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Best way to teach yourself how to program? | seven: To learn more about html and css, just download your favourite websites to your local filesystem, start to edit and watch the results.
Try to get some basic concepts about programming. Those first hours are probably not very exciting, but are of great value later.
Then you could start to learn more about web de... |
When are GUIs important? | slindstr: It all depends on who's using your software. I work on both the front and back end sides of a product at work. Generally if there is bug it's pretty easy for most to determine if it's the front or back end that messed up, and yet the customer blames EVERYTHING on the front end. It's not their fault either ... |
Best way to teach yourself how to program? | th: I would try to learn the client-side (the within-the-browser stuff) markup/styling/programming before jumping into the server-side programming. Understanding how browsers handle the HTML (markup), CSS (styling), and JavaScript (programming) takes time. I think it's much easier to learn and apply a server-side lan... |
please review my site | slindstr: The only thing I noticed that I would change is that to login the url is http://www.networktimeout.com/accounts/loginI would make http://www.networktimeout.com/login redirect to this page and/or add a login box to the homepage. Kinda nit-picky but if I want to log into a website I want to do it in as few ste... |
What is your productivity setup? | th: 1. Currently I forward everything to a Gmail account and reply from the proper address using the "send mail as" feature. I use multiple labels and a long list of filters, some with many conditional clauses to sort email into the proper labels.2. I'm not entirely sure what you are asking.3. When on my laptop I use ... |
Are there any mirrors for Rails documentation? | tiffani: Or run to terminal, do "gem server", visit http://localhost:8808/ and check out the built-in RDocs for all the Rails-related gems (and all the other ones installed). |
Are there any mirrors for Rails documentation? | zefhous: http://apidock.com/ is generally pretty good. Ruby docs are there too. |
Best way to teach yourself how to program? | alastair: I've found http://www.railstutorial.org/ to be a great introduction to RoR. |
What is your productivity setup? | dennis_groves: org-mode, http://orgmode.org/Nothing, and I am serious, nothing even touches this either for functionality nor simplicity.Dennis Groves |
Best way to teach yourself how to program? | kd5bjo: The best way to teach yourself how to program is to pick a program you'd like to write, and write it. It will be rough going, but it's important to learn not only the incantations, but also when each one is appropriate. There are plenty of sources for the former, but I haven't ever found a good tutorial (in a... |
Anyone interested in a Sydney HN Meetup? | andrewtj: You guys might be interested in the Sydney Silicon Beach drinks — see http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/ |
Best task management software for small teams? | ordinaryman: How would you like to create a simple tool online, over Google App Engine, to match your needs ?Just add a couple of records for Entities and Attributes in http://creator.ifreetools.com and you will have your app up and running in a few minutes. I guess you will need.. Project(name, description, projectOw... |
What is your productivity setup? | j-g-faustus: This is what I am using for a one-person home office:1. Gmail for everything, two accounts (private and work). I found Outlook folders more convenient than Gmail tags, but Gmail is great at being accessible from everywhere and works well enough that setting up my own Outlook server seems a waste of time an... |
Best way to teach yourself how to program? | markkoberlein: If you are interested in learning Python I would go through the Writing your first Django app tutorial on http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/ |
What code have you read recently? | owyn: The redis source code is very nice to look at. And it compiles without configure, just make... |
Is affiliate marketing really legit? | olalonde: In my experience, most "Get rich quick with affiliate marketing" e-books are total BS, but actual affiliate programs are legit. |
Best task management software for small teams? | huwshimi: http://verbapp.com/ is my app. It's a task management application for freelancers and small distributed teams.I'm about to launch a new version with a greater focus on communication within projects (as well as a bunch of other things). I think the new version will be much more what you're looking for, but the... |
Is affiliate marketing really legit? | iamelgringo: I've looked into it. The idea behind "Affiliate Marketing" has nothing to do with scams. At it's core, the idea is simply to pay people a sales commission to sell your product online.The scammyness varies directly with the scammyness of the product that you are selling times the scammyness of the website... |
Is affiliate marketing really legit? | robryan: Affiliate Marketing can deliver excellent value to both the affiliate and the merchant in some cases. A merchant only has to pay when they make a sale and are being sent more business than they otherwise would and the affiliate is making money from their marketing and web application skills without having a la... |
Is affiliate marketing really legit? | minouye: Yes affiliate marketing is legit. Nearly every major online merchant has an affiliate program (Amazon, eBay, Zappos, Overtstock, Apple, Best Buy, etc). There are numerous companies that utilize affiliate marketing to monetize their content--FatWallet, Woot (on deals.woot.com), theFind, Like.com, and so on.Af... |
What is your productivity setup? | proexploit: Backup: Local and manual for important files. I have a paid account to Dropbox that I develop out of so everything else is backed up as I work. |
What do you think of my e-commerce dashboard? | sfall: I really like the "New vs Return customers. Number of past orders. Time since last order." section. It's a really nice way to see how well acquiring and keeping customers, and how often those customers are going to return.A great way to see a lot of information. |
IS there a site about business models? | patrickk: Derek Sivers speaking about business and profit models:http://b.lesseverything.com/2010/2/3/derek-sivers-speaks-at-...This is a great talk by Derek, I highly recommend it. |
IS there a site about business models? | andre3k1: Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker is a timeless book that I would suggest reading. |
IS there a site about business models? | twidlit: I would be very interested on analyzing the business model of Amazon, Google, or even newer sites like Groupon. |
please review my site | apsurd: I like the design, its very simple and clean. Nothing overdone, nice in my opinion!One thing that bothers me is the main call to action flow. As i see it, you want us to click on "start analyzing". But when I do I'm not analyzing anything, I'm taken to another page that now wants me to click "upload now". Fine ... |
Is affiliate marketing really legit? | Matti: 5days2freedom.com redirects to 5daystofreedom.com with the affiliate ID "curt505" appended to the URL. I think the landing page looks pretty decent. Information marketers and copywriters don't care about creating websites that look pretty -- they care about conversions and sales. Note the two upsell attempts tha... |
Anyone interested in a Sydney HN Meetup? | ozanonay: I'm interested. Could probably also work out a room/projector/wifi/beer arrangement in Surry Hills. |
Please review my OpenCourseWare Search Engine | nl: I've done some work in this area, although more aimed at the school sector than higher ed.One thing we found was that providing alternate forms of navigation and filtering is important.For example, from memory the OCW metadata contains subjects. If the query result pages displayed those as facets then it would allo... |
Is affiliate marketing really legit? | jacquesm: Affiliate marketing is real, the payouts are real, but they're a lot lower than people usually want to make you believe. If you plan on making a living on affiliate marketing then you should be prepared to work very hard.Occasionally someone gets rich, but then again, occasionally someone wins the lottery. |
Best task management software for small teams? | jacquesm: One more vote for trac, we've used taskfreak for about a year but recently made the switch and trac works great. The built in wiki is another big benefit, as well as fairly easy email integration (that did need a plug-in though). |
HN for US politics? | jacquesm: There is plenty of American politics on HN.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1281449http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1280561http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1281773That's just the current homepage. |
IS there a site about business models? | ippisl: "business model generation" is a really good book on the subject:
http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/ |
Best way to teach yourself how to program? | cme: Thanks for the help everyone!..I am looking forward to the challenge |
What SaaS apps have a great UI ? | eswat: The Invoice Machine has a pretty good interface. Simple yet aesthetically-pleasing: http://invoicemachine.com/It may not be much of a looker, but I always appreciated how MailChimp manages to make a boring subject like mailing lists fun: http://mailchimp.com/ |
What is your productivity setup? | maigret: 1. Gmail + Kmail local archiving
2. Still hesitating & jumping between Eclipse & Emacs
3. Netvibes mainly
4. PS3, though sync between gadgets still an issue (iPod, PS3, computers...), PC when PS3 not capable. Searching for better solutions.
5. A full backup locally, else SpiderOak
6. A mix of both ;)I could al... |
What SaaS apps have a great UI ? | koenbok: We leverage Cappuccino to get a near-desktop experience for http://www.enstore.com. You can create an account to play around yourself or watch a video here: http://cappuccino.org/discuss/2009/10/06/cappuccino-in-check... |
What SaaS apps have a great UI ? | rubeng: +1 for MailChimp. The fact that they make sending out emails fun means they're doing lots of things right with the UI. They serve as inspiration for many of the things I'm starting to do with my own SaaS web app.Regarding the 37signals apps, I find Highrise the most impressive from a UI standpoint. |
What SaaS apps have a great UI ? | stevenbrianhall: I'm pretty impressed with http://www.freeagentcentral.com/, it's "great UI/UX" in the sense that as much as looking good, it also functions well. |
What SaaS apps have a great UI ? | benharrison: I'm a fan of Jesse BC (http://31three.com/portfolio). His designs are always top-notch IMO.Some examples are:
http://www.campaignmonitor.com
http://expressionengine.com |
What SaaS apps have a great UI ? | davidedicillo: http://www.getballpark.com/
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/
http://www.getharvest.com/also you can find a bunch of other good examples on http://cloudomatic.com/, a directory of SaaS applications |
Where in the cloud is best to host node.js? | iamdave: Google Code? |
What SaaS apps have a great UI ? | zarski: Smashing mag. has some good articles on this topic.http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/02/25/designing-user-in...http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/12/10-useful-web-app...I have worked pretty hard on the UI/UX experience for http://simplton.com/screenshots and have been happy with the results.Also, look n... |
What SaaS apps have a great UI ? | jasonlbaptiste: This is a really hard one, but we've come across a ton of beautiful apps since starting Cloudomatic:- List of Cappucino apps (these are always beautiful): http://cloudomatic.com/tag/cappuccino/
- One that we added yesterday: http://www.staction.com/ I think the app is simple and the ui is beautiful/som... |
What SaaS apps have a great UI ? | zeidel: Check out www.tungle.me - Super simple very intuitive social calendar. |
What SaaS apps have a great UI ? | oneplusone: I am biased, but Guestlist is pretty good. A lot of our UI design focuses on making the app feel faster than it is while remaining highly usable:
http://www.guestlistapp.com |
What SaaS apps have a great UI ? | swombat: Without trying to be overly self-promoting, we've spent a lot of time making our UI look good over at http://www.woobius.com . Worth having a look and including it in your inspiration list, perhaps. |
What SaaS apps have a great UI ? | megamark16: We use Pivotal Tracker at my day job and I really like the UI/UX. It's intuitive, functional, and simple, all things I look for and try to emulate in my own work.Update: Link http://www.pivotaltracker.com/ |
What SaaS apps have a great UI ? | Janteh: http://wufoo.com/ is beautifully designed, really useful UI and great work with all the colors. |
What SaaS apps have a great UI ? | roachsocal: BitsyBox Hosted CMS w/API
http://www.bitsybox.com |
What SaaS apps have a great UI ? | JangoSteve: I've been a big fan so far of Cashboard. http://www.cashboardapp.com |
Mobile startup kindly asks for feedback | rodmaz: BTW, we offer a mobile, location-aware solution for events and attendees to use before, during and after any event. The solution is free to anyone to use! |
What SaaS apps have a great UI ? | cmelbye: This is PaaS, but Heroku looks amazing and has a great UI. Also, Divvyshot was beautiful. |
What SaaS apps have a great UI ? | waxman: http://freeagentcentral.com/ and http://campaignmonitor.com are both paragons of SaaS UI: beautiful form, and elegant function. |
Frameworks for real-time collaboration in a web application? | RedKnight: We provide an Operational Transformation Engine at www.beweevee.com that works in web applications through either a Silverlight/Javascript bridge or natively. As an example, a client of ours has integrated their javascript text editing control using Silverlight only for OT transformation purposes as their ba... |
Is it worth saving electricity at off-peak hours? | cperciva: Are power stations designed to produce lesser power during off-peak timings?Depends on the type of power station. Hydro plants are in the best position -- under normal conditions, they are limited by the amount of water in the reservoir, so they can make power almost 100% fungible by cutting off the water fl... |
Is it worth saving electricity at off-peak hours? | byoung2: Or in case of hydro-power plants will it continue to generate 100MWUsually hydroelectric plants are placed near a dam, so that during periods of low demand, the dam can be partially closed to slow energy production, and when demand increases, the dam can be opened again. A closed dam is essentially an energy ... |
What SaaS apps have a great UI ? | warfangle: Big fan of Pivotal Tracker (http://www.pivotaltracker.com/). Great product, great UI. |
What SaaS apps have a great UI ? | turoczy: I've always been a fan of Urban Airship http://urbanairship.com |
iPhone Developer license vs. PS3 Linux | towndrunk: Was Unity advertised by Apple? I don't think it was so where is the loss? |
iPhone Developer license vs. PS3 Linux | zFlix: Good point, I don't know all the details, where any of the third party stuffs being cut out initially advertised? |
What SaaS apps have a great UI ? | oziumjinx: http://www.xero.com/ http://www.crazyegg.com/It may not be the most beautiful, but http://www.salesforce.com/ works extremely well for its application. |
What SaaS apps have a great UI ? | dylanz: https://rightsignature.comUpload a document and play with the tools. Very easy to use and the control you have is amazing. |
A Better Term than "Users"? | byoung2: Depending on the type of site: viewers, clients, members, subscribers, customers, visitors, contributors, commenters, followers...the list goes on. |
Should I use a host in the UK? | byoung2: Regardless of where your site is hosted, you should be taking advantage of a CDN to serve static files. For popular Javascript libraries like jQuery, use Google's CDN and your users might already have it cached if they've visited another site that uses the same library. For your own images (and maybe Javascr... |
A Better Term than "Users"? | nfnaaron: It's a clever quip, but I see nothing wrong with "users." It's a neutral, general term that can be used in place of all the terms byoung helpfully lists.There's nothing negative about using a hammer, and there's nothing negative about using software. |
Don't we have any news other than Apple, Facebook or Google? | codemechanic: Since nobody has added their startups yet. Here is ours:Tonido allows you to share your personal digital assets (Files,Photos, Music) with friends and family without going through third party services. Quite opposite to what fb and goog do.common guys. add yours ! |
Any other crossfit lovers? We need a better app | jokull: Wow. Googled "crossfit webapp" and this came up. I'm a regular HN reader and ust started crossfit and I'm fucking loving it. |
Don't we have any news other than Apple, Facebook or Google? | codemechanic: I also like yc 2010 zencoder.Easy-to-use, blazing fast video encoding for your app |
Should I use a host in the UK? | ig1: Apparently google does take into account the location of the IP address when doing country specific searches, but I don't know how big a factor that is. |
Don't we have any news other than Apple, Facebook or Google? | ChaseB: www.niblink.comwe help private golf members connect and exchange guest invitations. |
Don't we have any news other than Apple, Facebook or Google? | noahr: Plagued by Lawsuits, McAfee Founder Hunts for Cures in Belize - http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/145/fantasy-island.html |
Don't we have any news other than Apple, Facebook or Google? | apsurd: Just started working on apsurd - a collaborative network for school clubs/organizations.http://apsurd.com/I'll be entering this into the http://refresheverything.com contest May 1 because I believe it will have a positive impact on students and their neighborhoods. |
are headline fails getting on your nerves? | pg: I've noticed that even legitimate news outlets are starting to use linkbait titles. We often rewrite titles on HN as a defense against this. |
are headline fails getting on your nerves? | raimondious: There's a parallel between the headlines of articles on the internet and advertisements for products: the currency of the internet is attention/page views. It was unethical for people to advertise products as something they weren't, just as it's unethical to advertise a piece of content as something it's ... |
Why and how is Lisp better? | newman314: I did see http://www.lispworks.com/products/myths_and_legends.html but would like to see HN's input on where Lisp would be useful in today's web world of <insert web20 catchphrase> of tools.PS: I know asking a question like this may cause some emotional responses but I am genuinely interested in use cases fo... |
Why and how is Lisp better? | kidko: I've been curious about the practical applications of LISP as well. Pure functional programming, as I understand it, means no side effects. The issue with this is that procedural & OO programming lives off of side effects: screen displays, file writes, etc. How would you build a GUI application in something that... |
Don't we have any news other than Apple, Facebook or Google? | unfair: I've been working on http://shortreviews.net recently - an entertainment review site.Our emphasis is on allowing groups of friends to sign up and influence the entertainment choices of their peers. To support this many sections of the sites allow you to view only your friends reviews, if you wish - and signups ... |
Why and how is Lisp better? | CyberFonic: Excellent question, but did you Google for it? Here's a direct answer:http://itasoftware.com/careers/l_e_t_lisp.html?catid=8and on a more general level Marvin Minsky wrote an excellent paper:http://danreetz.com/ongoing_oversight_and_observation/minsky....Personally, I prefer to 'prototype' things in Python... |
Please review my webapp (and help with autism research) | pedalpete: I don't know much about autism, but I would suspect that when dealing with any challenged groups you would want to use a design that is high-contrast with simple layout.There is a lot of text to read on your homepage, and the menu on the left is fairly plain (which is good), but doesn't really stand out.Also... |
Don't we have any news other than Apple, Facebook or Google? | izak30: Working on web publishing for professional photographers.http://www.shotblox.com/home/Nothing groundbreaking, just making it easy on one really specific market. |
Why and how is Lisp better? | guinness: Lisp isn't a purely functional programming language, it can have side effects if you want it to but it isn't required.The best way to see lisp is as a programming language which allows you to quickly build a context specific language to solve the desired problem. It is great for parsing data, prototyping, doi... |
What are your thoughts on Facebook's Open Graph concept? | primemod3: I just added Facebook's "Like button" to one of my sites, it was surprisingly easy to do. You can see it in action here: http://www.peoplemarks.com/BruceLee |
are headline fails getting on your nerves? | adrianwaj: Got an idea:The Punisher1 - article has bad headline2 - submitted to site with author's email and your email, and customizable note with dropdown of issues with headline, or something within article3 - you get email with reply-to of author's email and attached note4 - you reply to it, sending note to author5... |
Recommemd an HTML CSS editor for an 8 year-old Girl? | jamesbressi: Geez, I thought by now someone would have chimed in. Yes, I searched around, but sometimes my HN family is more reliable than Google ;) |
How do you buy foreign domain names without an address? | maxdemarzi: Go to something like http://www.101domain.com (or any of the other foreign url providers) and see if they can get it for you.If they can't, then its not worth trying to get around the system. Just pick a different name and stop trying to be too creative with your domain name. |
Feedback on Braintrust.io's new homepage | Tawheed: Link: http://braintrust.io |
Feedback on Braintrust.io's new homepage | TotlolRon: I feel like I'm being pushed to do something I don't want even though I just arrived and have no preconceived notion.(the overlay is not my cup of tea) |
Feedback on Braintrust.io's new homepage | proexploit: I had a hard time noticing the fainter scroll down arrow at first and was mildly upset about being denied access to click on things. It feels like a popover ad that won't click away. That was enough for me to leave, even as a reviewer. |
Indeed 'Ruby' trends - what do you think? | techiferous: Regional searches show less of a steady upward trend: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=ruby+boston,+ruby+%22san+f... |
How do you buy foreign domain names without an address? | Frazzydee: Chances are they won't really check the address. Why not just put a fake one?You could also look for a mail forwarding service in the jurisdiction.Giving you a proper answer requires that we know more details– are you expecting that somebody will want to take this site down? Or is it a potentially valuable ... |
Why and how is Lisp better? | samratjp: One aspect of lisp that I love the most is the "map" function. Arguably, many languages have it now and the infamous Google's map/reduce was inspired by this :-)Also, Lisp has been used in many A.I applications, natural language processing, and of course, I believe this little company called Viaweb (founded b... |
Indeed 'Ruby' trends - what do you think? | mechanical_fish: Based on this other URL:http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=ruby%2C+drupal&l=and some clicking back and forth between the "Absolute" and "Relative" scales... I don't know what to think. The "Relative" numbers make no sense, so I wouldn't trust them for any purpose whatsoever. "Percentage growth: 375000?"... |
What are your thoughts on Facebook's Open Graph concept? | collint: The only truly new and interesting thing about this is how big Facebook is. |
Indeed 'Ruby' trends - what do you think? | lunchbox: That trend is relative. Here it is in absolute terms:http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=ruby,+java,+python,+perl&#...Ruby started out with hardly any postings, so its relative growth is astronomical. |
How do you buy foreign domain names without an address? | byoung2: I've used http://www.europeregistry.com/ to register foreign domain names in the past. Much like anonymous/private registration in the US, the registrar uses one of their addresses to create the record. |
Indeed 'Ruby' trends - what do you think? | tamersalama: My own take a few years back - http://jobalytics.tamersalama.com/ |
What is your productivity setup? | lleger: In terms of keeping track of my events, I use twoschedule (http://twoschedule.com). It's sort of shameless plug because yes, I created, but I created it because it's how I wanted to organize because it works. I'm way too busy to use any sort of traditional calendaring application—I need to focus on what's imp... |
Indeed 'Ruby' trends - what do you think? | teaspoon: Any Ruby vs. Python comparison here is probably tainted by the fact that Rails often becomes "Ruby and Rails" or even just "Ruby" in recruiterspeak. You don't see a lot of reqs for "Python and Django" or "Python and Tornado". |
What code have you read recently? | samratjp: Lucene - was extending it to add BM25. |
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