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Rate my startup: EditConf - wiki style tech events, aggregation, and search | spoiledtechie: Change the colors? |
Tips for coming up with a new web startup name | snprbob86: Although your comment seems like you got this covered, I'd like to say it for the benefit of others...Pick a code name and start coding. You can always pick out a domain name 15 minutes before launch. |
Tips for coming up with a new web startup name | dpifke: I highly recommend the Igor Naming Guide, to anyone who hasn't read it:http://www.igorinternational.com/process/naming-guide-produc...(A bit surprised it hasn't been linked to in this thread already.) |
Help I have to mentor some programmers | brianto2010: I am not sure if this will work or not, but here is an idea:Instead of thinking of teaching as a 'presentation' of sorts, try changing teaching into a conversation. Don't talk at the developers, put them (and yourself) into a low-stress casual environment.Try a 'translation' approach: Ask the developers to... |
One Weebly To Rule Them All? | pclark: how different do you think a doctors surgery and a building contractors website needs are?Why not just allow the user to select his business type, and offer a default template of content and items -- and they can customize it some more. |
What do developers want from an equity-only job? | tptacek: The other word for "equity-only job" is "founder". |
What do developers want from an equity-only job? | pclark: do you mean equity online = no pay? |
What do developers want from an equity-only job? | pclark: err,# Have at least 1 year of experience with Ruby / Rails.
# Have experience with MySQL and JavaScriptIf you're really seeking a lead developer - I'd change that to at least 5 years of developing web apps, with around 3 in ruby. |
What do developers want from an equity-only job? | fallen: i am a lead developer on both projects on which i get paid a salary (my 9-5) and on a number of projects that i work for equity (the rest of the time).for me, between the two positions, as a lead developer, my roles and responsibilities are pretty similar. i have influence over the hiring, the design, technolo... |
What do developers want from an equity-only job? | ryanwaggoner: When I was doing freelance development, I had about one pitch per week for an opportunity like this. I never accepted, even though a lot of the ideas and even teams sounded solid. There were usually several reasons, but they boiled down them not offering enough equity. These "startups" were almost alwa... |
What do developers want from an equity-only job? | lbrandy: Here's my initial concerns, reading your post and reading your posting on craigslist. You need avoid looking like a business guy with an idea (and without a clue) looking for a coder. I'd work very, very hard to avoid that because technical people will avoid you like the plague.1. How many other team members a... |
What do developers want from an equity-only job? | raffi: I worked with one startup on an equity only basis, and it didn't even finish getting started.Here are some of my thoughts on what you're asking:1. You are a startup that isn't even started yet. No matter how many pieces are in place, there are many opportunities for it to go wrong. Remember this when you expec... |
One Weebly To Rule Them All? | trickjarrett: I like the concept, and the price is on point so far as I can estimate, it's pricey enough to make good profit for you all, but low enough that some individual bootstrapping his campaign can afford it.The site does a great job of telling me what you do, but not a great way of how you do it. Give me a brea... |
What do you use for web-based product demos? | asnyder: GoToMeeting trumps WebEx, I haven't tried Adobe Connect. The best thing about GoToMeeting is that it's only $49.99 a month for unlimited meetings per month. It can also record all users in the sessions, both VOIP and Phone. It can display multiple monitors (I have 5). It also has screen drawing, user manipulat... |
Rate my startup: EditConf - wiki style tech events, aggregation, and search | jaaron: How is this different from Upcoming? |
Which mobile platform is your favorite? | briansmith: Based on what's happening today, I'd say that (1) Symbian will take control of the phone-first-computer-second market and, (2) Windows Mobile will slowly take over the computer-first-phone-second market, (3) Apple's marketshare will mirror its computer marketshare, (4) Android will get squeezed out of the m... |
Which mobile platform is your favorite? | briansmith: Symbian is a pain in the neck to program for, but you can do anything you want on it, and it has (and will have) a huge marketshare. iPhone and Android are a walk in the park but they both have severe limitations (especially the iPhone). The iPhone is the easiest one to deploy to (thanks to the App Store). ... |
Best cheap hosting for a low traffic local business? | RobGR: All the cheap hosting places suck. Dealing with the customer and the non-responsive $5 / mo hosting place takes more time and effort than just hosting it yourself.If they are truly low traffic, just host them yourself on a business class connection. You can pack a lot of low traffic websites on one machine. G... |
What do developers want from an equity-only job? | theBobMcCormick: IMHO, the thing to consider is that anyone worth bringing in as the technical lead for a startup that's in as early a phase as your seems to be would ALSO be someone who's quite capable of starting their own startup. You need to be able to explain to your candidate why they should bust their butt witho... |
What do you use for web-based product demos? | dedalus: Adobe Connect is what we use |
What do developers want from an equity-only job? | benn: A salary. Lulz. |
What do developers want from an equity-only job? | wehriam: There are two types of people who would attempt to work full time for six months without a salary:1) A well established developer (read: savings and connections) who would likely request a "founder" level of equity, perhaps even a plurality of shares.2) A junior developer (read: recent graduate) who may not ha... |
Rate my startup: EditConf - wiki style tech events, aggregation, and search | epi0Bauqu: Some people end up directly on event pages. For those people, it would be really useful if you could add links to other local confs and an address box to get driving directions so you can quickly see how long it would take to get there. |
FairSoftware--Good way to find a cofounder? | aristus: Match.com -- good way to fund a husband? Well... some people say yes.I personally would never be so desperate as to give this company a chunk of revenue in exchange for matching me with a business guy. If you truly do not know anyone with whom you want to start a company, move. Really. Moving costs less than g... |
how do you read code? | wheels: I don't just read code for the hell of it, I'm usually trying to get something specific out of it, so usually I try to figure out where the core of what I'm reading is at (starting with grep), occasionally cutting away the surrounding code and perhaps irrelevant comments with my editor.That said, I'm not downpl... |
how do you read code? | safetytrick: I need to read more code... but when I do get the time to read code I never start with "main" I start by searching for a feature I am interested in and then branching out to see how this feature fits in with the whole.
I normally use N++ and open a huge number of files at once, its important to me to be a... |
how do you read code? | psyklic: In my experience, writing a lot of your own code teaches you MUCH more about good design than looking at others'. Most of the design process is actually in the reasoning behind WHY a certain process was employed, which is not easily evident from code alone!But since you asked:(1) Run the code and understand wh... |
how do you read code? | tptacek: Usually with a cross-referencer, like Doxygen. |
What do you use for web-based product demos? | donniefitz2: This is a good question and one that I have been wondering about lately too. I'm really not familiar with the products in this market. I was looking at this: http://www.riapedia.com/2007/06/06/flash_and_php_based_acrob...This is worth looking at too. 60.00 a month is a good price: http://www.webex.com/smb/... |
how do you read code? | carlosrr: Github is very good for reading code since it can be done through the browser. If I am going to be using a particular library, I take a look at the commit history and read the code on the more interesting commits.Also, hanging out on IRC rooms is very helpful. Many people ask for code reviews before committin... |
how do you read code? | bluishgreen: Profile the code. Once you understand where the time is spent, its probably the main loop of the program or atleast will give you a clue to the main function. Ofcourse you can ask someone or read the docs, but profiling it has the added advantage of giving you the map of implementation to the intended algo... |
how do you read code? | russell: Reading code for large systems is rarely fun. I usually start with a specific objective, a bug or feature, to teach myself the system. I root around until I arrive at a solution. The first bug is expensive, but they become cheaper as I learn. I have tried systematic top to bottom examination, but I find my... |
Google search for 'sex' 'xxx' | vaksel: They are the 29th most visited site overall in USA. And #1 for porn. |
how do you read code? | gills: I don't find 'main' and friends to be very meaningful), but sometimes it's ok to start there, if you don't have anything in particular to find. And structure is usually an artifact of behavior, so I almost always start with trying to understand the behavior.I like to first familiarize myself with the overall pr... |
how do you read code? | arebop: My last job involved a lot of code review. I usually started with static analysis. Cyclomatic complexity is crude, but it seems like a reasonable heuristic for identifying important or interesting portions of the code. |
What do developers want from an equity-only job? | mpk: "Equity only" sounds like "work for nothing".Everybody has to live off of something.Offer a salary that'll cover rent + noodle money and you'll see a lot of positive responses if you throw in some equity. Or maybe even if you don't.A lot of developers are willing to live on the absolute minimum for a while if you ... |
how do you read code? | sh1mmer: I start by cleaning code a lot.I've found that often it's better to make the code more legible (indenting, IDE, etc) than just trying to parsing it without.I would say unless the code is already in great shape normally tidying it up a bit means comprehension happens much more quickly. |
how do you read code? | lallysingh: Main's usually pretty useless for nontrivial apps. Usually some sort of internal/library framework structures the system.These usually work well together:1. Some way to cross-reference source files. e.g. ctags.2. Source-code level documentation. Doxygen, javadoc, whatever you have.3. Stack traces of the ... |
Best day in near future to launch? | aristus: Govt agencies and others who want to bury data do so on a Friday before a long holiday... like this recent one.So do the opposite: launch next Tuesday, 24 Feb.But, and I say this with love, it doesn't fucking matter when you launch. We launched a beta... 12 days ago? I don't remember precisely because it doesn... |
What do developers want from an equity-only job? | motoko: Jay,What people are trying to communicate is that they don't judge that you are offering value. It's a possible and valid answer to your question that you have to consider: that you ad is good, but your opportunity is bad.That doesn't help you launch your business, so how about this:What you seem to need to do ... |
how do you read code? | llimllib: You need this book, it's excellent: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0201799405 . |
Does it matter that 4K+ follower Twitterer uses HN for links (without attribution)? | sam_in_nyc: I'm not into Twitter at all too much, yet, but it seems like nowadays any link you post is fair game. URLs in and of themselves have nearly as much value as the content within them, which is what makes social media sites so valuable. It's now the nature of the web for URLs to get passed around. It doesn'... |
How would you identify potential relationships for businesses? | wallflower: "People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care"I know you are trying to address a classic problem that excellent networkers solve all the time (e.g. "You should talk to my friend Joe"). However, they are connecting people they already know. Even if you were able to figure out what bu... |
how do you read code? | muon: For a new code base, that I will be working on
- First read documentation
- On A3 paper, I draw what I understood, to me picture gives more clarity
- Understand the files/directory/toolchain structure etc.
- Use ctags and cscope
- Navigate by functionalityFor others, I skim through books/blogs/opensource code |
Best day in near future to launch? | adityakothadiya: I had asked same question on HN before, and PG advised me that - the best launch day is when you are ready to launch.Also, I will suggest don't focus on a single launch day. Think every day is a launch day. First launch on forums like HN, then get some feedback, then launch on few mid-size blogs, see i... |
Does it matter that 4K+ follower Twitterer uses HN for links (without attribution)? | wmf: It doesn't matter that much (the Web has much bigger problems IMO) and there's little you could do about it anyway. |
Best day in near future to launch? | skmurphy: Post it on HN first and ask for feedback before trying to formally launch. That may get you some early users who can also talk about it. |
how do you read code? | karim: I use emacs and its find-tag feature to jump to the definitions of functions I don't understand. |
Best day in near future to launch? | kirpekar: Tuesday - Thursday |
Best day in near future to launch? | patio11: I just want to maximize every last bit of publicity I can get out of launching.a) Approximately 99.998% of the people who will eventually hear of you will not do so on launch day.b) In six months from now if I arrive on your site for the first time following a Google search, to all intents and purposes you j... |
What do developers want from an equity-only job? | jaxn: I find it ironic that you are building a business to help people know they are getting paid what they are worth and most of the people commenting here are questioning your understanding of what the "lead developer" is worth. That does give me a little pause as to your domain knowledge. |
how do you read code? | geedee77: This is a really good question and one that I'm having trouble answering. I find that I don't read through code in a definable way, it's more organic. I think it really comes down to (as previously mentioned by someone) why I'm reading through it.Example, at work sometimes I need to read through other peopl... |
how do you read code? | swombat: I wrote a brief article on the topic:http://www.swombat.com/recognising-and-learning-goodI think that the best way is not just to read, but to try to recreate the code or part of the code using the original code as a guide. It's fascinating how many decisions you'll come to that were taken in the original code... |
Help with my CAPTCHA woes | pclark: how about just ask a simple question? What is the capital of France? London Paris Donkey. |
Help with my CAPTCHA woes | karim: Maybe you could send an sms to a new user with a confirmation code ? |
Help with my CAPTCHA woes | Tichy: Haven't tried but suggestions I have heard are- submit forms with Javascript (though bots will emulate in the future)- create honey pot text fields that are invisible but bots will fill in anyway (I guess hide them with CSS)- I suppose the names of the honey pot and real form fields should change constantly |
how do you read code? | kstenson: If the code has any unit tests starting from there can be a great diving point. |
how do you read code? | rubentopo: Depends on the language, if I'm reading Java code, then I'll use eclipse (ctrl+h is much better than ctrl+right click, when searching for a methods definition, it's the only way i can follow code that uses interfaces a lot).If you're reading C code, vim + cscope + grep work great. |
how do you read code? | known: I use GDB to read code. |
Tips for coming up with a new web startup name | GBKS: I agree with many of the approaches here and just have some personal experience to add.I would start with writing down descriptive works and just keep playing with them, creating different combinations, looking them up in the thesaurus, etc. I haven't had any luck with latin, greek, etc names, the approach always... |
Do You Twitter? | abyssknight: http://twitter.com/abyssknightMight I suggest #hn for hashtag categorization? |
Help with my CAPTCHA woes | DavidPP: A quick question, you said that the CAPTCHA is implemented across various login screens. Do that mean that you have to fill a CAPTCHA everytime you login ?I don't know what your application do, but what is wrong with automatic login? I understand why automatic account creation IS a problem, but use automatic... |
Do you use FreshBooks? If so please review my new application | mattculbreth: Howdy friends,I've just launched a beta of a new application that adds extensions to FreshBooks. Please take a look if you're a FreshBooks user! New modules coming out shortly for budgets, improved reporting, and some other goodies.Thanks! |
Do you use FreshBooks? If so please review my new application | okeumeni: I have to be honest here, I hate signing up to test a product more so for invite on beta. Over the years of building online application I found out that is the case for a lot of people. You may want to consider providing a demo kinda open interface for your app. |
Your Feedback on www.PlopQuiz.com | babyshake: As Obama signs the stimulus package in Denver today, I'm launching a preview release of a site I've been working on called PlopQuiz. The site makes it easier to show what you know about subjects of public interest, such as energy efficiency or the economic recovery effort.You'll notice that we now have a ha... |
Your Feedback on www.PlopQuiz.com | JeremyChase: babysnake,The graphics are great but I dislike how much you have used animation; it cheapens the site.The quiz itself was pretty fun, but I was confused about how to actually start it. It took me some time clicking, and even then it was cumbersome to get going. Also it would be great to know how many quest... |
Where to find expired domains? (startup domain search) | jacquesm: Why limit yourself to expired ones ?I've bought some excellent domains off ebay, another option is monikers domain auction.Another thing you could do is to simply approach the owners of a bunch of domains that are parked and that you'd like and ask them if they'll sell it with a reasonably low bid (say 60% of... |
Your Feedback on www.PlopQuiz.com | joshsharp: At the moment I'm getting some strange behaviour, I think due to your Uservoice plugin - the site loads and then abruptly disappears, and subsequent refreshes only bring up the uservoice 'feedback' tab. |
Your Feedback on www.PlopQuiz.com | axod: scrolling up+down is pretty slow. Too much going on.... Simplify. |
Your Feedback on www.PlopQuiz.com | prawn: The name is incredibly awkward. Plop = poop. I suspect you may struggle to gain traction because of that issue (and the design/look&feel of the site). |
Your Feedback on www.PlopQuiz.com | geuis: I'm an american so of course I could be wrong, but isn't "plop" kind offensive in Britain? I heard it's the same as saying "shit". |
Where to find expired domains? (startup domain search) | timf: If it must be expired domains, try none other than http://www.expireddomains.com |
Your Feedback on www.PlopQuiz.com | RK: The site brings my browser (Firefox 3 on Linux) nearly to a halt. |
How is routing done on maps? | rchiniquy: Check out http://www.openstreetmap.org. They provide open-source map data and code (like rana which has a module for routing) that does least-cost routing. There are a variety of approaches based on simple graph algorithms like naive A*. |
How is routing done on maps? | gojomo: Though Google shows the shortest route by default, you can drag the line to select alternate routes, and the instant updating suggests the other paths are already locally loaded. So their APIs may already provide (or leak) enough info for you.But even if they don't, you can probably buy the same data from their... |
How is routing done on maps? | frisco: I'm pretty sure Google uses a variant of Dijkstra's algorithm by default.Here's a thread where they go through how to use Dijkstra's manually with the GMaps API:http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/browse_thread... |
What can I improve in this demo video? | melvinram: Do you think this video is clear (message wise)? Is it too long? Boring? Does the background sound add to the video or is it a distraction? |
Please review my web-app - Shopialize.com | adityakothadiya: Hi HN, I've been working on http://shopialize.com application in the part-time since quite some time now. I'd really appreciate your feedback, critique comments, suggestions to improve, or new ideas to take this to the next level.I'm not explaining what, why, and how aspects of this web-application her... |
Please review my web-app - Shopialize.com | vaksel: you should really think about changing the name. You are pretty much killing your word of mouth referrals since everyone will go to shopalize.com |
What can I improve in this demo video? | hotpockets: I thought the narrator audio was a little weird. I can't put my finger on it but I think it was more than just the narrators syncopation. Some words were hard to hear - I could make everything out, but I found myself distracted by it every once in a while. It might be an issue with compression or editing... |
Please review my web-app - Shopialize.com | paul7986: I would suggest sucking in Twitters and or features Twitters where people said I just bought this or this was on sale ....could be on the frontpage and you would not have to sign up and the visitor would be viewing deals possibly with links left by those on Twitter.good luck! |
What can I improve in this demo video? | TomOfTTB: My thoughts (with the obvious grain of salt)...The background sound is distractingWhen you first create the course you copy and paste the info in. I've found this can be confusing to users (though I don't know why). I'd put in a small part that says "I've prewritten this text and am just going to copy it in... |
Your Feedback on www.PlopQuiz.com | sjs382: Is that the jParallax script in the background? Please kill it! Haha |
how can I generate youtube style id? | inklesspen: uh, in python: import string, random
''.join(random.sample((string.letters+string.digits), 12))
I hope that's what you were asking for. If not, you might want to clarify your question. |
how can I generate youtube style id? | staunch: First thought is that they're generating a globally unique video ID number and base-62 encoding it to keep the URL shorter. Maybe not though?You could do that easily by just base-62 encoding your table's auto-generated primary key. |
Please review my web-app - Shopialize.com | ajaypopat: Where is your target market? If it's the US, then I'd suggest using American names in the images/collateral so that the target audience can connect with the message. |
Please review my web-app - Shopialize.com | latortuga: On the Tour page, there's a typo in one of your screenshots: "What product or service you want to review?" |
how can I generate youtube style id? | jcapote: def generate_code(len = 5) (1..len).map { (("a".."z").to_a + ("A".."Z").to_a + (0..9).to_a)[rand(62)] }.join
end |
Please review my web-app - Shopialize.com | huhtenberg: Ease off on neuro-linguistic programming techniques. They are really annoying and make the page look needlessly busy. |
how can I generate youtube style id? | compay: Here's a very quick and dirty one for Ruby:require 'zlib'base = "whatever"salt = "whatever"Zlib.crc32(base + salt).to_s(36)This will generate 6-7 character strings. Not sure how likely collisions are, but they should be rare enough that a simple check/regenerate should work. |
Please review my web-app - Shopialize.com | shiranaihito: Maybe you could replace "FREE" with "free"? That word in uppercase is often a bad sign. |
Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN | fsav: Me and Aneesh have been working hard on an idea I described here a few weeks ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=450810): a site where you propose small coding projects and others can join. The goal is meeting new people and sharing tips while working on fun ideas. We've added a voting twist: you can vote fo... |
Should there be a not-for-profit social network? | pclark: for what benefit?why isn't there simply a decentralized for profit social network, where your data is stored on your personal web hosting |
Should there be a not-for-profit social network? | Allocator2008: Who would pay the hosting costs in such a scenario? Costs have to be offset some way or other. Unless users want to do "donations" or something like that, as what wikipedia recently did. |
Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN | ashleyw: Awesome, very awesome! I'm not to keen on the colours (feels a bit dull), but love the idea! |
Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN | shimon: I like this not just because it's fun to meet up and hack with other folks, but because it gives people a way to post/discuss/brainstorm ideas. It's always more fun to discuss these things in an open, social setting where the emphasis can be on improving ideas and generating new ones, and can draw people away ... |
Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN | jwinter: Add location information to users. I'm more likely to work on a small project with someone local. Also, local user groups are doing this already, if you add location info they could use your software. |
Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN | wesley: Very nice, subscribed to the RSS feed but the RSS links point to invalid locations. |
Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN | jmtame: This looks great. I want to open hndir.com with other hackers, I'm fairly busy on another project right now but really like the idea. It's down right now, moving the host to linode. |
Should there be a not-for-profit social network? | tokenadult: Foundations might fund online networks that help people contribute more to society. One example is Cogito.org,http://www.cogito.org/default.aspxwhich has full membership for young people who pass a screening process, but good resources for lurkers too. |
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