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Looking to see what tools the community use to do development on os x 1) Develop as is on os x by directly installing various tools and apis on the machine 2) Using virtual box - VHD on same HDD as where OS X is…

When we see todays enterprise IT products, you get a feeling of being transported back to the 90s, old stodgy corporations ripe with bureaucracy moving at a snails pace when compared to the products churned out by…

Its been now close to a decade and half since I have been working with software development and I feel like there are new trends that while I have heard of, I dont have a working knowledge of. A decade ago, when I was…

My objective is to work for myself and eventually turn that into a sustainable business, but I am having a hard time trying to figure out what exactly are the next steps in order to move towards my objective. My current…

I would like to look into starting a business and cant really think of any products to start off with. I feel offering businesses implement solutions can be a start as I am using my technical and business skills and…

Hi HN, One of my goals this year is to increase my income by 30-50K. I am currently employed full time and am looking for guidance from the thoughtful and capable HN community on ways to do that. I can code and design.…

I am facing a problem of managing our photos and videos. The problem is me and my wife take photos and video using our 2 iPhones, 1 iPad, 1 canon DSLR and 1 Fuji Point and Shoot and then find ourselves looking for…

Lots of sites offer to avoid creating accounts with them and instead allow you to sign in with yor google or Facebook account. For eg Flickr. If I were to sign up for flickr using my google id what am I giving up in…

We got two iPhone 3GS' in Aug 2009. Both phones work fine just that they are slow. I would like to get new phones but hate the fact that I have to throw these away. What have other people done ?

I use gmail and over the years have accumulated a lot of mails. Some that I'd like to keep and some that I'd like to get rid off. The Issue is that I have about 5000 emails and going one by one is not an option. I would…

Does any body see any issues with that? Things could be worse from a privacy perspective: a Facebook OS. But the bigger question is is this the right direction for us as a society ? Is this the right direction for…

Most of my experiance Is with a startup. About a good 7 years. It wast not successfull in the traditional sense(no exit). After that I have been managing a small team of developers as a product development lead. I am…

I am curious to find out what files are being installed and where on my hdd when I install a program on my HDD. I am wondering if there is a way to start a 'monitor' before the installer runs such that it will show…

Few months ago I read a article on HN front page about a guy's blog post in which he had shared is journey about finding out he had two weeks to find a place and a job in silicon valley. He described how he used each…

Do you use a virtualized environment or just install stuff locally on the computer. Any merits of using one over the other besides performance ? Looking to have a place to muck around in all kinds of languages and…