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I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | andr: I'd go with number 2. It's not high-tech as the other ideas, but it's a business with real cashflow, and is supposed to do better during a recession. |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | dougp: I think number two is your best bet but instead of being a sort of shop overseas service, you should make storefronts focused on one of the brands at a time. Try to make your visitors feel like they have just stumbled upon something thats exclusive and secretive and they are sure to tell their friends. |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | moe: Idea 3 also sounds like the only one to me that may realistically roll in some money. Idea 1 is technically intriguing but more of an OSS side-project. Idea 2 calls for legal hassles, taxes will eat into your profits and especially the "high-profile" brands that sell $10 products for $500 will probably not like yo... |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | wmorein: I think that the other big con for idea 3 is that this is very likely to follow an enterprise sales model. Security in general is the kind of thing that is purchased relatively high up in an IT org. Not 100% clear if your idea would be in that basic mold, but if the model is that the tool runs against or sits ... |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | jd: 1.The cons here are pretty big. Your target customer is somebody who will solve most problems with google and 3 lines of bash/perl/etc scripting. The generic .NET software shop pays for this kind of software - *nix people don't.I've written a few more paragraphs about this, and subsequently deleted them. It all rea... |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | gravitycop: My goals are: a business that will provide me with a reasonable income, in an interesting problem space, that will grow quickly allowing me to become self employed.This is called a lifestyle business. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_business It is the opposite of a startup. |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | Jakob: "I'd be competing with some very large software companies."I would call that an advantage. |
Looking for feedback on side-project | diN0bot: dfens, top notch! i've been looking for something more approachable than the w3c spec gooblety-gook for a while now. i've been trying to encourage the ui/html/js/css folks on my project to think about the specs. they come from varied non-engineering backgrounds, so a gentler spec navigation is crucial than sca... |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | brk: I ran an operation much like #2 when I was in college (1991). Made a shitload of money doing it, had I been able to reach a wider audience it could have made for a nice enterprise.Not only are certain brands cheaper in other countries, but products/styles within those brands are not always available in the US (do... |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | markessien: The second idea is a cutthroat business. The competition will be fierce and they will be as agile as you are. Number 3 sounds reasonable, but have a way of reaching your customer before jumping in.You absolutely cannot rely on friends. If your business depends on that, forget it. |
What can't you do in Excel? | anamax: (1) Optional Fortress like "typing". It's almost always a mistake to add a number representing an amount of dollars to a number referring to feet. And feet can't be added to meters. Heck, it's typically wrong to add gigabytes to megabytes without a conversion (which depends on whether you're talking about di... |
Looking for feedback on side-project | FraaJad: * the newly expanded columns should line up on top.* the elements should not be pushed lower when a taller child element is introduced. This hides the elements on the left column(s).* to keep a visual track of how I arrived at the current level, set background of the clicked elements to a different colour. Th... |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | markessien: Take care of paralysed people. They need round the clock watching, so you can sit there nights, drink coffee and code. I used to do that, it made me a good amount of money (from the code I produced during that time). |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | antidaily: #3 seems like the best option. fastest to develop.#2 - sure, you save money on the products, but you still have to ship them and pay the buyer. and i'm sure there are legal issues. i bought a dell server recently and had to check a box confirming that i would not sell the machine to someone outside the US. |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | prakash: Go for #1.Re. #2, there seem to be many human cogs that might not give end-users a consistent level of serviceRe. #3, the cost of getting you software in these institutions might require a sales force, and that means to you might need to raise some amount of capitalAll this said, a question: which one do you f... |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | Allocator2008: I LOVE idea number 2. For example, River Island is an awesome fashion retailer in the UK (www.riverisland.com). Perfect for "going nightclubbing" kind of apparel. So a "wrapper portal" to these kinds of sites would be great, especially for people who don't know where the "hot stores" are in a given count... |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | mdasen: I'd definitely go for #3. It's such a pain and companies will generally pay in a way that users hate paying. I know I get driven nuts!#1 would be neat, but one problem would be that you'd have to price it cheaper than better hardware. For example, if your product costs $500/year and I can just double my RAM ... |
Looking for feedback on side-project | noel_gomez: I like it, I too was looking for something like this just the other day. |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | tptacek: Re: (3):* There are at least 20 products in the regulatory compliance (GRC) category, and more in the system scanning category.* What's more, IT security teams resist buying from tiny companies, because they need to integrate their purchases into their processes and need to know that they're going to get long-... |
Looking for feedback on side-project | bayareaguy: The menus are cool but for practical use this kind of reference information is better presented using pre-ajax techniques such as a single page of html (or possibly a frameset) with the appropriate hyperlinking. The way it is now you can't use the browser's text search.You should also add a NOSCRIPT tag wi... |
Looking for feedback on side-project | pclark: really really awesome. Thoughts:* allow us to link to exact references* when you click a link (eg "title") - make it scroll the page so the entire next menu is on screen.* enlarge the buttons that can be clicked, add a rollover color.* change the tags " " blank dropdown to "all" - also when selection "all" it s... |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | natch: #4 keep thinking of ideasI'd love to see #2 as a way to open up more choices, but I can't imagine ever using it. Just the shipping charges alone would keep me away.#1, aren't there plenty of tools that do this already? Or at least they have been built already using Cacti and Ganglia in concert with other tools (... |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | anamax: Almost all of the objections to #2 also apply to on-line auctions. EBay is a relevant existence proof. |
What unlocks with karma, and when? | cdibona: This is pretty interesting to me. When karma was implemented at /. we used to expose the number, but then the number became why people did things on /. Then we obscured the number by replacing it with english words like "excellent" for the top karma scores, then we started paying off in terms of allow people t... |
What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time? | cdibona: Nothing food service related! Think your keyboard is dirty now? Wait until your laptop has been on the salad station for a night or two. Seriously though: The forest service has some -lonely- jobs watching for fires in the national forests. Lighthouse keeper? Night watchman? Lots of night shift jobs should be ... |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | jdavid: Idea 4, which is much like Idea 3.=========================================Make Open Source viable for the "medical industry." There are numerous problems with deploying an opensource application environment when it is involved in the care process. Lawyers have made this a legal quagmire to validate software ... |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | ShabbyDoo: Questions about #3:Considering all the servers in the world that ought to be audited with software like yours,1. Who is deemed responsible for security auditing by management.ownership? In-house administrators or outside consultants?2. What percentage of these servers are owned by little enterprises (who d... |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | cdibona: #1: Take it and make it applicable to distributed systems/clusters and maybe you have something.#2: Is this Fashion News? I kid. This might be a fun site to write, so long as you aren't saddled with the inventory.#3: Consulting around security is a great way to make a buck, but building a security company of s... |
Do you program in black or white? | pavelludiq: I cant stand light backgrounds, i prefer dark ones(but not black). This is the vim colorscheme im using:http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1778I like it a lot! |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | gojomo: I like #2, especially given the other testimony by 'brk' about having made money with a small-scale version of the idea.There are potential problems in tariff/trade laws, consistency of customer experience, and fraud. But solving those problems gives you your defensible advantage.Beyond your initial friends, yo... |
Do you program in black or white? | Laurentvw: I recently switched from a black & white scheme to a colored scheme. As of now I'm enjoying a black-greyish background with some nifty colors.IMO, colored code makes the process much more fun. I'm not sure if it makes me more productive though, but I wouldn't rule it out.Small screenshot: http://photos-f.ak.... |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | bemmu: I've done #2 a bit while in Japan, but stopped because I didn't have enough scale. You have to first communicate about what they want, find where it is sold, take a trip there, box it, stand in line in post office, fill customs forms, do bookkeeping, answer to "where's my package omg wtf!?" e-mails and so on. Fo... |
Do you program in black or white? | jballanc: I've been using dark/black backgrounds for literally years. The question that most interests me now is warm vs cool colors for syntax highlighting. Without realizing it, I had been using primarily warm tones for a long time. Then, I installed MacVim and started using the default dark bg theme, which uses cool... |
Do you program in black or white? | hbien: I started out with dark backgrounds because of vim + Linux. The default terminal was black. Now I use the dark background w/ color text for all my editors/IDEs.I tried switching to the white background for a week, but it really hurt my eyes. I had to switch back after a few days. |
Do you program in black or white? | MrRage: I've got to put a vote in for white backgrounds. I find dark background terribly hard to read, especially with colored text. White backgrounds have a higher contrast with the text. I also turn the brightness down on my monitors, so I don't feel it's too blinding.I also can't stand it if the syntax highlighting ... |
Looking for feedback on side-project | gills: I think it's useful, it reminds me of http://www.visualjquery.com/.The cascade-on-select on langref seems a little clunkier. |
Do you program in black or white? | brandonkm: I actually program with a navy blue background in some languages and a white background in others. With ruby, python I have a blue background in vim and with xhtml, css, and javascript I use a white background. |
Do you program in black or white? | awt: I like a white background. The color schemes for black backgrounds always seem to be off for one color or another. |
Do you program in black or white? | notaddicted: I use light background. I feel like I have to. Any time I switch from light text to dark text it takes time for my eyes to adjust. So when I'm looking up documentation etc everything need to be the same. Even the bar at the top bothers me. SO I use the black on white. |
Test the market using Facebook / iPhone | bullseye: Without knowing what your application does, it's likely you're not going to get very good advice. |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | whatusername: As an Aussie I'd love #2.Not just for the prices, but for all the stuff that we can't buy anywhere here!How about a service like this:
I give you my credit card details and I get a name/address.So anytime I need to order something online, it goes to:
Mr 12345, Your Address here, 90210,Whenever something f... |
Do you program in black or white? | zacharydanger: See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect |
Do you program in black or white? | MaysonL: Strange - I've been using black (lately w syntax coloring) text/white background since I was first able to (early '80s - VT100 days) after using white on black for most of the 70's. |
What unlocks with karma, and when? | sanj: This reminds me of a band that gave out stamps when you came to their concerts.The top levels were awesome:30 Stamps: Special Date #1 Dinner and dancing with Dave.36 Stamps: Special Date #2. Dinner and dancing with either Jean, Mike, or Murray.50 Stamps: Ass Brand. The Frühead gets the Früvous budgie-dog (Larry B... |
Do you program in black or white? | raquo: #222 for background, something like #eee for common text, and light pale colors for vars/stings/etc. I found that #fff text on #000 bg hurts even more than plain black-on-white.Also, overhighlighting kills my ability to focus - I use at max. 4 colors |
Best way to create and send snail mail via an API? | shrike: Looks like Postful is what I am looking for, I still can't find it via Google, thanks oldgregg! |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | netcan: idea 2This is a Parallel Import idea, a kind of a grey market. These markets already exist in various niches & I suppose have some potential. (1) You can avoid competition from many big fellas - They can often be kept in line by various means. (2) It addresses an inefficiency in the market. (3) The shrinking wo... |
Do you program in black or white? | astrec: Black background, green text. I've never managed to move past the televideo terminal! |
Do you program in black or white? | PStamatiou: Been using Cobalt theme in Textmate (dark blue) for years myself. |
Do you program in black or white? | there: i had a vt510 connected to an openbsd machine in my bedroom about 10 years ago and did most of my unix work with it. since it can't display colors, i setup mutt, vim, tin, epic, etc. to only use bold/underline/reverse attributes for highlighting instead of different colors.10 years later and i'm now using openb... |
Do you program in black or white? | dylanz: Black Background, White Text.If I SSH into a remote machine, I'm still in my normal environment. Another reason I use VIM as well. If I need to get fancy, I can SCP my .vimrc in as well. |
Do you program in black or white? | gjm11: Black background, light-coloured text, not too much Angry Fruit Salad, very small fonts to fit as much as possible on the screen.Easier on the eyes, plus it happens to be what I'm used to. |
Do you program in black or white? | alain94040: On Eclipse and Xcode it's black text (or colored for keywords) on white background. I haven't programmed on a black background since the early 90s on the Apple II.I remember making the switch, at first I was shocked. By now, I'm completely used to it.http://fairsoftware.net : where geeks are their own boss |
Do you program in black or white? | mrtron: Terminal I go dark - Textmate I go light.Maybe I should switch to dark - it is a bit nicer on the eyes I think.Edit: Switched over Textmate to a dark theme, and I am glad for the reminder. I don't know why on this new machine I didn't have it set that way! |
SUP nightly challenges at Cambridge, MA hacker space | thegoleffect: I couldn't possibly make it every night, but I'd like to make it to at least one day. We'll see.In the meantime, perhaps you can open it up to people outside our area via IRC/IM and justin.tv the event online. Get some local companies to sponsor food for the event. Use online invitation web apps. Tumb... |
Do you program in black or white? | Freaky: Dark on light, always. Specifically, I use #0d2a3a as my background; a nice dark blue I find a bit more pleasing than just black. |
Do you program in black or white? | briansmith: I program in shades of gray. |
Do you program in black or white? | wenbert: I use the ZenBurn colors. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000682.htmlVery easy to read. And not boring. |
Do you program in black or white? | colonhyphenp: I started using the Railscast TextMate theme a few months ago and have been quite satisfied - it's got a dark grey-ish brown background. http://railscasts.com/about |
Do you program in black or white? | tdavis: :colorscheme desert |
Is anyone doing Blackberry app development? | gsmaverick: Since lots of BB users are enterprise they may be less willing or able to install apps. But if you build a great app there's always customers for your app. |
Is anyone doing Blackberry app development? | martythemaniak: Yes, kind of. I have a neat little app on the Android Market (http://phonalyzr.com), which I am going to port to the Blackberry in time for their store launch. The reason I'm targeting Android and BB is because of the iPhone's ridiculously restrictive SDK - on these devices the OS notifies the user that... |
Do you program in black or white? | stevedekorte: I prefer black on grey for editor windows and gray on black for terminal windows. |
Do you program in black or white? | burke: I strongly prefer light on dark, but hated pretty much every emacs theme I found. A couple days ago, I ported a friend's "IR Black" vim theme to emacs. I'm still not entirely happy with it, but:http://github.com/burke/color-theme-ir-black/blob/master/scr...EDIT: Upon further investigation, I believe this color t... |
Is anyone doing Blackberry app development? | kapitti: We do, but for enterprise apps only - there may be decent sales for consumers with the Storm, but the BB will almost always be an Enterprise Play. |
Which school do you attend? | transburgh: Ohio State University |
Is anyone doing Blackberry app development? | paulgb: I haven't myself, but I've worked at a company that did. Here's what I picked up: BlackBerry users tend to use their devices a lot and are not afraid to download things.It's not going to be nearly the same market as the iPhone reaches, so iFart and the like would, IMHO, fail miserably on the BlackBerry. I bet t... |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | ALee: A) Find the one you are most passionate about with a clear value proposition.
B) Make sure there is a wave you are riding, i.e. potentially disruptive platform or something that will put the wind at your back as you ride the waves with this business.
C) Make sure there is a customer that wants this- their hair is... |
Estimating Ad Revenue | ALee: Depends on what you use. Google is actually good if you're just getting started and you want to learn about CPC and the eCPM of ads.Just learn these key phrases (CPM, CPC, eCPM) and then, do google searches from there. You would want to do a bottoms up analysis (for every one active user, I get 12 pageviews, each... |
Do you program in black or white? | s3graham: I didn't realize it for quite some time, but what I actually use is: - dark means "brain: use vim keys" (:colo darkblue)
- light means use arrow/CUA keys, a la most "normal" applications.
(ps, please add <ul>/<ol> formatting) |
Do you program in black or white? | johngunderman: It depends on the language I am programming in.Java - white (Eclipse)Python - Black (gedit)Lisp - White (emacs)Ruby - White (TextEdit)C/C++ - Black (gedit)I have noticed that certain text editors have dark themes I like, whereas other dark themes just hurt my eyes. I have no true preference, only what I ... |
Estimating Ad Revenue | mattmaroon: Just go ahead and guess $0 cpm. You won't be far off. |
Is anyone doing Blackberry app development? | DenisM: On a related note, how complex is BB development compared to Andorid, iPhone or WinMob?I think I might want to port my app, but I'm afraid to get stuck in it without the end in sight. |
Estimating Ad Revenue | rms: I have one site that is doing $70 eCPM with adsense. You can use that number for your estimate, if you want. It's like 1996 all over again! |
Do you program in black or white? | russell: I use black or syntax coloring on gray or ivory background. My eyes are old and the contrast with colors on black is too low for me to read easily. I prefer the off white background because pure white is too bright. |
Estimating Ad Revenue | quellhorst: I have had eCPM from $0 to $200+. Its impossible to estimate based on what you have provided. |
Estimating Ad Revenue | wallflower: Arn from MacRumors said it best. Traffic to your site gives you power which brings along advertising revenue. |
Archive a MySQL database | slater: You could use PHPMyAdmin:Go to the "export" tab and use the "Save as file" option |
Which school do you attend? | herdrick: Washington State + University of Washington |
Archive a MySQL database | gojomo: This technique using LVM snapshots always struck me as the optimal way to achieve negligible-downtime backups of even largish databases:http://blog.dbadojo.com/2007/09/mysql-backups-using-lvm-snap...(Haven't done it myself, though.) |
Archive a MySQL database | thomasmallen: # mysqldump -u (user) -p (database name) > (destination filename)
mysqldump -u root -p some_project > some_project.sql
# to import:
# mysql -u (user) -p (database name) < (backup file)
mysql -u root -p some_project < some_project.sql |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | vchakra: I think you need to do a little bit more research before picking one of the above. Rather than pick one now, it would be better to spend a little bit of time building up some sort of a business plan (not something to show VC's but just for internal clarity).Of the three, the 3rd option seems to make most sense... |
Archive a MySQL database | newt0311: Read up on WALs and incremental backups. I know postgres has support for these and MySQL should too. |
Archive a MySQL database | tmm1: http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/05/02/how-to-write-efficient-...http://www.maatkit.org/doc/mk-archiver.html |
Archive a MySQL database | brianr: If you can't afford downtime, check out Innodb Hot Backup (a commercial product sold by oracle).If you already happen to be using LVM, check out this post: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/08/21/using-lvm-for...Otherwise, you're going to have some downtime, which could range from a few seconds to a lot ... |
Archive a MySQL database | chadr: Here is what I do with mysql 5.1 and my innodb tables on Linux...mysqldump --single-transaction --skip-lock-tables --all-databases | gzip > "/some/directory/backup-`hostname`-hourly-`date +%H`.sql.gz"These two options are important: --single-transaction and --skip-lock-tables. At least in mysql 5.1, mysqldump d... |
Is anyone doing Blackberry app development? | shimi: I have to disagree about the Java part.After developing for WM, j2ME, BB and Android I found iPhone is a mystery. Apple knew what they were doing making people downloading those applications. You've have got fart apps for all platforms and no one could turn them to a profit until iFart.BB is a different market, ... |
Estimating Ad Revenue | dshah: As noted elsewhere, your revenue from advertising can vary considerably based on several factors including:1. The market you're in
2. The profile of your visitors
3. The degree to which you're engaging them
4. The kinds of products/services being advertised |
Archive a MySQL database | chrisbolt: If you're using MyISAM, you can use MERGE tables to split data over multiple tables, or you can use partitioning. Then when you decide one of the 'sub' tables is 'full' you can take it out of the MERGE table, do a read lock, rsync it to a backup server, then drop it off the main server. |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | m_eiman: If you're going to do #2, have a look at the references on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_importation .A few years ago there was a lot of talk about parallel import on the news here in Sweden, and if memory serves they said that parallel importing into the EU was illegal (but ok within EU). Might have b... |
Archive a MySQL database | agotterer: One of the ways we archive data is by setting an archive cutoff point. So say we only need the last 6 months of data... Every month we will run a script that takes anything older then 6 months and move it to a separate table (or database). Obviously this solution isnt perfect for every situation. But dependi... |
Estimating Ad Revenue | sdragon: #1: Google Adwords -see things from the other side of the equalation.So, basically you go, sign up (best spent 15 bucks, ever), start a new compaign, and type in a web site with similar content to the one you're about to build; select all collected keywords, which are related to your venture, and behold the tr... |
Estimating Ad Revenue | sachin: Here are some things to think about...Are you planning on direct sales or remnant advertising? Early on you'll likely be only leveraging remnant advertising since direct sales requires a large sales team or sales rep firms.The next question is how much of your traffic is expected to be US vs international. US t... |
Archive a MySQL database | wenbert: Another thing I am curious about. When archiving/purge/whatever it is called; what happens to the dependent tables?For example, the Header-to-detail relationship between tables.Anyway, I will be trying out the Tools found in this link: http://www.maatkit.org/doc/mk-archiver.html |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | RobGR: I would do the idea that has the shortest time to producing money. I suspect that's number two, the overseas buyer system.I would avoid the security analysis tool. The customers sound troublesome, and the competition is likely to be on grounds of the niceness of the reports or something rather and technical co... |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | vivekamn: Regarding 3): Selling to enterprises for a startup is a bitch. We recently a closed an order with ask.com for our product and the the second item in the very first slide in their go/no go meeting was 'What if Radaptive goes bankrupt'. |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | scorpioxy: I'm a programmer, so I'll refrain from giving my opinion on idea 2.Idea 3, however, seems like a good idea to me. I read the other comments, and yes it will be difficult, but i still think its a good idea.Idea 1 might be a bit difficult to to turn into a business. In fact, it is something I've been thinking ... |
Is anyone doing Blackberry app development? | fpotter: Yep, I've been working on a downloadable app store for BlackBerry devices for a while called BerryStore (http://berrystore.com) and it's been getting decent uptake from BlackBerry users. I started way back in August, long before RIM had announced any of their plans.There is a lot of opportunity for RIM here, ... |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | ivan_ah: I like #1.Making money from that will be tough complex.
Thing about how you can turn this into a product big-corp will want to shell out thousands of dollars on.
(selling to individual programmers will be tougher since they are used to GNU being free)Think about who might be interested in bundling your tool wi... |
I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3. | nittwerp: Number 2 is not really a new idea, but if you can make it work and become the default place for overseas shopping it would be a goldmine. I actually already use a service like this for video games (www.play-asia.com) since I live Japan but I want the English versions of games.
Anyway, if you go with number 2... |
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