Comments on: Hack-A-Day is hiring!

By: pistolpete

pistolpete — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:54:33 +0000

:( I want this sooo bad …. what is the age limit (as in what age o i ahve to reach for eligibility) I have way to much stuff going on… I guess ill contenue reading daily and try to post some of my hacks… sigh.

By: David Woodard

David Woodard — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:07:34 +0000

I am a 20 yr old on probation in Rockwall, TX. Because of this finding a real job in Texas is becoming quite a chore. I’ve lived in the Metro plex for most of my life, originally being born in Lawton/Ft. Sill. I know right, an OK’ie in Dallas. I’m ready to take over now, because if anyones been watching Dr. Phil lately know that my town is where He gets his clients, lol. I live in Wylie, TX in a fucked up municipality that lets the rich kids go to Wylie schools, and forces the poor to go to Dallas schools where they really dont need to be, then obviously the parents arent doin there job! I got projects If the REAL HACKERS in Dallas, have time! you got questions, i have answers, Peace.

By: alexandre

alexandre — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:06:30 +0000

someone here can teach me how to recover the letters typed in my computer. i remenber there is an easy way someone show me but i dont know how

tks

By: Steve DiRaddo

Steve DiRaddo — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:53:47 +0000

hell, i’d do this for free.

By: Joshua McGinnis

Joshua McGinnis — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:43:05 +0000

any word on when you guys might be making a decision? inquiring minds (especially those who have applied) want to know. :-]

By: jamie

jamie — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:29:21 +0000

well, I could offer my services as a web designer, or site html editor. i could work for free or donations of unwanted flash memory, or pc parts. i do graphics too. i offer free desktop enhancements at my site, mostly of my own art, and screensavers.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:50:14 +0000

I would love to apply to this position, although due to being in my honours year doing electronic engineering and with a MSc in Wireless Comms. being the prospects, I would not have enough time to fit it in.

For the feedback I would enjoy more advance projects that are not just mods of consumer technology.
i.e. RFID scanner from the ground up, principles and operation of dsp in real life, etc.
I understand there are others who are just at the begining of the wonderful road of hackaday with little skill. so possibly a split of basic, intermediate, advance, etc.

By: Blind

Blind — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:17:04 +0000

All of you young pukes are making me feel old btw. College and high school getting in the way. Bastards :(

never trust anyone over 30 indeed…. (I’m not 30 yet. you can still trust me)

By: Joshua McGinnis

Joshua McGinnis — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:23:26 +0000

I’d love to apply! Look for my application soon. :)

By: lickyhippy

lickyhippy — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:54:50 +0000

stop dropping meme’s…u sound like a fellow /b/tard

By: tom61

tom61 — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:43:38 +0000

deoryp: If THAD is too themed and make forums to corporate for your tastes, have you considered setting up a local users group in your area? Kind of like the homebrew computer club, but with more general hacking involved.

I think I understand what you two want by "idea corner"; Basically Intructables "Collaboration" done right. Trying to figure out the best way to do that was a brief en devour of mine. Sadly real life concerns got in the way and I never wrote down specifications and have forgotten most of the ideas.

However, "where advanced users can share ideas and help each other out with problems" matches what goes on the team hack-a-day forums. They formed around an unofficial folding team, but that is not all that goes on there, nor is joining the folding team a requirement. Scroll past the first block of sub-forums, and you get to things like computers and technology, and even CNC machine subforum.

By: deoryp

deoryp — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:05:03 +0000

@tom61 I have been looking for a place like snowdruid's idea corner for a while, but i don't think teamhackaday.com is what snowdruid was looking for and it is not what i have been looking for; it is not a general project place, they seem to have a direction and a theme.

so this begs the question: does anyone know of a place where people can collaborate on hardware/hacking projects that are not tied to some sales (see the forums at sparkfun.com and makezine.com for examples of what i don't want). think hackaday projects 6 months before they are posted...

By: tjhow

tjhow — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:25:31 +0000

two things: no capitalization and no color photos, its what makes this site unique. (and p.s. i love the theme)

By: tom61

tom61 — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:30:19 +0000

I like Blind's idea of an updated resource section.

There is already a (unofficial maybe?) Flickr pool: http://flickr.com/groups/hack-a-day/

Perhaps adding one of those side bar Flickr things would increase it's use.

As to snowdruid's "idea corner", http://www.teamhackaday.com/ serves that purpose to a degree.

Not enough time to apply myself, and I don't really encounter stuff that doesn't get picked up by other blogs first regularly enough.

By: snowdruid

snowdruid — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:24:58 +0000

i think lots have already been said but here are a few of my own thought:
design of the site is nice i like it only thing that bothers me is the adds on top. ever thought of doing a subscriber section for a small fee and then blend the adds out? ( of course i understand that you can just blend them out with the above mentioned methods but thats not the point they are here to support the site...) you could also use some kind of easy comment writing for subscriber (no need to fill out the form and confirm?)
also i agree with macegr however i believe there are people out there who understand the advance hacks and could contribute in some ways but for some reason lack the money or tools to do amazing projects themselves. therefor i think it would be a great idea to create a kind of "idea corner" where advanced users can share ideas and help each other out with problems.