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Roridgeon Real-Time Collaboration startup

I can definitely see an application for that.

Roridgeon Ask HN: What should two geek tourists do in San Francisco?

I'd go and see Hendrix myself http://www.yelp.com/biz/jimi-hendrix-statue-seattle

Roridgeon Ask HN: What % of equity should a CTO get?

Good Luck

Roridgeon Ask HN: How do you like the new design on NXdom?

That's pretty cool. But I would like to see what TLD is available.

Perhaps allow to only pick up .com or .net, or maybe have a grouping feature.

I like the minimalistic nature too. (Oh and advanced options on the left is good.) Edit: I just select "without dashes" and the top option had a dash.

Roridgeon Ask HN: What % of equity should a CTO get?

Honestly, ask him to make you an offer. If he says 15% and you think "yes, that feels right" then go for it. If not at least you will know what ball park he is thinking of.

If I was your CEO I would probably calculate it like this... If you are doing 15 hours of a 40 hour a week job, that would be about 6%. If you were to consider a CEO is the "top" position at 10 and a CTO is next a 7 then (as a friendly gesture based on work so far) I would weigh that 6% by the difference and come in at about 18% relative to the importance of what you are doing against how much time you do it for.

But that is just me.

Roridgeon Ask HN: What's the best way to acquire cheap computing power for uni projects?

Like you have, I would have looked at using the cloud as it is only for 6 months. But even if you got one Extra Mem machine at 17.1GB RAM you would still be paying >£1400 for the 6 months use.

I am sure that Sun used have something for graduate projects where you could apply and run on their servers for a set amount of time, but I can't see where it might be under the Oracle Regime. Sun also used to give you a server on sale or return 90(?) day trial at one point.

I'm tending to agree with you, but I would build several computers myself (ebuyer.com or novatech.com for example), and then break them down/sell them on after the 6 months use.

Failing that you could always do what the US government do, buy a shed load of PS3 and use them like a grid/blade server cluster. Then sell them on when you are done (cite: http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/12/09/military-purchases-2...)

hth

Roridgeon Cloud Hosting - Some Frequently Asked Questions

Thanks Shawn that is very useful. I will check out scalr.net but might well email you as well, thanks for the offer :)

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there is no news here, I've had a desktop wallpaper for at least 6 months now ;)

Roridgeon Real-Time Collaboration startup

It feels a bit like Google Wave but for use in your own application.

However, I have no idea if I'm right.

Roridgeon Cloud Hosting - Some Frequently Asked Questions

Sadly this doesn't answer my question of who I should go with?

I will probably go AWS just because of the obvious simplicity of scale, but their pricing is complex enough to make me wonder if it will end up costing me way more than I'd like.

RackspaceCloud is a possibility, but I really dislike the nominal amount of RAM I get for the same money as AWS Small server. But then again AWS might pinch me on ElasticBlock storage.

Anyone?

Roridgeon The truth about student loans

I have calculated that I will be 40 before my student loan will be paid off... I've been paying it since 2003

Roridgeon Ask HN: Best office chair

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/20103101

Comfortable and a great price too!

Roridgeon Ask HN: Review my website soundkey.com

I often just use Google dictionary which spells the word phonetically or just plays the word to me.

However, I like your idea that you can embed the sound key into something else, and have sounds which are more like audio semiotics. (audiootics?)

They layout could be more compact, specifically on the browse-sounds page. Why not just put the player to the right of the word on the same row. OR hide the player all together and just have a speaker button.

A future idea might be to create a clever algorithm to highlight the syllables as they heard, or the sound being played like a progress bar over the word.

Good luck.

Roridgeon On Dropbox, the USB stick metaphor, & security

sure, I understand what you mean. But surely no one would really install and sync a 50GB Dropbox on someone else's computer?

The web front end allows you to have the best of both worlds.

Roridgeon On Dropbox, the USB stick metaphor, & security

This blog post is not considering the USB metaphor in context of Dropbox.

You wouldn't install Dropbox on someone else's computer just to get a couple of files. You would go online log into your Dropbox and get them from there.

Roridgeon Ubuntu In Action

totally flagged

Roridgeon Why 3D pie charts are bad

yeah... I get it... I could still see which part was bigger.

Roridgeon Ask HN: Best Material to Learn Search Engine Optimisation ?.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/ is a good place to start.

Roridgeon Why 3D pie charts are bad

yes I got it, I could still see which part was bigger.

Roridgeon Why 3D pie charts are bad

I actually got the point, I was saying that it was still obvious which part was bigger, which is what a pie chart should be used for. Anything more complex than that, and it's being used incorrectly.

Roridgeon Why 3D pie charts are bad

uh... why? I could see that the red part was bigger than the blue part.

THAT Pie chart was bad because of the legend being self representational, not the isometric projection.

Roridgeon Ask HN : Have you ever programmed with threads?

With mutli-core CPU now almost ubiquitous Threading is completely essential (outside of a GUI). I can't imagine developing a scalable application without threads.

There is a language called Fantom which purports to be "thread safe" I believe by serializing objects between threads, so the data in the objects could easily become stale if not designed correctly.

Roridgeon Ask HN: Please review my new website

it's a bit like http://blippr.com but no reason there can't be two (or three) similar.

I like the layout, and colours, looks easier to find media than Blippr. Good luck.

Roridgeon Argos email receipts contain your Card No. CCV, Name and Address

I object to your use of the word "developer" in that sentence ;)

I totally agree with you, as a developer I would have strongly objected to storing peoples CCV number to start with.

Generally, this is shocking, and backs up what so many in the UK claim that there really isn't enough good developers.

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Roridgeon Ask HN: Work alone or in a team?

Yes, that is definitely a lesson well leant.

Roridgeon Ask HN: Work alone or in a team?

I enjoying working with others. The issue I face is many people might "like" an idea, but so few are willing to commit to it. So I am currently working on my own just out of shear tenacity.

I'm almost of the opinion to work on a startup with someone you have to come up with an idea with thatperson/those people.

Roridgeon Piet is a programming language, whose programs look like abstract art.

By "yet" i meant "at this moment in time you may be correct, who know's what the future will bring".

I agree in principle with your points, but my point was "one day I can see something like this replacing the space where the 3D barcodes are on cans now"

Roridgeon Ask HN:Product Focus Help

If it is only for use on Facebook, I would go for option 4, then expand to option 2 (if it's quicker).

If you plan to expand beyond Facebook, I would be tempted to start with option 1 and expand to 3.

Roridgeon Piet is a programming language, whose programs look like abstract art.

yet.