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Please provide feedback for androidsnippets.org | metachris: http://www.androidsnippets.org[1] http://www.4feets.com/2009/03/androidsnippetsorg-source-code... |
Colleague has schizotypal personality disorder - should I advise therapy? | cperciva: Next up on Ask HN:* My colleague broke his leg - what sort of cast should I recommend?* My colleague is coughing a lot - should I tell him to take antibiotics for pneumonia?* My colleague is having chest pains - should I recommend open heart surgery?Dammit, we're miracle workers, not doctors! (Apologies to t... |
Please provide feedback for androidsnippets.org | juliend2: I like the idea and i wish someone will do the equivalent for iPhone ;).Although, i think that styling the links with something like Arial instead of Monospace would enhance the readability. Espacially since its the prevailing content. |
Colleague has schizotypal personality disorder - should I advise therapy? | olefoo: Definitely put him in charge of product development.Seriously though, judge people on their actions not their diagnoses. And if you're working at a startup questionable mental health may in fact be a prerequisite to success. Obsession, creativity, drive, focus are all cognitive assets in some cases and liabilit... |
Colleague has schizotypal personality disorder - should I advise therapy? | noodle: so he actually took a test himself in order to be diagnosed with it, and made the choice to not receive treatment/therapy? |
Colleague has schizotypal personality disorder - should I advise therapy? | david927: First, no one is a diagnosis. But if your friend does have this, he or she will seem fine until they "break". For example, they may suddenly leave town.This isn't something for Hacker News and it's certainly not something up for public opinion. If you notice behavior that puts you or someone at risk, contac... |
Please provide feedback for androidsnippets.org | digispaghetti: I like it very much and have already linked to it from http://learningandroid.org. If your happy with it, I'd also like to add the feed to the site to show the latest items. |
Learning Ruby + MooTools | sharkbrainguy: I could be wrong, but I imagine that in order to accomplish this goal,
I'll need to use Ruby on Rails and MooTools.
You are wrong, in that your goal doesn't imply those requirements. RoR is one tool among hundreds that you could use to write a webapp. The same is true of MooTools.I'm not saying that... |
Anyone interested in working for clients, not just building startups? | jlees: I think a lot of the 'stigma' if you can call it that about consultancy and agencying is the perceived effort to reward ratio.Startup? Put in some effort, create something awesome, become billionaire and retire to beach with daiquiri.Consulting/agency? Have to put in graft every day for clients to keep the thing... |
We launched our startup (GroupieGuide) today. What do you think? | alexitosrv: I really like the visual design of the whole thing. Good job!It looks very polished and professionally designed. |
Colleague has schizotypal personality disorder - should I advise therapy? | tjic: My understanding is that there are(a) minor personality issues like neuroses, for which therapy is sometimes useful and sometimes uselessand(b) major organic mental illnesses like schizophrenia, for which therapy is almost entirely useless.In that light, asking "he's got schizotypal personality... should I advise... |
Hunch gave me an idea, a troubleshooting website | raquo: That's a really great idea as troubleshooting and checklists are much more deterministic than "what city you should live in" type of questions |
Learning Ruby + MooTools | jlees: Yes, of course you can grasp it! The tutorial stuff on Rails is really easy to follow - it's a complex process, but it's not intimidating if you get a good book. Out of everything in the space at the moment Ruby and Rails are probably your best bet, if you want to build a lean mean fighting app machine, especial... |
What WYSIWYG editor are you using to make HTML form/textarea input easy | lincolnq: I'm pretty sure most hackers use a text editor and a web browser. When dealing with CSS and JQuery, a wysiwyg editor will really get in your way (it's hard to visualize ids, classes, and onClick) and it doesn't make things very much easier, I think. |
What WYSIWYG editor are you using to make HTML form/textarea input easy | erlanger: FCKEditor's pulling away from TinyMCE quickly. Version 3 looks very nice. |
Attending Eric Ries's 'Lean Startup' talk tomorrow? | markh: I should have mentioned that it's in San Francisco. See here:http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2009/public/schedule/detail/7... |
What WYSIWYG editor are you using to make HTML form/textarea input easy | aliem: I'm a fan of MarkitUp + Textile, nothing more, it seems users likes it once they get used to the simple textile syntax. I'm against wysiwyg javascript editors, they tend to add a lot of overhead over the web page. The only wysiwyg editor i could recommend is WYMeditor (.... even if it isn't really visual editor)... |
What WYSIWYG editor are you using to make HTML form/textarea input easy | sidsavara: I use TinyMCE, but that's mainly because it came built into Wordpress and I think was easy for me to set up in Joomla at one point.Worked well enough for me, never felt the need to change |
What WYSIWYG editor are you using to make HTML form/textarea input easy | ivankirigin: Related question: how I can securely filter user inputed CSS for a custom page / widget view? |
What WYSIWYG editor are you using to make HTML form/textarea input easy | unalone: A heavily-hacked version of TinyMCE at the moment. |
What WYSIWYG editor are you using to make HTML form/textarea input easy | brlewis: I started with TinyMCE years ago and never had a compelling reason to switch. |
Learning Ruby + MooTools | teej: I was in your position 4 years ago. I had spent some time learning HTML/CSS + PHP and had thrown up a few websites here and there. I wanted to get into real web dev, and I decided Rails would pave that road.I'm not one for books, but Ruby on Rails: Up and Running (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101329/) was ... |
Hunch gave me an idea, a troubleshooting website | HeyLaughingBoy: I have four road vehicles and a Honda 4-wheeler. All of them have needed a repair at some time and the online forums geared to each type of vehicle are excellent. I think you'd be hard pressed to improve on the expertise of people who have solved the same problem asking you questions that you can respon... |
What WYSIWYG editor are you using to make HTML form/textarea input easy | justlearning: I found the Express edition of MS Visual Web Developer very useful.
I tried Aptana(eclipse based- memory hog), TopStyle(neat tool, with instant changes seen). But it came to the MS Web Developer, which i felt was more intuitive than others...me not being a web designer.
but i never tried all the ones you ... |
What WYSIWYG editor are you using to make HTML form/textarea input easy | jimwalker: I've looked at a few. Mainly FCKEditor and TinyMCE. I ended up using TinyMCE in the end for my projects. The amount of plugins they have tend to help at times. |
What WYSIWYG editor are you using to make HTML form/textarea input easy | auston: http://code.google.com/p/jwysiwyg/ |
Attending Eric Ries's 'Lean Startup' talk tomorrow? | babyshake: I'll be at the Expo, and I'll certainly try to come.Will any other HN readers be at Web2 this week? |
Hunch gave me an idea, a troubleshooting website | arohner: I'm building it as we speak. Working on the demo today to submit to Capital Factory (http://www.capitalfactory.com/)The code is basically working and I'm tweaking the UI as we speak.I'll of course post to HN once it's ready. |
Dealing with IE8's InPrivate Blocking | inimino: Do nothing, and let Microsoft and their customers sort it out.When Microsoft makes a (potential) blunder so many Web developers seem feel it's their responsibility to work around it. It's not. Microsoft and the IE team try hard not to "break the Web". If they missed, chances are very good they'll fix it. I... |
Learning Ruby + MooTools | sscheper: Thanks for the help everyone -- I'll be using the local Barnes and noble to browse through your recommended books :) |
What WYSIWYG editor are you using to make HTML form/textarea input easy | davesailer: "Xinha Here! is a wrapper for the Xinha HTML editor that enables WYSIWYG editing in any HTML textarea and text input elements."As a Firefox plugin. Or use it the standard way.https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/1449 |
Do sales figures for Objective C books mean the language is getting more popular? | firebug: I'll add a comment so you can click on the link:http://radar.oreilly.com/assets_c/2009/02/TM_qtr_py_Prog_Lan... |
Do sales figures for Objective C books mean the language is getting more popular? | jdg: Yes, it is the language used to create iPhone applications.Yes, the language is probably becoming more popular as more developers learn it, in order to create iPhone applications.Since iPhone applications are still relatively new, and haven't hit their stride yet, book sales will increase rather than staying stead... |
What WYSIWYG editor are you using to make HTML form/textarea input easy | jasonlbaptiste: The YUI rich text editor is pretty damn good, especially when it comes to cross browser compliancy. |
What do I need to do/know to start a profitable blog? | firebug: This may not be the best forum for this type of advice. You might want to try: http://www.reddit.com/r/Blogging/Also, before you quit your day job, read lots of stories like this one:"Time to Hang Up the Pajamas: I learned the hard way: while blogs can do many wonderful things, making huge amounts of money isn... |
What do I need to do/know to start a profitable blog? | olefoo: This is like asking "How do I start a profitable truck?", yes lot's of businesses are built around trucks and lots of profitable businesses use trucks heavily, but the trucking aspect is somewhat orthogonal to the business aspect. |
What do I need to do/know to start a profitable blog? | patio11: You are not starting a blog, you're starting a business. You need to figure out what niche that business is in, who are its customers, how it distinguishes itself from other competing businesses, etc.You will probably find that a "thin affiliate" site providing nothing but reviews of products which happen to ... |
How do you figure out your market size? | joshwprinceton: how to market size:
step 1: figure out how many people use similar applications or the # of people you could foresee using it
(step 1a: include multiple purchases per product / multiple people per product)
step 2: multiply by the monetization over the time frame, use research/values from industry standa... |
What WYSIWYG editor are you using to make HTML form/textarea input easy | buro9: Just to add a mild hijack... can anyone recommend a bbcode wysiwyg editor? MarkItUp isn't wysiwyg, but the very last thing I want is to allow people to post raw HTML (DOM manipulation). |
What do I need to do/know to start a profitable blog? | knightinblue: First things first - ignore the Daniel Lyons article in Newsweek - http://www.newsweek.com/id/183666. Taking advice from him when it comes to blogging is like taking advice from Dubya on astrophysics. He doesn't have the first clue about running a successful blog and generating revenue. Making money blogg... |
Please review RoboNOC, phone calls for server alarms | mmelin: I've turned off the Paypal integration, so you can try the service without having a Paypal account or giving them any CC information. Just sign up for the service and it'll automatically be set as paid up. Please don't abuse :) |
Please review RoboNOC, phone calls for server alarms | cperciva: Immediate reaction: Hey, cool, I've been looking for something like this.5 seconds later: $29/month? No way I'm paying that much for a service I hope to never need.2 minutes later: Hmm, only email? I'd like something more reliable than email for a monitoring system.I'd like to see this service changed by:1.... |
What would you have Conficker do? | cperciva: Calculate the quintillionth bit of Pi. With ten million reasonably modern computers it shouldn't take more than 12-24 hours. |
Please review RoboNOC, phone calls for server alarms | hapless: This isn't hard to do for free, with open source speech synthesizers and a modem.That's well out of the reach of the general public, but presumably folks who run their own servers and monitoring systems have the technical acumen required to implement your service themselves if it sounds useful. |
What would you have Conficker do? | mooism2: Seed torrents.Hey, if everyone's upstream bandwidth is being soaked up by _The Wire_, other viruses won't be able to use it to send out spam. |
Models for investing in the stock market... | Rod: Those aren't models. Those are investing philosophies. And they're so general and vague that I really don't understand what point you're trying to make. You asked no concrete question, and you will get no concrete answer.If you want to educate yourself, don't ask HN, do your homework and read Harris' book: http://... |
What would you have Conficker do? | ejs: Update all the people with ie6 to something newer |
Would you use a service like GetSatisfaction to provide support? | csbartus: not at all ... providing support is as essential like providing features ... support must be not outsourced ever |
What would you have Conficker do? | dmanxiii: Folding@home. Or other peoples homes. |
Please review RoboNOC, phone calls for server alarms | steveplace: Your copy and design need a little work.One big block of text is hard to read, try breaking it up into bullet points or something similar. The actual text needs work as well; you could pay 40 bucks to hire a copywriterThe blue highlights don't work, hard for eyes to follow.Put a subtitle below your logo tha... |
Please review RoboNOC, phone calls for server alarms | rlonn: I like the name, and the robot :-)Not a bad service either, but I too think you should offer it on a per-call basis. That way there is very little reason not to buy it. /Ragnar |
What would you have Conficker do? | chaosmachine: Synchronize the system clock, set the volume to maximum, and then, at the right moment, and with perfect synchronicity, each computer would play back a prerecorded speech claiming to be a message from God... |
What would you have Conficker do? | blakmatrix: fix the economy :) |
What would you have Conficker do? | iuguy: Skynet. Self-awareness is only a few million more bots away... |
Models for investing in the stock market... | abc3: I think the question is a good one, and I think it's clear you did a fair amount of research before writing your post. There are several other philosophies you could have included but didn't, and the three you chose are the only ones that I believe make sense.I suggest a broader approach to "The Warren Buffet Ber... |
What would you have Conficker do? | biohacker42: Downvote non-HN type stories at HN. |
What would you have Conficker do? | friedbaloney: Put up fake april fool's day websites in place of popular sites. Oh, wait... nevermind. |
Models for investing in the stock market... | blurry: Your best bet is to set up several virtual trading portfolios and see which strategy actually works for you. You will learn much quicker and make your first mistakes with fake instead of real money.Google virtual stock portfolios or virtual investments - there are lots of websites that offer fantasy trading. On... |
What would you have Conficker do? | juliend2: 1-setup the biggest cloudcomputing host.2-profit. |
Models for investing in the stock market... | viggity: I just found a Forbes article about a guy who started a small fund that invests in the SP 500 Index while congress is out of session and moves everything to T-Bills when they're in session. He joked about it for a while until he ran some numbers and found that historically the SP returns ~16% while congress is... |
What would you have Conficker do? | jgrahamc: Crack the encryption on someone's DomainKeys implementation so that I can sign mail as coming from them. Then successfully spam the world. |
Please review RoboNOC, phone calls for server alarms | marram: I tried it, and the robot called my phone. It came from a +46 number. Sweden? nice.The robot voice was very hard to understand though. You really should record the voice yourself or get a friend to do it. Also, I needed to press 1 to activate, but to deactivate I must call support? huh? Why can't I just press 2... |
What would you have Conficker do? | tptacek: With apologies to Nate Lawson: delete any website, blog post, message board, or email thread that talks about Conficker. |
What would you have Conficker do? | themic86: Place billions of orders to small breweries around the world and have them shipped a select few small towns. |
Cheese Weasel Day is Coming. Are you Ready? | pavel_lishin: Can't wait to come into work to find a disgusting piece of rotting cheese. |
Models for investing in the stock market... | anamax: > 2. Index fund model:Which index fund model? Weighted by market cap or some other measure?Weighted by market cap means that you buy a given stock as the underlying company's market cap increases relative to the market as a whole and sell it as said market cap decreases relative to the market as a whole.Can yo... |
Models for investing in the stock market... | Femur: I am an adherent to the Efficient Market Hypothesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_efficiency) and thus try to capture the market (through index funds) and minimize cost.Ideally, the best way to do this is own multiple non-correlated indexes (Example: Gold and the S&P500 are negatively correlated). I own ... |
What WYSIWYG editor are you using to make HTML form/textarea input easy | davesailer: Followup to Xinha/Xinha Here! (I forgot these...)* 2007 Evaluation of WYSIWYG editors: http://www.standards-schmandards.com/2007/wysiwyg-editor-tes...* List of WYSIWYG rich text web editors from Genii Software Ltd: http://www.geniisoft.com/showcase.nsf/WebEditors |
What's in it for the author of Conficker? | oldwesley: This is the NYTimes piece where they discuss the Microsoft reward:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/technology/internet/01viru... |
What license for our ad server project? | noodle: you can't really force people to contribute code.you only really have two options. release the code how you want and suck it up if someone makes money on it. or, release the code how you want and create a commercial branch of your company to preclude other people from making $ (see: sugarCRM) |
What do I need to do/know to start a profitable blog? | ChrisXYZ: You have to put effort into creating good content and in promoting yourself.Writing good posts is a no brainer, but it's easy to underestimate the importance of marketing yourself. It can take a lot more time than you'd think.If you look at the most successful bloggers, they write stuff people want to read, ... |
What's in it for the author of Conficker? | khafra: Worms aren't created by the likes of RTM(1) anymore; malware has been big business, and global, for quite a while now. Conficker was probably created by a professional malware engineer, or a team of them, working for somebody like the Russian Business Network(2)--and in a jurisdiction that makes legal prosecut... |
Feedback on New Website Launch for Web Based Project Management Company | hotshothenry: couple things:1) the design is nice, but for some reason, to me at least, it seems like it's a template site, though I'm sure you guys built it from scratch, but that's just the first impression I had.2) I think the free 60 day call to action needs to be higher on the page and/or more prominent, rather th... |
Feedback on New Website Launch for Web Based Project Management Company | metachris: i think the homepage looks quite nice and professional.one suggestion is to make it clear on the front-page what it is about / what you can do with it. I wouldn't find out even after reading the bottom texts on the front page. |
Good books on negotiation | jakewolf: "Getting to Yes" http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Yes-Negotiating-Agreement-With... |
How do I startup if I'm not a developer? | icey: You pay a contractor in cash, not equity. Henry Ford wasn't on the assembly line and he did just fine. |
How do I startup if I'm not a developer? | ericbieller: If you wouldn't be confident programming it yourself, try to find someone who can provide a resume and at least 3 good references.As long as you do your research, you can increase your certainty that your coder is legit and not out to steal ideas.To be honest, I would recommend learning a bit more about MV... |
How do I startup if I'm not a developer? | stuff4ben: I would either partner with a developer, which in effect would give them equity or you hire a contractor or fulltime developer. I would imagine that you would have to give them specs. Otherwise I'd assume they would take a hand in crafting your idea, which is something it sounds like you want to prevent. |
How do I startup if I'm not a developer? | noodle: 1) do not use rentacoder, elance, or similar services. you get what you pay for. if you're looking for help, look around the established developer communities. HN is a good start. i also like the job board at freelanceswitch. there are others.2) Q:"What's to stop the coder from just taking the finished pro... |
How do I startup if I'm not a developer? | alain94040: 1. Don't try to learn to become a programmer. You'll fail miserably since it's not your sweet spot.2. Don't go after elance and other pay-for-hire sites.You need a technical co-founder, someone who believes in your product and is willing to work very hard and do whatever it takes to make the product a reali... |
How do I startup if I'm not a developer? | tjic: What's your team so far?1) you: the "idea guy"2) a designer ("another" designer ... so you're a designer too?)A great hacker is more key to making something great (and profitable) than a great designer.IMO, the team should be either:1) hacker, hacker2) hacker, semi-hacker/semi-bizdev/semi-designer3) hacker, bizde... |
Feedback on New Website Launch for Web Based Project Management Company | qtask: Thank you for all of the feedback thus far! |
How do I startup if I'm not a developer? | shiny: I can code Ruby/Rails/Merb (not an expert by far, but I may be able to get the job done), am in college looking for something cool to do, and would be willing to co-found (or develop at a fee) if I liked the idea.Hit me up at the email in my profile if interested. |
How do I startup if I'm not a developer? | SwellJoe: If you aren't a coder yourself, hiring a coder can be incredibly challenging. Recognizing a good hacker vs. a bad one on a site like rent-a-coder or elance when you aren't a good hacker yourself is pretty much entirely random. In fact, it might be worse than random, because the worst developers on sites lik... |
How do I startup if I'm not a developer? | vaksel: Don't waste time looking for a technical co-founder. If all you have is an idea, you'll never find one. Ideas are a dime a dozen, and most programmers get pitched all the time with "build me my site, do all the work, we'll make millions, and you'll get half of equity!"So unless you already have legitimacy by ge... |
How do I startup if I'm not a developer? | teuobk: A few thoughts:- Kevin Rose went to a coder on elance to build the first version of Digg, so that route can be successful
- Try posting fliers on the kiosks or in the CS buildings at college campuses. I'd recommend giving as much detail as possible about the idea on the poster; merely asserting that "I HAVE A ... |
How do I startup if I'm not a developer? | HSO: I wouldn't dismiss the "learn to code" advice altogether. Can you do/learn enough to build a prototype? Perhaps one iteration level beyond? Then you're good to go, IMO. Getting to that prototype, you learn what is difficult and what is impossible for you. During the time it takes you to build the prototype or firs... |
How Much Revenue Do Your Favorite Websites Get from You? | bemmu: On Reddit I'm not sure I ever clicked on an ad, but I went to their office and gave them an expensive bottle of vodka, so they probably monetized pretty well from me. |
How do I startup if I'm not a developer? | NonEUCitizen: If you're not technical, best thing is to learn how, or be able, to raise a lot of money.Re: protecting IP, you'd want to write up the contract as "work for hire" -- then the code is yours. You'd also want to read up on the various open source licenses so you know what kind of open source code, if any, y... |
Why is it so hard for social media/networking sites to monetize their users? | aristus: That's not the whole story. Plentyoffish is highly profitable. Why not other social networks? Because they have a less-effective ad model but think they can spend like a search engine.A lot of people (whether or not they "get" Web2.0) have unreasonable expectations for demographic and behavioral targeting of a... |
Why is it so hard for social media/networking sites to monetize their users? | vaksel: because people go on a social networking site to socialize, they focus their attention on their profile page, most people won't even let their eyes wander to the ad portion of the page |
Why is it so hard for social media/networking sites to monetize their users? | tokenadult: How do websites in general make money? (Or do they? Do they have revenues but not have earnings?)http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=542656 |
Why is it so hard for social media/networking sites to monetize their users? | staunch: http://andrewchenblog.com/2007/09/26/5-things-that-make-your... |
Good Java development tools? | m0digital: IntelliJ IDEA |
Why is it so hard for social media/networking sites to monetize their users? | benmathes: People don't like ads interfering with their social interactions. It's much more intrusive to be hanging out with your best bud and see an ad for Old Navy than it is to be shopping for stuff and see an ad for Old Navy. |
Why is it so hard for social media/networking sites to monetize their users? | antiismist: Advertisers want two things: people to buy stuff via some conversion funnel that starts with the ad, or "brand lift".The best way to get people to buy stuff is to find intenders - those people who are about to buy something in your category. Think google adwords. This doesn't work too well on social media, ... |
Why is it so hard for social media/networking sites to monetize their users? | erlanger: Because they try to profit through traditional business channels. By effectively leveraging social pressure, these things could be a gold-mine. |
Why is it so hard for social media/networking sites to monetize their users? | mattmaroon: The one thing I can tell you for sure, having done affiliate marketing on the big 3 search engines and the big 2 social networks, is that users on social nets click often but don't convert. The click through rates are lower than you'll see on Google, but not as much lower as you might think if you do a good... |
Why is it so hard for social media/networking sites to monetize their users? | iamelgringo: There is a way to get profitable, companies like Twitter, Digg and Facebook haven't figured it out, yet, and it gives the whole web 2.0 business a bad rap.MySpace is quite profitable to the tune of pushing $1 Billion in 2008: http://bit.ly/PJPc2Dogster has been doing quite well in the advertising space: h... |
RSS feed for posts with more than 5 pts? | kirubakaran: This will a lot of time for me every day. I don't mind the hours I spend here. But what really bothers me is how inefficiently I consume HN.If SearchYC has multiple customizable filters, it will be perfect. [points, date range, etc] I'd like to be able to exclude websites too. |
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