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What do you do for analytics? | lordycon: I've been using a mix of Google Analytics and Mint but am keen to try Piwik, which is open source. Anyone using it?http://piwik.org/ |
What do you do for analytics? | ideamonk: im sticking to google analytics as for now, gonna try getclicky soon, seems interesting, plus after checking out "who uses it", i have to give it a shot. |
help me find something Alan Kay said | pclark: "OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other systems in which this is possible, but I'm not aware of them"Source: email [1][1] http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~r... |
What do you do for analytics? | buro9: I'm using Google Analytics primarily.getclicky is fine below 100,000 page views per day, but I've passed that milestone.woopra was my favourite for tracking user activity, but 10,000 views per day is barely an hour in the day so not a large enough window.If you're above 100,000 page views then I think Google Ana... |
help me find something Alan Kay said | RiderOfGiraffes: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay...From here :
http://learningevolves.wikispaces.com/alanKay+talk Alan Kay regrets the terminology, object orientated,
thinking later that message orientated would have
expressed it better.
This seems the most definitive:http://lis... |
What do you do for analytics? | ErrantX: I use:
- clicky
- GA
- Woopra
- MintAcross my variety of sites. Usually a combination of 2 or 3 of them: the reason being that the variance between the stats the all collect means that it's helpful to have more than one stats collator to double check your info :D |
I want to build a simple but good website, what do I need to do? | pclark: Wordpress and/or PHP.or drop me an email and I'll make it you :) |
What do you do for analytics? | jli: We use a mix of Google Analytics, awstats, and webalizer. Awstats and Webalizer are post process your weblogs so they don't really effect the performance of your website. |
Value of comments in regards to applying for YC? | cperciva: In the past, PG has talked about comments here from the perspective of the YC crew"recognizing names". Based on this and my past experience with selection processes, I imagine comments here will influence how carefully an application is reviewed, but not necessarily the outcome of that review -- rather like ... |
What do you do for analytics? | thinkzig: I'm currently using a combination of GA and StatCounter. I use SC to see what's going on in real-time and use GA for long-term trend analysis.As someone else mentioned, the downside of real-time is that you have to constantly sit and refresh to see what's going on.I'd like to see a package that notifies me w... |
What do you do for analytics? | jakestein: My company (www.rjmetrics.com) develops software that you can use to analyze your users in different ways than web traffic analytics, things like tracking customer lifetime value, churn analysis, and segmentation by any data on which you track your user base (registration date, geography, plan, etc). We act... |
Value of comments in regards to applying for YC? | vlad: The more time you spend commenting on News.YC, the better. Other investors look at this, as well. |
What time tracking and billing software (or related solutions) do you recommend? | RiderOfGiraffes: For previous answers to this question see:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123371http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=224473http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=124856http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=460677Before asking questions you might try searching to see if it's been asked before.http://searc... |
What time tracking and billing software (or related solutions) do you recommend? | davidw: I wrote this:http://stufftodo.dedasys.comIt's now open source. Have fun! |
What time tracking and billing software (or related solutions) do you recommend? | HendrikR: Maybe this is interesting for you: http://www.billingsapp.com/ |
is it a good idea in Python? If yes, how to make it not suck? | MHollender: Better version, with GroupBy and less lambdas uploaded to
http://pastebin.com/f201d8052 |
What time tracking and billing software (or related solutions) do you recommend? | bjplink: As a Mac user, I'm a huge fan of On The Job (http://stuntsoftware.com/OnTheJob). You enter in a task and the charge per hour, hit play and go to work. You hit stop when you're done and it builds the invoice for you automatically. |
What time tracking and billing software (or related solutions) do you recommend? | dabeeeenster: We've spun this off as a seperate web app that we have been using internally for 3 years or so:http://www.pipelineworks.com/Designed for UK companies... |
What time tracking and billing software (or related solutions) do you recommend? | almost: If you're an Emacs user then org-mode is has excellent time tracking features.You have a normal org file with your tasks, I use one per client with 1st level headings usually being projects (you might find that one per project suites you better though).So something like this: * Project 1
** TODO Some tas... |
What do you do for analytics? | pstinnett: I'm kind of interested to see what YongFook puts out with GumTrail (http://www.gumtrail.com/). Supposed to be "User Engagement Analytics". I'm curious to know how it will work and how different it will be from regular stat tracking software. |
What time tracking and billing software (or related solutions) do you recommend? | 3pt14159: At the risk of sounding like a reckless spammer, I recommend the company I work for: FreshBooks.We have more than just time tracking and invoicing/billing. Including estimates, simple support tickets, document sharing, expense tracking, contractors.We do not do full accounting or payroll. If you need those ca... |
What time tracking and billing software (or related solutions) do you recommend? | ctingom: If you need an exhaustive list of apps, try this page (which I maintain): http://www.timetrackingresources.com/ |
What time tracking and billing software (or related solutions) do you recommend? | ryanwaggoner: I use http://harvestapp.com and http://www.timepost2.com/ to post from my Macbook. I really love Harvest. Great design, email out invoices, right balance of simplicity and features.TimePost is overpriced, though...you could probably find a cheaper solution. I think Harvest has a dashboard widget. |
What time tracking and billing software (or related solutions) do you recommend? | brent: Journyx wasn't terrible (it has been ~3 years since I have used it). I believe it is free for individuals, but you'll have to check. |
What time tracking and billing software (or related solutions) do you recommend? | there: Corduroy (http://corduroysite.com/) is a full billing system that includes time tracking for projects and invoicing.Some of its other features include interaction with your online banking site and allowing your customers to login to your site and pay their invoices with a credit card.Disclaimer: I am the author ... |
I want to build a simple but good website, what do I need to do? | ideamonk: Yeah its possible to make one, the cost is time. Learn some HTML and CSS basics, then a little bit of PHP & MySQL, that would give you an understanding with which you would be able to edit and customise wordpress or any other CMS for your own website. You could even come up with your own CMS (content managem... |
What time tracking and billing software (or related solutions) do you recommend? | dan_sim: I use TimmyOnTime ( http://www.timmyontime.com ) for my time-tracking (my company created this product) and GnuCash for billing/accounting.TimmyOnTime uses with instant-messaging (GoogleTalk, MSN, Jabber) for real-time time-tracking so that tt easily becomes part of your work flow. |
What time tracking and billing software (or related solutions) do you recommend? | jd: Thymer might just be what you're looking for.It has intuitive data entry (easy as paper), support for projects, clearly seperates personal todos from work tasks. (So you can use the same todo system for personal matters and billable hours) and much more. Of course you can also generate reports (which you can custom... |
What do you do for analytics? | cte: for "micro-analytics", try http://userfly.com, http://clicktale.com, or http://crazyegg.com |
What time tracking and billing software (or related solutions) do you recommend? | juliend2: To count my time I made a little ruby script that loops into a txt file and looks for projects, calculate the hours for each and outputs them. Here is the link if you're interested : http://github.com/juliend2/compteurdetempstxt/To invoice i use Freshbooks. I love it. But for the time tracking, i prefer my ho... |
What time tracking and billing software (or related solutions) do you recommend? | jbrun: I use harvest and it works quite well for me. |
Help me with this project - Gizmoojo.com | antiismist: Put this in your .htaccess:Redirect 301 / http://www.gizmodo.comBut seriously, when I look at the page: - it doesn't render properly in Firefox
- it seems like a knockoff of gizmodo
- it seems dead, e.g. everyone has 0 moojos. |
Help me with this project - Gizmoojo.com | TweedHeads: First, find a better name, then we can talk |
What do you do for analytics? | dmarques1: Google Analytics & Visual Sciences are my favorites, Visual Sciences is really for enterprise level sites but the level of data and ways you can slice and dice things is significantly better than anything I've seen out there.I have also heard a lot of good things about Omniture and have used it a few times. |
What time tracking and billing software (or related solutions) do you recommend? | sevib: You may also consider Klok (http://klok.mcgraphix.com/) for straight forward timetracking, it's simple, stylish and exports to excel. |
What do you do for analytics? | bd: There is no single analytics solution that would be fully satisfactory. The ones based on web bugs (e.g. Google Analytics) slow down your site and usually have clunky, slow and/or limited interfaces. Additionally, better ones are getting expensive for more serious use (also, I prefer one time fee over subscriptions... |
Why not prepay groceries? | timf: I like the general idea, we shop at the same place every week and would use something like that. Value cards are coming pretty close to all this (including customized newsletters).People are still trying online, too:http://www.amazon.com/gp/subscribe-and-save/details/index.ht...http://www.alice.com/ |
What do you do for analytics? | tvbuzz: Depends on the type of analytics -- as that is a huge area.- For just tracking traffic -- Google is fine.
- For Adwords, Omniture has a slew of products.Once you add on a couple of layers -- such as an affiliate program, some display and then PPC from Yahoo & MSN .. you will run into a couple of areas .. such a... |
Help me with this project - Gizmoojo.com | peterhi: I've got to go with the name issue. Not sure if you were first or not but your name is too close to gizmodo. Also you need more content, not just on the front page but some of the categories are empty.Of the six people on the front page only one has a picture, they could all go. More text, having just pictures... |
Help me with this project - Gizmoojo.com | peterhi: Also if you go for a wiki like system then be prepared to moderate heavily, it will be a spammers paradise. |
He v. She | mooism2: I use "they" and "their". |
He v. She | russell: The use of he has been denounced as sexist. The problem is that there is no gender neutral third person singular pronoun in English. Well there is "one", but it sounds stilted. Some authors alternate between he and she, I sometimes use s/he. But s/him, s/his? In informal writing, I find myself using "you" ... |
Why not prepay groceries? | newy: For the budget conscious - having to commit a set figure each month might not be an appealing option (they're already locked into rent, electric bills, etc). For the not-so-budget conscious, the discount might not be worth the effort to set up this system and lock yourself to one grocery store chain (people like... |
He v. She | tome: http://plover.net/~bonds/genderedlanguage.html |
He v. She | DanielBMarkham: He is the traditional gender-neutral pronoun.If you care about being denounced as sexist, you can make your writing do weird things, like s/he.If you're tired of being told how to think, just go with he. It worked for Shakespeare. It can work for you too.I find myself using "you" a lot when "he" would b... |
He v. She | yan: I use he almost always when 'one' sounds wrong. I'm not important enough to offend anyone. Plus, if someone is truly offended by seeing "he" in writing, they have bigger issues, in my opinion. |
What do you do for analytics? | abl: is anyone using omniture? |
Help me with this project - Gizmoojo.com | tlb: I've created a hamburger restaurant where I'm expecting average Joes to walk in off the street and cook the hamburgers, in return for a percentage every time they make a sale. Sound promising?Of course not. The burgers will be inconsistent and usually bad, and there'll either be too many or too few cooks at any gi... |
Why not prepay groceries? | ambition: Good idea. Grocery chains love loyalty programs. Though, grocery margins are thin. It would be difficult to profitably give substantial-enough discounts to lure people into the program. The numbers you've cited like 10% are too high. |
Why not prepay groceries? | sachinag: You can have pre-set baskets in PeaPod. |
Why not prepay groceries? | HeyLaughingBoy: Wouldn't work for me because I shop at different places depending on when I have time to do the shopping: over lunch, after work, on the weekend, etc. Even then, "after work shopping" varies depending on if I go straight home, or have to pick up my son from after school daycare.The store would have to o... |
Why not prepay groceries? | HeyLaughingBoy: On a related note, how many of you still have value cards? In the MSP/Twin Cities area, they're unheard of from what I can see. |
He v. She | davidw: "They" is actually quite good in many cases, and apparently even Shakespeare used it. It's not supposed to be "grammatically correct", but frankly I think it works a lot better than putting in a random he or she when the sex of the person is unknown. For example:"A child becomes an adult when they turn 18."ht... |
Why not prepay groceries? | sidsavara: I had the same issue which I think is, you don't want to waste time standing in line shopping. I found this (shopping for food) was a huge waste of time in my cooking workflow, so I hired someone to cook for me (won't spam it here, it was on hacker news before when I blogged about it - much to my happiness ... |
What time tracking and billing software (or related solutions) do you recommend? | rayvega: AbstractSpoon's ToDoList is what I use.http://www.abstractspoon.com/tdl_resources.html |
If you're an independent contractor, how do you charge clients? | davidw: Sounds like you should charge per hour rather than on a fixed-bid basis. |
Good math forums? | simplegeek: I guess I deleted the previous thread. Sorry. This was one of the comments in the deleted thread.
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1 point by tokenadult 6 minutes ago | link | parent | on: Ask HN: Good math forums?The definitive site for discussing math isartofproblemsolving.comfor discussion of contest-style problems. |
If you're an independent contractor, how do you charge clients? | thinkcomp: I would think it depends on the project. If it's estimated to be above $1,000.00 I would typically require a contract and a fixed fee. Otherwise, it's probably best to do things by the hour. |
Good math forums? | tokenadult: I'll expand my comment that was haphazardly deleted with the duplicate post.The definitive site for discussing math isartofproblemsolving.comfor discussion of contest-style problems.Some of the other online forums are restricted to persons in particular professional associations; Art of Problem Solving is o... |
If you're an independent contractor, how do you charge clients? | jhickner: If you're going to do an up-front quote, it's important to have an agreed-upon task list with your client. You don't have to go overboard on it, but if you don't have anything written down it's too easy for the client to sneak work onto your plate.The case you mentioned where the client nitpicks the design on... |
Good math forums? | tokipin: http://www.physicsforums.com |
Good math forums? | kobs: wu :: forums - http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgixkcd - http://forums.xkcd.com/#math on freenode |
Good math forums? | katz: You can try www.reddit.com/r/math although it is not that good. You may be able to digg up something nice at http://planetmath.org/?op=forums .I don't think there is really a nice discussion forum for math :( |
S-Corp in Delaware, located in California | white: The best idea I got on this matter, is the link to http://www.maximumassetprotection.com/scripts/Download.aspx?... - California Registration Requirements for Foreign LLCs by Jacob Stein.While I can find pretty solid grounds not to incorporate BOTH in DE and CA, for doing some of Internet projects; I'm still conc... |
What's best for learning new hacker techniques - video or text? | noodle: neither. the best way is doing. get the information from whatever source, text, video, a friend over your shoulder, and then do it. work it out yourself.imo, of course. |
Good math forums? | RiderOfGiraffes: In this, as with hacking, it's worth asking what your objective might be. Are you looking to learn math? Are you looking to listen to learned math conversations? Are you looking to ask questions about esoteric matters?How do you see yourself interacting, and what are you trying to accomplish? |
Good businesses for entrepreneurs to start in a recession? | arcadeparade: Ok, I wrote a large comment first but I dont want to waste all your time.Basically it was giving a taxback service to people.I'm in Ireland, and the average taxback you can get is €850, but only 55% of people bother to get it.It's for things such as rent allowance, bin charges etc.A small amount of compan... |
What do you think of my group chat app? | tptacek: The "user" cookie contains a base64'd username, the JSON responses include an echoed User-Agent, and I can rotate the "roomids" parameter to retrieve message logs from arbitrary rooms. Does security matter for this app? |
What's best for learning new hacker techniques - video or text? | sidsavara: I actually love screencasts. The rubycasts (or whatever they were called) were excellent, and are only a few minutes long. He provided text as well so I could play the screencast on our television while I copied and followed along locally on my laptop.So the answer, for me, "YES" ;) A screencast backed up w... |
Good math forums? | pclark: I really like irc.efnet.org #math |
Good math forums? | albertni: It depends on what you're looking for. As has been mentioned, artofproblemsolving.com (aka AoPS) and mathlinks.ro are good for the contest types. I've taught and graded for AoPS in the past, and there is no other place that can compare for contest math.On the other hand, the overall skill level at AoPS is ver... |
What do you think of my group chat app? | pclark: paging axod to this thread. Am sure there is some form of collaboration possible for web chat stuff.few thoughts:great signup formthe uploader squashed my non-square picture to a square :(Privacy Policy. Especially if you're dealing with uploads and chat logs. |
Are job postings acceptable? | pclark: I see no problem with them, no promises your job posting won't get critiqued by lots of users though ;) |
Good math forums? | larryfreeman: If you want to get answers to questions for elementary math questions, you might also want to consider these two sites:1) MathForum.orghttp://mathforum.org/dr.math/You can check out the previous answers here:2) Yahoo! Answers (Home->Science & Mathematics->Mathematics)http://answers.yahoo.comOn Usenet, y... |
What's best for learning new hacker techniques - video or text? | physcab: I am a relative novice to hacking, and so here is my two cents:Over the past year, I've felt the best way to learn was to duplicate. Now, this comes with a certain amount of integrity, because you should never copy applications outright for commercial use. But for educational purposes, this technique is grea... |
Good businesses for entrepreneurs to start in a recession? | pg: Many startups are good to start in recessions, because the new technology they develop is often cheaper than what it replaces. You just have to pitch it from the money-saving side. E.g. if you build something with 2x performance for a given price, then in bad economic times you want to sell it as saving people 50... |
Are job postings acceptable? | yan: "we certainly don't want HN to turn into a jobs board."Why not? I mean we sure don't want to mix it with the primary news.yc content, but why not form a sister-board for jobs? And not just YC-funded startups looking for people, but an actual job board. We have the right kind of people here on both sides of the job... |
Are job postings acceptable? | pg: There are no official guidelines. YC startups get to post on the jobs page. We're going to let other startups post on the jobs page soon via startuply. |
Are job postings acceptable? | noodle: i think that if you have a compelling offer, post it. especially if you're looking for co-founders or lead developers.if you're soliciting for data entry people every few days, no thanks.might be nice if it were self-policed and tagged like the ask hn stuff is. |
What do you think of my group chat app? | tontoa4: I like the simplicity. Good job. Keep up the good work. |
What do you think of my group chat app? | run4yourlives: Not a bad little app, really. Nice job. |
What do you think of my group chat app? | joshuarr: Users need to be able to set a handle. |
What do you think of my group chat app? | trevorturk: Very cool! I think you could have a free service with an up-sell (more than 2 people, private rooms, etc) that made sense. Depending on how much it costs for you to run the free site, I guess.Is there a blog or somewhere to follow development? |
What do you think of my group chat app? | manvsmachine: I think that if this is intended to be anything more than a toy project, you should change the name (http://www.yammer.com). Otherwise, nice job. |
What's best for learning new hacker techniques - video or text? | anateus: Programming techniques, design patterns, that kind of stuff, is learned best from a hybrid approach, i.e. some of this, some of that.Hacker techniques however... can only be learned by hacking. Being as they represent the intuitive, "dirty" approach, that's the only way to get them into your system. |
The Fog of Secrecy | suhail: I've read from others and experienced personally that being more open about your startup is more useful. By being out there, you have the opportunity to be first, make current/potential competition re-evaluate their business, and building a loyalty and user-base takes time so get started fast. Merely, being out... |
Where do startup founders go for health/dental coverage? | pasbesoin: I don't have any specific suggestions, but I am interested in what others might have to say.In the U.S., for those who are young and healthy, and with an income and/or savings that can cover routine and significant initial expenses, I've heard it recommended to go with a major medical plan having a high dedu... |
The Fog of Secrecy | dpifke: One of the VCs at a panel I attended in the last year or so said, "if your business plan depends on noone knowing you exist, you have a problem."In all seriousness, the execution is way more important than the idea, and execution is a lot harder to copy than ideas are. If you're at the stage where you have a w... |
Where do startup founders go for health/dental coverage? | dpifke: I think a lot of us keep our COBRA coverage from previous employers. I took this route for about six months before getting around to pricing an individual plan. Which, surprisingly, was about 1/3rd the cost for way better coverage than what I had before.I disagree somewhat about only needing coverage for cata... |
What do you think of my group chat app? | ruslan: Welcome to 1988. There are dozens of Web based front-ends to IRC available, just install one and customize a little to meet web 2.0 "standards" and you get all the millions of IRC users at your feet :-). |
What do you think of my group chat app? | avibryant: Nice and lightweight, but useless (to me) if not secure. The latency is also quite bad at the moment (10 seconds or so between me writing "ping" and seeing "ack" from someone else in the room), but maybe that's due to heavy load right now? |
What do you think of my group chat app? | avibryant: One killer feature from Campfire that I would request is that when pasting an image URL, the image gets inlined into the chat. |
Good math forums? | ganley: It's not really a forum, but Project Euler (projecteuler.net) is awesome. |
Where do startup founders go for health/dental coverage? | Flemlord: At one point I had worst-case personal health insurance through Blue Cross Blue Shield (Anthem). This was several years ago but I remember it costing <$100/month. |
The Fog of Secrecy | icey: If you think that someone can steal your idea and do it better than you can, it should tell you something.(In other words, the ideas are almost never as valuable as the execution.) |
The Fog of Secrecy | mojombo: There are two kinds of startup ideas: those that have basically already been done, and those that nobody else thinks can or should be done. In either case, maintaining secrecy is only detrimental. If you believe in your team and your idea, let the world know as soon as you have something usable so they can tel... |
Help me with this project - Gizmoojo.com | truebosko: When I type "Gizmoojo" into Firefox (I forgot the .com as I simply copied your name), it sends me to Gizmodo.com .. I know it's been said, but if that's any proof you need a name change then there you go :) |
What do you think of my group chat app? | arnorhs: Great stuff- I love the signup "process" :)- I like the /anychatroom feature- I like the persistant nature of the chats- It's interface is amazingly simple/quirky - I love it- personally i don't care about security, as long as this is intended for OPEN chats and chatrooms (twitter-esque) .. not some private cl... |
What do you think of my group chat app? | axod: Looks like a good start :)
Wonder how you're planning to get users...I got them by leveraging IRC,
Campfire got them by having a popular blog to sell to. |
Where do startup founders go for health/dental coverage? | icey: Call a broker. They're in the yellow pages and will be happy to give you a quote with no obligations. If you tell them what your parameters are, they can probably find something for you. |
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