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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 installed. 3) Using virtual box - VHD on storage other than main HDD where OS X is installed 4) Using Vagrant - VHD on same HDD as where OS X is installed 5) Using Vagrant - VHD on storage other than main HDD where OS X is installed 6) Using VMware - VHD on same HDD as where OS X is installed 7) Using VMware - VHD on storage other than main HDD where OS X is installed

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 todays small agile technology startups. How do we bring enterprise technology to the 21st century.

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 starting out and when I met older people in technology, I saw that they held on to what they learned early on and there was a gap in their working knowledge - of things they knew in their early years and things that were current at that time (when I was a young buck). 15 years later, While I think I am not quite there, I do feel this may be the start of something like that. I come 3 tier web application structure world, the world of html, servlets, jsps web/app server, dbs; and while they are still around, lots of new technologies have arrived and it seems overwhelming. heavy use HTML5 & CSS, Rise of the .JS frameworks - almost a new one everyday it seems like, change in the fundamental structure of applications - introduction of specialized server caches, server side JS frameworks and database that are no longer tied to SQL. I think learning everything is not a sustainable idea, it does make sense to know them enough to keep things in perspective, which ultimately brings me to my questions -

* How do you keep up ? * How do you strike a balance between depth of knowledge vs breadth of knowledge ? * How do you view the IT/Technology/Software landscape ?

Thanks for pitching in!

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 perspective is one of trying to find a idea for a product or service as starting point. Do I need a different perspective ? or Just not thinking hard enough on what product or service to build ? Thanks for your help !

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 then if I can see a need for a product I could eventually develop it. Worse case just continue running a solutions business. To that effect how good are the partner programs that big companies have ? If I wanted to become a AWS partner and turn that into a successful business what are the big risks and how easy or hard is it to find clients purely using the partner program ( Say I dont have that many contacts in personal network) ? Would this kind of venture be a good idea for a technologist who current full time job is that of a solution architect?

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 have been part of a small team running a startup and have worn many hats on the technology and client facing sides. My biggest strength is to be able bridge business and technology. I can talk technology to non technical folks and talk business to technical folks.

Thanks for your help !!

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 pictures in various devices. Also as a result we have no physical pictures because all the photos are scattered in different places and have not been consolidated. I am sure other people (specially new parents) are facing this problem and I wanted to know what kind of tools or setup you guys are using to conquer this problem.

I am wondering if there is a solution where all this media could be housed in once location and then be viewed seamlessly by any type of device (mobile phone, home computer, overseas via browser) ?

Thanks in advance.

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 return for the convinence of not having to create a separate Flickr account. How much privacy am I giving up ? Given a sign up choice website specific account vs google/Facebook acct based sigh up, what is the better option ?

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 like to know if there are any tools that will allow me to mine my inbox orif there is a better way to deal with the problem of having a big inbox, because if the size of the inbox keeps growing it just becomes "noise" and from that point forward having or not having that data(email) is the same.

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 capitalism. The argument should be looked from both sides.

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 looking to make a move and want to do something like produc management. What's the best way to do that. What other options do I have. Thx

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 hdd/filesystem activity and that will show what new files/directories were created and which existing ones were touched modified.

Atleast in Windows, I knew where the files were install most of the time and if I wanted to remove something i could clean up manually what the uninstaller left out. AS for OS X i have no idea where stuff goes when a installer is used. I understand that straight forward apps are packages/directories themselves and contain most the files. But what happens when the program comes with a installer (say ms office or something like that)

Does OS X apps follow a certain structure like linux where configs go in one location, binaries in another and so on.

If anybody can point me in the right direction or explain what goes on when a program is installed that will great. Thanks.

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 interview as a stepping stone and dealt with the typical puzzles questions;and then as he gave more interviews he started asking some of those puzzles he had encoutered in other interviews back to his interviewers to 1)see how smart they were and 2) make a strong impression. If anybody else read this article and has it bookmarked can you please share the URL . Thanks.