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Rate my webapp, Tweet Link Monster | speek: You have no idea how happy I am to see that you used the word "webapp" instead of "startup." (read: very happy) |
Any Special Projects Over the Holidays? | mdolon: Going to wedding parties! Looks like all of my friends are getting married nowadays.Also beginning work on a new project that is essentially an online site editor like Weebly but for a very niche market. Still figuring out exactly how to do that though. |
Any Special Projects Over the Holidays? | drfloob: Studying graduate-level texts on computer vision... after re-learning 1st & 2nd year calculus... after re-learning trigonometry... after refreshing my memory on algebra & geometry |
Isn't it a little lame to submit your own work to HN? | bemmu: For me half the point of HN is discovering what other people are working on and trying to give them useful comments about their work. The other half is finding interesting articles to read. |
What's the best way to learn Java/J2ME to build mobile applications? | rmobin: I picked up Beginning J2ME (http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-J2ME-Novice-Professional-Thi...) earlier this year when working on a mobile application for BB and it was pretty handy. You should know that RIM provides additional apis on top of J2ME that let you create more native-feeling BB applications (and it's worth learning imo) - for this I used tutorials online and RIM's api documentation.The developer of BBSmart, Neil Sainsbury, used to have a really helpful blog at http://devberry.com, but I believe he took it down after his frustrations with RIM (it's like "shouting at a brick wall"). |
What's the best way to learn Java/J2ME to build mobile applications? | martythemaniak: First, what you really wanna do is learn the basics of Java itself - primitive types, flow structures, conditionals, classes, inheritance, basic data types (vectors, maps) etc. You'll find the syntax has much in common with php and perl, so it won't be alien, although you'll have to adjust to the static typing.Second, you'll have to learn the specific mobile environment you want to develop for - J2ME, Blackberry or Android. What they all have in common is that they implement the basic java language (which I mentioned above) along with a set of packages/classes that allow your app to run the device.J2ME is very basic and is meant to run on a very wide range of cellphones (mostly featurephones) and its also quite hard to get access to the nicer APIs (contact info, internet access etc). It is specified by Sun working with phone manufacturers.Blackberry has its own set of APIs which allow you to access BB specific functions (email, gps, phone etc) and UI elements. This one is defined and implemented by RIM and does not have anything in common with J2ME.Android, like the BB also has its own set of APIs that allow you to use its UI elements, access its data, etc etc and is driven by Google.Since you're interested in BB development, most of you apps should be developed (and in many cases will have to be) using the BB API. The BB has the ability to run J2ME apps, but I think that's mostly for compatibility reasons.Anyway, good luck. |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | liangzan: http://frro.net/ from singapore |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | jwilliams: Amazon EC2 is available in Europe now, so that might suit.An EC2 pay-as-you-go model (opposed to a Slicehost one) might be a more economical option for testing as well. |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | nreece: Have a look at: http://vpschoice.com/ They have a list (page bottom). |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | matthall28: SuperBytes.net is in Canada and they are really good for VPS hosting |
What's the best way to learn Java/J2ME to build mobile applications? | Tichy: Learned it without any books, just looking at the documentation from Sun. Just get started with a simple project, I guess. |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | joao: http://gandi.net - totally recomended, located in France |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | arockwell: A better question is why doesn't everyone in the world speak Esparanto. |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | ardell: The problem with standardization is that you iron out all of the innovations. Certain language constructs are simply better for certain tasks. Lisp is built for recursion so it's great with lists. Object-oriented languages in theory are great for modularity and maintainability. Granted all these aspects have a lot to do with the coder in addition to the language.If all languages required you to manage memory as in C I'd wager we'd have many fewer entry-level script hackers. Sure, every program would be lickety-split fast, but the App Store certainly wouldn't have 10,000+ apps.And if every app were written in Java everything would be very portable but also quite slow. It's all about trade-offs and picking the right tool for the right job. |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | mattmcknight: If they did have the same syntax, would they be different languages? |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | jbyers: http://www.gplhost.com / http://www.gplhost.co.ukSingapore, Australia, Israel, Spain, France, UK |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | pg: Because syntax is one of the features of a language. |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | agentcoops: Because people have different syntactic preferences? Because some people hate c-style brackets while others hate python-style white-space? While it would make life easier in the short-run for those trying to learn a language who have pre-existing knowledge of the standardized syntax, it's quite possible that some other syntax would lead to wildly improved programmer productivity or, at the very least, much more readable/aesthetically pleasing code.In general, there seem to be a plethora of values which can be considered in choosing the syntactic form of a language: aesthetics, productivity, tradition, etc. Having different syntax between languages allows different niches for languages within these values not to mention allowing the possibility of great innovations which could improve the experience of programming. Seems unlikely that any current language has the optimal syntax with respect to maximizing all these values and hence it seems foolish to cut off innovation. |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | jerf: This question can not be fully answered in prose. It can only be answered with a challenge: Learn four or five diverse languages reasonably well, then try to create the single syntax that works well for all of them. You'll understand when you're done... or perhaps rather, when you find you'll never be done.I will give one example of the tens upon tens of issues you will encounter: What's the one true syntax for a type declaration? Then, once you've answered that, how does that one true syntax manifest in Python/Perl/Javascript? |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | cperciva: If every language had its own syntax, how would we make jokes about LISP programs which end with a page of right parentheses? |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | astrec: I've been using RimuHosting (http://rimuhosting.com/) for years - they're in a few data centres around the world and the service is A1. |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | helveticaman: I think it is for the same reason that not all cars are shaped the same. Also, to crack wise about lisp. |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | nittwerp: Let's say (however unlikely) that all current languages agreed on standard, and the next release of all these languages used this standard. There would inevitably be a group of people who don't agree with the standard and so they go and write a new language that uses their preferred syntax. Now we are back where we started. |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | jonny_noog: Australia:http://www.netlogistics.com.au/http://www.crucial.com.au/ |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | qqq: It's because some people don't like s-expressions, so they've been making up a bunch of other stuff. |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | asimjalis: Yes. I think all languages should be written with s-expressions. |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | makecheck: In some important cases, languages already have common syntax (such as mathematical operators, regular expressions, and string interpolation such as "\n"). And in those cases, the simplest explanation seems to be: "there was no other sane way to do it".Some differences really are arbitrary, and could theoretically be merged. Some are historical, e.g. someone worked on Unix for years and thinks in terms of verbs like "echo" because that's what shells used.But usually, there are very good reasons for any differences.One reason is the inherent complexity of a parser for a full programming language. It turns out that it's fairly easy to confuse a parser, because they're just not as good as human beings at correctly interpreting the "intent" of a statement. Most languages don't have a reason for being unless they introduce a bunch of unique constructs; and they're lucky if their own constructs can be parsed unambiguously, much less after adding support for extra "standard" constructs from other languages.Yet another reason is that languages aren't as universal as you may think. For example, what would 'print "hello world"' mean in a makefile...when would the print-out occur? Would languages be allowed to ignore "standard" expressions that they can't logically use, or be forced to invent some interpretation of them?A final reason is what would happen when languages are embedded in each other, which is even summed up by your example, PHP. If one language is embedded in another, it's a plus that they have different syntax: it clearly separates one from the other. This reduces the risk that you'll have to (for instance) escape or namespace every single name used by the embedded code, to avoid collisions with the surrounding file. |
How do you invoice - especially you freelancers out there? | justinkelly: Hi,i had the same problem so developed my own lamp based app Simple Invoices - http://www.simpleinvoices.orgits free/open-source - does PDF invoices blah blahdoesn't do time tracking thoughCheersJustin |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | dhess: I'm also looking for a UK-based virtual host for occasional proxy testing. Does anyone here have experience with http://flexiscale.com/ ?Alternatively, even a simple UK-based, non-root shell account with the ability to run Squid would probably suffice. I manage a few servers in a San Jose colo and would gladly provide an equivalent service if anyone wants to swap. Feel free to contact me (see my user page). |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | mikeyur: http://futurehosting.com/They're a US company but you can get a VPS in London through them. A basic VPS can be had for like $10/month if they have a sale on. |
What to read during the holidays? | Wesmax27: I am going to get through Warren Buffett's biography, The Snowball. |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | tlrobinson: It's certainly not the only reason, but the same syntax with different semantics could get very confusing.I think the different syntaxes help you (or at least me) switch contexts and remember what language I'm using. |
What's the best way to learn Java/J2ME to build mobile applications? | sama: The best way is not to, I assure you. |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | merrick33: hard to market something that is the same as everything else |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | bayareaguy: I can live with differences in language syntax since in many cases there are semantic reasons behind them. The thing that really gets on my nerves are minor differences in the representations of common data structures (lists, tables, dictionaries, etc). |
Cocoa Touch & iPhone Dev Step by Step Tutorials | oscardelben: Take a look at this: http://www.appsamuck.com/ |
What's the best way to learn Java/J2ME to build mobile applications? | pistoriusp: I saw this the other day: http://rhomobile.com/"Rhomobile's open source mobile application framework Rhodes lets you quickly build mobile interfaces to enterprise applications. These are true native device applications: they work against synced local data and take advantage of device capabilities such as GPS and PIM access."I didn't look into it much, but it might be worth your while to investigate. |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | SwellJoe: Why does PHP need to use crap like echo and all those dollar signs instead of something more universal?This strikes me as a bizarre statement. What's more universal than "echo" and "$", which are found in nearly every UNIX shell? UNIX has always been the backbone OS of the Internet, thus a language designed specifically for that purpose would naturally bring along some of those conventions common to administrators experience. (Technically, it probably happened this way in PHP because of the restraints of the way PHP began, but that's not to say $ and echo wouldn't have been natural choices, even if PHP had been more ambitious early on.)There are many things to complain about in PHP, but these two conventions were not invented for or by the PHP developers.I get your point, of course...but when you use examples like this, picking on what is very likely the most popular language in the world for developing web applications, it just makes me think you're really saying, "Why does PHP suck?"Why doesn't Ruby use PHP syntax? After all, if we're going to agree on syntax, shouldn't the one that the largest number of people are already fluent in be the one we choose? Should we go back to earlier languages? Should Python have gone with C-like syntax, like Perl, since C syntax is far more common? Who decides what the right syntax is for all languages to converge on?I think I have to conclude your question is invalid. |
NFAs and DFAs | jlouis: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html is a must read.Then you should probably listen to http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Talks/SwineBeforePe... by Shriram Krishnamurthi (I've met him - He is a really cool guy). At that point you have the ammunition and the gun loaded. You just have to fire it. |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | mstevens: I use http://clustered.net/ for a VPS. Pretty good, but not quite as automated as providers like slicehost.They're in the UK. |
What to read during the holidays? | zupatol: I discovered the fountainhead last year and I found it fascinating although it becomes more and more awkward as you progress. At the end it seemed to me like a journey into a sick mind, which makes it all the more interesting.I would recommend semi-autobiographic books by sick minds.Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, by Robert Pirsig who was actually treated by electrotherapy in a psychiatric ward. He ended up writing a not so sick book with a philosophy I find a lot more convincing than Ayn Rand's.Valis, the novel in which Philipp K. Dick describes how he more or less fails to make sense of his religious (or whatever) experience. It's sold as science fiction, but that's just a weak way of saying that book is completely crazy. Since it is semi-autobiographic, the characters are much more alive than in anything else I read from Philipp K. Dick.And if you want to know why Howard Roark has a low life expectancy:Loneliness, human nature and the need for social connection, by John T Cacioppo and William Patrick. This is non-fiction. |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | shimonamit: Because then they would all have the same syntax. |
What to read during the holidays? | omarchowdhury: Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOne Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken KeseyNonfiction:Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders by Jack D. Schwager (1993)Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (history) |
Opening a company | swombat: Surely you can take international credit cards with a Brazilian merchant account? If authorize.net don't allow that, there are many other similar providers which can help.Setting up a merchant account is a major pain in the ass (and slow) even if you are based in the UK... I imagine it'd be even harder if you're not, and really, it's not worth the hassle unless there's really no other way to take CC payments. |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | ralph: http://www.bytemark.co.uk/ Sterling's cheap at the moment! "Darling, why don't we sell up in the UK, move to France, and buy a croissant."They've been doing virtual machines for years using User Mode Linux. |
Cocoa Touch & iPhone Dev Step by Step Tutorials | ObieJazz: Check out Aaron Hillegass's "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X". Not directly iPhone related, but a good start on XCode / Cocoa / obj-C. |
Opening a company | RiderOfGiraffes: The answer is probably yes, and you give no clues as to what you're doing (understandably) but do you need CCs?
Might it not be possible just to use PayPal? Since you hold the service, if someone doesn't pay you can email a reminder, give them 2 weeks' grace, then simply pull their plug.Credit card payments can be a complete pain. In the UK it's very common to set up Direct Debits, which have all sorts of guarantees to make them attractive. |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | galactus: I use myself dedibox.fr (France). I certainly recommend it. |
Can someone explain to me why all languages don't try to have the same syntax? | jgranby: Because the people who designed them didn't agree on what was the best solution for the problem. And the people who use the various languages don't agree, either. Do you really think that you could sit down with a Lisp fanatic and a Java fanatic and get them to decide on a single syntax that they'd each rather use than their own favourite? They'd each prefer to do it their own way. |
Opening a company | epoweripi: Have you tried a local payment gateways that accept international Credit cards?That might be easier. From my experience in India - most payment gateways suck real bad and at some point you will need to contact them for support.It surely makes it easier to get support locally than overseas esp. with all the timezn diffs. |
Review My Doohicky | gsmaverick: Neat analyzer! I think there is so much data that can be gathered from Twitter that we have no idea exists. |
Review My Doohicky | riklomas: Maybe try and reverse engineer the TinyURLs so that users can see where they link to? |
Review My Doohicky | nirmal: Would be good to expand the tinyurls or at least provide the domain they are pointing too. This may even help you consolidate tinyurls if multiple services are used for the same original url. In Python I sometimes do the following to get the finalurl (not fool-proof): finalUrl = urllib.urlopen("http://www.tinyurl.com/5w5wod").geturl() |
How do you pull all-nighter+dayers | Raphael: Have a snack every couple hours and drink lots of water. |
Review My Doohicky | braindead_in: view more information gives an warning.Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/.dodi/jamesgarrett/malicelabs.com/linkalyzer/get_urlstats3.php on line 7more warnings follow |
Review My Doohicky | nirmal: Also, every image in your TwitPic section appears once as a png and again as a jpg. Some of these are broken but they still link back to the same TwitPic page. |
Review My Doohicky | physcab: Nice project. It would be interesting to see maybe a "popularity tree". Like for example, it would be fun to see if Scoble or Kawasaki put out the link first and see how it was distributed. Or if someone unknown sent out the link and someone popular picked it up. Not sure if its possible to trace though.Also, I just started a topic on a data mining related note. If you have any thoughts, I'd love to read them.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=406705 |
Review My Doohicky | wesley: Nice little project, good for learning the API.You may want to check out http://twitturly.com/ if you haven't yet. |
Any Special Projects Over the Holidays? | physcab: Trying to do this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=406705 ...any ideas welcome! |
Review My Doohicky | jackowayed: Twitpic Hot 30 gives is missing about half of the images. There's spaces for them, but they just show the alt text. |
Anyone else want google.com et al to be broken down by host on HN? | johns: Personally, I think the domain displayed should be the entire domain and subdomains minus 'www.' |
Input keyword to calculation | physcab: I ended up finding this algorithm for use in .Net if anyone is interested. http://tomasp.net/articles/ahocorasick.aspx. |
Anyone else want google.com et al to be broken down by host on HN? | tokenadult: I think it would be helpful to see complete domains. |
Anyone else want google.com et al to be broken down by host on HN? | PStamatiou: i vote for i like it the way it is. less clutter and it's just a hover away if i really want to know the full url |
Anyone else want google.com et al to be broken down by host on HN? | wesley: What I really want is to read the descriptions within my RSS reader, but this 'll do too. |
How can I make PadMapper.com better? | PaddyTheMapper: And, to get a comment on the board:
Some of the features I'm planning on adding, once I figure out an unobtrusive and usable way to do them: a favorites list, neighborhood crime rate overlay, probably a more details page with a list of nearby businesses and some other things, and full text search filter on the listings. Driving commute time filter is also a possibility, but only after I expand the subway commute filter coverage to more cities. |
Where do you get your high quality stickers printed? | gaius: moo.com |
How can I make PadMapper.com better? | PaddyTheMapper: And a link: http://www.padmapper.com |
Where do you get your high quality stickers printed? | spydez: A friend of mine is a designer who started a business doing stickers, business cards, magnets, etc.I've had one of his stickers on my Dell laptop for... probably about 2-3 years. I did not treat that laptop daintily, and his sticker still looks nearly pristine; so he can certainly get you what you need.His email is chris at trifectaagencies dot com. |
Where do you get your high quality stickers printed? | Mistone: we did an order from www.printingblue.com/ and where happy with the cost and quality, lead time was a bit long - 10 days - but overall satisfied. |
Where do you get your high quality stickers printed? | replicatorblog: These companies are all really good, just make sure to select vinyl printing inks and not paper based stickers otherwise you may get some of the same issues. These companies are all fairly small so you will get really good service if you ask any questions:http://contagiousgraphics.com/Stickers/stickers.html
http://stickerrobot.com/
http://vgkids.com/stickers.php |
Anyone else want google.com et al to be broken down by host on HN? | derefr: Get as nit-picky on the domain as you like; sometimes, it's still not enough to determine which "site" you're going to. Think of /~user/ directories, for example, or hosted subsites. Not everything that's distinct from its owner has its own domain.The ideal split would actually require something like: <link rel="Site Root" href="http://example.com.nyud.net:4561/~bob/thebigsite/oldv1/">
as metadata on the resulting page. (As an aside, does HN currently retrieve the resulting pages for any metadata when submitting? Doing an AJAX autofill of the default submission title from the <title> tag might be a good idea.)For most sites, "Site Root" would just be the same as the domain name. Perhaps, then, it could have that as the default assumption of any parsers, the actual tag just overriding it for the sites that need it.Also, you know what already (mostly) provides the same information? The <base> tag! Oddly, something we've long dropped from our HTML vocabulary. |
1 week | pavelludiq: The next 10 days i will be locked in my room, learning lisp. I will bring coffee, snacks and some weights for exercising when learning gets tedious and i need to get rid of some of the stress. |
1 week | Allocator2008: 1) carton of camels
2) a few dozen energy drinks
3) iPod with my elton john and barabara streisand |
lighttpd and Rhino - Need some hacker help | dcminter: Rhino being Java based it's a lot easier to get it running under Tomcat. |
review my app | rokhayakebe: How does a first time visitor know what your site does? |
review my app | hotshothenry: Yah that's the next thing on the agenda, will have it done by tonight |
review my app | mattj: You might not want to have your e.g. (iphone) return no results. Makes it obvious you have very little content (which makes me very confused what your site does). |
review my app | tptacek: I don't understand why this is better than any of the other 40 sites that match developers with patrons. |
review my app | ryanwaggoner: 1. As mentioned, there's no way to tell what this is or what it does. Very confusing.2. Why should I register?3. The login link doesn't work from the register page.4. It let me register without providing a valid email address or either of the passwords. I registered with email address 'asdfasdf' and left the password blank. Interestingly, I was able to login using this :-)5. There's no error messages on the registration form when the validation does work.6. On the profile form, if I leave a required field blank and then submit the form, it erases any of the values I did provide.Hard to provide more without knowing what you're going for... |
review my app | bemmu: Unfortunately, this is one of those things where the content really matters all that much more than the UI. Not to be overly negative, it would be a nice simple way to discover devs if it had that content. If you want to really impress me, show which developers are online right now and willing to talk to me about taking on the project. |
review my app | evannyx: 1. Change "iPhone" to "iPhone developer"..would make much more sense2. Add live chat ability with devs (meebo style)3. Add more content..so far its empty. I realize it's a chicken / egg problem, but but you need to find a solution else nobody is going to post there.4. The green logo does not make sense5. As mentioned before, registration form validation |
review my app | bprater: 3 sample data points and you want a realistic review? Really, seriously?This could have been hacked together in an hour. Should we all ask YC to check out our weekend hack sessions?Is it a real business model? What is it? Give us some details about WHY you want us to look at the site.This is the type of thing that turns people off from doing "check out my website" type of things. |
review my app | hotshothenry: thanks for the feedback so far guys, I still have a bunch of things to improve upon |
review my app | jackowayed: I second/third/24th the motion that you need to tell people what your site does. You can have the listings there too if you want, but higher and more prominent should be a few bullet points or something saying what you do and what makes you special.Also, your search box doesn't show up at all when I have you noscripted. |
1 week | rtw: laptop, huge-normous battery for laptop, water |
1 week | siong1987: laptop with unlimited battery power, water, and food.I have basically everything that I need on the laptop. |
Anyone else want google.com et al to be broken down by host on HN? | petercooper: I'd like to see it show the host after redirect, too. Some people have posted links that are FeedBurner or Google feed proxy redirects to content on blogs, and you get "google.com" or "feedburner.com" showing up as the host on HN. |
1 week | PStamatiou: 1) a girl, 2) laptop with 3G card, 3) food |
review my app | satyajit: I spent 1min:30secs on the site, and few searches other than those given (iPhone, Facebook) didn't return any result (eg. Ruby). Or may be it was doing something in the bground (doesn't tell that if its doing something, like a spinning wheel or hourglass or something). And moreover site doesn't have an 'About' page, and is so minimalistic that, its hard to know what it is about. So I got frustrated and writing this ... |
slicehost-like providers outside the US? | dbc: I'm also interested in offshore VPS hosting, but I want the servers to be located in a country without police state laws surrounding Internet traffic and/or speech, so this excludes the US, UK, EU, Canada, and Australia. Switzerland, Norway, and Iceland would be acceptable, and I'm willing to consider other countries.I've been using RimuHosting, and they've been pretty good, but their servers are located in jurisdictions that are problematic for true online liberty. |
review my app | paul9290: For me this was very easy to understand, but as you see others think there should be more text to explain.I suggest in the search box have the words, "Find a web or mobile developer for your project." |
review my app | pclark: always inform the user as to whats up - if there are no results, tell them.
I'm sure you read the story of Google having to add the copyright line at the bottom of the page because users thought some of the page simply wasn't loading.
I just did the same on your site - I typed "Ruby" and it went blank ....
NO results? Fetching results? broken? |
Any Special Projects Over the Holidays? | chomchom: Although I'm not really on holiday I seem to have taken on the reinvigoration of the customwars project. It's a java 2d tile war game like chess but with nice animations. It's over at customwars.com if anyone would liek to help out over their time off. |
1 week | lionhearted: Pleasant company, sustenance, and a good long book. I'm reading Musashi right now, so I'd say that, but I'm already half-done. Maybe Shantaram - that's probably next for fiction. |
review my app | immad: Name is good, idea is reasonable.You need to explain where the content comes from, does one have to register to be listed as a result? You should be scraping various sources to get content and saying at the top what the sources are. I feel like dev contractor search engines must exist already but I can't think of one. |
review my app | tower10: I second the UI needing some user feedback. I was expecting a Google Suggest style dropdown and it took me a few seconds to realise I was filtering the results already in the page.It didn't take me long to figure out the purpose of the site but - then again, I shouldn't have to work it out / think. Check out Steve Krug's book on UI design, Don't Make Me Think. The title says it all.Correct me if my assumptions are wrong but I sense some scaling issues just around the corner. The live search doesn't make any AJAX requests - will the app always start with every listing on the homepage? How will it behave when you have hundreds or thousands of listings?The Technologies taxonomy is not what I would expect (no programming languages). Is MySpace really a technology you'd list on your resume? Perhaps I've not quite got who the site is aimed at. If that's the case then (as others have said) you should make that explicit, in bullet-list style on the homepage.Link the logo to the homepage. Lose the icons. Bump up the font size. Add some visual hierarchy to the listings to make them easier to scan (the dev's name isn't the most important piece of information in the listing).crickets Not sure what that is/means.What's your strategy for filling out content? |
How do you deal with mental illness? | ram1024: the rest of us are fine, but thank you very much for asking |
How do you deal with mental illness? | dangrover: This is a topic worth discussion -- I bet a lot of people here have some of these issues.For your writing, I'd suggest continuing it, but putting it into some kind of "buffer" so that it doesn't get immediately posted to your blog. Then trim it down to the best, most polished entries, and pass it through some friends to review before being published. I think PG does something like this for his more significant/weighty essays. |
Domain management? | tstegart: I use GoDaddy. And that's only because I couldn't think of anyone better. It seems like the domain registration space is filled with shady characters. GoDaddy's interface is clunky and confusing and every time I go there I wish someone would just take a giant digital red pen and cross off everything that's not needed and it would magically go away leaving a clean interface. But it doesn't happen.So, once you get used to how it works, you can get done what you need to get done. I'm pretty clueless when it comes to domain names, but whenever I've been going through tutorials on websites, the settings I need to change have been there in GoDaddy, so that's a plus. At least they're not missing anything I need through all that clutter. |
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