1,005 items tagged “quora”
2013
What are the cheapest ways for a single man to eat in London without cooking?
24 hour fried chicken joints are a relatively cheap source of calories if you want hot food and don’t want to cook.
[... 50 words]Why aren’t there any popular web frameworks in C/C++ even though they are more performance intensive languages?
Because it’s very hard writing secure code in them due to the way they handle memory management, and web applications have an enormous number of potential paths for malicious input. It’s much easier to write secure web application code in a higher level language (which isn’t to say it’s easy at all even then).
[... 77 words]Does Google Ventures invest in native iOS applications?
Easy way to find out: take a look at the list of companies they’ve already funded: Google Ventures—Companies
[... 48 words]What is the difference between Windows and Linux for web hosting, in other words, what are the pros and cons of each, each’s limitations, performance development environment and deployment between Windows and Linux?
Any and every operation you perform on a Linux server can be trivially automated by copying the commands you ran in to a text file. I haven’t managed a Windows server in years and I hear PowerShell is pretty great these days but an OS based around a GUI is always going to be harder to automate than one based around a command line.
[... 156 words]How can I become a world-class coder in under three years?
Write code. Lots of code. Code that does stuff.
[... 95 words]What are the most exciting sporting events in the world?
That’s easy... The Mongolian Golden Eagle Hunting Festival, held every October.
[... 48 words]Is it a good idea to wear your startup shirt in a tech conference?
If you are there to talk to people about your startup then sure, why not? Even better if your shirt says “ask me about X”—it’s cheesy but it works.
[... 51 words]What are the best Craigslist advertisements of all time?
Hey Crackhead remains my all-time favourite craigslist posting. It’s too good to quote one extract—you just have to read the whole thing.
How can Quora be made 10x better? What features should they improve or introduce? What can Quorans contribute to improve Quora for all?
Stop hiding the content I provide behind a “log in to view this” wall. I no longer feel comfortable linking to my posts on Quora from elsewhere, which makes me strongly consider not writing things here any more.
[... 67 words]What honorarium is befitting for a guest speaker apart from money?
Here are a few ways you can treat your speakers really well.
[... 107 words]What is the biggest team to join Y Combinator?
Larger teams that apply for YC generally have to nominate 2-3 “founders”, mainly for logistical reasons: there simply isn’t enough room at the dinners for larger groups. The non-founders don’t get to go to all of the dinners, though they can come along to a few of them as guests of the founders.
[... 68 words]Events (leisure): How do you organize a conferencce?
Read http://www.quirksmode.org/coh/—and good luck!
[... 21 words]How do I choose between asynchronous web frameworks? My tech group is fairly language agnostic and we’re trying to standardize on some technologies.
Since they are all pretty close to each other and it sounds like your tech group’s skills would support any of them, I would suggest having your tram build a simple prototype in all three so you can compare them for your own particular team and situation.
[... 76 words]Presentations, when’s the best time to give your personal background?
It’s rarely a good idea to include this—usually it adds nothing to the audience’s understanding of presentation, unless you are speaking on a topic that really needs that additional authority (security presentations sometimes benefit from this)—in which case keep it to a couple of sentences, don’t share your entire professional history.
[... 90 words]Would you pay for a service that allowed you to shadow people in your profession of interest?
As a high school student I would not have paid for this. It’s a big gamble (what if I spend money only to find out that the career doesn’t interest me), it relies on me having a good idea about what I want to do first (which I didn’t), it’s something I can get for free elsewhere by taking to friends of family, and I didn’t have any money to spend anyway.
[... 95 words]What has Google given out at I/O in the past years?
I/O 2013 was a Chromebook Pixel (with or without LTE) and 1 terabyte of Google Drive space for three years.
[... 37 words]Is it difficult to make a dating site? My budget is small. Any suggestion?
Yes, it’s hard. Technologically, dating sites are not that complicated. The difficulty is keeping them populated enough that they remain useful for your users.
[... 159 words]What are some JavaScript concepts that took you the longest to understand?
Closures, prototype inheritance, and the “this” keyword.
[... 60 words]What is the best way to notify participants of a planned meeting?
Google Calendar invites work really well—they’re sent via email and are reasonably usable even by people who don’t themselves use Google Calendar.
[... 42 words]Do I need to change something on my LIVE website to do Remote usability testing? Am I needed to create a duplicate copy of my website?
You should be able to run a working copy (potentially with fake data or a subset of your production data) on your laptop, for development purposes. You can use the same setup for usability testing new features.
[... 96 words]Does creating a zip file with php use more RAM then CPU? Or vise versa? Also, is it faster to use a system call, or the php zip library? Exec (zip filename.zip) vs. $zip =new ZipArchive().
You can find out the answer yourself using a very simple benchmark—just call time() before and after each option and loop them a few thousand times to calculate an average.
[... 74 words]Which companies in London are using Python?
We use Python/Django for http://lanyrd.com/—we’re based in London.
[... 39 words]How do professionals build and maintain their websites?
The HTML and CSS for large, professional websites is usually written by hand, in a text editor. Tools like Dreamweaver are avoided by most skilled web developers.
[... 69 words]What’s an idea worth?
I like Derek Siver’s model proposed here: http://sivers.org/multiply
[... 77 words]How can I successfully organize a conference?
PPK’s conference organisers handbook is crammed with useful advice on running this kind of event: http://www.quirksmode.org/coh/
[... 30 words]I have an idea for a website, with an idea for eventually having cashflow out of it? However, my skills are insufficient to build it and I have no money at all to hire someone—what’s my best starting point?
You either need to learn some skills, or you need to earn some money. Sadly, having a good idea is not enough—you need to be able to execute it as well.
[... 80 words]Does preparing before a presentation actually help one’s presentation?
Yes, in all cases. Not preparing adequately is disrespectful to your audience.
[... 98 words]Are there any Twitter apps funded by Y Combinator?
http://lanyrd.com/ was originally a Twitter app (required Twitter for signin and social graph) back when we were funded by YC. We didn’t really think of ourselves as a “Twitter app” though, and I don’t think that aspect if the service was influential in getting accepted in to YC.
How would you know if your start up is just ’reinventing the wheel"? Should you just stop or just keep going?
If you have enthusiastic users (or paying customers) then it doesn’t matter if you are “reinventing the wheel” or not.
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