instruction stringlengths 4 105 | output stringlengths 8 56.7k |
|---|---|
Do you use a Dvorak keyboard configuration? If so, how did you learn? | pedalpete: I know I'll probably get downvoted for this but...I was looking into trying Dvorak a few years ago, and was talking to a friend that used it for a few years.
He liked it, said it was a little bit faster for him than QWERTY.The reason he switched back is because with multiple devices, very few able to use Dv... |
Learning about Venture Capital | aditya: Read Mark Suster's blog, cover to cover:
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/Start here: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/pitching-a-vc/ |
Learning about Venture Capital | pw0ncakes: I don't have any direct experience, but my understanding is that:VCs will give an amount that seems appropriate to getting to "the next stage", however that is defined. Their take is determined by the pre-money valuation and the amount given. A web startup might be able to sell 20% of the company for $1 mill... |
Learning about Venture Capital | stevenwei: I would recommend you check out a few sites like:http://www.venturehacks.com
http://answers.onstartups.com
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.comTo answer your questions directly:1) You generally tell them how much money you are trying to raise (based on your financial projections). The valuation determines what... |
Learning about Venture Capital | sajid: > Any other tips others have for raising capital would be extremely appreciated! Thank you!You really need at least one of the following three things to successfully raise capital:1. Traction.
2. A successful track record.
3. A personal recommendation from someone the investor respects.It might be possible to ge... |
From what countries do people use HN beside USA? | Concours: Germany here |
How do you feel when you see "ninja" or "rock star" in a job post? | brk: IMO, those terms are grossly outdated and are/were often representative of companies that are a little too full of themselves.It sort of reminds me of the "Everybody is a winner" method of child rearing. There is quite a wake-up call when you realize that everyone is a "ninja". |
How do you feel when you see "ninja" or "rock star" in a job post? | jellisjapan: I've always had the feeling that those companies have bosses dedicated to plenty of duplication and little innovation. |
How do you feel when you see "ninja" or "rock star" in a job post? | estherschindler: I once got worked up about the subject, enough to write a blog post for CIO.com, back when I still worked there (http://advice.cio.com/esther_schindler/rockstar).These days, it's a little bit of a turnoff. At a minimum a job ad including "ninja" or "rock star" communicates to me that you can't otherwis... |
What DSLR should I buy? New/Used? | brk: I've been shooting for 20+ years.IMO, I'd only look at a camera with a full-frame image sensor, but your budget may limit you to less expensive bodies.Half of the equation is the glass (lens). The XSi is an overall unremarkable camera body, but it gets the job done. You'll notice a big difference though between ... |
How do you feel when you see "ninja" or "rock star" in a job post? | cgherb911: When you take a job, it's an investment. You want to make sure that the company you are investing in takes itself very seriously. Asking for Ninjas and Rockstars to fulfill an important role? Works only if you're casting for a movie. |
What DSLR should I buy? New/Used? | hopeless: Honestly, it doesn't matter what camera you buy. Lens are much more important but even they pale into insignificance compared to subject, light and skill.Just buy a camera then... Practice, practice, practice. Shoot everything. Try everything. Keep a photoblog. Publish photos daily. Join a club. Do a SoFoBoMo... |
How do you feel when you see "ninja" or "rock star" in a job post? | Mankhool: I don't like to see such colloquialisms in job postings, but as someone who has done a fair amount of hiring in my career, I also don't want to see them on resumes or CVs unless you've worked for Rockstar Games, real Rockstars or Ninjas or on a game called Ninja. |
Tiny things that make a positive difference in your day? | mechanician: A cup of coffee |
How do you feel when you see "ninja" or "rock star" in a job post? | nfnaaron: I feel like I'm not one of those. |
What DSLR should I buy? New/Used? | pasbesoin: Canon T2i just came out as what looks to be the successor to the Si (Sx? I forget). I believe it's around US$800-900 with an 18 - 50-something starter lens. I saw a mention of low noise up to 3200 ISO equivalent, and it does 1080p x 30 frame/sec video. If you're going for a starter Canon, I'd include it ... |
How do you feel when you see "ninja" or "rock star" in a job post? | hga: While I agree with many of the detailed points made by others in this discussion, I can put it very simply: it makes me feel like I'm not a member of the culture of the company.And companies have to be pretty professional to tolerate some of their staff being from different cultures (narrowly defined) ... and one ... |
Do you need to shout anonymously? | tcagri: I was thinking about using FreeBase (www.freebase.com) in a project and come up with a small website where you can write (shout) to some public figure anonymously. Do you think you want to use something like that? |
Passive income? | swombat: There's oodles of sites on the net about how to make money online, and books written about it (e.g. Tim Feriss). If all you've come up with is those two options, you need to go back and do more research before asking HN for help. |
Passive income? | faramarz: ebook.You have a better chance of success if you are an authority in your subject/niche, or your opinion/method/perspective is is unique (and possibly controversial). |
Passive income? | aheilbut: Treasuries. |
Do you need to shout anonymously? | cgherb911: Very cool idea. Would love to use this for customer support for my business to have users yell their complaints to us. |
Is there a new app/startup/product that excites you? | ig1: http://graze.com - healthy snacks (olives, nuts, dried fruit) delivered by mail. I spend over £500/year with them now. Which frankly is a huge amount of money for any company let alone a startup to convince me to part with. |
How do you feel when you see "ninja" or "rock star" in a job post? | mnemonicsloth: It's OK under one condition. The whole advert should go something like this:"We're Looking for a Ninja BrainFuck Programmer. Come hang out sometime and we'll see if you're a fit."That's it. Anything else -- resume, phone screen, FizzBuzz, whatever -- and it's obvious they're pretending to be cooler th... |
How do you feel when you see "ninja" or "rock star" in a job post? | cookiecaper: I hate it and always try to avoid job postings that contain those terms. It's usually deployed by inexperienced/naive/arrogant teams and/or companies trying to sound "hip" and "with it". There's no way to measure what "rockstar" or "ninja" means ... for the most part, in my experience, I've found it most o... |
How much to pay for a domain for a side project? | tumblen: The ideal domain name is memorable, easy to spell and pronounceable. I think these 3 factors matter a fair amount.If that is the exact domain you want, I'd say $350 is a pretty good price as long as you're serious about the project. |
Passive income? | tumblen: What types of things do you like to do/are good at? |
What programming languages should a web designer know? | briandoll: I think one of the most critical skills for a web designer to know is version control. 'Web designers', by which I assume you mean front-end development; JavaScript, CSS, and integrating UI elements into presentation layer views.Working with a development team is different than working by yourself. Working... |
Feedback on our startup (LabApp.com) | vantran: May I ask who designed the site? I really like it. Very clean and simple. |
How much to pay for a domain for a side project? | hugh3: While I'm generally against supporting the domain squatting industry, if I were you I'd sit down and spend an hour making a list of ten other possible names that don't completely suck and actually are available. If you still think that the $350 domain name is worth $350 after that, then go for it. |
How much to pay for a domain for a side project? | jacquesm: For a 'side project' that is at the hobby level it is clearly too expensive, if you plan on eating of it some day you can expect to invest a large multiple of that worth of time and effort anyway, presumably you'll recoup that.To date I have only bought a single domain ever from someone other than a registrar... |
What programming languages should a web designer know? | Ascendancy: I would say XHTML/CSS is extremely useful to master, as they are basic markup languages to display how your website looks.From there you can go down a few different paths, JavaScript being the frontend path for fancy UI effects and PHP/MySQL seem to be the matching database and backend programming language ... |
Do you need to shout anonymously? | aintgotone: very interesting. Bill O'Reilly wouldn't like that. |
Tiny things that make a positive difference in your day? | pmccool: Buying identical socks. Increases my chances of finding a pair. |
How do you feel when you see "ninja" or "rock star" in a job post? | thesethings: It's generally a bad sign. I wrote at length about it here: http://thesethings.posterous.com/rapping-grandmas-and-ninja-...The gist of my post was:
Originally, it was a way to suggest to a technical candidate, "Don't be scared, our place of work respects technical people." It was a code in a way for, "We'... |
How do you feel when you see "ninja" or "rock star" in a job post? | chrisbennet: "We want rock stars" seems is used by some companies to mean "We want someone who is 5 times more productive than average but who will work for much much less than 5 times average pay." |
What DSLR should I buy? New/Used? | arthurdent: like hopeless said, the lens is a big deal. I'd ABSOLUTELY SKIP THE KIT LENS. If you're going nikon or canon, buy yourself the 50mm f/1.8 lens. it'll run you 100 bucks and teach you way more about photography because you'll get to play with the aperture a lot more (open that lens all the way up and you'll g... |
What programming languages should a web designer know? | Rust: HTML and CSS for sure (XHTML can't be properly handled by most server/browser combinations, although they fake it well).For front-end interactions, Javascript is pretty much the only answer. jQuery is just a Javascript library, and AJAX is just a method to send/receive information without refreshing the entire pa... |
Tiny things that make a positive difference in your day? | Scott_MacGregor: I work full time (plus) at our startup and hate to stop working for lunch. So I keep a supply of fresh fruit, plums and oranges mainly, on my desk. It's cheap, healthy, and keeps my energy and concentration up. Plus it makes for a good late night energy snack when I'm burning the midnight oil, which i... |
How do I put a div box around my cursor on click - like FB tagging? | jamesbritt: Better suited for Stack Overflow or some such place. |
From what countries do people use HN beside USA? | jorisvoorn: Croatia |
From what countries do people use HN beside USA? | gspyrou: Greece |
How did you meet your Mentor and what drew you to them? | ismarc: Honestly, this is going to sound cheesy at first, but it's not, I promise you. My dad was the first mentor I had. Entire time I was a kid he was trying to get different businesses off the ground. After I moved out he actually succeeded for a while, but that eventually imploded. You see, my dad isn't a very ... |
Tiny things that make a positive difference in your day? | apsurd: Walking around town. I don't do this every day but the times I do do it reminds me of how valuable it is. When you walk around town for an errand like say to go the bank, you can't help but stop and view all the stores you pass by. You see the people your town is made up of. You get a chance to help the elderly... |
Music APIs? | nimmen: http://www.discogs.com/help/api |
Tiny things that make a positive difference in your day? | ZeroGravitas: Cycling to work. |
Music APIs? | ahmedaly: You can also use Amazon API.
by using Amazon affiliate API, you can access and search artist/album/song info. |
input on the idea please? | pkc: I like the idea. I think key to success of this idea - getting people already know the subject to participate in the service. Their input might be more valuable. So it also brings down to point to ranking various lists available on the same topic. Digg/reddit like voting might be useful here and in turn might impr... |
From what countries do people use HN beside USA? | pjmurray: new zealand. although im currently in australia |
How did you meet your Mentor and what drew you to them? | seven: I am not sure whether my mentors are aware that they are my mentors.I am a freelance developer and security guy. Trying to go from services to something more scalable.My business mentor is an about 60 year old African business man, who is my client since about 8 years. He grew up very poor and is now owner of ma... |
Passive income? | rmc: The easy answer is to find something that makes you money while your asleep. The awesome patio11 on here has done mostly that. Go ready some of his stuff. |
How much to pay for a domain for a side project? | rmc: I would suggest against it. It's almost certainly possible to pick another domain name, and just use that. If you're just starting off, and no-one knows about your brand, then you can just as easily switch to another branding.The only reason you should pay lots for a domain name is if it's hard or impossible to sw... |
How does one get certified as an ETHICAL hacker ? | rmc: Depends what you want.If by 'hacker' you mean security, then there are certs for that. Or start hanging around, reading and practicing security stuff.If by 'hacker' you mean a good programmer (that's probably what the hacker in hackernews means), then you don't need a certificate for that. Just do lots of programm... |
When does the Apple-AT&T iPhone Contract End? | byoung2: Most likely June 2010 is what I've read several places.http://www.businessinsider.com/apples-contract-with-att-is-d... |
When does the Apple-AT&T iPhone Contract End? | Mankhool: In Canada, Rogers had a monopoly on the iPhone from July 2008 until November 2009, when TELUS and Bell were allowed into the market. So a 16 month run. Very different from the US. |
What's a good place for South African programmers to emigrate to? | gexla: Looking for a job or working as remote contractors? I'm a U.S. citizen living abroad but since I do remote contract work I can work and live anywhere on a tourist visa. I have to do visa runs but that's just another excuse to travel somewhere different. |
What's a good place for South African programmers to emigrate to? | adrianscott: Check out Panama. Seriously. Get a base here and either work locally or do remote work in the same timezone (u.s./canada). Ping me if you have any q's. (Ad: I'm hiring and open to remote workers) |
Learnings from Dale Carnegie, "How To Win Friends And Influence People" | robdimarco: # There is only one way to get people to do something. You have to make them want to do it.# People love to hear their name. When someone tells you their name, remember it and call them by it# When someone asks you what you do, or what's new, have a good upbeat answer. No one wants to hear about your pro... |
Learnings from Dale Carnegie, "How To Win Friends And Influence People" | hajrice: I practically use all the points to get girls and tbh, it goes really good for me. |
Corporate innovation, but... | icey: This is why we build APIs |
Passive income? | simon_: In general, the only things that will generate income for you are work and assets.So... ask yourself what assets you have (a popular website or a library of photos, e.g.) that aren't currently being monetized. |
What's a good place for South African programmers to emigrate to? | hcho: England is not the preferred nomenclature. UK is your best bet; size of industry, proximity to continental Europe, ties with US and all...Depending on your age, income and/or ancestary, you can make use of Tier 2, Tier 5 or ancestary visas, all of which lets you to work in the UK without finding a sponsor. |
Please share your e-mail workflow, tips. | TallGuyShort: I've used a number of different email clients, but I think that the simplest tools, if applied properly, should solve this problem. Trouble is, though, is that's really specific to what mail you get.When someone un-CCs themselves from a bug report, find something that's common to every subject line (or be... |
Default command line software in Mac OS | jolan: It's all the basic UNIX stuff + programming languages like Java, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby. |
Where is Steve Yegge? | crpatino: In his writting, Steve seemed painfully aware of the pass of time. Said things like... having only a handful more of 5 year blocks of life to invest wisely, or... working at Google because life's so short to waste at a day job that do not let you exploit your full potential. He is a smart guy, but somehow he ... |
Please share your e-mail workflow, tips. | visitor4rmindia: I've been using David Allen's "Getting Things Done" methodology for about three years now and I find it works really well.When dealing with mail the principle I follow is to use the inbox purely as an inbox and not a substitute "to-do" list.What that means is I process each message, one at a time, star... |
Default command line software in Mac OS | telemachos: In terms of a list, you can try this (though I can't swear that it's completely up to date): http://ss64.com/osx/Also, unless you install the developer tools (they are freely available on your install disk or you can download them), you don't have a compiler and other key development tools. But even before ... |
Please share your e-mail workflow, tips. | csomar: Okay, here's my experience with e-mailing.Setup:- I use an ordinary Gmail Email (for 4 years). It gets around 200 email per day (that's around 8 emails/hour).- Apart from the usual email, I have few other emails with domains (like support@mydomain.com). I use Google apps for them and I forward all emails that I... |
Learnings from Dale Carnegie, "How To Win Friends And Influence People" | sganesh: I personally visualize & associate them and use them as much as i can:) I believe smiling is the single most important thing of the list.Here are the first nine principles with Number - Keyword - Visualization Technique :)#1 Don't criticize, condemn or complain :
One - RUN- A horse in a race crossing t... |
From what countries do people use HN beside USA? | csomar: Tunisia (Sfax) |
What's a good place for South African programmers to emigrate to? | gstar: A friend of mine thought he had a well paid job in Australia, then moved to the UK to do contract work in a similar field to yours and earned 4.8 times as much with much less responsibility and stress.The exchange rate isn't as good anymore, but I would recommend the UK over the other options. |
Learnings from Dale Carnegie, "How To Win Friends And Influence People" | faramarz: Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.This is by far the best advice Carnegie made. If you want to get people to level with you, first you need to let them know you yourself are vulnerable, make mistakes and are very much like the opposing party.Once your each that level, the other ... |
Learnings from Dale Carnegie, "How To Win Friends And Influence People" | JacobAldridge: The best, and most dangerous, lesson I took was the value in 'mirroring' the person you are speaking with. Subtly mirroring their body language and speech patterns shows empathy, similarity etc, and since I wasn't naturally great at body language I found it really useful as I entered the business world.U... |
Why are HN relevant submissions getting killed today? | pg: Some are dupes and some are spams. E.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=arif100 |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | faramarz: Thanks for the question. I'll be monitoring this thread, because I'm entertaining the thought of outsourcing my iPad app. development as well.Upvoted |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | gte910h: This is what I do for a living (in Atlanta though).Depends a lot on the complexity.For non-game apps: Some smaller, simple apps are 2-3k, more complex stuff runs in the 10-15k range. Past that you're doing something A> Really Hard, B> New, C> On the edge of what Apple allows or D> Heavily involved with a compl... |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | dotBen: Too many variables to be able to suggest a total rate (depends on how much work there is, in addition to the other factors listed).You are probably looking at the equivalent of $100-200/hr for good development, with the higher end for people located in SF.If you are going to out-source development, and you have... |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | tarouter: I remember having read this story about a girl who outsourced her app to canada for 800$ and earned upwards of 8000$ selling it. The app was about a popular game played by girls. I know I'm being too vague but I specifically remember this -
1) Canadian developer
2) Was developed for 800$
3) It was a popular g... |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | Mankhool: I got a very rough quote from a Toronto firm to do a location based app for web, iPhone and Android for approximately $370,000. I just talked to a Vancouver developer who charges $120/hr. As others have mentioned there are numerous variables, but most developers will usually be happy to do an initial free con... |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | grinich: I do freelance iPhone/iPad dev work. I'm in Boston. grinich@mit.eduFor reference, I built this: http://michaelgrinich.com/hackernews/ The rest of my portfolio isn't yet online. Send me an email and I can show you more. |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | glen: I'm using rent-a-coder to develop an iPhone app for an automatic thought record -- a tool that clinicians use to help people challenge irrational thoughts with evidence and rational thoughts. I put the bid out at $300 just to see what happened. I had 3 bids and ended up choosing one w/60+ reviews and a 9.7 (out o... |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | adriand: We're a development shop that focuses on web development, not far from Toronto. We're dipping our toes into iPhone and iPad development - we have someone who is trained, but no app in the App Store yet. We're working on a new app right now that we intend to be free, just to build credibility. But I'd be hap... |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | yish: The going rate for a great developer/designer with lots of mobile experience here in SF is in the ~150 an hour range. I've seen this price go up significantly in the last couple months, primarily due to high demand at the moment. You can probably get a little cheaper outside the area and definitely less offshore... |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | rickharrison: I started up a small development shop about a year ago with a couple other people from Hacker News, and we have done a lot of iPhone development. I would be glad to talk with you about your project. We deliver quality work, and charge much less than some of the more well known shops.We just launched two... |
How do you organize the online "content" you consume? | drenei: The best process for me at the moment seems to be using 3 tools in the following way. The 3 tools are: Google Reader (through a mac app - Gruml), Instapaper (a bookmarking service thats great for text) and Diigo (a bookmarking service).- I go through Google Reader once a day scanning for useful things. Anything... |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | callmeed: A friend and I went to a few dev shops with an iPhone app idea. We got bids from $10k up to $50k.I really like the work these guys do:
http://www.ubermind.comYou might also post in 37signals' job board–they have an iPhone category. |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | edster: I'll be happy to talk to you about your app. I've been developing freelance iphone apps since day 1 of the beta. I've had apps featured at the All Things D conference, NY Times, all of the gadget websites and one of my apps was chosen as one of the top 20 apps of 2009 by a prominent magazine.I live an Ann Arbor... |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | auston: Might I recommend that you make it a web app?All of the facilities you have listed are available in Safari (client side storage, location data). |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | jason_slack: Whatever you do, dont use Craigslist. You get what you pay for!And incidentally, are other just dumbfounded by those that advertise "Develop my iPhone app, no compensation" ads? How can they realistically think someone might do that?I can understand why they advertise, in hope, but I would rather be workin... |
How do you organize the online "content" you consume? | briandoll: Evernote. I heard the hype and ignored it for a while. I tried it a few months ago on a whim and have been hooked ever since.We come across a lot of data. Lots of it is interesting, but we don't need it right now. I save dozens of articles a day in Evernote and search it first when researching a topic I'... |
How do you organize the online "content" you consume? | frossie: I mostly use Google Reader. I use the shareaholic firefox extension to add non-RSS sites to my Google Reader shared items, so I can search for them later - I don't share publically.To a lesser extent: evernote, readitlater, and firefox bookmark folders.My mantra: don't archive what will still be there tomorrow... |
How do you feel when you see "ninja" or "rock star" in a job post? | frossie: I don't like it, because it goes again my own beliefs in what constitutes effective teams. As a geek herder, I can't think of anything worse than a team full of "rock stars". The best teams have a mix of good people who excel at different things. For example you never see a job ad for "compulsive documenter" b... |
Examples of (but no "get-rich") paid membership sites? | petervandijck: So in this case, I'd actually hire someone fulltime to answer question and research stuff members need to know. |
How do you organize the online "content" you consume? | nreece: Synced Bookmarks with Google ChromeSynced Notes with EvernoteSynced Docs/Files with Dropbox |
How do you organize the online "content" you consume? | thinker: Shameless plug - but worth checking out to solve your problem - we've built a website called Thinkpanda which lets you save notes, links, files, rss feeds and even etherpads in "collections". All your collections are a click away and we even aggregate content from all your collections (and those you are follow... |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | byoung2: I've worked with Take 5 Labs (http://takefivelabs.com/) for iPhone app development. They developed an app for the last company I worked for (http://www.veritasprep.com/iphone-gmat-practice-quiz/). That app was in the $5-10k range. |
What's the best way to manage passwords in a small company? | devicenull: LDAP? Depends on what kinds of passwords you are trying to share. If it's for internal services and such, I'd suggest LDAP. |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | NiftyIon: Hey. We have a team of wanna-be iPhone app developers made up of ~6 people. We're high schoolers with a few years programming/graphics design experience.We're just starting up. If you're interested in maybe outsourcing something to us, shoot me an email. Since I understand that we're not experienced iPhone de... |
Emailing users their passwords outdated? | smallblacksun: It's always been a bad idea. The server should not be storing your password in plaintext, let alone transmitting it over email. |
What should I do when I get laid off | dwynings: What type of sales? Shoot me an email: dru@druwynings.com and I'll pass on your resume to some friends if there's a fit. |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.