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Where to buy a desktop PC? | Rust: I would likewise suggest that you build your own, not so much for cost (although it does tend to be cheaper), but for satisfaction. Just make sure your RAM voltage <= CPU/Motherboard supported voltage. Using 1.75v RAM in a board that only likes 1.65v RAM makes an unstable system :)Having said that, I've always fo... |
I need a brainstorm on how to collect several thousand quality RSS feeds | pramit: Postrank.com has plenty of feeds. |
I need a brainstorm on how to collect several thousand quality RSS feeds | Barnabas: Have you considered using the PostRank Topic API?http://www.postrank.com/developers/api#topic |
I need a brainstorm on how to collect several thousand quality RSS feeds | apowell: Have you tried Alltop.com? |
Should I create one website or many? | pramit: Focus on one site, one big keyword, e.g. "infograph" and all the smaller keywords related to it, e.g."finance infographs"- make these either subdomain or http://infographs.com/finance-infographs.In addition, make sure your CMS automatically creates titles and your all your pages have the right titles e.g. wall ... |
How to encourage curiosity in developers | bediger: Problem solving contests. The "Regular Expression of The Week" challenge, or solving a Raymond Smullyan logic problem, or smallest program that does X challenge.You'll have to mix it up to encourage a lot of participation, as some people are scared of regexps, others of number theory, and others of prgramming... |
Do you recommend giving out equity for legal services? | jacquesm: Definitely not. Mint did it, it worked for them but there is a very good reason not to go this road. As the proverb says 'a lawyer representing his own interests has a fool for a client'.By having your legal representative be a part of your business you may skip a bit on legal fees, but in the end the lawyer ... |
Where to buy a desktop PC? | joshfinnie: My suggestion would to buy a high quality laptop. It has been a long while (san gaming rigs) since I found a laptop that wouldn't perform every one of my needs.If you do feel you need a desktop (if you want dual SLI graphic cards or TBs of hard disks in raid 1), I have to agree with the concensus and build... |
please check out my magical startup - TwitFlush | vital101: Nice work on the UI. It doesn't get much cleaner then that. |
I need a brainstorm on how to collect several thousand quality RSS feeds | dabent: Maybe Regator?http://regator.com/#feedsearch:section:20:0 |
Where to buy a desktop PC? | vital101: Falcon Northwest has always made some outstanding PCs. http://www.falcon-nw.com |
please check out my magical startup - TwitFlush | swombat: Ok, I realise this is meant to be some kind of joke.Unfortunately, I don't think it's actually funny. |
I need a brainstorm on how to collect several thousand quality RSS feeds | jplewicke: http://seekingalpha.com/ syndicates a whole bunch of financial blogs. They don't have feeds for individual contributors and I'm not sure of the quality of their topics feeds, but if you crawl carefully you may be able to find your way to the original blogs of many of their contributors. |
please check out my magical startup - TwitFlush | tjarratt: You'll probably regret this when something breaks and you have to get your hands dirty to fix it. |
I need a brainstorm on how to collect several thousand quality RSS feeds | fauxfauxpas: You might find YQL (Yahoo Query Language) useful for parts of what you want to do. |
please check out my magical startup - TwitFlush | Oompa: Reminds me of http://twitter.com/pooptag |
Hackers/Founders in Munich/Germany | rmoriz: only 2? :( |
please check out my magical startup - TwitFlush | raintrees: I think the name itself would be a useful verb... |
Do you recommend giving out equity for legal services? | newy: This is pretty standard in SV (the #'s mentioned by Mint are market). |
Do you recommend giving out equity for legal services? | grellas: I think the issue needs to be decided case-by-case, and it depends on the early-stage legal needs of the startup.A few thoughts on what to consider:1. As indicated by jacquesm, you should never do this where the amount of the equity will cause the attorney to have a conflict in the representation. A rough rule... |
What problem is REALLY bugging you? | Hume: I don't have a business, just an office drone; but I have to find out about legal ownership of companies all the time, when our customers issue purchase orders we have to make sure that the names on the invoices we generate match them.Changing the names in our CRM/ERP systems is a laborious process and we have to... |
Best practices for quickly selling a small company? | brk: You might be able to expect a 5X annual profit sale if you could manage to find a competent investor who wanted to grow it.It's unclear though from your COGS line though if there really is any actual profit, or if you're just managing to cover salaries and necessary R&D efforts.The best way (IMO) to expedite a sal... |
Should I pull an April fools at my Google interview on Thursday? | unshift: i don't recommend it. your interviewer most likely views this phone screen as a chore, and isn't anywhere near as excited about it as you are. |
Should I pull an April fools at my Google interview on Thursday? | bgnm2000: This would be risking/wasting an amazing opportunity |
Should I pull an April fools at my Google interview on Thursday? | seasoup: If you don't care about the job, do it! It will be fun. Otherwise, don't. |
Going to Grad School, which language/framework should I learn? | hajrice: C/C++, Python ? |
Going to Grad School, which language/framework should I learn? | keefe: Grad school is writing and reading papers, not writing code (most of the time). Learn LaTeX and subscribe to ACM digital library and get to reading. You're expected to have programming skills in advance (at least where I went) but you should be language indifferent. Read SICP and learn the basics of C, C++, Java... |
Going to Grad School, which language/framework should I learn? | dpritchett: Clojure:- Functional programming is sufficiently different from C# to expand your mind in a good way. New paradigms will make you a better programmer even if you stick with C# in the end.- Open source foundations allow you to get all the tools you need for free.- Java interoperability gives you access to l... |
Would you sell your future earnings for cash today? | bgnm2000: Its interesting, but no - I wouldn't do it. I'd rather try to accomplish my goals without taking any money - especially feeling like I'm literally selling part of myself. |
Should I pull an April fools at my Google interview on Thursday? | agent86: If you REALLY want to do something, given the options you listed, I would answer their favorite product question with their April Fools product. Something along the lines of "Well I'm partial to the new Google Time Machine... but in all seriousness I spend my life in Gmail".It's the most benign thing you coul... |
I need a brainstorm on how to collect several thousand quality RSS feeds | dpritchett: Marshall Kirkpatrick asked his internet friends for OPML files for his birthday:http://marshallk.com/its-my-birthday-you-should-make-me-a-pr...It could work for you too... |
Should I pull an April fools at my Google interview on Thursday? | jarsj: I used to be on the other side of phone some time back. Don't do it. |
Going to Grad School, which language/framework should I learn? | ahi: You don't say what you are going back to grad school for? Masters in CS? |
Should I pull an April fools at my Google interview on Thursday? | jacquesm: If you're just kidding then why the posting. If you're not think about whether or not you really want that job...A phone interview is limited in time and scope, if you use it to pull an april fools joke it says that you are not able to see when is the appropriate time to be serious and when not. |
I need a brainstorm on how to collect several thousand quality RSS feeds | blakeweb: Check delicious? I myself sometimes tag blogs I find that only _might_ be useful later, rather than subscribe to them. At first pass I pulled a bunch, with a pretty low false positive rate at least on the first few, using economics+finance+blogs as tag filters. |
please review my app - html to pdf API | deutronium: The pdf conversion is awesome! I just tried printing http://times.com/ to a pdf in firefox and it ended up putting the main content of the site on page 2, whereas yours seemed to render it perfectly. |
please review my app - html to pdf API | dpapathanasiou: Have you thought about the reverse, i.e., a tool that could convert pdfs to html faithfully?I would be willing to pay money for a reliable tool that didn't need much manual editing after processing.Unfortunately, the pdftohtml project (http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/) has been inactive, and the curren... |
please review my app - html to pdf API | DanHulton: Well, your default HTML generates one screwey PDF. When viewed in Mac OSX Preview, I get the text "T pe our HTML here..." Then, when I select the text, certain letters get partially removed or overwritten and I end up with gibberish.I've just spent weeks working on HTML -> PDF conversion code, so I know it... |
Hackers in LA? | iphpdonthitme: After seeing a few of these kinds of posts over the last few, ahem, years, I am going to take a stab at organizing a Los Angeles based Hacker News group. Let's start really small. Send me your email address if you are interested inA) being on an email list
B) getting together in person (only one meetin... |
please review my app - html to pdf API | pstinnett: Haven't tested this, but great idea. I've used a couple of the PDF creation tools and it seems so tedious to build out even a simple table view on a PDF. Good luck with this! |
please review my app - html to pdf API | washingtondc: I like it, but my site didn't come out correctly (www.convertyourcds.com). Perhaps my html is screwed up? |
please review my app - html to pdf API | asnyder: Why no PHP API binding? |
please review my app - html to pdf API | raffi: The quality of http://www.princexml.com is amazing. It's not open source and there is a cost to use it commercially (<1K, if I recall). I used it to convert my HTML documentation for Sleep into a camera-ready PDF.http://sleep.dashnine.org/manual/ - original docs
http://sleep.dashnine.org/download/sleep21manual.p... |
New project, pick.im, A Freelancer Marketplace | andrewhyde: Clickable links:
http://pick.imInvite: http://pick.im/request/invite |
Which technology should I use for client-side web encryption? | johnm: What are the threat models that you care about (in some sort of rough rank order)? |
please review my app - html to pdf API | ricmo: have you seen this? http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ |
Which technology should I use for client-side web encryption? | cperciva: All encryption will take place on the browser, using Open PGP standards. The server will see only encrypted data.You've already lost. If someone can compromise your server, they can serve up a web page containing modified code. |
New project, pick.im, A Freelancer Marketplace | bradleyjoyce: Andrew, look forward to seeing this project grow! I think it will be super useful! |
please review my app - html to pdf API | sjs382: A lot of html to pdf conversion is useless if page-break-* properties are not followed. Shame, too. I've been building something like this all week. |
Which technology should I use for client-side web encryption? | shrughes: How is what you're designing any more secure than a typical website that communicates over HTTPS? The user can't prevent you from sending a broken Java applet or a webpage with broken encryption code, so the user still has to trust you. Look at what happened with Hushmail. |
please review my app - html to pdf API | oskee80: Worked great for me, good job. I'd be interested in a PHP binding too, and knowing what the eventual cost will be. |
please review my app - html to pdf API | qeorge: This is awesome. I'm at once excited about using this in the future, and dismayed thinking of the time I've spent manually generating PDFs because none of the HTML -> PDF options worked.I fed it my homepage, and it nailed it. I'm impressed. |
please review my app - html to pdf API | ivan_ah: NICE!
You have beat me (and I am sure a dozen others hackers) to the realization of this idea...Here is an idea for an extra feature: make a print bookmarklet -- clicking on it you get a nice PDF version of the page you are viewing right now. I can't stand firefox's print renditions of some pages... terrible..... |
please review my app - html to pdf API | va_coder: I tried a relatively complex site - CNN - expecting the results to look bad, but it looks great |
New project, pick.im, A Freelancer Marketplace | JonAtkinson: Hi Andrew. I've just registered, looks like a great service.A few initial impressions: I'd like to be able to express my pricing in both an hourly rate and full project value. Also, support for multiple currencies would be nice, there will be plenty of users who want to bill in EUR or GBP. |
please review my app - html to pdf API | latortuga: We used an html->pdf conversion service (I believe it was http://www.htm2pdf.co.uk/ but I'm not positive) for awhile to do billing and our biggest problem was that it went down all the time. We ended up purchasing a (pretty cheap) license to a Java library that does pdf generation for us and is pretty easy t... |
What makes you happy? What is your American Dream? | jacquesm: for me happiness is:- health for those around me and myself- the ability to create- music- the freedom to travel and meet new people |
New project, pick.im, A Freelancer Marketplace | duck: Looks like a good idea. I like sites that base your location via IP, but when there is no results I think it is better to show at least the closest result so there is some context. I.e. do I need to put the next town over or do I need to put in the closest big city. |
please review my app - html to pdf API | thepsi: Nice execution - as per the comment below, something like this would've saved me lots of manual fiddling back when I was doing lots of PDF stuff.Given the focus on APIs I guess you're aiming it at those wanting to programmatically generate PDFs using a familiar markup, rather than conversion of existing (static... |
New project, pick.im, A Freelancer Marketplace | steverb: Looks great. It'd be nice if I were able to put in more than one website address for where folks could find out more about me.I use stack overflow's cv publishing, but have my own site. Don't want the headache of keeping two CVs up to date. |
New project, pick.im, A Freelancer Marketplace | eberfreitas: What did you use to Geo Location? |
New project, pick.im, A Freelancer Marketplace | davidcann: I like it, but I'd suggest an option for searching "anywhere" or at least by country. I freelance full time, but rarely work with companies near my physical location. |
please review my app - html to pdf API | carbocation: This is great! The only downside that I saw after converting one of my pages is that the colors dulled substantially. |
please review my app - html to pdf API | watmough: Excellent stuff.I notice there are some questions about how to make money. One may be to position yourself as a way to get PDF reports generated from phone apps, in which case you may want to do per app licensing and provide facilities for email delivery of PDFs.I could see this being useful porting apps from... |
please review my app - html to pdf API | alilja: Why do I need this? |
Going to Grad School, which language/framework should I learn? | leff_f: If you have 4 years of experience in C#, stick with C#!
It will be tough, but most of the people in academic environment don't have professional experience as developers... so you should be ahead of them with your C#. |
New project, pick.im, A Freelancer Marketplace | Zak: The price range doesn't take in to account rates. For some developers, a two week project is $2000. For others, that's one billable day. |
please review my app - html to pdf API | karanbhangui: Slick design, but out of curiosity, why wouldn't developers just use http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ ? |
Would you sell your future earnings for cash today? | ig1: There's nothing to stop someone bankrupting themselves to get out of the debt.And if there was it would likely fall foul of anti-slavery laws and international treaties on the same. |
please review my app - html to pdf API | petesalty: I can easily see a use for this. I'm doing a pro bono project for a small non profit, and part of the project requires generating simple PDF reports. They don't have any money so we need to keep it low cost.One of the ways of doing this is to host it on a simple shared server (it's not a heavily used app).Do... |
New project, pick.im, A Freelancer Marketplace | pxlpshr: So, the difficulty here is not being able to give enough feedback where it counts: the talent/portfolio section because Austin shows "empty". So to echo feedback already left, perhaps change it to operate like:I need a [Designer] based in [Anywhere] and my budget is [Bootstrapped].This would make it immediatel... |
New project, pick.im, A Freelancer Marketplace | davidcann: Two more issues I noticed:* The keywords I enter on my profile keep getting re-ordered automatically by your software. It wants to put javascript first, but that's not my primary language, so I don't want it appearing first below my name. I've opted to delete it from the list instead.* I'd suggest that the... |
Should I pull an April fools at my Google interview on Thursday? | anactofgod: Apparently, you've already fooled them into interviewing you.So, the only way to top that would be to fool them into thinking you are actually qualified to work there. That's a joke that could be good for days... weeks... even years worth of laughs before they figure it out.<shaking head ruefully> |
Should I pull an April fools at my Google interview on Thursday? | coryl: You should ask them about the big balloon and camera they use to photograph the world for Google Earth. |
please review my app - html to pdf API | juliancox: Looks good. I'm keen to use (and pay for) a service like this - if its reliable and quick. With a ruby gem its particularly attractive as all other rails to pdf solutions are incomplete, require a pdf specific dsl or are very expensive. |
Best practices for quickly selling a small company? | hga: Well ... one approach would be to find someone like my father (who's 77 now and happily retired). Give him a 1/3 commission, agree on the minimum terms (i.e. the above plus a price) and stand back.However, anyway you look at it, unless you're willing to spend some number of months to do it right, you're not likel... |
please review my app - html to pdf API | jrockway: Uh, "a2ps file.html"? Doesn't even need an API key... |
Should I pull an April fools at my Google interview on Thursday? | kjbekkelund: "My favorite Google product is definitely Gmail Paper! I have already done so much amazing for the environment."http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html |
How many have learned a language they hated just to get a job? | makecheck: Learning a language you hate takes you very close to hating the entire job, which is no way to work. Never settle for that, life is too short.Keep working on side projects that do interest you, and make them public, so that it's always easy to show prospective employers what you can really do. Spend your t... |
How many have learned a language they hated just to get a job? | d0m: I just wanted to tell you that what you've learn in other languages are usually usable in many languages, even if it's not standard procedure. For instance, with C++, you can use Boost and use foreach with a (kind-of) lambda. It's not a real closure, but still, my point is that don't dismiss things of your favorit... |
How many have learned a language they hated just to get a job? | gte910h: You're looking on the wrong job boards most likely. I almost never see any of those languages where I end up seeing jobs.Try looking at meetups (which allow job posts), job postings advertisements on programming sites, etc instead. |
How many have learned a language they hated just to get a job? | bmcleod: I would suggest that the correct thing to do at that point is to move somewhere with a better tech community in the languages you do like.I moved(without having and commercial experience behind me) to a more technical city just as I was finishing Uni and managed to find a much better job with much better cowor... |
How many have learned a language they hated just to get a job? | yourabi: Think about moving after graduation.If you hate your job it will seep into other aspects of your life. Life is too short for that.Go out and find your adventure. |
How many have learned a language they hated just to get a job? | ax0n: I generally despise development. I can "program" (make small tools, scripts, etc) but I don't have the "developer mindset"I learned PHP and MySQL to get a promotion when my boss was considering hiring from outside the company. I generally don't hate PHP -- in fact, these days, I rather like it -- but I did have t... |
How many have learned a language they hated just to get a job? | cperciva: On my CV I have "Languages used: C, sh, perl, awk, Maple, x86 assembly" immediately followed by "Languages NOT used: C++, Java, Erlang, Haskell, Python, Ruby, PHP, C#". I'm sure it has resulted in me not being offered some jobs, but I'm not sure if it has cost me any jobs which I might have considered accept... |
How many have learned a language they hated just to get a job? | shib71: Programmers these days.In my day we programmed in Java and liked it. ASP was the GOOD web programming language. We had to code up hill in both directions...But seriously, there are good and bad points to every language. Sometimes I think the willingness to just love the good and work around the bad is half of b... |
How many have learned a language they hated just to get a job? | vital101: I very nearly learned C# just so I get could a job in my geographical area. Turns out, if I was a bit flexible there were a lot of jobs out there doing the PHP development that I really enjoy.Don't make too many compromises though. Learning a language that you don't like is going a bit too far to get a job ... |
How many have learned a language they hated just to get a job? | windsurfer: I never "hated" Perl, but I only learned how to use it because I heard it was pretty useful. It grew on me and I now love it. |
How many have learned a language they hated just to get a job? | bcrescimanno: By not broadening your skill set and opening yourself up to opportunities using the languages you've listed, you are seriously limiting the scope of your job search anywhere. Don't let the "big buzz" on the web fool you, the majority of developers are holding jobs in shops that use Java, C, and C++.That s... |
How many have learned a language they hated just to get a job? | waterlesscloud: Thesis- hating a language is a mark of a good but not great developer.Hating the sort of work a language is usually used for is something different, however.Perl is the one exception, of course. All right-thinking humans hate perl. |
How many have learned a language they hated just to get a job? | pragmatic: So you don't want to work with .NET or Java or ColdFusion or ASP (classic ASP 3.0?). What do you want to work with? |
How many have learned a language they hated just to get a job? | abstractbill: I've learned a bunch of languages while working at justin.tv, and have disliked each of them to some degree. Think of it as the price of admission to being able to do interesting things. |
How many have learned a language they hated just to get a job? | strlen: I wouldn't worry about the language bits (as long as it isn't something entirely brain rotting like ColdFusion, ASP, PHP or COBOL), as much as by the fact they all seem like the usual enterprisey "read text from a database display it on a screen" jobs. A CRUD app in Ruby or Python is certainly a lot more fun to... |
How many have learned a language they hated just to get a job? | zavulon: I feel your pain. For my first "big corporate" programming job, I had to do PowerBuilder development. Coming from Java/C++ background, it was like hell on Earth.I stuck around though, did PB for a while, and 2 months later a Java position opened up, which turned out to be great.So - I wouldn't get too caught u... |
How many have learned a language they hated just to get a job? | dkarl: If you don't like the idea of uprooting yourself to find a job, you'd better move to a big tech area now. Don't put down roots in a place where your every career decision will be compromised by the lack of opportunities. Eventually some local downturn will force you to uproot yourself anyway, and all your care... |
Rate my startup - Backpedalify | zavulon: I'm very confused... who are the users of your site? Actual politicians? When I click on "Backpedal", nothing happens... Are you expecting Bush/Clinton/Gore/Kerry to actually come to your site and use it? |
How many have learned a language they hated just to get a job? | btilly: My first programming job was in VB 3.0. It was a horrible and awful experience at a churn and burn consultancy, but it was a job and gave me a chance to make connections, learn Perl, and get a better job that I liked much more.If you don't have any experience you should accept that your first job is going to s... |
Rate my startup - Backpedalify | bretpiatt: It is an April Fools joke site linking to their Backupify service, cute... |
How many have learned a language they hated just to get a job? | noodle: my advice would be to simply apply to any job that you think you might be interested in, regardless of the language. most entry level positions have an expectation of a learning curve.submit a cover letter that states how quick you are at learning new things and how you're willing to put time into learning the... |
How many have learned a language they hated just to get a job? | jey: Get a job somewhere with cooler jobs? Like the SF Bay? Seems like the obvious fix. |
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