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I downloaded textmate's free trial but can't afford to pay for it. I'm learning to program and don't have a job yet. Is there any way to hack it so that the free trial never ends? (And, of course, I will pay for it if…

she's going to tweet to her many thousands of followers sometime next week. It's a PHP/MySQL website hosted on Dreamhost. I've never had to scale, and don't know anything about handling traffic larger than a few people…

I just started doing freelance web dev and design. But I'm inexperienced. I've been starting everything from scratch, just blank textwrangler and photoshop. What are some best practices to get fast and efficient? (For…

I'm in the CS program at a university with a top-20 CS program. It's actually been quite easy, and I only have two CS classes left to graduate (along with a bunch of others). I'm thinking hard about transferring to…

..by a startup? (For web development that is, so: PHP, Python, or Ruby.) A while ago, I saw a graph that compared the different languages, but can't find it now.

I made a small app for myself with SMS alerts. I'd like to make more apps like this. Is there anything that you'd like to receive an SMS alert for that you're currently not able to?

I'm working on a web service which requires email and phone number during signup. My proposition is, if the user signs up to use the free service, I can text/email that user once a month. First: what do you think about…

A friend of mine mentioned that he'd like to take the open-source Eclipse code and make it into a web app. You'd be able to code and do everything you want, all in the browser. I'm just a beginner, and don't have much…

Just wondering how you go about cultivating ideas. Do you, for instance, have a routine where you sit down and think about new ideas every so often? Or do you just wait for one to hit you? How do you get your ideas?…

There's a handful of commentors that I deeply respect and enjoy reading. (Not that I don't respect and enjoy everyone else, just not quite so much.) Is there any type of RSS feed for a user's comments?

I read through several Javascript tutorials last week. This weekend I've been reading/experimenting with a bunch of JQuery stuff. Now, on the JQuery site, a good number of the articles mention AJAX. I don't know…

Forgive me for the naive question, but: why is PHP considered so inferior to Ruby/Python? And, as a beginner, do you recommend going with PHP to start with, or straight into Ruby/Python?

I've recently been engrossed by the question of how geniuses and highly intelligent people think. There's bits and pieces of information online. What I'd really like to see, though, is (a) geniuses describe their…

If it's not already possible, here's a broad idea for a gmail plugin. - Implement ability to right click on any phone number in an email and choose "Call with Gmail" - Implement ability to right click on any address and…

So AwesomeReminders now costs $40 a month. Is it still growing modestly, even at this price How many subscribers are there now?

I can make the website, but don't know where to even begin to get the clothes made well, on the cheap. I'm male, and want to design male clothes. (Think: t-shirts and tanks.) I would design everything myself (probably…

One thing I do is work out. But I'm trying to find something I can do every night to wind down and have a bit of fun. I'm thinking I might watch a movie (or part of one) a few nights a week. Maybe a tv show. Maybe read.…

I recently started pursuing coding seriously (after a year of an hour or two a week). And, unfortunately, my right wrist hurts like hell now. It begins twenty minutes or so after I start typing. The pain shoots down…

I just start learning it in school. We're making a game. What can it be used for on the web, though? What big companies use it primarily?

I just finished reading the SEOmoz beginner guide. And it seems to me that everything I read could be summarized in a tidy checklist. Are there SEO "to-do" checklists (starting from the lowest hanging fruit and…

I'm taking a class in user experience at my nearby junior college. And some of it seems really practical; but other parts of it don't. For instance, a few weeks ago we spend a good amount of time creating personas for…

I'm trying to find 50 respondents for a survey I create. The problem is: I need them to be a specific "type" - art lover/artists, 13-50 years old, and from the United States. Are there any good online services that…

1) How often do you check it (and for how long each time)? 2) What's your routine while on HN? Do you just browse through the highest voted articles, or maybe go through the new, or just ask HN, or different?

Put another way, once you come upon what appears to be a legit startup idea, what steps do you take (in order)? For instance, do you first scour the market for similar startups? Do you ask friends what they think, or…

Some of mine, wherever I am, include: - Why is this like THIS? And how could I make this beter? - STOP - Why are you doing this? (This is usually when I'm doing something I shouldn't be, like incessantly checking HN.) -…