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dotmanishon Ask HN: What technology should I use for my new project?

A note on your SQL hosting - there's always Amazon RDS (which would be free for the first year under usage limits, I think). It can also give you a scaling strategy to start with.

dotmanishon What is this hidden script doing on Hacker News?

Apparently it's this: http://drupal.org/node/1872074

dotmanishon My New Development Laptop: Samsung Chromebook

I saw JetBrains' Sale attracting huge number of comments from people and apparently their sales and site performance showed how popular their IDE products were.

I am guessing all those "heavy IDE" users aren't subscribers to the "code in the cloud" paradigm. Yet.

dotmanishon JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

Yes, it does, via plugins for PHP and Python. Based upon the other comments here, it seems the release cycle of plugins lags a bit.

dotmanishon How do I leave a company?

1. Discuss with manager first, colleagues later. Discuss how you arrived at your decision. 2. Give ample time for knowledge transfer / replacement. 3. Keep in touch with them after you leave.

dotmanishon Ask HN:working with a company with anal coding standards

A rockstar in a rock band must play tunes others can follow.

I have seen numerous counts of "He is fast and efficient, but we end up suffering due to the (non) maintainability of his code", followed by "We had to let him go." or "He has been moved to this sole person project."

Your call.

dotmanishon Ask HN: What are you Always Googling?

Java Docs for particular classes. MongoDB How-Tos and Caveats.

StackOverflow typically gets first-click answers. It's fast enough.

dotmanishon Bitfungus - code resources for hackers

I need it to recognize languages in some other way than searching for strings. I search for "java library" and it brings me everything from PHP to NodeJS.

dotmanishon Show HN: Real-time application performance monitoring

This looks nice. Are you supporting APM for Java containers (Tomcat / Jetty / JBoss) as well? JavaAgent approach could help get a lot of detailed analysis for JVM apps.

dotmanishon Enterprise is sexy now. But B2D is sexier.

and the vicious cycle then moves to B2D ?

dotmanishon X-editable: In-place editing with Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery UI or pure jQuery

This is a lazy comment. Is it possible to include both popup and inline JS of this at once? (the demos are mutually exclusive)

dotmanishon Ask HN: What apps are you most thankful for?

What kind - iOS / MacOS / Android / Backend Server apps?

dotmanishon We think our tool that tracks contact forms is unique, is anything similar?

Hi. Pricing?

dotmanishon Ask HN: Best domain registrar?

I use and recommend gandi.net

The answer to 'Why' is 'No Bullshit'. http://www.gandi.net/no-bullshit

dotmanishon Textadept: fast, minimalist, and Lua-extensible cross-platform text editor

Suggestion about the website: Please include a separate section called "Screenshots". A lot of people directly click there to get a feel of the software before they download.

dotmanishon Show HN: RewindHN - Go back in Hacker News history

Loved this. I would love the feature where I could "highlight" (add a glow for effect) any particular story and watch it move up and down as I play with the arrows. Right now everything moves, so this would help spot trend for a particular story.

All in all, Awesome.

dotmanishon The Mail Pilot Public Beta

"It's a tough natural language processing task"

It doesn't seem to be. For most part, it's the same e-mail headers that every other e-mail client uses to show threads: http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html

dotmanishon Ask HN: What's your startup or product?

Realised. Cut short. Thanks.

dotmanishon Ask HN: What's your startup or product?

Mobile Data Collection for the Vernacular Languages world: MobQuery : http://www.mobquery.com

dotmanishon The Tim Cook memo: line by line

"Hence the reason the law should be reformed to attach patentable rights to have a enforceable requirement to actually 'use' the patent - thus destroying the majority of trolls."

Not really. It will simply create a new class of startup pitches. "We have this idea. Fund us now and we will return to you with a MVPFP - "Minimally Viable Product For Patent". Big companies of the world will still fund it.

dotmanishon This is a bit f'd, Quora

I personally agree - I would be annoyed if I discovered this (I haven't logged on to Quora in a long long time). They seem to have most recently updated their Privacy Policy (http://www.quora.com/about/privacy/) on August 1. Quoting "Specifically, you consent to Quora's disclosure of information related to the ways in which you interact with the Service, such as: landing pages, pages viewed".

On the counter-side, I would have been okay if they sent a mass-mailer saying "We have introduced a new feature on Quora - now you know how your peers are doing with Quora!" - making it sound marketing-like, but in reality, percolating the information to their users in the most seemingly-harmless way possible. This could have won them actual fans for this feature.

dotmanishon Twitter acquires Clutch.io

When this happens, I personally would love to see a blog post by the founders on how the soon-to-be-shut business was actually doing, so that current competitors and other startup-watchers can learn. You're anyways leaving the space open, so better to leave the lessons behind.

dotmanishon Working at big software companies

The "You're Not Working With The Owner" aspect of a big company is usually the most underrated reason why some companies succeed in hiring and retaining top performers, and some don't.

The immediate manager is a major reason, from what I've seen, for why people leave or love their jobs. The manager may not even share the same ethics that need to flow down in the company from the founders/owners, and may even work towards ensuring her/his own appraisal success. This is why maintaining the big company's culture is such a tough task, and one bad hire at a senior level can slowly destroy major chunks of it.

dotmanishon Creepy Spying System Revealed by Wikileaks, Which Then Gets Hit by DDOS Attack

They might have. But the problem for everyone would be proving authenticity of the million clones these torrents would have then. Another trojan-distribution opportunity?

dotmanishon Switching from jQuery Mobile to Twitter Bootstrap

You can always use Bootstrap for scaffolding (the grid is the coolest thing), and use jQM for interface elements and rest of the stuff. They are two different tools with different goals, just that several bits (or "features") of them overlap.

dotmanishon Ask HN: Can single founders build successful companies?

I think you already know the answers to many of the questions you've asked here (including the post title, which can be easily answered with a 'Yes' with several examples).

I am a single founder. And without going much into the topic itself, I would suggest:

1. Several accelerators and investors play safe, and common world statistics go against single founders. These accelerators are not the ones to blame for it.

2. You have to convince them that you're an exception to the common statistics they see everyday.

3. A good way to do this is to show that you can build a worthy team (but I guess you're not yet at that stage).

4. You didn't make Point 2 happen with this accelerator. Try again, elsewhere?

dotmanishon Cofounder is now calling himself a founder post acquisition

Possibly the same thing you would have done if he/she had done it prior to acquisition.

Other than that, insufficient context details. Please elaborate.

dotmanishon The real reason we’re upset about Sparrow’s acquisition

Adverts-wise, anything that shows Google's content without making ad-revenue for Google is a potential pie-eater they can eliminate.

dotmanishon Pixate - beautiful native mobile apps with CSS

I think it's more to do with making it "cross-platform", the code-once-build-multiple-platforms aspect of PhoneGap, etc.

dotmanishon Lookup any software license shortly summarized in plain English

Although this would qualify as a "Thanks" kind of response, I'd like to add a note on how much pain this solves for several people in my circle. We ended up several times searching and trying to find a single place for a summary of the licenses (opensource.org worked well in keeping everything else at the same place though).

This is something I would share and recommend.