Hacker News Reader

peterladaon Tell HN: My startup is making money and I don't know what to do

Incubators are a good idea at this stage. They will groom you, get your ownership in order, teach you not to say stupid stuff and curate the VC space for you. You will raise if growth keeps up. YC, 500, TS on west coast or TC, DreamIt, ERA on the east. Go for it.

peterladaon Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

I'd love to follow the news in my RSS feed reader. But the 30+ per hour makes it impossible. I'd love a Top News RSS feed with 30-40 items per day. Filtering can be vote count, throttling, etc.

peterladaon Reinventing Git interface

Love it, I've always understood the conceptual model (perforce has the same one) but I'm always running afoul on git's "helpful" CLI commands. This would solve almost all the issues and has the promise to educate designers/analysts on how to correctly think of versioning by making it visual.

The project could start out by creating the visual interface (D3,js?) and spitting out the appropriate git CLI commands for whatever was done by dragging and dropping. Phase 2 would be to integrate the web server into the git project.

peterladaon On the increasing uselessness of Google

Do your part, it'll improve: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/efinmbicabejjhja...

peterladaon Thinking in Clojure for Java Programmers

2 + 3, touche :)

peterladaon Thinking in Clojure for Java Programmers

I love functional programming. At least the functional parts of Python. However, Lisp seems better suited for computers than for humans.

Which is probably a side effect of having been created when 64kB was a decent memory size.

peterladaon Why don't gazzilionaires start their own countries?

T is negative, but the concept of nation states is obsolete. It will be very apparent in 20-30 years. I'd not invest my wealth in nostalgia.

peterladaon Why don't gazzilionaires start their own countries?

Umm, Switzerland??? Significant portion of gold deposits, highest standard of living, etc. Nobody seems to want it though. Their "army" is a few thousand tops. Their vehicle is a Mercedes Benz G Class, seesh.

peterladaon Why don't gazzilionaires start their own countries?

Instead of that they could just support seceding California -Oregon-Washington from the union. They all live here anyway. It'd have about 50% of the economy and 99% of the innovation. No more bailing out the falling empire.

peterladaon Ask HN: Any Headphone Recommendations For Around $100 US?

Sennheiser HD280pro. Nice sound, and completely sealed. A dream to use on planes. -32dB isolation is more than what Bose promises with noise cancellation. I've seen them around 80 on sale.