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Good web-based icon editor? | swombat: If not, someone should make oneWhy? Would you pay for it? |
Good web-based icon editor? | staunch: Splashup lists "Pixel-level control" as a feature on the front page. |
Good web-based icon editor? | solutionyogi: -Not an answer-Why do you want it to be web-based? Any particular reason? I think there are certain things for which a browser is not a good application hosting platform. As an experienced web developer, I can imagine the amount of pain it will take to create a pixel based image editor.Additionally, there... |
Good web-based icon editor? | noodle: http://iconfu.com/ |
basic web design for small projects? | hnbw: I'm in the same boat and while I will ultimately design a web site for the project, right now I am using WordPress which has a lot of really nice themes. |
Which persistent in-memory database to use? | TedK: eXtremeDB, the in-memory database system (IMDS) from McObject, may be a fit. Tagged, the social media site, chose the 64-bit edition of eXtremeDB for what sounds like a similar purpose, and others use it in that way as well. See:http://www.mcobject.com/November10/2008 |
How to stay focused? | fnthawar: Make it a game: http://bit.ly/iGxMB |
Flex or JavaScript. Which way to go? | mahmud: I briefly flirted with Flex and it reminded me of the era when I waited on a corporate custodian to release features that I needed yesterday. Flex might be open source but the culture is really hard to stomach; Adobe runs the show every step of the way, and nothing gets done without their blessing.JavaScript im... |
basic web design for small projects? | jmonegro: Probably unrelated, but I could whip up a design comp for you quickly, minus the coding (I'm REALLY busy at the moment). Nothing in return, I just like to help :) |
Flex or JavaScript. Which way to go? | mtarnovan: Maybe you could use ExtJS or ExtGWT (http://extjs.com/) since you're already developing in Java? |
Please review my new project: almost.at | davidcann: I used Cappuccino to build the front-end, so thanks go to the 280 North guys! |
your favorite obscure Firefox extensions? | smoofra: I loved Hit-A-Hint so much I forked it when the original devoper abandoned it.http://elder-gods.org/lol |
Javascript Framework Alternatives to Sproutcore/ExtJS/Cappucino | sarvesh: What exactly are you looking for in the framework? One of the three frameworks you have listed will probably work if you want build something like 280slides. |
Please review my new project: almost.at | aditya: Fascinating. Would be nice if you labeled the three columns, (The first is twitter mentions, the second flickr and the third everything else?)But it looks like a great way of visualizing developing stories, with the downside being that you can only really track one thing at a time.How are you dealing with reduc... |
Please review my new project: almost.at | jack7890: Very cool. Easy quick improvement: add "cursor: pointer" to the CSS of the event links on the left-hand side. That will make it easier for the user to tell he should click on them. |
Please review my new project: almost.at | paul9290: Cool that you list tweet links from major news sources!When a user clicks on CNN, BBC or others could you not on the left most side bring up the article they clicked so they dont go to another site? Would be a UI thing, but I would never leave the page and I could click and read all the news stories about X,... |
Flex or JavaScript. Which way to go? | triplefox: If you want Flex/JS interoperability: haXe. |
What comes after we hit the 16nm barrier? | tynman: We software developers will have to actually start paying attention to code bloat and performance. We won't be able to count on beefier hardware to run our next round of sloppy hacks! |
Please review my new project: almost.at | geuis: Man, I love what Cappuccino can do. It looks really slick. However, on a top-end Mac Pro with 6gb of RAM in Safari 4 beta and Firefox 3.5 beta, its sloooooow. Everything is just really jerky and non-responsive while trying to navigate around.All that aside, its a really great interface. Soon as you enable some a... |
Please review my new project: almost.at | redorb: You must be getting hammered by traffic; I just gave ya 30 seconds to load.. I'll try again later. |
Please review my new project: almost.at | kwamenum86: uuuh...guys? I think Bing might be better than Google....what do I do? |
Please review my new project: almost.at | wooster: This is fantastic! I could see myself paying for the ability to set up feeds to share with other people during an event.It's also nice to see Cappuccino being used for something outside of 280 North. :) |
Thoughts on Kurzweil and Singularity | rw: gregking, I recommend reading the essays at http://yudkowsky.net/singularity before having this discussion. |
Please review my new project: almost.at | alexkearns: Beautiful, beautiful interface. Worked perfectly smoothly on my MacBook 2.2Ghz with 2GB ram. Am very jealous. Makes the interface of my AJAXified web app - www.gambolio.com - look a tad amateurish. Mine was done using jQuery, btw. |
Other Applications Using Cappuccino? | jasonlbaptiste: One I've already seen, but wanted to add to the list so others don't repeat is: Almost.At |
Thoughts on Kurzweil and Singularity | Femur: >Do you think we will see the next evolution of mankind as he describes it?I have no idea and I don't believe anybody who says that they know. The future is unpredictable; there are no crystal balls or formulas that can tell you what is going to happen. We can always take guesses and make predictions and perha... |
Please review my new project: almost.at | crux: I think it's pretty cool looking. One question, one concern: 1) Are events added manually? They certainly seem well-enough targeted that I could see them being so. But the flip side of that is that there's a lot of other events of a similar nature, but with less of a geeky focus, that I'm afraid I wouldn't see. I... |
Please review my new project: almost.at | mahmud: I am not sure what it does, but it looks fucking gorgeous. |
Please review my new project: almost.at | ErrantX: I played around with it for a bit and thought it was quite cool. Then just as I was about to click close I saw the wierd slider thing at the bottom and though - ah that would be so awesome if I could slide it and.... OH COOL!Kudos. |
Please review my new project: almost.at | halo: Neat idea, but this is unusably slow on my PC (Firefox 3, Core 2 Duo 2ghz). |
Please review my new project: almost.at | papaf: All I see is a timer and then just a black screen. I'm using Opera 9.64 on x86_64 Linux. I'm sad because the other comments make it sound awesome. |
Flex or JavaScript. Which way to go? | cosmo7: You might want to consider separating your front and back ends with an API that could be accessed by Flash or AJAX.You can then introduce a simple client and progressively enhance it according to your client's sensitivities. If you use AJAX I recommend jQuery. |
What would you do with a touchscreen monitor? | jcapote: I'd try and run android with it. |
What would you do with a touchscreen monitor? | TallGuyShort: I would put my current hobby project on the back-burner, and I'd start playing with ways to interface with the computer using natural gestures. That's a topic that's always fascinated with me - and is becoming more and more relevant. |
Please review my new project: almost.at | ilyak: Of course it doesn't work in my Konqueror :) |
What would you do with a touchscreen monitor? | PieSquared: I'd use it to write myself notes, or calendar, or to-do list. Basically, an electronic whiteboard. |
Other Applications Using Cappuccino? | mrduncan: In a somewhat related note, if you haven't seen Francisco Tolmasky's speech at JSCONF 2009 on Cappuccino and Objective J I definitely recommend checking it out.Video: http://jsconf2009.com/francisco_video.html
HN Post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=630290 |
Other Applications Using Cappuccino? | aac74: http://cappuccino.org/discuss/2009/02/28/announcing-atlas/ |
Please review my new project: almost.at | endtime: Looks really nice, but perhaps a little buggy? I'm using Opera 9.64 on XP and when trying to view the stream about the missing France flight, I was only able to get two of three streams at a time. The third would show a paused icon in the top right. First, the Twitter stream was paused; after I clicked arou... |
Please review my new project: almost.at | ochiba: Very cool!
When I watched the Air France stream, many of the items were in foreign languages. You could offload language detection to the Google Languages AJAX API to allow filtering by language, or even better, automatic translation on-the-fly ;) |
any recommended web based interactive graphing tools? | adw: On the Processing front: Ben Fry et al. recommend you google for "processing.org". You can try "p5" too - it used to be at proce55ing.org before they got the non-leet domain, but the nickname's stuck around. |
How do you learn about the business aspects of running a startup? | jamesbritt: I've been getting my business education by making mistakes running businesses. |
Other Applications Using Cappuccino? | jerryji: Wiki style -- http://collectivesys.com/item/detail/Cappuccino%20RIA%20deve... |
Thoughts on Kurzweil and Singularity | rubing: The criticism i've heard from many scientists is that kurzweil tends towards optimism and hyperbole b/c of his breadth of knowledge, but lacks the specialization and depth of knowledge sufficient for making credible prediction. |
Please review my new project: almost.at | rythie: It looks good! I had a few problems though:It appears you can pause individual columns but clicking on the pause button doesn't work (in Firefox at least)The columns should have titlesThe last column (Links) keeps the background title over the text (in Firefox at least)Selecting different stories on the left se... |
Please review my new project: almost.at | vaksel: congrats on getting techcrunch covered |
What would you do with a touchscreen monitor? | mcotton: I'm in the home automation business and this is what I do all day. Complex tasks become very intuitive when you use pretty graphics and simple layouts.If you need ideas for widgets, check out what the guys at http://www.chumby.com have done. |
Please review my new project: almost.at | mrduncan: Looks great! This is definitely one of those first apps which will help give people an idea of what Cappuccino can do.One bug I noticed: Expanding the left column seems to have some issues. More specifically, the content doesn't seem to expand with it until you click on another event. (In Safari 4 on a Mac) |
P=NP, what do you do? | charlesju: Make my salesmen travel more efficiently? |
P=NP, what do you do? | embeddedradical: let people make a shopping list, then give them the best deal there is on all the things combined, with as few shipments and registrations as possible, maybe let them pick how many max new stores, and let them keep a list of stores they like -- and once you've made a bunch off that, announce how you di... |
Please review my new project: almost.at | moe: Hm. Doesn't work on linux in Firefox Minefield , Opera 9.63 or in Konqueror 3.5.8. I only get a spinner for a few seconds - followed by a blank screen.In windows firefox it works (a bit sluggish, though).Anyways, apart from that problem and a few minor bugs it's a really nice tech-demo. I don't see myself using su... |
P=NP, what do you do? | carterschonwald: If you have an algorithm with a worst case polynomial bound on the time it takes to solve an NP complete problem, then UPS, Fedex and other companies would pay nicely to use a service to optimally do scheduling, routing and resource allocation.On the other hand, since it is more likely that P!=NP, this... |
P=NP, what do you do? | rms: Bid the spy agencies against each other. Make sure you tell the Americans that you are really working for them so they don't kill you and they also protect you from all the other people that want to kill you.Edit: Who I am kidding, the Americans would not want the other countries to know P=NP and talking to anyone... |
P=NP, what do you do? | arjunnarayan: You can break a lot of crypto - so if illegality is your speciality, you can break whatever you want. If you want to remain legal, there are plenty of bidders who will pay for epoxyed black boxes that will do decryption.There's also the UPS/Fedex route - which isn't worth as much money, but you could sell... |
P=NP, what do you do? | mitko: almost is very far from done. If you have REALLY done it then probably somebody else might do it as well in the (not so) near future.Also, what is the degree of the polynomial solution? If it is high then fast approximate solution might be preferable to exact slower solution (example: Simplex vs. Ellipsoid algor... |
P=NP, what do you do? | tlrobinson: mariorz: is there something you'd like to tell us? |
P=NP, what do you do? | jules: You could use it to build better compilers (compilers today have to approximate many NP-complete problems). |
Other Applications Using Cappuccino? | azrealus: please check http://almost.at |
P=NP, what do you do? | tolmasky: The US government pays a million bucks per new prime right? Just push those out every week or so. |
Please review my new project: almost.at | palish: I am not sure it's working correctly on Chrome. Here's what I see: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/almost.at.jpgI gave up trying to figure out what to do after about a minute. |
Please review my new project: almost.at | alain94040: It looks gorgeous, but I have one question about web pages that look like applications: what happens when I leave the page and later want to come back? Is there a "save" button?On my computer, I can come back to my data very easily. The next time I open an app, everything is where I left it. Does Capuccino ... |
What would you do with a touchscreen monitor? | CyberED: I'd use it full-screen with pyGame and experiment with implementing the view part of MVC and alternative user interface (that requires no keyboard nor mouse) think gestures, taps, etc. Direct manipulation has a huge promise when applied on a larger scale. Look at iPhone / iPod Touch and the various Surface s... |
P=NP, what do you do? | dave_au: Answer from Cook:
www.cs.toronto.edu/~sacook/homepage/JACMpvsnp.psHighlights
- Computers could find formal proofs for any theorem with a reasonable length
- All you need then is a good recognition algorithm for formal proofs
- Then you can just work on recognizers for good novels / music / etc and have it chur... |
P=NP, what do you do? | bdr: Put up a web API that solves arbitrary SAT instances. Let other people do what they want, and I can watch while I think about what to do next.Also, write a theorem prover of course, and try for big outstanding conjectures. |
P=NP, what do you do? | ijt: Test driven development would take on a new meaning, with the programmer a writing collection of tests and letting the computer find the shortest program that makes them pass. |
P=NP, what do you do? | dave_au: I'd write a kick-ass regular expression engine.http://perl.plover.com/NPC/NPC-3SAT.html |
P=NP, what do you do? | rw: Build a superhuman intelligence (duh). |
P=NP, what do you do? | whatusername: I wondered along these lines recently. A relative is getting caught up in the "water-car", "Brown's Gas", Hydrogen internet scam.. Where you convert water to 2H2 + O2 and burn that to power the car, house, etc for "free".What would you do if it actually worked? How would you convince people? Where wou... |
Please review my new project: almost.at | wmeredith: I gave it about 30 seconds to load and then left. I saw it was just TC'd so maybe I'll try back in a few days. |
P=NP, what do you do? | redsymbol: 1) Cash in your discovery for US $1 million [0].2) Fund your own disruptive startup incubator, a la YCombinator (using the publicity from your discovery to attract hoards of scrappy geniuses).2.5) Optionally, focus on startups that monetize P=NP - again, for publicity reasons (as well being able to leverage ... |
P=NP, what do you do? | nazgulnarsil: solve protein folding, become evil megalomaniac with doomsday virus. |
if I work at Apple, can I sell iPhone apps on the App Store? | soc: I was worried about that too, but yes it's allowed. |
P=NP, what do you do? | sown: Two monitors at the same time, friend.In seriousness, I'd be careful because as others have pointed out, some crypto systems would be vulnerable. |
if I work at Apple, can I sell iPhone apps on the App Store? | wooster: It depends on which group or division you're in. Some let you do it as long as it's "under the radar", others strictly forbid it.If you made the app and got it on the store before you started working at Apple, they're generally fine with that, as long as it's not directly competing with an Apple product.The be... |
Please review my new project: almost.at | vindi: nice job. let me guess, you own a Mac? :) Beautiful UI. mouse cursor over items on left remained as arrow for me. Maybe hover color or hand cursor? |
Please review my new project: almost.at | khandekars: Beautiful! Rocks on FireFox 3.0.10 on Fedora 10. I expected it to be slow, but was pleasantly surprised to see the overall speed after initial loading was over. The '5 seconds remaining' idea is elegant. |
Startup founders, would you walk us through a day in the life? | michaelaiello: 7:00am wake up - shower + breakfast7:30am read rss feeds7:45am do "most important task"8:15am get dressed for day job8:30am get on train to day job, read economist on train7:00pm leave day job, read economist on train7:30pm arrive at home, decompress + eat dinner8:00pm respond to emails escalated by virt... |
Please review my new project: almost.at | smokinn: I'm not sure if this is intentional or a browser bug (I'm using Chrome so anything Webkit/Safari should be the same) but at the bottom of the menu panel on the left I see a resize button (bottom right of left panel). If I resize the panel, the menu itself doesn't resize, only the right side menus shrink. |
P=NP, what do you do? | philwelch: I've always thought that this would make a great plot for a science fiction novel. A computer science fiction novel. There would be lots of intrigue, as the guy was tracked down by the NSA and covertly outwitted his opponents using his proof, until a final showdown where he discovers the horrifying truth abo... |
Please review my new project: almost.at | zitterbewegung: It looks pretty professional. Sort of interesting too. If there was a way to automatically get hashtags or news stories or submit possible stories that might be a way to improve the service. |
Please review my new project: almost.at | asmosoinio: Font aliasing in the bottom timeline is not working for me. Running Google Chrome on Vista. Screenshot:http://screencast.com/t/zhoSHkz1Q |
P=NP, what do you do? | lacker: I would post a question on HN saying "P=NP, what do you do?" and then take the best suggestion. |
P=NP, what do you do? | Tichy: I've always assumed it is a given that as soon as you make that discovery, all sorts of agencies would be hunting after you and you would have to run for your life. So my worry would be how to safely publish the information to get off the hook. I used to think publishing it to Usenet and sending lots of emails w... |
P=NP, what do you do? | msie: Are we answering a homework question for you? :p |
Please review my new project: almost.at | HouseTrip: Love the interface and the real-time aggregation thing. However I think it would be even better if one could submit the topic to be searched and aggregated for --> not limited to events chosen by you. For instance I'd like to find mention of my company at specific times (during a viral campaign, etc.) |
P=NP, what do you do? | HouseTrip: If you've got a good solution, there are plenty of systems you can make more efficient (not only salesmen and UPS :-) I would make a list, create a consultancy and propose my services to the industries with the highest remunerative potential :-) |
P=NP, what do you do? | andreyf: Well, if you write a theorem prover, you can probably get just about every mathematical proof prize out there. That's $7 million from the Clay Institute alone... |
Ways to transfer money among users? | jack7890: As a follow-up, Buxfer uses Amazon FPS. It's interesting because "Financial Intermediaries and Money Service Businesses" are prohibited from using FPS (https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/about?acceptableuse), and Buxfer would seem to fall under this category. But apparently they haven't run into any trou... |
P=NP, what do you do? | PKeeble: Ring Intel's CEO. You have the means to give him optimal layout for his CPUs saving them both massive amounts of time and more importantly space on CPUs. If you like you can also approach AMD and get the two bidding against each other.They will bite your hand off and you will be a rich man. |
Please review my new project: almost.at | Ravir: very nice interface. thanks for adding #cricket. :) |
Thoughts on Kurzweil and Singularity | SecurityMatters: To: Femur
Kurzweil does not claim to know what will happen. I have read several of his books and he mostly seems to talk about how these trends will cause major changes. He then outlines more than one possible outcome. And, he more cautiously says what he thinks may happen. I think his analysis i... |
Whats the coolest thing you've seen/done with Arduino? | noodle: http://hacknmod.com/hack/top-40-arduino-projects-of-the-web/ |
What would you do with a touchscreen monitor? | bhousel: probably clean it constantly :-/ |
Whats the coolest thing you've seen/done with Arduino? | st3fan: The twitter shitter of course!http://hacklab.to/archives/the-hacklab-toilet-now-on-twitter... |
Whats the coolest thing you've seen/done with Arduino? | mwilliams_: My Barduino (shameless self promotion).Ruby + Arduino = Drink dispensing Barmonkey driven by a Ruby DSL that cost me like $50 to build.Example recipe:drink 'Screwdriver' do serve_in 'Highball Glass'
ingredients do
2.ounces :vodka
5.ounces :orange_juice
end
endCode, video, photos:
http://ww... |
Whats the coolest thing you've seen/done with Arduino? | abdels: I was lucky enough to work on this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/12/the_rockterscal...The hat of rock was my invention :-)Abdel A Saleh, https://twitter.com/abdels |
Whats the coolest thing you've seen/done with Arduino? | mcotton: Here is my twitter based home security system. I'm using phidgets but I have ordered an Arduino and will update the code. Making software do things in the "real" world is a lot of fun.http://www.instructables.com/id/Combining-security-system-wi... |
Whats the coolest thing you've seen/done with Arduino? | timmaah: On my wall at work, used to monitor the health of my servers.http://www.82smugglers.com/blog/?p=7 |
Review My Startup: Twitter trends for your city | frosty: Clickable link for easy accesshttp://thinking.me/ |
How to create an rss feed from a site that doesn't provide one? | timmaah: http://feed43.com/ |
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