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Review my side project - Reel Roulette | mkyc: You should track at what times the people click next.Your like button is too far away from the next button, and neither has keyboard shortcuts. |
Confused: Stay in my comfort zone / work very hard for someone else ? | sidmitra: Like everything else in life. The answer is "It depends".There is nothing stopping you from learning more with your current job. Regular working hours still leave you with free time on the weekends, and maybe an hour or two every day to read up on stuff you like.Lots of people here, bootstrap a company along ... |
Setting Goals | pedalpete: I assume you are referring to this post http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1689-link-ready-aimfail-why-s... ??As I understand it, it does not recommending you don't set goals, it is just recommending that goals be something more than a to-do list or group of numbers.Let's take a goal such as 'fix a bug within tw... |
Review WinkVid, my "ChatRoulette for dating" startup | jordanf: WinkVid was started as part of SocialDevCamp Chicago's Hackathon, where we built a prototype in 36 hours. We've had a few months to polish it up and we just launched WinkVid today.We're a team of two bootstrapped guys in Chicago. Would appreciate any comments, suggestions or questions. |
Confused: Stay in my comfort zone / work very hard for someone else ? | SwellJoe: I say this to pretty much everyone with these kinds of questions: It will never be less risky than it is today. You will never have fewer responsibilities than you have today. As you get older, you collect responsibilities and obligations and expenses that can't be dramatically reduced (like children and medi... |
Interesting (Non software) books? | abhiyerra: The History of Sexuality - Michel Foucault
Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America - Daniel J. Boorstin
These books make you look at society in a much more critical manner. The first two are difficult reads, but none the less good and referenced quite a b... |
Confused: Stay in my comfort zone / work very hard for someone else ? | thaumaturgy: Develop a comfortable cushion of savings -- 3 months' salary wouldn't be too bad to start with -- and then try the other job out, if you can.Have you ever watched people get older?Some people, as they get older, stay really dynamic. Their minds are sharp, they're active, they "age well". Other people just ... |
Setting Goals | imp: An oldie but goodie is from Think and Grow Rich:http://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Napoleon-Hill/dp/04492...Develop one Definitive Chief Aim. It's a very specific medium to long-term goal (1 - 20 years or so) with a specific deadline. Repeat it to yourself every day. Whatever your mind can conceive and belie... |
Confused: Stay in my comfort zone / work very hard for someone else ? | f2ender: Thanks for the advice, guys. It has made things a lot more clear. |
Review my side project - Reel Roulette | BrianHammond: Suggestion: temporarily disable the "next reel" button for a duration of time proportional to the frequency of my clicks thereupon. Make me watch the reels instead of trying to satisfy my urge to see "what's next?" |
Who's hiring? | jseifer: To anyone on here who is hiring: I just launched a job board that specifically targets the HN niche. You can use the coupon code "HN" (in caps) for a free full time job posting. That coupon is good for the first 100 posts (I don't think that will be an issue). The site is Genius Pool: http://geniuspool.com/?s=... |
Where do you buy your health care? | portman: Don't let healthcare stop you from starting your own company. You can get COBRA continuation coverage for 18 months.I'm currently using COBRA continuation coverage; this is the second time I've done so in 10 years, and it's a great way to keep your same health plan while starting up a new venture. With any luc... |
Interesting (Non software) books? | ryanwanger: Walden 2, by B.F. Skinner.It's like an instruction manual for a utopian society, in novel form. This book set my mind on fire with crazy and inspiring ideas about how society could be... |
Feedback on my site | benologist: Since I first posted here about 5 or 6 weeks ago I've been mostly focused on other sides of my startup, but I added a blog a few weeks ago, and then this week I finally got back to the homepage and added the new counter, the feature list on the homepage and the shoutouts to hivelocity and fgd.What do you th... |
Interesting (Non software) books? | renkeyes: With NUMMI closing down any day now, "The Machine that Changed the World" by Womack, et al (1990) is almost as relevant now as it was then. The book describes the management and product development techniques used in the Japanese-owned auto industry and how they contrast(ed) with those employed by US-owned au... |
Business Model Hall of Fame | jakarta: Rockfeller saw the benefits of consolidation. At the time, he witnessed the oil business (refineries) being terribly unprofitable. They often went bankrupt and failed. But he figured out that by reducing competition through consolidation, he would be able to gain market share and expand margins. One of the way... |
Confused: Stay in my comfort zone / work very hard for someone else ? | adrianscott: You should question your assumptions. You are assuming you would have to put in longer hours at a new job. This assumption is limiting you analysis of the problem (and is a flawed assumption). Start with what you want and then develop a path to it.Hope this helps. |
Review my side project - Reel Roulette | tapostrophemo: I noticed you're asking your users to enter a vimeo URL by hand. I know that during signup it's impractical to bounce the user over to vimeo to authenticate, but once the user is signed up do you give them the option of picking the video from their albums instead of entering a URL? |
Forums with quality discourse | rakim: Dude, internet forums will never be places of quality discourse so long as any random person off the street can post a comment. |
Feedback on my site | raptrex: The counter is annoying. Maybe choose a better gradient for the button, it looks weird to me. The bright blue title like "Analytics for flash games" is too bright to me. Make the text on the white background bigger. Make the thumbnails clickable to full size images would make this a lot better. |
Review my side project - Reel Roulette | coreyrecvlohe: This is a really good idea. It just so happens that I'm in the market for a motion designer or animator for a TV commercial I want to run.I didn't know exactly where to search for any talented designers, and eLance, along with some of the job boards, really don't give you much material to review. But I l... |
Feedback on my site | TedBlosser: i think the design overall looks pretty solid. agree somewhat on the counter, cool at first, but annoying if you are reading the text on the page. small note, home page link (logo) is broken if you navigate to the register tab and want to go back home (unless you were doing that on purpose). Like the und... |
closed million+ monthly forum coz of spammers, now what? | AdeN: Peter, as a daily user of your site, (PBH), for over 5 years, I cannot understand this unannounced decision. The site is an unexplained winner, a freak, or in other words; you struck lucky.The whole thing has been a glorious mix of debate, idiocy, playground banter, wit and solid information for a long time. In m... |
Interesting (Non software) books? | roundsquare: God's Debris. Available in pdf here:http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/godsdebris/Its written by Scott Adams, the guy who does Dilbert, but its completely different from Dilbert. Its basically an exploration of one theory about where the universe comes from, the nature of god, etc... A thought experiment in c... |
Business Model Hall of Fame | known: I think http://isbn.nu/aisbn/auletta%20ken
books provide insights to 800 pound gorilla businesses |
Feedback on my site | mdolon: The most important information I found on your site was the comparison chart between your service, MochiMedia and HeyZap! - is there any way you can put more focus on that, or mention the comparisons on the homepage?Otherwise, looks good and I wish you the best of luck. It seems like it will be hard getting tr... |
Business Model Hall of Fame | thaumaturgy: The excellent book by Guy Kawasaki, "Rules for Revolutionaries", has examples from lots of industries over various periods of time.I'm confused by what you mean about "business models", here. I doubt that you could say that Henry Ford had a "business model" when he went into business; what he had was a mec... |
Feedback on my site | dannyr: It's weird. I have seen so many posts here that says "Review my startup" even though it's only an app/site.Here you are calling it "my site". I would actually call it a startup. |
Setting Goals | cianestro: Rules I live by to get things done (that work for everyone):
1. Figure out what you have done.
2. Decide what task demands your immediate attention NOW.
3. Stop debating and devote yourself fully to doing #2* and disregard time* completely while doing so.
4. Repeat.#'s 2-3 constitute a task or procedure but ... |
Review my side project - Reel Roulette | revorad: Wow, how did you get those designers on board? There's some real good stuff on there. I hope this takes off. Good luck. |
Review my side project - Reel Roulette | coffee: I don't know about the whole "Roulette" theme to it, but the content is gold, that's what makes this site... Good stuff! |
Feedback on my site | callmeed: Why the focus on games? Our company designs, sells, and hosts Flash sites (several thousand) but they aren't games. This is something we need and I imagine it would be very marketable to design agencies and companies that are building non-game microsites for products, movies, bands, etc.A tool like this would... |
What do you think of this business idea? PDF printing & delivery | bluesmoon: about 10/11 years ago, this company called homeindia.com used to do this. The idea was that a whole bunch of Indians work in the US/Europe and use email every day, but their families back in India have no internet access. They provided a service where you'd email stuff to them, and they'd print it out and ... |
Interesting (Non software) books? | tommorris: Elsewhere in the thread, I posted some recommendations on books on philosophy of religion from a non-theistic perspective. I guess I should probably list some books on philosophy generally.1. Bertrand Russell - The Problems of PhilosophyA good introduction to the basic things which philosophers in the Anglo-... |
What do you think of this business idea? PDF printing & delivery | revorad: I'm struggling to think of a genuine use case. The problem is the waiting time.It might work if your target user was someone who didn't need the printout immediately. Otherwise, you'd have to deliver the printouts pretty damn fast. Faster than Amazon to deliver a printer. But then, you'd have to charge loads, ... |
Review my side project - Reel Roulette | milkshakes: i love the colors and clean minimalism.
are you planning on feeding the likes to something like directededge to make it smarter?along that vein, why are you using likes instead of ratings? |
Feedback on my site | ErrantX: Nice idea. I can't comment on the product as I wouldn't personally use it - but in terms of the site.- the rate counter is distracting. Also the cynic in me checked the source code (and refreshed a couple of times) and I see it's static. That puts me off slightly. EDIT: I would make it static and just say "Tra... |
Do you want to learn Hindi? | scorchin: I'm of Indian descent, but rarely speak my "mother tongue" (Gujurati). I'm most fluent in English and wouldn't mind giving this a shot.How are you planning on teaching it? Using videos? A book?I'd probably like to learn the basics of keeping a conversation, counting/measuring and asking for directions. After ... |
What do you think of this business idea? PDF printing & delivery | papaf: I don't have access to a printer this week and this would have definitely been useful for me. When sending to third parties, its not just the effort of printing that's being saved but also buying the stamps, having enough envelopes and going to the postbox.If this was also available internationally it would also... |
Do you want to learn Hindi? | atlantic: I´m Indian on my father's side, and I never had a chance to learn the language. I would definitely be interested. |
How do you feel about affiliate links in comments? | ScottWhigham: Personally I'm probably just going to circumvent the link and find it myself. I think it's probably a waste of time by the OP really - like delirium said, they get probably 4-6% of the sale, right? If it's a $12 book (a popular amount for business books), they earn $0.60 per sale. If they cause 10 sales, ... |
What do you think of this business idea? PDF printing & delivery | cjg: This could come in useful for large documents or many copies of a document. It could be significantly cheaper to print 1000 copies of a ten page document on dedicated hardware (and have those copies delivered) rather than try to print that sort of volume locally. |
What do you think of this business idea? PDF printing & delivery | cjg: From the suggestions made so far, it sounds like there are a variety of niches where this might be suitable. Tailor your offer to each niche - for example, you could offer a high speed courier (i.e. motorbike) option for those who are speed (but not price) sensitive.Perhaps offer a range of quality vs. cost. |
App to receive streamed music from computer. | milkshakes: i'm working on that :) shoot me an email narf@(my username).org if you want a copy to play with |
I break the chain every day starting form 3rd day what to do? | Tomer: Hi,
It's with reference to this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1033433
and to this web site: dontbreakthechain.com |
What do you think of this business idea? PDF printing & delivery | paulsingh: Actually, I do this: www.mailfinch.comIt started out as a joke -- partly inspired by Dustin Curtis' Snail project and the fact that my dad (and a bunch of his friends) sent a lot of flyers for their small businesses. |
Do you want to learn Hindi? | pramit: One way to teach people Hindi would be to create a video (maybe a series) on 100 most used Hindi words and phrases, with context, pronunciation and transliteration.Another way may be cheatsheets. For example, this Hindi cheatsheet. http://www.gng.org/currents/india/ind_lang.html |
Is Rails really MVC? | Hates_: Controllers pass models to the view. |
Aussies, put your hands up | froo: Perth here, contact details in my profile if you want to chat about whatever |
What do you think of this business idea? PDF printing & delivery | ahoyhere: I just bought an expensive course on writing articles faster & more effectively, and it was from a dude in NZ - he had it printed, bound and shipped to me by: mimeo.com.They offered great, very fast service and excellent customer service (had a problem with deliverability in Austria & they dealt with it right... |
Do you want to learn Hindi? | roundsquare: I'm of Indian decent but only speak English. I would like to.Also, as a side note:Even though you can totally get by speaking EnglishI'm living in Chennai now and make a few trips to Mumbai for work. In Chennai, I've had few problems with English, but in Mumbai, it can be quite a bit harder. If you stic... |
Is Rails really MVC? | spooneybarger: No web framework is going to be classical MVC but, it can be inspired by it. |
Aussies, put your hands up | dp79: Hi! Brisbane here |
Best tools for standing coding | robert_mygengo: IKEA Fredrik is probably the cheapest way to get a good, sturdy standing desk. Adjusting the height is a bit fiddly (so no changing from sitting to standing on the fly), but it's way cheaper than the specialist alternatives.http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60111123 |
Best tools for standing coding | pmiller2: >the Art of Computer Programming to prop up my keyboardBlasphemy! :) |
Aussies, put your hands up | nailer: London here. |
Aussies, put your hands up | hungrybeast: Melbourne here! |
Feedback on a "weekend project" - funny Amazon reviews | crayz: I whipped up a site to collect all the best funny/parody Amazon reviews. There seems to be something of an ad hoc community who've been posting parody, facetious or just plain caustic reviews on Amazon for years, and it seemed worth gathering them up in one place (with some basic voting/commenting/etc). And of c... |
Aussies, put your hands up | intranation: Hello, London (originally Sydney) here. |
Someplace cheap to live and study | medianama: Banaras Hindu University, India. |
Aussies, put your hands up | candeira: Melbourne (originally Madrid) here. |
Aussies, put your hands up | niko1: Just moved to Brisbane to start a startup. |
Feedback on a "weekend project" - funny Amazon reviews | brk: Your site brought something to my attention in that these reviews can be humorous when you stumble across them unexpectedly, but when they are all gathered up at once they become sort of "meh" overall.This has nothing to do with your site specifically, but when reading the first dozen or so, I became very bored wi... |
Aussies, put your hands up | inevaexisted: Sydney!! Hi... looking for an internship/grad position(final year). |
Good programming language for kids | Russelldb: Big Trak, Lego Mindstorms, any programmable robot type toy. |
Aussies, put your hands up | zacspitzer: melbourne! |
Aussies, put your hands up | joshd: London (by way of Brisbane). |
Aussies, put your hands up | codemoran: * codemoran puts his hand up
<codemoran> sydney here. |
Aussies, put your hands up | Evgeny: Melbourne. No plans on startups though. |
How do you test your web applications? | vital101: There are many types of testing, almost all of which are useful. From a client perspective, usability testing is probably the most important. Having a testing group come in, use your app, and then give you immediate feedback is invaluable.There is also penetration testing to check you web apps security. Co... |
Do you want to learn Hindi? | revorad: Here are some things I'm planning to teach:1. How to greet people and make new friends (hello, what's your name, where are you from, where do you live etc.)2. Numbers and quantities, especially money.3. How to talk to locals to get around in India (e.g. auto-rickshaw drivers).4. Bootstrap Hindi - learn more Hi... |
Aussies, put your hands up | pedrogrande: Hi! I'm a lurker from Bondi. Chasing the dream. |
Aussies, put your hands up | samh: Canberra here. (I'm not Julia Gillard, but sometimes on Call of Duty servers I pretend to be). |
Aussies, put your hands up | Kreels: Sydney North West.
Lisp Hacker. Lurking. |
How do you test your web applications? | mdg: click, click, click, mouseover, click. So tedious. |
How do you test your web applications? | Shamiq: I've used Selenium to run unit test along with various flavors of Watir. Watir requires much less overhead and is programmable in Ruby. Selenium has libraries in all your favorite libraries, but requires running a Java proxy server. However, you can automate tasks by having Selenium record your actions on a pag... |
Aussies, put your hands up | GVRV: Melbourne. Student at Monash University. From India. |
Aussies, put your hands up | thejay: Sydney lower north shore. Recharging for another startup. |
How do you test your web applications? | CoryMathews: One of the many web apps I have worked on do something similar to the following:before any feature rolls out each feature (from a list) is tested with different (but not every possible) set of inputs. This catches 90% of problems.The other 10% that get past our testing are either sent in by the user throug... |
Aussies, put your hands up | jgoosdh: Hi! Just north of Sydney.I love AbstractServiceLoaderBasedFactoryBean's (aka a Java hacker) |
How do you test your web applications? | tbgvi: Selenium is what I'm using, Selenium IDE (firefox plugin) makes it easy to set up tests. http://www.seleniumhq.orgUserTesting.com is great for usability testing, they have people follow some of your instructions and record their screen/voice as they go through it. Feedback from this has lead to a lot of critical... |
Interesting (Non software) books? | Paddy3118: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_BachGödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter.Not only did I by it, but I read it, and enjoyed it too!- Paddy. |
How do you test your web applications? | nandemo: I've been in a few web projects and all had a testing phase just as any other projects: creating test plans based on the requirements and specification, doing functional testing, integration testing, load testing, and so on.For what is worth, most of these applications were internal apps for large companies (u... |
How do you test your web applications? | MicahWedemeyer: Rails comes with automated testing baked in, and it's one of the best unit/automated testing packages I've ever seen.Then...people went and made it better with things like RSpec, Shoulda, Factory Girl, and other enhancement packages.I've given up trying to convince others to do automated testing, but fo... |
review our startup - Tweetsworth | adriand: Tweetsworth is the world's first guaranteed accurate Twitter account valuator. Unlike the other Twitter valuation sites which talk a big game but never put up the dough, we'll actually purchase your Twitter account for 90% of the calculated value on the spot.In other words, we're the first Twitter account val... |
Best tools for standing coding | imp: I've got a makeshift standing desk like that also. My plan is to replace the boxes and books with small shelves made of plywood. Shouldn't be to hard and will only cost a few bucks. |
Aussies, put your hands up | zengyro: do expats count? Melbournian living in Scotland. |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | vital101: My dream is for my existence to make a positive change in the world. Be it by starting a company that helps people in some way, or by simply helping that old lady cross the road.I haven't figured out how to do this on a large scale yet, but I will someday. I challenge all of HN to do the same. |
How do you test your web applications? | felideon: Here's a guide on penetration testing you might find useful. I would assume some frameworks handle some/most issues "out of the box" but it's still a good guide to follow.http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Testing_Projec...Other than that, testing a web app is just like testing any other software.... |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | antirez: My dream is not caring about things I don't want to care, to have friends and family around me, to live with the woman I love, to eat well, to sleep as I want, to have good sex, to live near the sea, to be in health, to die satisfied of life. |
How do you test your web applications? | UmYeah: Jmeter for load testing. Selenium for regression testing. Penetration testing is also a pretty vital aspect if there web application has access to sensitive data. Web applications should be tested like any other applications.Graduate students stating that "no one tests web apps" are showing why they are still c... |
Aussies, put your hands up | pmccool: Hi! Brisbane here. |
Best tools for standing coding | cpr: I love the variable-height desks from Biomorph, but they're rather expensive new, so I buy them used.E.g., I've got a few of these various places:http://biomorph.com/1-888-302-DESK/personal/overview.htmlwith the maple plywood material, for around $500-ish. Excellent quality, though hard to find used. |
review our startup - Tweetsworth | sucuri2: It loads and loads and loads and I never get a response back when I submit a twitter username to be evaluated. Too much traffic now? |
App to receive streamed music from computer. | cpr: Airfoil from Rogue Amoeba does that for Mac and Windows, and can play on your iPhone (or Airport Express or Apple TV), or Mac or Windows machine. |
How do you test your web applications? | imgabe: I've just started using Django testing framework to do unit tests for my app. So far it helps catch a lot of errors that would have required more tedious manual testing, which is what I did previously. It sounds like Selenium would be a good way to test the javascript aspect. |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | ytinas: To become financially independent so I have time to change the world for the better. |
What do you think of this business idea? PDF printing & delivery | pbhjpbhj: Looks great to me. I don't personally have need of it, though if I found I had need to send letters in the US it would be cheaper than airmail it seems (from the UK).If you want international trade you should probably list paper sizes in cm and as standard measures (A4?, US Letter?) and give paper weights in ... |
Review my proof of concept for a translation website | chinmi: url of website: http://www.translapolis.orgdirect link to the tour: http://www.translapolis.org/tour |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | Shamiq: Hi Kirsten,Two recommendations. 1. Use https://www.dropbox.com/ to share the files. 2. Put some contact information in your profile :)My dreams are pretty small for the time being. I want to build most, if not all, of the furniture in my new house. I want to explore the American wilderness before it ceases to e... |
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