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An HN for biology/medicine/biotech? Would you want one? | okeefm: As a bioinformatics/molec bio student, I would be interested in a bio HN. |
An HN for biology/medicine/biotech? Would you want one? | jmatt: There were a number of sites that were launched shortly after arc came out based on the news.arc code. The arc language and code are under the Artistic License 2.0 [1]. (I admit that I thought they were public domain) See arclanguage.org for more on news.arc and arc the language.Here are the news.arc sites that I remember:[newmogul.com] - by nickb was HN for business. I always assumed it was news.arc. Maybe not. Still worth reading up on. There were a number of HNers that used it regularly and were looking for another similar site when it went down.[pageonetimes.com] - it was HN applied to sports.[ballerinc.com] - I don't remember what that site specialized in.All of these were based on the news.arc code. I don't think any of these are still around. But the news.arc code has continued to improve and become more stable so it may be viable option. So if you wanted to set up something for biology or medicine you could use the HN code and just customize it as you see fit. (Oh and put it behind apache, nginx, etc please, I can help just email me or ask over at arclanguage.org)Good luck. I agree that if you can build the community and figure out how to get rid of bad data - it's a great idea.[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)
[2] http://arclanguage.org/item?id=7564EDIT: Formatting ~ Sometimes I wish HN had markdown or textile... |
Looking for cofounders, I'll pay the bills | omni50: I am looking for folks that love to code like I do. I primarily use Python right now but, it is just a tool and I think using whatever tool is best for the job is the way to go. I am more concerned with finding people I can trust and get along with / enjoy being around. I have no problem learning a new technology if it means creating a great product. E.g. if the rest of the team believed Ruby or Clojure would give us an advantage I would pick up a few books and go into a cave for a couple weeks and learn to use it. This philosophy has served me well in the past and allowed me to do things that my competitors (and leadership) thought impossible.The idea I am most excited about involves solving the problem of finding something to do on any giving day. As an example I moved to San Diego and have to look in a dozen different places to find out what is going on in my area. Often I miss something I would be interested in because I didn't know how to find out about it. So aggregating and presenting that information in a simple way that is easy to search would be of great value to me. |
Best Place to Have Logo Designed? | e1ven: I've had luck at both 99 designs, as well as the older, Design Outpost. |
An HN for biology/medicine/biotech? Would you want one? | kgosser: Great idea if executed on the same level as HN. |
An HN for biology/medicine/biotech? Would you want one? | eshi: I'd love to see a website like this, especially if there's bioinformatics and computational biology there. |
An HN for biology/medicine/biotech? Would you want one? | philk: That sounds terrific. I'll send an email later. |
Double Entry Bookkeeping SaaS Recommendations ? | dobes: Actually outright is also a single-entry system since they don't track receivables or payments, only income and expenses.Any comment on why you want double-entry book-keeping as opposed to simply tracking income & expenses?Any other requirements you might have? |
An HN for biology/medicine/biotech? Would you want one? | oomkiller: Would be cool to see, not sure how accessible it would be to me though. |
An HN for biology/medicine/biotech? Would you want one? | nathanh: If you want to get something up quick, you could use http://slinkset.com (aquired by Posterous in June 2009). It lets you create a social news site in seconds. |
An HN for biology/medicine/biotech? Would you want one? | iamelgringo: I'd be interested. I have a background in healthcare, so stuff in bioinformatics/biotech/medicine would be of interest to me. |
An HN for biology/medicine/biotech? Would you want one? | cing: Graduate student biophysicist, I'd be interested. |
An HN for biology/medicine/biotech? Would you want one? | joeyo: Graduate student neuroengineer here. Very yes. |
How can you make a user experience addictive? | alain94040: Game. Check out this talk from Amy Jo Kim at startup2startup: http://startup2startup.com/2009/01/09/jan29-amyjokim-shuffle... |
How can you make a user experience addictive? | olalonde: StackExchange's karma points and badges have made me quite addictive. |
An HN for biology/medicine/biotech? Would you want one? | tomkinstinch: As a student of bioinformatics, I would be interested in this.Perhaps it could be a more fitting venue for those in the DIYBio scene.[1][1] http://groups.google.com/group/diybio/topics |
How can you make a user experience addictive? | shib71: Any "reward" for interaction will help. - WOW: experience
- T61: karma for hearting songs you like
- Every forum ever: titles for number of posts
- HN: karma for comments / submissions others like
- StackOverflow: practically everything |
How can you make a user experience addictive? | mortenjorck: The single most important factor is one I'd take from gaming, a medium where addiction is a frequently sought-after element: Playability. Do things flow in a pleasing way? Do your actions feel like they have weight? Is the environment responsive? Do you feel like you can explore?Strive for a "playable" UX and addictiveness will come naturally. |
How can you make a user experience addictive? | cloudwalking: Reduce friction. Make it as easy as possible to do any given task. |
How do I accept all major credit cards when not based in the US? | tedshroyer: I thought you could do a wire transfer over the phone. Is that not the case? |
How do I accept all major credit cards when not based in the US? | forkqueue: We're in the UK, so I don't know how applicable this is to Jamaica, but for http://kutoken.com/ we use HSBC Merchant processing to accept transactions in GBP, USD and Euro.HSBC give us the option of having the funds deposited into HSBC accounts in those currencies, or converting to GBP (at our expense, not the customer's).I'm very happy with this arrangement - it stops many customers from being put off by not knowing how much the service is going to cost them month to month, with the minimum of hassle for us. |
How can you make a user experience addictive? | javanix: The first one's always free? |
Buzzword for *.d directories? | oomkiller: rarps |
How can you make a user experience addictive? | qqnoodles: Fresh content (user generated or not), low friction, and growing stakes as the user becomes more engaged. |
How can you make a user experience addictive? | ElllisD: I find HN addictive. It's earned a button smack in the center of my bookmark toolbar.If I had to quantify why it's because of quality content.
Especially with regard to comments.
The headlines change relatively quick.And come to think of it, +1 for cloudwalking's comment.
There's reduced friction here. eg. minimal visual noise. |
A martial art for a programmer | tworats: Definitely Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ). It's a very effective martial art, and its technical nature makes it a very good fit for an analytical mind. I've only been at it for a few months but so far I love it.I haven't tried Judo, but I expect that'd be similarly interesting. |
How do I accept all major credit cards when not based in the US? | aguynamedben: Not sure if it fits the bill, but check out http://www.xoom.com |
Does an index fund count as diversifying? | ww520: Max your Roth IRA for now. Judging from your current contribution level, you are still qualified.Check out Permanent Portfolio if you have more money.Get into real estate if you can. I participated in the last great real estate run-up and benefited greatly. |
How can you make a user experience addictive? | quizbiz: Download Peggle for Mac. You will find your owner, though I am unsure of it's relevancy. I guess the takeaway is offer instant visual gratification. Divvyshot does a great job with this in a more subtle manner.Tell people exactly how to proceed to a next step.
At that next step, reward them beyond what they could have expected. |
How can you make a user experience addictive? | lotharbot: - Set the difficulty level correctly. In an app, it should be ridiculously easy to do stuff. In a game, the challenge should be scaled appropriately so the game is neither boring nor frustrating, and so that players continue to develop and use new skills as the game goes on.- data, stats, and awards. People like to see how many posts they've made, how much karma they've accumulated, how many songs they've listened to, or how many zombies they've killed. They like to be given titles or trophies for passing milestones.- feedback from friends. Even better than getting that 10,000 zombie trophy or that new forum rank is getting congratulations from your friends on your accomplishment.- tickle the senses. Pretty graphics or sounds make for a neat experience in games or certain social apps. (The game "Auditorium", at playauditorium.com, is fantastic for this!)- replayability. The experience should remain fun time after time. In a game, the challenge should have some variability. In any app, the "rewards" -- karma, titles, pretty graphics, or what have you -- should update often enough that users are consistently reminded of them. For socially-focused sites, it should be easy for users to generate good content for each other so that each visit seems rewarding. (Example: Grandma finds it rewarding to see new pictures of my baby. Facebook makes it easy for me to upload new pictures, and easy for her to view them, so she gets new pictures fairly often. Therefore, Grandma is addicted.) |
How can you make a user experience addictive? | ciscoriordan: Accessibility, ease of use, satisfaction, and pleasing aesthetics.I use Google Calendar instead of iCal because it's integrated with my browser through Google Toolbar. I can add add an event by highlighting some text and clicking in the toolbar twice. Bringing up my calendar takes one click. |
What is the ideal day to launch on? | coryl: I've never found that it matters. Its not like you'll be hit with a rush of traffic (unless you have carefully orchestrated PR and marketing campaigns ahead of time).Most sites will go live, then just build, promote, and repeat. |
How can you make a user experience addictive? | jlesk: I have users that spend nearly all of their free time on my site. One recently asked me to ban them so they could kick the habit. I asked him what part of the site was addictive and he said, "Basically everything."One of the key things, I think, is having lots of little things to do that you can get immediate feedback from. e.g. Check the forum for new replies, rate new content, see what kind of response their content is getting, etc.Kathy Sierra has a great article on this kind of thing:
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/0...Having strict moderation keeps the general quality high, which means it's usually worth checking back to see what's new. There are also multiple tracks of achievement, like hitting 500 comments, etc. so there is always a new badge within striking distance.You don't even need to have permanent badges. I have a list on the front page of the people who have submitted the most ratings that day. You don't get anything from being on the list, but people try to get to the top anyway. People like seeing their own names.Having a friendly community is also a big help, since it means that other users are a direct source of positive feedback. That's a bit harder to develop, though. |
What is the ideal day to launch on? | Kliment: The best day to launch? When your product is good enough to make a difference for people, and the really painful bugs are out. It's not like a day will make a difference, since you will be doing more than one day of promotion unless you're a superstar. |
How do I accept all major credit cards when not based in the US? | patio11: The absolute fastest way to do an I-can't-believe-its-not-a-wire-transfer is to get your US bank to issue you a debit card with the Mastercard or VISA logo on it, and then take that to an ATM in Jamaica. You'll get soaked like a foreign tourist but, hey, no waiting on the money.You can also give your US bank instructions to wire transfer it to you. Some of them will let you do this online (Citibank does -- you'll have to clear their Know Your Customer hurdle but otherwise it is fairly routine) and most major ones will do it over the phone (again, if you can clear Know Your Customer).Know Your Customer isn't that scary, although people make it out to be. Basically they'll ask you for a passport and government issued photo ID. |
How can you make a user experience addictive? | jarmop: Content, fresh content and user-created content.1) Content needs to be an look interesting for the target audience.
2) Content needs to be fresh and look fresh.
3) Users need to be able to add and enrich the content, in natural way. |
How can you make a user experience addictive? | dfield: Last summer, I had the privilege of attending a talk by Mark Pincus at Startup2Startup. One of the tips he gave that really resonated with me was to "gamify everything."For example, if users have to enter information to make your service more usable, give them a progress bar. In general, let the user "grind" - give them small, repetitive, mindless actions that are easy to accomplish and give instant, positive feedback. Above all, make the experience simplistic enough that they know what to focus on but interesting enough that they don't leave.Reputation systems that have an effect in a community can also make people come back. Just look at HackerNews ;) |
How do I accept all major credit cards when not based in the US? | Aschwin: Virtual XS (Access)(http://www.vxsbill.com/) in The Netherlands do all kinds of billing acceptance and are one of the most reliable partners for a lot of companies all over the world. They do adult, gambling, pharmacy etc. Only legit business is allowed, because you get screened to the bone. You've to setup a company in The Netherlands, but they will wire all funds to your account. At least, you can contact them and explain your situation. They are more than willing to provide you with a suitable solution. |
How can you make a user experience addictive? | kilian: I think points (and badges) are basically the crack cocaine of the 21th century. Reward every positive action with points and you're halfway there. |
How can you make a user experience addictive? | ssp: Supposedly, if the rewards are randomly reinforced, they will be more addictive. Ie., if the same action sometimes creates positive feedback and sometimes negative, people will keep coming back because they are looking forward to the positive ones and can't predict when they will happen.I don't know whether it works in practice though. |
A martial art for a programmer | BjornW: I've started with searching for a martial art fitting for me 2,5 years ago. I hadn't been training for a quite some time and I really needed to do something about it. I had practiced Judo during my child and early teen years and practiced Tae Kwon Do during college.I quit both because, in my personal opinion they are too focused on doing one thing fairly well while more or less ignoring other aspects of fighting. For example: I found it very annoying that Judo did not allow any punches or kicks. While Tae Kwon Do didn't allow throws or ground fighting.
Basically I was looking for a different look at fighting, be it kicking, punching, locks, throws or fighting with weapons. In my view everything should be possible depending on the context. At that time I found two possible matches (in my neighborhood) for what I was looking for in a martial art: Takeda Ryu and Krav Maga. After having followed three lessons of Takeda Ryu I didn't bother of looking at Krav Maga anymore since Takeda Ryu and the people training at the dojo matched what I was looking for.So now I have been training Takeda Ryu Kobilza Ha for 2,5 years. I'm still just a beginner and need to learn a lot, but I enjoy training very much and that's what I consider to be the most important. Whatever martial art you like to start make sure you enjoy it and feel safe in the dojo.I have the impression that it does have an effect on me outside the dojo, although I find it hard to describe what the effect exactly is.Currently I'm practicing five budo disciplines in Takeda Ryu Kobilza Ha:- Aikido (throws, locks )
- Iaido (swiftly drawing the sword and cutting correctly)
- Jodo (fighting with a stick)
- Jukempo (kicking, punching combined with throws and locks)
- Kendo (fighting with a drawn sword)If you would like to know more about Takeda Ryu, have a look at http://istb.info/index.php/home.html or look at some footage of demonstrations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INx_CSA_I78 and our main event in Vienna Austria: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sxtTNjKSsk&ps: This is my own very personal and limited look at martial arts and I do not want to disrespect any Judo, Tae Kwon Do, Krav Maga or any other martial art practitioners. |
How do I accept all major credit cards when not based in the US? | radu_floricica: Also looking for payment processors outside US.About Paypal, AFAIK they can transfer funds to your credit card (not bank account) for about $2 per transfer. You have to authenticate the card before. It involves them making a small transaction from which you take a confirmation code (from the bank statements). Takes about 2-3 days. |
A martial art for a programmer | kschua: I can only speak for the Chinese Martial Art I have trained and been exposed to - Wing Chun and Choy Li Futt. It is now a way of life for me. Primarily, I am a Wing Chun practitioner.If you are using the Agile methodology, Wing Chun would be good. It emphasizes
1) adapting to change - This is especially true in the second form "Chum Kil" which transition from one position to another
2) least wastage - punch is a straight line to the target
3) cooperation to achieve a single target - a punch in Wing Chun is the utilization of the powers of your leg, hips, torso, shoulder, elbow transferred to the fist
4) getting immediate feedback - the chi sao (sticking hands) exercise trains you to be sensitive and look for places to enter
5) respect of difference of opinions - a tan sao can be used as to defend or attack depending on the personIf your SDLC is a waterfall method, try Choy Li Futt. Things I learned from this are
1) Commitment to a set of combination early - I have combos in Choy Li Futt which I carry through all the way, regardless of what the opponent does. The decision of what to do is made after assessing the situation (aka requirements gathering) and before the first strike2) Using a different approach to a problem - My favorite strikes from this style is the spinning elbow and using the forearm as a striking weaponThe primary difference to me is that Choy Li Futt is a brute force solution to a problem and Wing Chun depends more on an algorithm to resolve the problemGood luck! |
Do you understand your operating system? | jrockway: I do understand my OS, but it's probably better to not think about it. Knowing too much about UNIX leads you to want to throw it away and write something sane... but that is time consuming. Better to close your eyes and not think about the details. |
Do you understand your operating system? | rbanffy: I care and I think I pretty much get what's going on under the hood of my Linux boxes as they seldom surprises me. OTOH, it's a complex system, with stack upon stack of hardware, firmware and software that makes really groking it (as I did with my Apple IIs in the early 80's) next to impossible. Even before the OS loads, an x86 PC is a very complicated animal.As for the Windows notebook I am typing this in, it never ceases to amaze me and surprise me in almost always frustrating ways. It's indeed a box full of magic, but I am not sure its genies always work for me rather than against me.I have tried a couple times to move to FreeBSD, but I always got frustrated with, what I perceived, a purist view of what a Unix machine should be - clean, simple and somewhat bare. I kind of like the magical things that happen in Linux, particularly package management. I utterly dislike the way it handles wireless networking, but I guess this is a feature nobody got right. |
Psychology research on value perception of different pricing models? | promethean: Be sure to consider the accounting & customer service costs of whatever model you choose. A one-time fee is is easy to administer, while a recurring cost is an order of magnitude more complex, and recurring costs with roll-over and top-up ability yet another order of magnitude more complex-- And not just from your side, but the mental burden it inflicts on the user. Recurring costs, no matter how small, always present a greater mental barrier to purchase than a one-time fee. |
Do you understand your operating system? | simonw: I don't at all, but I reall wish I did. The more experienced I get as a web developer the more the low level stuff matters to me. |
Do you understand your operating system? | dirtbox: I've got a pretty indepth knowledge of every OS I've used for any length of time. My first instinct with all things is to unscrew the lid and find out what makes it tick and for me, operating systems practically beg to be tinkered with, |
Do you understand your operating system? | zackattack: i run mac os x. no i don't understand its internals. i got it cuz it "just works"! |
Do you understand your operating system? | pmjordan: I'm currently working on a block device driver, which means I'm digging around in kernels. I've found the O'Reilly books on the Linux kernel ("Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd ed" and "Linux Device Drivers, 3rd ed") as well as "Mac OS X Internals" by Amit Singh extremely helpful. The latter doesn't only cover the darwin/xnu kernel but also a lot of the OS X user space. All of them are quite technical and can be a bit dry, but they're certainly densely packed with information - and you can safely skip/skim most sections if you like. Linux Device Drivers is probably only useful if you're actually trying to write a kernel driver, I can recommend the others for general interest as well, though.I've also got Windows Internals from MS Press, but I've only looked at it briefly so far. It seems higher-level than even the OSX book.In general, I've found it extremely interesting to see how it all fits together, but I've got a general soft-spot for low-level hackery. (until recently that mainly involved game consoles) |
Do you understand your operating system? | starev: It's hard to say what it is to "understand" an operating system, though. Knowing how it works in a fairly broad sense, or even knowing how specific parts of the kernel work doesn't mean you completely grok the system.I mean, understand in the broad sense of "stuff all OSes do": certainly. I realize that there is memory management and etc. and etc. that is going on, and I have a basic idea of how that works, at least on Windows. (I use Windows, Linux, and Mac regularly, and can reach each from where I'm sitting.)I have a decent enough understanding of Windows system internals and how it actually handles memory allocation, permissions, etc., but not down to the lowest level, just sort of a vague idea of what system files do what.I assume Linux and OSX handle things somewhat similarly aside from implementation details, but I don't really know.I haven't had the time to poke around Linux kernel internals (I have a pretty good understanding of the system down to that level, though), and I doubt I'll ever mess with OSX internals beyond what is necessary to have it 'just work'.I figure I will master what I need to get things to do what I want. I find it fascinating, and at some point I'll probably have a project which requires me to hack on the Linux kernel in some way, shape, or form (unless someone else already has). In the meantime, though, I remain knowledgeably ignorant (I know that I do not know), which I think will have to do for now.BIOS-level stuff and all of that is black magic to me. :PIt's hard to say what is and isn't necessary just from a development standpoint. From a curiosity standpoint, assuming unlimited time, complete knowledge of a system is better than limited knowledge. From a practical standpoint, such knowledge may make you a 'better' coder, but it may also tie you more to one OS rather than another. It cuts both ways there, though, because it could be that by understanding what does and doesn't change from one system to another, writing portable code is much easier.So do I care that I don't know? Yes. Do I think it's the end of the world and must be remedied immediately? No. I will have plenty of opportunity to remedy my desire to know more about OS internals if I ever take on a project that requires me to know them exceptionally well. At some point that will inevitably happen, considering my interest in them. In the meantime, I'm content to know that I do not know and that in an ideal future, someday I will know. |
Do you understand your operating system? | synnik: Or, at an even lower level... do you understand your hardware? Not just disk space and memory, as most programmers need to know those... But do you know how the keyboard works? USB? How the processor receives/manages all the signals?I did know all this, 10 years ago... I haven't kept up with newer systems, but even that basic understanding helps in many subtle ways. |
Do you understand your operating system? | ErrantX: Windows: yes
Linux: pretty much (90%)
Mac: nopeWhen I started my current job in computer forensics and security it shocked me how much I didnt know. There is a LOT of stuff going on in the internals that is pretty smart.Believe me: you have no idea how bloody complicated a discussion of the Windows file system (a fairly simple high level subject right? :P) can become when you put a couple of forensic guys in a room :)EDIT: I like a lot of the ways the Linux device/file system is organised. It makes a little more logical sense (though it might just be that it is more accessible) than windows. |
Do you understand your operating system? | aurora72: You miss something the author's talked about and it's the transition from GNU/Linux to BSDI assume he/she wants to have a more understandable OS; and because the BSD's excel at that area, I guess she/he's referring to the BSD's.Windows --> Great but I still cannot understand some of its peculiarities such as unexpected crashes, sudden explorer.exe restarts.MAC OS --> Great but I still cannot understand just why its USB connection speeds are interestingly low or why it has such an inadequate Unicode support for different FileSystems like NTFS.Linux --> All great, but I cannot figure out why there are so many different package managers out there?As for BSD, because it's structure is so well-founded there's nothing which is not understandable. Everything's got its place where you'd expect them: Ports collection under /usr/ports, and package manager is just the pkg_add command. There are no window-manager or desktop-environments pre-loaded and configured, you just chose what to do. And the kernel structure is extremely simple: You can add extra functionality to kernel easily with the Loadable Kernel Module (KLM) concept. That's it, everthing's under control. |
Do you understand your operating system? | radu_floricica: There is at least one cognitive bias involved when answering this questions. The less you know about something, the simpler you believe it to be. I'd expect Torvalds to say he has a "fair" understanding of linux. |
Do you understand your operating system? | pstevensza: I thought I knew FreeBSD until I joined a couple of the lists and realised that I've hardly scratched the surface. It used to bother me that I didn't know. These days, I can accept it, and enjoy my occasional dip into the unknown when I need to change something. |
Do you understand your operating system? | ARR: Windows: never tried to
Linux: I know quite a bit but the important thing is that I know that I will understand everything I don't know. Learn by experience. |
Do you understand your operating system? | javery: I knew Windows inside and out, used it from 3.1 and could do just about anything I wanted to do and fix just about any issue. 3 years ago I moved to Mac OS and I am still working on getting myself to the same place. |
Does an index fund count as diversifying? | gcb: I hear a lot of 401k.Anyone have any experience with it while not being a us citizen?E.g. Work in the US for some yrs and then leave for good. |
What software do you use for graphics in mobile games? | davidw: Since it's available for Nokia, that means it's either J2ME, or Symbian, so either Java or C++. |
Review my new local / mobile startup | rebelvc: We have been kind of low key about this project within the tech world, choosing to launch slowly to local interests in our city. We launched to Austin, TX on Feb 15th. The mobile site is at http://dealbk.com/m or you can browse to dealbk.com on a smartphone. HN community is important to me so any feedback is appreciated. |
Review my new local / mobile startup | jasonkester: Two quick first impressions:1. It seems to require 1200px width, which is pretty rare outside of the developer crowd. My road laptop, which I'm viewing your site on, maxes out at 1024px. As a result, I need to scroll horizontally to to basic things on your site.2. The name is hard to read from the URL, impossible to remember, and just doesn't roll off the tongue at all. I'd suggest changing it to something good and memorable, since this seems like something that would get a lot of type-in traffic. As it is, people will google "deal" and not find you, since they'll never remember which two random letters followed it. |
What software do you use for graphics in mobile games? | starkfist: Illustrator and Photoshop. |
Help with merchant account | aquaphile: If you login to Authorize.Net's tools and can see the transaction properly listed/labeled, then the bank is most likely the source of the labeling problem. It sounds like their handling of "pending" transactions may provide less informational context than "cleared" transactions. |
Still using thesixtyone? | arantius: I used to go semi-frequently. I have specific musical tastes. Now, I can't help but get it to shuffle to something like 9/10 songs that I would never want to hear.Limiting to a genre, in the old version, it used to be 1 or 2/10 that I didn't care for. I've tried a few times, but effectively have stopped using it. I can't find the same feature. The "moods" thing is not nearly as effective. It feels like it's become a radio station, and I don't listen to it for the same reason: I have no control over what it plays, and it seems to play "pop" (don't read that literally, just "things lots of people listen to") music all the time, and never what I want to hear.I also, generally, find the new interface very difficult to use. Lots of mystery meat navigation and hard work to find what I'm looking for. |
Do you understand your operating system? | hdx: Getting there with a little help from my friends:
http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs162/sp10/ |
An HN for biology/medicine/biotech? Would you want one? | JunkDNA: I would love this. Many times there are articles that would be more appropriate for that kind of forum, but I post them here to catch the hacker/biotech crossover crowd. |
you've got a few weeks of free-ish time, what OSS project do you try? | icey: Clojure-CLR might be interesting to you: http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-clr |
you've got a few weeks of free-ish time, what OSS project do you try? | vorador: I would suggest, if you are not very experienced in it, unix (things like shell scripting, awk, etc). |
Should you register .net and .org as well as .com? | bhousel: The domain name is intellectual property. So you should spend an appropriate amount of money to protect it.It's far cheaper to just buy up the available names now than to hire a lawyer later to go after someone using your name. |
Should you register .net and .org as well as .com? | icey: I almost always buy the .net when I buy the .com. If I buy a domain with a weird extension, I'll also make sure I can get the .com version that includes the weird tld - Like, if I bought icey.tv, I'd also buy iceytv.com. |
Review our startup: MovieListr | Frazzydee: Another suggestion: Please link to http://movielistr.com/recover/ ("forgot my password" page) on the login page. The only link I could find was on http://movielistr.com/account/, which requires that you log in first. |
Should you register .net and .org as well as .com? | yummyfajitas: A .net and .org cost about $10/year each. I probably spend about $20 on dosas every week.So if you value your friend's brand name more than 3 dosas, yeah. Buy all versions. |
How do I accept all major credit cards when not based in the US? | norbu09: we had the same issue as we are in NZ and US based companies often have that panic that everything non US is not controllable.
we went with worldpay and have no issues with them. we currently accept visa/master in USD, NZD and EUR via them. |
How can you make a user experience addictive? | petervandijck: 1) game mechanics2) Something new every 15 minutes |
Please review my new site | icey: This is a project made by a friend of mine - she was looking for feedback so I asked her to post it here. |
Please review my new site | cnlwsu: With chrome I can only use 1 digit for the inches in height (could not enter 5'11") |
Please review my new site | emmett: This is a good idea, but the execution is lacking. In particular, the data entry is really painful. There are two big problems:1. I have to somehow know the calorie counts for every exercise I do and every food I eat. You should let me input the activity/food and calculate the calories.2. I am not in front of my computer all day. In particular, when I'm exercising and eating I'm not. And that's exactly when I want to add data to a service like this. You need an iPhone app, not a web app. |
Advice needed re: adsense vs. adbrite | Travis: Well, you're going to see drastically different numbers depending on content. The CPC ranges from pennies to around $50 for specific ads. So you can't make any sort of comparison between your site and your friend's.I recommend that you just run a/b tests. Is there a reason why you don't want to switch to adsense for a week? Then just compare your numbers and go with whatever is better. |
Please review my new site | boundlessdreamz: please add metric options also |
Please review my new site | davidw: The color scheme screams "for women", but I think there are plenty of men who would like to lose weight.I guess you could look at that two ways:* The site is 'opinionated' and has decided to focus on female users.* You're tossing half of your potential user base out the window. |
Please review my new site | judofyr: My first thought: What should I do here? Ooooh, two shiny buttons! tries one. Huh? Oh, I should probably start in that tiny, tiny bar… |
Please review my new site | allenp: I know this feedback isn't very critical - but I really like it a lot. I like the design. It is really nice to have the sliders for the goals rather than putting in numbers. There is a more malleable feel to it than just crunching numbers in a spreadsheet. It does feel like it would fit a wide variety of lifestyles/goals which I think is encouraging to new users. I thought the tooltips were great for exploring the different components of the page and what they did.I'm assuming that you will do some work to make the input for food and exercise more automated? |
Please review my new site | aantix: I like the idea, but the nutritional/exercise guidelines should be re-evaluated.Caloric deficits don't work well for long term weight loss because the body has a tendency to move towards homeostasis.It'd be nice to see something that tracks carbs closer and with an emphasis on hit intensity interval training (to promote GH release) with less emphasis on steady state cardio. |
Please review my new site | hansxyz: Losing weight by eating less calories and / or exercising doesn't work. It's just a popular myth. |
Please review my new site | mtinkerhess: I'm having rendering issues with Chrome on Ubuntu. The text boxes for current weight, goal weight etc. show up under the labels instead of to their right, and are mostly hidden and hard to click on. Firefox works fine. |
Please review my new site | zavulon: I'm currently using some products by your competitors ("Lose it!" iPhone app and "LiveStong") so I can definitely provide some feedback. First, it looks VERY nice, but as some others noted - a "for guys" interface option would be good.1) This is big - needs to recognize the food and automatically enter the number of calories. I don't really know how many calories the food I'm eating has at all times.2) Same with exercise - the site should ask me what exercise I did, and for how long.. and then based on that, plus my weight, etc, figure out how many calories I lost.3) Autocomplete would be great for those two.4) I think iPhone app, or a iPhone-compatible website needs to be an essential component of this for me to use. I can't wait until I get to a computer to record this stuff - I need the functionality to record this on the run.Hope that helps! |
Please review my new site | kevinholesh: Go easy on the help tooltip pop-up things. It's unexpected and does more to startle me than help me.The text is too long. Shorten the tooltips to a sentence.Also, add a slight delay to the tooltips: http://snipplr.com/view/4163/highlight-menu-on-hover-with-de... |
Please review my new site | zitterbewegung: Is there a guy version which just black and white and not pink? |
Please review my new site | cullenking: I like the idea! Looks like most of your reviews are from men, and their style advice is to lose the pink for a guy version. I agree this is a good idea, but I'd like to give a woman's perspective (even though I am not a woman). My girlfriend, her sister and my mom all recently vetoed the dark gray from my website. The male audience seems to respond to it, but the females find it dreary/oppressive. They recommended going lighter, if grey at all.Anyway, I like the site and linked to it from the company blog. It's not much traffic at this point, however some of our cyclists will probably enjoy checking it out! |
Please review my new site | sarasioux: You're all so completely right about providing default food & exercise calorie totals for people, it's not acceptable to have to Google for that. But it's a lot of data to scrape and organize so I saved it for a later release. I love all of your feedback, thank you so much, I'll probably implement most of these things. |
Please review my new site | apsurd: Does this work the same if I want to gain weight?Maybe you should be more specific as to what exactly your application does. "Body management" may not be enough for some people. It might be a better marketing approach to explicitly say what your app can do. i.e. "we help you lose weight", or "gain more mass" , etc. |
Please review my new site | martian: Not sure why I should upgrade...? I clicked the button and it took me to a PayPal checkout link. There should be some intermediate step describing the benefits. Sell me! |
Please review my new site | blhack: I sortof like the idea of this website, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to use it.Maybe I'm missing the point?It's for tracking how much you eat and work out, right? |
Please review my new site | dzlobin: Seconding on the not-so-great color scheme. There is also a small bug on Chrome/Ubuntu; the pop-up that comes from scrolling over the upgrade link is transparent and the feedback link gets in the way of reading the text. |
Please review my new site | MrSafe: You may consider adding a tag line describing what the site is about. I couldn't really tell what I should do.The tool tips where too long and I didn't read past a sentence or two. |
Please review my new site | almost: Very confusing, needs something telling me what to do! Us technical types can probably work it out but what about non-technical people? Not a chance I'd say.Also, the "You should upgrade here" bubble just takes me to PayPal to give you $2.99/month without describing why I'd want to do that. The fact that it's the only bit of instruction on the page probably means it will be the first thing clicked on for a lot of people! |
Please review my new site | pmsaue0: Cool idea and neat sliders and calculation execution! I agree with most others who say that it's not clear in the first 2 seconds what to do. Perhaps in the header:h1: weight loss calculator
h2: easily plan your diet and exercise routineI would recommend a numbered-list / stepwise approach for user input (all on the same page still), instead of the all-at-once approach (which is convenient if you know how to use it, but confusing otherwise)Perhaps have a time indicator that says something like, "it will take 2 months for you to lose 20 lbs at this rate" |
Please review my new site | tynman: I'd recommend an intermediary step between free and subscription. Today I'll go there once to check it out and provide a review, but unless you sell me RIGHT NOW I'm gone as a customer.Maybe it keeps track of my profile (height, weight, age, etc.), but doesn't keep a history of what I eat or what I do. That way I keep coming back to it, and it gets me hooked on using your site.Or maybe you track my history, but doesn't let me see the reports. Until I'm invested it your site, it's Yet Another diet and exercise tracking tool. With a slick purple interface for setting up my profile.The easy profile setup is a good way to introduce yourself. As others have pointed out, though, the food and exercise entry is the weak at best. That's the part people will be using daily, and until you have me sold on that feature I can't see myself signing up for a trial account, let committing to a subscription.[edit] On a side note, at least have a cookie to save the user's profile for 20 minutes. I clicked on the bar graph icon to see what it does, and it promptly erased all the work I'd put in. You're not selling me on the security of my data! :-) |
Should you register .net and .org as well as .com? | dnsworks: A domain costs what, $8/year? WheneveR I get an idea and there's a good domain for it, I buy up as many as I can of .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .biz, .us, etc. I paid $1,400 for my last important.com .. so dropping $100 to buy up all of the related domains isn't that big of a deal. I think I maintain about 250 domain names right now, but $2,500/year isn't that much money in the end. |
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