abuse of the system?
I think openness system would allow for HN viewers to discuss the value of different site-karma processes ... |
Choosing a industry/field | bprater: It is super important that you find something you are passionate about. Don't pick a field because it'll make you good money.Make life an amazing journey for yourself and give yourself permission to jump into something with both feet and experience it fully, without the worry of "did I pick the right one". |
Site for new businesses to build business | mixmax: The difficult part of making a site like that is getting customers: Actually programming the site is quickly done.The reason Joel's jobsite works is because they already have a lot of smart people coming to the site, and can push them on to the job section.So in answer to your question: Yes, if it isn't out the... |
Best way to create and send snail mail via an API? | bprater: You need to clarify what is being mailed. Is it teddy bears or form letters?Have you considered finding some "mom power" via Craigslist and hiring them for an hour a day? |
Choosing a industry/field | elviejo: I have the same doubts as you.My current plan is:
1 Find an industry with a ROOT problem that hasn't been solved.
2 Solve the problem.
3 Implement the solution in software form.
4 Sell the Solution, packaged in sw.
5 Profit.I'm still trying to find step 1 |
Site for new businesses to build business | SwellJoe: So, this raises a few questions for me:1. Your dismissal of eLance, getacoder, guru, etc. seems questionable, at best. "non-serious/spam" type posts, I imagine, must be a problem for any site of this sort. I'm not sure I see how you could prevent it better than they do. And, I'll mention that I've used ren... |
What unlocks with karma, and when? | bouncingsoul: 20 karma – downvote comments.200 karma – make polls (http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll).250 karma – customize the top bar background color.??? karma – flag posts and comments (on their individual page). |
Choosing a industry/field | Tichy: Just thought today in bed that with software development, one can never completely lose. Even when unemployed, you can still build stuff, and eventually perhaps even sell it. On the other hand, I am not sure how to pass time as an unemployed stock broker, for example? One could write a book about investing, but ... |
What unlocks with karma, and when? | lani0: your destiny unlocks with karma. it ensures that in your next re-incarnation, you do not come back as a Digg user |
Choosing a industry/field | lallysingh: Don't. Try around in a few forms and see what sticks. Don't think too hard about any of them: Overintellectualizing is a real problem. There's a good chance you'll find what you like fairly early on after a few attempts.There's enough random chance and other variables involved (e.g. your marketing & busi... |
How do you start something? | iamwil: There's all sorts of roadblocks to making stuff, but I'll just pick one.A lot of times, you think that the first thing you make will be the right one, the brilliant, the innovative, or the perfect one, so you want to spend time getting it right.To those that build things I admire, I find that they spent lots of... |
Which school do you attend? | jaydub: University of Maryland, College Park |
What unlocks with karma, and when? | giles_bowkett: At 600+ karma, you get infinite bonus mushrooms and infinite ammo. You have to beat the game twice on impossible mode in the military suit and max out all your guns, though, even the stupid one that takes forever to fire and then the zombie eats your head because you were sitting there trying to warm it ... |
Site for new businesses to build business | nolanbrown23: I don't think another website is needed, businesses just won't use it. I've seen it tried before and it just doesn't work.In your case you can find an enormous amount of new clients by getting involved with your local startup community.What happens is startup founders talk to everyone and often times they... |
Best way to create and send snail mail via an API? | oldgregg: http://postful.com/http://click2mail.com/http://www.viapost.com/http://www.postalmethods.com/http://www.cfhdocmail.com/http://www.l-mail.com/http://www.pc2paper.co.uk/ |
What unlocks with karma, and when? | kwamenum86: Every two weeks it seems like someone writes this post and it hits the top 10. Astounding. |
promoting an open source product? | nailer: Do you want to make money or not? You refer to your competitors as commercial - don't you intend to profit from your software yourself? If not, why bother putting so much effort into promotion?Or do you mean proprietary instead of commercial? There are many commercial Open Source projects. It sounds like you wa... |
promoting an open source product? | chanux: Hey there is are godd FOSS blogging platforms. I like wordpress. Why don't you check one. If you need I can write for you for "free as in freedom". Just google for chanux, you'll find me :D |
Looking for feedback on side-project | zepolen: Very simple and easy to use, I would suggest 2 things though: 1. Remove the ajax interface, so it's possible to use the reference offline, also it means you can tell the client to cache the entire thing (as it is static).
2. Abstract the javascript code into a framework that lets you just pass in a heirarch... |
Looking for feedback on side-project | cx01: You should make the clickable target area larger, i.e. to select the "<a>"-tag I have to click on the little "a"; it would be much easier to just click on the gray box surrounding the "a".Still, I'm not really happy with menus in webpages. It takes several clicks to get the needed information. Maybe you should co... |
Has Facebook Connect helped your user growth? | xtimesninety: One of my projects use it (http://eatmycharts.com).. I'd say it removed the registration barrier, but that's about it. People will come back for the service.I can't track which users publish to their mini feed (is there a way to tell? you ask the user's permission and there's no javascript callback to kno... |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | nailer: So what do you think? Are they all OK? All terrible? One stand our more than the others? Thanks for any and all feedback. |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | jhancock: I like Idea 3 in terms of "you can makes money here". Your "con" on it is genuine but if you can make a product that saves time, you can compete.The first idea seems like a nice project but its risky as to if it will ever pay the bills. It is about time for the linux world to grow into paid software utils.... |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | fallentimes: Which one would you enjoy working on the most? |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | c1sc0: I ran idea 2 with my in-house shopping expert (gf) & her first reaction was 'This is so old-fashioned, plenty of people are already doing that on bbs/forums'. So people are already doing it, how are you going to make it better? http://www.dolc.de. (in the second-hand forum / Chinese)What about taxes? Fraud? You'... |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | inovica: I think number 2, whilst an interesting idea, has a lot of potential pitfalls. I wonder if this could be done in a social network sense where the community contacts the community looking for items, rather than via one centralised source. The two main barriers as I see are trust (once the money has been sent) a... |
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