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Wow, thanks for the pointer. This looks like a sweet almost-ruby like language.

necrodomeon Applications for YC W15 are open

Just checked out the demo. This inflicts too much work on the watcher. Why would I want to draw curves after watching a video? What do I gain as the user?

necrodomeon Announcing Calibre 2.0

I am trying to find a solution to ditch calibre(at least for library management) completely, and with the advent of cheap android eink devices, this seems more possible now. A simple app that communicates with a web backend to manage my library on such a device would be enough.

one recently released such device is Boyue T62 (http://www.banggood.com/Boyue-T62-8G-Dual-Core-6-Inch-WIFI-A...) Here is an overview (the review is for the same device, just rebranded and with previos generation specs) http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2014/08/11/icarus-illumina-...

You also get much better pdf reading capabilities with these devices.

Until the next generation displays for reading come into play, these look much better overall than kindle, nook, etc.

necrodomeon Ask HN: Idea Sunday

You might want to take a look at Smallest Federated Wiki (https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki)

example wikis: https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki/wi...

necrodomeon Is it okay for me to initially charge low rates on an Elance?

Ah, it's just happened to be my domain, I don't live in Isle of Man.

Yes, it is 80k USD. My rate usually revolves between 50/75$ hour, but I generally try to charge by week. Last year, I think i worked on 3-4 relatively full-size projects including:

- Backend for an iphone app - Backend/web frontend for a continuous event processor, a commercial offering in par with http://riemann.io/ - Backend/web app for a job board in restaurant industry

It is actually pretty easy to filter out low quality buyers: They will mass advertise the project for nickels and pennies. They will always try to negotiate the rate along the way. They won't answer your questions about the project details or simply have no clue.

necrodomeon Is it okay for me to initially charge low rates on an Elance?

This is my 3rd year on Elance as a fullstack developer with a main focus on backend, and last year I made around 80k. In the beginning, it was very hard to compete with established users and 10$/h developers. In Elance, having a track a record with high ratings is pretty important, so my first few jobs were some easy scripts that were guaranteed to be 5 stars (I made sure on the proposal that I don't care much about the price but that I need a good review)

After establishing a bit of credit, you should be picky on the projects you choose and make sure that you are not throwing a generic proposal. Treat each one uniquely. Have a resume/portfolio ready. Ask questions about the project and more importantly, give suggestions about pain points.

necrodomeon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)

Greplin, all over again?

necrodomeon This page is anonymous

You can read about someone who is a bit obsesses (in a pragmatic way) about that here: http://snarfed.org/privacy_through_prepaid_credit_cards

necrodomeon Joe Armstrong: Solving the wrong problem

Does/can Manticore have a such unique application domain?

necrodomeon Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

Just upvote, then:

http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=largesse

necrodomeon Alan Cox leaves Linux and Intel

I liked it how his profile image[1] is a QR code for his site[2] and also resembles him.[3]

[1] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DGzr5UFEIXM/AAAAAAAAAAI/A...

[2] http://goo.gl/BhXmc

[3] http://goo.gl/w5HNx

necrodomeon HD Trade Services (YCS12) Visits CES 2013 [video]

You are committing sin #1 on your blog: Not including a link to the actual company/product page.

necrodomeon We switched to Node.js: the good and the not so good

what's different about node community from ruby community? are you sure that's not confirmation bias?

necrodomeon Riemann, a distributed systems monitor (built in Clojure)

From the mouth of the project's owner:

From skimming the docs, it looks like Esper is much bigger, much cooler, and with a more abstract version of events. It implements a lot of the primitives I've been considering but haven't built yet. It looks more difficult to set up, and has a commercial offering for support and HA; neither of which are present in Riemann right now.[1]

I recently finished building a monitoring system using Esper and JRuby since the client asked specifically for that, but I wished I had used Riemann from the beginning.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/riemann-users/GhVMYJow...

necrodomeon Getting hyper about hypermedia APIs

What are the best options to implement that for an API backend with Rails <-> a javascript library/framework for the interface?

necrodomeon Embrace the Static Web with Punch

I was developing a (java|coffee)script-only full text search engine (not just some simple regex match, but something memory efficient with succinct data structures) to have an answer for search, but than it occurred to me that I rarely, and in general never, use search on someone else's blog.

necrodomeon Why Marissa Mayer should acquire IFTTT and go all in on Yahoo Pipes

Can you name these startups?

necrodomeon Torvalds' quote about good programmers

any concrete examples you can point to?

necrodomeon A 4G LTE base station running entirely in software on a standard PC

A nice blog post about him: http://blog.smartbear.com/software-quality/bid/167059/

necrodomeon Bushi.do is now Cloudfuji.com, launches Kandan - beautiful open source chat

From the source of the app (https://github.com/cloudfuji/kandan), it seems that it doesn't check for authorization -for now-, so be aware that anyone can signup to your own private instance if they know your url and do nasty things like deleting channels.

necrodomeon Reinventing a Free Trial offer

Just signup with multiple accounts.

necrodomeon Stephen Hawkings spends most time thinking about..

tl;dr

- What do you think most about during the day?

- Women. They are a complete mystery.

necrodomeon 60% of .edu websites are hacked by turkish "hackers"

what does that have to do with op? every country has its own script kiddies.

necrodomeon Microsoft’s vision of the mobile future is astounding

I agree with Mr. Gruber on this:

"This video encapsulates everything wrong with Microsoft. Their coolest products are imaginary futuristic bullshit. Guess what, we’ve all seen Minority Report already. Imagine if they instead spent the effort that went into this movie on making something, you know, real, that you could actually go out and buy and use today."

necrodomeon Show HN: A storebuilder contained in a single text area

I use craigslist when I want to sell something, because that's where the buyers are, not because of its simplicity (or lack of futures). And ditto for ebay.

If I were a serious seller, I would want a shopping site with bells and whistles (a detailed admin area, user accounts, reviews, discussions, etc) that might contribute to the selling part.

This site would be a fantastic tool if it worked with craigslist/ebay.

necrodomeon Max Levchin to Leave Google As Slide Is Shut Down

This quora answer also gives some info about his approaches on entrepreneurship:

http://www.quora.com/Entrepreneurship/Among-Max-Levchins-les...

necrodomeon Ask HN: How do you share links/images within a closed group?

Are you using a bookmarklet to send links?

necrodomeon How We Have Attempted to Recover from Google Panda

When I search Hawaii Hotels on Google, the top result is a 7-item list of hotels with a little bit more information (link to the official hotel site, review count, place page, etc). How is that different from travbuddy's list page except that extra information?