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Can someone please explain the logic of Google vs Newspapers? | mattmcknight: They've mostly been complaining about Google News (as if it were the source of all Google's revenue). They are also disappointed by the fact that Google seems to make money in the process of sending people their way.The real issue with their cash flow is that printing a paper is not an efficient way to ru... |
How worried do you get over bugs in your code? Is this a mental health issue? | cubicle67: Do you mean worry that there may be major bugs that you aren't aware of, or worry over bugs you know about but haven't fixed yet (for whatever reason)? |
I'd like to get a telescope for my kids. What do I need to know? | redleader: http://findascope.com/ |
Good online magazines, anyone? | Donald: http://www.nplusonemag.com/ Hipster's New Yorker. Less prolific, but makes up with more pretension.American politics: http://nplusonemag.com/dev/test/drupal-test/obamaGlobal politics: http://nplusonemag.com/dev/test/drupal-test/?q=defending-dic...Caustic film reviews: http://www.nplusonemag.com/dark-knight |
What are Wall Street programmers up to? | jhereg: By the way, I should admit that I created this alternate account (with deliberate symbolism if you catch it) just to post this--banks are notoriously image-conscious employers at times, and I've heard some nasty stories about what happens to people who don't maintain their anonymity. |
I'd like to get a telescope for my kids. What do I need to know? | tjpick: one thing I read in an annual astronomy magazine is that you're better off to start with a good pair of binoculars. I think the reason being they are cheaper and easier to control. I can look up the details if you are interested, and if I still have the mag kicking around home. |
I'd like to get a telescope for my kids. What do I need to know? | npk: Fortunately for you 2009 happens to be the international year of astronomy. Buy your daughter this:https://www.galileoscope.org/gs/She'll be able to do a variety of experiments on it, and if it turns out she actually enjoys looking through it, you can then buy her something more pricey. |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | DTrejo: When I search something it says "Want to sell through the TapInko network? Click here."Since the words are already a blue hyperlink, you can probably leave off "Click here." |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | DTrejo: When I click on "sign in" it does not auto-focus me to the username box. |
What are Wall Street programmers up to? | wahlee: I've spent time working at one of the "best" Wall Street banks as a student. I'm considering taking a full time job. At the time that I got started down the path I just applied to companies that had the reputations for having the smartest people.I did indeed work with some very bright people on some challenging... |
Obsessive Asian Parents | joshsharp: Related (though it was on here so you might've already seen it): http://en.chinaelections.org/NewsInfo.asp?NewsID=19911 |
Obsessive Asian Parents | jayp: I went to grad school first. Now, time for a startup. ;-)Actually, my parents have been very supportive of whatever I want to do. I think yours will be too -- just speak from your heart. Try to convince them how you feel about things. Most parents only want what's good for their child. However, often this leads t... |
Obsessive Asian Parents | swombat: I'm not asian, but I have a number of asian friends. In fact, my first cofounder and my current cofounder are both from Hong Kong.I think the "stable" pressure is present in Europe too. It's not just an asian thing. I'd argue that asians actually have it easier than europeans, because at least asia (well, Chin... |
Obsessive Asian Parents | ashishk: just talk to them.express to them what you want, how you plan to get it, and what you're sacrificing (both short-term and long-term) for it.you'd be shocked how supportive they might be. |
Obsessive Asian Parents | patio11: Just between you and me, stability is a myth, its a freaking jungle out there, and if you don't adapt to that reality you're tiger-food. However, that never flew with my mom, either.a) Business skills give me an excellent fall-back option to $SAFE_CHOICE if the business thing doesn't work out early in my car... |
Obsessive Asian Parents | dkarl: Maybe the key is convincing them that you know better? I knew one girl born in South Korea whose father (still living in Korea) was totally hands-off, with an attitude of, "Whoa, you understand the USA way better than I do; I'm out of my depth here; do what you think is best." She said it was night and day com... |
Obsessive Asian Parents | statictype: Well, I think its mixed.I would think my parent(s) qualifies as having the traditional asian mind-set. But the general consensus I find among them is that starting your own business and being your own boss gives you more security\freedom than working at a big company. However that varies greatly depending o... |
Obsessive Asian Parents | charlesju: I am an Asian American CS major from a good university. I am working full-time with 3 other Asian American engineers on our first startup straight out of college.My parents are super liberal and I am truly thankful for the opportunity that I was given growing up. They saved up enough for me to go to a privat... |
Obsessive Asian Parents | coffeemug: I have Jewish parents that value stability over risk. The pressure gets tough, sometimes. Ultimately, this isn't even a question of starting a business, but a question of a much deeper choice. Painters, musicians, writers, monks, soldiers, priests, boxers, swimmers, and many other people from all walks of li... |
Obsessive Asian Parents | Shamiq: I started off as a pre-med with guaranteed admission to medical school through Northwestern University's HPME.I'm currently a Junior, majoring in Computer Science, Economics and a minor in Business. Oh, and I'm also battling uphill to rebuild my resume/GPA.I sat down with my parents and explained to them what I... |
Obsessive Asian Parents | catch23: My parents fit this category. I am an American born Chinese, my parents came here to do their PhDs & postdoc, but attended college in China.They are also very "conservative". My mom pushed my sister to attend MIT over Princeton so that she would take the engineering route instead of something like liberal ar... |
Obsessive Asian Parents | timothychung: The main thing you need to do is to show them what startup is about. Tell them why, how and what for startup. You must tell them the reason, how much you love your ideas and the potential in your ideas.It is also cool to compare startup to other choices. Remember to let them understand the difference betw... |
Obsessive Asian Parents | dennykmiu: I wish your title were "Obsessive Parents" or "Obsessive Immigrant Parents". I am Asian. I am an immigrant. I am a parent. I am also a son with Asian parent. But I was also a Professor at UCLA for nine years so I had met quite a few students with Asian parents, Jewish parents, Iranian parents, any kind ... |
What are Wall Street programmers up to? | warfare_expert: I recently moved to NYC to work at a hedge fund after giving up an alternate offer at Google last year. You could say my timing wasn't the best.I would say the experience as a developer/analyst in any hedge fund or bank depends on 1. How well is it doing (PnL) ? Affects your job prospects and compensati... |
Obsessive Asian Parents | mahmud: Look, if you can't sell your startup to your parents how can you expect to sell it to others? |
Obsessive Asian Parents | jlm382: I have an asian mom and a jewish dad, and they don't mind if I go the "alternative" route and start a company. They don't mind if I never work for a company. In fact, they encourage that I follow my entrepreneurial instincts.But only as long as I get my college degree. Having a degree would be the one thing ... |
Obsessive Asian Parents | chiffonade: > how did you break out of this (and deal with the opinions of parents / culture you were raised in) to pursue your startups?I broke out of this by not giving a flying fuck what my parents thought and dealing with the consequences of my own actions.It's really not any more complicated than that. You either... |
Obsessive Asian Parents | gaoshan: Good question. As a tangent to this question I'm a white parent with a Chinese (as in from China, not American) wife who has her PhD. and is as hard working and focused as you might imagine so we sort of split the middle with our kids (her being the stricter one and me being the more relaxed one). We are still... |
Obsessive Asian Parents | vonsydov: Most parents are wrong about their kids. Infact, they're compensating for their own failures. Do whatever the hell you want to do. Mostly, you'll need to try out different things.It also depends on your personal inclinations. Are you a creative type ? Then why would you want to be a lawyer or a doctor ... or ... |
Obsessive Asian Parents | hs: i'm an asian and i am not in your categorymy parents were born in 1930s, due to wwii they didn't even finish high school.my father (even so my mom) was very poor, he worked for a while for relatives but later for his own. he's good in business -- none of his children amasses comparable wealth though; however, none... |
Using Scalr | flooha: Don't waste your time. I spent weeks struggling with this software. The documentation is non-existent, the only support is through the google user group. You have to run your own name servers which is the wrong approach for this kind of software and a serious time sink if you've never set up a name server bef... |
How can I tell if I'm working with a savvy business person? | briansmith: Has he convinced you to do all the work and accept all the liabilities while he gets to keep all the profits? If so, he is a savvy business person. Otherwise, not so much.P.S. Don't let him write the contract. |
How can I tell if I'm working with a savvy business person? | kaiserama: I would say references are a good start. If they are respected by their peers and customers that's going to be a good sign. The other thing is obviously their track record. If they've done good things in the past like increase sales x% or launch new initiatives. But do your own research into these matter... |
How can I tell if I'm working with a savvy business person? | hendrixski: Start working with them. It becomes immediately apparent. I'm on my second startup, we just raised funds and brought on a VP of marketing, and we did it by telling one guy "congrats you're on the team" and a week later realized that he wasn't the right fit, so told him "goodbye" and then we told another g... |
How can I tell if I'm working with a savvy business person? | vaksel: well what is his plan to market your product when you finish.this reminds me of this post I read a while ago, hacker started a startup...it took off, so he decided to hire a sales guy to take it to the next level. The guy was "awesome", a genius at sales or so it seemed. Well he hired him, gave him some equity(... |
How can I tell if I'm working with a savvy business person? | trapper: It is very hard. A few warning signs I have noticed over the years:- Superficial knowledge, but claim they know the field. When you dig deeper you find knowledge lacking. Wikipedia can help uncover this sometimes, amazingly.- Do not read new business books.- Haven't heard of "classic" books in the business wor... |
How can I tell if I'm working with a savvy business person? | Brushfire: The best sales/marketing/mgmt people I've met are those that take a systems-focused approach. On some levels, this is very similar to designing your db layout, or the user flow through your application.Good sales people design a repeatable process around selling. They investigate the market, build a call lis... |
Is the HN source code available? | pclark: http://arclanguage.org/ |
Obsessive Asian Parents | lacker: Just stop communicating with them. |
How can I tell if I'm working with a savvy business person? | blender: I would test them by suggesting some shiny objects and see if they go after them. i.e."Yes, Bob, we should do what you're suggesting but we should also do X, Y and Z."If they don't say "No" or something to the effect of: "Those are good suggestions but I think we really need to focus on getting a prototype out... |
How can I tell if I'm working with a savvy business person? | jlees: Work with him for a trial period. Set a goal and see if he helps you achieve it or even exceed it.You could also ask him to defend his management experience to you. Has he demonstrated results in a particular area before (winning new business for a similar product, for example)? |
How can I tell if I'm working with a savvy business person? | apinstein: It is very hard to figure out. I am IMHO a savvy business person and even I have a hard time figuring it out. Ultimately it takes time and getting to know the person.The only advice I can give to accelerate this process is to ask lots of questions. If he has an answer for everything, that's actually a bad si... |
How can I tell if I'm working with a savvy business person? | blurry: From my (extensive) experience, there is no way to know in advance. The only way to guard against surprises is to tie ownership to execution.Set specific performance goals for both yourself (modules released, SEO rankings, whatever's relevant) and "the suit" (capital in the bank, number of users, number of paid... |
Paywalls | systemtrigger: I think a paywall just hides a site's content from nonsubscribers so it's just a euphemism for a subscription site. As for micropayments, yes I think a lot of us are familiar with that technology - paypal and amazon fps developer docs ought to be enough to get you started. What specifically are you tryin... |
How can I tell if I'm working with a savvy business person? | FictiveCameron: Im a "business guy" out of Stanford GSB and if I was going to look for a hacker, I would expect to see a list of things that s/he had done. The more impressive that list the more likely I would be to work with that person.Seems to me you should simply take the flip side. For me, savvy isn't the right ... |
How can I tell if I'm working with a savvy business person? | e40: Someone that made a lot of money once... may be savvy. Someone who has repeatedly made money on different ventures... very likely savvy.There are a lot of people that hit the tech lotto because of being in the right place at the right time (e.g., google employee #20). There are many fewer that have hit after hi... |
Good online magazines, anyone? | PaulMorgan: Mother Jones Magazine: http://www.motherjones.com/ |
What Programming Book would you buy right now (if it existed) | macmac: Programming Clojure (http://www.pragprog.com/titles/shcloj/programming-clojure) - it semi-exists - presently only available as pdf beta book. |
What Programming Book would you buy right now (if it existed) | stonemetal: Software engineering in functional languages. Pretty much every programming book I have read found about functional languages has been about learning a language with examples that are less than a page. I am curious what thought patterns and structures you use to build something larger. |
What Programming Book would you buy right now (if it existed) | Femur: My fictional choice would be "The Oracle Optimizer: A Treatise"Database related books tend to be too high level and never dig down deep enough. |
Obsessive Asian Parents | stcredzero: All parents, not just Asian ones, are in no position to make rational decisions about their kids. The emotional bonds involved are just too strong.You can't convince your parents of anything, ever. All you can do is love them. |
What Programming Book would you buy right now (if it existed) | jasongullickson: "How to break the iPhone app store rules and still get your app accepted (every time)". |
What Programming Book would you buy right now (if it existed) | jaxn: Right now I wish I knew of a Pickaxe for Python.Also, I want a MacRuby book.On a slightly related note, how does the Kindle do with programming books? I am thinking about picking one up to use primarily as a reference screen. |
What Programming Book would you buy right now (if it existed) | halo: 'The Design and Implementation of Virtual Machines' or 'Theoretical Computer Science by Example'. |
What Programming Book would you buy right now (if it existed) | justindz: "Indie MMOs for Small, Distributed Teams"I wouldn't even mind if it took longer than 21 days. |
Any users of SimpleCDN? | jackjohnson: I have used SimpleCDN for 6 months now and it was great. HOWEVER! they changed their services around within a 3 week period and everyone was forced to migrate.The problem is that the services are not compatible.Case in point: They used to offer HTTP mirroring with GZip and HTTP Expires headers. Now they... |
What Programming Book would you buy right now (if it existed) | plinkplonk: Some of the suggestions I liked from the reddit discussion ( direct quotes, see http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8aixn/programmi... for the full list)- Plan 9 Unleashed.Or perhaps "Distributed computing with Inferno and Limbo"- a book like Gödel, Escher, Bach: Eternal Golden Braid that explores ... |
What Programming Book would you buy right now (if it existed) | TweedHeads: s/Book/eBookGet with the times |
What Programming Book would you buy right now (if it existed) | bryanalves: "The definitive guide to dealing with Huge MySQL databases" |
What Programming Book would you buy right now (if it existed) | juliend2: Why's (Poignant) Guide to C. |
What Programming Book would you buy right now (if it existed) | vonsydov: Norvig's Paradigms in AI book - http://norvig.com/paip.html |
What Programming Book would you buy right now (if it existed) | omnipath: Real programming in Prolog.
Eiffel system programming.
Lua system programming.I've found books for prolog, but they all start off with logic programming. It's kind of weird, or is it just me? And the other 2 I've not really seen any decent books for them. Unless I'm wrong? (A subtle cry for help.) |
What Programming Book would you buy right now (if it existed) | edw519: "How to Determine Exactly What Users Really Need"(All programming becomes much simpler after that.) |
Got rejected by YC 6-12 months ago? Where are you now? | hotshothenry: i abandoned it but have started a new project |
What Programming Book would you buy right now (if it existed) | Hexstream: Relevance of Knowledge for Programmers.Would give a reasonably detailed, comprehensive overview of all the timeless theory and techniques (CS theory, math, design, etc), where they come from and what they're actually useful for.So many projects are made much harder because a fundamental bit of theory has to ... |
What would you love to pay for if it was available? | davidw: Decent Mexican food in Europe:-) (BTW, "if it were available")Edit: if I ever 'made it big', and decided to stay in Italy, I'd invest a portion of my money in a good Mexican restaurant here. It would probably lose money, but what the hell. |
What would you love to pay for if it was available? | ErrantX: Chatterous.comRather than rehash why I would.. I explained it not long back here: http://www.errant.me.uk/blog/2009/03/dont-ignore-the-donator...How much? At the moment Chatterous is probably worth... $50 a month to me - and probably more to the company I work at.EDIT: I realise that verges on linkspam but oth... |
What Programming Book would you buy right now (if it existed) | vaksel: Twittering for dummies |
What would you love to pay for if it was available? | jaxn: A fuel efficient car / minivan with room for a family of 6 to take a road trip. There are no hybrid minivans :( |
What Programming Book would you buy right now (if it existed) | pavelludiq: "How to/not to become a religious zealot of your favorite language" |
What would you love to pay for if it was available? | khafra: A combination proxy/script/something that'd pop up an interstitial task tracker/to-do list overview when I go to any of a list of "time-sink" sites. I can click "snooze" and go to the time sink, with the task tracker popping back up after 5,10,30 minutes, turn it off for a day or two, or click through to the d... |
Got rejected by YC 6-12 months ago? Where are you now? | calvin: Whether you moved forward with the idea or abandoned it, I'd love to hear some of your thoughts and reasoning (rather than a plethora of yes/no responses).What have you learned? |
Got rejected by YC 6-12 months ago? Where are you now? | carterschonwald: continuing university and doing side projects, as is my habit |
What Programming Book would you buy right now (if it existed) | mattjaynes: Anything on Tokyo Cabinet / Tokyo Tyrant |
What Programming Book would you buy right now (if it existed) | paulgb: "Thinking in MapReduce" |
Got rejected by YC 6-12 months ago? Where are you now? | randallsquared: 18 months ago, I think. Abandoned that idea; now working at a job. I'll try a startup again with a different idea in the future. |
Got rejected by YC 6-12 months ago? Where are you now? | meow1981: Gained great traction and received funding from a top tier angel a month ago. Thanks for asking - it is an interesting thought experiment to look back and consider "alternative" futures.Because we did not get into YC, we were able to iterate freely on a big idea and get to where we are right now. But we took ... |
What would you love to pay for if it was available? | tsally: A device that could accurately measure caffeine intake, levels present in the body, and the strength of your bodies resistance. I know if I have another cup of coffee at 4PM, the quality of my code will be much better. What I never know is if it will wear off in time for me to get a normal nights sleep. :) |
What Programming Book would you buy right now (if it existed) | lucumo: "Writing a Compiler in 24 Hours" |
What would you love to pay for if it was available? | Femur: I desperately wish i could find top level tropical and non-tropical fruit of many varieties here in Houston. I love fresh fruit but mangos from Mexico are not that great and the lack of variety gets old. |
Got rejected by YC 6-12 months ago? Where are you now? | ph0rque: Paused the idea I applied with for now; will revisit once I have the skills to code it up in a very short period of time (<20 man-hours) as well as figure out an intuitive UI for its functionality. |
What would you love to pay for if it was available? | tokenadult: An intelligent agent that would hunt up best comment threads from lots of news aggregator and other discussion sites. |
What would you love to pay for if it was available? | melvinram: Teleportation device. Sign me up today! |
Got rejected by YC 6-12 months ago? Where are you now? | raquo: I wanted to apply last fall but my day job prevented me from building anything demoable in time and, being in Russia and not having any hacker reputation (I'm bachelor of Economics, worked in management consulting) I figured I had no chance to get in.My job was steadily taking about 14 hours a day and some of th... |
What would you love to pay for if it was available? | davi: "18. The WebOS. It probably won't be a literal translation of a client OS shifted to servers. But as applications migrate to servers, it seems possible there will be something that plays a central role like an OS does."http://ycombinator.com/ideas.htmlI'll know it when I see it, and when I see it, I'll happily pa... |
What would you love to pay for if it was available? | ivankirigin: I want a desktop computer with a docked netbook. The files, programs, and program configuration on the netbook should auto-sinc with the desktop. Large files should be easy to stream from the desktop to the netbook. The netbook needs to have an embedded, fast cell network data connection.I might be able to... |
What would you love to pay for if it was available? | taciturn: An online memorial for a dead relative. |
What would you love to pay for if it was available? | intheory0: I'd buy a CDMA iPhone. Forget ATT's slow and spotty GSM 3G. Bring on CDMA RevA. |
Got rejected by YC 6-12 months ago? Where are you now? | baguasquirrel: Quit job to work on it anyway. Old company has problems (with itself and with me) and I never fitted in to begin with. Have lots of stock from that stint, and good friends to bank on.Cobbling together prototype, teaching myself the NLP and plan on combining it with some techniques I learned in vision r... |
What would you love to pay for if it was available? | nickfox: A robotic pleasure unit like in the movie BladeRunner... |
What would you love to pay for if it was available? | blender: Single serving cat food tins. i.e. Half the size of regular tins.You might think I'm joking, but I'm not - I looked for this earlier today online.Cheers |
What would you love to pay for if it was available? | rdouble: Regenerative disc therapy for my lower back injury. |
Got rejected by YC 6-12 months ago? Where are you now? | ALee: We were rejected (back in the day when we weren't working on JamLegend). Now we're looking for people to join us on our mission in San Francisco.Oddly enough, we're close friends with a lot of the YC companies. The honest truth that every YC company (and LaunchBox, Techstars, etc.) will tell you is that you still... |
What would you love to pay for if it was available? | abstractbill: I would pay for a good enough telepresence application for keeping in touch with my family and friends (they're in the UK, I'm in San Francisco).Skype is better than nothing, but still not good enough. |
What would you love to pay for if it was available? | dexen: A computer display with at least 200DPI, and about 19...21 inches diagonal. I'd consider only 1:1 and 4:3 sized ones.Honestly, several times I've been searching for high resolution displays, and aside of old, expensive and slow T221 (or crazy-expensive medical and flight control ones), there are none.Why such DP... |
What would you love to pay for if it was available? | cjbos: Something that allows me to search across all my old browser history (Content of the pages not the titles). So I can find all those blog posts and articles I forgot to bookmark for later reading at the time. (I guess I could start using stumbleupon or something but I want to be able to search in those pages as w... |
What would you love to pay for if it was available? | bemmu: Apartment with a pool in Tampere, Finland. Also I would be more likely to rent a place using a site that actually allowed me to search for apartments from a map.Instant helpful per-minute advice from MySQL/Linux/etc. gurus 24/7 when I need it. Similarly graphic design where I could in a few moments get sketches ... |
What would you love to pay for if it was available? | ALee: Business:
- a way way better analytics system that integrates with our own logs and sql calls
- a better referral system for hiring, contacts, etc.Personally:
- a system to clean up my contacts and make sure that all my living address books (linkedin facebook) work out.
- a front end for mechanical turk, so that ... |
Got rejected by YC 6-12 months ago? Where are you now? | gilesgoatboy: I had a Lamborghini, my own skyscraper, and I was dating twin Playboy centerfolds. then I got rejected by YC. my Lamborghini exploded, an earthquake felled my skyscraper, my twins dumped me, and to top it all my dick fell off. now I wander the streets mumbling the lyrics to old Huey Lewis and the News son... |
What would you love to pay for if it was available? | jmtame: a way to record streaming audio on a mac and auto splitting with auto tagging. Would pay up to $100 |
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