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Possible loophole for angel investing net worth restriction? | falsestprophet: No. A business can only be an accredited investor when all of the owners are accredited investors themselves. |
How do you guys approach abstractions when reading code? | tirrellp: You get better at code by reading code.That being said, I have NEVER been good at pouring through lines of code to figure out whats going on. Others seem to be exceedingly good at it. The closest analogy that comes to mind is music. Some can read music really well and play from sheet music, others play by ... |
Best Command Line Email Client? | davidw: Emacs? gnus:http://www.gnus.org/ |
Best Command Line Email Client? | jefftang: You want mh (mail handler) or perhaps a modern variant. I haven't used it in over a decade, but it's totally command line. Messages are actually files and folders are directories, so there's no need for FUSE or any wierd hacks like that. And there's a pretty decent emacs mode. |
Best Command Line Email Client? | mitechka: Do look at MH and similar systems |
Best Command Line Email Client? | vasudeva: I've been really enjoying sup -- http://sup.rubyforge.org/ -- in fact, that really wordy quote about five down is mine. |
Best Command Line Email Client? | RobGR: I currently use gnus in xemacs.I don't like it, but it is better than the other options I have tried. However, I may revist mutt, it has been a long time since I messed with that.I originally went to gnus because I am on a lot of mailing lists and I liked the idea of handling mailling lists the same way I read ... |
How do you guys approach abstractions when reading code? | ieatpaste: Personally, I have little trust in documentation. Not that it's useless, but that documentation rarely holds everything you need to know about the code. Usually, I'll take a high-to-low level approach, and use visualization programs/plugins which graph the class dependencies and overall structure. I'll take ... |
Best Command Line Email Client? | obno: Try wanderlust on emacs http://gohome.org/wl/o Very good IMAP support (Supports pop3,nntp,MH, filesystem too)o Offline supporto Works perfectly on large (>2gb) imap foldersUse the WL from CVS as the download/documentation on the website is outdated. (http://cvs.m17n.org/viewcvs/root/wanderlust/)Yet another imapfs... |
How Much Experience Required Before I Become Self Employed? | noodle: i would take you seriously after two things happen:1) you take yourself seriously, and2) you can show me examples and proof that you should be taken seriously (i.e., past work, competent answers to questions, etc.)thats about it. |
How do you guys approach abstractions when reading code? | ivanstojic: I've always been pretty good at reading other people's code. As a developer/consultant I switch codebases often, and I agree with the other poster about reading code making you good at reading code.My approach is somewhat different than others mentioned here. I do take the top-down approach, but in a limite... |
Best Command Line Email Client? | lincolnq: I still use mutt. It's not great, but it's better than anything else I've tried. I ssh to my mail server and run mutt in a screen. My mail server has imap and webmail set up too, so it's fairly convenient no matter where I am.I've wanted Mutt to be properly scriptable; it doesn't have much good in the way of ... |
How do you guys approach abstractions when reading code? | sophacles: When I first started coding, both reading it and writing it, I found that a lot of people wrote code in an unnecessarily complex way. Then I would decide to code it in the much simpler way I saw in my head. As I coded along, trying to add the features I needed, I would see a way to be even more flexible for... |
How do you guys approach abstractions when reading code? | darkxanthos: It also matters how hard they try to make it readable. Here's an example of some tests for an OSS project I'm working on (It's a messaging application).http://github.com/jcbozonier/alloy/blob/d8dfbd51285c6c83df78... |
Best Command Line Email Client? | likpok: You could just write a FUSE driver to support this. It would not be very hard.Since that sounds like what you want, why not do it? |
Best Slidehow Making Tool? | mcav: Before I got into programming, I made several graduation/wedding/memorial videos for people. It was an incredible mess. I had to scan each photo into a [slow, old] flatbed scanner, manually rotate them, and save them. Then, I would tediously add each photo to a slide in Corel's presentation software (the WordPerf... |
what types of softwares are needed during (this) great depression | codeodor: It's a great question that we should all be thinking about, especially the entrepreneurial among us. But -- even given my short time here -- I'm surprised it didn't get killed due to the liberally editorial headline.As for "Make Me Dinner" I read recently about doing on one of the "frugal" blogs that Lifehack... |
Best Command Line Email Client? | adharmad: www.mew.org |
Best Slidehow Making Tool? | wenbert: My friends have tried using iPhoto once for a bar party. We just hooked it up with projector and speakers. iPhoto is good since the transitions are cool enough and you can play music during the slideshow.If you do not have a Mac then borrow one from your friends ;-) |
Best Slidehow Making Tool? | jsterce: Microsoft PhotoStory + Windows Movie Maker might do the trick for you. If you need more power and can't find an online solution, ProShow Gold is great. Kind of pricey though. |
Best Slidehow Making Tool? | quizbiz: Just use powerpoint and hook speakers to your ipod. Our ears will naturally match the flow of the music with transitions. |
Best Command Line Email Client? | silentbicycle: nmh and its Emacs client, mh-e, are pretty nice, and are an excellent fit for working in screen. It's been a couple years since I used it actively, but it's worth a look.nmh in particular is a bundle of small command-line programs that "just" dump out a list of subject lines for unread messages, etc. Eas... |
How to ban users from your site? | bdwalter: These guys do it all day long.www.iovation.com |
How Much Experience Required Before I Become Self Employed? | tortilla: Save up a year of living expenses. |
Why is Python so strict about automatically casting differently typed literals? | mcav: I rarely use str() and int() unless I'm doing conversion of user input (e.g. web apps). You'd have to be more specific about your usage.For instance, string formatting doesn't require casts -- just pretend everything's a string: >>> print "%s %s %s = %s" % (4, '-', 1, 3)
4 - 1 = 3 |
How Much Experience Required Before I Become Self Employed? | mahmud: Give me a link to your code repo and then we talk. |
Best Command Line Email Client? | skwiddor: The upas program in http://swtch.ccom/plan9port/ mounts remote mailboxes as file systemsThough see a caveat http://fixunix.com/plan9/329502-9fans-p9p-upas.htmlI don't use it myself as I run a real Plan9 system. |
best file manager for OS X? | windsurfer: KDE4 is approaching stable on OS X, and it has two file managers that do what you want (dolphin and konqueror): http://mac.kde.org/ |
best file manager for OS X? | Titanous: Path Finder (http://cocoatech.com/) will let you do most of what you're asking. (tree view, symlinks, file attributes, previews, mode changes, single window operation)I'd highly recommend it. |
best file manager for OS X? | ovi256: bash/zsh, whatever shell you want. Just forget the "Proper collapsible/expandable tree view" - why are you limiting yourself to GUI file managers ? Get on the new old thing - command lines. |
computer parts benchmarking site | ScottWhigham: i haven't been able to find any decent site for desktop parts on google.Well, I don't know how picky you are or how hard you've looked already but tomshardware.com and anandtech.com are two "standards". |
best file manager for OS X? | whalesalad: Regarding SFTP, I use ExpanDrive (http://www.expandrive.com/mac) which works with Finder. They act as remote drives in the left pane which you can interact with just like an external drive. It's not free, but it's pretty cheap and really versatile. You can have drives auto mount on login, and it can be cont... |
If we woke up tomorrow and... | Hates_: Yes of course. For all I know my neighbours could be Houdini/Tesla/Feynman/Jobs. I love what I do and my neighbours have no impact on what I do with my life. |
best file manager for OS X? | tvon: > Ability to see and create symlinksPathFinder might let you create symlinks, though pretty much everything should display them with a little arrow overlay.> Preview of SVG filesI don't think any finder replacement will do this for you. If you have an app that can edit SVG files, it should be generating a previe... |
best file manager for OS X? | fiaz: forklift...I've been an OSX devotee for a long time, and I feel your pain. I use forklift because it's relatively lightweight on the memory and it does what I need to do efficiently. I was thinking of going with PathFinder, but I decided against it because it was a bit too memory heavy for me. PathFinder has m... |
best file manager for OS X? | stevejohnson: I think Path Finder is probably the only usable alternative, but some of your supposed "missing features" aren't actually missing. Please correct me if I misread you...> Proper collapsible/expandable tree view
View -> as List: Check it out, tree view.> Ability to see and create symlinks
Finder has this. S... |
best file manager for OS X? | joubert: Finder and Terminal.
For mounting remote SSH / FTP, I use MacFusion (http://www.macfusionapp.org/), which uses Google's MacFUSE. |
Best Command Line Email Client? | scumola: pine is the best and has been so forever. Supports ldap, ssl, imap and nntp and much more. http://www.washington.edu/pine/ |
best file manager for OS X? | JeremyChase: I have been on OS X for almost a year now, and the Finder windows are still bugging me. One feature that I really miss is the ability to "cut" a file then "paste" it into another directory. In order to move a file from one directory with the GUI Finder you have to have both directories open in a window and... |
what types of softwares are needed during (this) great depression | HeyLaughingBoy: Do you have any idea what a depression is like?In a depression, the game is changed to such an extent that you'd be hard pressed to predict what people would need. Instead, go outside and ask them. They'll be easy to spot: lying in the gutters, begging for change, an in line at the soup kitchens.So we'l... |
best file manager for OS X? | tortilla: You can also enable "path view" in Finder.http://www.tuaw.com/2008/12/05/terminal-tips-enable-path-vie...I use Quicksilver for most my navigating needs. Also you can copy, move, delete a file using QS.http://www.usingmac.com/2007/10/6/moving-files-with-quicksil...Another tip is using command + 1-4, which wil... |
best file manager for OS X? | nickb: Try these and see what you like.PathFinder - http://cocoatech.com/ForkLift - http://www.binarynights.com/MacExplorer - http://www.ragesw.com/products/explorer.html (if you like Windows Explorer) |
If we woke up tomorrow and... | Tangurena: Going from one of the smartest people in the neighborhood to the absolute stupidest person in the neighborhood would be rather traumatic. |
Where Can I Download Standford iPhone Development Course Materials? | smoody: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php |
best file manager for OS X? | jonhohle: - Preview of SVG filesIANASVGE (I am not an SVG expert): while I'm surprised Finder doesn't show SVG previews, if you use quicklook (hit space with the file selected), it will show you a preview. You can also open SVGs in Safari. |
best file manager for OS X? | cubicray: check out Leap: http://www.ironicsoftware.com/leap/index.html |
Shall I become a Freelance? | ScottWhigham: Sure - why not. The nice thing about being freelance is that you can work full-time at one thing and freelance in your spare time. You don't have to go completely freelance if it makes you nervous.Have you tried elance or odesk? I don't know if they are right for you but they might be good options.Good lu... |
best file manager for OS X? | bayareaguy: On OSX I can do almost all of those things easily
in a single window with emacs dired-mode in a Terminal, the ! (shell) key and the "open" command. |
best file manager for OS X? | mmphosis: Finder. |
Shall I become a Freelance? | keefe: Dude, go to college! You should definitely take some online freelance work and submit to topcoder and all that. However, if you have a passion for this area and intend to spend a career in it, just bite the bullet and get a highly theoretical, mathematical education to understand the fundamental truths about inf... |
Sales book recommendation? | melvinram: * SPIN Selling by Rackman* The Sales Bible by Gitomer* Selling to VITO by Parinello* Lead Generation for the Complex Sale by Brian Carroll* http://www.marketingsherpa.com/* http://blog.startwithalead.com/weblog/* http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=35771&trk=a... This one is a linekdin group that sends ... |
Sales book recommendation? | mooders: Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the ChasmBosworth/Holland's Customer-Centric Selling |
Shall I become a Freelance? | vaksel: freelancing right now is way too saturated, without feedback/reputation you'll be bidding on projects and noone will pick you since you are untested.I'd focus on making some niche website for Tunisia since that market should be pretty open |
Sales book recommendation? | AlleyRow: The 100 Best Business Books of All Time has a list of 12 Sales/Marketing books on this page: http://100bestbiz.com/more-on-the-100-best/The list as a whole is pretty solid. |
Sales book recommendation? | dangoldin: Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat by Michael Masterson is pretty good. |
Sales book recommendation? | access_denied: Bob Bly. |
Why is Python so strict about automatically casting differently typed literals? | bayareaguy: Explicit is better than implicit. |
Sales book recommendation? | sachinag: Are your rates public on your site? If not, I'd start there. If your sales cycles are long, there's nothing that will qualify leads faster.If Brian Fling can do it, so can you: http://www.flingmedia.com/contact/ (drop-down under New Project Request) |
Sales book recommendation? | kashif: Highly recommend - Selling the Wheel! |
Shall I become a Freelance? | simplegeek: I did some freelancing couple of years back. If you need a steady income then learn PHP and graphics design. I mean you should be really good at either PHP or graphics design (better yet, be good at both). Be patient, start small and just hang in there. You will win projects. If you're lucky, you will be pr... |
Sales book recommendation? | mrduncan: How to Win Friends & Influence People (http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/06...) - Seriously. |
Sales book recommendation? | oomkiller: Be sure to keep your mentality, don't adopt the sales mentality where you just try to make as many sales as possible. If you're not making enough, maybe you should charge more for services, while at the same time improving the quality of work. In web design and programming, I always put quality above quant... |
Sales book recommendation? | wallflower: "Go for No"Incorrect model: Success <--- Me ---> Failure
Correct model: Me ---> Failure ---> SuccessMore about the book:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=415531 |
Do I need a captcha on my web apps sign up form? | cruise02: Yeah, if you get any kind of traffic at all, and some script kiddie discovers that they can fill your disk quota with fake accounts, they will. I recommend reCAPTCHA (http://recaptcha.net/whyrecaptcha.html), since it's free and easy. |
Why would anyone POST anything in AJAX? | aristus: Not at all. Imagine a document editor. There are limits to the amount of data that can be passed via GET URLs. Without POST you could only have 2KB documents. In Archivd we use POST via Ajax anywhere the user mutates data. It avoids the data length problem and makes it simpler to defend against CSRF attacks. |
Why would anyone POST anything in AJAX? | cperciva: Many systems have limits on the maximum length of a GET query string, since said strings form part of a URL. In most cases these limits are quite large (4kB or more) but I've seen systems which can't even handle 1kB URLs.If you want to send a large amount of form data and not have things randomly break, it's... |
Do I need a captcha on my web apps sign up form? | ashleyw: If I see a form, I instantly decide whether it's worth filling in based on how much I want to pass it. And I often press the back button when I'm feeling lazy.…captchas really don't help.Don't fix a problem until it exists, and even then try and find an alternative method to fix it if it may negatively affect ... |
Why would anyone POST anything in AJAX? | jaxn: In addition to request size limits, using the HTTP methods on server side code can simplify code. If I GET a person record then send it down, if I POST a person record then process the passed parameters. With that separation I may find that POST requests do not require sending any data to the client (other than a... |
Why would anyone POST anything in AJAX? | pmjordan: There are numerous implications of choosing POST or GET.First off, the HTTP specification requires that GET (and HEAD) requests be idempotent^W EDIT: side effect free to enable caching. Clearly, violations of this abound; however, proxy servers and other infrastructure will often hold you to this rule, so mak... |
Do I need a captcha on my web apps sign up form? | sachinag: No.We go on and on about premature optimization in our code; why do that in your signup process? If and when it becomes a big issue, sure, add a CAPTCHA. But until then, why? |
Do I need a captcha on my web apps sign up form? | makeee: I don't use a captcha on my site and I've never had an issue. I wouldn't worry about it until the problem arises. If your site is just starting out you want to keep that barrier to participation as low as possible. |
Shall I become a Freelance? | gilesgoatboy: you shouldn't become a grammar! it's trickies the globalism with worldwide tumble. Tunisia falls many leagues beyond me. what you do in other situation, it's enema wrapped in mysterious.always superior alternative is opening source. excellent tutorial in ways of development. also networking if your cypher... |
Do I need a captcha on my web apps sign up form? | ryanwaggoner: Well, do you?I wouldn't add one unless you need one, based on what you're seeing for your own app. |
Anyone want to work on this project with me? (imgfave.com) | kunqiana: Kool! your site makes me happy ;) |
What do you think of the Kindle? | st3fan: I would have an opinion about the Kindle if the damn thing was actually available in Canada. |
Why would anyone POST anything in AJAX? | gills: I use ajax POSTs for autosaves, creating and deleting 'child' objects (when the UI for the sub-object should be added to/removed from the page without a reload). Basically any mutation where I don't want a reload. |
Sales book recommendation? | iainduncan: I'm a freelancer in web dev and show biz and have done a lot of sales in that area. Brian Tracey's "Advanced Selling Strategies" is probably the best single book out there for individual one-on-one selling, especially if you also read "How to Win Friends and Influence People" 80% of reviewers on Amazon gave... |
Anyone want to work on this project with me? (imgfave.com) | damada2: It's a cool concept and I like your implementation, but it's very similar to http://ffffound.com/ no? |
Shall I become a Freelance? | nickfox: Try www.elance.com If you are good, you should be able to make some decent money as a freelancer. |
Sales book recommendation? | antiform: If I could choose one book on sales, it would beNon-Manipulative Selling by Tony Alessandra.This is a diamond in the rough among sales books. Many other books on sales, at least in the few that I've read and others I've skimmed, seem to be full of subtle and not-so-subtle psychological manipulation that alway... |
Do I need a captcha on my web apps sign up form? | ctingom: Okay thanks everybody for the replies. The consensus appears to be to leave it off until it's a problem. So that's what I'm going to do. |
Do I need a captcha on my web apps sign up form? | ozsynergy: Don't worry about captcha till you need it.I strongly recommend storing the ip address and the signup datetime. It makes finding and deleting spam accounts easy. |
Do I need a captcha on my web apps sign up form? | Hexstream: Limiting new accounts to, say, 20 per day per IP should severely mitigate most attacks, especially the ones not specifically targetted at your site. For the targeted ones, deal with them as they come up, in a more or less manual way. You don't want to have 10000 new fake account creations per second but you ... |
Do I need a captcha on my web apps sign up form? | Goladus: I'd say implement one if you can afford the time and resources now. Then shut it off until you actually need it. |
What do you think of my Recipe Search Engine? | kbrower: clickable link:
http://www.recipepuppy.com |
Sales book recommendation? | farout: I have been sales for years - the books mentioned are good not great. If there was one that was my favorite out of the 200+ ones I read, "let's get real or let's not play" by khalsa. It is good for you for several reasons:
1. based on consultative services not product sales
2. the audio is hands down the best. ... |
What do you think of my Recipe Search Engine? | kyro: Less words, more pastel colors. And your logo doesn't quite invigorate my appetite. |
Sales book recommendation? | edw519: The best I've ever seen:http://www.amazon.com/Cant-Teach-Ride-Bike-Seminar/dp/096717... |
What do you think of my Recipe Search Engine? | rfreytag: don't require comma separation use spaces like google and assume (or tell) people to quote multi-word ingredients (like "ice cream"). |
Why would anyone POST anything in AJAX? | cnlwsu: POST easier to protect from XSS attacks when using the Django middleware. |
best file manager for OS X? | jamesbritt: I've been trying out mu-commander. Not bad, better than Finder for actual file/directory browsing.Wish it had auto-complete of paths, though. |
Do I need a captcha on my web apps sign up form? | eli: Bots will definitely attempt to submit any form they encounter.And captchas (or any other additional signup question!) decreases signups pretty significantly |
best file manager for OS X? | ttam: Like many have said, Path Finder is probably the best alternative, except it's costy.I would love to have free time and make a file manager that is as light and useful as windows explorer (imho it's much better than any *nix file manager) |
Do I need a captcha on my web apps sign up form? | vamsee: I've seen a couple of friends complain about captchas that they're a pain to fill in. They definitely don't make the signup process any simpler. I've seen some sites use simple math questions, like "what is 2 plus 5" or something like that. Don't know how effective they are in stopping spam, though. |
Shall I become a Freelance? | christofd: Hmmm... PHP and web design is not going to be enough to compete in the open freelance market. Most people have college degrees and use LOCAL contacts from school, work or friends to get jobs.I mean what do you expect - you're 18 years old! To get this right - if you DO have the technical skill to do this (an... |
What do you think of my Recipe Search Engine? | omouse: I don't get it. Why would anyone register for a topic-specific search site?What features are there aside from searching? |
Why 8aweek (YC Startup) redirects to Google's homepage? | webwright: The switched their idea to SocialBrowse. You should check it out: http://socialbrowse.com/And they should redirect to RescueTime instead. ;-) |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | jpedrosa: Lots of things interest me so it's hard to pick just one. So I am going to list a few.* WebKit - decidedly the web brick that should help with introducing new developments faster in order to keep things open and modern;* IronRuby - might take a while, but eventually it should make programming for the .net wor... |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | ziadbc: I think that we all experience this to one degree or another. Albert Einstein described the phenomenon as this:"The knowledge that we have can be analogous to a circle. Inside the circle is what we know and what we call knowledge; outside the circle is what we don't know and need to explore. As our circle of k... |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | critke: Build something. Then listen really hard to what people say. Don't take it personally - just make it so it works for people. And Iterate! |
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