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jli··on Ask HN: any viewable application videos from YC companies that got accepted?
I saw a link to one before, but I can't seem to find it now. I'm interested to know what about the video is important.
jli··on Startup Bootcamp at MIT
I'd like to go, but I won't be around
jli··on Looking for hacker roommate in Palo Alto
a bit expensive, but looks nice
jli··on Why do event sites suck?
it seems like the article was more focused on tech events. I wonder if a tech focused event site or a general events site would be better.
jli··on Why do event sites suck?
upcoming was bought by yahoo in 2005. I totally agree that the sites are built for the promoters and not the users. The biggest problem I see how can this be built for the users and make money at the same time, any ideas?
jli··on Ruby Tricks
please also add a year
jli··on Cappuccino Turns One
what ever happened to atlas?
jli··on Pro Git - CC licensed book on Git by Scott Chacon
is there a pdf or portable format, I like to read my digital books when I don't have an internet connection.
jli··on Where To Find Startup Job Openings
don't forget http://jobs.rubynow.com
jli··on Amazon drops price on their Kindle 2 to $299
i would buy it immediately if is supported chinese
jli··on VirtualBox 3.0 Released
but how is it for mac uses? it seems not as nice compared to parallels?
jli··on Google AppEngine Java Support Launches
people working on appengine really want java? Isn't write webapps in java unproductive? I would figure developers would rather have ruby,php instead.
jli··on New Product From 280North: Atlas
I think this has some potential to allow more developers to publish a web app with at least a decent looking ui. There are a lot of good backend developers who happen to be bad at ui, this might allow more potential customers to view the product instead of being horrified as soon as they saw the ui.
jli··on Autojump: easily navigate directories from the command line
I just installed it, this is a very good time saver. This is much better than temp variables because it defines "temp variable" automatically for you.
jli··on China aims for its own Silicon Valley
btw, I am in Guangdong currently, I'm pretty sure it is nothing like Silicon Valley. There are lots of computer component factories here, but not really any web companies.
jli··on [dead]
We use a mix of Google Analytics, awstats, and webalizer. Awstats and Webalizer are post process your weblogs so they don't really effect the performance of your website.
jli··on China aims for its own Silicon Valley
China has already had its own Silicon Valley for many years in Beijing called Zhong Guan Cun (中关村) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhongguancun .
jli··on Spolksy and Atwood's StackOver is a huge success
I'm surprised how they got a huge audience so fast. When I search for answers to technical problems on google, they appear on top results very often.
jli··on Kindle 2: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device
I really want to get one, but it doesn't meet my basic needs. I need to be able to properly display technical books and the other problem is it doesn't support Chinese fonts, so I can't read chinese on it. What I like is that I don't need to carry tons of books with me. When I moved to China last year, I brought a whole suitcase of technical books, a pain to carry around.
jli··on Startup Camp NYC (Oct. 22-23)
is it really still open to register? it starts in 3 days
jli··on Version Control and "the 80%"
Its been about 3 months since we switched, so far its useful, when we have new features, we create a new branch just for that feature so we can isolate the code from the rest of the base. Then when the feature is done, we merge it with the main branch. Its also awesome to be able to commit when you don't have internet access.
jli··on If you applied for this cycle, please tell us your email address
Hi, thanks for the reminder, we put our emails in the application itself and not in our profiles, but we just updated them. I hope not having the emails in our profiles didn't effect anything.
jli··on Version Control and "the 80%"
I've recently switched to git from svn and it is pretty good so far. Git allows having a centralized server, it just needs to be enforced at the human level, not at the software level.