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How do you test your web applications? | erlanger: I use QUnit to test my JavaScript and whatever's on hand to test backend code (unittest in Python, Test::Unit in Ruby). I'd use Selenium for point-and-click-style testing but I haven't gotten to it. |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | gizmo: Life is a game. The objective of the game is to make money. The person who has the most money when he dies, wins. |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | ErrantX: In order of importance:- have a great family with someone awesome- financial independence so I can take my family great places and pursue my own projects (several million or more would be great; see next point)- spend any "fortune" I get on fixing some specific problem(s) in the worldI suspect quite a few peo... |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | maxklein: I think there are some people who can only find happiness in always striving for something. Sort of like an explorer - he does not explore to find a better place to live in, he explores because it's the exploration that is what makes him happy.So for the people for whom the search is happiness, it will look f... |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | Tawheed: FREEDOM - having the ability to do whatever I want, whenever I want. |
Will you buy an iPad? | mortenjorck: I'm going to wait until I can at least play with one at an Apple Store. I'm probably most interested in using one to experiment with tablet-targeted web UIs, but I can also see it working as a good motivator for me to continue learning Obj-C. |
Will you buy an iPad? | c1sc0: Not before I've made 500$ or so off iPad apps ... label me frugal. |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | javery: James Truslow Adams coined the phrase "American Dream" in his 1931 book Epic of America:"The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper cl... |
How do you test your web applications? | cschneid: Testing is a vague term. There are lots of types of testing, which other posts go over quite well, but I'll give a rundown.* Requirements testing - take the napkin you scribbled your idea on, and mentally run through it a few time. A feature that is 100% correct code but does the wrong thing, is still a "bug... |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | huherto: I had plans to retire at 45. Today, I want to have sufficient financial independence to be able to choose what I work on.Love, family and friends are now more important than they used to be. |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | NEPatriot: Freedom to explore the world and do what I want.
Wanting to solve problems for other other people.
Have a family. |
Will you buy an iPad? | pavs: No. Apple have this habit of leaving out no-brainer features from first iteration of their new products. The one that I can think of is Video/Camera. Also, I don't know if I can use my existing collection of PDFs and other ebook formats on iPad, if not, this thing has no use for me.I will wait for 2nd/3rd generat... |
Will you buy an iPad? | MikeCapone: I'm not yet decided. Waiting for more reviews and videos of it in action.I'm in Canada, so I'd have to wait anyway. |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | mcantor: My "American Dream" is to be free to do the following things as often, and in whatever proportions, that I please:* Learn and improve myself* Contribute to and improve the world around me* Spend time with friends, loved ones, and interesting people* Travel the world, because the three prior goals: self-improve... |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | nfnaaron: What makes me happy, short term: - Laughing with my son (12 years old).
- Seeing my son happy and positive.
- Being "in flow," engrossed in a task and making progress.
Long term goals: - To see my son's independent life unfold in a positive direction.
- Making a secure living, however and wherever I ... |
review our startup - Tweetsworth | mortenjorck: Ok, I get it now. :) Why not wait until Thursday to launch, though? |
Will you buy an iPad? | pg: After it has a camera, probably. |
Will you buy an iPad? | arnorhs: I'm in Iceland, so I'm not expecting it to reach us for the next years. It's been 3 months since we first got the iPhone!!!Some people have had luck with importing the iphone from the US and then cracking it, but it's not a very enjoyable experience |
review our startup - Tweetsworth | lazyant: Nice idea but first I'm suspicious when something is "100% accurate", especially when it's done with a made-up algorithm, where accuracy doesn't make sense.Second, I don't need to be insulted three times: "Do you really have to inform the world each time you sneeze?" "Hopefully you've got more friends offline,... |
Will you buy an iPad? | pcestrada: Yes. It's going to replace my laptop for surfing the web when lounging around the house. |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | chasingsparks: I wrote about something similar on my blog a few months back after realizing that persuit of money for the sake of money is dangerous.http://pathdependent.com/2009/11/11/money_isnt_everything/Also, to be precise, our "inherited national charter" made no promise of happiness, merely the pursuit of it. |
Will you buy an iPad? | gbookman: Yes.The interface looks so intuitive and just plain fun. Plus the battery life and 1.5 lb weight is fantastic. I can see myself spending the vast majority of my non-coding time on the iPad.Being able to use my bluetooth keyboard with it is also a big plus. |
review our startup - Tweetsworth | patrickryan: I'm getting a worth of $0.00 for every Twitter username I input. Even when using twitter users with over 1 million followers. |
How do you test your web applications? | tptacek: Since I do this professionally, I have a lot to say about testing web apps, but I'm going to keep my recommendation short and precise.Go here: http://portswigger.net/suite/
Drop the $200 or so for a copy of Burp Suite Pro.Burp is the industry standard tool for testing web apps; probably more than half of all... |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | pw0ncakes: I'll follow up with you on this by email, probably tomorrow night when I have time, but I think the quest for money is based on 5 stages:1. Basic needs: food, housing, essential security, and the ability to procreate (which means the ability to afford housing in which it's possible to raise children, and to ... |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | yan: I have no idea.What will make me happy is to realize what I actually want. |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | nickpp: You cannot be happy due to biological reasons. Happiness is a transient state, a peak, like an orgasm.Knowing that, pursuing happiness is akin to pursuing highs: a futile endeavor.You can only be comfortable. Financial comfort, emotional comfort, physical comfort. However, comfort makes you weak. Avoid it.The r... |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | grosales: I have many dreams, not one specific goal has determined what I do in my life. It's a juggling act though, to work hard so some of them become reality, and hope that other people will take on the rest of my dreams (because I also know I won't be able to do it all myself). Regarding American Dreams, as an immi... |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | thibaut_barrere: Here we favor:* have good time together as a family and as a couple* work on things that make sense (useful end-goal + way of work that makes sense)* intellectual open-ness (learn useful things etc)* financial independence as much as possible (along the lines of http://evolvingworker.com/2010/2/3/alter... |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | gyardley: I don't think what would make me happy is all that different from the traditional American dream. I want to be wealthy enough so I can provide well for my current and future family - I don't want my parents, my wife, or my children to want for anything. I want the freedom and time to be able to teach my chi... |
Will you buy an iPad? | bjplink: I own a Kindle AND an iPhone and I broke down and ordered a 16GB iPad last night. It's going to be used mainly as an on-site input device for some industrial clients I have. It will be used with a modified version of their intranet I'm going to be developing. The main use will be for hard counting inventory. |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | pinoceros: satisfying my needs is happiness. simplify: skip the bars and the drama, ditch the time-sucking girlfriends – and the time-sucking guys, too, quit the day job, learn to cook "peasant food" from every part of the world. within two months of making the above changes, i went from spending to saving, eating bett... |
How do you test your web applications? | BornInTheUSSR: IMO Biggest bang for your testing buck - cucumber with webrathttp://railscasts.com/episodes/155-beginning-with-cucumber |
How do you add to your programming toolbox? | sophacles: I typically have a backlog of things I would like to do. When I go to conferences, or have boring meetings where I only need half an ear to the proceedings, or whatever, I do those things. Usually they are toys or side projects and what-have-you. They are usually doable in some form that 'I've been meaning t... |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | alexro: I think happinies isn't "a dream", its a state of mind. You can either be happy or not, you can't plan for that or even understand the required elements of it. |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | itfrombit: "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
- Albert Einstein |
Will you buy an iPad? | hajrice: NO WAY. I don't find it worth 400. |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | frogstarr78: I can't answer that question. I live in SC and haven't registered. j/k |
Will you buy an iPad? | csomar: No. For many reasons:- doesn't run multiple apps at the same time. Seriously, this is a must feature, I want to be online (facebook for example) while reading or playing.- Writing is harder with a screen.- My netbook (same price), has same weight and is yet more powerful, can run windows 7 and Android. And it h... |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | HeyLaughingBoy: In the long term I do want to own my own business. Don't care about making millions: as long as I can pay the mortgage and afford good food, upkeep the house, keep the kids fed & clothed, I'll be happy.In the short term I focus on making the most of what I have right now. Like you said, it's easy to get... |
Aussies, put your hands up | shib71: Sydney |
Does this exist? "Click to support my cause" | faramarz: What you're describing is a lot like www.change.orgThere, individuals take it upon themselves to contact their local representatives. A user can volunteer personal information as well, and it will go towards building a collective petition or pledges.I'm not sure if the venture is non-profit or for-profit.. |
Aussies, put your hands up | ajt: Brisneyland |
Will you buy an iPad? | frankus: Yes. I have a 3GS but kind of need a second device with a compass to test a game I'm writing. The only alternative would be a contract-free 3GS, which costs a lot more. |
Aussies, put your hands up | abdulla: Melbourne here. |
Aussies, put your hands up | dmharrison: Brisbane, hi!Recently moved to Brisbane from Canberra and starting knowtu. Looking at ilab and will make it to opencoffee sometime. Are there any good Brisbane entrepreneurship/tech groups someone could recommend? HN meetup? |
Best tools for standing coding | Mankhool: I've got several of the sit/stand desks where I work. Like the Biormorph, but one surface. There are several manufacturers of these kinds of legs (Steelcase and Linak). Check your nearest large town's office furniture retailers to see if they have a used department - that and auctions of office furniture. |
How's the biotech industry in the Bay Area? | subud: "The industry remains strong, Lem said, but it has seen waves of layoffs largely because of company mergers such as Switzerland-based Roche taking over Genentech in South San Francisco."http://www.mercurynews.com/search/ci_14508960 |
Will you buy an iPad? | rms: No, I'm going to buy a Google Chrome PC, possibly in tablet form but probably clamshell. |
Aussies, put your hands up | spohlenz: Currently living in Clare but I'm in town often enough to say I'm from Adelaide. |
Aussies, put your hands up | dreamtime: melbourne |
Aussies, put your hands up | gbc: Canberra. Rails. Hi. |
Aussies, put your hands up | ryszard99: sydney!! |
Hackers in LA? | fjabre: There are and I've been to a few but I'm guessing it doesn't compare to a meetup in San Fran or Boston. Anyone else care to comment on this..?5 hours on the 5 to SF and 4 hours to Palo Alto isn't that far =) |
Best Phone Number Area Code? | samratjp: Depends on who your audience is. 404 is pretty amusing :-) |
Anyone ever used jQuery ThemeRoller for a project? | taitems: Shameless self plug of something that I released yesterday that is REALLY relevant to your needs: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1227712Overall I think that ThemeRoller is good at making themes for "coloured" designs like Mint (soft green), eBay (big and yellow) etc. I think that you could produce somethi... |
Hackers in LA? | cheez80: i'm in LA -- i've been trying to attend meetups that interest me. they're mostly out in the westside, though -- i'm in arcadia. getting out there is difficult.there isn't a specific event to attend, but i signed up for startup weekend, which is coming up. hopefully there will be some cool people there :) |
Hackers in LA? | boots: Just moved to Pasadena myself. I'm hoping to go to a Mindshare event soon, my friends rave about them - http://www.mindshare.la/ |
Hackers in LA? | ApolloRising: I'm in LA but it really does not compare to startup scene in SF. |
Hackers in LA? | jamesshamenski: I work in Altadena @ AdventureLink. i'm happy to arrange for a light meetup at my building most anytime.
It sounds like we could actually create a descent local chapter.
shamenski of Gmail |
Hackers in LA? | iphpdonthitme: I'm on the Westside. It's not an HN group, but this group is pretty hackery: http://socal-piggies.org/scpSend me an email at iphpdonthitme gmail if someone actually manages to rope people together brave enough to endure LA traffic. |
How to encourage curiosity in developers | werk: Repetitive coding tasks will burn the curiosity out of anyone. The only solution is to not have "IT organizations". |
Hackers in LA? | nkh: I am in NoHo (lankershim and vineland). I would love to have a local meetup. My email is nkhdev at gmail if anyone would like to contact me. |
Hackers in LA? | christefano: The Dorkbot community is pretty cool: http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsocal/
There also used to be events called "Geek Dinners" but they were mostly attended by "social media gurus" and the like. Not really my cup of tea.I'm on the westside and am always looking for hacker events. My company is a big sponsor o... |
Do you have experience running an open source web app? | veeti: Continuous integration? |
What problem is REALLY bugging you? | roel_v: How ebooks that are distributed in pdf are so hard to read on small screens, and the lack of properly working pdf->reflowable format (epub) tools. This is a hard problem and I'd pay for a 80% solution. It would have to recognize and properly fix/insert chapter titles, initial caps, tables of content, other lead... |
How to encourage curiosity in developers | ra: Yes I'm sorry but large organisations often seem to slowly and inadvertently replace creativity and enthusiasm with processes and procedures. |
What problem is REALLY bugging you? | tomh-: I would pay to outsource the risk of being a PayPal merchant. I want to be able to serve my users with the option of paying with PayPal, but PayPal for merchants is totally unreliable. Especially in the virtual good/currency industry they seem to have the tendency to lock your account for no reasons at all, and ... |
What problem is REALLY bugging you? | thomaspaine: I want a personal assistant for 5-10 hours a week. Not a virtual one because most of the things I want done are in meat space. Stuff like filling out forms, doing my laundry, waiting in line for me at the DMV, and dropping off my netflix returns in the mail. It sounds petty, but I really hate running erran... |
What problem is REALLY bugging you? | roundsquare: The fact that people vote for their leaders based on superficial stupidity and not based on issues. |
What problem is REALLY bugging you? | Aegean: Here's what you can't find among a plethora of web design consultancies, cms systems, off-the-shelf website design services, html templates...A small business/startup website solution that is compact, editable, live and clearly describes the product and company.No, its not vague or different every time. It shou... |
What problem is REALLY bugging you? | Tichy: How to make money, or rather, how to survive and support a family. |
What problem is REALLY bugging you? | maxklein: I have all this data that I collect and it's very difficult to make sense of it or to break it down into a form that tells me what steps I should be taking next to improve my bottom line. |
What problem is REALLY bugging you? | mstevens: Thought from last night - we need a HN "problem registry".Not that new software ideas are hard to come by, but it'd be interesting to build up a list of specific pain points with eg) email. |
What problem is REALLY bugging you? | nosse: I would need a decent 2D CAD for linux. 3D even sweeter. problem is that dudes who usually code and dudes who usually draw with CAD are two totally different breeds. And that's why we don't allready have a good CAD for linux.I would be possibly willing to pay 200eur for a copy(but I want to see a proper demo fir... |
What problem is REALLY bugging you? | netcan: Teeth. |
What problem is REALLY bugging you? | mstevens: Something I was looking for recently (slightly UK specific).I like to buy FSF-level free hardware and software - ie no binary blobs, free software bios if you can get it, no binary only video drivers.I couldn't find a store clearly focussed on selling this to me in the UK. Existing linux related online vendor... |
What problem is REALLY bugging you? | zackattack: Why is your target demographic HN users?Try to maximize
# of customers * $ revenue per customer |
What problem is REALLY bugging you? | tomh-: I would like a linux distro which runs photoshop, as good as windows with equal performance, out of the box |
What problem is REALLY bugging you? | nudge: Right question, wrong place.Ask teachers, dentists, gardeners, councillors, vets (both the animal-doctor and the ex-military kind), fish owners, fish eaters, mechanics, little old ladies who don't know whether to trust their mechanic, landlords, concierges...You're more likely to get responses you would never ev... |
What problem is REALLY bugging you? | mstevens: Another problem I'd be very tempted to pay money to solve right now:I'm taking lessons in French. It's pretty cool. I'd like to find ways to improve my French at home. I'd love a site that would make it easy to find someone to video chat with eg skype with some (possibly minimal) teaching skills so I could pr... |
How to encourage curiosity in developers | keefe: With the speed at which technology is advancing, there's really no excuse for this attitude. It's also a common, general personality failure. If a person has no love of knowledge by nature and the fear of competition cannot engender it, then what use is such a person? |
What problem is REALLY bugging you? | clintavo: I need a way to add a simple white label site search feature for my customers. We run a service that hosts thousands of websites. We would like a service with an api that allows to have a site indexed and add a search box. Sort of like a google custom search engine but all with api access for each site. W... |
What problem is REALLY bugging you? | 1Place: I need a software solution to model best legal outcomes and other options for people to help become aware of their options:
(i) If law is based on Acts of Parliament which are written in a tree structure;
(ii) Then Information can be placed into software complying with the tree structure in (i), so we can dynam... |
What problem is REALLY bugging you? | ig1: Better online take-away service, I used justeat at the moment but it leaves a lot to be desired (have to enter credit card everytime, lack of details, poor search, food reviews, etc.)Instant online quotes/price comparison for taxi services |
Hackers/Founders in Munich/Germany | Artemidoros: Here is one Hacker from Munich interested in having some beer :) |
What problem is REALLY bugging you? | jcnnghm: Quickbooks. Quickbooks is the single worst piece of software that I have ever had to deal with on a regular basis. I want to be able to reliably pull in all the financial transactions that occur for my company, and categorize them as quickly as possible. Quickbooks does this, but it fails on the reliably, a... |
Aussies, put your hands up | Aidan: Melbourne! |
What problem is REALLY bugging you? | froo: I know this might sound odd, but I'd like a "privacy policy" and "terms and conditions" generator that doesn't suck.I'd be willing to part with cash for something where I just tick off the various things I want and it would generate those documents for my site.Better yet, it would be nice if it was able to make t... |
Feedback on Genie Timeline 2.0 Please | ComputerGuru: Genie-Soft - a Jordan-based startup I'm currently working with - has just released Genie Timeline 2.0 Free, which is a comprehensive backup solution for Windows.I'm not sure if anyone else has had a similar experience, but before working with Genie, I could never find a free backup product that didn't suc... |
Should I create one website or many? | po: This absolutely depends on the nature of the content in the site. Is it user generated? Are the users of the different sites the same people?In my opinion, you're not giving out enough information to get back valuable advice. |
Would you use a service like this? | sushi: I'd like to use a service like this. It sure sounds interesting and somewhat similar to http://builtwith.com/ which is only about frameworks that are being used on one particular website. |
Anyone know how bluecoat mess up with https? | tshtf: BlueCoat documents this fairly well here: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2006/07/think-your-ssl-traf...When the SSL Proxy intercepts an SSL connection, it presents an emulated server certificate to the client browser. The client browser issues a security pop-up to the end-user because the browser does not trus... |
How to make the switch | nfnaaron: Possibly a startup or even established company whose focus is related to your mechanical engineering knowledge. You might be more valuable as a subject matter expert who programs, than as a beginning programmer.If not an ME-focused company, then one that uses your peripheral skills, e.g. a trading company tha... |
Aussies, put your hands up | benkant: Perth repping. |
ODBC driver using websockets? | bdfh42: OK - perhaps dumb question - but what is the problem with AJAX and a web service to return the SQL query results in (say) JSON format? It is pretty simple and works very well.The concept of an ODBC driver being run directly from Javascript if not to something like a "sandboxed" instance of SQLight is a bit worr... |
I need a brainstorm on how to collect several thousand quality RSS feeds | IgorPartola: I wonder if you could use services like StumbleUpon and XMarks to find financial blogs that users have ranked and then just grabbing their RSS feeds. |
I need a brainstorm on how to collect several thousand quality RSS feeds | jacquesm: Spider feedburner ?wget -r google news and see what their sources are ?http://www.feedage.com/categories/News/1/4 |
Where to buy a desktop PC? | arithmetic: I would get the parts (from Newegg, Fry's etc.) and build one on my own - it turns out to cost lesser and lets you control what goes into making your PC. That, and there's always the good feeling of building something from scratch for personal use :) |
I need a brainstorm on how to collect several thousand quality RSS feeds | willwagner: Bloglines has a pretty decent feed search.http://www.bloglines.com/search?q=finance&t=f&ql=en&...plus a top 1000 feeds:http://beta.bloglines.com/topfeeds |
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